Artists usually get shit for their work. It's not about the artists, it's about the big pockets of media corporations that can never get enough. They squeeze the artists just as much as they squeeze the public.
Guys like Metallica wouldn't complain because they sell so much that:
Their share of the record sales is significative due to the sheer number of records sold (the label gets many many times that, of course).
They more negotiating power to force better deals with their label.
So basically, if you're not a multi million seller artist you'll get nothing for the record sales and will have to work hard playing live to make a living.
I used Eclipse for years, but gave it up because of the plugin mess and the horrible bugs in the JEE Tools. I gave Netbeans a chance, and now it's my IDE for Java.
JDeveloper, on the other hand, last time I used it it was a huge, bloated, slooooow, proprietary piece of shit.
In the old days the newspapers would be delivered on time. Now the EU has ordered the liberalisation of mail service and our national mail service is on the fast track to be privatised. That means they fired thousands of people and are subcontracting thousands of borderline illiterate kids for the minimum wage, the prices went up and the service went down really fast. Now I can't get my newspapers on time and I can't even trust that my correspondence won't get lost or delivered to someone else.
About the newspapers, they won't be missed. They all belong to half a dozen huge media conglomerates. If I open ANY major newspaper in my country, they all say the same: Lots of right-wing, ultra-free-market, pro-EU-bureaucracy garbage and a bunch of news about violent crimes and gossip about imbecile TV celebrities. As an example, all the major newspapers campaigned very hard for the approval of the Treaty of Lisbon, all news about the Treaty presented it in a positive way, all newspaper commenters agreed, but there wasn't a single line explaining to the citizens what the wretched treaty is and the consequences to the European people's lives. The treaty is a disgrace to the common citizen of EU but it's in the interest of the big money corporations and their organs of propaganda treated it accordingly, of course.
Also the editorial quality has gone down due to cutting costs. I've come to expect news to be poorly written and full of orthography errors. It's only normal that people don't trust the newspapers any more and don't want to spend money on them.
TV is the next to follow. I don't watch any TV at all. The news are usually manipulated or outright lies. All the commenter and pundits that talk on TV say the same right-wing bullshit. Why should I spend my time and my brain cells being duped?
It's funny that people bitch all the time about government interference in the freedom of media but nobody thinks about big-money interference in the same freedom.
No, it was not a joke. It played an important role against the Nazis. The partisans in Eastern countries were extremely fierce but that doesn't make the French Resistance a joke.
You call it missile defense, we call it Star Wars. We didn't ask for it, we don't want it, we don't need it.
It was your former president that lobbied the kiss-US-ass governments of Poland and Check Republic to allow him to plant that shit in their territories. By the way, with intense opposition of their own populations and the rest of the Europeans.
Save your money. Spend it in useful things like healthcare and education. You need them.
I know you Americans are so in love with your wasteful lifestyle that you can rationalise to the most extreme not using innovations to cut down on consumption, like hybrid cars are gay and all the religious issues with CFLs.
I use CFLs almost exclusively. At my home I have 2 white fluorescent tubes in my kitchen (it's the standard in kitchens around here), 4 small halogen in the lobby (because it has a wooden dropped ceiling with the fixtures already there, I'll switch them to LED when the insane price comes down), and one 60W incandescent in my bathroom because there's a heater on the ceiling that cooks any CFL I put there. The rest of the lamps are CFLs, they have worked perfectly for 7 years and I've never had any problem with them, either with the less used ones or the ones under extreme usage. I even have CFLs outdoors and I never replaced them, they withstand temperatures from -2C to 40C along the year.
The comparison you make between wattages makes sense for a lamp, but in a house full of lamps, the difference is significant. Also, the household appliances have been lowering their consumptions a lot these latest years due to regulations (at least here in Europe), so it's only normal that the lamps should follow.
In the end of the day it comes to this: Use the right tool for the job. You should use the less consuming lamps possible, it they don't fit the application use one of the other alternatives. But religious wars like the ones I see here on Slashdot make no sense.
One advice, use good quality CFLs, the ones at the Chinese shop are shit.
Yeah, they should write it in a generic all-purpose language that can be translated to any programming language, proprietary or open. I guess reading the brainwaves and converting it to a website could do.
I AM VERY GLAD that the Chinese government dictates how many children they can have. It may suck for the Chinese people, but it's very good for the rest of us that they stopped the gigantic population growth they were having before these measures were in effect.
It's very nice to have opinions when we're in the First World, sitting in our leather couch, watching our plasma TV, sipping 12 year scotch.
This will be uncontrollable.
People will just setup anonymous free access Wifi everywhere.
Police are busy enough with real crimes, there won't be a way to enforce such a stupidity. Maybe they can create the Internet police, but with what money?
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If this was: www.didmichelleobamagangbangacollegefootballteamandgetpregnant.org people would be furious with the decision that it was legal.
It's fun, also. Go ahead.
Or maybe otherwise. Maybe it's an argument against letting the private corporations stick their fists up government's ass so high.
Artists usually get shit for their work. It's not about the artists, it's about the big pockets of media corporations that can never get enough. They squeeze the artists just as much as they squeeze the public.
Guys like Metallica wouldn't complain because they sell so much that:
So basically, if you're not a multi million seller artist you'll get nothing for the record sales and will have to work hard playing live to make a living.
Funny thing, they're just celebrating the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall...
I used Eclipse for years, but gave it up because of the plugin mess and the horrible bugs in the JEE Tools. I gave Netbeans a chance, and now it's my IDE for Java.
JDeveloper, on the other hand, last time I used it it was a huge, bloated, slooooow, proprietary piece of shit.
Here in Europe, we already use these trains during rush hour. They can reach lengths of many kilometers.
We call them traffic jams. And we don' need no stinkin' wireless link.
What about persons who are both geeks AND jocks?
I see you didn't attend my college...
I'm talking about my case, but check what happened to your local mail service. I suspect there's a parallel behaviour between US and EU.
What a way to look at it! That's the reason we are so evolved but still stuck to so many old problems like hunger, disease and war.
If the Russians do it, it's a major technical breakthrough and all mankind gives a step forward. You Americans are part of mankind, so you win too.
Don't blame it on the newspapers.
In the old days the newspapers would be delivered on time. Now the EU has ordered the liberalisation of mail service and our national mail service is on the fast track to be privatised. That means they fired thousands of people and are subcontracting thousands of borderline illiterate kids for the minimum wage, the prices went up and the service went down really fast. Now I can't get my newspapers on time and I can't even trust that my correspondence won't get lost or delivered to someone else.
About the newspapers, they won't be missed. They all belong to half a dozen huge media conglomerates. If I open ANY major newspaper in my country, they all say the same: Lots of right-wing, ultra-free-market, pro-EU-bureaucracy garbage and a bunch of news about violent crimes and gossip about imbecile TV celebrities. As an example, all the major newspapers campaigned very hard for the approval of the Treaty of Lisbon, all news about the Treaty presented it in a positive way, all newspaper commenters agreed, but there wasn't a single line explaining to the citizens what the wretched treaty is and the consequences to the European people's lives. The treaty is a disgrace to the common citizen of EU but it's in the interest of the big money corporations and their organs of propaganda treated it accordingly, of course.
Also the editorial quality has gone down due to cutting costs. I've come to expect news to be poorly written and full of orthography errors. It's only normal that people don't trust the newspapers any more and don't want to spend money on them.
TV is the next to follow. I don't watch any TV at all. The news are usually manipulated or outright lies. All the commenter and pundits that talk on TV say the same right-wing bullshit. Why should I spend my time and my brain cells being duped?
It's funny that people bitch all the time about government interference in the freedom of media but nobody thinks about big-money interference in the same freedom.
Fortunately, there's the Internet.
No, it was not a joke. It played an important role against the Nazis. The partisans in Eastern countries were extremely fierce but that doesn't make the French Resistance a joke.
You call it missile defense, we call it Star Wars. We didn't ask for it, we don't want it, we don't need it.
It was your former president that lobbied the kiss-US-ass governments of Poland and Check Republic to allow him to plant that shit in their territories. By the way, with intense opposition of their own populations and the rest of the Europeans.
Save your money. Spend it in useful things like healthcare and education. You need them.
I think you wouldn't like to meet the French Resistance. The Nazis didn't.
It's not a non-story. This is news for nerds. Where can you find something nerdier than inter-species pre-historical sex?
I know you Americans are so in love with your wasteful lifestyle that you can rationalise to the most extreme not using innovations to cut down on consumption, like hybrid cars are gay and all the religious issues with CFLs.
I use CFLs almost exclusively. At my home I have 2 white fluorescent tubes in my kitchen (it's the standard in kitchens around here), 4 small halogen in the lobby (because it has a wooden dropped ceiling with the fixtures already there, I'll switch them to LED when the insane price comes down), and one 60W incandescent in my bathroom because there's a heater on the ceiling that cooks any CFL I put there. The rest of the lamps are CFLs, they have worked perfectly for 7 years and I've never had any problem with them, either with the less used ones or the ones under extreme usage. I even have CFLs outdoors and I never replaced them, they withstand temperatures from -2C to 40C along the year.
The comparison you make between wattages makes sense for a lamp, but in a house full of lamps, the difference is significant. Also, the household appliances have been lowering their consumptions a lot these latest years due to regulations (at least here in Europe), so it's only normal that the lamps should follow.
In the end of the day it comes to this: Use the right tool for the job. You should use the less consuming lamps possible, it they don't fit the application use one of the other alternatives. But religious wars like the ones I see here on Slashdot make no sense.
One advice, use good quality CFLs, the ones at the Chinese shop are shit.
There's a Portuguese saying that goes like this:
Ladrão que rouba ladrão tem 100 anos de perdão.
A thief who robs a thief has pardon for 100 years.
Yeah, they should write it in a generic all-purpose language that can be translated to any programming language, proprietary or open. I guess reading the brainwaves and converting it to a website could do.
I AM VERY GLAD that the Chinese government dictates how many children they can have. It may suck for the Chinese people, but it's very good for the rest of us that they stopped the gigantic population growth they were having before these measures were in effect.
It's very nice to have opinions when we're in the First World, sitting in our leather couch, watching our plasma TV, sipping 12 year scotch.
See here
This means I'm not getting all those millions from Princess Zubikila anymore? Damn police!
People pull electricity and water from the public networks and then from one house to another, why wouldn't they do that with Internet?
This will be uncontrollable. People will just setup anonymous free access Wifi everywhere. Police are busy enough with real crimes, there won't be a way to enforce such a stupidity. Maybe they can create the Internet police, but with what money?
Não. Mais melhor bom.
IMHO, Windows is ready for the whipping post.
So gay couples have more AIDS than straight? I thought that prejudice was overcome decades ago.
In my country, that judge would be in jail right now, and for a few years.