I think more important is that they gave up all their own intellectual property to whomever.

My guess is that they were required to do this as part of settlement, and the hope on the other side is that somehow grooveshark users will be swayed to change their behavior based on this statement.

As regards the statement itself, it appears crafted by a gifted communications expert, but the smell of PR/inauthenticity is not completely masked. Or, it was crafted by the groovesharks and encoded with a little Wayne's World style snark ("It certainly does suck. . .").

Most people did not record on 8-track, but cassette and 8-track were largely coincident formats, kind of like betamax and vhs. 8-track offered playback convenience and maybe a little quality bump in the beginning, cassette offered size convenience (until we got auto-reverse).

True audiophiles back in the day would record to reel-to-reel.

To return to the thread, pirated music goes back a long, long way. It was just sheet music before performance recordings. And before that, bards copied each others' songs. And before that, Grog beat his rocks just like L'hurd.

Isn't the USB-C reversible?

What you are seeing is not necessarily apathy but fear, a confluence of external influences stoking the internal fear of individuals. People are generally terrified, and to acknowledge or understand that among the perpetrators of terribles are the same institutions and authorities they have been relying upon for protection is more than they can bear.

Are you implying that what is legal == what is right/moral/appropriate?

I wonder if the study controlled for the fact that people tend to get more conservative as they age.

I bet if Snowden had done his thing in the 90's, the age distribution of approval would be similar, and I bet you'd get the same result in another 15 years, when those same millennials have kids and are facing their mortality.

Progressive ideals are risky, and it takes more courage to take risks as folks age and have more to lose.

Note this is purely an academic comment and is not meant to endorse or deny either snowden or the NSA.

See Dick, Philip K., Exegesis.

Certainly not on my car. But if it was Bob's car, and his car was a Hyundai Elantra he was trying to drive up the side of a mountain on an unimproved road, I would be calling it a user problem if his doors fell off (or any other of a number of mechanical problems).

With that kind of record, it has to be something to do with your use. Still anecdotal, but I've never had anything but HDD and inverter failures in my laptops (mostly Apple) across multiple models, years, and beatings.

But if laptops failed at your rate across all users, they'd have to cost three times as much to cover warranty repairs.

From one of your links

First that average, I expect, represents a few quite high salaries and quite a many lower salaries. No teachers I know even hit that average, even after teaching a few years in a district that really gives a damn.

Note, your other link claims that $6800 is for "instruction," not "teachers." And it says:

Note that your links disagree on total expenditure per student.

In any event, that seems like low pay for such important work.

Where teachers are not union, or where the unions are weak, teachers tend to get paid less than their union counterparts.

Funding for public schools needs to increase at all levels. Bad teachers need to go, but average teachers need to get paid more than they are.

Favorable movie ratings.

Saying the prequels were "unsatisfying" is like saying that a Corolla with two bad cylinders has "unsatisfying" performance.

IANAHipaa expert, but I would guess that since it is only providing anonymous info, it does not fall under hippo restrictions. That doesn't make it right, or even ethical, but it's probably not illegal.

Also, I don't think people can go to jail for HIPAA violations.

*Star Trek* is bigger than Roddenberry.