Just be careful when you send it to the bit bucket. A friend of mine owns the bitbucket.net domain name. It's just a personal domain name, and doesn't even have a web site, but he gets all sorts of junk mail destined people who use something@bitbucket.net as an anti-spam email address.
The same thing happens to nowhere.com (the owners of which I'm acquainted with) a bit of the time, though it's usually the spammers who use a @nowhere.com address as a mask. Boy, does that provoke some irate email from clueless recipients.
Now I wonder what the owner of devnull.com would have to say to all of this...
Where does that saying come from and what exactly does it mean? I know it means you're talking utter rubbish, but I'm curious about it's more specific meaning and origins.
Sounds like a more polite form of "talking out your ass", which probably needs no definition/etymology lesson.
Ass or hat, Microsoft definitely is talking out of theirs, and I hope User Friendly comes out of this victorious and with a minimum of legal fees.
This is happening in texas, not sure about the rest of the country. the ignorance of the music industry will be it's own downfall. no-talent bands, loser DJ's, greedy businessmen running it all. to me, it sounds like what happened when 8-tracks came out. the record company freaked out. it happened with tapes, and then cd's after that. with tapes, you could record your own cd's, and then listen to them later. i imagine they had the same problems then.
Commercial music radio is, for most intents and purposes, the same kind of mediocre across the country. I travelled across the US last summer and wish I really had a nickel for every goddamn adult contemporary station that bragged about its "best variety of music" and then proceeded to play more Natalie Imbruglia.
Truth be told, there are indeed commercial stations that don't suck -- as well as some decent college-run stations that aren't afraid to be creative, but they're few and far between. The majority of commercial radio is hypocritical and profit-driven, yet constantly telling us that This Is What We Like.
MTV is even worse. Ever see them actually play a full video recently? Their "Total Request Live" garbage takes a video, maybe shows the beginning or the end, but never the full thing, just so we can see more of Carson Daly's ugly mug and yet another ad for the latest teen movie. At best, they're pandering to short attention spans. At worst, they've already determined in their minds what counts, That Is What We're Supposed To Like. (I won't even begin to go into their blurring of logos, their strange restrictions on lyrics, and their blatantly hypocritical attitude about "giving us the music" when, in essence, they're not.)
Screw them. If I want to hear a song I want to hear, I call it right up and *Amp obediently plays it. If I want to make a custom mix and burn it to CD or transfer it to tape, I can. If I want to share this real bizarre song to a friend, I can do so easily and then, in most cases, the friend actually goes out and buys the whole CD (get me, RIAA! I'm helping to generate revenue!) I don't have to be at the whim of some corporate-created playlist, nor is the music compromised so I can be told again that I'm not cool until I wear Skechers. And you know what? I'm happy.
I'd feel bad about MP3s and the copyrighted material issue if the artists involved were actually receiving a substantial amount per CD purchase. But that's not the case. The artists I like do get my $1 per CD, in one form or another (CD sales, show tickets...) but for RIAA to bitch and moan because they lost 4% off a single demographic is just plain rotten.
I got the Lego Landspeeder last week thanks to the nice folks at Waaal-Maart. The Lego Obi Wan looks strangely more like George Lucas than Alec Guinness, though.
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Just be careful when you send it to the bit bucket. A friend of mine owns the bitbucket.net domain name. It's just a personal domain name, and doesn't even have a web site, but he gets all sorts of junk mail destined people who use something@bitbucket.net as an anti-spam email address.
The same thing happens to nowhere.com (the owners of which I'm acquainted with) a bit of the time, though it's usually the spammers who use a @nowhere.com address as a mask. Boy, does that provoke some irate email from clueless recipients.
Now I wonder what the owner of devnull.com would have to say to all of this...
Where does that saying come from and what exactly does it mean? I know it means you're talking utter rubbish, but I'm curious about it's more specific meaning and origins.
Sounds like a more polite form of "talking out your ass", which probably needs no definition/etymology lesson.
Ass or hat, Microsoft definitely is talking out of theirs, and I hope User Friendly comes out of this victorious and with a minimum of legal fees.
This is happening in texas, not sure about the rest of the country. the ignorance of the music industry will be it's own downfall. no-talent bands, loser DJ's, greedy businessmen running it all. to me, it sounds like what happened when 8-tracks came out. the record company freaked out. it happened with tapes, and then cd's after that. with tapes, you could record your own cd's, and then listen to them later. i imagine they had the same problems then.
Commercial music radio is, for most intents and purposes, the same kind of mediocre across the country. I travelled across the US last summer and wish I really had a nickel for every goddamn adult contemporary station that bragged about its "best variety of music" and then proceeded to play more Natalie Imbruglia.
Truth be told, there are indeed commercial stations that don't suck -- as well as some decent college-run stations that aren't afraid to be creative, but they're few and far between. The majority of commercial radio is hypocritical and profit-driven, yet constantly telling us that This Is What We Like.
MTV is even worse. Ever see them actually play a full video recently? Their "Total Request Live" garbage takes a video, maybe shows the beginning or the end, but never the full thing, just so we can see more of Carson Daly's ugly mug and yet another ad for the latest teen movie. At best, they're pandering to short attention spans. At worst, they've already determined in their minds what counts, That Is What We're Supposed To Like. (I won't even begin to go into their blurring of logos, their strange restrictions on lyrics, and their blatantly hypocritical attitude about "giving us the music" when, in essence, they're not.)
Screw them. If I want to hear a song I want to hear, I call it right up and *Amp obediently plays it. If I want to make a custom mix and burn it to CD or transfer it to tape, I can. If I want to share this real bizarre song to a friend, I can do so easily and then, in most cases, the friend actually goes out and buys the whole CD (get me, RIAA! I'm helping to generate revenue!) I don't have to be at the whim of some corporate-created playlist, nor is the music compromised so I can be told again that I'm not cool until I wear Skechers. And you know what?
I'm happy.
I'd feel bad about MP3s and the copyrighted material issue if the artists involved were actually receiving a substantial amount per CD purchase. But that's not the case. The artists I like do get my $1 per CD, in one form or another (CD sales, show tickets...) but for RIAA to bitch and moan because they lost 4% off a single demographic is just plain rotten.
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At least it's not a money grab by the studio. I wonder if they'll include those showings in the official box office totals?
I'm willing to bet that after the umpteenth domestic million, a couple thousand dollars just won't mean much.
I got the Lego Landspeeder last week thanks to the nice folks at Waaal-Maart. The Lego Obi Wan looks strangely more like George Lucas than Alec Guinness, though.
And the X-Wing fighter rules, too.
if the road ahead was a best-seller then why is borders selling it for $2.98? i could've sworn best-sellers maintained their value...
Keyword here is "was". The Road Ahead was a best-seller. I daresay you'll see it on the Times list four years after the fact.
(and Borders can sell it for whatever they damn well want.)