goes a long way towards explaining the current antipathy towards the 1 percent and the growing resentment of the shrinking middle class (not that this has much to do with Airline Production and Safety except that there were probably some big executive bonuses at stake in getting the Dreamliner out)
yep -and I am sure that Vegas, Atlantic city and the mob are putting their money and politicians into making sure it stays illegal regardless of the currency used
I'm sure that many laywers will do this for you for $$$, but it may also be possible to have the victim file under ACPA to force the domain names to be given to them http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/property00/domain/legislation.html
but that may only apply to trademark owners and not defamation victims.
If they are making money off US citizens who are in the US then it seems they should be paying US taxes, but I bet the line is blurred when they are selling 'services' such as allowing marketers access to FB users...
Certainly when HP sells products overseas they are required by many of the countries in which they sell products to keep the bulk of the revenue for those products inside that country -it seems odd that US companies are allowed to get away with this in the US when they are not allowed to do this elsewhere?
Here is something I found in the way of background -although the source is somewhat disreputable;-)
I guess one of the big differences is that most other countries use the 'Territorial' tax system in which the home country's taxation of foreign profits is only the difference between the foreign tax rate and the local one -afaiu
Can someone without an axe to grind as far as laissez faire capitalism, etc explain how this works?
There was no legal basis for these payment processors to refuse to transfer payments to wikileaks -who had not and have not (as far as I know) been identified as a terrorist or organized crime group....
the payment processors were just sucking up to the corporatist powers and should be punished for refusing to allow legal commerce and monetary transactions -of course they were probably leaned on at the time by the state department or someone and threatened with sanctions or aiding and abetting or giving comfort or some BS
the ultimate end to this would be refusing to send donations to the EFF, ALCU, greenpeace, PETA (OK I know the last two are borderline hippie/batshit crazy) and other radical and democratic groups....so as not to rock the plutocratic ship of state.
I don't think there is a single mainstream PC vendor that DOESN'T do this -they have come to rely on the $ they get from the crapware vendors to reduce their costs just as they are reliant upon marketing $ from Intel and MS which keeps Linux and other 3rd party OSs out (although Android is definitely starting to break through).
Kind of reminds me of the early days of cable where a good deal of the selling point was no commercials....Now you have to go to the premium packages to get HBO and the others which are commercial free and generally the channels have MORE commercials than broadcast.
the second one gets into the the tricky art of baking, where due to chemistry and physics it really does matter what your ingredient ratios, temp, etc are
Yeah, we 'consolidated' with U-verse, landline and 2 cell phones, and although the basic channel assortment was better than what we currently get on DirectTV we found it impossible to get our bill under $165 a month and although we were supposed to be getting unified billing we continually received 2 different bills and they couldn't seem to get the billing right when they did try to consolidate.
We moved and tried to get a basic POTS so we could go with a 3rd party ISP Sonic.net and AT&T had wired us to the wrong closet, wouldn't work with the Sonic techs etc, so we dumped the landline and are very very happy with Clear.net wireless since our bandwidth needs are not that great (just starting to do streaming)
Then I finally got rid of the AT&T wireless plan which was still costing $60/mo (wife terminated last year, but left me holding the bag on a new 2-year term contract because of BS changes they had her make before she bailed on the account) and replaced it with Virgin Mobile -I still had to pay termination fee, but I calculated that the money saved by reducing the monthly cost to 25$/mo would offset the termination and would actually pay for itself before my AT&T contract would have been up.
I hope I never have to go back to those jerks. They still send me junkmail because they still feel that they have a 'customer' relationship with me, but it will be a cold day in hell....
yea, my old progrock band Netherworld www.netherworldmusic.com recorded our only album in 1982 with a gorgeous EMT plate reverb, but even then lexicon and others were coming out with digital reverbs and as you say, the convolution reverbs that you hear on bands like Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear are absolutely amazing.
The big limitation of the plate and other physical reverbs were, that apart from a little control over pre-reverb delay and the decay and tone the 'size' of the reverb was basically fixed. Nowadays I can change dozens of parameters and get a room size/sound that really fits the mood of the instrument I am mixing.
Excellent digital effects are one of the reasons that concert sound is so incredible these days (and half the time it's all being done on a Powerbook with Protools or VST plugins)
In the US they are supposed to not be making the commercials louder than the program material starting next year, so assuming that this is followed (no guarantees as there are plenty of tricks that can be played with audio compression) any commercial avoidance scheme based on sound levels will not work so well any more when this is introduced.
I re-entered the tech field during the roaring '90s and what helped me was that I had just recently just recently gone back to school, so I had recent coursework I could cite in C, perl, Java, etc and I ended up getting an Associate's degree in Technical Communications in 2000.
That 2000 degree must have made it look to a lot of recruiters that I was in my 20s instead of 40+ and of course now I have close to 20 years of current, cutting edge IT experience...but having taken 100+ units of undergrad IT classes also gave me a great generalist 'big picture' background.
and I continued taking sql, lamp, dreamweaver, computer animation, etc. after that until about 5 years ago when things got too busy between music and work.
LinkedIn also seems to work pretty good as I still get regular hits on a resume from there that I haven't even updated in the past 5 years.
actually I have exactly this problem -although to be fair, I dropped the Macbook Pro and it landed on the corner and buckled part of the case right where the magsafe goes.
and this is my 2nd magsafe P/S for this machine because the cord broke (which was part of a class action lawsuit that I failed to get anything from)
the magsafe idea is good, but the Apple macbook pro power supplies are crap -they also seem to be really picky about what will get them to charge because I sometimes have to plug it into several different outlets before it will finally start charging the laptop
the advance purchase is also supposed to provide incentive for early purchasers to promote the gig to friends, social media, etc to help get enough people interested to make the concert economically feasible...
If the venue was of fixed audience capacity you would only want to allocate a certain percentage (maybe 10-15%) of the refundable 'founder's' tickets, because you would be losing that amount when you refunded the purchase price of those tickets assuming the gig reached critical mass.
If everyone got the potentially free founder's tickets then there would be no money for the venue or the band:-( -and that would not be sustainable.
This model might work well in non traditional spaces and for one offs or for genres with a large connected community like electronica/rave, but for real emerging touring artists and the places they play (in SF the independent, rickshaw stop, bottom of the hill, etc) then you have establishments that need to be able to publish schedules and reserve the space a month or so in advance, and when a touring band is setting their itineraries they need to know a month or so in advance whether they need to arrange the extra time to go up to Calgary and Edmonton from Chicago, for instance...because too many travel and off days between gigs can eat up your touring budget...
when US and European Labor movements really started to assert themselves and address inequities and call the Robber Barons to task.
China has their army and Police -US companies had Police and Pinkertons....the workers still prevailed in the end, although much has been lost recently...
Hopefully it will not be bloody, but they deserve better than they are getting even if it means we might be paying slightly more for the next plastic POS we buy.
when/if the FCC rules against AT&T you can expect their paid-for polititcians to accuse the FCC of hurting 'net neutrality' how they have exceeded their mandate and that they should be dismantled in favor of something more corporation-friendly
When I lived in the UK in '73 there was a video of this on Top of the Pops or something where there was an explosion halfway through and they ended up in heaven or something...
didn't find it on youtube though, although I found a lot of other good Goon bits.
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If you could say the same about the captains of industry you might have a point, but the disparity between executive and worker pay
http://money.msn.com/investment-advice/ceos-got-a-big-raise-how-about-you-brush.aspx
goes a long way towards explaining the current antipathy towards the 1 percent and the growing resentment of the shrinking middle class (not that this has much to do with Airline Production and Safety except that there were probably some big executive bonuses at stake in getting the Dreamliner out)
-I'm just sayin'
yep -and I am sure that Vegas, Atlantic city and the mob are putting their money and politicians into making sure it stays illegal regardless of the currency used
-I'm just sayin'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting
http://blogs.lawyers.com/2012/11/internet-defamation-cybersquatting/
http://www.traverselegal.com/internet-defamation/defamation/what-is-a-defamation-of-character-assessment/#more-129
I'm sure that many laywers will do this for you for $$$, but it may also be possible to have the victim file under ACPA to force the domain names to be given to them
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/property00/domain/legislation.html
but that may only apply to trademark owners and not defamation victims.
-I'm just sayin'
If they are making money off US citizens who are in the US then it seems they should be paying US taxes, but I bet the line is blurred when they are selling 'services' such as allowing marketers access to FB users...
;-)
Certainly when HP sells products overseas they are required by many of the countries in which they sell products to keep the bulk of the revenue for those products inside that country -it seems odd that US companies are allowed to get away with this in the US when they are not allowed to do this elsewhere?
Here is something I found in the way of background -although the source is somewhat disreputable
http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/topics/accounting-policy/tax-time-foreign-profits-PDF.pdf
I guess one of the big differences is that most other countries use the 'Territorial' tax system in which the home country's taxation of foreign profits is only the difference between the foreign tax rate and the local one -afaiu
Can someone without an axe to grind as far as laissez faire capitalism, etc explain how this works?
thx
great homemade art film! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363240/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
eerie music too
Christmas on Mars
I can't believe there aren't more Fearless Freaks in the slashdot crowd -maybe they're still in a Christmas food coma!
-I'm just sayin'
There was no legal basis for these payment processors to refuse to transfer payments to wikileaks -who had not and have not (as far as I know) been identified as a terrorist or organized crime group....
the payment processors were just sucking up to the corporatist powers and should be punished for refusing to allow legal commerce and monetary transactions -of course they were probably leaned on at the time by the state department or someone and threatened with sanctions or aiding and abetting or giving comfort or some BS
the ultimate end to this would be refusing to send donations to the EFF, ALCU, greenpeace, PETA (OK I know the last two are borderline hippie/batshit crazy) and other radical and democratic groups....so as not to rock the plutocratic ship of state.
-I'm just sayin'
It was Marketing -the Danes wanted people to go there so they didn't call it GlacierLand -and Iceland was already taken
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Greenland#Norse_settlement
-I'm just sayin'
I don't think there is a single mainstream PC vendor that DOESN'T do this -they have come to rely on the $ they get from the crapware vendors to reduce their costs just as they are reliant upon marketing $ from Intel and MS which keeps Linux and other 3rd party OSs out (although Android is definitely starting to break through).
Kind of reminds me of the early days of cable where a good deal of the selling point was no commercials....Now you have to go to the premium packages to get HBO and the others which are commercial free and generally the channels have MORE commercials than broadcast.
-I'm just sayin'
he is the best -his road trip show and his mc ing of Iron Chef are both great and he has written some really scientific cookbooks:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/im-just-here-for-the-food-alton-brown/1103672180?ean=9781584795599
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/im-just-here-for-more-food-alton-brown/1102895628?ean=9781584793410
the second one gets into the the tricky art of baking, where due to chemistry and physics it really does matter what your ingredient ratios, temp, etc are
-I'm just sayin'
Yeah, we 'consolidated' with U-verse, landline and 2 cell phones, and although the basic channel assortment was better than what we currently get on DirectTV we found it impossible to get our bill under $165 a month and although we were supposed to be getting unified billing we continually received 2 different bills and they couldn't seem to get the billing right when they did try to consolidate.
We moved and tried to get a basic POTS so we could go with a 3rd party ISP Sonic.net and AT&T had wired us to the wrong closet, wouldn't work with the Sonic techs etc, so we dumped the landline and are very very happy with Clear.net wireless since our bandwidth needs are not that great (just starting to do streaming)
Then I finally got rid of the AT&T wireless plan which was still costing $60/mo (wife terminated last year, but left me holding the bag on a new 2-year term contract because of BS changes they had her make before she bailed on the account) and replaced it with Virgin Mobile -I still had to pay termination fee, but I calculated that the money saved by reducing the monthly cost to 25$/mo would offset the termination and would actually pay for itself before my AT&T contract would have been up.
I hope I never have to go back to those jerks. They still send me junkmail because they still feel that they have a 'customer' relationship with me, but it will be a cold day in hell....
-I'm just sayin'
not to mention Jay and Silent bob strike back (ok it is riffing on his Star Wars fame)
two great current Adult Swim series:
Metalocalypse
Robot Chicken
and who can forget the awesome Time Squad!
plus Johnny Bravo, and lots of Batman/superhero series
-I'm just sayin'
yea, my old progrock band Netherworld www.netherworldmusic.com recorded our only album in 1982 with a gorgeous EMT plate reverb, but even then lexicon and others were coming out with digital reverbs and as you say, the convolution reverbs that you hear on bands like Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear are absolutely amazing.
The big limitation of the plate and other physical reverbs were, that apart from a little control over pre-reverb delay and the decay and tone the 'size' of the reverb was basically fixed. Nowadays I can change dozens of parameters and get a room size/sound that really fits the mood of the instrument I am mixing.
Excellent digital effects are one of the reasons that concert sound is so incredible these days (and half the time it's all being done on a Powerbook with Protools or VST plugins)
-I'm just sayin'
In the US they are supposed to not be making the commercials louder than the program material starting next year, so assuming that this is followed (no guarantees as there are plenty of tricks that can be played with audio compression) any commercial avoidance scheme based on sound levels will not work so well any more when this is introduced.
-I'm just sayin
I re-entered the tech field during the roaring '90s and what helped me was that I had just recently just recently gone back to school, so I had recent coursework I could cite in C, perl, Java, etc and I ended up getting an Associate's degree in Technical Communications in 2000.
That 2000 degree must have made it look to a lot of recruiters that I was in my 20s instead of 40+ and of course now I have close to 20 years of current, cutting edge IT experience...but having taken 100+ units of undergrad IT classes also gave me a great generalist 'big picture' background.
and I continued taking sql, lamp, dreamweaver, computer animation, etc. after that until about 5 years ago when things got too busy between music and work.
LinkedIn also seems to work pretty good as I still get regular hits on a resume from there that I haven't even updated in the past 5 years.
-I'm just sayin'
And on the plus side, the IT guys who spent the week bucket brigading now have arms like Hulk....
-I'm just sayin'
this is one reason why Apple calls their store iTunes instead of The Apple Music Store -they got sued over it anyway -but they prevailed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v._Apple_Computer#2003.E2.80.932006
-I'm jsut sayin
It took off a 1000sq ft section of roof in our Seacaucus Data Center and let the rain in -and the magic smoke out....
will be several days to recover, but we have other Data Centers in Mass, NY and Atlanta and Denver which can still cover that half of the country....
-I'm just sayin'
actually I have exactly this problem -although to be fair, I dropped the Macbook Pro and it landed on the corner and buckled part of the case right where the magsafe goes.
and this is my 2nd magsafe P/S for this machine because the cord broke (which was part of a class action lawsuit that I failed to get anything from)
the magsafe idea is good, but the Apple macbook pro power supplies are crap -they also seem to be really picky about what will get them to charge because I sometimes have to plug it into several different outlets before it will finally start charging the laptop
-I'm just sayin'
the advance purchase is also supposed to provide incentive for early purchasers to promote the gig to friends, social media, etc to help get enough people interested to make the concert economically feasible...
:-( -and that would not be sustainable.
If the venue was of fixed audience capacity you would only want to allocate a certain percentage (maybe 10-15%) of the refundable 'founder's' tickets, because you would be losing that amount when you refunded the purchase price of those tickets assuming the gig reached critical mass.
If everyone got the potentially free founder's tickets then there would be no money for the venue or the band
This model might work well in non traditional spaces and for one offs or for genres with a large connected community like electronica/rave, but for real emerging touring artists and the places they play (in SF the independent, rickshaw stop, bottom of the hill, etc) then you have establishments that need to be able to publish schedules and reserve the space a month or so in advance, and when a touring band is setting their itineraries they need to know a month or so in advance whether they need to arrange the extra time to go up to Calgary and Edmonton from Chicago, for instance...because too many travel and off days between gigs can eat up your touring budget...
-I'm just sayin'
the crackers will probably use this to test their bots and make even better bots and malware...
seems to be the way of the world
-I'm just sayin'
hopefully there will at least be some snide references to 'french postcards'
-I'm just sayin'
great Who song, but it's actually 'It's a legal matter baby":
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/A-Legal-Matter-lyrics-The-Who/D566D519E4C1D6D5482569770028CEEC
I told you why I changed my mind
I got bored by playing with time
I know you thought you had me nailed
But I've freed my hand from your garden rails
Now it's a legal matter, baby You got me on the run
It's a legal matter, baby A legal matter from now on
My mind's lost in a household fog
Wedding gowns and catalogs
Kitchen furnishings and houses
Maternity clothes and baby's trousers
Now it's a legal matter, baby Marryin's no fun
It's a legal matter, baby A legal matter from now on &c
-I'm just sayin'
when US and European Labor movements really started to assert themselves and address inequities and call the Robber Barons to task.
China has their army and Police -US companies had Police and Pinkertons....the workers still prevailed in the end, although much has been lost recently...
Hopefully it will not be bloody, but they deserve better than they are getting even if it means we might be paying slightly more for the next plastic POS we buy.
I'm just sayin'
when/if the FCC rules against AT&T you can expect their paid-for polititcians to accuse the FCC of hurting 'net neutrality' how they have exceeded their mandate and that they should be dismantled in favor of something more corporation-friendly
-I'm just sayin'
wonder if the lab was involved with this one at all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nebe1zuEtbc&feature=related
When I lived in the UK in '73 there was a video of this on Top of the Pops or something where there was an explosion halfway through and they ended up in heaven or something...
didn't find it on youtube though, although I found a lot of other good Goon bits.
-I'm just sayin'