So if you are in Paris today and need a ride, I guess your only option is to call Uber? Somebody didn't think through the ramifications of their nefarious plan.
I've clicked post on FB plenty of times and had nothing happen. With their volume, even a .001 defect rate is going to be a lot of lost posts every day. Odds are this is just a technical glitch.
The NSA has shown complete contempt of the law for years. Does anybody really believe the monitoring program was just shut down when the Patriot Act provisions expired?
That sucks. Ancestry.com is an amazing service from the consumer POV. You put your parents and grandparents names in, and 4 hours later you are still at your computer, and you've traced your family back to 1500s France; when 4 hours previously you didn't even know you were French.
Is there any kind of "interest" charge on an award like this? It would be kind of sweet to show up in 10 years when the dentist thinks he is clear and have that $4700 now be $47,000.
I've been watching Rockford Files on Netflix. It was a "one hour" show back in the day, which translates to 48 minutes on Netflix. New shows seems to cram 20 minutes of commercials in to a "one hour" show.
You can't really blame the movie industry, ever since music became easily available online it's become freaking impossible to find any band playing live.
Live music generated $16.6 billion in 2006, and 23.5 billion in 2011. See? Digital music is killing the music industry.
And people think I'm being a cranky old guy when I explain why I'd rather own the music I listen to, instead of relying on a streaming service that may go away tomorrow, leaving with nothing to show for potentially years of $10 a month payments.
Re: Typical GOOG apology-- you don't get something for nothing
I predict 7-10 days before the Spanish news sites are screaming to turn Google News back on. It's very likely a large percentage of their inbound traffic just went away. It's kind of hard to sell ads on a website with no traffic.
Swift is making money every time that song streams on YouTube, right? If they have the technology to recognize that its her song but not the official video, what is so hard about adding all the mash-up plays to her account so she gets paid? Then everybody wins. The fans can use the music, and Taylor's $50 billion empire makes $85 more dollars on fan use of the song.
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Just like the music industry
Live music generated $16.6 billion in 2006, and 23.5 billion in 2011. See? Digital music is killing the music industry.
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Isn't she paid anyway?
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