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  1. Re:False assumptions from gatekeepers on David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy · · Score: 1

    That is your choice, and I think nothing of value would be lost. So much music is being produced and already has been produced that there really is no problem with the level of production going down.

    It would probably be good for the remaining performers as well.

  2. Re:False assumptions from gatekeepers on David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy · · Score: 1

    I would agree with that view, do you not?

    Using that information to steal from me or to commit fraud by impersonating me to get a loan would of course still be illegal and immoral.

  3. Re:False assumptions from gatekeepers on David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nice, I got a mod down because you disagree with me but were too cowardly to respond.

    I should add, I actually do buy music from amazon mp3. I have not copied music or movies since college, but that is only because it is illegal to do so not that it is immoral to do so. I also support the repeal of copyright.

  4. Re:False assumptions from gatekeepers on David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy · · Score: 1, Troll

    You can setup your taco stand on a copy of my property all you like. Like it or not many people disagree that music can even be property. I am one of those folks.

    You can try to tell me, and yes I can ignore you. Using the law to keep your outdated economic model working is far more immoral than me copying your music.

  5. Re:No Child Left Behind Sucks. on U.S. Students Struggle With Reasoning Skills · · Score: 1

    I am not suggesting standardized test are bad. I am merely explaining that people will tend to focus on the things they are being measured doing.

  6. Re:Legal copying? on David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy · · Score: 1

    The ease and scale of the automobile mean I can no longer make money breeding horses. I guess we should tax cars and give me that money for my horse breeding.

  7. Re:In a world... on David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy · · Score: 1

    Why do you have some right to make a living off of music?

    If enough people want to play at a venue that the value of the venue exceeds the value of the performance, then this makes perfect sense.

  8. Re:False assumptions from gatekeepers on David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy · · Score: 0

    I disagree, if you don't want me to do anything I want with your song do not record it.

    You have no reasonable expectation that I give a tinkers damn about your wishes. Copying cheaply does not diminish the market value for your song, it sets it.

    There is no shortage of music being produced, nor would the total end of copyright even do that.

  9. Re:No Child Left Behind Sucks. on U.S. Students Struggle With Reasoning Skills · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why did that surprise you?
    Teachers are doing a job. If that job is evaluated based on standardized tests, they will make sure that job is done well.

    Do you not work for income? Would you not focus on the parts of your job that are actually evaluated?

  10. Re:well damn on US Consumer Bureau Opens Online Credit Card Complaint DB · · Score: 1

    Just pay it in full each month. Then you never pay the interest no matter what it is.

  11. Re:Obviously... on RIM Manufacturing Partner Pulls the Plug On BlackBerry Phones · · Score: 2

    That was pretty much how it worked. Making it worse for them they had some outages on their servers which made all blackberries in the country useless and IT depts left to angry users that they could do nothing about this.

    RIM should have made ActiveSync an option on the devices. At least that way when people turned off their BES end users might still buy the devices.

  12. Re:Neat cover ... on Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet · · Score: 1

    Yes, my phone is 1280x720. I would expect more than doubling the size to increase the resolution by more than tens of pixels each way.

  13. Re:Neat cover ... on Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet · · Score: 0

    That is because even the 4S is too low a resolution to look really good. Check out a 1280x720 android phone one time. Hopefully apple will correct this issue with the iPhone5.

  14. Re:Obviously... on RIM Manufacturing Partner Pulls the Plug On BlackBerry Phones · · Score: 1

    RIM was used to being able to do that, ActiveSync was their first real competition.

  15. Re:fast frame more "real" than theater 3D on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 2, Informative

    What was the point of that?
    The universe is a 3D projection of a 2D surface? How does that impact those of us who are not stoned enough to think up that sort of bullshit?

  16. Re:fast frame more "real" than theater 3D on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 1

    Why are we doing this bullshit 48fps though?
    Why not 120fps or more?

    At 48fps it will still jitter when they pan quickly.

  17. Re:Obviously... on RIM Manufacturing Partner Pulls the Plug On BlackBerry Phones · · Score: 4, Informative

    Truth be told, it was MS who killed RIM. ActiveSync, the mobile syncing software used in Exchange and several other commercial mail servers, made BES unnecessary for a lot of companies. I know at my company only devices with ActiveSync support are used. We shut down our BES over a year ago and were glad to see it go.

    RIM should have had ActiveSync on BB devices as soon as it started to be popular, instead they kept wanting that BES licensing money and it led to their own demise.

  18. Re:RIM's got a 100-year supply anyway on RIM Manufacturing Partner Pulls the Plug On BlackBerry Phones · · Score: 2, Funny

    I bet they won't even sell all 100 devices in that time.

  19. Re:it requires a contract but... on The $45 Windows Laptop · · Score: 1

    Not for such an outdated device. Lots of those are free to good homes.

  20. Re:Broken business model. on Monsanto May Have To Repay 10 Years of GM Soya Royalties In Brazil · · Score: 1

    Your theory is provably wrong. These lazy government researchers were the ones who started even what Monsanto does today. They were the only ones doing this in the past. Today they do not for political reasons.

    You should read less Rand and more history.

  21. Re:Finally on FCC Revisiting Mobile Device Radiation Standards · · Score: 1

    You are forgetting that 7 watts is many times the power that a cell phone puts out.

  22. Re:What sort of radiation? on FCC Revisiting Mobile Device Radiation Standards · · Score: 1

    Do you have a link or any evidence for this claim?

  23. Re:Non-ionizing radiation on FCC Revisiting Mobile Device Radiation Standards · · Score: 1

    I will stand in front of it though. The power levels between a microwave and cell phone are quite different.

  24. Re:Broken business model. on Monsanto May Have To Repay 10 Years of GM Soya Royalties In Brazil · · Score: 1

    So Monsanto are they only people that could do that?

    In the past seed lines were created by government agriculture programs I see no reason why that could not be the case today.

    Brazil could continue to use these products without paying, when you have your own country you can do stuff like that.

  25. Re:Remove the yoke of Monsanto! on Monsanto May Have To Repay 10 Years of GM Soya Royalties In Brazil · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why should the farmers pay for seed that Monsanto freely pollinated? No one forced Monsanto to let their plants spread that genetic material. They could require their growers to keep their plants only indoors.

    Farmers should be able to sue Monsanto for contaminating their fields if anything.