Damn those complainers and activists for not just bending over and letting the government do whatever they want. Of course they should be harassing her!
If you can't argue against the message, try to destroy the messenger is that it?
Seriously it seems you just want to argue in circles and make random analogies that don't really fit.
UT is a game that took tons of developer time to create. Some modders take this base, add a few small elements, and a whole NEW thing is created. The mod is worthless without the UT game, but you can't really argue (at least not reasonably) that it isn't a new creation that adds value.
I agree to some extent. It's 'more okay' in the mind of most people that same gender does the groping, especially when it's to somebody else. It's more of a social mental state.
Probably doesn't make this woman feel any better about it.
Of course none of this makes it actually okay in the first place.
I went and read through the source articles. It was a woman. My thought was TSA policy is definitely that same gender does the pat downs, and if it was a guy it might not be an official action.
However after reading a bit more it looks like standard TSA incinerating the constitution with little to no oversight. As sad as it is I'm not overly surprised by it.
Did it say "he" groped the woman? I'm betting there is a solid law suit there. I also suspect this may be somebody operating outside his instructions assuming he can get away with it.
Hmm. You seem to be focusing on the one part of the study that was somewhat subjective, but at least reasonably explainable as such, and ignoring the several parts of the study that were quantitative.
The Recording industry players are missing two big things that are going to destroy them if they don't wake up.
The first, that is commonly talked about, is the move from a scarce to a non-scarce product. They just don't seem to be able to break the value/price split that this brings to the table.
The second, which is talked about in a bit of a round about way, is the move from the advantage of scale to the leveling of the playing field. The entire reason they guys could be the 'gatekeepers' for so long was their ability of scale. The internet has now given everybody that ability of scale. What they could do (if they had any good standing in the community left) is move from gatekeeper to filter to help people connect to music they like. But instead they'll just give that up and die.
As Mike has noted before it's really worth trying to learn from this as this is going to happen to nearly all industries. The products don't even have to be infinite (as digital files aren't truly infinite anyway) it just has to be able to out produce demand.
This is probably one of the legitimate 'flaws' of the way the internet is structured. It's essentially defaulted to trust. But that 'flaw' is also the major strength of the internet.
There is alot you can do to secure communication between two known parties. It gets significantly more difficult to ensure that the server you've connected to is who you think it is.
The existing model is actually pretty good (as we don't hear about this thing all that often).
Yes, many people died on 9/11. Since then several attempts to sabotage planes have been stopped by the passengers. What do you think would be more fear inducing, another attack on a plane, or the detonation of a bomb at a pre-school or kindergarden? maybe a mall? how about the security line at the airport?
And the likely hood of some guy with an AK-47 behind me is more likely on an airplane why? It's more dangerous why? Seems to me there are plenty of random asshats and psychos that kill people in any number of situations, but for some reason airplanes get some magical special treatment. It's illogical.
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If you can't argue against the message, try to destroy the messenger is that it?
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Seriously it seems you just want to argue in circles and make random analogies that don't really fit.
UT is a game that took tons of developer time to create. Some modders take this base, add a few small elements, and a whole NEW thing is created. The mod is worthless without the UT game, but you can't really argue (at least not reasonably) that it isn't a new creation that adds value.
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Probably doesn't make this woman feel any better about it.
Of course none of this makes it actually okay in the first place.
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However after reading a bit more it looks like standard TSA incinerating the constitution with little to no oversight. As sad as it is I'm not overly surprised by it.
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Did I read that right?
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I'm sure that was simply an oversight.
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The first, that is commonly talked about, is the move from a scarce to a non-scarce product. They just don't seem to be able to break the value/price split that this brings to the table.
The second, which is talked about in a bit of a round about way, is the move from the advantage of scale to the leveling of the playing field. The entire reason they guys could be the 'gatekeepers' for so long was their ability of scale. The internet has now given everybody that ability of scale. What they could do (if they had any good standing in the community left) is move from gatekeeper to filter to help people connect to music they like. But instead they'll just give that up and die.
As Mike has noted before it's really worth trying to learn from this as this is going to happen to nearly all industries. The products don't even have to be infinite (as digital files aren't truly infinite anyway) it just has to be able to out produce demand.
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There is alot you can do to secure communication between two known parties. It gets significantly more difficult to ensure that the server you've connected to is who you think it is.
The existing model is actually pretty good (as we don't hear about this thing all that often).
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$12,000 = world
$120,000 (or something like that) = US.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16971-2004Nov1.html
And the likely hood of some guy with an AK-47 behind me is more likely on an airplane why? It's more dangerous why? Seems to me there are plenty of random asshats and psychos that kill people in any number of situations, but for some reason airplanes get some magical special treatment. It's illogical.
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