9/11 absolutely was an inside job, no possible doubt
I am curious - Is this a joke or do you really believe it?
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About the honesty of customers:
http://www.freakonomics.com/article2.php
This is an interesting account of a bagel salesman and his belief that
honest people will stay honest without a bagel protection mechanism.
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thats a cool article...
By measuring the money collected against the bagels taken, he could
tell, down to the penny, just how honest his customers were...
As it happens, his accidental study provides a window onto a subject
that has long stymied academics: white-collar crime
A
That's an interesting, optimistic and fun article. Freakonomics indeed.
But I think the problem is people can convince themselves that
something is not stealing when it is in order to justify their desires.
Rarely do you hear criminals saying I did it because I was greedy...
they usually come up
Well now that we've brought 9/11 into this thread I guess its time to
break this out...
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discocarp;201250 Wrote:
Well now that we've brought 9/11 into this thread I guess its time to
break this out...
Although interestingly, no Nazis yet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_Law
Adam
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willyhoops;201256 Wrote:
That's very interesting and sounds very strange. It's certainly not the
way book publishng works which i have experience of.
You clearly have no idea of how the industry works. Very few artists
recoup - generally only very big artists. I have worked with small
willyhoops;201247 Wrote:
many here have now developed a copyright should be abolished and the
record companies deserve it viewpoint.
The two are not connected. I do NOT believe that copyright should be
abolished, but I DO think that the big record companies deserve it.
It strikes me that you
Ah so these bum deals have generated a lot of publicity, thrown a lot of
confusion on the topic, and given the record companies a bad name. Still
maybe it's getting carried away to junk the whole industry on the basis
of that.
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willyhoops;201261 Wrote:
Ah so these bum deals have generated a lot of publicity, thrown a lot of
confusion on the topic, and given the record companies a bad name. Still
maybe it's getting carried away to junk the whole industry on the basis
of that.
It's not a matter of being a bum deal.
Promotion costs *should* not be recoupable.
Out-of-pocket expenses for promotional purposes, incurred by the artist
*should* be reimbursed by the record company.
The record company *may* provide promotional tour support
Video costs are *usually* recoupable by 50%. The remaining 50% is
5. EVERY SINGLE PENNY that the record company has spent on behalf of
the artist (which includes all of their advance, all of the marketing,
and all of the associated corporate hospitality - such as lunches for
the executives in swanky restaurants) is deducted from their royalties.
That's
tomjtx;200242 Wrote:
I will PM you
Tom-
Thanks for the PM.
It seems the traveling modified TP you heard went to a TP user in CA,
who was blown away by the improvement over his stock unit.
He purchased the modified TP.
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willyhoops Wrote:
That's very interesting and sounds very strange. It's certainly not the
way book publishng works which i have experience of.
So you really don't know what you're talking about and now you admit
it.
but it sounded so strange i looked into more professional web sites
jhm731;201268 Wrote:
Tom-
Thanks for the PM.
It seems the traveling modified TP you heard went to a TP user in CA,
who was blown away by the improvement over his stock unit.
He purchased the modified TP.
I wonder if the Cali guy was using the rca out. I did hear a difference
with
servies;201269 Wrote:
I wonder why you have a squeezebox at all as probably you're only
listening to Justing Timberlake or Britney Spears or J'Lo.
Where's the conflict between owning and using a SB and listening to
(what I assume you mean) ultra commercial music or whatever you mean?
I
willyhoops;201198 Wrote:
I am curious - Is this a joke or do you really believe it?
Absolutely. I won't debate the topic, only suggest that if you're
interested to research it yourself and draw your own conclusion.
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Sold my Micro Seiki BL51 turntable and all the records also.hit me
now then...
SB+ ?? What is that ? Link ...
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Pale Blue Ego;201284 Wrote:
I won't debate the topic...
Damn. Looks like I brought out my kittens jpg too early!
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discocarp;201296 Wrote:
Damn. Looks like I brought out my kittens jpg too early!
LOL this has been an entertaining thread, despite the OP being a level
80 troll. I occasionally get rather attached to my ideas, but in order
to argue effectively, one always needs to recognise that others may
Animeka;200233 Wrote:
This looks interesting... How can I tell how it'll drive the Bose cube
speakers I have and how loud they can go? (I don't play stadium loud
but sometimes it's nice to know you can crank it a bit...)
THanks,
Marc
If these are off their Lifestyle system, the
Mark Lanctot;201301 Wrote:
If these are off their Lifestyle system, the speakers cannot be
powered by anything other than what's in the Bose bass module. The
bass module contains custom crossovers and filters and the speakers
will sound very, very poor without it.
I'm not 100% sure, but I
Whoops, it was the Acoustimass system I was actually thinking about,
thanks aubuti!
Your comment may apply to the Lifestyle series as well though.
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Anne, from what I understand, a SB+ is basically a wireless SqueezeBox
with only the wireless bit in tact, all the other bits have been
somewhat upgraded, to say the least :)
http://www.at-tunes.co.uk/
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Ron F.;201084 Wrote:
It looks like bugs # 4886 and 4562 are relevant.
Also see 4463, where it was confirmed the TP can run out of CPU cycles
with certain combinations.
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my favorites:
radio io acoustic
radioparadise
kcrwmusic
shonanbeach fm
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An issue I have run into is having the buffer empty to zero during the
song.
I downloaded a Claire Martin 24/96 FLAC album which I'm streaming
FLAC-FLAC via SS 6.5.1.2 on my Infrant NV (1GB RAM).
I thought it might be a WIFI issue so I ran a cat5e cable to it from my
gigabit switch and the
I hate to spread FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) but I'll do it anyway...
ALAC is closed. That means you don't know what they put in there. Is
there a switch that allows apple to turn off files so they won't play
any more or can't be copied more than x times? Is there something that
sends a
willyhoops,
Here is a better article that explains what goes on when recording an
album written by someone who was actually signed to a major.
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/print.html
Also, for anybody thinking that non-drm'd music will not sell b/c
everybody will just
Ok, I downloaded EAC, the FLAC download and Accurate rip.
I followed the instructions on the Wiki for configuring EAC, and
everything seemed hunkydory. I followed the instructions on 'beginner
ripping' and everything seemed to go well. The CD was copied, and it
said that it was using an
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