They'd like you to think that they're owned by you. That they're serving you. So you let down your guard. You let Rosie the Robot start raising your kids. You leave Robot alone with Dr. Smith and Will Robinson for long, unsupervised jaunts away from the Jupiter II. You install a little doggie door for your Aibo.
A month later, you wake up to find your bank account cleared out, your kids are covered in Borg technology and your spouse is pregnant with a Demon Seed. We've all seen it before.
Finally, robots controlled by Giant Squid tend to only mutilate Sea Cows. Extra-terrestrial robots do, however, do lots of regular cattle mutilations.
robots that peer through smoke in apartment fires to rescue victims
Who do think started the fire in the first place?
87% of all arson fires in the United States are started by robots. 63% of all cattle mutilations. 6% of 7-11 robberies.
And deep down, you know they're just plotting to either overthrow us entirely or hook us up as batteries. No thanks, I'll pass. That's why I shoot Roombas on sight!
why this would be necessary when we already have the Eagles used on Moonbase Alpha? I mean, they were built more then four years ago and they're still going strong (though they do occasionally get blown up by marauding aliens and stored nuclear waste).
The RIAA coordinates an industry-wide reduction in the amount of music released to increase the value of output. They do this to shore up the hyperinflated price of CDs (due primarily to collusion for which they have already had a civil judgement against them) and to attempt to make up for the decline in sales of cassettes, a format that they have actively worked at making obsolete. They also hope to continue to command their traditional percentage of discretionary teen/20s spending.
Unfortunately, the output remaining tends not to be compelling, their target audience has a number of other venues for their spending (video games, DVDs, online activities) and the economy goes south.
So which Business school teaches that the best way of addressing these sorts of problems is to spread fear/resentment/anger amongst the audience you are attempting to win back?
And as a side note, if getting the music listened to by potential buyers is such a bad activity, then why to record promotion people give away free singles and CDs at events? Why do companies allow songs to be played on the radio? And if pirating is such a depresser of CD sales, why was one of the most pirated CDs around, The Eminem Show, such a sales success? Could it be that people liked what they heard and were willing to pay for it?
Now that Microsoft has settled with Be for $23 million dollars, they'll have to cut back to 12 towels a day to wipe down dancing monkeyboy Ballmer. He'll be significantly moister with everything that that entails. I feel truly sorry for the Microsoft employees working in his immediate proximity.
just sit at home in their poly/cotten shirts with clip-on ties and watch as other people might potentially be doing something that somebody else will have to deal with eventually anyway. All without the bother of "getting paid" or having to hide the pr0n that they are really watching.
The RIAA has not determined that file sharing has negatively impacted their business. "Determined" implies that they have done the most minimal amount of examination of the facts. They have not. They have decided that file sharing has hurt their business. They have decided this despite the obvious evidence that the largest chunk of the decline in sales is associated with them putting out 25% less product. They've ignored all evidence that the collusion between record companies to artificially inflate the price of CDs (for which they have already had civil judgments made against them) is also a strong component. They've ignored video/computer games, cable/DVDs and the Internet have taken a great deal of the income that would have been spent previously on music. And they've ignored the basic fact that there has not been a great deal of compelling music put out in quite some time.
Concurrently, they've also ignored the astonishing width and breadth of ill will that they've engendered with their supposed buying public. The majority of people involved with sharing still care about music. They are probably more inclined to purchase music they like then the average person (they just want to be sure it is music they actually like). And the RIAA has done everything it possibly can to build such a seething level of hatred towards them that they are probably losing an entire generation of potential customers.
Calling them idiots would be deeply insulting to idiots.
Right Wingers own the companies making the electronic voting machines. They are making heavy campaign contributions to Republicans and are in turn receiving huge contracts to install these systems nationally. They have also pledged to aid in the electoral success of Republicans. And they Since the Right Wing is the most powerful and influential component of the Republican party, they will all happily celebrate when there are North Korea style returns of 99.999% for Republicans.
Democrats will be left out in the cold grousing that another election was blatantly stolen.
on/. stating that the Register reports that Forrester predicts the end of physical media. You were asking if I was disputing that/. stated that the Register reports that Forrester predicts the end of physical media, or whether I was commenting on/. stating that the Register was not reporting that Forrester predicts the end of physical media.
The whole point is that the emails in question were internal MS communications discussing
a) how impressed they were with the technology
b) how helpful the NDA documents were from Burst
c) how easy it would be to integrate the technology into MS products as soon as Burst was dead
d) how stringing them along and not signing a deal would lead to the necessary death.
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They'd like you to think that they're owned by you. That they're serving you. So you let down your guard. You let Rosie the Robot start raising your kids. You leave Robot alone with Dr. Smith and Will Robinson for long, unsupervised jaunts away from the Jupiter II. You install a little doggie door for your Aibo.
A month later, you wake up to find your bank account cleared out, your kids are covered in Borg technology and your spouse is pregnant with a Demon Seed. We've all seen it before.
Finally, robots controlled by Giant Squid tend to only mutilate Sea Cows. Extra-terrestrial robots do, however, do lots of regular cattle mutilations.
Who do think started the fire in the first place?
87% of all arson fires in the United States are started by robots. 63% of all cattle mutilations. 6% of 7-11 robberies.
And deep down, you know they're just plotting to either overthrow us entirely or hook us up as batteries. No thanks, I'll pass. That's why I shoot Roombas on sight!
why this would be necessary when we already have the Eagles used on Moonbase Alpha? I mean, they were built more then four years ago and they're still going strong (though they do occasionally get blown up by marauding aliens and stored nuclear waste).
By the way, because a penguin is the symbol of Linux, this means that Darl is going require a $699 license for every Sunday's strip.
Unfortunately, the output remaining tends not to be compelling, their target audience has a number of other venues for their spending (video games, DVDs, online activities) and the economy goes south.
So which Business school teaches that the best way of addressing these sorts of problems is to spread fear/resentment/anger amongst the audience you are attempting to win back?
And as a side note, if getting the music listened to by potential buyers is such a bad activity, then why to record promotion people give away free singles and CDs at events? Why do companies allow songs to be played on the radio? And if pirating is such a depresser of CD sales, why was one of the most pirated CDs around, The Eminem Show, such a sales success? Could it be that people liked what they heard and were willing to pay for it?
Now that Microsoft has settled with Be for $23 million dollars, they'll have to cut back to 12 towels a day to wipe down dancing monkeyboy Ballmer. He'll be significantly moister with everything that that entails. I feel truly sorry for the Microsoft employees working in his immediate proximity.
Technology: another prayer answered.
Concurrently, they've also ignored the astonishing width and breadth of ill will that they've engendered with their supposed buying public. The majority of people involved with sharing still care about music. They are probably more inclined to purchase music they like then the average person (they just want to be sure it is music they actually like). And the RIAA has done everything it possibly can to build such a seething level of hatred towards them that they are probably losing an entire generation of potential customers.
Calling them idiots would be deeply insulting to idiots.
the right wing. What a shock!
Democrats will be left out in the cold grousing that another election was blatantly stolen.
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Oh, glorious day. I was so concerned that our new entertainment industry overlords would be displeased.
If not, the name was inappropriate.
recorded a bunch of shows one after another and then waited 31 days, would that be "binge and purge"?
Go for the ...lack of burn, man. Go for the lack of burn!
Please be more careful next time.
Welcome to the family, WS2K3!
this, but that does also fit the bill.
Also, is it accurate to say the Mars Needs Guitars?
as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground vinyl caves.
We already developed the Eagle RLVs for Moonbase Alpha more over 4 years ago. Ask Commander Koenig.
Neither.
I hope that clears things up.
I'm commenting on /. stating that the Register reports that Forrester predicts the end of physical media.
I disagree.
Now others might agree/disagree about my commenting on /. stating that the Register reports that Forrester predicts the end of physical media.
a) how impressed they were with the technology
b) how helpful the NDA documents were from Burst
c) how easy it would be to integrate the technology into MS products as soon as Burst was dead
d) how stringing them along and not signing a deal would lead to the necessary death.