It's inaccurate and maybe a little offensive to call Australia, NZ, and Canada "Anglo-Saxon countries". It ignores all the migrants of Celtic origin, and of course it ignores the indigenous populations of those countries too.
The examples here aren't remotely like the Michael Jackson bassline thing.
The first example he gives, "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", isn't an example of musical likeness between songs, it's an example of thematic likeness: class consciousness, struggle, need to escape etc.
And the song he quotes next, "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" isn't remotely similar to "Badlands" in the chords or the melody, only in the rhythm. I think someone (who doesn't know much about music) took his joking a bit too seriously.
I just read the very first paragraph in which his hero, a composer, walks out of a restaurant without paying his bill because he hears an orchestra playing his tune.
This, hilariously, actually IS stealing. The ingredients, the power used to cook the meal, the waiter's and the cook's time spent on the meal are all things which the restaurant has to pay for, and which they can't get back.
This guy thinks file sharing is theft, and so he justifies ACTUAL theft in the article.
I just saw an ad for a special subscription to the Sydney Morning Herald.
You get the iPad version of the paper during the week, "when you're on the go" and delivery of the physical paper on Saturday and Sunday "when you've got time to sit down and read a real paper" or something like that.
It doesn't really appeal to me, but give them credit for an interesting idea.
Never mind the weirdness of the laws or police actions involved ... why is the entrance to 40726 Greystone Terrace located between 40734 and 40718? I mean, mathematically, of course it's located between them, but, what happened to numbers 40720, 40722, 40724, 40728, 40730 and 40732?
They key fact which you don't seem to have noticed is that the BBC has a charter obligation not to compete too much with the private sector, due to its unusual funding model.
The BBC website has ALWAYS has an obligation to act as a portal/directory to the best of the web, and has been falling down on its obligation by providing too much of its own good and original content.
When I was studying Chaucer, I was taught that "original" used to mean "based on one of the old stories", and so it used to mean the opposite of what it means now.
I just went to her website and clicked on the embedded YouTube video of her on the Jonathan Ross show. It has been removed ... guess why? Because it violates BBC copyright of course.
I loved "Long Kiss Goodnight" and I loved "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", but I will never rent or buy a "Lethal Weapon" movie, despite the fact the same script writer is responsible for them all.
Why not? Because I hate Mel Gibson, because he's a racist, sexist, homphobic bigot and holocaust denier.
How is a recommendation system supposed to figure that out? A vector in n-dimensional space with a dimension just for Mel?
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I have read this six times and can't make it into a grammatical English sentence.
Is it supposed to be "Because courts have ruled Section (c)(1) to have immunized moderation choices"?
It's inaccurate and maybe a little offensive to call Australia, NZ, and Canada "Anglo-Saxon countries". It ignores all the migrants of Celtic origin, and of course it ignores the indigenous populations of those countries too.
The examples here aren't remotely like the Michael Jackson bassline thing.
The first example he gives, "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", isn't an example of musical likeness between songs, it's an example of thematic likeness: class consciousness, struggle, need to escape etc.
And the song he quotes next, "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" isn't remotely similar to "Badlands" in the chords or the melody, only in the rhythm. I think someone (who doesn't know much about music) took his joking a bit too seriously.
I just read the very first paragraph in which his hero, a composer, walks out of a restaurant without paying his bill because he hears an orchestra playing his tune.
This, hilariously, actually IS stealing. The ingredients, the power used to cook the meal, the waiter's and the cook's time spent on the meal are all things which the restaurant has to pay for, and which they can't get back.
This guy thinks file sharing is theft, and so he justifies ACTUAL theft in the article.
They do have ONE interesting idea...
I just saw an ad for a special subscription to the Sydney Morning Herald.
You get the iPad version of the paper during the week, "when you're on the go" and delivery of the physical paper on Saturday and Sunday "when you've got time to sit down and read a real paper" or something like that.
It doesn't really appeal to me, but give them credit for an interesting idea.
Never mind the weirdness of the laws or police actions involved ... why is the entrance to 40726 Greystone Terrace located between 40734 and 40718? I mean, mathematically, of course it's located between them, but, what happened to numbers 40720, 40722, 40724, 40728, 40730 and 40732?
It's very clear in the warrant
Is nobody actually reading it except me?
It quotes section 499c(b)(3) "copy (including photograph) any article representing a trade secret."
They key fact which you don't seem to have noticed is that the BBC has a charter obligation not to compete too much with the private sector, due to its unusual funding model.
The BBC website has ALWAYS has an obligation to act as a portal/directory to the best of the web, and has been falling down on its obligation by providing too much of its own good and original content.
The Original meaning of "Original"?
When I was studying Chaucer, I was taught that "original" used to mean "based on one of the old stories", and so it used to mean the opposite of what it means now.
Yet another copyright violation on her site
I just went to her website and clicked on the embedded YouTube video of her on the Jonathan Ross show. It has been removed ... guess why? Because it violates BBC copyright of course.
http://www.lilyallenmusic.com/lily/video/1755826
They've got the wrong story -- so have you!
I think Forbes has got it wrong, but your story doesn't quite get to the heart of the matter either.
To me, the real story is this:
"Sanar thinks he can trace his problem to a search marketing consultant he had paid $35,000 to improve Skyfacet's Google rankings."
He paid 35,000 to an SEO guy who did his job so badly that he got the site blacklisted by Google!
Why isn't the story called "beware of SEO consultants"? Thirty-five thousand dollars? Why isn't he taking the guy to court?
False Negatives, False Positives
I loved "Long Kiss Goodnight" and I loved "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", but I will never rent or buy a "Lethal Weapon" movie, despite the fact the same script writer is responsible for them all.
Why not? Because I hate Mel Gibson, because he's a racist, sexist, homphobic bigot and holocaust denier.
How is a recommendation system supposed to figure that out? A vector in n-dimensional space with a dimension just for Mel?