So it sounds like you've got your opinion about unions.
Let me share with you some important points. First, If you like weekends, you have unions to thank for them. If you like 8 hour work days, and breaks, and eating lunch, you have unions to thank. Unions can happen here because of free speach, freedom of association, and freedom of contract. Logically, if you're for the latter, you must acknowlege the former.
I've never worked with a Union tech, but I've worked with Union carpenters, electricians, and plumbers.
They have all been hard working, honest, reliable, and done the highest quality work.
All that unions advocate for is a decent standard of living for the people that make the decent standard of living possible.
I don't buy that argument and there are a couple of things that come to mind as to why:
First: As far as I know the recording company signs a deal with the artist where they split the money, after the company recoups expenses. That's sucky, what about the artist's expenses, like food and rent and whatever. The recording companies don't take any of the risk when they put out a record, the artist has to hope that it'll pay for itself before they see any money. I call that theft because the recording company usually has gotten the rights to the material signed off to them.
Second: Shouldn't there be any consideration to the fact that when I download an mp3 of napster or whatever it's going on my media, with my equipment? I am bearing some of the costs of production, and since hard drive space is more expensive than CD space I'm paying a greater cost than the recording company to reproduce that recording, not to mention my ISP charge. When that happens the Artist has just distributed a copy of their music at no marginal cost. The reason people get so upset is because the marginal reveue is so high on CDs, and therefore profit is so high, that their greed blinds the from the fact that it isn't costing them anything.
Third: In regard to your buddy and their gaelic band. I'm listening to music that I never would have heard if it weren't for Napster and mp3s. I've bought CDs that I never would have bought. I've got to shows that I never would have gone to. I'm sure it's an old argument but come on people it's a good one! When your gaelic buddy comes to Mpls maybe I'll go to their show, not because I heard them on my local gaelic radio station, but because of Napster.
The real threat to diversity is when you have two companies that own all the radio stations in one town, like in Minneapolis. Radio sucks here, the only things worth listening to is public radio (not NPR, although sometimes). The problem the recording industry is having is that they're model for business is becoming obsolete, and it's the computer and the internet that's doing it. For the investors, too bad. Investing is not saving, there is no security. If I own stock in GM and suddenly Ford comes out with a flying car with a Mr. Fusion powerng it the government should not go protecting me because I didn't invest in the right company. I should suck it up and move on.
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I see this as good news, friends. It seems M$ is working vigorously to lose market share, first by alienating the mp3 public, and second by mocking themselves for the paper clip (nevermind writing crappy overintrusive software). People who go to the officeclippy website and have a roaring good time thinking "Hey, M$ is great, they've got a sense of humor" are the same people who chuckle every time they hear the phrase "fuzzy math."
M$ is just so slimy and advermarketingy-like, yuk!
And what's up with sticking up for M$ employees? I'll bet they're the ones posting the "hey, looks like M$ employees aren't so bad" messages. They are bad, they work for the fascist.
Dude needs to be getting more than a 2 for this post. Totally funny.
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We can see what resurgance? It's often hard to see what flies below the radar, perhaps some links would help on the pages the law student reads.
When people start talking about leftism and rightism and how they address the individual I find that both sides are self-contridictory. One should read "Song of Myself" by W. Whitman and ask whether he would have been a Democrat or a Republican. I think neither.
"You shall listen to all sides, and filter them from your self."
People don't need balanced debates constructed for them. To suggest that it would be neccessary is really scary. Something about Freedom being Slavery and double-double bad.
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So it sounds like you've got your opinion about unions.
Let me share with you some important points. First, If you like weekends, you have unions to thank for them. If you like 8 hour work days, and breaks, and eating lunch, you have unions to thank. Unions can happen here because of free speach, freedom of association, and freedom of contract. Logically, if you're for the latter, you must acknowlege the former.
I've never worked with a Union tech, but I've worked with Union carpenters, electricians, and plumbers.
They have all been hard working, honest, reliable, and done the highest quality work.
All that unions advocate for is a decent standard of living for the people that make the decent standard of living possible.
I'll ask one last time.
Do you like weekends?
I do, go Union!
Care to give a url for the Evolution project?
Not that I won't find it eventually, but it'd be nice...
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You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.
I don't buy that argument and there are a couple of things that come to mind as to why: First: As far as I know the recording company signs a deal with the artist where they split the money, after the company recoups expenses. That's sucky, what about the artist's expenses, like food and rent and whatever. The recording companies don't take any of the risk when they put out a record, the artist has to hope that it'll pay for itself before they see any money. I call that theft because the recording company usually has gotten the rights to the material signed off to them. Second: Shouldn't there be any consideration to the fact that when I download an mp3 of napster or whatever it's going on my media, with my equipment? I am bearing some of the costs of production, and since hard drive space is more expensive than CD space I'm paying a greater cost than the recording company to reproduce that recording, not to mention my ISP charge. When that happens the Artist has just distributed a copy of their music at no marginal cost. The reason people get so upset is because the marginal reveue is so high on CDs, and therefore profit is so high, that their greed blinds the from the fact that it isn't costing them anything. Third: In regard to your buddy and their gaelic band. I'm listening to music that I never would have heard if it weren't for Napster and mp3s. I've bought CDs that I never would have bought. I've got to shows that I never would have gone to. I'm sure it's an old argument but come on people it's a good one! When your gaelic buddy comes to Mpls maybe I'll go to their show, not because I heard them on my local gaelic radio station, but because of Napster. The real threat to diversity is when you have two companies that own all the radio stations in one town, like in Minneapolis. Radio sucks here, the only things worth listening to is public radio (not NPR, although sometimes). The problem the recording industry is having is that they're model for business is becoming obsolete, and it's the computer and the internet that's doing it. For the investors, too bad. Investing is not saving, there is no security. If I own stock in GM and suddenly Ford comes out with a flying car with a Mr. Fusion powerng it the government should not go protecting me because I didn't invest in the right company. I should suck it up and move on. later
I see this as good news, friends. It seems M$ is working vigorously to lose market share, first by alienating the mp3 public, and second by mocking themselves for the paper clip (nevermind writing crappy overintrusive software). People who go to the officeclippy website and have a roaring good time thinking "Hey, M$ is great, they've got a sense of humor" are the same people who chuckle every time they hear the phrase "fuzzy math."
M$ is just so slimy and advermarketingy-like, yuk!
And what's up with sticking up for M$ employees? I'll bet they're the ones posting the "hey, looks like M$ employees aren't so bad" messages. They are bad, they work for the fascist.
Dude needs to be getting more than a 2 for this post. Totally funny.
We can see what resurgance? It's often hard to see what flies below the radar, perhaps some links would help on the pages the law student reads.
When people start talking about leftism and rightism and how they address the individual I find that both sides are self-contridictory. One should read "Song of Myself" by W. Whitman and ask whether he would have been a Democrat or a Republican. I think neither.
"You shall listen to all sides, and filter them from your self."
People don't need balanced debates constructed for them. To suggest that it would be neccessary is really scary. Something about Freedom being Slavery and double-double bad.
I am not a true American, but a false one!