Hear, hear.
I have no car, I buy green power, and I avoid plastics. I'm vegetarian to reduce my impact, and I'm working on buying locally (it's tough, I have little free time to cook).
Of course you don't get your power from a different source - but your provider, assuming they're a public utility, is usually legally required to produce a percentage of their power proportional to the percentage of their output used by 'green power' buyers from renewable sources.
The extra amount you're paying goes into green power funds to pay for windmills, solar panels, etc. Obviously this is questionable if you get your power from a private company, but I get mine from Seattle City Light, and they no longer even operate non-renewable sources due to high demand for green power.
Just like anything an individual can do to lessen their impact on the environment, this one works well in numbers, but not so well when there are detractors like you.:)
On the other hand, being overly protective of your kids as middle/high schoolers tends to end up with them being socially behind others by late high school.
They'd better be geniuses you can dump through all th extra-curricular activities they can stand until they win some awards.
Finance.yahoo.com has the same information. He has to report those sales because he's on the board.
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Yes - your wife. Not you. I'm betting you grew up in a city, or at least live in one now.
Seriously - this audience is urban. Most of the Slashdot crowd lives in major cities. And Akihabara is the last place I'd look for used music...
Most people in Japan are not in their 20s. Most people are in their 60s. Hence, the average salary is much higher than what you experience.
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I haven't been out there - the farthest I was from a city was outside Kumamoto - and it was a while into the city.
I see no indication so far that you can even buy American music on J-iTMS. I guess it would make sense, but I don't know who's licensed.
Actually, it has a lot more to do with the relative value of currency in various markets. Cost of living is very different across regions.
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Actually... yes.
I don't know if you've been to Japan, but it's rarely more than an hour to a city with over a million people, with a technology district where you can indeed buy not only entire albums for a couple hundred yen, but singles CDs for less. Many, many more tracks off an album are released as singles in Japan than are here - same with the UK.
Could that be due to density? It's not exactly difficult to find used CD shops in the middle of Seattle or New York - and much of Japan is up at that density level. Most of the US is very sparse in comparison.
Good question. I don't know - it could mean the dollar is undervalued as well.
The Japanese have been very good about keeping manufacturing in their country, so they have very good credit internationally - they're still huge producers of high-tech goods. It could be that they have more buying power simply because of their production capacity.
Actually, that's about right. CD prices tend to be 3000-4000 yen (25-35 dollars). Remember that both cost of living and pay are higher in Japan - you can't compare directly to the cost of a song in another market.
So, the key is that information that is already collected has to become free - the question becomes whether information is collected or not. Ergo; what you did with your friends in a park one day would only become public record if a camera recorded it. So you just make sure there's no camera.
What American workers need to do is not allow their personal lives to intermingle with their daily work grind.
Are you nuts? You aren't suddenly a different person when you go home. If you've gotten stressed at work, you're going to stay stressed at home unless you do something to unwind. Whether work should impact your home life or not is another story - there are good arguments that a job you enjoy can be very beneficial at home.
Your comment is full of assertions you simply don't back up. I'm not sure why it's rated so high - I certainly wouldn't have rated it up.
the economic and impact of worker mistreatment around the globe in manufacture of products to the US costs $10 trillion a year.
Seriously, folks, you can write a whitepaper about anything.
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Hear, hear. I have no car, I buy green power, and I avoid plastics. I'm vegetarian to reduce my impact, and I'm working on buying locally (it's tough, I have little free time to cook).
Again, we're not talking about huge companies, we're talking about pollution.
My electricity comes from a public utility. It does make a difference.
That's not exactly true.
:)
Of course you don't get your power from a different source - but your provider, assuming they're a public utility, is usually legally required to produce a percentage of their power proportional to the percentage of their output used by 'green power' buyers from renewable sources.
The extra amount you're paying goes into green power funds to pay for windmills, solar panels, etc. Obviously this is questionable if you get your power from a private company, but I get mine from Seattle City Light, and they no longer even operate non-renewable sources due to high demand for green power.
Just like anything an individual can do to lessen their impact on the environment, this one works well in numbers, but not so well when there are detractors like you.
We were talking about moving the source of pollution, not the source of energy.
It only works when you get your power from non-renewable sources. If he also buys green power from his utility, he is indeed reducing pollution.
On the other hand, being overly protective of your kids as middle/high schoolers tends to end up with them being socially behind others by late high school.
They'd better be geniuses you can dump through all th extra-curricular activities they can stand until they win some awards.
If you accelerated slowly from very deep, it could. And it's not that difficult to get the energy from "clean" means.
And if that was your point, you were well off topic, because it has nothing to do with the original article.
Maybe you weren't paying attention? I don't know. You totally missed the point of the film, which is the same as *your* point.
Why is this modded insightful? The OP clearly hasn't seen the film.
Finance.yahoo.com has the same information. He has to report those sales because he's on the board.
Yes - your wife. Not you. I'm betting you grew up in a city, or at least live in one now. Seriously - this audience is urban. Most of the Slashdot crowd lives in major cities. And Akihabara is the last place I'd look for used music...
You should be able to find bootlegs in Ikebukuro...
Most people in Japan are not in their 20s. Most people are in their 60s. Hence, the average salary is much higher than what you experience.
I haven't been out there - the farthest I was from a city was outside Kumamoto - and it was a while into the city. I see no indication so far that you can even buy American music on J-iTMS. I guess it would make sense, but I don't know who's licensed.
Actually, it has a lot more to do with the relative value of currency in various markets. Cost of living is very different across regions.
Actually... yes. I don't know if you've been to Japan, but it's rarely more than an hour to a city with over a million people, with a technology district where you can indeed buy not only entire albums for a couple hundred yen, but singles CDs for less. Many, many more tracks off an album are released as singles in Japan than are here - same with the UK.
Could that be due to density? It's not exactly difficult to find used CD shops in the middle of Seattle or New York - and much of Japan is up at that density level. Most of the US is very sparse in comparison.
Good question. I don't know - it could mean the dollar is undervalued as well. The Japanese have been very good about keeping manufacturing in their country, so they have very good credit internationally - they're still huge producers of high-tech goods. It could be that they have more buying power simply because of their production capacity.
Actually, that's about right. CD prices tend to be 3000-4000 yen (25-35 dollars). Remember that both cost of living and pay are higher in Japan - you can't compare directly to the cost of a song in another market.
So, the key is that information that is already collected has to become free - the question becomes whether information is collected or not. Ergo; what you did with your friends in a park one day would only become public record if a camera recorded it. So you just make sure there's no camera.
What American workers need to do is not allow their personal lives to intermingle with their daily work grind. Are you nuts? You aren't suddenly a different person when you go home. If you've gotten stressed at work, you're going to stay stressed at home unless you do something to unwind. Whether work should impact your home life or not is another story - there are good arguments that a job you enjoy can be very beneficial at home. Your comment is full of assertions you simply don't back up. I'm not sure why it's rated so high - I certainly wouldn't have rated it up.
There are plenty of people with that insight now, but they're labelled "crackpots", "conspiracy theorists" and "paranoid delusionals".
the economic and impact of worker mistreatment around the globe in manufacture of products to the US costs $10 trillion a year. Seriously, folks, you can write a whitepaper about anything.
What the hell? This is just the old black and white USGS imagery? World Wind gives me this for free too, but with a better interface.