ehh, book publishes have a hope, due to providing more services than simple distribution already and the nature of the product. if they do it right.
as for tv studios, Someone needs to actually Make things, so, again, possibly not screwed. networks though...
but yes, anyone who's business is based entirely around 'distribution' and uses copyright monopolies to restrict access in pursuit of that is in trouble.
or perhaps it could just be that these old things work fine, and that there was a ridiculous bubble that allowed the last little while's silliness in the industry, which has come to an end?
monopoly controls mask other natural market tendencies. copyright is a monopoly. the 'illegal activity' is the result of the internet treating a monopoly on information as censorship, assessing censorship as damage, and routing around it. the illegal activity here isn't skewing the market. the LAWS are skewing the market and reality, and thus the market, is neatly routing around it.
the technology no longer permits the ridiculousness of the 'old' model (which is crazy 'new' when compared to the history of Music.) it is, in fact, encouraging a return to older models, where musicians didn't become millionaires by winning the label lottery, but instead made a (fairly basic) living if they were any good, and a good one if they had other skills to combine with their artistic ability.
so, large corporations who serve little purpose but to screw all parties to pay disinterested and short term profit mad shareholders and executives fall by the wayside. so what? the skills of pretty much every worker other than the musicians themselves in that system carry over to other industries fairly well, and the Musicians are only getting screwed if they follow the label pattern of bitching and suing rather than looking at how they make their money and adapting.
i invite you to browse techdirt's archives for a large number of success stories with regards to just that. for the musicians. you know, the people these organisations supposedly represent and rip off on a regular basis?
the fact is that the middle man of the recording 'industry' is basically hosed unless they realise that their job is not selling shiny plastic disks, or even music, really. it's facilitating the Musicians ability to make money off their work. something this so called industry hasn't done in a Long time. (well, the larger and loud parts of it).
... i dunno, some parts of china are pretty epic on the whole pollution scale thing...
that said, we don't hear much about polution in the USA here, so who knows? *shrugs* parts of eastern europe used to be pretty terrible too. don't know what they're like now.
on the maths one:
My dad likes to tell the story of how he asked one of his maths teachers fairly early on at highschool what the point was in the subject and was told 'you just have to learn it'... and then just stopped bothering. never learnt another thing in maths at school.
later on he went to polytech to get some qualifications or something and one of the classes he had to take to get it was basically highschool maths to make up for this *laughs*
... i actually learnt a chunk of maths i'd missed out on due to health reasons out of his old textbook from that, come to think of it.
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actually, a lot of places Used to split students at high-school level into a more academic set and a more practical set. the former would tend to go on to university, the latter into apprenticeships. most have had their education quality Drop since they stopped doing this.
education was still fairly broad within those divisions though, and with institutions such as the way polytechs now work in New Zealand there someone who went through the more practical branch could then work through the other stuff as well (it's not uncommon for people to go through polytech here and Then go to university for the same thing... end up with the same qualification at the end, just takes longer and they get the earlier stuff taught in a different style which suits more hands on people better)
and this isn't even a 'dumbing down', because under the current system anyone who doesn't fit the absolute average misses out (unless they're just all around brilliant. but if you're really good at one thing and bad at another, you're not going to get the education you should in the first and will fail horribly at the latter)
humm... i'm not explaining this very well, but splitting things up along at least general lines in terms of learning style should improve education quality.
of course, so does having teachers who aren't terrible, curriculum that make sense, and not loading the teachers with administrative duties to the point where they don't have time to plan lessons (and most basically don't get holidays, whatever their contracts may say, because that's the time they DO have to sort lesson plans... )
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to be fair, teaching the reading of English phonetically requires some 63 or so replacement rules and adaption to accents and all sorts of fun stuff due the stupidity of the orthography + vowels, and there's no way to actually get the spelling right based on the sound for the same reason.
also, 'at that time'? it's still ongoing in a lot of places.
(not really disagreeing with your point here though)
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it would also help if English orthography didn't suck in every variation and if this stuff was Taught Properly.
seriously, so many people learn a lot better if you explain the logic behind stuff. even spelling. at least when i went to school spelling was just taught by rote lists... of course people are going to get these things wrong when it's never clearly explained when which should be used.
(note: i don't live in the USA)
example: that classic 'f for th' thing resulted in some of the kids in my primary school class saying 'fink' instead of 'think' a lot. repeated corrections didn't make it stick until one teacher got sick of it and actually went and looked up the dictionary and told the class what 'fink' meant. the fact that they were Different Words with Different Meanings stuck, and i don't think i heard that mispronunciation again in the entire time i was at that school.
'course, the meaning of 'fink' might have had something to do with that one.
I dunno... this kind of thing has happened in other places in the past, and it's not always about sex. i suspect it's more your high ranking members of society's attitude towards law and what it's purpose is that's the issue here.
there's the 'all actual wrongs are wrong and should be resisted' concept
then there's the 'some wrongs are more wrong than others and no one should complain about the lesser ones because they're not the bigger ones' concept.
there may be more, but if one can't see the problem with the second concept, one really should be removed from any situation where one can interact with other human beings.
Not really. He's pointing out an actual flaw in the idea.
You, however, apparently don't have an answer you understand well enough to explain. Which doesn't make you a moron, but does make it likely you are at least partially wrong, or at least need to think about it.
Calling other people names for raising valid issues with your logic does not do wonders for other people's estimation of the validity of your opinion, however.
actually, one can do fun things with all the possible values of 'exist'. by some ethics do. Their existence is more ... real?... than unicorns, for example, which do exist: as a mythical creature in various contexts, and a real creature in some fiction.
(seriously, i had this issue come up in a conversation about God on a fairly serious site which was focusing on philosophy and such... 'existence' has layers of meaning. you're using 'real' to specify one, but it doesn't Exclude it from existing. of course, they're certainly not a physical, tangible object, but neither are emotions, exactly. )
none of which is terribly important because i suspect most people got your point.
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this is the Entire Point of the Internet, right from it's military origins.
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of course, the drivers are terrible in other ways here instead, but whatever :D
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(sorry, instinctive reaction to assumptions of the USA's awesomeness)
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as for tv studios, Someone needs to actually Make things, so, again, possibly not screwed. networks though...
but yes, anyone who's business is based entirely around 'distribution' and uses copyright monopolies to restrict access in pursuit of that is in trouble.
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monopoly controls mask other natural market tendencies. copyright is a monopoly. the 'illegal activity' is the result of the internet treating a monopoly on information as censorship, assessing censorship as damage, and routing around it. the illegal activity here isn't skewing the market. the LAWS are skewing the market and reality, and thus the market, is neatly routing around it.
the technology no longer permits the ridiculousness of the 'old' model (which is crazy 'new' when compared to the history of Music.) it is, in fact, encouraging a return to older models, where musicians didn't become millionaires by winning the label lottery, but instead made a (fairly basic) living if they were any good, and a good one if they had other skills to combine with their artistic ability.
so, large corporations who serve little purpose but to screw all parties to pay disinterested and short term profit mad shareholders and executives fall by the wayside. so what? the skills of pretty much every worker other than the musicians themselves in that system carry over to other industries fairly well, and the Musicians are only getting screwed if they follow the label pattern of bitching and suing rather than looking at how they make their money and adapting.
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the fact is that the middle man of the recording 'industry' is basically hosed unless they realise that their job is not selling shiny plastic disks, or even music, really. it's facilitating the Musicians ability to make money off their work. something this so called industry hasn't done in a Long time. (well, the larger and loud parts of it).
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that said, we don't hear much about polution in the USA here, so who knows? *shrugs* parts of eastern europe used to be pretty terrible too. don't know what they're like now.
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My dad likes to tell the story of how he asked one of his maths teachers fairly early on at highschool what the point was in the subject and was told 'you just have to learn it'... and then just stopped bothering. never learnt another thing in maths at school.
later on he went to polytech to get some qualifications or something and one of the classes he had to take to get it was basically highschool maths to make up for this *laughs*
... i actually learnt a chunk of maths i'd missed out on due to health reasons out of his old textbook from that, come to think of it.
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education was still fairly broad within those divisions though, and with institutions such as the way polytechs now work in New Zealand there someone who went through the more practical branch could then work through the other stuff as well (it's not uncommon for people to go through polytech here and Then go to university for the same thing... end up with the same qualification at the end, just takes longer and they get the earlier stuff taught in a different style which suits more hands on people better)
and this isn't even a 'dumbing down', because under the current system anyone who doesn't fit the absolute average misses out (unless they're just all around brilliant. but if you're really good at one thing and bad at another, you're not going to get the education you should in the first and will fail horribly at the latter)
humm... i'm not explaining this very well, but splitting things up along at least general lines in terms of learning style should improve education quality.
of course, so does having teachers who aren't terrible, curriculum that make sense, and not loading the teachers with administrative duties to the point where they don't have time to plan lessons (and most basically don't get holidays, whatever their contracts may say, because that's the time they DO have to sort lesson plans... )
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also, 'at that time'? it's still ongoing in a lot of places.
(not really disagreeing with your point here though)
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seriously, so many people learn a lot better if you explain the logic behind stuff. even spelling. at least when i went to school spelling was just taught by rote lists... of course people are going to get these things wrong when it's never clearly explained when which should be used.
(note: i don't live in the USA)
example: that classic 'f for th' thing resulted in some of the kids in my primary school class saying 'fink' instead of 'think' a lot. repeated corrections didn't make it stick until one teacher got sick of it and actually went and looked up the dictionary and told the class what 'fink' meant. the fact that they were Different Words with Different Meanings stuck, and i don't think i heard that mispronunciation again in the entire time i was at that school.
'course, the meaning of 'fink' might have had something to do with that one.
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they're two very different things.
this was far more the latter than the former. kinda like if you heard someone say the same thing to his mates, ya know?
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there's the 'all actual wrongs are wrong and should be resisted' concept
then there's the 'some wrongs are more wrong than others and no one should complain about the lesser ones because they're not the bigger ones' concept.
there may be more, but if one can't see the problem with the second concept, one really should be removed from any situation where one can interact with other human beings.
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You, however, apparently don't have an answer you understand well enough to explain. Which doesn't make you a moron, but does make it likely you are at least partially wrong, or at least need to think about it.
Calling other people names for raising valid issues with your logic does not do wonders for other people's estimation of the validity of your opinion, however.
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(seriously, i had this issue come up in a conversation about God on a fairly serious site which was focusing on philosophy and such... 'existence' has layers of meaning. you're using 'real' to specify one, but it doesn't Exclude it from existing. of course, they're certainly not a physical, tangible object, but neither are emotions, exactly. )
none of which is terribly important because i suspect most people got your point.
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