Except that The Beatles were the real thing while those before and after weren't. Elvis was the real thing until the US Army go hold of him.
You can't be a Beatles or Elvis unless you have the talent and skills to make you one of them and very, very few do.
And both, as I note in another post WERE sold on the basis of personality as well as music. You bought an Elvis or Beatles record you got them both.
And yeah, there's tons of Beatles and Stones and Elvis's out there. In their own minds at least. But maybe 0.1% of them have the talent or skill to ever get anywhere near that point.
As for the Beatles doing ads, for most of their career as a band ad agencies and television would have considered it the kiss of death for a product using them as they weren't selling to Boomers but to depression-era Boomer parents who they could get Sinatra to sing an ad for which would work.
But you're right Marcus. It's all that awful piracy keeping them down these days. And who knows -- someone might just "pirate" a well done ad featuring say, Michael Jackson doing the moon dance! Simply awful!!!
(It is out there by the way.)
So AC, you see it was the marketing of the time that kept the Beatles from doing ads, that and the fact that Northern Songs own(ed) the rights to their music so they'd not see much of it even if they could have done ads. (Ref: George Harrison -- "It's Only A Northern Song".
Ahhh, touring became so expensive for big acts that by the late 70s bands were seeking sponsors to help defray the costs. Pink Floyd and U2 spring to mind and no one would call either as sell out. Nor were the Stones accused of it when they started that trend.
All this long before internet "piracy".
Authors such as George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut and many others make their mark as much by sheer force of personality as by what they wrote. http://www.quotationspage.com/
I could go on but if you've got two brain cells to rub together you've got the point by now. And it you haven't there's no hope for you.
Gimme a break. His management company is selling both him and his music in, as it turns out, remarkably conventional ways and succeeding.
Elvis wasn't sold on his music as much as by his personality and performance. Same with Jerry Lee Lewis until he actually went over the line instead of just singing about it.
Brian Epstein sold the Beatles as much on their personalities as he did their music and the emerging songwriting genius of McCartney and Lennon as a team and individually. The Stones on Mick Jagger, Mr Big Lips. The Who for their destruction of instruments and amps (all paid for by the time they hit North America by the companies that sold what ended up being destroyed on stage), Buddy Holly as much as Mr Geek with the horn rimmmed glasses as his wonderful songs and on it goes. In their world you could make billions on record sales. That world doesn't exist now.
There's no way of turning the clock back to when you can sell enough records to make millions.
But what Mike is describing is very conventional in terms of management and how to sell the artist AS WELL AS the music as a single package like the acts above were. Just drop the sales of CDs as the main driver behind getting the artist known. It's still performance both on stage and in the studio and the personalities.
Keep in mind that individually and as a band The Beatles are such a part of Boomer legend that while their music can be used in ads it's often the worst mistake an advertiser can make even if they have permission of the current copyright holder if, say, McCartney and Yoko Ono go public that they don't want it used like that. Just ask Nike. Should Paul and Yoko say "it's ok to use the music for this product" then the virulent reaction doesn't occur because Boomers, for whatever reason, trust them not to endorse something bad or something made by slave/child labour, for example.
Good management companies sell the music AND the artist(s) as a complete package. Or the art AND the artist(s) having as a complete package. You get both when it's done that way. An, hey, that can even sell more shiny plastic discs too if only idiots like the RIAA could understand that.
Now tell me this: how does that NOT make artists money????
If you want to assign blame to anyone for the "liberal"/"conservative" split in SCOTUS then perhaps look at a Congress and more than one President (both parties) to whom the political leaning is as, if not more, important as their record om the bench.
If there's the kind of corruption you say there is (I'm not taking one side or another on that) you need to blame the legislative and executive branches of the US Government not the Court itself.
I learned very quickly when email came in that EVERYONE considers their message URGENT!!!. (Exclamation points deliberate.)
Soon I filtered my mail by who sent it. And they had a limited number of times to send me stuff that was a complete waste of my time before they were piped off to what, in Linuxland is called /dev/null.
Now, with your client I'd have let it sit there till it was time to go to work again, check the site with IE, FF, Safari and Chrome and then called her to ask if it was worth it to waste my time on this and remind her that my time is worth money. Politely, carefully and with respect by to make sure she got the message. If she wanted to cease to be my client at that stage I'd shake her hand, wish her well, point out the early termination penalty clause in the contract we signed and leave. Head down to Tim's, grab a coffee and doughnut and cheer at the top of my lungs. Clients like that cost money, the aren't worth keeping. ;-)
And while I agree with you that when something in the scope of my craft goes wrong AND it's important, I want to get it fixed. And I take immense pride in my work. And the speed I can get it done in when I'm alert and awake.
But I'm not going out because some poor manager of some small company's single phone isn't working in the middle of the night cause he knows someone who knows someone. There ARE priorities you know.
Good lord, I'm glad I don't work for you. And no, I never did do my 40 and out. By the same token I was never expected to work myself to exhaustion to the point where my work was complete junk. I earned my pay and I made my employer a ton of money while I did it.
You, on the other hand, seem to want your employees to work till they nearly drop so that your company has to go back again to fix it again..something that takes three times as long as it would done right the first time by someone alert and awake. So I'm also glad I'm not your customer.
OK, so let me get this right. You worked 16 hour days on a 5 day week. As a plumber.
At the end of which you're seriously going to tell me you could remember your own name much less the tools and skills of your craft?
Sorry, I have to call bullshit on that one.
And, thank God, I was never around any of the work you did at any point on a Friday much less Friday afternoon. Particularly if you were installing a hot water heater.
What you're claiming is just not physically and mentally possible. Particularly for a tradesman or craftsman. And plumbers are both.
And as my employer wouldn't pay me to answer calls after hours I didn't unless the call came from my boss. That was it. And the moment I picked that phone up my OT clock started to run simply because at that point I knew it was a genuine emergency and not something some brain dead dispatcher thought might, could be, just possibly was an emergency.
And if they didn't like that they could take the cell back. Mine and about 3600 others. Funny, they never did. So be proud of yourself for taking their phones away if you want. Yah don't pay the freight for the hourly rated dudes like me, ya don't get answered. Simple.
You're as full of it as my father was when he told me about walking barefoot in the show up to his hips to get to school when he was a kid back in Edmonton at 40 below.
Actually VW isn't private in the sense that it's privately owned it's a publicly traded company. And it has a record of being one of the, if not THE, most successful car makers on the planet over time.
Now for the important question for you: What is Kim Kardashian wearing now?? And is she as fat as she looks? Inquiring minds want to know!!!
Actually, German labour laws were imposed by the Allies after World War II. They've had some slight refinement since but essentially they're what they Allies, particularly the United States, told them that this is how it was gonna work.
I suspect the hope of the western Allies like the USA, Canada and the UK, to a lesser degree France, who didn't have much of a say in those things, that this would be model for their own countries.
(Canada had the third largest army in the Allied invasion of Normandy, the third largest air force and the third largest navy in the Atlantic theatre specializing in sub detection, tracking and sinking for convoys and sea born troop landing picket duty. We can still find a single sub in the Pacific given enough time. ;-) )
Anyway the point is that the labour relations system in Germany isn't one of long standing culture but one of losing a war where practically the entire infrastructure of a country was destroyed.
Actually the labour relations model used in Germany is one imposed on them at the end of World War II by the allies and most particularly the United States.
Prior to that Germany's record in industrial relations was as bad as anyones.
While the German model is based more on partnership than the adversarial role of the US, US or Canada, Germany still has strikes, still has lockouts and still has serious differences of opinion.
I doubt very much that VW or their union is terribly concerned about who might get hobbled in all of this. VW has top see a serious upside to this as work-life balance has become a large issue in Germany and is moving into the political realm.
Finally, as a union acitivist and rep for years I'll fill you in on a couple of details, if I might.
(a) Ambitious workers ALWAYS stand out, brown nosers do too. Their coworkers and management (if it has any sense) promotes the former and leaves the latter where they are.
(b) Workers who know their stuff and go "the extra mile" during working hours are more efficient and effective than the majority of those who take it home. People in sales positions excepted because of the realities of their work.
(c) union shops are nowhere near as egalitarian as you think they are. A wise manager let's the coworkers deal with the incompetent and lazy (that includes the brown nosers) who will push then out quickly enough without a boss having to read up on labour law to figure out how to fire someone and make it stick. (Most haven't a clue.)
Then there's the folks whose work-life balance is seriously out of whack. In the long run most of them will cost their employers a ton of money as later on in life they will be the ones taking things like stress leave, show an inability to make important, critical decisions because they'll freeze on something, are far more likely to cause accidents and injuries in an office environment that will send people home with broken bones and what have we and in a plant or outdoor environment accidents leading to serious injury or death as they're totally and completely burned out.
That's where the join union-management interest comes in. As a safety and health co-chair for 20+ years of my working life I can tell you these are the people who cause us the most grief and most concern.
All that said, I don't see how turning off a blackberry is going to change anything. These people will take paper home with them, work longer hours in salaried positions and "free" overtime in hourly rated ones and not much will change. Except, perhaps, to add stress to their already stressed out lives.
And people with out of whack work-life balances cause more problems and issues as well. Overall they're more likely to succumb to addiction (hell, they're addicted to work already) which brings on a cluster of other problems which union and management then have to deal with.
Lastly, these folk, because their identity is so wrapped up in their work and who they work for, that they are by far the most likely to be the ones you read about who retire at, oh let's say, 65 and are dead by 65 1/8th.
Like I said. Turning the blackberry off won't correct a badly distorted work life balance. It'll stress those who have it even more and simply drive them into finding ways around it. Say like telling contacts to email them at badlystressed@gmail.com after hours an email address they monitor on their personal blackberry. Won't solve the problem at all.
But that's the problem, they're fine tuning a non-position which amounts to "we want it but not if it costs us too much business" all of which indicates that it is causing some pain to them.
It's likely it's the inexpensive plans that are joining up while the people talking about leaving are at the other end of the scale in the money GoDaddy gets from them.
And I don't know when the 50% off sales started but it's looking at the moment that they're practically giving the low end hosting away. If not "desperate" they seem to be trying to attract business as fast as they can. To make up for the high end sites transferring out?
(It might be coincidental because of the time of year, of course.)
Of course the number is incidental, to use your wording but we'll have to wait and see what happens as time moves on.
It appears that they've received the message but have they understood it? To read Mr Adelman they don't seem to understand it yet.
I think it's going to prove hard to sit on the fence particularly since GoDaddy helped to craft at least one of the bills.
So let's just say GoDaddy doesn't support them till the heat comes off and then they'll support them again and be honest about it. Or maybe continue to fib about it.
Reading Mr Adelman's comments is painful at best cause he just can't get the right spin going or an outright lie at worst.
You're right to the extent that the boycott call isn't going to take GoDaddy down.
More damaging is the total amount of traffic going through their sites in total if, for no other reason, that brings into question their claim to be the largest hosting company going on one measure.
That and, you are right, Joe, their service sucks, their attitude sucks and for a host of other reasons they need to get whacked up side of the head. Not just this. (I lasted about a month with them before transferring a domain out and stopping payment due to poor service and a complaint or to the BBB.)
The thing here is that the people shifting out are probably the most technically literate of their customers as well as the most active and educated people in social issues, in this case from left to right and everything in between.
As for "The Handmaid's Tale" version of a world where you're told who will host our site and so on, I have no idea where s/he got that one from. I disagree strongly with your position on SOPA/PIPA but I can't for the life of me imagine you going anywhere near that far.
Still, it's hard to argue that the boycott/transfer out movement has been gaining ground. Enough of it to get GoDaddy to reverse their previous positions on SOPA and PIPA though leaving enough room to drive an aircraft carrier trough in the wording so they can do it quietly or just as quietly change their mind. Fine, that's up to them.
In all honestly I think they're more worried about what may happen on Thursday now given the movement away from them seems to be growing each day.
Their reaction to date has been that of an organization that has been caught flat footed by something they didn't expect and never foresaw. They didn't have a fallback either as is evidenced by their statements on PIPA/SOPA.
What WILL convince people are statements emailed to members of the House of Representatives clearly saying "We no longer support SOPA." and no equivocation. Ditto for Senators saying "We no longer support PIPA" without equivocation and then clearly saying they will fight to ensure passage of the bills doesn't happen.
OK, maybe that won't convince people It might help some, though.
No one took away GoDaddy's free speech rights. They've merely protested the positions they've taken over SOPA/PIPA in the most effective way consumers of products or services have by ceasing doing business with them and urging others to do the same.
It's not just people yelling loudly, it's people acting on the position a buisness takes that they find unconscionable.
Oh, and yeah, I am proud of it.
GoDaddy needs to hurt more cause their PIPA statemeent reads like it was dashed off in an incredible hurry by a PR hack and has about as much spine to it as an amoeba. And they need to take the same position of leadership on withdrawl of support as they took in supporting PIPA and SOPA.
Now, if you'd just come over here I have to wash your mouth out with this fresh bar of SOPA.
I'd suggest, very seriously, that if you look 100% of campaign sites you'll find copyright infringements up the ying/yang. And you won't have to look hard either.
Let's just "quote" this, sounds like it supports us! Attributing the quote to someone who doesn't and who still has control over their copyright. (OK, that's a very rate beast, indeed, but I'm told they still exist.)
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Though I'm beginning to think a good sized rock to the side of the head would work better.
A properly copyrighted and patented rock, of course, ;-)
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You can't be a Beatles or Elvis unless you have the talent and skills to make you one of them and very, very few do.
And both, as I note in another post WERE sold on the basis of personality as well as music. You bought an Elvis or Beatles record you got them both.
And yeah, there's tons of Beatles and Stones and Elvis's out there. In their own minds at least. But maybe 0.1% of them have the talent or skill to ever get anywhere near that point.
As for the Beatles doing ads, for most of their career as a band ad agencies and television would have considered it the kiss of death for a product using them as they weren't selling to Boomers but to depression-era Boomer parents who they could get Sinatra to sing an ad for which would work.
But you're right Marcus. It's all that awful piracy keeping them down these days. And who knows -- someone might just "pirate" a well done ad featuring say, Michael Jackson doing the moon dance! Simply awful!!!
(It is out there by the way.)
So AC, you see it was the marketing of the time that kept the Beatles from doing ads, that and the fact that Northern Songs own(ed) the rights to their music so they'd not see much of it even if they could have done ads. (Ref: George Harrison -- "It's Only A Northern Song".
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All this long before internet "piracy".
Authors such as George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut and many others make their mark as much by sheer force of personality as by what they wrote. http://www.quotationspage.com/
I could go on but if you've got two brain cells to rub together you've got the point by now. And it you haven't there's no hope for you.
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Gimme a break. His management company is selling both him and his music in, as it turns out, remarkably conventional ways and succeeding.
Elvis wasn't sold on his music as much as by his personality and performance. Same with Jerry Lee Lewis until he actually went over the line instead of just singing about it.
Brian Epstein sold the Beatles as much on their personalities as he did their music and the emerging songwriting genius of McCartney and Lennon as a team and individually. The Stones on Mick Jagger, Mr Big Lips. The Who for their destruction of instruments and amps (all paid for by the time they hit North America by the companies that sold what ended up being destroyed on stage), Buddy Holly as much as Mr Geek with the horn rimmmed glasses as his wonderful songs and on it goes. In their world you could make billions on record sales. That world doesn't exist now.
There's no way of turning the clock back to when you can sell enough records to make millions.
But what Mike is describing is very conventional in terms of management and how to sell the artist AS WELL AS the music as a single package like the acts above were. Just drop the sales of CDs as the main driver behind getting the artist known. It's still performance both on stage and in the studio and the personalities.
Keep in mind that individually and as a band The Beatles are such a part of Boomer legend that while their music can be used in ads it's often the worst mistake an advertiser can make even if they have permission of the current copyright holder if, say, McCartney and Yoko Ono go public that they don't want it used like that. Just ask Nike. Should Paul and Yoko say "it's ok to use the music for this product" then the virulent reaction doesn't occur because Boomers, for whatever reason, trust them not to endorse something bad or something made by slave/child labour, for example.
Good management companies sell the music AND the artist(s) as a complete package. Or the art AND the artist(s) having as a complete package. You get both when it's done that way. An, hey, that can even sell more shiny plastic discs too if only idiots like the RIAA could understand that.
Now tell me this: how does that NOT make artists money????
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If there's the kind of corruption you say there is (I'm not taking one side or another on that) you need to blame the legislative and executive branches of the US Government not the Court itself.
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I learned very quickly when email came in that EVERYONE considers their message URGENT!!!. (Exclamation points deliberate.)
Soon I filtered my mail by who sent it. And they had a limited number of times to send me stuff that was a complete waste of my time before they were piped off to what, in Linuxland is called /dev/null.
Now, with your client I'd have let it sit there till it was time to go to work again, check the site with IE, FF, Safari and Chrome and then called her to ask if it was worth it to waste my time on this and remind her that my time is worth money. Politely, carefully and with respect by to make sure she got the message. If she wanted to cease to be my client at that stage I'd shake her hand, wish her well, point out the early termination penalty clause in the contract we signed and leave. Head down to Tim's, grab a coffee and doughnut and cheer at the top of my lungs. Clients like that cost money, the aren't worth keeping. ;-)
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But I'm not going out because some poor manager of some small company's single phone isn't working in the middle of the night cause he knows someone who knows someone. There ARE priorities you know.
Good lord, I'm glad I don't work for you. And no, I never did do my 40 and out. By the same token I was never expected to work myself to exhaustion to the point where my work was complete junk. I earned my pay and I made my employer a ton of money while I did it.
You, on the other hand, seem to want your employees to work till they nearly drop so that your company has to go back again to fix it again..something that takes three times as long as it would done right the first time by someone alert and awake. So I'm also glad I'm not your customer.
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At the end of which you're seriously going to tell me you could remember your own name much less the tools and skills of your craft?
Sorry, I have to call bullshit on that one.
And, thank God, I was never around any of the work you did at any point on a Friday much less Friday afternoon. Particularly if you were installing a hot water heater.
What you're claiming is just not physically and mentally possible. Particularly for a tradesman or craftsman. And plumbers are both.
And as my employer wouldn't pay me to answer calls after hours I didn't unless the call came from my boss. That was it. And the moment I picked that phone up my OT clock started to run simply because at that point I knew it was a genuine emergency and not something some brain dead dispatcher thought might, could be, just possibly was an emergency.
And if they didn't like that they could take the cell back. Mine and about 3600 others. Funny, they never did. So be proud of yourself for taking their phones away if you want. Yah don't pay the freight for the hourly rated dudes like me, ya don't get answered. Simple.
You're as full of it as my father was when he told me about walking barefoot in the show up to his hips to get to school when he was a kid back in Edmonton at 40 below.
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Now for the important question for you: What is Kim Kardashian wearing now?? And is she as fat as she looks? Inquiring minds want to know!!!
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Germany's unique labour laws
I suspect the hope of the western Allies like the USA, Canada and the UK, to a lesser degree France, who didn't have much of a say in those things, that this would be model for their own countries.
(Canada had the third largest army in the Allied invasion of Normandy, the third largest air force and the third largest navy in the Atlantic theatre specializing in sub detection, tracking and sinking for convoys and sea born troop landing picket duty. We can still find a single sub in the Pacific given enough time. ;-) )
Anyway the point is that the labour relations system in Germany isn't one of long standing culture but one of losing a war where practically the entire infrastructure of a country was destroyed.
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Prior to that Germany's record in industrial relations was as bad as anyones.
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While the German model is based more on partnership than the adversarial role of the US, US or Canada, Germany still has strikes, still has lockouts and still has serious differences of opinion.
I doubt very much that VW or their union is terribly concerned about who might get hobbled in all of this. VW has top see a serious upside to this as work-life balance has become a large issue in Germany and is moving into the political realm.
Finally, as a union acitivist and rep for years I'll fill you in on a couple of details, if I might.
(a) Ambitious workers ALWAYS stand out, brown nosers do too. Their coworkers and management (if it has any sense) promotes the former and leaves the latter where they are.
(b) Workers who know their stuff and go "the extra mile" during working hours are more efficient and effective than the majority of those who take it home. People in sales positions excepted because of the realities of their work.
(c) union shops are nowhere near as egalitarian as you think they are. A wise manager let's the coworkers deal with the incompetent and lazy (that includes the brown nosers) who will push then out quickly enough without a boss having to read up on labour law to figure out how to fire someone and make it stick. (Most haven't a clue.)
Then there's the folks whose work-life balance is seriously out of whack. In the long run most of them will cost their employers a ton of money as later on in life they will be the ones taking things like stress leave, show an inability to make important, critical decisions because they'll freeze on something, are far more likely to cause accidents and injuries in an office environment that will send people home with broken bones and what have we and in a plant or outdoor environment accidents leading to serious injury or death as they're totally and completely burned out.
That's where the join union-management interest comes in. As a safety and health co-chair for 20+ years of my working life I can tell you these are the people who cause us the most grief and most concern.
All that said, I don't see how turning off a blackberry is going to change anything. These people will take paper home with them, work longer hours in salaried positions and "free" overtime in hourly rated ones and not much will change. Except, perhaps, to add stress to their already stressed out lives.
And people with out of whack work-life balances cause more problems and issues as well. Overall they're more likely to succumb to addiction (hell, they're addicted to work already) which brings on a cluster of other problems which union and management then have to deal with.
Lastly, these folk, because their identity is so wrapped up in their work and who they work for, that they are by far the most likely to be the ones you read about who retire at, oh let's say, 65 and are dead by 65 1/8th.
Like I said. Turning the blackberry off won't correct a badly distorted work life balance. It'll stress those who have it even more and simply drive them into finding ways around it. Say like telling contacts to email them at badlystressed@gmail.com after hours an email address they monitor on their personal blackberry. Won't solve the problem at all.
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It's likely it's the inexpensive plans that are joining up while the people talking about leaving are at the other end of the scale in the money GoDaddy gets from them.
And I don't know when the 50% off sales started but it's looking at the moment that they're practically giving the low end hosting away. If not "desperate" they seem to be trying to attract business as fast as they can. To make up for the high end sites transferring out?
(It might be coincidental because of the time of year, of course.)
Of course the number is incidental, to use your wording but we'll have to wait and see what happens as time moves on.
It appears that they've received the message but have they understood it? To read Mr Adelman they don't seem to understand it yet.
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too late, too little -- they're lying anyway
So let's just say GoDaddy doesn't support them till the heat comes off and then they'll support them again and be honest about it. Or maybe continue to fib about it.
Reading Mr Adelman's comments is painful at best cause he just can't get the right spin going or an outright lie at worst.
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More damaging is the total amount of traffic going through their sites in total if, for no other reason, that brings into question their claim to be the largest hosting company going on one measure.
That and, you are right, Joe, their service sucks, their attitude sucks and for a host of other reasons they need to get whacked up side of the head. Not just this. (I lasted about a month with them before transferring a domain out and stopping payment due to poor service and a complaint or to the BBB.)
The thing here is that the people shifting out are probably the most technically literate of their customers as well as the most active and educated people in social issues, in this case from left to right and everything in between.
As for "The Handmaid's Tale" version of a world where you're told who will host our site and so on, I have no idea where s/he got that one from. I disagree strongly with your position on SOPA/PIPA but I can't for the life of me imagine you going anywhere near that far.
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Still, it's hard to argue that the boycott/transfer out movement has been gaining ground. Enough of it to get GoDaddy to reverse their previous positions on SOPA and PIPA though leaving enough room to drive an aircraft carrier trough in the wording so they can do it quietly or just as quietly change their mind. Fine, that's up to them.
In all honestly I think they're more worried about what may happen on Thursday now given the movement away from them seems to be growing each day.
Their reaction to date has been that of an organization that has been caught flat footed by something they didn't expect and never foresaw. They didn't have a fallback either as is evidenced by their statements on PIPA/SOPA.
What WILL convince people are statements emailed to members of the House of Representatives clearly saying "We no longer support SOPA." and no equivocation. Ditto for Senators saying "We no longer support PIPA" without equivocation and then clearly saying they will fight to ensure passage of the bills doesn't happen.
OK, maybe that won't convince people It might help some, though.
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It's not just people yelling loudly, it's people acting on the position a buisness takes that they find unconscionable.
Oh, and yeah, I am proud of it.
GoDaddy needs to hurt more cause their PIPA statemeent reads like it was dashed off in an incredible hurry by a PR hack and has about as much spine to it as an amoeba. And they need to take the same position of leadership on withdrawl of support as they took in supporting PIPA and SOPA.
Now, if you'd just come over here I have to wash your mouth out with this fresh bar of SOPA.
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Let's just "quote" this, sounds like it supports us! Attributing the quote to someone who doesn't and who still has control over their copyright. (OK, that's a very rate beast, indeed, but I'm told they still exist.)
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