Re: Did you learn nothing from the Robber Baron era, Mike?
you cannot judge a company based on size alone. you have to look at market size, competitors and what harm that they have caused. that's why standard oil was broken up and exxonmobil has not.
everyone including google knows that as soon as they create an environment where the use of their product become more of a hassle than they are worth 14 new companies will come along and eat their lunch. this is already happening with social networking but few acknowledge its power.
Re: Re: Re: Leaving Spotify cuts them off as grifters.
radio worked for decades even after it stopped being "new and rare". mainstream music on the internet is barely a decade old.
we still haven't figured out will happen when you have an infinite number of monkeys listening to an infinite amount of music for an infinite amount of time.
what i do know however is that the path of least resistance will engage at some point and we will get our first unlabelled super-artist created only on the internet (killer app). when that happens all of the riaa and unprepared labels will collapse under their own weight.
if enacted all of these new ip laws will probably make this happen sooner rather than later.
Re: Doubting the Gates foundations commitment to world health?
agreed. gates is a pretty smart guy (too smart sometimes). give him the benefit of the doubt. obviously there are some areas where just changing behavior and environment can prevent diseases in developing nations. however, sometimes drugs are the best answer. who better to have on your side than someone who knows the players. after all it is his and buffet's money. neither of them is known for throwing away money.
this coincidence thing you speak of, it is dangerous to intellectual property holders everywhere and must be rooted out. we will mobilize law enforcement and the courts to eliminate all traces of coincidence before our industries and our children are irreparably harmed.
what i don't understand is that they split the subscription. this allowed us to drop the dvd mailers and that reduced our actual cost by half. i hadn't actively used the dvd mailers in over a year. now i have the same service at half the price and i don't need to feel guilty about not sending that unwatched dvd back.
law isn't a contract. your contract is with the idiot who passed the law. you opt out of the contract by voting for someone else next time. that's the way that representative democracy works. otherwise, there would be different laws for different people depending on which contract they opted for.
i've read the post three times and i cannot find anywhere in the article where it says what happened. in her quote the narrative goes directly from being able to print today and sending them over to stating that these items are in the public domain. did the printer refuse to print them? what reason did they state? what is funny is all the comments regarding what happened. the post never states what happened. it implies what happened, but never quite makes it.
it wasn't too long ago that a school district got in big trouble for spying on people using this same technology. while this incident is completely different, how long before someone realizes that all of this district's computers have the ability to spying on their users? from there all hell will break loose.
i've often wondered that. a company like exxonmobil or walmart could probably afford to buy many third world nations. how long will it be before a corporation takes full, open control of a sovereign nation.
ok, i just want to know: who in their right mind goes through the catalog of samples and find one and says, "hey, this is a good sample from someone who sues everyone. let's use this one. oh, and be sure not to clear it with the owner." why would anybody sample from this guy? or if they did, not get it cleared. that's insanity.
"But Gamestop does not pay for the games, customers do. Gamestop only provides credit until the games are sold. The consumers' payment covers Gamestop's initial outlay, plus a profit. Because Gamestop pays on terms, the consumers' money is in the bank before Gamestop ever makes a payment on the new game units."
there is a name for this kind of thing; it is called "retail". all retailers try to buy on credit and sell the product before the invoice is due. why are they blaming gamestop for this behavior? all our dealers try do this exact thing. it's great for us (it sells product and makes us money) and it's great for the retailer (it make them money). the only downside is when we make a product that nobody wants to buy.
the advance is still money in the author's pocket. you cannot take that out of the equation as an expense just because it came up front. a self-published author doesn't get an advance so gets all of the money on the back end.
choosing a non-profit to contribute to or volunteer for is just like deciding which car to buy. it's all about free market economics. if you don't their policies and procedures, then don't associate with them. otherwise, suck it in and get to work or get our your checkbook. if they piss off enough people then they get no support, they go away, and another group takes the same resources.
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lessons learned
nina, if you want it that badly, then to do it. maybe you can even figure out a way to make money off it. but don't expect us to do it.
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Re: Did you learn nothing from the Robber Baron era, Mike?
everyone including google knows that as soon as they create an environment where the use of their product become more of a hassle than they are worth 14 new companies will come along and eat their lunch. this is already happening with social networking but few acknowledge its power.
On the post: Labels Dropping Out Of Spotify Are Totally Missing The Point
Re: Re: Re: Leaving Spotify cuts them off as grifters.
we still haven't figured out will happen when you have an infinite number of monkeys listening to an infinite amount of music for an infinite amount of time.
what i do know however is that the path of least resistance will engage at some point and we will get our first unlabelled super-artist created only on the internet (killer app). when that happens all of the riaa and unprepared labels will collapse under their own weight.
if enacted all of these new ip laws will probably make this happen sooner rather than later.
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Re: Doubting the Gates foundations commitment to world health?
On the post: Crazy Coincidence, Plagiarism, Or An Obvious Idea For An Electric Car Ad?
Re: This kind of thing goes on forever
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Re: Obligatory:
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Re: Disingenuous
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we are contracted with the wrong person
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what happened?
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Re: Re: Truth
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haven't they learned
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Re: Aha!
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wait? what?
there is a name for this kind of thing; it is called "retail". all retailers try to buy on credit and sell the product before the invoice is due. why are they blaming gamestop for this behavior? all our dealers try do this exact thing. it's great for us (it sells product and makes us money) and it's great for the retailer (it make them money). the only downside is when we make a product that nobody wants to buy.
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Re: Re: Google's bigger plan
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Re: Re: math
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Re: free market
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Re: I am so gonna do it....
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that's it!
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