Are you really this stupid? Democrats and Republicans alike want to put caps on lawsuits. Insurance rates for peons like you and me have skyrocket because of frivolous lawsuits. Lawsuit caps need to be enacted!
True enough, but who will care about any of those singles in 10 or even 5 years? My kids will still be "discovering" the Beatles and Led Zeppelin when J-Lo is a side-note on VH-1's "Where Are They Now?"
You're close to what the problem is- the bands/musicians you list are good, they have created great new music that is not manufactured for sales (which, ironically, results in sales).
The RIAA seems pissed off that we aren't buying the crap that is being rammed down our throats. How many boy bands are really necessary? I remember when New Kids On The Block was far too much.
Obviously you're not much of a music lover. The greatest rock songs in history are parts of larger albums to be listened to as a collection of songs- Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Beates, Nick Drake, Green Day, Nirvana... The list goes on and on. I feel sorry for people who can only enjoy music for 3 minutes before losing interest...
Go along, drive your Honda Civic down the road with the bass blasting too loud now...
Hopefully these robot workers at the fast food joints will be able to make change when I hand them an extra nickel. This usually throws the slack-jawed kids at McDonald's into a spiral of horrific confusion.
All the liberals complain about FoxNews' right-wing leanings. Perhaps they are a bit slanted, but they are doing a great job of putting checks and balances on the rest of the media. I think it was really started thanks to Rush Limbaugh. Checks and balances are good!
Oops:
It seems the war with the RIAA a been taken up a notch, with Congress introducing a bill that would mean jail time for song swappers. Its clear that the RIAA has more Democrats than Republicans in their pocketbook. Not sure why this is, but its scary nontheless. What is a "song swapper" anyway?
(From my submission of the same story. Unfortunately my first post was plain old text and not HTML).
Without trying to spark a political debate (which this comment surely will), its interesting that Democrats seem to favor the bill and Republicans do not. Any thoughts as to why this may be? Is the RIAA in the pocket of Democrats?
This just doesn't seem like one of those issues that would normally fall along party lines.
Its also frightening that they point to "song swappers". What is a song swapper? If I email an mp3 that I ripped from a personal CD to myself, does it make me a song swapper? It sounds to me as though this legislation would be incredibly sweeping. Scary stuff.
Love him or hate him, any compassionate person would not make fun of Ronald Reagan (or anyone for that matter) for suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Anyone with an ounce of civility would realize that its just crude. Its not funny whatsoever.
Its odd that so many liberals, so eager to tell everyone who compassionate they are, are so quick to make jokes about such topics.
I know a lot of people here don't like Dubya, but why would he know what IP v6 is? Do you think Clinton knows? Do you think Jimmy Carter knows? Do you think Nelson Mandela knows? Do you think Condoleeza Rice knows? Do you think your boss knows?
I bet you don't know parliamentary procedure... Does that make you stupid?
I see a lot of people posting who really don't like Christians (these same people talk about how we must respect Muslims all the time). Is it so wrong to not what pr0n to be sent to children? I know I wouldn't want my children seeing the subject lines in some of my spam.
The bias in the header of this post is abundantly clear. From my experience, Christians are good people, but whatever (I'll surely get modded down for saying so).
Whatever the motivation, its good that spam is being fought. On moral grounds, I think even some of the most liberal people can agree that pr0n being sent to children is wrong (you can probably agree, unless you are between the ages of 10 and 17 and looking forward to each and ever pr0n spam). It undermines efforts to make the Internet a useful place for young people. I know if the Internet was around when I was a kid I would have clicked through on every nasty link that got emailed to me. Instead we just had to steal dad's Playboy...
Given the current state of tech jobs (supply and demand), I think the company would laugh and hire a bunch more techies who would be more than willing to take your job. The way tech employees are treated is directly affected by the market. An employer will treat you as crappy as possible (ie, low pay, lots of overtime) because they can.
As much as I support capitalism, lets face it, the company doesn't exist to create happy employees. It exists to turn a profit. If keeping employees happy in order to keep them productive is necessary, the employer will do so. The problem, right now, is that a happy employee is an employed employee. It will get better (and then worse, and then better, and so on...)
How long until the spammers start sending their crap out on something like this? Since the user cannot select what he is trying to get, it seems like this tool just begs spammers to place fraudulant files on your machine.
User: "Hey, the new White Stripes song!" Song: "How would you like to increase your penis size by as much as 30%?" User: "Man, this song sucks!"
I am sure there are people in this country who need MY money more than I do. The thing is- those people didn't earn MY money. I'll never understand you bleeding hearts.
You liberals are so quick to want to give away the hard earned money of others.
Yup. Its easy to get in a tissy about "tax cuts for the rich." Bush's tax cuts will help me out a bunch too- and I am far from rich, although the Democrats in Washington DC disagree. Democrats label any tax cut that gives relief to lower middle class and up a "tax cut for the rich."
How do you cut taxes on people who don't pay them in the first place?
Anyway, with the the money (my own money) that I get to keep, I will be buying things and stimulating the economy.
We've got all these "software executives" who know nothing about s/w. They promote all this stuff because, "Our developers can do that, its easy..." Then the developers get stuck working all kinds of overtime, then the developers can't get these great promises completed, then the executives get pissed off and fire developers, then the company loses business, then the executives lay off all the rest of the developers.
That's been my experience anyway. Stupid executives.
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I think you are a little confused. The Republicans support the space program--- its the Democrats who whine about the cost. Pay attention.
Are you really this stupid? Democrats and Republicans alike want to put caps on lawsuits. Insurance rates for peons like you and me have skyrocket because of frivolous lawsuits. Lawsuit caps need to be enacted!
Amazing--- something crappy going on in the UK and you manage to twist it to somehow be Bush's fault. You Bush haters are amuzing.
True enough, but who will care about any of those singles in 10 or even 5 years? My kids will still be "discovering" the Beatles and Led Zeppelin when J-Lo is a side-note on VH-1's "Where Are They Now?"
You're close to what the problem is- the bands/musicians you list are good, they have created great new music that is not manufactured for sales (which, ironically, results in sales).
The RIAA seems pissed off that we aren't buying the crap that is being rammed down our throats. How many boy bands are really necessary? I remember when New Kids On The Block was far too much.
Obviously you're not much of a music lover. The greatest rock songs in history are parts of larger albums to be listened to as a collection of songs- Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Beates, Nick Drake, Green Day, Nirvana... The list goes on and on. I feel sorry for people who can only enjoy music for 3 minutes before losing interest...
Go along, drive your Honda Civic down the road with the bass blasting too loud now...
Hopefully these robot workers at the fast food joints will be able to make change when I hand them an extra nickel. This usually throws the slack-jawed kids at McDonald's into a spiral of horrific confusion.
All the liberals complain about FoxNews' right-wing leanings. Perhaps they are a bit slanted, but they are doing a great job of putting checks and balances on the rest of the media. I think it was really started thanks to Rush Limbaugh. Checks and balances are good!
Oops: It seems the war with the RIAA a been taken up a notch, with Congress introducing a bill that would mean jail time for song swappers. Its clear that the RIAA has more Democrats than Republicans in their pocketbook. Not sure why this is, but its scary nontheless. What is a "song swapper" anyway? (From my submission of the same story. Unfortunately my first post was plain old text and not HTML).
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Without trying to spark a political debate (which this comment surely will), its interesting that Democrats seem to favor the bill and Republicans do not. Any thoughts as to why this may be? Is the RIAA in the pocket of Democrats?
This just doesn't seem like one of those issues that would normally fall along party lines.
Its also frightening that they point to "song swappers". What is a song swapper? If I email an mp3 that I ripped from a personal CD to myself, does it make me a song swapper? It sounds to me as though this legislation would be incredibly sweeping. Scary stuff.
Gotta love how software catches up about 10 years too late...
You read my blog and agree? Hmm... Maybe I should un-foe you.
Yes, I am pretty undie-bunched, on that presumption your are correct.
Its such a shame how we cannot get free music anymore now that Napster is dead. Err, uh. Nevermind.
Love him or hate him, any compassionate person would not make fun of Ronald Reagan (or anyone for that matter) for suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Anyone with an ounce of civility would realize that its just crude. Its not funny whatsoever.
Its odd that so many liberals, so eager to tell everyone who compassionate they are, are so quick to make jokes about such topics.
one major flaw with this concept.... Pretty girls don't have blogs.
Now if you point it at an ugly girl, yeah, you'll probably be linked to her blog.
I know a lot of people here don't like Dubya, but why would he know what IP v6 is? Do you think Clinton knows? Do you think Jimmy Carter knows? Do you think Nelson Mandela knows? Do you think Condoleeza Rice knows? Do you think your boss knows?
I bet you don't know parliamentary procedure... Does that make you stupid?
Is it really 'free' (as in speech) when it is mandated?
I see a lot of people posting who really don't like Christians (these same people talk about how we must respect Muslims all the time). Is it so wrong to not what pr0n to be sent to children? I know I wouldn't want my children seeing the subject lines in some of my spam.
The bias in the header of this post is abundantly clear. From my experience, Christians are good people, but whatever (I'll surely get modded down for saying so).
Whatever the motivation, its good that spam is being fought. On moral grounds, I think even some of the most liberal people can agree that pr0n being sent to children is wrong (you can probably agree, unless you are between the ages of 10 and 17 and looking forward to each and ever pr0n spam). It undermines efforts to make the Internet a useful place for young people. I know if the Internet was around when I was a kid I would have clicked through on every nasty link that got emailed to me. Instead we just had to steal dad's Playboy...
Given the current state of tech jobs (supply and demand), I think the company would laugh and hire a bunch more techies who would be more than willing to take your job. The way tech employees are treated is directly affected by the market. An employer will treat you as crappy as possible (ie, low pay, lots of overtime) because they can.
As much as I support capitalism, lets face it, the company doesn't exist to create happy employees. It exists to turn a profit. If keeping employees happy in order to keep them productive is necessary, the employer will do so. The problem, right now, is that a happy employee is an employed employee. It will get better (and then worse, and then better, and so on...)
How long until the spammers start sending their crap out on something like this? Since the user cannot select what he is trying to get, it seems like this tool just begs spammers to place fraudulant files on your machine.
User: "Hey, the new White Stripes song!"
Song: "How would you like to increase your penis size by as much as 30%?"
User: "Man, this song sucks!"
I am sure there are people in this country who need MY money more than I do. The thing is- those people didn't earn MY money. I'll never understand you bleeding hearts.
You liberals are so quick to want to give away the hard earned money of others.
Yup. Its easy to get in a tissy about "tax cuts for the rich." Bush's tax cuts will help me out a bunch too- and I am far from rich, although the Democrats in Washington DC disagree. Democrats label any tax cut that gives relief to lower middle class and up a "tax cut for the rich."
How do you cut taxes on people who don't pay them in the first place?
Anyway, with the the money (my own money) that I get to keep, I will be buying things and stimulating the economy.
Uh, because the federal government already has plenty of money and local governments should fund schools and libraries, not the federal.
We've got all these "software executives" who know nothing about s/w. They promote all this stuff because, "Our developers can do that, its easy..." Then the developers get stuck working all kinds of overtime, then the developers can't get these great promises completed, then the executives get pissed off and fire developers, then the company loses business, then the executives lay off all the rest of the developers.
That's been my experience anyway. Stupid executives.
Why not HTML?