Tune in to your local Top 40 station and you'll see that most music today isn't even worth listening to, much less buying.
My hypothesis is that the reason radio sucks so much today is the best artists are going independant, realizing that they have no use, let alone need, for a major label contract. The internet and affordable recording and duplication have made the 20th century record label obsolete, yet the labels still offer the same shitty contracts to artists.
Why would any artist worth his salt today sign away copyright to all his songs, unless either his work sucked or he was incredibly stupid?
Then 30 days in the lockup plus restitution, because the cops nab you as you climb down off the electronic billboard you just smashed up.
And I can avoid, say weather.com but if I get a traffic ticket I must go to the Sangamon County Courthouse. Ironically, there is one of those billboards at the Prarie Capital Convention Center across the street from the Sangamon County Courthouse, which also houses the Sangamon County Jail.
If you threaten someone with a large butcher knife in Sangamon County you'll get fifteen days in the Sangamon County Jail across from the blinking flashing billboard (which you can no longer see from the jail as they replaced the glass with translucent glass to stop women from flashing the prisoners).
I have no problem with TALKING on the phone (text messaging is a different matter) or drinking coffee; you choose when you do it. On the phone, if a dangerous situation crops up you can say "call me back, traffic got bad" etc. I do both on the highway, not in the city.
Of your three options I'd choose the first. I wouldn't outlaw ebooks in the car, but in most circumstances I would discourage their use while driving.
I may keep the URL of your comment for its questions about what to do when cars drive themselves for a journal. Thx.
If they advertise, you ARE paying their bills. Actually I wouldn't be against modest advertising like Google offers, or slashdot has, but one thing leads to another. There are a lot of newspapers I refuse to read (especially online) because of their flashing blinking ads.
As long as Wikipedia can continue operating without ads, IMO it should.
If you truly believe that the best things in life aren't free, I pity you.
Nevermind the fact tha many slam on their brakes as soon as they see one to drive 15 mph UNDER the limit
Often when gas prices soar (like today) and I'm forced to travel, I'll do 50-60 rather than the 67 I normally do. But no matter how fast or slow I'm driving, there is always the guy (usually in the new $75,000 vehicle, is there a correlation between wealth and stupidity?) who flys past me, then I pass him on the right (still in the right lane) as he slows down for the cop.
You can quite easily drive a car while having a coversation
Your passenger can see you're in a dangerous situation and STFU if you are in one. An ebook can't. A passenger can actually help you see a dangerous situation crop up. An ebook can't.
The "news" for the most part is bite sized, easily digestable, and doesn't need nearly the attention as a narrator telling a story. In some cases it can actually make you safer by keeping you awake.
I think cops are such abysmal drivers because of all the distractions they face in their squad cars. Have you noticed that they are the most dangerous drivers, followed by bus, cab, and delivery drivers? (discounting the VERY dangerous dimwits who shave, text message, and other things that actually force them to take their eyes off the road).
Perhaps you should feel envious of the "hyperlex" who isn't incapacitated by someone reading words to them.:-)
It doesn't matter how well you do or don't read, if you're paying attention to anything but your driving you're a menace. And my writing must be particularly bad or you would have seen that the two paragraphs, one on immersion and one on dangerous driving, are entirely separate.
Or did someone read it to you while you were driving?;)
Glory be, Leprechans found in the South Pacific just before Saint Patrick's Day! I wonder if they found any whiskey bottles or Guiness there as well? And pots of gold?
I'd link me latest wee journal (Sane Patty's Day) if the bloomin' mods wouldn't mod me offtopic. Oi'll drink to yer health tonight! Cheers!
STILL believes that mankind was *poofed* into existence some 6000-odd years ago
Like believing the universe itself *poofed* into existance some thirteen billion odd years ago? (Yes, I accept the big bang theory, but dude, listen to yourself...)
You should ask HER. I don't think there are many people on slashdot that could explain it. Also ask her why my horoscope said I'd get laid Friday night but I didn't.
We live in a plutocracy, where a rich and powerful man only goes to jail if a richer, more powerful man wants him there. Ever hear of O.J. Simpson?
Money will buy anything in America, including DAs, judges, and politicians. Here, they call bribery "campaign contribution". My ex-wife once had a lawyer who owned a T-shirt (there was a picture in his office of him wearing it) that said "a good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge."
A friend's brother went to federal prison for loaning money to a drug dealer - he'd gone to high school with the dope dealer, and the dealer called him up one day with an offer he couldn't refuse: loan him a thousand dollars and a week later he would pay him two thousand back.
The dealer spent two years, but my friend's brother had nobody to rat out. Their entire graduating class went to prison. AFAIK my friend's brother had never touched a drug in his life. He does now!
Yes, I'm cynical. You couldn't live in the US for a half century without becoming cynical.
Why hasnt any thing been done about that? it is unauthorised computer access.
INO (I'm no lawyer, but I'm not I-ANAL) but I would guess it's for the same reason that Sony's executives weren't incarcerated for their XCP rootkit trojan they placed on music CDs. We are, after all, talking about the same corporation here. The RIAA represents Sony-BMG, who is one of the "Big Four".
They are above the law. The law only applies to the working class and the poor in America.
From the GP: Prosecutors would rather send someone to jail for victimless crimes like drug posession than for extortion and racketeering which the RIAA and MPAA regularly engage in.
It's easier to get evidence of drug possession; they only have to produce the drug in court. For prostitution they only have to have the cop who poses as a hooker to testify that he or she was solicited. For extortion they have to get the victim's consent, which may be hard to do if the victim is terrified by the attacker, which is, after all, the only reason extortion works. DAs get reelected based on their wins/losses.
As to your incredibly ignorant comment: Drugs are not a victemless crime. Do you have any idea the number of other crimes are committed to support drug habits?
I've smoked pot since 1971 and I don't steal, extort, become violent (unlike many drinkers, whose drug is entirely legal), and have been gainfully employed for all that time. In fact, I'm eligible to retire in a couple of years.
Most of my friends also use this drug, and they are also gainfully employed. many are businesspeople.
I agree that marijuana should be kept away from minors, like any other drug (alcohol and tobacco included) but the laws do exactly the opposite. If you want proof, find a teenager and ask if (s)he can buy pot at school, and ask if (s)he can buy beer at school.
IMO the most vehement opponents of drug legalization must be the drug dealers themselves, as they stand to lose a whole lot of profit and perhaps even their livlihood should their illicit goods become legal.
What's worse, passage of victimless crimes lead to the erosion of civil liberies. Are you a lawmaker? That would explein your anonymity, Mr. Coward.
In states where they would, as you say, have to pursue them criminally, would it be just a fine or would someone be incarcerated? Seems to me that an entity like the RIAA would consider a fine to be just another cost of doing business. Could someone actually (I fervently hope) go to prison for this?
My hobby is not collecting stamps. Now to the actual topic rather than just commenting on a sig, do all states do this? Are there states you don't need a license to be a PI? Do you need one here in Illinois? And do you know that "effect" is a noun?
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Tune in to your local Top 40 station and you'll see that most music today isn't even worth listening to, much less buying.
My hypothesis is that the reason radio sucks so much today is the best artists are going independant, realizing that they have no use, let alone need, for a major label contract. The internet and affordable recording and duplication have made the 20th century record label obsolete, yet the labels still offer the same shitty contracts to artists.
Why would any artist worth his salt today sign away copyright to all his songs, unless either his work sucked or he was incredibly stupid?
-mcgrew
Then 30 days in the lockup plus restitution, because the cops nab you as you climb down off the electronic billboard you just smashed up.
And I can avoid, say weather.com but if I get a traffic ticket I must go to the Sangamon County Courthouse. Ironically, there is one of those billboards at the Prarie Capital Convention Center across the street from the Sangamon County Courthouse, which also houses the Sangamon County Jail.
If you threaten someone with a large butcher knife in Sangamon County you'll get fifteen days in the Sangamon County Jail across from the blinking flashing billboard (which you can no longer see from the jail as they replaced the glass with translucent glass to stop women from flashing the prisoners).
That is, so long as you don't threaten a cop with your little steak knife. They'll shoot you dead if you do.
-mcgrew
Personally, as the parent of a 3-year-old technophile, I'm dreading the animated cereal boxes.
In another twenty years there will likely not be a surface anywhere that isn't animated. The animated billboards and signs are already here.
As if having blinking shiney flashey crap on the internet isn't bad enough now we're subjected to it in meatspace.
I thought trolls were giant stoners? That's what Tolkien would have me believe...
I have no problem with TALKING on the phone (text messaging is a different matter) or drinking coffee; you choose when you do it. On the phone, if a dangerous situation crops up you can say "call me back, traffic got bad" etc. I do both on the highway, not in the city.
Of your three options I'd choose the first. I wouldn't outlaw ebooks in the car, but in most circumstances I would discourage their use while driving.
I may keep the URL of your comment for its questions about what to do when cars drive themselves for a journal. Thx.
If they advertise, you ARE paying their bills. Actually I wouldn't be against modest advertising like Google offers, or slashdot has, but one thing leads to another. There are a lot of newspapers I refuse to read (especially online) because of their flashing blinking ads.
As long as Wikipedia can continue operating without ads, IMO it should.
If you truly believe that the best things in life aren't free, I pity you.
Nevermind the fact tha many slam on their brakes as soon as they see one to drive 15 mph UNDER the limit
Often when gas prices soar (like today) and I'm forced to travel, I'll do 50-60 rather than the 67 I normally do. But no matter how fast or slow I'm driving, there is always the guy (usually in the new $75,000 vehicle, is there a correlation between wealth and stupidity?) who flys past me, then I pass him on the right (still in the right lane) as he slows down for the cop.
You can never overestimate stupidity.
You can quite easily drive a car while having a coversation
Your passenger can see you're in a dangerous situation and STFU if you are in one. An ebook can't. A passenger can actually help you see a dangerous situation crop up. An ebook can't.
The "news" for the most part is bite sized, easily digestable, and doesn't need nearly the attention as a narrator telling a story. In some cases it can actually make you safer by keeping you awake.
I think cops are such abysmal drivers because of all the distractions they face in their squad cars. Have you noticed that they are the most dangerous drivers, followed by bus, cab, and delivery drivers? (discounting the VERY dangerous dimwits who shave, text message, and other things that actually force them to take their eyes off the road).
Perhaps you should feel envious of the "hyperlex" who isn't incapacitated by someone reading words to them. :-)
;)
It doesn't matter how well you do or don't read, if you're paying attention to anything but your driving you're a menace. And my writing must be particularly bad or you would have seen that the two paragraphs, one on immersion and one on dangerous driving, are entirely separate.
Or did someone read it to you while you were driving?
Re: your sig-XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
Mayor Hardin said (in Asimov's Foundation) "XML is the last refuge of the incompetent!"
Glory be, Leprechans found in the South Pacific just before Saint Patrick's Day! I wonder if they found any whiskey bottles or Guiness there as well? And pots of gold?
I'd link me latest wee journal (Sane Patty's Day) if the bloomin' mods wouldn't mod me offtopic. Oi'll drink to yer health tonight! Cheers!
-mcgrew
Yes, but it has to be used with an object (or so the dictionary says). You are also correct that the word he wanted was "affect".
A predisposition to magical thinking is called "schitzophrenia". They have very good drugs for that now.
STILL believes that mankind was *poofed* into existence some 6000-odd years ago
Like believing the universe itself *poofed* into existance some thirteen billion odd years ago? (Yes, I accept the big bang theory, but dude, listen to yourself...)
Yes you can.
One can only hope!
PS: Please keep up the good work.
In my case, too much coffee results in typoos.
But, one thing I never understood
You should ask HER. I don't think there are many people on slashdot that could explain it. Also ask her why my horoscope said I'd get laid Friday night but I didn't.
The other two have been spayed. I want to let her have ONE litter before she's fixed.
We live in a plutocracy, where a rich and powerful man only goes to jail if a richer, more powerful man wants him there. Ever hear of O.J. Simpson?
Money will buy anything in America, including DAs, judges, and politicians. Here, they call bribery "campaign contribution". My ex-wife once had a lawyer who owned a T-shirt (there was a picture in his office of him wearing it) that said "a good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge."
A friend's brother went to federal prison for loaning money to a drug dealer - he'd gone to high school with the dope dealer, and the dealer called him up one day with an offer he couldn't refuse: loan him a thousand dollars and a week later he would pay him two thousand back.
The dealer spent two years, but my friend's brother had nobody to rat out. Their entire graduating class went to prison. AFAIK my friend's brother had never touched a drug in his life. He does now!
Yes, I'm cynical. You couldn't live in the US for a half century without becoming cynical.
Why hasnt any thing been done about that? it is unauthorised computer access.
INO (I'm no lawyer, but I'm not I-ANAL) but I would guess it's for the same reason that Sony's executives weren't incarcerated for their XCP rootkit trojan they placed on music CDs. We are, after all, talking about the same corporation here. The RIAA represents Sony-BMG, who is one of the "Big Four".
They are above the law. The law only applies to the working class and the poor in America.
Never have I seen a comment more worthy of being modded "funny!" Thank you for that!
From the GP: Prosecutors would rather send someone to jail for victimless crimes like drug posession than for extortion and racketeering which the RIAA and MPAA regularly engage in.
It's easier to get evidence of drug possession; they only have to produce the drug in court. For prostitution they only have to have the cop who poses as a hooker to testify that he or she was solicited. For extortion they have to get the victim's consent, which may be hard to do if the victim is terrified by the attacker, which is, after all, the only reason extortion works. DAs get reelected based on their wins/losses.
As to your incredibly ignorant comment: Drugs are not a victemless crime. Do you have any idea the number of other crimes are committed to support drug habits?
I've smoked pot since 1971 and I don't steal, extort, become violent (unlike many drinkers, whose drug is entirely legal), and have been gainfully employed for all that time. In fact, I'm eligible to retire in a couple of years.
Most of my friends also use this drug, and they are also gainfully employed. many are businesspeople.
I agree that marijuana should be kept away from minors, like any other drug (alcohol and tobacco included) but the laws do exactly the opposite. If you want proof, find a teenager and ask if (s)he can buy pot at school, and ask if (s)he can buy beer at school.
IMO the most vehement opponents of drug legalization must be the drug dealers themselves, as they stand to lose a whole lot of profit and perhaps even their livlihood should their illicit goods become legal.
What's worse, passage of victimless crimes lead to the erosion of civil liberies. Are you a lawmaker? That would explein your anonymity, Mr. Coward.
-mcgrew
In states where they would, as you say, have to pursue them criminally, would it be just a fine or would someone be incarcerated? Seems to me that an entity like the RIAA would consider a fine to be just another cost of doing business. Could someone actually (I fervently hope) go to prison for this?
My hobby is not collecting stamps. Now to the actual topic rather than just commenting on a sig, do all states do this? Are there states you don't need a license to be a PI? Do you need one here in Illinois? And do you know that "effect" is a noun?