"Ignorance" can often lead to accomplishment. If your "experience" tells you something isn't going to work, you're not even going to bother to try.
I would far prefer to vote for the guy who at least will TRY to make noble changes than the guy who isn't going to bother because his "experience" tells him it's not worth the effort.
NAB spent the last several years arguing that satellite radio should be forced to pay these royalties. Prior to those hearings, satellite hadn't been paying, since they were arguing that they were another form of radio. Any lawyer worth their salt would have told NAB to support satellite radio as protection against something like this. But they didn't. They saw a chance to eliminate a competitor, and hoped to saddle them with an additional expense.
One of the first victims of their stupidity were the NAB member stations that were streaming on the Internet. Previously, they hadn't had to pay, either - which was a good thing for them, considering that most streams had their advertising removed from the stream, and weren't generally profitable on their own.
Their arguments as to why they shouldn't have to pay are outdated. They claim that they're giving free promotion to music, but how many terrestrial stations are actually giving exposure to new music? Seriously - how many stations in your town are currently recycling everyone's favorite hits from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s? Radio knows that new music doesn't draw listeners - it's easier to take the free ride and give audiences the music they already know and love.
Radio should have to pay. Given NAB's size, it shouldn't be difficult to negotiate with SoundExchange for a lower rate.
Rubik's Cube may have been invented in the 70s, but it wasn't mass-manufactured until 1980. Seriously, it wasn't even called the Rubik's Cube until 1980. (It was originally called the Magic Cube.)
I'm surprised they're calling this a new theory. I mean, it's not like somebody couldn't have figured this out decades ago. (I've had a short story idea along these lines in my head for a couple of years.)
For those having trouble grasping it, it works kind of like this:
Say you decide you're going to the store to buy milk. You get in the car and start driving there, with the one thought in your mind being going to the store and getting milk.
On the way there, you get in a car accident. You never reach the store.
Stuff like that happens every day. Things happen that are out of our control and are impossible to predict. It's the same concept, just taking place in the past rather than the present.
In my story idea, I summed it as "Nature will right itself". It's not like people don't die random and unexpected deaths every day.
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"Ignorance" can often lead to accomplishment. If your "experience" tells you something isn't going to work, you're not even going to bother to try.
I would far prefer to vote for the guy who at least will TRY to make noble changes than the guy who isn't going to bother because his "experience" tells him it's not worth the effort.
NAB spent the last several years arguing that satellite radio should be forced to pay these royalties. Prior to those hearings, satellite hadn't been paying, since they were arguing that they were another form of radio. Any lawyer worth their salt would have told NAB to support satellite radio as protection against something like this. But they didn't. They saw a chance to eliminate a competitor, and hoped to saddle them with an additional expense.
One of the first victims of their stupidity were the NAB member stations that were streaming on the Internet. Previously, they hadn't had to pay, either - which was a good thing for them, considering that most streams had their advertising removed from the stream, and weren't generally profitable on their own.
Their arguments as to why they shouldn't have to pay are outdated. They claim that they're giving free promotion to music, but how many terrestrial stations are actually giving exposure to new music? Seriously - how many stations in your town are currently recycling everyone's favorite hits from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s? Radio knows that new music doesn't draw listeners - it's easier to take the free ride and give audiences the music they already know and love.
Radio should have to pay. Given NAB's size, it shouldn't be difficult to negotiate with SoundExchange for a lower rate.
Yes, have some!
Rubik's Cube may have been invented in the 70s, but it wasn't mass-manufactured until 1980. Seriously, it wasn't even called the Rubik's Cube until 1980. (It was originally called the Magic Cube.)
For those having trouble grasping it, it works kind of like this:
Say you decide you're going to the store to buy milk. You get in the car and start driving there, with the one thought in your mind being going to the store and getting milk.
On the way there, you get in a car accident. You never reach the store.
Stuff like that happens every day. Things happen that are out of our control and are impossible to predict. It's the same concept, just taking place in the past rather than the present.
In my story idea, I summed it as "Nature will right itself". It's not like people don't die random and unexpected deaths every day.