We already have a 'mark of the beast' in using a social security number to do just about everything in the US, and that is why there are people (like myself) who have become non-enumerated natural born citizens of the united States of America (notice united NOT capitalized). We the PEOPLE are sovereign NOT the frickin' gov't. This is an outrage to think of having some piece of technology embedded in your body, to go right along with your SSN! Instead of the Mobil Speedpass...it would be like the human tracking device of evil. Yes to have your pet have an ID chip in it is one thing but this!!! This is fuckin' nuts!!!
There will always be people out there who are wiser to the ways of computer crap than myself...and Google trying to quash these 'crap' pages has hurt other legitimate websites tremendously. I have used Google since it's inception and loved it dearly...now it's become a corporate giant of the search world of the internet and looks the old saying is coming true. "With power comes corruption" I have started using Teoma.com to search and it's like having the old Google back at my fingertips. If anybody has anything to say about Teoma pls let me (and everybody else) hear it. Good day all !!
And just how much student fees and tuition is paid at this college? Brown Univ. in Providence RI has blocked access to Napster through their server. I think the college should realize that the information age is upon us and they should get a faster server (or more) and more bandwidth. They always find a way to pay for their 'necessities' why isn't a kick-ass internet connection NOT a necessity? http://www.holistix.net/ebiz/headlines/2000/02/02/ Uwire/harvest_Uwire949558044089142.html
You do have some valid points there DuG. What I think is so funny is that whie I'm sitting here reading all the posted comments and stuff I'm downloading songs using Napster and sharing the songs I have also.:-) Long Live Digital! Heh-heh
yeah, but that's just it! We do NOT need (and you shouldn't dare want) the government involved anymore than they already are...we all know that the government is corrupt and always will be. They say to vote? I feel like I have to decide which one is the lesser of two or more evils. Anywho...
The Government sucks! They already have their grubby little fingers in every aspect of your life and now you want them wrapped up in our free speech? You need some good realization on life. What the American people need is to tear down all the crap in our governement and go back to the basics. Big governement has done nothing in the past and is gonna do nothing but cause pain and hardships in the future...abolish BIG government!!! The American people need to take back our constitutional rights and tell the government to go to hell!
I just read the proposal and at first I thought it was a hoax! These people are serious! I don't know whether to be flabbergasted or laugh my ass off! As if Americans aren't lazy enough already...let's build a suit that does what your God-given body can do. While they're doing that does anybody have the formula that I can take to become Stretch Armstrong? I also need somebody to come over and help me put my Gobot back together? Ha ha ha! LOL!
or the latest medium for making music portable. And as for the music that is shared on Napster...most of the songs I share are from cd's that I purchased and converted into MP3's using Audio Catalyst. I guess if people ever do stop buying cd's the corporate execs might have to actually get off their asses and find a real job besides exploiting the artists. And the artists will have to go and actually perform for their career and make an honest living. I'm not saying that they should not be compensated for their music that is out on the latest technological medium...but the love and want for money is what is corrupting everything in our society and world. Just look at the idiots on the TV show Friends...They want $120,000.00 an episode for the season?!!!!!! that's fuckin' ridiculous! Our football players make more than some small towns do! Our famous actors make between 2 million and 15 million per film! Good Lord! Money, money, money AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Dear Lord have mercy on us all!!!
Good Lord! I just had a flashback to when I was taking economics in college! I don't think I could have said it any better...WTG Darth! I'm going to copy that Darth...if I use it anywhere I'll be sure and give ya the credit.:-)
made it illegal in the first place?!! Artists from years gone by just wanted to play and sing and perform for people. To make a decent living at it was a really nice bonus. Now, people come out with their music and expect to make money on it for the rest of their lives! Money-grubbin' bastards...if I made my honest living off of my work and music and then years later I became bankrupt, then it was my own fault for poor money management. I would have to go back out on the road and tour for more money or put out another album...simple isn't it? The RIAA and all the others need to get a life and keep out of the progression of mankinds expression of himself called MUSIC.
I really don't have all the latest info on cd's and their cost, but in 1997 it was approximately 83 cents to put out a cd in mass quantity (10,000 or more)...right now I can record my own music in a recording studio and then take the recordings to a CD Duper and have them duped for $1,000 for 1000 cd's. SOMEBODY! is making a shitload of money off of retail cd's and if it's not the artist (which we all know it isn't) then tada! you know that the producers and all the big-wigs are lining their pockets with gold. Anywho I just had to get that bit of anger and info off my chest.:-)
WTG! Sleen! I really agree with your comment. I remember growing up and when I was 12 I got a $115 dual-cassette boom box for christmas...boy was I in love with this piece of equipment! We were not rich at all and did not have the resources to go out and buy a bunch of cassettes that I wanted so I borrowed my friends and recorded my own...was I wrong by doing this? Should I have been deprived of having recorded music in my home just because we weren't rich? (Radio is nice but you're at their whim of what you're gonna be hearing). I don't think so...I love music so much that I would have done just about anything to get my hands on it. I thank God for technology and what it is going to do to help spread music from all cultures worldwide!
It just kills me to know that I have to be 'hooked' in with the right fucking people to ever be discovered blah, blah, blah...that's bullshit! I have a natural talent for singing and I LOVE to sing and see the expressions on the peoples faces when a good performance is carried out...why should my life and talent with music be dictated by some idiots who are living in mansions and own limos, yachts, rolex's, etc. etc. I thank God that the internet came along and is allowing little people like me to enjoy spreading our talents without the help of multi-millionaires. Long live MP3's!!!
I know that making music for the love of music has somehow gotten way out of hand. People used to make beautiful music and just want people to listen to it and feel it and be happy (or depressed depending on what genre music you're listening to), now all I frickin' hear is how much they're gonna make or not make in their ever-money-grubbin' wallets. Make the music FOR the LOVE of the music and the money will appear...make music for the MONEY and easy come, easy go baby! I hope to have an adequate amount of money someday where I won't have to worry about it, and I hope I can achieve it through my love of music and for people.
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We already have a 'mark of the beast' in using a social security number to do just about everything in the US, and that is why there are people (like myself) who have become non-enumerated natural born citizens of the united States of America (notice united NOT capitalized). We the PEOPLE are sovereign NOT the frickin' gov't. This is an outrage to think of having some piece of technology embedded in your body, to go right along with your SSN! Instead of the Mobil Speedpass...it would be like the human tracking device of evil. Yes to have your pet have an ID chip in it is one thing but this!!! This is fuckin' nuts!!!
There will always be people out there who are wiser to the ways of computer crap than myself...and Google trying to quash these 'crap' pages has hurt other legitimate websites tremendously. I have used Google since it's inception and loved it dearly...now it's become a corporate giant of the search world of the internet and looks the old saying is coming true. "With power comes corruption" I have started using Teoma.com to search and it's like having the old Google back at my fingertips. If anybody has anything to say about Teoma pls let me (and everybody else) hear it. Good day all !!
And just how much student fees and tuition is paid at this college? Brown Univ. in Providence RI has blocked access to Napster through their server. I think the college should realize that the information age is upon us and they should get a faster server (or more) and more bandwidth. They always find a way to pay for their 'necessities' why isn't a kick-ass internet connection NOT a necessity? http://www.holistix.net/ebiz/headlines/2000/02/02/ Uwire/harvest_Uwire949558044089142.html
You do have some valid points there DuG. What I think is so funny is that whie I'm sitting here reading all the posted comments and stuff I'm downloading songs using Napster and sharing the songs I have also. :-) Long Live Digital! Heh-heh
yeah, but that's just it! We do NOT need (and you shouldn't dare want) the government involved anymore than they already are...we all know that the government is corrupt and always will be. They say to vote? I feel like I have to decide which one is the lesser of two or more evils. Anywho...
The Government sucks! They already have their grubby little fingers in every aspect of your life and now you want them wrapped up in our free speech? You need some good realization on life. What the American people need is to tear down all the crap in our governement and go back to the basics. Big governement has done nothing in the past and is gonna do nothing but cause pain and hardships in the future...abolish BIG government!!! The American people need to take back our constitutional rights and tell the government to go to hell!
I just read the proposal and at first I thought it was a hoax! These people are serious! I don't know whether to be flabbergasted or laugh my ass off! As if Americans aren't lazy enough already...let's build a suit that does what your God-given body can do. While they're doing that does anybody have the formula that I can take to become Stretch Armstrong? I also need somebody to come over and help me put my Gobot back together? Ha ha ha! LOL!
or the latest medium for making music portable. And as for the music that is shared on Napster...most of the songs I share are from cd's that I purchased and converted into MP3's using Audio Catalyst. I guess if people ever do stop buying cd's the corporate execs might have to actually get off their asses and find a real job besides exploiting the artists. And the artists will have to go and actually perform for their career and make an honest living. I'm not saying that they should not be compensated for their music that is out on the latest technological medium...but the love and want for money is what is corrupting everything in our society and world. Just look at the idiots on the TV show Friends...They want $120,000.00 an episode for the season?!!!!!! that's fuckin' ridiculous! Our football players make more than some small towns do! Our famous actors make between 2 million and 15 million per film! Good Lord! Money, money, money AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Dear Lord have mercy on us all!!!
Good Lord! I just had a flashback to when I was taking economics in college! I don't think I could have said it any better...WTG Darth! I'm going to copy that Darth...if I use it anywhere I'll be sure and give ya the credit. :-)
made it illegal in the first place?!! Artists from years gone by just wanted to play and sing and perform for people. To make a decent living at it was a really nice bonus. Now, people come out with their music and expect to make money on it for the rest of their lives! Money-grubbin' bastards...if I made my honest living off of my work and music and then years later I became bankrupt, then it was my own fault for poor money management. I would have to go back out on the road and tour for more money or put out another album...simple isn't it? The RIAA and all the others need to get a life and keep out of the progression of mankinds expression of himself called MUSIC.
I really don't have all the latest info on cd's and their cost, but in 1997 it was approximately 83 cents to put out a cd in mass quantity (10,000 or more)...right now I can record my own music in a recording studio and then take the recordings to a CD Duper and have them duped for $1,000 for 1000 cd's. SOMEBODY! is making a shitload of money off of retail cd's and if it's not the artist (which we all know it isn't) then tada! you know that the producers and all the big-wigs are lining their pockets with gold. Anywho I just had to get that bit of anger and info off my chest. :-)
WTG! Sleen! I really agree with your comment. I remember growing up and when I was 12 I got a $115 dual-cassette boom box for christmas...boy was I in love with this piece of equipment! We were not rich at all and did not have the resources to go out and buy a bunch of cassettes that I wanted so I borrowed my friends and recorded my own...was I wrong by doing this? Should I have been deprived of having recorded music in my home just because we weren't rich? (Radio is nice but you're at their whim of what you're gonna be hearing). I don't think so...I love music so much that I would have done just about anything to get my hands on it. I thank God for technology and what it is going to do to help spread music from all cultures worldwide!
It just kills me to know that I have to be 'hooked' in with the right fucking people to ever be discovered blah, blah, blah...that's bullshit! I have a natural talent for singing and I LOVE to sing and see the expressions on the peoples faces when a good performance is carried out...why should my life and talent with music be dictated by some idiots who are living in mansions and own limos, yachts, rolex's, etc. etc. I thank God that the internet came along and is allowing little people like me to enjoy spreading our talents without the help of multi-millionaires. Long live MP3's!!!
I know that making music for the love of music has somehow gotten way out of hand. People used to make beautiful music and just want people to listen to it and feel it and be happy (or depressed depending on what genre music you're listening to), now all I frickin' hear is how much they're gonna make or not make in their ever-money-grubbin' wallets. Make the music FOR the LOVE of the music and the money will appear...make music for the MONEY and easy come, easy go baby! I hope to have an adequate amount of money someday where I won't have to worry about it, and I hope I can achieve it through my love of music and for people.