Seriously? I find the claim that the status quo benefits old money to be quite ordinary myself.
do you have any data whatsoever ?
http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2009/01/25/europe/OUKWD-UK-FINANCIAL-UN-DRUGS.php Vienna-based UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa said in an interview released by Austrian weekly Profil that drug money often became the only available capital when the crisis spiralled out of control last year.
"In many instances, drug money is currently the only liquid investment capital," Costa was quoted as saying by Profil. "In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system's main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor."
"drug money" in google, took a whole 5 seconds. Do you have the ability to find data on your own?
This is yet another example of 'old' media not really understanding online practices.
It sounds to me like yet another example of 'new' media thinking that by being on the Internet they are somehow exempt from the law.
You sound like one more person who fails to understand the concept of fair use and that old laws are not written with new technological possibilities in mind. There's a BIG difference between taking content and linking to content: The latter is fair.
Most sites benefit tremendously from others linking to them - look at what happens with Slashdot.
Slashdot is a particularly unfortunate example, since people not reading the original article is a running joke and "Slashdot Effect" is not a term used to describe an abundance of ad revenue giving your business a huge boost.
So if [traditional media] would regularly send people "en masse" to [traditional location] in numbers that exceed the room capacity, you wouldn't consider that a huge boost, on account of the physical limitations of the location setting a limit to the amount of extra business they can handle in one go? That would not be a very intellectually honest thing to say, and neither is saying the same thing about [new media] and [virtual location].
Objections to deep linking come from the flawed idea that without deep linking the customers would have come to the main page and read the ads there before going on to the page in question. I find it much more likely that they would never have known about the article at all.
Indeed.
But what they want is to force people onto their main page, thinking they'll go through their intended cycle of page views to get to it, generating more revenue. Which is another flawed idea.
Fortunately, darwinism ought to weed out businesses that spend resources of flawed ideas.
So barring some amazingly catastrophic event (in which case there might not be future historians) it won't be a problem. There's plenty of data preserved
Isaac Asimov, in the Foundation trilogy which takes places thousands of years in the future, talked about the natural entropy of the physical media on which digital records are kept.
Hard drives fail, magnetic tape decays, south american fungi eat the insides of CDs... you don't need a catastrophic event, the second law of thermodynamics will do just fine.
that's the purpose of copyright, to make something scarce that would otherwise be plentiful, so people can profit off it. Oh, and the promotion of progress or something.. yeah.
If creative individuals cannot profit from their labor they will starve to death or work on something that can feed them instead; Either way, you lose your source of new material.
From a loudspeaker next to the camera: "Fear not citizen, you are being filmed for your own protection. Be Well."
That would sure make me feel better.
if they implement face recognition, I want CCTVs to state in a loud, offcial voice "I see you, [Insert Name]!". We'll feel so safe, knowing that big brother sees us.
We're happy when we can help YouTube users enjoy the content they love, and we're happy when we can help our partners build their businesses online â" but we're happiest when we can do both.
That's why last year we launched our eCommerce platform for YouTube, which allows users to easily "click-to-buy" products -- like songs and movies -- related to the content they're watching on the site. The past few months have demonstrated that great content on YouTube leads to increased sales. For example, when Monty Python launched their channel in November, not only did their YouTube videos shoot to the top of the most viewed lists, but their DVDs also quickly climbed to No. 2 on Amazon's Movies & TV bestsellers list, with increased sales of 23,000 percent.
Today we're expanding the program beyond the US and the UK. Links to songs from the iTunes Store will now appear in Germany, Spain and the Netherlands, so users from those countries who are drawn to a particular song can easily purchase it. And it's not limited to tracks on videos uploaded directly by our partners â" partners can add these links to videos uploaded by users by using our our Content ID tools to claim videos that match their content.
We're also expanding and improving the ways in which these links are displayed. You may start to see click-to-buy links appearing as semi-transparent overlays that appear in the bottom of the video for a short period of time. This increased visibility should help even more people take advantage of this program.
As we said when we first launched click-to-buy links, this is just the beginning â" over time, we're aiming to open up the program to cover many types of content beyond music. We've already experimented with links to purchase DVDs and video games, and we intend to experiment with links to additional types of products soon.
Your save-the-children argument is apparently that secondary cancer deaths of kids from nuclear radiation are somehow magically more special than any other kind of death.
Long after the bombings have stopped, that weapon still kills random civilians. It does everything else the other bombs do, PLUS poisoning people.
But I have serious doubts about your ability to understand things, so I don't expect you'll get it: An ADDITIONAL SORT OF DEATH, on TOP of all the other sorts of death you mentioned, one that indiscriminately affects civilians after the end of the conflict, makes that weapon special, because (for the, what, fifth time) it does all the evils of conventional weapons, and then some.
So naming evils of conventional weapons, as if they were not included, makes me think you're entirely retarded and/or dishonest.
I was out in my garage the other day cleaning and I found a dead mouse in the corner...and again, my mind is always working... I though...what would happen if I plugged this little guy's tail into the back of my computer, and replaced his legs with little motion-sensing wheels? I'll let you alll know the results when I finish my new invention.
* Transparency and Open Government - Again its easy to say and hard to do, Im going to stay at my default position on all politicians until I see action and not words.
Can't blame you, but I'm excited abut his "no torture" policy and the fact that he made that official on day 1. So I'm giving him extra credit.
i should be able to easily drag-and-drop a vector shape from an Adobe Illustrator document into an already open Photoshop document. likewise, i should be able to have multiple Word documents, Firefox windows, and Photoshop documents all on my desktop at the same time (and in any layer order i want). are you saying that this isn't correct, that in OS X i would only be able to view the workspace of a single application at any given time?
Drag and drop from application to application works fine, and having multiple windows from different applications is not only possible, but made super convenient (and a little fun) by the exposé function, which titles all opened windows, or windows by application, or hides all windows so you can see the desktop.
But as far as having lots of firefox windows... tabs man, tabs!:)
Now likely I wasn't using OSX effectively, but I can tell you from an empirical 12 month test that clicking on a word tab at the bottom of the screen was more efficient for me than minimizing the document so that I could find it later as it went to the dock or hunting around all tiny images when using the Expose button.
You might enjoy the "Recent Items" submenu offered from the Apple menu in the top left of the screen. Lists a user-defined number of applications | documents 'recently' opened.
if three movies came out this year with suspiciously similar premises.
I've noticed long ago that this happens every year. Remember the year of the comet/asteroids movies? The year of the volcano movies? or 1999, the year of the virtual reality movies? There was the year with the number 8 in the titles...
I'm not saying you can't criticize the military's actions or that the people in charge shouldn't be held accountable. I'm saying that the people who were simply obeying orders can't. All logic aside
ARTICLE 93. CRUELTY AND MALTREATMENT Any person subject to this chapter who is guilty of cruelty toward, or oppression or maltreatment of, any person subject to his orders shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
In United States v. Keenan, the accused (Keenan) was found guilty of murder after he obeyed in order to shoot and kill an elderly Vietnamese citizen. The Court of Military Appeals held that "the justification for acts done pursuant to orders does not exist if the order was of such a nature that a man of ordinary sense and understanding would know it to be illegal."
Radiation does not make stuff (including people) glow green, thats an invention of TV and movies.
Radioluminescent paint was invented in 1908 and originally incorporated radium-226. The toxicity of radium was not initially understood, and radium-based paint saw widespread use in, for example, watches and aircraft instruments. During the 1920s and 1930s, the harmful effects of this paint became increasingly clear. A notorious case involved the "Radium Girls", a group of women who painted watchfaces and later suffered adverse health effects from ingestion.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow that's a seriously extraordinary claim
Seriously?
I find the claim that the status quo benefits old money to be quite ordinary myself.
do you have any data whatsoever ?
http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2009/01/25/europe/OUKWD-UK-FINANCIAL-UN-DRUGS.php
Vienna-based UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa said in an interview released by Austrian weekly Profil that drug money often became the only available capital when the crisis spiralled out of control last year.
"In many instances, drug money is currently the only liquid investment capital," Costa was quoted as saying by Profil. "In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system's main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor."
"drug money" in google, took a whole 5 seconds. Do you have the ability to find data on your own?
This is yet another example of 'old' media not really understanding online practices.
It sounds to me like yet another example of 'new' media thinking that by being on the Internet they are somehow exempt from the law.
You sound like one more person who fails to understand the concept of fair use and that old laws are not written with new technological possibilities in mind.
There's a BIG difference between taking content and linking to content: The latter is fair.
Most sites benefit tremendously from others linking to them - look at what happens with Slashdot.
Slashdot is a particularly unfortunate example, since people not reading the original article is a running joke and "Slashdot Effect" is not a term used to describe an abundance of ad revenue giving your business a huge boost.
So if [traditional media] would regularly send people "en masse" to [traditional location] in numbers that exceed the room capacity, you wouldn't consider that a huge boost, on account of the physical limitations of the location setting a limit to the amount of extra business they can handle in one go?
That would not be a very intellectually honest thing to say, and neither is saying the same thing about [new media] and [virtual location].
Objections to deep linking come from the flawed idea that without deep linking the customers would have come to the main page and read the ads there before going on to the page in question. I find it much more likely that they would never have known about the article at all.
Indeed.
But what they want is to force people onto their main page, thinking they'll go through their intended cycle of page views to get to it, generating more revenue.
Which is another flawed idea.
Fortunately, darwinism ought to weed out businesses that spend resources of flawed ideas.
I have yet to hear/see a rational reason why marijuana is still illegal.
It helps keep rich people rich.
the data that is kept in the digital age.
So barring some amazingly catastrophic event (in which case there might not be future historians) it won't be a problem. There's plenty of data preserved
Isaac Asimov, in the Foundation trilogy which takes places thousands of years in the future, talked about the natural entropy of the physical media on which digital records are kept.
Hard drives fail, magnetic tape decays, south american fungi eat the insides of CDs... you don't need a catastrophic event, the second law of thermodynamics will do just fine.
that's the purpose of copyright, to make something scarce that would otherwise be plentiful, so people can profit off it. Oh, and the promotion of progress or something.. yeah.
If creative individuals cannot profit from their labor they will starve to death or work on something that can feed them instead; Either way, you lose your source of new material.
> Yeah, but who's archiving archive.org???
The turtles, of course. It's turtles all the way down.
So that's what Donatello has been doing since he grew out of his teenage crime fighting phase!
From a loudspeaker next to the camera: "Fear not citizen, you are being filmed for your own protection. Be Well."
That would sure make me feel better.
if they implement face recognition, I want CCTVs to state in a loud, offcial voice "I see you, [Insert Name]!".
We'll feel so safe, knowing that big brother sees us.
Seriously - can anyone point to the actual data (I am still hoping to find it)?
January 21, 2009 | Posted by: The YouTube Team | Permalink
Watch it on YouTube, then Click-to-Buy
We're happy when we can help YouTube users enjoy the content they love, and we're happy when we can help our partners build their businesses online â" but we're happiest when we can do both.
That's why last year we launched our eCommerce platform for YouTube, which allows users to easily "click-to-buy" products -- like songs and movies -- related to the content they're watching on the site. The past few months have demonstrated that great content on YouTube leads to increased sales. For example, when Monty Python launched their channel in November, not only did their YouTube videos shoot to the top of the most viewed lists, but their DVDs also quickly climbed to No. 2 on Amazon's Movies & TV bestsellers list, with increased sales of 23,000 percent.
Today we're expanding the program beyond the US and the UK. Links to songs from the iTunes Store will now appear in Germany, Spain and the Netherlands, so users from those countries who are drawn to a particular song can easily purchase it. And it's not limited to tracks on videos uploaded directly by our partners â" partners can add these links to videos uploaded by users by using our our Content ID tools to claim videos that match their content.
We're also expanding and improving the ways in which these links are displayed. You may start to see click-to-buy links appearing as semi-transparent overlays that appear in the bottom of the video for a short period of time. This increased visibility should help even more people take advantage of this program.
As we said when we first launched click-to-buy links, this is just the beginning â" over time, we're aiming to open up the program to cover many types of content beyond music. We've already experimented with links to purchase DVDs and video games, and we intend to experiment with links to additional types of products soon.
Happy shopping,
The YouTube Team
you have to be very good to get something on TV.
You and I haven't been watching the same TV.
Your save-the-children argument is apparently that secondary cancer deaths of kids from nuclear radiation are somehow magically more special than any other kind of death.
Long after the bombings have stopped, that weapon still kills random civilians.
It does everything else the other bombs do, PLUS poisoning people.
But I have serious doubts about your ability to understand things, so I don't expect you'll get it: An ADDITIONAL SORT OF DEATH, on TOP of all the other sorts of death you mentioned, one that indiscriminately affects civilians after the end of the conflict, makes that weapon special, because (for the, what, fifth time) it does all the evils of conventional weapons, and then some.
So naming evils of conventional weapons, as if they were not included, makes me think you're entirely retarded and/or dishonest.
Wow, good job CRTC.
My telemarketing calls went from about 2 a week to 6+. Good thing I'm rarely home and they get the answering machine instead.
If you read the CRTC charter carefully, you'll see that it exist to protect the Canadian INDUSTRY of telecommunication.
Not the consumers.
I was out in my garage the other day cleaning and I found a dead mouse in the corner...and again, my mind is always working... I though...what would happen if I plugged this little guy's tail into the back of my computer, and replaced his legs with little motion-sensing wheels? I'll let you alll know the results when I finish my new invention.
Frankenrat will kill us all, you fool!
* Transparency and Open Government - Again its easy to say and hard to do, Im going to stay at my default position on all politicians until I see action and not words.
Can't blame you, but I'm excited abut his "no torture" policy and the fact that he made that official on day 1. So I'm giving him extra credit.
"Thirdly, Obama has already made it clear that this White House is going to be much more transparant. Finally"
And Bill Clinton Promised to be the 'most ethical administration in history', W promised to 'change the partisan tone', ..., ...
Its frightening that you take a politician *especially one from the Chicago political machine* at his word..
The difference was that Bush always did the exact opposite of what he said, but this Obama puts his presidential powers where his mouth is:
PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDA
January 21, 2009
* Freedom of Information Act
* Pay Freeze
* Transparency and Open Government
If somebody already uses your product, you don't need to preach to them about how great your product is.
"DON'T SWITCH TO APPLE OR LINUX! For the love of gods! Don't!"
In that sense I have to agree with him. This seems like a really bad place to astroturf.
You misspelled "perfect".
i should be able to easily drag-and-drop a vector shape from an Adobe Illustrator document into an already open Photoshop document. likewise, i should be able to have multiple Word documents, Firefox windows, and Photoshop documents all on my desktop at the same time (and in any layer order i want). are you saying that this isn't correct, that in OS X i would only be able to view the workspace of a single application at any given time?
Drag and drop from application to application works fine, and having multiple windows from different applications is not only possible, but made super convenient (and a little fun) by the exposé function, which titles all opened windows, or windows by application, or hides all windows so you can see the desktop.
But as far as having lots of firefox windows... tabs man, tabs! :)
Now likely I wasn't using OSX effectively, but I can tell you from an empirical 12 month test that clicking on a word tab at the bottom of the screen was more efficient for me than minimizing the document so that I could find it later as it went to the dock or hunting around all tiny images when using the Expose button.
You might enjoy the "Recent Items" submenu offered from the Apple menu in the top left of the screen.
Lists a user-defined number of applications | documents 'recently' opened.
if three movies came out this year with suspiciously similar premises.
I've noticed long ago that this happens every year.
Remember the year of the comet/asteroids movies?
The year of the volcano movies?
or 1999, the year of the virtual reality movies?
There was the year with the number 8 in the titles...
There's even evidence to suggest that Area 51 operations have wound down
Once your secret research facility becomes world famous, would you keep doing all your secret research there?
Human Rights is *not* a legal term its a political one. Legally speaking Rape is not a HRV nor is torture.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been ratified by a sufficient number of individual nations to give it the force of international law.
Article 5
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.
Rape is covered by articles 3, 5 and 12.
I'm not saying you can't criticize the military's actions or that the people in charge shouldn't be held accountable. I'm saying that the people who were simply obeying orders can't. All logic aside
ARTICLE 93. CRUELTY AND MALTREATMENT
Any person subject to this chapter who is guilty of cruelty toward, or oppression or maltreatment of, any person subject to his orders shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
In United States v. Keenan, the accused (Keenan) was found guilty of murder after he obeyed in order to shoot and kill an elderly Vietnamese citizen. The Court of Military Appeals held that "the justification for acts done pursuant to orders does not exist if the order was of such a nature that a man of ordinary sense and understanding would know it to be illegal."
involved the "Radium Girls"
Sounds like a good name for an all-girl punk rock band.....
Throw in some green fluorescent body paint and you got yourself an act!
the sample was not contained safely
They DID lock it in a safe!
Give 'em points for effort.
Radiation does not make stuff (including people) glow green, thats an invention of TV and movies.
Radioluminescent paint was invented in 1908 and originally incorporated radium-226. The toxicity of radium was not initially understood, and radium-based paint saw widespread use in, for example, watches and aircraft instruments. During the 1920s and 1930s, the harmful effects of this paint became increasingly clear. A notorious case involved the "Radium Girls", a group of women who painted watchfaces and later suffered adverse health effects from ingestion.