No one will create "recordings" for sale anymore since they can be duplicated ad nauseum for squat.
There will still be a thriving market for LIVE music and plays and such things. Notice how the music industry never managed to die like it has always said it would? Started with the printing press, which is little different than me ripping a song off a CD, and now with the digitization of music and the internet. Both produced a cheap, easily duplicated copy without any harm to the original.
The only argument I can't make is for movies. They don't translate well into 'live'.
But music will simply go back to it's origins in live performances. The Grateful Dead were decades ahead of their time. Allowed free and ubiquitous copying of their performances and still made a bundle o cash.
I used JHymn a while back but stopped after one of the Apple 'updates' killed it's ability. Is it back up to stripping the most recent version of iTunes DRM?
I've been trying to figure out how to respond to the whole "If you do nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide" argument, but I'm not a good debater. Any thoughts anyone?
Day 1: Nothing to hide? sure, nope, use of Bitorrent isn't illegal, no problems here sir, please move along.
Day 2: knock knock. Sir, based on current laws passed 5 minutes ago, Bitorrent is illegal, and we've been monitoring your intarweb usage today and you'll need to come with us now. No you don't get a phone call.
If they know what you're doing, they can make it illegal for whatever reasons they like.
Another thought: Isn't the "since you have nothing to hide you shouldn't worry" argument mostly the same as 'Just because' argument kids will use?
I'm no great debater either, much prefer these board type systems;-) but life doesn't seem to work that way very often...sigh
Your point is a fair one. Demand is certainly up. We also knew this demand was coming.
A good portion of the price increase is also due to speculative trading. This is driven by the uncertainty of the situation. If you don't know with reasonable confidence your supply is safe, it's a higher risk thus bringing higher prices.
However, rattling the stability (yes it was moderately stable prior to our invasion) when demand is going up makes prices go up even faster.
And the US invaded Iraq in order to steal its oil, but oh wait, none of Iraq's oil is being sold to the US, and no US companies are profiting from it.
Have you seen the oil companies profits lately? They are setting records for most net income in successive quarters for any company *ever*.
While the oil companies aren't profiting from selling Iraqi oil, they most certainly are profiting from the run up in prices caused by the chaos that masquerades as Iraq. And we won't talk about how much money Haliburton has made just being in Iraq or supplying the troops.
I will blame you and everybody else who voted for someone who had *no* chance in h3ll of winning. If you didn't like Bush, you should have voted for Gore or Kerry, unless you think they would have been worse than Bush...which while possible I see as being highly unlikely. Otherwise any vote for your 3rd party, or not voting at all, was a vote *for* Bush
A friend of mine voted for Colin Powell...because it made her feel good. Um, great you feel good and we'll all go to h3ll in a handbasket, but dammit you go feel good!
If you want a 3rd party choice, build up a party but don't try and get an independent into the top office on the first shot, it just won't happen.
It may be safer than a motorcycle when it gets hit yes. But if I'm driving a motorcycle I'm a *lot* more cautious about where I stick my nose in traffic than when I'm driving a fully enclosed car.
Now give it to people who've never had the luxury of swearing and flipping off the other maniacs from behind closed doors and windows and I suspect you'll see quite a few accidents;-)
You missed my point. I had always believed I was doing exactly as you said, just not remembering my dreams. The doc's corrected that impression: I didn't have enough oxygen in my blood to allow dreams to even happen.
Now I do, and I do remember them from time to time, but the type, frequency and intensity pales compared to what other people seem to report; a side affect of not being able to dream for so long.
I understand your point. In HS I played both soccer and wrestled so I was in pretty good physical shape, not at that level now by any means but I still play recreational soccer. The issue was extreme snoring and the various physical characteristics of my throat/mouth. The surgery [tonsils/soft palette/tissue removal] that fixed it is hell on earth for a cpl weeks but well worth it.
The funny part is some of us *don't* dream. Seriously.
I know that I pretty much stopped dreaming about the time I hit puberty. Vivid dreams as a kid but once I 'grew up' they stopped.
How do I know this you ask? Because during a sleep test for sleep apnea they found out my blood oxygen saturation level was about 80%, below the threshold needed for REM sleep. So from about 12-14 to 26, I couldn't dream. Just not enough oxygen to do it.
There were the occasional odd dreams when a sleeping position allowed better than normal oxygen levels, but mostly I just didn't.
Even today, after the surgery, my dreams are wildly mild stuff. Mostly just replaying some experience of the recent days.
It did sort of explain why HS was mostly just a fog for me though...going without restful sleep for multiple years will do that;-)
Actually, the problem can be instantiated by a disturbance that causes a release of the dissolved gas.
There was a lake in Africa that had a spontaneous C02 eruption event, first time in recorded history anywhere. Killed about 1700 people in a 16 mile area, and thousands of animals. The cause they believe was a landslide in the lake. Very deep (pressure) and then add gas saturation, then shake, stir or otherwise agitate.
Earthquakes and landslides occur pretty often, if one hits such a pocket of dissolved gas or even the hydrate it could change the local conditions enough to cause release. The issue with the ocean is that finding a stagnant pocket is tougher than in a lake. Not impossible, but less likely.
My thinking is that *if* we see a shutdown of the oceanic conveyur(sp?) belt due to arctic/greenland ice melt, maybe such pockets of deep stagnant water will become more frequent.
Personally I'd let him keep his vacation time....
just rebook his flight to Guantanamo complete with drugs, bombs and lots of arabic writings in his suitcase....
I'd hardly call today's US suburban sprawl *perfect* though.
We need something that can do the routine driving around town jobs, reliably and efficiently without the negative impacts we're seeing from the internal combustion engine of today. Batteries do have environmental impact, but given how heavily recycled todays car starter batteries are (like 95%) this isn't something that can't be handled.
200 miles on a charge would go a loooooong way towards solving our foreign fuel dependency too...
For the average business I would tend to agree, it's their 'business' and how they run it is up to them.
But for government granted monopolies like cable franchises and the like, I don't have the option of taking my business elsewhere; it would seem to me they'd be required to accept people w/o SSN's (they do exist) as well as those who don't want to give it to them.
Do you have links of the websites stating they can refuse service for this situation?
But what my take on the (3) point is that by sending the data in question to a 3rd party, they've already pulled the data out and created a 'record' of it.
This 'record' is neither the random 'noise' of ever changing RAM memory, nor a physical log file that would be preservable. It's been pulled out of RAM, collected and sent outside of the defendant's perview. That might constitute having created a record and certainly would be much easier to 'preserve'; ala lets say an electronic fax. It's never on paper, but it is in a preservable format.
The MSNBC article says the same thing "we'll know later if this is a trend or an anomaly".
The point being, it's disingenuous of the President to claim *his* policies were the cause when we just don't know and there is circumstantial evidence it was mother nature herself that caused the reduction.
the US is *NOT* reducing it's emissions. The MSNBC article says even the Energy Dept said it was more likely due to the mild winter and not anything we actually did.
well the solution is obvious...Force Field protected solar panels!
I'm sure those are under development right now;-)
Seriously though almost every place gets some hail in a 5-10 year period, which makes most economics of these panels fall to, ahem, pieces;-) Could you put some sort of thin wire mesh of over the panels maybe? obviously have to be open enough to not impair the efficiency yet strong enough to stop objects of significant weight and speed.
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No one will create "recordings" for sale anymore since they can be duplicated ad nauseum for squat.
There will still be a thriving market for LIVE music and plays and such things. Notice how the music industry never managed to die like it has always said it would? Started with the printing press, which is little different than me ripping a song off a CD, and now with the digitization of music and the internet. Both produced a cheap, easily duplicated copy without any harm to the original.
The only argument I can't make is for movies. They don't translate well into 'live'.
But music will simply go back to it's origins in live performances. The Grateful Dead were decades ahead of their time. Allowed free and ubiquitous copying of their performances and still made a bundle o cash.
I used JHymn a while back but stopped after one of the Apple 'updates' killed it's ability. Is it back up to stripping the most recent version of iTunes DRM?
I've been trying to figure out how to respond to the whole "If you do nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide" argument, but I'm not a good debater. Any thoughts anyone?
;-) but life doesn't seem to work that way very often...sigh
Day 1: Nothing to hide? sure, nope, use of Bitorrent isn't illegal, no problems here sir, please move along.
Day 2: knock knock. Sir, based on current laws passed 5 minutes ago, Bitorrent is illegal, and we've been monitoring your intarweb usage today and you'll need to come with us now. No you don't get a phone call.
If they know what you're doing, they can make it illegal for whatever reasons they like.
Another thought: Isn't the "since you have nothing to hide you shouldn't worry" argument mostly the same as 'Just because' argument kids will use?
I'm no great debater either, much prefer these board type systems
Your point is a fair one. Demand is certainly up. We also knew this demand was coming.
A good portion of the price increase is also due to speculative trading. This is driven by the uncertainty of the situation. If you don't know with reasonable confidence your supply is safe, it's a higher risk thus bringing higher prices.
However, rattling the stability (yes it was moderately stable prior to our invasion) when demand is going up makes prices go up even faster.
Except that you get flattened by Jupiters gravity. Titan...not so much ;-)
And the US invaded Iraq in order to steal its oil, but oh wait, none of Iraq's oil is being sold to the US, and no US companies are profiting from it.
Have you seen the oil companies profits lately? They are setting records for most net income in successive quarters for any company *ever*.
While the oil companies aren't profiting from selling Iraqi oil, they most certainly are profiting from the run up in prices caused by the chaos that masquerades as Iraq. And we won't talk about how much money Haliburton has made just being in Iraq or supplying the troops.
I will blame you and everybody else who voted for someone who had *no* chance in h3ll of winning. If you didn't like Bush, you should have voted for Gore or Kerry, unless you think they would have been worse than Bush...which while possible I see as being highly unlikely. Otherwise any vote for your 3rd party, or not voting at all, was a vote *for* Bush
A friend of mine voted for Colin Powell...because it made her feel good. Um, great you feel good and we'll all go to h3ll in a handbasket, but dammit you go feel good!
If you want a 3rd party choice, build up a party but don't try and get an independent into the top office on the first shot, it just won't happen.
It may be safer than a motorcycle when it gets hit yes. But if I'm driving a motorcycle I'm a *lot* more cautious about where I stick my nose in traffic than when I'm driving a fully enclosed car.
;-)
Now give it to people who've never had the luxury of swearing and flipping off the other maniacs from behind closed doors and windows and I suspect you'll see quite a few accidents
You missed my point. I had always believed I was doing exactly as you said, just not remembering my dreams. The doc's corrected that impression: I didn't have enough oxygen in my blood to allow dreams to even happen.
Now I do, and I do remember them from time to time, but the type, frequency and intensity pales compared to what other people seem to report; a side affect of not being able to dream for so long.
I understand your point. In HS I played both soccer and wrestled so I was in pretty good physical shape, not at that level now by any means but I still play recreational soccer. The issue was extreme snoring and the various physical characteristics of my throat/mouth. The surgery [tonsils/soft palette/tissue removal] that fixed it is hell on earth for a cpl weeks but well worth it.
The funny part is some of us *don't* dream. Seriously.
;-)
I know that I pretty much stopped dreaming about the time I hit puberty. Vivid dreams as a kid but once I 'grew up' they stopped.
How do I know this you ask? Because during a sleep test for sleep apnea they found out my blood oxygen saturation level was about 80%, below the threshold needed for REM sleep. So from about 12-14 to 26, I couldn't dream. Just not enough oxygen to do it.
There were the occasional odd dreams when a sleeping position allowed better than normal oxygen levels, but mostly I just didn't.
Even today, after the surgery, my dreams are wildly mild stuff. Mostly just replaying some experience of the recent days.
It did sort of explain why HS was mostly just a fog for me though...going without restful sleep for multiple years will do that
Actually, the problem can be instantiated by a disturbance that causes a release of the dissolved gas.
;-)
There was a lake in Africa that had a spontaneous C02 eruption event, first time in recorded history anywhere. Killed about 1700 people in a 16 mile area, and thousands of animals. The cause they believe was a landslide in the lake. Very deep (pressure) and then add gas saturation, then shake, stir or otherwise agitate.
Earthquakes and landslides occur pretty often, if one hits such a pocket of dissolved gas or even the hydrate it could change the local conditions enough to cause release. The issue with the ocean is that finding a stagnant pocket is tougher than in a lake. Not impossible, but less likely.
My thinking is that *if* we see a shutdown of the oceanic conveyur(sp?) belt due to arctic/greenland ice melt, maybe such pockets of deep stagnant water will become more frequent.
mmm, feedback loop, mmmm
Personally I'd let him keep his vacation time.... just rebook his flight to Guantanamo complete with drugs, bombs and lots of arabic writings in his suitcase....
In a perfect world I'd agree completely.
I'd hardly call today's US suburban sprawl *perfect* though.
We need something that can do the routine driving around town jobs, reliably and efficiently without the negative impacts we're seeing from the internal combustion engine of today. Batteries do have environmental impact, but given how heavily recycled todays car starter batteries are (like 95%) this isn't something that can't be handled.
200 miles on a charge would go a loooooong way towards solving our foreign fuel dependency too...
I'd have no problem with MS *using* bittorrent either. Unfortunately MS is claiming this is their own home grown technology that they invented.
I surely hope Bram Cohen patented his little invention...
I plan to be free with my data
Cool, please supply your credit card #'s, exp dates, and ccv #'s so we can all be 'free' with your data too!
Or you could just browse at 0 rather than -1...you won't see them once the mod's get to them :)
Thanks for the links. I still wonder about gov't sponsored monopolies like Cable Co's and Telephone companies.
For the average business I would tend to agree, it's their 'business' and how they run it is up to them.
But for government granted monopolies like cable franchises and the like, I don't have the option of taking my business elsewhere; it would seem to me they'd be required to accept people w/o SSN's (they do exist) as well as those who don't want to give it to them.
Do you have links of the websites stating they can refuse service for this situation?
actually no they don't have a right to refuse service without an SSN.
;-)
But since lining up lawyers to point that out to them is generally not cost effective, you end up giving it to them anyway.
Agreed.
But what my take on the (3) point is that by sending the data in question to a 3rd party, they've already pulled the data out and created a 'record' of it.
This 'record' is neither the random 'noise' of ever changing RAM memory, nor a physical log file that would be preservable. It's been pulled out of RAM, collected and sent outside of the defendant's perview. That might constitute having created a record and certainly would be much easier to 'preserve'; ala lets say an electronic fax. It's never on paper, but it is in a preservable format.
It also says
(3) the data in issue which is currently routed to a third party entity under contract to defendants
That's the achillies heel, if they are pulling the data out and transmitting it already, they are sunk.
The MSNBC article says the same thing "we'll know later if this is a trend or an anomaly".
The point being, it's disingenuous of the President to claim *his* policies were the cause when we just don't know and there is circumstantial evidence it was mother nature herself that caused the reduction.
the US is *NOT* reducing it's emissions. The MSNBC article says even the Energy Dept said it was more likely due to the mild winter and not anything we actually did.
well the solution is obvious...Force Field protected solar panels!
;-)
;-) Could you put some sort of thin wire mesh of over the panels maybe? obviously have to be open enough to not impair the efficiency yet strong enough to stop objects of significant weight and speed.
I'm sure those are under development right now
Seriously though almost every place gets some hail in a 5-10 year period, which makes most economics of these panels fall to, ahem, pieces
Maybe I'll wait for the forcefields