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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: iPod / Music Industry / J-pop / Gripe!
Date: 8 Jun 2009 14:56:07
Message: <4a2d5ec7$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:
> I wouldn't know, I suppose you could, for example, in a religious 
> institution require that workers there need to be members, but I'm not 
> sure how that applies to an organization like this.

That was kind of what I was talking about. Nobody seems to think it's silly 
to let a church require religious people to fill particular roles. But if 
you ask the same thing about a "nasty" group that's just as protected under 
US law, I can see people getting bent out of shape.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: iPod / Music Industry / J-pop / Gripe!
Date: 8 Jun 2009 15:07:24
Message: <4a2d616c$1@news.povray.org>
On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:56:03 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I wouldn't know, I suppose you could, for example, in a religious
>> institution require that workers there need to be members, but I'm not
>> sure how that applies to an organization like this.
> 
> That was kind of what I was talking about. Nobody seems to think it's
> silly to let a church require religious people to fill particular roles.
> But if you ask the same thing about a "nasty" group that's just as
> protected under US law, I can see people getting bent out of shape.

Yeah, I can see that point of view.

Jim


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: iPod / Music Industry / J-pop / Gripe!
Date: 8 Jun 2009 19:01:13
Message: <4a2d9839$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> That was kind of what I was talking about. Nobody seems to think it's 
> silly to let a church require religious people to fill particular roles. 

And just to be clear, I am not targetting just religion. I don't think 
people would look askance at the comment "We didn't hire him as CEO of 
National Organization for Women because he is a man."

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!


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From: scott
Subject: Re: iPod / Music Industry / J-pop / Gripe!
Date: 15 Jun 2009 04:18:35
Message: <4a3603db$1@news.povray.org>
> But it doesn't cost (technologically speaking) Japan any more to sell to 
> me in the US than it does to sell to their own customers.

Depends how many non-Japanese customers try to buy from the Japan site.  If 
it is a significant number then they will have to buy more bandwidth etc.


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: iPod / Music Industry / J-pop / Gripe!
Date: 15 Jun 2009 11:50:33
Message: <4a366dc9$1@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:
>> But it doesn't cost (technologically speaking) Japan any more to sell 
>> to me in the US than it does to sell to their own customers.
> 
> Depends how many non-Japanese customers try to buy from the Japan site.  
> If it is a significant number then they will have to buy more bandwidth 

But they can easily pay for that bandwidth with the extra sales. If they're 
making money at 1000 sales/week with one T1, they'll make money at 3000 
sales/week with three T1's.  Probably more.

It doesn't cost them more to sell to one American than to one Japanese.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.


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From: scott
Subject: Re: iPod / Music Industry / J-pop / Gripe!
Date: 22 Jun 2009 05:04:00
Message: <4a3f4900@news.povray.org>
> You would be *amazed* at the level of fraud with online gambling sites.

You'd be amazed at the amount of profit too :-)


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: iPod / Music Industry / J-pop / Gripe!
Date: 22 Jun 2009 11:18:58
Message: <4a3fa0e2$1@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:
>> You would be *amazed* at the level of fraud with online gambling sites.
> 
> You'd be amazed at the amount of profit too :-)

No, I wouldn't. That was another of those "why do I keep winding up getting 
paid a flat rate to write payment systems for people who make 50x as much 
money as I make using them?" :-)

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.


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