I think this posses some serious legal issues. Imagine a contract where I mispell certain keywords buried of course deep in the small print.
Would a person be legally obligated to abide by a contract of implied meanings , where the words were actually sytnax erorrs[hehe syntax erros]? I bet they wouldn't.
I think this article should be hidden from lawyers everywhere, I bet we would all be surprised how many lawyers read slashdot thou!
I bet they do this trick all the time, then wait and see if people catch it.
It's nice to see the all American Past Time of Selling out Is still alive and well.
We got NAI and PGP working with the NSA now.
We got Napster dude designing digital fingerprinting technology for mp3.
What next A wacko Jacko franchise of day care centers?
I mean common man. Seems like anyone in our country would sell their sister for a dollar!
I'm tired of hearing this bullshit rhetoric put out by the RIAA and the Record companies.
You know just think about whats really going on in our society. Tapes 1st. Easily re-recorded just had to sit down and spend the time to copy a tape, soon they came out with high speed dubbing. People bitched but nothing like this outrage happened. Along comes cds. Cds can be fairly easily and quickly copied. So they didn't complain about that cause they could lobby and get money tacked on to blank cds and they could drive album prices up to try to counter it. Along comes mp3; oh shit how are we going to tax it? How are we going to get our cut? Oh shit we aren't! Lobby to ban it, regulate it, sue for it. It's bullshit!
Any artists knows that this is really about the record companies. First of all there has been a law suit against the record industry to return money to the public based on the fact that they unfairly inflated the price of music cds and blank cds. Secondly out of a fifteen dollar album an artist would be lucky to get.50cents to 1.00dollar per album.
I for one would stick to my guns in saying that I would dish out from 3-5 bucks an album for an artist I appreciate by ordering it off their website. At that rate along with cutting out the record industry the artists would make much more money. A number of artists have done this with some success. Cutting out the middle man works.
Having said that, I think we as Americans need to think about what is being done in our country righ t now.
Information that is freely and publicly available is being restricted why, because of ease of access and use. Gov. Agencies and big business are sueing, restricting and limiting our access to information based on the fact that information has become too readily available and to easy to compile. If I'm not mistaken that was the whole point of the Technological Revolution?! So they want to be able to use all the tools we create and all the benefits of efficiency and ease of use to make profit and make weapons, but the common man can not download a fuckin mp3? Now their latest insult is suggesting that Record companies cut into Artist Tour profits to make up for the loss of cds sales. They have no fuckin right to do that! If we don't do something soon we are going to loose our freedom. We are creating the tools for a totalitarian state ruled by evil dictators who use our own creativity and innovation to watch over us like big brother, to restrict us like wardens and to limit the very creativity , the very lust for information and progress that is responsible for their enourmous and terribly intrusive power and authority. We must protect the essence of our country which is freedom. And if the government and big business is going to oppress freedom, then we must find ways to create new freedoms and new technologies that are not inclusive toward big business and gov.
You know dressing professionally is a funny thing.
It's based on public perception, not on reality.
Obviously some of the dumbest people I've ever met have worn nice suits.
In the techie community the more someone dresses down is usually inversely proportionate to their level of expertise.
However that being said. I think with the Tatoo thing you have to think of it as a private part type thing. Get tatoos that are private and for you and your loved ones, that way no one can judge you, if you wanna show your flare you could show them as some corporate outing or off work event and everyone would say..WOW he has tatoos!?
Or you could say fuck it and just be you and work for an employer that truly accepts you as you.
I can't argue against the power that a suit conveys in American Corporate Culture or in society.
I've had people go out of their way to let me cross the street in front of their car, or to let me go in front of them while driving just cause I was wearing a suit.
I've also gone to a job interview in a suit, got the job then ended up coming to work everyday there after in shorts and T's.
Might have hurt my image but honestly..fuck it..ultimately it's your life!
And people have a funny way of disrespecting you until you become hugely successful. If your destined for glory thou, they will be the same people praising you as soon as you make your first mill, become an actor, become a CEO.
I'd use some sense, you know just use your head and bend the norms as much as you can with out making your self a target.
Hope that helps?!
Laterz
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I think this posses some serious legal issues.
Imagine a contract where I mispell certain keywords buried of course deep in the small print.
Would a person be legally obligated to abide by a contract of implied meanings , where the words were actually sytnax erorrs[hehe syntax erros]? I bet they wouldn't.
I think this article should be hidden from lawyers everywhere, I bet we would all be surprised how many lawyers read slashdot thou!
I bet they do this trick all the time, then wait and see if people catch it.
It's nice to see the all American Past Time of Selling out Is still alive and well. We got NAI and PGP working with the NSA now. We got Napster dude designing digital fingerprinting technology for mp3. What next A wacko Jacko franchise of day care centers? I mean common man. Seems like anyone in our country would sell their sister for a dollar!
I'm tired of hearing this bullshit rhetoric put out by the RIAA and the Record companies.
.50cents to 1.00dollar per album.
You know just think about whats really going on in our society. Tapes 1st. Easily re-recorded just had to sit down and spend the time to copy a tape, soon they came out with high speed dubbing. People bitched but nothing like this outrage happened.
Along comes cds. Cds can be fairly easily and quickly copied. So they didn't complain about that cause they could lobby and get money tacked on to blank cds and they could drive album prices up to try to counter it. Along comes mp3; oh shit how are we going to tax it? How are we going to get our cut? Oh shit we aren't! Lobby to ban it, regulate it, sue for it. It's bullshit!
Any artists knows that this is really about the record companies. First of all there has been a law suit against the record industry to return money to the public based on the fact that they unfairly inflated the price of music cds and blank cds. Secondly out of a fifteen dollar album an artist would be lucky to get
I for one would stick to my guns in saying that I would dish out from 3-5 bucks an album for an artist I appreciate by ordering it off their website. At that rate along with cutting out the record industry the artists would make much more money. A number of artists have done this with some success. Cutting out the middle man works.
Having said that, I think we as Americans need to think about what is being done in our country righ t now.
Information that is freely and publicly available is being restricted why, because of ease of access and use. Gov. Agencies and big business are sueing, restricting and limiting our access to information based on the fact that information has become too readily available and to easy to compile. If I'm not mistaken that was the whole point of the Technological Revolution?!
So they want to be able to use all the tools we create and all the benefits of efficiency and ease of use to make profit and make weapons, but the common man can not download a fuckin mp3? Now their latest insult is suggesting that Record companies cut into Artist Tour profits to make up for the loss of cds sales. They have no fuckin right to do that! If we don't do something soon we are going to loose our freedom. We are creating the tools for a totalitarian state ruled by evil dictators who use our own creativity and innovation to watch over us like big brother, to restrict us like wardens and to limit the very creativity , the very lust for information and progress that is responsible for their enourmous and terribly intrusive power and authority.
We must protect the essence of our country which is freedom. And if the government and big business is going to oppress freedom, then we must find ways to create new freedoms and new technologies that are not inclusive toward big business and gov.
You know dressing professionally is a funny thing. It's based on public perception, not on reality. Obviously some of the dumbest people I've ever met have worn nice suits. In the techie community the more someone dresses down is usually inversely proportionate to their level of expertise. However that being said. I think with the Tatoo thing you have to think of it as a private part type thing. Get tatoos that are private and for you and your loved ones, that way no one can judge you, if you wanna show your flare you could show them as some corporate outing or off work event and everyone would say ..WOW he has tatoos!?
Or you could say fuck it and just be you and work for an employer that truly accepts you as you.
I can't argue against the power that a suit conveys in American Corporate Culture or in society.
I've had people go out of their way to let me cross the street in front of their car, or to let me go in front of them while driving just cause I was wearing a suit.
I've also gone to a job interview in a suit, got the job then ended up coming to work everyday there after in shorts and T's.
Might have hurt my image but honestly..fuck it..ultimately it's your life!
And people have a funny way of disrespecting you until you become hugely successful. If your destined for glory thou, they will be the same people praising you as soon as you make your first mill, become an actor, become a CEO.
I'd use some sense, you know just use your head and bend the norms as much as you can with out making your self a target.
Hope that helps?!
Laterz