Before you all jump on the bandwagon, this is about monitoring and being involved in the workflow of company accounts, not controlling what employees say on their personal accounts. I cannot see anything bad about this and in fact when I first saw it yesterday I thought it was a nice business idea.
Effectively it is for companies with local branches (like a franchise) where head office wants some control over the official social media accounts of their sub-branches or franchisees. It means branches can run their own social media marketing, but head office can be involved in the workflow to ensure it fits in with corporate policy and marketing.
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for day, teach him how surf and he'll get two medium pizzas, a bottle of pepsi and two free side dishes for just $9.99*.
Funnily enough I have a white Trinitron portable sitting right next to me with my Dreamcast plugged in to it. When I were a lad it was our second TV (we weren't posh or owt, though). Its even got a seperate RF input on the front for plugging your speccie in without having to take the arial out the back. I only had to stop using it recently because you can't get freeview boxes with RF outputs and it pre-dates scart by about 2 centuries.
Except, and its a big except, the studios don't pay for all the things you mention. What they do is loan the artist the money to pay for those things. And the first thing that happens to the artist's money, before they get to even look at it, is that the studio takes back its loan.
Well, to be fair, its not the job of courts or lawyers to tell companies how to perform their jobs or how to avoid falling foul of the law. I'm not saying its correct or justified or not justified or anything - I don't really have an opinion on that right now - but just because your shovelware business model makes it hard to do due diligence doesn't mean you get a free pass.
I guess you're serious and I find that very frightening. I really don't want to live in that world, where a day at the shops involves my growing armful of shopping bags being searched at each of the 17 stores I visit. And perhaps I should also agree to be searched if I am leaving a store and I haven't bought anything? Maybe they should be allowed to search inside my underwear as well - after all I could get get an ipod nano in there. Or are you just talking about showing your receipt, in which case what does that prove? That I have a receipt for the items on the receipt? If I were a shoplifter I could have bought a pack of AA batteries and stuffed 100 ipods into my bag. So why not a search? Why not x-rays? Cavity search? Why not force me to leave a signed blank check in case they discover something is missing later?
I've not got much to add, except to say that you pretty much summed up my opinions and experience. The only time I ever played D&D (not even the advanced version:)), was my very first game. After that I discovered all the other games out there - games that weren't stuck in some anachronistic wargaming time warp - and I never looked back. I read 3rd edition when it came out, because I worked in the industry and there was a lot of excitement over OGL, but still levels, and (A)D&D in particular, still feel quaintly old fashioned to me. Its good for characters to grow in terms of skills and experience, albeit slowly, but as you say, growth mostly happens in terms of the experiences, reputation - horizontally. Meeting old friends, revisiting old places or having a familiar base - to me that is growth as much as any gain in skills or THAC0.
I totally agree and was actually going to mod you up. Except the one factor is this - if something has vitamin C in it they are happy to splash that all over the packaging rather than "contains 2-oxo-L-threo-hexono-1,4- lactone-2,3-enediol". They generally only use big words when they are trying to hide something.
Surely the fact that its bad for his business is enough? Its not all about the profits of the big player (although given the current climate, I guess you could be forgiven for thinking that).
...for the small price of the US (and in turn global) economy.
Yeh, good one. The record industry is tiny. A few billions - peanuts. The beaver fur trade probably makes more money. Its just visible is all. Any one of the top ten chemical companies could buy the entire music industry without raising a sweat.
What a load of nonsense. They are obliged to use their best judgement - that doesn't mean they are obliged to take back empty cans for 1/4c each in case they are sued for not increasing shareholder value. Nor are they obliged to ensure the lights are switched off at night to save electricity costs or that envelopes are reused to save stationary costs. Of course anyone can sue anyone for anything, but that doesn't mean you are 'obliged' to do stupid things in case stupid people bring stupid lawsuits. If you wish to argue this point please post links showing the plethora of lawsuits against companies for not taking out patents on obvious or non-original ideas.
No, although there is a resemblance. The one you're thinking of has curly hair and was a bit darker.
About the egg thing, BTW - I would just lay off dairy for a while and give your digestive system time to settle down. I have the same problem with spicy food.
All this saves is retail storage space - ie it is convenient for the studios and the stores because they don't need the same warehouse and shelf space. Its not convenient for me. I can already walk to the Global Video 50 yards from my house and buy (or rent) DVDs. Except now, if its not a popular choice, I have to wait at a booth until a 4GB file downloads.
It just reinforces in my mind that consumers are merely obstacles between the studios and their money, and technology is merely a lubricant to ease the movement of money from us to them. Nothing else matters - in fact anything else is an obstacle.
Perhaps they might just take all their assets held in countries signed up to the EU? Microsoft don't operate soley from their secret headquarters in the Rockies - hording their gold in giant underground bunkers to which only Bill and Steve have the keys. They have offices, staff, equipment, bank accounts around the world. If they don't pay the fines they cannot operate in one of the two largest combined economies in the world, not to mention losing all the assets they have there, all the legal protections for their IP in that region, never being able to send any employees to the region or to regions with extredition treaties, etc, etc.
Or did you think Bill poped over with a big sack of money every time MS did a transaction in the EU?
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Before you all jump on the bandwagon, this is about monitoring and being involved in the workflow of company accounts, not controlling what employees say on their personal accounts. I cannot see anything bad about this and in fact when I first saw it yesterday I thought it was a nice business idea.
Effectively it is for companies with local branches (like a franchise) where head office wants some control over the official social media accounts of their sub-branches or franchisees. It means branches can run their own social media marketing, but head office can be involved in the workflow to ensure it fits in with corporate policy and marketing.
I'm sure its open to abuse, but what isn't?
You wouldn't break into his garage and steal his car, would you?
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Give a man a fish and he'll eat for day, teach him how surf and he'll get two medium pizzas, a bottle of pepsi and two free side dishes for just $9.99*.
And there's always enough left for breakfast.
*chicken dippers $1.00 supplement
Funnily enough I have a white Trinitron portable sitting right next to me with my Dreamcast plugged in to it. When I were a lad it was our second TV (we weren't posh or owt, though). Its even got a seperate RF input on the front for plugging your speccie in without having to take the arial out the back. I only had to stop using it recently because you can't get freeview boxes with RF outputs and it pre-dates scart by about 2 centuries.
Except, and its a big except, the studios don't pay for all the things you mention. What they do is loan the artist the money to pay for those things. And the first thing that happens to the artist's money, before they get to even look at it, is that the studio takes back its loan.
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Well, to be fair, its not the job of courts or lawyers to tell companies how to perform their jobs or how to avoid falling foul of the law. I'm not saying its correct or justified or not justified or anything - I don't really have an opinion on that right now - but just because your shovelware business model makes it hard to do due diligence doesn't mean you get a free pass.
I guess you're serious and I find that very frightening. I really don't want to live in that world, where a day at the shops involves my growing armful of shopping bags being searched at each of the 17 stores I visit. And perhaps I should also agree to be searched if I am leaving a store and I haven't bought anything? Maybe they should be allowed to search inside my underwear as well - after all I could get get an ipod nano in there. Or are you just talking about showing your receipt, in which case what does that prove? That I have a receipt for the items on the receipt? If I were a shoplifter I could have bought a pack of AA batteries and stuffed 100 ipods into my bag. So why not a search? Why not x-rays? Cavity search? Why not force me to leave a signed blank check in case they discover something is missing later?
I've not got much to add, except to say that you pretty much summed up my opinions and experience. The only time I ever played D&D (not even the advanced version :)), was my very first game. After that I discovered all the other games out there - games that weren't stuck in some anachronistic wargaming time warp - and I never looked back. I read 3rd edition when it came out, because I worked in the industry and there was a lot of excitement over OGL, but still levels, and (A)D&D in particular, still feel quaintly old fashioned to me. Its good for characters to grow in terms of skills and experience, albeit slowly, but as you say, growth mostly happens in terms of the experiences, reputation - horizontally. Meeting old friends, revisiting old places or having a familiar base - to me that is growth as much as any gain in skills or THAC0.
I totally agree and was actually going to mod you up. Except the one factor is this - if something has vitamin C in it they are happy to splash that all over the packaging rather than "contains 2-oxo-L-threo-hexono-1,4- lactone-2,3-enediol". They generally only use big words when they are trying to hide something.
Let's see : "le-tis". Yip. Next challenge? I could probably manage cauliflower.
Surely the fact that its bad for his business is enough? Its not all about the profits of the big player (although given the current climate, I guess you could be forgiven for thinking that).
Yeh, good one. The record industry is tiny. A few billions - peanuts. The beaver fur trade probably makes more money. Its just visible is all. Any one of the top ten chemical companies could buy the entire music industry without raising a sweat.
What a load of nonsense. They are obliged to use their best judgement - that doesn't mean they are obliged to take back empty cans for 1/4c each in case they are sued for not increasing shareholder value. Nor are they obliged to ensure the lights are switched off at night to save electricity costs or that envelopes are reused to save stationary costs. Of course anyone can sue anyone for anything, but that doesn't mean you are 'obliged' to do stupid things in case stupid people bring stupid lawsuits. If you wish to argue this point please post links showing the plethora of lawsuits against companies for not taking out patents on obvious or non-original ideas.
No, although there is a resemblance. The one you're thinking of has curly hair and was a bit darker.
About the egg thing, BTW - I would just lay off dairy for a while and give your digestive system time to settle down. I have the same problem with spicy food.
All this saves is retail storage space - ie it is convenient for the studios and the stores because they don't need the same warehouse and shelf space. Its not convenient for me. I can already walk to the Global Video 50 yards from my house and buy (or rent) DVDs. Except now, if its not a popular choice, I have to wait at a booth until a 4GB file downloads.
It just reinforces in my mind that consumers are merely obstacles between the studios and their money, and technology is merely a lubricant to ease the movement of money from us to them. Nothing else matters - in fact anything else is an obstacle.
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Perhaps they might just take all their assets held in countries signed up to the EU? Microsoft don't operate soley from their secret headquarters in the Rockies - hording their gold in giant underground bunkers to which only Bill and Steve have the keys. They have offices, staff, equipment, bank accounts around the world. If they don't pay the fines they cannot operate in one of the two largest combined economies in the world, not to mention losing all the assets they have there, all the legal protections for their IP in that region, never being able to send any employees to the region or to regions with extredition treaties, etc, etc.
Or did you think Bill poped over with a big sack of money every time MS did a transaction in the EU?
Wow. You guys are great. First we have single guy telling us what to do with our kids. Then we have nuclear family guy telling us that homosexuals are not only bringing down the family unit (what do they do, stand outside your house and hand out recruitment flyers?) but also that they are now the standard unit of mankind. Here was me thinking the gays were just looking for the ability to live their own lives under the same conditions as everyone else, when all along they are actively campaigning against our right to be straight and have a family. And to think I was buying into that woolly-minded, liberal, each to their own crap. I better go and tell my gays that they can't visit anymore in case they destroy my family.
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