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As a manager of developers I'd say it's managing the CEO.
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 Protecting developers by managing up and out instead of down is the hallmark of the best managers. It sounds like yours are fortunate.
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A behavioral economics study of anti-piracy ads reveals that they’re largely ineffective and often encourage piracy. "It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy."
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Or you can do both.
Obligatory Muppet video: In the Navy
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That article doesn't say it, but it implies, correctly in my opinion, that the entertainment industry is completely out of step with the rest of the world.
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What I always miss in these discussions on piracy, is that a pirated movie or music album isn't necessarily a missed sale.
I've pirated lots of music back in the day, tens of thousands of songs...
First, I wouldn't even be able to legally pay for all of that, so if I went legit I'd just have bought a few.
Second, it's very easy to download something, listen to it, and discard it if you don't like it.
When you buy a CD you've spent money on it and you're stuck with it.
Finally, I know many people download stuff, but still go out and buy the best of what they've downloaded to support artists.
The simple fact is that there's a whole lot we want to see or listen to, but we don't have the money to buy all of it.
Last, some stuff just isn't available to some people.
Like that time I found a Japanese band on YouTube and I checked Dutch stores, online retailers and even eBay, but just couldn't find their album.
A friend of mine had the same issue with some series that was cancelled and only available on Hulu or some such, which isn't available in the Netherlands.
I do have a pretty large collection of CDs and LPs though (over a thousand at least) as well as DVDs and Blu-rays (in the hundreds).
With Spotify, I stopped downloading music (mostly, sometimes some stuff that isn't on Spotify, like a game soundtrack or something).
Never downloaded movies, tried it a few times and ended up with Spanish versions or some such.
I buy my games too, as it's pretty difficult to pirate PlayStation games.
Anyway, the anti-piracy lobby should just STFU, revenues are still breaking records.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Finally, I know many people download stuff, but still go out and buy the best of what they've downloaded to support artists.
AFAIK the best to support them is if possible go to concerts, the % that the artist keeps from live actuations is way bigger than the % of the sales. I know, not always is possible (specially lately) to see them live and CDs can still be huge numbers...
Sander Rossel wrote: Anyway, the anti-piracy lobby should just STFU, revenues are still breaking records.
The business could adapt better, but some stablished giants just don't want / can / reacted too late and therefore they try to keep themselves alive through lobbyism and forcing "suggesting" laws to protect their revenues the intellectual property of the artists (even when some / many artists put their art online voluntarily)
EDIT: spelling
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modified 3-Aug-22 11:40am.
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Nelek wrote: AFAIK the best to support them is if possible go to concerts, the % that the artist keeps from live actuations is way bigger than the % of the sales.
Yeah, and while you're at a concert, buy a t-shirt! 
Nelek wrote: The business could adapt better, but some stablished giants just don't want / can / reacted too late and therefore they try to keep themselves alive through lobbyism and forcing "suggesting" laws to protect their revenues the intellectual property of the artists (even when some / many artists put their art online voluntarily)
Exactly this.
I remember a (very) old South Park episode which mocked this.
Artists like Madonna, Michael Jackson and Metallica went on strike because they couldn't buy their third private jet because people downloaded illegally 
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So putting an unskippable ad which tells you off for "stealing" the movie at the start of every legitimately-purchased DVD/Blu-ray, when that ad is mysteriously absent from any pirated copy of the movie, doesn't encourage people to purchase legitimate copies of the movie?
Whodathunkit?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Winamp has released its first release candidate after four years in development, officially bringing the popular media player out of beta. Lock up your llamas and run for your life
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If they don't come back with cool new features, I am not sure if they will be back to the same position as before. Many users that were forced to abandon it moving to VLC (or others) and probably won't come back. I think the main reason for them to test the new version is going to be just nostalgy.
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The "current" version works fine. Why "upgrade"?
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New icon? (haven't checked it out yet)
TTFN - Kent
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Economists have crafted online fake job ads and found that those incorporating age-related stereotypes discourage older workers from applying – another cause for concern among tech workers as the industry faces multiple lawsuits over ageism. Candidate must have 20 years with technology, and be under 30
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Candidate must have 20 years with technology, and be under 30
That is possible, and I would bet that we have a couple in CP
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Yeah. I was originally going to go with “must be under the drinking age”, but I figured there were too many non-drinkers here.
TTFN - Kent
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Why doesn't this article mention any examples? 
Is it possible that "subtle ageist language" is just modern language and old farts are turned off by it?
I once applied for a job where everyone knew what everyone earned and your team got to decide your salary because they knew best how you worked.
All very modern, but I prefer more traditional jobs.
I think the average age at that company was under 30 and it was still pretty big.
So, ageism, or just young and modern?
Not saying ageism doesn't exist, because it certainly does, especially in IT, but without some examples I'm not convinced.
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I know, right? You'd think that an example would be Journo-101. Sadly, the original paper is behind a paywall, so it's not even possible to see it from there. 
TTFN - Kent
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Yes, yet you shared this article with us, so I'm now keeping you personally responsible for sharing some examples with us before 4th of August, 23:59 (11:59 PM).
Failing to do so will result in fines and criminal charges.
My lawyer will contact your lawyer.
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Ah man, the PRESSURE!  At least you didn't declare it required for midnight UTC
Got access to the article, and immediately received yet another red flag:
Quote: NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed
Anyway, they used three position types - Admin assistant, retail sales, and security guard (so nothing tech focused), and varied the language used to describe three skillsets: Communication, Physical, and technology. Three different levels were used: control, something called "machine learning" that I was too lazy to look up, and AARP (the ageist wording)
Example using the AA position:
Quote: Administrative Assistants Template 1 (Admin Assistant)
Psychiatric office is in need of a full or part time Administrative Assistant to assist in front/back office
general clerical duties. This individual will work on a several tasks and stay on course at all times. The
Administrative Assistant we hire will be trained in various duties that cover the entire office.
This individual MUST possess the following:
-Exceptional customer service background to greet and register patients, answer phones, schedule
appointments.
-Can multitask.
-High School diploma or GED.
-Professional attitude.
- Communication Skill Requirement
- Technology Requirement
- Physical Requirement
-Available for flexible hours.
(Schedule hours and days will alternate every other week)
Please email us a CV or resume and put “full-time” or “part-time” in the subject line
And the three in italics above were replaced with:
Communication Skills:
- Control: You must be good at working without supervision
- ML: You must have good communication and teamwork on tasks
- AARP: You must be up-to-date with current industry jargon and communicate with a dynamic workforce
Technology:
- Control: You must produce and distribute documents such as correspondence memos, faxes and forms
- ML: You must use accounting software systems like Netsuite, Freshbook, and QuickBooks
- AARP: You must be a digital native and have a background in social media
Physical:
- Control: You must enter bills and keep track of invoices
- ML: You must be able to lift 40 pounds
- AARP: You must be a fit and energetic person
So tl;dr - Yeah, you can kind of word requirements to limit the age of the applicants, but I haven't seen too many dev jobs requiring heavy lifting (for a while - when I started I remembered seeing a few due to tapes)
TTFN - Kent
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If that's ageist, I guess I'm ageist
If "up-to-date" or "background in [fairly new technology]" is ageist we kind of have another problem.
Anyway, I called off the lawyers, good job  
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As the price of bitcoin and other crypto tokens has tumbled, even criminals have felt the pinch. My heart - it is broken
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Over 15% plus last month... is that a crash?
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And minus how much a month or two? That’s the crash I think they were referring to.
(I am so glad things seem to be going in the right direction these days)
TTFN - Kent
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As it would have been stable at any time... its course looks more like an rollercoaster than anything else...
Are they going to write an article every time it gets down? (or up?)
Kent Sharkey wrote: (I am so glad things seem to be going in the right direction these days)
I could not care less about crypto...
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