I'm actually not sceptical that millions of dollars are being lost. It's a big industry. I could easily see that they lose 25 cents per customer per year due to music trading.
For example, when they started charging $20 for a 60 minute CD that i knew cost $1 to physically make, while 2 hour movies with huge budgets were about $15.00, they started losing 2-3 sales per year to me. I chose other locations for my entertainment dollars because they were too expensive.
And when they started suing customers, they lost the last $30 to $45 per year from me and have continued to lose this amount every year.
It is up to the jury to decide if they believe it AND if they agree that the case is morally right.
You shouldn't do something evil just because it's legal when the government has been corrupted as badly as it has.
I think the people are doing something wrong and should be fined a reasonable amount (11 songs is worth 3 bucks via allofmp3.com or $11 via itunes or way less via yahoo all you can listen tho you are renting there).
If someone stole $11 worth of product from a store, what is the proper punishment?
If someone read $11 worth of books in a store but did not take the books, what is the proper punishment?
It's somewhere in that continuem. So I'd probably jury nullify to the best of my ability.
I disagree that historical patterns of drastic climate change much more extreme than global warming are unrelated to global warming.
I also disagree that the solar studies don't apply. The rise of solar activity has a good fit with the rise in temperatures.
It's good that you considered them. Personally, I trust "live" science more than religion but not completely and agree with the others that tho oil money is suspect, the people backing GW don't give funding or ostracize people who don't get with the current party line. I remain sceptical that GW is caused predominately by human activities.
Since I'm not an expert and this isn't particularly important to me, I guess 1 point for you.
Raw spinach in salad and *freshly* cooked spinach are delicious. Lots of people eat it every day.
Overcooked or pre-cooked spinach with no texture left is pretty gnarly
When the package says "triple washed" you kind of assume it is okay. Just like you assume the grocer is not flashing your bad beef with CO to make it look red when it is old.
--- I agree with you that the correct price for entertainment is under a dollar per hour. Which means songs are grossly overpriced. You have no need to pay more than.13 per song from allofmp3.com and similar sites.
Any DRM means that you *WILL* eventually lose your library. They put a LOT less effort into keeping records that you purchased this song 18 months ago than they do into charging you and preventing you from backing the song up.
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There is *MORE* entertainment than we can ever view, read, or listen to. With other products, when there is a glut prices drop. La femme nikita seems like an okay show- but at $59 per season, there are 20 OTHER series that I have not watched yet that I can buy for $19 to $25 per season and watch first. So I guess in about 3 to 4 years, if nothing new comes out- I might finally be ready to buy LFN.
All you have to do is not buy the crap at those price and the prices will drop. If you want it NOW, then you are going to pay a premium and support continuing high prices.
http://www.globalwarming.org/article.php?uid=870 This is a critique of a peer reviewed article that turned out to play fast and loose with the facts to support the global warming argument. Nature lays (another) egg...the researchers failed to use the complete temperature record -- a record that actually spanned 1957 through 1995....
http://communities.anomalies.net/forum/ubbthreads. php/ubb/showflat/Number/159231/page/1/fpart/23 This is an article *about* an unlinked but peer reviewed article suggesting ice age correlation with stellar clouds....new research suggests the coming and going of major ice ages might result partly from our solar system's passage through immense, snakelike clouds of exploding stars in the Milky Way galaxy.......The latest evidence appears in the June 20 issue of Astrophysical Journal...
Of course part of this problem is poor people overbreeding and burning every last scrap of wood (releasing a ton of pent up carbon- and ruining the protective climate). Africa would be a paradise if it had about 1/3 of its current population and perhaps a different moral code. Africa is not the only area with problems because of too many poor people overbreeding and then destroying the environment.
Not every problem in the world is a result of rich greedy assholes.
You have to remember-- we went from THE WORLD IS GOING TO FREEZE! to THE WORLD IS GOING TO WARM AND FLOOD! in the space of about 10 years. Those of us old farts who lived through that are going to be a bit sceptical.
Both had environmental wacko's whose agenda was to stop growth and stop destruction of their precious hiking forests (some of whom are extreme enough to destroy lots of other people's property meaning they are wacko's).
Regardless of who funds it, real peer reviewed science will hold up.
There are folks who have an axe to grind who use dubious science to advance this as a way to attack america with rules that hinder us and do not hinder them.
I agree- global warming is real. I do not agree- global warming is caused by americans. I do not agree- global warming is caused by humans.
I would say it is likely that global warming is caused by humans but there is also evidence that it is caused by the solar cycle. Given permafrost outgassing- it is possible that co2 levels are rising because of solar cycles as well. We might be 10% of the problem while 90% of the problem is just a repeat of cycles that have repeated many times before (there is a lot of evidence that the world has been much hotter and much colder before without humans around).
You could also have a lot of F1 and F2's but not many F5's.
There is a tornado that say lifts a car, spins it around and drops it or twists a business sign (seen 3 in 30 years where i am).
Then there are tornados a mile across, with multiple smaller tornadoes twisting about inside them, carrying thousands of bits of debris that literally scour the land removing absolutely everything except objects made of solid rock and concrete.
Most brick and "stone" houses built here are "stick" construction. I.e. 10' pieces of pine nailed together. The brick or stone is just a shell that can stand 125 mph winds pretty easily.
But the hard shell can't handle 150 mph (180kph?) winds with tree branches, street signs, loose bricks, loose boards, parts of storage buildings, etc in it.
Also, if the roof or a window goes the wrong way, the house can implode or explode.
And of course, not even a stone house does very well against a 30' high wave of water filled with thousands of pounds of debris in it sweeping back and forth across the house every couple minutes.
For "average" person Entertainment budget: about $120 a month. Television hours: About 112 a month. Correct price is about $1 per *HOUR*.
Price TV Series people want... $1 to $2 per hour ($3 for foreign made series often). Price Movie people want... $2.50 to $5 per hour. Price "cable" people want... $60 per month of all you can eat with one set of premium channels.
Price music video people want... $1 per 3 minutes. Price music people want... $1 per 3 minutes.
Can we see why there is so much piracy pressure on music products?
1) Having to install multiple music programs. It eats up hard drive space, and clutters my computer
Now really.. is this really an issue with 400gb drives?
2) I do not want to have to buy another music program, when I already paid for WMP
I agree here except I really don't like using WMP. At the *minimum* I expect it to secretly send playlists back to MS. It just wants to phone home *way* too much for my tastes.
3) Because this leads the way for other companies to follow suit. I am willing to bet MS is getting a kick-back for this DRM "enhancement" by the various organizations. How long until the other media players follow suit?
There are many open source players. Some players will never have DRM. However, they may not play everything as well as WMP does. I use WMP as a fallback when for some unknown reason something plays badly. However there are a lot of things that WMP can't play at all- not even badly. OGG comes to mind tho maybe I'm missing a WMP codec for it since I always use VLC or Winamp for ogg.
4) Because most people, the common user who is not computer savvy, will fall into this trap. And come to think of it, most of the people are not computer savvy and just use what comes out of the box.
True- but when they see us doing "magic" things and they can't- it irritates them enough to find out. Another recent article said that less people are buying DRM'D MP3's off itunes.
5) This will hinder MP3 sales. If I d/l a song from a various source it is NOT MS's business to know how many times I want to back it up. It is not MS's business to know what music I own. It is not MS's business to tell me how many times I can use my CD burner to make 1001 backups.
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I agree with your 150 / 200 numbers with this one caveat.
/. a while back taht RIAA made $54 million off of suits last year.
I read here on
That is a LOT of financial incentive to fake data.
I'm actually not sceptical that millions of dollars are being lost. It's a big industry.
I could easily see that they lose 25 cents per customer per year due to music trading.
For example, when they started charging $20 for a 60 minute CD that i knew cost $1 to physically make, while 2 hour movies with huge budgets were about $15.00, they started losing 2-3 sales per year to me. I chose other locations for my entertainment dollars because they were too expensive.
And when they started suing customers, they lost the last $30 to $45 per year from me and have continued to lose this amount every year.
It is up to the jury to decide if they believe it AND if they agree that the case is morally right.
You shouldn't do something evil just because it's legal when the government has been corrupted as badly as it has.
I think the people are doing something wrong and should be fined a reasonable amount (11 songs is worth 3 bucks via allofmp3.com or $11 via itunes or way less via yahoo all you can listen tho you are renting there).
If someone stole $11 worth of product from a store, what is the proper punishment?
If someone read $11 worth of books in a store but did not take the books, what is the proper punishment?
It's somewhere in that continuem. So I'd probably jury nullify to the best of my ability.
1) If they had 11 copies they did download.
2) I'd probably believe that the other copies were real too.
3) Then I'd jury nullify anyway most likely.
Please explain where you put your sense of decency. Apparently you don't "own" one.
I totally agree with you.
Al is a great guy from everything I've seen and read and anyone who participated in this was not acting as a friend to him.
Grr. I put it in brackets and it ate it.
Doing a "world premiere of this 5 year old movie on -Our Station-"
Funny..
All the networks have no problem doing a "world premiere of this 5 year old movie on ".
I think they are trying to make a point and being pissy.
I disagree that historical patterns of drastic climate change much more extreme than global warming are unrelated to global warming.
I also disagree that the solar studies don't apply. The rise of solar activity has a good fit with the rise in temperatures.
It's good that you considered them. Personally, I trust "live" science more than religion but not completely and agree with the others that tho oil money is suspect, the people backing GW don't give funding or ostracize people who don't get with the current party line. I remain sceptical that GW is caused predominately by human activities.
Since I'm not an expert and this isn't particularly important to me, I guess 1 point for you.
> No one does eat spinach.
.13 per song from allofmp3.com and similar sites.
Raw spinach in salad and *freshly* cooked spinach are delicious. Lots of people eat it every day.
Overcooked or pre-cooked spinach with no texture left is pretty gnarly
When the package says "triple washed" you kind of assume it is okay. Just like you assume the grocer is not flashing your bad beef with CO to make it look red when it is old.
---
I agree with you that the correct price for entertainment is under a dollar per hour. Which means songs are grossly overpriced.
You have no need to pay more than
Any DRM means that you *WILL* eventually lose your library. They put a LOT less effort into keeping records that you purchased this song 18 months ago than they do into charging you and preventing you from backing the song up.
---
There is *MORE* entertainment than we can ever view, read, or listen to. With other products, when there is a glut prices drop. La femme nikita seems like an okay show- but at $59 per season, there are 20 OTHER series that I have not watched yet that I can buy for $19 to $25 per season and watch first. So I guess in about 3 to 4 years, if nothing new comes out- I might finally be ready to buy LFN.
All you have to do is not buy the crap at those price and the prices will drop. If you want it NOW, then you are going to pay a premium and support continuing high prices.
Okay...
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. php/ubb/showflat/Number/159231/page/1/fpart/23 ...new research suggests the coming and going of major ice ages might result partly from our solar system's passage through immense, snakelike clouds of exploding stars in the Milky Way galaxy. ... ...The latest evidence appears in the June 20 issue of Astrophysical Journal...
This is not my area of expertise and not my parent post... but since you put serious time into reading.
I'll do a bit more digging.
How about:
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDe
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/08/0408
As the scientists have reported in the renowned scientific journal, Physical Review Letters, since 1940 the mean sunspot number is higher than...
http://www.globalwarming.org/article.php?uid=870
This is a critique of a peer reviewed article that turned out to play fast and loose with the facts to support the global warming argument.
Nature lays (another) egg
http://communities.anomalies.net/forum/ubbthreads
This is an article *about* an unlinked but peer reviewed article suggesting ice age correlation with stellar clouds.
look at la femme nikita.
X-files $39, down to $19 recently.
LFN- $83 to start. About $60 now.
There are others like this.
It's JUST plastic with the same hours of entertainment (22).
needless to say... LFN isn't going to be purchased while I own 8 seasons of XF.
Of course part of this problem is poor people overbreeding and burning every last scrap of wood (releasing a ton of pent up carbon- and ruining the protective climate). Africa would be a paradise if it had about 1/3 of its current population and perhaps a different moral code. Africa is not the only area with problems because of too many poor people overbreeding and then destroying the environment.
Not every problem in the world is a result of rich greedy assholes.
Not all say humans don't cause it- but they do support alternative hypothesis.
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You have to remember-- we went from THE WORLD IS GOING TO FREEZE! to THE WORLD IS GOING TO WARM AND FLOOD! in the space of about 10 years. Those of us old farts who lived through that are going to be a bit sceptical.
Both had environmental wacko's whose agenda was to stop growth and stop destruction of their precious hiking forests (some of whom are extreme enough to destroy lots of other people's property meaning they are wacko's).
Regardless of who funds it, real peer reviewed science will hold up.
There are folks who have an axe to grind who use dubious science to advance this as a way to attack america with rules that hinder us and do not hinder them.
I agree- global warming is real.
I do not agree- global warming is caused by americans.
I do not agree- global warming is caused by humans.
I would say it is likely that global warming is caused by humans but there is also evidence that it is caused by the solar cycle. Given permafrost outgassing- it is possible that co2 levels are rising because of solar cycles as well. We might be 10% of the problem while 90% of the problem is just a repeat of cycles that have repeated many times before (there is a lot of evidence that the world has been much hotter and much colder before without humans around).
You could also have a lot of F1 and F2's but not many F5's.
There is a tornado that say lifts a car, spins it around and drops it or twists a business sign (seen 3 in 30 years where i am).
Then there are tornados a mile across, with multiple smaller tornadoes twisting about inside them, carrying thousands of bits of debris that literally scour the land removing absolutely everything except objects made of solid rock and concrete.
Your impression is correct.
Most brick and "stone" houses built here are "stick" construction. I.e. 10' pieces of pine nailed together. The brick or stone is just a shell that can stand 125 mph winds pretty easily.
But the hard shell can't handle 150 mph (180kph?) winds with tree branches, street signs, loose bricks, loose boards, parts of storage buildings, etc in it.
Also, if the roof or a window goes the wrong way, the house can implode or explode.
And of course, not even a stone house does very well against a 30' high wave of water filled with thousands of pounds of debris in it sweeping back and forth across the house every couple minutes.
My guess was that he was saying that we were going to burn more oil running all the ships through the area.
For "average" person
Entertainment budget: about $120 a month.
Television hours: About 112 a month.
Correct price is about $1 per *HOUR*.
Price TV Series people want... $1 to $2 per hour ($3 for foreign made series often).
Price Movie people want... $2.50 to $5 per hour.
Price "cable" people want... $60 per month of all you can eat with one set of premium channels.
Price music video people want... $1 per 3 minutes.
Price music people want... $1 per 3 minutes.
Can we see why there is so much piracy pressure on music products?
1) Having to install multiple music programs. It eats up hard drive space, and clutters my computer
Now really.. is this really an issue with 400gb drives?
2) I do not want to have to buy another music program, when I already paid for WMP
I agree here except I really don't like using WMP. At the *minimum* I expect it to secretly send playlists back to MS. It just wants to phone home *way* too much for my tastes.
3) Because this leads the way for other companies to follow suit. I am willing to bet MS is getting a kick-back for this DRM "enhancement" by the various organizations. How long until the other media players follow suit?
There are many open source players. Some players will never have DRM. However, they may not play everything as well as WMP does. I use WMP as a fallback when for some unknown reason something plays badly. However there are a lot of things that WMP can't play at all- not even badly. OGG comes to mind tho maybe I'm missing a WMP codec for it since I always use VLC or Winamp for ogg.
4) Because most people, the common user who is not computer savvy, will fall into this trap. And come to think of it, most of the people are not computer savvy and just use what comes out of the box.
True- but when they see us doing "magic" things and they can't- it irritates them enough to find out. Another recent article said that less people are buying DRM'D MP3's off itunes.
5) This will hinder MP3 sales. If I d/l a song from a various source it is NOT MS's business to know how many times I want to back it up. It is not MS's business to know what music I own. It is not MS's business to tell me how many times I can use my CD burner to make 1001 backups.
Well a lot of us realize now that we are giving large amounts of people who really want to kill us.
It would be nice to cut that down until they cool off. And if we don't need the oil, we won't care as much what they do internally.
You are correct. I missaid that. I read corn in the article.
Well there is about 7% of the original forest left.
And most of it is too wet for sugar.
Of course the article I read that in could have been biased or a plant.
but the main reason those tariffs are there is to protect our sugar industry from the world.
Gasoline is still not as expensive as it was in the late 70's when adjusted for inflation.
SUV sales collapsed when gas prices went up. Used SUV prices collapsed when prices went up.
Even mildly higher gasoline had a dramatic effect on the production of gas guzzlers.
I agree. The best way to make high mileage cars is to raise the price of gasoline by $1.00 and REMOVE THE TARIFF FROM ETHANOL SUGAR IMPORTS.
You do not need lots of new laws- lots of new officials to enforce those laws- lots of forms and procedures to fill out and follow- lots of lawsuits.
All you need is a simple $1 per gallon additional tax.