Companies only enjoy a "superior economic position" by satisfying consumers
Which is false. Companies enjoy a superior economic position by satisfying crooked legislators and themselves. Satisfying consumers is a good PR side effect. Nothing more.
To the recording companies, with respect to p2p, "Life isn't fair."
Now that we've accepted that fact can we please quit wasting my taxpayer money cluttering the courts with their lawsuits pouting about how life isn't fair?
Whatever their sold on does not excuse the complete and utter crap that are the recording contracts. It's the same with my employee agreements. They're crap, I know they're crap, but the choice between unemployed/homeless vs. employed/getting screwed isn't much of a choice at all.
Individuals have no bargaining power against a company and companies are fleecing individuals blind. At least admit that.
if people want to be rock stars so badly that they feel they can't turn down an unfair deal, fine
I completely agree. But don't make the signing deals out to be fair. At the same time the same laws which govern signing deals govern my employee agreement and I can't afford to be unemployed. This has nothing to do with wanting to be a rock star.
Are you even employed in an industry which has an employee agreement? If not then you've instantly lost all credibility in this thread.
hey did have a choice, they could have chosen to get a regular 9-to-5 job or whatever
Even 9-to-5 jobs require an employee agreement and, unless you're financially wealthy enough to be able to afford to turn them down, there's nothing you can do but accept an unfair agreement.
I'm not a bleeding heart for the artists. I do recognize that the media industry, as a general rule, is fleecing the artists blind and deserve none of the protections warranted by a responsible member of society.
Presumably the musicians didn't sign their record contracts at gunpoint -- they were free to take their business elsewhere
Yeah. You too. The moment I hear this a little light goes on which reads,"Trolling". No one who's ever seen an employment or recording contract could maintain that they're a fair deal and keep a straight face. Either you've never had to sign one or you're financially wealthy enough where you can afford to turn them down.
You're obviously baiting an argument, nothing more.
You've either never had to sign one yourself or you're financially wealthy enough where you would never need to sign one. The contracts are crap and the only reason why the artists sign is because they need the money more than the company needs them.
You've voluntarily opted to give up all credibility with this comment. Typical preaching from the top of the mountain bunk.
You sound exactly like the big companies that count on people not having the resources to fight back. Moral my ass, you condone thievery and bullying
No one's condoning bullying. If they want to keep the domain name they are fully within their right to do it. No one's going to force them off.
What I said (I know, you're an AC troll, so you're not required to actually respond to what I said) was that if _I_ owned a domain and was doing nothing with it aside from hosting a few banner ads that _I_ would happily relinquish said domain name to someone who politely expressed, to me, an interest to do something productive with the domain name.
We're not seeing any bullying here. We're seeing a prime example of someone who has purchased a domain name with no real intent to do anything useful with it who is taking an extra amount of joy in their ability to piss someone off.
Kind of like that asshole on the freeway who enjoys pissing everyone off by going 5 MPH below the posted speed limit in the left lane.
Maybe I'm more morally in tune than you are. If I were sitting on a domain name which I used for a time server and an ftpd, and filled the httpd with a couple banner ads, I would be more than happy to migrate to something else if someone came along and politely let me know that they had a legitimate business that they would want to set up on the domain name. Provided I agree with the businees.
Yes. You do have a right to be a dick. I hope it makes you happy and keeps you warm at night. Everyone needs something, I guess.
maybe you just don't get that you can't take other people's property because you don't like, or understand, how they use it.
Oh, I get it. I get it that you'd like to start a business buying up domain names just to piss people off in the future.
I like installing packages from tarballs so I wrote a neat little utility to help me automate the process. It's a line parser for command files coupled with a mini database. All written in BASH. It's about 15k.
Yes. It is fascism. It demonstrates that fascism is not a particular government by itself. Fascism is what happens whenever you corrupt any government scheme. When people get all worked up about fascists, they're really getting worked up over politicians who are lying about intent. Fascism is putting greed and personal profit ahead of the true duties of whatever government is in place be it communist, socialist, or a republic.
Are you, or are you not insinuating that the U.S. government is Marxist?
I am not insinuating anything. I'm labelling the US Federal Government as communist/Marxist. They exhibit all the same behaviors (economic redistribution) for all the same reasons (the public good and the good of the Nation) and, to top it off, they're fascist in that it's a lie. They don't actually care about the public good or the good of the nation. They only care about lining their own pockets first and everyone else, well, it's nice to have some good PR so maybe once in a while they'll let a few people in on the gravy train.
I'll tell you what it isn't: conservative or libertarian.
Indeed. No matter what the talking heads say there isn't a single true conservative movement to be found. There are isolated conservatives in Congress and the Senate. They have no real power against the majority of politicians and lobbyists who are milking the system for every dollar that we taxpayers are worth.
FTP servers have only MINIMAL, and I mean MINIMAL, visual association with their name. A web site selling a tangible product has an enormous attachment to the name of the business front.
It's why Toys'r'Us isn't called FarmEquipmentDepot. In terms of ftp mirrors I don't expect every place that I get a kernel to have the word "linux" in it, except in the path or filename.
Do you really know nothing about marketing or are you trolling?
There's a vast difference between the address in a visually oriented Web page and the address in an ftp mirror. There's a reason why most business names and store fronts reflect their internal merchandise. In the case of ftp mirrors, however, the address is largely irrelevant.
If you take a quote out of context just to harp for the opposite viewpoint that's just plain trolling. Consider yourself fed.
You're right. I would never suggest that this would go to a committee. Your case with the flat panel monitor isn't really in line, though, because you're not preventing anyone else from buying a flat panel monitor.
I never said there was any right involved. I only suggested that it would be nice if someone being a useless lump of banner ads on the web would give up a domain name to someone who wants to make a legitimate use of it. Which would you rather have in your neighborhood? Homes covered with graffiti and political signs, or homes where the owners take care of them?
Give me a break. And you even got modded insightful.
However, liquid cannot be compressed (pressure can change, but volume doesn't change)
I think the hydraulics industry would have a different opinion on that. A liquid's change in volume due to pressure is much much much smaller than any gas, but there is still a change in volume.
And the parent was right. Pressue is always an issue. The membranes in your nose, throat, lungs, sinuses, ears, and intestines have designed themselves to accomodate a certain difference between the pressure on one side of the membrane and the pressure on the other side of the membrane. Unless you drained yourself of significant amounts of blood the blood would probably blow out every capillary in open space.
The entire body would be one big muffler burn (commonly seen on the neck).
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Which is false. Companies enjoy a superior economic position by satisfying crooked legislators and themselves. Satisfying consumers is a good PR side effect. Nothing more.
Do you even have a job?
Hahaha. Okay. You've proven my point.
Checkmate.
Whatever their sold on does not excuse the complete and utter crap that are the recording contracts. It's the same with my employee agreements. They're crap, I know they're crap, but the choice between unemployed/homeless vs. employed/getting screwed isn't much of a choice at all.
Individuals have no bargaining power against a company and companies are fleecing individuals blind. At least admit that.
Are you even employed in an industry which has an employee agreement? If not then you've instantly lost all credibility in this thread.
Even 9-to-5 jobs require an employee agreement and, unless you're financially wealthy enough to be able to afford to turn them down, there's nothing you can do but accept an unfair agreement.
I'm not a bleeding heart for the artists. I do recognize that the media industry, as a general rule, is fleecing the artists blind and deserve none of the protections warranted by a responsible member of society.
You're obviously baiting an argument, nothing more.
You've voluntarily opted to give up all credibility with this comment. Typical preaching from the top of the mountain bunk.
What I said (I know, you're an AC troll, so you're not required to actually respond to what I said) was that if _I_ owned a domain and was doing nothing with it aside from hosting a few banner ads that _I_ would happily relinquish said domain name to someone who politely expressed, to me, an interest to do something productive with the domain name.
We're not seeing any bullying here. We're seeing a prime example of someone who has purchased a domain name with no real intent to do anything useful with it who is taking an extra amount of joy in their ability to piss someone off.
Kind of like that asshole on the freeway who enjoys pissing everyone off by going 5 MPH below the posted speed limit in the left lane.
Follow the link to my home page. The code is GPL.
Yes. You do have a right to be a dick. I hope it makes you happy and keeps you warm at night. Everyone needs something, I guess.
Oh, I get it. I get it that you'd like to start a business buying up domain names just to piss people off in the future.
I like installing packages from tarballs so I wrote a neat little utility to help me automate the process. It's a line parser for command files coupled with a mini database. All written in BASH. It's about 15k.
I am not insinuating anything. I'm labelling the US Federal Government as communist/Marxist. They exhibit all the same behaviors (economic redistribution) for all the same reasons (the public good and the good of the Nation) and, to top it off, they're fascist in that it's a lie. They don't actually care about the public good or the good of the nation. They only care about lining their own pockets first and everyone else, well, it's nice to have some good PR so maybe once in a while they'll let a few people in on the gravy train.
Indeed. No matter what the talking heads say there isn't a single true conservative movement to be found. There are isolated conservatives in Congress and the Senate. They have no real power against the majority of politicians and lobbyists who are milking the system for every dollar that we taxpayers are worth.
Your daughter would have an attachment to that $1000 wedding dress.
If someone has an attachment to a $10 domain name that they're using for a couple generic banner ads, they need to have their head checked.
FTP servers have only MINIMAL, and I mean MINIMAL, visual association with their name. A web site selling a tangible product has an enormous attachment to the name of the business front.
It's why Toys'r'Us isn't called FarmEquipmentDepot. In terms of ftp mirrors I don't expect every place that I get a kernel to have the word "linux" in it, except in the path or filename.
Do you really know nothing about marketing or are you trolling?
There's a vast difference between the address in a visually oriented Web page and the address in an ftp mirror. There's a reason why most business names and store fronts reflect their internal merchandise. In the case of ftp mirrors, however, the address is largely irrelevant.
If you take a quote out of context just to harp for the opposite viewpoint that's just plain trolling. Consider yourself fed.
You're right. I would never suggest that this would go to a committee. Your case with the flat panel monitor isn't really in line, though, because you're not preventing anyone else from buying a flat panel monitor.
I never said there was any right involved. I only suggested that it would be nice if someone being a useless lump of banner ads on the web would give up a domain name to someone who wants to make a legitimate use of it. Which would you rather have in your neighborhood? Homes covered with graffiti and political signs, or homes where the owners take care of them?
Give me a break. And you even got modded insightful.
And the parent was right. Pressue is always an issue. The membranes in your nose, throat, lungs, sinuses, ears, and intestines have designed themselves to accomodate a certain difference between the pressure on one side of the membrane and the pressure on the other side of the membrane. Unless you drained yourself of significant amounts of blood the blood would probably blow out every capillary in open space.
The entire body would be one big muffler burn (commonly seen on the neck).
I hadn't considered tourists. I'm signing on with your two-tax pipe dream.