There's pretty ironic phrasing here. Accusing someone of being a Hitler admirer is not kosher.
It's too early to say whether or not it was "effective", but it will probably get them a lot of publicity which really might be just as good. Surely there must have been a way to address the situation other than immediately running to accusations of Nazism. Maybe that will rouse the rabble in the short run but it's really not going to make them look good in the long run.
They didn't mention it, but it looks like you get a discount if you buy a whole album at once. Still downloading, but all the screen shots show a standard price of $9.99 for whole albums.
Obviously, it wouldn't make sense to charge for "filler" tracks that you probably wouldn't download if you wanted to buy the whole album track-by-track. Also, what about those techno albums that only have four 20 minute songs?
When you vote, you should submit your vote along with a reason why you voted for that person (without using the name). Voters who consistently vote for candidates for dumb reasons will not be allowed to vote for a while.
Examples:
"I voted for candidate X because I like the way he makes me feel"
Was voted: Unfair
"I voted for candidate X because I think candidate Y is an idiot."
I don't see what the big deal is about dual screen... I have two screens hooked up to my 15" powerbook right now, on which I am typing this.
It was a real simple hack: get your powerbook, buy an LCD monitor, plug it in. In some cases, you may need to hit the "Detect Displays" button in System Preferences.
Cool tip: you can set Virtual PC to full screen mode on the second monitor only. Freak people out by dragging windows across the two systems.
Kevin is lucky in that getting put in jail actually increased his prospect for employment once he got out. For most people, a felony can be a lifelong sentence. And I don't understand how that's called "justice".
It's really the wrong term. It's not barriers to entry, it is economies of scale.
In other words, as the company gets bigger, the cost per customer decreases relatively -- increasing returns to scale. So, larger firms will always have that advantage over smaller ones, which makes it difficult for a new company to enter the market successfully.
There are different conceivable curves of (num. customers * cost/customer), so it may become flat or go up at some point, meaning that there will probably be several competitors which must be of a certain size. If the curve continuously approaches 0 cost/customer, then game theory would lead us to believe that only one firm would be able to compete in that market.
Instead the present US government seems to keep doing everything it can to whirl up more hatred.
Here's the thing. I don't think that Rumsfeld et al. really want that to happen. I think they don't believe that will happen because they are completely out of touch with reality.
For instance, Paul Wolfowitz said before the war that "An explosion of joy will greet our soldiers" and the Iraqi regime will tumble "like a house of cards". These assertations were based on absolutely nothing. Based on that, they believed that the war would actually be "self-legitimizing" because it would actually make a lot of Arabs very happy, bloodlessly, and the Arab world would see that, become more favorable to the United States, and it would lead to "waves of democratization across the Middle East".
In other words, they believed things because they wanted to believe them, adamantly smacked down contrary evidence because they didn't like the way it made them feel, and based a superstructure of arguments on that imaginary foundation.
Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
that seems oddly similar to sponsored placements on NPR stations.
I had a radio show in high school. I assume NPR has the same kind of radio license that we had. Advertising was restricted by law under that license.
I know this because we would offer on-air mentions to get free pizza delivered (often successfully, BTW). You're not allowed to give endorsements or play paid advertising. What you can do is say "This program is sponsored by..." or "We would like to thank..." give the business name, their phone number and a description of the business. That probably explains why the NPR ads are so similar.
It's not like the FCC was listening most of the time, anyway. We tested that out quite often, too. But I digress...
Believe it or not there is a good reason to slow down the laser beam like they do in the movies.... if the laser was just one, solid beam it would instantly reveal your position when you used it. If there is a visual delay between when you pull the trigger and when it hits, then it's a lot harder to tell where its coming from when you're on the receiving end.
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Who wonders why the image of the GNUs is so tarnished?
Maybe it's because they feel they have to emphatically latch on to any half-brained directives RMS belches out in half-sleep, even when they seem designed solely to inflate his ego.
``Creator''
The term ``creator'' as applied to authors implicitly compares them to a deity (``the creator''). The term is used by publishers to elevate the authors' moral stature above that of ordinary people, to justify increased copyright power that the publishers can exercise in the name of the authors.
The most depressing part for me, and this is something I think _everyone_ can agree with, is that this whole business has brought out the worst in everyone.
I don't know if it afterward it will A) get better B) get worse, and how much time that's going to take.
One reason I get kind of annoyed by that is -- and I'm not accusing you of doing it -- is that sometimes people for the war use things like "We support our troops" and patriotism as a dishonest attempt to imply that people against the war are also against those things.
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It's too early to say whether or not it was "effective", but it will probably get them a lot of publicity which really might be just as good. Surely there must have been a way to address the situation other than immediately running to accusations of Nazism. Maybe that will rouse the rabble in the short run but it's really not going to make them look good in the long run.
no, but the actual music download service has been blasted to heck all morning
1. The C & D letter was probably just a empty threat. Would they really take them to court over that?
2. PA's response to this pufferfish threat was to do something that really could get them in trouble.
The PA guys stumbled on both points here. There were clearly more sensible ways to deal with this problem.
E-mail My Heart is totally my favorite Britney song ever!!!
Obviously, it wouldn't make sense to charge for "filler" tracks that you probably wouldn't download if you wanted to buy the whole album track-by-track. Also, what about those techno albums that only have four 20 minute songs?
I'm going to ask the question everyone was thinking but didn't want to ask: when will this be available for porn?
When you vote, you should submit your vote along with a reason why you voted for that person (without using the name). Voters who consistently vote for candidates for dumb reasons will not be allowed to vote for a while.
Examples:
"I voted for candidate X because I like the way he makes me feel"
Was voted: Unfair
"I voted for candidate X because I think candidate Y is an idiot."
Was voted: Unfair
It was a real simple hack: get your powerbook, buy an LCD monitor, plug it in. In some cases, you may need to hit the "Detect Displays" button in System Preferences.
Cool tip: you can set Virtual PC to full screen mode on the second monitor only. Freak people out by dragging windows across the two systems.
Kevin is lucky in that getting put in jail actually increased his prospect for employment once he got out. For most people, a felony can be a lifelong sentence. And I don't understand how that's called "justice".
In other words, as the company gets bigger, the cost per customer decreases relatively -- increasing returns to scale. So, larger firms will always have that advantage over smaller ones, which makes it difficult for a new company to enter the market successfully.
There are different conceivable curves of (num. customers * cost/customer), so it may become flat or go up at some point, meaning that there will probably be several competitors which must be of a certain size. If the curve continuously approaches 0 cost/customer, then game theory would lead us to believe that only one firm would be able to compete in that market.
Just wait a few years...
Here's the thing. I don't think that Rumsfeld et al. really want that to happen. I think they don't believe that will happen because they are completely out of touch with reality.
For instance, Paul Wolfowitz said before the war that "An explosion of joy will greet our soldiers" and the Iraqi regime will tumble "like a house of cards". These assertations were based on absolutely nothing. Based on that, they believed that the war would actually be "self-legitimizing" because it would actually make a lot of Arabs very happy, bloodlessly, and the Arab world would see that, become more favorable to the United States, and it would lead to "waves of democratization across the Middle East".
In other words, they believed things because they wanted to believe them, adamantly smacked down contrary evidence because they didn't like the way it made them feel, and based a superstructure of arguments on that imaginary foundation.
In other words, it's simple, terrible judgment.
-- Reich-Marshall Herman Goering.
A friend in Germany sent me that.
I had a radio show in high school. I assume NPR has the same kind of radio license that we had. Advertising was restricted by law under that license.
I know this because we would offer on-air mentions to get free pizza delivered (often successfully, BTW). You're not allowed to give endorsements or play paid advertising. What you can do is say "This program is sponsored by..." or "We would like to thank..." give the business name, their phone number and a description of the business. That probably explains why the NPR ads are so similar.
It's not like the FCC was listening most of the time, anyway. We tested that out quite often, too. But I digress...
You could just walk up to the (private) owners with a few gigantic sacks of cash, though.
If there was an answer to that question, do we really think Microsoft could do that?
Believe it or not there is a good reason to slow down the laser beam like they do in the movies .... if the laser was just one, solid beam it would instantly reveal your position when you used it. If there is a visual delay between when you pull the trigger and when it hits, then it's a lot harder to tell where its coming from when you're on the receiving end.
Maybe it's because they feel they have to emphatically latch on to any half-brained directives RMS belches out in half-sleep, even when they seem designed solely to inflate his ego.
From that page:
``Creator''
The term ``creator'' as applied to authors implicitly compares them to a deity (``the creator''). The term is used by publishers to elevate the authors' moral stature above that of ordinary people, to justify increased copyright power that the publishers can exercise in the name of the authors.
May I propose the term GNU/creators instead?
Germany & Japan: War is a process by which most of your family dies horrible, horrible deaths
United States: War is a process by which evil is defeated, freedoms are won, and triumph is attained.
That's Statler and Waldorf, you clod.
Maybe it's the whole "massive ground war" thing that's gotten everyone in tizzy. This war is a little more ambitious than Kosovo.
You have two choices in how you can respond:
1) Make up something silly like calling everyone crazy
2) Admit that even if a 100% perfect rationale exists, it was not communicated in such a way that a lot of the world could understand.
I don't know if it afterward it will A) get better B) get worse, and how much time that's going to take.
Case in point: Preferences->Homepage->Exclude Stories from the Homepage->Topics->News
Check it out.
One reason I get kind of annoyed by that is -- and I'm not accusing you of doing it -- is that sometimes people for the war use things like "We support our troops" and patriotism as a dishonest attempt to imply that people against the war are also against those things.