tens of thousands of blossoming independant artists are at least partially owned my universal. i, for one am owned to some degree or other, by universal. if microsoft bought the rights to my music this way, i'd highly consider suicide, or martyrship.
this is horrible. someone please sacrifice some lambs and give the apple ceo[steve jobs?] some good sex so we don't have to be all owend by microsoft. _please_.
now given : i'm mostly ignorant of the food process, and health matters there. i'm interested in learning however, and would appreicate anything you can throw at me.
i drink coffee like a vibrating fish. no sugar[i enjoy honey with my coffee, but i can't afford that. i can't afford sugar, either come to think of it]. in fact i had 2 pots within every 5 hours yesterday...which is a little more than usual.
but i faint when i don't take in enough "energy"
anyway, so at work i'm given an unlimited supply of CocaCola. which is extreemly unhealthy, of course!,..however, desipte me drinking sometimes upwards of 12-15 litres of water per [12-15 hour] shift...i still find i just cannot drink less than 2 litres of cocacola [with ice, lately. so let's say total cocacola intaken to be between 0.6L and 1.3L] and still function. but that's STILL a LOT of fat..and although i stopped gaining weight really fast, it's obvious i'm still gaining. HOW do you keep from fainting..? how can i keep studying? i try to fit roughly 16 hours a day of study, amongst other things...and unless i have some sort of carbs/noodles/energy in my diet to fill me i get not only hungry, but dizzy to the point where i'll look at my computer screen for 4 hours look at the clcok again and realize i'm ont he same paragraph, despite circling purple cyan magenta and yellow circles floating around me like the oil film on the first puddles of spring...and both while i was losing weight [read not drinking cocacola] and while i was gaining weight[read: drinking cocacola] i was drinking PLENTY of water. so much that i was not only always having to piss [i think i've masterred the ability of being able to hold in vast amounts of water in my system for moderate periods of time, doing this, though:)]...and still... it does not solve the fainting problem or make it any easier, or even really accomplish anything...
and besides the water here is nOT HEALTHY...[woo rural water systems] it is really really dirty, i won't drink it at all unless i run it through coffee grounds first & boil it.
[honest i'd talk to a doctor, but since my doctor is so busy he hasn't gotten back to me, even though i asked him to call back, once a week from late november through late january...]
during the fall, i wasn't trying to lose weight but i wasn't eating[i had no money for food, simple enough]. i was also walking somewhere upwards from 10km a day, running a lot of that, working ~4 hours a day of physically taxing [as physically taxing as dishwashing/kitchen work gets, anyway...]...and then drinking high volumes of caffeine beverages on top of that.
after awhile i started drinking cocacola, which is when i began to gain weight.
but before i did that
i found i was fainting all the time. i couldn't keep consious. i would go a week without eating anything but a little chickensalt,or one of those flavour packages from the 'ichiban' style noodles local. i mean obviously, i was fainting from something between working too hard physically and not eating anything to replenish..and i was starting to lose weight[not that i was fat, at that point. i'm fat now, from the cocacola, mostly.] how do you avoid this? the only reason i drank cocacola to begin with was to keep energy reserves high. it's all nice and well and good to say that one will work harder but when your in a chair after a 5 mile run, after not eating for a week...and you have to study for a logic exam[oddly]...how do you keep your brain able to function??! i thought the solution for me should have been to get some provigil [i didn't sleep enough, either]... but my doctor i think didn't want to give me any[ie i havn't tried it yet because of that...]... but please...explain how one is to reasonably study, under those circumstances...or am i doomed to gain wait until i decide it's time to stoplearning and start to work on my body for awhile[while neglecting my mind so it rots?]...i don't want to drink cocacola or eat noodles just so i can stay consious any more:(
idono bout the rest of you but that borg cube was pretty scary...
up until i saw that babylon 5 station. _wow_. babylon5's world could 0wn the borg collective.
and Ds9 is a lot smaller than i thought it was. i thought it would have been about 10 times what it was...same with the star wars ships. sure surprised me.
someone suggested, with the 'premium subscribers' of slashdot, that it would be an interesting business idea to buy a subscription to slashdot, and then the moment that an article is in 'the future' scope of slashdot, to immediately contact the homepage...and say "listen, you are going to be taken out. you can pay me $$ and i'll mirror you.". you wouldn't even need to ask for that much, would you? have a t1 or a cable modem with adequate broadband capabilities[ie, able to handle LOTS of connections at once]...poeple i don't think would mind a slow connection in return for actually being able to see what the article is talking about [and there could be a market for fast-connection,..but i don't think most owners of slashdotted articles could afford such a thing:) ]...so why havn't we seen this yet? i mean, i just upgraded from dialup myself, and i'm still on windows 3.1, and i'm too busy...so there's my excuse...what's yours?
this is a very exciting time and the above post hit it right on the nail. it is evolution, and it's likely allready about to happen. my question is...what is the next step? where does it go next? are we going to see a new era of multimedia? of _technology_ ? is this going to drive us as hard and as far as war, porn[Imagine the Possibilities! the studios! the Universal owned Women!]...and the server/technology/infrasturcutre?
arg i'm just so excited over this, for some reason....
perhaps they will clue in to the market, release some extreemly high quality releases, with easthetic covers, perfume on the inside, the whole kit and kaboodle, let demos freely into the wild and embrace p2p as a way of distrobution...
killing the entire recording industry who refuses to leave intellectual property/content as the sole way of making money
at least until their competators who are not into hardware fade away in the competition, and then it can clamp down all it wants. but that's all way theoretical....and this only implies the death of the riaa amongst other things, which i figure would be well worth it.
alternatively, on a seperate topic...unfortunately if apple owns unviersal, and universal is one of
teh big peices in the RIAA, then all you who are boycotting the RIAA, may have to consider boycotting a hardware company, which is much, much harder...
in effect this could either make apple a serious competitor or destroy it outright...imho
doesn't apple also have, i mean, _taste_ ? mabye we'll see an actual influx of talent into universal, as apples initial influence is felt. none of this "crap" music and art and movies that are just pointless to watch, propeganda, or just painfully badly done... we'll actually be seeing technology work in the cause of creating beautiful things. sure it's going to turn into a media monopoly, peice by peice, but initially at least i really think that a lot of talent that would otherwise not be known by anyone would suddenly get their chance - in this i say to artists everywhere, pick up an apple _now_...support this at least until they start screwing things up... as for myself i'm going to make the switch as soon as it's reasonable to do so:)
isn't mp3.com and all it's artists owned by universal, now? especially considering it just takes artists and then does not let them apply for termination of contract[meaning Every Artist on Mp3.com is Owned by Universal, as is all their content unless otherwise owned by a label/copyrighted/etc before applying for mp3.com/upload?]...this means I am now owned by Apple!!! on the one hand, i've always been more or less a passive apple computers fan but...OMG! ownership rights it seems of my art is transferred to an even bigger company...-~ i don't know whether this is a good thing or not [large corporate entities buying eachother isn't necessarily a good thing]...on the one hand if Apple is pro-P2P technology, and anti-RIAA enough, mabye they may have enough backbone to start pulling things in some direction other than the one things are currently going..-~ of course...or they can become the next -big-brother-.
i personally hope that this is a good thing for musicians and artists...[empowering musicians with technology == a good thing]...but i'm not yet seeing how this would work...
Universal is bought out by Apple
then : further integration between technology and content companies. you become part of the "art" system, you become part of the art system. but who would have thought the company that made
this system
would buy me and tens of thousands of other artists worldwide through universal...it boggles my mind...
obligatory beep beep beep link
the base was still kind of stuck somewhere in the 40's as far as utilities went - the dirty dirty power killed i think it was 40 computers[all or most behind some sort of power protection device]...the telephones must have been still on an analog crossbar switch...hell the beds were the same more or less than when the nazi's were raising hell in europe...
in a unionized environment, you wouldn'thave to worry about being paid 1.50$ an hour while being fed drugs to keep you from sweating, because sweating looks bad in front of the customers, in 40 degrees celcius minnimum...being expected the entire time not to even admit to being a human under that smiling "hello would you like parmesean oregano or regular bread?" mask. unions do not guarnatee induviduality is possible, but neither does any other system. [try never to live in a place where there are no jobs available, employers can abuse/victimize you a lot easier when you live there...]
in a unionized environment, you are not told to work 14, 16, 18, hours every day...with no holidays, or days off...[mabye a 4 hour shift every once in awhile so you can do laundry/etc...]...being paid in enough food to eat, cigarettes rent, cheep booze, and little more...with no prospects of getting a better job [the higher jobs are all in_family]...or any change in lifestyle...for that matter[this is a common one around here...everyone is being forced to work insane housr because of the lack of workers...there are a lot of jobs *here*, so many, in that, employers are likely forced to spread a higher workload amounst fewer workers, all for PROFIT PROFIT PROFIT!!!! MONEY MONEY MONEY ! WE NEED MORE MONEY WE NEED MORE SEX WE NEED MORE MORE MORE NOW NOW NOW WORK HARDER DONT STOP JUST KEEP MOVING]
and most importantly
thanks to the entire break from the greed of rape-pillage-loot-destroy style descended capitalism, for the first time, personal gain for those on top is not the only thing that matters...employees can now not have to worry about their health, security, and job...they can do other things with their time and not be quite as stressed, circumstances permitting
i havn't been able to get hired at a unionized place yet, so perhaps i'm still naive or something... but i'd much prefer a system that protects employees at all than one that outright exploits them purposeley for profit and entertainment [wow let's see how many hours we can keep this guy working before he snaps...or my personal favorite "Jeff..STOP BREATHING!" tmg1:"mmpf!" . . . . . . . . . . ."k now you can start again" tmg1:*GASP*]
some of us have trouble affording musical equipment and a computer, let alone a server to host high volume traffic. YES have mp3s on your site but once ten or eleven people have downloaded it, allow for that to be put on the Gnutella/etc networks - this means that people can search gnutella FIRST, so that if the songs are on gnutella, you don't have to waste your bandwidth uploading it to them. not to mention not all places in the world have highspeed access[or the rights to host servers, especially high volume ones!] I myself just got off of dialup, about a month ago. imagine trying to upload 10 10 MB Mp3 files on a 14.4...bottleneck anyone?
A lot of musicians think that they can reasonably become a professional musician, and make enough to survive merely by their music[often saying this when they have a fast food style job which just pays the bills]. Labels to them are the keys to doing this. whether labels do this or not, i don't think is the question but the thought that a little band thinks that it should sign onto a label because it's the only way to get distributed to hundreds of thousands of potential fans is one surefire way to lose all your music/whatever.
my old band, Dionysus and the Revolution Sufferred from this. To them, becoming famous, was at least somewhat important. mabye i'm wrong...and mabye i'll end up a dry musician with little talent after years of being forced to do other things to survive[a year and counting] with all my time--- but the idea of signing to a record label to me doesn't seem like a good one.
but yes...the problem is most people think the labels are good. it's only the clueful ones who don't...etc
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damn. i woulda had it to, had i not forgotten to put text in my post and to have 20 seconds between post and submit --- it seems i have a lot to learn:)
"with pornography: someone who looks at that stuff too much and from too young an
age may never learn what real love and intimacy feel like. It's a real problem."
you mean they won't know the cold painful tangs of heartbreak when they manifest? or mabye they won't ever feel it when their 'intimate' partner tells them that they've been living in a dreamworld, and that all they wanted was the sex, or that they've been cheating on you the whole time? [and they never liked you to begin with...]... or any of the millions of reaons why lovers inevidably break apart? love is a necessary evil - if you have found a way to rid us of this curse, then we should utilize it - nevermind this fear of the cure to our heart's discontent.
anyone with half an ounce of humanity in them would know better.
the real problem is love - without love there would be no heartbreak. how you can sit and defend something that would dissallow for the continuation of love is beyond me.
i think i was watching bravo [or, the canadian lesbian sex channel] some time in early 2002, when they showd fritz the cat followed by meet the feebles. even if you are boycotting the *aa, this is worth watching. thats how good it is...both of em
i wrote 2 replies
one at slashdot, one at kuro5hin. i had backups.
and somehow i simulttaneaously logged out in kuro5hin and closed the remaining 3 windows, with regular keystrokes. wtf.
i'll spare you most of the points and get to the meat. according to the article, this system is designed by the military, to harbour communictation between "assymetric" groups such as terroristorginizations...and i think this everyone should pay attention to. these people want to replace irc, email, and the telephone forms of communication with this massive overbloat stuff : but that's not important. what is important about them doing this is that the military will have complete control over the form of communication, in this case. at least with email you can know at least to an extent who is seeing your mail...and ditto with irc....but a system partially funded by the military? iidono. creeps me out.
on the other hand... there is big differences between buying cobalt armour[a pragmatic object in a _game_] and a pair of virtual jeans that will NOT make you look any less ugly.
but as an artist i would *love* to see disney/whoever to try to steal my music, claim it is theirs, and then just try to keep me from playing it. it wouldn't work because i can always recreate. if they are going to throw away my posessions, then they better look hard for all the backups. but sereiously, even though universal may still have a claim on all my work [mp3.com will not 'terminate' the contract!?? wtf is this]... if you have made something, and someone bigger than you has taken this something, and [either exploited others with it] or in any way cahnged the world using it on a really large scale YOU were the cause of this change and you were that whom made this impact
as artists we try over and over to make an impact on the world...right? i mean whether you are trying to portrait a message, trying to create something beautiful, just trying to play music/write, or whatever...the point is that the moment the big companies start to steal your work, or the moment anyone steals your work, is the moment you know that you are good at waht you do, so good that people are stealing your work. STEAL MY SONGS! say you wrote them! i'll be dead soon enough, and if you use them mabye you'll get laid/rich/healthy for the rest of your life! after all - my art will have made ONE PERSON'S LIFE arguably better, and if i could do that i'd die knowing that i made as much of a positive difference as fate would allow...
i'd hope everyone looks into this really hard to see what's wrong with this way of doing things...
No. While a teacher does play a central role in a course, it is still the responsibility of the student to make every effort to learn. With a proper respect for knowledge a student will understand the material is more important than judging the teacher or even the grade they receive. T perhaps. i've got a sneaking feeling that the assignment of homework to keep students busy outweighs any sort of intention to have the student learn anything... i get to university it's suddenly very different... profs either do'nt give a shit, or they want the students to learn...but there is no active malice[that i've found yet]that is keeping the teachers actually wanting the students to not learn... think i'm blowing this out of proportion? my grade 12 math teacher said on the first day of class "i'm going to try to fail as many of you as i can"..t.hat was his goal in that course. he did a pretty good job oof it too...i almost failed myself... and he wasn't even the worst[actually upon thinking about it, he was the guy who tried to teach us proofs..........]
graduate university get a good job profit[make lots of money]! ---------- eternal happiness errrrrr
i was having a conversation with someone today on this exact topic. he was proposing a more "active" teacher-students relationship because of the low attention span of kids these days. [i don't know if he'll ever get naywhere with his idea but i'm glad to see that someone takes people with no attention span and utilizes this in some way! i mean, if teachers would stop trying to drug away attention deficit/hyperactivty and start to utilize the hurricane winds within, imagine what kind of things we could produce??]...
in the meanwhile, i came to this university to become "englightened" and "educated", not to get a job...i thought i'd be happier if i lived my entire life poor but while knowing [ kind of like Socrates, even though i hadn't really studied him yet... ]... then i got into Socrates and i felt i was in the total right place, even though i really didn't like being poor. then i got into Descartes, and then i wasn't really sure about anything, except that i didn't like being poor. then i got into Neitzsche.
tis all in vain? i'm not sure. but i can tell you that the original reason i came to university ammounted to the quest for god. yes, i'm an atheist. [or i suppose, i was an atheist?]. presupposing symmetry. presupposing the law of noncontradiction. presupposing an englightenment to acheive. presupposing that englightenment has anything to do with truth. presupposing that englightenment is something you sacrifice your entire life and suffering and everything else to acheive. presupposing that englightenment has nothing to do with love, which has nothing to do with sex[did i say that right?], presupposing that what i was looking for was going to feel good. this last one broke me. that the truth was supposed to feel good..."that there would be someone tending the light at the end of the tunnel..." that truth is there is no god...the truth is a cold, emotionless truth, something that if i have anything to say with my experience so far, i'm not sure if i ever want to open my eyes again. to anything. of course i have to, to keep feeding myself...because i really don't like being poor. i dont want to be rich, mind you, and i've passed over many many chances to gain physical wealth so far, in so that i DO NOT WANT TO SUPPORT 'THE SYSTEM'[i prefer another system]...so that i'm still pretty poor.
but food is not enough. despite the rational side of me knowing full well what a horrible thing love is... ...i am after all male. the system welcomes me back with open arms...the contradiction! what the hell was the otpic again? oh yea, university becoming a necessary follow up for highschool.
so ok, why in your opinion[open question], should we go to university?...if of course, it's a bad thing to follow everyones' highschool with...? i think i've lost track, mabye someone could help me out here?
thinking again...and of course, i can't find love without being a descent accomplished human being...and this can't be done without university, oh wait yes it can, but it can be done with university as well...but this sounds to me sick, going to university to find a love that will inevidably throw me into the pits of dispair and from this hopeless uncertianty into bitter loathing and hating everything...
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tens of thousands of blossoming independant artists are at least partially owned my universal. i, for one am owned to some degree or other, by universal. if microsoft bought the rights to my music this way, i'd highly consider suicide, or martyrship.
this is horrible. someone please sacrifice some lambs and give the apple ceo[steve jobs?] some good sex so we don't have to be all owend by microsoft. _please_.
now given : i'm mostly ignorant of the food process, and health matters there. i'm interested in learning however, and would appreicate anything you can throw at me. i drink coffee like a vibrating fish. no sugar[i enjoy honey with my coffee, but i can't afford that. i can't afford sugar, either come to think of it]. in fact i had 2 pots within every 5 hours yesterday...which is a little more than usual. but i faint when i don't take in enough "energy" :)]...and still... it does not solve the fainting problem or make it any easier, or even really accomplish anything...
anyway, so at work i'm given an unlimited supply of CocaCola. which is extreemly unhealthy, of course!,..however, desipte me drinking sometimes upwards of 12-15 litres of water per [12-15 hour] shift...i still find i just cannot drink less than 2 litres of cocacola [with ice, lately. so let's say total cocacola intaken to be between 0.6L and 1.3L] and still function. but that's STILL a LOT of fat..and although i stopped gaining weight really fast, it's obvious i'm still gaining. HOW do you keep from fainting..? how can i keep studying? i try to fit roughly 16 hours a day of study, amongst other things...and unless i have some sort of carbs/noodles/energy in my diet to fill me i get not only hungry, but dizzy to the point where i'll look at my computer screen for 4 hours look at the clcok again and realize i'm ont he same paragraph, despite circling purple cyan magenta and yellow circles floating around me like the oil film on the first puddles of spring...and both while i was losing weight [read not drinking cocacola] and while i was gaining weight[read: drinking cocacola] i was drinking PLENTY of water. so much that i was not only always having to piss [i think i've masterred the ability of being able to hold in vast amounts of water in my system for moderate periods of time, doing this, though
and besides the water here is nOT HEALTHY...[woo rural water systems] it is really really dirty, i won't drink it at all unless i run it through coffee grounds first & boil it.
[honest i'd talk to a doctor, but since my doctor is so busy he hasn't gotten back to me, even though i asked him to call back, once a week from late november through late january...]
:(
during the fall, i wasn't trying to lose weight but i wasn't eating[i had no money for food, simple enough]. i was also walking somewhere upwards from 10km a day, running a lot of that, working ~4 hours a day of physically taxing [as physically taxing as dishwashing/kitchen work gets, anyway...]...and then drinking high volumes of caffeine beverages on top of that. after awhile i started drinking cocacola, which is when i began to gain weight.
but before i did that i found i was fainting all the time. i couldn't keep consious. i would go a week without eating anything but a little chickensalt,or one of those flavour packages from the 'ichiban' style noodles local. i mean obviously, i was fainting from something between working too hard physically and not eating anything to replenish..and i was starting to lose weight[not that i was fat, at that point. i'm fat now, from the cocacola, mostly.] how do you avoid this? the only reason i drank cocacola to begin with was to keep energy reserves high. it's all nice and well and good to say that one will work harder but when your in a chair after a 5 mile run, after not eating for a week...and you have to study for a logic exam[oddly]...how do you keep your brain able to function??! i thought the solution for me should have been to get some provigil [i didn't sleep enough, either]... but my doctor i think didn't want to give me any[ie i havn't tried it yet because of that...]... but please...explain how one is to reasonably study, under those circumstances...or am i doomed to gain wait until i decide it's time to stoplearning and start to work on my body for awhile[while neglecting my mind so it rots?]...i don't want to drink cocacola or eat noodles just so i can stay consious any more
idono bout the rest of you but that borg cube was pretty scary...
up until i saw that babylon 5 station. _wow_. babylon5's world could 0wn the borg collective.
and Ds9 is a lot smaller than i thought it was. i thought it would have been about 10 times what it was...same with the star wars ships. sure surprised me.
someone suggested, with the 'premium subscribers' of slashdot, that it would be an interesting business idea to buy a subscription to slashdot, and then the moment that an article is in 'the future' scope of slashdot, to immediately contact the homepage...and say "listen, you are going to be taken out. you can pay me $$ and i'll mirror you.". you wouldn't even need to ask for that much, would you? have a t1 or a cable modem with adequate broadband capabilities[ie, able to handle LOTS of connections at once]...poeple i don't think would mind a slow connection in return for actually being able to see what the article is talking about [and there could be a market for fast-connection,..but i don't think most owners of slashdotted articles could afford such a thing :) ]...so why havn't we seen this yet? i mean, i just upgraded from dialup myself, and i'm still on windows 3.1, and i'm too busy...so there's my excuse...what's yours?
i think you may be correct... :)
it's been awhile
*cheers*
i always thought it was "Up, up, down, down, left, right, Left, right, B, A, Select start.". i wonder if that caused any problems-~
this is a very exciting time and the above post hit it right on the nail. it is evolution, and it's likely allready about to happen. my question is...what is the next step? where does it go next? are we going to see a new era of multimedia? of _technology_ ? is this going to drive us as hard and as far as war, porn[Imagine the Possibilities! the studios! the Universal owned Women!]...and the server/technology/infrasturcutre? arg i'm just so excited over this, for some reason....
perhaps they will clue in to the market, release some extreemly high quality releases, with easthetic covers, perfume on the inside, the whole kit and kaboodle, let demos freely into the wild and embrace p2p as a way of distrobution...
killing the entire recording industry who refuses to leave intellectual property/content as the sole way of making money
at least until their competators who are not into hardware fade away in the competition, and then it can clamp down all it wants. but that's all way theoretical....and this only implies the death of the riaa amongst other things, which i figure would be well worth it.
alternatively, on a seperate topic...unfortunately if apple owns unviersal, and universal is one of teh big peices in the RIAA, then all you who are boycotting the RIAA, may have to consider boycotting a hardware company, which is much, much harder...
in effect this could either make apple a serious competitor or destroy it outright...imho
doesn't apple also have, i mean, _taste_ ? mabye we'll see an actual influx of talent into universal, as apples initial influence is felt. none of this "crap" music and art and movies that are just pointless to watch, propeganda, or just painfully badly done... we'll actually be seeing technology work in the cause of creating beautiful things. sure it's going to turn into a media monopoly, peice by peice, but initially at least i really think that a lot of talent that would otherwise not be known by anyone would suddenly get their chance - in this i say to artists everywhere, pick up an apple _now_...support this at least until they start screwing things up... as for myself i'm going to make the switch as soon as it's reasonable to do so :)
HOLY xor!
isn't mp3.com and all it's artists owned by universal, now? especially considering it just takes artists and then does not let them apply for termination of contract[meaning Every Artist on Mp3.com is Owned by Universal, as is all their content unless otherwise owned by a label/copyrighted/etc before applying for mp3.com/upload?]...this means I am now owned by Apple!!! on the one hand, i've always been more or less a passive apple computers fan but...OMG! ownership rights it seems of my art is transferred to an even bigger company...-~ i don't know whether this is a good thing or not [large corporate entities buying eachother isn't necessarily a good thing]...on the one hand if Apple is pro-P2P technology, and anti-RIAA enough, mabye they may have enough backbone to start pulling things in some direction other than the one things are currently going..-~ of course...or they can become the next -big-brother-.
i personally hope that this is a good thing for musicians and artists...[empowering musicians with technology == a good thing]...but i'm not yet seeing how this would work...
Universal is bought out by Apple then : further integration between technology and content companies. you become part of the "art" system, you become part of the art system. but who would have thought the company that made this system would buy me and tens of thousands of other artists worldwide through universal...it boggles my mind... obligatory beep beep beep link
the base was still kind of stuck somewhere in the 40's as far as utilities went - the dirty dirty power killed i think it was 40 computers[all or most behind some sort of power protection device]...the telephones must have been still on an analog crossbar switch...hell the beds were the same more or less than when the nazi's were raising hell in europe...
while working on a military base i got a chance to use a 48.8 dialup modem...was this just a crippled 56.6 or perhaps something else entirely?
:)
and let's not forget 96 & 120 BAUD
in a unionized environment, you wouldn'thave to worry about being paid 1.50$ an hour while being fed drugs to keep you from sweating, because sweating looks bad in front of the customers, in 40 degrees celcius minnimum...being expected the entire time not to even admit to being a human under that smiling "hello would you like parmesean oregano or regular bread?" mask. unions do not guarnatee induviduality is possible, but neither does any other system. [try never to live in a place where there are no jobs available, employers can abuse/victimize you a lot easier when you live there...]
in a unionized environment, you are not told to work 14, 16, 18, hours every day...with no holidays, or days off...[mabye a 4 hour shift every once in awhile so you can do laundry/etc...]...being paid in enough food to eat, cigarettes rent, cheep booze, and little more...with no prospects of getting a better job [the higher jobs are all in_family]...or any change in lifestyle...for that matter[this is a common one around here...everyone is being forced to work insane housr because of the lack of workers...there are a lot of jobs *here*, so many, in that, employers are likely forced to spread a higher workload amounst fewer workers, all for PROFIT PROFIT PROFIT!!!! MONEY MONEY MONEY ! WE NEED MORE MONEY WE NEED MORE SEX WE NEED MORE MORE MORE NOW NOW NOW WORK HARDER DONT STOP JUST KEEP MOVING]
and most importantly
thanks to the entire break from the greed of rape-pillage-loot-destroy style descended capitalism, for the first time, personal gain for those on top is not the only thing that matters...employees can now not have to worry about their health, security, and job...they can do other things with their time and not be quite as stressed, circumstances permitting
i havn't been able to get hired at a unionized place yet, so perhaps i'm still naive or something... but i'd much prefer a system that protects employees at all than one that outright exploits them purposeley for profit and entertainment [wow let's see how many hours we can keep this guy working before he snaps...or my personal favorite "Jeff..STOP BREATHING!" tmg1:"mmpf!"
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."k now you can start again" tmg1:*GASP*]
some of us have trouble affording musical equipment and a computer, let alone a server to host high volume traffic. YES have mp3s on your site but once ten or eleven people have downloaded it, allow for that to be put on the Gnutella/etc networks - this means that people can search gnutella FIRST, so that if the songs are on gnutella, you don't have to waste your bandwidth uploading it to them. not to mention not all places in the world have highspeed access[or the rights to host servers, especially high volume ones!] I myself just got off of dialup, about a month ago. imagine trying to upload 10 10 MB Mp3 files on a 14.4...bottleneck anyone?
A lot of musicians think that they can reasonably become a professional musician, and make enough to survive merely by their music[often saying this when they have a fast food style job which just pays the bills]. Labels to them are the keys to doing this. whether labels do this or not, i don't think is the question but the thought that a little band thinks that it should sign onto a label because it's the only way to get distributed to hundreds of thousands of potential fans is one surefire way to lose all your music/whatever.
my old band, Dionysus and the Revolution Sufferred from this. To them, becoming famous, was at least somewhat important. mabye i'm wrong...and mabye i'll end up a dry musician with little talent after years of being forced to do other things to survive[a year and counting] with all my time--- but the idea of signing to a record label to me doesn't seem like a good one.
but yes...the problem is most people think the labels are good. it's only the clueful ones who don't...etc
but will it do imax? that's what i'm waiting for.
Imax Experience Explained
damn. i woulda had it to, had i not forgotten to put text in my post and to have 20 seconds between post and submit --- it seems i have a lot to learn :)
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"with pornography: someone who looks at that stuff too much and from too young an age may never learn what real love and intimacy feel like. It's a real problem."
you mean they won't know the cold painful tangs of heartbreak when they manifest? or mabye they won't ever feel it when their 'intimate' partner tells them that they've been living in a dreamworld, and that all they wanted was the sex, or that they've been cheating on you the whole time? [and they never liked you to begin with...]... or any of the millions of reaons why lovers inevidably break apart? love is a necessary evil - if you have found a way to rid us of this curse, then we should utilize it - nevermind this fear of the cure to our heart's discontent.
anyone with half an ounce of humanity in them would know better.
the real problem is love - without love there would be no heartbreak. how you can sit and defend something that would dissallow for the continuation of love is beyond me.
i think i was watching bravo [or, the canadian lesbian sex channel] some time in early 2002, when they showd fritz the cat followed by meet the feebles. even if you are boycotting the *aa, this is worth watching. thats how good it is...both of em
i wrote 2 replies one at slashdot, one at kuro5hin. i had backups.
and somehow i simulttaneaously logged out in kuro5hin and closed the remaining 3 windows, with regular keystrokes. wtf.
i'll spare you most of the points and get to the meat. according to the article, this system is designed by the military, to harbour communictation between "assymetric" groups such as terrorist orginizations...and i think this everyone should pay attention to. these people want to replace irc, email, and the telephone forms of communication with this massive overbloat stuff : but that's not important. what is important about them doing this is that the military will have complete control over the form of communication, in this case. at least with email you can know at least to an extent who is seeing your mail...and ditto with irc....but a system partially funded by the military? iidono. creeps me out.
on the other hand... there is big differences between buying cobalt armour[a pragmatic object in a _game_] and a pair of virtual jeans that will NOT make you look any less ugly.
but as an artist i would *love* to see disney/whoever to try to steal my music, claim it is theirs, and then just try to keep me from playing it. it wouldn't work because i can always recreate. if they are going to throw away my posessions, then they better look hard for all the backups. but sereiously, even though universal may still have a claim on all my work [mp3.com will not 'terminate' the contract!?? wtf is this]... if you have made something, and someone bigger than you has taken this something, and [either exploited others with it] or in any way cahnged the world using it on a really large scale YOU were the cause of this change and you were that whom made this impact
as artists we try over and over to make an impact on the world...right? i mean whether you are trying to portrait a message, trying to create something beautiful, just trying to play music/write, or whatever...the point is that the moment the big companies start to steal your work, or the moment anyone steals your work, is the moment you know that you are good at waht you do, so good that people are stealing your work. STEAL MY SONGS! say you wrote them! i'll be dead soon enough, and if you use them mabye you'll get laid/rich/healthy for the rest of your life! after all - my art will have made ONE PERSON'S LIFE arguably better, and if i could do that i'd die knowing that i made as much of a positive difference as fate would allow...
i'd hope everyone looks into this really hard to see what's wrong with this way of doing things...
No. While a teacher does play a central role in a course, it is still the responsibility of the student to make every effort to learn. With a proper respect for knowledge a student will understand the material is more important than judging the teacher or even the grade they receive. T
perhaps. i've got a sneaking feeling that the assignment of homework to keep students busy outweighs any sort of intention to have the student learn anything... i get to university it's suddenly very different... profs either do'nt give a shit, or they want the students to learn...but there is no active malice[that i've found yet]that is keeping the teachers actually wanting the students to not learn... think i'm blowing this out of proportion? my grade 12 math teacher said on the first day of class "i'm going to try to fail as many of you as i can"..t.hat was his goal in that course. he did a pretty good job oof it too...i almost failed myself... and he wasn't even the worst[actually upon thinking about it, he was the guy who tried to teach us proofs..........]
graduate university
get a good job
profit[make lots of money]!
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eternal happiness
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i was having a conversation with someone today on this exact topic. he was proposing a more "active" teacher-students relationship because of the low attention span of kids these days. [i don't know if he'll ever get naywhere with his idea but i'm glad to see that someone takes people with no attention span and utilizes this in some way! i mean, if teachers would stop trying to drug away attention deficit/hyperactivty and start to utilize the hurricane winds within, imagine what kind of things we could produce??]...
in the meanwhile, i came to this university to become "englightened" and "educated", not to get a job...i thought i'd be happier if i lived my entire life poor but while knowing [ kind of like Socrates, even though i hadn't really studied him yet... ]... then i got into Socrates and i felt i was in the total right place, even though i really didn't like being poor. then i got into Descartes, and then i wasn't really sure about anything, except that i didn't like being poor. then i got into Neitzsche.
tis all in vain? i'm not sure. but i can tell you that the original reason i came to university ammounted to the quest for god. yes, i'm an atheist. [or i suppose, i was an atheist?]. presupposing symmetry. presupposing the law of noncontradiction. presupposing an englightenment to acheive. presupposing that englightenment has anything to do with truth. presupposing that englightenment is something you sacrifice your entire life and suffering and everything else to acheive. presupposing that englightenment has nothing to do with love, which has nothing to do with sex[did i say that right?], presupposing that what i was looking for was going to feel good. this last one broke me. that the truth was supposed to feel good..."that there would be someone tending the light at the end of the tunnel..." that truth is there is no god...the truth is a cold, emotionless truth, something that if i have anything to say with my experience so far, i'm not sure if i ever want to open my eyes again. to anything. of course i have to, to keep feeding myself...because i really don't like being poor. i dont want to be rich, mind you, and i've passed over many many chances to gain physical wealth so far, in so that i DO NOT WANT TO SUPPORT 'THE SYSTEM'[i prefer another system]...so that i'm still pretty poor.
but food is not enough. despite the rational side of me knowing full well what a horrible thing love is...
...i am after all male. the system welcomes me back with open arms...the contradiction! what the hell was the otpic again? oh yea, university becoming a necessary follow up for highschool. so ok, why in your opinion[open question], should we go to university?...if of course, it's a bad thing to follow everyones' highschool with...? i think i've lost track, mabye someone could help me out here?
thinking again...and of course, i can't find love without being a descent accomplished human being...and this can't be done without university, oh wait yes it can, but it can be done with university as well...but this sounds to me sick, going to university to find a love that will inevidably throw me into the pits of dispair and from this hopeless uncertianty into bitter loathing and hating everything...
oh wait...