Still not as arrogant/ignorant as saying "my little corner of the world is all that exists". Can't blame the people of the time but what's the excuse of those alive today?
"Obviously the whole "entire world being flooded and Noah having an ark in which he had two of every animal" thing is the stuff of fables"
Actually, the Sumerians had a nearly identical account of an event though on a scale far less grand that that of Noah in Torah/Bible. So, who knows: probably has a very real basis...
I'm afraid I don't totally agree with Mike here. Just the other day I was reading a post dedicated to societal pressure as a way to change behaviour. Sounds to me like that's exactly what the band is doing. Saying that those who can pay and don't are "bad people" is exactly that. And, technically, he is right about that. I'm not a psychologist but it would also be interesting to hear from someone who knows human motivations whether a person who can afford to pay for music and doesn't even do that is likely to become a kind of person that would dedicate his/her won time to help the band in other ways.
I'm not saying that the band's strategy is a good one. As Mike said: "You can make people feel good about buying something, or you can focus on making them feel bad if they don't buy." And as, literally, a century worth of research shows, that positive reinforcement is much more efficient than the negative one.
Besides, what about atheists? Can we have a clear conscience about downloading Elbow's music even if we can pay for it?
So let's see... they have patented this and that means that other banks cannot do that... Sounds like they are doing their best to send the customers to other banks... Bailout!
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Actually, the Sumerians had a nearly identical account of an event though on a scale far less grand that that of Noah in Torah/Bible. So, who knows: probably has a very real basis...
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How low can we go?
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Re: User based themes...
"My other username is Dark Helmet"? ;-) I think that would probably end up being the most popular one!
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What's illegal
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100427/2329349205.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20 100305/1139318439.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100207/2246518070.shtml
http://www.tech dirt.com/articles/20100118/0311057792.shtml
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Or one can just click on the "Italy" tag and keep reading, reading, reading...
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Just a suggestion
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And another thing...
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There's a first for everything...
I'm not saying that the band's strategy is a good one. As Mike said: "You can make people feel good about buying something, or you can focus on making them feel bad if they don't buy." And as, literally, a century worth of research shows, that positive reinforcement is much more efficient than the negative one.
Besides, what about atheists? Can we have a clear conscience about downloading Elbow's music even if we can pay for it?
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All the power to them...
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