Unchecking that box only stops the personalization from happening automatically. The floating toolbar still appears asking if you'd like to opt-in (at least on yelp.com)
"On reentry, you’ll be able to hear the distinct pings of single molecules of helium and hydrogen hitting the carbon-fiber vessel as it begins to encounter the atmosphere."
And I can't find a primary source, but the consensus seems to be that Sony paid 30,000 kroner in cash for their share of Spotify, which jibes with the figures in the OP: http://www.p2pnet.net/story/26736
So it seems that the record labels are more to blame for the low amount that artists are making, which isn't particularly surprising. If the labels did get some amount of ownership for advances on future royalties, the artist would be making significantly less due to the labels not collecting said royalties.
We are simply the embodied history of which organisms did in fact survive and reproduce, not which organisms ought prudentially to have survived and reproduced.
--Eliezer Yudkowsky, An Alien God
Mutation is random, but selection is non-random. This doesn't mean an intelligent Fairy is reaching in and selecting. It means there's a non-zero statistical correlation between the gene and how often the organism reproduces. Over a few million years, that non-zero statistical correlation adds up to something very powerful.
--Eliezer Yudkowsky, An Alien God
"Don't think that, in the political battle between evolutionists and creationists, whoever praises evolution must be on the side of science. Science has a very exact idea of the capabilities of evolution. If you praise evolution one millimeter higher than this, you're not "fighting on evolution's side" against creationism. You're being scientifically inaccurate, full stop. You're falling into a creationist trap by insisting that, yes, a whirlwind does have the power to assemble a 747! Isn't that amazing! How wonderfully intelligent is evolution, how praiseworthy! Look at me, I'm pledging my allegiance to science! The more nice things I say about evolution, the more I must be on evolution's side against the creationists!
But to praise evolution too highly destroys the real wonder, which is not how well evolution designs things, but that a naturally occurring process manages to design anything at all."
--Eliezer Yudkowsky, The Wonder of Evolution
"One grad student can do things in an hour that evolution could not do in a billion years." (Yudkowsky: "According to biologists' best current knowledge, evolutions have invented a fully rotating wheel on a grand total of three occasions.")
--biologist Cynthia Kenyon, in Evolutions Are Stupid (But Work Anyway)
"Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers."
-- John Tooby and Leda Cosmides, The Psychological Foundations of Culture.
My inner cynic thinks Clement carefully avoided stating that the consultations will involve regular citizens, as opposed to just industry reps. He's implying a more open process, but his words say we'll just end up with more of the same.
