i watch one program on broadcast TV because i can't wait to watch the download (which i usually get 4 hours later), and the whole process seems so decadent and wasteful.
the program takes like 65 minutes, instead of 40, i have to watch the clock until it comes on, it gets constantly interrupted with commercials, and they're the same commercials over and over.
that kind of reckless inefficiency makes me feel like i'm doing something bad, like driving a humvee or eating an endangered animal.
NO! Then the Germans...wait, the Russians...wait, the terrorists...wait, the Iraqis....wait....who are we supposed to be afraid of now? Is it the formics yet?
it's eurasia. it's always been eurasia and it always will be eastasia.
"justification for ripping off music "
- I missed that part of Mikes post, please point out exactly where that is.
that's the problem with you freetards. you're all "facts" and "examples" and not enough "feelings".
i feel that this blog is an elaborate ruse to sucker everyone in to illegal file sharing, and possibly gay marriage, and i don't need your "facts" distracting everyone from paying attention to me!
I know them. I'm paying attention to them. I'm unsure where you got the idea that they were unknown and unpopular.
uh, if they were as popular as you claim, they wouldn't have time to connect with their fans and give them a reason to buy.
nice try thanks thieves good luck with that LOL what internet stealing illegal piracy.
That makes absolutely zero sense.
his argument is that radio pop is mass market and it gets downloaded in mass quantities. he thinks this is wrong because it bucks an 80 year old tradition.
one way to rise above the tide would be to make the sort of content that inspires people to support you, like the band that you mentioned.
another way is to shout "HEY INTERNET! GET OFF MY LAWN!"
I know them. I'm paying attention to them. I'm unsure where you got the idea that they were unknown and unpopular.
uh, if they were as popular as you claim, they wouldn't have time to connect with their fans and give them a reason to buy.
nice try thanks thieves good luck with that LOL what internet stealing illegal piracy.
That makes absolutely zero sense.
his argument is that radio pop is mass market and it gets downloaded in mass quantities. he thinks this is wrong because it bucks an 80 year old tradition.
one way to rise above the tide would be to make the sort of content that inspires people to support you, like the band that you mentioned.
another way is to shout "HEY INTERNET! GET OFF MY LAWN!"
The first copyright law was a censorship law. It had nothing to do with protecting the rights of authors, or encouraging them to produce new works. Authors' rights were in no danger in sixteenth-century England, and the recent arrival of the printing press (the world's first copying machine) was if anything energizing to writers. So energizing, in fact, that the English government grew concerned about too many works being produced, not too few. The new technology was making seditious reading material widely available for the first time, and the government urgently needed to control the flood of printed matter, censorship being as legitimate an administrative function then as building roads.
The method the government chose was to establish a guild of private-sector censors, the London Company of Stationers, whose profits would depend on how well they performed their function. The Stationers were granted a royal monopoly over all printing in England, old works as well as new, in return for keeping a strict eye on what was printed. Their charter gave them not only exclusive right to print, but also the right to search out and confiscate unauthorized presses and books, and even to burn illegally printed books. No book could be printed until it was entered in the company's Register, and no work could be added to the Register until it had passed the crown's censor, or had been self-censored by the Stationers. The Company of Stationers became, in effect, the government's private, for-profit information police force.
The system was quite openly designed to serve booksellers and the government, not authors. New books were entered in the Company's Register under a Company member's name, not the author's name. By convention, the member who registered the entry held the "copyright", the exclusive right to publish that book, over other members of the Company, and the Company's Court of Assistants resolved infringement disputes.
the patience and sensitivity required for good customer service rarely lasts long enough for a person to learn the ins and outs of the job. once you do customer service long enough to be good at it, you're basically jaded and cynical and don't really belong in customer service any more.
this is compounded by the fact that customer service capabilities and technical abilities are mutually exclusive. you just can't have a good understanding of technology without some basic intelligence, and that basic intelligence sort of precludes the warm-fuzzies. there are exceptions out there of course, but for the most part an effective technician has a lousy bedside manner. once you become aware of the line between basically intelligent people and the sort of people who need hand holding, it's really hard to stay focused on being patient and understanding.
and you see this in way more than just the tech sector. after a certain amount of time, and answering the same questions over and over and dealing with the same issues over and over, you get this sort of "service fatigue" that makes it really hard to put yourself in someone else's shoes. i've seen it in health care, like ER staff who assume everyone that comes in is faking it to get drugs, or legal types that assume everyone is guilty, or food service types who assume that everyone is a petty tyrant.
if you ask me, good customer service is about picking the right customers. if your product or service is not right for a given sector of the population, you should have a simple mechanism for refunds that lets you free yourself from unhappy customers as quickly and painlessly as possible. that mechanism should be available to your first tier support personnel to make the whole process short and sweet.
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after being internet only, broadcast TV is weird
the program takes like 65 minutes, instead of 40, i have to watch the clock until it comes on, it gets constantly interrupted with commercials, and they're the same commercials over and over.
that kind of reckless inefficiency makes me feel like i'm doing something bad, like driving a humvee or eating an endangered animal.
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it's eurasia. it's always been eurasia and it always will be eastasia.
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true. but the ones i actually liked lately have come from sweden.
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- I missed that part of Mikes post, please point out exactly where that is.
that's the problem with you freetards. you're all "facts" and "examples" and not enough "feelings".
i feel that this blog is an elaborate ruse to sucker everyone in to illegal file sharing, and possibly gay marriage, and i don't need your "facts" distracting everyone from paying attention to me!
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uh, if they were as popular as you claim, they wouldn't have time to connect with their fans and give them a reason to buy.
nice try thanks thieves good luck with that LOL what internet stealing illegal piracy.
That makes absolutely zero sense.
his argument is that radio pop is mass market and it gets downloaded in mass quantities. he thinks this is wrong because it bucks an 80 year old tradition.
one way to rise above the tide would be to make the sort of content that inspires people to support you, like the band that you mentioned.
another way is to shout "HEY INTERNET! GET OFF MY LAWN!"
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uh, if they were as popular as you claim, they wouldn't have time to connect with their fans and give them a reason to buy.
nice try thanks thieves good luck with that LOL what internet stealing illegal piracy.
That makes absolutely zero sense.
his argument is that radio pop is mass market and it gets downloaded in mass quantities. he thinks this is wrong because it bucks an 80 year old tradition.
one way to rise above the tide would be to make the sort of content that inspires people to support you, like the band that you mentioned.
another way is to shout "HEY INTERNET! GET OFF MY LAWN!"
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copyright can be used to censor the speech of critics because copyright law has its basis in censorship:
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"humanity" has a shelf life
this is compounded by the fact that customer service capabilities and technical abilities are mutually exclusive. you just can't have a good understanding of technology without some basic intelligence, and that basic intelligence sort of precludes the warm-fuzzies. there are exceptions out there of course, but for the most part an effective technician has a lousy bedside manner. once you become aware of the line between basically intelligent people and the sort of people who need hand holding, it's really hard to stay focused on being patient and understanding.
and you see this in way more than just the tech sector. after a certain amount of time, and answering the same questions over and over and dealing with the same issues over and over, you get this sort of "service fatigue" that makes it really hard to put yourself in someone else's shoes. i've seen it in health care, like ER staff who assume everyone that comes in is faking it to get drugs, or legal types that assume everyone is guilty, or food service types who assume that everyone is a petty tyrant.
if you ask me, good customer service is about picking the right customers. if your product or service is not right for a given sector of the population, you should have a simple mechanism for refunds that lets you free yourself from unhappy customers as quickly and painlessly as possible. that mechanism should be available to your first tier support personnel to make the whole process short and sweet.
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i thought that was how pirate radio worked.
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