I'd much rather it be that my Rights could only be violated to such an extent on private property, than my Rights only be valid on private property.
As it stands, it seems like I NEED to be a billionaire in order to have my Rights and circumvent having them violated by the government. I need a private plane if I want to avoid the TSA and major airport BS. I need to hire a private car not registered in my name not to subject myself to random 'checkpoints'. Doesn't matter if I lose my license for refusal to cooperate since I would have enough money to hire someone else to drive me.
It looks like you are started out with a good premise, "Shouldn't need to be a billionaire to enjoy your rights", but then decided to shoehorn in a nonsequitor.
The concept of expectation of privacy is a flawed one. Just because you can't expect privacy, doesn't mean you shouldn't have privacy.
It basically means that privacy only exists as long as someone doesn't have the means to violate that privacy, and that once that privacy is violated, you no longer can expect it to be private anymore can you?
Who the hell does things for science? It's not a sentient being, it's not even a non-sentient physical thing. Science is a process.
The forced proper noun 'Science', gets hoisted up like it is some sort of end goal, and people calling out 'Science' as if it were something other than a process are really stretching the definition.
If you want to be a pedant, then mathematics IS science, as in the general body of information that is knowledge. You know, from the origin of the actual freaking word.
Isn't that true for every single company on Earth? Well, I suppose there are some that aren't/weren't run by businessmen, but I think that falls under the classification, 'out of business'.
At least on my console, if my sibling wants to go play a game I bought 4 years ago he can grab the game, pop it into his console, and he is good to go.
With Steam, it's tied to your account, forever. Same thing as if the instant you put a game into your console it copied it's contents to its HDD and shredded the disk.
I can't support Steam anymore because of this. (well, because of a lot of reasons, this just happened to be the last one and the one that caused me to finally call it quits)
Right? Not necessarily, but it is the natural order of things.
Copyright is the aberration, created by law, to prevent the natural condition that we would be able to consume the content on our own terms. Since it isn't naturally 'other people's content' It's other people's creations, but the instant they release it, it becomes everyone's content. Copyright is just restricting ourselves from what is naturally the situation.
Does that mean I'm against copyright? No, but what I think isn't important, you just didn't seem to understand the situation.
Honestly, terms of service for almost anything now have reached such absurd levels in how lopsided they are that I just ignore the damned things now for anything I'm not using for business or negotiating for someone else. For personal use?
I got an email the other day from EA regarding them rolling over some account I registered years ago to Origin, and in their email was legalese describing how me not explicitly cancelling this new service was the same as me accepting the terms. Added onto that was their statement that they may "Alter the terms at any point, etc."
Now, for services provided to me which I am not paying for directly (I am paying for it by licensing my personal information though), I don't mind the ability for people to change terms to services they run on their servers, but it's slowly becoming that a lot of my purchased products have hooks in them which tie them back to the online service and their insane terms.
But I'm at the point where I just don't care. I'll open up a new email address and restart the service as long as they aren't revoking any of my ability to use purchased items. Now, once they start on that angle (and I'm sure they will eventually). It simply becomes a tradeoff analysis for me.
And we are back to the point where we decided that courts were a pretty good thing.
Pilgrim Jim and Bob get into a fist fight over rights of way for their sheep grazing. So society setup a system where we could sue each other instead of resorting to physical violence. What do you think is going to happen once one side effectively prohibits the other from seeking a redress in the legal system?
Funny how that goes away if it were a legal profession in stead of one that is stuck in alleys and backrooms.
You could literally substitute ANY activity for prostitution if you wanted to complain about "may only be doing the job because if they don't bring back enough money they may be abused".
If the choices were between a government licensed (and by that I mean screened to ensure that the women were regularly screened, educated to precautions, and informed as to what other options were available to them) and some mafia run organization which would you choose?
And thus we will pass laws which will be great for DC and large metro areas, and completely fuck over people in rural areas.
I first lived in Philly. I drove a Solstice. Tiny little fun 2 seater was all I needed.
Then I lived in Upstate NY. 500' switchback driveway on a mountain. Unpaved. Put a plow on it as well, and used it nearly once a week to plow my driveway or a friends. Also hauled equipment around the 40 acres I owned up there.
Moved to DC. Sold the truck and bought a Mazda 3.
The problem? In upstate NY I really wanted to buy a diesel vehicle. But the damned things were hard as hell to come by because of blanket laws across the entire united states.
Now some laws ARE important to have across the entire US, but this IS a very large country and what is good for NYC isn't the same for Sasabe Arizona.
My problem with your statement is that you assume that because a lot of people DO just use their vehicles for basic commuting, then the rest of us who do try to find the right vehicle for the job are unnecessarily punished.
(Really could have used a diesel light truck in upstate NY, and I really could have used a small diesel commuter vehicle in DC. Its a shame that EPA regs made the first too expensive, and import bans on Euro vehicles made the second impossible)
This isn't about piracy, this is about locking you into their services, building in obsolescence, and extracting more money from the 'good' people. They don't care about piracy.
Think about the 'savior' of computer gaming, Steam. This is a service which irrevocably ties your games to one account. Even though you may purchase 30 games, you are really only able to play one at a time. They are not just trying to kill the used game market, they are even trying to kill the 'let my kids play Portal, while I play Portal 2' market.
Even consoles don't go this far (yet). If I have two consoles, and 50 games, while I am playing 1 game, someone at that other console has 49 other games that they can play.
On Steam, if I buy 50 games, while I am playing 1 game, someone at another computer has 0 games because they are tied to my damned account. It's disgusting.
Why don't we just save some time and just arrest all the Democrats and civil libertarians as clearly they are opposed to incarcerating child molesters without a proper trial.
The Democrats? Last time I checked, they were ALSO big proponents of unchecked government power. Let's put it this way, they had almost every branch of government under their sway for at least a few months. What liberties did they even try to restore during that time?
No, the best way to have a government that protects your liberty, is to not grant the government the power to infringe those liberties in the first place.
I have a 100GB encrypted partition on my drive. I've been holding onto it because I HAVE forgotten what my passphrase is and I don't remember if that partition has anything useful on it.
Actually, he is arguing the negative which is the default. A citation is required for an assertion that Cops and District Attorneys DO want people to stop drinking and driving despite having a direct conflict of interest with that goal.
Just as how slippery slope arguments are NOT logical fallacies when applied to human motivations, the Null hypothesis doesn't apply to discussing 'wants'.
Wanting, and Not Wanting isn't null. Not Caring is probably as close as you can get.
I'm sorry, but do you really see mp3/aac compatibility EVER going away? At this point, storage is so cheap that more efficient compression just won't matter. FLAC only saves like 50% over raw PCM, so I'm not sure what we're chasing here. Is it really worth such a small compression ratio to be fighting this battle? Why even bother with the time and processing power?
Do I ever see it going away? Yes. You said it yourself, storage is so cheap that not only will more efficient compression won't matter, less efficient compression or compression at all won't matter. So raw PCM might even be the new 'format' if we decide that we don't care for FLAC's overhead. (we will still care for video though, which dwarfs the storage requirements for audio)
Where compression MAY still matter in the future isn't with storage, but transfer. While we are getting bigger pipes, it is still a long way off before it becomes ubiquitous. As more and more content gets tossed around, compression may even matter more. If you can knock 75% of the size off a file, that is not insignificant if those files comprise even 20-30% of your traffic.
I am literally in the process of building a data storage server for my extended family. Everything is getting stored in lossless formats. However, everything will be converted to a compressed format at/near the server before it is hosted back out to my family. Why? Storage is cheap, but my bandwidth is still precious.
Adjusting for CPI, $14 in 1983 is about $31 in 2011. $20 today is about $9 in 1983 dollars.
1983 is a bit early to declare full market availability for CDs don't you think?
I'd suggest a more reasonable date of 'availability' for determining the start of sales (and a price point) as the time when Middle school students are able to afford it on their allowances. That's where the target demographic starts for Pop music anyway (and those are the albums that follow the most common price curve).
In short, 1983 might have seen CDs come into existence, but I would say that they really didn't take off as consumer items until ~1992.
I don't know what the prices of CDs were in 1983, but If we go by your date, I do know that CD Players cost ~$2000 in 1983. Adjusted for inflation, that same player today would cost nearly $4,300. Obviously this wasn't the price which marks the true 'beginning'.
$14 in 1992 would go to $22 (approx). Still higher, but the cost of production of CDs is VERY low today compared to then.
Do you buy your shirts separate from your pants? How about your ties? What if every time there was an article of clothing you liked, you were forced to purchase an entire outfit?
Like those shoes? Just buy the suit that goes with them.
This is insufficient for those of us with a basic knowledge of calculus, linear algebra, diffyq, stats, etc who are trying to learn more advanced math that builds on it.
Wikipedia isn't the venue for that sort of thing. Although, it might be useful if you were to look at an article, find a subject, and then follow the citation to the source. Then you could read the detailed version there
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try shooting someone who invades your home.. it isn't a foregone conclusion that you won't join him in prison
Very true. My aim isn't what it once was. He might survive.
You are skipping some logic there.
I'd much rather it be that my Rights could only be violated to such an extent on private property, than my Rights only be valid on private property.
As it stands, it seems like I NEED to be a billionaire in order to have my Rights and circumvent having them violated by the government. I need a private plane if I want to avoid the TSA and major airport BS. I need to hire a private car not registered in my name not to subject myself to random 'checkpoints'. Doesn't matter if I lose my license for refusal to cooperate since I would have enough money to hire someone else to drive me.
It looks like you are started out with a good premise, "Shouldn't need to be a billionaire to enjoy your rights", but then decided to shoehorn in a nonsequitor.
Your car is already tracked in public as you pass traffic cameras (they read every licence plate, not just the speeding ones).
Oh, that makes it ok then.
The concept of expectation of privacy is a flawed one. Just because you can't expect privacy, doesn't mean you shouldn't have privacy.
It basically means that privacy only exists as long as someone doesn't have the means to violate that privacy, and that once that privacy is violated, you no longer can expect it to be private anymore can you?
User: Aha. You see, the way it looks to me, you are ignoring the whole turtle issue.
Cleverbot: I'm not ignoring anything. I'm simply stating that there is no scientific or logical evidence of the existence of any gods.
User: But that has nothing to do with the turtles!
Cleverbot: It has everything to do with the topic at hand.
You stopped too soon. A few more seconds and Cleverbot would have explained that the topic at hand was turtles, all the way down.
Who the hell does things for science? It's not a sentient being, it's not even a non-sentient physical thing. Science is a process.
The forced proper noun 'Science', gets hoisted up like it is some sort of end goal, and people calling out 'Science' as if it were something other than a process are really stretching the definition.
If you want to be a pedant, then mathematics IS science, as in the general body of information that is knowledge. You know, from the origin of the actual freaking word.
EA is run and owned by businessmen.
Isn't that true for every single company on Earth? Well, I suppose there are some that aren't/weren't run by businessmen, but I think that falls under the classification, 'out of business'.
At least on my console, if my sibling wants to go play a game I bought 4 years ago he can grab the game, pop it into his console, and he is good to go.
With Steam, it's tied to your account, forever. Same thing as if the instant you put a game into your console it copied it's contents to its HDD and shredded the disk.
I can't support Steam anymore because of this. (well, because of a lot of reasons, this just happened to be the last one and the one that caused me to finally call it quits)
Right? Not necessarily, but it is the natural order of things.
Copyright is the aberration, created by law, to prevent the natural condition that we would be able to consume the content on our own terms. Since it isn't naturally 'other people's content' It's other people's creations, but the instant they release it, it becomes everyone's content. Copyright is just restricting ourselves from what is naturally the situation.
Does that mean I'm against copyright? No, but what I think isn't important, you just didn't seem to understand the situation.
And hopefully someone blows the whistle on anything unethical or illegal.
Honestly, terms of service for almost anything now have reached such absurd levels in how lopsided they are that I just ignore the damned things now for anything I'm not using for business or negotiating for someone else. For personal use?
I got an email the other day from EA regarding them rolling over some account I registered years ago to Origin, and in their email was legalese describing how me not explicitly cancelling this new service was the same as me accepting the terms. Added onto that was their statement that they may "Alter the terms at any point, etc."
Now, for services provided to me which I am not paying for directly (I am paying for it by licensing my personal information though), I don't mind the ability for people to change terms to services they run on their servers, but it's slowly becoming that a lot of my purchased products have hooks in them which tie them back to the online service and their insane terms.
But I'm at the point where I just don't care. I'll open up a new email address and restart the service as long as they aren't revoking any of my ability to use purchased items. Now, once they start on that angle (and I'm sure they will eventually). It simply becomes a tradeoff analysis for me.
And we are back to the point where we decided that courts were a pretty good thing.
Pilgrim Jim and Bob get into a fist fight over rights of way for their sheep grazing. So society setup a system where we could sue each other instead of resorting to physical violence. What do you think is going to happen once one side effectively prohibits the other from seeking a redress in the legal system?
Funny how that goes away if it were a legal profession in stead of one that is stuck in alleys and backrooms.
You could literally substitute ANY activity for prostitution if you wanted to complain about "may only be doing the job because if they don't bring back enough money they may be abused".
If the choices were between a government licensed (and by that I mean screened to ensure that the women were regularly screened, educated to precautions, and informed as to what other options were available to them) and some mafia run organization which would you choose?
Except that it isn't common usage.
Do you install a Windows onto your computer when you install the Linux OS?
Windows as it pertains to a software program is not common usage.
And thus we will pass laws which will be great for DC and large metro areas, and completely fuck over people in rural areas.
I first lived in Philly. I drove a Solstice. Tiny little fun 2 seater was all I needed.
Then I lived in Upstate NY. 500' switchback driveway on a mountain. Unpaved. Put a plow on it as well, and used it nearly once a week to plow my driveway or a friends. Also hauled equipment around the 40 acres I owned up there.
Moved to DC. Sold the truck and bought a Mazda 3.
The problem? In upstate NY I really wanted to buy a diesel vehicle. But the damned things were hard as hell to come by because of blanket laws across the entire united states.
Now some laws ARE important to have across the entire US, but this IS a very large country and what is good for NYC isn't the same for Sasabe Arizona.
My problem with your statement is that you assume that because a lot of people DO just use their vehicles for basic commuting, then the rest of us who do try to find the right vehicle for the job are unnecessarily punished.
(Really could have used a diesel light truck in upstate NY, and I really could have used a small diesel commuter vehicle in DC. Its a shame that EPA regs made the first too expensive, and import bans on Euro vehicles made the second impossible)
This isn't about piracy, this is about locking you into their services, building in obsolescence, and extracting more money from the 'good' people. They don't care about piracy.
Think about the 'savior' of computer gaming, Steam. This is a service which irrevocably ties your games to one account. Even though you may purchase 30 games, you are really only able to play one at a time. They are not just trying to kill the used game market, they are even trying to kill the 'let my kids play Portal, while I play Portal 2' market.
Even consoles don't go this far (yet). If I have two consoles, and 50 games, while I am playing 1 game, someone at that other console has 49 other games that they can play.
On Steam, if I buy 50 games, while I am playing 1 game, someone at another computer has 0 games because they are tied to my damned account. It's disgusting.
Why don't we just save some time and just arrest all the Democrats and civil libertarians as clearly they are opposed to incarcerating child molesters without a proper trial.
The Democrats? Last time I checked, they were ALSO big proponents of unchecked government power. Let's put it this way, they had almost every branch of government under their sway for at least a few months. What liberties did they even try to restore during that time?
No, the best way to have a government that protects your liberty, is to not grant the government the power to infringe those liberties in the first place.
I have a 100GB encrypted partition on my drive. I've been holding onto it because I HAVE forgotten what my passphrase is and I don't remember if that partition has anything useful on it.
I wish I could remember it!
You do realize that it isn't the Recording Artists that are broadcasting. Right?
Actually, he is arguing the negative which is the default. A citation is required for an assertion that Cops and District Attorneys DO want people to stop drinking and driving despite having a direct conflict of interest with that goal.
Just as how slippery slope arguments are NOT logical fallacies when applied to human motivations, the Null hypothesis doesn't apply to discussing 'wants'.
Wanting, and Not Wanting isn't null. Not Caring is probably as close as you can get.
I'm sorry, but do you really see mp3/aac compatibility EVER going away? At this point, storage is so cheap that more efficient compression just won't matter. FLAC only saves like 50% over raw PCM, so I'm not sure what we're chasing here. Is it really worth such a small compression ratio to be fighting this battle? Why even bother with the time and processing power?
Do I ever see it going away? Yes. You said it yourself, storage is so cheap that not only will more efficient compression won't matter, less efficient compression or compression at all won't matter. So raw PCM might even be the new 'format' if we decide that we don't care for FLAC's overhead. (we will still care for video though, which dwarfs the storage requirements for audio)
Where compression MAY still matter in the future isn't with storage, but transfer. While we are getting bigger pipes, it is still a long way off before it becomes ubiquitous. As more and more content gets tossed around, compression may even matter more. If you can knock 75% of the size off a file, that is not insignificant if those files comprise even 20-30% of your traffic.
I am literally in the process of building a data storage server for my extended family. Everything is getting stored in lossless formats. However, everything will be converted to a compressed format at/near the server before it is hosted back out to my family. Why? Storage is cheap, but my bandwidth is still precious.
Adjusting for CPI, $14 in 1983 is about $31 in 2011. $20 today is about $9 in 1983 dollars.
1983 is a bit early to declare full market availability for CDs don't you think?
I'd suggest a more reasonable date of 'availability' for determining the start of sales (and a price point) as the time when Middle school students are able to afford it on their allowances. That's where the target demographic starts for Pop music anyway (and those are the albums that follow the most common price curve).
In short, 1983 might have seen CDs come into existence, but I would say that they really didn't take off as consumer items until ~1992.
I don't know what the prices of CDs were in 1983, but If we go by your date, I do know that CD Players cost ~$2000 in 1983. Adjusted for inflation, that same player today would cost nearly $4,300. Obviously this wasn't the price which marks the true 'beginning'.
$14 in 1992 would go to $22 (approx). Still higher, but the cost of production of CDs is VERY low today compared to then.
Do you buy your shirts separate from your pants? How about your ties? What if every time there was an article of clothing you liked, you were forced to purchase an entire outfit?
Like those shoes? Just buy the suit that goes with them.
Top. Men.
I'll just leave this here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
"I'll create a GUI using Visual Basic so I can track their IP address"
This is insufficient for those of us with a basic knowledge of calculus, linear algebra, diffyq, stats, etc who are trying to learn more advanced math that builds on it.
Wikipedia isn't the venue for that sort of thing. Although, it might be useful if you were to look at an article, find a subject, and then follow the citation to the source. Then you could read the detailed version there