I wonder how long that group would last if you actually created it. I admit I would be sorely tempted to join, just to make a couple of Chinese officials sweat a little.
Depends on what you mean with addicts are their best customers. Of course, if you compare one high-consumption customer with an average-consumption customer, then the first will always look better for the company.
But if you look at market segments, it's not so similar. The heavy user segment will not be all that profitable compared to the average user segment if we are talking about common foodstuff. For potato chips and cola, yes, but probably not for philadelphia cheese. And probably not as bad as for alcohol and tobacco.
Remember, Pepsico would just as happily sell you something sugarfee, or something genuinely healthier in other ways. Tobacco companies simply don't have that option. Alcohol companies arguably have it (alcohol-free beer, etc.) but they don't push it as an alternative, because network effects are far stronger for alcohol products than ordinary commodities.
If you look at other countries, you will see that they got their food pyramids at around the same time. Were they influence by Monsanto, too? All of them?
... carbohydrates which we know and for centuries have known will cause heart disease and obesity in cases of overconsumption?
Which is different from fat how, exactly? The claim that excessive consumption of fat does not cause heart disease and obesity is a rather modern one. And it's a wrong one. And it's a product of the immensely profitable health fad industry.
Regarding labeling, that's a case of regulatory capture. Blaming that on the evil of government scientists is a bit far fetched.
A cheap plasticy pen is NOT a fountain pen. An optical mouse is NOT a trackball.
And how did you decide that you needed the one and not the other?
Even if you were the one person in the world that was personally totally unaffected by advertising, you wouldn't be free from it. Because you would be living in a society affected by advertising. Even if your choice of soap were totally unaffected by advertising, the kinds of soap your store would stock would not be.
For sensor equipment, a stable platform is also usually an advantage. Airships are exceptionally stable.
The Zeppelin company had an airship in South Africa a couple of years ago, with sensors to detect gravitational anomalies related to kimberlite pipes - kimberlite is where you find diamonds, of course. Geological survey from an airship, how cool is that?
If you are well-organized, and no one knows much about your issue, you can buy legislation for cheap. Blank-media taxes giving gravy to composer's associations, for instance, were pushed through in many countries as cassette tapes appeared, and that was more because of composer's organizations rather than individual owners.
Paraphrasing old gospel hymns, are you? Be careful! In ten years the rights to "Gimme that old time religion" will be retroactively assigned to an African-American Christian orphanage, which will eventually disappear and sell the rights to Warner Music in the process.
Never knew that such a surreal song had such a literal music video. Oh, well.
They're referencing Kookaburra all right (the flautist actually sits in an old gum tree), but they are not "sampling" it as half the notices about this says. They are also playing it in a minor key, while it's in a major key in the original.
It's also an 80 years old children's song. With four tones, eleven notes in the disputed part. The world is mad.
Jason who? Not famous enough for me to have heard of him. The sad bit of this is his delusion that he loses money over it.
1. Sheet music to amateurs is probably not a minor Musical composer's main source of income. Even Andrew Lloyd-Webber probably makes a larger share from recording and performance royalties.
2. Groups that put up a public performance do pay their royalties, and do pay for the sheet music. The whole boy scouts singing happy birthday mess illustrates nicely that the collecting agencies do pay attention to that sort of thing (and if your band/orchestra is a member of ANY sort of amateur association, they will have mandatory licensing deals through that. They can get sloppy with reporting, but they still pay 100%.)
3. Jason-Who?'s major obstacle to commercial success is - and will probably remain forever, unless he eventually reaches AL-W levels of fame - is lack of recognition. If some teenage girl who would never have bought it downloads sheet music and performs it in a non-public venue, this will still help this guy's name recognition. IMO that is adequate repayment from someone that economically insignificant. Sure, she's not legally allowed to do it, but it is absolutely silly for the composer to be anything but cool with it.
According to your site, their crime is letting you configure google news - and then failing to save those customizations! The horror! It's practically genocide!
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No, he's an ex-TV weather presenter. I realize some people call that a meteorologist, but it's not the same thing at all.
And one thing is tachyon cranks. But "climate sceptics" are infinitely worse, because most of the media takes them seriously.
I wonder how long that group would last if you actually created it. I admit I would be sorely tempted to join, just to make a couple of Chinese officials sweat a little.
Depends on what you mean with addicts are their best customers. Of course, if you compare one high-consumption customer with an average-consumption customer, then the first will always look better for the company.
But if you look at market segments, it's not so similar. The heavy user segment will not be all that profitable compared to the average user segment if we are talking about common foodstuff. For potato chips and cola, yes, but probably not for philadelphia cheese. And probably not as bad as for alcohol and tobacco.
Remember, Pepsico would just as happily sell you something sugarfee, or something genuinely healthier in other ways. Tobacco companies simply don't have that option. Alcohol companies arguably have it (alcohol-free beer, etc.) but they don't push it as an alternative, because network effects are far stronger for alcohol products than ordinary commodities.
False equivalence here: PepsiCo are not so ridiculously dependent on killing people as the tobacco industry, or even the alcohol industry is.
Tobacco companies would lose virtually 100% of their business if all harmful use of their product stopped tomorrow.
Alcohol companies would lose maybe 80%.
How much would general food producers (Pepsico, Kraft, Nestlé) lose? I don't know, but not nearly as much.
If you look at other countries, you will see that they got their food pyramids at around the same time. Were they influence by Monsanto, too? All of them?
Which is different from fat how, exactly? The claim that excessive consumption of fat does not cause heart disease and obesity is a rather modern one. And it's a wrong one. And it's a product of the immensely profitable health fad industry.
Regarding labeling, that's a case of regulatory capture. Blaming that on the evil of government scientists is a bit far fetched.
And how did you decide that you needed the one and not the other?
Even if you were the one person in the world that was personally totally unaffected by advertising, you wouldn't be free from it. Because you would be living in a society affected by advertising. Even if your choice of soap were totally unaffected by advertising, the kinds of soap your store would stock would not be.
I'd worry more about the helium that's wasted in party balloons.
Maybe you shouldn't take everything you read by Lawrence Solomon at face value.
Do you mean "good at dealing with oil problems" from an oil company's perspective? If so, then maybe you're right.
For sensor equipment, a stable platform is also usually an advantage. Airships are exceptionally stable.
The Zeppelin company had an airship in South Africa a couple of years ago, with sensors to detect gravitational anomalies related to kimberlite pipes - kimberlite is where you find diamonds, of course. Geological survey from an airship, how cool is that?
If you are well-organized, and no one knows much about your issue, you can buy legislation for cheap. Blank-media taxes giving gravy to composer's associations, for instance, were pushed through in many countries as cassette tapes appeared, and that was more because of composer's organizations rather than individual owners.
Yeah! I had this sudden malaise at work, like I was all sleepy and slow. Turned out a state-owned pension fund had bought stock in our company!
Paraphrasing old gospel hymns, are you? Be careful! In ten years the rights to "Gimme that old time religion" will be retroactively assigned to an African-American Christian orphanage, which will eventually disappear and sell the rights to Warner Music in the process.
Then you will get sued for this comment.
Never knew that such a surreal song had such a literal music video. Oh, well.
They're referencing Kookaburra all right (the flautist actually sits in an old gum tree), but they are not "sampling" it as half the notices about this says. They are also playing it in a minor key, while it's in a major key in the original.
It's also an 80 years old children's song. With four tones, eleven notes in the disputed part. The world is mad.
I hope there's an invisible sarcasm tag around the last line, but you never know with the internets.
Not to excuse them, but they are one out of many, many. You don't have to be big to be evil.
That's it? Ten notes, four tones, not even played in the same mode?
Ah, poor old George Harrison. But I don't think he'd actually kill anyone over it. He seemed to take it with a certain amount of humour.
Jason who? Not famous enough for me to have heard of him. The sad bit of this is his delusion that he loses money over it.
1. Sheet music to amateurs is probably not a minor Musical composer's main source of income. Even Andrew Lloyd-Webber probably makes a larger share from recording and performance royalties.
2. Groups that put up a public performance do pay their royalties, and do pay for the sheet music. The whole boy scouts singing happy birthday mess illustrates nicely that the collecting agencies do pay attention to that sort of thing (and if your band/orchestra is a member of ANY sort of amateur association, they will have mandatory licensing deals through that. They can get sloppy with reporting, but they still pay 100%.)
3. Jason-Who?'s major obstacle to commercial success is - and will probably remain forever, unless he eventually reaches AL-W levels of fame - is lack of recognition. If some teenage girl who would never have bought it downloads sheet music and performs it in a non-public venue, this will still help this guy's name recognition. IMO that is adequate repayment from someone that economically insignificant. Sure, she's not legally allowed to do it, but it is absolutely silly for the composer to be anything but cool with it.
A two-year old sammich?
Just keep it. Please.
You could write papers by drawing them in the Gimp.
According to your site, their crime is letting you configure google news - and then failing to save those customizations! The horror! It's practically genocide!
Suspension. But yes.
What? Do you mean ... hey, don't you try ruining it for me!