(although the only two Volswagen's I have ever owned have been crap)
I'd guess they were made in Mexico.
6 weeks vacation per year (government mandate) makes it impossible to get anything acomplished during the summer months.
Maybe, but here I have people leaving all over the year and in the summer I can't really get anything done either. Even though one person is only gone for up to three weeks the other resources have to pick up their slack and are essentially not available to me anyways.
they have a real hard time wrapping their brains around what it takes to make business happen outside of Germany.
I don't really think that is much of an issue these days anymore. No more than for example US companies having a hard time understanding local cultural differences.
While living in the states I made an interesting obersvation:
1. Generation: New to the country, trying to build something.
2. Generation: Still driven, as they saw their parents struggle and try to carry on.
3. Generation: Lazy. Everything has already been done and they really don't care anymore.
Real "Americans" seem to be rather unmotivated.... Reminds me of the picture of the old rome: "Bread & Games", didn't work out in the end for rome, don't think it'll work out in the end for the US.
It's not only in the US that way, it pretty much works that way in any country.
I am on a Work permit in Canada right now and it would cost me ~5K and 2 1/2 years to get a landed immigrant status. If I would have come in under the radar I most likely could the whole thing have gotten expedited.
I pay taxes here, I do work etc. etc. in essence I have proofen my value, yet it does not help in any way shape or form.
So when my WP is up instead of going for an extension or file for PR I might just pack up and move back to Europe.
The problem is not only the music (or lyrics) but the entire "merchandise" that surrounds it.
- Musicvideos - Internet - TV News
etc.
Are all influencing the way the world is perceived. So even IF the lyrics haven't changed that much the impact they have clearly has changed because the context in which they are absorbed has changed.
I use GPG. Nobody else that I know does, and so I cannot encrypt email to them.
I have / had similar issues, it takes some time to convince people that they should be doing it, and slowly but surely I do convert people in my surrounding to use it.
But you are right, unless MS does it by default the majority will not use it, and if it is done by default I am not sure I would want to trust it.
"Here's another article about evil companies violating the copyright of the GPL. We must enforce the GPL and punish those who infringe its copyright. GPL violaters are evil, and the copyright of the GPL must be respected."
The GPL is a LICENSE and is not copyright, copyright != license
Actually they have, it is called copyright. While the printing press did not make reproduction free it did make it virtually free
Doesn't one have to protect it's copyright in order to keep it?
If so, one could argue that after five odd years of trading on the net the copyright has expired and the works are now in public domain? (Or was that trademark, it's early, I am confused).
Like a lot of people around here, you seem live under the assumption that the selling price of an item is somehow based on the cost of making it. Basic economics proves this false (except that the selling price must be higher than the cost of production). They can charge whatever they want, and people get to decide whether to pay it.
The parents posters reasoning was "mass production", this does not apply in this case though.
But yes, I agree, "desirable" has something to do with it as well, though in what way you can argue that charging almost $3 bucks for something that someone can also have for free is beyond me.
Volume discounting makes perfect sense, andhaving a cheaper alternative if you buy per song is bad business for them, as much as you want to complain about it.
Only that manufacturing costs don't account for anything in this. In fact it would cost more to sell the whole album for $9.99 as you still have to squeeze 20 songs through the pipe.
Now with CDs it is a different thing as the costs to manufacture a single song CD is the same as the one to create a 20 song CD.
The receiver would be equipped with a long-term correlator that would basically say, "If I've heard this segment of audio within the last 24 hours, don't record it."
So this means you get five songs each day? Every day? In what way would that be better than radio itself (well, minus the fact that you get rid of those stupid DJs.
Yes, but if I understand the ruling correctly the Judge implies that there is no uploading happening.
Which in a way makes sense, an upload would require a conscious action, no?
Is a "Webserver" uploading to you? Or are you downloading?
It is an interesting problem. If it sits on your personal computer and get's downloaded it is not mediated by you, then you can share as much as you like but probably can't just set up an FTP Server.
Will be interesting to watch to see what CRIA is coming up with next.
and try to download music from Canadian ip addresses. And once you have that, it's a known act of copyright infringement anyway, which as we all know, is illegal
Umm.. No. Downloading in Canada is legal because of the levy we pay on all blank media (yes, even iPods).
Thus, as I read it, CRIA has to proof the intend for the person who "offers" the files for download.
You should see our HR deparment, not only does their (Microsoft Powered) HR Website suck (try to find anything there), but they also love to send out stupid Excel Spreadsheets with all kinds of Macros so that you can "interactivly" fill out your expense form (or Vacation, or Overtime or god knows what).
Yeah! I am so happy, especially when I get script errors.
My understanding is that just last month the numbers were bad, but they would have been more horrible if people wouldn't have just "stopped" looking for work. I think they spoke of 250,000 that stopped looking.
The real unemployment rate in the US is most likely on par with the rate in most of western Europe.
As for the cheap jobs I was talking about: That's the person who gives you your latte at Starbucks in the morning or your Happy Meal on the way home at Mickey D's.
But I guess everything is a matter of perspective.
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I'd guess they were made in Mexico.
Maybe, but here I have people leaving all over the year and in the summer I can't really get anything done either. Even though one person is only gone for up to three weeks the other resources have to pick up their slack and are essentially not available to me anyways.
I don't really think that is much of an issue these days anymore. No more than for example US companies having a hard time understanding local cultural differences.
Which ones?
While living in the states I made an interesting obersvation:
1. Generation: New to the country, trying to build something.
2. Generation: Still driven, as they saw their parents struggle and try to carry on.
3. Generation: Lazy. Everything has already been done and they really don't care anymore.
Real "Americans" seem to be rather unmotivated.... Reminds me of the picture of the old rome: "Bread & Games", didn't work out in the end for rome, don't think it'll work out in the end for the US.
It's not only in the US that way, it pretty much works that way in any country.
I am on a Work permit in Canada right now and it would cost me ~5K and 2 1/2 years to get a landed immigrant status. If I would have come in under the radar I most likely could the whole thing have gotten expedited.
I pay taxes here, I do work etc. etc. in essence I have proofen my value, yet it does not help in any way shape or form.
So when my WP is up instead of going for an extension or file for PR I might just pack up and move back to Europe.
The problem is not only the music (or lyrics) but the entire "merchandise" that surrounds it.
- Musicvideos
- Internet
- TV News
etc.
Are all influencing the way the world is perceived. So even IF the lyrics haven't changed that much the impact they have clearly has changed because the context in which they are absorbed has changed.
And isn't that how it should be?
I grew up in Germany, I worked there, then moved to the states and now Canada.
Sure, people spend more time at work here, but the actual work that gets done is at best the same.
I think I want to go back to Europe, at least there once I am done I am done and nobody expects me to do "more".
I have / had similar issues, it takes some time to convince people that they should be doing it, and slowly but surely I do convert people in my surrounding to use it.
But you are right, unless MS does it by default the majority will not use it, and if it is done by default I am not sure I would want to trust it.
If it is the same KKR as in this article in "Der Spiegel" this might not bode well.
It seems all KKR is known for is in gutting companies and selling the rest for a profit.
That doesn't contradict my original statement. It is not about copyright it is about the license it is distributed under (and not adhered to).
That is a different thing, not the copyright is in dispute but the way it is licensend.
The GPL is a LICENSE and is not copyright, copyright != license
Doesn't one have to protect it's copyright in order to keep it?
If so, one could argue that after five odd years of trading on the net the copyright has expired and the works are now in public domain? (Or was that trademark, it's early, I am confused).
The parents posters reasoning was "mass production", this does not apply in this case though.
But yes, I agree, "desirable" has something to do with it as well, though in what way you can argue that charging almost $3 bucks for something that someone can also have for free is beyond me.
Only that manufacturing costs don't account for anything in this. In fact it would cost more to sell the whole album for $9.99 as you still have to squeeze 20 songs through the pipe.
Now with CDs it is a different thing as the costs to manufacture a single song CD is the same as the one to create a 20 song CD.
So this means you get five songs each day? Every day? In what way would that be better than radio itself (well, minus the fact that you get rid of those stupid DJs.
FUCK YOU you greedy bastards.
Do that and I am SURE AS HELL won't buy online.
LESS Product for MORE money? You guys really must think the end user is stupid!
Yes, bad language choice, but they piss me off to no end. Whiners.
... who owns the "heritage"? The people or the companies?
The way she's talking I'd guess the latter...
At least they are more consistent in what they do....
The US claims to be free but is anything but. China never "fools" you into thinking they are a free society.
.... I will stop visiting the US.
I have no intention to leave my fingerprints in a system where I have no control over what is going to happen.
Was nice going there but I guess from now on I go to Brazil.
Yes, but if I understand the ruling correctly the Judge implies that there is no uploading happening.
Which in a way makes sense, an upload would require a conscious action, no?
Is a "Webserver" uploading to you? Or are you downloading?
It is an interesting problem. If it sits on your personal computer and get's downloaded it is not mediated by you, then you can share as much as you like but probably can't just set up an FTP Server.
Will be interesting to watch to see what CRIA is coming up with next.
Current turn around time is ~2 1/2 months.....
2 Weeks for HRDC
6 Weeks for CIC
2 Weeks for CPC
M.
Umm.. No. Downloading in Canada is legal because of the levy we pay on all blank media (yes, even iPods).
Thus, as I read it, CRIA has to proof the intend for the person who "offers" the files for download.
Wonder how they can proof intend?
But downloading IS legal in Canada.
They would need to proof that you as the 'provider' did so with the intention of actually allowing OTHER people to download it.
IANAL, but that's how it reads to me.
Wonder how they want to proof that someone intended to download it.
"Say, good man, did you put those files online with the intention to share?"
"No sir."
"Umm... thanks."
You should see our HR deparment, not only does their (Microsoft Powered) HR Website suck (try to find anything there), but they also love to send out stupid Excel Spreadsheets with all kinds of Macros so that you can "interactivly" fill out your expense form (or Vacation, or Overtime or god knows what).
Yeah! I am so happy, especially when I get script errors.
My understanding is that just last month the numbers were bad, but they would have been more horrible if people wouldn't have just "stopped" looking for work. I think they spoke of 250,000 that stopped looking.
The real unemployment rate in the US is most likely on par with the rate in most of western Europe.
As for the cheap jobs I was talking about: That's the person who gives you your latte at Starbucks in the morning or your Happy Meal on the way home at Mickey D's.
But I guess everything is a matter of perspective.
M.
Careful. You are comparing apples to orangse. The way the unemployment rate is calucated in the US is a lot different than in Europe.
Because benefits run out soon people "fall" out of the statistics.
Also, there are many people who might have a job but that alone won't pay the bills so they have another one and maybe even a third one.