As for rural Americans, I don't think they have much choice. Perhaps you mean "suburban?" Even then, unless you're within the sprawl of a major city, you don't have much choice in the U.S. "Obsession" has little to do with it when the main issue is "necessity."
You're a bit confused if you think The University of Texas is a bastion of conservative thought.
Try Texas A&M. Or Purdue.
And, by the way, you should not so glibly exchange the words for "religious nut" and "political fiscal conservative." They are not the same, just like "militant atheistic humanist" is not the same as "political social liberal."
In fact, "political fiscal conservative" and "political social liberal" are not mutually exclusive, as you'll find if you investigate some of your third-party politics.
Getting paid perpetually for the work you did in 1974 is another thing entirely.
If I write a piece of code that helps my employer do something, I get paid for the amount of time I worked on it. I don't get paid every time my company sells the software, and every time they re-use the code, forever and ever amen.
Artists should definitely get paid when they perform their popular song, which is real work, paid for at the time of service.
Should artists get paid forever for the same 6 hours of work in the recording studio? How is that different from me and my code?
...and if I wanted the radio completely OFF during the obnoxious radio commercial break, I would have turned it off. Instead, I wanted in ON but QUIET so that I could raise the volume again slightly to know when the normal radio program had resumed.
The point is that a loud beep at the zero volume mark is silly and unexpected behavior.
But you knew that, of course, and were merely responding to my inadequately emoticoned tongue-in-cheek blanket "bashing" of Germans.
My wife's Jetta has this same "feature." Say someone in the car is sleeping, like, oh, I don't know, a baby. You want to turn down the stereo to level zero to make sure no loud radio commercial blares in and wakes him up. As the volume knob diminishes the radio noise to zero, the stereo helpfully sends a loud through the speakers to indicate that the radio is now, in fact, silent.
PUT BACK EVERYTHING they took away. This is a great idea, except that Dell no longer competes in the market they used to when all this stuff was great. That was an era when a PC was still a specialty item and commanded high margins. Now, if we have to pay more than $400 for one, we get pissy and want to look at Acer, or whatever other crap brand wants to sell us some parts in a box. Dell can't afford to build quality any more, because not enough people are willing to pay for it.
The PC industry (excluding Apple) has largely become a low-margin, high-volume commodity affair where low cost is king.
In addition you have countries like Germany that raised its sales tax 3% this year, and that pretty much automatically creates inflation.... Are you sure? My economics professor would have said that raising taxes removes money from the supply, making interest rates higher but curbing inflation.
CDs have for decades been padded with extra content that you are supposedly paying for, but in fact serve primarily to make the album worthy of the "LP" label and the $15-20 price tag.
The fact that digital downloads allow people to buy the prime rib without the fat is a big reason for the decrease in overall sales, and that has everything to do with the quality of content and its packaging.
The theory proposed by the grandparent (or was it the great-grandparent) poster is almost correct, but is mis-stated somewhat.
It is not that modern proportional typefaces have extra space after the period, it is that typewriters' fixed-fonts padded the period with extra space to make it take up the same space as a 'W', for example. Therefore, if you didn't hit the spacebar twice, it became somewhat difficult, optically, to discern where sentences began and ended.
Since modern typefaces no longer have to pad the period with extra space, the single space is more than sufficient for discerning sentence beginnings and endings.
Note that it has always been AP and Chicago style to put only one space after each sentence-ending character (. ? !).
I'm assuming from your statement that you have decided that pirating music and movies in your home constitutes "no harm", or at least not enough harm to invoke the laws.
Does that mean that it's legal for you to download pirated copies, AND legal for others to make them available to you to download, assuming they're in their homes? Does the fact that the activity uses the Internet to leave your respective homes enter into the equation? Suppose you decide to operate Pirate Bay from your home office. At what point can there be considered "harm" to the copyright holders, assuming they don't approve of your activities?
I don't think the **AAs are taking the right tack in their efforts to relate to their customers, and I wish they would open up a LOT. But I don't buy this notion that, just because you do it in your house, you aren't committing some kind of harm. Ostensibly, laws are put in place to prevent harm. Are we to let you decide when you've done so and when you haven't? How about your neighbor, or that jerk down the street?
If you want to do these things AND feel warm and fuzzy about yourself, change the damned law.
Mods, this is NOT a troll. It is a really good point.
At what point does the "legal in my own home" argument fail to hold water? And if it fails to work at some point, what does that say about the entire argument?
For example, is it legal to shoot heroin in your house? How about meth? Is it legal to pass counterfeit bills to your drug dealer? Can you deprive him of liberty if he calls you on it? Is murder legal in your own home? How about arson to hide the evidence of the previous "legal" activities?
If your argument fails at some point in that chain, does it continue to work for your original "legal in my own home" actions?
Well, to be fair, OJ has an incredible amount of energy waiting to be unlocked within its atoms. All we'd need to do is cause OJ and anti-OJ to meet in a controlled environment, capture the energy released, and voila, space ship powered by OJ.
Plus it's very refreshing after a long day of driving ships and banging space bitches.
As soon as a university takes on the responsibility of an ISP, it arguably becomes liable for copyright infringement across its networks. However, universities are not ISPs, nor do they staff their IT departments such that they could ever reasonably investigate every complaint.
To your question, how was the RIAA able to send their letters? I assume it was based on some initial investigation that they did. However, if they want to go further and actually lodge a legitimate complaint, they should file suit and subpoena records. The law gives them this avenue for relief. They don't do that, though, which means it's too expensive and they want the universities to do their legwork (read: dirty work) for them.
The reality is that it is not the responsibility of universities to enforce privately-held copyrights. If the RIAA wants to enforce their copyrights, then they should do the investigation, collect evidence, and file suit.
Instead, they are attempting to offload this responsibility to the universities, thereby limiting file sharing AND their own expenses to maximize profit.
Note that an increase of over 2,786% year over year is not explainable by any changes in behavior of the population in question. Instead, it is explainable only by changes in the behavior of the RIAA. The likelihood is that, between 2005 and 2006, the RIAA hired a bunch of writers to fire off 30X more letters than in years' past, so as to manufacture a scary-sounding story that a lazy reporter will swallow.
Yeah, I agree, we are saying the same thing. I interpreted your words differently the first time.
The state of investigative journalism in this country is why I chose not to become a journalist after graduating with that degree. No longer is a reporter given the time and resources to flesh out a story to the degree necessary for forming thoughtful opinions. Instead, productivity is the main thrust, and each reporter must churn out story after story with aggressive deadlines that eliminate the possibility of real journalism.
The "whole story" is the very definition of "fair reporting." If people know everything about a story, it can't get any fairer, by definition.
I see the problem as media outlets artificially creating weak angles that drive some level of argumentation, when what they really intend to do is prop a particular political slant.
Incidentally, there were two versions of the NES when it came out; one had SMB and Duck Hunt, with the light gun accessory, and the other had Duck Hunt, R.O.B., the light gun, and one of the only games that used R.O.B., Gyromite.
I bought the first version, because I wanted SMB, and Gyromite sucked.
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First page google search on "km":
knowledge management
kings mission
kernel management
Oh, and ONE instance of "kilometre" (the Wikipedia entry).
That's as ridiculous an argument as me pointing out that EVERY taxi in the U.S. is a Detroit brand.
If you want to show reliability, cite numbers, like repairs per hundred thousand, or similar.
Didn't know that. Thanks.
As for rural Americans, I don't think they have much choice. Perhaps you mean "suburban?" Even then, unless you're within the sprawl of a major city, you don't have much choice in the U.S. "Obsession" has little to do with it when the main issue is "necessity."
Even bigger strawman.
"km" fails the googlefight against "mi".
You can't go comparing an abbreviation to a non-abbreviation and then try to pretend they're the same.
And, by the way, "mph" destroys "kph" by over 14x.
You're a bit confused if you think The University of Texas is a bastion of conservative thought.
Try Texas A&M. Or Purdue.
And, by the way, you should not so glibly exchange the words for "religious nut" and "political fiscal conservative." They are not the same, just like "militant atheistic humanist" is not the same as "political social liberal."
In fact, "political fiscal conservative" and "political social liberal" are not mutually exclusive, as you'll find if you investigate some of your third-party politics.
Getting paid for work is one thing.
Getting paid perpetually for the work you did in 1974 is another thing entirely.
If I write a piece of code that helps my employer do something, I get paid for the amount of time I worked on it. I don't get paid every time my company sells the software, and every time they re-use the code, forever and ever amen.
Artists should definitely get paid when they perform their popular song, which is real work, paid for at the time of service.
Should artists get paid forever for the same 6 hours of work in the recording studio? How is that different from me and my code?
...and if I wanted the radio completely OFF during the obnoxious radio commercial break, I would have turned it off. Instead, I wanted in ON but QUIET so that I could raise the volume again slightly to know when the normal radio program had resumed.
The point is that a loud beep at the zero volume mark is silly and unexpected behavior.
But you knew that, of course, and were merely responding to my inadequately emoticoned tongue-in-cheek blanket "bashing" of Germans.
My wife's Jetta has this same "feature." Say someone in the car is sleeping, like, oh, I don't know, a baby. You want to turn down the stereo to level zero to make sure no loud radio commercial blares in and wakes him up. As the volume knob diminishes the radio noise to zero, the stereo helpfully sends a loud through the speakers to indicate that the radio is now, in fact, silent.
Stupid Germans...
The PC industry (excluding Apple) has largely become a low-margin, high-volume commodity affair where low cost is king.
Gee, imagine only getting paid for results! We better not open THAT Pandora's box...
I think you mean:
"It's 'pique,' you illiterate twat," you illiterate twat.
This is EXACTLY right, and mod the parent way up.
CDs have for decades been padded with extra content that you are supposedly paying for, but in fact serve primarily to make the album worthy of the "LP" label and the $15-20 price tag.
The fact that digital downloads allow people to buy the prime rib without the fat is a big reason for the decrease in overall sales, and that has everything to do with the quality of content and its packaging.
The theory proposed by the grandparent (or was it the great-grandparent) poster is almost correct, but is mis-stated somewhat.
It is not that modern proportional typefaces have extra space after the period, it is that typewriters' fixed-fonts padded the period with extra space to make it take up the same space as a 'W', for example. Therefore, if you didn't hit the spacebar twice, it became somewhat difficult, optically, to discern where sentences began and ended.
Since modern typefaces no longer have to pad the period with extra space, the single space is more than sufficient for discerning sentence beginnings and endings.
Note that it has always been AP and Chicago style to put only one space after each sentence-ending character (. ? !).
You're welcome.
I'm assuming from your statement that you have decided that pirating music and movies in your home constitutes "no harm", or at least not enough harm to invoke the laws.
Does that mean that it's legal for you to download pirated copies, AND legal for others to make them available to you to download, assuming they're in their homes? Does the fact that the activity uses the Internet to leave your respective homes enter into the equation? Suppose you decide to operate Pirate Bay from your home office. At what point can there be considered "harm" to the copyright holders, assuming they don't approve of your activities?
I don't think the **AAs are taking the right tack in their efforts to relate to their customers, and I wish they would open up a LOT. But I don't buy this notion that, just because you do it in your house, you aren't committing some kind of harm. Ostensibly, laws are put in place to prevent harm. Are we to let you decide when you've done so and when you haven't? How about your neighbor, or that jerk down the street?
If you want to do these things AND feel warm and fuzzy about yourself, change the damned law.
Mods, this is NOT a troll. It is a really good point.
At what point does the "legal in my own home" argument fail to hold water? And if it fails to work at some point, what does that say about the entire argument?
For example, is it legal to shoot heroin in your house? How about meth? Is it legal to pass counterfeit bills to your drug dealer? Can you deprive him of liberty if he calls you on it? Is murder legal in your own home? How about arson to hide the evidence of the previous "legal" activities?
If your argument fails at some point in that chain, does it continue to work for your original "legal in my own home" actions?
Well, to be fair, OJ has an incredible amount of energy waiting to be unlocked within its atoms. All we'd need to do is cause OJ and anti-OJ to meet in a controlled environment, capture the energy released, and voila, space ship powered by OJ.
Plus it's very refreshing after a long day of driving ships and banging space bitches.
That's f*&^ing funny, even if no one else seems to know why!
As soon as a university takes on the responsibility of an ISP, it arguably becomes liable for copyright infringement across its networks. However, universities are not ISPs, nor do they staff their IT departments such that they could ever reasonably investigate every complaint.
To your question, how was the RIAA able to send their letters? I assume it was based on some initial investigation that they did. However, if they want to go further and actually lodge a legitimate complaint, they should file suit and subpoena records. The law gives them this avenue for relief. They don't do that, though, which means it's too expensive and they want the universities to do their legwork (read: dirty work) for them.
The reality is that it is not the responsibility of universities to enforce privately-held copyrights. If the RIAA wants to enforce their copyrights, then they should do the investigation, collect evidence, and file suit.
Instead, they are attempting to offload this responsibility to the universities, thereby limiting file sharing AND their own expenses to maximize profit.
Note that an increase of over 2,786% year over year is not explainable by any changes in behavior of the population in question. Instead, it is explainable only by changes in the behavior of the RIAA. The likelihood is that, between 2005 and 2006, the RIAA hired a bunch of writers to fire off 30X more letters than in years' past, so as to manufacture a scary-sounding story that a lazy reporter will swallow.
In that case, I hope the Chinese boast more often about big, hairy, audacious space goals.
Yeah, I agree, we are saying the same thing. I interpreted your words differently the first time.
The state of investigative journalism in this country is why I chose not to become a journalist after graduating with that degree. No longer is a reporter given the time and resources to flesh out a story to the degree necessary for forming thoughtful opinions. Instead, productivity is the main thrust, and each reporter must churn out story after story with aggressive deadlines that eliminate the possibility of real journalism.
The "whole story" is the very definition of "fair reporting." If people know everything about a story, it can't get any fairer, by definition.
I see the problem as media outlets artificially creating weak angles that drive some level of argumentation, when what they really intend to do is prop a particular political slant.
Fiefdom?
Incidentally, there were two versions of the NES when it came out; one had SMB and Duck Hunt, with the light gun accessory, and the other had Duck Hunt, R.O.B., the light gun, and one of the only games that used R.O.B., Gyromite.
I bought the first version, because I wanted SMB, and Gyromite sucked.