First off, doesn't MusicMatch stream all kinds of content FOR FREE? I listen to the alternative radio station they have all day at work and it rocks.
As far as iTunes goes, I'm a little less than enthused about the music selection. It's probably just luck, but the first two bands I searched for (Radiohead and Smashing Pumpkins) were nowhere to be found. I'm hopeful that within a few months more and more deals will be worked out to make more stuff available.
New Napster sounds like crap to me. I want to BUY my music, not RENT it. I have radio (and now MusicMatch) for stuff I just listen to occasionally.
As a former frequent flyer (every week for 3.5 yrs), I often forgot to turn off my cellphone before we took off (at 6:45am), and when its in your bag up in stowage, you often don't hear the ring if it does ring (see earlier post about 95-98dB).
US is the same way. When he says he's defaulting on his student loans, that just means not paying them, not that they're going away.
I know this because my best friend went to private medical school back when doctor salaries averaged 150k, etc. By the time he finished 10 years later, the average had dropped, as had demand, and he's now stuck with a student loan debt of over 200k (interest has piled up), and he's having a hell of a time getting to a salary level that will support him paying off his loans and supporting a family.
He checked into every possible way to reduce, eliminate or otherwise restructure his student loans, but thanks to a law passed in 1998 by Clinton, he's stuck with it no matter what.
If you ask me, it sucks a$$, but I respect him for sticking it out and doing everything he can to pay it back.
If they ask (and they do ask, not demand), I just say "No thanks" without breaking stride.
If Fry's weren't such a great place to get stuff, I wouldn't shop there due to their policy of "ensuring you've received all your purchased items before you leave the store."
Typing this as I wait for my flight that's delayed a couple hours. So if it means easier (and cheaper) access to the internet wherever I want it, I say more power to 'em!
If that is the case, why am I not also able to take the same risk? I'm ok with taking the 1 in a billion chance so I can use my cell phone while in flight. If they can gamble with my life for some jet fuel, can't I do the same for some productive time?
"Your typical commercial airline has none of these."
Why are we ok with this? IF it is true that cellphones pose a risk to safety, shouldn't all planes be guarded against it? What if I have mine on silent, in my computer bag and leave it on? What if 10 people on the airplane do?
It just doesn't jive with me that they'll let these planes take off knowing that a cellphone could conceivably bring it down, and then just politely ask that you turn it off, when they have no way of verifying that everyone has done so.
The liability there would be staggering after just one plane crash that was attributed to a cellphone.
It all came to me on 9/11, when I was watching the news. I'm a frequent flyer, so I know all about how they say you can't use your phone, disrupts frequencies, magnetic fields, blah blah blah... But on the news, here's what they said that stuck in my mind. When the planes hit, Prez Bush was in the air on Air Force One. Security immediately went back to the press corps who were also on Air Force One and said turn OFF your cellphones NOW, we don't want anyone to be able to track us by the cellphones.
So ok, the MOST IMPORTANT PLANE IN THE COUNTRY can afford to have a press corps full of cellphones on during flight, but the plane I'm on is going to crash and burn if there's even one?
I'm very puzzled as to why no one has put forth the theory that the reason WoMD were not ordered to be used in Iraq during its death throes is because Saddam Hussein was already dead, and none of the rest of those in the command structure wanted that hanging over their heads...
Seems to me to be a VERY LIKELY scenario, much more likely than Saddam building the arsenal for 20 years, spewing all his threatening rhetoric, and then deciding not to use it...
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This is NOT the state I'd want handling my internet traffic if I were a surfer of pr0n. It wouldn't surprise me if they BLOCKED a lot of that stuff.
Fine, I've already protested their protest by downloading the album on Kazaa.
I'd have paid for it on iTunes...
First off, doesn't MusicMatch stream all kinds of content FOR FREE? I listen to the alternative radio station they have all day at work and it rocks.
As far as iTunes goes, I'm a little less than enthused about the music selection. It's probably just luck, but the first two bands I searched for (Radiohead and Smashing Pumpkins) were nowhere to be found. I'm hopeful that within a few months more and more deals will be worked out to make more stuff available.
New Napster sounds like crap to me. I want to BUY my music, not RENT it. I have radio (and now MusicMatch) for stuff I just listen to occasionally.
Did MS buy Apple when I wasn't paying attention?
I can say with certainty however, that they do NOT ask for your e-mail when you put your number on the list via telephone.
Bah, meant to be reply to ChristTrekker.
My bad.
Late on Friday, what do you expect...
The BBC article says that if they'd known by day seven, another shuttle could have been hastily sent up to rescue them. RTFA
Xenu != Xinu
Get it straight or you will be assimilated.
And by the looks of his UID he's been here a while..
;-)
SPY!
As a former frequent flyer (every week for 3.5 yrs), I often forgot to turn off my cellphone before we took off (at 6:45am), and when its in your bag up in stowage, you often don't hear the ring if it does ring (see earlier post about 95-98dB).
Never caused a problem.
US is the same way. When he says he's defaulting on his student loans, that just means not paying them, not that they're going away.
I know this because my best friend went to private medical school back when doctor salaries averaged 150k, etc. By the time he finished 10 years later, the average had dropped, as had demand, and he's now stuck with a student loan debt of over 200k (interest has piled up), and he's having a hell of a time getting to a salary level that will support him paying off his loans and supporting a family.
He checked into every possible way to reduce, eliminate or otherwise restructure his student loans, but thanks to a law passed in 1998 by Clinton, he's stuck with it no matter what.
If you ask me, it sucks a$$, but I respect him for sticking it out and doing everything he can to pay it back.
"When reporters visited teh apartment last night, Brianna -- who her mom says is an honors student -- was helping her brother with his homework."
Obvious l33t b145 d00d!!11!1
Conversely, I could argue that sharing your competitors music could saturate the genre such that people get tired of it and move on.
My claim is no more spurious than yours...
More importantly, if a webcam locks up in the forest, does anyone see it?
"Now I appreciate that this is purely the result of literally generations of brainwashing by the government, but I find it dismaying nonetheless. "
No, this is the result of it being true for probably 90% of the history of mankind, and the attitude dies hard.
Everyone knows how much street cred you get with a low /. ID..
Exactly.
If they ask (and they do ask, not demand), I just say "No thanks" without breaking stride.
If Fry's weren't such a great place to get stuff, I wouldn't shop there due to their policy of "ensuring you've received all your purchased items before you leave the store."
Extra points for somehow removing the carriage returns and making it into unreadable gobbledygook...
After this kind of publicity, he'll have some job offers coming in, I guarantee it.
I'd tell 'em to classify it all they want, just looks BETTER on the resume...
Typing this as I wait for my flight that's delayed a couple hours. So if it means easier (and cheaper) access to the internet wherever I want it, I say more power to 'em!
If that is the case, why am I not also able to take the same risk? I'm ok with taking the 1 in a billion chance so I can use my cell phone while in flight. If they can gamble with my life for some jet fuel, can't I do the same for some productive time?
"Your typical commercial airline has none of these."
Why are we ok with this? IF it is true that cellphones pose a risk to safety, shouldn't all planes be guarded against it? What if I have mine on silent, in my computer bag and leave it on? What if 10 people on the airplane do?
It just doesn't jive with me that they'll let these planes take off knowing that a cellphone could conceivably bring it down, and then just politely ask that you turn it off, when they have no way of verifying that everyone has done so.
The liability there would be staggering after just one plane crash that was attributed to a cellphone.
It all came to me on 9/11, when I was watching the news. I'm a frequent flyer, so I know all about how they say you can't use your phone, disrupts frequencies, magnetic fields, blah blah blah...
But on the news, here's what they said that stuck in my mind. When the planes hit, Prez Bush was in the air on Air Force One. Security immediately went back to the press corps who were also on Air Force One and said turn OFF your cellphones NOW, we don't want anyone to be able to track us by the cellphones.
So ok, the MOST IMPORTANT PLANE IN THE COUNTRY can afford to have a press corps full of cellphones on during flight, but the plane I'm on is going to crash and burn if there's even one?
Riiiiight..
I'm very puzzled as to why no one has put forth the theory that the reason WoMD were not ordered to be used in Iraq during its death throes is because Saddam Hussein was already dead, and none of the rest of those in the command structure wanted that hanging over their heads...
Seems to me to be a VERY LIKELY scenario, much more likely than Saddam building the arsenal for 20 years, spewing all his threatening rhetoric, and then deciding not to use it...
The snowball rolling down the hill towards the DMCA grows larger every day...