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Ok, clearly current artists salary and digital mp3 distribution do not bother you.

 

By the way, this is just a proposal, not a question or anything.

I know of no artist that gets a salary...

 

sal·a·ry/ˈsalərē/

Noun: A fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly or biweekly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee.

Well, do you know how who the Music artist works for??? A label, all types of contracts are signed between those two including salary contracts.

And I am proposing a government salary to the artists...!!!!

There is no "other" option, I personally support technocracy, a system where decisions are made by experts in relevant fields.

That is a very popular idea with the inteligentsia. I thought about it being practical in a future. Except in a more complicated sort of communist way were there are 100's of parties specialising in their fields... It's not going to be called anything with the word communist in it of course.

But yeah right now it's not close to practical, we need to form the ideology then a party first.

Last year's Forbes top 60 most powerful people going down from most powerful to least:

Barack Obama

Hu Jintao

Vladimir Putin

Ben S. Bernanke

Sergey Brin and Larry Page

Carlos Slim Helu

Rupert Murdoch

Michael T. Duke

Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud

William Gates III

Pope Benedict XVI

Silvio Berlusconi

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Warren Buffett

Angela Merkel

Laurence D. Fink

Hillary Clinton

Lloyd C. Blankfein

Li Changchun

Michael Bloomberg

Timothy Geithner

Rex W. Tillerson

Li Ka-shing

Kim Jong Il

Jean-Claude Trichet

Masaaki Shirakawa

Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al Nahyan

Akio Toyoda

Gordon Brown

James S. Dimon

Bill Clinton

William H. Gross

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Lou Jiwei

Yukio Hatoyama

Manmohan Singh

Osama bin Laden

Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani

Tenzin Gyatso

Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

Joaquin Guzman

Igor Sechin

Dmitry Medvedev

Mukesh Ambani

Oprah Winfrey

Benjamin Netanyahu

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Zhou Xiaochuan

John Roberts Jr.

Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar

William Keller

Bernard Arnault

Joseph S. Blatter

Wadah Khanfar

Lakshmi Mittal

Nicolas Sarkozy

Steve Jobs

Fujio Mitarai

Ratan Tata

Jacques Rogge

Li Rongrong

Blairo Maggi

Robert B. Zoellick

Antonio Guterres

Mark John Thompson

Klaus Schwab

Hugo Chavez

Of course. That's precisely my point.

I see what you mean, different countries must work in different ways, but actually, how is Obama doing for you right now??? I know the dollar is falling and maybe generaly bad (Especially since my mom invested a lot in it and I told here a million times not to) but did Obama make any effort of making it a good thing for manufacturing industries exports? Especially since I heard GM recently beat Toyota in sales. (Although I've never seen a GM in Ukraine personally )

I would call it a "system that works". Could it fail someday? Sure. But everything will eventually fail. Doom said that Germany is the "last domino"....asserting that it will eventually fail but then again, it's currently working and seems to be going on indefinitely.

 

I say that's a system that works. Comparing the United States to Canada is what Doom complained that ThatSmartGuy and it's exactly what Doom did. Just sayin'....

I think I have to stop you there, I used to live in Canada, and their social policies aren't very close to european ones....

hmmm... Analyzing what I believe to be the front of a tetris puzzle building... I would have to say...

I give it 8 Tetris Shapes out of a possible 10.

Verdict: Beautiful

Lol I did know that, but how the hell does it work... I want to build one!

But anyways, drunks will be drunks, regardless if you tell them to behave. I'm just surprised that Canadians, out of all people would throw such a destructive fit like this.

Yeah, what kind of quote was that??? We are all humans...

Anyways, I consider this an art:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGtN3bMAeII&feature=related

Well, funny but I don't really get that uber machine...

Can you show the other side....

What sensorship? Here in Ukraine they show porn on three national tv channels after 23 O clock.... lol...

(Ok actually maybe that is a slight problem.... [stereotype on] damn those jews, russians, poles.... lol [stereotype off] )

Ok, wait, did you read the first quote....

 

Caffeine and tobacco? THAT'S your support???

 

I'm sorry, but I'm now going to have to mock you mercilessly for the next year or so.

So that's your problem, you ignore the fact that those are drugs too....

What was the point of all of this anyway, I'm supporting marijuana, you?

I always liked Tesla...

 

...but you didn't demonstrate that he was addicted to anything. Your quotes support the idea that he drank on occasion, but not that he was addicted to alcohol or anything else.

 

Still awaiting some kind of verification for that Einstein story.

Ok, wait, did you read the first quote....

Einstein:

Almost every clip lol...

Now to the part of being addicted to drugs, why do you have to be addicted to them if they are allowed, I'm supporting them being allowed not necesserilly people getting addicted to them...

Ok, clearly current artists salary and digital mp3 distribution do not bother you.

By the way, this is just a proposal, not a question or anything.

I will have to torrent it then so I don't waste my money.

 

And I got to laugh at how many times danielsangeo had to say that evolution is a fact in this thread.

 

I don't think you know what a theory is yet. Evolution is a fact, the theory of evolution explains that fact, the laws of evolution are the rules that evolution follows ( e.g. a species cannot "de-evolve")

Ok, just to clear up my position, that wasn't a comment against him but for him.

Yes we all know that's a fact.

Oh, and by the way, fact can mean something different to everyone, I mean sure, fact is "reality" but who is it to say what reality is, to each their own.

An accepted fact is just a reality that a lot of people agree on.

A scientific fact is just reality that scientists agree on.

So yes let's not overuse this seemingly strong but in fact, An objectively weak word.

(Basically it all comes down to personal usage of the word, and noone can say otherwise, what is fact is what you are 95-100% sure of, that is all)

In even simpler words by saying that something is simply a fact and therefore must be true to other person is very ignorant because that is really your personal opinion. Unless you are talking about scientific fact which would merely imply the same but also that it has passed the science test of what is a fact and what is not. Then it is up to the other person to decide whether the science test is/was accurate.

See, that is something you learn in philosophy.

And now to Blue:

I am fine with philosophy and religion being taught in schools, but I'm a bit ambivalent on making them mandatory.

 

Critical thinking, you bet. That oughta be a mandatory class. Philosophy and religion, however, should be electives.

Ok sorry at my rage, I looked up what critical thinking is:

And it's part of philosophy, so why would you teach critical thinking and not philosophy as a whole involving types of decision making, life purpose, logic, explanation of the fields of science and religion as well as to study famous philosophers and their achievments in thinking.

I clicked on this thread with the same reason.

*Smiles at Bjossi and Leaves Thread*

I don't see why.

Well in my theory, they do.

Also Torrents are legal, but to torrent copyrighted music files is illegal.... at least here in Ukraine

I was talking about philosophy being taught and evolution and religion as well.

I just wanted to stress the fact that philosophy should be taught and mandatory because a lot of the people I see lack the part when they have to think and decide themselves. They take school as a fact without questioning when it's not and I myself had to point out a lot of false things to the teacher.

And I got to laugh at how many times danielsangeo had to say that evolution is a fact in this thread.

I don't have too many, but one that sticks out was on Fifa 2007. I'd completed about 4 seasons on manager mode, and was saving the game, when there was a power cut. Naturally this corrupted the save data....... FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

How long have you played the game in a row lol!!!!!

And yes, reaper, we ARE fighting over My Little Pony. It's manlier than it looks.

Eh... I've seen stranger things. So what's with the hate for the ponies?

Well, they're childish, imature, obsessive and not really funny.

The method of distributing legal digital files will have to involve changing the compensation and definition of an artists. That's why they are connected.

But more importantly I'm talking about digital files.

Who the hell is Robert Bacon????

On Tesla:

"With the passing decades, Tesla shifted away from a meat diet. He substituted fish, always boiled, and finally eliminated the meat entirely. He later almost entirely eliminated the fish and lived on a vegetarian diet. Milk was his main standby, and toward the end of his life it was the principal item of diet, served warm. As a youth he drank a great deal of coffee, and, while he gradually became aware that he suffered unfavorable influences from it, he found it a difficult habit to break. When he finally made the decision to drink no more of it, he adhered to his good intentions but was forced to recognize the fact that the desire for it remained. He combated this by ordering with each meal a pot of his favorite coffee, and having a cup of it poured so that he would get the aroma. It required ten years for the aroma of the coffee to transform itself into a nuisance so that he felt secure in no longer having it served. Tea and cocoa he also considered injurious. He was a heavy smoker in his youth, mostly of cigars. A sister who seemed fatally ill, when he was in his early twenties, said she would try to get better if he would give up smoking. He did so immediately. His sister recovered, and he never smoked again."

Liberty, February 1937 by Nikola Tesla as told to George Sylvester Viereck

"MORE people die or grow sick from polluted water than from coffee, tea, tobacco, and other stimulants. I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat. I am convinced that within a century coffee, tea, and tobacco will be no longer in vogue. Alcohol, however, will still be used. It is not a stimulant but a veritable elixir of life. The abolition of stimulants will not come about forcibly. It will simply be no longer fashionable to poison the system with harmful ingredients. Bernarr Macfadden has shown how it is possible to provide palatable food based upon natural products such as milk, honey, and wheat. I believe that the food which is served today in his penny restaurants will be the basis of epicurean meals in the smartest banquet halls of the twenty-first century. There will be enough wheat and wheat products to feed the entire world, including the teeming millions of China and India, now chronically on the verge of starvation. The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900."

I always liked Tesla...