Songs played in restaurants fall under ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC, the composer's and songwriter's music mafiaa. There is no royalty for the recording artist in that case (though I'm sure the RIAA is lobbying for it).
Frankly, so what? Piracy is a large cause of falling revenues in the music industry. Does it hurt your sensibilities to hear that?
It insults my intelligence.
You can talk about the quality of the product until the end of time, but the truth is music is no better or worse than it ever was. Realistically
Quality of music is hard to measure. Quantity, on the other hand, is much more amenable to statistical analysis. And while revenues in the music industry have gone down, guess what else went down? Right -- number of new releases. How about that... make less music, make less money.
God forbid someone wants to entice you to check out their product in a non obtrusive, friendly way!
If they'd stuck to that, most adblocker users would have been far too lazy to install them, and I dare say most adblocker writers would have been far too lazy to write them. But there's always the temptation in advertising to try to get the flashiest, most noticable message, and once one advertiser starts down that road many more feel the need to race for the bottom and make their own advertising even more obtrusive, lest it be overlooked.
Companies have been buying good reviews since before there was an Internet. Not blocking Internet ads won't stop them from doing so. YOU can't have it both ways, you can't have neither. But the advertisers can and do have it both ways, both ads on the side and embedded ones.
If they're really there, it's an empty threat. If the French can see them then so can anyone else with a telescope. It's likely everyone else of consequence already knows about them.
Wish I had mod points. +1 insightful for you, +1 DUH for the French.
If you're nearsighted, you can't start a fire with your glasses. (Well, not by focusing the light of the sun, anyway).
And not only does that guy have fake glasses, he doesn't really have any acne either. And what's with the tie? Everyone knows Slashdot users wear T-shirts which have likely never seen the inside of the washing machine, no tie. He's a total poser.
It's worse than that. The TV stations PAY TMS to accept their data. TMS then collects money from subscribers (cable companies, etc) to distribute the data they were paid to accept. TMS is making money from both ends.
If you get digital TV over the air, you can get the listings that way as well. But for some reason, those listings aren't all that accurate or complete compared to the TMS listings.
Unfortunately, that's my only choice as the Schedules Direct agreement is a horrid piece of garbage which makes pretty much any use of the data a violation of the contract.
I think it's worth noting that the most particularly virulent and aggressive manifestation of the "corporation" appears to be peculiar to the US. I've lived in Japan for many a year, and although there are problems with corporations here too, it works out differently, and generally speaking corporations in Japan are much less likely to so obviously fuck somebody over.
Ever heard of a little company called "Sony"? It's not that Japanese corporations are less likely to fuck someone over. It's that they prefer fucking over people outside Japan.
To be an "affirmative defense" is not to not be a "right". For a more concrete example: self defense can be asserted as an affirmative defense against homicide charges; this does not mean there is no right to self defense.
No invasion is necessary. The spambot on a zombie machine will send spam to the ISPs own servers. If the ISP detects spam being sent to its servers by a machine on the ISPs own network, it has identified either a spammer or a zombie, and can take action. No intrusive sniffing necessary.
but there are some raving Jobs fanboys who want to enshrine him as a deity because he regularly releases products which cure cancer and AIDS at the same time.
Reasonable Apple customers: you guys should go out and beat them up. They give you a bad name.
Bad name or no, they're the beta tes... err, "early adopters" who work the bugs out of first-generation hardware, and pay those first-day prices so the rest of us don't have to. Wouldn't be prudent to beat them up.
You do hear people complaining about that in Canada, though. It was pretty funny reading an editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer pushing for a single-payer system, followed a few days later by an editorial in the Vancouver Sun complaining about the single-payer system.
Unfortunately, wear leveling also means that when one cell fails, many others are likely to go real soon now. So when you start getting bad sectors, time to replace the device.
Taking a taxi home gets real expensive, real quick. For one thing, there's no regular taxi service to my home. Which means I'd basically have to hire a limo. For another, unless I got the limo to drive me TO wherever I'm having my drink or two, I'd have to get the car home somehow. And often overnight parking is not allowed, which means it could be towed.
That's a lot of trouble to go through to have one or two drinks with a dinner out. Which, of course, is the point of these low-tolerance alcohol laws -- they are prohibition through the back door, the idea being to make it impractical to drink legally.
As for taking the bus, while I technically could, it'd be a several hour trip... and also illegal, as the bus is a public place and there's public intoxication statutes.
Wrong. The stigma a DUI has gotten attached to it makes it as bad as a felony conviction in some cases, disqualifying you from many jobs. The state of Maryland at one time (perhaps still) would not employ anyone who had gotten a DUI or even gotten "probation before judgement" for a DUI (the latter being blatantly unconstitutional of course, but since when did they care?). It'll certainly disqualify you from any job which requires driving. Or business travel, because you won't be able to rent a car.
A single beer is unlikely to put you over any limit.*
And yet your link says a "standard" drink of 10 grams of alcohol will put women at the 0.05 limit.
Now try a real drink -- a pint (US) of 5% ABV beer. That's 0.8 oz alcohol, over 18 grams of alcohol. Think that'll put anyone over a 0.08 limit? Don't like the pint of beer? A glass of red wine works out about the same, depending on how generous a pour.
Converters will substitute arbitrary, favorable readings for the measured device if the measurement is out of range
that's more reasonable than reporting you have enough alcohol in you to kill two bull African elephants and a wildebeest.
No, it isn't. If it, due to some error, detects enough alcohol in you to kill an elephant, it's obviously malfunctioning and should not report any value. Reporting the absurd value is second-best, because it allows you (or your attorney) to challenge the value. Reporting a reasonable-sounding value is manufacturing of evidence.
Consider, for instance, if radar guns reported "91mph" any time they detected too high a value (say, above 200mph). You could be driving by at 75mph, some malfunction could cause the gun to detect 600mph, it would report "91mph", and you'd be screwed. If it reported 600mph and you got pulled over based on it, you'd probably win in court because your car can't do 600mph.
You almost had me going till you tried to tell me that film color-shifts. I work with HD cameras professionally (love the HVX200 for low-cost setups) but the Super8 still comes out on top.
ROTFL
There's a reason why most things you see in movies or on TV is shot on film.
Yeah, but 35 or 70mm, not Super 8. If you want something to look like a grainy old newsreel, use Super 8.
2. If a sovereign nation wants to adopt ANY law, what business is it of the US?
I think perhaps you haven't considered the various absolutely horrid laws sovereign nations have passed. Ranging from, oh, say, apartheid all the way to laws requiring that certain persons turn themselves in for extermination. Somewhere in the middle being human slavery. Are all other nations supposed to respect the rights of those nations to go down those paths?
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Songs played in restaurants fall under ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC, the composer's and songwriter's music mafiaa. There is no royalty for the recording artist in that case (though I'm sure the RIAA is lobbying for it).
There is. To deny that is to embrace relativism, which precludes any possibility of weighing one's actions according to a moral standard.
I agree with you that rich is not evil. Wealth is amoral, neither being rich nor being poor makes one good or evil. That doesn't mean there's no evil.
Companies have been buying good reviews since before there was an Internet. Not blocking Internet ads won't stop them from doing so. YOU can't have it both ways, you can't have neither. But the advertisers can and do have it both ways, both ads on the side and embedded ones.
If you're nearsighted, you can't start a fire with your glasses. (Well, not by focusing the light of the sun, anyway).
And not only does that guy have fake glasses, he doesn't really have any acne either. And what's with the tie? Everyone knows Slashdot users wear T-shirts which have likely never seen the inside of the washing machine, no tie. He's a total poser.
So they said. But they refused to name names. Personally, I don't believe it. I think they stopped their free service because it was free.
It's worse than that. The TV stations PAY TMS to accept their data. TMS then collects money from subscribers (cable companies, etc) to distribute the data they were paid to accept. TMS is making money from both ends.
If you get digital TV over the air, you can get the listings that way as well. But for some reason, those listings aren't all that accurate or complete compared to the TMS listings.
Unfortunately, that's my only choice as the Schedules Direct agreement is a horrid piece of garbage which makes pretty much any use of the data a violation of the contract.
Ever heard of a little company called "Sony"? It's not that Japanese corporations are less likely to fuck someone over. It's that they prefer fucking over people outside Japan.
To be an "affirmative defense" is not to not be a "right". For a more concrete example: self defense can be asserted as an affirmative defense against homicide charges; this does not mean there is no right to self defense.
No invasion is necessary. The spambot on a zombie machine will send spam to the ISPs own servers. If the ISP detects spam being sent to its servers by a machine on the ISPs own network, it has identified either a spammer or a zombie, and can take action. No intrusive sniffing necessary.
Bad name or no, they're the beta tes... err, "early adopters" who work the bugs out of first-generation hardware, and pay those first-day prices so the rest of us don't have to. Wouldn't be prudent to beat them up.
You do hear people complaining about that in Canada, though. It was pretty funny reading an editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer pushing for a single-payer system, followed a few days later by an editorial in the Vancouver Sun complaining about the single-payer system.
Unfortunately, wear leveling also means that when one cell fails, many others are likely to go real soon now. So when you start getting bad sectors, time to replace the device.
Taking a taxi home gets real expensive, real quick. For one thing, there's no regular taxi service to my home. Which means I'd basically have to hire a limo. For another, unless I got the limo to drive me TO wherever I'm having my drink or two, I'd have to get the car home somehow. And often overnight parking is not allowed, which means it could be towed.
That's a lot of trouble to go through to have one or two drinks with a dinner out. Which, of course, is the point of these low-tolerance alcohol laws -- they are prohibition through the back door, the idea being to make it impractical to drink legally.
As for taking the bus, while I technically could, it'd be a several hour trip... and also illegal, as the bus is a public place and there's public intoxication statutes.
Wrong. The stigma a DUI has gotten attached to it makes it as bad as a felony conviction in some cases, disqualifying you from many jobs. The state of Maryland at one time (perhaps still) would not employ anyone who had gotten a DUI or even gotten "probation before judgement" for a DUI (the latter being blatantly unconstitutional of course, but since when did they care?). It'll certainly disqualify you from any job which requires driving. Or business travel, because you won't be able to rent a car.
You think "voice printing" was bad, try Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus. Basically, the cop waves a pen in front of your eyes and pronounces you guilty.
Some of the hardware in a breathalyzer is a photodetector connected to an A/D converter. Sensitive A/D converters can be sensitive to RFI.
Consider, for instance, if radar guns reported "91mph" any time they detected too high a value (say, above 200mph). You could be driving by at 75mph, some malfunction could cause the gun to detect 600mph, it would report "91mph", and you'd be screwed. If it reported 600mph and you got pulled over based on it, you'd probably win in court because your car can't do 600mph.
I don't think a bullet will travel anywhere near a kilometer inside a cable.