...Because some kid in Asia can hack into a self-contained, unconnected computer flying around on the other side of the world. Oh, and pilots are too effing stupid to fly the airplanes without sophisticated computers to do their thinking for them.
Most of those are complete electrical failures. In case of a GPS gone wonky, there are still plenty of radio-based nav aids. In case of complete electrical failure there are standby instruments and the Mark I Eyeball.
But how would somebody hack into the airplane in the first place? Its systems aren't online. Period.
(I love watching the Hudson River reconstruction, but that's me. I'm weird that way.)
I'll grant you if you COULD hack into something like the Airbus A320's systems you could completely take control of the airplane. But it would be considerably easier to plant a bomb.
I regularly read a number of webcomics (um, about 52 in my active list right now... I've made a frames-based web page to keep track of them all).
Some of them are bigger and more established than others. The more established ones tend to have payment systems and ads and so on already set up and running. But occasionally one of the smaller ones will ask for money. Usually very apologetically, usually for anything from help with this month's rent to a new Wacom tablet to tuition for art classes. Always in exchange for something, even if it's just an extra day's comic for every so many monetary units raised. And every time I've noticed the result has been more commissions than she can do in a year (took her three months to get to mine) or a more powerful model computer than they'd dreamed of getting. Or enough extra to pay his mum's rent as well as his own, in full. I don't remember ever seeing the World Disorder Fund anything less than £10 over his asking amount. All followed by total flabbergast and profuse thanks.
I think people are inherently generous when they can be, and when they have reason to be.
This effort may or may not work; too many factors to be sure. But I think it has a very good chance.
"...everybody consumes more than they pay for directly, and have done since music was invented."
FTFY. :) People have been listening to live music for free since... cave man times, I expect.
I'm sure somebody will point out that commercial radio is paid for by commercials, but I should point out that I rarely, if ever, buy anything from commercials.
On the other hand, I've bought many 45 singles of popular songs, and also bought quite a few albums of groups I've liked. I never would have bought half a dozen Frank Zappa albums if I hadn't heard "Camarillo Brillo" on WMMR (before they went Pop in the '70s, they were a really great underground station). Ditto Headhunters and "Chameleon". I've bought most of Michael Franks' works until 1990 because I heard "When The Cookie Jar Is Empty" (OK, to be accurate, I bought Burchfield Nines, and liked it enough to buy One Bad Habit, and so on). And then there's David Wilcox.
I've bought at least two copies of Year of the Cat in spite of the fact that I first recorded the entire album off the radio. (I've even gone to see Al Stewart live.)
Apparently the studios want to stop this behavior. Somehow the fact that it's bits on a flash drive instead of modulated radio waves makes it wrong. Even transferring it to sticky tape and rust offends them, but boy oh boy, turn it into computer bits and it goes from criminal to felonious. Even treasonable.
Our business model: sue our customers, and prevent them from accessing our product.
Correct! Because downloading an unlicensed copy and then buying a licensed one nets the studio zero. They don't make any money off the sale if you view the movie first. In spite of the fact that the studio has received the exact same amount of money either way.
Yeah.
I'm still trying to figure out the logistics. Maybe you can use another bogus analogy to explain this one?
You have the wrong end of this stick. The system is what's broken. You seem to think that there's nothing wrong with suppression of innovation as long as nobody is technically breaking any rules.
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http://weeklyworldnews.com/
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There, FTFY.
Sounds to me like the real solution is to drop-kick Wiley and find a real publisher.
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FTFY.
... Sorry, couldn't resist. My brain just wanted to read it that way, and I had to share.
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Hey kiddies, I be Pirate Mike! Yarrrr! First I'll plunder yer mom, then I'll plunder her jewels!
Shiver me timbers!
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Airplanes will fall out of the sky! OMG!
Like this.
http://www.exosphere3d.com/pubwww/pages/project_gallery/cactus_1549_hudson_river.html
An d this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8fuhTpv3L0
And these.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alrosa_Mirny_Air_Enterprise_Flight_514
http://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/KLM_Flight_867
Most of those are complete electrical failures. In case of a GPS gone wonky, there are still plenty of radio-based nav aids. In case of complete electrical failure there are standby instruments and the Mark I Eyeball.
But how would somebody hack into the airplane in the first place? Its systems aren't online. Period.
(I love watching the Hudson River reconstruction, but that's me. I'm weird that way.)
I'll grant you if you COULD hack into something like the Airbus A320's systems you could completely take control of the airplane. But it would be considerably easier to plant a bomb.
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Some of them are bigger and more established than others. The more established ones tend to have payment systems and ads and so on already set up and running. But occasionally one of the smaller ones will ask for money. Usually very apologetically, usually for anything from help with this month's rent to a new Wacom tablet to tuition for art classes. Always in exchange for something, even if it's just an extra day's comic for every so many monetary units raised. And every time I've noticed the result has been more commissions than she can do in a year (took her three months to get to mine) or a more powerful model computer than they'd dreamed of getting. Or enough extra to pay his mum's rent as well as his own, in full. I don't remember ever seeing the World Disorder Fund anything less than £10 over his asking amount. All followed by total flabbergast and profuse thanks.
I think people are inherently generous when they can be, and when they have reason to be.
This effort may or may not work; too many factors to be sure. But I think it has a very good chance.
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FTFY. :) People have been listening to live music for free since... cave man times, I expect.
I'm sure somebody will point out that commercial radio is paid for by commercials, but I should point out that I rarely, if ever, buy anything from commercials.
On the other hand, I've bought many 45 singles of popular songs, and also bought quite a few albums of groups I've liked. I never would have bought half a dozen Frank Zappa albums if I hadn't heard "Camarillo Brillo" on WMMR (before they went Pop in the '70s, they were a really great underground station). Ditto Headhunters and "Chameleon". I've bought most of Michael Franks' works until 1990 because I heard "When The Cookie Jar Is Empty" (OK, to be accurate, I bought Burchfield Nines, and liked it enough to buy One Bad Habit, and so on). And then there's David Wilcox.
I've bought at least two copies of Year of the Cat in spite of the fact that I first recorded the entire album off the radio. (I've even gone to see Al Stewart live.)
Apparently the studios want to stop this behavior. Somehow the fact that it's bits on a flash drive instead of modulated radio waves makes it wrong. Even transferring it to sticky tape and rust offends them, but boy oh boy, turn it into computer bits and it goes from criminal to felonious. Even treasonable.
Our business model: sue our customers, and prevent them from accessing our product.
When that doesn't work, do more of the same.
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Yeah.
I'm still trying to figure out the logistics. Maybe you can use another bogus analogy to explain this one?
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Go me!
This comment is neither funny nor insightful, it is merely grammar Nazi-ful.
It's not even helpful!
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Or if you prefer a more recent prophet...
Instant Karma's gonna get you.
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So does that mean the US doesn't have a problem? Or are you turning it into a pissing contest?
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Spelling nazi here...
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