Use of Don Henley's well-known music implies that he supports the DeVore, which he clearly does not. In that sense, it is defamatory to Don Henley
What? How on earth does using this tune imply that Henley has anything to do with it? It is clearly meant to be silly. I had difficulty understanding what the heck you were talking about...
Then I saw you start to drift to talk about ripping off conservative's music (what?) and then onto demon sheep political advertisments (how is that relevant?) and then onto "Repugnantcan" (did I spell that right?) douchebaggery. That's when I realized that your rant is basically like grampa simpson yelling at a cloud. Why is this troll modded up?
I remember that Satriani v. Cold Play lawsuit. I'm not lover of Cold Play, but it seemed like a bit of a stretch on Satriani's part.
The problem here is that Copyright Law if just poorly thought out, ambiguous, and lacking common sense.
When is one piece of music copying another? When are two pieces of music "different enough" to be considered different pieces of intellectual property? These are actually much more complicated questions than you might think (and this is just talking about music copyright).
But be prepared: it is 70 minutes long. That's right... 7 ten-minute youtube videos.
It is impossible to explain to you why you should ever care about watching a movie criticism that is close to half the length of the movie itself. So all I can say is.... just watch the first video (or just half of the first video), and I'm pretty sure you will get it.
(And there is now an Episode II review up as well)
My point isn't that everybody should read hotair to be balanced. I personally don't read hotair because I just don't feel like it.
My point is that dismissing it because it is "biased" or, as you put it, a "hate site" is a bad way to go. If, as a country, the US reaches the point where one side dismisses the other side's arguments as simply "stupid" or "hateful" or "evil" or whatever without even understanding the arguments... then yes, that is the very definition of closed-mindedness.
To be honest, I find it a bit disturbing that you could simply dismiss the OP's links because you don't like the website they came from. This really highlights the growing trend of the absolute polarization of American politics.
Of course hotair is super conservative, but what does that have to do with what is said? There are facts, citations, and original documents in those posts that the OP put up, and that conservative hotair commentator uses those facts to try to illustrate a point. Maybe it is a dumb point. Maybe the hotair author cherry-picked his facts. But what is the harm in reading it?
You should be able to read Paul Krugman, then read Charles Krauthammer, then read hotair, then read dailykos, and do so without dismissing any of them out of hand because they "have a bias". Of course they do. That is the whole point. That's why people read them.
I think this trend of political polarization in current American politics is awful. Talk about closed-mindedness.
Why are you suggesting a Firefox addon for a complaint about MSIE 6.0 in an environment where you can be fired for using anything other than MSIE?
Wow a little touchy huh? I'm suggesting flashblock to everybody. There are probably people out there who aren't as 1337 as you and maybe haven't heard of it.
the assumption by software vendors that their software is so important that it should auto-start
It is not exactly that they think their software is that important... it is a way of cheating.
When they "auto-start" the app when the operating system loads, they are pre-loading some memory and executing some initialization. So then, when you go to start their program.... BAM! It pops up so quickly! What a great piece of software, it is so fast!!!
The creative development team is the hub for the company's history. They have two full-time lore historians, keepers of blizzard's past. They are the liaisons with the novelists, work to create shared art resources, act as an archive for every piece of art that's been created for Blizzard Entertainment, and currently maintain 100,000 art assets.
I wonder what those two guys are like. I'm pretty sure they must be nerds of EPIC proportions. And I don't mean that in a mean way, I'm just sayin....
Try telling that to someone outside the USA. Many of them think it's piss poor beer.
....That's my point. If the best they can do is say that it is "drinkable", then they are in bad shape.
And as far as people's taste in beer outside the US goes, it is not generally better (except for beer capitals like Germany, Belgium, England, Ireland, etc).
In fact it used to crack me up when I lived in Italy how many euro-yuppies would pay 4-5 euros for a bottle of Bud (yes, American Bud). It was like Corona is here in the USA: the overpriced favorite of those who have no taste in beer.
A decision I would support would be if the court fully backed Verizon's claim... BUT
made them get rid of the obnoxious guy with the thick rimmed glasses. I swear I have to change the channel when I see those ads.
Gogoana placed the cost of the project, excluding labor, at around $200,000, but much of the materials were donated and the Electric Vehicle Team isn't paid. The batteries alone hold a price tag of about $80,000, but Gogoana said that as more batteries and cars are produced, cost should be driven down.
Don't get me wrong, this is all cool stuff. One day relatively soon, I bet these things will be the norm.
But we need to stop with the hyperbolic comparisons to current cars. Apples and oranges. Any comparisons should be made to other types of experimental work along these lines.
He goes into why he spent his own money to make a series of classic physics lectures available free on the Web
Well, one reason I can say for sure is that he happens to have billions of dollars in his bank account. So the cost of doing this is amounts to a rounding error in his checking account. Let's not ascribe too much a sense of moral duty to him for doing this.
When people sing the praises of the ultra-wealthy who donate a bit of money to this or that, it makes me annoyed a little bit. On the one hand, yes, it is good for them to give money to good causes. But on the other hand, they usually do not donate anything close to being something that they would actually feel. Some do, but most don't.
These things are a great way to make a beautiful landscape hideous. And the amount of power generated considering the acreage needed is ridiculous.
Here's a crazy idea: how about nuclear power? Oh, that's right, the word "nuclear" is too super-scary for the science-based environmentalists. Never mind that they actually are better for the environment than anything else.
Now you just need to create a video game that purchases and plays its own content and it seems like you might have quite a booming business on your hands.
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Ok, we need an adult to start running this company please. Seriously, this Zuckerberg guy is so far out of his league it is laughable.
What? How on earth does using this tune imply that Henley has anything to do with it? It is clearly meant to be silly. I had difficulty understanding what the heck you were talking about...
Then I saw you start to drift to talk about ripping off conservative's music (what?) and then onto demon sheep political advertisments (how is that relevant?) and then onto "Repugnantcan" (did I spell that right?) douchebaggery. That's when I realized that your rant is basically like grampa simpson yelling at a cloud. Why is this troll modded up?
I remember that Satriani v. Cold Play lawsuit. I'm not lover of Cold Play, but it seemed like a bit of a stretch on Satriani's part.
The problem here is that Copyright Law if just poorly thought out, ambiguous, and lacking common sense.
When is one piece of music copying another? When are two pieces of music "different enough" to be considered different pieces of intellectual property? These are actually much more complicated questions than you might think (and this is just talking about music copyright).
All music crosses lines with other music to a certain extent. Check out these two youtube videos for a quick and witty illustration by a couple musicians: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM
PS: Also, it's funny how everyone on Slashdot is all of a sudden on the side of the copyright enforcer.
Will the current iPhone hardware be able to handle this new OS?
I ended up having to get rid of my original iPhone and get a 3GS because all the OS updates slowed my iPhone down to a crawl for any given operation.
Along the lines of MST3K, everyone should check out this long criticism of The Phantom Menace:
http://www.blancscreencinema.com/redlettermedia/phantom_menace.html
But be prepared: it is 70 minutes long. That's right... 7 ten-minute youtube videos.
It is impossible to explain to you why you should ever care about watching a movie criticism that is close to half the length of the movie itself. So all I can say is.... just watch the first video (or just half of the first video), and I'm pretty sure you will get it.
(And there is now an Episode II review up as well)
You are unwise to lower your defenses. You don't know the POWER of the DARK SIDE!
LAST POST!!!!1
My point isn't that everybody should read hotair to be balanced. I personally don't read hotair because I just don't feel like it.
My point is that dismissing it because it is "biased" or, as you put it, a "hate site" is a bad way to go. If, as a country, the US reaches the point where one side dismisses the other side's arguments as simply "stupid" or "hateful" or "evil" or whatever without even understanding the arguments... then yes, that is the very definition of closed-mindedness.
To be honest, I find it a bit disturbing that you could simply dismiss the OP's links because you don't like the website they came from. This really highlights the growing trend of the absolute polarization of American politics.
Of course hotair is super conservative, but what does that have to do with what is said? There are facts, citations, and original documents in those posts that the OP put up, and that conservative hotair commentator uses those facts to try to illustrate a point. Maybe it is a dumb point. Maybe the hotair author cherry-picked his facts. But what is the harm in reading it?
You should be able to read Paul Krugman, then read Charles Krauthammer, then read hotair, then read dailykos, and do so without dismissing any of them out of hand because they "have a bias". Of course they do. That is the whole point. That's why people read them.
I think this trend of political polarization in current American politics is awful. Talk about closed-mindedness.
Be careful about checking your credit too often though.
When you check your credit too often, it dings your credit score. And it doesn't take much either.
Don't ask me why this is the case...
Why are you suggesting a Firefox addon for a complaint about MSIE 6.0 in an environment where you can be fired for using anything other than MSIE?
Wow a little touchy huh? I'm suggesting flashblock to everybody. There are probably people out there who aren't as 1337 as you and maybe haven't heard of it.
It is not exactly that they think their software is that important... it is a way of cheating.
When they "auto-start" the app when the operating system loads, they are pre-loading some memory and executing some initialization. So then, when you go to start their program.... BAM! It pops up so quickly! What a great piece of software, it is so fast!!!
And yes, this trick works on about 99% of users.
Flashblock is your friend:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
Wow... really? You expect that when the government is involved, things should be perfect? Prepare yourself for disappointment, my friend.
... that an innovative business like Mozilla needs to live in fear of the government and nervously await its blessing.
I wonder what those two guys are like. I'm pretty sure they must be nerds of EPIC proportions. And I don't mean that in a mean way, I'm just sayin....
...Clippy the Action Figure!
Try telling that to someone outside the USA. Many of them think it's piss poor beer.
And as far as people's taste in beer outside the US goes, it is not generally better (except for beer capitals like Germany, Belgium, England, Ireland, etc).
In fact it used to crack me up when I lived in Italy how many euro-yuppies would pay 4-5 euros for a bottle of Bud (yes, American Bud). It was like Corona is here in the USA: the overpriced favorite of those who have no taste in beer.
I love Budweiser's current ad campaign. They are just going with honesty: "Drinkability". Hey, it's drinkable!
A decision I would support would be if the court fully backed Verizon's claim...
BUT
made them get rid of the obnoxious guy with the thick rimmed glasses. I swear I have to change the channel when I see those ads.
They used the password "GOD".
Don't get me wrong, this is all cool stuff. One day relatively soon, I bet these things will be the norm.
But we need to stop with the hyperbolic comparisons to current cars. Apples and oranges. Any comparisons should be made to other types of experimental work along these lines.
Well, one reason I can say for sure is that he happens to have billions of dollars in his bank account. So the cost of doing this is amounts to a rounding error in his checking account. Let's not ascribe too much a sense of moral duty to him for doing this.
When people sing the praises of the ultra-wealthy who donate a bit of money to this or that, it makes me annoyed a little bit. On the one hand, yes, it is good for them to give money to good causes. But on the other hand, they usually do not donate anything close to being something that they would actually feel. Some do, but most don't.
These things are a great way to make a beautiful landscape hideous. And the amount of power generated considering the acreage needed is ridiculous.
Here's a crazy idea: how about nuclear power? Oh, that's right, the word "nuclear" is too super-scary for the science-based environmentalists. Never mind that they actually are better for the environment than anything else.
Now you just need to create a video game that purchases and plays its own content and it seems like you might have quite a booming business on your hands.