"many have argued that the rise and fall may have a lot more to do with CD replacements of previous formats"
What people also forget is that MTV became huge in the 80s. Before MTV people had to listen to very boring radio to be exposed to new music. Radio had very limited formats and didn't do a good job breaking new forms of music.
MTV opened up tons of new genres for young kids to buy. Rap, black artists such as Michael Jackson, metal, hair bands, grunge, alternative, new wave, etc. Without MTV most of that music never would have found a wide audience.
Last time I checked the labels are still with us, still signing new acts, still promoting new acts, still selling music on iTunes and Amazon, still making deals via movies, TV shows, commercials, ringtones, concerts, etc., etc., etc.
"(piracy) has killed large parts of the music industry"
The internet and the digitization of music killed off that small portion of the music industry which erroneously thought it was in the business of selling plastic discs.
I don't program software, but how hard would it be to program something like: If result is greater than maximum amount awarded, give error message and return money.
If the casino cannot hire someone to program correctly, it should be their loss. They can always obtain insurance to cover their a$$es.
To me there should be a law that any glitch should be determined against the casino. To me it makes no sense that any "win" can be appealed to a state gaming authority, which is packed with casino cronies, to have it taken away.
Starbuck's problem was in signing established artists at the end of their careers. They should have been more organic and tried to grow the careers of up and coming artists.
"Which leads me to ask a simple question: if this woman, who was standing on the side of the road herself didn't make that judgment, despite all the evidence in front of her, why does she assume that some routing algorithm at Google should have reasonably known that fact?"
Your logic is impeccable and irrefutable. Unfortunately for google: "Juries are not held to any rules of logic." People v. Vaughn, 409 Mich. 463, 465-466 (1980)
Are you telling me you let a neighborhood teenager mow your lawn? Are you fricken crazy?! Would you let a neighborhood teenager perform brain surgery on you? Of course not. Obviously only brain surgeons have the capacity to mow lawns.
"The AP... has started aggressively fact checking politicians and now claims that those fact check pieces are the most popular pieces they do"
Wow. The news media are run by complete idiots. Jon Stewart has been doing exactly that since 1999. Over a fricken decade. And now finally the "mainstream" press is catching on?!
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What people also forget is that MTV became huge in the 80s. Before MTV people had to listen to very boring radio to be exposed to new music. Radio had very limited formats and didn't do a good job breaking new forms of music.
MTV opened up tons of new genres for young kids to buy. Rap, black artists such as Michael Jackson, metal, hair bands, grunge, alternative, new wave, etc. Without MTV most of that music never would have found a wide audience.
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But it's pretty darn close.
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Considering they downloaded an Uwe Boll movie, they all have excruciating bad taste in movies.
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On the post: An Open Letter To Scott Turow About Not Freaking Out About Book 'Piracy'
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And that's basically my point. The music industry is not dead. Only the small part that thought it was in the business of selling plastic discs.
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On the post: An Open Letter To Scott Turow About Not Freaking Out About Book 'Piracy'
The internet and the digitization of music killed off that small portion of the music industry which erroneously thought it was in the business of selling plastic discs.
On the post: Court Says Police In Ohio Can Just Guess How Fast You Were Going And Give You A Ticket
It's a good thing only the police have this power, otherwise it would be abused.
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On the post: More Casinos Succeeding With The 'That Jackpot You Won Was Really A Computer Glitch' Claim
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If the casino cannot hire someone to program correctly, it should be their loss. They can always obtain insurance to cover their a$$es.
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Unless they brought a lawsuit alleging the moves constituted hot news.
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On the post: Woman Sues Google After She Follows Google Maps Directions And Gets Hit By A Car
Your logic is impeccable and irrefutable. Unfortunately for google: "Juries are not held to any rules of logic."
People v. Vaughn, 409 Mich. 463, 465-466 (1980)
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Which is another way of saying the content will be invisible to 99.999999% of internet users.
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On the post: Turns Out People Really Like It When The Press Fact Checks, Rather Than Just Reporting What Everyone Said
Wow. The news media are run by complete idiots. Jon Stewart has been doing exactly that since 1999. Over a fricken decade. And now finally the "mainstream" press is catching on?!
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