I went to a country/folk school... we used DADGAD!

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I'll be here all week, try the jalapeño poppers.

There is a difference between a recording of a work and the work itself though.
If I recorded the song, I wouldn't get royalties from it *(actually, I might get performance royalties, depending on collective bargaining agreements between complicated jurisdictions. But they are frighteningly small).
I _could_ make money from selling the CD, but I would have to pay the copyright holder his/her cut.I would continue to do so until copyrights ended (25 years in this hypothetical case).
After that, re-recording is just like making a record of Bach's music; nobody gets much in the way of royalties, just performance, wich is tiny, and more akin to residuals.
So the original creator doesn't get to reset the copyright by simply re-recording.

*As an example, I just got a check from the AFM (Musician's Union) for _performance_ royalties because a song I played on is in RockBand II.
$230

Drinks on me

So, a business owner who allows smoking is subjecting his/her employees to carcinogens at potentially very high concentrations.

I can see that there is a distinction there. Not sure I support smoking bans, necessarily, but it's a hell of a lot nicer to go to a bar that doesn't allow smoking. Even though I smoke.

I know this is troll feeding, but GADDAMMIT!! NO IT FUCKING DOESN'T. Here and here and here. You fucking asshole.

ALL of the evidence shows EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU SAID.

When I was a kid, I spelled my name with a "7" in it.

Didn't want to use a "3", felt it would be un-original.

I did that, about 14 years ago. Tattoo looks fine now. But I scare people when I take off my shirt.

I believe that's exactly what they have. That's why you can "see" the screen.

1. The odds that Complex life, speciation, etc. occurred is 100%.
2. There are mountains of evidence supporting the theory that it occurs by means of natural selection.
3. There is no evidence that it occurs by means of supernatural power.
Therefore, the odds that the explanation is due to supernatural power is infinitely small, as compared to an explanation based on available facts.

Now this doesn't prove anything, but there is also no proof that gravity makes things fall, or that germs cause illness.

I don't need proof that an illness isn't caused by a curse, I assume it's caused by a pathogen, because there is overwhelming evidence.