DISCLAIMER : I am a Libertarian and this MAY be a rant.
I believe that the government should not have control over the media. Period.
The airwaves wouldn't fall into disarray if it ceased to be, too many companies have too big a stake in media to allow it to fail. No, Chicken Little, if Nanny Government leaves, the sky will NOT begin falling.
The Government has no right to tell me what I can and cannot view. The Government has no duty to protect children from an exposed breast during the superbowl. The parents of a child old enough to watch and understand the game of (American) football, certianly should have explained at least that much of the facts of life to said child, or they are not very good at parenting.
It's mostly marketing, those are rated speeds, so if you burn above those and bad things happen, the company isn't responsible. But it SHOULD work with lower rated discs.
Could it be the open distribution of music has shifted the paradigm away from record companies?
Real music is art, not merely a commodity. Although most mainstream music is made with profit as the chief concern. And the artists themselves make in the range of $0.03-$1.50 on a $15-$20 CD. You want to support an artist, go to a concert, where they get a reasonable share of the take.
The RIAA is no longer needed to distribute the music to the listeners. The Record Companies outmoded. But they are not going quietly; they need not suffer silently when they can still use remorseless scaremonger tactics to delay the inevitable. They are now an unnessary middleman.
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Libertarianism with social freedom. Liberatarianism has that. Maybe you meant social collectivism?
War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.
You also are disabled, lacking a sense of humor.
It's times like this i wish there was a mod option "+1, Sarcastically Insightful".
Me too!
That already happens. It's called 'ricing'.
Yes, but he also designed us humans. Plenty of "features" in us that a little QA would've removed... assuming we aren't just an alpha....
Offtopic?
How is my stating that the FCC should not exist because the government should not control the media offtopic, given the context?
DISCLAIMER : I am a Libertarian and this MAY be a rant.
I believe that the government should not have control over the media. Period.
The airwaves wouldn't fall into disarray if it ceased to be, too many companies have too big a stake in media to allow it to fail. No, Chicken Little, if Nanny Government leaves, the sky will NOT begin falling.
The Government has no right to tell me what I can and cannot view. The Government has no duty to protect children from an exposed breast during the superbowl. The parents of a child old enough to watch and understand the game of (American) football, certianly should have explained at least that much of the facts of life to said child, or they are not very good at parenting.
Blasphemy!
It's mostly marketing, those are rated speeds, so if you burn above those and bad things happen, the company isn't responsible. But it SHOULD work with lower rated discs.
Linebreaks must be in short supply.
*ducks*
Does this mean Darknets are for pr0n?
Lame is a noun. It's thin metal plate used in medieval armor. LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder.
In Soviet Russia, a beowulf cluster of these imagines YOOOOOUU!
I mean really, Apple, what do you have to lose?
Actually I did exactly that when SP1 b0rked my partition table, you insensitive clod.
I'm sure whatever happens will be Mostly Harmless.
Could it be the open distribution of music has shifted the paradigm away from record companies? Real music is art, not merely a commodity. Although most mainstream music is made with profit as the chief concern. And the artists themselves make in the range of $0.03-$1.50 on a $15-$20 CD. You want to support an artist, go to a concert, where they get a reasonable share of the take. The RIAA is no longer needed to distribute the music to the listeners. The Record Companies outmoded. But they are not going quietly; they need not suffer silently when they can still use remorseless scaremonger tactics to delay the inevitable. They are now an unnessary middleman.