prince is a genius. he knows that freely distributing his music only helps him become more popular and rich. it certainly seem couterintuitive,...
red, if we all steal music, musicians are still paid for gigs. maybe even more, because they are advertising by giving away free music. and who...
another examle of informatin given away for free is firefox. it is clearly superior, free, and we all use it. the mozilla guys make bucketloads...
the cost of producing music is next to nothing. a friend of mine has a 3 thousand dollar digital recording rig, it is spectacular, you can do...
i disagree, people are motivated to create information for free. and unlike tangible goods, you only have to make information once. you only have...
thank you for asking 1. performances make money. 2. people enjoy making music, they will do it for free. music is like sport. if you abolished...
red and i are hijacking a thread, and this is a topic i like, so i am moving to this new thread, and continuing here: Wikipedia is a collective...
i dont believe the same rules should apply to information that apply to tangible goods. information isnt scarce in the same sense as other things....
well, at least we can all agree on one thing. runaway spending is terrible. i think the primary reason it is terrible is that it freaks niggaz...
nobel prize winner milton friedman is on my side as well, and believes tax cuts are far more important than worrying about the deficit....
reagan cut taxes and the debt increased, facilitating growth. the main thing that is bad about debt is that people like you will want taxes raised.
i was at that game as well, i couldnt believe the minor nothing that happened in the street than night made the papers. i dont think they were...
interest isnt bad. would you refuse to buy a house because you would have to pay interest on the loan? you wouldnt care that you got to have the...
if her shirt really does say fcuk and not ****, none of the local media seems to know it, as far as i can tell. who told you it says fcuk?
the bronx is not a place where upstanding citizens go. at shea, the players wives wear shirts with wonderful cookie recipes and ponies and...
some things will be created whether we steal them or not, movies and music for example. and producing them gets cheaper every day. i do not...
yes. baton rouge high is a magnet school. my sister chose to go there and so did lots and lots of other kids, so not everyone got in, and there...
in terms of my allergy problems, this isnt the case, i buy store brand for next to nothing, it works fine. patents expire or whatever. i dunno...
if i say to future generations, "hey, guess what, you owe 5 trillion dollars", they might be upset. but they would be less upset when they realize...
i can just buy the brand that doesnt advertise. or not buy any at all. or buy generic. and the more companies out there advertising the better,...
