To put this into perspective. There was a time when not taking the bus was disobedience. There was a time when people said: I disagree with how you treat us on this type of transport, so we REFUSE to use it. We rather WALK then be put up with this.
Not only Facebooks help, but also the ISPs help. In Belgium that would mean that either the ISP has broken the privacy law that says that NO information may be given, unless given by a court order. Not even a policeman in uniform will be allowed to get it.
In three different companies I have policemen said to get out and come back with a court order. I also said that I would already do the investigations requested and put it aside for when they would come back.
Somehow I don't believe that that has happened. If that would be the case, those people could at least sue the ISPs and perhaps even the state, depending on what comes up. And they would win.
At least you KNOW it is going to happen, so you can train people to handle those calls. Where I live (Belgium) getting a baby means generally about 5 months off.
When I am in my off time, I expect no calls, no nothing, except for extreme rare situation, say twice a year. I and everybody in the company has 32 days of payed holiday, so we are accustomed to have others do our job at least part of the time.
I would never take my portable on a holiday and I screen my calls. When I am not working, I am not working and that goes the same for my co workers.
Same here. Also this is not only limited to IT. I have seen problems in many departments if only one person knew how to handle a specific task or situation.
And yet Firefox sucks. Basically because they don't follow standards themselves. Perhaps with the websites, but running it over ssh needs an extra parameter. Forced upgrades outside of the distribution I use is another non-standard behavior. There are several more things that does not make it work as other programs.
They could however do both and tell people that they can choose. Sure the elderly NOW won;t know how to use it, but what about the people who are elderly in 10 years? in 20? First make it opt-in and then when the usage is 50% make it opt-out. At 80% you could charge for people using paper.
And that is unimportant as other ways will still be available. The fax did not replace letters. Some ways of communication will fade away. The telex is one of them.
I work at a company that has just recently opened up a website for the customers to use. Although we try to push them towards the website, we will not force them and in many occasions we even discourage people to use it. This mainly with the elderly who don't understand how to type in a URL. Some even do not HAVE a computer and we do not want to loose those ones and some just don't feel like it.
Why would that matter? Do you trust American banks more then European ones? Or should they be a bank in each place where they operate? So also in Canada, Brazil, Japan, New Zealand, Pakistan, Namibia and every other country that has Internet.
You will be investigated as you clearly have something to hide. You will be placed on the no-fly list and considered an infidel and a sympathizer of terrorism.
Still there should be some laws in place that take priority over anything I might sign. I can sign a contract that says I will work for 1EUR and 16 hours per day. can even sign that food and shelter will be given to me as part of the working contract for 16EUR per day. The fact that I signed it does not make it legal.
Where I live this would mean I would just file a lawsuit and win. I would at least get the money the law would have provided as a minimum wage, including all holiday compensations.
There are various people where I live that were a contractor, but when made redundant, filed a lawsuit and won, because in reality there was an obvious employer-employee relationship and the contract was clearly to evade the rules.
The result was that they needed to pay the person extra money he missed out on (holiday time, discharge fee,..) AND had to pay all taxes to the government on top of what they paid already to the employee.
These were by no means some potato-pickers. There were, among others your general coders, engineers and the occasional CEO.
It could very well be that the contracts were signed, but that does not yet make them legal. And especially in a Boss market, the weaker individual should be protected from abuse.
The alternative is not being a slave. The alternative is not making a living from music. So fucking what? I am sure the majority of people would rather do something else then they do now for a living.
We have a group. We meet after work in every bar around the world.
Starting artists need to be known and heard. It is the greedy mentality of the artists to sell, sell, sell that drives them in the hands of the RIAA in the first place.
Play and play well and the record companies will come to you. If you are not good enough, they won't come.
Once THEY come, you have much more to bargain with, because then it is THEIR greed, not yours.
Yes, this means that 99.9% of the bands won't get a label and that is a good thing.
So why post as Anonymous Coward? Why not with a name and a link in your signature to your website? There you could place where your gigs are. A place to listen to samples and even download music or buy records.
Unfortunately you just wasted a great opportunity to get some Internet airtime.
Advertising is where the real money is. The people making the money there are the songwriters. Or better: the copyright holders. These are rarely the artists. They often sold their copyright as part of the deal with the devil.
Why do people sign? Because they are not lawyers. They are also asking the wrong questions to their lawyers. They will say to their lawyer that they want to sign and see the contract. All the while dreaming of gazillions of dollars. Instead they should ask IF they should sign or not. It means the moment they check the contract, they have already committed themselves.
The dream of stardom is as blind as love. I knew a band and I knew the manager they hired. The manager was all hot air and talk and no connections whatever to the music industry. The phone numbers he had of music people, he got from the phone book or yellow pages.
I clearly told them he would not be worth the 30% he requested for a 5 group band. They still went along with him. As predicted not one contact came out of it, yet the manager still got money from the band (30% and at least X amount said the contract).
So the problem is unfortunately not so much the rules and regulation, it is the fact that a sucker is born every day.
Look at all these X-factory type of shows. On top of what they need to pay standard, they will need to pay the company that aired their win 30% for 3 years. So to make a living they need to work like horses those three years. Results is that they are over exposed, killed their voice and end up broke.
It's not like we're talking about 8-tracks, cassette tapes and to some extent vinyl for example. Those devices will definitely be retro to my kid as they have never (and probably never will be) a part of his life.
Well, the main reason he won't see any of that is because especially the cassette tapes killed the music industry.
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To put this into perspective. There was a time when not taking the bus was disobedience. There was a time when people said: I disagree with how you treat us on this type of transport, so we REFUSE to use it.
We rather WALK then be put up with this.
That is civil disobedience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Bus_Boycott
Perhaps they start with Fibonacci numbering.
Not only Facebooks help, but also the ISPs help. In Belgium that would mean that either the ISP has broken the privacy law that says that NO information may be given, unless given by a court order. Not even a policeman in uniform will be allowed to get it.
In three different companies I have policemen said to get out and come back with a court order. I also said that I would already do the investigations requested and put it aside for when they would come back.
Somehow I don't believe that that has happened. If that would be the case, those people could at least sue the ISPs and perhaps even the state, depending on what comes up. And they would win.
At least you KNOW it is going to happen, so you can train people to handle those calls. Where I live (Belgium) getting a baby means generally about 5 months off.
When I am in my off time, I expect no calls, no nothing, except for extreme rare situation, say twice a year. I and everybody in the company has 32 days of payed holiday, so we are accustomed to have others do our job at least part of the time.
I would never take my portable on a holiday and I screen my calls. When I am not working, I am not working and that goes the same for my co workers.
Same here. Also this is not only limited to IT. I have seen problems in many departments if only one person knew how to handle a specific task or situation.
As I am not paying Google with my money, but with my privacy, I would love to have that privacy back.
And yet Firefox sucks. Basically because they don't follow standards themselves. Perhaps with the websites, but running it over ssh needs an extra parameter.
Forced upgrades outside of the distribution I use is another non-standard behavior. There are several more things that does not make it work as other programs.
I agree that what he did was wrong. However this should not be something for the secret service.
They could however do both and tell people that they can choose. Sure the elderly NOW won;t know how to use it, but what about the people who are elderly in 10 years? in 20?
First make it opt-in and then when the usage is 50% make it opt-out. At 80% you could charge for people using paper.
And that is unimportant as other ways will still be available. The fax did not replace letters. Some ways of communication will fade away. The telex is one of them.
I work at a company that has just recently opened up a website for the customers to use. Although we try to push them towards the website, we will not force them and in many occasions we even discourage people to use it. This mainly with the elderly who don't understand how to type in a URL. Some even do not HAVE a computer and we do not want to loose those ones and some just don't feel like it.
Why would that matter? Do you trust American banks more then European ones? Or should they be a bank in each place where they operate? So also in Canada, Brazil, Japan, New Zealand, Pakistan, Namibia and every other country that has Internet.
Sure you can. But only in those places where it is legal.
So perhaps what he is saying is that sex and drugs will be legal by 2015.
You will be investigated as you clearly have something to hide. You will be placed on the no-fly list and considered an infidel and a sympathizer of terrorism.
Nice music in your sig
Still there should be some laws in place that take priority over anything I might sign. I can sign a contract that says I will work for 1EUR and 16 hours per day. can even sign that food and shelter will be given to me as part of the working contract for 16EUR per day.
The fact that I signed it does not make it legal.
Where I live this would mean I would just file a lawsuit and win. I would at least get the money the law would have provided as a minimum wage, including all holiday compensations.
There are various people where I live that were a contractor, but when made redundant, filed a lawsuit and won, because in reality there was an obvious employer-employee relationship and the contract was clearly to evade the rules.
The result was that they needed to pay the person extra money he missed out on (holiday time, discharge fee, ..) AND had to pay all taxes to the government on top of what they paid already to the employee.
These were by no means some potato-pickers. There were, among others your general coders, engineers and the occasional CEO.
It could very well be that the contracts were signed, but that does not yet make them legal. And especially in a Boss market, the weaker individual should be protected from abuse.
The alternative is not being a slave. The alternative is not making a living from music. So fucking what? I am sure the majority of people would rather do something else then they do now for a living.
We have a group. We meet after work in every bar around the world.
Starting artists need to be known and heard. It is the greedy mentality of the artists to sell, sell, sell that drives them in the hands of the RIAA in the first place.
Play and play well and the record companies will come to you. If you are not good enough, they won't come.
Once THEY come, you have much more to bargain with, because then it is THEIR greed, not yours.
Yes, this means that 99.9% of the bands won't get a label and that is a good thing.
So why post as Anonymous Coward? Why not with a name and a link in your signature to your website?
There you could place where your gigs are. A place to listen to samples and even download music or buy records.
Unfortunately you just wasted a great opportunity to get some Internet airtime.
Advertising is where the real money is. The people making the money there are the songwriters. Or better: the copyright holders.
These are rarely the artists. They often sold their copyright as part of the deal with the devil.
Why do people sign? Because they are not lawyers. They are also asking the wrong questions to their lawyers. They will say to their lawyer that they want to sign and see the contract. All the while dreaming of gazillions of dollars.
Instead they should ask IF they should sign or not. It means the moment they check the contract, they have already committed themselves.
The dream of stardom is as blind as love. I knew a band and I knew the manager they hired. The manager was all hot air and talk and no connections whatever to the music industry. The phone numbers he had of music people, he got from the phone book or yellow pages.
I clearly told them he would not be worth the 30% he requested for a 5 group band. They still went along with him. As predicted not one contact came out of it, yet the manager still got money from the band (30% and at least X amount said the contract).
So the problem is unfortunately not so much the rules and regulation, it is the fact that a sucker is born every day.
Look at all these X-factory type of shows. On top of what they need to pay standard, they will need to pay the company that aired their win 30% for 3 years. So to make a living they need to work like horses those three years. Results is that they are over exposed, killed their voice and end up broke.
Well, the main reason he won't see any of that is because especially the cassette tapes killed the music industry.
If you use a compiler, you won't be an average user anymore.
If you use a compiler and still click on YES without knowing what you do, then you are an idiot.
a pony.
They did not hate us how we live our lives. They hated us because we told them how to lead THEIR lives.
That does not mean they are not happy if all others do stoopid stuff. Makes them feel important, like feeding a troll.
So that is what they are doing: Testing it on luggage.