That's what happens when your emperor takes the bait and tries standing up for his own people living on American soil.
I am willing to bet that most of us haven't been there when this all happened, so I'd say we should all just shut the fuck up about dishing out blame, no?
It is the old High Availability versus Disaster Recovery question. Two completely different things aimed at two completely different problems.
The first is to make sure that your system remains available as long as possible even if some of your hardware goes belly-up. The latter is for when your DATA goes belly-up.
I personally believe, that every human has a fixed amount of money he or she is willing to spend on music. Those who are unable or unwilling to spend a single buck won't do so no matter if or if not downloads are available.
Those who will spend, say 50 bucks a month on music would still do so if, and only if, they had found something worthwhile to spend the money on. I believe the possibility of downloads does indeed have a negative impact on the music industry insofar as people now have the alternative of trying the music before they buy it. For me the fact that sales are in decline simply means that there is not enough 'good' music from big labels out there to buy.
Same goes for DVDs, obviously. Just yesterday I downloaded Idiocracy which I am now going to purchase on disc after having seen it. I would not have done so had I not had the chance to experience its greatness beforehand;).
After buying Saint Anger and a few Hammerfall albums, which have been crappy, I now download just about everything before I buy it. And it's already saved me money: I now know that I will not have to buy Death Magnetic as that album sucks almost as much as St. Anger. This is just my opinion, of course.
Artists should just open their own websites, offer high quality samples and sell their stuff through amazon or whatever. It's not like I've discovered any (really, I'm serious: ANY) band or single artist, ever, because of the big labels' so called marketing (unless their name was Britney Spears or Justin Timberlake or... well you get the idea...). Not even once. So I really don't see what artists expect from these labels... most of them have to cough up the money for producing their stuff beforehand anyway.
We Europeans asked ourselves the same question when Bush Jr. got 'voted' president. Obviously, the American population did not find their situation as bad as we outsiders.
Same thing with Britain. Either it looks worse than it is from the outside or the people have been lulled into a false sense of 'everything's okay'.
Frankly, if they found a fundamental flaw in this thing, wouldn't that mean that ALL cases in the past where it had been used would have to be reevaluated? Or retroactively dropped altogether?
Imagine that, would people whose drivers license had been revoked and who thus suffered a loss of income or anything of that sort suddenly be entitled to compensation?
With several of them, I have actually tried to find them on the net upon hearing the phrases. Why? Because nobody would say what they were about, just that they were the sickest thing ever.
So my curiosity peaked, I went out to look for them. I am a 27 year old IT guy, mind you, and I had trouble finding anything BUT yet more references to how sick they were.
To this day I haven't seen ANY of them, but a plethora of videos on youtube of people's reactions to them.
I can find porn easily. Because I know how to look for it. I could do so back when I was like fourteen as well. Different methods and rules applied, but I knew how. And interestingly enough, I have no emotional scars from back then. At least not concerning the net.
Wouldn't it be smarter to just merge phones with cameras completely? We have mobiles with cameras in them and cameras the size of mobiles that are now being equipped with wireless networking capabilities.
You don't want to transit through the US, you don't want to transit through little US (a.k.a. Britain) and you definitely don't want to transit through France. They're French, after all;)
So... basically, not knowing the guy personally, you insinuate that he must have ulterior motives based on what exactly? I see two possible things and both don't put you in a very favourable light, mister.
I think either you assume he's you typical lawyer stereotype or you have lost your belief in humanity as a whole. Neither of those options leave room for the occasional exception to the rule and is thus pretty biased and a tad naive.
Personally, I'd welcome a situation where someone can actually fight a worthy battle without fear of being unable to feed their kids OR themselves.
Which is equally stupid as foregoing proven alternative treatment and getting out the antibiotics for simple stuff.
Frankly, with all the quacks I have met that had an actual doctor title...
The only thing I'll have doctors treat nowadays is the heavy stuff. Broken bones, cancers... you know, the stuff that makes you either move funnily or die rather quickly and painfully. I'm not the type to treat blood poisoning with a herb or two.
But I will state this: I am going to treat simple infections by means of personal hygiene and natural products and see how that works out. If the problem gets worse, I can still go and see a doctor.
Remember, guys, for doctors, your symptoms are a matter of trial and error. The usual way to treat people is to go through every medication until you find one that helps. If you have one of the better doctors, they'll be starting with the medicine that is most likely to help. I've you've got one of the many bad ones, they're going to start with the most expensive concoction.
Like lawyers, mechanics and us IT folk, doctors operate in a field that is very hard to understand unless you're a professional. The possibility of ill intentions and plain old incompetence is very high. So in my opinion, trusting medicine (or science) like it could do no wrong (and especially the people representing it) is just as gullible as believing some preacher about Armageddon.
Let me get this straight... this is the equivalent of the old neck-tie caught in printing machine joke and you seriously want to tell me, just because there were three of them, that this is not our usual DA kind of stupidity? Why?
How do you KNOW there's no conspiracy? You don't? Well, that makes one version just as likely as the other.
The difference lies therein: If it was incompetence, this race deserves what it gets and more. If it was malice, at least only a select few deserve to get their 'nads kicked. Frankly, I'm of the opinion that any humanist should believe in conspiracy theories...
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If anyone uses MSN it's because it came up by default in IE and they're too stupid to figure out how to change it. My mom might use MSN...
Family issues? ;)
That's what happens when your emperor takes the bait and tries standing up for his own people living on American soil.
I am willing to bet that most of us haven't been there when this all happened, so I'd say we should all just shut the fuck up about dishing out blame, no?
Says the Slashdot nerd.... I bet they are already preparing suicide after this crushing insult of yours.
It is the old High Availability versus Disaster Recovery question. Two completely different things aimed at two completely different problems.
The first is to make sure that your system remains available as long as possible even if some of your hardware goes belly-up. The latter is for when your DATA goes belly-up.
What do you expect? As far as I know, basic human rights have been written for adults and exclude children.
I resent the person who modded this troll. While very cynical, I find it describes the current problem very adequately.
In Switzerland, most radio stations only play the top ten and some oldies.
I think this needs to be clarified.
I personally believe, that every human has a fixed amount of money he or she is willing to spend on music. Those who are unable or unwilling to spend a single buck won't do so no matter if or if not downloads are available.
Those who will spend, say 50 bucks a month on music would still do so if, and only if, they had found something worthwhile to spend the money on. I believe the possibility of downloads does indeed have a negative impact on the music industry insofar as people now have the alternative of trying the music before they buy it. For me the fact that sales are in decline simply means that there is not enough 'good' music from big labels out there to buy.
Same goes for DVDs, obviously. Just yesterday I downloaded Idiocracy which I am now going to purchase on disc after having seen it. I would not have done so had I not had the chance to experience its greatness beforehand ;).
After buying Saint Anger and a few Hammerfall albums, which have been crappy, I now download just about everything before I buy it. And it's already saved me money: I now know that I will not have to buy Death Magnetic as that album sucks almost as much as St. Anger. This is just my opinion, of course.
Artists should just open their own websites, offer high quality samples and sell their stuff through amazon or whatever. It's not like I've discovered any (really, I'm serious: ANY) band or single artist, ever, because of the big labels' so called marketing (unless their name was Britney Spears or Justin Timberlake or... well you get the idea...). Not even once. So I really don't see what artists expect from these labels... most of them have to cough up the money for producing their stuff beforehand anyway.
And thus grows the axis of evil ;).
I believe he refers to what this colonizing has done to the colonies.
Uh, it's fun?
We Europeans asked ourselves the same question when Bush Jr. got 'voted' president. Obviously, the American population did not find their situation as bad as we outsiders.
Same thing with Britain. Either it looks worse than it is from the outside or the people have been lulled into a false sense of 'everything's okay'.
Frankly, if they found a fundamental flaw in this thing, wouldn't that mean that ALL cases in the past where it had been used would have to be reevaluated? Or retroactively dropped altogether?
Imagine that, would people whose drivers license had been revoked and who thus suffered a loss of income or anything of that sort suddenly be entitled to compensation?
The French have a rather... interesting work ethic. Just because it didn't work with them does not mean it won't work in other countries.
With several of them, I have actually tried to find them on the net upon hearing the phrases. Why? Because nobody would say what they were about, just that they were the sickest thing ever.
So my curiosity peaked, I went out to look for them. I am a 27 year old IT guy, mind you, and I had trouble finding anything BUT yet more references to how sick they were.
To this day I haven't seen ANY of them, but a plethora of videos on youtube of people's reactions to them.
I can find porn easily. Because I know how to look for it. I could do so back when I was like fourteen as well. Different methods and rules applied, but I knew how. And interestingly enough, I have no emotional scars from back then. At least not concerning the net.
Wouldn't it be smarter to just merge phones with cameras completely? We have mobiles with cameras in them and cameras the size of mobiles that are now being equipped with wireless networking capabilities.
Seems a small step to me.
That's why I booked a direct flight.
You don't want to transit through the US, you don't want to transit through little US (a.k.a. Britain) and you definitely don't want to transit through France. They're French, after all ;)
I still want to. Some day we're going to be so much worse off that we won't care about the strip search anymore ;).
No, seriously, some day it's going to be better. I'll just wait until then, thank you.
I share your sentiment, though. I have the same idea about Great Britain.
And that would be a matter of opinion and taste, making that point rather redundant.
You checked her vagina?!
So... basically, not knowing the guy personally, you insinuate that he must have ulterior motives based on what exactly? I see two possible things and both don't put you in a very favourable light, mister.
I think either you assume he's you typical lawyer stereotype or you have lost your belief in humanity as a whole. Neither of those options leave room for the occasional exception to the rule and is thus pretty biased and a tad naive.
Personally, I'd welcome a situation where someone can actually fight a worthy battle without fear of being unable to feed their kids OR themselves.
Which is equally stupid as foregoing proven alternative treatment and getting out the antibiotics for simple stuff.
Frankly, with all the quacks I have met that had an actual doctor title...
The only thing I'll have doctors treat nowadays is the heavy stuff. Broken bones, cancers... you know, the stuff that makes you either move funnily or die rather quickly and painfully. I'm not the type to treat blood poisoning with a herb or two.
But I will state this: I am going to treat simple infections by means of personal hygiene and natural products and see how that works out. If the problem gets worse, I can still go and see a doctor.
Remember, guys, for doctors, your symptoms are a matter of trial and error. The usual way to treat people is to go through every medication until you find one that helps. If you have one of the better doctors, they'll be starting with the medicine that is most likely to help. I've you've got one of the many bad ones, they're going to start with the most expensive concoction.
Like lawyers, mechanics and us IT folk, doctors operate in a field that is very hard to understand unless you're a professional. The possibility of ill intentions and plain old incompetence is very high. So in my opinion, trusting medicine (or science) like it could do no wrong (and especially the people representing it) is just as gullible as believing some preacher about Armageddon.
Let me get this straight... this is the equivalent of the old neck-tie caught in printing machine joke and you seriously want to tell me, just because there were three of them, that this is not our usual DA kind of stupidity? Why?
How do you KNOW there's no conspiracy? You don't? Well, that makes one version just as likely as the other.
The difference lies therein: If it was incompetence, this race deserves what it gets and more. If it was malice, at least only a select few deserve to get their 'nads kicked. Frankly, I'm of the opinion that any humanist should believe in conspiracy theories...
Just don't add a usability POV to that mix. IE7 and 8 give me nightmares.