Germany, France, and Italy, just to name a few examples, are nations where political boundaries are more or less geographic or where the last boundary war left off.
You do realize that Italy and Germany didn't exist until 1866 and 1870 respectively. What geographic magic happened in those years to suddenly establish those geographic political boundaries?
That aside I'm guessing that the GP was referring to the concept of nations as a whole as an artificial grouping that serves no real purpose other than supporting a "political class" that serves no purpose other than restricting the individual potential as a whole. Or something along those lines anyway. It wasn't very clear.
Anyone who has a problem with the above link can go research this at the Library of Congress. There is even more info to be found there.
Japan was defeated. Stop all the revisionist bullshit. The bombs were dropped on motherfucking civilians. Your own president was writing in his journal about the injustice of dropping the bomb on civilians
Then please explain why even after both bombs were dropped the Japanese were still demanding conditions before they would surrender. They never did unconditionally surrender which was the very publicly declared Allied war aim. The US folded and granted them the conditions they were demanding even though it went against all the declared war aims. Yet you claim they were utterly defeated and begging to surrender. Let's see now, which is fact and which is fiction. You, sir, need to take your own advice.
Right, because Ron Paul, 100% supporter of a free market and the libertarian-turned-republican who advocates small federal government with little or no interventionism is certainly going to be in favour of passing laws that restrict the privileges of business and copyright holders.
Copyright is an extraordinary anti-free market legal right granted by law. You don't have enact laws to restrict copywright. You simple have to eliminate or limit some of the current laws granting the extraordinary rights encoded in current copywright law. This means eliminating or reducing the scope of current anti-free market laws which is as I understand it very libertarian. Where do you people get the idea that copywright is somehow part of the free market. It's laws passed that restrict the free market, ostensibly (per the constitution) to encourage the creation of creative content but in reality, given modern technology, to artificially protect an obsolete market.
I absolutely disagree. If an author wants to sell his copyright, who are you to tell him he can't? Is he not allowed to sell his house or his car as well? Don't be so paternalistic. If people want to do this, let them. It is not appropriate to second-guess other people's personal and business decisions in that manner except in extreme cases, and these are not extreme cases.
Except copyright isn't a house or car. It's an extraordinary right granted to someone by law. It has nothing to do with ownership.
As far as I'm concerned, privacy is for liars and conspirators. I don't want anyone to have it
This from someone posting under the pseudonym of "ShieldW0lf" and won't even show an email address on their profile. Hmmm... Maybe a wee bit hypocritical?
Here are the population densities (pop/sq km) for a few countries:
US 31, Sweden 20, Finland 15.5, Norway: 12 and Iceland 2.9
Why didn't you bring up Canada like all the rest of people that bring up these idiotic figures. Despite the overall population density for those countries, 80% of the population lives in a mostly contiguous 20% of the land area. This is not the case for the US. The US doesn't have a few densely populated areas and vast sparsely populated areas. At best it has a number of scattered sparsely populated areas surrounded by densely populated areas.
California would be the 8th country in GDP so what it does has more impact than the vast majority of other countries. And for good or bad the US can claim California.
I'm sorry, but while Led Zeppelin is good (I'm sure not going to argue), there are a certain percentage of their songs that I am convinced one must be stoned/high/drunk/etc in order to enjoy them properly.
I call "reference". Name one.
The RIAA is obselete on about 18 different levels, only 12 of which are potentially understandable.
The first being that I can't get a digital Led Zeppelin song legally.
That's what I'm talking about - running the software people want to run. Currently I can't use Ubuntu as my desktop, as my work requires me to use software that simply doesn't exist on Ubuntu (Adobe suite, mainly).
Runs under wine and is as easy to install there as under Windows.
The same goes for at home, as I like to play games.
The only reason I keep a Windows box around at all. The only thing Windows is good for is playing games. But that's hardly a reason to suffer through all the added expense and security pains that come with Windows. I get almost all the software I need to use free with Linux. The few that I don't (e.g. Quicken, haven't had time to look into free alternatives and have years of data) I run under wine.
It does have plenty of built-in drivers, but then so does Windows. So far I've had a much better experience with hardware support on Windows than on Ubuntu (or indeed any linux distro).
You know every time I see something like this I'm mystified. My first reaction, because of my personal experiences, is that this is complete BS from some Microsoft astroturfer. I'm sitting here with 8 computers on a KVM. I have Ubuntu, RHEL and OpenSuse along with one Windows XP box for games. The Linux boxes range in age from 3 months to 6 years and yet they are all running fairly recent Linux distro's. The oldest is a OpenSuse 10.1 server and the newest is running Gutsy. The hardware runs the gambit from Pentium III to Pentium D to AMD Socket 939 to AMD Socket 462 to AMD AM2 to Intel Socket 775. All the systems are cobbled together from custom selected hardware. Some are retired Windows boxes. I've also got 2 laptops I've put Linux on. They've all got complex partitioning with RAID 1, encryption and LVM. Yet through all that it's been several years since I installed Linux and have had any problems, with the exception of wireless networking, with something not working "out of the box" or had an install take more then a few hours. Where are these people getting this hardware that Linux is choking on?
Now at the same time I bought my newest Windows box when my old Windows box crashed for the second time (it's now happily running Feisty). Reinstalling Windows on the old box was a nightmare of driver issues that took the better part of a day. I've had the current Windows box for maybe 6 or 8 months. It's used exclusively for games and some VPN connectivity testing. I've had to boot Ubuntu off a live CD twice to fix things that were causing it to hang while starting and now it's screwed up again such that it won't even boot to a point where I can tell what's causing the problem. The problem started on a reboot after installing Microsoft patches.
I've install Linux on dozens of boxes and Windows on well less than half as many yet problems with the far more complex Linux installs have been relatively rare and easily fixable while problems with windows installs have occurred in the majority of cases and have often been a nightmare to fix. I find it very hard to equate this experience with all the crap I read about how simple it is to install Windows and how everything "just works" "out of the box". From my experience that describes Linux far better than it does Windows.
There are many more examples of how the patent system worked.
Only if, as per your own examples, you believe the purpose of the patent system is give to a single individual long term extraordinary rights because he had an idea once. But unfortunately the (US) Constitutional purpose of the patent system is suppose to be to promote innovation which the current system is not just failing miserable at but is actually doing the opposite. I would challenge you that I could either discredit examples you provide where you claimed it served this purpose or provide a counter example for every example I couldn't easily discredit.
You didn't make a video for your friends and family, you freaking put it on YOUTUBE for the WHOLE PLANET.
Give me a fucking break. She posted a video of her kid with something that I couldn't even distinguish playing in the background. Whatever she used the video for, any noise in the background is incidental. If you really think this in any way, shape or form is effecting {symbol}'s (the moron formally known as prince) ability to make money forever for a few days work he did who knows how long ago, you're a moron also. And while you're at it explain why the are there laws enforcing the fact that just because some asshole can make a little music their little bit of work should be preserved for the exclusive purpose of making money for both them and their relatives for 90 years after they are dead. Strangely enough there are no laws forcing people to keep paying me until 90 years after I'm dead for the work I do every day.
Of course, if they decide they don't want to take your money because you're small potatoes, it's obviously ironic if they decide to pay a ton of money to lawyers, to sue people over equally small potatoes.
What the hell are you talking about suing for small potatoes. A jury recently decided blatant infringement like this cost the music industry $9,000 per song infringed. If you ask them they'll tell you it cost them billions a year and they're paying about that much to the congress critters to pass laws so they get that much every time they sue anybody.
15% currency devaluation since 2004? If MSFT invested the 500 million since then they would be way ahead of the game; they easily would have (and probably did) exceeded a 15% return over 3 years.
Not if they invested it in the development of Vista.
What pisses the shit out of me is that telling someone to fuck off is considered rude and unacceptable, but offending someone without the use of swear words is totally a-ok.
This is the key to swearing especially at work. Not that it was were I started, I really learned to swear in the Army. The above study should have been done on an Infantry squad. That will quickly teach you to use cuss words effectively. When I want to attack or insult some one I most assuredly don't use cuss words or even non-cussing insults or attacks. It's much more effective to use logic applied as subtly sarcastic, biting rhetoric that makes them look like a compete idiot rather than resorting to emotional attacks or name calling (whether using cuss words or not). It doesn't allow them to call out anything specific as an insult or attack which is usually more effective than the attack itself. They stand there thinking "he just made me look like a complete idiot" without being able to point to anything specific as an insult or attack. The response usually makes the person look even worse because rather than a reasoned response the subtle rhetoric attack usually evokes an unreasoned emotional response. That being said I think cussing is a very effective way of communicating when used correctly but using it to insult or attack someone is not an effective use, especially at work.
As the Mythbusters would say "Well, there's your problem". Those never have anywhere near enough cooling and usually have cables obstructing the air flow of what little cooling they have. You keep buying those crappy computers and that kinda thing is going to happen. I build my own for cheaper than Dell and have had 1 drive fail in the last 7 or 8 years and that was my fault because it was mounted where there was no air flow. I've dealt with 100's of computers over the last 10 years and in pretty much every case (including many Dells) I've encountered drive failures it's been attributable to insufficient cooling.
The short answer is if you're having those kind of drive failure rates you're doing it wrong. (also addressing sibling who said they didn't have time to cool their drives) Adding 2 or 3 80mm fans to a case is a lot cheaper in both money (I buy them by the 6 pack at $1.50 per fan) and time than a drive failure even under the best circumstances, meaning good easily recoverable backups, which we all know is pretty rare.
* Learned to take apart wooden clothespins in consistently under 30 seconds.
* Undo the clasps on my shirt, likewise quickly
* Remove my earrings, often before I can stop him.
* Take apart metal kitchen magnets -- the ones with the tough-to-open spring clip on them. We gave him one the first time because we figured he couldn't damage it; we didn't see a way. Instead, he figured out that the pin mechanism was removable, pulled the pin out, opened it up, took out the spring, etc. We gave him a pack of them for fun, and he got taking them apart down to under 30 seconds.
Taking things apart (usually destructively) is an Amazon's _Mission In Life_. I never put anything I don't want destroyed in reach of my Amazon unless I'm watching real close even if I don't think that cute little bird could hurt it. He'll ignore it until you look away for 30 sec. after which it'll be at least partially destroyed. I gave him an old heavy duty steal calculator thinking it would keep him occupied for at least a week. When I got home from work the next day it was completely apart and spread about the room as far as he could throw the parts. I could go on for days with stories of the little bastard out smarting me. Never underestimate a parrot. Every now and then I'll sneak up and catch him working on the latch to the cage. He won't touch it while I'm watching.
I don't remember exactly where I read it but it was on Usenet or a parrot web page forum. Someone wrote about their parrot taking his dry food over to the water dish to soften it up. Apparently he got tired of carrying it over piece by piece so one day he started using a toy to spoon water from his water dish to his dry food dish.
I've never heard of a RJ-15, I have diagnosed plenty of problems with RJ-11 jacks
Brain fart. I meant RJ-11
Sounds like cello-tape, used on the inside of the card-slot like I was thinking, would have thrown you off too.
No, I likely would have caught it. Reseating the card is fourth or fifth on the trouble shooting list and includes looking at the connectors on both the card and the board for visible damage.
I have to ask the question, is this type of behavior exhibited by ripoff artists, or inexperienced "technical" people trying to be entrepreneurial?
With the number of "tech experts" I come across that are completely clueless I'm guessing in most cases it's the later more than the former. I won't call help lines except as an absolute last resort. I was having DSL problems at a work location with 5 CIDR fixed IPs once. The idiot second level tech I was talking to at the phone company asked me the configuration of my computer. I gave IPs of all the routers and systems I had on the public network and the gateway and DNS IPs I had configured. Somehow she latched onto that I was using the gateway address on one of the computers and I couldn't do that and that was the problem. I spent the next almost 2 hours trying to explain to both her and her boss how networks work and that I was correctly using the gateway address. Close to 2 hours into the call the I screamed at them that I wasn't misusing the gateway address and they hung up on me. I call back and go three levels up to finally convince them to escalate the call to a third level tech who quickly determined there was a problem at the DSLAM. Then there was the time the POTS guy from the phone company disconnected my house DSL because he hooked his line POTS line tester up and got a bad reading.
My mother took her non-booting laptop in to someplace. They charged her something like $70 to tell her they thought it was some serious hardware problem that was going to cost hundreds if not thousands to fix because they couldn't even get their diagnostics to run. I told her to send it to me. It booted into windows and showed a dialog about a problem with the windows password dll and rebooted which meant almost certainly a virus got it. I installed Ubuntu and it's been fine since, total cost 30min of my time which even at my highest billing rate ever would have been $125.
I was working on a realtime system for a tollbooth lane controller. Some suit in the company decided that they needed to bring in some high powered (read very expensive) security experts for a security audit on the system. We spending an hour trying to convince them that even someone putting a virus infected bootable floppy (this was late 90's) in one of the unix systems it was impossible for them to get a virus, that at worse it would crash the system in a fairly easily recoverable way. After that my boss basically escorted them out. I could go on for hours about clueless "experts" in this field. Don't get me started on the stuff I overhear idiots in stores telling people.
There are more clueless ignoramuses claiming to be experts in the tech industry than any industry in history.
It's not a normally occuring fault that a 'real world' tech would ever experience in his lifetime.
Strange, I've never worked as a tech although I've supported groups in IT operations and I've encountered contact problems with both RJ-45 and RJ-15 jacks so many times that I couldn't put a real number to them. So I guess "real world" techs must have a real short lifetime since I'm not THAT old. I'm guessing here, but I would say that you encountered this before but as you predicted you didn't find it.
In fact, doing so is stealing, and we should all re-buy songs, preferably one copy for each device.
No every time a device plays a recorded song it makes multiple copy's of the media. As the bits pass through the electronic innards each of electronic innards makes a copy. And there's also the copy converted into sound waves (which get bigger and bigger further from the source) and the ear drums and the nerves. And how many brain cells have a copy, huh huh. You should have to buy a couple hundred licenses maybe thousands (our research into this isn't complete yet) just to listen once.
This law seems like it'd be either unenforcable (if the person can argue that they don't have or forgot the key), or asking for people to be set up (if they can't).
This is what would scare me. I'm constantly experimenting with various data encryption methodologies. I have 2 USB drives sitting here now that were encrypted for tests that I'm not sure how they were encrypt much less what the keys are.
Actually, business are run by MBAs. It is about the extra two cents profit per device.
And it's a sad fact but those MBAs for the most part are clueless as to how to most profitable run a business. They're to busy counting beans to understand that supporting the Linux community actually helps their business since their whole business relies on a strong Linux community.
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You do realize that Italy and Germany didn't exist until 1866 and 1870 respectively. What geographic magic happened in those years to suddenly establish those geographic political boundaries?
That aside I'm guessing that the GP was referring to the concept of nations as a whole as an artificial grouping that serves no real purpose other than supporting a "political class" that serves no purpose other than restricting the individual potential as a whole. Or something along those lines anyway. It wasn't very clear.
Then please explain why even after both bombs were dropped the Japanese were still demanding conditions before they would surrender. They never did unconditionally surrender which was the very publicly declared Allied war aim. The US folded and granted them the conditions they were demanding even though it went against all the declared war aims. Yet you claim they were utterly defeated and begging to surrender. Let's see now, which is fact and which is fiction. You, sir, need to take your own advice.
Yeah those tanks and anti-aircraft weapons they give the national guard are real effective against floods and tornadoes.
Idiot.
Copyright is an extraordinary anti-free market legal right granted by law. You don't have enact laws to restrict copywright. You simple have to eliminate or limit some of the current laws granting the extraordinary rights encoded in current copywright law. This means eliminating or reducing the scope of current anti-free market laws which is as I understand it very libertarian. Where do you people get the idea that copywright is somehow part of the free market. It's laws passed that restrict the free market, ostensibly (per the constitution) to encourage the creation of creative content but in reality, given modern technology, to artificially protect an obsolete market.
Except copyright isn't a house or car. It's an extraordinary right granted to someone by law. It has nothing to do with ownership.
This from someone posting under the pseudonym of "ShieldW0lf" and won't even show an email address on their profile. Hmmm... Maybe a wee bit hypocritical?
Why didn't you bring up Canada like all the rest of people that bring up these idiotic figures. Despite the overall population density for those countries, 80% of the population lives in a mostly contiguous 20% of the land area. This is not the case for the US. The US doesn't have a few densely populated areas and vast sparsely populated areas. At best it has a number of scattered sparsely populated areas surrounded by densely populated areas.
California would be the 8th country in GDP so what it does has more impact than the vast majority of other countries. And for good or bad the US can claim California.
This whole thing is just smoke and mirrors to make Al Gore a lot of money.
There, fixed that for ya.
I call "reference". Name one.
The RIAA is obselete on about 18 different levels, only 12 of which are potentially understandable.The first being that I can't get a digital Led Zeppelin song legally.
Runs under wine and is as easy to install there as under Windows.
The same goes for at home, as I like to play games.The only reason I keep a Windows box around at all. The only thing Windows is good for is playing games. But that's hardly a reason to suffer through all the added expense and security pains that come with Windows. I get almost all the software I need to use free with Linux. The few that I don't (e.g. Quicken, haven't had time to look into free alternatives and have years of data) I run under wine.
It does have plenty of built-in drivers, but then so does Windows. So far I've had a much better experience with hardware support on Windows than on Ubuntu (or indeed any linux distro).You know every time I see something like this I'm mystified. My first reaction, because of my personal experiences, is that this is complete BS from some Microsoft astroturfer. I'm sitting here with 8 computers on a KVM. I have Ubuntu, RHEL and OpenSuse along with one Windows XP box for games. The Linux boxes range in age from 3 months to 6 years and yet they are all running fairly recent Linux distro's. The oldest is a OpenSuse 10.1 server and the newest is running Gutsy. The hardware runs the gambit from Pentium III to Pentium D to AMD Socket 939 to AMD Socket 462 to AMD AM2 to Intel Socket 775. All the systems are cobbled together from custom selected hardware. Some are retired Windows boxes. I've also got 2 laptops I've put Linux on. They've all got complex partitioning with RAID 1, encryption and LVM. Yet through all that it's been several years since I installed Linux and have had any problems, with the exception of wireless networking, with something not working "out of the box" or had an install take more then a few hours. Where are these people getting this hardware that Linux is choking on?
Now at the same time I bought my newest Windows box when my old Windows box crashed for the second time (it's now happily running Feisty). Reinstalling Windows on the old box was a nightmare of driver issues that took the better part of a day. I've had the current Windows box for maybe 6 or 8 months. It's used exclusively for games and some VPN connectivity testing. I've had to boot Ubuntu off a live CD twice to fix things that were causing it to hang while starting and now it's screwed up again such that it won't even boot to a point where I can tell what's causing the problem. The problem started on a reboot after installing Microsoft patches.
I've install Linux on dozens of boxes and Windows on well less than half as many yet problems with the far more complex Linux installs have been relatively rare and easily fixable while problems with windows installs have occurred in the majority of cases and have often been a nightmare to fix. I find it very hard to equate this experience with all the crap I read about how simple it is to install Windows and how everything "just works" "out of the box". From my experience that describes Linux far better than it does Windows.
Only if, as per your own examples, you believe the purpose of the patent system is give to a single individual long term extraordinary rights because he had an idea once. But unfortunately the (US) Constitutional purpose of the patent system is suppose to be to promote innovation which the current system is not just failing miserable at but is actually doing the opposite. I would challenge you that I could either discredit examples you provide where you claimed it served this purpose or provide a counter example for every example I couldn't easily discredit.
Give me a fucking break. She posted a video of her kid with something that I couldn't even distinguish playing in the background. Whatever she used the video for, any noise in the background is incidental. If you really think this in any way, shape or form is effecting {symbol}'s (the moron formally known as prince) ability to make money forever for a few days work he did who knows how long ago, you're a moron also. And while you're at it explain why the are there laws enforcing the fact that just because some asshole can make a little music their little bit of work should be preserved for the exclusive purpose of making money for both them and their relatives for 90 years after they are dead. Strangely enough there are no laws forcing people to keep paying me until 90 years after I'm dead for the work I do every day.
What the hell are you talking about suing for small potatoes. A jury recently decided blatant infringement like this cost the music industry $9,000 per song infringed. If you ask them they'll tell you it cost them billions a year and they're paying about that much to the congress critters to pass laws so they get that much every time they sue anybody.
Not if they invested it in the development of Vista.
This is the key to swearing especially at work. Not that it was were I started, I really learned to swear in the Army. The above study should have been done on an Infantry squad. That will quickly teach you to use cuss words effectively. When I want to attack or insult some one I most assuredly don't use cuss words or even non-cussing insults or attacks. It's much more effective to use logic applied as subtly sarcastic, biting rhetoric that makes them look like a compete idiot rather than resorting to emotional attacks or name calling (whether using cuss words or not). It doesn't allow them to call out anything specific as an insult or attack which is usually more effective than the attack itself. They stand there thinking "he just made me look like a complete idiot" without being able to point to anything specific as an insult or attack. The response usually makes the person look even worse because rather than a reasoned response the subtle rhetoric attack usually evokes an unreasoned emotional response. That being said I think cussing is a very effective way of communicating when used correctly but using it to insult or attack someone is not an effective use, especially at work.
As the Mythbusters would say "Well, there's your problem". Those never have anywhere near enough cooling and usually have cables obstructing the air flow of what little cooling they have. You keep buying those crappy computers and that kinda thing is going to happen. I build my own for cheaper than Dell and have had 1 drive fail in the last 7 or 8 years and that was my fault because it was mounted where there was no air flow. I've dealt with 100's of computers over the last 10 years and in pretty much every case (including many Dells) I've encountered drive failures it's been attributable to insufficient cooling.
The short answer is if you're having those kind of drive failure rates you're doing it wrong. (also addressing sibling who said they didn't have time to cool their drives) Adding 2 or 3 80mm fans to a case is a lot cheaper in both money (I buy them by the 6 pack at $1.50 per fan) and time than a drive failure even under the best circumstances, meaning good easily recoverable backups, which we all know is pretty rare.
Taking things apart (usually destructively) is an Amazon's _Mission In Life_. I never put anything I don't want destroyed in reach of my Amazon unless I'm watching real close even if I don't think that cute little bird could hurt it. He'll ignore it until you look away for 30 sec. after which it'll be at least partially destroyed. I gave him an old heavy duty steal calculator thinking it would keep him occupied for at least a week. When I got home from work the next day it was completely apart and spread about the room as far as he could throw the parts. I could go on for days with stories of the little bastard out smarting me. Never underestimate a parrot. Every now and then I'll sneak up and catch him working on the latch to the cage. He won't touch it while I'm watching.
I don't remember exactly where I read it but it was on Usenet or a parrot web page forum. Someone wrote about their parrot taking his dry food over to the water dish to soften it up. Apparently he got tired of carrying it over piece by piece so one day he started using a toy to spoon water from his water dish to his dry food dish.
...and do you meanBrain fart. RJ-11 for cat 3.
Brain fart. I meant RJ-11
Sounds like cello-tape, used on the inside of the card-slot like I was thinking, would have thrown you off too.No, I likely would have caught it. Reseating the card is fourth or fifth on the trouble shooting list and includes looking at the connectors on both the card and the board for visible damage.
With the number of "tech experts" I come across that are completely clueless I'm guessing in most cases it's the later more than the former. I won't call help lines except as an absolute last resort. I was having DSL problems at a work location with 5 CIDR fixed IPs once. The idiot second level tech I was talking to at the phone company asked me the configuration of my computer. I gave IPs of all the routers and systems I had on the public network and the gateway and DNS IPs I had configured. Somehow she latched onto that I was using the gateway address on one of the computers and I couldn't do that and that was the problem. I spent the next almost 2 hours trying to explain to both her and her boss how networks work and that I was correctly using the gateway address. Close to 2 hours into the call the I screamed at them that I wasn't misusing the gateway address and they hung up on me. I call back and go three levels up to finally convince them to escalate the call to a third level tech who quickly determined there was a problem at the DSLAM. Then there was the time the POTS guy from the phone company disconnected my house DSL because he hooked his line POTS line tester up and got a bad reading.
My mother took her non-booting laptop in to someplace. They charged her something like $70 to tell her they thought it was some serious hardware problem that was going to cost hundreds if not thousands to fix because they couldn't even get their diagnostics to run. I told her to send it to me. It booted into windows and showed a dialog about a problem with the windows password dll and rebooted which meant almost certainly a virus got it. I installed Ubuntu and it's been fine since, total cost 30min of my time which even at my highest billing rate ever would have been $125.
I was working on a realtime system for a tollbooth lane controller. Some suit in the company decided that they needed to bring in some high powered (read very expensive) security experts for a security audit on the system. We spending an hour trying to convince them that even someone putting a virus infected bootable floppy (this was late 90's) in one of the unix systems it was impossible for them to get a virus, that at worse it would crash the system in a fairly easily recoverable way. After that my boss basically escorted them out. I could go on for hours about clueless "experts" in this field. Don't get me started on the stuff I overhear idiots in stores telling people.
There are more clueless ignoramuses claiming to be experts in the tech industry than any industry in history.
Strange, I've never worked as a tech although I've supported groups in IT operations and I've encountered contact problems with both RJ-45 and RJ-15 jacks so many times that I couldn't put a real number to them. So I guess "real world" techs must have a real short lifetime since I'm not THAT old. I'm guessing here, but I would say that you encountered this before but as you predicted you didn't find it.
No every time a device plays a recorded song it makes multiple copy's of the media. As the bits pass through the electronic innards each of electronic innards makes a copy. And there's also the copy converted into sound waves (which get bigger and bigger further from the source) and the ear drums and the nerves. And how many brain cells have a copy, huh huh. You should have to buy a couple hundred licenses maybe thousands (our research into this isn't complete yet) just to listen once.
This is what would scare me. I'm constantly experimenting with various data encryption methodologies. I have 2 USB drives sitting here now that were encrypted for tests that I'm not sure how they were encrypt much less what the keys are.
And it's a sad fact but those MBAs for the most part are clueless as to how to most profitable run a business. They're to busy counting beans to understand that supporting the Linux community actually helps their business since their whole business relies on a strong Linux community.