"The key is that if you want the overblocking rate to sound low, you talk about the percentage of non-porn sites that are blocked. If you want it to sound high, you talk about the percentage of blocked sites that are non-porn."
Specifically: "blocked sites that are non-porn" Vs. "non-porn sites that are blocked"
How does this change the percentage? And how does that make it the key? Is it a skellington[sic-humour] key?
c) The Pyramids age can be skipped over... It was probably built by dinosaurs!
FTFA: "and, as for scientists, so much of what they believe is pretty fuzzy about life and its origins"
See above points a-c and decide whose view is 'fuzzier'.
Does anyone who's not a Creationist want to come and live with me on Mars? Soon as.
Also from TFA when questioned about Adam's dong: "some of our donors are scared to death about nudity." Bit hypocritical then. Surely if God intended Adam and Eve to be naked, and shame and modesty are sins... aren't the donors living in sin? Defying God's wish?
Personally I've never been confident (or dumb) enough to talk for God. Why can they?
But seriously though, that's the point, people don't. EVERYONE has used windows, somewhere, somehow. But when it comes to fixing it, most people don't know a thing. The only way you learn is by tinkering, it'd take just as much effort to use Linux. That was the joke.
I did have one interesting thought though:
£500,000 ~ $947 350 /$100 ~ 9473 laptops in the $100 laptop scheme. How much training do you need to use one of those?
It's possible to save even more money, Birmingham. Here's how: First do what ever it was that apparently would make the project cheaper with winblows, next replace windows with linux. It's free, so ALL the money spent on windows would be gotten back.
Let's reiterate:
1. Save £100,000
2. Save £++ by using free software
3. ???
4......you know the joke by now.
This way, America doesn't have to do any more work. You can just wait for someone else to lead and then copy them and bully them out from their own idea... Hey, wait, you guys do that anyway. What do you need Bill for?
You'd think with all the negative press about Vista and with M$ not wanting to support XP after (insert whatever date is) that the transition FROM XP would be a fantastic time for people to say: "Hey, let's try Linux, it's free anyway."
Wouldn't it be helpful if instead the people would say: "Hey, let's get Vista, I wanted to try Linux as it's free, but I hear there are additional complications and it's based on Windows anyway (*this is what they're trying to insinuate*). We'd best pay to be on the safe side."...Helpful to at least ONE company, anyway.
You see what happens when they ruin the English language. Copyright infringement is immoral and a crime. It's not theft, that's a different immoral crime.
Just like pretty much ALL the music released by the RIAA's employers is unoriginal and formulated, that's not art, that's plagarism! And the people who sing on the tracks aren't 'artists' they are proffesional musicians. You can't make art for money. Art is not equal to Product! NB: You can sell art, but if you can't make it for money. Hence the term 'selling-out'.
To recap: Please stop muddying the definitions of art and theft! Otherwise I'll need to come up with new words to replace the ones being bastardised.
Irony \I"ron*y\, a. [From Iron.]
[1913 Webster]
1. Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as,
irony chains; irony particles; -- In this sense iron is
the more common term. [R.] --Woodward.
Ah, so it's a pyramid scheme. Whoever made the song available first is therefore, by that argument, responsible for ALL of the piracy that occurs subsequently.
Let's now assume that someone, say 3 steps down the hierarchy (person B) also get's sued as well as the person at the top (person A). However, the damages for all the people below person A, including B, have been paid by A. So for everyone that B also pays for, the RIAA gets twice the money it is entitled to.
If you want to sue people for indirectly influencing piracy by making the song available, shouldn't ALL the record companies be held the most liable. Obviously they own the copyright, but if they aren't willing to admit that indirectly, by their own argument, they cause piracy completely, surely they could be held as hypocrites.
They key word is indirectly! Surely, the 'pyramid' argument can't be used?
I completely agree. I wasn't trying to validate the RIAA's point, I was merely reiterating what I understand to be their argument, and the flaws associated with it.
This is how I originally understood they were able to get away with charging $750 per song, because it counts for all the people who then go the song from them.
There are a couple of questions I have about this:
1. Why 1000? Why not everybody with a modem considering they all in theory could potentially download the song? It seems to me this number is fabricated and I think it's about time the RIAA went back to school and lost marks for "not showing their working"! Also
2. If 1 person pays for the downloading of 1000 people plus themselves. Then 1000 people haven't broken the law because the music has been paid for?
There are some videos on google vid, regarding the ancient Egyptians and talismans.
You want to know how they built the pyramids? Consider this: They had the best education system (as in method of learning) the world has ever known.
Crudely it can be analogised thusly. If you have a ring on your finger, or a necklace, broach, locket, special pen someone gave you etc... Then to anyone else, if they look at that ring, it will be a meaningless piece of metal to them. Zero value sentimentally. However, to you, that ring will always remind you of, for example, the day your mother gave you that ring and the advice she said, and then it will be linked to what your mother looks like and how much you miss her etc...
In short, it evokes powerful memories when you look at it, because YOU have linked those memories to it.
The Egyptians used symbols, they linked a lot of ideas to these symbols, and so whenever they looked at them it would remind them of everything they had been taught regarding these symbols. Also, I won't get to into it, but speech processing is one of the slower, less efficient parts of the brain. By using visual methods, as opposed to aural/written*, they access the sub-concious directly, hence better learning. It's amazing we are just beginning to discover now the education systems they had 7000+ (+++ depending on who you believe) years ago are much better than our own.
*Written is only bad if you use your inner-monologue (that voice you hear when you read that sounds like your voice). This way it still engages speech processing. If you saw words as images, and didn't speak them as you read them it would increase your reading ability up to nearly ten-fold, and it would also increase your memory retention and recall. As most people use their inner-monologue, as they've never been taught to read beyond grade/primary school, I regard it as bad.
""By no means do these findings constitute definitive proof that a Neanderthal was the source of the original copy of the D allele. However, our evidence shows that it is one of the best candidates," Lahn said."
We shouldn't make such big news of science that may or may not be true.
More specifically, all implications on conclusions from the article were highly speculative, this is what Lahn was saying.
Come on India! You can do it! The best of luck to you!!
I think as soon as more countries start getting into space, then there will be a bigger push internationally for space exploration. Then, just maybe then, we can see the world as a round planet, with no East and West, but just as a home, for the human race, united as one. If you want to end hunger then universal peace might be a way forward.
You know that you don't own any of your music? It is merely licensed to you. How can you steal something that isn't in your possession? And what about the people who 'share' music? Wow, they must be losing so much money as the music is being 'stolen' from them, right? I mean, that's the source. If I came to your house and took one of YOUR music CDs, it is exactly equivalent, right? Exactly equivalent?!
If you really cared about the law, crime and your rights you would be talking about justice. How much money goes to the artist every time you discerningly purchase a CD? Seriously, answer me that.
It isn't stealing! It's not. Oh wait, well, maybe it is in 'newspeak' but I lost my dictionary, can I borrow yours, comrade?
Plus how much money is actually being lost? I mean, really. Go here, and then talk to me about stealing.
Is the cost of building and launching a new and better satellite going to much more expensive than training astronauts, sending them to hubble to fix it and bringing them back down again?
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For the record I do get it. It's relative to the entire internet in one case and not the other.
"The key is that if you want the overblocking rate to sound low, you talk about the percentage of non-porn sites that are blocked. If you want it to sound high, you talk about the percentage of blocked sites that are non-porn."
Specifically: "blocked sites that are non-porn" Vs. "non-porn sites that are blocked"
How does this change the percentage? And how does that make it the key? Is it a skellington[sic-humour] key?
Hippy: "Like, you can't OWN property, man!"
Prof. Farnsworth: "I can. But that's because I'm not a penniless hippy!"
Microsoft stole everything they ever did. What about the Zune? Infringing on anything there, buddy?!
I guess it's a good job for M$ that ALL black hats use Winblows, at least this way, you won't be pissing off anyone you REALLY shouldn't!
FTA: '"So, Microsoft removes user choice in the name of security," he said.'
Don't forget terrorism and kiddy pron!
Prepare to believe:
a) The world is flat
b) It's 6000 years old
c) The Pyramids age can be skipped over... It was probably built by dinosaurs!
FTFA: "and, as for scientists, so much of what they believe is pretty fuzzy about life and its origins"
See above points a-c and decide whose view is 'fuzzier'.
Does anyone who's not a Creationist want to come and live with me on Mars? Soon as.
Also from TFA when questioned about Adam's dong: "some of our donors are scared to death about nudity." Bit hypocritical then. Surely if God intended Adam and Eve to be naked, and shame and modesty are sins... aren't the donors living in sin? Defying God's wish?
Personally I've never been confident (or dumb) enough to talk for God. Why can they?
"everyone knows Windows already"
/$100 ~ 9473 laptops in the $100 laptop scheme. How much training do you need to use one of those?
But seriously though, that's the point, people don't. EVERYONE has used windows, somewhere, somehow. But when it comes to fixing it, most people don't know a thing. The only way you learn is by tinkering, it'd take just as much effort to use Linux. That was the joke.
I did have one interesting thought though:
£500,000 ~ $947 350
It's possible to save even more money, Birmingham. Here's how: First do what ever it was that apparently would make the project cheaper with winblows, next replace windows with linux. It's free, so ALL the money spent on windows would be gotten back.
Let's reiterate: 1. Save £100,000 2. Save £++ by using free software 3. ??? 4......you know the joke by now.
Rome, Napoleonic France, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia.... pick your favourite dictatorship.
This way, America doesn't have to do any more work. You can just wait for someone else to lead and then copy them and bully them out from their own idea... Hey, wait, you guys do that anyway. What do you need Bill for?
Yes, what a fantastic plan... that is until the terrorists invent rolled-up newspaper! Then whatcha gonna do?
FFFFFFFFFFACE!!
You'd think with all the negative press about Vista and with M$ not wanting to support XP after (insert whatever date is) that the transition FROM XP would be a fantastic time for people to say: "Hey, let's try Linux, it's free anyway."
Wouldn't it be helpful if instead the people would say: "Hey, let's get Vista, I wanted to try Linux as it's free, but I hear there are additional complications and it's based on Windows anyway (*this is what they're trying to insinuate*). We'd best pay to be on the safe side."...Helpful to at least ONE company, anyway.
But, yeah... interesting timing.
Cross-section of reactions... I'll leave you to work the rest out.
You see what happens when they ruin the English language.
Copyright infringement is immoral and a crime. It's not theft, that's a different immoral crime.
Just like pretty much ALL the music released by the RIAA's employers is unoriginal and formulated, that's not art, that's plagarism! And the people who sing on the tracks aren't 'artists' they are proffesional musicians. You can't make art for money. Art is not equal to Product! NB: You can sell art, but if you can't make it for money. Hence the term 'selling-out'.
To recap: Please stop muddying the definitions of art and theft! Otherwise I'll need to come up with new words to replace the ones being bastardised.
Irony \I"ron*y\, a. [From Iron.]
[1913 Webster]
1. Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as,
irony chains; irony particles; -- In this sense iron is
the more common term. [R.] --Woodward.
Hate to reply to my own post, but...
So...Does anyone else on here just plain outright hate Microsoft?
Ah, so it's a pyramid scheme. Whoever made the song available first is therefore, by that argument, responsible for ALL of the piracy that occurs subsequently.
Let's now assume that someone, say 3 steps down the hierarchy (person B) also get's sued as well as the person at the top (person A). However, the damages for all the people below person A, including B, have been paid by A. So for everyone that B also pays for, the RIAA gets twice the money it is entitled to.
If you want to sue people for indirectly influencing piracy by making the song available, shouldn't ALL the record companies be held the most liable. Obviously they own the copyright, but if they aren't willing to admit that indirectly, by their own argument, they cause piracy completely, surely they could be held as hypocrites.
They key word is indirectly! Surely, the 'pyramid' argument can't be used?
I completely agree. I wasn't trying to validate the RIAA's point, I was merely reiterating what I understand to be their argument, and the flaws associated with it.
This is how I originally understood they were able to get away with charging $750 per song, because it counts for all the people who then go the song from them.
There are a couple of questions I have about this:
1. Why 1000? Why not everybody with a modem considering they all in theory could potentially download the song? It seems to me this number is fabricated and I think it's about time the RIAA went back to school and lost marks for "not showing their working"! Also
2. If 1 person pays for the downloading of 1000 people plus themselves. Then 1000 people haven't broken the law because the music has been paid for?
There are some videos on google vid, regarding the ancient Egyptians and talismans.
You want to know how they built the pyramids? Consider this: They had the best education system (as in method of learning) the world has ever known.
Crudely it can be analogised thusly. If you have a ring on your finger, or a necklace, broach, locket, special pen someone gave you etc... Then to anyone else, if they look at that ring, it will be a meaningless piece of metal to them. Zero value sentimentally. However, to you, that ring will always remind you of, for example, the day your mother gave you that ring and the advice she said, and then it will be linked to what your mother looks like and how much you miss her etc...
In short, it evokes powerful memories when you look at it, because YOU have linked those memories to it.
The Egyptians used symbols, they linked a lot of ideas to these symbols, and so whenever they looked at them it would remind them of everything they had been taught regarding these symbols. Also, I won't get to into it, but speech processing is one of the slower, less efficient parts of the brain. By using visual methods, as opposed to aural/written*, they access the sub-concious directly, hence better learning. It's amazing we are just beginning to discover now the education systems they had 7000+ (+++ depending on who you believe) years ago are much better than our own.
*Written is only bad if you use your inner-monologue (that voice you hear when you read that sounds like your voice). This way it still engages speech processing. If you saw words as images, and didn't speak them as you read them it would increase your reading ability up to nearly ten-fold, and it would also increase your memory retention and recall. As most people use their inner-monologue, as they've never been taught to read beyond grade/primary school, I regard it as bad.
""By no means do these findings constitute definitive proof that a Neanderthal was the source of the original copy of the D allele. However, our evidence shows that it is one of the best candidates," Lahn said."
We shouldn't make such big news of science that may or may not be true.
More specifically, all implications on conclusions from the article were highly speculative, this is what Lahn was saying.
Come on India! You can do it! The best of luck to you!!
I think as soon as more countries start getting into space, then there will be a bigger push internationally for space exploration. Then, just maybe then, we can see the world as a round planet, with no East and West, but just as a home, for the human race, united as one. If you want to end hunger then universal peace might be a way forward.
Even this guy knows that.
You know that you don't own any of your music? It is merely licensed to you. How can you steal something that isn't in your possession? And what about the people who 'share' music? Wow, they must be losing so much money as the music is being 'stolen' from them, right? I mean, that's the source. If I came to your house and took one of YOUR music CDs, it is exactly equivalent, right? Exactly equivalent?!
If you really cared about the law, crime and your rights you would be talking about justice. How much money goes to the artist every time you discerningly purchase a CD? Seriously, answer me that.
It isn't stealing! It's not. Oh wait, well, maybe it is in 'newspeak' but I lost my dictionary, can I borrow yours, comrade?
Plus how much money is actually being lost? I mean, really. Go here, and then talk to me about stealing.
Who cares about Web 2.0 saving democracy...
I can't wait for the pr0n on web3d!
NB: Web3D is being copyrighted by me, right now, you all saw it!!
Is the cost of building and launching a new and better satellite going to much more expensive than training astronauts, sending them to hubble to fix it and bringing them back down again?
Perhaps they could take the space elevator...:b