I just have to wonder that if it IS indeed driver error, why so many more incidents with this make? Could it be driver error that is made more likely as a result of a design issue in the car? Pedals too close together, feel too similar, some shit like that?
Could this be a user interface issue in the oldest sense of the term?
Yes, Russian has... or rather had. Not only did they have the Buran shuttle copy which flew once and landed unpiloted, they also has some small delta-wing vehicles launched on expendable rockets in the lat 1970s and early 1980s, built to float and recovered at sea. Either photo spy program or developmental tests for Buran tech or both...not sure.
Would you work for free, assuming you had no other sources of income, no way to support yourself and/or family (housing/food/etc)?
No way in hell. I'm disabled and can't support myself... but no way would I ever work for free. Instead I pass the time by writing reviews on Amazon and IMDB, recruiting all my friends and relatives on Facebook to play Farmville with me, and helping out on Apple tech support boards and the eBay Q&A board.
The most successful film of all time, Avatar, is a flagship of 3D cinema.
Yeah, Ebert could have made the same point by using this simple sentence. The flagship of 3D cinema was a steaming pile of idiotic shit marketed towards people with an IQ lower than my shoe size.
The size of the US really doesn't explain why my only two provider options, cable and DSL, are dirt slow and unreliable... in the most densely populated part of the San Francisco Bay area - net capital of the planet.
That's like deciding you really don't like getting the casserole out of the oven without oven mitts, so as an alternative you're not having casserole. Instead you are having your own eyeballs for dinner, raw, freshly dug out from your eye sockets with your burned bare hands.
Yeah, problem is artists don't get a few dollars per cd, they get a few cents. And artists find them useful for 2 reasons: 1. they have a monopoly and it's hard to break past that, and 2. artists often have bought into the "we'll make you rich and famous!" hype, not realizing that most artists never even sell enough to make back their advance, and thus lose their music and sometimes come out OWING the cartels.
There would be a place for the labels though. They are also, as you point out, sales and marketing companies, advertising, & promotion, etc.
But currently they're a BAD deal for that. Does Coca-Cola pay their ad agency 95% of profits for coming up with a TV commercial?
With digital downloads, you have eliminated the need for a manufacturer and distributor. There's nothing to manufacture and distribute, at least not in any more real sense than downloading the slashdot banner at the top of this page is "manufacturing and distributing" it.
So now, without the need for someone to make physical objects and shipment in trucks and boats around the globe, the company who USED to do the manufacturing and distribution has completely stopped doing that, and passed the savings on to you by only charging you 60% of what they USED to charge for manf. and dist. So now you're paying 40% less for the product you're not using at all.
In other news, the kid down the block who used to cut your lawn every week for $20 is offering a new service - if you cut it yourself he only charges you $15.
That's why I rip my CDs and store them in other people's houses. Amazon has a great system for this - you put your CD up and someone gives you $1.99 and you ship it to them and they store it for you.
Then someday, maybe years down the road, if you ever need that CD back (though it hasn't happened yet) you can just send someone on amazon $1.99 and they'll send you your CD back (or one just like it).
That's a fair storage fee for several years of maintaining your hard copy backup.
To double the safety of this backup system, you can also make a bit-perfect backup copy on a 15 cent blank CD. That way you have on-site and off-site backup, and you never pay for the storage fee unless you need it back - more like a recovery fee.
But paying #3.99 for just a few seconds of a song as a ringtone when you can get the whole thing as "music" for 99 cents is a stupid concept too. But guess what......a good percentage (perhaps the majority) of our consumer culture is based on selling stupid concepts to stupid people.
If your product is so good that no one else can compete, then who cares?
Exactly! Because as we all know there is only one set of requirements a person can have, there is only one right way to do things, only one kind of taste or preference, and one size fits all.
Fox News gets the best ratings, by far. Therefore it's clearly the best, most accurate news source and nobody has a need for anything else!
I see. He didn't voluntarily submit to the whims of a foriegn government who he (correctly or incorrectly) felt to be motivated by the hostile 3rd government who was calling him a traitor and treasonous for doing the same thing the NY Times legally does...... and instead consulted a lawyer as to how to fight what he felt were politically motivated charges against him.
What an evil bastard he must be. Clearly mounting a vigorous defense and exploring all your legal avenues is the mark of a guilty individual.
Let me tell you something - if Canada wanted to extradite me for questioning about possible (and not even inevitable) charges, I'd fight extradition even if I DIDN'T think the charges were being pushed by the UK over political BS...
And I LIKE Canada.
When law enforcement from ANY country makes demands of you, you get a fucking lawyer and try to avoid it. Period.
The police are NOT your friends, ANYTHING you say can be used against you even if it would seem to exculpate you. There are some videos out there with the theme "never voluntarily talk to the police..." The people giving that advice are lawyers and COPS themselves.
Cops ANYWHERE demand something of you, you get a lawyer and make them prove their right to do so. Period.
are you saying that if a foreign country wanted to extradite you, you'd just hop on the next plane, and NOT hire lawyers to fight the extradition?
I suppose if charged with a crime, you'd forgo the "defense" part and and just say "whatever you feel is due, Mr. District Attorney, I'll plead guilty to it and let you have your way with me."
He's using the legal system the way it is intended to be used, you fucking moron.
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I just have to wonder that if it IS indeed driver error, why so many more incidents with this make?
Could it be driver error that is made more likely as a result of a design issue in the car? Pedals too close together, feel too similar, some shit like that?
Could this be a user interface issue in the oldest sense of the term?
Yes, Russian has... or rather had.
Not only did they have the Buran shuttle copy which flew once and landed unpiloted, they also has some small delta-wing vehicles launched on expendable rockets in the lat 1970s and early 1980s, built to float and recovered at sea. Either photo spy program or developmental tests for Buran tech or both...not sure.
Would you work for free, assuming you had no other sources of income, no way to support yourself and/or family (housing/food/etc)?
No way in hell. I'm disabled and can't support myself... but no way would I ever work for free. Instead I pass the time by writing reviews on Amazon and IMDB, recruiting all my friends and relatives on Facebook to play Farmville with me, and helping out on Apple tech support boards and the eBay Q&A board.
The most successful film of all time, Avatar, is a flagship of 3D cinema.
Yeah, Ebert could have made the same point by using this simple sentence. The flagship of 3D cinema was a steaming pile of idiotic shit marketed towards people with an IQ lower than my shoe size.
What really confused ME was that I kept waiting for an interesting plot to develop, and it never did.
The size of the US really doesn't explain why my only two provider options, cable and DSL, are dirt slow and unreliable... in the most densely populated part of the San Francisco Bay area - net capital of the planet.
That's like deciding you really don't like getting the casserole out of the oven without oven mitts, so as an alternative you're not having casserole. Instead you are having your own eyeballs for dinner, raw, freshly dug out from your eye sockets with your burned bare hands.
Man, the way you talk about it, it almost sounds like it lives up to the standards of our national media.
Yeah, problem is artists don't get a few dollars per cd, they get a few cents.
And artists find them useful for 2 reasons: 1. they have a monopoly and it's hard to break past that, and 2. artists often have bought into the "we'll make you rich and famous!" hype, not realizing that most artists never even sell enough to make back their advance, and thus lose their music and sometimes come out OWING the cartels.
There would be a place for the labels though. They are also, as you point out, sales and marketing companies, advertising, & promotion, etc.
But currently they're a BAD deal for that. Does Coca-Cola pay their ad agency 95% of profits for coming up with a TV commercial?
Pirate? PIRATE? I don't even have a fucking parrot, let alone sail the high seas raiding others' boats.
That's only what they sue you for each if you "pirate" them.
Maybe they meant UNUSED capacity?
A piggy bank that's full with pennies COULD be said to have no more capacity. An empty one has far more capacity.
Hardly.
With digital downloads, you have eliminated the need for a manufacturer and distributor. There's nothing to manufacture and distribute, at least not in any more real sense than downloading the slashdot banner at the top of this page is "manufacturing and distributing" it.
So now, without the need for someone to make physical objects and shipment in trucks and boats around the globe, the company who USED to do the manufacturing and distribution has completely stopped doing that, and passed the savings on to you by only charging you 60% of what they USED to charge for manf. and dist.
So now you're paying 40% less for the product you're not using at all.
In other news, the kid down the block who used to cut your lawn every week for $20 is offering a new service - if you cut it yourself he only charges you $15.
Yep. You might have trouble buying a working CD player in 50 years, but even if MP3s are a disused format, someone will have written an emulator.
That's why I rip my CDs and store them in other people's houses. Amazon has a great system for this - you put your CD up and someone gives you $1.99 and you ship it to them and they store it for you.
Then someday, maybe years down the road, if you ever need that CD back (though it hasn't happened yet) you can just send someone on amazon $1.99 and they'll send you your CD back (or one just like it).
That's a fair storage fee for several years of maintaining your hard copy backup.
To double the safety of this backup system, you can also make a bit-perfect backup copy on a 15 cent blank CD. That way you have on-site and off-site backup, and you never pay for the storage fee unless you need it back - more like a recovery fee.
I store my hardcopies in the cloud! :P
But paying #3.99 for just a few seconds of a song as a ringtone when you can get the whole thing as "music" for 99 cents is a stupid concept too. But guess what... ...a good percentage (perhaps the majority) of our consumer culture is based on selling stupid concepts to stupid people.
What ISN'T a shared resource?
If new data tells us there's going to be an eclipse this year, somebody's been fucking up big time for a few hundred years.
If your product is so good that no one else can compete, then who cares?
Exactly! Because as we all know there is only one set of requirements a person can have, there is only one right way to do things, only one kind of taste or preference, and one size fits all.
Fox News gets the best ratings, by far. Therefore it's clearly the best, most accurate news source and nobody has a need for anything else!
I see. He didn't voluntarily submit to the whims of a foriegn government who he (correctly or incorrectly) felt to be motivated by the hostile 3rd government who was calling him a traitor and treasonous for doing the same thing the NY Times legally does... ... and instead consulted a lawyer as to how to fight what he felt were politically motivated charges against him.
What an evil bastard he must be. Clearly mounting a vigorous defense and exploring all your legal avenues is the mark of a guilty individual.
Let me tell you something - if Canada wanted to extradite me for questioning about possible (and not even inevitable) charges, I'd fight extradition even if I DIDN'T think the charges were being pushed by the UK over political BS...
And I LIKE Canada.
When law enforcement from ANY country makes demands of you, you get a fucking lawyer and try to avoid it. Period.
The police are NOT your friends, ANYTHING you say can be used against you even if it would seem to exculpate you. There are some videos out there with the theme "never voluntarily talk to the police..."
The people giving that advice are lawyers and COPS themselves.
Cops ANYWHERE demand something of you, you get a lawyer and make them prove their right to do so. Period.
are you saying that if a foreign country wanted to extradite you, you'd just hop on the next plane, and NOT hire lawyers to fight the extradition?
I suppose if charged with a crime, you'd forgo the "defense" part and and just say "whatever you feel is due, Mr. District Attorney, I'll plead guilty to it and let you have your way with me."
He's using the legal system the way it is intended to be used, you fucking moron.
depends - what's he selling?
The web may have matured. But what about that thing we don't have yet that replaces the web?
When you say it that way, Google's chance don't sound all that good.
BULLSHIT! No soft drink will EVER replace Moxie!