What kind of moron focuses on a GPS? It tells you when to turn and you turn. That doesn't take much focus. It's nice that you still think maps are worth something, and I won't try to stop you from navigating the slow way, but most of us here think of a map as the navigational equivalent of sending a paper letter through the Post Office.
More importantly, when you said "pull over", my mind immediately jumped to in-car disciplinary action. I can't remember a single time in my life that we've had to pull over for navigational purposes.
I put data on my laptop because I want it on my laptop, and don't think much about what I should or shouldn't bring on a vacation. The default setting for laptop-related things is to be in the laptop, and if I don't want to bring something I need to specifically search for and remove it. I put stuff in my luggage because I want to bring it with me on a vacation. The default setting for luggage-stuff is anywhere but the luggage, and if I want to bring something I need to specifically search for and add it. Do you see the distinction?
"And, for me... if, as a consequence of nurturing this amazing thing, called the internet... if as a consequence of letting that do what it wants, we destroy a number of industries, including the record business, and maybe even including the rock star business, I think that humanity will be better off." seems pretty clear. And yes, the industries aren't really mutually exclusive; note the ifs. What they mean is that, in the hypothetical scenario that the Internet and music industry engage in a fight to the death, the Internet is that one he'd root for. Maybe there's some conceptual bait-and-switch there when moving from music industry to copyright, but given the views expressed in that first quoted paragraph, I find it hard to believe that he'd side against the Internet in the hypothetical scenario of its existence meaning people can't be legally required to attach his name to their freely redistributed copy.
They're incompetent buffoons because their recommendations don't logically follow from the knowledge and information they've detected and could make navigation more difficult with little to no benefit for safe driving. Yes, too much information can be hazardous. That does not mean that any information is hazardous. A GPS is more useful than it is dangerous, provided you don't get hypnotized by its amazing continually updated display. That's not as big an assumption as you seem to think, as doing so would require Darwin Awards-level stupidity, which isn't prevalent enough to determine even unenforced policy.
"It's a fact that the guidelines they've published provide some insight into how to reduce the distractions from GPS and other devices."
Providing details about how a general category of things is problematic and then jumping to saying that a specific part of a particular member of that category should be removed isn't actually that insightful or useful. For one thing, there's no evidence that a moving GPS screen is ever the cause of driver distraction, and I can just as easily argue that a slow-updating one keeps your eyes off the road longer:
A continuously updating GPS means that you can glance at it at any time and expect it to be correct, where with one that updates every few seconds you'll need to wait a few seconds to see where you currently are, potentially keeping your eyes off the road longer. Therefore, to reduce driver distraction, information should always be presented in as accurate and timely a manner as possible.
"You call publishing that information so that it's accessible to people who have an interest in it evidence of incompetence."
That bit was nice. Governmental organizations should always make it that easy to see what they're doing. The content of the information would ideally be better, though.
"You should probably hope that your boss has a slightly different definition of what constitutes incompetence."
I certainly do hope my boss judges my competence by my ability to make things available for online reading. I'd hardly ever have to do any real work.
"NO, their job is to provide guidelines which improve safety when operating motor vehicles on public roads."
Then they should probably focus on that, instead of proposing policies that sound like they might possibly fit a general idea of fixing a cause of one particular kind of car accident if you've never actually been in a car.
"They are saying that moving images distract drivers and that is true."
Mirrors also display moving images. While moving images may distract drivers in some cases, the elimination of a tool for having moving images is not always wise.
"They are saying that too much text requires drivers to divert their eyes from the road for too long, that is true."
No, it's not. Most text is habitually ignored, and it doesn't take long for a person to pick up on which sections of a screen actually matter. Checking Facebook while driving is stupid, but the display shown in the article would also be a violation of the guidelines, and no one's ever crashed because they were reading about the different kinds of radio signals their car can pick up.
This is, indeed, proof of the effects of piracy, just not the effects you're looking for. Who would've heard of this guy if not for him giving away his music?
Shouldn't SoundExchange be shut down for the duration of the trial? I thought that that was what you were supposed to do when an organization was potentially doing something illegal.
You're making this more complicated than it needs to be. Let's try getting majority shares in DirecTV before jumping to funding our own lunar expeditions.
Critical mass would be achieved by going viral, being mentioned on popular music-related sites, stuff like that. It happens for everything now, and I suspect it'll be easier to do once independent artists aren't being buried under the labels' advertising budgets. And if it isn't, then world tours won't happen, and people will have to go to wherever an artist lives to see them live. That's not the end of the world, it's not the end of music, and it'll contribute to tourism of areas that have a lot of good bands. Why is paying the tab such a necessity?
Reality is the guy that this article is talking about made half a million dollars with music licensed in Creative Commons. The pie in the sky is now the labels' idea of being indispensable to musicians.
Of course he's a freetard. He hasn't even payed for a lobbyist or a DRM scheme or anything, and he just expects people to give him money? That's not how real life works.
Is this a mere statement of fact or do you think it relates to the guy asking people to pirate his movie? If the first, fine, though I think it's ridiculous that the distributor couldn't even be bothered to put it on Netflix. If the second, no matter who made mistakes in the deal, there are no lost sales when someone pirates something that isn't being sold.
My favorite explanation of alternative voting is "It's where you say 'When you go to the shop, get me a Mars bar. If they don't have any, get me a Crunchie. And if they don't have any of those, get me a Boost.' instead of saying 'When you go to the shop, get me a Mars bar.' and then your friend brings you back a pineapple."
Google doesn't need to lobby to spy on people. It's already doing that with the permission of everyone on the planet. It's the MPAA that doesn't know how to get anything without bribing lawmakers for it.
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I know the name of where I'm going and I know to turn right in five miles. How is that functionally different from someone who memorized a map?
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"It's a fact that the guidelines they've published provide some insight into how to reduce the distractions from GPS and other devices."
Providing details about how a general category of things is problematic and then jumping to saying that a specific part of a particular member of that category should be removed isn't actually that insightful or useful. For one thing, there's no evidence that a moving GPS screen is ever the cause of driver distraction, and I can just as easily argue that a slow-updating one keeps your eyes off the road longer:
A continuously updating GPS means that you can glance at it at any time and expect it to be correct, where with one that updates every few seconds you'll need to wait a few seconds to see where you currently are, potentially keeping your eyes off the road longer. Therefore, to reduce driver distraction, information should always be presented in as accurate and timely a manner as possible.
"You call publishing that information so that it's accessible to people who have an interest in it evidence of incompetence."
That bit was nice. Governmental organizations should always make it that easy to see what they're doing. The content of the information would ideally be better, though.
"You should probably hope that your boss has a slightly different definition of what constitutes incompetence."
I certainly do hope my boss judges my competence by my ability to make things available for online reading. I'd hardly ever have to do any real work.
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Then they should probably focus on that, instead of proposing policies that sound like they might possibly fit a general idea of fixing a cause of one particular kind of car accident if you've never actually been in a car.
"They are saying that moving images distract drivers and that is true."
Mirrors also display moving images. While moving images may distract drivers in some cases, the elimination of a tool for having moving images is not always wise.
"They are saying that too much text requires drivers to divert their eyes from the road for too long, that is true."
No, it's not. Most text is habitually ignored, and it doesn't take long for a person to pick up on which sections of a screen actually matter. Checking Facebook while driving is stupid, but the display shown in the article would also be a violation of the guidelines, and no one's ever crashed because they were reading about the different kinds of radio signals their car can pick up.
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You aren't legally required to work at your current place of employment and the company you work for doesn't claim to exist for your benefit.
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