but how many people actually prefer a different music store -vs- iTunes?
Probably a better question to ask is:
How many people want to be locked in with a piece of hardware that can only play music from one 'online store' in this era where the 'online music store' concept is still evolving?
Speaking of fundraising, is National Public Radio now going to drop the 'Fat-Ridden Food From McDonalds Afflicts Innocent Consumers' campaign?
I loved it how the first question they asked the NPR head honcho in the call-in program about that $200M donation from the McDonalds heiress was 'does this mean your annoying fundraising drives will tone down?'
And of course, beggar boy's response: "We view this huge donation as an opportunity for our listeners to learn about donating more." (paraphrased from memory)
The average individual political contribution to the Republican party is around $50.
The Democratic party refuses to release such figures. There are a HELL of a lot of limousine liberals, both in business and in Hollywood. Also lots of Union Bosses.
So you're claiming that if Algore hadn't 'taken the initative' someone else in government wouldn't have?
Algore is not a very bright man, in spite of all the hype spread around. He's a classic example of someone born with a silver spoon in his mouth (both his father and his grandfather were in national government before him). And he got shit grades in school consistently.
The joke about him 'claiming to have invented the internet' is incorrect, but so is anybodyt who claims he solely fostered it into what it has become.
My understanding is that he got the check from Microsoft, then sold it on eBay. Received the $7000 and donated it to charity. I might be wrong, of course, but your scenario makes less sense.
Almost all of the really good music that existed before copyright was commissioned by private parties and generally unavailable to the public in any form.
Sure, there were folk minstrels out and about. Folk minstrels who starved if they couldn't find a 'court' to perform in that would feed them.
Whatever. I'm sure there are plenty of revisionist historians to wax nostalgic about how 'it was really like it is at Ren Fest and the SCA events back then' who will contradict what I say.
Well, one of the attractions, anyway, is that I don't have to lug around a big hulking POS chunk of hardware. I can just bring the one or two CDs that I want to take. And then if I lose the CDs I haven't lost every copy of everything I have.
Actually, the guy who got the $500 reward sold the check on eBay for $7000. He then donated the $7000 to charity, which, if he did his taxes correctly, translates into at least a $500 savings in his taxes.
And the poor suckers who paid the $7000 got a piece of paper for the corporate lobby, and their 15 minutes of fame in the anti-M$ zealot community.
For better or worse the lines were drawn on a map and agreed upon.
Agreed upon by whom, and on whose behalf?
You see, that's a big part of the problem. Here in the United States we're all presented with 'the plight of the Palestinians' and too many of us think of 'Palestinian' as being a drop-in replacement for 'Russian' or 'Latvian' or 'French.' There are amazing propaganda machines all set up to manipulate people based on said assumptions.
There's no easy solution but scrapping fabrications and self-contradictory phrases like 'Palestinian Autonomy' would be a first step in the right direction.
Well, you've got four milliseconds to cut the trace going from IC8 pin 17 to IC19 pin 24. IC8 and IC19 are both in ball-grid-array packages. The trace is in a middle layer and the only interconnect is a buried via.
If you cut any other wire, the system automatically disables and you'd better hope you're near a repair depot with a tech qualified to re-arm the system. Otherwise, your truck ain't gonna be moving anytime soon.
Ah, here we have a 'rugged individual' living out the 'lone man in the wilderness' fantasy as early depicted by James Fennimore Cooper.
Sorry. You'll have to run off to a tarpaper shack in Montana to live out that particular fantasy to any degree credible to the rest of us.
Quit pretending. When you're 'alone in your car' you're on a VERY social piece of asphalt that you SHARE with a whole bunch of other people. Save your fantasies for when you're playing GTA or some other game.
Here's a clue for you: some states are folding back or giving up entirely the 'annual inspection' mess. It costs a lot, does little at all for the economy, and didn't help much in any way in the first place. It was a 'feel good' environmentalist measure.
To say nothing for the fact that few states have 'annual inspection' requirements in the first place.
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but how many people actually prefer a different music store -vs- iTunes?
Probably a better question to ask is:
How many people want to be locked in with a piece of hardware that can only play music from one 'online store' in this era where the 'online music store' concept is still evolving?
Speaking of fundraising, is National Public Radio now going to drop the 'Fat-Ridden Food From McDonalds Afflicts Innocent Consumers' campaign?
I loved it how the first question they asked the NPR head honcho in the call-in program about that $200M donation from the McDonalds heiress was 'does this mean your annoying fundraising drives will tone down?'
And of course, beggar boy's response: "We view this huge donation as an opportunity for our listeners to learn about donating more." (paraphrased from memory)
Heh. Greedy fuck.
Yeah, but, yeah, but....
Isn't the money better spent paying social workers to dispense money for poor people to use to pay their cable bills, and for their rental furniture?
First off, scrap the space shuttle. It is NOT the economical means of getting cargo up into space. Everybody knows that.
There. Now that the boondoggole is jettisoned, we'll use rockets to launch the cargo.
I saw the first one ("Episode One", goddamn it) in the theatre in it's first run in 197?. I've lost track, are they making another sequel again?
Sounds like a Windows OEM bundle.
Except Dean finally chickened out and offended the entire South in doing so.
Go Dean! (take down the whole DNC, dude!)
The average individual political contribution to the Republican party is around $50.
The Democratic party refuses to release such figures. There are a HELL of a lot of limousine liberals, both in business and in Hollywood. Also lots of Union Bosses.
It's probably because he's been around politicians of various stripes (they are ALL frauds) for most of his life.
It's too bad he can't be more the anti-politician, which is really what we need more of.
Shut it down.
President Bush served two terms as governor of Texas, however.
I'd say he's more Texan, than, say, a fraud like Molly Ivins who speaks like a Texan but thinks like a Northeastern Liberal.
So you're claiming that if Algore hadn't 'taken the initative' someone else in government wouldn't have?
Algore is not a very bright man, in spite of all the hype spread around. He's a classic example of someone born with a silver spoon in his mouth (both his father and his grandfather were in national government before him). And he got shit grades in school consistently.
The joke about him 'claiming to have invented the internet' is incorrect, but so is anybodyt who claims he solely fostered it into what it has become.
All the former mall employees would become UPS drivers. And the Malls would become massive UPS hubs, so they'd need staffs to keep them running.
Or are we now proposing that people will just download jpegs of clothing, furniture, housewares, etc.??
My understanding is that he got the check from Microsoft, then sold it on eBay. Received the $7000 and donated it to charity.
I might be wrong, of course, but your scenario makes less sense.
Actually, Mozart fared rather badly, and died at a very early age.
Almost all of the really good music that existed before copyright was commissioned by private parties and generally unavailable to the public in any form.
Sure, there were folk minstrels out and about. Folk minstrels who starved if they couldn't find a 'court' to perform in that would feed them.
Whatever. I'm sure there are plenty of revisionist historians to wax nostalgic about how 'it was really like it is at Ren Fest and the SCA events back then' who will contradict what I say.
Well, one of the attractions, anyway, is that I don't have to lug around a big hulking POS chunk of hardware. I can just bring the one or two CDs that I want to take. And then if I lose the CDs I haven't lost every copy of everything I have.
I bet you cling to that PDA frantically, when you're forced to be away from your PC.
This was a survey of the computer using public, not the subsection of that public who are identify as part of some file-sharing 'community.'
Actually, the guy who got the $500 reward sold the check on eBay for $7000. He then donated the $7000 to charity, which, if he did his taxes correctly, translates into at least a $500 savings in his taxes.
And the poor suckers who paid the $7000 got a piece of paper for the corporate lobby, and their 15 minutes of fame in the anti-M$ zealot community.
'simple self reliance in society' is your fantasy.
For better or worse the lines were drawn on a map and agreed upon.
Agreed upon by whom, and on whose behalf?
You see, that's a big part of the problem. Here in the United States we're all presented with 'the plight of the Palestinians' and too many of us think of 'Palestinian' as being a drop-in replacement for 'Russian' or 'Latvian' or 'French.' There are amazing propaganda machines all set up to manipulate people based on said assumptions.
There's no easy solution but scrapping fabrications and self-contradictory phrases like 'Palestinian Autonomy' would be a first step in the right direction.
Whoops. Is that your manager on the cell phone from the depot wondering what the FUCK happened to your beacon signal?
Well, you've got four milliseconds to cut the trace going from IC8 pin 17 to IC19 pin 24. IC8 and IC19 are both in ball-grid-array packages. The trace is in a middle layer and the only interconnect is a buried via.
If you cut any other wire, the system automatically disables and you'd better hope you're near a repair depot with a tech qualified to re-arm the system. Otherwise, your truck ain't gonna be moving anytime soon.
Ah, here we have a 'rugged individual' living out the 'lone man in the wilderness' fantasy as early depicted by James Fennimore Cooper.
Sorry. You'll have to run off to a tarpaper shack in Montana to live out that particular fantasy to any degree credible to the rest of us.
Quit pretending. When you're 'alone in your car' you're on a VERY social piece of asphalt that you SHARE with a whole bunch of other people. Save your fantasies for when you're playing GTA or some other game.
Here's a clue for you: some states are folding back or giving up entirely the 'annual inspection' mess. It costs a lot, does little at all for the economy, and didn't help much in any way in the first place. It was a 'feel good' environmentalist measure.
To say nothing for the fact that few states have 'annual inspection' requirements in the first place.