The only thing I would watch on TV would be sports. Even then, I have Colts season tickets (so there go eight weekends a year) and prefer the local radio guys to network heads, baseball has bored me for two decades, hockey is much better live than on the tube, and I can't watch all 82 Pacers games. I might watch the IRL races, but even then I'd turn off the volume and turn up the radio.
One thing to note is that broadcast TV is targetting towards women and kids. (Notice how all married couples these days are a smart, attractive wife and some schlub of a husband?) Cable tends to skew toward males, but it's a very fragmented market. Maybe if they ever created a show with a PLOT...
In the last decade, I've seen a marked decline in the quality of newspaper stories and editing.
Funny, H.L. Mencken, Ring Lardner, and H.H. Munro said the same thing about 100 years ago. And Sam Clemens was probably saying the same thing before that.
I do still wonder why the BuyMusic site itself would require IE...
Could that be part of the licensing deal with MicroSoft? I have no idea if it would be or not, I'm just thinking out loud here. It wouldn't surprise me, though.
If you are running Microsoft Windows XP, god help you, complete with Microsoft Office, to keep the virusses out you know, and are browsing online with IE?
1) Anti-virus software (of course)
2) Wal-Mart
3) Disney
Depends on the colonizers. The ones where people went to make money in an aristocratic way (ie lording over another population) are not places I'd want to live today. The places where people went to mostly mind their own business and make a better life are nicer. Compare Ohio to Mississippi, Canada to Haiti, Australia to Indonesia. For each pair, where would you rather live?
Granted, I'm biased, but I think when you look at the places that were colonizated by the British, they are generally less sucky than those colonized by the Spanish. (Keeping in mind that I'm speaking in relative terms, there are exceptions to every rule, people are people, and all that.) By and large, northern USA, Canada, and Australia don't suck; and of course, you can always get a Newark.
Apple already has it come with their OS so M$ won't be doing something new.
The difference is, I can delete iTunes from OS X with a drag-and-drop with little-to-no kvetching from the operating system. Methinks it will be a bit different on the MicroSoft side. There's a fine line between pessimism and empiricism.
Charities aren't about finding solutions; charities are about raising money. You'll notice how most reformers live in the nicest neighborhoods they can afford.
And giving to charities isn't about solving problems. It's about improving your image, making people think well of you, buying your way into heaven, appeasing the mob, whatever.
Humans are ignoble, hairless apes, and swaddling our ignoble actions in noble-sounding words only exacerbates the situation.
Look, I'm a product of the public schools. I was there in grade school, junior high, high school, undergrad, and graduate school. The problem with public schools isn't money. Anyone who spent five minutes talking to an education major or a school board member knows what the problem with public schools is.
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Maybe we're just older now.
One thing to note is that broadcast TV is targetting towards women and kids. (Notice how all married couples these days are a smart, attractive wife and some schlub of a husband?) Cable tends to skew toward males, but it's a very fragmented market. Maybe if they ever created a show with a PLOT ...
Funny, H.L. Mencken, Ring Lardner, and H.H. Munro said the same thing about 100 years ago. And Sam Clemens was probably saying the same thing before that.
Could that be part of the licensing deal with MicroSoft? I have no idea if it would be or not, I'm just thinking out loud here. It wouldn't surprise me, though.
1) Anti-virus software (of course)
2) Wal-Mart
3) Disney
Granted, I'm biased, but I think when you look at the places that were colonizated by the British, they are generally less sucky than those colonized by the Spanish. (Keeping in mind that I'm speaking in relative terms, there are exceptions to every rule, people are people, and all that.) By and large, northern USA, Canada, and Australia don't suck; and of course, you can always get a Newark.
(And I tell you this as someone who has earned and enjoys the epithet "heathen".
Of course, we all know that whoever wins is going to have a tough, tough time against Odin in the next round.
The difference is, I can delete iTunes from OS X with a drag-and-drop with little-to-no kvetching from the operating system. Methinks it will be a bit different on the MicroSoft side. There's a fine line between pessimism and empiricism.
Typical, though. Let the market get saturated with competitors, having found a business model that works, then move in and crush them.
Of course, Paul Thurott will buy multiple copies of "Sympathy for the Devil".
And giving to charities isn't about solving problems. It's about improving your image, making people think well of you, buying your way into heaven, appeasing the mob, whatever.
Humans are ignoble, hairless apes, and swaddling our ignoble actions in noble-sounding words only exacerbates the situation.
Yeah, God knows we haven't heard enough verbal wankage about that already ...
Oh, you mean voting for them over and over in different elections.
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