That could definitely work for a label with a lot of bands that have similar sounds that fans are likely to enjoy across the board.
Obviously, this needs a label with a fairly large catalog of artists and songs. Otherwise you'd burn through it all at one go and have no reason to renew your subscription. But I think this would work even better for a label with a very diverse catalog than one with a very homogeneous sound. Having all the music sound the same is as bad as having only a few songs. There's no reason to continue the subscription if there's no novelty.
Been seeing this view a lot too. People think of the "laws of economics" like legislation where someone wrote down 'this is how it shall be'. And that's completely wrong.
Economics is like meteorology. It's the study of an incredibly complex system, we only understand a tiny fraction of it, and the more we futz with it the worse things get. We don't make the rules, we're still trying to figure out what they are.
But with the economy, it's worse than that. Someone is trying to make the rules too. But that's like writing an almanac and expecting the weather to follow that plan.
If introducing a new technology significantly changes or invalidates your law, it was a poorly written law to begin with. That isn't to say it should be written even more broadly; rather, laws should be platform-independent.
As to the story at hand, a blogger has much more editorial freedom to pursue stories than any old-media "journalist". An editor-in-chief can ban-hammer his reporters' stories because of political pressure but that action just becomes another post for the blogger. The blogger is investigative reporter, editorial staff, and media conglomerate all in one. They can focus on the in-depth reports and hyper-local interest that old media no longer adequately covers.
Just because no trees were harmed in publishing the story doesn't make it any less journalism, or any less deserving of journalists' shield laws.
The local shops here reserve the right to not honor a misprint or typo error in their printed sales circulars. They started including that in fine print, I guess to protect themselves against just this sort of thing. They probably snuck that in a while ago but it caught my eye the other day.
"The sales flyer offers whatchamajiggers for $4.99 but they rang up at $14.99? Oh well so sorry, the typesetter screwed up and they really are supposed to be $14.99."
Jammie probably shared media she wasn't authorized to share, and possibly didn't even mean to. But how many of us really know how to configure a file server? *crickets* Exactly. Then she likely tried to destroy the evidence against her.
And all that gave the RIAA their first and only court victory against "piracy". But that's what? A 0.00001% trial success rate? And their own actions after the verdict will be brought up showing that even the RIAA thinks the reward was too much. The way they distanced themselves, they knew they couldn't defend getting a judgement that high.
I hated Catcher in the Rye. A lot of it was just a general level of teenage counter-culture anger growing up as Generation X. But I also specifically hated my english teacher who assigned that stupid book. I get that it's a classic; Mark Twain said that classics are the books everyone wishes they had read. If there's any "market influence" to be had, it's against me ever reading a sequel of that book.
I'd like to see voice recognition software get my street name right. Telemarketers can't get it right even when it's spelled out for them. Not a bad thing really.
"What... is your company?"
"What... is your product?"
"What... is the correct pronunciation of Conicogegue?"
sproing, into the chasm every time!
Just like ex post facto protected her against the flurry of "arrest lori" laws, double jeopardy is lori's safe haven now. Unless the prosecutors have new evidence that significantly impacts the facts of the case. and if they had any real evidence against her, they should've used it at the first trial.
This is a major win for rule of law. Hopefully this case will establish a precedent; just because the loud ones are morally outraged by a tragic set of circumstances, doesn't make it illegal.
wonder why some enterprising person hasn't figured out a way to modify Boxee so that it reports itself as a different browser?
That was actually one of the first things Boxee did was edit the agent so they looked like one of the approved browsers. The content providers still weren't satisfied.
Firefox lets you full-screen what's playing, and I think that looks good enough for me, so the whole siege was really quite irrelevant and distracting. Especially for Mac-only software, which Boxee was at the time.
Adam needs to reject their reality and substitute his own.
At least that appears to be what AT&T is doing with that .015 cents == a penny and a half. Is this that self-actualization math that was so popular with the schools about a decade ago? They actually tried that at our school. Two plus two could equal five if you felt good about the answer. Two plus two equals five only for very large values of two!
Well said. I like having insurance in case something major comes up, but the way things are set up, there is no reason for me to choose a cost-effective solution over the half-dozen things the doctor wants to try.
The proper way to fix things isn't to subsidize care for everyone, but re-align the incentives for patients, doctors, and insurance companies to prefer prevention and cost-effective solutions.
Every version of universal healthcare I've seen is just obligating the government to subsidize the current system. That will only build in more inefficiency and allow costs to continue spiraling upward.
A major reason why the system is so broken and expensive is that there are no market forces to drive costs down. None of us here know how much our medical care costs. And I don't mean knowing your co-pay, or even your premium. That's like the cell phone bill that hides how much the handset is subsidized. You don't know the costs so you can't do any cost-benefit analysis or even just comparison shopping.
That's the demand curve, now lets take a look at supply. The medical care providers have set themselves up as the gatekeepers. They've enacted artificial scarcity as an institution in a way the recording industry can only dream of. You can't go to your wilderness first responder trained neighbor for medical care. No, you have to go to the emerald city to see the licensed, degreed, debt-saddled, priest of the sacred order.
So the correct answer is to drop all of these stupid universal debt-accumulation plans because that's all these plans can do is increase costs. Instead, expose the costs to the consumer so proper economic forces can put prices where they belong.
Of course, there's also a whole field of study on suppressing these operational security indicators.
There's a pizza shop owner in the District that got interviewed a while back. He said he knew about the start of Operation Desert Storm because the 'anonymous beige office building' across the street changed their buying pattern. Lots of big orders late at night, for almost a week leading up to it.
Some quarterback used to always give away the play. If he was blowing on his fingertips when he came on the field, it was going to be a passing game. If he wasn't blowing, they were running it. Gave up plays for almost a whole season. Til it was pointed out, then he just randomly blew on his fingers and the other teams couldn't use it as a reliable indicator anymore.
The reason they went after The Pirate Bay instead of Google is that, relatively speaking, TPB is a 98 lbs. weakling. If you are stupid enough to go after the ten ton behemoth, consider yourself very lucky when GOOG just buys you out. Take the settlement and STFU. The other option is that Larry and Sergei roust up the lawyers from their coffee breaks. And then they steamroll you, rofl-stomping your face into the pavement.
Steam and Blizzard control my computer. And now that Blizzard's Battle.net lets you reload the client over the web, it made things much easier to upgrade since I didn't have to go hunt down all the game discs.
I've told this story before but it bears repeating.
There's a local company here whose stated business model is to spam-vertise the neighbors. The only business model more DOA is charging for infinity, I think.
Anyway, one of the restaurants in town apparently hired them for their media campaign and they sent me a text ad to my phone. Well I walked over to that restaurant and asked the owner what was up with the spam. He didn't know that he was spamming his potential customers. We sat down at the bar while he got the owner of the spam-vertising company to come over. He told the guy off and canceled the ad contract in front of the entire lunch crowd.
It would be the job of the newspapers' fact checker to make sure they were using the right picture. Unfortunately they were all fired years ago.
Can you remind me again why we need to keep them in business?
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Obviously, this needs a label with a fairly large catalog of artists and songs. Otherwise you'd burn through it all at one go and have no reason to renew your subscription. But I think this would work even better for a label with a very diverse catalog than one with a very homogeneous sound. Having all the music sound the same is as bad as having only a few songs. There's no reason to continue the subscription if there's no novelty.
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Re: model of infinite and scarce goods
Economics is like meteorology. It's the study of an incredibly complex system, we only understand a tiny fraction of it, and the more we futz with it the worse things get. We don't make the rules, we're still trying to figure out what they are.
But with the economy, it's worse than that. Someone is trying to make the rules too. But that's like writing an almanac and expecting the weather to follow that plan.
On the post: Judge Says Blogs Not Legitimate News Source; No Shield Protections
journalism without trees
As to the story at hand, a blogger has much more editorial freedom to pursue stories than any old-media "journalist". An editor-in-chief can ban-hammer his reporters' stories because of political pressure but that action just becomes another post for the blogger. The blogger is investigative reporter, editorial staff, and media conglomerate all in one. They can focus on the in-depth reports and hyper-local interest that old media no longer adequately covers.
Just because no trees were harmed in publishing the story doesn't make it any less journalism, or any less deserving of journalists' shield laws.
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Re:
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u no can haz discount
"The sales flyer offers whatchamajiggers for $4.99 but they rang up at $14.99? Oh well so sorry, the typesetter screwed up and they really are supposed to be $14.99."
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lets tally this up
And all that gave the RIAA their first and only court victory against "piracy". But that's what? A 0.00001% trial success rate? And their own actions after the verdict will be brought up showing that even the RIAA thinks the reward was too much. The way they distanced themselves, they knew they couldn't defend getting a judgement that high.
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yeah sure yankee spell this...
"What... is your company?"
"What... is your product?"
"What... is the correct pronunciation of Conicogegue?"
sproing, into the chasm every time!
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IANAL, but i play one online
This is a major win for rule of law. Hopefully this case will establish a precedent; just because the loud ones are morally outraged by a tragic set of circumstances, doesn't make it illegal.
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Re:
That was actually one of the first things Boxee did was edit the agent so they looked like one of the approved browsers. The content providers still weren't satisfied.
Firefox lets you full-screen what's playing, and I think that looks good enough for me, so the whole siege was really quite irrelevant and distracting. Especially for Mac-only software, which Boxee was at the time.
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am i missing an eyebrow?
At least that appears to be what AT&T is doing with that .015 cents == a penny and a half. Is this that self-actualization math that was so popular with the schools about a decade ago? They actually tried that at our school. Two plus two could equal five if you felt good about the answer. Two plus two equals five only for very large values of two!
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Re: Re: Re: This is so far off the mark...
The proper way to fix things isn't to subsidize care for everyone, but re-align the incentives for patients, doctors, and insurance companies to prefer prevention and cost-effective solutions.
On the post: Why The Healthcare Industry Doesn't Want Electronic Medical Records
Re:
A major reason why the system is so broken and expensive is that there are no market forces to drive costs down. None of us here know how much our medical care costs. And I don't mean knowing your co-pay, or even your premium. That's like the cell phone bill that hides how much the handset is subsidized. You don't know the costs so you can't do any cost-benefit analysis or even just comparison shopping.
That's the demand curve, now lets take a look at supply. The medical care providers have set themselves up as the gatekeepers. They've enacted artificial scarcity as an institution in a way the recording industry can only dream of. You can't go to your wilderness first responder trained neighbor for medical care. No, you have to go to the emerald city to see the licensed, degreed, debt-saddled, priest of the sacred order.
So the correct answer is to drop all of these stupid universal debt-accumulation plans because that's all these plans can do is increase costs. Instead, expose the costs to the consumer so proper economic forces can put prices where they belong.
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indicators
There's a pizza shop owner in the District that got interviewed a while back. He said he knew about the start of Operation Desert Storm because the 'anonymous beige office building' across the street changed their buying pattern. Lots of big orders late at night, for almost a week leading up to it.
Some quarterback used to always give away the play. If he was blowing on his fingertips when he came on the field, it was going to be a passing game. If he wasn't blowing, they were running it. Gave up plays for almost a whole season. Til it was pointed out, then he just randomly blew on his fingers and the other teams couldn't use it as a reliable indicator anymore.
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dont wake the giant
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don't spam locals, they can come over
There's a local company here whose stated business model is to spam-vertise the neighbors. The only business model more DOA is charging for infinity, I think.
Anyway, one of the restaurants in town apparently hired them for their media campaign and they sent me a text ad to my phone. Well I walked over to that restaurant and asked the owner what was up with the spam. He didn't know that he was spamming his potential customers. We sat down at the bar while he got the owner of the spam-vertising company to come over. He told the guy off and canceled the ad contract in front of the entire lunch crowd.
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fact-checkers'r'not-us
Can you remind me again why we need to keep them in business?
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bit bucket
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