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some people are stupid enough that they need to be reminded to breathe on a regular basis.

Yep

Read more: http://www.bobdylan.com/us/son...

"Don't say 'murder,' don't say 'kill' It was destiny, it was God's will"

See more here

When there's a real person out behind the website, like Lucky Wilbury, or Calin Coburn, then the right thing to do is patronise the legitimate source.
How many of the "protected" artists are offering their own sites for this stuff?

now google will stop listing guitartabs.com as the highest rated response when i look for music

Great, now can they just go after those stupid song lyrics sites that always somehow inexplicably get top Google rankings as well? You know, the ones with names like "lyricsfreak", "lyricmania", or "azlyrics" which always inevitably have the wrong lyrics with bad spelling and don't even have the titles or artists right? No, "Only the Good Die Young" is NOT an Elton John song, "Leader of the Band" was not written by Christopher Cross, and for the love of God, "BARRACUDA" IS NOT A SONG BY PAT BENATAR. SHEESH.

The worst part about these sites is that just about any worthwhile musical group or artist has a fan page where devoted fans carefully put together correct versions of the lyrics and discography, or even an official page with all the good info. For example bobdylan.com is excellent about that -- full lyrics for everything. But you can't get to them because lyricsbymorons.com and incorrectlyrics.net are crowding them out.

Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian and Zaphod Beeblebrox borrowed the dominoes to work on the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Why would I take any advice from you? You're a liar, and are so deluded that you think people should only get called liar when they're "doing harm".

You're a liar. That's not "venom", that' the truth. The unvarnished truth, despite your incapacity to recognize something so unfamiliar.

Your summary of lies, your deep breaths - all bullshit. You've got nothing. Don't bother wondering in my presence - it's a wonder you even know how to breathe.

You're an idiot.
"Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth,
Blowing down the backroads headin' south.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You're an idiot, babe.
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe."

A song for you.

All the wisdom you need on this issue:

Net's tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
Orders from the D. A.

--
(Waves Hand.) There is no sig.

I don't blame the Corps exclusively for botching the job - I've already mentioned that their outsource suppliers. (BTW, I'm assuming your research exposing their shoddy deliveries is accurate, and would like to know more, from a reference you've got.)

I also note the Corps' budget was slashed, work even halted, in the years leading to Katrina's 2005 hurricane season. I don't blame just Bush, though he controls the budget both through proposing it and its reception in his Republican Congress. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) has a lot of blood on her hands for allowing the budget to be slashed, for failing to ensure her home state got more than pork, but rather protection.

Katrina's devastation of a trusting New Orleans is not like the "want of a nail, a kingdom was lost" story. It wasn't a single fatal flaw in a system hanging by a thread. It's much more like the story in "Who Killed Davey Moore", where so many involved did their part, mostly by doing nothing when the victim's life depended to some extent on their action. Another way to look at the Katrina flood, and who's to blame, is to realize that New Orleans died for our sins. And since I was ringside in New Orleans during several hurricanes while I lived there, I feel obligated to tell the story, which of course implicates the legions who looked on in amusement rather than pitiful horror.

fscking ignorant fool...

This is the same excuse communist gov't give for taking away possessions.

Rubbish.

"Intellectual Property" is not a possesion. Indeed only the *existence* of a government (or at least, a cohesive civil society) is what allows you to think that you have some rights on your ideas that are vaguely akin to property rights. Without a government/civil society you simply would *not have* any way to control what is done with your ideas (other than being very strict about how you divulge them).

Why are physical objects different than intellectual ones?

Because they are not objects. Why do you think they *are* the same? Can you hold an idea? Can you forcibly take an idea from me and prevent me "having it"? No you can't, cause an idea simply is just that, an idea - ephemereal and without substance.

It used to be with music and other media that at least, even if the idea was ephemereal that it still required substantial fixed substances, time and human labout and expertise to reproduce. But that has changed too, such that music, software, literature and other forms of expressive works are now as ephemereal and easy to reproduce and share as all other ideas.

Like it or not, this simply changes a lot of things :).

You are no more communist than I am and I can guarentee this.

I'm definitely not a communist.

I sir am not going to give away my rights wholesale just because you want me to live in poverty whilst you want to do meanial labour

I'm not asking you to give your rights away, I'm just pointing out where you got those rights from.

(and most code jobs are just that...I'm glad I'm management and design apps and have keyboard jockies that code them for me) and get paid big bucks because its hard work actually having to use your body as opposed to someone like me that works smarter as opposed to harder.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. However, I did *not* say anything about what kind of job I want you to do. However, times change and so do the jobs people do. Does technology sometimes wipe out whole classes of jobs and industries? Sure. Should we have stopped the printing press because it put skilled scribes out of work? eg, look at the likes of the Book of Kells and all the other hand-copied and beautifully enscribed bibles from back them - compare it to a printed bible even, and the painstaking hand-copied version is far better and wrote on materials which will last far far longer (vellum). Yet we have no scribes anymore today, they were wiped out. However, we have *far* more books today. Same thing for the weaving industry - find me a crofter today.

You better start swimmin', Or you'll sink like a stone, For the times they are a-changin'..

That's how it is, that is how it has always been and always will be. You can't be a scribe forever.

And fuck your condescending attitude that I completely '*missed*' his arguement.

Well you did, sorry :).

--paulj

I haven't done business with Amazon since I had my lawyer send them a warning not to use their unilaterally "revised" privacy policy to release my personal info without my explicit authorization. Watching Dylan sing about "Maggie's Farm" and a "Neighborhood Bully" with an Amazon logo would really bring me down.

I haven't done business with Amazon since I had my lawyer send them a warning not to use their unilaterally "revised" privacy policy to release my personal info without my explicit authorization. Watching Dylan sing about "Maggie's Farm" and a "Neighborhood Bully" with an Amazon logo would really bring me down.

From that era: (before my time)

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.
Bob Dylan

;-)

It is human error: those bugs didn't write themselves. Nor did the operations protocol that required "rebooting LAX" every 49.69(!) days. Nor did the upgrade procedure that ignored that bottleneck. Nor did the upgrade decision that moved from Unix to Windows. Those were all human errors, as was the decision to keep a job at LAX that would face blame for shutting down the airport (or risking lives) if the reboot was missed, or unsuccessful.

"Not I," says the referee,
"Don't point your finger at me.
I could've stopped it in the eighth
An' maybe kept him from his fate,
But the crowd would've booed, I'm sure,
At not gettin' their money's worth.
It's too bad he had to go,
But there was a pressure on me too, you know.
It wasn't me that made him fall.
No, you can't blame me at all."
- Bob Dylan, "Who Killed Davey Moore?"

ClearChannel is whining to the FCC about XM Radio's recent foray into localized traffic and weather reports."

Clear Channel contends that patiotism demands that traffic reports only recommend right turns and not any of those pro-Dixie Chicks, gay marriage-ing, terr'ist aiding lefty turns.

As for the weather, well, Clear Channel says it's sunny days with n'ary a terr'ist in the skies for all God's chilluns under GW Bush, and there'll be pie in the sky when you die , and you that ain't got rich wealthy parents who provide and protect him / And high office relations , you can join the army, if you fail .

But I saw you don't need a weather man/ To know which way the wind blows . I say pretty soon it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

Cause I say the airwaves don't belong to a company in Texas, I say that this land belongs to you and me.

And I hope my playlist here (figurtively) kills Fascists

ClearChannel is whining to the FCC about XM Radio's recent foray into localized traffic and weather reports."

Clear Channel contends that patiotism demands that traffic reports only recommend right turns and not any of those pro-Dixie Chicks, gay marriage-ing, terr'ist aiding lefty turns.

As for the weather, well, Clear Channel says it's sunny days with n'ary a terr'ist in the skies for all God's chilluns under GW Bush, and there'll be pie in the sky when you die , and you that ain't got rich wealthy parents who provide and protect him / And high office relations , you can join the army, if you fail .

But I saw you don't need a weather man/ To know which way the wind blows . I say pretty soon it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

Cause I say the airwaves don't belong to a company in Texas, I say that this land belongs to you and me.

And I hope my playlist here (figurtively) kills Fascists

ClearChannel is whining to the FCC about XM Radio's recent foray into localized traffic and weather reports."

Clear Channel contends that patiotism demands that traffic reports only recommend right turns and not any of those pro-Dixie Chicks, gay marriage-ing, terr'ist aiding lefty turns.

As for the weather, well, Clear Channel says it's sunny days with n'ary a terr'ist in the skies for all God's chilluns under GW Bush, and there'll be pie in the sky when you die , and you that ain't got rich wealthy parents who provide and protect him / And high office relations , you can join the army, if you fail .

But I saw you don't need a weather man/ To know which way the wind blows . I say pretty soon it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

Cause I say the airwaves don't belong to a company in Texas, I say that this land belongs to you and me.

And I hope my playlist here (figurtively) kills Fascists

ClearChannel is whining to the FCC about XM Radio's recent foray into localized traffic and weather reports."

Clear Channel contends that patiotism demands that traffic reports only recommend right turns and not any of those pro-Dixie Chicks, gay marriage-ing, terr'ist aiding lefty turns.

As for the weather, well, Clear Channel says it's sunny days with n'ary a terr'ist in the skies for all God's chilluns under GW Bush, and there'll be pie in the sky when you die , and you that ain't got rich wealthy parents who provide and protect him / And high office relations , you can join the army, if you fail .

But I saw you don't need a weather man/ To know which way the wind blows . I say pretty soon it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

Cause I say the airwaves don't belong to a company in Texas, I say that this land belongs to you and me.

And I hope my playlist here (figurtively) kills Fascists

The "power of audacity" is the order of the day in these Looking Glass times. When an individual person grabs the debate with outrageous claims, it's chutzpa - they can be ignored, jailed, and sometimes staked through the heart. But in a public environment with no real boundaries, millions of bloodthirsty lawyers on bottomless expense accounts, and some inane requirement for all issues to have "balance" between two untenable (and often contrived) extremes, unaccountable (and disaudited) corporations can get what they want by blowing over the top, and agreeing to split the difference, arriving squarely on target. And when they oppose people who merely defend reasonable positions closer to the middle than some self-selected extreme for balance, they win. Every time. Welcome to the abyss.

"They say ev'rything can be replaced,
Yet ev'ry distance is not near.
So I remember ev'ry face
Of ev'ry man who put me here.
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east.
Any day now, any day now,
I shall be released."
- Bob Dylan, "I Shall Be Released"

Personal computers, originally isolated, almost immediately began to self-organise into means of communication as well as computation--indeed it is the former, rather than the latter, which is their principal destiny.

The aroma of that argument reminds me a bit of Haldane soup.

Trusted computing? Trust yourself.

Sure--I'll let you be in my network if I can be in yours.

(Apologies to Bob Dylan. If you want to hear it, it's somewhere in here.)

Here are the lyrics to Bob Dylan's Positively 4th Street-- the song the title borrowed from.

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Couldn't resist this as a follow-up to anything posted by "Dylan Zimmerman" :-D

Now, if ClearChannel would maybe put Love And Theft on their rotation...

On one hand, suing spammers; on the other, forcing providers to disclose customer activity. It's dancing with the devil.

-sig. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

"Get busy living, or get busy dying."
A take off on Bob Dylan's "he who is not busy being born is busy dying"

what kind of idiot would compare a bunch of grown men running around in PJs chasing and beating a ball with the election of the most powerful person in the world?

Obviously one who was listening to some game on earphones while some poor teacher was trying to explain the fundamental principles of American democracy, probably whining about all the blood that was spilled to secure and defend those principles...

But who cares, so long as the bread and circuses keep going on, ehh???

"Its a wonder that you still know how to breath...."

As Bob Dylan said back in 1993: "technology to wipe out truth is now available. not everybody can afford it but it's available. when the cost comes down look out!" p.s. happy 60th birthday, Bob!

Falwell is just like Hitler. If he were to come to power under similar circumstances, he would be just as bad.

I don't have a problem with people believing that I am a sinfull person for being bisexual, but it is necessary to forcefully speak out against people (like Falwell) who want the goverment to use it's power to eliminate "devient" speach and behaivior. It is people like Falwell who are directly responsible for inciting the hatefull attacks on gays, lesbians, and bisexual people.

For the record, I don't believe in so called "hate crime" legislation, I think it is unconstitutional to punish thought and speach. Fortunately, there are already laws against assult and murder, and a "hate crimes" law wouldn't make a difference in the case against the killers of Mathiew Shepard, since they are already facing death.

My philosophy on this is informed by the Bob Dylan song "Only a Pawn in Their Game", to summerize, the song is about the killing of Medgar Evers', who was a black civil rights leader. The song makes the point that the gunmen were not the only ones responsible, as they were raised from birth to hate blacks, and were simply used as a political tool in the hands of those in power. While I don't think Shepard's killers should go unpunished, I think we need to condemn (through forcefull speach, since we can't bring the law down on speach) those who were using them as a tool.

Ultimatly it is the thirst for power, the desire to pronounce ones will over other people, that leads to this evil. Even members of oppressed groups are not immune (or even less prone) to this mindset, one only has to look at how the Palistinens are treated by the Isrealies to see this. There was an incident recently where a gay Mardi Gras group denied membership to several people, simply because they were bisexual, and not gay.

Anyway, I'm rambling, so I'll shut up now.