"John McCain Will Protect The Creative Industries From Piracy. The entertainment industry is both a vital sector of the domestic economy and among the largest U.S. exporters. While the Internet has provided tremendous opportunity for the creators of copyrighted works, including music and movies, to distribute their works around the world at low cost, it has also given rise to a global epidemic of piracy. John McCain supports efforts to crack down on piracy, both on the Internet and off."
You think older people vote for reasons other that half-baked assertions gleaned from campaign ads? Yeah... right...
Swiftboat vets? Obamanation? McCain's bastard black child? "There you go again Jimmy"? With neither the strength of a man or the subtly of a woman (a political cartoon referencing John Adams as a hermaphrodite in an election that Jefferson won)?
Politics isn't about people making informed decisions. Politics is about making the other guy look like he doesn't share your values.
Reagen, Hollywood master of spooky economic voodoo and "there you go again Jimmy" beats Carter. Fail.
Reagen then beat Mondale, largely accredited to Mondale saying "By the end of my first term, I will reduce the Reagan budget deficit by two-thirds. Let's tell the truth. It must be done, it must be done. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did." People picked the greater of two evils because they didn't want a tax hike. Fail.
George H. W. Bush beats Dukakis. Fail.
Clinton beats Bush and Dole, double win. So here we picked the lesser of two evils twice. Now seeing as this is the first Democrat we elected since Carter I want to be clear: Clinton was plenty evil too, he was just less evil than his opponents. What do we get next cycle though?
W. Bush, the guy who history is going to remember as the worst president EVER, the guy who bankrupted multiple businesses before being elected, the guy who dodged service in Vietnam by getting transferred to another state, and then didn't even show up, this guy... beat Al Gore, 'creator' of the Internet (not 'inventor' if you're confused look this up), a man with an excellent grasp on economic policy. Why? Because people figured W. Bush was more the kind of guy they'd like to drink a beer with. Epic fail.
W. Bush back for round two beat another candidate... With one of the lowest approval ratings that a president can get. People knew he had lied to them at this point and waged a war that the American public no longer supported and what did we do? Put him back in. Fail.
So, no choosing the lesser of two evils isn't a 'freebie', it hasn't been happening. It's up to people to make sure it does happen, because truth be told, it isn't happening right now. We reelected a president who lied to the country about a war and got caught (before getting reelected).
Right now we have a guy who is a member of the Keating five running for office. He's pledging to run an honest campaign while slinging mud from the get go and then crying like he's the victim because the other guy is throwing mud too. The guy has a serious chance of winning too because he's come up with the slogan of "We have to drill here and drill now" despite the fact that we won't be drilling for a few years even if the ban gets lifted and we might get some 18 billion barrels of oil, less than Saudi Arabia pumps in TWO DAYS. This is not a meaningful amount of oil we're talking about.
They might not even try snatching people who are seen carrying the 'device'. They'll instead go after girls who don't have one of these on display. Likely.
Because the time of switching games and rebooting and going through the menus twenty five, a hundred, or five hundred times is actually worth MORE than $5 to someone... Having a full time job greatly increases the value of time (because you have less and you make more).
You'd be amazed how many people don't realize that iPods are not a bastion of exclusivity that people think they are. That both iTunes and iPod can speak MP3 if you just ask them to is something routinely missed by Apple haters.
I'll give that Apple does a lot of anticompetitive stuff, but my point is that they also do far to much creative stuff to be the big bad wolf here. Microsoft lives off of anti-competitive 'dark side' business practices. Linux lives off of creative 'light side'. Apple does both because being creative and anti-competitive aren't mutually exclusive (they are however rarely practiced together like Apple does).
Personally, I tend to be an ethical shopper. I won't purchase products from various evil companies. GE, Nestle, and Kraft being a few that leap into mind as particular abominations. At the same time, my vote is being choked out by a million other consumers who buy whatever happens to be on the display case. And some things like the latest CD from artist X or Microsoft Windows, there is only one producer. I can't buy organic non-tobacco company copies of Yellowcard's latest CD. I would if I could.
The record companies don't want the revenue from internet radio, they want it gone. Internet radio allows easy discovery of music, something that the record industry has a pretty solid monopoly on currently. If they give up that monopoly, they risk becoming obsolete and actually having to work for their bread.
I see entirely too much light from Master Jobs to consider him a paragon of the dark side. He's more balanced per se (Like Master Windu), since we do still see continuos innovation coming out of his company. Master Gates on the other hand has shown very little for love of innovation (love for malaria victims doesn't really seem to fit into this analogy unfortunately for Master Gates).
When laws are passed that drive a company out of business because it's no longer economical to consume their product (internet radio), that really is the government and not the consumer's fault. When a transaction is taxed for more than anyone is willing to pay for it, it stops happening legally.
Or if you're not blindsided by the 'conservative media' fantasy that conservatives spout to explain why their ideas aren't accepted by everyone as the evident truths they feel they are (seriously, who doesn't believe in what they believe?)
Seriously, take a look at their commentators. Reporters tend to be liberal, but editors chose which stories to publish and those people tend to be more conservative. CNN has a conservative management, that's why they employ conservative pundits.
If you actually buy into this 'liberal media' hogwash, I'd encourage you to look at recent articles using terminology of 'flip flopping'. You'll notice that Obama is tagged with this much more frequently than McCain despite both of them doing a fair deal.
How about this: If you're not wearing a helmet and someone hits you, are you willing to waive ALL damages? Because frankly, I'm not interested in taking extra liability for you to feel the air in your hair (not that I expect to hit a biker, but who knows).
Well... THIS guy is really dumb. I figure a reasonable person wouldn't make the same mistake. He sees the same 'density' of cars in both directions but he sees more finite cars in the other direction than in his. It's kinda like article. Out of systems we have the means to detect earth sized planets in the habitable zone, we're actually at much higher 'density' than the systems we have means to detect super close gas giants (I think that even Vega still hasn't had a rocky planet orbiting it ruled out).
Upon arriving in Phoenix he casually remarked to a gas station attendant "It's a sham about everyone leaving Phoenix, it's such a nice place."
Confused, the gas station attendant asked "What do you mean sir? Why would everyone be leaving Phoenix?"
Tthe man confidently replied "On my way to Phoenix I saw way more people heading towards Dallas from Phoenix than going to Phoenix from Dallas! I'd say it must be fifty to one of people leaving Phoenix."
The gas station attendant didn't say anything, but we all knew what he was thinkings... 'Of course you saw more people going the opposite way while you drove you idiot! Your relative speeds much closer and you only see new people when someone passes or turns, you see everyone in the other lane on the other hand'
You might want to look into the christian fundamentalist interest in making sure the jews inherit Israel. You might also want to investigate who is the 'commander in chief' who ran an administration that actually sold the war on Iraq to the American people. You might also want to investigate what being a minority entails. You might also consider white supremacism is long overrated.
Seriously, you're making conservatives look really bad. I'm a liberal and you're making me feel bad for them. And drop the anonymous posting, or are you afraid the jews will find out who you are and make you sit on the back of a bus?
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Of course, debate between truth and shallow zero evidence fantasy isn't healthy... It reduces knowledge, not increases it.
Like most of them? The list is long, but Fox, CNN and the AP come to mind...
No, those people camp and are home WAY before UPS comes around.
Stop spreading lies.
"John McCain Will Protect The Creative Industries From Piracy. The entertainment industry is both a vital sector of the domestic economy and among the largest U.S. exporters. While the Internet has provided tremendous opportunity for the creators of copyrighted works, including music and movies, to distribute their works around the world at low cost, it has also given rise to a global epidemic of piracy. John McCain supports efforts to crack down on piracy, both on the Internet and off."
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/cbcd3a48-4b0e-4864-8be1-d04561c132ea.htm
He likes the RIAA's war. That's one out of three.
I always thought they should make a 'guest transfer' mechanism where you could play with a friend on their server.
More importantly... You could never get sick of running Kara... Because only one guild ever managed to do it.
You think older people vote for reasons other that half-baked assertions gleaned from campaign ads? Yeah... right...
Swiftboat vets? Obamanation? McCain's bastard black child? "There you go again Jimmy"? With neither the strength of a man or the subtly of a woman (a political cartoon referencing John Adams as a hermaphrodite in an election that Jefferson won)?
Politics isn't about people making informed decisions. Politics is about making the other guy look like he doesn't share your values.
We tried chosing the lesser of two evils?
Reagen, Hollywood master of spooky economic voodoo and "there you go again Jimmy" beats Carter. Fail.
Reagen then beat Mondale, largely accredited to Mondale saying "By the end of my first term, I will reduce the Reagan budget deficit by two-thirds. Let's tell the truth. It must be done, it must be done. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did." People picked the greater of two evils because they didn't want a tax hike. Fail.
George H. W. Bush beats Dukakis. Fail.
Clinton beats Bush and Dole, double win. So here we picked the lesser of two evils twice. Now seeing as this is the first Democrat we elected since Carter I want to be clear: Clinton was plenty evil too, he was just less evil than his opponents. What do we get next cycle though?
W. Bush, the guy who history is going to remember as the worst president EVER, the guy who bankrupted multiple businesses before being elected, the guy who dodged service in Vietnam by getting transferred to another state, and then didn't even show up, this guy... beat Al Gore, 'creator' of the Internet (not 'inventor' if you're confused look this up), a man with an excellent grasp on economic policy. Why? Because people figured W. Bush was more the kind of guy they'd like to drink a beer with. Epic fail.
W. Bush back for round two beat another candidate... With one of the lowest approval ratings that a president can get. People knew he had lied to them at this point and waged a war that the American public no longer supported and what did we do? Put him back in. Fail.
So, no choosing the lesser of two evils isn't a 'freebie', it hasn't been happening. It's up to people to make sure it does happen, because truth be told, it isn't happening right now. We reelected a president who lied to the country about a war and got caught (before getting reelected).
Right now we have a guy who is a member of the Keating five running for office. He's pledging to run an honest campaign while slinging mud from the get go and then crying like he's the victim because the other guy is throwing mud too. The guy has a serious chance of winning too because he's come up with the slogan of "We have to drill here and drill now" despite the fact that we won't be drilling for a few years even if the ban gets lifted and we might get some 18 billion barrels of oil, less than Saudi Arabia pumps in TWO DAYS. This is not a meaningful amount of oil we're talking about.
They might not even try snatching people who are seen carrying the 'device'. They'll instead go after girls who don't have one of these on display. Likely.
Because the time of switching games and rebooting and going through the menus twenty five, a hundred, or five hundred times is actually worth MORE than $5 to someone... Having a full time job greatly increases the value of time (because you have less and you make more).
You'd be amazed how many people don't realize that iPods are not a bastion of exclusivity that people think they are. That both iTunes and iPod can speak MP3 if you just ask them to is something routinely missed by Apple haters.
I'll give that Apple does a lot of anticompetitive stuff, but my point is that they also do far to much creative stuff to be the big bad wolf here. Microsoft lives off of anti-competitive 'dark side' business practices. Linux lives off of creative 'light side'. Apple does both because being creative and anti-competitive aren't mutually exclusive (they are however rarely practiced together like Apple does).
Personally, I tend to be an ethical shopper. I won't purchase products from various evil companies. GE, Nestle, and Kraft being a few that leap into mind as particular abominations. At the same time, my vote is being choked out by a million other consumers who buy whatever happens to be on the display case. And some things like the latest CD from artist X or Microsoft Windows, there is only one producer. I can't buy organic non-tobacco company copies of Yellowcard's latest CD. I would if I could.
The record companies don't want the revenue from internet radio, they want it gone. Internet radio allows easy discovery of music, something that the record industry has a pretty solid monopoly on currently. If they give up that monopoly, they risk becoming obsolete and actually having to work for their bread.
I see entirely too much light from Master Jobs to consider him a paragon of the dark side. He's more balanced per se (Like Master Windu), since we do still see continuos innovation coming out of his company. Master Gates on the other hand has shown very little for love of innovation (love for malaria victims doesn't really seem to fit into this analogy unfortunately for Master Gates).
When laws are passed that drive a company out of business because it's no longer economical to consume their product (internet radio), that really is the government and not the consumer's fault. When a transaction is taxed for more than anyone is willing to pay for it, it stops happening legally.
Or if you're not blindsided by the 'conservative media' fantasy that conservatives spout to explain why their ideas aren't accepted by everyone as the evident truths they feel they are (seriously, who doesn't believe in what they believe?)
Seriously, take a look at their commentators. Reporters tend to be liberal, but editors chose which stories to publish and those people tend to be more conservative. CNN has a conservative management, that's why they employ conservative pundits.
If you actually buy into this 'liberal media' hogwash, I'd encourage you to look at recent articles using terminology of 'flip flopping'. You'll notice that Obama is tagged with this much more frequently than McCain despite both of them doing a fair deal.
I wouldn't count on Huffington losing popularity due to it's liberal bias. I don't see Fox or CNN hurting from their conservative bias.
How about this: If you're not wearing a helmet and someone hits you, are you willing to waive ALL damages? Because frankly, I'm not interested in taking extra liability for you to feel the air in your hair (not that I expect to hit a biker, but who knows).
Either that or the McDonald's at the half way point would be a busy place...
Well... THIS guy is really dumb. I figure a reasonable person wouldn't make the same mistake. He sees the same 'density' of cars in both directions but he sees more finite cars in the other direction than in his. It's kinda like article. Out of systems we have the means to detect earth sized planets in the habitable zone, we're actually at much higher 'density' than the systems we have means to detect super close gas giants (I think that even Vega still hasn't had a rocky planet orbiting it ruled out).
Economy was in the dumps...
A man drove from the Dallas to Phoenix.
Upon arriving in Phoenix he casually remarked to a gas station attendant "It's a sham about everyone leaving Phoenix, it's such a nice place."
Confused, the gas station attendant asked "What do you mean sir? Why would everyone be leaving Phoenix?"
Tthe man confidently replied "On my way to Phoenix I saw way more people heading towards Dallas from Phoenix than going to Phoenix from Dallas! I'd say it must be fifty to one of people leaving Phoenix."
The gas station attendant didn't say anything, but we all knew what he was thinkings... 'Of course you saw more people going the opposite way while you drove you idiot! Your relative speeds much closer and you only see new people when someone passes or turns, you see everyone in the other lane on the other hand'
You might want to look into the christian fundamentalist interest in making sure the jews inherit Israel. You might also want to investigate who is the 'commander in chief' who ran an administration that actually sold the war on Iraq to the American people. You might also want to investigate what being a minority entails. You might also consider white supremacism is long overrated.
Seriously, you're making conservatives look really bad. I'm a liberal and you're making me feel bad for them. And drop the anonymous posting, or are you afraid the jews will find out who you are and make you sit on the back of a bus?