Is there any way to verify what these Hubble-peekers say about smudges?
They could say, "The galaxy in the picture has the highest concentration of the rare giant purple dwarf pulsar blackhole wormhole exitportal star system, mysteriously found only in the astronomical age labeled "XB-66" and likely contains numerous supernovae remnant crystalline class QQQf planets from which all possibility life in the universe is speculated to have originated" and the public would believe it, because they have the degrees and we don't. Looks like a smudge to me.
I believe the "censoring" that Wal-Mart does is not on the disc itself, but just refusing to sell it, which is not exactly censoring because a store can freaking choose what it wants to sell or not. Changing content on the disc would be illegal.
That doesn't even make sense. I don't know where you shop, but vinyl isn't much cheaper than CDs, regardless of how much older it is, they still cost about the same.
Do you people know how to shop? What is the best source for records? Not a record store! Try the flea market or garage sales.
You completely missed my point. The object of owning the record in this case is not for playing the record, but for having a provable-if-sued true-copy of the music, thus legalizing all of the downloaded mp3's as "fair use". The reason for buying records (in this scenario) is because they are so excruciatingly cheap and are a "real copy" to justify downloads of better quality sound.
Who buys records at retail price? No one I've ever met! If you know where to look you could easily buy the entire Monkees album collection for under $5. It is baffling that someone would try to buy them retail.
You're obviously opting for the retail price, which is not how most people shop (here anyway). You could easily pick up the entire REO Speedwagon collection at random garage sales for a grand total of about $5, and the garage sales will let you haggle. For newer stuff, find it as a beatup cassette or some scratched CD.
And what praytell causes online piracy? Could be..Satan? Retailers (same person?) who think people with rent due will pay for one CD twice as much as it costs to even get dialup for an entire month?
The results of "games cause violence" idea (also known as "Magic Bullet Theory" in mass media classes, would only be true if humans did not have a bit of programming called "choice". Choice is a little errorlevel clause in the mindOS that poses the option of whether to do something or not, and games cannot bypass that clause. Games can inspire crime, but not cause crime -- just as much as the Tolkein books caused me to try and think of nifty fantasy fiction novel ideas so I could become rich and famous after I'm dead or blacksmith some "one bling bling" to rule them all.
Perhaps those with less will to resist temptation should examine their poor choices in imitation.
Also, it is not the responsibility of the product manufacturer if the consumer misinterprets what is fantasy or realistic. Shall we also sue Warner Brothers for failing to warn me that you can't swing an anvil from a narrow rope tied to a narrow stick that I am standing on crossing two cliffs?
Records are still worth keeping, if the following instance works out OK -- Does anyone know whether you go buy some cheap vinyl version of an album that it's ok to download the mp3 version since you would technically own an original copy?
If this is a realistic thing, vinyl could sell like hotcakes if the shops advertised the fact. Or garage sales.
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Is there any way to verify what these Hubble-peekers say about smudges? They could say, "The galaxy in the picture has the highest concentration of the rare giant purple dwarf pulsar blackhole wormhole exitportal star system, mysteriously found only in the astronomical age labeled "XB-66" and likely contains numerous supernovae remnant crystalline class QQQf planets from which all possibility life in the universe is speculated to have originated" and the public would believe it, because they have the degrees and we don't. Looks like a smudge to me.
I believe the "censoring" that Wal-Mart does is not on the disc itself, but just refusing to sell it, which is not exactly censoring because a store can freaking choose what it wants to sell or not. Changing content on the disc would be illegal.
That doesn't even make sense. I don't know where you shop, but vinyl isn't much cheaper than CDs, regardless of how much older it is, they still cost about the same.
Do you people know how to shop? What is the best source for records? Not a record store! Try the flea market or garage sales.
You completely missed my point. The object of owning the record in this case is not for playing the record, but for having a provable-if-sued true-copy of the music, thus legalizing all of the downloaded mp3's as "fair use". The reason for buying records (in this scenario) is because they are so excruciatingly cheap and are a "real copy" to justify downloads of better quality sound.
Who buys records at retail price? No one I've ever met! If you know where to look you could easily buy the entire Monkees album collection for under $5. It is baffling that someone would try to buy them retail.
You're obviously opting for the retail price, which is not how most people shop (here anyway). You could easily pick up the entire REO Speedwagon collection at random garage sales for a grand total of about $5, and the garage sales will let you haggle. For newer stuff, find it as a beatup cassette or some scratched CD.
This is 100% due to online piracy.
And what praytell causes online piracy? Could be..Satan? Retailers (same person?) who think people with rent due will pay for one CD twice as much as it costs to even get dialup for an entire month?
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The results of "games cause violence" idea (also known as "Magic Bullet Theory" in mass media classes, would only be true if humans did not have a bit of programming called "choice". Choice is a little errorlevel clause in the mindOS that poses the option of whether to do something or not, and games cannot bypass that clause. Games can inspire crime, but not cause crime -- just as much as the Tolkein books caused me to try and think of nifty fantasy fiction novel ideas so I could become rich and famous after I'm dead or blacksmith some "one bling bling" to rule them all.
Perhaps those with less will to resist temptation should examine their poor choices in imitation.
Also, it is not the responsibility of the product manufacturer if the consumer misinterprets what is fantasy or realistic. Shall we also sue Warner Brothers for failing to warn me that you can't swing an anvil from a narrow rope tied to a narrow stick that I am standing on crossing two cliffs?
Records are still worth keeping, if the following instance works out OK -- Does anyone know whether you go buy some cheap vinyl version of an album that it's ok to download the mp3 version since you would technically own an original copy?
If this is a realistic thing, vinyl could sell like hotcakes if the shops advertised the fact. Or garage sales.