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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Yes I agree with you, and the Author but I'm still no clearer as to why the Author thinks the Labels have changed their behavior. I get a feeling he's suggesting Piracy and free-music services are to blame, as these tone of posts
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
What is the point of this article? That we're not living in the 90s anymore? Yes, times have changed since Radiohead first made it big and perhaps the author is right that they couldn't have made it today without label funding. Bu
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Whenever I read these blogs, and the comments that follow, I'm amazed at how much money people spend doing this! Has nobody heard of www.couchsurfing.com? Why travel all the way around the world to pay money and sit in a hotel room&#x2
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Unfortunately it's attitudes like this that usually end up making Government projects so eye-wateringly expensive. Assuming they listen to your suggestion and act on it as you suggest, it seems the only option open to them is to design
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
That article would indeed be a problem, but only if it ignored either Volvo manufacturing deaths or BMW driving deaths Which is exactly what that article does. I see no reference to the deaths from uranium mining, or the deaths from indus
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Yes there are no common factors between mining a product and an industrial accident occurring when using a product. Agreed, they are all part of the mix when comparing the overall life-cycle dangers of different fuels, but the Author of the
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Never mind that coal mining kills almost 6000 people a year, or that populations of coal-mining areas have death rates about 10 per cent higher than non-mining areas, or that coal emissions drive global warming. I'm fully in favour of nuc
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
If the car is of an age old enough to be scrapped or donated, to buy an ECU or other Electronics for a similar car of a similar age probably means the replacement bits are worth more than the car is, which would make the whole exercise unec
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I agree.. how do scrap yards manage to make money by breaking up cars? Surely there are so many different materials, contamination must be an issue and modern cars don't even have that much metal. How do car-breakers make their money? That
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
An interesting read but, boy, was that a needlessly long article! TLDR; Some car donation schemes are run as for-profit entities but we can't tell how many because the Governement don't keep accurate records. If you donate, do some research
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Perhaps American's would be even more educated if they used a system like Finland's, often held up as the worlds best education system. Paying less and getting better results sounds good to me. Maybe Finland's high educational achievement l
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Or another way to look at it, Infant Mortality rates in Finland are so much lower than in the US, suggesting they value a babies life higher than Americans value money. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_m...
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
One of the best video's I've ever seen! I wonder how the thought processes of the followers differ as the crowd grows? The first guy must have made a more concious decision to join shirtless dancing guy because he believed in his cause and
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Google lets you choose how they spend £500,000 to create a better world(globalimpactchallenge.withgoogle.com)
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Like using mobile phones at gas stations, this is an issue I've heard numerous justifications for over the years. One interesting one was the health effects of having 200-300 mobile phones ranging at full power inside a sealed metal tube in
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
So what's the big water tower for in the background?
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Completely agree. I went away on holiday for a week, before I was playing it every day, when I came back I didn't even think about it until now (4 weeks later). This game just didn't have the longevity of the previous games.. I found I outg
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by _mulder_ 14y ago
Google has zero experience in both building/running/maintaining physical telco plant. The network Google is deploying is nothing more than a bunch of glorified Ethernet network switches. I'm sure they have quite enough experience bu
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by _mulder_ 14y ago
Google aren't closing their main product offering though (Search). A better analogy might be if they decided to give away little biscuits for free for many years and then one day stopped it... point being their main product is subsidising t
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by _mulder_ 14y ago
Support for what? Interesting how the above responses all said they paid for Google Apps and then used the support, nothing wrong with that, but it seems as soon as you pay for something that offers support, people then feel like they need
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by _mulder_ 14y ago
Excellent point. But I suspect most people wouldn't be entirely honest with their payment and would infact, consciously or not, factor this in. So they would still pay slightly less than they actually value the product so they still feel li
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by _mulder_ 14y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I found it difficult to draw any actual conclusions from this particularly relating to what women actual want. The 'challenges' to careers could apply equally to men, likewise the incredibly vague and leading "Would
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by _mulder_ 14y ago
>We are headed towards untold abundance with little need for actual human labor. Examples like people who transport things (ie truck drivers, taxi drivers etc…) I've been considering a blog post along the lines of 'Jobs that today's Kid
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by _mulder_ 14y ago
>People download things which they either do not have access to or do not value enough to pay for Yes, THIS! I think this is the crux of the entire argument that is completely ignored by nearly every content producer. People value thing
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by _mulder_ 14y ago
Agreed. This seems a much better business model. You avoid the cost/liability of owning and replacing the batteries too. On the downside, you're back to paying out money to an energy supplier like we do today for gas.
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by _mulder_ 14y ago
Interesting article but too many holes to hold much weight. In no particular order.. You only don't pay for the charging electricity when using a supercharging station. If 'free' travel involves spending an hour a day at a service station w
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by _mulder_ 14y ago
I'm not sure how a video beats a photo-of-the-day I hadn't thought about this before but perhaps it's because the mind doesn't actually remember snapshot images, we don't work that way. We remember events comprising several images, sounds
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by _mulder_ 14y ago
This is a great idea, I'd love to do that too. But how would one actually go about this? Does he just film everything with a camera or his phone? He must spend a lot of time manually going through all the footage to find the second that bes
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by _mulder_ 14y ago
It would be interesting to see how this correlates with women working in Science and Engineering careers and how it varies by country, continent and culture. Doing well in a mandatory test is one thing, but does good performance in a test t
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by _mulder_ 14y ago
Still not as good as 'The IT Crowd' in the UK. "Did you know if you type 'Google' into Google you will crash the internet?!"

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