I calculated the 26Mb/s at being 35USD/month with the modem rental fee. That's a DSL line. I realize Japan generally has higher population density, but to merely up the flow of DSL lines, would that depend on that at all really? Wouldn't the ISP just have to up the total bandwidth that they have to give out? (I know little of how that side of things work.) They're just just trying to get all the money they can from us, it seems. Or maybe everyone knows that if we all have 26Mb/s then dissemination of pirated software and media would definitely go much higher.
Mr. Lee didn't really convince me on his point of why the parental control isn't enough. He says "Unlike movies, in which parents can easily determine whether it is suitable for their child, many of these games must be mastered before the interaction begins at the most violent levels." I don't see any basis for that. Video games are definitely as easy to indentify as violent as a movie. If the graphic content on the back of the package, the ESRB rating, and the hours of grisly sounds and images emanating from the living room aren't enough to allow determination then either is what's offered by movies for determination.
I think that's an important aspect because parents buy kids the games anyway. I bet that's the most common way kids get their games: from someone else buying them for them, but I could be wrong.
I guess it's not really a big deal in the grander scheme of things, just possibly a waste of money and time and effort.
Here in Canada we put a relatively large focus on supporting Canadian artists, and culture and media in general. Some of our taxes and levies(like on CD-Rs) help fund arts groups and artists, and this is somewhat in that line, I feel.
Even our big media group, the CBC, recieves government funding. I for one I'm glad for it. Sure, it's socialism. But it's just a touch. And when I dial in the CBC Two late at night there's always the most interesting music on. We pay a bit more in taxes and get a lot back in continuingly interesting art. I think that's a good thing.
I don't fear monetary systems. I'm not saying thi system is terrible, it's not perfect, but what is? That's my loose understanding of how the government/(congress) borrows money.
It's my understanding that the private banks own the fed. As in, they own the stock. It's a central bank, is it not? That's how all central banks work, isn't it? The banks purchase the stock of the central bank. If not, who does?
And, where do you think congress borrows it's money from? They don't get enough money from "plain" taxes.
Like, I'm not trolling, I'll glad say that what I said isn't the entire story(this is huge economics, i don't any of us could explain the "whole thing), but I think that it's accurate to describe in layman terms how the governments borrow money, and why the banks don't mind to borrow it, even though it's never "paid'.
It owes it to the fed, which is owned by private banks. And the banks don't mind that those debts never get "paid". They get paid in otherways: such as inflation. Inflation is mainly really just the majority population(you) losing purchasing power to the banks. Things don't cost more: if you lived 2000 years ago and had a ounce of gold you could buy a nice toga and a nice pair of sandals. If you have an ounce of gold today you can buy a nice suit and some nice shoes. Inflation really isn't things costing more, it's your money(fiat currency) losing purchasing power. And it is lost to the guys who make the money(the fed: the private banks).
So yeah, you're totally right it really is imaginary. The banks just invent it(really, they write checks to congress and the money doesn't exist before congress cashes them in for federal reserve notes at the treasury) in the idea that they'll make it back plus interest(inflation) when people spend it.
Some the people who work for the company(it's very small) have definitely worked on projects that are under the RIAA, but that doesn't mean much in itself.
But, where do they get the music for their games? The only one I was able to figure out was that the rendition of Vivaldi's Four Seasons they use was recorded by the Hamburg Chamber Orchestra under the Madacy record label. I'm not sure if that's RIAA.
I just realized i had wrote quadrillion. Dear lord. The thing I was looking at had a bunch of numbers in quadrillions(like total European and AMerican trade and stuff like that), and had the Rothschild family estimated at.1 Quadrillion, and I meant to say 100 Trillion. That page is somewhere on http://www.mega.nu/ampp/
I have here a biography though, by Frederic Morton, "The Rothschilds", which has the wealth in the year 1850 listed as over, then, 6 Billion US. And these aren't guys to tell you how much money they have. NM Rothschild kept a secret vault in France with gold which was never taxed or audited.
Forbes and Fortune and whatever else can only list reported wealths remember. The Rothschilds own a lot of banks.
You should look at that biography it shows a lot of how they own endless companies in like this crazy web and it doesn't include a hint of the "Illuminati" conspiracy stuff that you get on the web.
No shit. The politicians just fuel these, what should be little, fires, cause if everyone's thinking about racism and violence and terrorism then they and their coporate masters run away with all the cash. The Rothschild banking family is esitmated to possibly be worth over 100 quadrillion dollars now, and they control every presswire services and many other media outlets, yet you never hear of their dealings. Remember, whenever you move money or stock, the Rothschilds get a bit richer.
I remember when i was a kid every boy had toy guns, well, excpet me(damn you, mom!), now, they just have video games increasingly instead. I don't see the big leap. If parents don't want kids playing violent video games, then they should just not let them. If you don't know what games your kid is playing, you must be braindead, or maybe, just maybe, you don't actually give a shit about what your kid is doing, and, unfortunately, I truly see that as not too far from the truth.
Who cares if a kid can buy an M rated game at the store. Where is he going to play it? At his own flat? No. He's playing it at home in the basement, where the parents can clearly see what he's doing. And it's the parents that should decide what a kid can do within the law, not the state. Lousy state, *shakes fist*.
I can buy a CD player cheaper than a turntable. Heh, and, to note, vinyl still sounds better than CD audio. That's why audiophiles haven't left they're vinyl collections.
Tube amplifiers aren't cheaper than transistor ones either.
That's out it is here in Canada. It's terrible. I order my CD-R's from the States privately and don't pay any levies. I'm not sure if that's legal, but when you're releasing your own music independantly, and you need a lot of CD-Rs, you'd go broke if you bought them in Canada.
...I'd be able to do my "live" production with more finesse, and just overall grace for everything; if only I could get more nice apps for music making(softsynths and editors) for GNU/Linux. It's the only reason I still run this machine dual boot with Windoughs. Sigh. Maybe in a couple years.
I've always thought of making more of my own stuff(I tinker with some open source audio stuff -- ZynAddSubFX is deadly when you want to get a fine-tuned sound), but my coding skills are pretty pathetic.
I'd love to see a more organized project from Linux based softsynths and audio production. Like, the flexibility(and latency!) is much better in Linux, but more apps are needed. Imagine every kid who wants to do project recording or who has hopes of electronica-stardom wanting to switch over to Linux because of some deadly and free(audio apps are expensive) synthesizers and editors/sequencers. That's no small group. I guess another problem would be support for the particular audio and midi hardware interfaces.
The fact that everything is increasingly fluid is merely part of the culture, it doesn't have to be otherwise. If everything had to be traditional to maintain culture and art, I would go crazy, because nothing is. The key is to look for new ways to create culture and art in a rapidly shifting time. And the composers of this time know this: they don't write the way Beethoven or Mozart did. As long as there's some amount of good in the world there will always be artists of pure genius who can view deeply into the workings of the world which we reside in and give it back to us in the most interesting ways.
You should read the philosopher Jean Baudrillard. He teaches how the post-modern world and it's "screen" flattens everything it shows into a one-dimensional pseudo-culture(pop-culture, consumer-culture). The screen takes everything out of any "organic" or natural context, creating a break from reality.
Now that's pretty simple, ha, Baudrillard himself is much moren inpenetrable. But you can see what's he's saying. For example, just what we're talking about here: rock music on MTV. Rock music shouldn't have anything to do with corporations like that. Rock is out of it's context. Being on there insures that it's lost its capacity for "rebellion", it's just "content" now, it's just a product, one-dimensional, it's not really art anymore.
I bet Apple would like this to some extent. This could mean that content that people buy from Apple is worth even more to the purchaser than before, without any [direct] cost to Apple. I'm sure Apple would have wanted DRM-less content, but that would not have been a reasonable deal with the RIAA/copyright holders.
That's called Argumentum ad hominem. I've never heard it called "the shoot the messenger fallacy". And the thing about that fallacy, is people scream it too much. If someone has an incentive to lie about something, then it would be naive to accept his statements about that subject without question.
I just finished ripping a 1h20m long session by Deep Dish at 192kbps. Before that i did a 320kbps of the 50 minute long Hands of Caravaggio by the Music in Motion Electronic Orchestra. And I'm not done for today. When you download from me, you're downloading the best.
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I calculated the 26Mb/s at being 35USD/month with the modem rental fee. That's a DSL line. I realize Japan generally has higher population density, but to merely up the flow of DSL lines, would that depend on that at all really? Wouldn't the ISP just have to up the total bandwidth that they have to give out? (I know little of how that side of things work.) They're just just trying to get all the money they can from us, it seems. Or maybe everyone knows that if we all have 26Mb/s then dissemination of pirated software and media would definitely go much higher.
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I thought it was funny.
Mr. Lee didn't really convince me on his point of why the parental control isn't enough. He says "Unlike movies, in which parents can easily determine whether it is suitable for their child, many of these games must be mastered before the interaction begins at the most violent levels." I don't see any basis for that. Video games are definitely as easy to indentify as violent as a movie. If the graphic content on the back of the package, the ESRB rating, and the hours of grisly sounds and images emanating from the living room aren't enough to allow determination then either is what's offered by movies for determination.
I think that's an important aspect because parents buy kids the games anyway. I bet that's the most common way kids get their games: from someone else buying them for them, but I could be wrong.
I guess it's not really a big deal in the grander scheme of things, just possibly a waste of money and time and effort.
Here in Canada we put a relatively large focus on supporting Canadian artists, and culture and media in general. Some of our taxes and levies(like on CD-Rs) help fund arts groups and artists, and this is somewhat in that line, I feel.
Even our big media group, the CBC, recieves government funding. I for one I'm glad for it. Sure, it's socialism. But it's just a touch. And when I dial in the CBC Two late at night there's always the most interesting music on. We pay a bit more in taxes and get a lot back in continuingly interesting art. I think that's a good thing.
I don't fear monetary systems. I'm not saying thi system is terrible, it's not perfect, but what is? That's my loose understanding of how the government/(congress) borrows money.
It's my understanding that the private banks own the fed. As in, they own the stock. It's a central bank, is it not? That's how all central banks work, isn't it? The banks purchase the stock of the central bank. If not, who does?
And, where do you think congress borrows it's money from? They don't get enough money from "plain" taxes.
Like, I'm not trolling, I'll glad say that what I said isn't the entire story(this is huge economics, i don't any of us could explain the "whole thing), but I think that it's accurate to describe in layman terms how the governments borrow money, and why the banks don't mind to borrow it, even though it's never "paid'.
It owes it to the fed, which is owned by private banks. And the banks don't mind that those debts never get "paid". They get paid in otherways: such as inflation. Inflation is mainly really just the majority population(you) losing purchasing power to the banks. Things don't cost more: if you lived 2000 years ago and had a ounce of gold you could buy a nice toga and a nice pair of sandals. If you have an ounce of gold today you can buy a nice suit and some nice shoes. Inflation really isn't things costing more, it's your money(fiat currency) losing purchasing power. And it is lost to the guys who make the money(the fed: the private banks).
So yeah, you're totally right it really is imaginary. The banks just invent it(really, they write checks to congress and the money doesn't exist before congress cashes them in for federal reserve notes at the treasury) in the idea that they'll make it back plus interest(inflation) when people spend it.
Some the people who work for the company(it's very small) have definitely worked on projects that are under the RIAA, but that doesn't mean much in itself.
But, where do they get the music for their games? The only one I was able to figure out was that the rendition of Vivaldi's Four Seasons they use was recorded by the Hamburg Chamber Orchestra under the Madacy record label. I'm not sure if that's RIAA.
I just realized i had wrote quadrillion. Dear lord. The thing I was looking at had a bunch of numbers in quadrillions(like total European and AMerican trade and stuff like that), and had the Rothschild family estimated at .1 Quadrillion, and I meant to say 100 Trillion. That page is somewhere on http://www.mega.nu/ampp/
I have here a biography though, by Frederic Morton, "The Rothschilds", which has the wealth in the year 1850 listed as over, then, 6 Billion US. And these aren't guys to tell you how much money they have. NM Rothschild kept a secret vault in France with gold which was never taxed or audited.
Forbes and Fortune and whatever else can only list reported wealths remember. The Rothschilds own a lot of banks.
You should look at that biography it shows a lot of how they own endless companies in like this crazy web and it doesn't include a hint of the "Illuminati" conspiracy stuff that you get on the web.
But then they can't control your brain waves! Sheesh.
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I would kill for a reflective display, a nice matte, soft screen to look at. I would never leave my computer.
Nah, I'm not paranoid of some secret government or conspiracy. But I do believe in the wealth of that banking dynasty.
No shit. The politicians just fuel these, what should be little, fires, cause if everyone's thinking about racism and violence and terrorism then they and their coporate masters run away with all the cash. The Rothschild banking family is esitmated to possibly be worth over 100 quadrillion dollars now, and they control every presswire services and many other media outlets, yet you never hear of their dealings. Remember, whenever you move money or stock, the Rothschilds get a bit richer.
No shit.
I remember when i was a kid every boy had toy guns, well, excpet me(damn you, mom!), now, they just have video games increasingly instead. I don't see the big leap. If parents don't want kids playing violent video games, then they should just not let them. If you don't know what games your kid is playing, you must be braindead, or maybe, just maybe, you don't actually give a shit about what your kid is doing, and, unfortunately, I truly see that as not too far from the truth.
Who cares if a kid can buy an M rated game at the store. Where is he going to play it? At his own flat? No. He's playing it at home in the basement, where the parents can clearly see what he's doing. And it's the parents that should decide what a kid can do within the law, not the state. Lousy state, *shakes fist*.
I can buy a CD player cheaper than a turntable. Heh, and, to note, vinyl still sounds better than CD audio. That's why audiophiles haven't left they're vinyl collections. Tube amplifiers aren't cheaper than transistor ones either.
That's out it is here in Canada. It's terrible. I order my CD-R's from the States privately and don't pay any levies. I'm not sure if that's legal, but when you're releasing your own music independantly, and you need a lot of CD-Rs, you'd go broke if you bought them in Canada.
He's implying that the people down-under are from "the bush".
(Pssst! No one knows their geo-political history!)
...I'd be able to do my "live" production with more finesse, and just overall grace for everything; if only I could get more nice apps for music making(softsynths and editors) for GNU/Linux. It's the only reason I still run this machine dual boot with Windoughs. Sigh. Maybe in a couple years.
I've always thought of making more of my own stuff(I tinker with some open source audio stuff -- ZynAddSubFX is deadly when you want to get a fine-tuned sound), but my coding skills are pretty pathetic.
I'd love to see a more organized project from Linux based softsynths and audio production. Like, the flexibility(and latency!) is much better in Linux, but more apps are needed. Imagine every kid who wants to do project recording or who has hopes of electronica-stardom wanting to switch over to Linux because of some deadly and free(audio apps are expensive) synthesizers and editors/sequencers. That's no small group. I guess another problem would be support for the particular audio and midi hardware interfaces.
Can't complain: can only dream.
Oh they're coming, and they've already got your new home all set up for you: http://www.c0balt.com/egg/insane.shtml
The fact that everything is increasingly fluid is merely part of the culture, it doesn't have to be otherwise. If everything had to be traditional to maintain culture and art, I would go crazy, because nothing is. The key is to look for new ways to create culture and art in a rapidly shifting time. And the composers of this time know this: they don't write the way Beethoven or Mozart did. As long as there's some amount of good in the world there will always be artists of pure genius who can view deeply into the workings of the world which we reside in and give it back to us in the most interesting ways.
You should read the philosopher Jean Baudrillard. He teaches how the post-modern world and it's "screen" flattens everything it shows into a one-dimensional pseudo-culture(pop-culture, consumer-culture). The screen takes everything out of any "organic" or natural context, creating a break from reality.
Now that's pretty simple, ha, Baudrillard himself is much moren inpenetrable. But you can see what's he's saying. For example, just what we're talking about here: rock music on MTV. Rock music shouldn't have anything to do with corporations like that. Rock is out of it's context. Being on there insures that it's lost its capacity for "rebellion", it's just "content" now, it's just a product, one-dimensional, it's not really art anymore.
I bet Apple would like this to some extent. This could mean that content that people buy from Apple is worth even more to the purchaser than before, without any [direct] cost to Apple. I'm sure Apple would have wanted DRM-less content, but that would not have been a reasonable deal with the RIAA/copyright holders.
Maybe I'm wrong though.
No shit. Who would have a problem with that? Here would be that conversation:
Him: "Hey, Pete I used your lawnmower."
Me: "Oh...huh?"
Him: "Don't worry, I put it back."
Me: "Is it alright?"
Him: "Yeah, I filled it back up."
Me: "Oh. Alright then."
Him: "Thanks."
Me: "Uh, no problem."
But apparently, because the law implies that that's wrong I should probably just "beat him up" like somebody said about something earlier.
That's called Argumentum ad hominem. I've never heard it called "the shoot the messenger fallacy". And the thing about that fallacy, is people scream it too much. If someone has an incentive to lie about something, then it would be naive to accept his statements about that subject without question.
A fellow skeptic of the Fed here as well? Whenever I read about it my blood boils...
I just finished ripping a 1h20m long session by Deep Dish at 192kbps. Before that i did a 320kbps of the 50 minute long Hands of Caravaggio by the Music in Motion Electronic Orchestra. And I'm not done for today. When you download from me, you're downloading the best.