2012 is not a Mayan religious end date at all. The hysterics that we are experiencing is a misinterpretations not by Mayans but by westerners who are twisting the religion to fit their own ideals.
Moses and the burning bush are presented as historical fact in the bible. Not as prophecy. Regardless if you believe in the bible or in Moses, the Torah, the Koran is irrelevant. People who take actions in the name of the Christian god by means of interpreting prophecy are doing a great disservice to the religion and even the bible claims this with "No man shall know the hour..." I can't speak for Judaism or Islam in the same light so I honestly can not say.
Now, I hope this puts some of these ideas to rest but I'm sure someone will use them again after reading this as a convenient way to bash religion. The bottom line is that no religion is predicting the end of the earth on 12/21/12. Anyone acting out in an attempt to avoid or catalyse these non-prophecies is doing a misjustice on their own and only have themselves to blame for not taking the who 10 minutes it takes to see that this is just crap thrown out there as a money maker by the same kinds of minds that brought you The Wizard of Oz and Star Trek.
I really don't know why this got modded up so much. I think it shows a certain chain of logic failure that *starts* with the artist.
A lot of older artists have realised in this day and age how much the record companies were fleecing them back in the day.
And a guy who plays the guitar is qualified to have made better business decision how exactly? Artists willfully sign up for what a label offers. There is no gun to anyone's head. The market conditions set the price and artists have been free to take it or leave it since the first publications of recorded music. These same artists you've chosen to treat like victims reaped just as much benefit from the system as those who publish, distributed and advertised their product but the artists got away with not doing the heavy lifting. Independent publication has been going on forever and a lot of the artists you hail as victims of this system did actually publish their own work for a few releases and later turned towards labels for their services. You *can not* tell me that these artists who took this route didn't do this for a reason. Think about it for a moment, please.
Quite a lot of young artists now, realise the companies are the Devil incarnate and try their best to do their own distribution, not easy on an international stage without limited funds, but at least they can have a chance of a career in music without being bent over by a label and dumped after one poorly selling album.
This is far from new and most of the artists in the same ilk as The Eagles have already done the indy route with various results. The reason that many of them are still known today and their 30+ year old music still has value has more to do with the labels than the merits of the artists. I've seen tons of good artists go by the wayside who had as solid a product as anyone else but just didn't have the right distribution and advertisement channels to take real advantage of it. It sucks that it happens and the internet has gone a long way to eliminate the need for this but it's still a truth that simply could not be ignored in it's time and day.
And I hate to tell you this but an indie artist who has a poor album would feel lucky to be "bent over" by a label if they have a poor selling album. The financial set backs that happen to an artist releasing a poor selling product is much heavier than them simply being booted from a label. Again, this is changing but for the most part even today a lot of artists would never see a properly produced and marketed album without some assistance. Financial backing is a make or break watermark in a lot of musical careers.
I tend to spend more on music when I know I can buy direct from metal bands, direct from their sites, to the point I am actually emailling the band members for details and merchandise. I feeling I am adding something positive to the music scene as a whole. I can't say I like the Eagles much, another super-rich corp band to my mind, but it's their work and good luck to them!
Yeah, I've tended to listen to more indy music than anything else too but at the same time I think if labels become too standoffish too soon that there will be talent that will slip through the cracks. I guess it happens in just about every market.
But at the same time I really don't know how much of a real victory this is. The Eagles are going to do well because they're established and the truth of the matter is that it's just a copyright changing hands. From the man-on-the-street prospective it's not really going to open up anything that isn't already there today. The Eagles made a conscious decision to give up their rights when they signed in the first place. I feel no sympathy for people who make a bad decision and certainly not to the point that they deserve legal protection. Don't think for a second that if The Eagles see a way to twist copyright to their favor for additional gains that they won't jump on the chance. Actually, if you stop and think about it that *is* what they're doing with this maneuver. The label took a risk, The Eagles will get paid and we won't see anything come out of this in a real tangable fashion.
Flattening the income curb on this level is like taking business from Bentley and giving it to Lamborghini.
I would see this a lot differently if it was some independent community business getting a draw from WalMart. Any way this plays out there isn't going to be much of a difference for the man on the street. At best it's an interesting academic question about how to bring a juggernaut to a dead stop as quickly as possible. Even then I don't think this is enough to make a difference in the long term. Google's stock might slip a couple of points but it would eventually level back up again.
If what Cuban is suggesting is brought up in the courts as bribery I should be legally allowed to sue our legislature and executive branch any time the put an earmark in the Federal budget. The backlash from basically eliminating kick backs would bring down a lot of kings of the mountain, IMHO, not a moment too soon.
I see your point, but the idea you're missing is that much of technology moves from a luxury to a necessity very quickly.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes. And the part of my post you missed is that we no longer have a choice. Maybe one hundred million own a cell phone with a choice to switch or to boycott. Now the "elite" that the OP was bitching on about have a direct tap into the tax flow of this country. What do you really think the stimulus is? And both parties subscribe to the idea that stimulus money to corporations works. You no longer even have a valid choice between dumb and dumber!!!
Furthermore, you have zero input on the actions of corporations who provide these necessary luxuries, like oil, electricity, information infrastructure, and so on. At some point, you have to assign a third party with more power to keep them in check, or we'll all be living in company towns, shopping at company stores, which isn't a hell of a lot better than soviet communism.
Uh, guy, we've already passed that stage with the federal government already taking your tax money and deciding what corporation is worthy of it. And in return the corporations are beholden to the government. Can't you see what's going on here?
People are decrying the direction of the US, but I think after the past several years of pretty constant theft of tax dollars and personal property by the elite, a change was and is necessary.
Are you trying to say that what has happened recently isn't theft by the elite? If you are you seriously need to wake up. Instead of Verizon taking from their customers with little scams and contract foolery we now have big brother telling us that it doesn't matter if we like it or not; he's going to take from you regardless of position.
We've effectively gone from a system that we could opt out of (for the most part) into one where the government forces you to give it up till you bleed. Tell me how much better things are again?
Your problem with the free market is that you don't seem to know the difference between a luxury and a necessity. If you don't like Verizon's business practices boycott them. No one was twisting your arm. Now you have no choice.
What do you mean "buy us off"? Do you honestly think this is going to get them any real favor? People around here have a way of overestimating the value of open source to the man on the streets or even the geek on the streets for that matter.
I had a uncle that suffered massive heart failure who had a device that is used in conjunction with the heart to keep it running. It's somewhat along the same concept except for that I'm not sure if it pulsed or if it was a constant pressure device. I want to say it was constant pressure but I'm not 100% sure.
Unfortunately he died from an infection after the transplant but he used the device for rougly 6 months and felt great on it.
How about we require them to actually pass the classes they do attend before letting them move on...
You're telling me. I have a nephew who is a senior doing Algebra II and he asked me the other day if a positive number multiplied by a negative number produced a positive or a negative result. I was floored by it. How did he get this far not having a solid grasp on this concept? They teach this concept in what? The 3rd or 4th grade?
the author tallied up how much he'd spent on World of Warcraft over the past several years, and was astonished to realize it numbered in the thousands of dollars.
So the author's incompetence in 2nd grade mathematics is suppose to make this news how?
He knew what he was getting into when he signed up. Just because he's reflecting on the price years into it doesn't mean it's a rip off. This isn't like getting your car tuned up for some amazing low price only to find out they stack fee after fee that double the price. Anyone who's doing anything on a subscription basis should understand what they're getting into as they get into it. Anything short of that is just foolishness on their part.
Do you honestly believe that anyone who could really tell you about the innards of a PC would be working a 9 dollar an hour job working the phones at Dell?
Granted, there are a ton of fly-by-night tech institute grads who try to get anything working around computers but if they were worth the paper their certs were written on they wouldn't be there long.
From what I've read quickly on Wiki it seems that there isn't a TOW with the range to hit something at 20000 feet.
The ERYX has about as much of an effective range as most medium power rifles.
Only the AGM-114 HellFire seems to have the range but given that the stat is tied to an air to surface missile I doubt it has that kind of range on a climb but may have the range when launched from an altitude to a ground based target by not using fuel as a lift but rather strictly for guidance.
We learn two forms of writing and two forms of measurements. When are we going to stop living in the past and do away with these old customs? Next they'll have our students churning butter forging horseshoes.
3500 dollars worth of goods you can slip into your pocket versus 350 dollars worth of something that you have to carry openly down the street... that has a serial number.
That works nice on eBay but try to do that at a swap meet where merchandise normally has shady origins.
If stolen property couldn't be sold without going to jail then there would be hardly any theft. Thieves know their trade and it seems like they're a well seasoned in this particular case.
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2012 is not a Mayan religious end date at all. The hysterics that we are experiencing is a misinterpretations not by Mayans but by westerners who are twisting the religion to fit their own ideals.
Moses and the burning bush are presented as historical fact in the bible. Not as prophecy. Regardless if you believe in the bible or in Moses, the Torah, the Koran is irrelevant. People who take actions in the name of the Christian god by means of interpreting prophecy are doing a great disservice to the religion and even the bible claims this with "No man shall know the hour..." I can't speak for Judaism or Islam in the same light so I honestly can not say.
Now, I hope this puts some of these ideas to rest but I'm sure someone will use them again after reading this as a convenient way to bash religion. The bottom line is that no religion is predicting the end of the earth on 12/21/12. Anyone acting out in an attempt to avoid or catalyse these non-prophecies is doing a misjustice on their own and only have themselves to blame for not taking the who 10 minutes it takes to see that this is just crap thrown out there as a money maker by the same kinds of minds that brought you The Wizard of Oz and Star Trek.
Uhhh, that's why I used the word "IF"
I really don't know why this got modded up so much. I think it shows a certain chain of logic failure that *starts* with the artist.
A lot of older artists have realised in this day and age how much the record companies were fleecing them back in the day.
And a guy who plays the guitar is qualified to have made better business decision how exactly? Artists willfully sign up for what a label offers. There is no gun to anyone's head. The market conditions set the price and artists have been free to take it or leave it since the first publications of recorded music. These same artists you've chosen to treat like victims reaped just as much benefit from the system as those who publish, distributed and advertised their product but the artists got away with not doing the heavy lifting. Independent publication has been going on forever and a lot of the artists you hail as victims of this system did actually publish their own work for a few releases and later turned towards labels for their services. You *can not* tell me that these artists who took this route didn't do this for a reason. Think about it for a moment, please.
Quite a lot of young artists now, realise the companies are the Devil incarnate and try their best to do their own distribution, not easy on an international stage without limited funds, but at least they can have a chance of a career in music without being bent over by a label and dumped after one poorly selling album.
This is far from new and most of the artists in the same ilk as The Eagles have already done the indy route with various results. The reason that many of them are still known today and their 30+ year old music still has value has more to do with the labels than the merits of the artists. I've seen tons of good artists go by the wayside who had as solid a product as anyone else but just didn't have the right distribution and advertisement channels to take real advantage of it. It sucks that it happens and the internet has gone a long way to eliminate the need for this but it's still a truth that simply could not be ignored in it's time and day.
And I hate to tell you this but an indie artist who has a poor album would feel lucky to be "bent over" by a label if they have a poor selling album. The financial set backs that happen to an artist releasing a poor selling product is much heavier than them simply being booted from a label. Again, this is changing but for the most part even today a lot of artists would never see a properly produced and marketed album without some assistance. Financial backing is a make or break watermark in a lot of musical careers.
I tend to spend more on music when I know I can buy direct from metal bands, direct from their sites, to the point I am actually emailling the band members for details and merchandise. I feeling I am adding something positive to the music scene as a whole. I can't say I like the Eagles much, another super-rich corp band to my mind, but it's their work and good luck to them!
Yeah, I've tended to listen to more indy music than anything else too but at the same time I think if labels become too standoffish too soon that there will be talent that will slip through the cracks. I guess it happens in just about every market.
But at the same time I really don't know how much of a real victory this is. The Eagles are going to do well because they're established and the truth of the matter is that it's just a copyright changing hands. From the man-on-the-street prospective it's not really going to open up anything that isn't already there today. The Eagles made a conscious decision to give up their rights when they signed in the first place. I feel no sympathy for people who make a bad decision and certainly not to the point that they deserve legal protection. Don't think for a second that if The Eagles see a way to twist copyright to their favor for additional gains that they won't jump on the chance. Actually, if you stop and think about it that *is* what they're doing with this maneuver. The label took a risk, The Eagles will get paid and we won't see anything come out of this in a real tangable fashion.
Flattening the income curb on this level is like taking business from Bentley and giving it to Lamborghini.
I would see this a lot differently if it was some independent community business getting a draw from WalMart. Any way this plays out there isn't going to be much of a difference for the man on the street. At best it's an interesting academic question about how to bring a juggernaut to a dead stop as quickly as possible. Even then I don't think this is enough to make a difference in the long term. Google's stock might slip a couple of points but it would eventually level back up again.
If what Cuban is suggesting is brought up in the courts as bribery I should be legally allowed to sue our legislature and executive branch any time the put an earmark in the Federal budget. The backlash from basically eliminating kick backs would bring down a lot of kings of the mountain, IMHO, not a moment too soon.
I see your point, but the idea you're missing is that much of technology moves from a luxury to a necessity very quickly.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes. And the part of my post you missed is that we no longer have a choice. Maybe one hundred million own a cell phone with a choice to switch or to boycott. Now the "elite" that the OP was bitching on about have a direct tap into the tax flow of this country. What do you really think the stimulus is? And both parties subscribe to the idea that stimulus money to corporations works. You no longer even have a valid choice between dumb and dumber!!!
Furthermore, you have zero input on the actions of corporations who provide these necessary luxuries, like oil, electricity, information infrastructure, and so on. At some point, you have to assign a third party with more power to keep them in check, or we'll all be living in company towns, shopping at company stores, which isn't a hell of a lot better than soviet communism.
Uh, guy, we've already passed that stage with the federal government already taking your tax money and deciding what corporation is worthy of it. And in return the corporations are beholden to the government. Can't you see what's going on here?
People are decrying the direction of the US, but I think after the past several years of pretty constant theft of tax dollars and personal property by the elite, a change was and is necessary.
Are you trying to say that what has happened recently isn't theft by the elite? If you are you seriously need to wake up. Instead of Verizon taking from their customers with little scams and contract foolery we now have big brother telling us that it doesn't matter if we like it or not; he's going to take from you regardless of position.
We've effectively gone from a system that we could opt out of (for the most part) into one where the government forces you to give it up till you bleed. Tell me how much better things are again?
Your problem with the free market is that you don't seem to know the difference between a luxury and a necessity. If you don't like Verizon's business practices boycott them. No one was twisting your arm. Now you have no choice.
What does that say for a certain site owned by Geeknet, Inc?
How do we impose a cost on fear mongerers?
Can the government tax itself?
It's odd that you speak of fear mongering, power and money in the same breath but look to the government as a solution to these problems.
What do you mean "buy us off"? Do you honestly think this is going to get them any real favor? People around here have a way of overestimating the value of open source to the man on the streets or even the geek on the streets for that matter.
Yeah, my link was for a LVAD.
I had a uncle that suffered massive heart failure who had a device that is used in conjunction with the heart to keep it running. It's somewhat along the same concept except for that I'm not sure if it pulsed or if it was a constant pressure device. I want to say it was constant pressure but I'm not 100% sure.
Unfortunately he died from an infection after the transplant but he used the device for rougly 6 months and felt great on it.
How about we require them to actually pass the classes they do attend before letting them move on...
You're telling me. I have a nephew who is a senior doing Algebra II and he asked me the other day if a positive number multiplied by a negative number produced a positive or a negative result. I was floored by it. How did he get this far not having a solid grasp on this concept? They teach this concept in what? The 3rd or 4th grade?
WTF?
the author tallied up how much he'd spent on World of Warcraft over the past several years, and was astonished to realize it numbered in the thousands of dollars.
So the author's incompetence in 2nd grade mathematics is suppose to make this news how?
He knew what he was getting into when he signed up. Just because he's reflecting on the price years into it doesn't mean it's a rip off. This isn't like getting your car tuned up for some amazing low price only to find out they stack fee after fee that double the price. Anyone who's doing anything on a subscription basis should understand what they're getting into as they get into it. Anything short of that is just foolishness on their part.
Do you honestly believe that anyone who could really tell you about the innards of a PC would be working a 9 dollar an hour job working the phones at Dell?
Granted, there are a ton of fly-by-night tech institute grads who try to get anything working around computers but if they were worth the paper their certs were written on they wouldn't be there long.
From what I've read quickly on Wiki it seems that there isn't a TOW with the range to hit something at 20000 feet.
The ERYX has about as much of an effective range as most medium power rifles.
Only the AGM-114 HellFire seems to have the range but given that the stat is tied to an air to surface missile I doubt it has that kind of range on a climb but may have the range when launched from an altitude to a ground based target by not using fuel as a lift but rather strictly for guidance.
Please. Everyone knows that Edgar Froese is the one true God of electronic music.
We learn two forms of writing and two forms of measurements. When are we going to stop living in the past and do away with these old customs? Next they'll have our students churning butter forging horseshoes.
3500 dollars worth of goods you can slip into your pocket versus 350 dollars worth of something that you have to carry openly down the street... that has a serial number.
You do the math.
Pound for pound, PCs probably have a very low return. Not to mention a serial number.
Grandma's silver set and cash are a lot easier to deal with and weigh a lot less.
But "exists as an open-source hobby project" is a bit bringing back your dead lover as a zombie.
Yeah, this sure looks like an open source hobby project to me.
It may not be the juggernaut of the industry but to call it dead is a gross overstatement.
*WOOOOOOOOOSH!!!!*
How very libertarian of you. Next are you going to tell us that since they're among the privileged that the should pay a special tax?
That works nice on eBay but try to do that at a swap meet where merchandise normally has shady origins.
If stolen property couldn't be sold without going to jail then there would be hardly any theft. Thieves know their trade and it seems like they're a well seasoned in this particular case.
Actually, it's sadly weak and pathetic. It's a step above screaming "fag" at someone walking down the street when you speed by in your car.