I'm always amazed at Americans' endless paranoia about their government *doing* things. I assume that's what you get when your monolithic government repeatedly ignores you.
Canadians on the other hand, for the most part, have some faith in their government to do the right thing. A government's role isn't to just dole out money. If they don't act, what good are they for?
Actually, as a Canadian, I'm allowed to download copyrighted material because I've paid money to the copying levy--for the same reason I'm allowed to copy my friends' CDs.
So these torrents are actually preventing my *legal* download of copyrighted materials.
I switched to Dvorak when I was 19, spent about six years using it, developed carpal tunnel syndrome.
Now I'm fully aware that bad posture may have had a lot to do with it, but I found that with switching back to qwerty, forcing my fingers to move more and irregularly seems to ease the pain, whereas the little-movement dvorak system locks your hands into one uber-ultimate typing position.
There's a lot of talk about efficiency, but efficiency in typing isn't the fastest way to a happy life.
You obviously aren't aware of why CanCon exists in the first place.
The CanCon rules were put in because Canadian content providers were *not* presenting Canadian content at all. Canadian radio stations would *not* play Canadian music. And this has nothing to do with quality. There was no such thing as fair competition; radio producers would throw out demos without listening to them. Canadian musicians had no chance.
The only way that Canadian musicians could get popular in Canada is if they made it big in the States beforehand. Think of how many Canadian musicians you actually know of before the 1970s. Neil Young? Robby Robertson? Paul Anka? All of whom gained fame south of the border first.
So bitch all you want. But our content situation Would be in an even *worse* situation without CanCon.
Did it ever occur to the Fatback Band that having their riff in an updated track twenty years later might actually give them some renewed exposure?
Up until now I'd never actually heard of the group, and may have actually been tempted to check them out. But in light of this lawsuit thing I'm not going to dig them up, they can linger in musical obscurity for all I care.
Great. This just means that I can now play all those movies with broken/missing audio codecs on my DVD player.
Maybe they should sue the estate of Charles Shultz
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I remember seeing the word "google" in a Peanuts comic years ago referring to a huge number.
This strikes me that they actually have no claim to the word, except maybe under business circumstances (ie. I couldn't start a business or manufacture a product with the name Google.).
he pointed to the unfulfilled promise of such earlier digital-music revolutions as the musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) format.
... pardon me? What does he think people use to control their synths, software, automated mixing boards, video mixers...? MIDI may have its limitations but it is far from an unfulfilled promise.
I have to wonder, though, why they didn't go with firewire, or partner with Yamaha and make them M-Lan devices... Too many new "standards", that's what leads to unfulfilled promises.
People keep talking about the brilliant idea of value-added incentive to buy CDs.
While it's probably a good idea in the long-run to get people to buy MUSIC CDs because of their frills, anybody who needs incentive beyond THE MUSIC itself is buying MUSIC CDs for the wrong reason.
You want frills? Go to their goddamn website; that's what websites are for.
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I'm always amazed at Americans' endless paranoia about their government *doing* things. I assume that's what you get when your monolithic government repeatedly ignores you.
Canadians on the other hand, for the most part, have some faith in their government to do the right thing. A government's role isn't to just dole out money. If they don't act, what good are they for?
Actually, as a Canadian, I'm allowed to download copyrighted material because I've paid money to the copying levy--for the same reason I'm allowed to copy my friends' CDs.
So these torrents are actually preventing my *legal* download of copyrighted materials.
I switched to Dvorak when I was 19, spent about six years using it, developed carpal tunnel syndrome.
Now I'm fully aware that bad posture may have had a lot to do with it, but I found that with switching back to qwerty, forcing my fingers to move more and irregularly seems to ease the pain, whereas the little-movement dvorak system locks your hands into one uber-ultimate typing position.
There's a lot of talk about efficiency, but efficiency in typing isn't the fastest way to a happy life.
This Nintendo Boss doesn't scare me. A simple LRLRUDDUABBA-START will finish him.
You obviously aren't aware of why CanCon exists in the first place.
The CanCon rules were put in because Canadian content providers were *not* presenting Canadian content at all. Canadian radio stations would *not* play Canadian music. And this has nothing to do with quality. There was no such thing as fair competition; radio producers would throw out demos without listening to them. Canadian musicians had no chance.
The only way that Canadian musicians could get popular in Canada is if they made it big in the States beforehand. Think of how many Canadian musicians you actually know of before the 1970s. Neil Young? Robby Robertson? Paul Anka? All of whom gained fame south of the border first.
So bitch all you want. But our content situation Would be in an even *worse* situation without CanCon.
Alright, who's been having sex with gorillas?
After watching the video I really really want to play air hockey on this thing.
...is any indication it will more likely say:
"U have just won! 2 claim your prize forward this message 2 *everyone* in your contact list!
This is 4 real, no joke. If u don't do this MSN will stop being free!!"
What the hell is "uniquely American" about handwriting?
Finally, Johnny-5 is coming alive!
Did it ever occur to the Fatback Band that having their riff in an updated track twenty years later might actually give them some renewed exposure?
Up until now I'd never actually heard of the group, and may have actually been tempted to check them out. But in light of this lawsuit thing I'm not going to dig them up, they can linger in musical obscurity for all I care.
But I don't say "hoos".
Whatever happened to "paid your debt to society"?
Great. This just means that I can now play all those movies with broken/missing audio codecs on my DVD player.
I remember seeing the word "google" in a Peanuts comic years ago referring to a huge number. This strikes me that they actually have no claim to the word, except maybe under business circumstances (ie. I couldn't start a business or manufacture a product with the name Google.).
By legislating standards by which fair-use impaired proudcts are created, aren't we then giving fair-use impaired products our blessing?
... pardon me? What does he think people use to control their synths, software, automated mixing boards, video mixers...? MIDI may have its limitations but it is far from an unfulfilled promise.
I have to wonder, though, why they didn't go with firewire, or partner with Yamaha and make them M-Lan devices... Too many new "standards", that's what leads to unfulfilled promises.
I'm involved with a group known as The United Empire Loyalist Orchestra that put on two *live* shows in Ottawa under similar premises.
The first was a 24 hour drone show. No notes except D and its octaves. For 24 hours. And it was done.
The second show was a three hour version of O Canada, followed by a 48 second version. And if you want any idea of how it was done, here's the score.
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It's a shame that Phoenix Technologies invented the word first.
Can they sue the ancient Greeks for trademark infringement? I'll bet there's big money in that.
So are they disseminating the gains of the lawsuit among those of us who've bought CDs?
People keep talking about the brilliant idea of value-added incentive to buy CDs.
While it's probably a good idea in the long-run to get people to buy MUSIC CDs because of their frills, anybody who needs incentive beyond THE MUSIC itself is buying MUSIC CDs for the wrong reason.
You want frills? Go to their goddamn website; that's what websites are for.
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