You are the proof that age is in the eye of the beholder. My experience stats well before the 90-ies. There was shitty popular music before that as well. And I mean A LOT.
I remember that Abba was called shitty music and if you liked Abba, you were a shitty person. That said, even before Abba, I was only into music because of the memories it created with friends. My parents have the same attitude towards music and the records they have where Nat King Cole and Carlos Cardel and the like. And even at that time there was a LOT of shitty popular music.
So it is not the popular music that died. It is that you do not like popular music and that is ok. I never realy like ANY music ever. I just liked the situation it created.
0.5$ to 1$ is a decent price if you buy a CD at the store. You then need to pay for the whole distribution part, the physical CD and the profit of each person involved in the whole chain.
Please do not set your buying prices at what you are willing to pay. Set them at what they are willing to ask (and still make a profit).
The reason the labels are not giving what consumers want is because consumers tell them they are willing to pay 1USD. Now obviously there are solutions. bandcamp.com is one of them. 80-90% goes to the copyright holder and there that is most of the time the people who make the music. No DRM and flac if you want it.
My headset costs 15EUR. The music boxes I have at home are around the same price range. I listen to music to have background noise. Do you seriously think I need to have the perfect quality of music?
When I go to a live performance, I am more interested in the "sharing an experience with friends" part then I am listening to the music. In fact, some of the best evenings where when the music was absolutely horrible. (Lousy music AND lousy PA)
So no, I do not put value into decent sounding music. To me music is like a hammer, a tool to either share time with friends or family (that is what I value); a way to have memories about these events by listening to the music and have my memory triggered or just as background.
It could very well be that I value things you deem worthless and I will not judge you for that, so please do not look down on others who do not have the identical values as you have.
I have QNAP and that has Media Servers and other servers as well. Actually I have no idea what they are exactly as I just mount the device when the PC(s) start up and handle it as if it were a local system and run whatever I desire on the local machine. The only thing that runs remotely is torrent, because that can keep running when the PCs are down. Locally I then run smplayer, XBMC, mcd or anything else I desire. I see no need for a media server as such as I have a fileserver. I do not connect my phone to it. If need be, I just copy some music files to the SD card and have it available wherever I am. When I want that I am mostly offline anyway.
Your kids won't grow up to be capable and responsible adults if you shelter them from reality and make every decision for them.
This is so true. Know a girl that was "protected" by her parents. She was not even allowed to play with any other kids. Then at 18 she was an adult and was aset free. Within 2 months she was known as the school slut.
The is unpossible. The earth is only 6.000 years old. Or: That means that it used to be warmer once, so it can't be caused by humans.
People are so much in denial because they are either don't believe how small the earth actually is compared to thousands of years of stored energy being released at once; they are afraid about the consequenses if it is true, so they put their head in the sand like an 8 year who stole a cookie or they have no idea how e.g. the heating and airconditioning of their condo works.
If the latter, I proposes that these people have their airco and heating removed and see if they start believing. Because if they think people can not heat something, they should not use energy to do something useless.
OTOH I think that besides a few people, the majority of the deniers falls into the first two groups. Disbelieve or denial or a combination of both. And they will use anything to defend to keep what they have.
And just to complete it, although it should be obvious. Just because one is bad does not make the other person good. They are both the worst possible choice, regardless. I think that having a lottery and give ANY adult that has the US nationality and is born in the US the opportunity to win to become President would statistically be a better outcome. (Yes, including the people you think you want to exclude, like prisoners, politicians and your stoopid brother.)
Or ask the military. They are likely to be more often in a dangerous situation compared with European cops. From what I understand Military will have a much stricter procedure to de-escalate a situation.
De-escalation should be a priority and killing a really last option. When I see how people are arrested in the US vs how they do it in Europe, there is a HUGE difference already. If they would do what you see in the US, they would be in jail for abuse of power.
I use YouTube as my TV, so I watch it a lot. I also search for things and more and more I get the same results over and over again, even with different words doing the search. The bad part is that most of it I have already seen, so I spend more and more tme searching. I already delete my cookies, but Google tracks me in other ways as well and changing browers works only till they are able to link it back to me. Not so much as a person, but as a database entity.
This might be interesting for ads (for them) but not for me. You see it at sites like Amazon as well. I just bought a USB hub and they are proposing USB hubs to me. Idiots, I just bought one.
Yet another is music. Listening to music and then proposing the same sor over and over again and again (Oh, PorHub does it as well)
So no, I do not want them to help me and second guess what I would like. And the only things that stick out are things they want to promote. I am not interested in things I know when I do a search. I am interested in things I do NOT know.
So I have started recently using Bing instead of Google to do searches, because I get different results for now.
I connect from the outside via VPN to my home. It is just that inside my router/modem it is called telnet. And I never went to China. I bought it from a nice young man at BestBuy. He told me it was what I needed.
Sure, security would have been nice. I do understand that it was not an issue when this came up. Here is what I would different that would affect ALL of the Internet and that is DNS. 1) First I would have done only countries and no other TLD. I can hear people scream "What about "Debian.org" and other non-profit or international companies? Well, they all have an address, so it would have become Debian.us or they look at countries where it wouid have been cheaper or easier and it could have been debian.cc or debian.de or any other that they wanted, Each country then could have selected their respective solution, like com.au or not as they pleased.
In the Netherlands there is research on 100+ year old people. They are examined as to why they are that old. People can donate their body to science so others will learn.
How I know this? Because my great-aunt was the inspiration to start this project. She donated her body to science, so others may learn. I repeat that in words that are better understood here: She open sourced her body. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Yes, she asked SPECIFALLY that others can learn from her body. The process of what would happen with her body was well known by her as well as the procedure (immediate replacement of blood e.g.) So I agree that we have just started and I am proud that I have know one of the persons who was the basis of some serious knowledge about aging healthy.
To me Free Speech is not the be all end all. I am much more interested in Personal Privacy. And obviously the US is not interested in the protection of privacy, because it will cost the companies effort and thus money. Free speech requires them to do nothing and that costs nothing and is the easy way out. It benefits the companies so no objections there and it sounds nice for the people, so no objection there.
Protection of privacy would mean objections of the companies and most people have NO idea what it actually entails and what the dangers are of not having it means. Because without it, all the rest of your rights becomes meaningless.
Having ONLY freedom of speech without any protection of privacy is a hollow right at best and for those countries (as we are talking about the Internet of the world here) death of you and your family at worst.
I have free advice for them. Bring back the old commenting system on YouTube, because now it is a mess. I used to read them, now I don't anymore as I have no idea who is talking to whom. While I am on a roll: bring back the old Google Maps. Not as a default; but as an option. Much better in planning and less heavy on my system. Bring back Google Images, where I can have things without any cencorship and an easy way to have it per page. Not at the bottom where you go and when you want to clocik on it; the new images are already loaded. Bring back the old DejaNews layout.
Slashdot Mirror
They will just reopen the gulags untill it works.
Laws have changed. International SMS is now limited to 0.08 I think. No such limit for national, so it becomes cheaper to send international.
This all will depend on country, provider and plan you have. Pre-paid will be different again. It is a shitfuck and you can not really compare things.
I think it would be illegal if they not only asked you to NOT use your phone but provide one of their phones at 7.50USD for the duration of the movie.
You are the proof that age is in the eye of the beholder. My experience stats well before the 90-ies. There was shitty popular music before that as well. And I mean A LOT.
I remember that Abba was called shitty music and if you liked Abba, you were a shitty person. That said, even before Abba, I was only into music because of the memories it created with friends. My parents have the same attitude towards music and the records they have where Nat King Cole and Carlos Cardel and the like. And even at that time there was a LOT of shitty popular music.
So it is not the popular music that died. It is that you do not like popular music and that is ok. I never realy like ANY music ever. I just liked the situation it created.
0.5$ to 1$ is a decent price if you buy a CD at the store. You then need to pay for the whole distribution part, the physical CD and the profit of each person involved in the whole chain.
Please do not set your buying prices at what you are willing to pay. Set them at what they are willing to ask (and still make a profit).
The reason the labels are not giving what consumers want is because consumers tell them they are willing to pay 1USD. Now obviously there are solutions. bandcamp.com is one of them. 80-90% goes to the copyright holder and there that is most of the time the people who make the music. No DRM and flac if you want it.
My headset costs 15EUR. The music boxes I have at home are around the same price range. I listen to music to have background noise. Do you seriously think I need to have the perfect quality of music?
When I go to a live performance, I am more interested in the "sharing an experience with friends" part then I am listening to the music. In fact, some of the best evenings where when the music was absolutely horrible. (Lousy music AND lousy PA)
So no, I do not put value into decent sounding music. To me music is like a hammer, a tool to either share time with friends or family (that is what I value); a way to have memories about these events by listening to the music and have my memory triggered or just as background.
It could very well be that I value things you deem worthless and I will not judge you for that, so please do not look down on others who do not have the identical values as you have.
and so is Hillary Clinton:
I have QNAP and that has Media Servers and other servers as well. Actually I have no idea what they are exactly as I just mount the device when the PC(s) start up and handle it as if it were a local system and run whatever I desire on the local machine.
The only thing that runs remotely is torrent, because that can keep running when the PCs are down.
Locally I then run smplayer, XBMC, mcd or anything else I desire. I see no need for a media server as such as I have a fileserver. I do not connect my phone to it. If need be, I just copy some music files to the SD card and have it available wherever I am. When I want that I am mostly offline anyway.
This is so true. Know a girl that was "protected" by her parents. She was not even allowed to play with any other kids. Then at 18 she was an adult and was aset free. Within 2 months she was known as the school slut.
The chances of dying from smoking will go down the longer you smoke. Mostly because you are already dead, but still.
The is unpossible. The earth is only 6.000 years old.
Or: That means that it used to be warmer once, so it can't be caused by humans.
People are so much in denial because they are either don't believe how small the earth actually is compared to thousands of years of stored energy being released at once; they are afraid about the consequenses if it is true, so they put their head in the sand like an 8 year who stole a cookie or they have no idea how e.g. the heating and airconditioning of their condo works.
If the latter, I proposes that these people have their airco and heating removed and see if they start believing. Because if they think people can not heat something, they should not use energy to do something useless.
OTOH I think that besides a few people, the majority of the deniers falls into the first two groups. Disbelieve or denial or a combination of both. And they will use anything to defend to keep what they have.
And just to complete it, although it should be obvious. Just because one is bad does not make the other person good. They are both the worst possible choice, regardless.
I think that having a lottery and give ANY adult that has the US nationality and is born in the US the opportunity to win to become President would statistically be a better outcome. (Yes, including the people you think you want to exclude, like prisoners, politicians and your stoopid brother.)
Or ask the military. They are likely to be more often in a dangerous situation compared with European cops. From what I understand Military will have a much stricter procedure to de-escalate a situation.
De-escalation should be a priority and killing a really last option. When I see how people are arrested in the US vs how they do it in Europe, there is a HUGE difference already. If they would do what you see in the US, they would be in jail for abuse of power.
I use YouTube as my TV, so I watch it a lot. I also search for things and more and more I get the same results over and over again, even with different words doing the search.
The bad part is that most of it I have already seen, so I spend more and more tme searching.
I already delete my cookies, but Google tracks me in other ways as well and changing browers works only till they are able to link it back to me. Not so much as a person, but as a database entity.
This might be interesting for ads (for them) but not for me. You see it at sites like Amazon as well. I just bought a USB hub and they are proposing USB hubs to me. Idiots, I just bought one.
Yet another is music. Listening to music and then proposing the same sor over and over again and again (Oh, PorHub does it as well)
So no, I do not want them to help me and second guess what I would like. And the only things that stick out are things they want to promote. I am not interested in things I know when I do a search. I am interested in things I do NOT know.
So I have started recently using Bing instead of Google to do searches, because I get different results for now.
Claim: There will be changes in Climate
Life: I do not notice any change in the weather.
Reaction: Sigh!
I connect from the outside via VPN to my home. It is just that inside my router/modem it is called telnet. And I never went to China. I bought it from a nice young man at BestBuy. He told me it was what I needed.
Sure, security would have been nice. I do understand that it was not an issue when this came up. Here is what I would different that would affect ALL of the Internet and that is DNS.
1) First I would have done only countries and no other TLD. I can hear people scream "What about "Debian.org" and other non-profit or international companies?
Well, they all have an address, so it would have become Debian.us or they look at countries where it wouid have been cheaper or easier and it could have been debian.cc or debian.de or any other that they wanted, Each country then could have selected their respective solution, like com.au or not as they pleased.
2) Change the order So we begin with the country and then the TLD, next whatever you want. So http://us.debian.www/directory...
Or http://us.slashdot.tech/dir/fi...
We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.
In the Netherlands there is research on 100+ year old people. They are examined as to why they are that old. People can donate their body to science so others will learn.
How I know this? Because my great-aunt was the inspiration to start this project. She donated her body to science, so others may learn. I repeat that in words that are better understood here: She open sourced her body. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, she asked SPECIFALLY that others can learn from her body. The process of what would happen with her body was well known by her as well as the procedure (immediate replacement of blood e.g.) So I agree that we have just started and I am proud that I have know one of the persons who was the basis of some serious knowledge about aging healthy.
To me Free Speech is not the be all end all. I am much more interested in Personal Privacy. And obviously the US is not interested in the protection of privacy, because it will cost the companies effort and thus money. Free speech requires them to do nothing and that costs nothing and is the easy way out. It benefits the companies so no objections there and it sounds nice for the people, so no objection there.
Protection of privacy would mean objections of the companies and most people have NO idea what it actually entails and what the dangers are of not having it means. Because without it, all the rest of your rights becomes meaningless.
Having ONLY freedom of speech without any protection of privacy is a hollow right at best and for those countries (as we are talking about the Internet of the world here) death of you and your family at worst.
There is a difference between willing and able. e.g. I am able to move out of my moms apartment.
I have free advice for them. Bring back the old commenting system on YouTube, because now it is a mess. I used to read them, now I don't anymore as I have no idea who is talking to whom.
While I am on a roll: bring back the old Google Maps. Not as a default; but as an option. Much better in planning and less heavy on my system.
Bring back Google Images, where I can have things without any cencorship and an easy way to have it per page. Not at the bottom where you go and when you want to clocik on it; the new images are already loaded.
Bring back the old DejaNews layout.
I think I am starting to see a patteren here.
Capitalism trumps Free Market.
Was that an example of a rhetorical question?
I stopped trusting them when I saw what they did to DejaNews.com and that was before they were famous.