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  1. Re:Serious question on Canadian Music Stars Fight Against DRM · · Score: 2, Informative

    Public performing rights are a part of the publishing rights. Record companies do not generally hold those, but hold instead what are known as mechanical rights. You really have no idea what your talking about if you're contending that performance rights aren't a subset of the publisher's rights.

    Overwhelmingly, performance rights are covered by venues licensing repertory catalogs from publishers such as ASCAP. If you are in a band, and you do cover tunes at the local club, it's covered by such a blanket license that the club has taken out. Actually, you know so little about the subject that I think it's a stretch to say, "If you are in a band . . ." Let me start over. If you're drunk off your ass and mangling a song in a karaoke bar, it's covered by such a blanket license that the karaoke bar has taken out. Otherwise, you personally would probably owe the songwriter/publisher of the song you just destroyed (assuming they could even recognize it.

    I've had this explained to me on a number of occasions by people who work in entertainment law. I've tried to re-smart you by passing on the info, but if you insist on being retarded, that's your call.

  2. Re:Another Pre-Series Possibility on New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced · · Score: 1

    You're totally right, though. His scars work because they're part of that rugged tough guy thing. (Same thing with Mike Ironsides, an actor I haven't seen much of lately.)

    There's always room for a few rugged looking actors, but pretty boys seem to be the norm.

  3. Re:Stimulating on Deep Brain Stimulation as Depression Treatment · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wish it was as simple as that. It would sure beat what I have to do now, which is sprinkle a layer of espresso-grind coffee into my shoes, score the bottoms of my feet with a razor blade, and then tie my shoelaces really tight, so as not to leave a trail of blood after me.

    I think for what you're proposing, you'd need to attach some sort of reservoir for hot water on top of ones head, with a french press type plunger to force the caffeine past the blood/brain barrier.

  4. Re:Great idea, BUT... on New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they don't even have playsets and toys for the new series.

  5. Re:Steadicam? on New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh, please, noob mod. I was answering a question. Sheesh! What is the deal with the moderation this week? Why do they give mod points to the retarded?

  6. Re:Another Pre-Series Possibility on New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced · · Score: 1

    No, seriously, they're acne scars. I've got a few myself.

    I see that I got modded down. I guess some adolescent mod feels like I'm picking at him. I guess he's thin skinned and doesn't want matters brought to a head. A white head.

  7. Re:Smart Sci-Fi vs Idiot Plots on New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced · · Score: 4, Funny

    Every so often I read a slashdot comment that forces me to imagine it as if it were being spoken by the Comic Book Guy.

  8. Re:Product Placement, Anyone? on New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced · · Score: 3, Funny

    You think that BSG is bad? Did you see the Lord of the Rings? Product placement all over the place! Pipeweed this, pipeweed that. Sheeesh! It's a good thing not that many people saw Lord of the Rings, or we might be facing a sequel.

  9. Re:Great idea, BUT... on New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced · · Score: 1

    So, do the Cylons shoot first on the complete saga special edition DVD?

  10. Re:Rejected names on New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced · · Score: 1

    How could I forget The All-New Apollo and Scrappy-Doo Show ? Now, that would be a fine spin off.

  11. Re:Another Pre-Series Possibility on New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced · · Score: 2, Funny

    This could be a first: casting an actor with a severe acne problem. Seriously, have you seen Olmos's face?

  12. Re:Steadicam? on New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced · · Score: 3, Informative

    Adobe After Effects for one. You'll want to get the Pro version, I think, and use an image stabilization filter.

  13. Bogus Statistic on Most Web Users Unable to Spot Spyware · · Score: 1

    FTFA:

    According to the first-ever Spyware Quiz conducted by SiteAdvisor, a staggering 97% of Internet users are just one click away from infecting their PCs with spyware, adware or some other kind of unwanted software.

    If we accept this statistic, then we accept that the non-windows OSes share 3% of the market. OK, I know OS X and Linux each have a small market share, but they're splitting up 3%? I don't think so.

  14. Re:Great idea, BUT... on New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced · · Score: 1

    No, it's better this way. It would be much better to find out NOW, if Ron Moore is going to be the next Lucas, rather than wait for many years to have him destroy our childhood dreams.

  15. Re:If Ron Moore were to produce The Phone Book... on New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced · · Score: 5, Funny

    You say that now, but you haven't seen the episode where Starbuck flies her viper over a tank full of Space Sharks.

    Ooops! I forgot! SPOILER WARNING!! THE ABOVE IS A SPOILER!!! DON'T READ IT IF YOU HAVEN'T SEE THE EPISODE!!

  16. Rejected names on New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced · · Score: 4, Funny

    Boomer loves Chachi

    Col. Tigh's Place

    Laverne and Dualla

    Caprica City 90210

    A Different World

    Law and Order: Special Cylon Unit

  17. Re:Definitely not 0 profit... on IE The Great Microsoft Blunder? · · Score: 1

    No arguments from me on that one. I was just arguing with Pig against the absurd position that the marketplace was of supreme unimportance.

    The worldwide market, as currently constituted, is unsustainable. Something else will evolve (is evolving), although with how much pain and suffering this evolution will entail is a wide open question. A system wide crash is not beyond the realm of possibility, given the overall blindness of world policy makers.

  18. Re:That just shows on Canadian Music Stars Fight Against DRM · · Score: 1

    "My lavigne just isn't smelling. . . .well, fresh, if you know what I mean."

    "Oh, I had the same problem! Then I discovered Avril Lavigne. Now my lavigne has that April spring fresh smell! My boyfriend loves it so much I had to get him a lobster bib! And the neighbors cat has stopped following me around."

  19. Re:Serious question on Canadian Music Stars Fight Against DRM · · Score: 1

    Both you and the guy who modded you insightful are retarded, and I'm hoping this will help you get re-smarted.

    The right to perform is retained by the artist. It's called the publishing rights. The record company only owns the right to distribute the recorded music. An artist might sell their publishing rights (which is how Michael Jackson ended up with a 50% stake in the Beatles catalog), but recording companies don't usually buy these rights.

  20. A farewell to rightwing political ideologues on Canadian Music Stars Fight Against DRM · · Score: 1

    What does Rush Limbaugh, aka, "The Spirit of the Radio" (and the conscience of America) have to do with a fly-by-night group of Canadian recording artists?

    Sorry, couldn't think of a way to work 2112 into it.

  21. Re:Rar + Par + BitTorrent? on Open Source Moving in on the Data Storage World · · Score: 1

    Hint: It's voice would sound just like Jeff Goldblum.

  22. Re:Rar + Par + BitTorrent? on Open Source Moving in on the Data Storage World · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm trying to imagine RAR with a PAR head and BitTorrent wings.

  23. Re:Definitely not 0 profit... on IE The Great Microsoft Blunder? · · Score: 1

    No need to imagine. Judging by your posts, your existence is quite careless.

  24. Re:It's feasible if someone would adopt it on Low Emission Cars Continue to Gain Popularity · · Score: 1

    Hayes Diversified Technologies does diesel conversions of dual sport bikes (on/off road bikes) for the military. (Some will also run on aviation kerosene.) It's something I'm looking into, although I'd much prefer a cruiser style bike in the 500 - 800 cc range, along the lines of a Honda Shadow, Kawasaki Vulcan, or Suzuki Intruder.

    Right now, though, the money for diesel motorcycles is in military applications, not consumer use. I think the dual sports fit military needs much better.

    HDT does sell to the consumer, but currently all their production is being funneled into the military, so they have no bikes for sale to the public.

  25. I don't think you know what that word means. . . . on Open Source Moving in on the Data Storage World · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The data storage and backup world is one of stagnant technologies and cronyism.