Yeah million or two, you have to buy a lot of politicians now-a-days, one is just not enough anymore. Paying hundreds of people thousands of dollars, it adds up.
Insurance companies spend a lot of money in Washington to get legislation passed so you can't sue them. It has happened in the past, is happening now, and more than likely, it will happen again. After all, with government on the take, who could blame them? If you can buy laws to keep people from sueing you, why not? It will save them money in the end. Pay a million or two now in contributions or pay hundreds of millions in law suits.
"Of course, India's engaging in higher value work will cause fresh consternation here, but those fears will be as misguided as they've been in the past."
Umm, where exactly do you live. Call centers in India are a failure from a consumer stand point, some of those fears came true. I will not deal with a call center in India, they can't understand English. They speak it and translate it but they can't comprehend what someone is saying in English over the phone. I refuse to buy from any company using an overseas call center. HP is my biggest example. I bought this laptop and found out about the call center after trying to deal with them. I won't do it again. I research any major purchase now and if I find they use overseas call centers I pass on to the next brand. Very easy to check, just call and 800 number on there support website... Bad thing is, some of the credit reporting companies like Transunion use overseas call centers too so I can't opt out of using all overseas call centers unfortunately and this has caused some real issues in dealing with companies for me.
Thats because game makers share innovation, to a degree. Unlike Hollywood, who hoard IPs like a desperate mother fending off an attack on her children.
I burned the burned copies craptard, I still have my original Metallica all the way up through the Black album, their music is shit after that. Load and Re-Load, they should have called it kneel and bob cause it blew. St. Anger tried to resurrect what they once had but it sounds like they are trying way to hard to be metal. I am aaiting ther next album, I hope it is not as dissapointing as the past few. As for all the rest, Mr. SomeName, I could care less. Opinions are like buttholes, everyone has at least one and yours seems to be the stinkiest in the bunch.
Heh, I don't buy their albums anymore either, but I did get them from somewhere =P I made a point of finding their music online for download, just as a protest, anti-Metallica thing. My friends and I set the CDs we downloaded and burned on fire and watched them turn into plastic puddles. Kind of dumb, I know but it was around the time of the lawsuit. I have only recently even thought of this group, since their music is being played on the local classic rock radio station.....
Why not release the trailers with some of the extra DVD content and maybe longer teasers. After all, more than half the movies I have seen I can tell within that time whether or not I like it. I do not mean 15 minutes of the best scenes from the movie either, one continuous scene, say within the first half hour of the movie. I hate seeing a movie and never seeing the cut scene they used in the movie trailer, drives me nuts.
I do not really see a point to this article really, it is comparing apples to oranges. If movie execs are talking about the "filmed in theater" pirate movies competing with the silver screen, I gotta ask, just how stupid do you have to be to be a part of one of the **AAs?? No camcorder can compete with the silver screen, ever.
Someone has been reading to many M$ hate blogs. The 360 is in no way a failure, neither was the Xbox 1. Microsoft cleaned up in the gaming devision, billions of dollars in pure profit. Billions. Not hundreds of millions like Apple.... So once again, you M$ h8ers out there can go back into your holes, this is just another M$ failure on it's way to the top. After all, they plan to allow you to get anything you have paid for on Itunes for free on the Zune, proving they understand what I want, easier access to share and use my music, not Apple's non transfer proprietary format I can't use on anything except and I-pod or I-tunes.
LOL! I just gotta say, I like this blog, read it all the time. But this is the stupidest most worthless post I have read here. You cover rumors and then say Microsoft can't kill something by commity. So the Ipod was not built by R&D people at Apple? The I-pod, and all that it is, was designed by one person? Of course things are done by commity, even killing the Apple I-crap. No one person can do it all, there is not enough time.
If you show yourself to be an ass online, you are probably an ass in real life too. Something along those lines is what most hiring managers think. After being online for the past decade, I am not so sure they are wrong.
I think it is a bit unethical for a company to just use social network sites as a resume unless they ask for your information up front. After all, I know there are 23 people in my state with my name online according to Google, 12 of those have the same middle name, and there are 7 of them on My Space, one of them even lives in my town. Meaning, if I ever decide to go back to work I might have to explain things to company since 2 of those listed on My Space are real winners who do and say some stupid things.
Why check, you ask? Well I got some bad comments and such about things I supposedly said and supposedly did so I wanted to find out what was going on. Turned out one of the losers from My Space was perceived as being me.
Weee! I can tell you, it is not the parents so stop trying to blame them. It IS the politicians. Keep on track here, no need to point at parents, some of us actually do raise our kids.
Considering the RIAA and the MPAA are trying hard to get laws passed that make it illegal for content not to have DRM, I doubt they would ever do anything to encourage DRM free anything.
Heh. Why not, Mike turns most things into Big Brother news, it is what this site does, it is why I and many others read it.
I guess I can see both sides. There is another aspect to this as well, knowing where all your open WiFi spots in town are could help find criminals who do use them to commit crime.
The whole issue boils down to control, publishers think they are loosing control because Google never asked them. If Google had of offered some small nominal money per entry they would have jumped all over it but since Google is doing it and will make money from it, the publishers think they should get some money. I tend to kind of agree, to an extent, though small nominal fee, not some big royalty. The only reason I say that is Google will make money off the project, they are not doing it to be humanitarian, greed drives this project like every other at Google or any Corp, their bottom line are the profits. So, using advertising on the project, Google will make money from said project. If they were completely free I still think there would be lawsuits since I believe it is more about control and no one wants to loose it.
Looks like it has all been said. A sad state indeed when the people of this great country, the USA, just sit and watch it all happen. O, they will post about it, blog it, discuss it but they, we, won't do anything about it. We will go back to the news an post elsewhere. Take a second and at least email your congress and senate and let them know what you think. Better yet, use the link to this comment thing and send them a link to your thoughts. If no one tells them, they don't know. Even the crooked politicians must listen when over half their constituents cry out at this this this... blah. Tell them you won't re-elect them if they don't do something. It could be a wasted effort, then again, with enough feedback, they will get the hint, do it right or go home. Take the time now, before your next news article.
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RE: DittoBox #5
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If you can sue them...
On the post: Indian Outsourcing Firms Hang Up The Phone
Blatant Failure from my stand point...
Umm, where exactly do you live. Call centers in India are a failure from a consumer stand point, some of those fears came true. I will not deal with a call center in India, they can't understand English. They speak it and translate it but they can't comprehend what someone is saying in English over the phone. I refuse to buy from any company using an overseas call center. HP is my biggest example. I bought this laptop and found out about the call center after trying to deal with them. I won't do it again. I research any major purchase now and if I find they use overseas call centers I pass on to the next brand. Very easy to check, just call and 800 number on there support website... Bad thing is, some of the credit reporting companies like Transunion use overseas call centers too so I can't opt out of using all overseas call centers unfortunately and this has caused some real issues in dealing with companies for me.
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On the post: Metallica Finally Realizes That Some People Like To Get Music Online
RE: Metallica by SomeName
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Burn Metallica Burn!
On the post: 'Pirates' Thriving, In Spite Of Pirates
Here's Hollywood's fix...
I do not really see a point to this article really, it is comparing apples to oranges. If movie execs are talking about the "filmed in theater" pirate movies competing with the silver screen, I gotta ask, just how stupid do you have to be to be a part of one of the **AAs?? No camcorder can compete with the silver screen, ever.
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Xbox 360 a failure?
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Xbox 360 a failure?
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You Don't Design An iPod Killer By Committee??
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heh, but then again
I think it is a bit unethical for a company to just use social network sites as a resume unless they ask for your information up front. After all, I know there are 23 people in my state with my name online according to Google, 12 of those have the same middle name, and there are 7 of them on My Space, one of them even lives in my town. Meaning, if I ever decide to go back to work I might have to explain things to company since 2 of those listed on My Space are real winners who do and say some stupid things.
Why check, you ask? Well I got some bad comments and such about things I supposedly said and supposedly did so I wanted to find out what was going on. Turned out one of the losers from My Space was perceived as being me.
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Woot! Just another blame the parents party here.
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heh
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Way to go Mike!
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Re: Public Servants are serving the public
I guess I can see both sides. There is another aspect to this as well, knowing where all your open WiFi spots in town are could help find criminals who do use them to commit crime.
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It's all about Money and Control.
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http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
or
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?State=
learn who they are and contact them
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Just in case
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wow
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