An AC says I'm being unfair, but after further review, I disagree:
The price may not be bad for what it is, but vinyl (which appears to be what they're primarily pushing) is still a VERY small market, and alt-blues isn't exactly a mass market genre either. If you sell a fairly-priced yet expensive item, or one that has only limited appeal, its very nature means you will have a limited market, and you cannot fairly blame someone else for your small market. Which is what it appears they're trying to do.
Door #4: 'Not only is TSA "Security Theater," but, much as long lined checkpoints provide great new targets, TSA's procedures are =intended= to make us more vulnerable to attack.'
Now that you mention it, that's a good point... and come to think of it, WHO exactly is it that we're being made more vulnerable to?
"A sheepherder does not make his flock aware of his plans for having mutton for dinner."
Nor does he tell them why he ran the wolves off...
Yeah, I didn't figure it was for the benefit of We The People... tho what I was getting at was more like another poster's remark that if someone wants to throw a tantrum and leave the table if they can't have their way -- or if the terms are so onerous that they can't live with 'em -- well, if you walk away, you're not party to the treaty either way.
I've also noticed that you can pretty much split the posters into two camps:
1) adult males, who generally responded with "Well, d'oh!" and 2) females plus juvenile males, who generally responded with "You just don't know how to estimate intelligence".
Both groups quite neatly reflect the conclusions in this insightful article, which someone above linked to:
Men tend to take credit and overstate somewhat, whereas women tended to share credit (she didn't find they understated). So if someone was involved in a steering committee for an epidemiological study, the men would be more likely to say "I oversaw a major epidemiological study", whereas the women would say "I was on a committee that co-ordinated a major..."
I interpret that differently:
The male statement gives credit to the group without specifying his own involvement, whereas the female statement makes damn sure she gets credit as *part* of the group.
Kinda goes along with TFA, which concludes that male relationships are part of the cloud, while female relationships are peer-to-peer.
Well said. Hope you don't mind if I steal your small rant and quote it to others.
Most especially this part:
"I am an American Citizen. Not a taxpayer. Not a consumer. A citizen.
My government no longer has my consent to government. I only obey laws out of fear of punishment, not because I believe that such behaviors is correct and moral."
How did someone put it? Something like "When people fear the gov't, there is tyranny. When gov't fears the people, there is liberty."
So... finding nothing in your post to disagree with... how do we get folks like you and me into office?? Remembering that if we do our JOBS while in office, most of the *need* for our office will go away.
Politics was not, as envisioned by the Founders, supposed to be a *career*.
When I was a kid in America, lo those many decades ago and long before the 'new education' craze, "cooperate" and similar words did indeed bear such diacritical marks (or more rarely, were hyphenated).
Got a bunch of stuff running right now that I don't want to risk disrupting, but email me in a day or two and I'll see what damage I can do:) I think there was something specific with the runtime error, and usually anything like that will reproduce reliably enough. The system itself is very stable and not prone to cause weirdness.
email (rividh/at/earthlink/dot/net) or (rez/at/doomgold/dot/com)
I just unzipped and ran it (there was an OCX in the same directory which I presume belongs to it). Already had VB6 runtimes from some previous use, installed in the usual place.
On the downside, it didn't like my system much (P3-550, Win98-not-SE) and threw up with a runtime error when I tried to.. uh, what was I doing, pick something from the default list to test? Normally VB6 apps run fine, so it's not that.
Did I mention my fearsome repute as "the beta tester who can break anything"??:)
[goes to look] I like the interface, at least per the screenshot. Very straightforward. Downloaded, will give it a shot!
Per Gibson's tool (still waiting for it to finish, will try yours next), I can't beat my local nameservers... which I suppose makes sense since they're physically close.
Not only that... but seems to me that the datamining could be used to improve their search functions -- track what sort of hits a given IP address gets, under the theory that most people are smart enough to tell when a search result is bogus, so it won't get as many requests. I'm fuzzy on how this could be implemented, but I'm sure if I can think of it, they can too.
Ha, yours is barely broke in. I bought my laser printer (Epson ActionLaser 1500) back in 1995. It is STILL using its original toner cart, tho it's finally getting faint around the edges (which may be the drum getting tired, as it still has some toner in the bin).
And what happens when the IP address is an open WiFi point, a local library, etc, etc... NOW who do you blame? The more I think about this, the more rats I smell.
Well, for comparison I bought a low-end Epson laser printer in 1995 for $300. I don't print near as much as I used to, but it's been my business printer all these years. It is still on its original cartridge, having printed somewhere around 7,000 pages (I'm almost down to the bottom of the case of paper I bought back around '98, and I'd used a few reams before that).
Great minds harbour similar suspicions... damnear what I said up above before reading down this far. It all just seems too convenient.
And anyone can print a blackmail letter these days... hell, you can even get a font that mimics the old "glued characters from newsprint cutouts" trick.
Without bothering to read the rest of the comment chain... I could interpret the GP post as "religions are meant to prevent society from changing", and I think they do accomplish that to some degree, by imposing a chain of relatively stable traditions. Indeed, radical changes in religion (such as from a fringe component taking over) tend to go along with radical changes in society (such as the Inquisition).
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An AC says I'm being unfair, but after further review, I disagree:
The price may not be bad for what it is, but vinyl (which appears to be what they're primarily pushing) is still a VERY small market, and alt-blues isn't exactly a mass market genre either. If you sell a fairly-priced yet expensive item, or one that has only limited appeal, its very nature means you will have a limited market, and you cannot fairly blame someone else for your small market. Which is what it appears they're trying to do.
Aside from the fact that I never heard of them before... $25 per album?! I think we already know why their sales might be down, eh??
Keelhauling might be more appropriate.
Door #4: 'Not only is TSA "Security Theater," but, much as long lined checkpoints provide great new targets, TSA's procedures are =intended= to make us more vulnerable to attack.'
Now that you mention it, that's a good point... and come to think of it, WHO exactly is it that we're being made more vulnerable to?
Besides our own government, that is.... Hmmmm.
And when were we last attacked by a Cuban national??
So, an attack on a military hospital wouldn't be terrorism??
More likely they'll be discovered to be giant glowing tribbles. How else do you explain it going from one star to six in just a few hundred years? ;)
"A sheepherder does not make his flock aware of his plans for having mutton for dinner."
Nor does he tell them why he ran the wolves off...
Yeah, I didn't figure it was for the benefit of We The People... tho what I was getting at was more like another poster's remark that if someone wants to throw a tantrum and leave the table if they can't have their way -- or if the terms are so onerous that they can't live with 'em -- well, if you walk away, you're not party to the treaty either way.
I've also noticed that you can pretty much split the posters into two camps:
1) adult males, who generally responded with "Well, d'oh!" and
2) females plus juvenile males, who generally responded with "You just don't know how to estimate intelligence".
Both groups quite neatly reflect the conclusions in this insightful article, which someone above linked to:
http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm
Admittedly I was probably in about the 4th grade last time I saw them used regularly... but they don't look odd to my eye, even so.
Men tend to take credit and overstate somewhat, whereas women tended to share credit (she didn't find they understated). So if someone was involved in a steering committee for an epidemiological study, the men would be more likely to say "I oversaw a major epidemiological study", whereas the women would say "I was on a committee that co-ordinated a major..."
I interpret that differently:
The male statement gives credit to the group without specifying his own involvement, whereas the female statement makes damn sure she gets credit as *part* of the group.
Kinda goes along with TFA, which concludes that male relationships are part of the cloud, while female relationships are peer-to-peer.
Well said. Hope you don't mind if I steal your small rant and quote it to others.
Most especially this part:
"I am an American Citizen. Not a taxpayer. Not a consumer. A citizen.
My government no longer has my consent to government. I only obey laws out of fear of punishment, not because I believe that such behaviors is correct and moral."
How did someone put it? Something like "When people fear the gov't, there is tyranny. When gov't fears the people, there is liberty."
So... finding nothing in your post to disagree with... how do we get folks like you and me into office?? Remembering that if we do our JOBS while in office, most of the *need* for our office will go away.
Politics was not, as envisioned by the Founders, supposed to be a *career*.
When I was a kid in America, lo those many decades ago and long before the 'new education' craze, "cooperate" and similar words did indeed bear such diacritical marks (or more rarely, were hyphenated).
Now get off my lawn!!
Not only that, but if "people would be walking away from the table" ...
Firstoff, let the political gamers walk. If they won't deal straight-up, they can be left out of the process.
Second, if the terms are so onerous that everyone walks away, explain to me how this treaty could possibly be all that good??
Got a bunch of stuff running right now that I don't want to risk disrupting, but email me in a day or two and I'll see what damage I can do :) I think there was something specific with the runtime error, and usually anything like that will reproduce reliably enough. The system itself is very stable and not prone to cause weirdness.
email (rividh/at/earthlink/dot/net) or (rez/at/doomgold/dot/com)
I just unzipped and ran it (there was an OCX in the same directory which I presume belongs to it). Already had VB6 runtimes from some previous use, installed in the usual place.
On the downside, it didn't like my system much (P3-550, Win98-not-SE) and threw up with a runtime error when I tried to .. uh, what was I doing, pick something from the default list to test? Normally VB6 apps run fine, so it's not that.
Did I mention my fearsome repute as "the beta tester who can break anything"?? :)
[goes to look] I like the interface, at least per the screenshot. Very straightforward. Downloaded, will give it a shot!
Per Gibson's tool (still waiting for it to finish, will try yours next), I can't beat my local nameservers... which I suppose makes sense since they're physically close.
Not only that... but seems to me that the datamining could be used to improve their search functions -- track what sort of hits a given IP address gets, under the theory that most people are smart enough to tell when a search result is bogus, so it won't get as many requests. I'm fuzzy on how this could be implemented, but I'm sure if I can think of it, they can too.
Ha, yours is barely broke in. I bought my laser printer (Epson ActionLaser 1500) back in 1995. It is STILL using its original toner cart, tho it's finally getting faint around the edges (which may be the drum getting tired, as it still has some toner in the bin).
And what happens when the IP address is an open WiFi point, a local library, etc, etc... NOW who do you blame? The more I think about this, the more rats I smell.
Well, for comparison I bought a low-end Epson laser printer in 1995 for $300. I don't print near as much as I used to, but it's been my business printer all these years. It is still on its original cartridge, having printed somewhere around 7,000 pages (I'm almost down to the bottom of the case of paper I bought back around '98, and I'd used a few reams before that).
Great minds harbour similar suspicions... damnear what I said up above before reading down this far. It all just seems too convenient.
And anyone can print a blackmail letter these days... hell, you can even get a font that mimics the old "glued characters from newsprint cutouts" trick.
One of the comments said something to the effect of "I smell a scam, I just can't put my finger on it".
I think it's simple enough:
1) vandalize your own Wikipidia page ...
2) scream "blackmail"
3) blame someone with deep pockets or that you have a grudge against
4)
5) profit!!
Without bothering to read the rest of the comment chain... I could interpret the GP post as "religions are meant to prevent society from changing", and I think they do accomplish that to some degree, by imposing a chain of relatively stable traditions. Indeed, radical changes in religion (such as from a fringe component taking over) tend to go along with radical changes in society (such as the Inquisition).