The Off Topic Topic

[MadImmortalMan]

Like vampires it is best for us to avoid mirrors.

Mirror images still need to be interpreted by the brain, and that's where self-deception occurs.  I see a lot more hair on my head when I look in the mirror compared to when I look at a photo of myself.

Probably the flash bouncing off your head.

[DGuller]

Like vampires it is best for us to avoid mirrors.

Mirror images still need to be interpreted by the brain, and that's where self-deception occurs.  I see a lot more hair on my head when I look in the mirror compared to when I look at a photo of myself.

Probably the flash bouncing off your head.

[Admiral Yi]

:glamorgirl:

But you ass is WAY too big.

[lustindarkness]

Like vampires it is best for us to avoid mirrors.

Mirror images still need to be interpreted by the brain, and that's where self-deception occurs.  I see a lot more hair on my head when I look in the mirror compared to when I look at a photo of myself.

Probably the flash bouncing off your head.

Thats all my pics. Clean shaven head is like a solar tower reflection. I look like this --->

[Ed Anger]

:glamorgirl:

But you ass is WAY too big.

All the black dudes just fainted.

[Razgovory]

:glamorgirl:

But you ass is WAY too big.

Also, he looks kinda like a pug.

[MadImmortalMan]

Dammit. The brand-new Challenger's front plate bracket was installed by the dealership by drilling screws through the front bumper. The car was defaced before I even took it home. Assholes. 

[Tonitrus]

Dammit. The brand-new Challenger's front plate bracket was installed by the dealership by drilling screws through the front bumper. The car was defaced before I even took it home. Assholes. 

Nice humblebrag. 

[Ed Anger]

Fucker better not have gotten a Hellcat before me.

[Syt]

GEMA in Germany is... conterversial. They represent the authors/writers of music (not the copyright holders) and basically, if music is publically playing anywhere, GEMA will be there to make you pay. That can be the music on a phone line while you're in a waiting loop, music you play from tape when your football club is having a party, or artists playing their own songs at concerts.

The burden of proof is on the side of the consumer. If they don't want to pay they have to prove that music is GEMA free which is often very hard to do. It's the reason many YouTube music videos are blocked in Germany, because Google and GEMA couldn't get to an agreement (GEMA wants 1 cent per video view).

Their latest target: in my home state is a group of 10 elderly women, some with dementia, who meet every couple weeks to sing together in a small café that is only open on Sundays. GEMA looks through press articles, and came across them, and sent them a bill for €25.- The ladies will stop meeting, because they're unsure of how to handle the bureacracy and aren't equipped to fight GEMA.

An independent small festival for street musicians will probably stop as well, because they can't afford the EUR 7500.- bill sent retroactively for the last 5 years, and they don't have the means to fight it (they would have to get playlists from all participating musicians, and then go through the list to see what's GEMA and what's not).

[celedhring]

GEMA in Germany is... conterversial. They represent the authors/writers of music (not the copyright holders) and basically, if music is publically playing anywhere, GEMA will be there to make you pay. That can be the music on a phone line while you're in a waiting loop, music you play from tape when your football club is having a party, or artists playing their own songs at concerts.

The burden of proof is on the side of the consumer. If they don't want to pay they have to prove that music is GEMA free which is often very hard to do. It's the reason many YouTube music videos are blocked in Germany, because Google and GEMA couldn't get to an agreement (GEMA wants 1 cent per video view).

Their latest target: in my home state is a group of 10 elderly women, some with dementia, who meet every couple weeks to sing together in a small café that is only open on Sundays. GEMA looks through press articles, and came across them, and sent them a bill for €25.- The ladies will stop meeting, because they're unsure of how to handle the bureacracy and aren't equipped to fight GEMA.

An independent small festival for street musicians will probably stop as well, because they can't afford the EUR 7500.- bill sent retroactively for the last 5 years, and they don't have the means to fight it (they would have to get playlists from all participating musicians, and then go through the list to see what's GEMA and what's not).

Sounds pretty much like SGAE in Spain then. Except burden of proof is on them, at least.

I'm a member btw 

[Syt]

They also suggested a deal to kindergartens where the kindergartens pay 56 p.a. for photocopied song sheets. The state of Bavaria settled with them paying out 290,000 p.a. A main issue with GEMA is how intransparent it is, with a huge share of the money going to a few members who have voting rights.

[Liep]

They also suggested a deal to kindergartens where the kindergartens pay 56 p.a. for photocopied song sheets. The state of Bavaria settled with them paying out 290,000 p.a. A main issue with GEMA is how intransparent it is, with a huge share of the money going to a few members who have voting rights.

Sounds about on par for an organization with that amount of power.

[Ideologue]

Fair use is for ugly Americans, I guess.  What a dictatorship.

[Ed Anger]

I photocopied the sheets to Horst Wessel. Come at me, bro.