The problem with this is they cannot figure out how to do (require pushing a button) and still watch the movie, so every time they try that, they tell the techies who create the media to take it out because the disk is broken.
Sadly, this is so true. I used to work for the CS department at CMU, and have ties to several departments at Ohio State, and almost all the departments with which I am familiar are quite specific about things such as which publications, how big of a publication, etc. And this is true just to stay employed... more and more, tenure is this mythical thing you hear about and almost never see.
The saddest part... many publications such as the ApJ or those of the IEEE... you submit your article using something such as TeX/LaTeX, which you have created and formatted using wrappers the publisher provides... it goes through review/editing (editing generally done by the author), and once ready for publication, they just take the files for your article, put them in a subdirectory under the issue directory, add links to it from the index, and with almost no work on assembly, turn out potentially 2000+ pages a month, every month of every year (submissions permitting). Then, when you figure out what they charge for online access, it becomes almost criminal
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Yes, when you are given a ticket, be it for parking, an accident or some moving violation (e.g. speeding), you **always** have the right to take it to court. However, if you decide to do so, and are found guilty, you often end up paying more (not including the fees for your lawyer, if you decided to hire one). Indeed, when you pay a ticket without fighting it, you are not pleading "Not Guilty" or "No contest", but you are in fact pleading "Guilty", which could be used against you in a civil case. While IANAL, I have this on very good authority from a friend of mine, who has 30 years as a criminal lawyer, and like 10+ as a prosecutor.
You seem to forget... what is often done here is minor quotes and links, not a wholesale lifting of an article. And what is worse, Monica's site has a copyright notice posted on it.
Now... in all honesty, I must admit, I personally know Monica. But given where all they are finding articles lifted from (major household names like Martha Stewart, Food Network, etc.), I would be very surprised if either the magazine or the career of the editor will survive what could have easily been avoided.
Frankly, it strikes me as if Williams does not realize that a debate is a forum to express his views... how stupid can he truly be? (He keeps surprising me as a limbo champ).
Of course, maybe he is suggesting the hiring of enough people to review all the video, comments, etc. Talk about a job stimulus plan...kinda like launching a satellite in orbit by hiring people to stand on one another's shoulders and place it there by hand.
AC, I don't think your assumed conclusions necessarily follow the facts. I myself have 2000+ songs, all from CDs which I have legally purchased and still possess. And I would have much more, if not for the fact that I have a teenage daughter and an ex, both of whom put most of the music I would want to purchase (like a $100 boxed set of Beethoven) out of reach, and the fact that other music is still not available on CD or other digital format. But one reason I have all that music is that I have differing musical moods, where at times I cannot get enough of say Liz Phair, the B52s or some other artist, and at other times I am in more of a mood for Blackmore's Night or Gregorian chant.
Now, with that said, I will agree that with some, it is like a kleptomaniac, or like the script kiddies and crackers who want to brag about how many systems they have access to, except the downloader thinks in terms of songs and movies. But with others, I think there is a certain amount of paradigm shift in the way folks think about music distribution (my wife would rather download individual songs from Tom Smith than to go out to purchase a CD with 10 songs, only one or two of which she wants).
One must also remember in this whole deal that with groups like the MPAA, RIAA and other backsides, they really don't want you to be able to do things like make backup copies, rip to your PC, etc. They would rather be able to charge you for a new CD when your old one has worn out, and would rather sell you the digital file to play on your MP3 player, and then sell you another one to play on some other device.
When you think about it, given how deep the pockets of the **AA are, and how empty those of the accused are, it is pretty much a given that they couldn't win. Yes, it may be how the legal system works, but it does not make it justice. And giving in to the threats of the **AA does not make one guilty, though they would like to tout that that is the case.
Tgeigs... I think you do not understand the simple fact that some people are on call 24x365, and generally restricted on how far away from work you can be. IdiotBasher may be one of those folks, even if he works for a hospital. In such a position, even taking a couple of days off for family emergencies, or for an illness can be a real hassle. And family vacations out of town are even more of a hassle, and therefore, unlikely to occur.
In addition, if I had to guess, I would say that you have probably lived in some big city all your life, and work in a much less critical line of work. I would not go so far as to say you work in a unimportant job (such as one which has you asking "Would you like fries with that?", or some Wall Street broker or corpse-rat exec who has no clue of reality and legality, like Madoff), but I cannot rule it out either. But I do feel that you have probably not experienced small town living, where like nowhere else, it drives home the fact that in some cases, the second person who does a given job may be a 30-60 minute drive away, if you are lucky. And I think it is also safe to assume that you have not worked or volunteered as a doctor, nurse, EMT, fire fighter, or law enforcement officer in an area where you are always on call, and when the pager goes off or the phone rings, you often start out at a fast trot even before you know the details of what you are being called upon to do. Or, to know what it is like to be sitting down to dinner on a night where you have already had 2" of ice, heard the long string of tones, and head out the door not knowing if you will be back before your family gets up the next morning. Or, to be awakened to those same tones at 3am, not knowing that six hours later, you will be giving condolences to the wife of a fellow responder who died that night. Or, to be sitting in a theatre watching a moving you have waited a year to see, and had your pager go off (in vibrate mode), and be headed out to drive your vehicle to where you need to go, while your wife is left to go home with friends after the movie is over. I don't know what position IdiotBasher is in, but he is in a position I respect. I respect him because I take his word on the fact that he works in a position of sacrifice (which could include things like his health, marriage, and other things most folks take for granted), not as a cosmetic surgeon or some bean counting accountant, but in a position which really makes a difference. I respect him, because those responses above were my life in a small town I grew up in, where we lost a fellow responder, and later in small city (Fort Wayne, IN), where I was a volunteer fire fighter and hazmat specialist. (Even there, in a area of 500K people and 3 major hospitals, a simple traffic accident or house fire could put other bases into standby, if not actually shuffling equipment to other stations.) I was even part of a team which deployed more than 80 doctors, nurses and other medical professionals, along with other specialists such as myself to Miami and New Orleans after Andrew. And most of us turn our phones/pagers onto vibrate without even thinking about it when we enter someplace like a theatre, unlike those who think they are important but really are not, who are the target of our ire. It is a habit I even followed when the pager meant not that some person stood to loose their life, but instead in a less important job, knew that perhaps, given the "911" message, that perhaps tens of thousands of people were unable to access the INTERNET to do what they felt was important in their lives at that moment in time. And heaven help us if that also meant that credit card POS machines were unable to work, or the DOD had one of their networks down.
So with that said, why don't you guys either get a real clue, just make sure you have that organ donor sticker/endorsement on your license, so that you can make a contribution when you leave your life of being the sheep, cow or lemming you and others like you apparently are.
Having had several friends who have worked with theaters over the years, I know why the prices for the snacks and drinks are steep. When you look at how much a theater pays to show a movie (which is so much per screen per day), and look at how much they make on tickets, they are making almost no money. This means that they have to jack up the prices on the snacks to pay for the employees. After all, if there is a choice between $6.50/person for a movie or $7.00/person, we will choose the former without really thinking about the snacks, which could be $6.00/person while only $5.50 at the latter.
So like Overcast, I am in favor of popcorn at home instead of the theater.
Oh... and having grown up in farming country, and having a father who sold silos to farmers... I **KNOW** they are not getting the majority of the money we pay the groceries for food. That goes to the middle folks, like the processors, wholesalers, etc., and leaves the farmer trying to figure out where his next tank of diesel fuel for the tractor and truck are coming from. One reason I am buying more of my food through co-ops.
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Re: Clearly
The problem with this is they cannot figure out how to do (require pushing a button) and still watch the movie, so every time they try that, they tell the techies who create the media to take it out because the disk is broken.
Re: Great!
The best part of that idea Yogi... pretty soon they will be unable to find anyone to fix their PC, DVD player, etc., and the problem goes away.
Re: Re: Self-Inflicted Injury
Sadly, this is so true. I used to work for the CS department at CMU, and have ties to several departments at Ohio State, and almost all the departments with which I am familiar are quite specific about things such as which publications, how big of a publication, etc. And this is true just to stay employed... more and more, tenure is this mythical thing you hear about and almost never see.
The saddest part... many publications such as the ApJ or those of the IEEE... you submit your article using something such as TeX/LaTeX, which you have created and formatted using wrappers the publisher provides... it goes through review/editing (editing generally done by the author), and once ready for publication, they just take the files for your article, put them in a subdirectory under the issue directory, add links to it from the index, and with almost no work on assembly, turn out potentially 2000+ pages a month, every month of every year (submissions permitting). Then, when you figure out what they charge for online access, it becomes almost criminal
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Yes, when you are given a ticket, be it for parking, an accident or some moving violation (e.g. speeding), you **always** have the right to take it to court. However, if you decide to do so, and are found guilty, you often end up paying more (not including the fees for your lawyer, if you decided to hire one). Indeed, when you pay a ticket without fighting it, you are not pleading "Not Guilty" or "No contest", but you are in fact pleading "Guilty", which could be used against you in a civil case. While IANAL, I have this on very good authority from a friend of mine, who has 30 years as a criminal lawyer, and like 10+ as a prosecutor.
Re: Is that you Mrs. Griggs??
You seem to forget... what is often done here is minor quotes and links, not a wholesale lifting of an article. And what is worse, Monica's site has a copyright notice posted on it.
Now... in all honesty, I must admit, I personally know Monica. But given where all they are finding articles lifted from (major household names like Martha Stewart, Food Network, etc.), I would be very surprised if either the magazine or the career of the editor will survive what could have easily been avoided.
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In Celsius??
Frankly, it strikes me as if Williams does not realize that a debate is a forum to express his views... how stupid can he truly be? (He keeps surprising me as a limbo champ).
Of course, maybe he is suggesting the hiring of enough people to review all the video, comments, etc. Talk about a job stimulus plan...kinda like launching a satellite in orbit by hiring people to stand on one another's shoulders and place it there by hand.
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AC, I don't think your assumed conclusions necessarily follow the facts. I myself have 2000+ songs, all from CDs which I have legally purchased and still possess. And I would have much more, if not for the fact that I have a teenage daughter and an ex, both of whom put most of the music I would want to purchase (like a $100 boxed set of Beethoven) out of reach, and the fact that other music is still not available on CD or other digital format. But one reason I have all that music is that I have differing musical moods, where at times I cannot get enough of say Liz Phair, the B52s or some other artist, and at other times I am in more of a mood for Blackmore's Night or Gregorian chant.
Now, with that said, I will agree that with some, it is like a kleptomaniac, or like the script kiddies and crackers who want to brag about how many systems they have access to, except the downloader thinks in terms of songs and movies. But with others, I think there is a certain amount of paradigm shift in the way folks think about music distribution (my wife would rather download individual songs from Tom Smith than to go out to purchase a CD with 10 songs, only one or two of which she wants).
One must also remember in this whole deal that with groups like the MPAA, RIAA and other backsides, they really don't want you to be able to do things like make backup copies, rip to your PC, etc. They would rather be able to charge you for a new CD when your old one has worn out, and would rather sell you the digital file to play on your MP3 player, and then sell you another one to play on some other device.
Re: Settling with **AA != guilty
When you think about it, given how deep the pockets of the **AA are, and how empty those of the accused are, it is pretty much a given that they couldn't win. Yes, it may be how the legal system works, but it does not make it justice. And giving in to the threats of the **AA does not make one guilty, though they would like to tout that that is the case.
Re: Oncall
Tgeigs... I think you do not understand the simple fact that some people are on call 24x365, and generally restricted on how far away from work you can be. IdiotBasher may be one of those folks, even if he works for a hospital. In such a position, even taking a couple of days off for family emergencies, or for an illness can be a real hassle. And family vacations out of town are even more of a hassle, and therefore, unlikely to occur.
In addition, if I had to guess, I would say that you have probably lived in some big city all your life, and work in a much less critical line of work. I would not go so far as to say you work in a unimportant job (such as one which has you asking "Would you like fries with that?", or some Wall Street broker or corpse-rat exec who has no clue of reality and legality, like Madoff), but I cannot rule it out either. But I do feel that you have probably not experienced small town living, where like nowhere else, it drives home the fact that in some cases, the second person who does a given job may be a 30-60 minute drive away, if you are lucky. And I think it is also safe to assume that you have not worked or volunteered as a doctor, nurse, EMT, fire fighter, or law enforcement officer in an area where you are always on call, and when the pager goes off or the phone rings, you often start out at a fast trot even before you know the details of what you are being called upon to do. Or, to know what it is like to be sitting down to dinner on a night where you have already had 2" of ice, heard the long string of tones, and head out the door not knowing if you will be back before your family gets up the next morning. Or, to be awakened to those same tones at 3am, not knowing that six hours later, you will be giving condolences to the wife of a fellow responder who died that night. Or, to be sitting in a theatre watching a moving you have waited a year to see, and had your pager go off (in vibrate mode), and be headed out to drive your vehicle to where you need to go, while your wife is left to go home with friends after the movie is over. I don't know what position IdiotBasher is in, but he is in a position I respect. I respect him because I take his word on the fact that he works in a position of sacrifice (which could include things like his health, marriage, and other things most folks take for granted), not as a cosmetic surgeon or some bean counting accountant, but in a position which really makes a difference. I respect him, because those responses above were my life in a small town I grew up in, where we lost a fellow responder, and later in small city (Fort Wayne, IN), where I was a volunteer fire fighter and hazmat specialist. (Even there, in a area of 500K people and 3 major hospitals, a simple traffic accident or house fire could put other bases into standby, if not actually shuffling equipment to other stations.) I was even part of a team which deployed more than 80 doctors, nurses and other medical professionals, along with other specialists such as myself to Miami and New Orleans after Andrew. And most of us turn our phones/pagers onto vibrate without even thinking about it when we enter someplace like a theatre, unlike those who think they are important but really are not, who are the target of our ire. It is a habit I even followed when the pager meant not that some person stood to loose their life, but instead in a less important job, knew that perhaps, given the "911" message, that perhaps tens of thousands of people were unable to access the INTERNET to do what they felt was important in their lives at that moment in time. And heaven help us if that also meant that credit card POS machines were unable to work, or the DOD had one of their networks down.
So with that said, why don't you guys either get a real clue, just make sure you have that organ donor sticker/endorsement on your license, so that you can make a contribution when you leave your life of being the sheep, cow or lemming you and others like you apparently are.
Having had several friends who have worked with theaters over the years, I know why the prices for the snacks and drinks are steep. When you look at how much a theater pays to show a movie (which is so much per screen per day), and look at how much they make on tickets, they are making almost no money. This means that they have to jack up the prices on the snacks to pay for the employees. After all, if there is a choice between $6.50/person for a movie or $7.00/person, we will choose the former without really thinking about the snacks, which could be $6.00/person while only $5.50 at the latter.
So like Overcast, I am in favor of popcorn at home instead of the theater.
Oh... and having grown up in farming country, and having a father who sold silos to farmers... I **KNOW** they are not getting the majority of the money we pay the groceries for food. That goes to the middle folks, like the processors, wholesalers, etc., and leaves the farmer trying to figure out where his next tank of diesel fuel for the tractor and truck are coming from. One reason I am buying more of my food through co-ops.