to actually expect that the fees collected will go to the artists.
OF COURSE THE ARTISTS GET NOTHING!
Lets review some definitions:
Slut: someone who does something for the love of it. (see also: Amateur [and its spelled right!])
Whore: someone who does something strictly for money.
Pimp: someone who tries to make whores into sluts by removing the profit motive. (see also: RIAA)
John: someone who pays through the nose for everything.
(The fuckin' you're getting isn't worth the fuckin' you're taking.)
When ever I upload a file (which I do on a regular basis, three times a week,) my upload speed starts off average and then, every second I upload, the speed goes down.
By the end of the transfer, I'm usually down to a crawl.
I'm using FTP (different port from P2P) but that doesn't matter, they are throttling the speed regardless.
SoundExchange are going to collect $50k from each and every WebCaster radio station.
Then the artists have to find out wether they played their songs, or not, from every single WebCaster. (If you believe people are consistently that diligent, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.)
Then the artists have to figure out how much of those $50ks SoundExchange might owe the artist. (Some of these guys and gals can play great. Math, they're not so hot at.)
Then the artists have to try to collect, less the euphemistically called administration fees of course (can you say 110%.)
Get the "Piperazine"! I'm looking at a nastytape worm here.
I get ALL my music by downloads legally through iTunes (20% for my own enjoyment) or through the PodsafeMusicNetwork (PMN) (80% for my podcast.)
They can keep their opinion to themselves, and they can keep their grubby little fingers off of my network.
(I HAVE noticed that ComCast uploads via FTP of my episodes start at about 194KBps and throttle down to a measly 50KBps by the end of a 25MB file upload. Down is throttled as well but resumes after a couple of minutes. [Fuckers can't even tell the difference between P2P ports and the FTP port.])
You have been getting bent over and done dry (and paying in surcharges, and surcharges on the surcharges,) for the last twenty five years.
And we have been replacing copper networks FOR OURSELVES during that time, but NOT delivering ONE INCH of what you've been paying for to you suckers.
We, the telcos, have been sitting on a growing pile of your tax dollars and using the latest and best technologies to our own benefit and WE'RE not about to stop doing so until a couple of CEOs get sent to prison.
unfortunately, that just means "I get to ride on the 'short' bus", with the other window-lickers. (Many thanks to Tim Henson of "The Distorted View Daily" podcast [ http://www.distortedview.com/show/ ] for that wonderful imagery.)
system gets screwed up, either through an inheritable pre-disposition to environmental triggers or through the action of those environment triggers.
I am a not a doctor but I DO have MS.
MS may be a syndrome for a whole bunch of DNA/RAN transcription errors which can either be ignored because the triggers never occur or which can really fuck up your life by transforming what would normally just be a sneeze (an allergic reaction) into a life-threatening episode.
I never get the flu, I get episodes of MS instead (or "as well as').
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them some money for their content (nobody EVER turns down money.)
If I was asking them for a PRICE for their Karaoke CDs/DVDs to play in a PC based player, I bet that I'd be able to license it.
Can't you just smell the Claymation from wherever you're sitting?
someone who is NOT a qualified proctologist looking at the seat of your pants holding a flashlight in his/her hand.
... Bend over"
Like the little kid says on "the Awful Show": "Okay
I feel, uh, violated...
because we know the value of nothing.
It was not as bad in Canada when I lived there. At least we had health care.
Just Google for podsafe music or Creative Commons licensed music.
I haven't needed to buy packaged crap (what I also call "trans-fat" or "hydrogenated" music,) for years.
You could also listen to some music podcasts (look in the iTunes music store.)
You can do yourself and the artists some good.
to actually expect that the fees collected will go to the artists.
OF COURSE THE ARTISTS GET NOTHING!
Lets review some definitions:
Slut: someone who does something for the love of it. (see also: Amateur [and its spelled right!])
Whore: someone who does something strictly for money.
Pimp: someone who tries to make whores into sluts by removing the profit motive. (see also: RIAA)
John: someone who pays through the nose for everything.
(The fuckin' you're getting isn't worth the fuckin' you're taking.)
there are a great deal of subtleties involved.
You might transition easily but will you be effective?
A mentor can help you see what battles are not worth fighting and what battles are and why...
It doesn't have to be someone in your company either...
Oh yeah.
Thanks I hadn't had such a good laugh in donkey's years.
When ever I upload a file (which I do on a regular basis, three times a week,) my upload speed starts off average and then, every second I upload, the speed goes down.
By the end of the transfer, I'm usually down to a crawl.
I'm using FTP (different port from P2P) but that doesn't matter, they are throttling the speed regardless.
and doesn't spend just about all of its money (after graft and corruption) on shit for blowing up other people's shit on their own property.
You've got health care and education.
We just get kicked to the curb when shit happens (as it inevitably does.)
US style capitalism is only good when your gummimnt doesn't give a shit about its citizenry.
because its just an extortion racket.
Let me get this straight...
SoundExchange are going to collect $50k from each and every WebCaster radio station.
Then the artists have to find out wether they played their songs, or not, from every single WebCaster. (If you believe people are consistently that diligent, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.)
Then the artists have to figure out how much of those $50ks SoundExchange might owe the artist. (Some of these guys and gals can play great. Math, they're not so hot at.)
Then the artists have to try to collect, less the euphemistically called administration fees of course (can you say 110%.)
Get the "Piperazine"! I'm looking at a nastytape worm here.
it would seem pretty stupid for them to insist on it.
I get ALL my music by downloads legally through iTunes (20% for my own enjoyment) or through the PodsafeMusicNetwork (PMN) (80% for my podcast.)
They can keep their opinion to themselves, and they can keep their grubby little fingers off of my network.
(I HAVE noticed that ComCast uploads via FTP of my episodes start at about 194KBps and throttle down to a measly 50KBps by the end of a 25MB file upload. Down is throttled as well but resumes after a couple of minutes. [Fuckers can't even tell the difference between P2P ports and the FTP port.])
enveloped by a soft sheen of post-prandial perspiration, just collapsing back on the pillows and sighing?
/.
:-)
Oh... This is
Sorry...
The only difference I can see between your nanobot and my immune system is that its already happening to me.
and NOBODY knows about the account because I have NEVER used it to send mail to ANYONE not referred to it in any other email or web communication.
This is REALLY sad.
We've been paying for something for twenty five years and getting NONE of it.
Its time to sue the mother fuckers, after we charge them with theft.
Put a few CEOs in jail for the crap they've been pulling for over a quarter of a century.
THAT should send a message all right, and NOT SPAM either.
You have been getting bent over and done dry (and paying in surcharges, and surcharges on the surcharges,) for the last twenty five years.
And we have been replacing copper networks FOR OURSELVES during that time, but NOT delivering ONE INCH of what you've been paying for to you suckers.
We, the telcos, have been sitting on a growing pile of your tax dollars and using the latest and best technologies to our own benefit and WE'RE not about to stop doing so until a couple of CEOs get sent to prison.
Screw you,
-the telcos
unfortunately, that just means "I get to ride on the 'short' bus", with the other window-lickers. (Many thanks to Tim Henson of "The Distorted View Daily" podcast [ http://www.distortedview.com/show/ ] for that wonderful imagery.)
and hope the people you sell it to and feeble-minded and have no memory or sense of smell.
I wouldn't use that system to elect a Girl Guide to the Cookie Fundraiser.
We've been paying for Fibre to the home for YEARS and we've yet to see ONE INCH of it.
All those fuckin' surcharges.
Years, I tell you.
Billions of dollars, I tell you.
Fuck 'em where they breathe.
system gets screwed up, either through an inheritable pre-disposition to environmental triggers or through the action of those environment triggers.
I am a not a doctor but I DO have MS.
MS may be a syndrome for a whole bunch of DNA/RAN transcription errors which can either be ignored because the triggers never occur or which can really fuck up your life by transforming what would normally just be a sneeze (an allergic reaction) into a life-threatening episode.
I never get the flu, I get episodes of MS instead (or "as well as').
if Derle writes a confessional 'tell all' book from prison.
Stick a fork, in 'em.
SCO's done.
Your entire 401k was invested on some company called SCO and it seems the CEO just SCOoted off to the Caribbean.
They're made by "Soylent"
The green variety is particularly popular with the elderly. (Not eating them, b-e-i-n-g them.)