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"Don't use your phone, don't use mine. Don't speak treason, the're tapping the line". Redgum - ASIO (1984)

BTW: You're on my lawn, you know what to do.

Especially the part of discounting or ridiculing creative ideas.

Cue "They all laughed at Christopher Columbus..."

That's because for every wright brothers there are tons of people like this.
In this case Jeff Bezos is one of those planes that has no chance in hell of flying.

Especially the part of discounting or ridiculing creative ideas.

Cue "They all laughed at Christopher Columbus..."

I think he had an appointment pending, assuming he has a good pair of hiking boots handy.

Dirty little secret: This year's revolutionary is next year's tyrant.

Oh, maybe not so secret. There've even been...

<sunglasses>

songs about it.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

I have pride in the ideals of America. I do not have pride that the government no longer aspires to those ideals.

you are the government

You can't just execute every bothersome politician. And it wouldn't do much good any way.

[citation needed]

All I can really do is be vocal, vote for the least bad option and maybe run for local office.

Oh no, there's a lot more that can be done. As a nation, though, we're not doing anything effective. That's the problem; we refuse to acknowledge our common ground and thus realize that the government that has become is our common enemy.

This whole plan is a little too "Pi in the sky" for me ...

ELO?

Someone suggested balloons instead. How about solar powered zeppelins. Any light weight long lasting rechargeable batteries yet? They ever get good printable/paintable solar cells yet?

Your post is 100% true, not hyperbole. When I was 13 years old my friends and I redesigned the logo of our public junior high school into a hammer and sickle to protest the strict dress code. Later in high school, I was in the rock band. Since nobody bothered to vet our lyrics, we played The Anti-Nowhere League's So What uncensored during a lunchtime concert at school.

Now, go to any college. At an intersection, the light will be red, but there will be no traffic in sight. They will all just stand there like sheep, even though they could walk across the intersection without any risk, just because the light is red.

I don't know about a radiation detector, but I do have some entertainment suggestions for your music player, assuming of course that it doesn't get fried by the radiation...

"Christmas at Ground Zero" by Weird Al

"Hot Frogs On The Loose" by Fred Small

On a more respectful note, there is also Small's "Cranes Over Hiroshima".

Now, how you gonna answer the question Paul Simonon posed here? http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Guns-of-Brixton-lyrics-The-Clash/C2A3732B03DA609A48256D98000F45F6

(whatever the British equivalent of fantasizing about Second Amendment Remedies is, this makes for one of the great punk songs.)

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Smut-lyrics-Tom-Lehrer/6AF3E9A2451F2F0548256A7D0025920C

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pva35TFiBfI

I do have a cause though. It is obscenity. I'm for it. Unfortunately the civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it owing to the nature of the laws as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on but we know what's really involved: dirty books are fun. That's all there is to it. But you can't get up in a court and say that I suppose. It's simply a matter of freedom of pleasure, a right which is not guaranteed by the Constitution unfortunately. Anyway, since people seem to be marching for their causes these days I have here a march for mine. It's called...

These people did it on their own free will.

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" - Janis Joplin. You are suggesting that they might have alternatives. Here I could chose among many employers with good terms and conditions if I needed to. They might not have a choice - you got to eat. Articles like this one reminds me of why unions were important and necessary 100-150 years ago.

..Shock the Monkey?

The first thing that comes to mind is American Women, http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/american-woman-lyrics-the-guess-who/f932c3efb2ae557048256ce90029fc2d .

I'm getting fed up with these two concepts. There is only one kind of Plagarism...

...misspelled.

cheating. If you didn't do the work on your paper, then you're cheating.

plagiarism /pledrzm, -dirz-/
-noun
1. the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work.

English? YOU FAIL IT!

Copyright is the idea that you control the copies of your creation. Obviously, nobody wants to spend thousands of hours creating something then letting someone else (a corporation) sell it without royalties.

I've spent hundreds of hours developing articles for Everything2. I shudder to think at the hours which have gone into Wikipedia. Human Emotion? YOU FAIL IT!

However, Copyright has turned into this idea where as soon as you make a "Dark cloaked figure who kills people for a living" you can go bully anyone else for doing something like it.

The courts let you do that. They also provide a mechanism for recovering the costs of frivolous lawsuits. Understanding Jurisprudence? YOU FAIL IT!

IP is not a failed idea. Our system is what's broken (or more likely, those who are in charge of the system).

you are the government
you are jurisprudence
you are the volition
you are jurisdiction
and I make a difference too

>>>In my company, I'm watching them implement 15 petabyte storage solutions just to keep track of 12 months of http hits

Why doesn't your company just declare "unfunded mandate" and refuse to comply until (or if) a law is passed?

From the OBAMA administration?

The one that sends union thugs to beat up old ladies who dare to complain about Obamacare to their elected representative?

The Who sang a song decades ago that's highly apropos the current US Administration:

Won't Get Fooled Again Lyrics

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again

Change it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fall that's all
But the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie

Do ya?

There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the CHANGE all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me.

Won't Get Fooled Again

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
No, no!

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie

Do ya?

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

Hope-n-change!

Trent Reznor is God.

He'd disagree.

Trent Reznor is God.

He'd disagree.

If I hit the lottery I'd still buy their stuff, and of course Kraft mac'n'cheese.

You aren't the only one....

If I had a million dollars we wouldn't have to eat Kraft dinner
"But we would eat Kraft dinner."
"Of course we would, we'd just eat more."
"And buy really expensive ketchups with it."
"That's right, all the fanciest Dijon ketchups."

i used to think similarly, but you're ignoring certain realities of business and the legal system.

first of all, licensing copyrighted works is not always a viable option. if you're familiar with Acid Bath, then you know what kind of subject matters they sing about and the type of lyrics they use. i don't think the Seuss estate is likely to grant a license to use their character's name in a song about IV drug use & rotting corpses, and that uses the f-word 18 times, in an album that is illustrated by a convicted serial-killer/cannibal/pedophile/necrophile.

even if we were somehow able to convince the Seuss/Geisel-estate to grant us a license to use their character, it's unlikely that the album would have remained profitable--all for a single song title. frankly, the lyrics have very little to nothing to do with Dr. Seuss. so in retrospect, from the perspective of the label, the smart thing to do would have been just to change the track title and remove the 4 occurrences of "Dr. Seuss" from the lyrics. but we're not in the habit of censoring our bands, and i don't think they'd really appreciate being forced to run all of their new material by a copyright lawyer before being allowed to perform a song or record an album. i don't know, that just doesn't seem conducive of a healthy creative environment IMHO.

lastly, the only merchandise we sold containing an actual depiction of the Dr. Seuss character did have major alterations--it was an original design commissioned by the label & the band depicting Dr. Seuss looking strung-the-fuck-out, smoking a joint, and with a needle in his arm. but as i said, there's no fixed metric for determining what is considered fair use and what is not. it's always judged on a case by case basis. and frankly, we don't have the money to engage in a court battle with a multi-million/billion-dollar corporation. if ABC backed down from a copyright dispute against the Geisel estate, then that tells me that we don't really stand much of a chance.

i mean, in an ideal world, the law would always be interpreted in accordance to its intent. mentioning "Dr. Seuss" in the song title or lyrics of a metal album is not likely to devalue the Geisel estate's IP or otherwise damage them financially. so we should have had nothing to worry about. and in an ideal world, money would also mean nothing in a court of law, and any average joe could take on a major corporation like Disney or Sony BMG in court and win. but that's not the way the world works, and people who are in the right are unfortunately often forced to settle out of court.

as to your last question, i've never been in a band or worked with Acid Bath, though i did meet Sammy Duet at a Goatwhore (the band he formed with Ben Falgoust of Soilent Green/Paralysis fame after Acid Bath broke up) show when they were signed to Rotten Records, which is where i work. unfortunately, Acid Bath broke up a couple of years before i started working at the label around my senior year in high school. but i can tell you this much, Dax Riggs, who wrote most of the songs, is not the type of person to associate with lawyers. heck, he's refused to work with even record labels since Agents of Oblivion split up--and not for a lack of offers. in fact, Dax's antiestablishmentarian views is the primary reason why Acid Bath (minus Audie Pitre, obviously) has never reunited.

oh, and one last thing. i think it's worth noting that FOX owns the copyrights to both, The Simpsons and Family Guy, so that's probably not a good example to use. South Park's parody of Family Guy and The Simpsons are probably more appropriate to this discussion, but Comedy Central has a lot more money to spend on lawyers than we do.

Canibus already contemplated this http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/2000-B-C-Before-Canibus-lyrics-Canibus/2EE34A3044402F8F482568A800134012

Ctrl-F iridium

According to this, there is at least one song written about him...

Ahhh...but, don't you know? High School Never Ends.

Or the Harmony in My Head http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Harmony-In-My-Head-lyrics-The-Buzzcocks/0803FA4DAD578EA548256B2100358D71

Dang it, meant to include links:

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6-ZccfRrIo

Lyrics: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/My-Cat-lyrics-Jack-off-Jill/B113F6B161F88B2848256BFE000B228B

I was in the midst of a big coding crunch last year, and one of the random people who I used to indulge back in the glory days when I wasn't in charge of everything came in and started babbling something I couldn't hear because of the headphones.

I pulled them off, and gave him a look, and he said, "Uh, is this a bad time?"

I reached up and unplugged my headphones from the speakers, and from the speakers boomed "LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR! LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR!" Over the course of the day, the music creeps up, and up, and by this time it was deafening.

I turned the volume down, gave the guy another look, and he said, "Uhhh, I'll come back later."

And he never came back.

And if there's no electricity in SoCal, move somewhere else. Do you like the climate enough to live in candle light at night?

I thought we were all supposed to Blame Canada for everything.

For those wondering about the "firstofthegangtodie" tag, it's a reference to this song... can't believe that's a popular tag, though, are the displayed values not the most popular tags? *puzzled

You forgot the long long while (and the long long time).

can . Big deal.

Flaming Lips (that horrible, amateurish "Peaches" song and the like).

Listen to Metallica at all? Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich cane to this conclusion in 1988. At the time I thought the album was a bit of a sellout compared to Master Of Puppets or Kill 'em All, but in retrospect it still had the edge compared to the albums that followed.

And Justice for All

God, I feel old when I realise I just waxed nostalgic about ...And Justice for All. Anyway. Metallica had it right. Justice is meaningless. One need only look as far as the illegality of marijuana and the fiscal reasons for it. Makes one want to puke.

You really need to hear the song to get a the sense of disgust and anger that James, Kirk and Lars pound out.

Just like yesterday!

now if the next post is "Then I'll get on my knees and pray"
and the following one "We don't get fooled again"
or the equivalent TAB to this WHO song Won't Get Fooled Againhas any one person broken copyright? Information could also be segmented across multiple websites.. like a webring.

Similar to the ancient petition style of signing in a names in a ring, so no single name was at the top of the petition.

Vote for me, and I'll set you free

a fraternal twin that had been absorbed early in the gestation process.

Even though, the little Indian problem seemed to be known longer ago, and setting that problem aside. I thought, for real, that a problem would be in terms of width not length.

Don't forget this one.

Jethro Tull lyrics from that period.

Jethro Tull lyrics from that period.

Like the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star"?

Or the Smiths' "Hang the DJ"?

(okay, so it's called Panic, but he repeats "Hang the DJ" like 20x...)

is nerdcore going to turn into a legitimate subgenre?

This question has lot stumped many star wars historians. For it's a question wrapped inside an enigma. To wit:

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Fett's-Vett e-lyrics-MC-Chris/16FF523D3B5C945548256E8400077790

The spyware claim (keeping the shared folder shared even after uninstalling Kazaa), if valid, is the only one that might have any merit.

Everything else, though, smacks of "Look what you made me do!" blame-deflection.

I sued Home Depot
'Cause they sold me a hammer
Which they knew I might drop on my toes

Both crows and lawyers come in murders.

More people will begin to question blind consumption of fossil fuels and search for sustainable alternatives.

Your post reminds me of my favorite SpinalTap song.

Electronic Recycling Drop-Off Event
Sunday, November 12th, 8am to 12:30pm
Lincoln Center - Service Road

We will accept working and non-working computers, laptops, monitors, printers, keyboards, mice, cables, TVs and VCRs(no wooden consoles only plastic case models), fax machines, cell phones and pagers.

Saturday, December 9th, 8am to 4pm at PS 321
180 7th Avenue, between 1st & 2nd Streets
Park Slope, Brooklyn

Sunday, January 7th, 2007, 8am to 4pm
4th annual 'After the Holidays' event at Union Square Park - North Plaza 17th St & Broadway

Intro. 104, sponsored by Council Member Bill De Blasio, which would require manufacturers to collect discarded electronic products. Intro. 104, the Electronics Recycling and Reuse Act, would remove many of these products from landfills and incinerators currently used by the City of New York, as these products pose an environmental risk when burned, buried or recycled improperly.

Turn on my V.C.R., same one I've had for years
James Brown on the T.A.M.I show,
Same tape I've had for years
I sit in my old car, same one I've had for years
Old battery's running down, it ran for years and years

Turn on the radio, the static hurts my ears
Tell me, where would I go? I ain't been out in years
Turn on the stereo, it's played for years and years
An Otis Redding song, it's all I own

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around