So what you're saying is, if you don't like the price of something, it's ok to just break the law and take it for free?
I believe in behaving in a more civilised manner: if you don't like the price of something, take your business elsewhere. I for one am mature enough to respect copyright law, and if the music industry is overpricing its product, I simply don't buy it. I don't pirate it either, because I'm above that, I just go without. It is a luxury after all.
I'm afraid that copyright law precedes the invention of recorded music.
But who am I to get in the way of you playing the victim because you're too poor to pay 99c for a luxury item (music).
A hint for the moderator who made 'viewtouch' +2 insightful: when 'viewtouch' was born, copyright law was in force. If he/she has made a copy of some music without the permission of the copyright holder at any time in his life, it would have been illegal. Therefore, 'viewtouch' is lying, he never remembered such a time because such a time never existed in his lifetime.
But who am I to spoil the party? Mod him up to +5 for playing the 'feel good' card, and mod me down for pointing out reality. We have to maintain the RDF, even at the expense of reason and fact.
Since the site operates out of Russia, Russian copyright applies.
But if you're in America, then American copyright applies. So if a song is owned by a copyright holder in America, and they don't give permission for Allofmp3 to distribute a song, and you download it in America, then don't complain when a court summons appears through your letterbox.
The convenience of downloading it rather than going to the shop.
Aren't people on here always going on about the music industry living in the past, and not recognising the new distribution medium? And now they have recognised the new distribution medium, you're whining that the price isn't low enough.
I suppose you and others like you will just use this as excuse to justify piracy, trying to disguise the fact you just want things for free.
They don't check signatures anyway, and you don't have to sign for things anymore, especially in the self-service places. The slowest part is typing the personal PIN number in and waiting three weeks for the computer to verify it.
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The same B&J that dropped a few products because making the product was giving the factory workers RSI?
Because of risks of legal action, which is expensive.
The B&J that started in a garage?
The B&J that makes money off making people fat and getting kids addicted to sugar, giving them diabetes and tooth decay. Yeah, hippies are all about making money on other people's misery.
The same B&J that donates 7.5% of its pre-tax profits to charities?
If they were real hippies, rather than sell-outs, they'd give 100%. But then they wouldn't be millionaires, which is what it's all about in the end.
Drinking is no worse than smoking or eating greasy food or sitting at a desk-job all day. They're all unhealthy but then no-one needs to be perfectly healthy all the time. At the end of the day, you wake up the next morning sober, and the liver is one of the most quick-recovering organs in the body.
Well, I live a more physical life than normal, I work a physical job and go everywhere on my bike, and I can't run a 10 minute mile, so what the hell's up? Where are all these millions of exercise freaks?
I don't think KDE or Gnome are very good examples. They just try to emulate a Windows/OSX interface, but with more bloat and transparency, not to mention more confusion, more disorganisation and crashing. Openoffice is hardly an Office-killer either.
I think the only ones there which are any good are Apache, the kernel, Samba and Firefox.
And for God's sake, not every fscking project needs to be innovative, all right ?
Then why do Microsoft and Google get constant flak for copying old things and changing the presentation a bit and sticking their name on it?
You wouldn't qualify for a middle school track team.
Well, there you're talking about people who regularly do running. 99% of people don't run at all, they've no need to. I'd expect someone who ran several miles every day to be able to do a 10-minute mile, but not most people.
A mile's a pretty long way to go. If you look down a straight road and see something a mile away, then you realise how far away it really is. There's no way you could get from one end to the other in 10 minutes. That's absolutely impossible.
Well, I do at least an hour's exercise a day, and have done for years, and I struggle to run a mile in 15 minutes. I think it's more to do with technique than fitness, or bone structure.
Someone who's healthy isn't necessarily good at running. 2.2 miles in 20 minutes is a pretty fast pace, it takes me that long to go about 1 mile, and I don't consider myself unfit.
Bear in mind they're looking for astronauts, who need to be pretty fit, if only 200 in 900 can do it then obviously your definition of 'reasonably healthy' must mean marathon runners.
Why? I don't exactly go round killing people. Drink is just another liquid.
What's with the moralising, anti-alcohol mods today? Slashdot's always whining about people's rights to do what they want with their own body, what about my right to drink? Why should that be censored?
Alcoholism is a voluntary condition anyway, so it's not exactly anything to be miserable about. It's just a bit bad for your health (and your wallet!).
Basically, the only thing that Windows can do that Linux can't is get viruses and crash.
And run decent software and hardware, of course. Not that I've got anything against Linux or Open Office, everything needs a discount alternative. Just as there are busses for people who can't afford cars, there is Open Office for people who can't afford Microsoft.
I for one use Linux and boot into Windows when I need Office.
It's funny how such narrow-minded comments are modded up, when you know very well that if a similar comment was made about some anime, even if it was completely justified, it would be modded into oblivion.
Spirited Away didn't even have a plot. Just shows how pretentious people like this will buy anything as long as it's Japanese.
After 'Spirited Away', I don't think that Miyazaki is really above comparison to anyone else, especially someone with a much better grasp of quality dialogue and plot.
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So what you're saying is, if you don't like the price of something, it's ok to just break the law and take it for free?
I believe in behaving in a more civilised manner: if you don't like the price of something, take your business elsewhere. I for one am mature enough to respect copyright law, and if the music industry is overpricing its product, I simply don't buy it. I don't pirate it either, because I'm above that, I just go without. It is a luxury after all.
I'm afraid that copyright law precedes the invention of recorded music.
But who am I to get in the way of you playing the victim because you're too poor to pay 99c for a luxury item (music).
A hint for the moderator who made 'viewtouch' +2 insightful: when 'viewtouch' was born, copyright law was in force. If he/she has made a copy of some music without the permission of the copyright holder at any time in his life, it would have been illegal. Therefore, 'viewtouch' is lying, he never remembered such a time because such a time never existed in his lifetime.
But who am I to spoil the party? Mod him up to +5 for playing the 'feel good' card, and mod me down for pointing out reality. We have to maintain the RDF, even at the expense of reason and fact.
Since the site operates out of Russia, Russian copyright applies.
But if you're in America, then American copyright applies. So if a song is owned by a copyright holder in America, and they don't give permission for Allofmp3 to distribute a song, and you download it in America, then don't complain when a court summons appears through your letterbox.
Is Russia part of the Berne convention?
The convenience of downloading it rather than going to the shop.
Aren't people on here always going on about the music industry living in the past, and not recognising the new distribution medium? And now they have recognised the new distribution medium, you're whining that the price isn't low enough.
I suppose you and others like you will just use this as excuse to justify piracy, trying to disguise the fact you just want things for free.
When they're scanning the goods, I'm putting them into bags. They're usually done before I am, so that doesn't save any time anyway.
They don't check signatures anyway, and you don't have to sign for things anymore, especially in the self-service places. The slowest part is typing the personal PIN number in and waiting three weeks for the computer to verify it.
2. The 'find-the-duplicated-story' memory game!!
Where's the challenge?
Why would a hippy want to make millions of dollars? Doesn't that go against the whole anti-profit, anti-success, pro-communist hippy way of life?
Because it's been posted about a million times before. People shouldn't be modded up for rehashing old content.
The same B&J that dropped a few products because making the product was giving the factory workers RSI?
Because of risks of legal action, which is expensive.
The B&J that started in a garage?
The B&J that makes money off making people fat and getting kids addicted to sugar, giving them diabetes and tooth decay. Yeah, hippies are all about making money on other people's misery.
The same B&J that donates 7.5% of its pre-tax profits to charities?
If they were real hippies, rather than sell-outs, they'd give 100%. But then they wouldn't be millionaires, which is what it's all about in the end.
Drinking is no worse than smoking or eating greasy food or sitting at a desk-job all day. They're all unhealthy but then no-one needs to be perfectly healthy all the time. At the end of the day, you wake up the next morning sober, and the liver is one of the most quick-recovering organs in the body.
Well, I live a more physical life than normal, I work a physical job and go everywhere on my bike, and I can't run a 10 minute mile, so what the hell's up? Where are all these millions of exercise freaks?
Alright then, why do farts stink?
QED.
I don't think KDE or Gnome are very good examples. They just try to emulate a Windows/OSX interface, but with more bloat and transparency, not to mention more confusion, more disorganisation and crashing. Openoffice is hardly an Office-killer either.
I think the only ones there which are any good are Apache, the kernel, Samba and Firefox.
And for God's sake, not every fscking project needs to be innovative, all right ?
Then why do Microsoft and Google get constant flak for copying old things and changing the presentation a bit and sticking their name on it?
Throwing a load of monsters and ghosts onto the screen and drawing it all really badly isn't creativity.
You wouldn't qualify for a middle school track team.
Well, there you're talking about people who regularly do running. 99% of people don't run at all, they've no need to. I'd expect someone who ran several miles every day to be able to do a 10-minute mile, but not most people.
A mile's a pretty long way to go. If you look down a straight road and see something a mile away, then you realise how far away it really is. There's no way you could get from one end to the other in 10 minutes. That's absolutely impossible.
Well, I do at least an hour's exercise a day, and have done for years, and I struggle to run a mile in 15 minutes. I think it's more to do with technique than fitness, or bone structure.
OK, when I drink say a pint of beer, who am I hurting? Come on, be specific.
Someone who's healthy isn't necessarily good at running. 2.2 miles in 20 minutes is a pretty fast pace, it takes me that long to go about 1 mile, and I don't consider myself unfit.
Bear in mind they're looking for astronauts, who need to be pretty fit, if only 200 in 900 can do it then obviously your definition of 'reasonably healthy' must mean marathon runners.
I fear for those who have to live with you.
Why? I don't exactly go round killing people. Drink is just another liquid.
What's with the moralising, anti-alcohol mods today? Slashdot's always whining about people's rights to do what they want with their own body, what about my right to drink? Why should that be censored?
Alcoholism is a voluntary condition anyway, so it's not exactly anything to be miserable about. It's just a bit bad for your health (and your wallet!).
Basically, the only thing that Windows can do that Linux can't is get viruses and crash.
And run decent software and hardware, of course. Not that I've got anything against Linux or Open Office, everything needs a discount alternative. Just as there are busses for people who can't afford cars, there is Open Office for people who can't afford Microsoft.
I for one use Linux and boot into Windows when I need Office.
It's funny how such narrow-minded comments are modded up, when you know very well that if a similar comment was made about some anime, even if it was completely justified, it would be modded into oblivion.
Spirited Away didn't even have a plot. Just shows how pretentious people like this will buy anything as long as it's Japanese.
After 'Spirited Away', I don't think that Miyazaki is really above comparison to anyone else, especially someone with a much better grasp of quality dialogue and plot.
No, English is useful for reading and speaking. You use it every day. Can't say the same for anything on that list.