And people can't even agree on what Heaven is like.
I believe you gotta make your own heaven on Earth. You gotta separate your 'self' from the masses. You have to be your own person. You have think for yourself, with no outside influences. That means turning off your tv, stop listening to radio, stop going to movies, don't read the newspapers, don't read periodicals, and make and take the time to think! Actually sit down and think.
It doesn't matter where you are. People are people. Some people are mean. Some people are very nice. Some people like to have fun and be frivolous. Others are serious. All of us have egos. We all react to pain. We all fight in the name of our God, or our beliefs.
I dunno your age, but I suspect you're in your college years. Don't fret. Let it be. And be yourself. This is the first step to freedom.
You're probably just now finding out that the world is not round like they told you in high school. Capitalism is prone to greed, acts of selfishness, and is merely a model for society that is flawed, and the model is incomplete. People sue for rights and copyrights. People try to force each other out of the market, for bigger market share. Have nots perpertrate crimes. They steal. And so do the major players.
There are two laws. The law of the land, and the law of your God. It is most difficult to follow both. At times, it is impossible. But if you steer toward your God, you'll be true to yourself, and that brings peace and righteousness.
So, there is no 'place' that is better than another. Truly, Americans' rights and liberties are deteriorating, due to Capitalism. But, as shown, communisim is flawed too. Socialism is likewise flawed. There is no perfect place, except Heaven.
Seek Heaven from within. Be true to yourself. Put up that bs that you have to, and ignore the stuff you don't.
"I'm fixing a hole where the rain comes in,
And stop mind from wandering
Where it will go."
"And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong or right,
"Where I belong I'm right where I belong.
"Silly people standing there"
"Who never win, who never grin"
"And wonder why they can't get past my door."
- John Lennon
People can't break down a door that is you. You can open it to them. Or open to look out and wonder. You can keep people out. You can let people in. Its your door. Nobody can take that from you.
Where you belong, is in you. When you fit there, you can then decide who and what gets past your door.
Success = evil? Depends on what you think success is.
"I can see it now.. in the future we'll all leech..."
I can see it now. Many online sites rely on fans to enhance their products for no pay at all. Game companies, Winamp, and many more rely on fans to supply content and downloads to enhance their products. This content and the downloads add value to the product, but the content providers get nothing for their labor. This is happening on a wholesale basis, yet there are no laws preventing the online companies from profiteering on their fans.
"We slowly rot... where no one strives to innovate".
Substantiate this! There is no proof of this. China is thriving. The USSR crumbled due to mismanagement and graft, and economic pressures and sanctions against them by Capitalist countries.
Innovation in the US is motivated by money. You're saying that if you can't line your pockets, then why innovate? That's short sighted. Innovate because you can. Ambition, when motivated by money, is misdirected. That's not ambition at all.
Our rights are deteriorating rapidly. You gotta piss in a bottle to get a job, as if the company hiring you owns ALL of your time. Companies offer 'competitive' wages -- apply now and find out what 'competive wages' means.
You have the right to assemble, as long as you ask for a permit. You have a right to free speech, as long as you don't offend anyone. You have a right to bear arms, as long as the 'arm' is meant for hunting. You have a right to privacy, but you gotta piss in a bottle to be worthy of having privacy.
Money is not everything. Innovation can be applied here. Napster allows me to share music I have bought, and allows me to get music I've already paid for, though it's in a different format (mp3s).
Innovation is not equal to making money, and if you only want to innovate to make money,and believe that making money is all that innovation is good for, you got some thinking to do. Innovation needs to be applied to capitalism! Captitalism is flawed, and severely, with ramifications extending in all directions. The US has the highest crime rate in the world. Corporations maneuver to gain market share, and even maneuver to force other companies out of the market, or take control of another corporation. People buy stocks in companies, in the hopes that other people will later find them more valuable so that they can make a profit. These innovations are motivated by greed. Surely, we need motivations that are not motivated by greed! We need to move toward a sharing, communist society. This 'every man for himself attitude' is not God's law. And the amount of money you make is not a measure of success. If it is, it surely is twisted. And it is, and it surely is twisted!
Success can be measured in many ways. You can measure success by
a. How many smiles it brought to people's faces.
b. How many people some act or action brought together.
c. Pervailing against insurmountable odds.
d. Innovation that makes people happy.
Napster has gained accomplished three out these four.
Recording companies sign contracts with artists for a certain amount of time. After the time has passed, the record companies are the only ones making any profit from sales. The same holds true in television production. After a show is canceled, it can be syndicated, and many performers don't reap benefits from the syndication, but the producers and syndicators do.
Napster is an innovation that allows people to share the music they have. What is wrong with sharing? Pray tell! What in the world is wrong with sharing? Obviously, capitalists find this intrisically evil, and a very threat to their existance. So they have laws written protecting them from people sharing what they have bought. Now, don't you think that this is selfish, if not evil?
Napster is truly innovative! It just presents problems for the people who sell music, and the number of people who sell music are far fewer than the number of people that listen to music. So, the capitalists say this is wrong! By what measure? By the measure of how well they can line their pockets. If you think that thier rights outweigh people's rights to share, then you are truly lost!
The record companies are claiming that people are using Napster to share on a wholesale basis. So? Whats wrong with sharing with everyone? Is sharing with everyone and anyone bad? Or should sharing be limited to only within a small group of people, like close friends and family? What's wrong with saying 'everyone is my friend'?
And finally, the record companies have nothing to fear. The mp3s I've downloaded vary in quality from very good to poor. Thes mp3s' quality follow a bell curve, with the majority of them being mediocre at best. People are recording these mp3's on not so professional sound equipment. If I want to listen to the best recording I can, I gotta revert to the tapes and CD's I've bought, or spend a lotta money on audio mixiing software, then lots of time cleaning up these mp3s to sound as good as the originals. The audio software costs $400, and the time it takes to restore a mp3 to original quality isn't worth it when I can go to the music store and buy a CD for $12 to $15!
So, all this legal maneuvering by the recording industry against Napster is unwarranted and just plain paranoid. If you ask me, Napster is a step in the right direction to distribute the wealth, and bring lots of smiles to lots of people's faces, including musicians! The real trouble is, the only way the record companies can capitalize on Napster (and this is not so innnovative) is to get an injuction to make napster unavailable to people, and sue Napster and Co for damages. They have, by God! Because they have the right! Yet our rights to share go unprotected.
The copyright laws make radio stations pay licensing fees to show the public whats hot.
The record companies claim that Napster makes it difficult for them to enter the online market. Like, yeah, they have no money, or didn't think first.
I'm more than willing to buy stuff online. I do it all the time. I'd buy music. And I'll share music. What's wrong with sharing? And why think small. You don't have to share within just your circle of friends. What's wrong with sharing on a large scale?
That answer is: It hurts capitalists! By their god, they have rights! Well, by my God, I have rights too. Whose god wins?
This is not a question of who benefits. It is a queston of who got hurt. And the pain, is in the pocket book. Napster threatens capitalism.
So, short sighted, yes indeed. If I can share music with my buddies, then I can say everyone is my buddy.
MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY! When I play a CD, I hear music. When record companies hear a CD, they hear how much money they might make on it, or have made on it, or lost on it, or 'why didn't I sign that artist?'
The winner in the Napster case will be the Capitalists. Profiting wins over sharing. That is the nature of Capitalism. Right or wrong, that's the way it is. And right or wrong, society is the way it is. Only society can change the model of how it works, and the Captitalist model is severely flawed with ramifications extending in every direction.
How many employees at the record companies had to piss in a bottle to get their jobs? The next thing you know, they'll be inspecting your teeth (not to provide dental insurance, though)!
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And people can't even agree on what Heaven is like. I believe you gotta make your own heaven on Earth. You gotta separate your 'self' from the masses. You have to be your own person. You have think for yourself, with no outside influences. That means turning off your tv, stop listening to radio, stop going to movies, don't read the newspapers, don't read periodicals, and make and take the time to think! Actually sit down and think. It doesn't matter where you are. People are people. Some people are mean. Some people are very nice. Some people like to have fun and be frivolous. Others are serious. All of us have egos. We all react to pain. We all fight in the name of our God, or our beliefs. I dunno your age, but I suspect you're in your college years. Don't fret. Let it be. And be yourself. This is the first step to freedom. You're probably just now finding out that the world is not round like they told you in high school. Capitalism is prone to greed, acts of selfishness, and is merely a model for society that is flawed, and the model is incomplete. People sue for rights and copyrights. People try to force each other out of the market, for bigger market share. Have nots perpertrate crimes. They steal. And so do the major players. There are two laws. The law of the land, and the law of your God. It is most difficult to follow both. At times, it is impossible. But if you steer toward your God, you'll be true to yourself, and that brings peace and righteousness. So, there is no 'place' that is better than another. Truly, Americans' rights and liberties are deteriorating, due to Capitalism. But, as shown, communisim is flawed too. Socialism is likewise flawed. There is no perfect place, except Heaven. Seek Heaven from within. Be true to yourself. Put up that bs that you have to, and ignore the stuff you don't. "I'm fixing a hole where the rain comes in, And stop mind from wandering Where it will go." "And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong or right, "Where I belong I'm right where I belong. "Silly people standing there" "Who never win, who never grin" "And wonder why they can't get past my door." - John Lennon People can't break down a door that is you. You can open it to them. Or open to look out and wonder. You can keep people out. You can let people in. Its your door. Nobody can take that from you. Where you belong, is in you. When you fit there, you can then decide who and what gets past your door.
Success = evil? Depends on what you think success is. "I can see it now .. in the future we'll all leech..."
I can see it now. Many online sites rely on fans to enhance their products for no pay at all. Game companies, Winamp, and many more rely on fans to supply content and downloads to enhance their products. This content and the downloads add value to the product, but the content providers get nothing for their labor. This is happening on a wholesale basis, yet there are no laws preventing the online companies from profiteering on their fans.
"We slowly rot... where no one strives to innovate".
Substantiate this! There is no proof of this. China is thriving. The USSR crumbled due to mismanagement and graft, and economic pressures and sanctions against them by Capitalist countries.
Innovation in the US is motivated by money. You're saying that if you can't line your pockets, then why innovate? That's short sighted. Innovate because you can. Ambition, when motivated by money, is misdirected. That's not ambition at all.
Our rights are deteriorating rapidly. You gotta piss in a bottle to get a job, as if the company hiring you owns ALL of your time. Companies offer 'competitive' wages -- apply now and find out what 'competive wages' means.
You have the right to assemble, as long as you ask for a permit. You have a right to free speech, as long as you don't offend anyone. You have a right to bear arms, as long as the 'arm' is meant for hunting. You have a right to privacy, but you gotta piss in a bottle to be worthy of having privacy.
Money is not everything. Innovation can be applied here. Napster allows me to share music I have bought, and allows me to get music I've already paid for, though it's in a different format (mp3s).
Innovation is not equal to making money, and if you only want to innovate to make money,and believe that making money is all that innovation is good for, you got some thinking to do. Innovation needs to be applied to capitalism! Captitalism is flawed, and severely, with ramifications extending in all directions. The US has the highest crime rate in the world. Corporations maneuver to gain market share, and even maneuver to force other companies out of the market, or take control of another corporation. People buy stocks in companies, in the hopes that other people will later find them more valuable so that they can make a profit. These innovations are motivated by greed. Surely, we need motivations that are not motivated by greed! We need to move toward a sharing, communist society. This 'every man for himself attitude' is not God's law. And the amount of money you make is not a measure of success. If it is, it surely is twisted. And it is, and it surely is twisted!
Success can be measured in many ways. You can measure success by
a. How many smiles it brought to people's faces.
b. How many people some act or action brought together.
c. Pervailing against insurmountable odds.
d. Innovation that makes people happy.
Napster has gained accomplished three out these four.
Recording companies sign contracts with artists for a certain amount of time. After the time has passed, the record companies are the only ones making any profit from sales. The same holds true in television production. After a show is canceled, it can be syndicated, and many performers don't reap benefits from the syndication, but the producers and syndicators do.
Napster is an innovation that allows people to share the music they have. What is wrong with sharing? Pray tell! What in the world is wrong with sharing? Obviously, capitalists find this intrisically evil, and a very threat to their existance. So they have laws written protecting them from people sharing what they have bought. Now, don't you think that this is selfish, if not evil?
Napster is truly innovative! It just presents problems for the people who sell music, and the number of people who sell music are far fewer than the number of people that listen to music. So, the capitalists say this is wrong! By what measure? By the measure of how well they can line their pockets. If you think that thier rights outweigh people's rights to share, then you are truly lost!
The record companies are claiming that people are using Napster to share on a wholesale basis. So? Whats wrong with sharing with everyone? Is sharing with everyone and anyone bad? Or should sharing be limited to only within a small group of people, like close friends and family? What's wrong with saying 'everyone is my friend'?
And finally, the record companies have nothing to fear. The mp3s I've downloaded vary in quality from very good to poor. Thes mp3s' quality follow a bell curve, with the majority of them being mediocre at best. People are recording these mp3's on not so professional sound equipment. If I want to listen to the best recording I can, I gotta revert to the tapes and CD's I've bought, or spend a lotta money on audio mixiing software, then lots of time cleaning up these mp3s to sound as good as the originals. The audio software costs $400, and the time it takes to restore a mp3 to original quality isn't worth it when I can go to the music store and buy a CD for $12 to $15!
So, all this legal maneuvering by the recording industry against Napster is unwarranted and just plain paranoid. If you ask me, Napster is a step in the right direction to distribute the wealth, and bring lots of smiles to lots of people's faces, including musicians! The real trouble is, the only way the record companies can capitalize on Napster (and this is not so innnovative) is to get an injuction to make napster unavailable to people, and sue Napster and Co for damages. They have, by God! Because they have the right! Yet our rights to share go unprotected.
I just don't get it!
The copyright laws make radio stations pay licensing fees to show the public whats hot.
The record companies claim that Napster makes it difficult for them to enter the online market. Like, yeah, they have no money, or didn't think first.
I'm more than willing to buy stuff online. I do it all the time. I'd buy music. And I'll share music. What's wrong with sharing? And why think small. You don't have to share within just your circle of friends. What's wrong with sharing on a large scale?
That answer is: It hurts capitalists! By their god, they have rights! Well, by my God, I have rights too. Whose god wins?
This is not a question of who benefits. It is a queston of who got hurt. And the pain, is in the pocket book. Napster threatens capitalism.
So, short sighted, yes indeed. If I can share music with my buddies, then I can say everyone is my buddy.
MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY! When I play a CD, I hear music. When record companies hear a CD, they hear how much money they might make on it, or have made on it, or lost on it, or 'why didn't I sign that artist?'
The winner in the Napster case will be the Capitalists. Profiting wins over sharing. That is the nature of Capitalism. Right or wrong, that's the way it is. And right or wrong, society is the way it is. Only society can change the model of how it works, and the Captitalist model is severely flawed with ramifications extending in every direction.
How many employees at the record companies had to piss in a bottle to get their jobs? The next thing you know, they'll be inspecting your teeth (not to provide dental insurance, though)!
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