If he is a detriment to society because he is a psychopath he should be off the street. If he is a detriment to society because of something about his autism, he should be off the street. If he is a detriment to society because he does criminal things, no matter what his condition or excuse, he should be off the streets. Actions over-ride excuses.
Another of Canada's former world leading tech giants bites the dust. I wonder what would have happened if RIM hadn't been blocked from buying Nortel assets. Would they have been diversified enough to weather this storm, or would RIM/BB have still cratered themselves.
Your are confusing retail mark up with the recording industry. Record stores take half... AFTER the record companies sell to them. I am talking about BEFORE record companies distribute to the stores. Yes, record companies take more than half, right off the top.
But likely people will take free hoe hum quality over a more expensive but excellent quality version; if they like the music. Because it is good enough for their purposes.
Most working musicians make their money playing gigs and selling merchandise. Only the lucky get big money recording deals. And even the ones who get the recording contracts will usually get less than ten cents from every dollar sold. Record companies usually just take 50% or more off the top. Just because. Then they start taking their other cuts from their (profit, recording fees, marketing fees, etc etc etc. and a few pennies for the band.... now go promote it). Regular bands and musicians take their gigs as they can get them and some good enough or lucky enough get regular work. And even then the better ones count on the occasional private gig that they can charge or get paid a bit or more better than club pay.
So the whole gazillion dollar thing... I call bullshit. What kills a lot of musicians is new shite bands who charge way less than they should because they live at home or have a day job, and think just getting in will let them live as a musician. It is like the whole living wage debate, there needs to be a minimum fee. And bar owners who are trying to make a go of it themselves who are then lead to believe that they are paying fair rates because some bands take it.
Most people think a musician is working when they are on stage so wow the band gets paid a grand (thousand bucks) for four hours work (and now-a-days many bars don't like paying half that). Meanwhile they neglect to notice that pay has to be split four or five ways to the band members. And that also has to cover daily practice (yes that is work, it is their job), rental of practice space (because who can afford a house with a garage to practice in on those wages?), and pay for gas, never mind the car to get to and from the gig. That 200 to 250 dollars starts getting spread pretty thinly. Hopefully you can get two or three gigs this week...
So this whole thing about musicians getting their money from recordings is for the lucky few. At best it is the demo home recording (or studio if you have the dough) self produced CD sold at regular gigs while you do road circuits across the country or state or province or city, if you live in a city that supports live bands.
The whole gazillion dollar recording artist is what we see on TV or hear on radio. But they are the lucky few. There are a lot of really talented people out there who are in the trenches, playing from club to club.
They're saying that as good as you might be as a musician you're probably shite as a recording engineer. And just because you can afford a few (what you think are) decent recording tools doesn't mean that you can use them to create as well engineered and sounding a recording as a person who studies sound engineering and practices mixing (not that easy to do well) every day... as much or more than you practice playing your instrument. Now maybe you can make something that can stand toe to toe with a real studio, but personally I sincerely doubt it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you personally... I doubt anyone could given the limited experience amateurs have compared to day in day out recording engineers, and the amateur equipment you listed.
Now the crux of what they are saying is that many people might not give a rat's ass if you recording sounds crappy compared to a professionally recorded and mixed production. If it is good enough, they might just buy your stuff anyway. But I would still warrant that if you professionally engineered your stuff and put it up against your home recording, people would pick the professional job; if the price were the same. But likely people will take free hoe hum quality over a more expensive but excellent quality version; if they like the music. Because it is good enough for their purposes.
I thought obvious extension of existing technology is not patentable. If you can remotely administer PC's or other computer equipment, smart phones are no different. They are just remote computers. I hope someone can challenge this patent on a basis at least something like this.
Look up how many Russian were sacrificed in the Battle of Berlin. It was ridiculous. I'll say it again, most of their victories were Pyrrhic, or close to it. The only thing possibly making it not so is that they had more people to throw inter the fire than the Germans. Any army with that kind of tactic could have been beaten. They were a one trick pony, all frontal assault.
The truth hurts sunshine. The only democratic government in the middle east is Israel, and everyone is calling them evil.
Listen to Ockham not conspiracy theorists. It sure as hell wasn't the Joint Chiefs of Staff who gassed those people. And both Asad and his father are known as brutal dictators who are not above punitive retaliation against vulnerable people. And I don't just read articles that back up what I believe. I think from the articles you posted, that you do.
I bet you would say it isn't racist to call a white autocratic/dictatorial state that uses brutality and/or religious dogma to control its people uncivilized. So why would it be any different for the remainder of the middle east who rule like that (with the exception maybe of Turkey, but their current prime minister is sure trying hard to turn that country that way too). Yes, and I do have a lopsided slant to Israel. They are civilized. I favour civilized democratic governments who don't hire thugs to lob missiles indiscriminately across the border at the only democratic country in the region, or tolerate their citizens doing that (like Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Iran). Any citizen of Israel can vote in elections, Jews, Muslims, whites, blacks, Arabs, whoever. And there are Israeli citizens of all those stripes even if you want to listen to the real left wing bullshit saying otherwise. And there are Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Israeli parliament.
Or perhaps you are a fan of the Grand Mufti of the 40's and 50's who was a racist as evidenced by being Hitler's good buddy (there are pictures of the two having a good time together during the war) and who caused a lot of the problems in the middle east with his racism. And surprise sunshine, the president of Syria in the late 40s and early 50s said it was a mistake to tell the Palestinians to leave Israel and start a war with the Jews.
Until the non-Israeli countries in the middle east change from dictator states aligned on religious grounds, propped up like Asad is, by what are essentially still allied tribes and theocratic states, they won't be civilized. And that is not racist. No country no matter the race, is civilized with that manner of rule. If you disagree with that, something is fundamentally wrong with you (but we could see that with your previous temper tantrum reply). Turkey is still a civilized country and hopefully they get rid of the fucktard prime minister they have so that it can remain that way and not spiral into a backwards Islamist state. But I guess you are all for women wearing potato sacks with eye holes. Sure sounds like that is your kind of misogynistic civilization.
It took the west hundreds of years to get the church out of government, and thank goodness we did. Now we need to fight to keep it out so we don't devolve into the madness the middle east is now.
There are three reasons why someone won't understand something. One, they don't have enough information. Two, they aren't smart enough. Three, they don't want to. You are either two or three. Like the other guy said, you got schooled. Try and learn some more, and stop thinking like a racist, and stop putting your hangups on me.
Grow up. Stop putting your own motivations on me. I said what I said for my reasons, not yours. So if you want to be racist go right ahead, but I'm not. I don't have your baggage. It was Syrian President Asad who gassed his people. So why are you bitching about the Joint Chiefs of Staff? Unless it is OK for him to do it because what, he's not American? Talk about racism. Or self hatred? Why didn't you equate Asad to Genghis Khan? And regardless, they both knew/know what war is about. It is brutal, and it is sad. It isn't something with rules. That is a politically correct western idea created so that western leaders could sell wars to the public. No. I don't like that Asad gassed his people. But I'm not surprised. It is war. Now quit your tantrum.
They didn't sign a treaty. So it's OK for them to gas people? This is a no win. But really, what kind of a precedent does it set if we do nothing? You have to know that it will become the despot go to weapon if nothing is done about it. But hey if it's not in your back yard, who gives a fuck eh? You know a guy who does this will laugh and play you for a fool if you try to 'talk it out.' And he has places like Russia and Iran and elsewhere he can go for trips. Odessa (the new president of Ukraine is a Russian pawn) is a very nice vacation spot. So if you think he needs to or will go to a place the International Criminal Court can do anything about, you lose again. And all this talk about he's winning so why would he do this. Well sure maybe, 'cause I guess there has never been a dictator who has summarily punished their own citizens in retribution for things far less than trying to kick them out. Asad is not a reasonable guy.
What single strongest military power in Europe? Germany? After they spread themselves thin on multiple fronts, had their asses kicked by Britain in North Africa, destroyed by ALLIED effort in Italy, kicked by ALLIED effort in the west (notice 3 of the 5 beachheads in Normandy were NOT American... they were mostly commonwealth), and had ALLIED forces bomb the snot out of them eliminating any industrial output. Never mind they were running out of raw materials. While at the same time Russia was being supplied in large part by the ALLIES. And besides, the Soviet victories were damned near Pyrrhic victories... sacrifice tens of thousands of lives in single battles. They sacrificed 10.5 million lives against 5 million German soldiers on the eastern front. Two to one. What makes you think the Soviets hadn't blown their load taking Berlin? Especially when they would no longer be supplied by the west if the west started pushing them back, and they hadn't near the air force of the western Allies, nor any nuclear bombs.
And I hope you get the point I'm sick of American centric views of the war (and I know I'm not alone)? Get a fucking grip, the U.S. was only part of it, and it's manufacturing base was as important as it's armed forces. I'm grateful they finally got their shit together and joined everyone else, but Hollywood has put a false impression in American minds that they won it all by themselves.
With unlimited TLD's comes the ability to have unlimited sub-domains. An admittedly naive example would have someone create a malicious domain with the same sub-domain name and a site that looked like the legit one. Manipulate the search engines so that when someone does what you do, it goes to the shite site and phishes you. Oh wait, sites are already doing that but with links in emails. Just one click is good enough for them too? Now imagine orders of magnitude more opportunity to create look alike sites. And not everyone is savvy enough to notice. I'm sure there will be better less naive examples of how to exploit people who do what you do.
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Back doors are built into an implementation, not a standard.
If he is a detriment to society because he is a psychopath he should be off the street. If he is a detriment to society because of something about his autism, he should be off the street. If he is a detriment to society because he does criminal things, no matter what his condition or excuse, he should be off the streets. Actions over-ride excuses.
I wonder what the constitutionality of that is.
Being able to go anywhere and engage anything
Fallout 3
Nortel?
Another of Canada's former world leading tech giants bites the dust. I wonder what would have happened if RIM hadn't been blocked from buying Nortel assets. Would they have been diversified enough to weather this storm, or would RIM/BB have still cratered themselves.
Sure. They were sold to investors. Guess that ends that line of thought.
Apple doesn't sell electricity. And electric companies don't sell consumer electronics. What's your fucking point? Oh, you didn't have one.
Please. You have obviously never been involved in music, aside from listening.
Your are confusing retail mark up with the recording industry. Record stores take half... AFTER the record companies sell to them. I am talking about BEFORE record companies distribute to the stores. Yes, record companies take more than half, right off the top.
Yes, I already recognized what you are saying. :)
Yeah, because all music is electronica and nouveau r&b shite. Or is that all you listen to?
Most working musicians make their money playing gigs and selling merchandise. Only the lucky get big money recording deals. And even the ones who get the recording contracts will usually get less than ten cents from every dollar sold. Record companies usually just take 50% or more off the top. Just because. Then they start taking their other cuts from their (profit, recording fees, marketing fees, etc etc etc. and a few pennies for the band.... now go promote it). Regular bands and musicians take their gigs as they can get them and some good enough or lucky enough get regular work. And even then the better ones count on the occasional private gig that they can charge or get paid a bit or more better than club pay.
So the whole gazillion dollar thing... I call bullshit. What kills a lot of musicians is new shite bands who charge way less than they should because they live at home or have a day job, and think just getting in will let them live as a musician. It is like the whole living wage debate, there needs to be a minimum fee. And bar owners who are trying to make a go of it themselves who are then lead to believe that they are paying fair rates because some bands take it.
Most people think a musician is working when they are on stage so wow the band gets paid a grand (thousand bucks) for four hours work (and now-a-days many bars don't like paying half that). Meanwhile they neglect to notice that pay has to be split four or five ways to the band members. And that also has to cover daily practice (yes that is work, it is their job), rental of practice space (because who can afford a house with a garage to practice in on those wages?), and pay for gas, never mind the car to get to and from the gig. That 200 to 250 dollars starts getting spread pretty thinly. Hopefully you can get two or three gigs this week...
So this whole thing about musicians getting their money from recordings is for the lucky few. At best it is the demo home recording (or studio if you have the dough) self produced CD sold at regular gigs while you do road circuits across the country or state or province or city, if you live in a city that supports live bands.
The whole gazillion dollar recording artist is what we see on TV or hear on radio. But they are the lucky few. There are a lot of really talented people out there who are in the trenches, playing from club to club.
They're saying that as good as you might be as a musician you're probably shite as a recording engineer. And just because you can afford a few (what you think are) decent recording tools doesn't mean that you can use them to create as well engineered and sounding a recording as a person who studies sound engineering and practices mixing (not that easy to do well) every day... as much or more than you practice playing your instrument. Now maybe you can make something that can stand toe to toe with a real studio, but personally I sincerely doubt it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you personally... I doubt anyone could given the limited experience amateurs have compared to day in day out recording engineers, and the amateur equipment you listed.
Now the crux of what they are saying is that many people might not give a rat's ass if you recording sounds crappy compared to a professionally recorded and mixed production. If it is good enough, they might just buy your stuff anyway. But I would still warrant that if you professionally engineered your stuff and put it up against your home recording, people would pick the professional job; if the price were the same. But likely people will take free hoe hum quality over a more expensive but excellent quality version; if they like the music. Because it is good enough for their purposes.
Seriously, how is this a troll. In its context, it is a perfect synopsis of the whole story.
But it's not fair if it happens to Apple users.
I thought obvious extension of existing technology is not patentable. If you can remotely administer PC's or other computer equipment, smart phones are no different. They are just remote computers. I hope someone can challenge this patent on a basis at least something like this.
Anonymous or not, this should be marked insightful. Unless maybe they left off the journalist or newsworthy person who promotes democracy part.
Look up how many Russian were sacrificed in the Battle of Berlin. It was ridiculous. I'll say it again, most of their victories were Pyrrhic, or close to it. The only thing possibly making it not so is that they had more people to throw inter the fire than the Germans. Any army with that kind of tactic could have been beaten. They were a one trick pony, all frontal assault.
Whatever. Not worth the effort. You are a fanatic.
The truth hurts sunshine. The only democratic government in the middle east is Israel, and everyone is calling them evil.
Listen to Ockham not conspiracy theorists. It sure as hell wasn't the Joint Chiefs of Staff who gassed those people. And both Asad and his father are known as brutal dictators who are not above punitive retaliation against vulnerable people. And I don't just read articles that back up what I believe. I think from the articles you posted, that you do.
I bet you would say it isn't racist to call a white autocratic/dictatorial state that uses brutality and/or religious dogma to control its people uncivilized. So why would it be any different for the remainder of the middle east who rule like that (with the exception maybe of Turkey, but their current prime minister is sure trying hard to turn that country that way too). Yes, and I do have a lopsided slant to Israel. They are civilized. I favour civilized democratic governments who don't hire thugs to lob missiles indiscriminately across the border at the only democratic country in the region, or tolerate their citizens doing that (like Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Iran). Any citizen of Israel can vote in elections, Jews, Muslims, whites, blacks, Arabs, whoever. And there are Israeli citizens of all those stripes even if you want to listen to the real left wing bullshit saying otherwise. And there are Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Israeli parliament.
Or perhaps you are a fan of the Grand Mufti of the 40's and 50's who was a racist as evidenced by being Hitler's good buddy (there are pictures of the two having a good time together during the war) and who caused a lot of the problems in the middle east with his racism. And surprise sunshine, the president of Syria in the late 40s and early 50s said it was a mistake to tell the Palestinians to leave Israel and start a war with the Jews.
Until the non-Israeli countries in the middle east change from dictator states aligned on religious grounds, propped up like Asad is, by what are essentially still allied tribes and theocratic states, they won't be civilized. And that is not racist. No country no matter the race, is civilized with that manner of rule. If you disagree with that, something is fundamentally wrong with you (but we could see that with your previous temper tantrum reply). Turkey is still a civilized country and hopefully they get rid of the fucktard prime minister they have so that it can remain that way and not spiral into a backwards Islamist state. But I guess you are all for women wearing potato sacks with eye holes. Sure sounds like that is your kind of misogynistic civilization.
It took the west hundreds of years to get the church out of government, and thank goodness we did. Now we need to fight to keep it out so we don't devolve into the madness the middle east is now.
There are three reasons why someone won't understand something. One, they don't have enough information. Two, they aren't smart enough. Three, they don't want to. You are either two or three. Like the other guy said, you got schooled. Try and learn some more, and stop thinking like a racist, and stop putting your hangups on me.
Grow up. Stop putting your own motivations on me. I said what I said for my reasons, not yours. So if you want to be racist go right ahead, but I'm not. I don't have your baggage. It was Syrian President Asad who gassed his people. So why are you bitching about the Joint Chiefs of Staff? Unless it is OK for him to do it because what, he's not American? Talk about racism. Or self hatred? Why didn't you equate Asad to Genghis Khan? And regardless, they both knew/know what war is about. It is brutal, and it is sad. It isn't something with rules. That is a politically correct western idea created so that western leaders could sell wars to the public. No. I don't like that Asad gassed his people. But I'm not surprised. It is war. Now quit your tantrum.
I agree with everything you said. People who think there are or should be rules in war are deluded.
They didn't sign a treaty. So it's OK for them to gas people? This is a no win. But really, what kind of a precedent does it set if we do nothing? You have to know that it will become the despot go to weapon if nothing is done about it. But hey if it's not in your back yard, who gives a fuck eh? You know a guy who does this will laugh and play you for a fool if you try to 'talk it out.' And he has places like Russia and Iran and elsewhere he can go for trips. Odessa (the new president of Ukraine is a Russian pawn) is a very nice vacation spot. So if you think he needs to or will go to a place the International Criminal Court can do anything about, you lose again. And all this talk about he's winning so why would he do this. Well sure maybe, 'cause I guess there has never been a dictator who has summarily punished their own citizens in retribution for things far less than trying to kick them out. Asad is not a reasonable guy.
What single strongest military power in Europe? Germany? After they spread themselves thin on multiple fronts, had their asses kicked by Britain in North Africa, destroyed by ALLIED effort in Italy, kicked by ALLIED effort in the west (notice 3 of the 5 beachheads in Normandy were NOT American... they were mostly commonwealth), and had ALLIED forces bomb the snot out of them eliminating any industrial output. Never mind they were running out of raw materials. While at the same time Russia was being supplied in large part by the ALLIES. And besides, the Soviet victories were damned near Pyrrhic victories... sacrifice tens of thousands of lives in single battles. They sacrificed 10.5 million lives against 5 million German soldiers on the eastern front. Two to one. What makes you think the Soviets hadn't blown their load taking Berlin? Especially when they would no longer be supplied by the west if the west started pushing them back, and they hadn't near the air force of the western Allies, nor any nuclear bombs.
And I hope you get the point I'm sick of American centric views of the war (and I know I'm not alone)? Get a fucking grip, the U.S. was only part of it, and it's manufacturing base was as important as it's armed forces. I'm grateful they finally got their shit together and joined everyone else, but Hollywood has put a false impression in American minds that they won it all by themselves.
With unlimited TLD's comes the ability to have unlimited sub-domains. An admittedly naive example would have someone create a malicious domain with the same sub-domain name and a site that looked like the legit one. Manipulate the search engines so that when someone does what you do, it goes to the shite site and phishes you. Oh wait, sites are already doing that but with links in emails. Just one click is good enough for them too? Now imagine orders of magnitude more opportunity to create look alike sites. And not everyone is savvy enough to notice. I'm sure there will be better less naive examples of how to exploit people who do what you do.