That's too much of a generalisation, dude. Lentils, rice, lettuce, spinach, chick peas, beans, some vegs, tomatoes, certain seasonal fruits, certain cuts of meat, fish like sardines and many others ain't expensive; at least not in the UK, and pretty much all food needs to be imported here from the rest of the EU and beyond. I find much more expensive to eat on kebabs and pre-cooked meals. Unless you're on Tesco Value, that is.
I agree, D3 has been the scariest game I've ever played. I mean, no other game ever scared me cos... well, they're games ffs. But I found myself not wanting to enter dark rooms and the like basically because I was about to crap my pants even knowing (actually that probably made things worse lol) that some monster was waiting to jump up me arse in the dark. Playing this game using the ductape mod is well lame.
I'm sorry dude but the guy you cite as a source not only has taken the data out of his arse, but also his analysis on this data is well twisted. Truth is that US statistics on firearm deaths are equivalent to those on small countries in war. Far greater than all of the EU put together a few times.
What makes you think the music industry is obsolete? Because a lot of people don't want CDs if they can help it. They use an awful lot of space. They are impractical, given that there is a much more efficient solution these days. I wonder if music will go fully digital (when I say digital I refer to digital distribution) leaving physical media as a niche market, as vinyl is these days. If a band wants to distribute their work, they can deal directly with the actual internet shop.
I'm sorry, but the rest of the paragraph I got your quote from doesn't make any sense, unless you're trying to prove my point.
What's your problem with copyright anyway? None at all. Did I say so?
Good things come at a cost, and if they don't, why are you wasting your time with inferior and illegal products? That's a fallacy.
* Things that come at a cost are not quality-guaranteed. I wouldn't define Britney Spears as quality.
* Things that are free are not inferior either. I could've got latest Radiohead's for free (the fact that I paid a bit for it is besides the point). I'm writing this from a computer I never paid for (recycled) running Linux.
I see your point, but I think it's not realistic of what's currently going on.
Recording is changing. If you do electronic music, you don't need anything else than a computer and creativity. You don't need to pay a producer if you don't want to, you don't need to pay for time at a recording studio, you don't need to pay those engineers.
If you don't do electronic, home recording equipment is getting cheaper and cheaper, and gaining in quality and ease of use. The people that organise tours etc still get paid, the same way they are doing now.
Perhaps artists have less of a chance of getting multimillionaire? Yes. No huge marketing campaigns to force music down people's throats will have that effect, no doubt in my mind. On the other end, you will see smaller bands gaining in popularity as other forms of promotion (releasing albums on private torrent trackers comes to mind) take shape. It's evening out.
And you've got it all wrong. I pay for music when I buy an album off Magnatune. I donate to artists on Jamendo whenever I like their music. I pay for a subscription at Last.fm. I download music that wasn't meant to be distributed for free, too. Then I go to gigs. All in all I still listen to high quality music and spend a similar amount of money. More artists get money from me, instead of just a handful. I enjoy music twofold, as I can go to the gigs too. Who loses out on this deal? The record companies, of course. The CD manufacturers too. Record shops. Distributors. Millionaire bands. So what? These are middle men that are not needed anymore. It's called progress. Those people will get employment elsewhere, as they've done in the past. It's not morally justifiable to hold back progress when its benefits are huge.
My optimism comes from the fact that we do not run a music business based on 1960's rules, and that 90% of the music I consume is either free or very cheap. Which leaves me money to go to gigs. Buy t-shirts at them. Bands get more money from me than ever. It's just the middle man going down the sink.
Sorry man, not trying to be an arsehole here:) but could you explain to me how a black dude born in Bronx can be African? Or how a black lady from Congo in New York can be American?
I could kind of understand a so-called african-american person if this is someone that just migrated and got the american citizenship (or the other way around), born and raised in Africa but American legally . This is the only case in which African-American is applicable IMO. Any other is just a pretentious artificial separation.
Returning to the article, it should be "black" people, as it has nothing to do anyway with any strains of "african culture". Not "african american", not "people of colour" (as white is a color too, so is red, yellow...). Black. Let's use proper words. Nothing wrong with black. All wrong with "nigger". Black != nigger.
Not my problem if they haven't got enough capacity for all their users. If I pay for something I expect to get what I pay for. It ain't me who's limiting other users if I'm downloading lots, it's them for being tight arses and overloading their infrastructure with far more users that it can support. Unlimited means unlimited. As you point out this is highly misleading. This is one of the reasons I've been looking for an alternative to Virgin.
That's just a load of bullshit. If you wanna say they're black, just say they are black. Spare me all the politically correct crap. They are either American or African. Can't be both.
While you're right, that's besides the point; the discussion was about someone thinking anyone can just get your address book off gmail which simply ain't true.
Even if there was an active session, there is no way this would've happened. It's called XSS, and most browsers have been getting better at stopping it.
Assuming the music site wasn't malicious, my guess is that you used the same password when signing up than the one you use in gmail, and the music site just checked to see if it could automagically retrieve the list of contacts off gmail.
Can I ask what the music site is anyway? Cause if it is effectively doing XSS and not what I suggest above (which is already bad), you should stop using them and a bug report should be filled to whatever browser you're in.
Slashdot Mirror
That's too much of a generalisation, dude. Lentils, rice, lettuce, spinach, chick peas, beans, some vegs, tomatoes, certain seasonal fruits, certain cuts of meat, fish like sardines and many others ain't expensive; at least not in the UK, and pretty much all food needs to be imported here from the rest of the EU and beyond. I find much more expensive to eat on kebabs and pre-cooked meals. Unless you're on Tesco Value, that is.
The guy specifically says in the advert he ain't selling his identity. But wait, RTFAing in slashdot is as rare as a gold turd.
Applets? Do you think that's what Java is used for these days? Have you been in hibernation, or serving time?
Aye, you're free, to do as we tell you.
I wasn't aware bacteria needed democratisation...
I have it. Don't get me started on white "chocolate"!
You must be new here...
GPL vs Skype is being held in Munich, not in the US. And the GPL has been successfully tested at least once in Germany.
I agree, D3 has been the scariest game I've ever played. I mean, no other game ever scared me cos... well, they're games ffs. But I found myself not wanting to enter dark rooms and the like basically because I was about to crap my pants even knowing (actually that probably made things worse lol) that some monster was waiting to jump up me arse in the dark. Playing this game using the ductape mod is well lame.
Amen.
I'm sorry dude but the guy you cite as a source not only has taken the data out of his arse, but also his analysis on this data is well twisted. Truth is that US statistics on firearm deaths are equivalent to those on small countries in war. Far greater than all of the EU put together a few times.
* Things that come at a cost are not quality-guaranteed. I wouldn't define Britney Spears as quality.
* Things that are free are not inferior either. I could've got latest Radiohead's for free (the fact that I paid a bit for it is besides the point). I'm writing this from a computer I never paid for (recycled) running Linux.
I see your point, but I think it's not realistic of what's currently going on.
Recording is changing. If you do electronic music, you don't need anything else than a computer and creativity. You don't need to pay a producer if you don't want to, you don't need to pay for time at a recording studio, you don't need to pay those engineers.
If you don't do electronic, home recording equipment is getting cheaper and cheaper, and gaining in quality and ease of use. The people that organise tours etc still get paid, the same way they are doing now.
Perhaps artists have less of a chance of getting multimillionaire? Yes. No huge marketing campaigns to force music down people's throats will have that effect, no doubt in my mind. On the other end, you will see smaller bands gaining in popularity as other forms of promotion (releasing albums on private torrent trackers comes to mind) take shape. It's evening out.
And you've got it all wrong. I pay for music when I buy an album off Magnatune. I donate to artists on Jamendo whenever I like their music. I pay for a subscription at Last.fm. I download music that wasn't meant to be distributed for free, too. Then I go to gigs. All in all I still listen to high quality music and spend a similar amount of money. More artists get money from me, instead of just a handful. I enjoy music twofold, as I can go to the gigs too. Who loses out on this deal? The record companies, of course. The CD manufacturers too. Record shops. Distributors. Millionaire bands. So what? These are middle men that are not needed anymore. It's called progress. Those people will get employment elsewhere, as they've done in the past. It's not morally justifiable to hold back progress when its benefits are huge.
My optimism comes from the fact that we do not run a music business based on 1960's rules, and that 90% of the music I consume is either free or very cheap. Which leaves me money to go to gigs. Buy t-shirts at them. Bands get more money from me than ever. It's just the middle man going down the sink.
www.jamendo.com
www.magnatune.com
www.itunes.com
And many others.
Music ain't dying. Music business as it's being run today is obsolete. Evolve or die.
No, you ain't wrong.
Heat is very easy to store.
Sorry man, not trying to be an arsehole here :) but could you explain to me how a black dude born in Bronx can be African? Or how a black lady from Congo in New York can be American?
I could kind of understand a so-called african-american person if this is someone that just migrated and got the american citizenship (or the other way around), born and raised in Africa but American legally . This is the only case in which African-American is applicable IMO. Any other is just a pretentious artificial separation.
Returning to the article, it should be "black" people, as it has nothing to do anyway with any strains of "african culture". Not "african american", not "people of colour" (as white is a color too, so is red, yellow...). Black. Let's use proper words. Nothing wrong with black. All wrong with "nigger". Black != nigger.
Not my problem if they haven't got enough capacity for all their users. If I pay for something I expect to get what I pay for. It ain't me who's limiting other users if I'm downloading lots, it's them for being tight arses and overloading their infrastructure with far more users that it can support. Unlimited means unlimited. As you point out this is highly misleading. This is one of the reasons I've been looking for an alternative to Virgin.
That's just a load of bullshit. If you wanna say they're black, just say they are black. Spare me all the politically correct crap. They are either American or African. Can't be both.
While you're right, that's besides the point; the discussion was about someone thinking anyone can just get your address book off gmail which simply ain't true.
Even if there was an active session, there is no way this would've happened. It's called XSS, and most browsers have been getting better at stopping it.
Assuming the music site wasn't malicious, my guess is that you used the same password when signing up than the one you use in gmail, and the music site just checked to see if it could automagically retrieve the list of contacts off gmail.
Can I ask what the music site is anyway? Cause if it is effectively doing XSS and not what I suggest above (which is already bad), you should stop using them and a bug report should be filled to whatever browser you're in.
No, as long as your counterpart has got a goatse on his face instead.
Bizarrely enough, you may have a point there...
That's what I implied on my comment.
As for the other comment on "american style latinos" well, no, lol, I'm not from the US, I know exactly how spaniards and portuguese look like.