never happens. 99 times out of 100. Usually ceo's deal with upper management who are extremely incompetent, afraid of change, afraid of new ideas, etc. "lets stick with what works because it has before" is a stockholder motto. Think MS would get some pushback if for whatever reason they tried to open source windows, for example?
Other examples are hidden costs who upper management will turn into heresy on their own. "training costs, shifting costs", etc just to block out new ideas.
Actually, this is the problem. If people can make everyone go "won't someone think of the children", then they can get *ANYTHING* passed. Remember about the "Corn farmers will lose their jobs net neutrality?" well lots of companies use arguments like that, where people absolve logic to support an idea. How about we use abortion, or kids having sex, or terrorism, or any of the others that are pure grandstanding.
Usually it's called neocon republicans as opposed to fiscal conservatives, the former being the ones that shoot these views and southern IL where this law being made is exactly that.
would you like someone who has been falsely accused of being a sex offender to be castrated in public? What about someone who never did anything to a child, but maybe was out drunk/naked at night and arrested? Them too? Would you let yourself get castrated to equal out the injustice you're creating?
As the answer is no, thats why you must look at this logically.
sounds as typical of something I'd hear on the oreily report as any other republican. Are people actually *surprised* such concepts exist in canada too where pure strawman arguments come out?
It's been noticable for the last 40 years or so that organizations trying to further political interests worldwide have been doing this crap to another disturbing level entirely, we're way tired of it, and the public is slowly becoming more aware of it.
These are the reasons we pray that the old will just die away, and eagerly await the generational changes. This kind of stuff holds it back, and it's not easy to argue back from it on the spot. When you have time to review the statements, sure, it makes sense, but in a heated debate not so much.
As a driver and pedestrian, I see more of the other side of this issue than pedestrians. See how I changed your wording?
In chicago where I frequent, for example, pedestrians are DELIBERATELY blind of cars, in fact the only thing worse is bikers (who do not follow any signals, be it red or green).
the only pedestrians who acknowledge cars are the ones that look at them and realize they are there. Plenty do this accidentally, but many don't. When a car has a green pedestrians are not supposed to cross. Meanwhile, guess who is more likely to get tickets for not following the light properly? Is it pedestrians, or cars? Oh right, it's cars.
Red light cameras don't affect pedestrian safety. Sad but true, it's really about more than that.
You should try to pay more attention to the concept of "look before you leap" or you know, looking both ways before crossing? haven't you heard of that as a kid? or did you just assume the millisecond the light is red for the perpendicular direction that you should automatically be safe to walk, without checking if there are cars going by?
Re: Re: deliberate porn industry lies, they want a handout
say what? I don't provide opinions, only information. People who read this site are extremely well informed/smart (even the trolls are deliberately stupid but smart people behind the scenes or just manipulative) and I expect people to simply make a more informed decision with more information.
Personally? porn industry is fine, has had no problems, has always been a growth industry in one pun or another.
deliberate porn industry lies, they want a handout
here's the deal:
porn industries give out their films full length for FREE to make extra money with advertising dollars and selling other complementary services. They do it on all sorts of sites such as tube8, redtube, spankwire and others (I know folks who have signed marketing agreements with them). Last I checked, Cinemax (skinemax) and other sites have been doing this for decades.
Meanwhile, the industry is lobbying for tax dollars and sympathy from consumers by taking the easy out : "free doesn't work" meanwhile they're doing it themselves.
Don't believe a drop, the rest is just the fact that every news company (especially big ones like LA times) will parrot ANY talking points irrespective of their views in hopes to gain a few extra viewers by stumbling onto an interesting article that gains other press. It's the "throw wet spaghetti at the wall until it sticks" method of giving away, or "give away and pray" model done by the news company.
You know, the AC has a point here Mike: as our society is evolving, we're beginning to route ourselves around some of this mess (and other parts are getting fixed). Internet doesn't really follow copyright at all, and I'm waiting for the internet archive to just say "screw it, we're copying anything we can find"...and debating creating an archive for that purpose myself - if it exists, and it's on the net, it can be copied. (already trying to raise funding)
example: lots of people have boycotted disney because he is anti-semitic (and not just jews)...as characterized on the family guy episode where they wake him from cryo and he asks "are the jews dead yet?" and the answer is "no" and he goes "put me back to sleep again" or something (paraphrase).
as a side issue to this, the music industry as an example is stronger than ever, as a result of that plenty of new material is being created whether or not the old copyright wants to beat its chest and say "you can't copy this".
I think of it like this: ownership of land: if everyone brings a little bit of sand(money) together, in one place you can build a country out of the land. However, if one person takes a huge amount of sand for themselves, great, but all they have is an island to their lonesome that nobody can walk to or get to. It eventually stagnates.
I can care less if mickey mouse becomes anything in 20 years. The kids I raise will know how immoral and unethical a large majority of companies are, and be raised to be conscious of what trends are and how to avoid them and define themselves.
I pity anyone who works there. That place is about the worst known employment in existence. I'd rather shovel dogcrap (and make more money), than work there, unless there was no alternative. Of course in many places, there isn't.
Don't even get me started with their filtering of stuff, threatening to label things adult/not sell them/major vendor pressure.
Is anyone surprised? Walmart was well in the running for worst company in america, and narrowly was beaten by AIG from a consumer perspective (and also by bestbuy).
I think your comment is abrasive, but unfortunately not *that* far off.
Contracts have clauses if you break them, or ways to get out, and it's the fault of the musicians that let themselves get taken advantage of and not go "hmmm, this is an ENORMOUS legal paper. Maybe we should talk to someone who knows about these?" instead of just signing for the smiling exec who guarantees them rainbows and sunshine.
Meanwhile, I think that signing away everything is what has made the RIAA feel like they have so much power, even.
I'll bet that the whole "focus on quantity and not quality" aspects of the patent office have slowly been coming to fruition. Gotta wonder how much longer before they accept how bad that idea is.
there's a checkbox that says "do not allow unsigned apps".
uncheck it, and install whatever the heck you want. Problem is, you still have to root your phone to get some stuff because tmobile is blocking things from the G1. *THAT* is different.
Depending on where you live, $59 can be up to $80 after fees, taxes, etc. I'm paying almost $100 bucks for a pretty conservative cell plan, and almost $30 are fees/taxes.
I agree that the iphone raised the bar on standard features bigtime. That however, is where it ends. Someone always has to become the market trendsetter and for this round of phones it was apple.
I'm disappointed by the love of the Iphone without people realizing what they are buying into. That app store idiotic policy and a 3-500$ price tag is a total loss for me. I'll stick with a $130 G1. If you like your iphone, great, but realize what you're buying into. same with political viewpoints, buying decisions, philosophical debates, etc.
The problem is, all of these arguments are at a consumer level. From a manufacturer and above level, these arguments are largely irrelevant. The parts makers for iphone parts make parts for every phone that exists (similar to broadcom chip concepts), and likewise plenty of vehicles/etc MUST be manual (such as trucks).
Plenty of them knew what was coming in the iphone situation years before a consumer ever saw it.
I think you completely missed what I was talking about.
I was talking about legal downloads too. They are equivalent to DRM in their own way, and trump first sale as mentioned. It's been this way since the days of nintendo though, for people who don't know about wonderswan/other compatibles.
video game downloads being prevented from being transfered (lots of games have policies against it and will ban if a foreign IP shows up or you try to sell on ebay) has been trumping first sale bigtime. With blizzard linking all your accounts together now you have to sell them all or none, you can't really split it off anymore.
So there is more to this than you may think, Mike.
There has been a huge impact on resale. Look at all the MMO's and find a single one that allows transfers without actually costing the original owner a fee; it doesn't exist for a mainstream game. You can ebay all the acounts, etc for sale, but assuming those are legit is another story altogether.
Transferring with anything EA/Blizzard/Sony/MMO? Good luck.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: fiduciary responsibility
Other examples are hidden costs who upper management will turn into heresy on their own. "training costs, shifting costs", etc just to block out new ideas.
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phrasing from one of my websites I frequent
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no, convenience fees become 0
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Re: not good.
Usually it's called neocon republicans as opposed to fiscal conservatives, the former being the ones that shoot these views and southern IL where this law being made is exactly that.
would you like someone who has been falsely accused of being a sex offender to be castrated in public? What about someone who never did anything to a child, but maybe was out drunk/naked at night and arrested? Them too? Would you let yourself get castrated to equal out the injustice you're creating?
As the answer is no, thats why you must look at this logically.
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Re:
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republicans (not the fiscal kind)
It's been noticable for the last 40 years or so that organizations trying to further political interests worldwide have been doing this crap to another disturbing level entirely, we're way tired of it, and the public is slowly becoming more aware of it.
These are the reasons we pray that the old will just die away, and eagerly await the generational changes. This kind of stuff holds it back, and it's not easy to argue back from it on the spot. When you have time to review the statements, sure, it makes sense, but in a heated debate not so much.
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Re: not so clear
In chicago where I frequent, for example, pedestrians are DELIBERATELY blind of cars, in fact the only thing worse is bikers (who do not follow any signals, be it red or green).
the only pedestrians who acknowledge cars are the ones that look at them and realize they are there. Plenty do this accidentally, but many don't. When a car has a green pedestrians are not supposed to cross. Meanwhile, guess who is more likely to get tickets for not following the light properly? Is it pedestrians, or cars? Oh right, it's cars.
Red light cameras don't affect pedestrian safety. Sad but true, it's really about more than that.
You should try to pay more attention to the concept of "look before you leap" or you know, looking both ways before crossing? haven't you heard of that as a kid? or did you just assume the millisecond the light is red for the perpendicular direction that you should automatically be safe to walk, without checking if there are cars going by?
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Re: Re: deliberate porn industry lies, they want a handout
Personally? porn industry is fine, has had no problems, has always been a growth industry in one pun or another.
On the post: The Porn Industry, Free And Basic Economics
deliberate porn industry lies, they want a handout
porn industries give out their films full length for FREE to make extra money with advertising dollars and selling other complementary services. They do it on all sorts of sites such as tube8, redtube, spankwire and others (I know folks who have signed marketing agreements with them). Last I checked, Cinemax (skinemax) and other sites have been doing this for decades.
Meanwhile, the industry is lobbying for tax dollars and sympathy from consumers by taking the easy out : "free doesn't work" meanwhile they're doing it themselves.
Don't believe a drop, the rest is just the fact that every news company (especially big ones like LA times) will parrot ANY talking points irrespective of their views in hopes to gain a few extra viewers by stumbling onto an interesting article that gains other press. It's the "throw wet spaghetti at the wall until it sticks" method of giving away, or "give away and pray" model done by the news company.
See how this circle goes? Pretty simple, really.
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Re: whoa, good point here
example: lots of people have boycotted disney because he is anti-semitic (and not just jews)...as characterized on the family guy episode where they wake him from cryo and he asks "are the jews dead yet?" and the answer is "no" and he goes "put me back to sleep again" or something (paraphrase).
as a side issue to this, the music industry as an example is stronger than ever, as a result of that plenty of new material is being created whether or not the old copyright wants to beat its chest and say "you can't copy this".
I think of it like this: ownership of land: if everyone brings a little bit of sand(money) together, in one place you can build a country out of the land. However, if one person takes a huge amount of sand for themselves, great, but all they have is an island to their lonesome that nobody can walk to or get to. It eventually stagnates.
I can care less if mickey mouse becomes anything in 20 years. The kids I raise will know how immoral and unethical a large majority of companies are, and be raised to be conscious of what trends are and how to avoid them and define themselves.
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big pharma does more than that in a bad way
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pity
Don't even get me started with their filtering of stuff, threatening to label things adult/not sell them/major vendor pressure.
Is anyone surprised? Walmart was well in the running for worst company in america, and narrowly was beaten by AIG from a consumer perspective (and also by bestbuy).
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Re: Two on the money
Contracts have clauses if you break them, or ways to get out, and it's the fault of the musicians that let themselves get taken advantage of and not go "hmmm, this is an ENORMOUS legal paper. Maybe we should talk to someone who knows about these?" instead of just signing for the smiling exec who guarantees them rainbows and sunshine.
Meanwhile, I think that signing away everything is what has made the RIAA feel like they have so much power, even.
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executive level nonsense
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yet....
Do you begin to see how blizzard is pretty much in the same boat as the RIAA/etc?
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Re: re: android
there's a checkbox that says "do not allow unsigned apps".
uncheck it, and install whatever the heck you want. Problem is, you still have to root your phone to get some stuff because tmobile is blocking things from the G1. *THAT* is different.
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Re: Re: My $0.02 worth (for what it's worth).
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Iphone? revolutionary? only somewhat
I'm disappointed by the love of the Iphone without people realizing what they are buying into. That app store idiotic policy and a 3-500$ price tag is a total loss for me. I'll stick with a $130 G1. If you like your iphone, great, but realize what you're buying into. same with political viewpoints, buying decisions, philosophical debates, etc.
The problem is, all of these arguments are at a consumer level. From a manufacturer and above level, these arguments are largely irrelevant. The parts makers for iphone parts make parts for every phone that exists (similar to broadcom chip concepts), and likewise plenty of vehicles/etc MUST be manual (such as trucks).
Plenty of them knew what was coming in the iphone situation years before a consumer ever saw it.
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Re: Re: right of first sale
I was talking about legal downloads too. They are equivalent to DRM in their own way, and trump first sale as mentioned. It's been this way since the days of nintendo though, for people who don't know about wonderswan/other compatibles.
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right of first sale
So there is more to this than you may think, Mike.
There has been a huge impact on resale. Look at all the MMO's and find a single one that allows transfers without actually costing the original owner a fee; it doesn't exist for a mainstream game. You can ebay all the acounts, etc for sale, but assuming those are legit is another story altogether.
Transferring with anything EA/Blizzard/Sony/MMO? Good luck.
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