The guy making $250K can save $25K a year effortlessly, with zero impact on his family's standard of living.
Says you. Just last week I had to take a commercial flight to my villa in the Bahamas instead of my private jet, because gas prices were just too high and I'm trying to save 10% of my income. Let me tell you, these hard times are affecting everyone.
What's to keep you from assasinating someone who's playing the game but isn't your target? Assuming you know more than one person in the game, of course.
I make music (c-hack.com), and giving it away for free is a great marketing tactic -- it gets more people to come to your shows. I want people to swap my music. Many professional artists (Jim's Big Ego, for instance) also like file sharing. I've just made your whole argument moot.
If the artists did this for a record label they'll never own it, and have to pay to sell their own music. Which would be such a horrible shame.
Don't forget that the record label puts up tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for studio time and marketing, which they most of the time lose to artists who make a crappy record or even blow their advance on coke.
The record is a joint effort, and the label deserves to be rewarded for its speculation. What's a shame is that the standard contracts are "artist gets shit" and there are so many artists who are happy to get even shit that a label can afford to tell a band to fuck off if they don't like the contract.
The military doesn't have a stellar record when it comes to safety/health in deploying new weapons. Look at Agent Orange, Depleted Uranium, and the atomic bomb.
I think the atom bomb was meant to hurt people on purpose.
That all I want. To go from one track to the next seamlessly. Is it that hard? I swear I had a version of MacAmp back when I was running OS9 that did it.
It's a myth. There's a larger truth going on that trancends geological proofs. You either believe it or you don't.
It's scientifically impossible for someone to turn water into wine or raise the dead, but you don't see people spouting off technical explanations about why it can't be done. Everyone agrees it's impossible. It has to be -- shit, if the bible said "Noah then took his dog Patches and went to the beach for 40 minutes," what would be the sense in that?
Yes, it's impossible. Obviously. But that doesn't mean it didn't happen.
I love it how when we're just talking about science (this story), fewer then 100 people post comments. But when you bring religion into it (the Mt. Ararat story), all the sudden everyone's an expert.
Heh, "ball." Clever. Just once, I'd like to see an astronomer with a sense of humor -- they could've called it "cylinder seen from above," or "supersized singularity."
The others really do look like what they named them tough. But I wish they would've named the "Lying H" a "Lazy H" instead, to fit the cowboy standard.
Now I am rambling but I will leave you with this: The Las Vegas hotels hate this convention with a passion. Because the entire thing is populated by people that are so smart that they know the odds inside and out.
So they're just playing blackjack then, and counting cards? Because that's the only way you can get the odds in your favor at a casino, unless you play poker (and the casinos like you playing poker -- they get money no matter who wins).
Please stop thinking the music industry is this great cash cow. Yes, the artists get (for the most part) a pittance and usually wind up owing the record label money (which the label tends to "forgive" if the record sells well), but the rest of that vast majority does not go to line the pockets of those big execs. Profit margins are slim, anywhere from 0.5 to 15%, depending on the label. You want to talk about corpulent assholes, take a look at cable companies, whose profits are more along the lines of 40%. And they still make me pay for channels I don't want...
It's prolly illegal, but I imagine bear spray would stop just about anyone, if it would stop a charging grizzly.
I was hiking once, and got near a mom and cubs (I saw a cub dart up a tree and heard a big thing coming through the brush). I took off the other way, pulling out my bear spray as I ran*. When I got it out, I turned around and saw nothing. The bear was just fronting a little. But I walked backwards for a while, away from that spot.
Here's the point of my story: I realised that I had never even tested the thing to see if it worked. So I pointed it downwind (I'm not an idiot, but the wind was very slight), and let loose as short a burst as possible. Then, satisfied tha tit worked, I walked away -- upwind -- and a few seconds later had trouble breathing for the sharp peppery shit that burned my sinuses. It soon cleared up, but I couldn't imagine getting a facefull of that stuff. Seems like it'd stop anyone. Of course, I've never been up against anyone on PCP...
*I later learned, there's literally a 1 in a million chance of getting mauled by a bear. You really don't need bear spray when you're hiking.
Heh. I did that once as a kid...
doodleoodleoo... doodleoodleoo... doodleoodleoo... (ie Wayne's World)
I was in 2nd or 3rd grade, and I was in the Talented and Gifted program. Lord knows why - I'm not that smart (I don't even have a clue how to spell inadaquate, see below for evidence). Just interested in stuff, I guess. It probably should've been called the piss-off-the-rest-of-the-kids-and-make-them-feel-i nadaquate program. But hey, it worked for me, I got to do fun stuff while most of the other kids had to do boring classroom crap.
Anyhoo, I had learned that diamonds were the hardest substance on earth, and they could cut though anything. My teacher mentioned she had a real diamond, on this ring right here. So I said "no way! Lemme see," and grabbed her hand and drew the stone over my piece of paper, to cut it. I expected it to cut like a laser, and was severely disappointed when it only dented the paper. "how come it didn't cut the paper?" I asked, skeptical. She drew her hand away, out of my reach. She didn't have an answer, but assured me that it was a real diamond. I thought it was sad that she could be so easily duped by her fiance.
Looking back, I reckon you have to expect things like that to happen if you're going to teach a bunch of smart-ass "talented and gifted" kids...
Agreed. I was gonna get one, but it turned out to be too expensive to rent a Sikorsky Sky Crane to get it home.
And furthermore, I want it to be whisper-quiet. The iMacs are whisper-quiet; I see no reason why the G5s can't be. At least, use standard components (power supply, fans) so users who care about the noise have the option of replacing them with their noiseless equivelants.
For the same reason we have math -- so we can talk about things to other people and they'll know what we're talking about. Imagine:
Astronomer 1: Hey I discovered something new about that dot in the sky the other day.
Astronomer 2: Show me. [they go outside] Which one, the reddish one?
A1: No, the white sparkly one, closer to the ground.
A2: [looks around] what!?!
A1: No, you fool, the ground off in the distance, with the big pointy things
A2: Ahh. That one?
A1: I don't know, where are you pointing?
A2: I'm pointing at that one, THERE. Get behind my shoulder.
A1: No, [moves arm] THAT one.
A2; [has no idea which one he means] Oh, I see. What did you learn about it?
A1: It's a.. crap, I don't know what to call it. It's DIFFERENT from the other ones.
A2: I'm cold and you're boring.
Yeah, hold on! I thought it was about their suffering, and it was cute that they didn't know how to spell. That whole thing was about voting? Damn, those women can be crafty...
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The guy making $250K can save $25K a year effortlessly, with zero impact on his family's standard of living.
Says you. Just last week I had to take a commercial flight to my villa in the Bahamas instead of my private jet, because gas prices were just too high and I'm trying to save 10% of my income. Let me tell you, these hard times are affecting everyone.
What's to keep you from assasinating someone who's playing the game but isn't your target? Assuming you know more than one person in the game, of course.
I make music (c-hack.com), and giving it away for free is a great marketing tactic -- it gets more people to come to your shows. I want people to swap my music. Many professional artists (Jim's Big Ego, for instance) also like file sharing. I've just made your whole argument moot.
If the artists did this for a record label they'll never own it, and have to pay to sell their own music. Which would be such a horrible shame.
Don't forget that the record label puts up tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for studio time and marketing, which they most of the time lose to artists who make a crappy record or even blow their advance on coke.
The record is a joint effort, and the label deserves to be rewarded for its speculation. What's a shame is that the standard contracts are "artist gets shit" and there are so many artists who are happy to get even shit that a label can afford to tell a band to fuck off if they don't like the contract.
The military doesn't have a stellar record when it comes to safety/health in deploying new weapons. Look at Agent Orange, Depleted Uranium, and the atomic bomb.
I think the atom bomb was meant to hurt people on purpose.
Even at zero, there's still some overlap, which is very obvious if there's a steady beat that segues from one song to the next.
That all I want. To go from one track to the next seamlessly. Is it that hard? I swear I had a version of MacAmp back when I was running OS9 that did it.
well, unfortunately, it's still the size of a space station...
Perhaps if we could all watch Episode 3 through the eyes of an 8 or ten year old, we would enjoy the experience much better.
See, that's what he was going for. He purposely directed with them with the skill of an 8 or 10 year old.
It's a myth. There's a larger truth going on that trancends geological proofs. You either believe it or you don't.
It's scientifically impossible for someone to turn water into wine or raise the dead, but you don't see people spouting off technical explanations about why it can't be done. Everyone agrees it's impossible. It has to be -- shit, if the bible said "Noah then took his dog Patches and went to the beach for 40 minutes," what would be the sense in that?
Yes, it's impossible. Obviously. But that doesn't mean it didn't happen.
I love it how when we're just talking about science (this story), fewer then 100 people post comments. But when you bring religion into it (the Mt. Ararat story), all the sudden everyone's an expert.
Heh, "ball." Clever. Just once, I'd like to see an astronomer with a sense of humor -- they could've called it "cylinder seen from above," or "supersized singularity."
The others really do look like what they named them tough. But I wish they would've named the "Lying H" a "Lazy H" instead, to fit the cowboy standard.
Now I am rambling but I will leave you with this: The Las Vegas hotels hate this convention with a passion. Because the entire thing is populated by people that are so smart that they know the odds inside and out.
So they're just playing blackjack then, and counting cards? Because that's the only way you can get the odds in your favor at a casino, unless you play poker (and the casinos like you playing poker -- they get money no matter who wins).
That, and he has an affinity for twenty-five cent words, when a nickle word will do.
I thought it was a perfectly cromulent article.
Please stop thinking the music industry is this great cash cow. Yes, the artists get (for the most part) a pittance and usually wind up owing the record label money (which the label tends to "forgive" if the record sells well), but the rest of that vast majority does not go to line the pockets of those big execs. Profit margins are slim, anywhere from 0.5 to 15%, depending on the label. You want to talk about corpulent assholes, take a look at cable companies, whose profits are more along the lines of 40%. And they still make me pay for channels I don't want...
She's fixing things like I do -- generally winding up in having to buy another one.
It's prolly illegal, but I imagine bear spray would stop just about anyone, if it would stop a charging grizzly.
I was hiking once, and got near a mom and cubs (I saw a cub dart up a tree and heard a big thing coming through the brush). I took off the other way, pulling out my bear spray as I ran*. When I got it out, I turned around and saw nothing. The bear was just fronting a little. But I walked backwards for a while, away from that spot.
Here's the point of my story: I realised that I had never even tested the thing to see if it worked. So I pointed it downwind (I'm not an idiot, but the wind was very slight), and let loose as short a burst as possible. Then, satisfied tha tit worked, I walked away -- upwind -- and a few seconds later had trouble breathing for the sharp peppery shit that burned my sinuses. It soon cleared up, but I couldn't imagine getting a facefull of that stuff. Seems like it'd stop anyone. Of course, I've never been up against anyone on PCP...
*I later learned, there's literally a 1 in a million chance of getting mauled by a bear. You really don't need bear spray when you're hiking.
Heh. I did that once as a kid...
i nadaquate program. But hey, it worked for me, I got to do fun stuff while most of the other kids had to do boring classroom crap.
doodleoodleoo... doodleoodleoo... doodleoodleoo... (ie Wayne's World)
I was in 2nd or 3rd grade, and I was in the Talented and Gifted program. Lord knows why - I'm not that smart (I don't even have a clue how to spell inadaquate, see below for evidence). Just interested in stuff, I guess. It probably should've been called the piss-off-the-rest-of-the-kids-and-make-them-feel-
Anyhoo, I had learned that diamonds were the hardest substance on earth, and they could cut though anything. My teacher mentioned she had a real diamond, on this ring right here. So I said "no way! Lemme see," and grabbed her hand and drew the stone over my piece of paper, to cut it. I expected it to cut like a laser, and was severely disappointed when it only dented the paper. "how come it didn't cut the paper?" I asked, skeptical. She drew her hand away, out of my reach. She didn't have an answer, but assured me that it was a real diamond. I thought it was sad that she could be so easily duped by her fiance.
Looking back, I reckon you have to expect things like that to happen if you're going to teach a bunch of smart-ass "talented and gifted" kids...
Can the cable companies really disambiguate...
;)
You just reminded me which buzzword I find most annoying
Agreed. I was gonna get one, but it turned out to be too expensive to rent a Sikorsky Sky Crane to get it home.
And furthermore, I want it to be whisper-quiet. The iMacs are whisper-quiet; I see no reason why the G5s can't be. At least, use standard components (power supply, fans) so users who care about the noise have the option of replacing them with their noiseless equivelants.
For the same reason we have math -- so we can talk about things to other people and they'll know what we're talking about. Imagine:
Astronomer 1: Hey I discovered something new about that dot in the sky the other day.
Astronomer 2: Show me. [they go outside] Which one, the reddish one?
A1: No, the white sparkly one, closer to the ground.
A2: [looks around] what!?!
A1: No, you fool, the ground off in the distance, with the big pointy things
A2: Ahh. That one?
A1: I don't know, where are you pointing?
A2: I'm pointing at that one, THERE. Get behind my shoulder.
A1: No, [moves arm] THAT one.
A2; [has no idea which one he means] Oh, I see. What did you learn about it?
A1: It's a.. crap, I don't know what to call it. It's DIFFERENT from the other ones.
A2: I'm cold and you're boring.
Chihauhaus are dogs, sure, but they're not real dogs.
You can get a 12" g3 800mhz iBook new for $700. That's either the same price, or 13% less! So, you're not only right, you're really really right.
Where does your tap water come from?
Where does your electricity come from? Okay the power company. But how do they get it?
Where do they get or how do they grow/raise your food, and how long is it in trucks and/or warehouses before it gets to the grocery store?
Where does your poop go after you flush it?
Funny how the things that were most important not too long ago (where we get our food, heat in winter, what to do about waste) have become givens.
Yeah, hold on! I thought it was about their suffering, and it was cute that they didn't know how to spell. That whole thing was about voting? Damn, those women can be crafty...