With other recent developments, one must wonder how long the music industry can keep pushing."
The Riaa will keep pushing until long after no one buys outrageously priced music anymore, and their sole source of revenue is suing individuals for humming trademarked songs in their cars without paying royalties....
Ok my friend, I may not agree with you, but I read your comment and saw your point, until There is probably enough 'bad' about Bush for the UN to put the son of a bitch in jail.
Are you trying to be funny? The UN putting an American in jail? Uh... never, ever gonna happen. And I am not talking about how the UN is corrupt, how despots are on the human rights commission-
There is no chance of the UN ever having the autority to put an American President in jail. None.
And for all your ranting about Bush- saying the UN could put him in jail paints you as a one world gov't type- which makes you a nut. There is probably enough 'bad' about Bush for the UN to put the son of a bitch in jail. I spend a lot of time on slashdot reading comments, but yours is the most ridiculous I have ever read. And the fact that it is modded +5 insightful tells everyone everything that need to know about modding on slashdot. An off topic, anti Bush, nonsensical rant gets a +5 insightful. Amazing.
Say it with me- if the UN ever came to arrest an American President, after we stopped laughing, the UN would get its ass kicked.
Uh- Call me an ass- but any program that will eat up PowerPoint files is a-ok in my book. If I had back all the time over the years that I had wasted trying to act awake/interested during boring, useless powerpoint presentations, I would have a lot of time. (Sorry, its early)
Ugh- it isn'[t just the RIAA. There was an article in Reder's Digest (I admit it, I read Readers Digest) about a lawyer who would go around to bars and restaurants, measure the stuff in the bathrooms, and then sur them under the American's With Disabilities Act of the Hold Bars etc were a half inch off. The bars would settle for 10 or 20K because it is easier to settle for 10K than to fight and run up 50K in lawyers fees even if you are right...
This is why America needs a loser pays system in the courts. These people sued by the RIAA have to settle, even if they are innocent, because lawyers are so expensive... Thank God someone is fighting back!
Uh- lets be honest.
1. Post story about US vs World.
2. Watch discussion degenerate into a flame war, as it always does in these type of stories
3. Get tons and tons of comments, mostly angry rants by trolls and flame throwers posting as ac, which is all but gauranteed with a story like this
4. Get more pages refreshed
5. Serve more ads!
6. Profit.
Even a/c counts as a page view from a traffic standpoint. An intelligent conversation devoid of a/c and flaming gets many fewer posts and thus fewer total ads served. If it that complicated? If you can get a story like this up once in a day, double you money by running it again!!!
The tax goes to where the item is delivered, or "used"
It is the same way with counties and cars (and other big ticket items) here in Ohio- If I but a car in Cuyahoga County where the sales tax is 8%, but I live in Summit COunty where the tax is 7%, I pay 7% tax on the car....
Technically, If you live in a high tax county, and buy stuff in a low tax county, you are supposed to send the county/Sate gov't the difference each year. But of course if you live in a low tax county and shop in a high tax county, you dont get a refund at the end of the year.
Arrgh- thank you for actually reading my post. Public transportation isn't an option for me because it takes longer, and at work I often have to drive to other sites during the day. I can't leave the wife and kids stuck at home with no transportation- hence we need two cars. (Boy would he be mad if he knew we had more than two cars, I have a few old muscle cars from the 60's-70's, but that is beside the point.)
Wow- You are really reading between the lines and seeing text that isn't there. I spend a ton of time with my family. I don't live in a McMansion- I live in an old farmhouse in 30 acres. I don't have a plasma TV either. And my bathrooms don't have marble countertops.
What is a strawman fallacy? Attcking a misrepresentation of someone's position?
My point is that you pretty much have to work. Make the best of it. Life costs money. Work sucks sometimes.
It is intresting how much your view of the world and your perjudices come through in your post... We tend to hear what we want to hear, I guess.
I'll go if Liv Tyler is waiting upon my return (although when I get back she will be a bit old).
FTA: On 19 December 2004 MN4, an asteroid of about 400 m, lost since its discovery six months earlier, was observed again and its orbit was computed. It immediately became clear that the chances that it could hit the Earth during a close encounter in 2029 were unusually high. As the days passed the probability did not decrease and the asteroid became notorious for surpassing all previous records in the Torino and Palermo impact risk scales - scales that measure the risk of an asteroid impact just as the Richter scale quantifies the size of an earthquake.
It is funny what we never think of- every night while we sleep there are so many people keeping us safe- Call me a geek, but astronomers are unsung heroes. I am glad someone is worried about destruction of the Earth...
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Ugh- Way to say it- you are 100% for your own happiness.
I had a bad job for a while (It involved high temperatures and getting shot at) and the only thing that I was upset about was not seeing my wife for a year.
I would put up with a lot of cr#p at work for more money- Why? I have a wife and a daughter, and another kid on the way. I have a house payment, 2 car payments and retirement in 40 years to worry about.
I would shovel sh&t all day if it meant that my family could have a higher standard of living.
My guess is how people would answer the question "would you take better work conditions for less money" has a lot to do with age and responsibilities. If I didn't have 2 (soon to be 3) other human beings depending on me, I would be much more ammenable towards taking a pay cut for better work conditions.
If you hate your job, you have a couple choices- You can look for a better job, or you can change your outlook. Here in Ohio, tech jobs aren't easlily available- I make a good living, but I am grateful to be employed. There are a ton of people out there with 100K and more degrees who are under and unemployed.
Life isn't perfect- being an adult is hard.
Wow- I understand your point, but computers are getting to be appliances. How many words specific to a washing machine do you need to know to operate one? Most of us drive every day, yet many don't know the jargon for the parts of what a car does. We just want to turn the key and go somewhere.
I am not trying to be funny- But it seems like before too long we will all have to ride trains and planes in the nude, carrying nothing. But even then, I am sure we would be subject to cavity searches.
I live in Ohio- public transportation searches aren't a problem because, well, there is no public transportation save for a few miles of aboveground light rail and the odd bus here and there.
My purchased music folder on itunes has around 1000 songs in it, from a couple years of purchasing. (Damn one click downloading/buying combined with alcohol)
Sometimes I feel like a sucker for paying when I could have just gotten the songs free, but usually I can justify it by saying at least the artist gets a penny or two of my 99 cents.
Comments like this one about how if I buy the music I am "privledged" make me feel more like a sucker for paying for music. Seriously- free/stolen depending on your position have zero DRM.
If I can't listen to a CD on my computer, or can't load it into iTunes, I am likely to say FUCK YOu to the RIAA and get it for free online. The RIAA needs to be very careful not to alienate paying customers.
It doesn't say what the wholesale price is... Who is making the profit, the reseller/retailer of Apple. If Apple is wholesaling them for $110, their profit is different than if they are wholesaling them for $150...
Yes Bill, but your site is interesting to an outside observer, and I am sure even more so to those who enjoy the things you do (like your geocaching) and people who know you personally. Plus, it is well written.
Slashdot isn't a blog in that it is a conversation. Think about real life. Having converastion is much more interesting than listening to one person drone on and on and on ad infinitum. Most blogs are like the obnoxious person droning on and on.
By the way- how is married life?
Well, if anything, Blogs as journals are great historically. For example, I have my Great grandmother's journal, but I honestly can't read her handwriting.
As dry as many blogs are, wouldn't it however be interesting to read a blog from colonial US times, or Napoleanic times etc? Even if they are just inane day to day things.
I think that keeping a journal is great, electronic or paper. What I can't stand are people who are upset that no one is reading their blog, when no one listens to them at the office/home etc....
And something that is great about the internet is that there may only be 2 other people in your city with the same fascination with BeanieBabies/Chrysler LeBarons/Tonenail collecting as you, but on the internet, there may be hundreds. So I guess my point is, it doesn't matter what the subject of the blog is, if it is written in an interesting way/with an interesting take.
In conclusion- keep a journal! Sometimes I wish that I did, as I wouldn't mind seeing what my thoughts were 5, 10,15 years ago etc...
I think it more or less comes down to the fact that if you are a decent writer with a somewhat interesting life, your blog, like any personal journal, will be good. If you are a crappy writer in the real world, you will be a crappy writer in the blogging world. (I refuse to use the term "Blogosphere").
If you have something to say, and an interesting way to say it, people will listen to what you have to say.
99% of blogs that I have read are poorly written, boring, and in a nutshell, sheer crap.
Correct me if I'm wrong- but wouldn't cataloging the internet be more akin to google telling you, if you are looking for a book on "x", which library has books on "x." Google isn't hosting every page in the internet.... When you click on a link from a google search, they send you to the actual site....
Wow- before you quickly jump to Google's defense- Consider this: Wouldn't you feel awful if other people were able to read all of our informative and insightful posts without compensating us?
Which begs the question- has anyone ever trademarked the penisbird?
It is a diesel, so weight doesn't effect mileage as much as it would a gas motor. It is a Ford F350 Dually Crew 4x4. It gets bad mileage no matter what. Plus, not to be an ass, but on a honda civic or another fuel efficient vehicle, a 1 mpg difference would be like 1/40 change. In my truck, around town, 1 mpg would be about a 10% change.
I plow with my truck, I carry stuff with it and I tow my boat. None of that changes the mileage much...
And please note that I plow before I get beat up for driving a monster. I have never seen a Prius or Civic that could get into an unplowed lot in NE Ohio in the winter....
For self defense, I am going to recommend the Cruiser barrel and a pistol grip. The short barrel and pistol grip give an overall short gun length, which is important for manuevering it around halls.
I love handguns- and I am a decent shot (actually a great shot. It isn't bragging because anyone can get to be a great shot with enough time shooting). But the thing is, you don't need to be a great shot if you have the right shot in your shotgun. And in the dark, and when you are nervous, accuracy with a handgun is not gauranteed even for a great shot.
Yes, rail lights are good, laser sights are good if you keep them calibrated, but I still say a shotgun is the way to go.
There was an article in the NYT a week or two ago. I wish i had the link. But anyway, it talked about what to have for an emergency. The last sentence said something about how most people don't know enough about firearms, and thus shouldn't have one. It didn't suggest people learn how to operate them safely, just that they not have them.
Here is my point: Person A plans ahead, is considered a bit nutty perhaps, but he has enough water to last his family months, food stores, seeds, candles, matches, flashlights, a generator, diesel and on and on, but no firearm.
Person B, who is person A's neighbor has a Mossberg Maverick Pistol Grip 12 gauge he bought for $100 used, a ton of shells. He also has the attitude that he will do anything it takes, no matter how it defies his morals or humanity, to make sure his family survives. A week after a disaster, who has more supplies, Person A or Person B. I am going to say person B has the supplies, and person A is dead from a sucking chest wound.
In a disaster, it doesn't matter what you have unless you can defend it.
The free play is awesome. You can also get a solar panel for it... CCRADIO.com
Also, plant potatos so you can run one of those clocks like we all had in 3rd grade.
That is why I have a CB with sideband. Even if everything else goes down, I can still talk to others who have CBs and find out some info. I can broadcast and receive from my truck. I always keep one of my fuel tanks on my truck full, and don't usually let the other go below half.
Also, shortwave is always a good bet. And finding a way to listen the Hams is always good, even when you aren't in an emergency.
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With other recent developments, one must wonder how long the music industry can keep pushing."
The Riaa will keep pushing until long after no one buys outrageously priced music anymore, and their sole source of revenue is suing individuals for humming trademarked songs in their cars without paying royalties....
Ok my friend, I may not agree with you, but I read your comment and saw your point, until There is probably enough 'bad' about Bush for the UN to put the son of a bitch in jail.
Are you trying to be funny? The UN putting an American in jail? Uh... never, ever gonna happen. And I am not talking about how the UN is corrupt, how despots are on the human rights commission-
There is no chance of the UN ever having the autority to put an American President in jail. None.
And for all your ranting about Bush- saying the UN could put him in jail paints you as a one world gov't type- which makes you a nut.
There is probably enough 'bad' about Bush for the UN to put the son of a bitch in jail. I spend a lot of time on slashdot reading comments, but yours is the most ridiculous I have ever read. And the fact that it is modded +5 insightful tells everyone everything that need to know about modding on slashdot. An off topic, anti Bush, nonsensical rant gets a +5 insightful. Amazing.
Say it with me- if the UN ever came to arrest an American President, after we stopped laughing, the UN would get its ass kicked.
Uh- Call me an ass- but any program that will eat up PowerPoint files is a-ok in my book. If I had back all the time over the years that I had wasted trying to act awake/interested during boring, useless powerpoint presentations, I would have a lot of time. (Sorry, its early)
Ugh- it isn'[t just the RIAA. There was an article in Reder's Digest (I admit it, I read Readers Digest) about a lawyer who would go around to bars and restaurants, measure the stuff in the bathrooms, and then sur them under the American's With Disabilities Act of the Hold Bars etc were a half inch off. The bars would settle for 10 or 20K because it is easier to settle for 10K than to fight and run up 50K in lawyers fees even if you are right...
This is why America needs a loser pays system in the courts. These people sued by the RIAA have to settle, even if they are innocent, because lawyers are so expensive... Thank God someone is fighting back!
Uh- lets be honest.
1. Post story about US vs World.
2. Watch discussion degenerate into a flame war, as it always does in these type of stories
3. Get tons and tons of comments, mostly angry rants by trolls and flame throwers posting as ac, which is all but gauranteed with a story like this
4. Get more pages refreshed
5. Serve more ads!
6. Profit.
Even a/c counts as a page view from a traffic standpoint. An intelligent conversation devoid of a/c and flaming gets many fewer posts and thus fewer total ads served. If it that complicated? If you can get a story like this up once in a day, double you money by running it again!!!
The tax goes to where the item is delivered, or "used"
It is the same way with counties and cars (and other big ticket items) here in Ohio- If I but a car in Cuyahoga County where the sales tax is 8%, but I live in Summit COunty where the tax is 7%, I pay 7% tax on the car....
Technically, If you live in a high tax county, and buy stuff in a low tax county, you are supposed to send the county/Sate gov't the difference each year. But of course if you live in a low tax county and shop in a high tax county, you dont get a refund at the end of the year.
A microphone that turns on with your tongue? I know of women who can get turned on with a tongue....
Arrgh- thank you for actually reading my post. Public transportation isn't an option for me because it takes longer, and at work I often have to drive to other sites during the day. I can't leave the wife and kids stuck at home with no transportation- hence we need two cars. (Boy would he be mad if he knew we had more than two cars, I have a few old muscle cars from the 60's-70's, but that is beside the point.)
Wow- You are really reading between the lines and seeing text that isn't there. I spend a ton of time with my family. I don't live in a McMansion- I live in an old farmhouse in 30 acres. I don't have a plasma TV either. And my bathrooms don't have marble countertops.
What is a strawman fallacy? Attcking a misrepresentation of someone's position?
My point is that you pretty much have to work. Make the best of it. Life costs money. Work sucks sometimes.
It is intresting how much your view of the world and your perjudices come through in your post... We tend to hear what we want to hear, I guess.
I'll go if Liv Tyler is waiting upon my return (although when I get back she will be a bit old).
FTA: On 19 December 2004 MN4, an asteroid of about 400 m, lost since its discovery six months earlier, was observed again and its orbit was computed. It immediately became clear that the chances that it could hit the Earth during a close encounter in 2029 were unusually high. As the days passed the probability did not decrease and the asteroid became notorious for surpassing all previous records in the Torino and Palermo impact risk scales - scales that measure the risk of an asteroid impact just as the Richter scale quantifies the size of an earthquake.
It is funny what we never think of- every night while we sleep there are so many people keeping us safe- Call me a geek, but astronomers are unsung heroes. I am glad someone is worried about destruction of the Earth...
Ugh- Way to say it- you are 100% for your own happiness.
I had a bad job for a while (It involved high temperatures and getting shot at) and the only thing that I was upset about was not seeing my wife for a year.
I would put up with a lot of cr#p at work for more money- Why? I have a wife and a daughter, and another kid on the way. I have a house payment, 2 car payments and retirement in 40 years to worry about.
I would shovel sh&t all day if it meant that my family could have a higher standard of living.
My guess is how people would answer the question "would you take better work conditions for less money" has a lot to do with age and responsibilities. If I didn't have 2 (soon to be 3) other human beings depending on me, I would be much more ammenable towards taking a pay cut for better work conditions.
If you hate your job, you have a couple choices- You can look for a better job, or you can change your outlook. Here in Ohio, tech jobs aren't easlily available- I make a good living, but I am grateful to be employed. There are a ton of people out there with 100K and more degrees who are under and unemployed.
Life isn't perfect- being an adult is hard.
Wow- I understand your point, but computers are getting to be appliances. How many words specific to a washing machine do you need to know to operate one? Most of us drive every day, yet many don't know the jargon for the parts of what a car does. We just want to turn the key and go somewhere.
I am not trying to be funny- But it seems like before too long we will all have to ride trains and planes in the nude, carrying nothing. But even then, I am sure we would be subject to cavity searches.
I live in Ohio- public transportation searches aren't a problem because, well, there is no public transportation save for a few miles of aboveground light rail and the odd bus here and there.
My purchased music folder on itunes has around 1000 songs in it, from a couple years of purchasing. (Damn one click downloading/buying combined with alcohol)
Sometimes I feel like a sucker for paying when I could have just gotten the songs free, but usually I can justify it by saying at least the artist gets a penny or two of my 99 cents.
Comments like this one about how if I buy the music I am "privledged" make me feel more like a sucker for paying for music. Seriously- free/stolen depending on your position have zero DRM.
If I can't listen to a CD on my computer, or can't load it into iTunes, I am likely to say FUCK YOu to the RIAA and get it for free online. The RIAA needs to be very careful not to alienate paying customers.
It doesn't say what the wholesale price is... Who is making the profit, the reseller/retailer of Apple. If Apple is wholesaling them for $110, their profit is different than if they are wholesaling them for $150...
Yes Bill, but your site is interesting to an outside observer, and I am sure even more so to those who enjoy the things you do (like your geocaching) and people who know you personally. Plus, it is well written.
Slashdot isn't a blog in that it is a conversation. Think about real life. Having converastion is much more interesting than listening to one person drone on and on and on ad infinitum. Most blogs are like the obnoxious person droning on and on.
By the way- how is married life?
Well, if anything, Blogs as journals are great historically. For example, I have my Great grandmother's journal, but I honestly can't read her handwriting.
As dry as many blogs are, wouldn't it however be interesting to read a blog from colonial US times, or Napoleanic times etc? Even if they are just inane day to day things.
I think that keeping a journal is great, electronic or paper. What I can't stand are people who are upset that no one is reading their blog, when no one listens to them at the office/home etc....
And something that is great about the internet is that there may only be 2 other people in your city with the same fascination with BeanieBabies/Chrysler LeBarons/Tonenail collecting as you, but on the internet, there may be hundreds. So I guess my point is, it doesn't matter what the subject of the blog is, if it is written in an interesting way/with an interesting take.
In conclusion- keep a journal! Sometimes I wish that I did, as I wouldn't mind seeing what my thoughts were 5, 10,15 years ago etc...
I think it more or less comes down to the fact that if you are a decent writer with a somewhat interesting life, your blog, like any personal journal, will be good. If you are a crappy writer in the real world, you will be a crappy writer in the blogging world. (I refuse to use the term "Blogosphere").
If you have something to say, and an interesting way to say it, people will listen to what you have to say.
99% of blogs that I have read are poorly written, boring, and in a nutshell, sheer crap.
Correct me if I'm wrong- but wouldn't cataloging the internet be more akin to google telling you, if you are looking for a book on "x", which library has books on "x." Google isn't hosting every page in the internet.... When you click on a link from a google search, they send you to the actual site....
Wow- before you quickly jump to Google's defense- Consider this: Wouldn't you feel awful if other people were able to read all of our informative and insightful posts without compensating us?
Which begs the question- has anyone ever trademarked the penisbird?
It is a diesel, so weight doesn't effect mileage as much as it would a gas motor. It is a Ford F350 Dually Crew 4x4. It gets bad mileage no matter what. Plus, not to be an ass, but on a honda civic or another fuel efficient vehicle, a 1 mpg difference would be like 1/40 change. In my truck, around town, 1 mpg would be about a 10% change.
I plow with my truck, I carry stuff with it and I tow my boat. None of that changes the mileage much...
And please note that I plow before I get beat up for driving a monster. I have never seen a Prius or Civic that could get into an unplowed lot in NE Ohio in the winter....
For self defense, I am going to recommend the Cruiser barrel and a pistol grip. The short barrel and pistol grip give an overall short gun length, which is important for manuevering it around halls.
I love handguns- and I am a decent shot (actually a great shot. It isn't bragging because anyone can get to be a great shot with enough time shooting). But the thing is, you don't need to be a great shot if you have the right shot in your shotgun. And in the dark, and when you are nervous, accuracy with a handgun is not gauranteed even for a great shot.
Yes, rail lights are good, laser sights are good if you keep them calibrated, but I still say a shotgun is the way to go.
There was an article in the NYT a week or two ago. I wish i had the link. But anyway, it talked about what to have for an emergency. The last sentence said something about how most people don't know enough about firearms, and thus shouldn't have one. It didn't suggest people learn how to operate them safely, just that they not have them.
Here is my point: Person A plans ahead, is considered a bit nutty perhaps, but he has enough water to last his family months, food stores, seeds, candles, matches, flashlights, a generator, diesel and on and on, but no firearm.
Person B, who is person A's neighbor has a Mossberg Maverick Pistol Grip 12 gauge he bought for $100 used, a ton of shells. He also has the attitude that he will do anything it takes, no matter how it defies his morals or humanity, to make sure his family survives. A week after a disaster, who has more supplies, Person A or Person B. I am going to say person B has the supplies, and person A is dead from a sucking chest wound.
In a disaster, it doesn't matter what you have unless you can defend it.
The free play is awesome. You can also get a solar panel for it... CCRADIO.com
Also, plant potatos so you can run one of those clocks like we all had in 3rd grade.
That is why I have a CB with sideband. Even if everything else goes down, I can still talk to others who have CBs and find out some info. I can broadcast and receive from my truck. I always keep one of my fuel tanks on my truck full, and don't usually let the other go below half.
Also, shortwave is always a good bet. And finding a way to listen the Hams is always good, even when you aren't in an emergency.