Says who that CDs are being price fixed? Wasn't it just proven a few days ago that CDs had been price fixed, and that the labels or whomever were ordered to drop the prices for a while? Correct me if I'm wrong
What is the deal with the pasting of Signal11's User Info in the comments of every story?
More On-the-Current-Topic though, I was always a sluggy diehard and knew of no other decent online comics until I was visiting a friend as he was catching up with old UF strips.
Note: I am still a sluggy diehard, I'm even eating with Pete at DragonCon. Every once on a while, though, I remember the dust puppy and go back for some user friendly love.
since lately I have been browsing at 1, I missed all this crap the first time. However, I was curious and looked into this thread...are some moderators modding down or marking some posts on this thread as trolls because of OS or browser bias? This thread is also going to add to posts about recent karma weirdness instead of slashdot articles.
No, I don't believe that the big mega-conglomerate-Disney-AOL-Time Warner kind of guys get together in board meeting and plot how to make people "mutual" and conform to this grand idea of theirs of an ideally mindless deep-pocketed consumer to buy all their products. They don't have to.
It is terribly hard to find competing lines of products that aren't owned by some corporation sometimes. Food isn't much of a problem, but clothes? The cost involved in purchasing clothes that aren't Gap or some derivative, or the store brand of something like wal-mart is ridiculous unless you buy used clothes; as I always have-mostly because I have trouble finding clothes that fit me. I am not a case of being "too large" or "too small" or whatever, like most similar complaints which I have seen publicly; I simply just don't have the body the designers of these clothes think I should, I guess.
Before I get too deep in the big muddy though, my point was that these corporations, in all their federally protected glory, are gobbling up smaller stores which offer more individual choices. A friend of mine at university was complaining about the insistence of some professors of ordering their textbooks only from independent bookstores-seemingly only to keep them in business- and why, he asks. Sure, it can be a pain to not have a "one-stop shopping" sort of place around, but we do live in a small college town, and it doesn't kill to buy things from the small guys-if that it was you want to do...
y'know, it is blatantly obvious that the moderation lately has been weak when posts like
"OOG!!!! My studly Open Source Caveman. Nobody can get my petrified like you. Oh how I miss you. I'll always treasure the Open Source CD you gave me to hit my crazed fans over the head with. Thinking of you OOG Natalie"
has anyone noticed how the mainstream media -i.e. news sources- are owned by the very same people behind the mpaa? i've seen reports in recent days where time/warner (owner of the warner bros. movie studio, which is a partner behind the mpaa) was bought by aol, which owns an ungodly amount of companies. emi (recording company) was also purchased last week by this conglomerate-which also owns cnn. what mainstream news source could be trusted to not reflect what the corporate people want?
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Says who that CDs are being price fixed?
Wasn't it just proven a few days ago that CDs had been price fixed, and that the labels or whomever were ordered to drop the prices for a while?
Correct me if I'm wrong
What is the deal with the pasting of Signal11's User Info in the comments of every story?
More On-the-Current-Topic though, I was always a sluggy diehard and knew of no other decent online comics until I was visiting a friend as he was catching up with old UF strips.
Note: I am still a sluggy diehard, I'm even eating with Pete at DragonCon. Every once on a while, though, I remember the dust puppy and go back for some user friendly love.
hmmmm.
since lately I have been browsing at 1, I missed all this crap the first time. However, I was curious and looked into this thread...are some moderators modding down or marking some posts on this thread as trolls because of OS or browser bias? This thread is also going to add to posts about recent karma weirdness instead of slashdot articles.
ooooh if anyone gets a copy of this essay out, I would like it too...
It doesn't eh? Of course not.
No, I don't believe that the big mega-conglomerate-Disney-AOL-Time Warner kind of guys get together in board meeting and plot how to make people "mutual" and conform to this grand idea of theirs of an ideally mindless deep-pocketed consumer to buy all their products. They don't have to.
It is terribly hard to find competing lines of products that aren't owned by some corporation sometimes. Food isn't much of a problem, but clothes? The cost involved in purchasing clothes that aren't Gap or some derivative, or the store brand of something like wal-mart is ridiculous unless you buy used clothes; as I always have-mostly because I have trouble finding clothes that fit me. I am not a case of being "too large" or "too small" or whatever, like most similar complaints which I have seen publicly; I simply just don't have the body the designers of these clothes think I should, I guess.
Before I get too deep in the big muddy though, my point was that these corporations, in all their federally protected glory, are gobbling up smaller stores which offer more individual choices. A friend of mine at university was complaining about the insistence of some professors of ordering their textbooks only from independent bookstores-seemingly only to keep them in business- and why, he asks. Sure, it can be a pain to not have a "one-stop shopping" sort of place around, but we do live in a small college town, and it doesn't kill to buy things from the small guys-if that it was you want to do...
hey
has anyone noticed how the mainstream media -i.e. news sources- are owned by the very same people behind the mpaa? i've seen reports in recent days where time/warner (owner of the warner bros. movie studio, which is a partner behind the mpaa) was bought by aol, which owns an ungodly amount of companies. emi (recording company) was also purchased last week by this conglomerate-which also owns cnn. what mainstream news source could be trusted to not reflect what the corporate people want?
peace,
lpc