So the fact that the US/UK/Germany users actually buy things off last.fm providing enough non subscription based revenue to cover bandwidth and licensing should be overlooked? Or do you think that these countries revenue should be spread out to the international community like last.fm was some sort of red cross of music?
How about just fixing IP law so that after a few reasonable years it goes into the public domain. Then we don't need to add another law on top of all these broken laws. Fix the original problem, don't bandaid it with something that just makes it worse.
I hope not, that would be horrible precedence. This isn't like they aren't allowing their service to be used in another country. They simply refuse to *pay* to transport their good to other countries. They have to pay for the bandwidth, it isn't free, so they choose not to pay to deliver it to you. If you want it then you just have to pay the delivery charge for a measly $3/mo. They aren't restraining trade, they simply aren't making it free. Yes licensing works into it as well but the bandwidth costs are the main defense against your argument.
They are rolling over because the license holders can take them to court and destroy their entire business if they don't pay. Unlike the average/. user who can hide within the crowd of millions of other bittorrent users, when your a corporation you need a physical presence somewhere. That means its easy to be served.
So you might call it discrimination, I call it self preservation.
I wish I had mod points to bring you up from -1. The game is part of a story arch, it wasn't artificially expanded because sales were good, it was designed that way.
Stop taking into account skin color when you judge someone and perhaps if enough people stop giving a damn what melanin content their fellows have we can move beyond this bigotry. While its important to not forget the past there is no need to bring it into the present. I've seen many families of multiple elasticities who came to this country unable to speak the language who pulled themselves up from nothing to being more successful than most native born Americans. If someone who can't speak the language, didn't even finish their version of high school and had no one help them at all can make a life for themselves then anyone can. Cut the racial crap, we live in a messed up but still wonderful country and the people who founded it were not perfect... they were human, just like the rest of us. The American dream of working hard and succeeding is alive and well and its color blind.
Personally I like the photo and I think he's awesome, I identify with him more in this photo than in any other I've seen. It's a perfect example of a quote I like but can't recall perfectly, but its basically said...
When all is said and done there will always be this, sitting in a chair and thinking of tomorrow.
Yeah I know I screwed it up... but I can't remember it exactly, just the feeling it arose in me and this photo brings up the same one.
Could ye at least try for some *consistency* in your views?
I don't see how supporting open source software and creative commons artists and wishing everyone did the same is a contradiction or is in anyway inconsistent with respecting a copyrights holders desire for profit when its used for *business* purposes. If you make money off someone elses work they deserve a cut, unless they say its free, no inconsistency there.
I personally do see a difference between a teenager pirating XYZ's latest pop album that sucks and an umpteen million year company pirating their core business software. While it would be nice if the teen bought it, I don't see it as a moral crime they chose to spend the money on concert tickets instead. Now the business on the other hand could and should have paid for it as their income is directly related to the use of the software.
You are *so* right. Cyborgs don't get enough screen time. I'd love it if someone made an independent film showing someone take the leap from natural born human to transhuman, it'd instantly be on my top 10 if it wasn't cheesy.
True, but then the researchers almost died of shock when the bird did that. It's not so much that AI hasn't advanced a great degree as we didn't give animals the proper respect for how intelligent they truly are.
Perhaps, but tell me why it would cost thousands of dollars in administrative fees to *repair a broken faucet*. We're not talking about replacing the rods with equipment you bought at walmart not being up to spec. We're talking about a water faucet... the kind of thing you use to wash your hands with.
You say nuclear power's problems have been mitigated by learning from our mistakes, why would the same not be true for solar?
Because most of the mistakes in nuclear were already known at the time. The russians just didn't do the safety procedures that were in the books sitting on their shelves. Known problems with known solutions *then*, they've just designed things today so that hiring people to lazy to read the manuals wont kill everyone.
While its true that they can and will make solar panels with safer chemicals, eventually. The main point is that nuclear power has been safe for decades and its only because of FUD that it hasn't been in use.
A couple years ago I got a tour of SONGS the nuclear plant out here in California. I met the guys in charge of maintaining the water quality (my sister was a tech who did maintenance on some of the equipment they use for testing it.) These guys took equipment designed to measure particles in the millions and made it sensitive enough to measure particles in the *billions*. Without something simple like clean water the facility wouldn't keep running. And it has been running just fine this whole time. That dude knows his stuff and he was really nice to a teenager full of stupid questions.
Nuclears biggest problem is red tape. The easiest example I can give is they have a leaky faucet in the lab that he could fix with crap from home depot, but it would cost almost 50k in paperwork to get the authority to do it... so they let the faucet drip.
True, but I've worked in call centers, they're the last ones to be told anything. I recall multiple times hearing about things from the customers that the higher ups never bothered to filter down to the front line.
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What did the same people who want to ban black cars write this up too?
Why do I never have mod points when I need them? Should have a +1 Damn Right option.
So the fact that the US/UK/Germany users actually buy things off last.fm providing enough non subscription based revenue to cover bandwidth and licensing should be overlooked? Or do you think that these countries revenue should be spread out to the international community like last.fm was some sort of red cross of music?
How about just fixing IP law so that after a few reasonable years it goes into the public domain. Then we don't need to add another law on top of all these broken laws. Fix the original problem, don't bandaid it with something that just makes it worse.
I hope not, that would be horrible precedence. This isn't like they aren't allowing their service to be used in another country. They simply refuse to *pay* to transport their good to other countries. They have to pay for the bandwidth, it isn't free, so they choose not to pay to deliver it to you. If you want it then you just have to pay the delivery charge for a measly $3/mo. They aren't restraining trade, they simply aren't making it free. Yes licensing works into it as well but the bandwidth costs are the main defense against your argument.
They are rolling over because the license holders can take them to court and destroy their entire business if they don't pay. Unlike the average /. user who can hide within the crowd of millions of other bittorrent users, when your a corporation you need a physical presence somewhere. That means its easy to be served.
So you might call it discrimination, I call it self preservation.
Don't play then. The rest of us are looking forward to part 2 and 3.
I wish I had mod points to bring you up from -1. The game is part of a story arch, it wasn't artificially expanded because sales were good, it was designed that way.
Erm... nope. Color and colour. Honor and Honour come quickly to mind. So yeah, accent matters, even when writing.
Gd spell check, hah, I meant ethnicities not elasticities :}
Stop taking into account skin color when you judge someone and perhaps if enough people stop giving a damn what melanin content their fellows have we can move beyond this bigotry. While its important to not forget the past there is no need to bring it into the present. I've seen many families of multiple elasticities who came to this country unable to speak the language who pulled themselves up from nothing to being more successful than most native born Americans. If someone who can't speak the language, didn't even finish their version of high school and had no one help them at all can make a life for themselves then anyone can. Cut the racial crap, we live in a messed up but still wonderful country and the people who founded it were not perfect ... they were human, just like the rest of us. The American dream of working hard and succeeding is alive and well and its color blind.
Personally I like the photo and I think he's awesome, I identify with him more in this photo than in any other I've seen. It's a perfect example of a quote I like but can't recall perfectly, but its basically said...
... but I can't remember it exactly, just the feeling it arose in me and this photo brings up the same one.
When all is said and done there will always be this, sitting in a chair and thinking of tomorrow.
Yeah I know I screwed it up
I'm waiting for my Cherry 2000 personally...
Agreed, unions served a purpose in history but now are as bad or worse than the problems they solved.
Could ye at least try for some *consistency* in your views?
I don't see how supporting open source software and creative commons artists and wishing everyone did the same is a contradiction or is in anyway inconsistent with respecting a copyrights holders desire for profit when its used for *business* purposes. If you make money off someone elses work they deserve a cut, unless they say its free, no inconsistency there.
I personally do see a difference between a teenager pirating XYZ's latest pop album that sucks and an umpteen million year company pirating their core business software. While it would be nice if the teen bought it, I don't see it as a moral crime they chose to spend the money on concert tickets instead. Now the business on the other hand could and should have paid for it as their income is directly related to the use of the software.
You are *so* right. Cyborgs don't get enough screen time. I'd love it if someone made an independent film showing someone take the leap from natural born human to transhuman, it'd instantly be on my top 10 if it wasn't cheesy.
True, but then the researchers almost died of shock when the bird did that. It's not so much that AI hasn't advanced a great degree as we didn't give animals the proper respect for how intelligent they truly are.
Yeah, once.
Don't worry, by the time this actually hits the shelves it'll only be half the size of the library of congress.
Big fan of the Fallout series eh?
Perhaps, but tell me why it would cost thousands of dollars in administrative fees to *repair a broken faucet*. We're not talking about replacing the rods with equipment you bought at walmart not being up to spec. We're talking about a water faucet ... the kind of thing you use to wash your hands with.
You say nuclear power's problems have been mitigated by learning from our mistakes, why would the same not be true for solar?
Because most of the mistakes in nuclear were already known at the time. The russians just didn't do the safety procedures that were in the books sitting on their shelves. Known problems with known solutions *then*, they've just designed things today so that hiring people to lazy to read the manuals wont kill everyone.
While its true that they can and will make solar panels with safer chemicals, eventually. The main point is that nuclear power has been safe for decades and its only because of FUD that it hasn't been in use.
A couple years ago I got a tour of SONGS the nuclear plant out here in California. I met the guys in charge of maintaining the water quality (my sister was a tech who did maintenance on some of the equipment they use for testing it.) These guys took equipment designed to measure particles in the millions and made it sensitive enough to measure particles in the *billions*. Without something simple like clean water the facility wouldn't keep running. And it has been running just fine this whole time. That dude knows his stuff and he was really nice to a teenager full of stupid questions.
Nuclears biggest problem is red tape. The easiest example I can give is they have a leaky faucet in the lab that he could fix with crap from home depot, but it would cost almost 50k in paperwork to get the authority to do it... so they let the faucet drip.
Yo, 404 on the link provided. Think it was just a .html typo. Found this on your site: http://www.bigattichouse.com/vectorspace.php
Not everyone is a programmer, some of us assist in less direct ways.
True, but I've worked in call centers, they're the last ones to be told anything. I recall multiple times hearing about things from the customers that the higher ups never bothered to filter down to the front line.
:)
Besides, this is more fun.