Finally (and not included in the changelogs),
Eric has tweaked the Hacker Politics page, from its previous
description as "vaguely liberal-moderate" to
"moderate-to-neoconservative (hackers too were affected by
the collapse of socialism)". Go tell that to the
Kuro5hinners, Eric.
Unless he's been holding surveys, the claims made for politics (both past and current) are impossible to verify. My guess is that the original statement reflected the people he associated with, and the current one does as well. (And if he's active in "warblogging", the people he hangs out with are probably conservative) Unless someone puts together a survey and figures out how to administer it to a representative cross section of the community, we won't have enough statistical data to back up any claim.
From the article: * Every album needs to have a UPC Barcode!
Buuuuut... CD Baby doesn't require a barcode and doesn't get one for you so I see some problems with CD Baby being able to supply Apple with all the required stuff.
Huh? have you actually looked at their site? CD Baby is authorized to issue barcodes, and will do so. They will give anyone selling a CD on CDBaby a barcode for only$20
FWIW the Japanese poet Yukio Mishima committed seppuku in 1970 [...]
Anyone remember more about this?
I hadn't heard about it before, but google found this: http://www.vill.yamanakako.yamanashi.jp/bungaku/mi shima/nenpu/his65_70.html
25th:
Early in the morning, Mishima addresses the envelope containing the final installment of "The Decay of the Angel" the final volume of his life-work "The Sea of Fertility" (which had taken him six years to write) to his publisher and places it on a table in his foyer. At 10 a.m. he phones a couple of reporter friends and asks them to come to Ichigaya. At 11 a.m. Mishima and his four cadets arrive at the Ichigaya Headquarters of the Eastern Army. He steps onto the balcony and reads his "Manifesto" trying to rouse the soldiers to take action and rise up to save Japan, but is mostly unheard and jeered. After shouting "Long Live His Majesty the Emperor!" three times, Mishima commits seppuku (ritual disembowelment) in the office of General Kanetoshi Mashita at 12:15 p.m. Morita tries three times to ritually behead Mishima but fails; the head is finally severed by Hiroyasu Koga. Morita (25 years old), then tries to follow Mishima in committing seppuku; although the cut is much too shallow to be fatal, he gives the signal, upon which Koga also ritually beheads Morita. The Mishima Incident is over.
Is Clavell full of shit, or did the tradition change over time?
When Tiroth corrected my statement above, I was not certain that I was wrong, so I
hauled out
my book on
MJER. Pages 124 & 125
cover the Kaishaku, and they say "In actual practice, stopping the blade in this manner
would prevent it from completely severing the samurai's neck, so his head would not
roll or bounce away disgracefully." Now that clearly covers what Eishin Ryu folks do,
and they are the largest group, but I googled to see if I could find anything from
other Ryu. I only
searched a little while, admittedly, but I could not find anything from an extant Ryu
that refered to fully severing the neck, and did find things saying it is wrong
to do so. Of course, that only tells us what is
currently done in patterns. It *is* possible that the tradition changed[+], but I
that's unlikely for two reasons:
Most Ryu make a big deal about doing things the traditional way. (Look at all the
controversy that the shinkendo people caused when they decided that they were the only
ones using "traditional" tsuka lengths.) This emphasis on doing things the same way as
the previous generation makes it unlikely that a tradition would
be changed without there being a record of it occuring. Many Ryu are so tradition-bound
that they won't allow any
useful innovation.
Clavell is not a solid source for anything. I used to love shogun until I got a hold of the Musashi
series by Eiji Yoshikawa. Those books have a much better reputation with people like
Edwin O. Reischauer, who said:
Comparisons with James Clavell's Shogun seem inevitable, because for most Americans today
Shogun, as a book and a television mini-series, vies with samurai movies as their chief
source of knowledge about Japan's past.
[...]
With the exception of Blackthorne, the historical Will Adams, Shogun deals largely
with the great lords and ladies of Japan, who appear in thin disguise under names
Clavell has devised for them. [...]
Clavell freely distorts historical fact to fit his tale and inserts a Western-type
love story that not only flagrantly flouts history but is quite unimaginable in the
Japan of that time.
--
During the Meiji Reformation, the emporer tried to
wipe out the practice of bushido. Some schools
argue for a complete, unbroken lineage of technique, but that
is
unlikely. (see section 3 of the JSA FAQ.)
The most important thing when performing kaishaku is to allow the person committing seppuku to do it/honorably/. That means not distracting them, killing them quickly after they finish the last cut, and NOT cutting completely through the neck. (Actually beheading a samurai would be dishonorable)
Thank you for that clarification, Tiroth . You are, of course, entirely correct:
The skin of the throat must not be cut to stop the head rolling on the ground. Completely severing the head is considered to be considerably impolite. This technique was used for convicted criminals.
Completely cutting through the neck is a morally rude and degrading. However leaving thin skin of the throat is not an easy technique to do. The 10th Master Hayashi Yasudayuâ(TM)s records state, It is inevitable to fail sometimes. Therefore it is good etiquette to refuse to someone as a Kaishakunin. However if the prosecutee insists that you help him, it will be forgivable if the Kaishaku is unsuccessful.
"Hara-kiri" is a term used to describe a form of ritual suicide in Japan where one disembowls themselves. It is derived from the Japanese words "hara" (stomach) and "kiri" (to cut), but is not actually a Japanese term.
The proper Japanese term for ritual suicide is "seppuku". Men used stomach cutting during seppuku. Women cut their throats. People committing seppuku used to have a trusted friend serve as a second, who would behead them as soon as they completed the ritual, thus ending the suffering of a slow death. Choosing someone trustworthy was important....you didn't want someone who would let you live.
I'm not sure, but I suspect that suppuku was outlawed during the Meiji Reformation. Most other aspects of bushido were, so.......
I thought the DMCA was about copyright control circumvention?
There's a circumvention clause in the DMCA that makes it illegal to create, posess, or use a "circumvention device". That clause is what we hear about most often on slashdot. There are, however, many other parts of the law. It also prevents reverse engineering software unless you are authorized by the copyright holder.
IANL, but I just skimmed the DMCA, and don't see what portion is relevant to selling stuff obtained by dumster diving. The section of the law that *looks* like it should cover sewing patterns "Title 5: Protection of Certain Original Designs" actually only applies to vessel hulls. That leaves "Title 4: Miscellaneous Provisions", but that doesn't have anything relevant, either.
Title 1 explains that the DMCA is related to WIPO.
Title 2 ONLINE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT LIABILITY LIMITATION
TITLE III--COMPUTER MAINTENANCE OR REPAIR COPYRIGHT EXEMPTION
TITLE IV--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Sec. 401. Provisions Relating to the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks and the Register of Copyrights.
Sec. 402. Ephemeral recordings.
Sec. 403. Limitations on exclusive rights; distance education.
Sec. 404. Exemption for libraries and archives.
Sec. 405. Scope of exclusive rights in sound recordings; ephemeral recordings.
Sec. 406. Assumption of contractual obligations related to transfers of rights in motion pictures.
Sec. 407. Effective date.
TITLE V--PROTECTION OF CERTAIN ORIGINAL DESIGNS
Perhaps the guy reproduced the patterns and sold duplicates instead of just selling the merchandise he got from the dumpster. The article is not clear on that....
Sounds like it's time to start maintainin
a list (web site, blog...) of the
non-alignend radio & TV stations
You can add WMNF in Tampa. They are community supported (i.e. not college affiliated), and do NPR news-on-the-hour, but don't run "morning edition" or "All things considered". They have a lot more diversity than normal radio. It is the only station I know of that
has shows for:
Will people *stop* mirroring text of articles on servers that have no significant problems with handling/. visitors?
Sorry, but their server is not handling/. very well. I could not get to the article. Guess what? I went to the discussion to find the very type of article that you are complaining about.
I used Fat Chuck's Music (which was featured here on/. a few weeks ago) for the ordering pages
I'm not sure that was the best choice. You may want to consider using a much better established site (e.g. one with over
36,000 artists) and a
proven track record for sales; i.e. one that has already given $3 million dollars of sales profit to indie bands. They also make it
very easy to find indie artists who sound like your favorite bands. That saves having to wade through piles and piles of stuff that's questionable quality.
FWIW, I went to the Fat Chuck's site after it was linked here, and there was nothing there to listen to. I haven't been back there since. In contrast, I've been to CD Baby several times since then and have found several great bands.
(And no, I'm not just plugging CDBaby because they are/. users who run a successful business
without using any microsoft products. I was visiting CDBaby long before I knew about that)
with a high-altitude balloon as a "first stage" would rock....And be cheaper.
How? Helium costs y'know. And that balloon & helium wouldn't be recoverable.
Just in the interest of accuracy, it is worth noting that at least one X-prize team thinks that balloon launch platforms will be reusable: IL Aerospace Technologies
The most important thing you can do, IMHO, is to join bugtraq or similar lists so you have a rough idea what is happening.
Other ideas
set up a network of very cheap boxes with old software you know to be vulnerable, and try using exploits against them.
Try hardening and patching those boxes so the exploits don't work anymore. (You'll frequently be patching/protecting obsolete boxes in the real world, so this is actually realistic.)
Try adding tripwire and snort to stop/detect attacks. Configure snort with database logging, with syslog/swatch, etc. Clients will want it done in a variety of ways, so it is good to be able to do it in different ways.
Familiarize yourself with as many of the tools in Fyodor's list as possible. Using them will be the bread an butter of your work. That includes scanners like nessus.
Read an ultra paranoid book that will give you an overall view of the field (e.g. John M. Caroll's "Computer Security, Third Edition").
Practice security. As you install and register software, watch what is happening to the box.
Pick an area of security that you want to specialize in...there are too many bugs and holes each week to know all of them...just the PHP code injection stuff will keep you swamped.
Don't be afraid to ask more advanced people security questions, but do your homework first, and make sure that they know you have. They will take your more seriously if you say "I've already read the FAQ and the man page, but I'm not clear on...." than if you say, "Dude, how do I do...". This can make your learning experience far less painful
Re:Uphill water flow at Disneyworld since 1971..
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· Score: 4, Informative
There is also an optical illusion near there in..Moncton i think? You go to the base of the hill, put your car in neutral, and your car will roll up the hill. Its an optical illusion, you are actually rolling downhill, but you look and it looks uphill, no amount of thinking its downhill dispells that.
as I have pointed out in the past
There's a
petition to the FCC
about this issue that is worth reading. It has been signed by many prominent
musicians, and they are looking for as many listeners as possible to listen.
Or the people with "lyricosis", the disease which causes sufferers to have difficulty understanding song lyrics:
right: acting funny, and I don't know why /
'scuse me, while I kiss this guy
wrong: acting funny, and I don't know why /
'scuse me, while I kiss the sky
Unfortunately, both of those fit lyrically and logically; i.e. both are "funny" behavior, and they have identical meter and rhyme. I was one of the people afflicted with "lyricosis" for this song until I started to learning to play it.
You might want to read
this and
this
before making a claim like that. The highlights are:
"The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma." - Abraham Lincoln
"As to Jesus of Nazareth...I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity. " - Benjamin Franklin
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." - Thomas Jefferson
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church." - Thomas Paine
The truth is that the USA was founded as a secular nation. That's why the
treaty of tripoli that we signed explicitly states that
ARTICLE 11.
As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,-as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,-and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
revisionist history by fundamentalist Christians doesn't change the truth
In honor of our new Freedom of Information, inform as many people as you can of the home phone numbers of John Poindexter, John Ashcroft and Tom Ridge in a massive publicity campaign.
1999: breeder reactor
on
ScavHunt211
·
· Score: 4, Informative
According to
this
story from 1999, the guys who made the breeder reactor were
U. of Chicago physics majors Justin Kasper and Fred Niell. They assembled it in Justin's dorm room.
Here's a link to the free version of ProTools...I think it is cripple-ware, not a time limited demo. Don't know, though, since I've never used it, so YMMV.
Re:This is not news or even decent editorializing.
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Time to Face the Music
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· Score: 4, Interesting
shivianzealot said
This is not news or even decent editorializing...so what are you going to do about it...Tell them what you think about this piece.
[sigh!] I almost hate mentioning this, but Peter Goddard's email address is on this page. If you have something to say, say it to him, not just the editors.
And try to be nice for once instead of just flaming. Face it, this guy is just a journalist reguritating stuff he heard, and even then, he said a lot of stuff that most of us can agree with:
Radio is boring and homogenized, and it is hurting CD sales.
Labels should be more artist friendly
Michael Green's 2002 Grammy speech was annoying and pointless. (Even Janis Ian ripped on it.)
Decent recording can be done with reasonable studio costs (He even mentioned the new White Stripes album only costing $10,000:-) )
Indie labels treat artists better than majors
Labels are a) greedy and b) want control of listeners
This guy is already halfway in our camp. Don't flame him, just educate him a little. In response to his claim that "sales of CDs are in a freefall", point to the recent Christian Science Monitor article we all read that said many indie labels have profits increasing 50-100% a year. Show him that the CDBaby sales figures keep getting better while the RIAA whiles that sales are disappearing.
He talked about musicians
"Of that lot, however, the musicians are frequently the worst off. They're the ones working two crap jobs, skipping meals to pay for studio time, braving treacherous Canadian highways during the dead of winter, sleeping in vans and in strange cities and generally living at the mercy of the capricious industry constructed around their music. Some of them are lucky enough to make a living at their art."
Give him the names of acts you know about that get no radio play but who still can make money selling music and touring without a contract.
In short, instead of yelling at him, give Peter Goddard a few more data points to use in his next article. This guy's views are not that different from most of the people here.
Besides, recording in itself is made possible for everyone due to computer technologies.
Depends on the genre...Some people have always prefered analog and never stopped recording that way (e.g. henry rollins, who hauls a 24-track analog unit on the road to record live shows). It is also worth noting that we're in a bit of a garage band renaissance. The White Stripes recorded their last album on equipment that pre-dates the rolling stones, did it with only a week's studio time, and only provided copies to music critics on vinyl.
Regardless of what you think of their music, they are a band getting major radio and MTV airplay, and they didn't use computer recording.
Slashdot Mirror
Finally (and not included in the changelogs), Eric has tweaked the Hacker Politics page, from its previous description as "vaguely liberal-moderate" to "moderate-to-neoconservative (hackers too were affected by the collapse of socialism)". Go tell that to the Kuro5hinners, Eric.
Unless he's been holding surveys, the claims made for politics (both past and current) are impossible to verify. My guess is that the original statement reflected the people he associated with, and the current one does as well. (And if he's active in "warblogging", the people he hangs out with are probably conservative) Unless someone puts together a survey and figures out how to administer it to a representative cross section of the community, we won't have enough statistical data to back up any claim.
- @stake
- BindView
- Caldera International (The SCO Group)
- Foundstone
- Guardent
- ISS
- Microsoft
- NAI
- Oracle
- SGI
- Symantec
Considering their backgrounds, it is sad that @stake and ISS are involved in an anti-disclosure group.your comments are correct, but unnecessary. all that info in included in the links on the grandparent
From the article: * Every album needs to have a UPC Barcode!
Buuuuut... CD Baby doesn't require a barcode and doesn't get one for you so I see some problems with CD Baby being able to supply Apple with all the required stuff.
Huh? have you actually looked at their site? CD Baby is authorized to issue barcodes, and will do so. They will give anyone selling a CD on CDBaby a barcode for only $20
FWIW the Japanese poet Yukio Mishima committed seppuku in 1970 [...] Anyone remember more about this?
i shima/nenpu/his65_70.html
I hadn't heard about it before, but google found this:
http://www.vill.yamanakako.yamanashi.jp/bungaku/m
25th:
Early in the morning, Mishima addresses the envelope containing the final installment of "The Decay of the Angel" the final volume of his life-work "The Sea of Fertility" (which had taken him six years to write) to his publisher and places it on a table in his foyer. At 10 a.m. he phones a couple of reporter friends and asks them to come to Ichigaya. At 11 a.m. Mishima and his four cadets arrive at the Ichigaya Headquarters of the Eastern Army. He steps onto the balcony and reads his "Manifesto" trying to rouse the soldiers to take action and rise up to save Japan, but is mostly unheard and jeered. After shouting "Long Live His Majesty the Emperor!" three times, Mishima commits seppuku (ritual disembowelment) in the office of General Kanetoshi Mashita at 12:15 p.m. Morita tries three times to ritually behead Mishima but fails; the head is finally severed by Hiroyasu Koga. Morita (25 years old), then tries to follow Mishima in committing seppuku; although the cut is much too shallow to be fatal, he gives the signal, upon which Koga also ritually beheads Morita. The Mishima Incident is over.
When Tiroth corrected my statement above, I was not certain that I was wrong, so I hauled out my book on MJER. Pages 124 & 125 cover the Kaishaku, and they say "In actual practice, stopping the blade in this manner would prevent it from completely severing the samurai's neck, so his head would not roll or bounce away disgracefully." Now that clearly covers what Eishin Ryu folks do, and they are the largest group, but I googled to see if I could find anything from other Ryu. I only searched a little while, admittedly, but I could not find anything from an extant Ryu that refered to fully severing the neck, and did find things saying it is wrong to do so. Of course, that only tells us what is currently done in patterns. It *is* possible that the tradition changed[+], but I that's unlikely for two reasons:
- Most Ryu make a big deal about doing things the traditional way. (Look at all the
controversy that the shinkendo people caused when they decided that they were the only
ones using "traditional" tsuka lengths.) This emphasis on doing things the same way as
the previous generation makes it unlikely that a tradition would
be changed without there being a record of it occuring. Many Ryu are so tradition-bound
that they won't allow any
useful innovation.
- Clavell is not a solid source for anything. I used to love shogun until I got a hold of the Musashi
series by Eiji Yoshikawa. Those books have a much better reputation with people like
Edwin O. Reischauer, who said:
--During the Meiji Reformation, the emporer tried to wipe out the practice of bushido. Some schools argue for a complete, unbroken lineage of technique, but that is unlikely. (see section 3 of the JSA FAQ.)
Thank you for that clarification, Tiroth . You are, of course, entirely correct:
Notque asked: What is Hara-Kiri?!
"Hara-kiri" is a term used to describe a form of ritual suicide in Japan where one disembowls themselves. It is derived from the Japanese words "hara" (stomach) and "kiri" (to cut), but is not actually a Japanese term.
The proper Japanese term for ritual suicide is "seppuku". Men used stomach cutting during seppuku. Women cut their throats. People committing seppuku used to have a trusted friend serve as a second, who would behead them as soon as they completed the ritual, thus ending the suffering of a slow death. Choosing someone trustworthy was important....you didn't want someone who would let you live.
I'm not sure, but I suspect that suppuku was outlawed during the Meiji Reformation. Most other aspects of bushido were, so.......
There's a circumvention clause in the DMCA that makes it illegal to create, posess, or use a "circumvention device". That clause is what we hear about most often on slashdot. There are, however, many other parts of the law. It also prevents reverse engineering software unless you are authorized by the copyright holder.
IANL, but I just skimmed the DMCA, and don't see what portion is relevant to selling stuff obtained by dumster diving. The section of the law that *looks* like it should cover sewing patterns "Title 5: Protection of Certain Original Designs" actually only applies to vessel hulls. That leaves "Title 4: Miscellaneous Provisions", but that doesn't have anything relevant, either.
Perhaps the guy reproduced the patterns and sold duplicates instead of just selling the merchandise he got from the dumpster. The article is not clear on that....
Will people *stop* mirroring text of articles on servers that have no significant problems with handling /. visitors?
/. very well. I could not get to the article. Guess what? I went to the discussion to find the very type of article that you are complaining about.
Sorry, but their server is not handling
SCO execs should fear Linus's wife, not Linus. Tove has been a nation karate champion in Finland
six times.
I used Fat Chuck's Music (which was featured here on /. a few weeks ago) for the ordering pages
/. users who run a successful business
without using any microsoft products. I was visiting CDBaby long before I knew about that)
I'm not sure that was the best choice. You may want to consider using a much better established site (e.g. one with over 36,000 artists) and a proven track record for sales; i.e. one that has already given $3 million dollars of sales profit to indie bands. They also make it very easy to find indie artists who sound like your favorite bands. That saves having to wade through piles and piles of stuff that's questionable quality.
FWIW, I went to the Fat Chuck's site after it was linked here, and there was nothing there to listen to. I haven't been back there since. In contrast, I've been to CD Baby several times since then and have found several great bands. (And no, I'm not just plugging CDBaby because they are
Just in the interest of accuracy, it is worth noting that at least one X-prize team thinks that balloon launch platforms will be reusable:
IL Aerospace Technologies
Other ideas
There are many places like this:
- Mystery Spot Road, off Branciforte Dr. Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
A spot 50m in diameter in the redwoods of the Santa Cruz Mountains
- Mystery Spot, Putney Road, Benzie County, Michigan, USA.
- Gravity Hill, Northwest Baltimore County, USA. along a public road
that ran through the Soldier's Delight environmental area.
- Gravity Hill, Mooresville, Southwest Indianapolis, USA. Located off SR 42 on the South side of Mooresville.
- Gravity Road, Ewing Road exit ramp off Route 208, Franklin Lakes, USA.
- Mystery Hill, Blowing Rock, hwy 321, Carolina, USA.
- Confusion Hill, Idelwild Park, Ligonier, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Gravity Hill, off of State Route 96 just south of New Paris, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Gravity Hill (near White's Hill) , just South of Rennick Road, on County Truck U, South of Shullsburg, in LaFayette County, Wisconsin, USA
- Oregon Vortex, near Gold-Hill, Grants Pass, Oregon, USA.
- Spook Hill, North Wales Drive, North Avenue, Lake Wales, Florida, USA.
- Spook Hill, Gapland Road just outside Burkittsville, Gapland (Frederick County), Maryland, USA.
- Magnetic Hill, Near Neepawa in Manitoba, Canada.
- Magnetic Mountain, just off the Trans Canada highway, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
- Gravity Hill, on McKee Rd. just before Ledgeview Golf Course in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada.
- Electric Brae, on the A719, Near Croy Bay, South of Ayr, Ayeshire, Scotland.
- Anti-Gravity Hill, Straws Lane Road, Wood-End, Near hanging rock, Victoria, Australia
- Morgan Lewis Hill, St Andrew, Barbados.
- Hill South of Rome, in Colli Albani, near Frascati, Italy.
- Malveira da Serra, on N247 coast road West of Lisbon, Portugal
- Mount Penteli, on a road to Mount Penteli, Athens, Greece
- Mount Halla, on the 1.100 highway a few miles south of the airport, near Mount Halla, on the island of Cheju Do, South Korea
There's another place named "spook hill" with this illusion in Floridaas I have pointed out in the past There's a petition to the FCC about this issue that is worth reading. It has been signed by many prominent musicians, and they are looking for as many listeners as possible to listen.
Or the people with "lyricosis", the disease which causes sufferers to have difficulty understanding song lyrics:
right: acting funny, and I don't know why / 'scuse me, while I kiss this guy
wrong: acting funny, and I don't know why / 'scuse me, while I kiss the sky
Unfortunately, both of those fit lyrically and logically; i.e. both are "funny" behavior, and they have identical meter and rhyme. I was one of the people afflicted with "lyricosis" for this song until I started to learning to play it.
You might want to read this and this before making a claim like that. The highlights are:
- "The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma." - Abraham Lincoln
- "As to Jesus of Nazareth...I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity. " - Benjamin Franklin
- "I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." - Thomas Jefferson
- "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church." - Thomas Paine
The truth is that the USA was founded as a secular nation. That's why the treaty of tripoli that we signed explicitly states that revisionist history by fundamentalist Christians doesn't change the truthIn honor of our new Freedom of Information, inform as many people as you can of the home phone numbers of John Poindexter, John Ashcroft and Tom Ridge in a massive publicity campaign.
According to this story from 1999, the guys who made the breeder reactor were U. of Chicago physics majors Justin Kasper and Fred Niell. They assembled it in Justin's dorm room.
Here's a link to the
free version of ProTools...I think it is cripple-ware, not a time limited demo. Don't know, though, since I've never used it, so YMMV.
http://www.digidesign.com/ptfree
And try to be nice for once instead of just flaming. Face it, this guy is just a journalist reguritating stuff he heard, and even then, he said a lot of stuff that most of us can agree with:
Radio is boring and homogenized, and it is hurting CD sales.
Labels should be more artist friendly
Michael Green's 2002 Grammy speech was annoying and pointless. (Even Janis Ian ripped on it.)
Decent recording can be done with reasonable studio costs (He even mentioned the new White Stripes album only costing $10,000 :-) )
Indie labels treat artists better than majors
Labels are a) greedy and b) want control of listeners
This guy is already halfway in our camp. Don't flame him, just educate him a little. In response to his claim that "sales of CDs are in a freefall", point to the recent Christian Science Monitor article we all read that said many indie labels have profits increasing 50-100% a year. Show him that the CDBaby sales figures keep getting better while the RIAA whiles that sales are disappearing.
He talked about musicians
Give him the names of acts you know about that get no radio play but who still can make money selling music and touring without a contract.In short, instead of yelling at him, give Peter Goddard a few more data points to use in his next article. This guy's views are not that different from most of the people here.
+1 informative
Besides, recording in itself is made possible for everyone due to computer technologies.
Depends on the genre...Some people have always prefered analog and never stopped recording that way (e.g. henry rollins, who hauls a 24-track analog unit on the road to record live shows). It is also worth noting that we're in a bit of a garage band renaissance. The White Stripes recorded their last album on equipment that pre-dates the rolling stones, did it with only a week's studio time, and only provided copies to music critics on vinyl.
Regardless of what you think of their music, they are a band getting major radio and MTV airplay, and they didn't use computer recording.