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Really? Almost none of my friends finds it acceptable. Maybe they are skewing the data to support their position. That never happens though.
by sigzero 16y ago
Really? Almost none of my friends finds it acceptable. Maybe they are skewing the data to support their position. That never happens though.
- jasonlotito 16y agoThere is a good example of data skewing here: http://bit.ly/dZvy2g http://bit.ly/dZvy2g =)
- gjm11 16y agoYeah, that's almost as unusual as someone giving precedence to the small, biased sample of "people I know well" over the results of a survey of a much larger sample where some attempt has been made to avoid bias.
- natch 16y agoMaybe you live in a bubble. That never happens though. But more seriously, maybe none of your friends have had the experience of buying an LP, then later paying again for the same music on cassette, (and maybe 8-track and minidisc) and then again on CD. And then maybe they weren't aware that the industry conducted a huge PR campaign to let people know that when they buy music, they are just paying for a license, not for the physical artifact. Of course they only did this after people had already switched to CDs. If we had known this before, we could have asked for crossgrades of the license from LP/single/tape/8-track/minidisc/whatever to CD. And maybe your friends didn't hear about things like "Plays For Sure(TM)", Microsoft's DRM scheme that tricked millions of people into paying for music which Microsoft then decided would not play any more. For those of us who did hear about these things, after paying for the same music three times, we're ready to just download our fucking songs that we already paid for.