"...or some AC who just says "The Supreme Court said so?"
That's not just some AC... that's Mr Anonymous himself. You can note that by the fact that, yet again, he offers up no evidence to back up his statements... as you so noted.
But he's not just saying "because the Supreme Court says so"... he's saying "Because I say the Supreme Court says so"; which is both a signature of his and more silly than just saying “the Supreme Court says so”.
"The best example is that concert ticket sales dropped in 2010, 12% or more, and concert ticket prices in 2011 are forecast to drop dramatically. That doesn't even touch issues like cancelled tours due to lack of sales, and so on. "
Butting in here... if the price of tickets are forecast to drop in 2011, how does that have anything to do with whether or not piracy and sharing are on the decline? If anything, I would think it has more to do with the reduction in ridiculous fees tacked on by ticketing agents and the realization by acts that fans don't want to pay ludicrous amounts of money for a show.
Actually, I think that would be abbreviated IHOPH... which would be pronounced "eye-hoff". And the last thing you want is a bunch of German Hasslehoff fans banging down your door.
"The times they are a-changing, but TD hasn't noticed yet. The golden age of get it all for free is soon to be over. Someone else referred to them as "freetards", and I think their day in the sun is all be done."
Any source for this? Or is it just your opinion? And please don't tell me you're basing this off the article in Wired.
And are you joining the call-them-"freetards" bandwagon? Just curious.
Actually, I do prefer the "Jan Kees" origin theory on yankee:
Most linguists look to Dutch sources, noting the extensive interaction between the colonial Dutch in New Netherland (now largely New York state, New Jersey, and much of Delaware) and the colonial English in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. The Dutch given names "Jan" and "Kees" were and still are common, and the two sometimes are combined into a single name, "Jan-Kees". The word "Yankee" is a variation that could have referred to English settlers moving into previously Dutch areas.[4]
Michael Quinion and Patrick Hanks argue[6] that the term refers to the Dutch nickname and surname Janneke (from "Jan" and the diminutive "-eke", meaning "Little John" or Johnny in Dutch), Anglicized to Yankee (the Dutch "J" is pronounced as a "Y" in English) and "used as a nickname for a Dutch-speaking American in colonial times". By extension, the term could have grown to include non-Dutch colonists as well.
H. L. Mencken[7] explained the derogatory term "John Cheese" was often applied to the early Dutch colonists, who were famous for their cheeses. An example would be a British soldier commenting on a Dutch man "Here comes a John Cheese". The Dutch translation of John Cheese is "Jan Kaas", with the "J" sounding like "Y" in English; the two words thus would sound somewhat like "Yahn-kees" and could have given birth to the present term.
Not quite... if this repair shop is who Apple says "go talk to them for repairs", then the repair shop is acting as an agent for Apple. This means they are considered the same entity in terms of honoring warranty and such. Now, of course, this is US law I'm talking about... I don't know that it's the same in Greece.
Unless you have something to back up your claim that a blog post or forum post is "verbal" and not "written", I don't care if you want to explain it again or not. Wrong is wrong.
And besides which, it's neither. He did not make false or misrepresented statements. So it is not defamation, regardless of which flavor you want to claim it to be.
~sigh~ It's not slander. It's not even libel. He hasn't made any false or misrepresented statements. Let me try to make this clear... sorry I can't use crayons in an internet forum...
First, just so I don't have to keep typing "slander/libel", I'm grouping them under "defamation" since you can't seem to tell the difference between spoken and written (even though I gave you the definitions)
Disagreement does not equal defamation. Reporting a disagreement does not equal defamation. Posting the factual accounting of an event DOES. NOT. EQUAL. DEFAMATION.
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But he's not just saying "because the Supreme Court says so"... he's saying "Because I say the Supreme Court says so"; which is both a signature of his and more silly than just saying “the Supreme Court says so”.
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It's obvious
Sorry guys... had to do it.
Oh wait! I almost forgot...
~ahem~ LOL
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And are you joining the call-them-"freetards" bandwagon? Just curious.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee
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And besides which, it's neither. He did not make false or misrepresented statements. So it is not defamation, regardless of which flavor you want to claim it to be.
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First, just so I don't have to keep typing "slander/libel", I'm grouping them under "defamation" since you can't seem to tell the difference between spoken and written (even though I gave you the definitions)
Disagreement does not equal defamation. Reporting a disagreement does not equal defamation. Posting the factual accounting of an event DOES. NOT. EQUAL. DEFAMATION.
Clear?
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110102/23281412493/greek-apple-support-company-sues- customer-complaining-about-service.shtml#c422
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