At one point, I had purchased a marketing book only to find that a new version had come out right at the beginning of the semester....
They weren't even trying to be creative with the fact that they were screwing the students. Everyone knew this to be the case and accepted it. I think that I was the only person who was upset by this obvious racket.
You didn't do so well in that marketing class, did you?
Out of curiosity, did you ever happen to listen to the Telarc 1812 Overture? This was one of the earlist digital recordings, but was set to vinyl. The cannon blasts were said to leave pieces of woofer all over the living room floor.
Nah. It just shot the tonearm off the record. Never could make it all the way through that one without a stack of pennies to weigh it down.
Ask your local police department if you need to subscribe to phone service to dial 911. In many locations you'll still get a dial tone if your phone service has been disconnected. In those cases, you can usually only dial 2 phone numbers: the local phone company (to set up service) or 911.
It's absolutely free for me to listen to voicemail. I am not willing to use text messaging until it's free. In fact, I have my provider block all incoming texts since I'm unwilling to pay a single penny (definitely not $0.20) for them. Data plans on the phone are too expensive, so I can't check my email from my phone.
I want the reverse: I want to call my voicemail and have it READ me my email.
The parents will get sick of this pretty quickly, and she will find herself without a phone.
Nope. Nowadays, the parents would more likely say there was no way their little angel would do anything the way they were describing. Then they would sue the school district for confiscating the child's personal property.
I'm serious about this. Parents these days are complete idiots (for the most part).
In order to make a profit they had to sell large high-priced cars.
Nope. The way they chose to make a profit was to sell large high-priced cars.
When gas is cheap, many people don't care if their cars are gas guzzlers. So the crowd that wants SUVs bought them. The rest of us bought reliable small, fuel-efficient, foreign cars since there really was no domestic alternative.
Gas makes it's way to $4+/gallon and everyone wants to jump on the fuel-efficient car bandwagon, and no one was left on the gas-guzzing-who-cares bandwagon. If American car makers had designed cars to fit the fuel-efficient market alongside the SUV market, they would have still been able to make profit. They ignored one market; foreign manufacturers didn't. Toyota still made the Tundra while it made the Corolla. The American assembly line workers would have been perfectly happy to make a car that would sell, but they can only make the cars in the quantities the company decided to have them make.
The execs and designers made a bad business decision. Good thing that the execs don't need a labor union to ensure they get reasonable health insurance and retirement benefits! Heck, if the company wouldn't provide those kind of benefits, they'd just get a job as an executive for Sears or Georgia-Pacific, or any other big corporation since business execs usually don't know shit about the businesses they run and are completely replaceable by another business exec idiot! Lets just screw all the stupid laborers 'cuz labor unions are evil!
Another design problem is reliability. Read the Consumer Reports car guide from the last several years. Each year, they print a paragraph lamenting the absence of many/any American cars on their "reliable used car" list. If that paragraph hasn't been pasted on the wall in the board rooms of all the American car manufacturers for years, they are obviously idiots. If the company fatcats haven't been asking themselves every day of every year of the last decade "why can't we design a reliable vehicle?" they deserve to be forced to live on zero pay while they pay their hard-working factory workers out of their sold personal assets.
Or, better, they should be forced to work 60-hour weeks in the assembly lines. You know, without "luxuries" like health insurance.
Your $55/month is for *at least* extended basic cable (e.g. CNN, A&E, etc.)
You can get basic cable for much less, with pretty much just the OTA stations.
Why would anyone pay the cable company to just get OTA stations?? Maybe if you lived in such a rural place that you don't get good OTA signal, but nowadays that's really a minority. I think if people are paying for *cable TV* they expect to get *cable* channels. Thus, the $55/month figure is perfectly realistic.
For what it's worth, the local cableco here is heavily advertising its "basic cable" package--just the OTA channels--as an alternative to buying a digital antenna box before February. $15(?)/month for "basic" cable vs $10-20 per TV (after gov't coupon) one-time-payment. Except for the most remote parts of this region, everyone gets great OTA signal. Looks like they are banking on a lot of idiots.
I generally don't eat at McDonald's. But every few years I give it a try since it's an American institution, couldn't possibly still be as bad as I remember, blah blah, etc.
A few times I've tried the double cheeseburger. Neither of the two beef patties taste like beef and the cheese does not resemble cheese to me either. One time, I actually vomited after eating it. Consistent? Yes! Consistently nauseating.
I've had some McDonald's chicken sandwiches that were passable as food. The last chicken nuggets I consumed were palatable. McDonald's fries are actually quite tasty, but not so much so that I'm going to visit just for fries.
For around $1, you can get a much tastier burger-genre meal at Burger King or Wendy's.
The US is one of the few nations in the world where radio stations do not pay musicians performance royalties for the music they broadcast over terrestrial radio. Some other countries where musicians are in the same boat include Iran, North Korea, and China.
Remember: for every rich-bitch starlet and multi-millionaire pop star on the records you hear, there are thousands of dedicated working musicians, background singers, etc. who are passionate about their art/craft/profession and aren't making a reasonable living. The few aforementioned stars manage to make fortunes, as do the radio execs who don't have to pay for the music they broadcast.
Many foreign radio companies also won't pay American musicians royalties since our radio stations don't pay their artists when we play their music.
So to answer all this, it's OK because it's a loophole in US copyright law.
Sometimes a commercial break is just the right amount of time to get off the couch and grab a frosty beverage, use the toilet, etc. Maybe even enough time to have a short conversation with the family about the program we're watching. Commercials are usually placed at strategic places during the show that make them perfect for a short break. Just because I'm not skipping through the commercials doesn't mean I'm actually watching the advertisements. I can always turn down the volume a bit during the loud commercials.
I think most folks with DVRs bought them for the time-shifting feature first; ad-skipping... maybe second.
For what it's worth, my grandparents don't have DVRs and they all mute the television during commercials. And they usually don't un-mute it until at least 30 seconds after the show is back on. Television producers take note: don't have anything important to the plot happen just after a commercial break if your target age group is seniors; it just confuses them.
The point of being a musician, or another kind of artist, is to share the art, not to make a profit. There's nothing wrong with expecting to make some money off of it, but that should not be the focus.
I see this kind of language about artistic professions all the time and it disturbs me a bit. It implies that there are other professions where it's okay to have profit as the primary focus, while art should not.
The point of being a doctor is to improve the health of others.
The point of selling insurance is to help others avoid burdensome expenses of unexpected circumstances.
The point of being a lawyer is to use one's depth of knowledge of the law to fairly represent someone in a trial.
The point of running a retail store is to provide customer service that leads a customer to useful or enjoyable products.
The point of being a real estate agent is to lead a person, family, or business to properties that suit their needs and budget.
The point of being a banker is to safeguard people's savings in exchange for providing loans to other people who need them.
etc.
All of these professions, including the artists you mentioned, also desire to make a wage great enough to support themselves and their families. Anyone in any profession who isn't making a reasonable wage would (hopefully) seek other employment.
The members of Metallica, however, doubtlessly had no problem living quite comfortably both before and after Napster, and surely continue to live comfortably while other methods of file sharing continue operating.
I'm not, however, condoning the copying and free redistribution of an anyone's music; I believe musicians should be paid a fair price for their art. Hopefully bands like Radiohead, NIN, and maybe now Metallica have found a way to be compensated for recorded music that maximizes both legal distribution and profit.
Interesting. If you don't mind the public prodding, what foods taste best to you? It's well noted that, for most people, good-tasting food is actually a combination of taste and smell. For you, the smell bias is eliminated.
but how long do you think it will take for "standard" DVDs to go the way of the LaserDisc? As long as HD-DVD and Blu-Ray disc players also support playback of standard DVDs, a very long time.
Ok, maybe not specifically in the resume, but the company I work for asks for a list a references. Included in the same sentence, it says something like "please list any other names (nicknames, maiden name) by which references may remember you." If this really not normal? If a recently married woman Mary Jones is applying for jobs and a potential employer is checking references and all they get is "Mary Jones? We've never had a Mary Jones work for us!" it's a bad thing when they might have remembered Mary Smith. Similarly if James Smith is looking for a job, but if previous employers always called him Lee Smith because he previously used his middle name since there were five guys named James at that job already.
It's relatively standard practice to list any aliases you have used on a resume. That way an employer can check references better if you previously used your maiden name, or everyone in a previous job knew you as "Spike." So yes, list your online handles/nicknames/etc. near the top of the resume with your standard personal info.
Surely not buying a washing machine would be more efficent too, just do your dishes in the sink.
No. A full load in the dishwasher actually uses less resources than doing dishes by hand. And the dishwasher will actually clean and disinfect the dishes properly, whereas most people doing dishes by hand won't actually kill all the bacteria while using at least twice as much water.
In my area, Cox sends all the broadcast network channels in unencrypted QAM (if it's available OTA, it's available unencrypted QAM). Does Time Warner send HD versions of "expanded basic" cable channels (e.g. Discovery HD) as unencrypted QAM too??
Just like "real doctors do for the health of humanity." [sic]
Professional musicians, just like everyone else, do what they do because they are good enough at it to make a living doing it. Some professions are lucky enough to allow people to believe they are making a difference to society.
(The argument about who gets to decide which musicians are truly "good enough at it to make a living" is another argument altogether.)
It probably doesn't prevent myopia, but it might aid in keeping the severity of presbyopia at bay. At any rate, it probably can't hurt to keep the eye's ciliary muscles exercised.
I think the participle fucking quite succinctly and accurately described the combination of amazement and frustration the author of the post intended to convey. It really is a useful word that can express complex emotion concisely: truly in the spirit of Strunk & White's rule 13.
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At one point, I had purchased a marketing book only to find that a new version had come out right at the beginning of the semester. ...
They weren't even trying to be creative with the fact that they were screwing the students. Everyone knew this to be the case and accepted it. I think that I was the only person who was upset by this obvious racket.
You didn't do so well in that marketing class, did you?
Out of curiosity, did you ever happen to listen to the Telarc 1812 Overture? This was one of the earlist digital recordings, but was set to vinyl. The cannon blasts were said to leave pieces of woofer all over the living room floor.
Nah. It just shot the tonearm off the record. Never could make it all the way through that one without a stack of pennies to weigh it down.
I want to watch the show on my primary flatscreen TV using my remote, durnit, not on the laptop messing about with a mouse.
If your video card has a secondary output, you're ready to go.
1. Download Hulu Desktop.
2. Run an HDMI cable from the second output of your video card to your TV.
3. Get a media center remote for the computer.
Done.
Ask your local police department if you need to subscribe to phone service to dial 911. In many locations you'll still get a dial tone if your phone service has been disconnected. In those cases, you can usually only dial 2 phone numbers: the local phone company (to set up service) or 911.
If you want the technology to improve, donate your speech!.
It's absolutely free for me to listen to voicemail. I am not willing to use text messaging until it's free. In fact, I have my provider block all incoming texts since I'm unwilling to pay a single penny (definitely not $0.20) for them. Data plans on the phone are too expensive, so I can't check my email from my phone.
I want the reverse: I want to call my voicemail and have it READ me my email.
The parents will get sick of this pretty quickly, and she will find herself without a phone.
Nope. Nowadays, the parents would more likely say there was no way their little angel would do anything the way they were describing. Then they would sue the school district for confiscating the child's personal property.
I'm serious about this. Parents these days are complete idiots (for the most part).
Many of us could survive without high-speed internet, but many others require such a service to remain competitive in our chosen professions.
Maybe not critical to all, but certainly critical to some.
In order to make a profit they had to sell large high-priced cars.
Nope. The way they chose to make a profit was to sell large high-priced cars.
When gas is cheap, many people don't care if their cars are gas guzzlers. So the crowd that wants SUVs bought them. The rest of us bought reliable small, fuel-efficient, foreign cars since there really was no domestic alternative.
Gas makes it's way to $4+/gallon and everyone wants to jump on the fuel-efficient car bandwagon, and no one was left on the gas-guzzing-who-cares bandwagon. If American car makers had designed cars to fit the fuel-efficient market alongside the SUV market, they would have still been able to make profit. They ignored one market; foreign manufacturers didn't. Toyota still made the Tundra while it made the Corolla. The American assembly line workers would have been perfectly happy to make a car that would sell, but they can only make the cars in the quantities the company decided to have them make.
The execs and designers made a bad business decision. Good thing that the execs don't need a labor union to ensure they get reasonable health insurance and retirement benefits! Heck, if the company wouldn't provide those kind of benefits, they'd just get a job as an executive for Sears or Georgia-Pacific, or any other big corporation since business execs usually don't know shit about the businesses they run and are completely replaceable by another business exec idiot! Lets just screw all the stupid laborers 'cuz labor unions are evil!
Another design problem is reliability. Read the Consumer Reports car guide from the last several years. Each year, they print a paragraph lamenting the absence of many/any American cars on their "reliable used car" list. If that paragraph hasn't been pasted on the wall in the board rooms of all the American car manufacturers for years, they are obviously idiots. If the company fatcats haven't been asking themselves every day of every year of the last decade "why can't we design a reliable vehicle?" they deserve to be forced to live on zero pay while they pay their hard-working factory workers out of their sold personal assets.
Or, better, they should be forced to work 60-hour weeks in the assembly lines. You know, without "luxuries" like health insurance.
Your $55/month is for *at least* extended basic cable (e.g. CNN, A&E, etc.)
You can get basic cable for much less, with pretty much just the OTA stations.
Why would anyone pay the cable company to just get OTA stations?? Maybe if you lived in such a rural place that you don't get good OTA signal, but nowadays that's really a minority. I think if people are paying for *cable TV* they expect to get *cable* channels. Thus, the $55/month figure is perfectly realistic.
For what it's worth, the local cableco here is heavily advertising its "basic cable" package--just the OTA channels--as an alternative to buying a digital antenna box before February. $15(?)/month for "basic" cable vs $10-20 per TV (after gov't coupon) one-time-payment. Except for the most remote parts of this region, everyone gets great OTA signal. Looks like they are banking on a lot of idiots.
I disagree.
I generally don't eat at McDonald's. But every few years I give it a try since it's an American institution, couldn't possibly still be as bad as I remember, blah blah, etc.
A few times I've tried the double cheeseburger. Neither of the two beef patties taste like beef and the cheese does not resemble cheese to me either. One time, I actually vomited after eating it. Consistent? Yes! Consistently nauseating.
I've had some McDonald's chicken sandwiches that were passable as food. The last chicken nuggets I consumed were palatable. McDonald's fries are actually quite tasty, but not so much so that I'm going to visit just for fries.
For around $1, you can get a much tastier burger-genre meal at Burger King or Wendy's.
...it always makes me feel like I forgot something, as if I walked out of the bathroom without flushing or something.
Don't worry. Having worked plenty of retail, a large number of customers don't flush either.
Now don't get me started on hand-washing....
The US is one of the few nations in the world where radio stations do not pay musicians performance royalties for the music they broadcast over terrestrial radio. Some other countries where musicians are in the same boat include Iran, North Korea, and China.
Remember: for every rich-bitch starlet and multi-millionaire pop star on the records you hear, there are thousands of dedicated working musicians, background singers, etc. who are passionate about their art/craft/profession and aren't making a reasonable living. The few aforementioned stars manage to make fortunes, as do the radio execs who don't have to pay for the music they broadcast.
Many foreign radio companies also won't pay American musicians royalties since our radio stations don't pay their artists when we play their music.
So to answer all this, it's OK because it's a loophole in US copyright law.
Sometimes a commercial break is just the right amount of time to get off the couch and grab a frosty beverage, use the toilet, etc. Maybe even enough time to have a short conversation with the family about the program we're watching. Commercials are usually placed at strategic places during the show that make them perfect for a short break. Just because I'm not skipping through the commercials doesn't mean I'm actually watching the advertisements. I can always turn down the volume a bit during the loud commercials.
I think most folks with DVRs bought them for the time-shifting feature first; ad-skipping... maybe second.
For what it's worth, my grandparents don't have DVRs and they all mute the television during commercials. And they usually don't un-mute it until at least 30 seconds after the show is back on. Television producers take note: don't have anything important to the plot happen just after a commercial break if your target age group is seniors; it just confuses them.
The point of being a musician, or another kind of artist, is to share the art, not to make a profit. There's nothing wrong with expecting to make some money off of it, but that should not be the focus.
I see this kind of language about artistic professions all the time and it disturbs me a bit. It implies that there are other professions where it's okay to have profit as the primary focus, while art should not.
All of these professions, including the artists you mentioned, also desire to make a wage great enough to support themselves and their families. Anyone in any profession who isn't making a reasonable wage would (hopefully) seek other employment.
The members of Metallica, however, doubtlessly had no problem living quite comfortably both before and after Napster, and surely continue to live comfortably while other methods of file sharing continue operating.
I'm not, however, condoning the copying and free redistribution of an anyone's music; I believe musicians should be paid a fair price for their art. Hopefully bands like Radiohead, NIN, and maybe now Metallica have found a way to be compensated for recorded music that maximizes both legal distribution and profit.
Interesting. If you don't mind the public prodding, what foods taste best to you? It's well noted that, for most people, good-tasting food is actually a combination of taste and smell. For you, the smell bias is eliminated.
What happens when the zygote later divides, to form identical twins? Does God intervene and inject a new soul into the womb?
Nope. One out of every set of twins doesn't have a soul. Everybody knows that.
Ok, maybe not specifically in the resume, but the company I work for asks for a list a references. Included in the same sentence, it says something like "please list any other names (nicknames, maiden name) by which references may remember you." If this really not normal? If a recently married woman Mary Jones is applying for jobs and a potential employer is checking references and all they get is "Mary Jones? We've never had a Mary Jones work for us!" it's a bad thing when they might have remembered Mary Smith. Similarly if James Smith is looking for a job, but if previous employers always called him Lee Smith because he previously used his middle name since there were five guys named James at that job already.
It's relatively standard practice to list any aliases you have used on a resume. That way an employer can check references better if you previously used your maiden name, or everyone in a previous job knew you as "Spike." So yes, list your online handles/nicknames/etc. near the top of the resume with your standard personal info.
No. A full load in the dishwasher actually uses less resources than doing dishes by hand. And the dishwasher will actually clean and disinfect the dishes properly, whereas most people doing dishes by hand won't actually kill all the bacteria while using at least twice as much water.
In my area, Cox sends all the broadcast network channels in unencrypted QAM (if it's available OTA, it's available unencrypted QAM). Does Time Warner send HD versions of "expanded basic" cable channels (e.g. Discovery HD) as unencrypted QAM too??
Just like "real doctors do for the health of humanity." [sic]
Professional musicians, just like everyone else, do what they do because they are good enough at it to make a living doing it. Some professions are lucky enough to allow people to believe they are making a difference to society.
(The argument about who gets to decide which musicians are truly "good enough at it to make a living" is another argument altogether.)
It probably doesn't prevent myopia, but it might aid in keeping the severity of presbyopia at bay. At any rate, it probably can't hurt to keep the eye's ciliary muscles exercised.
I think the participle fucking quite succinctly and accurately described the combination of amazement and frustration the author of the post intended to convey. It really is a useful word that can express complex emotion concisely: truly in the spirit of Strunk & White's rule 13.