The majority of the state wants a recall. If that's the case, there should be another election, where davis is allowed to run. The scenerio that is set up makes it possible for the new governor to have less than 10% of the popular support. What to stop another recall then? Face it the law is poorly written and unfair.
It all comes down to, where do you draw the line between negligence and bad luck. I often times leave my doors unlocked to my car if nothing is in it, and I'm just running inside the house for a minute. Am I negligent? What if I lock the car, but don't turn on the alarm?
It's unfair because if 51% of the people vote to recall Davis, then the person with the most votes wins. Davis isn't able to be on the ballot. So lets say arnold has the most votes with 30%. That means that 49% voted for Davis, but he looses to arnold. That isn't fair.
It is possible to cut the brake lines so that fluid leaks, and your brakes go out mid-drive. But lets use an even better example. Lets say someone steals your car. You left it unlocked. This person runs over 3 kids. He gets away and leaves no trace. Are you guilty of a crime?
I do think we have a little too much regulation in certain areas (drugs, tobacco, and alchohol are my pet peeves). However, I have to disagree about guns and hunting licenses. First, gun regulation might not keep guns out of all the criminal hands, but it will keep guns out of hands of people who simply shouldn't have one. Since a gun is a device that when used properly kills other people there simply are people who shouldn't possess one, and I'm not talking criminals. Sure if they screw up and kill someone there is already a law against that and they go to prison, but if I'm the dead one that really doesn't make me feel a whole lot better. I would have felt better if Joe Mental-Patient simply had been told no. Gun registration has another upside as well. If all the legal guns are supposed to be registered, then it's much easier to track guns used in crimes. Sure it could have been bought illegally, but most likely it was once bought legally. Following the paper trail might help.
Second, hunting licenses I believe are usually less to regualte the hunters and more to regulate how many animals get killed. There aren't an infinite supply of dear, ducks, turkeys, etc. out there. If anyone who wants to can just go out and kill them any time they want that leads to problems. The only way I see to stop that from happening is to regulate hunters.
You really can't cause lots of monetary damage to anyone but yourself with a computer if you're an average, unless someone hacks you and uses your computer to do it. That kind of stuff takes savy. So, should the person be responsible if someone hacks their computer? I don't believe so. Would you be responsible if someone cut your brake lines and you hit and killed someone with your car? There is a line where you start being negligent, but I don't want to draw it right here.
The coffee lawsuit versus mcdonald's was not exactly frivolous. If you look up the details you'd probably see that.
I also think the fat kids lawsuit was more about health nuts wanting to admit that their food was unhealthy and made you fat (through warning labels) than about the money.
I think SACD and/or DVD-Audio will eventually take off. Especially SACD that are backwards compatible with CD's. The problem right now is that those two formats only offer two benifits over regular CD's: improved quality and multichannel music. They also have quite a few downsides: require a home theater type arrangement for multichannel, requires purchase of a new player, the two formats compete (although universal players are starting to appear), lack of a digital single cable connection (3 rca cables isn't going to cut it for most people).
I think eventually though it will catch on. The first thing they need is a digital single cable connection (ieee 1394?). This will bring the audiophiles on board. The second and third problem I forsee being taken care of together. DVD has caused more people to buy multichannel surrond set ups. As more people buy them, they're going to be enamored with multi channel music. I believe SACD/DVD-A players will start being included into the HTIB systems. Once those criteria are met, its only a matter of software. You'll know things are about to take off if sony discontinues CD's and starts only releasing music on hybrid SACD's.
They may make up less than 4% or radio total. But subtract AM stations (who finds good music there), religious stations, talk radio, sports radio, and small genre station (reggae, classical, polka, country, easy listening, etc.); and then you'd be left with clear channel having a much larger market share. Quick, how many top 40 stations do you have in your city? 1, 2, maybe even 3? I bet one of them is KISS FM. That means in most markets clear channel has 33%-100% of the top 40 market. It's generally the same thing with the "alternative" stations as well.
You my friend are a genius. This is the same opinion I have. If there's only one good song on an album, I'm going to hear that song enough times on the radio or TV to be sick of it fairly soon. No need to buy the album or a single for that matter. Now when a quality album comes out, then I have a reason to buy it.
Sega may have had the best system with the genisis but nintendo still had the market share. Nintendo still sold more games and more systems. The dynamic shifted with the playstation, which finally took the top spot away from nintendo.
Sega never was in the position that sony is now. Sony is the king of market share, the xbox compared to their world wide market dominance. If you have to compare Sony to someone it would be the pre playstation nintendo.
Why would I want to degrade the sound quality that much? When you convert the lossy compression to CD and then back to MP3 you loose a lot of information. More than if you simply went CD->MP3. To some people this is a big deal.
Finally someone sees the light. If an artist (and I use that term lightly) only has one good song on a cd, chances are the one song you want really isn't that good. Chances are also high once that song stops being popular (getting radio airplay, mtv play, etc) that you'll quickly forget about it. So, why buy it? Quality artists put out quality albums. They spend a lot of time working on all the songs and quite frequently put all the songs on a CD in a certain order for a certain reason. Quality artists treat an album like once piece of work. It's funny that I've never heard anyone argue that they should be able to buy just the Battle of Helms Deep because the rest of the movie is just filler. It's really the same thing.
No, it doesn't. There's one less person who's going to buy it. And, when you're talking about copyright infringement on the scale of Kazaa, there are potentially millions of people who'll no longer buy it.
That is just B.S. That is one person who may or may not of bought the album before, and may or may not buy the album in the future. I never purchase any music that I have no heard before. So all the music I buy I either: hear at the record store, hear from a friend, see on mtv2, hear a preview on a website, download, or hear on indie radio. I do not buy everything I download, but I don't buy everything I hear in those other places either. If I was suddenly unable to download would I start buying all the things that I previously downloaded and didn't pay for? No, in fact I wouldn't buy any of the things I previously downloaded. So, the RIAA would actually loose sales from me.
That's hardly a big enough sample to be relevant. One democrat and three republicans. There could be many other reasons why Clinton was citicised less and praised more, the biggest one being that he did a better job (This is a matter of debate for some where other than here). I'd also like to see what the critiscim's were about. Critiscing/praising the president over a matter of policy or national security is one thing (WMD, going to war, the economy, tax cuts, iran contra, etc) is much different that critiscing the president over stupid things (watergate and monica).
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The majority of the state wants a recall. If that's the case, there should be another election, where davis is allowed to run. The scenerio that is set up makes it possible for the new governor to have less than 10% of the popular support. What to stop another recall then? Face it the law is poorly written and unfair.
It all comes down to, where do you draw the line between negligence and bad luck. I often times leave my doors unlocked to my car if nothing is in it, and I'm just running inside the house for a minute. Am I negligent? What if I lock the car, but don't turn on the alarm?
It's unfair because if 51% of the people vote to recall Davis, then the person with the most votes wins. Davis isn't able to be on the ballot. So lets say arnold has the most votes with 30%. That means that 49% voted for Davis, but he looses to arnold. That isn't fair.
It is possible to cut the brake lines so that fluid leaks, and your brakes go out mid-drive. But lets use an even better example. Lets say someone steals your car. You left it unlocked. This person runs over 3 kids. He gets away and leaves no trace. Are you guilty of a crime?
And you truly believe Joe Sixpack is capable of this?
I do think we have a little too much regulation in certain areas (drugs, tobacco, and alchohol are my pet peeves). However, I have to disagree about guns and hunting licenses. First, gun regulation might not keep guns out of all the criminal hands, but it will keep guns out of hands of people who simply shouldn't have one. Since a gun is a device that when used properly kills other people there simply are people who shouldn't possess one, and I'm not talking criminals. Sure if they screw up and kill someone there is already a law against that and they go to prison, but if I'm the dead one that really doesn't make me feel a whole lot better. I would have felt better if Joe Mental-Patient simply had been told no. Gun registration has another upside as well. If all the legal guns are supposed to be registered, then it's much easier to track guns used in crimes. Sure it could have been bought illegally, but most likely it was once bought legally. Following the paper trail might help.
Second, hunting licenses I believe are usually less to regualte the hunters and more to regulate how many animals get killed. There aren't an infinite supply of dear, ducks, turkeys, etc. out there. If anyone who wants to can just go out and kill them any time they want that leads to problems. The only way I see to stop that from happening is to regulate hunters.
You really can't cause lots of monetary damage to anyone but yourself with a computer if you're an average, unless someone hacks you and uses your computer to do it. That kind of stuff takes savy. So, should the person be responsible if someone hacks their computer? I don't believe so. Would you be responsible if someone cut your brake lines and you hit and killed someone with your car? There is a line where you start being negligent, but I don't want to draw it right here.
I think most animal rights activists realize that. That why the ALF and ELF blow up new property developments in colorado.
Grenada and Panama were under clinton? I could have sworn Greneda was under Regan and Panama was Bush I.
The coffee lawsuit versus mcdonald's was not exactly frivolous. If you look up the details you'd probably see that.
I also think the fat kids lawsuit was more about health nuts wanting to admit that their food was unhealthy and made you fat (through warning labels) than about the money.
Last I heard Dean was the ex-governor of Vermont. Not a representative.
I think SACD and/or DVD-Audio will eventually take off. Especially SACD that are backwards compatible with CD's. The problem right now is that those two formats only offer two benifits over regular CD's: improved quality and multichannel music. They also have quite a few downsides: require a home theater type arrangement for multichannel, requires purchase of a new player, the two formats compete (although universal players are starting to appear), lack of a digital single cable connection (3 rca cables isn't going to cut it for most people).
I think eventually though it will catch on. The first thing they need is a digital single cable connection (ieee 1394?). This will bring the audiophiles on board. The second and third problem I forsee being taken care of together. DVD has caused more people to buy multichannel surrond set ups. As more people buy them, they're going to be enamored with multi channel music. I believe SACD/DVD-A players will start being included into the HTIB systems. Once those criteria are met, its only a matter of software. You'll know things are about to take off if sony discontinues CD's and starts only releasing music on hybrid SACD's.
They may make up less than 4% or radio total. But subtract AM stations (who finds good music there), religious stations, talk radio, sports radio, and small genre station (reggae, classical, polka, country, easy listening, etc.); and then you'd be left with clear channel having a much larger market share. Quick, how many top 40 stations do you have in your city? 1, 2, maybe even 3? I bet one of them is KISS FM. That means in most markets clear channel has 33%-100% of the top 40 market. It's generally the same thing with the "alternative" stations as well.
Item A: 200 Item B: 0 (200 - 0)/100 = 200% Item A: 10,000 Item B: 0 (10,000 - 0)/100 = 10,000% As Item A -> infinity Item B -> infintily cheaper.
I wouldn't think that the RIAA would be incorporated anywhere. It isn't a corporation, but a trade group of record labels.
You my friend are a genius. This is the same opinion I have. If there's only one good song on an album, I'm going to hear that song enough times on the radio or TV to be sick of it fairly soon. No need to buy the album or a single for that matter. Now when a quality album comes out, then I have a reason to buy it.
Don't let guided by voices fuel you. Quantity != Quality.
Sega may have had the best system with the genisis but nintendo still had the market share. Nintendo still sold more games and more systems. The dynamic shifted with the playstation, which finally took the top spot away from nintendo.
Sega never was in the position that sony is now. Sony is the king of market share, the xbox compared to their world wide market dominance. If you have to compare Sony to someone it would be the pre playstation nintendo.
The screen isn't 16"x9"... 16x9 is just the aspect ratio for widescreen.
well if you buy the album you just might find out. It's actually not bad, and you get the german and english versions of the song.
Why would I want to degrade the sound quality that much? When you convert the lossy compression to CD and then back to MP3 you loose a lot of information. More than if you simply went CD->MP3. To some people this is a big deal.
Finally someone sees the light. If an artist (and I use that term lightly) only has one good song on a cd, chances are the one song you want really isn't that good. Chances are also high once that song stops being popular (getting radio airplay, mtv play, etc) that you'll quickly forget about it. So, why buy it? Quality artists put out quality albums. They spend a lot of time working on all the songs and quite frequently put all the songs on a CD in a certain order for a certain reason. Quality artists treat an album like once piece of work. It's funny that I've never heard anyone argue that they should be able to buy just the Battle of Helms Deep because the rest of the movie is just filler. It's really the same thing.
No, it doesn't. There's one less person who's going to buy it. And, when you're talking about copyright infringement on the scale of Kazaa, there are potentially millions of people who'll no longer buy it.
That is just B.S. That is one person who may or may not of bought the album before, and may or may not buy the album in the future. I never purchase any music that I have no heard before. So all the music I buy I either: hear at the record store, hear from a friend, see on mtv2, hear a preview on a website, download, or hear on indie radio. I do not buy everything I download, but I don't buy everything I hear in those other places either. If I was suddenly unable to download would I start buying all the things that I previously downloaded and didn't pay for? No, in fact I wouldn't buy any of the things I previously downloaded. So, the RIAA would actually loose sales from me.
That's hardly a big enough sample to be relevant. One democrat and three republicans. There could be many other reasons why Clinton was citicised less and praised more, the biggest one being that he did a better job (This is a matter of debate for some where other than here). I'd also like to see what the critiscim's were about. Critiscing/praising the president over a matter of policy or national security is one thing (WMD, going to war, the economy, tax cuts, iran contra, etc) is much different that critiscing the president over stupid things (watergate and monica).