the authors need to put down the crackpipe and the copy of 1984 and get real.
an RFID tag would require a conductor. go see for yourself, scrape layer by layer through the whole area by those eyes and you'll find nothing but paper.
this is NOT to say that there is not an RFID in the new 20-dollar bill, but I certainly assert that there is nothing near the location described by the author.
and if *I* were the top nation, I would quit giving out H1B visas and financial aid for anyone not born on US soil. In fact, I might well consider closing my schools to foreigners altogether. Buy books at Amazon.
Pretty ironic how I was unable to get ANY financial aid while doing my 6-year degree because my last name wasn't exactly right, and now the very people who came to this country on temp visas and got financial aid and other related bullshit help are now abck in their home country readying to take MY job.
paying $10 per month just to have month-to-month is perfect for those people that aren't gifted in math.
let's see: 12 months per year x $10 = $120
I havent known anyone to be SO unsatisfied with service as to switch within 12 months (and if you are that unsatisfied, every major carrier allows you to cancel service without penalty within 15-30 days)
so at 15 months, you just paid your penalty of $150 for breaking the contract.
even before number portability, I was always able to get them to throw in the perks for a 2 year plan into the 1 year contract. I'm sure you can get them to do it now that competition is that much more fierce...
He said that without IBM, Linux still wouldn't have SMP support. HAH!
Maybe he should look at a timeline of Linux. SMP support has been around since years before IBM ever muttered the phrase "open source".
I could be wrong in that it is entirely possible that talent from IBM contributed to SMP on their own time, but I don't believe IBM had any official role in this development...
wonder what cocky-boy would do if every slashdot member sent him a single piece of snail-mail once a week......or how about standing outside his nightclub with signs......or if every slashdot member executes a script to pull every image from his site 3-4 times a day using wget...
if you really read the interview, this asshole hasnt "reformed". he is still the same jerkoff that is proud to do whatever he can get away with to make a dollar at anyone else's expense.
last I heard, it was still okay to hire an attorney to pursue these worthless fools and sue them not only for your personal time wasted, your cellular minutes, but also your attorney fees.
taxation based on those various factors would be MORE than fair. it really is too bad that american politicians are paid by all major corporations and makes laws according to *their* wants and needs rather than those of the people, or this might actually be possible...
I honestly believe that anyone owning any vehicle that weighs over X pounds (let's say 4500-ish) for reasons OTHER than commercial use should be immediately eligible for either life imprisonment or death penalty if involved in an accident that was an obvious result of careless driving.
I drive a normal car (2800 pounds, 230 HP) and have had it up to here with these fucking soccer moms/dads driving Expeditions and H2s, holding a cigarette in one hand and a cellphone in another while weaving in and out of traffic at 80mph.
I'm glad they feel safe, but why should they be allowed to push the mortality rate to 100% in accidents that would normally yield survivors??
It is nothing short of premeditated attack with a deadly weapon in my opinion. when they buy it, make them sign a piece of paper that says:
"I hereby understand that I am buying this tank to keep myself and my children safe with full knowledge that I will kill all occupants of any normal car in the case of a collision"
without advocating piracy, I'd like to point out a few facts about downloading music: (these points do NOT apply to assholes that sell pirated music in bulk)
-not unlike the whole "if a tree falls in the middle of the forest, does it make a sound?" argument, it is impossible to *harm* an artist or label by downloading and listening to a song you would never consider buying in the first place. however, you are most definitely harming the artist/label by downloading the new album put out by your favorite band that you would buy if it were not for your ability to download said album.
-The labels, while carrying on about harm to artists, demostrate very little care towards the artists. if the label cared more, they would certainly be paying artists a more appropriate royalty per cd. from everything I know, *normal* artists make anywhere from $0.01 to $0.10 per cd. this obviously doesnt apply to self-published artists and superstar artists who have long since passed their first contract.
-The artists have historically been unable to fill an entire album with decent material. There isnt a single person out there that hasnt bought a cd after hearing a song or two and found the rest to be crap. this really lends itself to people wanting to hear more than the current radio single before forking out $20 for a cd.
-there are people who dont feel obligated to pay for another copy of a cd that was stolen from them, or for that cassette they purchased 10 years ago. if you paid the price for an album once, why in the world should you pay it again? we know it's not media costs!!
---- a paragraph-by-paragraph interpretation of what he really meant to say ----
blah blah blah opening fluff
what we're doing is beneficial for us and for our secret backer in Redmond because we want to spread as much fear about Linux as possible before 90% of the people realize it is a superior product to Windows for a cheaper price
whine whine whine, our website got DoS'd
keep attacking us and your company will fire you when they find out that you're a Linux advocate because they will just associate you with other open source "outlaws"
now I'm going to talk about how we paid people to put System V code into Linux. normally these people would be fired and sued, but we would rather go after Linux.
now I want to talk about why the Linux model can never succeed because nobody can possibly ever be sure that people with access to System V source won't sneakily inject more into Linux. The Catch-22 here is that the people auditing Linux code most likely don't have access to AIX, IRIX, Solaris, etc source code. "Hey Bill, isn't this great!! we're gonna make a fortune on this lawsuit!"
Now I'm going to spend 10 paragraphs explaining copyright laws, but I will conveniently omit the reasons why we are persuing the *product* of a crime rather than the people that perpetrated the crime itself. Remember how I mentioned the SGI programmer and how we know plenty more like him? Well we're letting him off the hook because his criminal acts have been the best thing that ever happened to SCO and SCO's Redmond backer.
Finally I would like to end by justifying SCO's behavior on the whole. Why should we go around suing the living daylights out of everyone and spreading FUD about a platform that was the result of countless volunteer hours and philantropic contributions? Because we can! Isn't this great? We live in a world where this behavior is not only allowed, but also encouraged!! Now just wait until Bill^H^H^H we pay off a few judges and lawmakers and have Linux officially owned by SCO so at long last Windows^H^H^H we can prevail!
yeah, I know this must be a very very difficult thing. this is exactly why I stay in the trenches (albeit at the very top of the trenches)
I have been within 2 steps of the CTO at 6 companies in the past 6 years and have seen the whole gamut.
I have been absolutely miserable while reporting under a know-nothing fucker that rolled over like a cheap whore every time upper managment turned up the heat a little, and I have enjoyed the shelter of those who are willing to tell upper management to go fuck themselves - in those words. this has been in small startups and fortune 100 companies alike.
neither extremes are wise.
I am currently enjoying the benefits of reporting to VERY technically savvy people all the way to the CTO in a small-ish company. this condition completely obviates the need for people to put up large fights, because upper management empathizes with all of us and doesnt mind listening to what we are saying. hence you have a mostly flat organization.
if my company were suffering because another company in the same datacenter provider was getting DoS'd, that's when it's time to sue the datacenter provider.
this is why there is such a huge chasm between amateur cohosting facilities and the pros: the pros dont fuck around, they know how to stop a DoS either with their equipment or at the upstream provider.
if this innocent bystander company doesnt have an SLA with consequences for serious downtime like this, then said company is run by morons and doesnt deserve to be taken seriously anyways.
unless youre a CTO, Director, or someone that manages lots of people/projects, you should be turning to your boss for shielding for this.
you simply tell them their request will end up on the list and make them go away, then you make your boss prioritize your workload and/or tell these people that their request isnt worth anyone's time and effort and doesnt fit into the budget.
IF your boss is not fulfilling this role, then he is a crappy boss (cowardly) and shouldnt be managing things like this. I would begin looking for other work if I were you, since this situation wont get any better and you will stay miserable
if your boss IS capable of handling this, then maybe you are not conveying to him that you feel your workload is getting to be overbearing because of these kinds of requests. maybe he thinks you are just a go-getter workaholic type.
this is really a major function of bosses, try to use it!
like I said, it is not about the answer, it is about finding out how people handle such a question. it is purposely NON-technical, so that you can find out how this person reacts.
you have people that will answer "lots", or simply give you some ungodly number off the top of their head. you dont want these people.
you then have people who will say "i dont know" or "i dont know, but I can find out". you can then tell them just to estimate for you. make them understand that you know they dont know, but want them to try anyways. these people are average.
then there are people who will make quick assumptions to simplify the problem, and then quickly calculate an educated guess. for example, you could assume no compressibility, and assume that each cotton ball takes about 1 cubic inch. now quickly calculate the number of cubic inches inside the cabin and voila. these are the people you want in your meetings all the time.
in the last 5 years, I havent reported more than 1 step from a CTO, and the most fitting question I ever got in an interview was this:
"how many cotton balls would it take to fill the cabin of the last plane you flew in, assuming you have flown recently"
it is not the *answer* that counts here, it is how you deal with order of magnitude questions.
you would be amazed how many times you're in a huge meeting full of suits and your CTO asks you "so how much would it cost to build a 25TB san from scratch versus buying one from EMC?"
they are interested in an order-of-magnitude answer, and they fully expect it right then, not hours or days after the meeting.
saying $4 million when the price is $5-6 million is FINE for their purposes at that point. not being able to tell them whether it is $5 million or $500,000 is absolutely NOT okay.
Are you kidding me? Okay is a HUGE understatement unless your Bachelors is in some bullshit field like art or theatre and youre trying to get a job in IT.
I have a BS in chemistry, and had completed almost all my MS classwork using electives for my BS. My thesis got published in a respectable journal. I graduated 6 years ago and decided to pursue a career in unix admin/architecture rather than do my Ph.D in physical chemistry.
I have pulled 6 figures every year now except my first year.
Now maybe that's just "okay" by your standards, but to most of the people out there that ain't so bad.
News Flash: this is the proper way to interview ANY techie.
------------- Start zeroing in on what they didin't really know and start asking in-depth questions and getting them completely trapped in their lies. Apparantly a simple "I don't know" would have been the correct answer and some of them probably would have gotten the job if they had sucked it up and said that. I was told some of them ended up leaving in tears as it was not-so-pleasantly revealed to them that they didn't know as much as they thought they did... ----------
I got a formal response back from Intel to my inquiry about the availability of Centrino and they said they will not be releasing drivers - EVER.
The article seems to imply that this will happen by saying Intel hasnt released them "yet", so I wanted to clear this up.
In response to the post just above mine, who wondered what the appeal of integrated wlan was: this thing is a cool drink of water compared to the good old days of dongles, and even compared to the current days of wireless cards sticking an inch out of the side of the notebook begging to be broken off.
I had just assumed that drivers would just be a matter of time, as I bought my Dell "Centrino" just about 2 weeks after the debut. works great in windows =/
yes, I absolutely meant Patriot Act in the most general sense. I mean to say that the current state of mind of the US Government seems to be "let's take all personal freedom and privacy in the name of preventing another horrific (self-inflicted?) act of terrorism while the constituents still have the smell of fresh blood in their noses"
read between the lines all you want about conspiracy theories, and you'll probably end up with a good idea of how I feel about all of these "protections" from evil.
oh, and two fingers in the air to the moron that modded my original post down.
you see, there's the difference between me and your average joe.
set up a site where I can pay the artists their $0.05 per album that the record company would be paying them, and I will completely pay for all music I have downloaded, and all music that I download in the future (even though I normally only download 1 song from a given band)
because I wont spend $20 on a cd that is more likely than not to be 2 good songs and 10-12 filler tracks, I'm forced by the RIAA to become a pirate if I want to sample a song by a band.
so be it.
bottom line, I DO CARE ABOUT ARTISTS. but the only way for me to show that would involve the RIAA curling up and dying, because they certainly arent about to allow us to bypass them as the middleman.
oh, and another thing. dont pidgeon-hole me. you dont have the first fucking clue about who I am.
You simply don't get it. Your time is OVER. People like me now boycott buying CDs altogether because we see that YOU are the biggest crooks in this picture.
The ONLY people we care about are the artists, and while your endless speeches talk about how music pirates are hurting artists, we KNOW that the only people we are hurting are the labels.
You, the labels, are the fucking hypocrite here. You shamelessly abuse the people we actually DO care about (the artists) and then sue US for hurting the artists??? Maybe you have forgotten, but WE ARE YOUR ONLY SOURCE OF INCOME.
Enjoy your BMWs and Mercedes while you have them, because the second there's a way to cut you and your friends out of this picture, we will do it, and I will then start buying music again because I, unlike you, actually DO care about the artists.
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the authors need to put down the crackpipe and the copy of 1984 and get real.
an RFID tag would require a conductor. go see for yourself, scrape layer by layer through the whole area by those eyes and you'll find nothing but paper.
this is NOT to say that there is not an RFID in the new 20-dollar bill, but I certainly assert that there is nothing near the location described by the author.
and if *I* were the top nation, I would quit giving out H1B visas and financial aid for anyone not born on US soil. In fact, I might well consider closing my schools to foreigners altogether. Buy books at Amazon.
Pretty ironic how I was unable to get ANY financial aid while doing my 6-year degree because my last name wasn't exactly right, and now the very people who came to this country on temp visas and got financial aid and other related bullshit help are now abck in their home country readying to take MY job.
LAME.
only two more years and we can shag her! ;)
paying $10 per month just to have month-to-month is perfect for those people that aren't gifted in math.
let's see: 12 months per year x $10 = $120
I havent known anyone to be SO unsatisfied with service as to switch within 12 months (and if you are that unsatisfied, every major carrier allows you to cancel service without penalty within 15-30 days)
so at 15 months, you just paid your penalty of $150 for breaking the contract.
even before number portability, I was always able to get them to throw in the perks for a 2 year plan into the 1 year contract. I'm sure you can get them to do it now that competition is that much more fierce...
He said that without IBM, Linux still wouldn't have SMP support. HAH!
Maybe he should look at a timeline of Linux. SMP support has been around since years before IBM ever muttered the phrase "open source".
I could be wrong in that it is entirely possible that talent from IBM contributed to SMP on their own time, but I don't believe IBM had any official role in this development...
wonder what cocky-boy would do if every slashdot member sent him a single piece of snail-mail once a week...
if you really read the interview, this asshole hasnt "reformed". he is still the same jerkoff that is proud to do whatever he can get away with to make a dollar at anyone else's expense.
last I heard, it was still okay to hire an attorney to pursue these worthless fools and sue them not only for your personal time wasted, your cellular minutes, but also your attorney fees.
they catch on quickly.
I haven't written in cursive since 4th grade. It is a total waste, why do they even teach it?
all-caps printing (like many other techies use) works extremely well for me, stays totally readable, and looks far nicer IMHO.
and let's just think about this, 2 groups would love to pay this guy.
you've got your telemarketers, obviously, but then you also have companies that sell products like "Telezapper".
put an immediate end to telemarketing and all of a sudden you also just put telezapper and friends out of business.
couldnt agree more!
taxation based on those various factors would be MORE than fair. it really is too bad that american politicians are paid by all major corporations and makes laws according to *their* wants and needs rather than those of the people, or this might actually be possible...
someday
I honestly believe that anyone owning any vehicle that weighs over X pounds (let's say 4500-ish) for reasons OTHER than commercial use should be immediately eligible for either life imprisonment or death penalty if involved in an accident that was an obvious result of careless driving.
I drive a normal car (2800 pounds, 230 HP) and have had it up to here with these fucking soccer moms/dads driving Expeditions and H2s, holding a cigarette in one hand and a cellphone in another while weaving in and out of traffic at 80mph.
I'm glad they feel safe, but why should they be allowed to push the mortality rate to 100% in accidents that would normally yield survivors??
It is nothing short of premeditated attack with a deadly weapon in my opinion. when they buy it, make them sign a piece of paper that says:
"I hereby understand that I am buying this tank to keep myself and my children safe with full knowledge that I will kill all occupants of any normal car in the case of a collision"
without advocating piracy, I'd like to point out a few facts about downloading music: (these points do NOT apply to assholes that sell pirated music in bulk)
-not unlike the whole "if a tree falls in the middle of the forest, does it make a sound?" argument, it is impossible to *harm* an artist or label by downloading and listening to a song you would never consider buying in the first place. however, you are most definitely harming the artist/label by downloading the new album put out by your favorite band that you would buy if it were not for your ability to download said album.
-The labels, while carrying on about harm to artists, demostrate very little care towards the artists. if the label cared more, they would certainly be paying artists a more appropriate royalty per cd. from everything I know, *normal* artists make anywhere from $0.01 to $0.10 per cd. this obviously doesnt apply to self-published artists and superstar artists who have long since passed their first contract.
-The artists have historically been unable to fill an entire album with decent material. There isnt a single person out there that hasnt bought a cd after hearing a song or two and found the rest to be crap. this really lends itself to people wanting to hear more than the current radio single before forking out $20 for a cd.
-there are people who dont feel obligated to pay for another copy of a cd that was stolen from them, or for that cassette they purchased 10 years ago. if you paid the price for an album once, why in the world should you pay it again? we know it's not media costs!!
just things to think about...
----
a paragraph-by-paragraph interpretation
of what he really meant to say
----
blah blah blah opening fluff
what we're doing is beneficial for us and for our secret
backer in Redmond because we want to spread as much fear about Linux
as possible before 90% of the people realize it is a superior product
to Windows for a cheaper price
whine whine whine, our website got DoS'd
keep attacking us and your company will fire you when they
find out that you're a Linux advocate because they will
just associate you with other open source "outlaws"
now I'm going to talk about how we paid people to put
System V code into Linux. normally these people would
be fired and sued, but we would rather go after Linux.
now I want to talk about why the Linux model can never
succeed because nobody can possibly ever be sure that
people with access to System V source won't sneakily
inject more into Linux. The Catch-22 here is that the
people auditing Linux code most likely don't have access
to AIX, IRIX, Solaris, etc source code. "Hey Bill, isn't
this great!! we're gonna make a fortune on this lawsuit!"
Now I'm going to spend 10 paragraphs explaining copyright
laws, but I will conveniently omit the reasons why we are
persuing the *product* of a crime rather than the people
that perpetrated the crime itself. Remember how I mentioned
the SGI programmer and how we know plenty more like him?
Well we're letting him off the hook because his criminal
acts have been the best thing that ever happened to SCO
and SCO's Redmond backer.
Finally I would like to end by justifying SCO's behavior
on the whole. Why should we go around suing the living daylights
out of everyone and spreading FUD about a platform
that was the result of countless volunteer hours and
philantropic contributions? Because we can! Isn't this great?
We live in a world where this behavior is not only allowed,
but also encouraged!! Now just wait until Bill^H^H^H we
pay off a few judges and lawmakers and have Linux officially
owned by SCO so at long last Windows^H^H^H we can prevail!
Sincerely,
Jerkoff McBride
yeah, I know this must be a very very difficult thing. this is exactly why I stay in the trenches (albeit at the very top of the trenches)
I have been within 2 steps of the CTO at 6 companies in the past 6 years and have seen the whole gamut.
I have been absolutely miserable while reporting under a know-nothing fucker that rolled over like a cheap whore every time upper managment turned up the heat a little, and I have enjoyed the shelter of those who are willing to tell upper management to go fuck themselves - in those words. this has been in small startups and fortune 100 companies alike.
neither extremes are wise.
I am currently enjoying the benefits of reporting to VERY technically savvy people all the way to the CTO in a small-ish company. this condition completely obviates the need for people to put up large fights, because upper management empathizes with all of us and doesnt mind listening to what we are saying. hence you have a mostly flat organization.
not flaming here, just telling it like it is...
if my company were suffering because another company in the same datacenter provider was getting DoS'd, that's when it's time to sue the datacenter provider.
this is why there is such a huge chasm between amateur cohosting facilities and the pros: the pros dont fuck around, they know how to stop a DoS either with their equipment or at the upstream provider.
if this innocent bystander company doesnt have an SLA with consequences for serious downtime like this, then said company is run by morons and doesnt deserve to be taken seriously anyways.
unless youre a CTO, Director, or someone that manages lots of people/projects, you should be turning to your boss for shielding for this.
you simply tell them their request will end up on the list and make them go away, then you make your boss prioritize your workload and/or tell these people that their request isnt worth anyone's time and effort and doesnt fit into the budget.
IF your boss is not fulfilling this role, then he is a crappy boss (cowardly) and shouldnt be managing things like this. I would begin looking for other work if I were you, since this situation wont get any better and you will stay miserable
if your boss IS capable of handling this, then maybe you are not conveying to him that you feel your workload is getting to be overbearing because of these kinds of requests. maybe he thinks you are just a go-getter workaholic type.
this is really a major function of bosses, try to use it!
like I said, it is not about the answer, it is about finding out how people handle such a question. it is purposely NON-technical, so that you can find out how this person reacts.
you have people that will answer "lots", or simply give you some ungodly number off the top of their head. you dont want these people.
you then have people who will say "i dont know" or "i dont know, but I can find out". you can then tell them just to estimate for you. make them understand that you know they dont know, but want them to try anyways. these people are average.
then there are people who will make quick assumptions to simplify the problem, and then quickly calculate an educated guess. for example, you could assume no compressibility, and assume that each cotton ball takes about 1 cubic inch. now quickly calculate the number of cubic inches inside the cabin and voila. these are the people you want in your meetings all the time.
in the last 5 years, I havent reported more than 1 step from a CTO, and the most fitting question I ever got in an interview was this:
"how many cotton balls would it take to fill the cabin of the last plane you flew in, assuming you have flown recently"
it is not the *answer* that counts here, it is how you deal with order of magnitude questions.
you would be amazed how many times you're in a huge meeting full of suits and your CTO asks you "so how much would it cost to build a 25TB san from scratch versus buying one from EMC?"
they are interested in an order-of-magnitude answer, and they fully expect it right then, not hours or days after the meeting.
saying $4 million when the price is $5-6 million is FINE for their purposes at that point. not being able to tell them whether it is $5 million or $500,000 is absolutely NOT okay.
"BA/BS: You might be OK."
Are you kidding me? Okay is a HUGE understatement unless your Bachelors is in some bullshit field like art or theatre and youre trying to get a job in IT.
I have a BS in chemistry, and had completed almost all my MS classwork using electives for my BS. My thesis got published in a respectable journal. I graduated 6 years ago and decided to pursue a career in unix admin/architecture rather than do my Ph.D in physical chemistry.
I have pulled 6 figures every year now except my first year.
Now maybe that's just "okay" by your standards, but to most of the people out there that ain't so bad.
News Flash: this is the proper way to interview ANY techie.
-------------
Start zeroing in on what they didin't really know and start asking in-depth questions and getting them completely trapped in their lies. Apparantly a simple "I don't know" would have been the correct answer and some of them probably would have gotten the job if they had sucked it up and said that. I was told some of them ended up leaving in tears as it was not-so-pleasantly revealed to them that they didn't know as much as they thought they did...
----------
I got a formal response back from Intel to my inquiry about the availability of Centrino and they said they will not be releasing drivers - EVER.
The article seems to imply that this will happen by saying Intel hasnt released them "yet", so I wanted to clear this up.
In response to the post just above mine, who wondered what the appeal of integrated wlan was: this thing is a cool drink of water compared to the good old days of dongles, and even compared to the current days of wireless cards sticking an inch out of the side of the notebook begging to be broken off.
I had just assumed that drivers would just be a matter of time, as I bought my Dell "Centrino" just about 2 weeks after the debut. works great in windows =/
yes, I absolutely meant Patriot Act in the most general sense. I mean to say that the current state of mind of the US Government seems to be "let's take all personal freedom and privacy in the name of preventing another horrific (self-inflicted?) act of terrorism while the constituents still have the smell of fresh blood in their noses"
read between the lines all you want about conspiracy theories, and you'll probably end up with a good idea of how I feel about all of these "protections" from evil.
oh, and two fingers in the air to the moron that modded my original post down.
and with all this Patriot Act stuff, even if this WERE truly secure, like they dont have to escrow keys to some "agency".
it may keep RIAA away, but it certainly isnt stopping any govt agency, you can bet on that.
you see, there's the difference between me and your average joe.
set up a site where I can pay the artists their $0.05 per album that the record company would be paying them, and I will completely pay for all music I have downloaded, and all music that I download in the future (even though I normally only download 1 song from a given band)
because I wont spend $20 on a cd that is more likely than not to be 2 good songs and 10-12 filler tracks, I'm forced by the RIAA to become a pirate if I want to sample a song by a band.
so be it.
bottom line, I DO CARE ABOUT ARTISTS. but the only way for me to show that would involve the RIAA curling up and dying, because they certainly arent about to allow us to bypass them as the middleman.
oh, and another thing. dont pidgeon-hole me. you dont have the first fucking clue about who I am.
You simply don't get it. Your time is OVER. People like me now boycott buying CDs altogether because we see that YOU are the biggest crooks in this picture.
The ONLY people we care about are the artists, and while your endless speeches talk about how music pirates are hurting artists, we KNOW that the only people we are hurting are the labels.
You, the labels, are the fucking hypocrite here. You shamelessly abuse the people we actually DO care about (the artists) and then sue US for hurting the artists??? Maybe you have forgotten, but WE ARE YOUR ONLY SOURCE OF INCOME.
Enjoy your BMWs and Mercedes while you have them, because the second there's a way to cut you and your friends out of this picture, we will do it, and I will then start buying music again because I, unlike you, actually DO care about the artists.
Rot in hell in the meantime.