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IMO any time anyone fails at the "first post" and mistypes to boot should get modded "funny". Unless they troll it liks so many do.

-mcgrew (latest journal)

The US, the UK, China and Russia are "endemic surveillance societies", according to a recent study examining privacy protection around the world that gave the four nations the lowest possible rating.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

And yes, I did once leave my PC on for a wek trying to download one album.

That illustrates something I've been trying to say here for a long time, and that is that downloading isn't that damned convinient. Pirate Bay or Morpheus are good for indie music, but if you're looking for the top 40 the easiest, cheapest, and still legal way is to plug your radio's headphone jack into your sound card, sample a top-40 station and spend five minutes showing EAC where to make the cuts.

If you live in St Louis you can have seven rock albums every Sunday night. Sure, they're FM quality rather than CD quality but if you're ripping to MP3 it doesn't matter anyway.

-mcgrew

And yes, I did once leave my PC on for a wek trying to download one album.

That illustrates something I've been trying to say here for a long time, and that is that downloading isn't that damned convinient. Pirate Bay or Morpheus are good for indie music, but if you're looking for the top 40 the easiest, cheapest, and still legal way is to plug your radio's headphone jack into your sound card, sample a top-40 station and spend five minutes showing EAC where to make the cuts.

If you live in St Louis you can have seven rock albums every Sunday night. Sure, they're FM quality rather than CD quality but if you're ripping to MP3 it doesn't matter anyway.

-mcgrew

it's called paranoid schizophrenia

You should know, old friend! And have you been taking your meds?

-mcgrew

PS- if you see any of the old K5 gang, let them know where the sucessor to the "Paxil Diaries" is!

You might be interested to read about my death in 1976. No blind man will ever convince me that the color red doesn't exist, even though there is no scientific proof of "red", which scientifically is nothing more than an electromagnetic frequency.

Science and religion are in two separate realms, and ask (and answer) completely different questions.

I still don't know what task it was I was supposed to do. Maybe I'm doing it right now.

-mcgrew

Latest two "real" journals:
Mo' Moe, and a nerd license suspension
A Letter from Prison

that's what trolls say too

Can you quote one? Actually I'm a recovering biter. Here in Springfield we do our trolling offline!

that's what trolls say too

Can you quote one? Actually I'm a recovering biter. Here in Springfield we do our trolling offline!

I find it almost sad that the United States government are willing to pay for something like this when Finland's (already broken) public healthcare system it still way better than it's [sic] US counterpart.

The US has no counterpart. Many people I know have no health insurance of any kind and can't pay for the extremely expensive health care we have. My best friend died in 1992 from lack of health insurance.

The US is the most socially backwards nation in the industrialized world, and I for one am ashamed of that fact.

OK, so I might be trolling

Oh hell...

but doesn't it say something about a society when TV is regarded as something important enough to subsidize?

The reason that the government is subsidizing the converter boxes is they, like the ancient Romans, know that the two ingredients needed to stave off bloody revolution is bread and circuses, and the government itself is shutting off the analog circus. The legislators are covering their fat asses.

-mcgrew

// The specific idiot in this case is Office95, which likes
// to free a random pointer when you start Word95 from a desktop
// shortcut.

//
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// that do not have the busy bit set.
//
// Also refuse to free blocks that are not eight-byte aligned.
// The specific idiot in this case is Office95, which likes
// to free a random pointer when you start Word95 from a desktop
// shortcut.
//
// As further insurance against idiots, check the segment index
// to make sure it is less than HEAP_MAXIMUM_SEGMENTS (16). This
// should fix all the dorks who have ASCII or Unicode where the
// heap header is supposed to be.
//
    try {
        if ((!(BusyBlock->Flags & HEAP_ENTRY_BUSY)) ||
            (((ULONG_PTR)BaseAddress & 0x7) != 0) ||
            (BusyBlock->SegmentIndex >= HEAP_MAXIMUM_SEGMENTS)) {
 
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// Not a busy block, or it's not aligned or the segment is
// to big, meaning it's corrupt
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            SET_LAST_STATUS( STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER );
 
            return FALSE;
        }
    } except(EXCEPTION_EXECUTE_HANDLER) {
 
        SET_LAST_STATUS( STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER );
        return FALSE;
    }

If the CD has ANY rights protection on it, then the DMCA kicks in and your right to rip goes up in smoke.

If I plug my CD player's headphone jack into my computer;s input jack and sample it as if it were a cassette or LP would I be circumventing its protections? If so how would I know that the protections were there in the first place?

After all, they don't put DRM warning stickers on CDs (probably for fear nobody would buy them).

-mcgrew

I always thought it was a dig on that anti-piracy campaign that went something along the lines of "When you download movies off the internet, you're supporting terrorism."

The most complete article I can google up comes, oddly enough, from Kuro5hin.

Some Guy named Rick McCallum shot off his mouth about how Piracy and Terrorism are the same.

I don't know about the states (I'm living in Germany with the Military, so the only english-language TV we get here is AFN) - but the anti-drug campaign that runs along similar lines is still going strong here, with a bunch of kids talking gravely about how they helped kill police officers and fund criminals when they're doing drugs is still going strong.

There is a (small) amount of support for the arguement, physically pirated discs (as opposed to bittorrent downloads) - are usually pressed by organized crime in Asia. A bit of the money they make off that probably ends up in the hands of one terrorist organization or another.

Same with Drugs, the Poppy fields in Afghanistan provide the vast majority of funds for the insurgency there.

Odd mix of bit rates (some are about 224 kbit VBR, others are 256 kbit fixed rate), but no complaints with the music.

That's fine if all you're listening to is an MP3 player and cheesy earbuds, but I have two JBL threee-way enclosures with 12 inch woofers in my living room, and a six speaker premium stereo in my car.

So I can certainly hear the difference between the compressed files and CD quality files, even with my old ears.

Plus, there's no way for me to play compressed files in the car unless I've burned them to a CD in redbook format. I've made "mix tapes" for play in the car, and some of them have tunes that have been burned from MP3 "originals" sampled at a high variable bitrate. When you hear a CD quality tune followed by one from a compressed file the difference in quality is unmistakable to anyone.

That's not to say I don't listen to compressed files; if I had a 500 CD changer maybe I wouldn't, but generally I have the computer (which is plugged into the stereo's amp) playing random MP3s.

Often a visitor will comment on how good my stereo sounds, so at that point I usually put a CD in. I don't get any argument about CD vs MP3 quality from anyone who's listened to MP3s and CDs through good speakers. Everybody else thinks I'm crazy. Well, they might be right but not about that.

If Amazon or Apple or anyone else wants to "sell" me downloaded files, they will have to be uncompressed or use lossless compresseion, they're going to have to be comppletely free of any Dumb Restrictions on Music (DRM), and they're going to have to be a hell of a lot cheaper than 99 cents. For ten bucks I can get a CD with fifteen to thirty songs on it with cover art, lyrics, etc. It's ludicrous to think I would pay more to get less, and if I bought 99 cent compressed files I'd certainly be getting much less for way more.

And no, I don't buy "one hit wonders". I stopped being ripped off by albums with one or two good songs when I was a teenager, and started only buying "greatest hits" albums, live albums, albums I'd heard at a friend's house or on KSHE, or albums from bands I knew from experience wouldn't disappoint (e.g., Led Zeppelin). If you have one good song on a sucky album I'll record it off the radio, just like I've been doing for forty years and the RIAA and its paid off governmentbe damned.

-mcgrew

Birth of a label-sanctioned pirate radio station

So why yo be lookin up crack when yo can take it, huh? What yo wan' look up Crack for? Look, yo just check out this free blast! You no be redding this piece of shit no morl afta this blast. Yo be coming back for mor' right? A dollar fo' blast, or a bump for $5! Am I right? No shit, man, you get the best high with my crack. Its like no like any other shit on this motherfucking planet! I gonna rip yo off man, ya gonna be on a $200 day habit, that bad you wan' my crack shit!

Also, the instructions below will allow you to defeat any copy protection. Period. Just substitute "cheap CD walkman" for "stereo." Caution- doing this in the United Statesor other parts of the world may be a felony. Those in less corrupt, more civilized parts of the world need not fear.

What's funny is that I'm not afraid of dying, but I don't like to think about the incredible suffering that almost always preceeds it.

Neither of you know Jack Shit about trolling.

Here in Springfield we keep our trolling offline. It adds a bit of excitement you just can't get on the internet where your life isn't in danger.

And although I'd have modded the stupid thing as troll, that's only because there's no "spam" mod.

-mcgrew

That's not the issue here. Your light bulb, your computer, your TV, every electric thing you own produces greenhouse gasses. Not the device itself, but the generator that powers it (at least unless your electricity comes from hydro or wind or nuke).

An incandescant uses four times as much electricity as a twirley bulb, so it produces four times the greenhouse gasses.

I see problems, however, as I've already replaced all the incandescants I can with twirley bulbs.

The light in the refrigerator is, ironically, one of the hot damned incandesents. A twirley won't fit.

I'm afraid to put one in the oven!

And my house was built in the 1930s or 40s, and has its bulbs by the bathroom mirror that are flame shaped. In order to use twirleys in there I'll have to remodel the whole fucking bathroom.

-mcgrew
(speaking of my old bathroom, here's an almost on topic link to an old article I wrote at K5, Useful Dead Technologies.

Or perhaps a sufficiently pared down human mind?

I already used "DOH!" as a subject line today. And yes it certainly IS the Springfield you're thinking of, as I illustrated in this comment responding a few comments down.

If you're ever in Springfield, mix Paxil and alcohol and you'll REALLY see the cartoons come out (I've been off the Paxil for a few years now but I still love my beer).

That's up in Clinton. It's just that burning coal releases more radioactivity into the air than a nuke plant. Plus that's not the only thing Groening got wrong; not everyone here is bugeyed (althogh a lot of them are). There are other cartoon characters here like Popeye, Olive Oyle, and Betty Boop, only like the linked diary mentions, the Springfield Betty's head is bigger, Springfield's Olive is flatter chested, and she isn't with Popeye.

The day before yesterday I saw Santa Claus tooling down the street in a motorized wheelchair with a set of golf clubs on his back, I shit you not! Come to se the Lincoln Presidential Library, stay for the 3-D cartoons.

No, the article was sampling cassettes and vinyl, but you can plug your radio's headphone jack into your PC just as easily as a cassette deck and the procedure is the same. Note the FA said it would defeat any audio copy protection - your CD player has a headphone jack too.

It is indeed not competetion to CD sales, as FM isn't CD quality. It is competetion to paid downloads, which are no better quality than radio samples and have Drastically Rediculous Monkeyshines (DRM).

won't be able to assemble the entire album in most cases

True, unless you live in St Louis. Most downloaders are after singles, not CDs.

Yes, your single will have the "radio edit" which is pretty much the same in most cases as buying the CD at WalMart ("You're crazy but I like the way you.... me"). You can fade the song early when the DJ starts talking over it or they fade it into th enext song. We geezers were recording tapes from the radio for a long time before anybody downloaded anything. I've turned some of the downloaded tapes into MP3. The other night guests were freaked out by a Rush song that got garbled in the middle of it at a spot where the radio's signal had faded; I had sampled the cassette that was recorded from the radio, and the radio signal got lost for a few seconds during recording. Except for that couple of seconds it was indistinguishable from a ripped or downloaded MP3.

you're going to do over $20 worth of work to get a crappy recording of part of an album

Only if you make $300 an hour. If you sampe an album from KSHE it will take all of five minutes of your time to turn it into a CD with proper skip points. It won't be CD quality, as FM broadcasts aren't CD quality.

Again, I agree it doesn't compete with CD sales, but it does compete with single download sales. Personally I don't see the point in renting lossily compressed DRM crippled WMA or AAC files.

The bottom line is, radio play doesn't compete with a CD purchase or a download.

That's because not everyone has read this. A ten dollar radio and a five dollar patch cord will get you all the top 40 MP3s your little heart desires.

if they let us download the music for free, and take their income from somewhere else.

I download my RIAA music from the radio for free. I buy indie music after downloading it from the internet if I like it.

-mcgrew

OK now this is dumb. The AC's post (he was obviously going for "funny") is only flamebait if athiesm itself is a religion calling for holy war against all Jews, Christians, Muslims, Bhuddists, Hindus, and other nonbelievers; er, I mean, well you know what I mean.

If mention of religion offends your athiestic sensibilities your faith in the nonexistance of God must be weak indeed. If you can't stand someone making fun of your religion then your faith in God must be equally weak.

If Mr. Coward were to have said "God" instead of "the Bible" I would have to agree with him and if you want to know why, I wrote two articles several years ago at K5 explaining where my spiritual beliefs come from. Gecko Poker is about some strange wierdness I witnessed while in Thailand when I was in the USAF ("The bhuddist priests do things that make Kwai Chaing Cane look like a clumsy dork."), and Death about the time I died an an auto accident.

You can choose to believe that elephants exist or you can choose to believe that the photos are Gimped, but once you see an elephant nobody is going to convince you that there are no such things.

The article itself is flamebait if you ask me. I can understand completely why the parent poster chose to remain anonymous in this nest of athiests who whistle past the graveyard.

As I said in Bloody Sunday, thank God for the athiests!

-mcgrew

OK now this is dumb. The AC's post (he was obviously going for "funny") is only flamebait if athiesm itself is a religion calling for holy war against all Jews, Christians, Muslims, Bhuddists, Hindus, and other nonbelievers; er, I mean, well you know what I mean.

If mention of religion offends your athiestic sensibilities your faith in the nonexistance of God must be weak indeed. If you can't stand someone making fun of your religion then your faith in God must be equally weak.

If Mr. Coward were to have said "God" instead of "the Bible" I would have to agree with him and if you want to know why, I wrote two articles several years ago at K5 explaining where my spiritual beliefs come from. Gecko Poker is about some strange wierdness I witnessed while in Thailand when I was in the USAF ("The bhuddist priests do things that make Kwai Chaing Cane look like a clumsy dork."), and Death about the time I died an an auto accident.

You can choose to believe that elephants exist or you can choose to believe that the photos are Gimped, but once you see an elephant nobody is going to convince you that there are no such things.

The article itself is flamebait if you ask me. I can understand completely why the parent poster chose to remain anonymous in this nest of athiests who whistle past the graveyard.

As I said in Bloody Sunday, thank God for the athiests!

-mcgrew

What is love without the need, and willingness to sacrifice?

I take it you've never worked on machinery (see the part titled "The automobile distributor and points")

What is love without the risk of loss?

Stuff breaks. Stuff burns. Stuff gets lost. But stuff doesn't leave you for another man.

-mcgrew
Tis the season to commit suicide

What is love without the need, and willingness to sacrifice?

I take it you've never worked on machinery (see the part titled "The automobile distributor and points")

What is love without the risk of loss?

Stuff breaks. Stuff burns. Stuff gets lost. But stuff doesn't leave you for another man.

-mcgrew
Tis the season to commit suicide

Ther eare six billion people on this planet. I'll do what I can to get along with them, but I refuse to live in fear of any of them

I do, indeed, know the consequenses of a horrible auto accident. I also know the consequenses of road rage, as my cousin's son is in prison right now for murdering someone in a fit of road rage.

Again, though, I'm not going to waste my money to avoid pissing you off. It's not my responsibility to control your anger, that's your own responsibility.

Hi,

Was reading along, and saw this post of yours because I added you as a 'friend' after I saw your habanero vodka post.

Anyways, I now have a jar in the closet half-filled with Vodka and 8 or so Habanero peppers (I'd forgotten how many you suggested when I was at the store) - it's labeled 10-24-07. After a month or so I poured half the tincture back into the vodka bottle, and left the other half in the closet to sit for the rest of the 4-6 months you recommended. I put the vodka bottle in the freezer, as directed.

I thought when I saw your post today that I'd tell you I made the drink. Then I figured that I might as well take my first shot. It went down alright - I wonder what 15 habaneros would be like!

Cross-posted your post (with credit) to a story on K5 on this record-breaking pepper, and shared some pepper stories of my own. Some weeks later I found a little ziplock bag filled with the little red peppers I mentioned in that post. The seeds sprouted, and I now have seven seedlings about to put out their first true leaves. I've got someplace heated to keep them for the winter, so hopefully I'll have my own crop of fresh peppers for my next batch of vodka.

Thanks for sharing your capsicum consumption method. :)

This is a neat story too - I don't have any experience with time distortion myself, but I know an 'old' (65?) martial artist who has very good control over his perception of time. He moves much faster than my eyes can track...

-james

The subjects knew they weren't dying. The only way that this experiment could work as designed would be to actually kill the subjects.

Time does indeed slow down, just like in the movies. I've experienced it, and you can do all the bedly designed experiments you want to prove that salt is sweet, but it doesn't alter the fact that salt is salty and I know it.

I wrote about the experience at K5 a few years ago, if you want more details.

If you put a bullet in your brain, you will be in intense, searing, unimaginably horrible pain for the rest of your life. Nike's ad agency is full of morons; Just don't do it.

-mcgrew

WTF? Why in burning hell would anyone help their ex-wife with anything?

WTF? Why in burning hell would anyone help their ex-wife with anything?

still have to pay for my music? No fair. I want it for free because it makes me happy.

No, you have the radio, which has always been free and legal. In the US in the 1970s they passed a law called the "home recording act" that explicitly said that it was LEGAL to tape the radio.

Now we have computers and CD burners but it works the same way. If you live in St Louis you can have seven albums per week this way, uncut and uninterrupted, some of which haven't even been released to retail yet!

-mcgrew

still have to pay for my music? No fair. I want it for free because it makes me happy.

No, you have the radio, which has always been free and legal. In the US in the 1970s they passed a law called the "home recording act" that explicitly said that it was LEGAL to tape the radio.

Now we have computers and CD burners but it works the same way. If you live in St Louis you can have seven albums per week this way, uncut and uninterrupted, some of which haven't even been released to retail yet!

-mcgrew

You can get top 40 MP3s in higher quality simply by plugging your radio's headphone jack into your sound card, sampling a top-40 station for a couple of hours, then spending ten minutes making MP3s. Less trouble, better quality than this OR eDonkey.

Not CD quality, but as good as an MP3 you can make from a CD and far better than iMeem or eDonkey.

-mcgrew

Troll? Here in Springfield, where Gail Simpson is Aderman, we do our trolling offline.

-mcgrew

I'm not sure what you want to see the shareholders do or think, unless it is perhaps "that money is being wasted on lawsuits" which is probably not a foregone conclusion.

If I held shares in a company with a dying business model I'd probably be too stupid to sell. But assuming I woke up with a few brain cells one morning, I'd realise that the RIAA labels no longer have the monopoly (or duopoly or whatever) they once enjoyed and that if they weren't strong enough to face the tiny indie labels head-on, they're not strong enough to survive.

The majors should end their war on the internet, end their war on P2P and internet radio. Even though they won the war on internet radio in the US, there are lots of other places in the world. And no matter how many computer-free grandmas and mentally retarded twelve year old children they sue, P2P will not go away, especially since it is SO EASY to not get sued.

If you use Morpheus you can uncheck a box and you won''t automatically share your downloads. This is a good thing not only from a legal perspective, but from the viewpoint that the majors have radio and empty-v. Indies only have P2P. Seed your share folders with indie music!

If you want the top 40, just plug your radio into your computer and sample for a couple hours, and you can make MP3s from the whole damned top 40, free and legal. Well, I guess it's legal but even if it isn't there's no way they can catch you, and no way to stop you short of taking their stuff off the air.

I have MP3s I made from cassettes I recorded off the radio years ago. When I have company over people kind of do a brain fart when the MP3 comes to a part of the song where the tape got ate.

-mcgrew

Meet my friend Mike. The link is to an old K5 story about a pig farmer (Mike), a nerd (me), a couple other rednecks, and explosives. No hookers in that one though.

While we're reminiscing about the good old days of refrigerator sized hard drives that would only hold a single three minute MP3 and pocket calculators that needed a whole building to house and took an army of engineers to run, you kids might want to know what it's like to grow up with computers (written 2005); or rather, have computers grow up with you.

Now be nice and don't make any "soviet Russia" jokes about this comment, ok?

-mcgrew

Must... resist... must not... bite... this trolll... OH FUCK IT!

By the time you die of a heart attack, you've either reproduced or you're not going to. Evolution is about fucking, you stupidly rediculous troll.

-mcgrew

...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Except after your 4th amendment rights aren't violated when they search your car and they find a little baggie of pot under the back seat. They take the car! No trial, nothing. Even if you go to trial on the drug charge and are found not guilty, they still keep the car.

A few years ago the newspapers reported that there was a soldier who was pulled over for driving a used car while black in some little redneck state down south. They searched the car and found cocaine in the door panels. He was arrested and his car confiscated. It turned out that he had bought the car three weeks earlier, and the cocaine came with the car. Nobody knew how it got there. The soldier was released without any charges being filed- but he never got the car back.

So much for that part of the 5th amendment.

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

I'll let you folks beat these dry horse bones. Just let me say that you have no right whatsoever to bear arms in the city of Chicago. In fact, try walking down the street of any American city carrying a shotgun. And again, at least in the state of Illinois, you have to have a Firearms Owner ID card (FOID) to own a gun. Again, if it's my right, why do I have to ask permission?

a good way to generate buzz about your writings is to be on the opposing side of a losing argument, and doing your best to confound things and give reasonings as to why everybody else (against SCO) is wrong. I believe this behavior is known in certain circles as "trolling".

As God is my witness!

-mcgrew

Thanks, if you liked that one you would have liked the diaries I used to keep at K5 a few years ago when I was on Paxil.

The Chinese have an old curse, "may you live in interesting times". I live an interesting life. I live in Springfield, which is even crazier and less believable than the cartoon Springfield (see Klutzo the Clown tasered to death). I updated that yesterday; according to the Springfield paper it appears that Klutzo may have died from being sat on by a fat man, rather than from the taser.

Oh, my roommate showed up at 6:30 this morning, drunk on her ass. I haven't seen her but once in the last couple of weeks, I think I'll take the afternoon off. If she's drunk enough maybe I'll get lucky!

I'll probably have another journal in a day or two. Thanks again for the kudos!

The DoJ also appears to buy into the RIAA's argument that making a file available on a P2P network constitutes copyright infringement.

It appears more like the RIAA has bought into the DoJ. We have the best politicians money can buy, unfortunately.

The only people who don't want their files shared are the ones who have radio to get the word out. This isn't about copyright infringement, it's about holding on to a monopoly. File sharers are music lovers who spend a lot more money on music than non file sharers. If the majors could keep indie music off of P2P like they keep it off the radio, they would embrace it.

How to rip from vinyl or tape (or your radio if you want the entire top-40)
Birth of a label-sanctioned pirate radio station Why is it that KSHE has played seven albums in their entirety, back to back, every Sunday for forty years with the RIAA labels' blessing? If you live in St. Louis you get seven free CDs every week!

-mcgrew

The DoJ also appears to buy into the RIAA's argument that making a file available on a P2P network constitutes copyright infringement.

It appears more like the RIAA has bought into the DoJ. We have the best politicians money can buy, unfortunately.

The only people who don't want their files shared are the ones who have radio to get the word out. This isn't about copyright infringement, it's about holding on to a monopoly. File sharers are music lovers who spend a lot more money on music than non file sharers. If the majors could keep indie music off of P2P like they keep it off the radio, they would embrace it.

How to rip from vinyl or tape (or your radio if you want the entire top-40)
Birth of a label-sanctioned pirate radio station Why is it that KSHE has played seven albums in their entirety, back to back, every Sunday for forty years with the RIAA labels' blessing? If you live in St. Louis you get seven free CDs every week!

-mcgrew

What a nice re-writing of history in which you ignore that not only did Clinton respond to those attacks, but he was met by opposition from a Republican-controlled congress the entire time.
Even if your claim had a hint of truth, wasn't it the Bush administration's duty to correct for Clinton's alleged errors in judgment? You state yourself that Al-qaeda was known to be a threat for years, yet Bush still didn't acknowledge their threat until the towers fell.
What could have been done in 5 months? How about an analysis of weaknesses in airline security? How about hardened cockpits? How about the use of air marshalls? How about anything?

You should try reading. I assure you it's more fun than purchasing a patriotic bumper sticker!

Yes, I wondered myself for a long time if my preferred modality was something other than visual. But I didn't get any imagery of any sort, and finally figured it out. Nine years has left a lot of ground to cover, so I'm glad that I was able to give enough of the details (over the course of several posts) to allow you to get a handle on my particular situation.

I just posted another reply in this thread - you might find something else there.

The inability to visualize is related to/caused by a chronic autonomic nervous system imbalance.

Thanks for posting, and have a nice day. :)

The Web 2.0 crowd rediscovers subroutine libraries. Film at 11.

Recording studios would be hit rather hard

I think not. There are a few studios here in Springfield (with a population of only 110,000), but none of the bands who record for the majors are using them. Instead it's the major labels' biggest threat who are using them - talented locals who play in bars.

MP3 is killing the RIAA labels because that's mostly the format the local guys post their songs on the internet in. And those MP3s are selling CDs. Every two indie CDs sold is an RIAA CD that isn't.

I have quite a few musician friends here, and not a single one of them would sign a contract with the majors and give up copyright to their own music, only to have "creative accounting" eat up any of the tiny royalties they would get.

The king is dead. Long live the king!

-mcgrew