Now we get less media about the bad behavior of the DPRK and less examples of Government propaganda to scrutinize. The US Constitution was the first to codify a freedom of speech. Nowhere does it say one should or can censor information. Why? The best way to come to good conclusions is to see the bad arguments as well as the good, and the fastest way to come to those conclusions is by having more information available.
Youtube does not have to pay the DPRK for views like it does others, so that is not the issue. This is about showing how "good" censorship is to set the normal for everyone else. Shame on Youtube!
Before posting how Youtube is not Government, notice that I did not say they were. My point is about ideology, not about Government.
I know Yahoo for one thing. Throw away accounts for testing malware and spam sites. I know plenty of people who use them that way, and worked at places with burner phones to handle their great security of requiring a phone number to send/receive text to activate accounts.
Oh Noes! Hackers have burner phone numbers and disposable accounts, most likely housing messages with Malware inside. If the people who paid for these were from a different part of society I'd be concerned that they were ripped off.
That the DNS for the domain serving the Malware and servers were located in France and owned by a resident of France. Working in IT security for nearly 3 decades this leads me to believe that the hack was done internally. If Russia was to have served the malware the DNS and web servers would have been in the US, because they have literally hundreds of thousands of servers already compromised ready to serve malware. US people would be smart enough not to use US servers because it would be obvious that it was a US hack.
Historical trends provide my bias, and like you said we have seen no (zero, zip, nada) evidence to show any Russian involvement. Consider also that an Ambassador from the UK just said he was handed the same evidence by a DNC person fed up with the DNC.
If you don't believe that you are tracked on other purchases you are not doing any homework. Donate to the wrong event or charity and suffer the consequences. Legally you can donate to the Political Party of your choosing, but is that action truly protected. How about donating to the wrong author, artist, public speaker, etc..? Ever see how Professors in Universities get treated when it's revealed that they are Republicans? They may not be fired directly, but you bet your ass that they are censured and ostracized. Plenty of examples for you to find if you look.
Take the sentence and sue the Government after the fact. The Pacific Legal Fund, EFF, and plenty of others may help with the case. Depending on the circumstances, they may even do so pro bono (I do not work for either so that statement is not worth much).
Unfortunately, the way to prove that the system is unjust is to allow the system to pursue their unjust cases. Historically this is how change occurs, often most effectively by expediting the injustice and not by years of appealing. It is your right and duty to fight for your personal liberty, and if you want it. Stand on your morals or cave in, either has a cost.
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Law. the felonious taking of the property of another from his or her person or in his or her immediate presence, against his or her will, by violence or intimidation.
If your company removes money from you and gives it to someone else, that is called Robbery. I'd be interested in seeing a class action law suit be brought on this one.
The sad thing is, if Alphabet had asked the employees to donate some or all of their bonuses to a charity people probably would have given what they felt right. There is no such thing as "Charity by Force".
I think it's a rather interesting article, but not from the slant given. Apple buys US Treasury bonds, like many companies do. The US Debt is massive, and at least this is one way we get to see the actual impact of paying this debt.
I would find it more interesting to see this tackled as a "Fix the debt" problem. The fact is, this is not a "US Tax Payers give Apple money" issue. The US pays out money to ALL treasury bond purchasers at the same rate. People with more money to pool will obviously get more in payments.
So are you attempting to claim that you would not know music unless a TV or Radio commercial played it? That the only reason you ever found out about an artist/group was through self discovery? You don't refute my claim, you just post an absurd insinuation that kids never listen to music playing when other people are around.
Perhaps in your personal anecdote you lived in a bubble where no music ever played so you could not be influenced by others. I'm doubtful, because I do not know a single person who enjoys music not influenced by family, friends, peers. and environments with music.
Adults who do have access and listen to music. Good grief! Do you think I learned about Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Yes, The Doobie Brothers, The Who, Chicago, and literally hundreds of other bands because "Advertising" and "Marketing"? Hell no, I learned to hate Sunny and Cher because of it but not who good musicians were.
I should have added that you are making a false dichotomy. That a band has some marketing and advertising does not mean that those things are the reason for success. DT in particular had disputes with their original label and moved to Roadrunner because of it's independence. They were made famous because of bootlegs at sell out shows much more than a marketing campaign.
So you are proud of making false claims across the board. Got it. Being a douche bag with false claims makes you a troll, not people who disagree with your incorrect opinion.
I have never found a favorite band by marketing. I learned about bands through word of mouth and going to concerts, clubs, and bars. Today, I know people who have similar music taste and that's how I expand my knowledge.
While your statement may hold true for what people call Pop music (Swift, Gaga, Spears, etc..) I don't know anyone who listens to or likes that stuff.
The Ramones, Sex Pistols, and countless others were popular underground, like early Metallica and Megadeath. "Pop" came to them after they were already popular, and the labeling and change in music due to Pop influence drove large numbers of their followers away. My all time favorite Dream Theater has had virtually no marketing yet has remained successful for 30 years. I was not introduced to newer acts like Wolf Alice by marketing, it was someone saying "hey, this band sounds great".
Marketing is for Pop, and it has both pros and cons.
Yes, thanks for the correction. Platinum is 1,000,000. Bands rarely going gold is still true, so the revenue from an album would be half what I originally stated.
Selling CDs has become a generic term for purchasing an album from a digital provider, as well as physical medium. Vinyl is also included in that, which would sell much less than a CD in physical form. I happen to do both, depending on the circumstances. I admit that it's rare for people to purchase physical media, but the numbers for sales of digital+physical are still used to calculate sales volumes. A band going "gold" (as corrected by AC below) requires selling 500,000 copies of a complete record in _any_ format, digital or physical. A band has never made much money from that process, they make money by performing.
Then again, I don't see this as a "new" thing. Music artists have generally done very poor from record sales, while ad agencies and music execs who own studios do quite well. Musicians tend to make their money from performances, not from record sales. Records unfortunately tend to do much better in sales after tragedy.
Consider that the average record, 60 minutes or so, costs about $10.00US. Bands rarely go "gold", which would mean$10million in record sales. Deduct from that the cost of the studio, material, mastering, editing and engineering, art work, distribution costs, and there is not much left.
Compare that to a Small/Mid sized band selling 2500 seats to a concert at around 70.00 a seat. That's $175,000, and add in concessions, and you are at $200K. Take away venue costs and security, and you have an easy 100K for the band, techs, drivers, etc..
A good few months of touring can make a band very wealthy, but a record does not make much. You need the records to remain relevant and have recognition, but you don't make them so much for the cash.
The pendulum was extremely far left for a very long time. People have to expect the same thing to occur in the opposite direction. Combine that fact with the fact that media in the US has been manipulating people for decades, so now that people see a glimpse of a different truth more questions should be expected.
Let us also be honest on what the Pizzagate starter as. It was due to some very cryptic emails from the Podesta dumps, not some wacko on Twitter. Again, we have a Federal Government and MSM not doing their respective jobs. People, like it or not, feel obligated to step in where our Government is failing.
This should all be expected, and the answer is not "ban speech" but FIX DISHONESTY IN GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA!
Because we have seen socialism work in so many other countries around the world? Sorry, but that is simply bullocks. Do you honestly believe that if the Chinese citizens could own guns that they would not overthrow the oppressive regime in charge?
The only working example of Socialism worked until immigration was allowed, and now that example is no longer true either.
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Now we get less media about the bad behavior of the DPRK and less examples of Government propaganda to scrutinize. The US Constitution was the first to codify a freedom of speech. Nowhere does it say one should or can censor information. Why? The best way to come to good conclusions is to see the bad arguments as well as the good, and the fastest way to come to those conclusions is by having more information available.
Youtube does not have to pay the DPRK for views like it does others, so that is not the issue. This is about showing how "good" censorship is to set the normal for everyone else. Shame on Youtube!
Before posting how Youtube is not Government, notice that I did not say they were. My point is about ideology, not about Government.
I know Yahoo for one thing. Throw away accounts for testing malware and spam sites. I know plenty of people who use them that way, and worked at places with burner phones to handle their great security of requiring a phone number to send/receive text to activate accounts.
Oh Noes! Hackers have burner phone numbers and disposable accounts, most likely housing messages with Malware inside. If the people who paid for these were from a different part of society I'd be concerned that they were ripped off.
That the DNS for the domain serving the Malware and servers were located in France and owned by a resident of France. Working in IT security for nearly 3 decades this leads me to believe that the hack was done internally. If Russia was to have served the malware the DNS and web servers would have been in the US, because they have literally hundreds of thousands of servers already compromised ready to serve malware. US people would be smart enough not to use US servers because it would be obvious that it was a US hack.
Historical trends provide my bias, and like you said we have seen no (zero, zip, nada) evidence to show any Russian involvement. Consider also that an Ambassador from the UK just said he was handed the same evidence by a DNC person fed up with the DNC.
Coincidentally there is no vagina bone.
I think the pelvis counts.
Men have vagina bones too?
If you don't believe that you are tracked on other purchases you are not doing any homework. Donate to the wrong event or charity and suffer the consequences. Legally you can donate to the Political Party of your choosing, but is that action truly protected. How about donating to the wrong author, artist, public speaker, etc..? Ever see how Professors in Universities get treated when it's revealed that they are Republicans? They may not be fired directly, but you bet your ass that they are censured and ostracized. Plenty of examples for you to find if you look.
Take the sentence and sue the Government after the fact. The Pacific Legal Fund, EFF, and plenty of others may help with the case. Depending on the circumstances, they may even do so pro bono (I do not work for either so that statement is not worth much).
Unfortunately, the way to prove that the system is unjust is to allow the system to pursue their unjust cases. Historically this is how change occurs, often most effectively by expediting the injustice and not by years of appealing. It is your right and duty to fight for your personal liberty, and if you want it. Stand on your morals or cave in, either has a cost.
LMFAO you're not even from this planet, man. ROFLCOPTER
You're as stupid as the other guy.
In other words, you are an asshole who can't complete simple thoughts in writing.
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Law. the felonious taking of the property of another from his or her person or in his or her immediate presence, against his or her will, by violence or intimidation.
What Alphabet did is by definition Robbery.
If your company removes money from you and gives it to someone else, that is called Robbery. I'd be interested in seeing a class action law suit be brought on this one.
The sad thing is, if Alphabet had asked the employees to donate some or all of their bonuses to a charity people probably would have given what they felt right. There is no such thing as "Charity by Force".
Google pay is average to less than average for the SF Bay area. Disclaimer: I don't work for Google.
600,000,000 / (estimated number of people working and paying into the tax system)
Retired, too young to work, disabled, etc.. don't pay into the tax system. I would agree if you said that the summary was wrong, because it is.
I think it's a rather interesting article, but not from the slant given. Apple buys US Treasury bonds, like many companies do. The US Debt is massive, and at least this is one way we get to see the actual impact of paying this debt.
I would find it more interesting to see this tackled as a "Fix the debt" problem. The fact is, this is not a "US Tax Payers give Apple money" issue. The US pays out money to ALL treasury bond purchasers at the same rate. People with more money to pool will obviously get more in payments.
When does the damn park open?
So are you attempting to claim that you would not know music unless a TV or Radio commercial played it? That the only reason you ever found out about an artist/group was through self discovery? You don't refute my claim, you just post an absurd insinuation that kids never listen to music playing when other people are around.
Perhaps in your personal anecdote you lived in a bubble where no music ever played so you could not be influenced by others. I'm doubtful, because I do not know a single person who enjoys music not influenced by family, friends, peers. and environments with music.
Adults who do have access and listen to music. Good grief! Do you think I learned about Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Yes, The Doobie Brothers, The Who, Chicago, and literally hundreds of other bands because "Advertising" and "Marketing"? Hell no, I learned to hate Sunny and Cher because of it but not who good musicians were.
I should have added that you are making a false dichotomy. That a band has some marketing and advertising does not mean that those things are the reason for success. DT in particular had disputes with their original label and moved to Roadrunner because of it's independence. They were made famous because of bootlegs at sell out shows much more than a marketing campaign.
So you are proud of making false claims across the board. Got it. Being a douche bag with false claims makes you a troll, not people who disagree with your incorrect opinion.
I have never found a favorite band by marketing. I learned about bands through word of mouth and going to concerts, clubs, and bars. Today, I know people who have similar music taste and that's how I expand my knowledge.
While your statement may hold true for what people call Pop music (Swift, Gaga, Spears, etc..) I don't know anyone who listens to or likes that stuff.
The Ramones, Sex Pistols, and countless others were popular underground, like early Metallica and Megadeath. "Pop" came to them after they were already popular, and the labeling and change in music due to Pop influence drove large numbers of their followers away. My all time favorite Dream Theater has had virtually no marketing yet has remained successful for 30 years. I was not introduced to newer acts like Wolf Alice by marketing, it was someone saying "hey, this band sounds great".
Marketing is for Pop, and it has both pros and cons.
Citation needed. Just curious why do you capitalize random words? Is this something all old people do?
Yes! Blame the lack of Sound control on the Headphones! Off my lawn!
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Yes, thanks for the correction. Platinum is 1,000,000. Bands rarely going gold is still true, so the revenue from an album would be half what I originally stated.
Selling CDs has become a generic term for purchasing an album from a digital provider, as well as physical medium. Vinyl is also included in that, which would sell much less than a CD in physical form. I happen to do both, depending on the circumstances. I admit that it's rare for people to purchase physical media, but the numbers for sales of digital+physical are still used to calculate sales volumes. A band going "gold" (as corrected by AC below) requires selling 500,000 copies of a complete record in _any_ format, digital or physical. A band has never made much money from that process, they make money by performing.
Then again, I don't see this as a "new" thing. Music artists have generally done very poor from record sales, while ad agencies and music execs who own studios do quite well. Musicians tend to make their money from performances, not from record sales. Records unfortunately tend to do much better in sales after tragedy.
Consider that the average record, 60 minutes or so, costs about $10.00US. Bands rarely go "gold", which would mean$10million in record sales. Deduct from that the cost of the studio, material, mastering, editing and engineering, art work, distribution costs, and there is not much left.
Compare that to a Small/Mid sized band selling 2500 seats to a concert at around 70.00 a seat. That's $175,000, and add in concessions, and you are at $200K. Take away venue costs and security, and you have an easy 100K for the band, techs, drivers, etc..
A good few months of touring can make a band very wealthy, but a record does not make much. You need the records to remain relevant and have recognition, but you don't make them so much for the cash.
The pendulum was extremely far left for a very long time. People have to expect the same thing to occur in the opposite direction. Combine that fact with the fact that media in the US has been manipulating people for decades, so now that people see a glimpse of a different truth more questions should be expected.
Let us also be honest on what the Pizzagate starter as. It was due to some very cryptic emails from the Podesta dumps, not some wacko on Twitter. Again, we have a Federal Government and MSM not doing their respective jobs. People, like it or not, feel obligated to step in where our Government is failing.
This should all be expected, and the answer is not "ban speech" but FIX DISHONESTY IN GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA!
So when confronted with a real challenge to your ideology you can't defend yourself and stoop to personal insult. Intellectual infancy at it's finest.
Because we have seen socialism work in so many other countries around the world? Sorry, but that is simply bullocks. Do you honestly believe that if the Chinese citizens could own guns that they would not overthrow the oppressive regime in charge?
The only working example of Socialism worked until immigration was allowed, and now that example is no longer true either.