If he stored the messages from 2004 (which may or may not be true),
then he likely did it for the same reason why my company stores messages. Because the government forces them to store the messages. It's not a matter of "choice" if the government is holding a gun to your held ("save all emails, else serve time in jail").
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There's a difference:
- You said the corporation is fighting to protect its breathalyzer code. It wants to maintain its own property & future profits. Makes perfect sense.
- But what if the State sued the corporation to obtain the *emails* sent across the machines? Does the corporation have a vested interest to protect them? Nope. The corporation will not fight. It will just hand them over to the government, as if they were best friends.
In this particular case, we have a man who has no vested interest But he does have a morals. He's fighting purely upon the principle of protecting others.
- A man had setup a website with the name of a local mall. It was strictly an information site (like a Trekkie fan site, but this was for a mall). The local mall didn't want the website to exist, so they sued him using cyber-squatter laws. Initially the website owner lost his case, but eventually he repealed to the State Supreme Court and won. - It cost him ~$3000 in legal fees that he never recovered.
Big corporations like to go after & abuse the little guy, just because they can do it, and if the Corporation loses the case it's no big deal (just 0.000001% of their profit), but it causes major damage to the average citizen.
Big corporations need to be stopped. Corporations should be required to pay ALL legal fees for the cases they bring against individuals (unless the corporation takes the case to verdict & wins).
>>>If everyone chose to steal their music, what would happen then?
Several studies have shown that if "everyone" stole music, then CD sales would escalate higher than ever. I know that sounds strange, but here's how it works:
- A person downloads songs for free. - He/she likes the songs. - He/she buys several CDs of that same artist, because they enjoy his or her work. - The result is a several sales that would not have occured otherwise.
BEFORE: The person bought $0.00 worth of CDs. NOW: The person bought $30-40 worth of CDs. NET IMPACT: More money for the company and the artist. Stealing music helps sell more product by introducing people to new artists they had never heard before.
I think it's safe to say "healthy appearance == beauty". That eliminates those who appear unhealthy, such as a potbelly or damaged skin or missing eye, and thus wouldn't make good mates (they might die before your baby is old enough to care for him/herself, thus negating your genes ability to survive into the future).
We call it "beauty" but it's really about our own genes, and ensuring our mate is healthy enough to survive nature's harshness.
Ya know it's possible to have slavery on a small scale. If Stonehenge was built, not in 30 years time like a pyramid, but over many hundreds of years, it could be done with just a few slaves procured from local farmers.
That would not leave behind any trace of slave trading.
The reason stone-based knives are sharp has *nothing* to do with human ingenuity.
Stones are sharp because they have a Natural tendency to flake at the molecular level. The sharpness is part of the stone's property, and the true credit belongs to the stone and/or chemistry, not the primitive farmer.
The people that settled Europe were likely black or brown, and over time lack-of-exposure to the sun caused their skin to fade to white or pink.
(Dark-skinned humans would have suffered vitamin C deficits in colder, darker europe, leading to an evolutionary pressure in favor of light-skinned persons who absorbed more light through their skin & survived longer.)
I haven't bought any new RAM since 2002 (512 megabyte upgrade). It was hard but I feel proud of myself for staying strong & avoiding the temptation. Over two-thousand "junk free" days. Woot! As long as I "just say no" to my pimp, Mr Gates, I should be okay, but if I buy his Vista crak then I'll have no choice. I'll have to buy more RAM.:-(
I don't understand why New York thinks it has a legitimate reason to read everybody's private text messages from 4 years ago. What possible relevance do those messages have to anything?
Reminds me of my grandmother (reading other people's mail just to be nosy).
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If this was a corporation (which has no soul or moral code), the content of the messages would already be in NYC's lawyers' hands.
Fortunately in this case, it's a man who believes in human rights.
So did a couple thousand other people. Plus it only took me a minute to create the comment, not weeks of devotion to editing a wiki article. Most importantly my comment is MY opinion, whereas a wikipedia entry is all about other people's opinions (citations), and thus wikipedia editors demote themselves to just being a scribe. A servant to others.
Worse... the article is about a politician. If I'm going to spend weeks of my life, I'd rather spend it someone who matters. Like my wife or daughter, not a politico.
You are correct. A concert aimed toward middle-agers is not a mass market. It's just pennies compared to the mega-dollars that record companies make by selling a billion CDs or singles. That's why they concentrate on the youth crowd.
Aside:
(I think it's funny that you didn't mind the record companies targeting of the youth market back in the 1960s or 70s when they were playing hippy and/or disco music. At the time you probably though your parents' 1940s-era big band music was lousy & you were likely happy that it never got any radioplay. Irony.)
"If good music were popular, we'd hear a lot of good music around. There's a reason we don't..."
I disagree that the reason is because people prefer mediocre stuff. Good music is unpopular because it's not played on the corporate-owned radio. Good music is unpopular because it's not exposed to the masses.
If it was played, it would be on the top of the charts.
Radio's purpose is to provide free advertising for the record companies' latest offering... they control what we hear on the radio. And if they decide to ignore good music, then it will sell poorly. It's the CEOs that control the music, not the people; not free choice.
It's typical of powerful organizations to say, "Do as we tell you to do, and ignore how we act." Hypocrites. We saw this with the New York Governor who prosecuted people for prostitution, but then turned-around and did the crime himself. And now we see it with Sony who prosecutes people for stealing software/music, but then commits the exact same crime.
Who Watches the Watchers?
Nobody. The watchers make the rules, but they don't follow them.
My HD Radio lists the song/artist directly on the screen (metadata, like Winamp). It also has secondary channels that feature new music that is still being tested (not yet popular) and/or older Top40 music that has fallen off the charts and/or alternative independent music.
Of course these secondary channels are still in the control of the corporation, but at least it's providing a little more choice during the drive to work.
The 40-somethings are saving it for retirement (or bills, or their kids' college, or whatever). The 40-somethings are a tiny market that spends very little money, and therefore the salespeople ignore them. It's the same reason why TV advertisers think shows that attract 40+ viewers are a waste.
As someone else already noted, the record industry uses Radio to control what we hear. There might be some great garage band out there, which would go straight to number one on the charts, but since they don't get any airplay they don't get heard. Thus the average citizen remains blissfully unaware of many great artists, simply because the record companies don't play them.
The corporations control what we hear.
Internet sharing puts the control back in OUR hands (we can try whatever we feel like trying).
(1) I'm not sure I want a fan who will so quickly "forget" about me. (2) Although you are correct: impulse buying is a major factor in sales. I might just burn a couple 10 cent CDs and sell them for $5 with a liner saying, "If you enjoy this music, you can find more songs at www.geocities.com/theband".
A CD is more convenient? I don't know about that - it's a bit of a hassle to be handed a bulky disc, try to find room in my backpack to carry the thing, go home, switch on the PC, wait for the CD to cue up, adjust the volume, etc.
Easier to just click a bittorrent link. (And cheaper for the artist.)
I'm one of those who has insurance for the other driver + his car, but not for myself. The theory is that if I do something stupid, and I injure the other driver or car, then I am at fault and I have to pay to fix the damage I caused. That amount could easily be over $100,000 if the other driver is seriously injured and/or driving a Porsche.
Being a typical poor American, I don't have that kind of money, so my *insurance* company pays the resulting damages for me. Understand?
Yes well, I have to disagree. Having your neighbors' work and earn money, so you can remove the money from their wallets to buy yourself a new organ, is NOT a right.
On the contrary, that's a violation. It's a violation of your neighbors' rights to own their bodies and their labor. It's theft. Just as surely as Plantation owners stole the labor of their slaves.
BTW
If such a right existed, it would be enumerated in a State Constitution. Or a local county constitution. Since the right "to raid neighbors' wallets and buy myself a new organ" is not enumerated, in any legal national, state, or local document, it does not exist. (Because nobody has a right to steal from other men.)
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If he stored the messages from 2004 (which may or may not be true),
then he likely did it for the same reason why my company stores messages. Because the government forces them to store the messages. It's not a matter of "choice" if the government is holding a gun to your held ("save all emails, else serve time in jail").
There's a difference:
- You said the corporation is fighting to protect its breathalyzer code. It wants to maintain its own property & future profits. Makes perfect sense.
- But what if the State sued the corporation to obtain the *emails* sent across the machines? Does the corporation have a vested interest to protect them? Nope. The corporation will not fight. It will just hand them over to the government, as if they were best friends.
In this particular case, we have a man who has no vested interest
But he does have a morals. He's fighting purely upon the principle of protecting others.
This reminds me of a story I recently read:
- A man had setup a website with the name of a local mall. It was strictly an information site (like a Trekkie fan site, but this was for a mall). The local mall didn't want the website to exist, so they sued him using cyber-squatter laws. Initially the website owner lost his case, but eventually he repealed to the State Supreme Court and won. - It cost him ~$3000 in legal fees that he never recovered.
Big corporations like to go after & abuse the little guy, just because they can do it, and if the Corporation loses the case it's no big deal (just 0.000001% of their profit), but it causes major damage to the average citizen.
Big corporations need to be stopped. Corporations should be required to pay ALL legal fees for the cases they bring against individuals (unless the corporation takes the case to verdict & wins).
>>>If everyone chose to steal their music, what would happen then?
Several studies have shown that if "everyone" stole music, then CD sales would escalate higher than ever. I know that sounds strange, but here's how it works:
- A person downloads songs for free.
- He/she likes the songs.
- He/she buys several CDs of that same artist, because they enjoy his or her work.
- The result is a several sales that would not have occured otherwise.
BEFORE: The person bought $0.00 worth of CDs.
NOW: The person bought $30-40 worth of CDs.
NET IMPACT: More money for the company and the artist. Stealing music helps sell more product by introducing people to new artists they had never heard before.
Ooops.
Time to stop using google to locate images of naked women.
I think it's safe to say "healthy appearance == beauty". That eliminates those who appear unhealthy, such as a potbelly or damaged skin or missing eye, and thus wouldn't make good mates (they might die before your baby is old enough to care for him/herself, thus negating your genes ability to survive into the future).
We call it "beauty" but it's really about our own genes, and ensuring our mate is healthy enough to survive nature's harshness.
Ya know it's possible to have slavery on a small scale. If Stonehenge was built, not in 30 years time like a pyramid, but over many hundreds of years, it could be done with just a few slaves procured from local farmers.
That would not leave behind any trace of slave trading.
The reason stone-based knives are sharp has *nothing* to do with human ingenuity.
Stones are sharp because they have a Natural tendency to flake at the molecular level. The sharpness is part of the stone's property, and the true credit belongs to the stone and/or chemistry, not the primitive farmer.
The people that settled Europe were likely black or brown, and over time lack-of-exposure to the sun caused their skin to fade to white or pink.
(Dark-skinned humans would have suffered vitamin C deficits in colder, darker europe, leading to an evolutionary pressure in favor of light-skinned persons who absorbed more light through their skin & survived longer.)
It's possible to quit.
:-(
It can be done.
I haven't bought any new RAM since 2002 (512 megabyte upgrade). It was hard but I feel proud of myself for staying strong & avoiding the temptation. Over two-thousand "junk free" days. Woot! As long as I "just say no" to my pimp, Mr Gates, I should be okay, but if I buy his Vista crak then I'll have no choice. I'll have to buy more RAM.
Stay strong brother.
P.S.
I don't understand why New York thinks it has a legitimate reason to read everybody's private text messages from 4 years ago. What possible relevance do those messages have to anything?
Reminds me of my grandmother (reading other people's mail just to be nosy).
If this was a corporation (which has no soul or moral code), the content of the messages would already be in NYC's lawyers' hands.
Fortunately in this case, it's a man who believes in human rights.
You saw it.
So did a couple thousand other people. Plus it only took me a minute to create the comment, not weeks of devotion to editing a wiki article. Most importantly my comment is MY opinion, whereas a wikipedia entry is all about other people's opinions (citations), and thus wikipedia editors demote themselves to just being a scribe. A servant to others.
Worse... the article is about a politician. If I'm going to spend weeks of my life, I'd rather spend it someone who matters. Like my wife or daughter, not a politico.
Hence my original comment.
You are correct. A concert aimed toward middle-agers is not a mass market. It's just pennies compared to the mega-dollars that record companies make by selling a billion CDs or singles. That's why they concentrate on the youth crowd.
Aside:
(I think it's funny that you didn't mind the record companies targeting of the youth market back in the 1960s or 70s when they were playing hippy and/or disco music. At the time you probably though your parents' 1940s-era big band music was lousy & you were likely happy that it never got any radioplay. Irony.)
"If good music were popular, we'd hear a lot of good music around. There's a reason we don't..."
I disagree that the reason is because people prefer mediocre stuff. Good music is unpopular because it's not played on the corporate-owned radio. Good music is unpopular because it's not exposed to the masses.
If it was played, it would be on the top of the charts.
Radio's purpose is to provide free advertising for the record companies' latest offering... they control what we hear on the radio. And if they decide to ignore good music, then it will sell poorly. It's the CEOs that control the music, not the people; not free choice.
I'm not surprised.
It's typical of powerful organizations to say, "Do as we tell you to do, and ignore how we act." Hypocrites. We saw this with the New York Governor who prosecuted people for prostitution, but then turned-around and did the crime himself. And now we see it with Sony who prosecutes people for stealing software/music, but then commits the exact same crime.
Who Watches the Watchers?
Nobody. The watchers make the rules, but they don't follow them.
My HD Radio lists the song/artist directly on the screen (metadata, like Winamp). It also has secondary channels that feature new music that is still being tested (not yet popular) and/or older Top40 music that has fallen off the charts and/or alternative independent music.
Of course these secondary channels are still in the control of the corporation, but at least it's providing a little more choice during the drive to work.
It's all about disposable cash.
The 20-somethings have it.
The 40-somethings are saving it for retirement (or bills, or their kids' college, or whatever). The 40-somethings are a tiny market that spends very little money, and therefore the salespeople ignore them. It's the same reason why TV advertisers think shows that attract 40+ viewers are a waste.
No don't mod parent up.
As someone else already noted, the record industry uses Radio to control what we hear. There might be some great garage band out there, which would go straight to number one on the charts, but since they don't get any airplay they don't get heard. Thus the average citizen remains blissfully unaware of many great artists, simply because the record companies don't play them.
The corporations control what we hear.
Internet sharing puts the control back in OUR hands (we can try whatever we feel like trying).
I can think of better ways to spend my few remaining years,
than monitoring a wikipedia page. Get a life.
They wouldn't need these drones if they Decriminalized drugs and made them available via doctor's prescription.
The drug runners business would dry up.
(1) I'm not sure I want a fan who will so quickly "forget" about me. (2) Although you are correct: impulse buying is a major factor in sales. I might just burn a couple 10 cent CDs and sell them for $5 with a liner saying, "If you enjoy this music, you can find more songs at www.geocities.com/theband".
A CD is more convenient? I don't know about that - it's a bit of a hassle to be handed a bulky disc, try to find room in my backpack to carry the thing, go home, switch on the PC, wait for the CD to cue up, adjust the volume, etc.
Easier to just click a bittorrent link.
(And cheaper for the artist.)
I'm one of those who has insurance for the other driver + his car, but not for myself. The theory is that if I do something stupid, and I injure the other driver or car, then I am at fault and I have to pay to fix the damage I caused. That amount could easily be over $100,000 if the other driver is seriously injured and/or driving a Porsche.
Being a typical poor American, I don't have that kind of money, so my *insurance* company pays the resulting damages for me. Understand?
Yes well, I have to disagree. Having your neighbors' work and earn money, so you can remove the money from their wallets to buy yourself a new organ, is NOT a right.
On the contrary, that's a violation. It's a violation of your neighbors' rights to own their bodies and their labor. It's theft. Just as surely as Plantation owners stole the labor of their slaves.
BTW
If such a right existed, it would be enumerated in a State Constitution. Or a local county constitution. Since the right "to raid neighbors' wallets and buy myself a new organ" is not enumerated, in any legal national, state, or local document, it does not exist. (Because nobody has a right to steal from other men.)