In Canada we pay a music tax. Every CD, tape, and digital recording device has a fee attached that the government collects from the consumer and gives to the recording industry. I am not making this up it's true:
It's called a royalty but it's a tax of 29 cents for each CD. I only use CD's and digital recorders for computer files that I created. So far there is no fee on DVDs but I can see that coming real soon. In Europe it's worse. Oddly you would think the recording industry would love this money for free setup but they tried to have the royalties removed after they lobbied to create it. It seems they didn't foresee the iPod:
I checked out the Schoolmax Web site. It does come across as "some crappy beltway bandit" as Joseph Durnal said. The content is all touchy-feely and no technical content at all.
At first we fail, then we fix it or go back to the old system of paper and pencil and work out a solution.
The failure of the launch is not surprising. A little procrastination and bungling by management, a little "can no longer hide that I'm incompetent" by a consultant and voila.
The $4M price tag is surprising. I design CRM/ERP systems. $4M would pay for a total CRM/ERP system usable by many fortune 500 companies. I see from the article that it is designed to support the 41,000 high school students in the county, but systems like this could support millions and still not cost so much.
Sorry, the wine choices are OK, but pot gives me a headache and the only cheap American beer I like are Rainier Yakima Red (the old Vitamin R) and Miller High-life (not that MGD crap). I'll settle for a 40 of Old English if it's really cold.
I might change my mind if the book has rude pictures.
True, but an education (or qualifying for the diploma if you prefer) is a sort of license to work in the profession. It proves that you can at least motivate yourself to accomplish something and have a basic knowledge of the profession. Of course, most people, me included, learn most of what we use in our jobs by ourselves and from co-workers.
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It's parody and therefore fair use and Flickr is simply censoring. But, it is Flickr's site and they can do anything they want. Or does providing a public forum for expression not allow you to judge and remove the content as long as it is not what is generally deemed offensive or dangerous? And what is that which is generally deemed offensive or dangerous? The debate could be endless. To be honest the image's artist does not seem to have been trying to make a point and is simply an artistic exercise that went viral. It's not any (and seems less) antagonistic than the much used Hitlerized images of the President the Republican nut jobs love brandishing at their mindless, political, gun toting hate rallies. You can cut the irony with a knife.
I suppose that's why the IQ tests were dropped from schools. It was too easy to label children that were still developing and create self fulfilling outcomes.
I guess "Flipper" is one of those Mensa members. IQ 166, same job as a government file clerk for 17 years, and expert at Dungeons and Dragons.
When I was in grade school they gave a series of IQ tests that all of the children took. I am careful and studious and answered most, not all, of the questions and got almost all of them correct. Students that went faster and attempted and did answer all of the questions but got many wrong were scored significantly higher than I was (I peeked). I thought: "What's the point of doing the work if the result is wrong?". I guess many of the children I was schooled with went on to run General Motors and work in the financial derivatives market.
What is good and what is bad or what determines a smart child and what is a dullard seems to be a fashion of the pop-psychology of the times.
I can see no harm done with the popularization of writing. The odd contractions used may not be grammatically correct but they are inventive and involved more gray matter than watching television. Yes, this is ill conceived, sensationalist drivel.
She's probably more the coke and Cristal champagne type. Rent a Ferrari, wear an Armani suit, and spend a butt load of money on her at a high end club, and then invite her back to your penthouse for "coffee" and see what happens.
skanky - Adjective
* S: (adj) disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky (highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust) "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
skank - Noun
* S: (n) filth, crud, skank (any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant)
* S: (n) skank (a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees)
skank - Verb
* S: (v) skank (dance the skank)
I would assume the person making the comment was using the term skank to express that Liskula Cohen's behavior or another atttribute is arousing aversion or disgust in the person. I do not think that this is libelous, just accurate. I believe the entire modeling industry to be very skanky.
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He who dies with the most lawyers wins.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy#Canada
http://www.cpcc.ca/english/index. htm
It's called a royalty but it's a tax of 29 cents for each CD. I only use CD's and digital recorders for computer files that I created. So far there is no fee on DVDs but I can see that coming real soon. In Europe it's worse. Oddly you would think the recording industry would love this money for free setup but they tried to have the royalties removed after they lobbied to create it. It seems they didn't foresee the iPod:
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2238/125/
I have said it before: I am never buying any music ever again unless it's directly from the artist.
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Schoolmax Sucks on Facebook
I checked out the Schoolmax Web site. It does come across as "some crappy beltway bandit" as Joseph Durnal said. The content is all touchy-feely and no technical content at all.
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The failure of the launch is not surprising. A little procrastination and bungling by management, a little "can no longer hide that I'm incompetent" by a consultant and voila.
The $4M price tag is surprising. I design CRM/ERP systems. $4M would pay for a total CRM/ERP system usable by many fortune 500 companies. I see from the article that it is designed to support the 41,000 high school students in the county, but systems like this could support millions and still not cost so much.
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I might change my mind if the book has rude pictures.
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Good for Her
If the behavior of Warner is true, and I imagine it is, I will go far out of my way not to buy any products from them.
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Finally
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Fair Use is Decided by the Guy with the Most Money and Lawyers
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I guess "Flipper" is one of those Mensa members. IQ 166, same job as a government file clerk for 17 years, and expert at Dungeons and Dragons.
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Re: Grrrrrrrrrrrr....
I agree, much of what is presented as news and scientific fact is simply corporate propaganda.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
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What is good and what is bad or what determines a smart child and what is a dullard seems to be a fashion of the pop-psychology of the times.
I can see no harm done with the popularization of writing. The odd contractions used may not be grammatically correct but they are inventive and involved more gray matter than watching television. Yes, this is ill conceived, sensationalist drivel.
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Re: Lisa Cohen's skankiness..
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Prove She's a Skank
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Definition of Skank
skanky - Adjective
* S: (adj) disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky (highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust) "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
skank - Noun
* S: (n) filth, crud, skank (any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant)
* S: (n) skank (a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees)
skank - Verb
* S: (v) skank (dance the skank)
I would assume the person making the comment was using the term skank to express that Liskula Cohen's behavior or another atttribute is arousing aversion or disgust in the person. I do not think that this is libelous, just accurate. I believe the entire modeling industry to be very skanky.
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