Actually the base recipe didn't change. What they did was lower the alcohol content. The whiskey comes out of the aging barrel at around 125 proof. They then add water to dilute it down to the desired alcohol percentage. Jack was traditionally sold in the US as 90 proof until 1987ish when they reduced the alcohol to 86 proof and then lowered it again around 2002 to 80 proof.
The official reason was to mellow the taste and make it more appealing to the public's tastes. I personally believe it was a cost-cutting measure.
Whatever they are doing is working though. Jack Daniel's is the second best selling whisk(e)y in the world and is slowly gaining ground on the #1 seller, Johnny Walker.
My favorite quote is in the last part of the Ars article-
?There is no commercially available service that can even take advantage of the top-tier bandwidth,? he said. ?You don't need 50Mbps down to use Hulu, Netflix, iTunes or anything. Who the hell pays for 50Mbps down? P2P file-sharers. That's who pays. That's on the Internet side, they're making profits from those who want to file-share.?
This guy thinks there is no use for a fast internet connection other than illegal file sharing? Really??? So we should artificially keep slow connections because someone might DL some files?
They may have signed the deal and they may have felt it was fair, but that all depends on whether or not Universal has made its payments to the band fairly.
The labels tend to be creative with the books so that there is hardly anything left to distribute for royalties. They also tend to classify things that may not have been covered in the original contract however they feel is in their favor. I doubt that digital downloads were covered much in the Def Leppard's original contract.
They probably had consequences at home when their parents found out.
Wiser parenting? Maybe, maybe not. The thing about kids is that they are their own people and sometimes despite being taught better, they sometimes make poor choices and do stupid things. This is especially true during the middle school/high school ages when they think they know better than everyone else.
Yup, and it certainly isn't a gift. We enter into contracts, paying them good money. It isn't unreasonable to expect them to live up to their end of the agreement and provide unlimited data.
Food is a physical good. I paid for the restaurant to prepare it and after that it is mine. I can eat it, photograph it, or anything else I damn well please.
If this guy still controls the rights for the statue, and is using it for commercial purposes, then we should be charging him rent for the public space that his statue is occupying. That's prime real estate his work is occupying, so back rent could be as much as, oh.... about $3 million. Isn't that a coincidence.
If he objects then we can return the statue to him. We'll gladly deliver it to his house. From a helicopter. While still several hundred feet above- nobody said we had to land first before hitting the release switch..
I don't think you are correct in saying that people own more albums. A lot of people buy tracks, not albums. They buy the one or two songs they like for a couple bucks and avoid the filler that most albums are full of.
The advent of MP3s made unbundling possible for the consumer so there is a correlation to that and declining sales, but not for the reasons you were implying.
Are you saying that it is to their advantage to jack up the fees to an that is unaffordable? And get no money where they had potential to get something?
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In most cases DUI is a misdemeanor. Some cases can qualify as a felony depending on circumstances and the state it's in.
1Gbps? The Media industry has got to be pissed. They seem to think that the only use for faster internet is illegal file sharing...
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Actually the base recipe didn't change. What they did was lower the alcohol content. The whiskey comes out of the aging barrel at around 125 proof. They then add water to dilute it down to the desired alcohol percentage. Jack was traditionally sold in the US as 90 proof until 1987ish when they reduced the alcohol to 86 proof and then lowered it again around 2002 to 80 proof.
The official reason was to mellow the taste and make it more appealing to the public's tastes. I personally believe it was a cost-cutting measure.
Whatever they are doing is working though. Jack Daniel's is the second best selling whisk(e)y in the world and is slowly gaining ground on the #1 seller, Johnny Walker.
My favorite quote is in the last part of the Ars article-
?There is no commercially available service that can even take advantage of the top-tier bandwidth,? he said. ?You don't need 50Mbps down to use Hulu, Netflix, iTunes or anything. Who the hell pays for 50Mbps down? P2P file-sharers. That's who pays. That's on the Internet side, they're making profits from those who want to file-share.?
This guy thinks there is no use for a fast internet connection other than illegal file sharing? Really??? So we should artificially keep slow connections because someone might DL some files?
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Three!
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They may have signed the deal and they may have felt it was fair, but that all depends on whether or not Universal has made its payments to the band fairly.
The labels tend to be creative with the books so that there is hardly anything left to distribute for royalties. They also tend to classify things that may not have been covered in the original contract however they feel is in their favor. I doubt that digital downloads were covered much in the Def Leppard's original contract.
I wouldn't be surprised if he just makes some changes to suit whatever scenario he's got cooking and refiles.
It's a trap!
So....
How do we get Ron Kirk removed from his position??
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They probably had consequences at home when their parents found out.
Wiser parenting? Maybe, maybe not. The thing about kids is that they are their own people and sometimes despite being taught better, they sometimes make poor choices and do stupid things. This is especially true during the middle school/high school ages when they think they know better than everyone else.
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Yup, and it certainly isn't a gift. We enter into contracts, paying them good money. It isn't unreasonable to expect them to live up to their end of the agreement and provide unlimited data.
If they had stayed in Seattle they wouldn't have this problem:)
Food is a physical good. I paid for the restaurant to prepare it and after that it is mine. I can eat it, photograph it, or anything else I damn well please.
Cyber Bullying
I'm getting tired of Cyber-Bullying being the new catch phrase to get stupid laws passed.
Isn't most of the actions involved with being an online bully covered by existing laws against threats, defamation, etc?
If this guy still controls the rights for the statue, and is using it for commercial purposes, then we should be charging him rent for the public space that his statue is occupying. That's prime real estate his work is occupying, so back rent could be as much as, oh.... about $3 million. Isn't that a coincidence.
If he objects then we can return the statue to him. We'll gladly deliver it to his house. From a helicopter. While still several hundred feet above- nobody said we had to land first before hitting the release switch..
So they just published a list of Pro-IP sound bytes? Is that supposed to convince anyone? You can make a list like that about any topic you want.
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I don't think you are correct in saying that people own more albums. A lot of people buy tracks, not albums. They buy the one or two songs they like for a couple bucks and avoid the filler that most albums are full of.
The advent of MP3s made unbundling possible for the consumer so there is a correlation to that and declining sales, but not for the reasons you were implying.
Re: Analogy to rape
Did you really just compare making a fake FB page to sexual assault?
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Are you saying that it is to their advantage to jack up the fees to an that is unaffordable? And get no money where they had potential to get something?
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Heck yeah. How else would you learn that you need to CC the healer while you focus down the Mage?