Please add a rider prohibiting marketing, sales, and playing to and by persons over 30 years of age. I've been putting off an awful lot of chores. Besides, my thumbs are starting to hurt. Thanks.
Wow, you're right! I know this sounds lame, but I total missed that.
I've been an on-and-off subscriber - mostly on - for a long time now, and I've really enjoy exploring different artists and styles... but maybe I made a mistake using emusic.
Well, that sucks. I'm going to have to give this some thought.
Given your nick I doubt you care:) but thanks for the clue anyway.
If you only boycot the things that you already don't like, it isn't a boycott. That's called "not being a customer".
The message of a boycott is to say "Even though I like the product, even though I'm your target market, I hate what you're doing so much, I'll suffer to cause you pain".
Without that message, what are you saying? That you don't like them? That you don't respect them? They don't care if you like them! Unless you're willing to make it an ultimatum - change or else - they'll just tweak the product, the marketing, or the pricing until you give in.
Also, its a fallacy that huge numbers have to be involved. Remember, profits = revenue - expenses. The expenses are roughly the same for movies and music, regardless of numbers. So every dollar lost to revenue tends to directly effect profits. Turn off %10, even %5 and believe me they will feel it. Give that money to a non-offending vendor like Emusic (the one I use) and they'll feel it twice.
Don't be like us stupid Americans! Read some history!
Here, for example, is a collection of essays on the Wright Brothers from the U.S. Centennial of Flights Commission.
Especially good is "Things Are Looking Up", which tells how Orville proved himself to the skeptical French, and
Glenn Curtiss and the Wright Patent Battles, which detail how the Smithsonian and the AEA, a group founded by Alexader Graham Bell, tried to take the fruits of the Wrights' genius.
Actually, there are plenty other sites out there, since the first century of powered flight is coming to a close. Read them all! But don't dis the Wright brothers. Their remarkable accomplishments were just as hard-won as anyone's.
Your post makes the Wrights sound like big-city sharpies. "Hey, take a picture", said Orville. "That'll really put the screws to those Kiwies!"
The truth was quite different. Various big-money groups like the Smithsonian and the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA), a group founded by Alexander Graham Bell in 1907, tried hard to screw the Wrights, shy and naive mid-western boys, out of all their accomplishments deserved. You can read about it here.
But MAXXAM isn't the one who loses his/her job as a logger, as a supplier to loggers, feeding loggers, etc.
Basically, the eco-nut says to those people "you're practical concerns aren't nearly as important as my abstract beliefs". That makes it doubly infuriating when the eco-nuts themselves themselves violate those beliefs for their own convenience.
do we really need to cut down ancient redwood forests containing the tallest trees in the world?
Sure, it's always about the tallest, the cutest, the warm and cuddliest. Why not cut down the tallest, and spare some of the short young trees? Haven't the redwoods already had their day in the sun?
They had the very best politically-liberal thinkers alive, yet they can't make money? This is horrifying! Maybe we should each given them a percentage of our own income until they get past this crisis.
Despite all the comments about money and standing up for yourself, ali_bubba sounds to me more concerned about being a "kind" Christian person who does the right thing. Personally, I respect that.
Unfortunately, I'm old and cynical too, so here's some hard-earned advice - it isn't just about being helpful. For example, there are also questions of liability and risk. What if you go in, do some work, and then next week someone discovers a virus? A back door? a corrupt database? To a jury, somebody laid off and out of work for 5 months looks an awful lot like a disgrunted employee. Selfless motives can be tough to explain under cross-examination.
Of course, there are similar issues on the ex-boss's side. Unless she's the sole-proprietor, I suspect that she'd face some tough criticism if something went wrong after she let you in.
Now IANAL, but I do think that working for pay under a fair and equitable contract would give both sides a better story if something did go wrong: i.e., you wouldn't deliberately break anything - you need the money too much!
Seems a pair of brothers decide to strike it rich in the watermellon business. They rent a truck, go out into the country, buy a bunch of mellons at $12 a dozen. Then they drive back to the big city, setup a road-side stand, and start selling their mellons for $1 each.
In just a few hours they've emptied the whole truck, and are feeling pretty good about themselves. Then they count up their money. After a moment of stunned silence, the older brother slaps the younger up-side the head: "See? I told you we needed a bigger truck!"
Why is it that "scientists have done x over the Internet" is automatically newsworthy?
Because if they did it from adjacent rooms, someone would surely ask why didn't they just walk down the hallway.
Many people in this world find it vastly harder to generalize an abstract idea than to digest a specific concrete example. That doesn't make them stupid or anything - the world needs all types. I found that the Myers Briggs Type Indicator was very helpful in coming to terms with this.
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Please add a rider prohibiting marketing, sales, and playing to and by persons over 30 years of age. I've been putting off an awful lot of chores. Besides, my thumbs are starting to hurt. Thanks.
Compilers would keep complaining about a mistake you made twenty versions ago.
And debuggers would refuse to say anything except "If you don't know what's wrong, I'm not going to tell you!"
Just add paying rent, and you have to story of my life.
This will surely make the videogame industry say "No maus! no maus!"
Wouldn't that make them Mandrake Rooters?
I've been an on-and-off subscriber - mostly on - for a long time now, and I've really enjoy exploring different artists and styles... but maybe I made a mistake using emusic.
Well, that sucks. I'm going to have to give this some thought. Given your nick I doubt you care :) but thanks for the clue anyway.
Don't you mean how far you get per gallon?
The message of a boycott is to say "Even though I like the product, even though I'm your target market, I hate what you're doing so much, I'll suffer to cause you pain".
Without that message, what are you saying? That you don't like them? That you don't respect them? They don't care if you like them! Unless you're willing to make it an ultimatum - change or else - they'll just tweak the product, the marketing, or the pricing until you give in.
Also, its a fallacy that huge numbers have to be involved. Remember, profits = revenue - expenses. The expenses are roughly the same for movies and music, regardless of numbers. So every dollar lost to revenue tends to directly effect profits. Turn off %10, even %5 and believe me they will feel it. Give that money to a non-offending vendor like Emusic (the one I use) and they'll feel it twice.
Here, for example, is a collection of essays on the Wright Brothers from the U.S. Centennial of Flights Commission.
Especially good is "Things Are Looking Up", which tells how Orville proved himself to the skeptical French, and
Glenn Curtiss and the Wright Patent Battles, which detail how the Smithsonian and the AEA, a group founded by Alexader Graham Bell, tried to take the fruits of the Wrights' genius.
Actually, there are plenty other sites out there, since the first century of powered flight is coming to a close. Read them all! But don't dis the Wright brothers. Their remarkable accomplishments were just as hard-won as anyone's.
The truth was quite different. Various big-money groups like the Smithsonian and the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA), a group founded by Alexander Graham Bell in 1907, tried hard to screw the Wrights, shy and naive mid-western boys, out of all their accomplishments deserved. You can read about it here.
Basically, the eco-nut says to those people "you're practical concerns aren't nearly as important as my abstract beliefs". That makes it doubly infuriating when the eco-nuts themselves themselves violate those beliefs for their own convenience.
Sure, it's always about the tallest, the cutest, the warm and cuddliest. Why not cut down the tallest, and spare some of the short young trees? Haven't the redwoods already had their day in the sun?
Now if the Tin Man wants to heart, he can install a real one himself!
They had the very best politically-liberal thinkers alive, yet they can't make money? This is horrifying! Maybe we should each given them a percentage of our own income until they get past this crisis.
Forget 10 years. In a hundred years Bill Gates will remembered for this, and be considered one of the greatest humanitarians of all time.
"Me-sa like it. Me-sa good!"
Unfortunately, I'm old and cynical too, so here's some hard-earned advice - it isn't just about being helpful. For example, there are also questions of liability and risk. What if you go in, do some work, and then next week someone discovers a virus? A back door? a corrupt database? To a jury, somebody laid off and out of work for 5 months looks an awful lot like a disgrunted employee. Selfless motives can be tough to explain under cross-examination.
Of course, there are similar issues on the ex-boss's side. Unless she's the sole-proprietor, I suspect that she'd face some tough criticism if something went wrong after she let you in.
Now IANAL, but I do think that working for pay under a fair and equitable contract would give both sides a better story if something did go wrong: i.e., you wouldn't deliberately break anything - you need the money too much!
Seems a pair of brothers decide to strike it rich in the watermellon business. They rent a truck, go out into the country, buy a bunch of mellons at $12 a dozen. Then they drive back to the big city, setup a road-side stand, and start selling their mellons for $1 each.
In just a few hours they've emptied the whole truck, and are feeling pretty good about themselves. Then they count up their money. After a moment of stunned silence, the older brother slaps the younger up-side the head: "See? I told you we needed a bigger truck!"
"Porc Américain".
Of course, that's just a guess.
...or should that be "Foghorn? Rocks!"
I thought Sonic use rings, not coins....
Now whose nuts are numb, hmmm?
"What? A band?"
Royalty are so lucky. I have to drain myself.
Are you kidding? It'd make a great target!
Because if they did it from adjacent rooms, someone would surely ask why didn't they just walk down the hallway.
Many people in this world find it vastly harder to generalize an abstract idea than to digest a specific concrete example. That doesn't make them stupid or anything - the world needs all types. I found that the Myers Briggs Type Indicator was very helpful in coming to terms with this.