$750 Per $.70 Song
A US court is forcing the Recording Industry of America to explain why it charges people it catches pirating $750 a single rather than the 70 cents they flog them to retailers for.
In the case UMG v. Lindor, Judge Trager has allowed Ms Lindor, who the RIAA claim is a pirate, to challenge the $750 a track it wants in damages.
Finally. Maybe now there will be some innovation instead of whining about a changing environment.
Automated Targeting System
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Terrorism risk assessments will be assigned to any individuals seeking to enter or leave the United States, according to a Homeland Security Department announcement. The records are excluded from public review and maintained for up to 40 years.
The newly disclosed assessments apply to travelers who leave by foot and by automobile as well, the Federal Register notice said.
All data in the new system will be exempt from the access and correction requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974.
Overblown
This book is describing the chasm in the terrorism adoption cycle but does not know it’s doing so.
No New Year’s In Space
The worry is that shuttle computers aren’t designed to make the change from the 365th day of the old year to the first day of the new year while in flight. NASA has never had a shuttle in space Dec. 31 or Jan. 1.
“We’ve just never had the computers up and going when we’ve transitioned from one year to another,” said Discovery astronaut Joan Higginbotham. “We’re not really sure how they’re going to operate.”
Seriously?
Renewable Energy Credits = Welfare
So what do you do if you can’t connect directly to a provider of green power? One thing you can do is pay someone else to use renewable energy.
The green community can not continue to rely on subsidization as a primary source of cash flow.
If they were able to provide real tangible incentives they could move past the early adopters. There are real imperatives out there, feel good is not a sustainable one. There are also real solutions, like clean tech, which encourage innovation and help the economy by perpetuating a positive cycle.