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Posted in: Fukushima offshore floating wind farm project to begin See in context

zichi: Wind power only works so well in Denmark since they have Sweden and Norway as huge hydro power batteries (when they can't use their wind power, they export it to SE/NO where we can easily put our Hydro power on hold and preserve the water differential), then when Denmark actually needs power (typically when the wind isn't blowing), they import our Hydro/Nuclear... Japan doesn't have this luxury, and the utilization factor of wind power will be far lower.

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Posted in: Have you ever bought, copied or downloaded unauthorized music, TV shows or movies? See in context

And as for the major media conglomerates (can anyone spell "Sony"?), I have this quote:

«I don’t think content creators have any right to complain about a consumer culture, they created, they pushed and they continue to maintain. We’re hammered day and night to purchase and consume as fast as humanly possible. The problem is that they’ve trained us too well, you deserve that new shirt, you need that new car, you have to have that house. What you don’t have the money? You can’t afford to wait, use credit, have it now, need it now, take it now.

Then suddenly the ever evolving and changing human consciousness, which has been primed for consumption and hard wired to want it now, does exactly what they’ve been taught to do they find a new, cheap, easy and most important faster way to consume. Only problem is it’s outside the big business box, now their scrambling to beat people back into their cages, while at the same time looking for better and more efficient ways to drive that need to consume, to me it reeks of hypocrisy.»

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Posted in: Have you ever bought, copied or downloaded unauthorized music, TV shows or movies? See in context

tkoind2 I don't know what world you live in that has less music now than before, but I suspect it's not the same one the rest of us live in. I'm a regular guy, and I have quite a few old classmates who are now in their own bands. They're all over Facebook, SoundCloud, myspace and YouTube, and do local gigs. I suspect you're just out of touch with young talent today, and looking in the wrong places or looking for the wrong thing. We live in a world now where a kid with tourettes making mixes with FruityLoops and uploading them for free can chart #1 for months at a time (Basshunter). If anything, I'm sure there's far MORE music now than ever.

Perhaps music as a career is dead. Perhaps that's not a bad thing. There was a time before the CD before anyone bought recorded music, and somehow the world kept on spinning back then too. I know I prefer the music created as a labour of love over the music created for a paycheck.

All creative industries are seeing the pressure of people's decreasing purchasing power. In 1996, what were people spending their entertainment dollars on? CDs, maybe a VHS a year (they were expensive back then!), movie tickets, perhaps a cable subscription. In 2012 we have more stuff than ever to spend money on - we're all buying music, tons of DVDs, internet services (hulu, iTunes, Spotify), lots of iPhone apps, XBox games.. our dollars are being spread ever thinner, and of course that's pushing down the prices of everything, and people just aren't willing to spend the same amount for music as they used to.

For the poll, I've downloaded a lot of music, and only thanks to downloading did a find a ton of bands that I then bought CDs for. I also buy much more music (CDs and iTunes) than my average peer. Does my downloading make me a bad person if all my downloading is the reason I buy more music?

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Posted in: Mobile phone running low on battery? Charge up with water See in context

Looked up the specs on that PowerTrekk thing. Along with the mentioned water it uses a puck of hydrogen for the fuel cell. The puck is good for less than 1500 mAh of power @ 3.7V (what most phone batteries are)... Meaning one puck won't charge your phone to 100% even once. What a scam.

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Posted in: M5.4 quake jolts Ibaraki, Tokyo See in context

Damn, I was sleeping at the time, and actually dreamt there was an earthquake (never dreamt about eqs before). Only I'm in Kyushu, so there's no way I actually felt it. Creepy.

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Posted in: AKB48 members take part in mini-concert in Beijing to thank China for 3/11 support See in context

Luring tourists back, only 500 at a time? Sounds like it's more like a private performance for kaisha cronies.

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