Amen. Sure, not all the CD's I bought five or six years ago get much attention anymore, but still barely a week goes by that I don't listen to an album by Bjork, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, Sleater-Kinney, or the Pixies which I've had for well over 5 years. I'm confident that more recent albums by bands like Wilco, Arcade Fire, Flaming Lips, and Postal Service will still be enjoying regular spins in my car five or ten years from now.
Good music doesn't get old, just look at the Beatles or the Velvet Underground.
The really daft thing is that you'd expect the US Government to have "learned its lesson" with alcohol.
Sadly, I think they did. How much money is spent on the Drug War each year? Prohibition puts a lot of money into the criminal justice system. I don't think they'll make the same mistake and end that revenue flow again.
Something that harms you *and* chemically makes you want more of it should indeed be banned. And yes, I think cigarettes shouldn't be allowed either.
Hmm, the tasty chemicals in the burrito I ate today sure made me want more, and I have to admit it probably wasn't the healthiest thing I could have been eating. Should Mexican food be banned too?
You really are starting to sound like a troll. We are talking about the amount of influence a media company has. If you ignore their market share, you are an idiot.
I could print up a thousand different independent newsweekly's that never get distributed past my kitchen and by your standards I guess that would make me one of the worlds largest media monopolies.
Maybe if you count every podunk newsletter, AM radio station and zine then the total number of owners is up, but if you look at the relevant media, the major sources which actually have substantial audiences, that's where the consolidation is happening.
There's less then ten owners of the vast majority of American media these days. That's a tad bit short of the thousands you speak of. Maybe you miscounted, no bodies perfect.
They shouldn't be like them, exactly because they are in the voting industry. Nothing should be secret about the voting process. if Diebold or any other company have a problem with that then they should stick to bank machines.
Why the hostile attitude? Seems to me we are pretty much in agreement. I have no trouble at all understanding that Bush has repeatedly violated his oath of office whenever it's convenient for him.
I think it's readily apparent that he didn't set out specifically to violate the Constitution, but he doesn't have any problem at all overstepping his boundaries of his power.
Exhibit 1: The Unitary Executive theories of John Yoo that this administration adheres too.
Fuck that. If they stock these bastard discs on the same shelves as their DVDs they can't expect people to read the find print that says they won't play in their DVD player that happens to be their PC.
If you're thinking of archives we want to be around for centuries, that's easy enough. Put them on a server with a fairly large RAID array, and replicate it over the Internet to another data center or two. If one hard drive dies, you swap it out for another. If one RAID controller or whole box goes down, hard, you build a new one and replicate the data back. If you don't want the hassle of doing this yourself, especially if it's just a small amount of personal data, you get Google to do it for you.
I don't know of a good way to achieve that level of redundancy with paper, not cheaply, and certainly not if you want to be able to keep updating constantly.
The mistake you are making here is assuming that the data people 1000 years down the road will find interesting is data we think is worth keeping. Archaeologists and historians have learned immense amounts about past civilizations from mundane things like shopping lists and notes written to friends and family. There is concern among historians that, ironically enough, our data driven society will just be a huge gap to future historians because of our affinity for impermanent digital communications like email. The beauty of paper is that there's a good chance it will last for centuries even if stuck on a shelf somewhere and forgotten about. Good luck getting that sort of longevity from a modern optical or magnetic disk.
I'm pretty sure that's not correct. A sonic boom is continuous as long as the aircraft is moving faster than the speed of sound. Think of it like the wake behind a boat, spreading out behind the craft as long as it's moving.
True, the IT jobs overseas don't take advantage of sweatshop labor, but do you think that the overall cost of living in those countries would be what it is if the cheap, unregulated labor wasn't available? I think the cheap IT jobs are related to the unregulated blue collar labor, though indirectly.
I would dispute what you say, but just knowing that the worlds scientific community is nearly united in opposition to what you say is enough for me. I won't waste my time.
Who cares. Medical research could be sped up a lot if we allowed vivisection and human testing. The cost to humanity is too great despite any benefits, so we don't do it. War is no different. Sure it spurs research in some areas that wouldn't be funded outside of wartime. So be it, we can do fine without.
Exactly as I said, how predictable. It's awfully ungrateful of you to say that you own nothing to the government that spent its money to create the secure, successful economic environment that you enjoy so much. Do you think you would live the life you do living in a third world country? People love to think that everything they have is due to no one but themselves and they owe no one else anything, but that's just pure egoism.
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Amen. Sure, not all the CD's I bought five or six years ago get much attention anymore, but still barely a week goes by that I don't listen to an album by Bjork, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, Sleater-Kinney, or the Pixies which I've had for well over 5 years. I'm confident that more recent albums by bands like Wilco, Arcade Fire, Flaming Lips, and Postal Service will still be enjoying regular spins in my car five or ten years from now.
Good music doesn't get old, just look at the Beatles or the Velvet Underground.
Last I checked 25 years was still a legal age. Did you mean 25-28 months?
The really daft thing is that you'd expect the US Government to have "learned its lesson" with alcohol.
Sadly, I think they did. How much money is spent on the Drug War each year? Prohibition puts a lot of money into the criminal justice system. I don't think they'll make the same mistake and end that revenue flow again.
Something that harms you *and* chemically makes you want more of it should indeed be banned. And yes, I think cigarettes shouldn't be allowed either.
Hmm, the tasty chemicals in the burrito I ate today sure made me want more, and I have to admit it probably wasn't the healthiest thing I could have been eating. Should Mexican food be banned too?
It would actually be a state issue so the laws may vary. But despite that, our laws do still suck all to often.
Number of stations is the only issue.
You really are starting to sound like a troll. We are talking about the amount of influence a media company has. If you ignore their market share, you are an idiot.
I could print up a thousand different independent newsweekly's that never get distributed past my kitchen and by your standards I guess that would make me one of the worlds largest media monopolies.
Maybe if you count every podunk newsletter, AM radio station and zine then the total number of owners is up, but if you look at the relevant media, the major sources which actually have substantial audiences, that's where the consolidation is happening.
There's less then ten owners of the vast majority of American media these days. That's a tad bit short of the thousands you speak of. Maybe you miscounted, no bodies perfect.
That joke probably would have worked better if they were referring to Catholic priests.
Are you sure? I've been using the 2.0 compatible version of adblock for several weeks now on the release candidates.
They shouldn't be like them, exactly because they are in the voting industry. Nothing should be secret about the voting process. if Diebold or any other company have a problem with that then they should stick to bank machines.
Opera has always had a nice MDI implementation...
Nice MDI implementation? Is that something like a friendly kick to the nuts?
Why the hostile attitude? Seems to me we are pretty much in agreement. I have no trouble at all understanding that Bush has repeatedly violated his oath of office whenever it's convenient for him.
I think it's readily apparent that he didn't set out specifically to violate the Constitution, but he doesn't have any problem at all overstepping his boundaries of his power.
Exhibit 1: The Unitary Executive theories of John Yoo that this administration adheres too.
Curious, I don't recall ever seeing this violent version of the phrase. Maybe it's there and I just haven't noticed it.
Yes, pretty much the whole California coast is considered a Mediterranean climate.
Sorry, that's not compiled either.
Fuck that. If they stock these bastard discs on the same shelves as their DVDs they can't expect people to read the find print that says they won't play in their DVD player that happens to be their PC.
If you're thinking of archives we want to be around for centuries, that's easy enough. Put them on a server with a fairly large RAID array, and replicate it over the Internet to another data center or two. If one hard drive dies, you swap it out for another. If one RAID controller or whole box goes down, hard, you build a new one and replicate the data back. If you don't want the hassle of doing this yourself, especially if it's just a small amount of personal data, you get Google to do it for you.
I don't know of a good way to achieve that level of redundancy with paper, not cheaply, and certainly not if you want to be able to keep updating constantly.
The mistake you are making here is assuming that the data people 1000 years down the road will find interesting is data we think is worth keeping. Archaeologists and historians have learned immense amounts about past civilizations from mundane things like shopping lists and notes written to friends and family. There is concern among historians that, ironically enough, our data driven society will just be a huge gap to future historians because of our affinity for impermanent digital communications like email. The beauty of paper is that there's a good chance it will last for centuries even if stuck on a shelf somewhere and forgotten about. Good luck getting that sort of longevity from a modern optical or magnetic disk.
I'm pretty sure that's not correct. A sonic boom is continuous as long as the aircraft is moving faster than the speed of sound. Think of it like the wake behind a boat, spreading out behind the craft as long as it's moving.
True, the IT jobs overseas don't take advantage of sweatshop labor, but do you think that the overall cost of living in those countries would be what it is if the cheap, unregulated labor wasn't available? I think the cheap IT jobs are related to the unregulated blue collar labor, though indirectly.
Unlike the constant murders in the middle east which barely make headlines anymore.
I would dispute what you say, but just knowing that the worlds scientific community is nearly united in opposition to what you say is enough for me. I won't waste my time.
Who cares. Medical research could be sped up a lot if we allowed vivisection and human testing. The cost to humanity is too great despite any benefits, so we don't do it. War is no different. Sure it spurs research in some areas that wouldn't be funded outside of wartime. So be it, we can do fine without.
Exactly as I said, how predictable. It's awfully ungrateful of you to say that you own nothing to the government that spent its money to create the secure, successful economic environment that you enjoy so much. Do you think you would live the life you do living in a third world country? People love to think that everything they have is due to no one but themselves and they owe no one else anything, but that's just pure egoism.
Relax. The stupider you are, the less stupid they think they are. Everyone laughs at the stupid people.