More like 167 Billion, We already spent 80 Billion the 87 Billion is for the rest of the year. More like 1,000 per tax payer. That is serious money.
I have to laugh at your math skills, 25*200,000,000 = 5,000,000,000 or 5 billion. 1,000 per tax payer is a shit load of money, the kind of money the president talks about "rebuilding our economy" with.
We have no clue what Google does with their data, but they do collect an awful lot of it. I also know some of the people that worked there early in its development(while it was still google.stanford.edu), and if they are any indication of the type of people who Brin will hire, I would not trust them a lick with my data.
I mean really, they have absolutely no oversight, have a spyware toolbar that somehow doesn't get flagged by adaware (I think they fear google, or are just a bunch of idiots) although nobody knows what they do with their data. Google is very powerful, and should be eyed with as much suspicion as any other for profit corporation.
There is a good picture of Lobster which displays this caught in Nova Scotia there are also lobsters that are blue and red like a checkerboard (only four squares), but I couldn't find photos of them so easily
I keep on hearing this "The RIAA was convicted of price fixing" Yes they were however what did that mean? Why were thy price fixing. What they did was attempt to keep smaller music only stores in business. They did this by offering to pay for advertising of music that was priced at a certain level or higher. Why did they have to do this? Because Bestbuy and Circut City and other places were selling music below their cost, they would buy the CD's for $12 and sell them for $11. Why did they do that? So that they could advertise cheap CD's to get people into the store so they would buy consumer electronics and home appliances. However that was bad for the music industry and music lovers. Why? Because these places had a smaller selection of music, they didn't sell all that much at a loss, only stuff that would bring people into the store, IE Britney, Christina, NSync, etc. That would drive business away from media only stores which would carry a larger, and in my opinion, more interesting selection. The Christina/NSync popular music is the bread and butter of the media stores and they would go out of business if they lost a lot of sales to Bestbuy. So M.A.P. was created to help out these small stores.
People say that the price of CDs has gone up, or stayed the same. However that is not true, if you adjust for inflation the price has come down. In 1988 I paid $15 for REM Document on CD at a small retailer in my hometown. This year I paid $13.98 for Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots at amazon.com, although I could have bought it for $15 at Amoeboa Music and $17 at other stores. In 1988 a new Honda Accord ranged from $8429 to $12,675, now it invoiced starting at $14228 all the way up to $25,000. The people who create thse CD's, the Engineers, Drivers, Musicians, yes even company execs are paying those higher prices for housing, cars, food, and everything else, but they are selling the CD's at the same price they were 20 years ago, and most of the time, putting more music on it to boot.
No shit, but what do the original patents say? They could be completely different. My guess is that he had an idea, tried to patent it, but the technology wasn't there yet, then he revised repeatedly until it was. This is a very standard practice
If people really cared about the longevity of copyright they would civil disobiediantly distribute recently extended copyrighted material. However that is not what is being distributed in mass. Most of stuff that is being distributed are works that are new and should still be protected by copyright as the constitution was written. Put your money where your mouth is, distribute Steamboat Mickey, take it to the supreme court and overturn the Sonny Bono Extension.
Wow you picked one guys statistics for a small portion of one season and used that to make your point, which was that PacBell is a homerun park. You need to learn something about Sabermetrics, as that is one of the biggest no-no there is. Also if you read the article that you posted it ends with this
Granted, partial season home-road splits can be misleading, particularly for relief pitchers, as the sample size for any one player is just too small. But the trend is quite clear. For Giants' hitters, Pac Bell makes 5' 7" Marvin Benard and his mates look like a league of Lilliputians. And for Giants' pitchers, the House that Bonds Built makes 6' 6" Jason Schmidt and his band appear to be Brobdingnagian.
which makes my point quite a bit clearer than I can.
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I have to laugh at your math skills, 25*200,000,000 = 5,000,000,000 or 5 billion. 1,000 per tax payer is a shit load of money, the kind of money the president talks about "rebuilding our economy" with.
We have already spent 80 Billion, the 87 Billion brings the total thus far to 167 Billion.
You mean their spyware which does not get removed by AdAware?
Give me a break. There is very little real statistically meaningful evidence to back this up.
Maybe so, but at some point ALL CDR's (and any other recording media) are going to have a piracy tax added to their price.
Which makes more sense if you know that Transgaming founder Gav State got his start at Corel.
Fantastic comment, I suggest reading (if you have not already, as this comment seems to hit on his points) . And his followup 22 years later.
You have a choice to turn on the advanced features, it's the same binary.
We have no clue what Google does with their data, but they do collect an awful lot of it. I also know some of the people that worked there early in its development(while it was still google.stanford.edu), and if they are any indication of the type of people who Brin will hire, I would not trust them a lick with my data.
A toolbar that can be shut off is still spyware according to ad-aware.
I mean really, they have absolutely no oversight, have a spyware toolbar that somehow doesn't get flagged by adaware (I think they fear google, or are just a bunch of idiots) although nobody knows what they do with their data. Google is very powerful, and should be eyed with as much suspicion as any other for profit corporation.
Will that even read the bios?
There is a good picture of Lobster which displays this caught in Nova Scotia there are also lobsters that are blue and red like a checkerboard (only four squares), but I couldn't find photos of them so easily
As for a non-fictional band, read what Coco the Electric Monkey Wizard and The Brannock Device of Man or Astroman? has to say about playing Irving Plaza.
As for writing royalties, this explains Mechical Royalties and the Harry Fox Agency.
Here is an article that mentions mechanicals and P2P by Dave Lowery of Camper Van Beethoven, and Cracker
I had read once that every shuttle flight reduces the ozone layer by .05%.
People say that the price of CDs has gone up, or stayed the same. However that is not true, if you adjust for inflation the price has come down. In 1988 I paid $15 for REM Document on CD at a small retailer in my hometown. This year I paid $13.98 for Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots at amazon.com, although I could have bought it for $15 at Amoeboa Music and $17 at other stores. In 1988 a new Honda Accord ranged from $8429 to $12,675, now it invoiced starting at $14228 all the way up to $25,000. The people who create thse CD's, the Engineers, Drivers, Musicians, yes even company execs are paying those higher prices for housing, cars, food, and everything else, but they are selling the CD's at the same price they were 20 years ago, and most of the time, putting more music on it to boot.
Notice in the flowchart on the first page of the pdf that a bunch of people linked to there is a box for surcharges if you turn over too many vids.
No shit, but what do the original patents say? They could be completely different. My guess is that he had an idea, tried to patent it, but the technology wasn't there yet, then he revised repeatedly until it was. This is a very standard practice
4,702,808 Filed: March 15, 1985
5,131,941 Filed: May 7, 1991
do the editors even read the shit they post?
Right you are but to be extra special pedantic it is Steamboat Willie
If people really cared about the longevity of copyright they would civil disobiediantly distribute recently extended copyrighted material. However that is not what is being distributed in mass. Most of stuff that is being distributed are works that are new and should still be protected by copyright as the constitution was written. Put your money where your mouth is, distribute Steamboat Mickey, take it to the supreme court and overturn the Sonny Bono Extension.
The publisher IS the songwriter, many times it IS the artist.
The songwriter, often the artist gets $0.08/song for a mechanical royalty, which starts being paid from the first song sold.
The Mechanical was $0.08/song and was listed in that pie chart as a separate item. The mechaincal is paid whether or not the song recoups.
Granted, partial season home-road splits can be misleading, particularly for relief pitchers, as the sample size for any one player is just too small. But the trend is quite clear. For Giants' hitters, Pac Bell makes 5' 7" Marvin Benard and his mates look like a league of Lilliputians. And for Giants' pitchers, the House that Bonds Built makes 6' 6" Jason Schmidt and his band appear to be Brobdingnagian.
which makes my point quite a bit clearer than I can.