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Unless, of course, you get publicity. Bono was just nominated for his Second Nobel Peace Prize

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in American Psycho to this:

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in the Machinist to this:

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in Batman. He dropped 1/3 of his body weight (180 to 120) for the machinist. Supposedly he wanted to go to 100 but the producers wouldn't let him.

BTW, see the machinist if you haven't.

The reason is that artists don't have a culture of sharing like coders do (way before FSF or GNU), because that model doesn't really work with art - at least traditional art for obvious reasons.


What are those reasons? The OSS model seems to work quite well for musical artists. Why should graphic artists be any different?

That's funny because a lot of people think Brian Molko from Placebo can't sing either (I disagree).

If you've never seen good claymation, you should defintiely go rent/buy all of the W&G videos, and get a copy of Chicken Run also.

For claymation, I highly recommend Celebrity Deathmatch , particularly the older episodes with the de facto king (or is it queen?) of CDM, Marilyn Manson.

But because you don't have a record label filtering out crappy content for you, you have to spend time and effort either (1) lucking into quality content or (2) finding a free filter

You seem to be under the impression that the major labels filter our crappy content.

so, if that's the case, MTV2 made MTV better quality?

Nothing against fans of Real World et al. but that a channel whose 3-letter sign stands for "Music Television" is borderline deceptive when it shows more "reality" shows than, uh...music videos. MTV2 has a lot more vids and is IMHO even a bit in-depth when it covers artists (Sucker Free Sundays shows, etc); I'm frankly not concerned about "what happens when people stop being polite and start getting REAL"--I got enough of that in high school.

"I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict. " http://www.mtv.com/bands/i/iraq/news_feature_03120 3/index.jhtml

Blix's findings were largely ignored by the Bush administration. Bush already had his agenda, and he pushed it through.

apparently you aren't a fan of "pimp my ride" http://www.mtv.com/onair/dyn/pimp_my_ride/series.j html

Pop music sucks
No it doesn't. Pop music doesn't suck, pop music that is created soley for marketing purposes sucks.

But it hasn't been "hacked"; rather, in today-speak, it's been "pimped". That oughta just increase it's resale value.

It's one think to pre record your own work and act it out live. It's another when you have two models out there faking it up to someone elses work.

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ATTENTION ALL! A collaboration between the might of Fark and Something Awful is pushing for a write-in video to get to #1...and what better song than Whip It, by the almighty Devo! So what the hell are you waiting for? It's easy and takes only a few minutes. Go to TRL's online voting thing and go to the write-in portion, and vote for Whip It by Devo. That's it! If you can, call in to MTV to request it over the phone (the number and info is in the Something Awful thread linked above), as to phone votes count for more. Perhaps if the whole anti-MTV internet community works together, we call all make history!

Oooh, my karma's gonna burn for this one.

"Any given week I'm sure one fellow sold 20 or 30 CDs at five bucks a pop."

He takes the risk, and will get caught for it eventually, because the greed will overtake common sense. Also there is a different scale of charges to have copywritten material and selling it.

But, for example, I'm mildly interested in how bad 'Battlefield Earth' actually was, so I download it. Watch, cringing, then delete it. There's no outside perceived difference between me and the other guy.

I don't have a problem with that per se, society will level, either by producing a model that can take into account the fact you can feel mugged after leaving a bad movie (especially if you're going to have to sign an NDA not to SMS friends on how bad it was) or by sueing the population into a frenzy of rioting, or something in between. Someone somewhere will always consider me a heathen or evil. Hell, my love for pork chops marks me down for the Taliban. The basic point is I don't care about the game of moral twister that an industry that promotes "Sizzla's" brand of homophobia should squeal about freedom of speech in one breath, then thump the book of the law when they think they're losing out. F*** 'em.

The main problem is that the profits of the companies that are claiming to government that they're hurting are rising pretty steadily. Can you plot a similar line for any other industry on the planet? Again, F*** them.

I have _every_ sympathy for artists that make 70c off their albums. I would personally be honoured to pay the artists direct and get around the advertising budget, A&R, marketing expense accounts and the like. I like the product because I like the product, not because I watch the Saturday rotation, or radio has drilled it into my head. I'm a music fan...my tastes have been honed by nights at home, lucky finds of rarities on market stalls, and swapping...yes...swapping tapes with friends. The music industry cannot _fathom_ or control this level of viral marketing, and you can be sure as damn that there isn't a lot of money in it, but the secondary effect is that the back catalogues of the greats are selling across generations and ARE still selling despite the fact that the industry has _destroyed_ the retail market through greed.

So F*** them in their ear.

"At the call center where last I 9-5'd"

Pay well, did it? A little supplement to the income has greased human evolution since time immemorial, and black markets have been around for quite a while. And nothing scares people like finding out that _everyone_ has dealt with a black market at sometime or another, and the scale of it. The digital content people have found out, and it's scaring them. The majority don't realise that it's been the status-quo since the year dot.

In fact, all of this roughly parallels what happened with the printing press when it arrived, but you don't see anyone shouting that down because some people lost cash. In fact, you could argue that without early print piracy, modern literacy wouldn't be at the stage it is now.

"I would be indignant about the pirates SELLING this stuff"

I am, which is why I would never charge anyone for a copy I made for them of anything. I'm not entirely morally bankrupt, but given the examples of moral behaviour by governments, rich individuals and people around me, I'm not going to be preached at over a couple of CDs, especially given that this is a minority worried about pr

I switched over my nieces to firefox but I still have to let them use IE because of MTV. Does anyone know how to get the videos on MTVs website to launch in firefox?

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No they don't listen to pantera; this one is for me :)

There was an interesting blog article by a Microsoft PSS employee about his recommendation for choosing passphrases as opposed to passwords. Worth a read. The main problem is a number of online sites don't allow spaces in passwords or limit the password to a short number of characters. For example, I tried to create an iTunes account with a phrase from a Pavement song but it wouldn't let me go over 32 characters or have any spaces in my password.

Before you say it remember who said it first: Ol'DirtyBastard Wu Tang is for the Children!

This comment is offtopic and about the MTV show "Pimp My Ride".

Recently the modifications on that show have gotten ridicilous. They modified a Volkswagon van on a recent show to house a 46 inch television along with a Playstation 2. How long can a car battery actually power such a thing? Recently they also modified an old 80s Suburban and put over 8 flatscreen monitors in it. "Pimp My Ride" is getting out of hand and is starting to add sensationalist modifications. Do not support the show with your viewing. Car batteries cannot power such nonsense for very long, they are off their rockers.

This comment is offtopic and about the MTV show "Pimp My Ride".

Recently the modifications on that show have gotten ridicilous. They modified a Volkswagon van on a recent show to house a 46 inch television along with a Playstation 2. How long can a car battery actually power such a thing? Recently they also modified an old 80s Suburban and put over 8 flatscreen monitors in it. "Pimp My Ride" is getting out of hand and is starting to add sensationalist modifications. Do not support the show with your viewing. Car batteries cannot power such nonsense for very long, they are off their rockers.

Now, is that from turning off the TV, or turning it on and seeing an episode of "Real World"?

See this link for more information and pictures. I particularly like the one where Andre Agassi knocks Tiger Woods' kneecap out of the arena.

All I can say is, I have no idea why Howard Dean didn't get nominated.

But Badnarik is a bloody nutcase.

Sorry but I have to disagree.

Blowing up the UN within a week of taking office?

That was a facetious remark that was taken out of context, as he states in this interview, in which he responded "Blow up the U.N. building? C'mon, I'm a Libertarian. You know that I'd rather sell the U.N. than blow it up." His statement about blowing up the UN was more a jocular political point about how weak and ineffective that organization has become. (They even let themselves be blown up in Iraq by refusing military protection.)

The Federal Income Tax is illegal?

I wouldn't say the tax itself is illegal, but some of the methods the IRS has used in its collection definitely are.

Strapping prisoners to their beds for a month so that their muscles atrophy?

Would you prefer the current policy of strapping them to electrical wires?

Does he understand that the President doesn't wield this kind of power?

Are you kidding me? That's one of the primary themes of his campaign, the fact that politicians today (the President in particular) wield far more power than they should.

I think you might want to take a look at the deeper meaning of some of the things he is saying before labeling him a nutcase.

those godless communist bastards are preying on our innocent capitalism aryan heros like 50 cent, eminem, and britney... think of the children!!!

Confused as to why parent is modded down. See article here

This seems to be a going trend for TV producers to claim they are working on project A in order to get people to unwittingly participate in project B... here on Slashdot not to look ago there was a warning story about MTV Networks fooling experts into appearing on a Comedy Central project called "Crossballs"

MTV Networks seems to be making a habit of this. MTV itself fooled a half dozen college students who thought they were interning on a music video project into being the stars of Faking the Video. And let's not forget TNN/SpikeTV's project called The Joe Schmo Show.

There oughta be a law against these things... because apparently basic fraud hasn't caught up to when fraud is being done in the name of TV.

The decision to deploy the camera networks may have something to do with the incident in which the Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped a load of crap on some tourists taking a river tour. The only proof the city had was some lame video from a security camera. Now they have to test the shit for Dave's DNA.

Your post made me LOL while I was drinking a coke because of your mistake, but I felt compelled to point it out anyway.

Ludacris is a rapper.

And ironically, your post was ludicrous

Chris

Actually, I think it was the episode of MTV Cribs with the newest 15 minute alt-rock band Maroon 5 stated how they have all thier "cool" friends over for a game of scrabble (that was all set up on thier dining room table).

I was thinking something more like this...

I thought entrampment was the process of becoming Britney Spears?

Washington Post -- "Moore has publicly indicated his goal is to impact this election."

CNN International -- "Of course it isn't a fair and balanced look at its subject matter, but it is good filmmaking."

The Guardian (UK) -- "According to legend, Fahrenheit 9/11 was made to topple George W Bush and thereby save America from the grip of an evil tyrant."

New York Times -- "Mixing sober outrage with mischievous humor and blithely trampling the boundary between documentary and demagoguery, Mr. Moore takes wholesale aim at the Bush administration, whose tenure has been distinguished, in his view, by unparalleled and unmitigated arrogance, mendacity and incompetence."

MTV -- "Are [the facts Moore presents] impenetrable on their own, or are they manicured to fit Moore's own motivations?"

I thought of Celebrity Deathmatch

This whole thing is ludicris.

Prepare for a lawsuit.

It's not all THAT bad.
It's not like there are other useless channels out there.

1. Look here.
2. NO big radio corporation fights the FCC on its content restrictions (even if they probably should since there's obviously a case on 1st amendment grounds) - Clear Channel isn't alone in that area. Because of that, the "offer they can't refuse" which the FCC is offering is to levy monstrous, excessive fines on them, and if they don't pay up and take corrective action then broadcast licenses can be pulled.
3. Keep your keyboard quiet if you don't know what you're talking about.

There's more. You never bothered to search did you?

I was reading about this earlier today. This article, FCC Reverses Ruling On Bono Profanity, Hits Howard Stern With Maximum Penalty talks about the reversed decisions of the FCC. Apparently (Howard Stern Show is not in my city anymore) Howard has changed a large portion of his show to criticize the Bush administration. He was a supporter for the actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, but the censorship has pissed him off. He's urging his 8 million listeners to vote bush out. Here's the link: Does Howard Stern Have More Political Muscle Than Ralph Nader? Last, here is a Q&A about crackdown on indecency If you can walk around in your community and not be offended, you are not living in a free society.

I was reading about this earlier today. This article, FCC Reverses Ruling On Bono Profanity, Hits Howard Stern With Maximum Penalty talks about the reversed decisions of the FCC. Apparently (Howard Stern Show is not in my city anymore) Howard has changed a large portion of his show to criticize the Bush administration. He was a supporter for the actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, but the censorship has pissed him off. He's urging his 8 million listeners to vote bush out. Here's the link: Does Howard Stern Have More Political Muscle Than Ralph Nader? Last, here is a Q&A about crackdown on indecency If you can walk around in your community and not be offended, you are not living in a free society.

i.e. "Nobody Knows Me" by Madonna

He does not say that TV is evil. He says that MTV is evil. There is a difference.

Tupac took on Notorious B.I.G...

Jay-Z took on NAS...

Eminem takes on Apple computers, a skinny-bald-vegen-DJ, and a hand puppet.

Eminem is the greatest! Ive never seen an artist with so much talent! Sheer brilliance! Such mind boggling creativity! I LOVE HIM!

(sigh)

Im gonna go take a shower then kill myself.

>>I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that
>>it's pretty likely that the p2p users the RIAA
>>chose to sue were actually violating the law.

I wouldn't jump very hard on that limb...

Do you remember the grandmother who thought Kazaa was the name of a clown, or Ross Plank who was accused of downloading Spanish language songs but doesn't speak spanish?.

Yeagh!

The DMCA didn't contemplate P2P architectures as the judges' ruling notes below. This means the RIAA needs to go back to Congress to implement laws that address P2P. The question then becomes will people get busy and organize to push back? Click The Vote is ready when you are ;)

source "...P2P software was not even a glimmer in anyone's eye when the DMCA was enacted," Chief Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg wrote in the decision. "Furthermore, such testimony as was available to the Congress prior to passage of the DMCA concerned 'hackers' who established unauthorized FTP or BBS sites on the servers of ISPs. ... The Congress had no reason to foresee the application of [the DMCA] to P2P file-sharing, nor did they draft the DMCA broadly enough to reach the new technology when it came along..."

He, what can I do if they tell me to "Steal their Album", but serious that was one of the few CD's I bought in the last year.

OK, I have karma to burn, so here goes:

All of these new-age "addictions" (and pretty much everything non-chemical) are nothing more than reflections upon modern society. Everyone's a victim nowadays, and no one will claim responsibility for his own actions.

People today are fat, lazy and completely bereft of self-control. If you skip work frequently to sit at your computer to play Everquest and end up getting fired, you're not the victim of an addiction. You're a moron. If you can't get homework done because you're always playing Nintendo, turn the damn thing off. If you're fat, you don't need to go to detox; you need to stop eating cheeseburgers.

And how about these omnipresent spoiled children? If your kid is playing too much PlayStation, take it away. Many parents I know seem to think that they're doing their progeny a favor by catering to their every whim. So far, all we're seeing for it are more overweight and generally useless fools. So many problems in America these days could be solved with a good, swift kick in the ass.

So, yeah, I'm pretty fed up with this ephemeral, excessive culture of ours. Mods, eat your hearts out.

You probably mean Q-Tips, and not Q-Tip. At least I hope so. ;)

I'm just waiting for Ashton Kutcher to send out the next SCO press release, informing us that we have all been punk'd.

If this isn't the beginning of the end, then we may be in for a long period of tribulation.