isnt about Canada - this is about the people hired to 'stop music theft' needing to justify their jobs with the RIAA somewhere in Bumfluff, USA.
Canada's levy on recording media allows us Canucks to make copies of music and do wtf we like with them.
If you get bumped off your ISP, just sign up with another one - there are many to choose from.
Hey RIAA - come on up here and lets see what you've got!
Poor Microsoft. They cant do anything right. This may get them in court.
They f*cked up the Zune. they f*cked up 'Plays fer sure', and now they have spent 5 years f*cking up Windows by producing the village idiot Vista.
Gates was last heard ranting that 'OSX was being hacked on a daily basis' - but he has stopped now that his medication has been adjusted.
I wouldnt mind Windows so much if Microsoft werent such a bunch of crooks....
to the RIAA. The CD, and the music 'business' itself is finished, mister. She's done. Kaput. Finito. Fat lady singing. Over.
Its only a matter of time before all the record co.'s are finito as well.
Bye bye, idiots.
I think CD's should be $1500 each - that will hasten the demise of these wankers.
What nonsense. As if money would help people with disease in a country where there is no decent water to drink and gunmen roam the streets getting the lions share of Charity cash.
What do you think happens? You think they just send a bank draft for $300 million to Nigeria and it magically turns into vaccines and shiny happy kids dancing in the park?
The kids get some vaccines - maybe - and then they go home to misery and crime and famine.
Most of the cash is eaten up with staff and 'investments' and local organisers and every low-life do-gooder fro the West who is looking for a hand-out to fund his or her's special 'cause'. religious loonies, political loonies, medical loonies - Africa is full of them.
Lets say they want to distribute condoms - seems reasonable? Well not if the local population has been persuaded to convert to Catholicism - then they cant have condoms, so they must die of various STD's.
But thats OK - heres Billy Gates with a cure for AIDS, caused by the Catholic Church loonies. How stupid is that? Invent a problem then turn up with the 'solution' - but not really, of course.
Everyone wants a piece of 'third-world' people and their resources and they want a piece for their own needs for control and greed.
And of course everyone has the right to criticise Gates - they all bought fucking Windows crap to put him in the insane position he's in. The people made the idiot a billionaire - they have EVERY right to criticise his spending of what used to be their hard-earned cash.
Get real - this article is a crock.
Workers wages relative to costs continue to drop for the 15th year or so.
Evil idiot egomaniacs running companies get more and more.
'Charity' is a pile of controlling political moves wrapped in 'goody-goody' language that only fools who watch TV can swallow.
Laws are increasing so that its now dangerous to protest against the standing government.
Gates and Microsoft are ugly greedy bastards who produce CRAP that the hypnotised masses buy.
'Top' the survey? They probably bought the frickin' survey.
I want to send email, I have to use a computer or phone device.
Why cant I send email with my hat, for example.
This is wrong - all things should be able to be done by all things.
Wait - there is a message coming in on my sausages.....
Dear MP,
Please take your fat snout OUT of the RIAA/CRIA trough. Realise this: I couldnt give a flying fu*k what you criminals in Ottawa do or say - I will use MY music any way I damn want, come good laws or bad ones.
Good luck in the next election - you'll need it.
buying this M$ crap.
Why is there even a discussion?
When are we going to learn that these guys have been hosing the worlds computer users for over 20 years - its time to Stop.
Pen and Paper has a clear advantage over Windows.
Bloody hell, my CAT could write better software. Probably.
Use Linux, use OSX, use anything you can, but STOP with this Vista M$ crappy fuc*wit rubbish.
PAIN, and now the Music Biz is feeling pain, so they have to adapt.
What else can they do? Their monopoly is over, but they should understand that most 'ordinary folks' will prefer to download music from a legal site, and those same folks dont understand DRM, they just want it to work......Its amazing that Apple hasnt taken over the world with that notion of 'it just works'.
Exactly. The future is either more restriction on music or freedom via instant publishing and sales of music on iTunes, and presumably other online venues.
Record music. Post on iTunes. Sell songs. Get money.
That seems to be the way it will happen - Apple is happy because it gets some cash and massive iPod sales, Artist is happy becuase he/she owns his/her music and gets direct cash.
All the ugly record companies simply disappear. Cool.
...we SERFS are.
By toeing the line, we stop real change.
Why should Africans be pleased to have jobs, even when the outcome is a polluting mess on their doorstep?
'Jobs' (no not Steve), are a recent phenomenon - they arent the only way to get by, but any attempt to be self-sufficient is being marginalised by big capital.
Did it ever occur to anyone that having a 'job' is the same as being a serf?
Did it ever occur to anyone that a man with 10 acres and some basic tools doesnt need a job at all?
There is a lot of land in Africa, but an individual family cant get it and therefore has to work as a WAGE-SLAVE for people like the obnoxious Gates.
Before all the white men came to Africa to steal its resources, the people survived. Now, magically, they need the very assholes who steal and stole all their stuff.
Sad state of affairs.
As for gates - he's just an ugly symptom of global capitalism and unawareness. Gates is a guy who follows the party line - he is INCAPABLE of change.
His foundation is a self-aggrandising company that thinks that crumbs from the big table can feed all us little people.
And you thought he was a good guy? Now thats funny.
But you are NOT Bill Gates.
Posting a comment to tell us what you would do if you: (a) won the lottery, (b) changed into a woman, (c) became Bill Gates, isnt really germane, as some might say.
Tell us what you would do if you were an African child suffering from some hideous disease caused by a gates investment poison factory pollutant - that just might be to the point. Wouldnt be much of a personal ego-fantasy though, would it?
WTF? HOW do you arrive at this weird conclusion from the article? He 'likes Apple's OS X' - well thats the CONCLUSION he gets when he stacks the points of his argument up, yes.
He has presented a bunch of issues, compared the two OS's and made a conclusion based on that.
How the HELL does that shows signs of 'Apple favouritism'?
He doesnt trash Vista, he simply compares the way it works with OS X.
He also asks why it takes M$ 6 or 7 years to come up with eye candy and very little else. Good question. Why did it take that long? isnt this proof of the constant VAPOUR ware activities of M$?
Perhaps you and M$ share something - you both seem to think that Users are stupid - maybe that was the case 10 years ago, but now, a lot of ordinary users actually know what IP means - the world moves on, but M$ doesnt because they are rich and lazy and , IMHO, deceitful.
and make things quick and easy. Thats what the advertising says. But people are stupid so they actually imagine that the advertising is real. So the answer is simply this: People are lazy and stupid and programmers are crap at making it 'just work'.
They are made for each other!
an RIAA 'investigator/expert person thingy' had to listen to the music to find out if it was pirated, would he then have to arrest himself, take himself to court, sue himself and fine himself?
IF you invite a friend over for dinner and play music, do you have to search your friends for recording devices to make sure they dont copy your music?
If you play the music do you have to send the RIAA cash for every person except yourself who listens?
Is it SAFE to even 'own' music anymore? Should we simply whistle something tuneless? Is Ginger Baker going to sue me if I beat out a rhythm on my steering wheel while listening to FM radio?
Bonuses, gifts, little tickets and vouchers for a bag of chips....What is wrong with all you whiners?
Dont you see that this is wage slavery and you are going for it?
Steal at least $1000 worth of supplies from work and sell them to make your own 'bonus'.
Cheat on your expenses.
Siphon gas from the company vehicles and sell it to your neighbour on a weekly basis.
Sell the company secrets to a rival - get some serious dough going - fight back, you whining saps!
makes NO sense to me - lossless, you can have it. its available. Code? Works well.
For every whiner about iTunes there are 100,000 who love it.
Perhaps you take the 'quality' too seriously, or maybe you have specially sensitive ears.
Whaddya want for a buck? The Philharmonic in your bedroom?
Sitting here miserably surfing the web - and then THIS! Funniest thing I have read in a LONG time - I am going to build one!
Cars and buildings disappear in a cloud of white ssmoke. YES! I LOVE IT!
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isnt about Canada - this is about the people hired to 'stop music theft' needing to justify their jobs with the RIAA somewhere in Bumfluff, USA. Canada's levy on recording media allows us Canucks to make copies of music and do wtf we like with them. If you get bumped off your ISP, just sign up with another one - there are many to choose from. Hey RIAA - come on up here and lets see what you've got!
Poor Microsoft. They cant do anything right. This may get them in court. They f*cked up the Zune. they f*cked up 'Plays fer sure', and now they have spent 5 years f*cking up Windows by producing the village idiot Vista. Gates was last heard ranting that 'OSX was being hacked on a daily basis' - but he has stopped now that his medication has been adjusted. I wouldnt mind Windows so much if Microsoft werent such a bunch of crooks....
to the RIAA. The CD, and the music 'business' itself is finished, mister. She's done. Kaput. Finito. Fat lady singing. Over. Its only a matter of time before all the record co.'s are finito as well. Bye bye, idiots. I think CD's should be $1500 each - that will hasten the demise of these wankers.
What nonsense. As if money would help people with disease in a country where there is no decent water to drink and gunmen roam the streets getting the lions share of Charity cash. What do you think happens? You think they just send a bank draft for $300 million to Nigeria and it magically turns into vaccines and shiny happy kids dancing in the park? The kids get some vaccines - maybe - and then they go home to misery and crime and famine. Most of the cash is eaten up with staff and 'investments' and local organisers and every low-life do-gooder fro the West who is looking for a hand-out to fund his or her's special 'cause'. religious loonies, political loonies, medical loonies - Africa is full of them. Lets say they want to distribute condoms - seems reasonable? Well not if the local population has been persuaded to convert to Catholicism - then they cant have condoms, so they must die of various STD's. But thats OK - heres Billy Gates with a cure for AIDS, caused by the Catholic Church loonies. How stupid is that? Invent a problem then turn up with the 'solution' - but not really, of course. Everyone wants a piece of 'third-world' people and their resources and they want a piece for their own needs for control and greed. And of course everyone has the right to criticise Gates - they all bought fucking Windows crap to put him in the insane position he's in. The people made the idiot a billionaire - they have EVERY right to criticise his spending of what used to be their hard-earned cash.
Get real - this article is a crock. Workers wages relative to costs continue to drop for the 15th year or so. Evil idiot egomaniacs running companies get more and more. 'Charity' is a pile of controlling political moves wrapped in 'goody-goody' language that only fools who watch TV can swallow. Laws are increasing so that its now dangerous to protest against the standing government. Gates and Microsoft are ugly greedy bastards who produce CRAP that the hypnotised masses buy. 'Top' the survey? They probably bought the frickin' survey.
We cant continue business unless we use slave labour....guess we'll have to use slave labour.
Oh shuttup.
I want to send email, I have to use a computer or phone device. Why cant I send email with my hat, for example. This is wrong - all things should be able to be done by all things. Wait - there is a message coming in on my sausages.....
Dear MP, Please take your fat snout OUT of the RIAA/CRIA trough. Realise this: I couldnt give a flying fu*k what you criminals in Ottawa do or say - I will use MY music any way I damn want, come good laws or bad ones. Good luck in the next election - you'll need it.
buying this M$ crap. Why is there even a discussion? When are we going to learn that these guys have been hosing the worlds computer users for over 20 years - its time to Stop. Pen and Paper has a clear advantage over Windows. Bloody hell, my CAT could write better software. Probably. Use Linux, use OSX, use anything you can, but STOP with this Vista M$ crappy fuc*wit rubbish.
PAIN, and now the Music Biz is feeling pain, so they have to adapt. What else can they do? Their monopoly is over, but they should understand that most 'ordinary folks' will prefer to download music from a legal site, and those same folks dont understand DRM, they just want it to work. .....Its amazing that Apple hasnt taken over the world with that notion of 'it just works'.
Exactly. The future is either more restriction on music or freedom via instant publishing and sales of music on iTunes, and presumably other online venues. Record music. Post on iTunes. Sell songs. Get money. That seems to be the way it will happen - Apple is happy because it gets some cash and massive iPod sales, Artist is happy becuase he/she owns his/her music and gets direct cash. All the ugly record companies simply disappear. Cool.
YES! Great comment - you said it all. I like the RIAA sinking into the tarpits image - very good.
eBay is the worlds BIGGEST Fencing operation. There are ZERO checks. Its a monster thief fest........
Did it ever occur to anyone that having a 'job' is the same as being a serf? Did it ever occur to anyone that a man with 10 acres and some basic tools doesnt need a job at all? There is a lot of land in Africa, but an individual family cant get it and therefore has to work as a WAGE-SLAVE for people like the obnoxious Gates. Before all the white men came to Africa to steal its resources, the people survived. Now, magically, they need the very assholes who steal and stole all their stuff. Sad state of affairs. As for gates - he's just an ugly symptom of global capitalism and unawareness. Gates is a guy who follows the party line - he is INCAPABLE of change. His foundation is a self-aggrandising company that thinks that crumbs from the big table can feed all us little people. And you thought he was a good guy? Now thats funny.
But you are NOT Bill Gates. Posting a comment to tell us what you would do if you: (a) won the lottery, (b) changed into a woman, (c) became Bill Gates, isnt really germane, as some might say. Tell us what you would do if you were an African child suffering from some hideous disease caused by a gates investment poison factory pollutant - that just might be to the point. Wouldnt be much of a personal ego-fantasy though, would it?
I asked my girlfriend which guy she would rather blow; Jobs or Gates. She chose Jobs, by a big margin. OK, troll-boy?
WTF? HOW do you arrive at this weird conclusion from the article? He 'likes Apple's OS X' - well thats the CONCLUSION he gets when he stacks the points of his argument up, yes. He has presented a bunch of issues, compared the two OS's and made a conclusion based on that. How the HELL does that shows signs of 'Apple favouritism'? He doesnt trash Vista, he simply compares the way it works with OS X. He also asks why it takes M$ 6 or 7 years to come up with eye candy and very little else. Good question. Why did it take that long? isnt this proof of the constant VAPOUR ware activities of M$? Perhaps you and M$ share something - you both seem to think that Users are stupid - maybe that was the case 10 years ago, but now, a lot of ordinary users actually know what IP means - the world moves on, but M$ doesnt because they are rich and lazy and , IMHO, deceitful.
and make things quick and easy. Thats what the advertising says. But people are stupid so they actually imagine that the advertising is real. So the answer is simply this: People are lazy and stupid and programmers are crap at making it 'just work'. They are made for each other!
Billy Gates is an Idiot - his words are meaningless. Stop this kind of crap , please.
Lets organise a space mission and toss the broken-off ICE SHELF into the Sun!
an RIAA 'investigator/expert person thingy' had to listen to the music to find out if it was pirated, would he then have to arrest himself, take himself to court, sue himself and fine himself? IF you invite a friend over for dinner and play music, do you have to search your friends for recording devices to make sure they dont copy your music? If you play the music do you have to send the RIAA cash for every person except yourself who listens? Is it SAFE to even 'own' music anymore? Should we simply whistle something tuneless? Is Ginger Baker going to sue me if I beat out a rhythm on my steering wheel while listening to FM radio?
Bonuses, gifts, little tickets and vouchers for a bag of chips....What is wrong with all you whiners? Dont you see that this is wage slavery and you are going for it? Steal at least $1000 worth of supplies from work and sell them to make your own 'bonus'. Cheat on your expenses. Siphon gas from the company vehicles and sell it to your neighbour on a weekly basis. Sell the company secrets to a rival - get some serious dough going - fight back, you whining saps!
makes NO sense to me - lossless, you can have it. its available. Code? Works well. For every whiner about iTunes there are 100,000 who love it. Perhaps you take the 'quality' too seriously, or maybe you have specially sensitive ears. Whaddya want for a buck? The Philharmonic in your bedroom?
Sitting here miserably surfing the web - and then THIS! Funniest thing I have read in a LONG time - I am going to build one! Cars and buildings disappear in a cloud of white ssmoke. YES! I LOVE IT!