I beg to differ slightly. While it is pathetic that we're forcing people to go to school, the other shoe would be that we have an idiotic population. It's the responsibility of the community at large to step in when the parents won't, especially in cases of education, after all, if we just let every person who doesn't want to be in school, not, than we'll have plenty more people like the previous president elected because the general population will not be educated enough to know better than that.
That being said, I recently went back to visit my old high school and felt like I was visiting a minimum security prison. I had to let them search my saxophone case (I wanted to get some practicing in while I was there), wasn't allowed in the hallways without an escort, and everyone was wearing a badge. That's where schools are turning into jails. My high school had plenty of teachers who promoted thinking for yourself. Most of them still do, but the policies of the administration are so far out of whack, I'm very glad I don't attend there now.
While IANAL we were literally just talking about this in a law class that I'm taking.
Stating that someone famous did something on a message board is much different than stating that someone who is rather obscure did something.
Furthermore, libel and slander require that the victim prove that what was said had some sort of negative effect on them. If, for example, I say, "Johnny Depp is gay," it wouldn't suddenly be believed that that is the case (although some people would believe that to begin with).
Also, when dealing with slander and libel, one has the rights to the damages that this information caused them. If it were said that I had been convicted of a crime when I had merely been arrested of said crime, I could sue the entity that said that for whatever damages that brought upon, including the loss of a job.
Slander is a case where the statements are made in a NON-permanent medium, namely spoken in person or over the phone. Anything that is generally accepted to be recorded (TV/Radio/Internet/Newspaper) is libel.
I am a musician and can back you up on this one. The pentatonic scales are derivatives of the 12-tones that the Western music world are used to. The pentatonic (as its name implies) is a 5 note scale. If you listen to "My Girl," you'll hear a major pentatonic in the opening bars. Most Disney pieces are pentatonic based.
The US in general can't stand this stuff. You'll find a couple of professors at every university with a music program who are constantly arguing that 12 tones is not enough, but for most of pop, Pachabel's Canon in D is good enough.
I think it's priceless that Comcast set up their email address for feedback on this topic through gmail. Freaking great that they can't trust their own equipment enough, they have to go to Google. Makes me very glad that I've never treated my Comcast email as a personal or proper email address, only used to sign up for possible spam things and newsletters.
It's often been attributed to a Nintendo or Atari employee, but I've never seen anyone put a name to it. The quote reads, "Computer games don't affect kids. I mean, if Pacman affected us as kids, we'd all be running around darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
The only time I've seen a name put to it is the comedian Marcus Brigstocke.
And those that think they're composers who don't have a musical bone in their body are known as one of the following:
Hip Hop Artist Rapper Poet and the most polite of them all, Lyricist.
Notice that in none of those fields do you actually have to be musically talented, you just have to speak or write your lyrics and let others do the musical stuff. Even if you are a hip ho artist who makes their own backing track, you're using loops that you don't write or create.
No, if you're dealing with a media that's all from the same source, the likelihood that the metal is bad or the plastic is bad or there was a bad batch here there or the next place increases with each failure. After approximately 10, it becomes very likely that they will all fail within the time they're supposed to last. You're looking at small numbers, I'm looking at large ones.
So get off your lazy butts and vote! You are not too busy.
Or you're admitting that you don't know enough about the policies of those running for office to make an educated decision. I would much rather see people who don't know what the issues are not vote. I worked as an election judge a couple of times and the scariest thing I saw was that people would come in who didn't speak more than 4 words of English and carried a party pamphlet with them so they knew who to vote for. I don't care which party it was (there were plenty for both the major parties), that's just not how voting should occur.
Furthermore, my vote for president, living in Illinois, won't make a lick of difference. Illinois is a state where the electoral college goes one way or the other, there's no split, and we all know that Illinois is going to Obama. Also, my vote for president is worth significantly less than that of, say, Wyoming. In fact, based on electoral college divided by population, a person in Wyoming's vote is 3.5 more valuable than that of someone in Illinois.
Sounds like a great system you support there, where all "men" are not created equal.
...Yeah, NeXTStep...you know, that thing that was created by the company that Steve Jobs used to own until it was bought out by a much larger company that decided to use it's technological creations to their own advantage.
Oh wait, was I talking about NeXT and Apple or Pixar and Disney? I can never keep the two apart...
Yeah, me too. In fact all but one of the USB flash drives I own have been through the wash and all still work fine.
Heck, even my brother's original iPod Shuffle (the one that looks like a regular flash drive) has been through the wash a number of times and still is fine.
Yeah, sure, it's fun. So is yelling, "I have a gun," in a bank, so is yelling, "Fire" in a nightclub with hundreds of people who stampede over everyone in their way to get out, causing multiple deaths, so is writing libelous things in a newspaper. How many of those have you done?
Just because, "It's FUN," and, "It's the mother fucking internet," doesn't mean that a child (in the sense of mental maturity) shouldn't be a naive individual.
At least here in the US, all the things I mentioned in my first sentence are illegal, so why should textually tormenting someone online to the point in which that someone kills themself be illegal? Just because you're a nerd (which I presume is the case as you're taking part in this "debate" on "News for Nerds") who sees everything online as disconnected from oneself doesn't mean the whole world sees it the same way.
In ancient Rome, when poets' recitations were transcribed, mass-copied by amanuenses, and sold in the marketplace, they never saw a dime in royalties, but it didn't bother them.
Yeah, but in ancient Rome, when a poet that you knew of came to your village, you would be right there to buy them lunch or give them a place to stay. Nowadays, you can't expect anyone to put you up for the night without fear on one side or the other unless you really know them. Just because it worked for Rome, doesn't mean it works for the modern world, 2000 years later.
I'm not trying to say that this is a good thing, just saying that copyright isn't some load of bullshit, it actually serves a purpose. 95 years is ridiculous, 50 years is kind of ridiculous too.
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Glad I'm not the only one who caught that...
I beg to differ slightly. While it is pathetic that we're forcing people to go to school, the other shoe would be that we have an idiotic population. It's the responsibility of the community at large to step in when the parents won't, especially in cases of education, after all, if we just let every person who doesn't want to be in school, not, than we'll have plenty more people like the previous president elected because the general population will not be educated enough to know better than that.
That being said, I recently went back to visit my old high school and felt like I was visiting a minimum security prison. I had to let them search my saxophone case (I wanted to get some practicing in while I was there), wasn't allowed in the hallways without an escort, and everyone was wearing a badge. That's where schools are turning into jails. My high school had plenty of teachers who promoted thinking for yourself. Most of them still do, but the policies of the administration are so far out of whack, I'm very glad I don't attend there now.
While IANAL we were literally just talking about this in a law class that I'm taking.
Stating that someone famous did something on a message board is much different than stating that someone who is rather obscure did something.
Furthermore, libel and slander require that the victim prove that what was said had some sort of negative effect on them. If, for example, I say, "Johnny Depp is gay," it wouldn't suddenly be believed that that is the case (although some people would believe that to begin with).
Also, when dealing with slander and libel, one has the rights to the damages that this information caused them. If it were said that I had been convicted of a crime when I had merely been arrested of said crime, I could sue the entity that said that for whatever damages that brought upon, including the loss of a job.
Slander is a case where the statements are made in a NON-permanent medium, namely spoken in person or over the phone. Anything that is generally accepted to be recorded (TV/Radio/Internet/Newspaper) is libel.
I am a musician and can back you up on this one. The pentatonic scales are derivatives of the 12-tones that the Western music world are used to. The pentatonic (as its name implies) is a 5 note scale. If you listen to "My Girl," you'll hear a major pentatonic in the opening bars. Most Disney pieces are pentatonic based.
The US in general can't stand this stuff. You'll find a couple of professors at every university with a music program who are constantly arguing that 12 tones is not enough, but for most of pop, Pachabel's Canon in D is good enough.
Actually, forget the internet!
I think it's priceless that Comcast set up their email address for feedback on this topic through gmail. Freaking great that they can't trust their own equipment enough, they have to go to Google. Makes me very glad that I've never treated my Comcast email as a personal or proper email address, only used to sign up for possible spam things and newsletters.
It's often been attributed to a Nintendo or Atari employee, but I've never seen anyone put a name to it. The quote reads, "Computer games don't affect kids. I mean, if Pacman affected us as kids, we'd all be running around darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
The only time I've seen a name put to it is the comedian Marcus Brigstocke.
And those that think they're composers who don't have a musical bone in their body are known as one of the following:
Hip Hop Artist
Rapper
Poet
and the most polite of them all, Lyricist.
Notice that in none of those fields do you actually have to be musically talented, you just have to speak or write your lyrics and let others do the musical stuff. Even if you are a hip ho artist who makes their own backing track, you're using loops that you don't write or create.
No, if you're dealing with a media that's all from the same source, the likelihood that the metal is bad or the plastic is bad or there was a bad batch here there or the next place increases with each failure. After approximately 10, it becomes very likely that they will all fail within the time they're supposed to last. You're looking at small numbers, I'm looking at large ones.
If 1 disc is likely to fail, the likelihood of all the other discs to fail goes up exponentially.
Seriph brings up a perfect point. IMDB seems to back that information up fairly well.
I have been meaning to read it, but I can't find it. Without Me You're Nothing by Frank Herbert
"It will feature minutes of silence during concerts and festivals..."
It's been done. I just hope they pay the royalties.
It's Texas...
You said American, we're talking about Texas, at their hearts, they really are two different countries...
And I (and I'm sure I'm far from the only one here) thank you greatly.
I'd say more than that, NYCL is a bona-fide Freedom Fighter.
One man's Freedom Fighter is another man's Terrorist.
I'm just glad to see that the RIAA has a terrorist enemy...
If you don't vote:
So get off your lazy butts and vote! You are not too busy.
Or you're admitting that you don't know enough about the policies of those running for office to make an educated decision. I would much rather see people who don't know what the issues are not vote. I worked as an election judge a couple of times and the scariest thing I saw was that people would come in who didn't speak more than 4 words of English and carried a party pamphlet with them so they knew who to vote for. I don't care which party it was (there were plenty for both the major parties), that's just not how voting should occur.
Furthermore, my vote for president, living in Illinois, won't make a lick of difference. Illinois is a state where the electoral college goes one way or the other, there's no split, and we all know that Illinois is going to Obama. Also, my vote for president is worth significantly less than that of, say, Wyoming. In fact, based on electoral college divided by population, a person in Wyoming's vote is 3.5 more valuable than that of someone in Illinois.
Sounds like a great system you support there, where all "men" are not created equal.
...Yeah, NeXTStep...you know, that thing that was created by the company that Steve Jobs used to own until it was bought out by a much larger company that decided to use it's technological creations to their own advantage.
Oh wait, was I talking about NeXT and Apple or Pixar and Disney? I can never keep the two apart...
I'd feel bad for the one reading it outloud...
Yeah, me too. In fact all but one of the USB flash drives I own have been through the wash and all still work fine.
Heck, even my brother's original iPod Shuffle (the one that looks like a regular flash drive) has been through the wash a number of times and still is fine.
He's not an optimist, even Hans Reiser was married.
Yeah, sure, it's fun. So is yelling, "I have a gun," in a bank, so is yelling, "Fire" in a nightclub with hundreds of people who stampede over everyone in their way to get out, causing multiple deaths, so is writing libelous things in a newspaper. How many of those have you done?
Just because, "It's FUN," and, "It's the mother fucking internet," doesn't mean that a child (in the sense of mental maturity) shouldn't be a naive individual.
At least here in the US, all the things I mentioned in my first sentence are illegal, so why should textually tormenting someone online to the point in which that someone kills themself be illegal? Just because you're a nerd (which I presume is the case as you're taking part in this "debate" on "News for Nerds") who sees everything online as disconnected from oneself doesn't mean the whole world sees it the same way.
In ancient Rome, when poets' recitations were transcribed, mass-copied by amanuenses, and sold in the marketplace, they never saw a dime in royalties, but it didn't bother them.
Yeah, but in ancient Rome, when a poet that you knew of came to your village, you would be right there to buy them lunch or give them a place to stay. Nowadays, you can't expect anyone to put you up for the night without fear on one side or the other unless you really know them. Just because it worked for Rome, doesn't mean it works for the modern world, 2000 years later.
I'm not trying to say that this is a good thing, just saying that copyright isn't some load of bullshit, it actually serves a purpose. 95 years is ridiculous, 50 years is kind of ridiculous too.
You can throw a mic in it and have people sing into it. It's a very interesting recording technique.