My comment was meant as a jab at the population here in Louisiana in general, because it pretty much fits your description above. Not to be taken too seriously.:)
Ever taken a music history class? The earliest music was performed by the church by monks who were funded by the church, a large organization with the resources to support people that would do nothing but write music for them. Later on, in the days of classical composers (Bach, Beethoven, etc...) music was funded by patrons of the arts, rich people who could afford to contract the artists to create music for them. Composers couldn't afford on their own to hire an orchestra to hear their arrangements come to life (didn't have any of those massive orchestral sample libraries that we have today!) and they also had to eat (imagine that!) and it's hard to write a lot of music when you have to get out and work to provide for your family. Those patrons could make a lot of money and prestige by inviting others to come and hear the work that they contracted out for, and the composers got the freedom from having to slave all day just to live so that they could devote their time to their art.
Music and art have existed for quite a long time, and for the most part there was always someone with a lot of money behind the scenes to fund it lest it not exist.
There are alternative distribution methods and organizations out there other than the RIAA, such as Weed Share and Mindawn, one of my personal favorites for offering both lossy and lossless files and no DRM based on the trust to their custmers. Both are great for the independant artist both in terms of the services they offer and compensation artists get from them. While a noble ideal, I fear that there will always be people that just don't give a fuck and want something for nothing and screw anyone else, because no matter how inexpensive or easy you make it to get your music, they only want it for free.
*slick entrance* Hiya God, Satan here. I've got more lawyers than you could imagine that I'd be happy to rent out at the low, low price of one immortal soul per hour...
What part of "logic" and "burden of proof" don't you understand? It's most definitely not a fair trade. Please prove to me that there isn't an invisible pink unicorn tap dancing in the corner. Oh, that's impossible for you to prove? It must exist then! Repeat for the infinite number of things that one could conceive of that cannot be proven. It would be ridiculous to expect someone to have to prove the non-existance of every thought any random person had.
Please, show your proof God exists. The burden of proof rests with you.
Would the spaceshuttle taking it into orbit suffice? (didn't RTFA yet, so if it's not going up by shuttle, don't be a pedant, just laugh at the joke:P )
Would you say the same about the placenta? (assuming that you consider the umbilical cord as something seperate from the placenta, which you may not, in which case I'll just stfu:)
I still don't agree with your second point about not being able to hear music before you buy it and not being able to return it, especially in this day and age of the internet. It just sounds like a weak excuse in light of the many, many music retail sites that offer free clips of usually every song on an album for you to listen to to get an idea of the album, not to mention sites like Amazon.com that offer you suggestions on albums you mark as ones you already own and rate, and lest we forget, the actual website for the band/artist in question.
If you let the car sit there idling all day long, traveling 0 miles, yet burning thru(sic) a tank of gas, you are a fucking moron and will probably die of carbon monoxide poisoning. Most of the rest of the world actually use their cars to go places (riceboys not withstanding) and one contrived example does not render the OP incorrect. So yes, assuming the engine is being used during driving as it was intended to, it sounds like the math holds up.
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My comment was meant as a jab at the population here in Louisiana in general, because it pretty much fits your description above. Not to be taken too seriously. :)
What do YOU inject it with? A turkey baster?
Probably wouldn't be too useful either, you can only get it to output "42".
Wow, you're from Louisiana too? That sounds just like here.
And little tiny Jesus fish. Followed by the little tiny Darwin fish.... which will actually be real bacteria that will consume the entire car.
Music and art have existed for quite a long time, and for the most part there was always someone with a lot of money behind the scenes to fund it lest it not exist.
There are alternative distribution methods and organizations out there other than the RIAA, such as Weed Share and Mindawn, one of my personal favorites for offering both lossy and lossless files and no DRM based on the trust to their custmers. Both are great for the independant artist both in terms of the services they offer and compensation artists get from them. While a noble ideal, I fear that there will always be people that just don't give a fuck and want something for nothing and screw anyone else, because no matter how inexpensive or easy you make it to get your music, they only want it for free.
So your history only takes into account the facts that you like and leaves out the bits you don't agree with? That's not accuracy.
*slick entrance* Hiya God, Satan here. I've got more lawyers than you could imagine that I'd be happy to rent out at the low, low price of one immortal soul per hour...
Careful, you may get into intellectual property disputes over your crap!
Please, show your proof God exists. The burden of proof rests with you.
*throws you some cookies*
What is also funny is that a giant telescope is being made by CU. *rimshot*
Would the spaceshuttle taking it into orbit suffice? (didn't RTFA yet, so if it's not going up by shuttle, don't be a pedant, just laugh at the joke :P )
Says the AC. Oh, the irony...
Would you say the same about the placenta? (assuming that you consider the umbilical cord as something seperate from the placenta, which you may not, in which case I'll just stfu :)
Copyright it!
And it's all so bad, which is why everyone wants to copy it. Oh wait...
A Change Of Seasons?
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Case in point...
That's almost too sig-alicious to pass up. :P
Only in Bullet Time.
I still don't agree with your second point about not being able to hear music before you buy it and not being able to return it, especially in this day and age of the internet. It just sounds like a weak excuse in light of the many, many music retail sites that offer free clips of usually every song on an album for you to listen to to get an idea of the album, not to mention sites like Amazon.com that offer you suggestions on albums you mark as ones you already own and rate, and lest we forget, the actual website for the band/artist in question.
If you let the car sit there idling all day long, traveling 0 miles, yet burning thru(sic) a tank of gas, you are a fucking moron and will probably die of carbon monoxide poisoning. Most of the rest of the world actually use their cars to go places (riceboys not withstanding) and one contrived example does not render the OP incorrect. So yes, assuming the engine is being used during driving as it was intended to, it sounds like the math holds up.
Well then the solution should be obvious: see who has the patent first!