These sites are nothing. There are tons of major, and apparently legal download sites in Korea. You can download the latest blockbuster for 10 cents. They're advertised everywhere, they sponsor stuff, you get coupons for them when you order stuff, etc.
They're most run off Korean servers though. Very few Koreans would be going to overseas sites to download this kind of stuff. The current state of the underseas cable to the US is still very bad after the earthquake/tsunami and speeds continue to get slower.
They're not doing it because it's good. They're doing it because it's cheap. It's the same reason Koreans do it. It's much cheaper to go stay 3 months in the Philippines than North America. I've got several students who learned from Filipinos at some point and not a single one found it to be a good experience.
You're talking about business decisions. Not really about quality.
The average Filipino doesn't really seem to speak English that well either. College graduates are one thing, but of all the Filipinos I've met in Korea, their English has been terrible to mediocre at best. I've only met one that I could have a sustained conversation with and their grammar and vocabulary choice was still extremely odd at times. But its their official language right? At times it reminds me of the Acadians who claim to be bilingual in Canada, yet you couldn't understand them in English if you had the patience of Job.
I'm surprised things like SMS message plans and long distance plans have survived even this long. Before skype was a small threat to long distance plans. It was alright, but you often had to be tied to a computer, or buy a special phone or wireless headset to use it more freely.
However, with the explosion of the smart phone market,, skype and other programs like it are everywhere and extremely convenient to use for the end-consumer. I haven't had a home phone in years, but even if I had one, I certainly wouldn't be calling anyone long distance with it.
calling cards have become almost unnecessary for normal day to day use.
Who said that? You did. You said: "Stop looking at people like men, women, black, white, yellow, and look at them like people, and simply hope the best person is chosen for the job." "Stop looking at people like men, women, black, white, yellow" = "don't look at variables" "simply hope the best person is chosen for the job" = "just close your eyes and hope there isn't [an issue] That's a pretty straightforward interpretation of what you wrote.
It certainly is if you've got an agenda to push, which you clearly do.
What I was saying is that those variables should be irrelevant. The only people still clinging to those are the real racists. A great deal of racism and discrimination is kept alive and perpetuated by a lot of those claiming to be against it.
In case you hadn't noticed, the horrible jobs that were done by men were (and continue to be) largely better paid than the horrible jobs done by women. The statistical evidence is out there.
Then I'm sure you won't have any problem providing it. For the most part, men were the only ones doing truly dangerous jobs, like mining, or dangerous construction work. Women may do some unpleasant jobs, like removing an impacted bowel as a nurse, but as I've pointed out, they actually get a pretty decent wage for that kind of work.
Cleaning really isn't that horrible of a job. It's manual labour, but so are many jobs done by men. Hell, years ago as a white guy in school I worked as a night cleaner. There really aren't that many "horrible" jobs out there. For every "horrible" job out there that is traditionally the domain of women, there is likely a deadly job out there that is the domain of men.
I said that I prefer empirical investigation. I didn't say I had evidence. I did say that I didn't think ignoring evidence of unusual distributions of jobs among a population was a sensible approach. It's hardly a wild reach to test whether bias might exist, given a lengthy history of explicit discrimination against all sorts of minorities in the job market.
And what bias would that be? That an african-american never had a good enough idea to start his own tech company? How exactly do you propose we test that bias? I've never been able to put together a sufficient proposal to be a tech entrepreneur either, but I don't see any articles about that. It's suddenly an issue because the person who can't do it is black?
It is the flipside of the bad thing that is men being over-represented in cushy, well-paid, jobs.
And your evidence that these were not the best people available chosen for the job?
What problem do you envision here? One you've decided to make up?
Jobs in the caring and cleaning trades are underpaid, often involve unsocial hours, and often involve doing not very nice things like cleaning people's arses.
As do jobs in other industries, which are traditionally only done by men. But where is your complaint there? Mining, sewage removal and the like. Often done because they were considered too dangerous or unseemly for women to do. No one really seemed to complain then.
"don't look at variables and see if there's an issue, just close your eyes and hope there isn't"
Who said that? I said don't try to invent a problem that doesn't exist because you're trying to enforce your personal bias on a situation.
And that "striking underrepresentation" could simply be a matter of choice, and nothing else. There may exist articles on those topics, but when they're written, they're never paraded around as a serious issue that needs to be fixed. It's only when minorities or women aren't represented to some arbitrary standard that it's suddenly a crisis.
Nursing pays well, and plenty of jobs that "men" do have shift work involved. So I can't see that as an excuse for nursing.
Even dental assistants make a pretty decent wage for the amount of training they require compared to other jobs, and their hours are pretty great, 9-5 kind of job.
Underrepresentation in a job means nothing. You talk about those kinds of job being pigeonholed as womens work as though its not a bad thing, but I bet you'd bitch if someone said don't worry about their not being enough women in tech because it's generally pigeonholed as mens work.
Stop looking at people like men, women, black, white, yellow, and look at them like people, and simply hope the best person is chosen for the job.
Cushy jobs are few and far between regardless of your demographics. For ever cushy job, there are dozens, or hundreds which aren't cushy.
If there was ever a time I wish a comment could be modded +10000, framed in gold and hand delivered to all the reactionary PC knee-jerkers out there, it was this one.
I'm so sick of these stories. When are people going to realize that some people just want to do whatever the hell they want and every profession, hobby, neighbourhood, etc will never be a perfect representation of demographics of the world at any given point in time?
To top that off, I really have never seen a flood of stories about why there aren't more white male nurses, or dental assistants, or office cleaners for that matter.
These stories are such a non-starter because it presupposes that a perfect representation of the world's demographics would want to partake in any given activity and it's just not true.
It's all about how you build them. If you build them like some communist era tenements then no probably not. But if you build good sized, well maintained places with lots of shine and quick access to outdoor leisure activities, like big parks, pools, and the like, then they'd probably be more than enough for most people. Those who wanted to be different could still move out of the city or into different areas. The key here is using our vertical space and using it well. Efficiency doesn't mean that it has to be drab and boring. Buildings could have wonderful roof top spaces on them with bbq pits, pools, play grounds, etc. (all properly enclosed of course) they should have fitness centers, be multipurpose with supermarkets in them (Good ones, not quickie over priced ones), small businesses, and other services readily available.
It becomes a matter of efficiency and smart planning. We have room for all these people, but in some countries we have huge sprawling cities of very low density.
Lots of large tower apartment blocks with good amenities nearby as well as well-planned farms world-wide to cover food usage. We've got a place like Seoul which has 10 million people in it but it has half the foot print of a city like LA which has under 4 million people in it. And there are entire areas of Seoul where the density isn't that high.
The cities need to be designed well, they need excellent public transportation and road networks, but there is no reason we couldn't make tons of smart cities to hold that density without it looking like some kind of prison.
in addition his whole concept of "bad lip reading" doesn't even apply. Most of the time he's not lip reading as it is he's intentionally mishearing the words they're saying, since you can't see the lips all the time. Which is an entirely different concept.
and most importantly he gets permission. However, that again takes us into how Weird Al doesn't really do the things people claims he does. Weird Al, for the most part, simply takes popular songs, gives them funny lyrics, or turns them into a polka. There is no real fair use under which this is covered unless Weird Al is somehow commenting on the original work or artist. Most people give him permission but a couple years ago James Blunt's company wouldn't give him permission (though blunt did) so Al went ahead and released the track for free. He could have been in hot water there because it didn't comment on the original work at all, he's high profile though and suing him would bring a lot of negative PR. BLR on the other head is just some guy on youtube. he doesn't have the cash to sue or defend himself really.
So does this meet the definition of parody as a form of fair use?
IANAL But, no, the definition of parody for fair use requires that the parody be used to comment on the original work. It does not simply mean taking someone else's work and adding funny words. This is why a lot of Weird Al's music is in fact not parody and why he makes a big deal of seeking permission for each song he releases. Everyone just assumes he'd be covered under parody, but a lot of his songs don't really make any comment on the original work itself.
As far as I can tell BLR does nothing to comment on the original work at all. He's probably lucky that he's gotten away with it thus far, and if he's doing any revenue sharing with youtube he'll be luck if someone doesn't sue him.
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These sites are nothing. There are tons of major, and apparently legal download sites in Korea. You can download the latest blockbuster for 10 cents. They're advertised everywhere, they sponsor stuff, you get coupons for them when you order stuff, etc.
They're most run off Korean servers though. Very few Koreans would be going to overseas sites to download this kind of stuff. The current state of the underseas cable to the US is still very bad after the earthquake/tsunami and speeds continue to get slower.
It's an incredible victory to announce though
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines#Language
Filipino is the "national language"
and in the Philippines they're probably getting $3/hour and the rent on the building is 10% what they'd pay in Canada.
Canada does have a thriving call centre industry though, they tend to do higher end stuff though.
They're not doing it because it's good. They're doing it because it's cheap. It's the same reason Koreans do it. It's much cheaper to go stay 3 months in the Philippines than North America. I've got several students who learned from Filipinos at some point and not a single one found it to be a good experience.
You're talking about business decisions. Not really about quality.
The average Filipino doesn't really seem to speak English that well either. College graduates are one thing, but of all the Filipinos I've met in Korea, their English has been terrible to mediocre at best. I've only met one that I could have a sustained conversation with and their grammar and vocabulary choice was still extremely odd at times. But its their official language right? At times it reminds me of the Acadians who claim to be bilingual in Canada, yet you couldn't understand them in English if you had the patience of Job.
if you're intentionally being obtuse you're an idiot, if you're not being intentionally obtuse then you're a moron.
It was considered clever and hilarious to replace the word "French" with "Freedom". Most people wouldn't have a clue that it didn't come from France.
it's frequently called "French Toast" in North America
Because he thinks he's a clever little smartie.
Don't you remember that whole "Freedom fries" blow up in the US years ago because France wasn't supporting them on their latest global conquest?
I'm surprised things like SMS message plans and long distance plans have survived even this long.
Before skype was a small threat to long distance plans. It was alright, but you often had to be tied to a computer, or buy a special phone or wireless headset to use it more freely.
However, with the explosion of the smart phone market,, skype and other programs like it are everywhere and extremely convenient to use for the end-consumer. I haven't had a home phone in years, but even if I had one, I certainly wouldn't be calling anyone long distance with it.
calling cards have become almost unnecessary for normal day to day use.
It certainly is if you've got an agenda to push, which you clearly do.
What I was saying is that those variables should be irrelevant. The only people still clinging to those are the real racists. A great deal of racism and discrimination is kept alive and perpetuated by a lot of those claiming to be against it.
Then I'm sure you won't have any problem providing it.
For the most part, men were the only ones doing truly dangerous jobs, like mining, or dangerous construction work.
Women may do some unpleasant jobs, like removing an impacted bowel as a nurse, but as I've pointed out, they actually get a pretty decent wage for that kind of work.
Cleaning really isn't that horrible of a job. It's manual labour, but so are many jobs done by men. Hell, years ago as a white guy in school I worked as a night cleaner. There really aren't that many "horrible" jobs out there. For every "horrible" job out there that is traditionally the domain of women, there is likely a deadly job out there that is the domain of men.
And what bias would that be?
That an african-american never had a good enough idea to start his own tech company?
How exactly do you propose we test that bias?
I've never been able to put together a sufficient proposal to be a tech entrepreneur either, but I don't see any articles about that. It's suddenly an issue because the person who can't do it is black?
And your evidence that these were not the best people available chosen for the job?
What problem do you envision here? One you've decided to make up?
As do jobs in other industries, which are traditionally only done by men. But where is your complaint there?
Mining, sewage removal and the like. Often done because they were considered too dangerous or unseemly for women to do. No one really seemed to complain then.
Who said that? I said don't try to invent a problem that doesn't exist because you're trying to enforce your personal bias on a situation.
And that "striking underrepresentation" could simply be a matter of choice, and nothing else. There may exist articles on those topics, but when they're written, they're never paraded around as a serious issue that needs to be fixed. It's only when minorities or women aren't represented to some arbitrary standard that it's suddenly a crisis.
Nursing pays well, and plenty of jobs that "men" do have shift work involved. So I can't see that as an excuse for nursing.
Even dental assistants make a pretty decent wage for the amount of training they require compared to other jobs, and their hours are pretty great, 9-5 kind of job.
Underrepresentation in a job means nothing. You talk about those kinds of job being pigeonholed as womens work as though its not a bad thing, but I bet you'd bitch if someone said don't worry about their not being enough women in tech because it's generally pigeonholed as mens work.
Stop looking at people like men, women, black, white, yellow, and look at them like people, and simply hope the best person is chosen for the job.
Cushy jobs are few and far between regardless of your demographics. For ever cushy job, there are dozens, or hundreds which aren't cushy.
If there was ever a time I wish a comment could be modded +10000, framed in gold and hand delivered to all the reactionary PC knee-jerkers out there, it was this one.
I'm so sick of these stories. When are people going to realize that some people just want to do whatever the hell they want and every profession, hobby, neighbourhood, etc will never be a perfect representation of demographics of the world at any given point in time?
To top that off, I really have never seen a flood of stories about why there aren't more white male nurses, or dental assistants, or office cleaners for that matter.
These stories are such a non-starter because it presupposes that a perfect representation of the world's demographics would want to partake in any given activity and it's just not true.
Oh no, the poor anonymous pansy who doesn't have the balls to identify himself is upset that his pet project got deleted, boohoo
You know I've used linux a long time to, but seriously just get over yourself. I'm so tired of this inevitable comment...
If by several he means everything..yeah.. that's a good point. I can't believe I just sat through that.
go back to 4chan.
The way "meme" is used on the internet it is..
So much that you made the 6th post.
It's all about how you build them. If you build them like some communist era tenements then no probably not. But if you build good sized, well maintained places with lots of shine and quick access to outdoor leisure activities, like big parks, pools, and the like, then they'd probably be more than enough for most people. Those who wanted to be different could still move out of the city or into different areas.
The key here is using our vertical space and using it well. Efficiency doesn't mean that it has to be drab and boring. Buildings could have wonderful roof top spaces on them with bbq pits, pools, play grounds, etc. (all properly enclosed of course)
they should have fitness centers, be multipurpose with supermarkets in them (Good ones, not quickie over priced ones), small businesses, and other services readily available.
It becomes a matter of efficiency and smart planning. We have room for all these people, but in some countries we have huge sprawling cities of very low density.
Lots of large tower apartment blocks with good amenities nearby as well as well-planned farms world-wide to cover food usage. We've got a place like Seoul which has 10 million people in it but it has half the foot print of a city like LA which has under 4 million people in it. And there are entire areas of Seoul where the density isn't that high.
The cities need to be designed well, they need excellent public transportation and road networks, but there is no reason we couldn't make tons of smart cities to hold that density without it looking like some kind of prison.
in addition his whole concept of "bad lip reading" doesn't even apply. Most of the time he's not lip reading as it is he's intentionally mishearing the words they're saying, since you can't see the lips all the time. Which is an entirely different concept.
and most importantly he gets permission. However, that again takes us into how Weird Al doesn't really do the things people claims he does. Weird Al, for the most part, simply takes popular songs, gives them funny lyrics, or turns them into a polka. There is no real fair use under which this is covered unless Weird Al is somehow commenting on the original work or artist. Most people give him permission but a couple years ago James Blunt's company wouldn't give him permission (though blunt did) so Al went ahead and released the track for free. He could have been in hot water there because it didn't comment on the original work at all, he's high profile though and suing him would bring a lot of negative PR. BLR on the other head is just some guy on youtube. he doesn't have the cash to sue or defend himself really.
And who at a school would ever want to do those things?
Or say take a typing class
or a programming class
Yes in today's age this really makes sense. Where would a lot of us be if we didn't start tinkering at an early age with programming or hardware?
IANAL
But, no, the definition of parody for fair use requires that the parody be used to comment on the original work. It does not simply mean taking someone else's work and adding funny words. This is why a lot of Weird Al's music is in fact not parody and why he makes a big deal of seeking permission for each song he releases. Everyone just assumes he'd be covered under parody, but a lot of his songs don't really make any comment on the original work itself.
As far as I can tell BLR does nothing to comment on the original work at all. He's probably lucky that he's gotten away with it thus far, and if he's doing any revenue sharing with youtube he'll be luck if someone doesn't sue him.