By the way, attempting to dilute the definition of "force" to argue otherwise would mean that all other statements about why the use of "force" is bad would need to be reevaluated, because they were not made with that definition of "force."
...and then the rest of the vets had a good laugh at the expense of the "new kid" they failed to clue in on the location of the shield they had been knowing. Ahh, c'est la vie.
All he needs to do is drink some Red Bull on the way down. It gives you wings! *flies away*
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And on the movie "Eraser", Ahnold's character jumps out of a plane with no chute because he's chasing after the one that got thrown out of the plane before he did.
As someone from and living in extreme southern Louisiana, I can definitively tell you that it's "bayou".
I suppose the rest of the country thinks that most of Louisiana is swampland full of hicks, and certainly we have our share of them but probably no more than any other rural area of the country.
My friends up north who have come to visit find it amazing that we occasionally have alligator roadkill or find them in our back yards after really heavy rains (if you live next to the bayou generally). _I_ was amazed to find out that apparently it's a southern thing that we have alcoholic daquiri shops with drive through windows.
Yes, you're obviously both. I assume you don't play any instruments. Trying to explain how instrumental music makes you think would be like trying to explain why it makes you dance or tap your foot.
FRANK: nope, I'll get to it after lunch I'm not going to get out the grammar checker and make sure I capitalize all of my letters for stuff like that.
Maybe if you used some quotation marks and puncutation in that sentence, people wouldn't have to stop and say "whoa, wtf" where that period should have been between "lunch" and "I'm" because that was confusing as shit. When your message content takes a nose-dive because it's incomprehensible, grammar checking certainly becomes pretty important. You shouldn't have to take tons of time proofreading if you just slow down your typing a little bit and know what you're doing the first time around.
"This compiler sucks because it can't figure out my terribly typed code. What a piece of shit!"
No, because my reasoning is that music is not the same as a job.
Most of your reasoning fails because you want to apply your own ideas and ideals to the rest of the population. To a lot of people, music IS their job and livelihood. Just because you don't want to make anything off of your work doesn't mean other people shouldn't either.
Congratulations! There's no one here who doesn't know that! The problem (as I already fucking said) is that even if they kept kids from downloading they wouldn't be buying more music. So they're not losing anything. Because if filesharing didn't exist they wouldn't suddenly start making more money? Do you understand that? As far as profit goes, they're only losing money if they would've had it in the first place. By any other logic you could argue that I'm stealing music by not buying every CD ever recorded, because the music industry could be potentially making more money.
Let's use some of that logic back on you: so you're giving your stuff away for free. Therefore, you aren't making any money off of it. So you shouldn't have any problem if I steal your stuff (oh wait, it's not theft since you aren't charging for it anyway), slap it on a CD, sell it and make some bucks for myself. You're not losing any money, because you weren't getting paid for it in the first place.
Self-centered? Hey, asshole? Have you ever heard of a guy named Trevor Wilson? He bought all the equipment he records with out of his pocket, with money he makes on his job, and paid another 1200 fucking dollars so he could ship it off to fans for free. As in, they don't pay for the album at all. The other day he encouraged me to download his entire album...
<snip a bunch of "I have more money than you" bullshit>
No, can't say I've heard of him. That's great he wants to spend lots of money and give his stuff away for free. Goody for him and you. You apparently have lots and lots of free time on your hands and money to waste however you want. And that's cool, that's your right. Hey, if you wanna shoot me a couple G's, I won't stop you since you're such a giver. Not everyone can afford (time-wise or financially) their livelihoods AND to throw tons of money at a habit they enjoy. Just because you want to give away your time and work for free doesn't mean that everyone else wants to. And it's not your place to say they are wrong for wanting to get something for their effort.
All arguments I've heard for people who are advocates for "free music" boil down to the same thing they accuse others of: greedy. We want something for free and we don't care who we don't have to pay to get it. If your posts haven't been an underlying attempt at justification for people downloading music they should otherwise be paying for, I can't fathom what the point is.
Who are you or anyone else to say who is entitled to make what on their work? Newsflash: being a musician is a job. By your reasoning, since YOU aren't starving on the streets, you shouldn't need any protection from your boss deciding you don't need to get paid for ALL the hours you work, just enough to keep you off the streets, right?
It's preventing them from making money because people are allowed free access to content they would otherwise have to pay for. If you couldn't hear the music for free and you wouldn't be buying it anyway, then you simply shouldn't be listening to it. The fact that you CAN get it for free doesn't make it ok for you to do so. This kind of opinion shows that either your taste in music is so shitty that even their fans aren't willing to support them or that you're so self centered you think that you should be able to dictate other people's livelihoods just because your poor ignorant ass is jealous that others have the talents you only wish you could have.
Try putting in the work to become a successful musician who puts out quality music and then see if you still think your work should be available for free. It's a whole lot different when it's YOUR ass.
I'm waiting for a Battletech movie. Technically not a console game, but the great movie trailers of the Mechcommander and Mechwarrior series show that with today's level of special effects, a Battletech series could become the next Star Wars. If they did a trilogy based on the Blood of Kerensky novel trilogy, they'd definitely have a winner.
The stories are full of great characters, great plots, and of course, awesome Mech fights. We'd finally have a video game-based movie that didn't suck because it'd have both awesome CGI (Mech battles) and depth of plot.
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Funny, so does my blender, my TV, my refrigerator...
...and then the rest of the vets had a good laugh at the expense of the "new kid" they failed to clue in on the location of the shield they had been knowing. Ahh, c'est la vie.
Well since you put it that way, I'm convinced.
You mean the public that continues to download the cracked warez and music, many of which who aren't even aware that what they are doing is illegal?
All he needs to do is drink some Red Bull on the way down. It gives you wings! *flies away*
And on the movie "Eraser", Ahnold's character jumps out of a plane with no chute because he's chasing after the one that got thrown out of the plane before he did.
Someone throw some mod points up there.
If your homeowner's insurance doesn't cover it, I'd be happy to sell you some asteroid impact auto insurance for $50 a month...
I, for one, welcome our new password-protecting overlords...
The latest BOFH, though usually not as good as the earlier stuff.
The first link is a very elegant solution, but I tried it in IE6 and as expected it doesn't work. What a POS.
Next, they'll probably think that you are a retard.
Cajun is a culture, cajun French is a language/dialect.
I suppose the rest of the country thinks that most of Louisiana is swampland full of hicks, and certainly we have our share of them but probably no more than any other rural area of the country.
My friends up north who have come to visit find it amazing that we occasionally have alligator roadkill or find them in our back yards after really heavy rains (if you live next to the bayou generally). _I_ was amazed to find out that apparently it's a southern thing that we have alcoholic daquiri shops with drive through windows.
Yes, you're obviously both. I assume you don't play any instruments. Trying to explain how instrumental music makes you think would be like trying to explain why it makes you dance or tap your foot.
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Maybe if you used some quotation marks and puncutation in that sentence, people wouldn't have to stop and say "whoa, wtf" where that period should have been between "lunch" and "I'm" because that was confusing as shit. When your message content takes a nose-dive because it's incomprehensible, grammar checking certainly becomes pretty important. You shouldn't have to take tons of time proofreading if you just slow down your typing a little bit and know what you're doing the first time around.
"This compiler sucks because it can't figure out my terribly typed code. What a piece of shit!"
Most of your reasoning fails because you want to apply your own ideas and ideals to the rest of the population. To a lot of people, music IS their job and livelihood. Just because you don't want to make anything off of your work doesn't mean other people shouldn't either.
Congratulations! There's no one here who doesn't know that! The problem (as I already fucking said) is that even if they kept kids from downloading they wouldn't be buying more music. So they're not losing anything. Because if filesharing didn't exist they wouldn't suddenly start making more money? Do you understand that? As far as profit goes, they're only losing money if they would've had it in the first place. By any other logic you could argue that I'm stealing music by not buying every CD ever recorded, because the music industry could be potentially making more money.
Let's use some of that logic back on you: so you're giving your stuff away for free. Therefore, you aren't making any money off of it. So you shouldn't have any problem if I steal your stuff (oh wait, it's not theft since you aren't charging for it anyway), slap it on a CD, sell it and make some bucks for myself. You're not losing any money, because you weren't getting paid for it in the first place.
Self-centered? Hey, asshole? Have you ever heard of a guy named Trevor Wilson? He bought all the equipment he records with out of his pocket, with money he makes on his job, and paid another 1200 fucking dollars so he could ship it off to fans for free. As in, they don't pay for the album at all. The other day he encouraged me to download his entire album...
No, can't say I've heard of him. That's great he wants to spend lots of money and give his stuff away for free. Goody for him and you. You apparently have lots and lots of free time on your hands and money to waste however you want. And that's cool, that's your right. Hey, if you wanna shoot me a couple G's, I won't stop you since you're such a giver. Not everyone can afford (time-wise or financially) their livelihoods AND to throw tons of money at a habit they enjoy. Just because you want to give away your time and work for free doesn't mean that everyone else wants to. And it's not your place to say they are wrong for wanting to get something for their effort.
All arguments I've heard for people who are advocates for "free music" boil down to the same thing they accuse others of: greedy. We want something for free and we don't care who we don't have to pay to get it. If your posts haven't been an underlying attempt at justification for people downloading music they should otherwise be paying for, I can't fathom what the point is.
How many times have you gone to a library and copied a few books in their entirety? Do you think the library would even allow that?
Who are you or anyone else to say who is entitled to make what on their work? Newsflash: being a musician is a job. By your reasoning, since YOU aren't starving on the streets, you shouldn't need any protection from your boss deciding you don't need to get paid for ALL the hours you work, just enough to keep you off the streets, right?
It's preventing them from making money because people are allowed free access to content they would otherwise have to pay for. If you couldn't hear the music for free and you wouldn't be buying it anyway, then you simply shouldn't be listening to it. The fact that you CAN get it for free doesn't make it ok for you to do so. This kind of opinion shows that either your taste in music is so shitty that even their fans aren't willing to support them or that you're so self centered you think that you should be able to dictate other people's livelihoods just because your poor ignorant ass is jealous that others have the talents you only wish you could have.
Try putting in the work to become a successful musician who puts out quality music and then see if you still think your work should be available for free. It's a whole lot different when it's YOUR ass.
Once I could have let slide, but twice in the same sentence?!?!
"threw" != "through"
How can you mistake too(sic) such simple words? Please tell me you are still in high school or at least that English isn't your native language...
And I just noticed that you also used "them selfs" twice in the post. Oy vey. Take an English class.
Boy 1: "You mean you have to use your hands?!"
Boy 2: "That's like a baby's toy!"
Marty: "A baby's toy?"
I'm waiting for a Battletech movie. Technically not a console game, but the great movie trailers of the Mechcommander and Mechwarrior series show that with today's level of special effects, a Battletech series could become the next Star Wars. If they did a trilogy based on the Blood of Kerensky novel trilogy, they'd definitely have a winner.
The stories are full of great characters, great plots, and of course, awesome Mech fights. We'd finally have a video game-based movie that didn't suck because it'd have both awesome CGI (Mech battles) and depth of plot.