I hate to admit it, but I do like the ads on Hulu a bit. They seem a lot more experimental than most that you'll see on TV. It's a nice change, to me anyway.
If you don't know the difference, I doubt knowing the right phrase for it will ever matter in a life and death situation.
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Great link. The geek in me of course loved seeing:
Linus Torvalds, the original creator of Linux (a popular operating system kernel), was once bitten by a Little Penguin while on holiday in Australia. Reportedly, this encounter encouraged Torvalds to select Tux as the official Linux mascot.[12]
Fuck me. After those first few posts/. went full circle there, I think.
They saw my email address in the.txt file I included about the download, and gave out links to the torrent on message boards. It's not difficult to find someone when they posted the link to it.
I'm not sure TPB's top 100 is a good list to track distribution of independent and net-savvy bands either way...
It's not. 100 out of how many torrents? 10,000? 50,000? 250,000 torrents? Can we ever really know.
The point was that recordings that could otherwise easily be lost are preserved 50 times instead of once. Imagine if through the history of humans we had a chance to have 30 to 250 times the number of archivists just because of an internet service.
Some may abuse it, but there's a valid cultural reason to allow public trackers. I can't afford to host one.
So you don't think a sponsor of a band has a right to earn money if they provide valid services to the band? Nobody has a right to make a profit?
Should everything be free? Or do you just not believe that any companies should be for-profit?
I didn't say he has a right to ask a court to change the rules, I said he has a right to change the rules if he can find customers under a "better" business model. Why does that make me work for the RIAA or Disney?
He has a right to make a profit, but my guess is he's not using P2P methods correctly. Few bands have, that I've seen.
I worked for a number of bands (as much as getting paid in merch, beer, and free admission can count as work) to "bootleg" their shows and distribute them to fans. Many of these shows ended up backlogged, and undistributed until P2P made it easier than taking CD-R's (burned on a 2x burner, back in the day) to the post office.
Some labels said hell no, and didn't let me record their bands. The smart ones realized it was an added bonus for their fans, and that people who liked that they heard ended up buying the music.
Major labels still haven't learned this lesson 12 or 13 years after I started helping smaller bands do this.
I could be wrong, but my experiences indicate otherwise.
Exactly right, IMO. I've shared music of bands that have been defunct for 5-10 years, and get a bunch of downloads. I've ended up talking to some of these downloaders, and they typically buy whatever they can, but there's not much.
TPB may not list them in the top 100, but I'm helping clear merch for bands that don't even play anymore. It also turns people on to the bands they're now in, since I try to mention those as well.
Yeah, there's a lot of pirates, but there's also good uses for P2P that may technically break copyright. In most cases I can't find the people with the copyrights, in others they just don't care anymore.
P2P seems to be one of the best ways to archive music in multiple sites that exists. Many of the recordings I've shared are masters, and nobody but me had a copy until P2P. I like to think that they're much more likely to survive with 50 people having digital copies than one.
Because the police aren't 100% effective they're not worth having at all then? Because schools aren't mentioned they aren't paid for? Roads are entirely paid for by gas and postal taxes? Are you sure people that don't own cars don't get mail? The fees for airplanes and mail supposedly cover all costs of transporting mail, including sidewalks, parking, sorting facilities, roads, etc?
To be insensitive, what value do they add as a user? Are they going to spend $1 on some product advertised on my site?
Isn't the Internet in many ways fractured into the free parts and not free? What difference does a 1/4 cent fee really make for me, advertisers, or anyone else who makes it work?
At the same time, for a number of Portland businesses this could create an extra headache. Anyone with cross-border customers could be effected. I just was talking to a business associate about this, and most of his customers are in WA, OR or CA. He has no system in place to calculate taxes since he's based in OR, and as a small business the costs of charging tax to his WA and CA customers would be crippling.
I'd almost prefer it's seller-based, it would be great for Portland based businesses at least.
Roads to get the product there, maybe some of the costs of the airport that it landed at, the police protection to make sure it actually gets to your house, the education of the staff that handle delivering it to you, etc.
Oddly enough the article you cited explains that the phrase "to crap" existed before his inventions. Further reading indicates it came from crappe, a "grain that was trodden underfoot in a barn, chaff." (c.1440)
From here it looks a lot like MS had plans for a $25 million dollar bridge and then "upgraded" to a $36 million dollar bridge when they saw the stimulus money...
It's a WADOT project, not MS. But please, your blathering makes me giggle. Continue.
Would the bridge make the list of projects if Microsoft weren't involved? No?
Because there wouldn't be the 50% they put up for it. If 58% of the traffic is non-Microsoft, why does it matter if it's only there because it's paid for? They're using it.
What about the ISP hosting for you? Google has assets there, if you host on Blogspot for example. This can affect users outside the UK, because as TFA notes this allows ISP's to be sued if they don't remove offending items as well.
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I hate to admit it, but I do like the ads on Hulu a bit. They seem a lot more experimental than most that you'll see on TV. It's a nice change, to me anyway.
If you don't know the difference, I doubt knowing the right phrase for it will ever matter in a life and death situation.
Great link. The geek in me of course loved seeing:
Linus Torvalds, the original creator of Linux (a popular operating system kernel), was once bitten by a Little Penguin while on holiday in Australia. Reportedly, this encounter encouraged Torvalds to select Tux as the official Linux mascot.[12]
Fuck me. After those first few posts /. went full circle there, I think.
They saw my email address in the .txt file I included about the download, and gave out links to the torrent on message boards. It's not difficult to find someone when they posted the link to it.
Fair enough, I didn't read it that way at first, but it makes sense.
I'm not sure TPB's top 100 is a good list to track distribution of independent and net-savvy bands either way...
It's not. 100 out of how many torrents? 10,000? 50,000? 250,000 torrents? Can we ever really know.
The point was that recordings that could otherwise easily be lost are preserved 50 times instead of once. Imagine if through the history of humans we had a chance to have 30 to 250 times the number of archivists just because of an internet service.
Some may abuse it, but there's a valid cultural reason to allow public trackers. I can't afford to host one.
So you don't think a sponsor of a band has a right to earn money if they provide valid services to the band? Nobody has a right to make a profit?
Should everything be free? Or do you just not believe that any companies should be for-profit?
I didn't say he has a right to ask a court to change the rules, I said he has a right to change the rules if he can find customers under a "better" business model. Why does that make me work for the RIAA or Disney?
He has a right to make a profit, but my guess is he's not using P2P methods correctly. Few bands have, that I've seen.
I worked for a number of bands (as much as getting paid in merch, beer, and free admission can count as work) to "bootleg" their shows and distribute them to fans. Many of these shows ended up backlogged, and undistributed until P2P made it easier than taking CD-R's (burned on a 2x burner, back in the day) to the post office.
Some labels said hell no, and didn't let me record their bands. The smart ones realized it was an added bonus for their fans, and that people who liked that they heard ended up buying the music.
Major labels still haven't learned this lesson 12 or 13 years after I started helping smaller bands do this.
I could be wrong, but my experiences indicate otherwise.
Exactly right, IMO. I've shared music of bands that have been defunct for 5-10 years, and get a bunch of downloads. I've ended up talking to some of these downloaders, and they typically buy whatever they can, but there's not much.
TPB may not list them in the top 100, but I'm helping clear merch for bands that don't even play anymore. It also turns people on to the bands they're now in, since I try to mention those as well.
Yeah, there's a lot of pirates, but there's also good uses for P2P that may technically break copyright. In most cases I can't find the people with the copyrights, in others they just don't care anymore.
P2P seems to be one of the best ways to archive music in multiple sites that exists. Many of the recordings I've shared are masters, and nobody but me had a copy until P2P. I like to think that they're much more likely to survive with 50 people having digital copies than one.
Because the police aren't 100% effective they're not worth having at all then? Because schools aren't mentioned they aren't paid for? Roads are entirely paid for by gas and postal taxes? Are you sure people that don't own cars don't get mail? The fees for airplanes and mail supposedly cover all costs of transporting mail, including sidewalks, parking, sorting facilities, roads, etc?
Really?
To be insensitive, what value do they add as a user? Are they going to spend $1 on some product advertised on my site?
Isn't the Internet in many ways fractured into the free parts and not free? What difference does a 1/4 cent fee really make for me, advertisers, or anyone else who makes it work?
At the same time, for a number of Portland businesses this could create an extra headache. Anyone with cross-border customers could be effected. I just was talking to a business associate about this, and most of his customers are in WA, OR or CA. He has no system in place to calculate taxes since he's based in OR, and as a small business the costs of charging tax to his WA and CA customers would be crippling.
I'd almost prefer it's seller-based, it would be great for Portland based businesses at least.
Roads to get the product there, maybe some of the costs of the airport that it landed at, the police protection to make sure it actually gets to your house, the education of the staff that handle delivering it to you, etc.
Just saying...
Oddly enough the article you cited explains that the phrase "to crap" existed before his inventions. Further reading indicates it came from crappe, a "grain that was trodden underfoot in a barn, chaff." (c.1440)
See also: http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1110793.html
Kansas might not need the coast's wind.
And because 9/11 scared people, America should just throw away the Constitution. We're safer that way.
That wasn't built over an existing freeway that requires minimal lane-closure, for example.
From here it looks a lot like MS had plans for a $25 million dollar bridge and then "upgraded" to a $36 million dollar bridge when they saw the stimulus money...
It's a WADOT project, not MS. But please, your blathering makes me giggle. Continue.
Would the bridge make the list of projects if Microsoft weren't involved? No?
Because there wouldn't be the 50% they put up for it. If 58% of the traffic is non-Microsoft, why does it matter if it's only there because it's paid for? They're using it.
Is that a new /. achievement?
I guess we'll see...
The ACLU lawsuit argues the photographs in which the girls appear are not pornographic and should be protected under the First Amendment.
It's exactly that. Thank you First Amendment, once again.
I thought this would be about an anonymous blogger outing a politician.
Those doing it typically aren't those who are likely to reproduce anyway. That may disqualify the natural selection aspect, I would think.
What about the ISP hosting for you? Google has assets there, if you host on Blogspot for example. This can affect users outside the UK, because as TFA notes this allows ISP's to be sued if they don't remove offending items as well.