Like being given the same rights as people? Or being allowed to completely monopolize every city in every state (Wal Mart Starbucks, etc...).
I don't know. They seem pretty unrestrained to me, and I have met a couple of people who tried to take large corporations to court to protect their own smaller business, and got completely bought out of the legal system by a crooked judge, millionaire lawyers.
Don't fool yourself. Corporations are now acting in the US with absolutely no restraints. Much like pre war Nazi Germany.....
iTunes is wide open. However Steve takes a giant cut of every track you sell. But as an indie you CAN sell stuff on there. Not that anybody will ever know to download you when you are not on MTV, Clearchannel, etc..
And then imagine that you are "Owl City". Kind of makes it all seem good in the end, except somewhere there is still a fat record executive raking in money while an entire generation is force fed this absolute HORSE SHIT.
While I agree across the board with you, "In the Court of the Crimson King" was a masterpiece, and arguably their best work. But you are spot on about everything else.
Not only that Courtney Love is a fucking idiot. A no talent hack who is only famous because she very likely had something to do with the offing of her over-rated husband. Listening to her do anything is like looking to Yoko Ono for musical guidance. I mean at least Yoko Ono didn't hire what's his face to cap John, but there is plenty of evidence that suggests HOLE (a better moniker for the pathetic waste of flesh that is courtney love) had something to do with Kurt's death. And the truly funny part to me is that Nirvana was just OK. OK just happened to be 200x better than the other corporate rock garbage that was coming out at the time, so now they are an icon for an entire generation. My generation. Truly despicable and depressing, really.
That and Radiohead is a REAL BAND. Not some crappy corporate production with a "hot" teenager gyrating out front. Their music will sell long after Taylor Swift is a dim, pathetic memory of middle aged housewives who wish they had done things differently back in their prime at age 18, driving drunk in their dad's Buick and bumping whatever crap de jour is on their Apple Ipod.
No, you're right. It's all rented, or heavily mortgaged, and the repo men do take them all the time. Look at MC Hammer, for example, or even Michael Jackson.
Flavor of the Month idiots will always be over confident and go mortgage themselves into bankruptcy. Largely because nobody truly believes they are a flavor of the month. However in this corporate climate, almost every record deal is a flavor of the month. It's all crap, and when the record company finds a new shitty flavor to feed the masses, last month's flavor will sell those escalades right quick.
And nobody will cry for them. The horrid part is that the giant megacorp pushing this garbage out continues to make money on the new flavor of the month and perpetuates the system. Fucking horrible.
All the crappy teen age bobble heads that record labels sign these days don't deserve to get paid anyway. It's a problem that is built into it's own solution. Now if the record companies signed REAL bands and ripped them off, that would be a different story. But I don't really give a shit if Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake get ripped off by Sony. It's like one disgusting head of a hydra eating another head. No consequence at all on myself, or anybody who has half a brain and doesn't listen to that corporate garbage.
Where the hell have you been? The corporations have been acting without any legal restraint whatsoever since Andrew Jackson. LOL. Thanks for pointing out news that's over 100 years old!
On a related note, am I the only one who won't buy Sony products due to their inability to work without layers and layers of draconian DRM? These corporations are so obsessed with jousting windmills that they are throwing millions of dollars away and losing millions of dollars of sales.
The MPAA/RIAA and all their constituents WILL go out of business eventually. They are clearly outdated, outmoded, and irrelevant in the internet age. Watching them choke to death on their own stupidity is both amusing and kind of fascinating.
If Sony is Japanese, does that make them ninjas? If so, THE PIRATES WIN!!!!
I'd like to see better orbital insertion technologies pursued. Like a mag-lev cannon or something. Rockets CANNOT be the most efficient way to orbit. Especially Heavy lift rockets. Grrrr
Just think if we would have started our solar initiative while Carter was still in office. Thanks a lot corporate media for selling us Reagan/Bush all those years. You really helped us all out. Asshats!
Except it's all the millions of us who are sick of their safe re-hashed shit. That's why nobody feels bad about downloading the latest crap and EVERYONE downloads it for free and illegally. There is no value in it, so it is un-valued. 99% of the time it is heard or watched once, scoffed at, and summarily deleted. I think that's what EVERYBODY does. Meanwhile these corporate ass-hats are whining about dwindling profits. Where's an "Empire Strikes Back", or "The Doors"? Or a good band or movie with original concept and actual artistic value? Maybe if the MPAA RIAA worried more about quality rather than profits and safe investments, they wouldn't be going bankrupt. I say let them die a quick painful death. Fuck them and the Taylor Swift they rode in on.
Seriously. Nobody is buying their shit because it SUCKS. I never want to hear Taylor Swift and Avril Lavigne in my life. They are awful. "Fast and Furious" FOUR?!?! Like the first one didn't suck enough?
How about making a decent CD or DVD WORTH $9.99?!?!?
Idiots. I would sucker punch a movie or record exec in the face if I had half a chance.
Hydrogen was not the problem. The entire body of the craft was painted in a mix of powdered aluminum, iron oxide, gun powder, and a chemical similar to rocket fuel as a solvent. It's actually amazing that it didn't explode sooner.
Further, over half the passengers on the Hindenburg survived the wreck. Almost NOBODY survives a plane wreck.
For every reason but speed, zeppelins are a superior idea to planes whose time has definitely come again.
... for myself and for millions of hard working Americans without health care. I can afford a phone bill once a month, but I certainly cannot afford to do anything but die in a hospital.
In fact the very founding of the nation was over tax laws, so pretending like the Teabaggers are crazy on this is really unfair and inaccurate.
Income tax is absolutely at the root of what has gone wrong in our democracy. That and unmitigated corporate monopolization. But then I guess "Joe's Coffee"has every bit the chance of success as "Starbucks" where you live.
The right to keep and bare arms was specifically there to protect we the people from the government. If the government has nukes, we should have nukes to protect ourselves from them.
I know, 220 million people having nukes doesn't seem like that good of an idea, which is why I maintain that nobody INCLUDING the government should have nukes....
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Like being given the same rights as people? Or being allowed to completely monopolize every city in every state (Wal Mart Starbucks, etc...).
I don't know. They seem pretty unrestrained to me, and I have met a couple of people who tried to take large corporations to court to protect their own smaller business, and got completely bought out of the legal system by a crooked judge, millionaire lawyers.
Don't fool yourself. Corporations are now acting in the US with absolutely no restraints. Much like pre war Nazi Germany.....
iTunes is wide open. However Steve takes a giant cut of every track you sell. But as an indie you CAN sell stuff on there. Not that anybody will ever know to download you when you are not on MTV, Clearchannel, etc..
I speak from direct experience here. *sigh*
And then imagine that you are "Owl City". Kind of makes it all seem good in the end, except somewhere there is still a fat record executive raking in money while an entire generation is force fed this absolute HORSE SHIT.
While I agree across the board with you, "In the Court of the Crimson King" was a masterpiece, and arguably their best work. But you are spot on about everything else.
Not only that Courtney Love is a fucking idiot. A no talent hack who is only famous because she very likely had something to do with the offing of her over-rated husband. Listening to her do anything is like looking to Yoko Ono for musical guidance. I mean at least Yoko Ono didn't hire what's his face to cap John, but there is plenty of evidence that suggests HOLE (a better moniker for the pathetic waste of flesh that is courtney love) had something to do with Kurt's death. And the truly funny part to me is that Nirvana was just OK. OK just happened to be 200x better than the other corporate rock garbage that was coming out at the time, so now they are an icon for an entire generation. My generation. Truly despicable and depressing, really.
That and Radiohead is a REAL BAND. Not some crappy corporate production with a "hot" teenager gyrating out front. Their music will sell long after Taylor Swift is a dim, pathetic memory of middle aged housewives who wish they had done things differently back in their prime at age 18, driving drunk in their dad's Buick and bumping whatever crap de jour is on their Apple Ipod.
No, you're right. It's all rented, or heavily mortgaged, and the repo men do take them all the time. Look at MC Hammer, for example, or even Michael Jackson.
Flavor of the Month idiots will always be over confident and go mortgage themselves into bankruptcy. Largely because nobody truly believes they are a flavor of the month. However in this corporate climate, almost every record deal is a flavor of the month. It's all crap, and when the record company finds a new shitty flavor to feed the masses, last month's flavor will sell those escalades right quick.
And nobody will cry for them. The horrid part is that the giant megacorp pushing this garbage out continues to make money on the new flavor of the month and perpetuates the system. Fucking horrible.
All the crappy teen age bobble heads that record labels sign these days don't deserve to get paid anyway. It's a problem that is built into it's own solution. Now if the record companies signed REAL bands and ripped them off, that would be a different story. But I don't really give a shit if Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake get ripped off by Sony. It's like one disgusting head of a hydra eating another head. No consequence at all on myself, or anybody who has half a brain and doesn't listen to that corporate garbage.
Dude, we won the war on drugs. You can totally grow plants now in California. You just need a doctor's note.
Where the hell have you been? The corporations have been acting without any legal restraint whatsoever since Andrew Jackson. LOL. Thanks for pointing out news that's over 100 years old!
On a related note, am I the only one who won't buy Sony products due to their inability to work without layers and layers of draconian DRM? These corporations are so obsessed with jousting windmills that they are throwing millions of dollars away and losing millions of dollars of sales.
The MPAA/RIAA and all their constituents WILL go out of business eventually. They are clearly outdated, outmoded, and irrelevant in the internet age. Watching them choke to death on their own stupidity is both amusing and kind of fascinating.
If Sony is Japanese, does that make them ninjas? If so, THE PIRATES WIN!!!!
To fully begin the Apple boycott. It really doesn't matter though, as Android is clearly taking over. Cyanogen for the win!
I'd like to see better orbital insertion technologies pursued. Like a mag-lev cannon or something. Rockets CANNOT be the most efficient way to orbit. Especially Heavy lift rockets. Grrrr
As a musician I agree that mp3s should be worth $2,250 each. Think how much money I would be making on iTunes!!!!
Hard to believe ANYONE could find a worse candidate than Harry Reid to run for office, but somehow they've managed to succeed.
Nice job. LOL.
Just think if we would have started our solar initiative while Carter was still in office. Thanks a lot corporate media for selling us Reagan/Bush all those years. You really helped us all out. Asshats!
Except it's all the millions of us who are sick of their safe re-hashed shit. That's why nobody feels bad about downloading the latest crap and EVERYONE downloads it for free and illegally. There is no value in it, so it is un-valued. 99% of the time it is heard or watched once, scoffed at, and summarily deleted. I think that's what EVERYBODY does. Meanwhile these corporate ass-hats are whining about dwindling profits. Where's an "Empire Strikes Back", or "The Doors"? Or a good band or movie with original concept and actual artistic value? Maybe if the MPAA RIAA worried more about quality rather than profits and safe investments, they wouldn't be going bankrupt. I say let them die a quick painful death. Fuck them and the Taylor Swift they rode in on.
Seriously. Nobody is buying their shit because it SUCKS. I never want to hear Taylor Swift and Avril Lavigne in my life. They are awful. "Fast and Furious" FOUR?!?! Like the first one didn't suck enough?
How about making a decent CD or DVD WORTH $9.99?!?!?
Idiots. I would sucker punch a movie or record exec in the face if I had half a chance.
Mammoth compared to what? Most rigid frame airships are MUCH larger.
....about the Hindenburg anyway.
Hydrogen was not the problem. The entire body of the craft was painted in a mix of powdered aluminum, iron oxide, gun powder, and a chemical similar to rocket fuel as a solvent. It's actually amazing that it didn't explode sooner.
Further, over half the passengers on the Hindenburg survived the wreck. Almost NOBODY survives a plane wreck.
For every reason but speed, zeppelins are a superior idea to planes whose time has definitely come again.
People like that need to be drug into the street and killed immediately. Pathetic.
... for myself and for millions of hard working Americans without health care. I can afford a phone bill once a month, but I certainly cannot afford to do anything but die in a hospital.
In fact the very founding of the nation was over tax laws, so pretending like the Teabaggers are crazy on this is really unfair and inaccurate.
Income tax is absolutely at the root of what has gone wrong in our democracy. That and unmitigated corporate monopolization. But then I guess "Joe's Coffee"has every bit the chance of success as "Starbucks" where you live.
The right to keep and bare arms was specifically there to protect we the people from the government. If the government has nukes, we should have nukes to protect ourselves from them.
I know, 220 million people having nukes doesn't seem like that good of an idea, which is why I maintain that nobody INCLUDING the government should have nukes....