And how is bittorrent a more effective tool than a boycott?
the entire institution of the way music is made and sold is useless and destructive to music and musicians and anyone who loves music and musicians
That's not your call to make. That is the musician's call to make. Get off your high horse - and take care of yourself. Live a proper life and trust (and enable) others to do the same. Regardless of how you feel about the RIAA, they provide another option for musicians. It may not be an option you like - fuck it may not be an option many musicians like - but it is an option. Far from the revolutionary freedom-fighters whose flags you wish to drape yourself in - you are a tyrant. You wish to restrict what choices (freedom) other consenting adults have to make.
If I were to break into RIAA headquarters and steal, deface and destroy, it would be a meaningless action against a room, some furniture, maybe a few records (the paper kind).
It would cause more financial damage than your horde of downloaded digital audio files has caused.
Don't kid yourself - and stop painting yourself as a noble warrior. Freedom means being free to do stupid things. The RIAA labels represent but one choice musicians have - and all attempts to limit what consenting adults can consent to (even when done in the name of being helpful) is a limitation on their freedom.
You seem to have chosen the word "cloaked" to focus on - I was going to say you brought up arguments on my usage (and apparent insult taken to) it, but you just got snippy. The rest of your post is a series of distractions - I never denied the guerrilla tactics of either the American or French revolutionaries - and I guess Ghandi was a model Republican.
First off - I said "Cloaked Inaction" The Boston Tea Party was (arguably) a "Cloaked Direct Action". Passively sitting in your room and downloading from a torrent is what I would consider a passive move, a "Cloaked Inaction". If we accept the argument that breach of copyright through file sharing is not theft, then you are depriving the music labels of a potential sale through said downloading - not a very active position to take against the RIAA.
If you were to break into RIAA headquarters (wear that ski mask if you must) and steal, deface, or destroy - THAT would be action. If you were to stage a public protest and attract media attention - that would be action. Even if you were able to somehow deprive the RIAA of other people's actual sales - that would be action. Depriving them of your personal potential sales, and dressing it up as the height of revolutionary tactics is arrogant, and flawed.
Uh, heh, if you're obtaining copyrighted music, the law obligates you to obtain the license for it, which most often obligates you to pay for it. If you refuse to pay for it, you're breaking the law. That's not boycotting. Now if you believe the law to be fundamentally unjust, then it's civil disobedience to break that law. What were you missing?
An apparent willingness to stand up, publicly, in defiance of the law - attract attention to yourself - and offer your time (in jail) as a public martyr to the unjust law. THAT is what civil disobedience is about. Not the current cloaked charade of file sharing which exists today. Justify your lack of morals elsewhere - that shit doesn't fly. Dressing your (in)actions as civil disobedience is a dishonor to all those who sacrificed for the rights you enjoy today.
No, they buy commercially available satellite (or more often (in urban areas) airplane) photography on the open market. You can too if you are willing to cough up the cash.
That didn't sound right to me. And although I don't have access to the full Billboard charts, who I guess would have all that data, the next best would be wikipedia, which shows Garth selling more then 100 million, but behind Led Zeppelin, selling more the 250 million.
Led Zeppelin has had many more years to sell so many more than Garth Brooks, the interesting numbers would be current sales, not lifetime.
Why would someone want to pay off their mortgage? That 6.5% interest rate on a mortgage is only effectively ~4% because I can write off my mortgage interest payments against my tax bill - effectively getting a third of it back. So every dollar I don't spend paying off my mortgage faster can be directed into the stock market which has, historically, a much higher rate of return than the cost (4%).
No, cash is a horrible bargaining point when buying from an auto dealer. They make money on the financing, and assume people will be financing through them (or at least allowing them to arrange the loans - where the bank gives them cash kickbacks or points.) You always want to finalize the price before you start talking financing (or lack-there-of) or trade-in. It is only when done in this order you will have a chance at working with unpadded numbers.
Rockbox is my favorite piece of unbloated software. Great care is taken to keep the core as small as possible, while maintaining focus on the fundamental goal of being the best DAP firmware possible.
It's not to prevent shoplifting. It's to prevent theft with employee collusion. If you and the cashier were accomplices, you could grab a $500 product and a $5 product, get in the right line, only get the the $5 one rung up, and walk off with the $500 one perfectly calmly in plain sight.
I can't speak for all of them, but I know one of the big-box discount retailers maintains a video recording of every item passing through the checkout lane, synced with a feed from the cash register itself. This combined with a fine-grained inventory tracking system greatly reduces shrinkage. Any employee allowing an item through the checkout lane without scanning it on the register would be eventually caught. Any employee (through the use of, let's say, a substitute bar code sticker) ringing up one item as another would be similarly caught.
If they were within 20 miles of each other, I'd look at the other ones nearby and find out who installed them. Maybe the contractor needs a little more training, maybe they got a bad batch of batteries.
It also should be noted that (depending on your source) Houston, TX is the second hottest city in the United States, when looking at daily mean.
How do "cryptographic signatures" make upload statistics "infalsifiable"? The best I believe you can hope for is to make me use two corrupt clients to fake upload statistics.
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In fact, it;s currently the only flash based iPod that can play videos...
I'm obligated to point out that the first generation Nano can play MPEG 1 and 2 videos full speed if you use Rockbox firmware. Yea, the screen is small, and I'm totally ignoring your larger point. It just needed to be said.
AFAIK, even the best lossless codecs don't do better than ~55% compression. Not to mention that the decoding process for most of them is a bit power hungry.
FLAC takes less CPU to decode than MP3, AAC, WavePak, or Vorbis.
Before bittorrent most people had no idea where or how to download movies on the internet.
Wasn't that a nice time to be alive? Less self-righteous "freedom fighters" who don't understand the true meaning of civil disobedience. Less harebrained ISP throttling methods attempting to manage out of control P2P bandwidth. No anti-piracy warnings before the showing of films in the theater. A vibrant, helpful, and well-oiled USENET community.
Anybody who thinks that "skilled labor" will be worth ANYTHING two centuries from now is fooling themselves.
Did I suggest otherwise? You are the one saying money is outdated today. You are the one discounting the value of skilled labor today.
In the music industry they do- and actually, some of the newer decking materials you use to build a deck are little more than grass clippings and epoxy. It's extruded out of a machine at whatever length you like- and it's created out of nearly nothing and will last far longer than any wood deck you could build.
Read what I said. I never dismissed the raw material. I only challenged your notion of the (lack of) value inherent in the ability to transform that raw material into a finished product.
You can't. But there's nothing a human being can do that a machine can't do at a SUPERIOR quality- given enough technology there is no need for services or skills.
"Given enough technology" being the operative phrase here. Your arguments might hold water at that point. They don't today. You are describing how you wish human nature was today. It isn't. Economics is little more than the study of human behavior when put to the ultimate test. The test of making value judgments. Unless you are claiming a vast (functional) conspiracy to control the world, what we are seeing in the freer countries is nothing more than human nature expressing itself. Capitalism has arisen, and persevered, in politically free countries because it is currently the closest approximation to human nature we (as a society) have worked out.
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That's not your call to make.
That is the musician's call to make.
Get off your high horse - and take care of yourself. Live a proper life and trust (and enable) others to do the same. Regardless of how you feel about the RIAA, they provide another option for musicians. It may not be an option you like - fuck it may not be an option many musicians like - but it is an option.
Far from the revolutionary freedom-fighters whose flags you wish to drape yourself in - you are a tyrant. You wish to restrict what choices (freedom) other consenting adults have to make.
It would cause more financial damage than your horde of downloaded digital audio files has caused.
Don't kid yourself - and stop painting yourself as a noble warrior. Freedom means being free to do stupid things. The RIAA labels represent but one choice musicians have - and all attempts to limit what consenting adults can consent to (even when done in the name of being helpful) is a limitation on their freedom.
You seem to have chosen the word "cloaked" to focus on - I was going to say you brought up arguments on my usage (and apparent insult taken to) it, but you just got snippy.
The rest of your post is a series of distractions - I never denied the guerrilla tactics of either the American or French revolutionaries - and I guess Ghandi was a model Republican.
First off - I said "Cloaked Inaction"
The Boston Tea Party was (arguably) a "Cloaked Direct Action".
Passively sitting in your room and downloading from a torrent is what I would consider a passive move, a "Cloaked Inaction". If we accept the argument that breach of copyright through file sharing is not theft, then you are depriving the music labels of a potential sale through said downloading - not a very active position to take against the RIAA.
If you were to break into RIAA headquarters (wear that ski mask if you must) and steal, deface, or destroy - THAT would be action.
If you were to stage a public protest and attract media attention - that would be action.
Even if you were able to somehow deprive the RIAA of other people's actual sales - that would be action.
Depriving them of your personal potential sales, and dressing it up as the height of revolutionary tactics is arrogant, and flawed.
An apparent willingness to stand up, publicly, in defiance of the law - attract attention to yourself - and offer your time (in jail) as a public martyr to the unjust law.
THAT is what civil disobedience is about. Not the current cloaked charade of file sharing which exists today.
Justify your lack of morals elsewhere - that shit doesn't fly.
Dressing your (in)actions as civil disobedience is a dishonor to all those who sacrificed for the rights you enjoy today.
No, they buy commercially available satellite (or more often (in urban areas) airplane) photography on the open market. You can too if you are willing to cough up the cash.
Very solid point as most (all?) the xscale processors do not have a FPU.
A quick google search appears to show modern PDAs competing nicely with a mid-80's Cray.
Led Zeppelin has had many more years to sell so many more than Garth Brooks, the interesting numbers would be current sales, not lifetime.
Does the air in your microwave oven get hot, or just the objects placed in it?
Why would someone want to pay off their mortgage?
That 6.5% interest rate on a mortgage is only effectively ~4% because I can write off my mortgage interest payments against my tax bill - effectively getting a third of it back.
So every dollar I don't spend paying off my mortgage faster can be directed into the stock market which has, historically, a much higher rate of return than the cost (4%).
No, cash is a horrible bargaining point when buying from an auto dealer. They make money on the financing, and assume people will be financing through them (or at least allowing them to arrange the loans - where the bank gives them cash kickbacks or points.)
You always want to finalize the price before you start talking financing (or lack-there-of) or trade-in. It is only when done in this order you will have a chance at working with unpadded numbers.
It appears operating systems have arrived at such a technologically advanced state that they at least know what gender they are.
Rockbox is my favorite piece of unbloated software.
Great care is taken to keep the core as small as possible, while maintaining focus on the fundamental goal of being the best DAP firmware possible.
I can't speak for all of them, but I know one of the big-box discount retailers maintains a video recording of every item passing through the checkout lane, synced with a feed from the cash register itself.
This combined with a fine-grained inventory tracking system greatly reduces shrinkage. Any employee allowing an item through the checkout lane without scanning it on the register would be eventually caught. Any employee (through the use of, let's say, a substitute bar code sticker) ringing up one item as another would be similarly caught.
http://www.last.fm/user/Wal_Mart
It also should be noted that (depending on your source) Houston, TX is the second hottest city in the United States, when looking at daily mean.
Except the rat and ketchup salesmen.
How do "cryptographic signatures" make upload statistics "infalsifiable"?
The best I believe you can hope for is to make me use two corrupt clients to fake upload statistics.
How do you resist the temptation to let the servers drop?
Nah, if it is documentaries with lots of nuclear explosions you want, thisis the movie for you.
K6-III peaked at 450.a tion/0,,30_118_1260_1288%5E1022~1515,00.html#1543a tion/0,,30_118_1260_1288%5E1022~1572,00.html#1574
K6-II went up to 550.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInform
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInform
I'm obligated to point out that the first generation Nano can play MPEG 1 and 2 videos full speed if you use Rockbox firmware.
Yea, the screen is small, and I'm totally ignoring your larger point.
It just needed to be said.
FLAC takes less CPU to decode than MP3, AAC, WavePak, or Vorbis.
Wasn't that a nice time to be alive?
Less self-righteous "freedom fighters" who don't understand the true meaning of civil disobedience.
Less harebrained ISP throttling methods attempting to manage out of control P2P bandwidth.
No anti-piracy warnings before the showing of films in the theater.
A vibrant, helpful, and well-oiled USENET community.
(ok, so maybe that last one never existed.)
I see I made the mistake of taking you literally.
I wasn't talking of the RIAA at all.
I don't argue analogies stretched beyond the breaking point.
Did I suggest otherwise?
You are the one saying money is outdated today.
You are the one discounting the value of skilled labor today.
Read what I said. I never dismissed the raw material. I only challenged your notion of the (lack of) value inherent in the ability to transform that raw material into a finished product.
"Given enough technology" being the operative phrase here. Your arguments might hold water at that point. They don't today.
You are describing how you wish human nature was today. It isn't. Economics is little more than the study of human behavior when put to the ultimate test. The test of making value judgments.
Unless you are claiming a vast (functional) conspiracy to control the world, what we are seeing in the freer countries is nothing more than human nature expressing itself. Capitalism has arisen, and persevered, in politically free countries because it is currently the closest approximation to human nature we (as a society) have worked out.