Because $30M wouldn't even cover the SFX costs of a real blockbuster movie. Everyone knows that the more it costs, the better the movie is. If it's not over $100m in production, it is a dog. Sheesh.
Remember, only a few pennies per song go to Apple, and only a small percentage of that goes to Steve Jobs. I think that about $.14 or $.15 goes to the artist. The other $.80 or so goes to the record labels. Yes, they still have to pay the recording studios where the music was actually recorded, and mixed, and engineered. They still have to run marketing and payola departments. oops, That's marketing and research, my bad. All that takes lot's of money, so they need more to replace what they are spending. With just a pittance going to the execs and shareholders at the label.
You're right, it's not just about us. It's about all of the future species that we won't allow to evolve because we think that we have to make the earth stay the same and not let any species go extinct. So many humans seem to want to make the earth a static entity that will remain like it is forever. The world is dynamic. It changes. Hate to tell a lot of people, but... Humans ARE part of nature!
We modify our enviroment much more than any other species, but we are not the only species that does so. We don't consider termite mounds and beaver dams unnatural. There have been many many periods of time in the past when CO2 levels were much higher than today. There have been many, many, times when the global temp has been higher than today. There have been many mass extinctions several times throughout history as well as the species that have gone extinct one by one as their enviroments changed beyond their abilities to cope. When they do, something else moves in, and over time evolves to fit the new niche better.
Of course humans are affecting the enviroment, but so are a lot of other factors, and we just do not know what the results will be. Neither do we know if our actions ane "helping" or "hurting" since we have no idea what those value and emotion laden words mean when applied to the enviroment for the most part. For all we know the CO2 emissions that humans are making are accelerating the earth to it's next "steambath" age, but that it will be milder and shorter because of this, and therefore fewer species will go extinct. Would that be good or bad? Beats me.
That said, the U.S. should be as scared as any country about global warming. A large portion of the U.S. population lives in areas with an elevation of less than 50 meters. New York, L.A., Houston, and San Francisco, all have large portions of their metropolitan populations living at less than 50 meters.
Excuse me, but not all investors are like that. I prefer that the companies I invest in have a healthy R&D budget. That means that they are , hopefully, working on things that will make more profits in the future that will translate into dividends. Only short sighted morons, corporate raiders, and shills for other companies want to kill off a companies future potential.
BTW wasn't CSFB one of the investors/shills in the SCO fiasco a few years back?
Whoa, dude. Dont forget Thinnet and Thicknet. Coax cabling rocks! Then there was StarLAN. A whopping 1Mbps. Nobody needs more bits than that, nobody.:0 Like the parent was pointing out all technologies evolve. As long as what I have continues to work, I will just stick with it and buy something else when it doesn't
Um, dude, about those gates. We had to remove them because they were interfereing with us getting in and out of the city to rape and pillage in our 20% of Rome. Oh, and by the way, we decided that we would rather rape and pillage in the 20% of Rome that contains the forums. Raping and pillaging in the slums wasn't working.
Well... Some of us are system geeks. And some of us are architecture geeks, and then there are the music geeks, and the medical geeks, and oh, the experimental physics and math geeks. And...
And you know how much about the weather in areas like the Netherlands, Belgium, and Denmark? Most of the damage in New Orleans came from the storm surge toping the levees and then having the levees breach. Most of the deaths were from drowning, not wind. You might want to check about storm surge and tidal bore in the North Sea before you comment about whether the people of the Netherlands have anything to bring to the table about planning for rebuilding New Orleans. Oh yeah, since New Orleans was on the west side of the eye wall, the winds were coming out of the north/northeast. They got storm surge from the ocean, but even worse from Lake Ponchartrain due to the water level rising with the low preassure, and the wind driving it at New Orleans.
A co-worker of mine has family that lived in the Mississippi/Louisiana border area. He mentioned the name of the town, but I don't remember it. He now has a sister and a brother, their spouses and several children living in his home about 600 miles from the coast. I know this guy well enough to bet that he has NEVER updated IE since he bought his computer years ago. So he will need to update IE for his family to apply online. Like He doesn't have enough stress with three families living in a single family home and the relatives don't have enough stress with their entire community gone. Applying for assistance may need some minor customiztions for each disaster, but the underlying system should remain the same and should have been in place for YEARS. DHS and FEMA specifically have been spending tons of money since 9/11 to be prepared for the next big disaster. Are you saying none of that money went to build a lousy registration site?
Now the question... Why should I have to do ANYTHING special to access a website that was created by a government agency that used moey that was supplied by your and my tax dollars?
They are building services for american Citizens, not Windows or Mac or *nix users. There are industy standards out there so that websites can be created that all browsers that any citizen uses should be able to access.
Hey your house was just destroyed and you lost everything, and they let you stay in this nice school gymnasium. Sorry, but you can't file with FEMA using the computers in the library because they decided to use Linux with Opera as the default install. Maybe you can use on of the systems in the administrative offices? They have Windows 98. Oh, sorry. You'll have to download IE6 since they were still using IE 5.x. Maybe you can go use the computers at the big company down the road you lazy git, or just mail in the paper forms. It's not my fault you don't use windows.
It isn't his. It's ours. That said, remember, the President doesn't create the spending bills, he simply lobbies congress for certain items to be included in the bills, and then signs the bills into law. Congresscritters WRITE the spending bills.
And that would do what? Like the weight of a mountain is somehow significant compared to the mass of earth already above a hotspot. If you figure the crust is, on average, 50 miles thick then that would be 5000 cubic miles of mass on top of a hotspot. Even if you go down to 20 miles that's 2000 cubic miles. Mt. Hood is a pretty big mountain, and the largest in Oregon, and it is onlt 30-60 cubic miles depending on whose topography you want to believe existed before the volcanic cone formed. So even with the largest volume for Hood and the smallest volume for the crust at the bulge you get a whopping 3%.
What do people expect? They are a company that wants a piece of the largest population pool in the world. If they didn't help, the Chineese government would simly have blocked all access to Yahoo! and worked with someone else. That doesn't make it right or moral, just business.
There are literary works bracketed by the copyright extensions that I would love to have access to as the foundation for works extending their literary universes, but since they keep extending copyrights every few years when works come close to expiring and falling into the public domain I can't and no one else can either. Lot's of things have been placed in the public domain, but nothing will fall into the public domain until 2019 when works from 1923 will begin to become available.
Yeah, right. Then how come McDonalds is the worlds largest resturant chain? Art my a$$.:)
If you want to see reasonably good cooking as science tune into "Good Eats" on the cooking channel. One of the things I really like about the show is that the host, Alton Brown, explains WHY to do certain steps instead of simply going, "this is the way we were taught at the culinary institute, so it's right."
Well, I guess I'm lucky. My employer doesn't do quite as much training as they did in the late 90's, but we still get an off site class or two a year and access to quite a few distance and computer learning classes and seminars. They state that if we get behind the curve on technology, both what's new and what we are using, we lower our ability to compete. Some of their other business practices leave me scratching my head, but this one is pretty smart as far as I can tell.
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Because $30M wouldn't even cover the SFX costs of a real blockbuster movie. Everyone knows that the more it costs, the better the movie is. If it's not over $100m in production, it is a dog. Sheesh.
Remember, only a few pennies per song go to Apple, and only a small percentage of that goes to Steve Jobs. I think that about $.14 or $.15 goes to the artist. The other $.80 or so goes to the record labels. Yes, they still have to pay the recording studios where the music was actually recorded, and mixed, and engineered. They still have to run marketing and payola departments. oops, That's marketing and research, my bad. All that takes lot's of money, so they need more to replace what they are spending. With just a pittance going to the execs and shareholders at the label.
That, my good jargoone would be irony, not satire.
You're right, it's not just about us. It's about all of the future species that we won't allow to evolve because we think that we have to make the earth stay the same and not let any species go extinct. So many humans seem to want to make the earth a static entity that will remain like it is forever. The world is dynamic. It changes. Hate to tell a lot of people, but... Humans ARE part of nature!
We modify our enviroment much more than any other species, but we are not the only species that does so. We don't consider termite mounds and beaver dams unnatural. There have been many many periods of time in the past when CO2 levels were much higher than today. There have been many, many, times when the global temp has been higher than today. There have been many mass extinctions several times throughout history as well as the species that have gone extinct one by one as their enviroments changed beyond their abilities to cope. When they do, something else moves in, and over time evolves to fit the new niche better.
Of course humans are affecting the enviroment, but so are a lot of other factors, and we just do not know what the results will be. Neither do we know if our actions ane "helping" or "hurting" since we have no idea what those value and emotion laden words mean when applied to the enviroment for the most part. For all we know the CO2 emissions that humans are making are accelerating the earth to it's next "steambath" age, but that it will be milder and shorter because of this, and therefore fewer species will go extinct. Would that be good or bad? Beats me.
That said, the U.S. should be as scared as any country about global warming. A large portion of the U.S. population lives in areas with an elevation of less than 50 meters. New York, L.A., Houston, and San Francisco, all have large portions of their metropolitan populations living at less than 50 meters.
Excuse me, but not all investors are like that. I prefer that the companies I invest in have a healthy R&D budget. That means that they are , hopefully, working on things that will make more profits in the future that will translate into dividends. Only short sighted morons, corporate raiders, and shills for other companies want to kill off a companies future potential.
BTW wasn't CSFB one of the investors/shills in the SCO fiasco a few years back?
Whoa, dude. Dont forget Thinnet and Thicknet. Coax cabling rocks! Then there was StarLAN. A whopping 1Mbps. Nobody needs more bits than that, nobody. :0 Like the parent was pointing out all technologies evolve. As long as what I have continues to work, I will just stick with it and buy something else when it doesn't
Um, dude, about those gates. We had to remove them because they were interfereing with us getting in and out of the city to rape and pillage in our 20% of Rome. Oh, and by the way, we decided that we would rather rape and pillage in the 20% of Rome that contains the forums. Raping and pillaging in the slums wasn't working.
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Of course. "Hey, the Adsense revenues are down. Time for a good Slashdotting!"
Well... Some of us are system geeks. And some of us are architecture geeks, and then there are the music geeks, and the medical geeks, and oh, the experimental physics and math geeks. And...
And you know how much about the weather in areas like the Netherlands, Belgium, and Denmark? Most of the damage in New Orleans came from the storm surge toping the levees and then having the levees breach. Most of the deaths were from drowning, not wind. You might want to check about storm surge and tidal bore in the North Sea before you comment about whether the people of the Netherlands have anything to bring to the table about planning for rebuilding New Orleans. Oh yeah, since New Orleans was on the west side of the eye wall, the winds were coming out of the north/northeast. They got storm surge from the ocean, but even worse from Lake Ponchartrain due to the water level rising with the low preassure, and the wind driving it at New Orleans.
Yes, wrong call.
A co-worker of mine has family that lived in the Mississippi/Louisiana border area. He mentioned the name of the town, but I don't remember it. He now has a sister and a brother, their spouses and several children living in his home about 600 miles from the coast. I know this guy well enough to bet that he has NEVER updated IE since he bought his computer years ago. So he will need to update IE for his family to apply online. Like He doesn't have enough stress with three families living in a single family home and the relatives don't have enough stress with their entire community gone. Applying for assistance may need some minor customiztions for each disaster, but the underlying system should remain the same and should have been in place for YEARS. DHS and FEMA specifically have been spending tons of money since 9/11 to be prepared for the next big disaster. Are you saying none of that money went to build a lousy registration site?
Now the question... Why should I have to do ANYTHING special to access a website that was created by a government agency that used moey that was supplied by your and my tax dollars?
They are building services for american Citizens, not Windows or Mac or *nix users. There are industy standards out there so that websites can be created that all browsers that any citizen uses should be able to access.
Hey your house was just destroyed and you lost everything, and they let you stay in this nice school gymnasium. Sorry, but you can't file with FEMA using the computers in the library because they decided to use Linux with Opera as the default install. Maybe you can use on of the systems in the administrative offices? They have Windows 98. Oh, sorry. You'll have to download IE6 since they were still using IE 5.x. Maybe you can go use the computers at the big company down the road you lazy git, or just mail in the paper forms. It's not my fault you don't use windows.
It isn't his. It's ours. That said, remember, the President doesn't create the spending bills, he simply lobbies congress for certain items to be included in the bills, and then signs the bills into law. Congresscritters WRITE the spending bills.
And that would do what? Like the weight of a mountain is somehow significant compared to the mass of earth already above a hotspot. If you figure the crust is, on average, 50 miles thick then that would be 5000 cubic miles of mass on top of a hotspot. Even if you go down to 20 miles that's 2000 cubic miles. Mt. Hood is a pretty big mountain, and the largest in Oregon, and it is onlt 30-60 cubic miles depending on whose topography you want to believe existed before the volcanic cone formed. So even with the largest volume for Hood and the smallest volume for the crust at the bulge you get a whopping 3%.
Nope. D.C. is the rectum.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. :)
What do people expect? They are a company that wants a piece of the largest population pool in the world. If they didn't help, the Chineese government would simly have blocked all access to Yahoo! and worked with someone else. That doesn't make it right or moral, just business.
It doesn't. I am guessing you mean solar flares, and they are not the same as the solar wind.
Yes. And a "+2, Irony Rocks!" would be a nice one on rare occasions.
There are literary works bracketed by the copyright extensions that I would love to have access to as the foundation for works extending their literary universes, but since they keep extending copyrights every few years when works come close to expiring and falling into the public domain I can't and no one else can either. Lot's of things have been placed in the public domain, but nothing will fall into the public domain until 2019 when works from 1923 will begin to become available.
Yeah, right. Then how come McDonalds is the worlds largest resturant chain? Art my a$$. :)
If you want to see reasonably good cooking as science tune into "Good Eats" on the cooking channel. One of the things I really like about the show is that the host, Alton Brown, explains WHY to do certain steps instead of simply going, "this is the way we were taught at the culinary institute, so it's right."
I use P2P for a few things. The largest volume being downloading game files. Every Tuesday. ;)
Well, I guess I'm lucky. My employer doesn't do quite as much training as they did in the late 90's, but we still get an off site class or two a year and access to quite a few distance and computer learning classes and seminars. They state that if we get behind the curve on technology, both what's new and what we are using, we lower our ability to compete. Some of their other business practices leave me scratching my head, but this one is pretty smart as far as I can tell.
Or the value of the item being protected. Spending $20 to protect something valued at $.20 and charging $21 is fairly stupid and annoying.
Not according to the DEA. http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/listby _sched/sched2.htm