Asking "why" presupposes a reason and in a lot of cases there isn't one...
Not sure that is true. A valid, and reasonable, answer to the question of "why are we here" might well be "because we are", or "Just lucky, I guess!", or "to get loaded and have a good time". There certainly doesn't have to be an answer favourable to "religion" (eg "to better ourselves", or "to do good things to others", etc), which is sometimes what spooks the religous about the possibility that we are just here "because"!
It's also perhaps worth noting that for the small cost of £500 he has got national coverage for himself, and a poke in the eye for the Government who let this, and other sensitive data, slip out by colossal ineptitude!
He managed, for the paltry sum of £500, to raise his profile, give people a laugh, and hopefully put another nail in the coffin for the current government, who I'm sure would rather people just forgot about the whole sorry affair!
Of course, he might just have been a bit of a muppet - again!
ET is more interesting to you until a very near relatives comes up with a serious illness like Cancer, AIDS...
Some poster mentioned it earlier: If you priorities is to spend youd budget on the best way to save lives then research into Cancer or AIDS isn't the best place to put it, even within the medical research field. There are other diseases that kill far more people but get far less research dollars than Cancer/AIDS already! The money goes into areas where the research companies think there will be the best return on the investment!
That said, it is a fallacy to suggest that SETI might also result in a cure for all known ills by finding the aliens who already have the cures! Again, from another poster, the best thing SETI could do is offer a wake-up call to the religiously infatuated, perhaps providing some coffee flavoured smelling salts at the same time.
FWIW, I used to run SETI, before and after BOINC. I also ran a number of other BOINC clients, including:- SETI, Folding, Climate Prediction, Einstein searching for gravitational waves, LHC helping with the Large Hadron Collider, Predictor trying to predict protein structure from protein sequences, QMC, Rosetta, Stardust,
yada yada yada
but removed it a year or so back as it did seem to get in the way rather too often.
BOINC was just too clunky. Why did you have to register individually with each BOINC project, be given yet another HUGE number, have to search for the interesting projects yourself. BOINC should have taken care of the registration once, then offered a drop-down of active projects. Selecting something interesting would do all the install stuff for you and allow you to control the shares from the Client - currently (or at least when I left it) if you wanted to alter the share of one particular project got you had to go to each Project's website rather than just set it within the client. Just clunky!
Anyway, I moved on, but I'd have to say I'm sort of interested again and may fire up SETI again for a while to see how things have progressed since I last offered some cycles!
Yer... I can see all that, but if you spend your day frowning at people and basically being miserable you are gonna hate your job and tomorrow will be worse as you spiral down into, well, into a Border Guard!
If you decided to be happy... be nice to the people, etc, you'd be happier, more likely as not, the people in the queue/line would be happier too - what about a "Hope you didn't have to queue for too long", "Sorry about the wait, but 3 full Super-Jumbos landed at once"... something to break the ice. That's what I'd do if I had to do that job - and was allowed to, of course!
Years back I was over in North America on a holiday from the UK and coming back into the US from Canada the border guard looked at my photo, then at me, and putting his arm up to cover the top of his head he said "please do this sir"... all straight faced and everything. So I did and he checked the photo, then looked at me again.. said OK, welcome to America, and off I went. Totally phased by it, puzzled I moved on. It dawned on me later that my passport photo actually cut off the top of my head and he was just pissing about!
Subsequent visits to the US suggest he may be the one good apple in the barrel, however.
Why does being a border guard mean you can't have a laugh with the travellers? Surely, being pleasent doesn't preclude doing the job, indeed it may just put people sufficiently at ease to make them slip up and reveal their bad intentions?
... or you could live in a free society where you don't have to carry any form of ID with you, like the UK. At least, at the moment you don't have to. If the current Gov. get their way though, we'll have to start carrying ID soon, but don't be surprised if they vote some amendment to mean MPs don't have to carry them - much like MPs still get a final salary pension, MPs don't have to show us their accounts (except in Scotland of course!)!
I'd say Talent is in the eye of the beholder... er ear of the, er, beerholder?
Anyway, if you can produce something to a reasonable standard in your bedroom recording studio you may be able to find yourself a market, which may lead to bigger and better things. Look at what Sellaband are up to. Unsigned Artists register and put up three songs and try and attract Believers (don't panic about the religious overtones of the terminology - the company's Dutch!). A Believer can pre-buy your next CD for $10 (USD) and once $50000 (USD) is raised they company put you in a top studio with top producers, etc. 5000 Limited Edition (numbered) CDs are produced and each $10 Part recieves a copy of the Ltd Ed CD. Regular CDs are also cut and sold through the website, also now through Amazon UK, various bricks & mortar stores in Holland (still a new venture so still spreading their wings). There are also 3 songs for free download (DRM free high quality mp3), and the other songs from the album for download for 50 cents (US). Other stuff, including a Video that has had airplay on MTV Europe, available from the Artists as they see fit.
Revenue from sales of the regular CD, downloads, and Advertising from page hits is then split equally 1/3 to Sellaband, 1/3 to the Artist and 1/3 spread equally amongst the 5000 Believers - actually, so far there hasn't been an Artist with 5000 Believers as many buy way more than one Part each, as this gives you a bigger share of the Believer's third. You can also elect to only recieve some of the leCDs which saves postage (extra money for the Artist to record with) and Sellaband sells the leCDs giving you $11 back (10%) when they are sold. Each Believer has their own shop of Artists they have Parts in, and selling through your own shop gains you a little commission too.
Sellaband hands back the ownership of the recordings to the Artist after 1 year, with the CDs, etc, being sold through the site for 2 years - the Artists can elect to stay with Sellaband for further years, return for a second/subsequent CD, etc...
If this works it could well be a real music revolution - "Music Industry 2.0" - where the listeners are the indicators of what is good enough to make the $50K and get into the studio.
Personally, no I wouldn't. My hackles raise just at the phrase "be ID'ed"! I know the anti-ID/Tinfoil Hat people bandy about the phrase "Police State" way too much, but that just reminds me of WWII movies and, I'm sorry, but I just don't want to live in a society like that! In any case, if they ID you and let you on your way then you obviously haven't done anything to bad anyway, and a verbal warning would likely suffice (certainly in the good old UK with our much maligned local bobbies).
IMHO, if you've done something that warrents a Police Officer insisting on your ID then you should be taken to the local nick anyway - actually, in the UK you can just tell the office yer name and they can already check that that is a real name of a real person living at a specified address, so no need to carry a card - I guess if they already have all yer details what's the problem with an ID Card I hear you say! Well, if they already have all yer details why spend the HUGE amount of money to make everyone carry one is my response!
I agree with you that efforts can be made to make an ID Card more difficult to forge, but if it isn't impossible, IMHO, they are worthless, or more likely worse than worthless.
From one end of the scale of bribing an official for a personalized copy, to manufacturing your own good enough copy, there is simply no way to make the system foolproof (for some value of fool).
I'd have to say I love the concept of ID built into the pulp of the paper - now that is something I'd not heard of and would definately mean the forgers will have to raise their game, but that's what forgers do. What's to stop the forgers getting hold of the same technology and cloning the paper too? Sure, it makes it more difficult/expensive to produce an undetectable forgery, but as technology improves it becomes cheaper! The "Catch Me If You Can" chap from the US spent a bit of time looking into the plans for the UK ID Card (by the sound of it way less impressive than your ideas) and said he'd be surprised if the genuine ones would come to market before the forgeries!
... and really, what do you, as a citizen who is footing the bill, gain? For us in the UK where we currently don't have to carry anything, it's lose-lose! I guess if you live in a country where you already have to carry ID, have to carry your driving licence if you're driving, etc, etc, then a single card to cover them all may be of benefit, but at what cost?
... that would reduce the clutter in my wallet by integrating, for example, driver license, ID card, medical assistance etc.
Ah, you see here in the UK you only need to carry money! You had already been done the slippery slope of having to carry some form of ID, or indeed forms of ID, so getting them all onto one card would indeed seem like a good idea. We don't have to carry our driving licence, even if we are driving. We don't need to carry any ID at all, at the moment. This means we are far less likely to lose what ID we do sometimes carry, eg if we are going to the bank or something.
So, for us, going from not having to carry anything to having to carry an ID card around seems like a big step, and a big step in the wrong direction! Why should I have to be able to prove who I am? If I've done something wrong they'll take me to a Police station and they can sort out my identity there, at their leisure - the onus would be on me to convince them of my identity. If I have an accident while driving, or am caught for speeding (by a human, which is really unlikely in the camera-mad UK!), you get a producer where you have a few days to take your driving licence and some form of ID to the Police station. That's worked for countless years and it if ain't broke, don't fix it. Worse than that, if it ain't broke certainly don't spend billions of pounds fixing it!
Good luck with coming up with an ID card that isn't easily forged! I think easily forged means different things to different people. To the man on the street it may mean can I just pop it into a scanner/photo copier and copy that sucker but to people who actively want to forge them it just means is it possible to forge. Worse than that, is it possible to make a good enough forgery?
If there's only one place that makes them you can still bribe someone (or some group) to get a copy - you simply cannot guarentee that an ID card is a real ID card!
If ID Cards cannot be 100% guarenteed as unforgeable, and the associated data cannot be guarenteed as 100% secure, then they are basically useless at best, and even more dangerous than no ID card at worst because the muppets who are employed to check ID Cards will accept them as bona fide ID without question - the point being that if you have to ask questions or ask to see another form of ID then what is the point of the ID Card in the first place!
... they wanted strong guarantees that sensitive information on the card could only be read by authorized government personnel, that those personnel would only have access to the portions that they were suppose to read, and that the back-end databases had fine-grained access control and detailed and indestructible audit trails....
For me, this is, in a nut shell, the problem. You simply cannot guarentee security. Look at the muppets in the UK Government handing out details from various secure systems to one and all on CDs because it was cheaper than sending it recorded delivery! I ask you... how can anyone gaurentee security when the offices of such a scheme will undoubtable be staffed with mouth-breathers like that!
If you can accept that total security is impossible, you can take the next logical step to the ID theives. Once they can produce an ID card with your name but their bio-information (picture, finger prints, etc), they haven't just stolen your identity, they are, ipso-facto, you! It's no longer a case of poor you, someone cloned your identity but HALT! - who are you? Why are you trying to access this other person's bank account? Prove it.... er... here's my ID card... yer - right!
Without guarenteed security, you should have to provide something else to back up your ID card, at which point we are no better off, and it won't stop any of the things the Goverment are claiming it will stop - Benefit Fraud: a large percentage (over 60%) of benefit fraud is people over-claiming for real issues and an ID card won't stop that. Terrorism: Spain has ID cards and they had the Madrid Train Bombers. US 9/11 terrorists booked their air tickets with their real names.... so it won't help the Gov with any of their stated aims, and they must know that, so why are they still pushing for it? It's for control, or back handers from the companies who are going to make a mint from it!
It's just a HUGE cost with no benefit for the common man who will be footing the bill!
I suspect that "space" is indeed sufficiently non-vacuum to allow sound to travel, thereby meaning that in space you could indeed hear a scream, but I wonder if it is sufficiently non-vacuum to allow a human to scream - ie is there enough gas to allow a human to generate a sound? If you still had some air in your lungs you might be able to scream, but the pressure differential might just make you go red mist. You would always be able to use sign language to scream, of course.
Perhaps the tag line could be rephrased thus:-
"In space, you would probably not be able to generate a scream, but if you did, people sufficiently close might be able to hear you, but you could definately "sign" a scream, meaning anyone sufficiently close, and looking in your direction, could interpret your scream if they understood the varient of sign language you were using".
Hmmmm. Perhaps more accurate, but not quite as snappy methinks.
It's funny how many people are reticent about signing up to any website these days because of the myriad of scam artists out there, but in this case it really isn't a scam.
There's free, and perhaps more importantly - DRM-free, music to be downloaded, although you do need to register to download. This has been a bit of a thorn for Sellaband because for every download they have to pay the local "music rights" company, so they don't want the same person downloading more than once!
As a "believer", you get a share of the sales and ad revenue generated by the free downloaders. You're not going to be able to give up work for a few years yet, but it should end up paying for your Ltd Edition CDs after the two years period is over.
The article didn't have a direct link to the Sellaband Shop, or more importantly, to my own Believer Shop where I get a extra commission on top of my 1/5000th or 1/3 share per Part I own in the Artist.
There's over 5000 artists on the site from countries all around the world singing if styles ranging from Heavy Rock to Jazz, so there should really be something for everyone.
And as you can see from my sig, one of my mates is on Sellaband and is currently just under $21000 - so nearly half way. He's playing in Brixton in a few weeks too, and I can't wait!
Hey... you use trained pilots to take off/land on an airstrip or carrier, some trainee pilots to fly aircraft to the "hot zone" where a combat/dog fight pilot takes over. When that plane is shot down or needs refueling/more ammo, he hands it back to the trainee who has just brought another fueled and loaded plane to the area and they swap! Trainee takes tired plane back for someone else to land...
I kinda like it! Specialist bombing pilots do a bombing run and hand over to fighter pilots to get out of the area.
Perhaps more interesting might be the question of why bother having a see-through canopy on the cockpit at all? Wouldn't the plane be stronger/more aerodynamic, & therefore faster, if it didn't have the clear canopy?
... indeed. So much so that our mini-aircraft carriers, and by mini think roughly as long as a US one is wide;-), had a "ski ramp" affair at one end which help throw the harriers into the air in Short Take Off mode. Saved a HUGE amount of fuel. They would typically hover alongside the carrier, then shuffle sideways onto the deck to land though - a bit like a large bluebottle landing on a turd!
Our new carriers will apparently be "full size" ones though, which is nice.
Both are correct and mean the same. Compare with 'cleave'.
Could care less
This indicates a situation where the 'carer' could actually care less, ie, to some degree, they care. This certainly isn't saying they care a lot, by any means, but they do care.
Couldn't care less
Now, this time the 'carer' would be unable to care less about whatever it is. They 'care' the least possible amount it is possible to care - indeed, they DON'T CARE. At all. No caring. Care free. The answer to the question "Do they care?" would be a resounding "NO!".
Whilst I can see that stress may make the MS symptoms worse, that doesn't stop what the GGP said being true. If she's guilty of something then she should be tried, regardless of whether she has a medical condition that might be exacerbated by the process. Now, once she is found innocent she could presumably use the MS issue as a means to increase the damages due.
You clearly know absolutely nothing about the mastering process for music, or any media for that matter...
DOH! Got me! OK, so (some) format changes may require re-mastering to take advantage of, or mask flaws in, the new medium. I'm guessing this doesn't involve getting the Artists back into the studio though, right? I'm guessing that such a re-mastering process is pretty well known for whichever target medium? Still really doesn't validate the extra cost! You rightly pull me up on my lack of knowledge, and suggest my statements were clueless, but don't really offer any information to back up your unstated claim. How much does it cost to re-master? How does that compare to the initial cost of the first pressing (on whatever medium)? Just how much are they screwing us, and do we need to bend over more to make it easier for them?
Other replies talk about them also in their rights to charge whatever us numpties are willing to pay. That's true, and is probably why it would appear that CD prices are coming down, which is a good thing, and is perhaps Market Forces doing their thang at last!
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Not sure that is true. A valid, and reasonable, answer to the question of "why are we here" might well be "because we are", or "Just lucky, I guess!", or "to get loaded and have a good time". There certainly doesn't have to be an answer favourable to "religion" (eg "to better ourselves", or "to do good things to others", etc), which is sometimes what spooks the religous about the possibility that we are just here "because"!
He managed, for the paltry sum of £500, to raise his profile, give people a laugh, and hopefully put another nail in the coffin for the current government, who I'm sure would rather people just forgot about the whole sorry affair!
Of course, he might just have been a bit of a muppet - again!
[cough]Windows Geniune Advantage[cough]
Some poster mentioned it earlier: If you priorities is to spend youd budget on the best way to save lives then research into Cancer or AIDS isn't the best place to put it, even within the medical research field. There are other diseases that kill far more people but get far less research dollars than Cancer/AIDS already! The money goes into areas where the research companies think there will be the best return on the investment!
That said, it is a fallacy to suggest that SETI might also result in a cure for all known ills by finding the aliens who already have the cures! Again, from another poster, the best thing SETI could do is offer a wake-up call to the religiously infatuated, perhaps providing some coffee flavoured smelling salts at the same time.
FWIW, I used to run SETI, before and after BOINC. I also ran a number of other BOINC clients, including:-
SETI,
Folding,
Climate Prediction,
Einstein searching for gravitational waves,
LHC helping with the Large Hadron Collider,
Predictor trying to predict protein structure from protein sequences,
QMC,
Rosetta,
Stardust,
yada yada yada
but removed it a year or so back as it did seem to get in the way rather too often.
BOINC was just too clunky. Why did you have to register individually with each BOINC project, be given yet another HUGE number, have to search for the interesting projects yourself. BOINC should have taken care of the registration once, then offered a drop-down of active projects. Selecting something interesting would do all the install stuff for you and allow you to control the shares from the Client - currently (or at least when I left it) if you wanted to alter the share of one particular project got you had to go to each Project's website rather than just set it within the client. Just clunky!
Anyway, I moved on, but I'd have to say I'm sort of interested again and may fire up SETI again for a while to see how things have progressed since I last offered some cycles!
If you decided to be happy ... be nice to the people, etc, you'd be happier, more likely as not, the people in the queue/line would be happier too - what about a "Hope you didn't have to queue for too long", "Sorry about the wait, but 3 full Super-Jumbos landed at once" ... something to break the ice. That's what I'd do if I had to do that job - and was allowed to, of course!
Subsequent visits to the US suggest he may be the one good apple in the barrel, however.
Why does being a border guard mean you can't have a laugh with the travellers? Surely, being pleasent doesn't preclude doing the job, indeed it may just put people sufficiently at ease to make them slip up and reveal their bad intentions?
Or maybe "The Star Spangled Banner"?
Anyway, if you can produce something to a reasonable standard in your bedroom recording studio you may be able to find yourself a market, which may lead to bigger and better things. Look at what Sellaband are up to. Unsigned Artists register and put up three songs and try and attract Believers (don't panic about the religious overtones of the terminology - the company's Dutch!). A Believer can pre-buy your next CD for $10 (USD) and once $50000 (USD) is raised they company put you in a top studio with top producers, etc. 5000 Limited Edition (numbered) CDs are produced and each $10 Part recieves a copy of the Ltd Ed CD. Regular CDs are also cut and sold through the website, also now through Amazon UK, various bricks & mortar stores in Holland (still a new venture so still spreading their wings). There are also 3 songs for free download (DRM free high quality mp3), and the other songs from the album for download for 50 cents (US). Other stuff, including a Video that has had airplay on MTV Europe, available from the Artists as they see fit.
Revenue from sales of the regular CD, downloads, and Advertising from page hits is then split equally 1/3 to Sellaband, 1/3 to the Artist and 1/3 spread equally amongst the 5000 Believers - actually, so far there hasn't been an Artist with 5000 Believers as many buy way more than one Part each, as this gives you a bigger share of the Believer's third. You can also elect to only recieve some of the leCDs which saves postage (extra money for the Artist to record with) and Sellaband sells the leCDs giving you $11 back (10%) when they are sold. Each Believer has their own shop of Artists they have Parts in, and selling through your own shop gains you a little commission too.
Sellaband hands back the ownership of the recordings to the Artist after 1 year, with the CDs, etc, being sold through the site for 2 years - the Artists can elect to stay with Sellaband for further years, return for a second/subsequent CD, etc ...
So far, 12 Artists have made the $50K, with 3 albums out, and 1 single. There are over 6000 Artists on the site so far, each with 3 songs you can listen to from a huge variety of genres - some of which I like and some of which I don't!
If this works it could well be a real music revolution - "Music Industry 2.0" - where the listeners are the indicators of what is good enough to make the $50K and get into the studio.
Personally, no I wouldn't. My hackles raise just at the phrase "be ID'ed"! I know the anti-ID/Tinfoil Hat people bandy about the phrase "Police State" way too much, but that just reminds me of WWII movies and, I'm sorry, but I just don't want to live in a society like that! In any case, if they ID you and let you on your way then you obviously haven't done anything to bad anyway, and a verbal warning would likely suffice (certainly in the good old UK with our much maligned local bobbies).
IMHO, if you've done something that warrents a Police Officer insisting on your ID then you should be taken to the local nick anyway - actually, in the UK you can just tell the office yer name and they can already check that that is a real name of a real person living at a specified address, so no need to carry a card - I guess if they already have all yer details what's the problem with an ID Card I hear you say! Well, if they already have all yer details why spend the HUGE amount of money to make everyone carry one is my response!
I agree with you that efforts can be made to make an ID Card more difficult to forge, but if it isn't impossible, IMHO, they are worthless, or more likely worse than worthless.
From one end of the scale of bribing an official for a personalized copy, to manufacturing your own good enough copy, there is simply no way to make the system foolproof (for some value of fool).
I'd have to say I love the concept of ID built into the pulp of the paper - now that is something I'd not heard of and would definately mean the forgers will have to raise their game, but that's what forgers do. What's to stop the forgers getting hold of the same technology and cloning the paper too? Sure, it makes it more difficult/expensive to produce an undetectable forgery, but as technology improves it becomes cheaper! The "Catch Me If You Can" chap from the US spent a bit of time looking into the plans for the UK ID Card (by the sound of it way less impressive than your ideas) and said he'd be surprised if the genuine ones would come to market before the forgeries!
Ah, you see here in the UK you only need to carry money! You had already been done the slippery slope of having to carry some form of ID, or indeed forms of ID, so getting them all onto one card would indeed seem like a good idea. We don't have to carry our driving licence, even if we are driving. We don't need to carry any ID at all, at the moment. This means we are far less likely to lose what ID we do sometimes carry, eg if we are going to the bank or something.
So, for us, going from not having to carry anything to having to carry an ID card around seems like a big step, and a big step in the wrong direction! Why should I have to be able to prove who I am? If I've done something wrong they'll take me to a Police station and they can sort out my identity there, at their leisure - the onus would be on me to convince them of my identity. If I have an accident while driving, or am caught for speeding (by a human, which is really unlikely in the camera-mad UK!), you get a producer where you have a few days to take your driving licence and some form of ID to the Police station. That's worked for countless years and it if ain't broke, don't fix it. Worse than that, if it ain't broke certainly don't spend billions of pounds fixing it!
Good luck with coming up with an ID card that isn't easily forged! I think easily forged means different things to different people. To the man on the street it may mean can I just pop it into a scanner/photo copier and copy that sucker but to people who actively want to forge them it just means is it possible to forge. Worse than that, is it possible to make a good enough forgery?
If there's only one place that makes them you can still bribe someone (or some group) to get a copy - you simply cannot guarentee that an ID card is a real ID card!
If ID Cards cannot be 100% guarenteed as unforgeable, and the associated data cannot be guarenteed as 100% secure, then they are basically useless at best, and even more dangerous than no ID card at worst because the muppets who are employed to check ID Cards will accept them as bona fide ID without question - the point being that if you have to ask questions or ask to see another form of ID then what is the point of the ID Card in the first place!
For me, this is, in a nut shell, the problem. You simply cannot guarentee security. Look at the muppets in the UK Government handing out details from various secure systems to one and all on CDs because it was cheaper than sending it recorded delivery! I ask you ... how can anyone gaurentee security when the offices of such a scheme will undoubtable be staffed with mouth-breathers like that!
If you can accept that total security is impossible, you can take the next logical step to the ID theives. Once they can produce an ID card with your name but their bio-information (picture, finger prints, etc), they haven't just stolen your identity, they are, ipso-facto, you! It's no longer a case of poor you, someone cloned your identity but HALT! - who are you? Why are you trying to access this other person's bank account? Prove it .... er ... here's my ID card ... yer - right!
Without guarenteed security, you should have to provide something else to back up your ID card, at which point we are no better off, and it won't stop any of the things the Goverment are claiming it will stop - Benefit Fraud: a large percentage (over 60%) of benefit fraud is people over-claiming for real issues and an ID card won't stop that. Terrorism: Spain has ID cards and they had the Madrid Train Bombers. US 9/11 terrorists booked their air tickets with their real names. ... so it won't help the Gov with any of their stated aims, and they must know that, so why are they still pushing for it? It's for control, or back handers from the companies who are going to make a mint from it!
It's just a HUGE cost with no benefit for the common man who will be footing the bill!
Just Say No
Perhaps the tag line could be rephrased thus :-
"In space, you would probably not be able to generate a scream, but if you did, people sufficiently close might be able to hear you, but you could definately "sign" a scream, meaning anyone sufficiently close, and looking in your direction, could interpret your scream if they understood the varient of sign language you were using".
Hmmmm. Perhaps more accurate, but not quite as snappy methinks.
I'm guessing you actually meant a much higher population density.
There's free, and perhaps more importantly - DRM-free, music to be downloaded, although you do need to register to download. This has been a bit of a thorn for Sellaband because for every download they have to pay the local "music rights" company, so they don't want the same person downloading more than once!
As a "believer", you get a share of the sales and ad revenue generated by the free downloaders. You're not going to be able to give up work for a few years yet, but it should end up paying for your Ltd Edition CDs after the two years period is over.
The article didn't have a direct link to the Sellaband Shop, or more importantly, to my own Believer Shop where I get a extra commission on top of my 1/5000th or 1/3 share per Part I own in the Artist.
There's over 5000 artists on the site from countries all around the world singing if styles ranging from Heavy Rock to Jazz, so there should really be something for everyone.
And as you can see from my sig, one of my mates is on Sellaband and is currently just under $21000 - so nearly half way. He's playing in Brixton in a few weeks too, and I can't wait!
Hey ... you use trained pilots to take off/land on an airstrip or carrier, some trainee pilots to fly aircraft to the "hot zone" where a combat/dog fight pilot takes over. When that plane is shot down or needs refueling/more ammo, he hands it back to the trainee who has just brought another fueled and loaded plane to the area and they swap! Trainee takes tired plane back for someone else to land ...
I kinda like it! Specialist bombing pilots do a bombing run and hand over to fighter pilots to get out of the area.
Nice.
Our new carriers will apparently be "full size" ones though, which is nice.
If this is also true, then it could also be used to help drive up any damages due!
Could care less
This indicates a situation where the 'carer' could actually care less, ie, to some degree, they care. This certainly isn't saying they care a lot, by any means, but they do care.
Couldn't care less
Now, this time the 'carer' would be unable to care less about whatever it is. They 'care' the least possible amount it is possible to care - indeed, they DON'T CARE. At all. No caring. Care free. The answer to the question "Do they care?" would be a resounding "NO!".
Hope that helps.
Won't somebody think it was Children!
DOH! Got me! OK, so (some) format changes may require re-mastering to take advantage of, or mask flaws in, the new medium. I'm guessing this doesn't involve getting the Artists back into the studio though, right? I'm guessing that such a re-mastering process is pretty well known for whichever target medium? Still really doesn't validate the extra cost! You rightly pull me up on my lack of knowledge, and suggest my statements were clueless, but don't really offer any information to back up your unstated claim. How much does it cost to re-master? How does that compare to the initial cost of the first pressing (on whatever medium)? Just how much are they screwing us, and do we need to bend over more to make it easier for them?
Other replies talk about them also in their rights to charge whatever us numpties are willing to pay. That's true, and is probably why it would appear that CD prices are coming down, which is a good thing, and is perhaps Market Forces doing their thang at last!