Sword collectors are one thing, a Jedi instructor is... well, just kinda weird. You can't really train with an actual light saber, and you can't really choke people from a distance. Which only really leaves Ninja skills. So the best the guy can be is a a Ninja instructor, really.
Actually you can choke someone from a distance. Oh you mean like Darth Vader does. No you can't do that. As for teaching people to swing a lightsaber around, her is still teaching them basic swordsmanship. Don't scoff, they might be your salvation in the zombie apocalypse.
No, actually they don't exist. I am assuming you are American because you quoted all American companies. Have you ever bothered to use one of those services outside the US? I didn't think so. Itunes is woahfully inadequate outside the US in the places it is accessible. Netflix is not outside the US nor is Apple TV. WE need international services that offer the same thing to ever. That is what they don't want to do because then they only get to make money on it once not dozens of times. So why you are comfortable here, others who chat internationally love our programs and watch our commercials. I say this, I'll use the pirates of the Caribbean metaphor, there are too many non ship owners bitching about things they know nothing really about and just repeat what they hear of the TV. All media is horribly overpriced. Guess what, mine makes me little to nothing. I don't see it. Another thing, no one wants free movies. People don't want unencumbered access and the ability to pay one price of it for their lifetime. sadly the people who are distributers are the ones who get to set this price and rake in the bucks. When you actually make something you want to share with everyone and its actually a form of media (not software) then I will entertain your argument. Right now, you are simply a red shirt, to use a original star trek metaphor.
All I have to say is that if there is a crack for every piece you write then a) you write bad software. Or b) you write wildly overpriced software. Sounds like its number two. So at the risk of karma I will say it this way. I see no value in your software. I would rather hear you say, 'Would you like fries with that.' than deal with overpriced software, (overpriced anything above $50) And even it isn't, this isn't that time any more. You will only make good money working for a big corporation. So quit whining. Software piracy is a mixture the we need to see phenomena, laziness and copyright infringement. (Piracy by definition involves water, I wouldn't use it any other way) So How about this, I don't care. The bulk of the populous doesn't care. So you can either accprct it as the cost of doing business, or get that nice steady govt job. I suggest number two.
Why? So the CEO can have his Lear? No, the correct expectation is that the CEO shouldn't make millions while his employees make under $20 grand a year.
I am one of those artists. And you know what amuses me? The argument that artists don't get paid when piracy happens. It is more likely that one of the big 5 record companies or the movie studios will reduce the amount of royalties than is fair than piracy (copyright infringement) denies them. Stuff not bought will never provide money. The argument is as much a straw man as the one that only half of America pays taxes. (we all pay taxes, half just get a refund check. Everyone pays sales tax.) So get off your stolen high horse. If you are arguing that piracy reduces royalties, you are wrong. The problem is the industry as it stands has to change again like it did in the 1930s and 1970's and it doesn't want to. Piracy will never go away. If it did, there would be a cure for shoplifting or bank fraud. So the solution is enforcement of current laws, and the fact that you need to end this staggered release of movies and staggered distribution. This is, and always has been a business problem. None of us want to let that guy in china making fake Louis Volutton purses to get away with it. So be honest and not ignorant and blind, artifical scarcity is dead.
Perhaps, stop pirating stuff and realize that if you want something you either pay the asking price or do without? You know, be honest and show some principles?
hmm, what about the stuff you can't pay for? Like the fact that Hulu and YouTube have location restrictions. As does Ten in Australia and BBC in the UK. How do I if I am not in those countries do that. Why should the media companies decide when a program should be shown if it is ever shown outside its host country. If its paid for by the commercials broadcast in the host country then its paid for. Your typical narrow-minded brainwashing is the reason why SOPA is even being discussed in Congress.
No they won't. Why? Because Google could buy the entirety of the movie industry without so much as a burp. So they can play the same game as RIAA/MCAA. They can pay off who they will to prevent that. Them delisting those companies for a day would drive the point home and create a huge war. Google wants to be want the industry is now with the Internet as the paying field. And they know how to do it. So no, no monoploy delcared on them because they have bough off their congressmen as well.
Once SOPA passes, and US companies start to offshore both domain names and hosting, how long before a law like this passes here? Don't say it could never happen. A lot of "nevers" have happened in the past few years. I never thought US Citizens could be disappeared on US soil either.
They aren't disappeared. They are sent to a terrorist country where they are made into a terrorist and then shot and killed by a drone. Much cleaner than the secret CIA prisons. Cheaper too.
The real problem is the fact that the software is overpriced. Most want a license but the company insists on an outrageous sum for it this will happen. IP infringement issues are mostly moral and stupid problems. Moral because people download something that they haven't licensed properly and some feel guilty. Stupid because its simply bad business to overprice your market. The law interferes with the correct response: death of the stupid company. As for OP he is correct. "As many times as we have to tell you that they are being deprived of sales and income. Probably nowhere near 1 to 1, but they are being deprived. " is a strawman argument. There are numerous studies that show the bulk of the downloads (software and entertainment) would have never paid period. This means had it been unavailable the business wouldn't have appeared at all. People forget. The purpose of a movie is to be seen. A song is to be heard. A book is to be read. Money is actually second regardless of what the middle men (who are going away) say. As for software some is to make money. that software is usually crap. Most is to be used. So back to the strawman. If something is copied that would have never been purchased to begin with, then the creators stock, profit etc has changed. Only buzz has changed. And that is all about control. That is what the dying middleman want, control. A return to the time when all entertainment went through them. Those days are ending. And govt will only get in the way.
You do realize that if you actually read the federalist papers. he fits in with them. He is simply a founding father 200 yrs later. What amuses me is people are scared of Pat Robertson decrees while ignore the fact that the Muslim mullahs in Dearborn, MI are far worse and are as devout in their religion as he is. If I actually thought he had a hope pf winning I would vote for him, just to see the insanity. It would be no worse than now.
BS. Anyone who lives anywhere in North Or south America doesn't call themselves an American. Only those who live in central north America does. So both of you are fools. But that seems common here lately.
Actually it would benefit them greatly. Most of their land is permafrost. If the temperature rose 2 degrees globally (which it won't until 2100 according to realistic projections) then they will be able to farm seventy five percent of it. It means that the breadbasket of North America moves to them: Alberta, Saskatchewan, Northwest territories. It would increase their GDP. So this would benefit them. And Ottawa is inland. Only Vancouver would flood if the sea level rose. Now The US would be screwed but that is a different topic.
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Are you suggesting they are gay? That's mighty homophobic of you.
Sword collectors are one thing, a Jedi instructor is... well, just kinda weird. You can't really train with an actual light saber, and you can't really choke people from a distance. Which only really leaves Ninja skills. So the best the guy can be is a a Ninja instructor, really.
Actually you can choke someone from a distance. Oh you mean like Darth Vader does. No you can't do that.
As for teaching people to swing a lightsaber around, her is still teaching them basic swordsmanship. Don't scoff, they might be your salvation in the zombie apocalypse.
No, actually they don't exist. I am assuming you are American because you quoted all American companies. Have you ever bothered to use one of those services outside the US? I didn't think so. Itunes is woahfully inadequate outside the US in the places it is accessible. Netflix is not outside the US nor is Apple TV. WE need international services that offer the same thing to ever. That is what they don't want to do because then they only get to make money on it once not dozens of times. So why you are comfortable here, others who chat internationally love our programs and watch our commercials.
I say this, I'll use the pirates of the Caribbean metaphor, there are too many non ship owners bitching about things they know nothing really about and just repeat what they hear of the TV.
All media is horribly overpriced. Guess what, mine makes me little to nothing. I don't see it.
Another thing, no one wants free movies. People don't want unencumbered access and the ability to pay one price of it for their lifetime. sadly the people who are distributers are the ones who get to set this price and rake in the bucks.
When you actually make something you want to share with everyone and its actually a form of media (not software) then I will entertain your argument. Right now, you are simply a red shirt, to use a original star trek metaphor.
“I, for one, welcome our new tyrannical mob ruling overlords”
All I have to say is that if there is a crack for every piece you write then a) you write bad software. Or b) you write wildly overpriced software. Sounds like its number two. So at the risk of karma I will say it this way. I see no value in your software. I would rather hear you say, 'Would you like fries with that.' than deal with overpriced software, (overpriced anything above $50)
And even it isn't, this isn't that time any more. You will only make good money working for a big corporation. So quit whining. Software piracy is a mixture the we need to see phenomena, laziness and copyright infringement. (Piracy by definition involves water, I wouldn't use it any other way)
So How about this, I don't care. The bulk of the populous doesn't care. So you can either accprct it as the cost of doing business, or get that nice steady govt job. I suggest number two.
Temba, his arms wide. Sokath, his eyes uncovered!"
we will. Thanks. Did you notice our spokeswoman is hot. (about the 4g/orgy wonderland thing...it was a mistake)
Why? So the CEO can have his Lear? No, the correct expectation is that the CEO shouldn't make millions while his employees make under $20 grand a year.
http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&p=g_verb&answer=1734130 verbatim tool. Use that and you get Google of old.
KreamPie will be the one following that. (the names are alphabetical)
Cold fusion doesn't produce radioactive waste. Thats fission. Water would be the waste by product. *facepalm*
I am one of those artists. And you know what amuses me? The argument that artists don't get paid when piracy happens. It is more likely that one of the big 5 record companies or the movie studios will reduce the amount of royalties than is fair than piracy (copyright infringement) denies them. Stuff not bought will never provide money. The argument is as much a straw man as the one that only half of America pays taxes. (we all pay taxes, half just get a refund check. Everyone pays sales tax.)
So get off your stolen high horse. If you are arguing that piracy reduces royalties, you are wrong. The problem is the industry as it stands has to change again like it did in the 1930s and 1970's and it doesn't want to. Piracy will never go away. If it did, there would be a cure for shoplifting or bank fraud. So the solution is enforcement of current laws, and the fact that you need to end this staggered release of movies and staggered distribution. This is, and always has been a business problem. None of us want to let that guy in china making fake Louis Volutton purses to get away with it. So be honest and not ignorant and blind, artifical scarcity is dead.
Perhaps, stop pirating stuff and realize that if you want something you either pay the asking price or do without? You know, be honest and show some principles?
hmm, what about the stuff you can't pay for? Like the fact that Hulu and YouTube have location restrictions. As does Ten in Australia and BBC in the UK. How do I if I am not in those countries do that. Why should the media companies decide when a program should be shown if it is ever shown outside its host country. If its paid for by the commercials broadcast in the host country then its paid for. Your typical narrow-minded brainwashing is the reason why SOPA is even being discussed in Congress.
No they won't. Why? Because Google could buy the entirety of the movie industry without so much as a burp. So they can play the same game as RIAA/MCAA. They can pay off who they will to prevent that. Them delisting those companies for a day would drive the point home and create a huge war. Google wants to be want the industry is now with the Internet as the paying field. And they know how to do it. So no, no monoploy delcared on them because they have bough off their congressmen as well.
You say that like its a bad thing.
You forgot California which tries its best to be a socialist paragon of virtue.
Once SOPA passes, and US companies start to offshore both domain names and hosting, how long before a law like this passes here? Don't say it could never happen. A lot of "nevers" have happened in the past few years. I never thought US Citizens could be disappeared on US soil either.
They aren't disappeared. They are sent to a terrorist country where they are made into a terrorist and then shot and killed by a drone. Much cleaner than the secret CIA prisons. Cheaper too.
The real problem is the fact that the software is overpriced. Most want a license but the company insists on an outrageous sum for it this will happen. IP infringement issues are mostly moral and stupid problems. Moral because people download something that they haven't licensed properly and some feel guilty.
Stupid because its simply bad business to overprice your market. The law interferes with the correct response: death of the stupid company. As for OP he is correct.
"As many times as we have to tell you that they are being deprived of sales and income. Probably nowhere near 1 to 1, but they are being deprived. " is a strawman argument. There are numerous studies that show the bulk of the downloads (software and entertainment) would have never paid period. This means had it been unavailable the business wouldn't have appeared at all. People forget. The purpose of a movie is to be seen. A song is to be heard. A book is to be read. Money is actually second regardless of what the middle men (who are going away) say.
As for software some is to make money. that software is usually crap. Most is to be used.
So back to the strawman. If something is copied that would have never been purchased to begin with, then the creators stock, profit etc has changed. Only buzz has changed. And that is all about control.
That is what the dying middleman want, control. A return to the time when all entertainment went through them. Those days are ending. And govt will only get in the way.
a business which thrives on daily consumption needs this. Moderation to you means less money to the corporation. and everyone with their hand out.
You mean like Congress today?
You do realize that if you actually read the federalist papers. he fits in with them. He is simply a founding father 200 yrs later. What amuses me is people are scared of Pat Robertson decrees while ignore the fact that the Muslim mullahs in Dearborn, MI are far worse and are as devout in their religion as he is. If I actually thought he had a hope pf winning I would vote for him, just to see the insanity. It would be no worse than now.
tl;dr version - emissions will go down when it's cheaper to produce green energy than to burn coal, and not one moment before.
Two words: Carbon tax.
Oh, did I say the dreaded "T" word? Please beat me senseless now, Mr. Norquist.
Two words: Won't work. California will do it next year and it will cripple their economy.
BS. Anyone who lives anywhere in North Or south America doesn't call themselves an American. Only those who live in central north America does. So both of you are fools. But that seems common here lately.
they already have a desert. Its called permafrost. Hubris indeed.
Actually it would benefit them greatly. Most of their land is permafrost. If the temperature rose 2 degrees globally (which it won't until 2100 according to realistic projections) then they will be able to farm seventy five percent of it. It means that the breadbasket of North America moves to them: Alberta, Saskatchewan, Northwest territories. It would increase their GDP. So this would benefit them. And Ottawa is inland. Only Vancouver would flood if the sea level rose.
Now The US would be screwed but that is a different topic.