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  1. Re:It was worse than that on Apple Holds Firm As Publishers Settle With DoJ Over e-Book Pricing · · Score: 1

    Agency pricing isn't rare at all. Try buying a Vox AC-15C1 amp for less than $599.

  2. Re:And of course ... on Amazon Patents 'Maintaining Scarcity' of Goods · · Score: 1
    From the Bureau of Land Management:

    The Bureau of Land Management, which administers about 245 million acres of public lands, manages livestock grazing on 155 million acres of those lands, as guided by Federal law. The terms and conditions for grazing on BLM-managed lands (such as stipulations on forage use and season of use) are set forth in the permits and leases issued by the Bureau to public land ranchers.

    The BLM administers nearly 18,000 permits and leases held by ranchers who graze their livestock, mostly cattle and sheep, at least part of the year on more than 21,000 allotments under BLM management. Permits and leases generally cover a 10-year period and are renewable if the BLM determines that the terms and conditions of the expiring permit or lease are being met. The amount of grazing that takes place each year on BLM-managed lands can be affected by such factors as drought, wildfire, and market conditions.

  3. Re:To hell with that, WE demand more!!! on As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow To a Trickle · · Score: 1

    I don't disagree with anything in your last paragraph. I don't generally disagree with the idea that if no one wants to listen to your music, well, you're pretty much out of luck. I do think a culture of entitlement has developed that says you don't have to pay for it, even if you DO want to listen to it.

  4. Re:Demand More on As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow To a Trickle · · Score: 1

    And there's virtually nothing around me. So? Anectdotal evidence is just that. It's a fact, however, that many states have made it very difficult for live venues to exist in any large number

  5. Re:Demand More on As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow To a Trickle · · Score: 1

    Why do you translate any of this into 'entitled to a life of leisure'?

  6. Re:Demand More on As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow To a Trickle · · Score: 1

    I think you might have a slightly overinflated sense of your own worth. Why don't you enlighten us as to your 'creative profession' that demands so much more from you than a 'mere cello' player could possibly provide?

  7. Re:There is this thing called a Union on As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow To a Trickle · · Score: 1

    Except back in the day, places to play live were everywhere. Nowdays, they're few and far between.

  8. Re:To hell with that, WE demand more!!! on As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow To a Trickle · · Score: 1

    How about not steal their music and instead pay them a fair price for it?

  9. Re:To hell with that, WE demand more!!! on As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow To a Trickle · · Score: 1

    You clearly have absolutely zero knowledge about the life of a musician. Clue: There's just a little bit more to it than showing up for the gig and playing.

  10. Re:Demand More on As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow To a Trickle · · Score: 1

    There are very few live venues left sadly.

  11. Re:This! on Microsoft Phases Out XNA and DirectX? · · Score: 1

    Windows 8 is far more hideous than ANY Apple product. Apple does not try and turn their desktop computers into tablets.

  12. Re:Huh? on Microsoft Phases Out XNA and DirectX? · · Score: 1

    They aren't killing DirectX as much as breaking it up into component parts scattered all over the Windows SDK. There is no more DirectX SDK. They also seem to be running away from managed code as fast as they can.

  13. Re:Games? on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    Nobody has mentioned MUD or TinyMUD, and later the MOO and MUSH variations.

  14. Re:VisiCalc on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    Should have said it wasn't THEIRS.

  15. Re:VisiCalc on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    It wasn't there. They bought it from Sublogic.

  16. Re:Nortel: victim of industrial espionage? on Nortel Executives Found Not Guilty On Fraud Charges · · Score: 1

    The also were a telco trying to move away from a dying business. Their 'solution' was to buy technology left and right and then have no clear path to integrating it.

  17. Re:Can't America get its acts together ? on Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Minting of Trillion-Dollar Coin · · Score: 1

    This is just a stunning crock of shit.

  18. Re:Books on Death of Printed Books May Have Been Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    I know mine is barely good for a week.

  19. Re:Pain on 'Gorilla Arm' Will Keep Touch Screens From Taking Over · · Score: 1

    And then they hid the ones people don't often use, and hence may not be able to remember. Yes, that works.

  20. Re:Obvious Solution on New Sony Patent Blocks Second-hand Games · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is reportedly working on something similar.

  21. Re:it's the length of movies themselves on 'Hobbit' Creates Big Data Challenge · · Score: 1

    This longer and longer business is kind of odd, because back in the golden age of Hollywood, it wasn't unusual for a film to surpass four hours. Of course, it also wasn't unusual for it to ring in at 65 minutes.

  22. Re: So Proud of Gun Ownership on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1

    It was a reply to the comment that described him as 'deranged from childhood'. It was a disagreement with the word 'deranged'.

  23. Re:So Proud of Gun Ownership on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1

    Rock music is not designed with the single and sole purpose of killing living things.

  24. Re:So Proud of Gun Ownership on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1

    Cite. Being high function autistic is not deranged.

  25. Re:What's the percentage on Most Kickstarter Projects Fail To Deliver On Time · · Score: 5, Funny

    So basically, I worked for the people who pretended to be a real company, who picked deadlines out of their ass and then flogged people over them, but... who never actually let anyone go... so nobody really feared them....just disrespected them, were demoralized, and didn't want to work.... which didn't help the deadlines either.....

    In my experience, that IS a real company. Pretty much every tech company I've worked for behaved this way. It's way I tend to laugh at the whole 'the private sector can do it moah bettah!'