We can continue in Dutch, German or French if you want? English isn't my first language. Thanks for the education though. You forgot to actually reply on my comment btw.
Well I tend to believe Skype on this one. About the not-blocking. I can even see why they want to protect their brand and especially continued service for their customers. As a Skype user I actually am happy they do so. Nah, no complaints about skype from me so far. Calling your the company whoms api's you have been using for years a coward is not done in my book btw. Just keep to the license and everything should be fine. Al least, that is my experience with Skype. Your mileage may vary though.
For this one I happy take a -1 redundant.
You are absolutely right! And I find this project very encouraging to get my own iron out and have a go at it.
But what musician doesn't want to make music? I don't know of anyone... not a single one...... It's the making and performing of music that brings us the pleasure. All musicians know there is a very slim change they will make a living with it. It's an hobby for that matter. And we all love playing. If tomorrow I wouldn't get a single penny anymore for my musical skills, would that stop me from playing? Hell no! I love making music, that's why I do it. And sure, a nice paycheck after a gig is nice. But not necessary for me and any artist who has invested that much time in practicing. It's about music, not money.
Yeah I know. Those aren't very talented artists though. A singer is someone who can sing. A guitarist is someone who can play a guitar. It's really that simple in the end. I have invested many many thousands of hours to get my guitar playing to the level where am I know. And now I benefit of being in a good band that is a bit known and I can make a very nice living from all that hard work. But: i can play the thing... i actually can play that instrument... And people can hear every hour of love I put into it. People who pretend to play guitar (George Micheal in Faith for example) just aren't guitar players. And while George Micheal in fact has a great voice and really can sing, he will never be able to play a guitar and he shouldn't do as if he can imho. Autotune is just the same. An artist like Cher that actually can sing and hit the right tone can use autotune for the musical value it has in a song like "I believe". But an artist like Britney or that Gay fish dude, can't hit the right tones and you have no place on a stage in that case. Well let me tone that down, they might have a place, but it isn't performance art they are doing. I would not call it music, it's playing musician. Pretending they can are rockstars. A lot of kids fall for that in combination with an agressive advertising campaign. It's produced, it's a product. While music is 100% emotion and 0% product.
Man, music has always been free until about 30, 40 years ago. And music get it's soul from that hard work those people put into it. That's what makes music great, the soul of the artist. Autotune has no soul and therefore any self claimed artist using it brings soul-less music, and soulness music isn't music. It's a rythme some words about sex on top of it.
Anyway: use of autotune as effect: great
Use of autotune to make up for a lack of skills: not done.
Yeah I thought about that one, but in real life we can see the top dj's and electro groups do perform live with greater success often than big 'rockbands'.
It's ok to sample live. It's ok to press start on winamp, just make sure you give the audience a show. That's what they are paying for and that's where your money comes from. Not the albumsales. Albums are nothing more than commercials to get you into buying a ticket to a live show. But somewhere in the last 10 years some bastard decided that 20 million income from a worldtour just wasn't enough.... Real musicians play music all the time, for free. Because they love to do it and love to share it. This is also the reason imho that there are no more bands like Dire Straights or The Police or the next U2 or Queen. Those bands had a nice income from their albums, but the real money came always from tours. The albums were extra profit. Nice to have, nothing more. Twenty years ago any artist would be delighted to get airtime on the radio... now the big suits behind them want money for the privilege of being given airtime! It's insane! And what does that mean for us? Well, that good musicians won't be on the radio because the guy in the suit wants money for it and the band just isn't big enough yet.
That's a fair way of seeing songwriters. But I make a difference in songwriters and the performing artists. The 'product' music is a non-existent product. All music does is bring emotion. I already own that emotion. That can be a fun emotion or a bluesy one.
The comparison between the screw and plugging in a 50 dollar mic to your 200 dollar pc that will give you better results than anything recorded before 1995 doesn't fit though.
It is time to stop the extortion for waves of air. Air costs nothing, making air move costs nothing, music in it self costs almost nothing to record (sure you can go to a really expensive studio, but you sure as hell don't have to do that to get a great record of moving air).
So, the music mafia can go F herself as far as I am concerned. Musicians play live, musicians make their living with their performances. That should be the standard, if you can't perform live or sing without autotune, you are not a musician. Simple as that. But for that small group of talentless people who get bought into a number 1 place on the charts we all need to suffer?
I am done doing that. And saying that, I make my living as a musician and photographer.
This all is just idiotic. It is like having a bar and some friendly guy walks in to offer you protection. For a price. And you will need that protection.../end of rag
Here the first bit to the mp3 format of the song Nothing Else Matters from Metallica:
1
Share it people. Nothing else matters. We will overcome! (first bit 1 also)
No. The FBI according to their own words has robots in place that search the internet for a combination of words they deem unwanted. Like FBI and Corrupt.
Don't know about you mate, but if Discovery thought me one thing it is that it is preferable to get hit by a small wave instead of a big one. Don't you guys watch Deadliest Catch?
Yeah mites and parasites are both causes that they at least 'suspect' to be also responsible. I am in no way saying: oh look we found it. I'm just saying that this is at least very interesting and imho should be researched again. With bigger and more populations. It really could prove to be an important factor... or not.
The grandparent from ms. Santax is a bee-keeper. He told me about the many losses of complete hyves in recent years, not only at his place, but with the 'competition' also. If this is truly the reason or of an influence of this magnitude as suggested by the article, then we really really really need to shut down those GSM-freqencies and fix it or find a better alternative. Cause else there won't be anybody left to call in about 40 years.
I'm gonna print this one out. It will come handy to make my point...
See: if you teach children that if someone gives you a little push you should react by cutting of his arm then you're part of the problem. Shooting an unarmed burglar is precisely the same. And this is what we mean with: losing empathy.
When you start to think like that, you are no longer protecting yourself. No you are also taking revenge. I am not telling you to help the burglar with raiding your home. But a reaction (especially violent ones) should be in proportion. But this is just one of many examples. I have actually seen people walk by a a little kid (10-12 yrs or so) that was getting the living shit kicked out of him... Adults... just walked by. No man, we are doing some wrong here. I know (at least 'my' town) 15 years ago you could not beat up anyone on the streets without everything jumping in between. Nowadays people try so hard to not see. That being said, don't have a solution for it either and can only hope to better with my kids. Albeit I'm sure I will do many things wrong. Just like every good parent does.
I see this around me all the time. Mind you, I am still young -31- and yet I can see the youngsters around me (and not only the youngsters, people of all ages seem to be affected) just don't care about anything or anyone anymore. I am not surprised by this either. Look at what great examples we have given this next generation. The lies about WMD, the lies about drugs, people telling you that is perfectly normal to own a gun, that it is normal to shoot at someone just for trespassing/burglary. That is cool to join the army and fuck up another sorry son of a bitch that you had absolutely no conflict with. We are teaching our children to be selfish... The people who are selfish are the people that drive the ferrari's around at wallstreet. They are being held up as icons by a complete generation. We are teaching our kids to become like them... No I am not surprised. Just very worried.
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We can continue in Dutch, German or French if you want? English isn't my first language. Thanks for the education though. You forgot to actually reply on my comment btw.
Lol at the -1 mod... @that mod. Disagreeing is no reason to mod down. Had to get that of my chest :P
Well I tend to believe Skype on this one. About the not-blocking. I can even see why they want to protect their brand and especially continued service for their customers. As a Skype user I actually am happy they do so. Nah, no complaints about skype from me so far. Calling your the company whoms api's you have been using for years a coward is not done in my book btw. Just keep to the license and everything should be fine. Al least, that is my experience with Skype. Your mileage may vary though.
For this one I happy take a -1 redundant. You are absolutely right! And I find this project very encouraging to get my own iron out and have a go at it.
But what musician doesn't want to make music? I don't know of anyone... not a single one...... It's the making and performing of music that brings us the pleasure. All musicians know there is a very slim change they will make a living with it. It's an hobby for that matter. And we all love playing. If tomorrow I wouldn't get a single penny anymore for my musical skills, would that stop me from playing? Hell no! I love making music, that's why I do it. And sure, a nice paycheck after a gig is nice. But not necessary for me and any artist who has invested that much time in practicing. It's about music, not money.
Yeah I know. Those aren't very talented artists though. A singer is someone who can sing. A guitarist is someone who can play a guitar. It's really that simple in the end. I have invested many many thousands of hours to get my guitar playing to the level where am I know. And now I benefit of being in a good band that is a bit known and I can make a very nice living from all that hard work. But: i can play the thing... i actually can play that instrument... And people can hear every hour of love I put into it. People who pretend to play guitar (George Micheal in Faith for example) just aren't guitar players. And while George Micheal in fact has a great voice and really can sing, he will never be able to play a guitar and he shouldn't do as if he can imho. Autotune is just the same. An artist like Cher that actually can sing and hit the right tone can use autotune for the musical value it has in a song like "I believe". But an artist like Britney or that Gay fish dude, can't hit the right tones and you have no place on a stage in that case. Well let me tone that down, they might have a place, but it isn't performance art they are doing. I would not call it music, it's playing musician. Pretending they can are rockstars. A lot of kids fall for that in combination with an agressive advertising campaign. It's produced, it's a product. While music is 100% emotion and 0% product. Man, music has always been free until about 30, 40 years ago. And music get it's soul from that hard work those people put into it. That's what makes music great, the soul of the artist. Autotune has no soul and therefore any self claimed artist using it brings soul-less music, and soulness music isn't music. It's a rythme some words about sex on top of it. Anyway: use of autotune as effect: great Use of autotune to make up for a lack of skills: not done.
Yeah I thought about that one, but in real life we can see the top dj's and electro groups do perform live with greater success often than big 'rockbands'. It's ok to sample live. It's ok to press start on winamp, just make sure you give the audience a show. That's what they are paying for and that's where your money comes from. Not the albumsales. Albums are nothing more than commercials to get you into buying a ticket to a live show. But somewhere in the last 10 years some bastard decided that 20 million income from a worldtour just wasn't enough.... Real musicians play music all the time, for free. Because they love to do it and love to share it. This is also the reason imho that there are no more bands like Dire Straights or The Police or the next U2 or Queen. Those bands had a nice income from their albums, but the real money came always from tours. The albums were extra profit. Nice to have, nothing more. Twenty years ago any artist would be delighted to get airtime on the radio... now the big suits behind them want money for the privilege of being given airtime! It's insane! And what does that mean for us? Well, that good musicians won't be on the radio because the guy in the suit wants money for it and the band just isn't big enough yet.
That's a fair way of seeing songwriters. But I make a difference in songwriters and the performing artists. The 'product' music is a non-existent product. All music does is bring emotion. I already own that emotion. That can be a fun emotion or a bluesy one. The comparison between the screw and plugging in a 50 dollar mic to your 200 dollar pc that will give you better results than anything recorded before 1995 doesn't fit though.
It is time to stop the extortion for waves of air. Air costs nothing, making air move costs nothing, music in it self costs almost nothing to record (sure you can go to a really expensive studio, but you sure as hell don't have to do that to get a great record of moving air). So, the music mafia can go F herself as far as I am concerned. Musicians play live, musicians make their living with their performances. That should be the standard, if you can't perform live or sing without autotune, you are not a musician. Simple as that. But for that small group of talentless people who get bought into a number 1 place on the charts we all need to suffer? I am done doing that. And saying that, I make my living as a musician and photographer. This all is just idiotic. It is like having a bar and some friendly guy walks in to offer you protection. For a price. And you will need that protection... /end of rag
Here the first bit to the mp3 format of the song Nothing Else Matters from Metallica: 1 Share it people. Nothing else matters. We will overcome! (first bit 1 also)
Help me out here, so I can learn. What part of my message was troll?
No. The FBI according to their own words has robots in place that search the internet for a combination of words they deem unwanted. Like FBI and Corrupt.
I have the dictionary on one of my sites. I am so f*#$(Q@$&
Pff sissies, I play that every day.
No mate, I am the Captain.
Since Jobs decided for all of us that watching porn is something very evil to do.
*phone rings* "yes"
"hi boss, my ipad crashed"
"so what? Reboot it idiot!"
"I can't, there is a plane on top of it"
I have entered this discussion but you need to be modded up. Really interesting link you have there.
Don't know about you mate, but if Discovery thought me one thing it is that it is preferable to get hit by a small wave instead of a big one. Don't you guys watch Deadliest Catch?
Yeah mites and parasites are both causes that they at least 'suspect' to be also responsible. I am in no way saying: oh look we found it. I'm just saying that this is at least very interesting and imho should be researched again. With bigger and more populations. It really could prove to be an important factor... or not.
The grandparent from ms. Santax is a bee-keeper. He told me about the many losses of complete hyves in recent years, not only at his place, but with the 'competition' also. If this is truly the reason or of an influence of this magnitude as suggested by the article, then we really really really need to shut down those GSM-freqencies and fix it or find a better alternative. Cause else there won't be anybody left to call in about 40 years.
Thanks for the link. Puts things back into perspective.
But but but... I like to be able to contact my American and European friends you empathy lacking clod!
I'm gonna print this one out. It will come handy to make my point... See: if you teach children that if someone gives you a little push you should react by cutting of his arm then you're part of the problem. Shooting an unarmed burglar is precisely the same. And this is what we mean with: losing empathy. When you start to think like that, you are no longer protecting yourself. No you are also taking revenge. I am not telling you to help the burglar with raiding your home. But a reaction (especially violent ones) should be in proportion. But this is just one of many examples. I have actually seen people walk by a a little kid (10-12 yrs or so) that was getting the living shit kicked out of him... Adults... just walked by. No man, we are doing some wrong here. I know (at least 'my' town) 15 years ago you could not beat up anyone on the streets without everything jumping in between. Nowadays people try so hard to not see. That being said, don't have a solution for it either and can only hope to better with my kids. Albeit I'm sure I will do many things wrong. Just like every good parent does.
I see this around me all the time. Mind you, I am still young -31- and yet I can see the youngsters around me (and not only the youngsters, people of all ages seem to be affected) just don't care about anything or anyone anymore. I am not surprised by this either. Look at what great examples we have given this next generation. The lies about WMD, the lies about drugs, people telling you that is perfectly normal to own a gun, that it is normal to shoot at someone just for trespassing/burglary. That is cool to join the army and fuck up another sorry son of a bitch that you had absolutely no conflict with. We are teaching our children to be selfish... The people who are selfish are the people that drive the ferrari's around at wallstreet. They are being held up as icons by a complete generation. We are teaching our kids to become like them... No I am not surprised. Just very worried.