I remember watching the re-release of Star Wars at the local drive-in theater in a convertible with the top down. The normal evening overcast (I'm on the US West Coast) formed a strange hole over the area through which I could see lots of stars and a rather bright Hale-Bopp.
That was a very intense evening, watching space-fantasy on the big screen and space-reality on the *really* big screen...
Yes, they will be allowed to refile because the prosecutors would be charging him with a separate and distinct crime (even if committed in the same act as the original charges), thereby avoiding Double-Jeopardy prevention from prosecution.
Like, duh.. anyone who watches Law & Order knows all about this...
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ah, the old Indy... fun little machine. They were new when I was at SGI. We used to plug into each others' cameras and then send each other snapshots of whatever embarassing thing the other was doing at the moment.
I showed my manager how to use the camera, and then found he was using it to monitor our group. I logged into his system and replaced his camera output with mine, which pointed right back at him.
It was almost three weeks before he noticed he was staring at his own Ficus plants....
Although, with reference to your first paragraph, I believe if you look closely, Jesus wasn't saying "son of God" so much as "we are all part of God". It's too bad we only have one compendium of Jesus references (and it's been re-written through man-made political filters over the last 2000 years).
I hope we can shed ourselves of this psuedo-Puritan garbage one day and just get back to enjoying our time here.
The problem being, the concept of "original sin" was built into Christianity by the early Catholics as a method to perpetuate their political hold on the masses.
Religion is the very first form of political science. "Do what I say, because I am the one who talks directly to God(s)!".
If you read between the lines, Jesus was actually promoting a personal relationship between people and God, instead of the "intercession" of the Pharisees (or the intercession of the Catholic priests). Jesus taught not that one should live a life of squalor, but that one should focus on quality of life and not material possessions (which are not necessarily mutually exclusive options). Jesus further taught that in order to fully maximize quality of life, one should seek to promote the quality of life of others around you ("Golden Rule").
All the rest of this "original sin" nonsense is purely that; nonsense. Jesus said we should have a hell of a good time while we're here, and help others to have a good time while we're at it. Dogma has no place in the Christian life, because that was the very thing Jesus gave his life to protest.
I think that sounds exactly like the "for-fee" version of Napster we all hoped that the RIAA would support many years ago.
Sadly, the RIAA missed the boat on that one and in the process created a much larger, harder-core, set of people intent on acquiring free (as in gratis) music.
And with that "feature", you can just dump malware.dll in your home directory (which is the beginning of the Windoze $PATH) and auto-r00t your box in under 5 seconds...
Interesting, but even by your numbers the single biggest contributor to a drop in sales is decreased interest by the consuming public (45%). Shrinking retail space occurs because end-sellers have seen a shrinking demand for Product X and want to give Product Y (with more public demand) more shelf space. Competition from other media, again, points to decreased consumer demand; if the consumers wanted this particular product, it would squash the competition. Quality of music is, then, either the nexus or the largest contributor of the 45% drop.
We can haggle semantics all you want; it just depends on how you slice the numbers to support your theory.
My theory is that the Record Industry should have given Internet distribution MORE attention early on instead of just trying to crush it. The genie was out of the bottle before they were even aware of the bottle's existence and trying to stuff it back in will only continue to do harm to all parties concerned.
10% vs. 50%... I'll go with you there. However, as a shop owner I'd be more concerned with the 50% loss before I worried about the 10%.
And if the blank CD tariff goes to artists, that's all the more the better. I'd be positively THRILLED to pay, say, $25/month for access to the old Napster knowing that a portion of my money went into a fund directly supporting the various artists.
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What's that work out to in Euros?
Maybe, but future editions of the show "Cops" would be so much more exciting...
But not nearly as fast as some cheap fiberglass skirting and a handful of pseudo-kanji stickers all over the car...
There are also power-generation facilities that burn discarded tires to generate electricity.
I remember watching the re-release of Star Wars at the local drive-in theater in a convertible with the top down. The normal evening overcast (I'm on the US West Coast) formed a strange hole over the area through which I could see lots of stars and a rather bright Hale-Bopp.
That was a very intense evening, watching space-fantasy on the big screen and space-reality on the *really* big screen...
or even plate tectonics...
Always drinking your last beer...
You mean these?
You mean this Kevin Kline movie?
A list of a company's customers is very much indeed proprietary...
Yes, they will be allowed to refile because the prosecutors would be charging him with a separate and distinct crime (even if committed in the same act as the original charges), thereby avoiding Double-Jeopardy prevention from prosecution.
Like, duh.. anyone who watches Law & Order knows all about this...
Obligatory Spaceballs reference goes here...
ah, the old Indy... fun little machine. They were new when I was at SGI. We used to plug into each others' cameras and then send each other snapshots of whatever embarassing thing the other was doing at the moment.
I showed my manager how to use the camera, and then found he was using it to monitor our group. I logged into his system and replaced his camera output with mine, which pointed right back at him.
It was almost three weeks before he noticed he was staring at his own Ficus plants....
Bingo.
Although, with reference to your first paragraph, I believe if you look closely, Jesus wasn't saying "son of God" so much as "we are all part of God". It's too bad we only have one compendium of Jesus references (and it's been re-written through man-made political filters over the last 2000 years).
I hope we can shed ourselves of this psuedo-Puritan garbage one day and just get back to enjoying our time here.
In the meantime, here's a book you might enjoy.
I've used a modified version of that as a pick-up line...
"Hey baby, wanna see a demonstration of Archimedes' Principle?"
The problem being, the concept of "original sin" was built into Christianity by the early Catholics as a method to perpetuate their political hold on the masses.
Religion is the very first form of political science. "Do what I say, because I am the one who talks directly to God(s)!".
If you read between the lines, Jesus was actually promoting a personal relationship between people and God, instead of the "intercession" of the Pharisees (or the intercession of the Catholic priests). Jesus taught not that one should live a life of squalor, but that one should focus on quality of life and not material possessions (which are not necessarily mutually exclusive options). Jesus further taught that in order to fully maximize quality of life, one should seek to promote the quality of life of others around you ("Golden Rule").
All the rest of this "original sin" nonsense is purely that; nonsense. Jesus said we should have a hell of a good time while we're here, and help others to have a good time while we're at it. Dogma has no place in the Christian life, because that was the very thing Jesus gave his life to protest.
Is that you, Aristotle?
I think that sounds exactly like the "for-fee" version of Napster we all hoped that the RIAA would support many years ago.
Sadly, the RIAA missed the boat on that one and in the process created a much larger, harder-core, set of people intent on acquiring free (as in gratis) music.
DOH!
meant CWD instead of ~.. that'll teach me to use the (P)review button.
And with that "feature", you can just dump malware.dll in your home directory (which is the beginning of the Windoze $PATH) and auto-r00t your box in under 5 seconds...
He can't insert a ROBOTS.TXT file and can't seem to handle his passwd file, and he wants to sue Google for his ineptitude?
I hope they squash him and don't give him a plug-nickel in "settlement".
Kind of reminds me of a funny story regarding tulips that happened a few hundred years ago...
This one...
You see, Santa was overcome by some DNA-altering aliens who thought he was an arms smuggler because he carried NERF toys around and....
oh well.. read the comic. is it not nifty?
Interesting, but even by your numbers the single biggest contributor to a drop in sales is decreased interest by the consuming public (45%). Shrinking retail space occurs because end-sellers have seen a shrinking demand for Product X and want to give Product Y (with more public demand) more shelf space. Competition from other media, again, points to decreased consumer demand; if the consumers wanted this particular product, it would squash the competition. Quality of music is, then, either the nexus or the largest contributor of the 45% drop.
We can haggle semantics all you want; it just depends on how you slice the numbers to support your theory.
My theory is that the Record Industry should have given Internet distribution MORE attention early on instead of just trying to crush it. The genie was out of the bottle before they were even aware of the bottle's existence and trying to stuff it back in will only continue to do harm to all parties concerned.
10% vs. 50%... I'll go with you there. However, as a shop owner I'd be more concerned with the 50% loss before I worried about the 10%.
And if the blank CD tariff goes to artists, that's all the more the better. I'd be positively THRILLED to pay, say, $25/month for access to the old Napster knowing that a portion of my money went into a fund directly supporting the various artists.