There is NO reason that CDs couldn't sell for $5. If they did I swear I'd buy one a day.
Yeah yeah, I'm sure when the prices lower to $5 you'll buy a few more CDs and then change your mind. You will complain that CDs are such a rip off when you can download the music illegally for free. You gotta be kidding that a charity-based system such that will work, i.e. download the MP3s and then decide later whether or not to buy the real thing. When will it stop? How much is enough? Do you want the entire band of Metallic to show up on your doorstep and kiss your toes in order to urge you to donate to them?
So would you rather not have speeding laws? It's been tried before.. nevertheless the locals got sick of it.
You'd rather shift the money making from CDs to concerts, turning music distribution into a loss leader? Great, but the greater the costs of loss leaders in a market, the greater the barrier of entry. The greater the barrier of entry, the fewer choices and a market ruled by one or two megacorporations. By legalizing the trading of copyright works many jobs will be eliminated and new artists will have a hard time making money because they will be forced to provide their music free of charge. You could also tax blank CD-Rs, but that'd suck if you bought them to hand out Knoppix for free.
Now with the American jobs going oversea, you will also see a loss of music industry jobs. Yay for unemployment! Be careful what you wish for, it just might come true.
Give away your software and ideas for free (or in this case a t-shirt, that's close enough).. and then possibly get a reward afterwards? Sounds a lot like soviet communism with it's quality reward program.
I used to be all-out against DRM, but recently I've been disheartened by all the talk about abusing P2P services to distribute people's works without their consent. Likewise, I used to support EFF, but no longer. Every single article about the RIAA recently has at least several +5, Informative comments relating to the development of supposedly secure P2P systems in attempt to thwart the RIAA, or of the variety "I have a right to download whatever I want without consequences." It's sad. I won't be surprised if CDs and DVDs are replaced with media designed around DRM, and you know what? I won't care. In fact I'd support the artists and hardware manufacturers wholeheartedly. I know if I didn't read and hear about all the different ways to thwart the RIAA (i.e. legal tactics, encryption, tunnelling, etc), I'd say to hell with DRM. Sadly, it's just not that way.
Is there any question why Texas Republicans want to redistrict and Texas Democrats do not?
Keep in mind the map that Texas Republicans initially drew was a disgrace to every single believer in democracy. It was that skewed. Had the Republicans come up with something much more reasonable, there wouldn't have been such a backlash as there was. In fact, I'd think Texans would have been more supportive of Tom DeLay and Rick Perry if the map had not split up Austin (what would generally considered a homogenous region) into three different districts.
To explain why there was a backlash, here's a brief summary of the Texas district map. The map has always tended to favor the Democrats in Texas.. at least since the early 1900s when the Democrats tried to skew the map in their favor. Now keep in mind Democrats, back then, were very much, ideologically, like today's Republicans. Likewise, Republicans back then were much like Democrats today. It wasn't until the 1950s and 1960s when the two parties reversed their roles. Fundamentalist extremists lost their faith (pardon the pun) in the Democratic party and joined the Republicans. Because the Republicans of today are up to their 1900s Democrats counterparts' tricks, the 2003 redistricting debacle is just an example of what happens when the chickens come home to roost. If the fundamentalists didn't screw around with the districting map back in the early 1900s, they wouldn't have been at a disadvantage for so many years.
And hypocritical, too. I don't see anything wrong with artists not owning the rights to their works. I mean, how many of you programmers out there create "works for hire" in which you assign the copyrights to the company you work for? Musicians shouldn't be any different. If they are self-employed, they own their music. If they are employed by a company, the company owns the music. You can't argue with that, reallly, unless now you programmers are demanding that you own the rights to software you wrote or designed. Somehow I don't think that is happening.
When illogic prevails, reason gives way. -- Japanese proverb
Well, for one, quoting a Japanese proverb discredits your post. Japan is one of the most fucked up over-commercialized places in the world, as chronicled here and here. You really don't want the megamonolithic corporations Japan has. Trust me. By instiuting megamergers the chance for America to have the same problems only increases due to lack of competition between companies to satisfy consumers as well as employees. The suicide rate in Japan is phenominal due to extreme corporate pressure. Just today a Tokyo resident blew himself up along with a few coworkers. Sayonara, dude!
Bush's cronies in Texas are already trying to redistrict the state to increase republican state representatives. In the process, republican electoral votes for the President in national elections. So even if the popular vote favors a democratic candidate, the republican candidate has a better chance of winning. Considering Texas is one of the largest states in terms of electoral votes that's not just disgusting. That's scary.
(8) Porn censorship laws (9) Dinners of seaweed, raw fish, and other nasty stuff (10) The awful Japanese language (11) Merchandising in your face everywhere and everyday
"It's faster than a speeding bullet! It will balance your checkbook! It slices and dices vegetables with perfect results!" and then it f^cks up and 1) stops reading discs 2) runs quake at crazy high fps rates but crashes the computer when displaying a webbrowser 3) locks up and requires a computer hard reset to reboot the crashed firmware.
Well if the changes are packed up into installable software packages then anybody can use them, even your grandmother. I don't know of any other PDAs capable of reading memory cards that aren't formatted with the fat filesystem. In this case, I modified the sdcard mount script to mount ext2fs cards with the noatime option to reduce flash wearing. Also, I don't know of any PDAs that allow you to install foreign language input methods without reflashing the rom with a foreign one (and thus violating copyrights in the process) or buying expensive specialized third party software. Third party software in the Windows world is generally buggy, for all the obvious reasons: closed source (sometimes API documention is not enough), and the typical anti-competitive practices of Redmond. Granted, Microsoft allows more freedom and provides WinCE source.. but it's nowhere close to the flexibility of Linux source.
Huh. I just rebooted my Zaurus 5500 with the 3.10 ROM. It took up about 8megs out of 32 to boot the OS and bring up the user interface. But the thing I like about Linux? It's easily customizable. When I stick a memory card into the thing, there are editable shell scripts that manage the mount/unmount process. I can modify those to my liking without recompiling anything. I didn't like the font chosen by a free Japanese input method I installed on the thing, so I modified the sources, recompiled, and copied the library onto the PDA. I'd just like to see you do the same with any other platform.
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There is NO reason that CDs couldn't sell for $5. If they did I swear I'd buy one a day. Yeah yeah, I'm sure when the prices lower to $5 you'll buy a few more CDs and then change your mind. You will complain that CDs are such a rip off when you can download the music illegally for free. You gotta be kidding that a charity-based system such that will work, i.e. download the MP3s and then decide later whether or not to buy the real thing. When will it stop? How much is enough? Do you want the entire band of Metallic to show up on your doorstep and kiss your toes in order to urge you to donate to them?
So would you rather not have speeding laws? It's been tried before.. nevertheless the locals got sick of it. You'd rather shift the money making from CDs to concerts, turning music distribution into a loss leader? Great, but the greater the costs of loss leaders in a market, the greater the barrier of entry. The greater the barrier of entry, the fewer choices and a market ruled by one or two megacorporations. By legalizing the trading of copyright works many jobs will be eliminated and new artists will have a hard time making money because they will be forced to provide their music free of charge. You could also tax blank CD-Rs, but that'd suck if you bought them to hand out Knoppix for free. Now with the American jobs going oversea, you will also see a loss of music industry jobs. Yay for unemployment! Be careful what you wish for, it just might come true.
Give away your software and ideas for free (or in this case a t-shirt, that's close enough).. and then possibly get a reward afterwards? Sounds a lot like soviet communism with it's quality reward program.
I used to be all-out against DRM, but recently I've been disheartened by all the talk about abusing P2P services to distribute people's works without their consent. Likewise, I used to support EFF, but no longer. Every single article about the RIAA recently has at least several +5, Informative comments relating to the development of supposedly secure P2P systems in attempt to thwart the RIAA, or of the variety "I have a right to download whatever I want without consequences." It's sad. I won't be surprised if CDs and DVDs are replaced with media designed around DRM, and you know what? I won't care. In fact I'd support the artists and hardware manufacturers wholeheartedly. I know if I didn't read and hear about all the different ways to thwart the RIAA (i.e. legal tactics, encryption, tunnelling, etc), I'd say to hell with DRM. Sadly, it's just not that way.
Is there any question why Texas Republicans want to redistrict and Texas Democrats do not?
Keep in mind the map that Texas Republicans initially drew was a disgrace to every single believer in democracy. It was that skewed. Had the Republicans come up with something much more reasonable, there wouldn't have been such a backlash as there was. In fact, I'd think Texans would have been more supportive of Tom DeLay and Rick Perry if the map had not split up Austin (what would generally considered a homogenous region) into three different districts.
To explain why there was a backlash, here's a brief summary of the Texas district map. The map has always tended to favor the Democrats in Texas.. at least since the early 1900s when the Democrats tried to skew the map in their favor. Now keep in mind Democrats, back then, were very much, ideologically, like today's Republicans. Likewise, Republicans back then were much like Democrats today. It wasn't until the 1950s and 1960s when the two parties reversed their roles. Fundamentalist extremists lost their faith (pardon the pun) in the Democratic party and joined the Republicans. Because the Republicans of today are up to their 1900s Democrats counterparts' tricks, the 2003 redistricting debacle is just an example of what happens when the chickens come home to roost. If the fundamentalists didn't screw around with the districting map back in the early 1900s, they wouldn't have been at a disadvantage for so many years.
And hypocritical, too. I don't see anything wrong with artists not owning the rights to their works. I mean, how many of you programmers out there create "works for hire" in which you assign the copyrights to the company you work for? Musicians shouldn't be any different. If they are self-employed, they own their music. If they are employed by a company, the company owns the music. You can't argue with that, reallly, unless now you programmers are demanding that you own the rights to software you wrote or designed. Somehow I don't think that is happening.
When illogic prevails, reason gives way. -- Japanese proverb Well, for one, quoting a Japanese proverb discredits your post. Japan is one of the most fucked up over-commercialized places in the world, as chronicled here and here. You really don't want the megamonolithic corporations Japan has. Trust me. By instiuting megamergers the chance for America to have the same problems only increases due to lack of competition between companies to satisfy consumers as well as employees. The suicide rate in Japan is phenominal due to extreme corporate pressure. Just today a Tokyo resident blew himself up along with a few coworkers. Sayonara, dude!
Dear lord.. that should read "In the process, it will increase the number of republican electoral votes...."
Bush's cronies in Texas are already trying to redistrict the state to increase republican state representatives. In the process, republican electoral votes for the President in national elections. So even if the popular vote favors a democratic candidate, the republican candidate has a better chance of winning. Considering Texas is one of the largest states in terms of electoral votes that's not just disgusting. That's scary.
(8) Porn censorship laws
(9) Dinners of seaweed, raw fish, and other nasty stuff
(10) The awful Japanese language
(11) Merchandising in your face everywhere and everyday
"It's faster than a speeding bullet! It will balance your checkbook! It slices and dices vegetables with perfect results!" and then it f^cks up and 1) stops reading discs 2) runs quake at crazy high fps rates but crashes the computer when displaying a webbrowser 3) locks up and requires a computer hard reset to reboot the crashed firmware.
Keep in mind that not everybody returns their item during a recall. The risk of Sony having to replace all VAIOs is zero.
Well if the changes are packed up into installable software packages then anybody can use them, even your grandmother. I don't know of any other PDAs capable of reading memory cards that aren't formatted with the fat filesystem. In this case, I modified the sdcard mount script to mount ext2fs cards with the noatime option to reduce flash wearing. Also, I don't know of any PDAs that allow you to install foreign language input methods without reflashing the rom with a foreign one (and thus violating copyrights in the process) or buying expensive specialized third party software. Third party software in the Windows world is generally buggy, for all the obvious reasons: closed source (sometimes API documention is not enough), and the typical anti-competitive practices of Redmond. Granted, Microsoft allows more freedom and provides WinCE source.. but it's nowhere close to the flexibility of Linux source.
Huh. I just rebooted my Zaurus 5500 with the 3.10 ROM. It took up about 8megs out of 32 to boot the OS and bring up the user interface. But the thing I like about Linux? It's easily customizable. When I stick a memory card into the thing, there are editable shell scripts that manage the mount/unmount process. I can modify those to my liking without recompiling anything. I didn't like the font chosen by a free Japanese input method I installed on the thing, so I modified the sources, recompiled, and copied the library onto the PDA. I'd just like to see you do the same with any other platform.
Either that or use infrared beams to try and jam the pictures. Then buy a law to make cameras with perfect IR filters illegal.
It's okay to download the article as long as you delete it within 24 hours. But if you are a member of a policeforce you may not continue to the download section.