I have no problem with stupid people who don't read the fine print at the sales display paying more. It's kind of a stupid tax, and it lowers my overall cost of shopping at the store, since I read the price carefully.
The truth of the matter is, however, that many of us have a degree of musical talent, and that music is a social activity, not a 'consumer product.' This is cool stuff and really part of the 'new media revolution' as opposed to couch potatos passing the same dreck back and forth that none of them produced (i.e. 'top fourty' stuff traded on napster)
Everybody can make music. Not everybody can make music that lots of people will want to listen to, but plenty more than are currently publicised can and should be. I'm bidding on a contra-bass clarinet on eBay right now, for example. I wanna be the bass player in a band.
I should give you the URL to my 'Spiro Agnew Speaks Out' MP3s. It would be interesting to see if the hard drive would self destruct if it simultaneously held Agnew and Chomsky material.
Check out the box set 'Einstein On The Beach' from the library.
You wouldn't seriously consider a Southpark treatment as accurate, would you? U2 played on 'The Simpsons' but I wouldn't call it a fair example of their work (then again, I liked U2's 'Boy' album when it came out and have considered everything since then to be downhill).
The blank media that's marked Data (and is cheaper) won't work in the 'playschool' kind of recorder the dummies buy (i.e. the CD Audio recorders that are stand-alone audio components). They have to be used in the gear the rest of us use, the data drives in our computers.
As far as I'm concerned, the RIAA can harass Napster out of business. I don't care. I'm not interested in subsidizing the RIAA OR Napster for the CDR media I purchase for totally unrelated purposes.
In other words, I'm not interested in paying a few extra pennies on CDR's to get the RIAA off yourback.
Start out with 'On The Correct Handling Of Contradictions Among The People' by Mao Zedong.
And Josef Stalin wrote a book with the title 'Political Economy' in the 1930's. There's an English translation available at nearly any large used bookstore.
I think you're forgetting that there was popular sentiment to get the fricking streetcars out of the way of traffic. Those big lugs were constantly in the way, and the rails/grooves down the middle of the road were a hazard to the low quality tires people had back then. Every motorist breathed a sigh of relief when the street cars were gone.
American cities now find themselves pitching big wads of cash down a sinkhole to fund 'mass transit' projects that almost nobody wants, and that will need heavy subsidies to keep operating when they are established. Who benefits? The eggheads at the local 'Urban Planning' think tank and a bunch of corrupt trade unions in the bulding trade.
Since I seldom, if ever, have any service problems, I'd opt for the lower cost.
And the complete lack of accountability is great. Hell, they don't seem to care if I'm on the line for 36 hours sucking binaries from their news server.
They (Qwest) don't even bill me, as I mentioned in an earlier comment.
I would never, being the bandwidth hog that I am, inflict my usage patterns on a small ISP. I use Qwest, because they're too busy to notice how much I hog a line.
I don't get very high bandwidth (lucky when it connects at 36K) but I do have the privledge of using a huge ISP (Qwest) who for some reason don't know that I exist. When I established my Qwest (USWest.net at the time) account, they told me the ~$20 would be billed on my phone bill. It's over a year later now and they've never charged me a dime for service.
It makes it hard for me to even want to try a different ISP when they're giving me an account totally free. I often leave the connection on for days at a time continuously. I've downloaded huge collections of Sega games from alt.binary.emulators.sega that way.
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I emailed that link to a number of my friends just now. That kind of idiocy makes Michael Dukakas riding in the tank look like good publicity.
Why do most of the people in the photos on that website remind me of the 'Comic Book Store Guy' from The Simpsons?
I have no problem with stupid people who don't read the fine print at the sales display paying more. It's kind of a stupid tax, and it lowers my overall cost of shopping at the store, since I read the price carefully.
Keep it up.
Ah, so you're going to take the day off work, and then pay the sheriff $75 to collect $30?
All power to you! We need more nuts like you, so we can reduce taxes!
If you make under $25,000 a year you shouldn't be fiddling around in websites trying to find a way to figure your taxes electronically for free.
You should be using your time to scan help wanted ads and update your resume.
The truth of the matter is, however, that many of us have a degree of musical talent, and that music is a social activity, not a 'consumer product.' This is cool stuff and really part of the 'new media revolution' as opposed to couch potatos passing the same dreck back and forth that none of them produced (i.e. 'top fourty' stuff traded on napster)
Everybody can make music. Not everybody can make music that lots of people will want to listen to, but plenty more than are currently publicised can and should be. I'm bidding on a contra-bass clarinet on eBay right now, for example. I wanna be the bass player in a band.
Maybe Slashdot is growing up. I can see where possibly this site is now a 'partner' with the NY Times and referrer data will be collected, etc.
That's what the 'partner' co-site is for, ya know.
Don't tell me. Let me guess. You're the steward for your local, aren't you?
You might want to consider that some of us think beyond 'trolls' and little adventures in fake-fraud on message bases.
People who run around talking about 'trolls' might be the ones in need of a bit more active life.
Research the fight against the 'Hiawatha Corridor' light rail line in Minneapolis for reference material regarding my second point.
And there are dreamy-eyed nostalgic books about streetcars in about any good bookstore. Mostly written by people who weren't around then.
Yep. We just plain don't have as many 'directives' here in the US of A as they have in Europe.
And apparently we don't have as many 'police forces' out enforcing 'directives.'
I'm not complaining. If you are perhaps you should move.
I don't think so. Nirvana is nihilistic borderline smackhead music.
Chopin's music isn't.
It's not all 'equally good.' Likely as not nobody will give a rip about Nirvana 30 years from now except the producers of 'That 90's Show.'
People will still be enjoying Chopin's music.
I should give you the URL to my 'Spiro Agnew Speaks Out' MP3s. It would be interesting to see if the hard drive would self destruct if it simultaneously held Agnew and Chomsky material.
Check out the box set 'Einstein On The Beach' from the library.
You wouldn't seriously consider a Southpark treatment as accurate, would you? U2 played on 'The Simpsons' but I wouldn't call it a fair example of their work (then again, I liked U2's 'Boy' album when it came out and have considered everything since then to be downhill).
Terry Riley. You want to hear Terry Riley's two CD set, 'The Harp of New Albion.' Incredible music.
There are 'classical' geniuses writing music today. They're not selling 'hits.'
The blank media that's marked Data (and is cheaper) won't work in the 'playschool' kind of recorder the dummies buy (i.e. the CD Audio recorders that are stand-alone audio components). They have to be used in the gear the rest of us use, the data drives in our computers.
As far as I'm concerned, the RIAA can harass Napster out of business. I don't care. I'm not interested in subsidizing the RIAA OR Napster for the CDR media I purchase for totally unrelated purposes.
In other words, I'm not interested in paying a few extra pennies on CDR's to get the RIAA off yourback.
I have Katz articles turned off in my profile.
So, please stop mentioning his name. I thought I was rid of him and there you go again.
Start out with 'On The Correct Handling Of Contradictions Among The People' by Mao Zedong.
And Josef Stalin wrote a book with the title 'Political Economy' in the 1930's. There's an English translation available at nearly any large used bookstore.
I think you're forgetting that there was popular sentiment to get the fricking streetcars out of the way of traffic. Those big lugs were constantly in the way, and the rails/grooves down the middle of the road were a hazard to the low quality tires people had back then. Every motorist breathed a sigh of relief when the street cars were gone.
American cities now find themselves pitching big wads of cash down a sinkhole to fund 'mass transit' projects that almost nobody wants, and that will need heavy subsidies to keep operating when they are established. Who benefits? The eggheads at the local 'Urban Planning' think tank and a bunch of corrupt trade unions in the bulding trade.
Since I seldom, if ever, have any service problems, I'd opt for the lower cost.
And the complete lack of accountability is great. Hell, they don't seem to care if I'm on the line for 36 hours sucking binaries from their news server.
They (Qwest) don't even bill me, as I mentioned in an earlier comment.
I would never, being the bandwidth hog that I am, inflict my usage patterns on a small ISP. I use Qwest, because they're too busy to notice how much I hog a line.
I don't get very high bandwidth (lucky when it connects at 36K) but I do have the privledge of using a huge ISP (Qwest) who for some reason don't know that I exist. When I established my Qwest (USWest.net at the time) account, they told me the ~$20 would be billed on my phone bill. It's over a year later now and they've never charged me a dime for service.
It makes it hard for me to even want to try a different ISP when they're giving me an account totally free. I often leave the connection on for days at a time continuously. I've downloaded huge collections of Sega games from alt.binary.emulators.sega that way.
He doesn't need to move to the country.
Building a Farraday cage in his apartment would be just as good.
Just don't ever plan leaving it.
The waves! The waves! The waves are getting to me. I better buy more tinfoil...
You're nuts.
There's really not much more that can be said.
I think the concern is that we'll enslave hordes of helpless mammals to act as chemical factories for our own purposes.
Ever heard of a dairy farm??