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Paul McCartney On Music In the Digital World
Rachhpal writes "Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney will release his new album today — it's called 'Memory Almost Full.' In an interview with the L.A. Times, he talked about ending his long-time relationship with EMI and making the new album fully downloadable through his new relationship with Starbucks' Hear Music label. Some of his comments on the music industry: 'I was bored with the old record company's jaded view,' McCartney says... 'They're very confused, and they will admit it themselves: that this is a new world, and they're a little bit at a loss as to what to do. So they've got millions of dollars and X budget... for them to come up with boring ways — because they've been at it for so long — to what they call "market" it. And I find that all a bit disturbing.'"
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But practicing "targeted" assassination, which as the same time kill civilian and kids, is the best way to bring peace to the region, isn't it ? Collateral damage is acceptable , as long as YOU are not the collateral, he ? Think about this : maybe there is NO GOOD GUY in that story. Some of us think both side are as sick and bad than the other one.
From my point of view the only difference is that Israel due to historical reason has a stronger lobby in the US, and the US a veto in the security council. But that is it.
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Ever ask yourself why you live in such an atmosphere? Or are all of your answers to that question black and white too?
Oh, it must just be blind hatred eh? After all, the Israeli government is one of the most progressive in the region and must be put on a pedestal for its stellar efforts in promoting peace in the region. Yeah right.
-- Trinity in high heels carrying a whip: The donimatrix - there is no spoonerism
Hezbollah fired a bunch of low tech rockets at Israel. Total victims is on the order of a few dozens.
Israel responded by dropping thousands of 1-ton bombs, fragmentation bombs and laser-guided missiles on the whole Lebanese territory. Casualties in the hundreds, if not thousands. And Hezbollah is *not* Lebanon. It's a shiah organization. Not all shiites are members. And Lebanese has christians and sunnis. Well, guess what, all of them got fragged.
Plus Israel specifically targetted infrastructure, such as bridges and Beyrut's oil refinery (resulting in the worse oil spill in the mediterranean ever), which had nothing to do with terrorists. See, militants carry their RPG by foot or moped; they don't drive armored vehicles, and don't really need those bridges to do their guerilla.
Wow, did you read the same parent post as I did? The one I read expressed confusion about the Israel/Palestine question, which is understandable—this conflict is one of the trickiest conundrums in late-20th/early-21st-century diplomacy.
You do your cause a disfavour when you start attacking people who are expressing legitimate uncertainty as "seeing things in black and white"—it seems to me that they are doing the exact opposite by admitting that they don't have a solution to the problem.
By reacting with a verbal attack, you reveal that you evaluate others' opinions not by their merit, but by whether they conform exactly to yours. How else could a declaration of ignorance possibly be interpreted as seeing things in black and white?