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Comment Re:Evidence that the copyright term is out of whac (Score 1) 368

Let's assume that 30% of all revenue is being cashed in the first 3 months. The rest of 70% is spread over the 94 years and 9 months of copyright remaining. The artist gets the thick of it in the first 3 months and then everything else it trickling down as crumbles.
Labels are greedy and can wait. An artist might not be able to wait that long, let alone still be alive 50 years from now.

Comment Re:One word summary. (Score 1) 1032

No, the proper one-word summary would be "Greed".
Universities are greedy because they'd shove as many poor souls as possible into a MA without caring whether there's too many of them, as long as they grab some cash from said poor souls (or the banks loaning them).
Banks are greedy because they love handing out that cash and then shaking said poor souls off their earnings, pushing them into life-long poverty.

You expect an 18 year old person to have the wisdom of a 40 year old. Breaking news: they don't. They should be explained why the choice they're about to make is risky, and what's expecting them if they move forward with it. I so far have heard of no bank or university doing such thing. It should be like this:

Poor Bastard (PB): "I wanna major in Philosophy!"
University (U): "Here's a study telling you that there's an overhead of people with MA in Philosophy - it's unlikely you'll ever be able to profess in that branch. Furthermore, we only have 15 seats available because we know more than that will land you in unemployment hell once you are done with us. Do you still want to do it?".
Bank (B): "You will need to pay the University 50K a year tuition and that means you will have to take a big loan from us and likely pay us 2K a month for the next 15 years. Here's a study telling you that 70% of people who currently pay us the loan and have a Philosophy MA don't profess in that area, and 50% are living in poverty. Do you still want to do it?".
If the PB ignores the U and the B and moves forward with it, then fine. It's an informed choice.
With me being unfamiliar with how things are happening in the States, I gotta ask: Is this true? Are future university students making an informed choice?
Here in my country, Universities offer a small number of subsidized seats (you're attending for free), based on your knowledge and high school scores. Say, Philosophy: 10 subsidized seats + 15 paid seats (because they estimate that's the amount of seats required to replace retiring Philosophy teachers). Tuitions are small enough to not overburden students. They're on average equivalent to 3 to 6 average monthly salaries per year, and you can split that tuition into 4 quarterly payouts. To give you an idea of how much that means, I can pay 2 average yearly tuitions for an IT university with one monthly IT salary right now.

Comment Re:Could you tell a difference at distance? (Score 4, Funny) 535

Not really. The E-11 was pretty damn good, and a DC-15A would have ripped through the entire school easily. Not to mention the police.
The plastoid armor, however, was shit. Too many known weak spots, unwieldy, horrible color choice. The only nice thing about it was the helmet, or rather its technical capabilities. Still, it was a couple magnitudes below the Mandalorian helmets.
But we digress.

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