Ya know, I was just thinking that the other day as I was driving past the synagogue, the mosque, the temple, and the cathedral... damn those pinheads for trying to force their state religion on me!
Ah, now you're presuming to know what I think/believe/realize. A billion people don't even have a pot to piss in? Gee, I had no idea. How do I sleep at night.
So if you're a billionaire, you're automatically a criminal? What is the threshold of wealth that separates the obscene from, say, the merely naughty? A million? A hundred-million? Who gets to make that call?
Nah, I'm not gonna enjoin you further in this squabble. The anti-rich bile in your post, and your use of a made-up word ("corporatocracy") tells me where you're coming from. Suffice to say your world-view beliefs aren't the same as mine.
Yep, I figured this would just degenerate into a "bash Rupert Murdoch" thread. Right on schedule.
"Rupert Murdoch is not a good man... people like Rupert Murdoch thought they could dominate the media of the world..."
Are you so clairvoyant that you can discern what Murdoch's thoughts and intentions were, are, or will be in the future? Bullshit. Spare me your sanctimonious judgement. He's just a businessman.
What Murdoch is best at is giving media consumers what they want. That's how he made his fortune. That's the reason FOX News' ratings are more than double that of CNN (and four times that of MSNBC). He saw an unserved market and acted to fill the need.
And if the internet is all-powerful (which it is), how on earth can Rupert Murdoch destroy or restrict it?
[Ritalin] actually slows your brain down enough to work properly
I certainly do realize that this is the desired effect. But it is a stimulant; that's its official classification.
My son took Adderall for five years (Ritalin was took strong). And while I can't speak for other parents' kids, with us eventually it got to where he simply couldn't make it from point A to point B in his life without being dosed. Plus it cut his appetite so sharply that eventually he just stopped gaining weight.
I'm not saying, necessarily, that there's no such thing as ADD, but that it is enormously over-diagnosed, to the benefit of (1) pharmeacutical companies, for obvious reasons, and (2) overworked, underpayed teachers who can't give personal attention to such kids, along with the 35 others they have in the room.
Indeed. Back in olden days (i.e. the 1960s and 70s) "short attention span" was simply a personality trait, not a physiological flaw.
Many years ago (1993, actually) when my oldest son entered first grade, he was immediately tagged as an ADD kid. We went along with it simply because we didn't know any better. We eventually came to the realization that Ritalin and Adderall were nothing more than speed for little kids, and took him off the stuff.
We were told flat-out by the school "your son needs to be medicated or we can't have him here." So we took him out of public school and have home-schooled him (and his little brother) ever since. He's now a healthy, drug-free college-bound 18 year-old. Best decision we ever made.
Fact: the more ADD/ADHD kids that the schools have on their rolls, the more money they get from the government. It's a BIG scam.
I agree the orig. Dick Van Dyke show was great, but that's mainly because it was written by Carl Reiner, back when he was great. But then, like now, for every one great show there's eight or ten that sucked hard: My Mother the Car. My Favorite Martian. Gilligan's Island. Hogan's Heroes (funny ol' WW II).... etc. etc.
Of course the story is biased. The story was written by a union. They want to unionize Microsoft. But just because salary guidelines for some rank-and-file levels haven't changed for a couple of years, that doesn't mean nobody's getting raises.
"It's a situation based in mob-hysterical truthiness. Anything to the right of Limbaugh is now biased and lefty and of course, wrong."
That doesn't even make any sense.
"The rightists have a stranglehold on reality now. They are holding a bag over reality's head and will not let it breath until the body goes limp."
Metaphor alert... metaphor alert...
"The economy is collapsing from the bottom upwards."
I guess that's why 90% of welfare recipients nowadays have a car, color TV, cellphone, etc. etc. Anyway, the rest of your post is basically nonsensical. Sober up next time before typing.
Yep, pretty close... it depends on the value of the estate of the deceased up against any debts held by creditors against the estate. Mom and/or Dad may have left you a million dollars in their will, but if they left 20 grand on the Amex card, that debt must be satisfied before you cash in. Probate court will see to this.
Correspondingly, children whose parents die, leaving behind no estate or other significant assets, are not liable for the debts of the parents.
...on expensive newspaper advertising, perhaps Team Firefox could do more to evangelize the web development community to *not* write any more IE-only applications. Sure seems like this is a big stumbling block to widespread acceptance of non-IE browsers.
More to the point, if you truly believe that technology always gets better-faster-cheaper (and more ubiquitous), then how could you not believe that we'll someday have cheap, wireless broadband nationwide (not expensive, pseudo-broadband like we have now). And when this happens, any digital music stream will be available anywhere.
...I listened to the same 5 hours of music on rotation for two years.
Man, I'd put a bullet in my head if I had to do that. I have 6000 songs on my 40 GB iPod, and I bitch and moan when I hear the same song play twice within a month or so. I usually listen in alpha-order by song title, just to keep this from happening.
Is it too far-fetched to suggest that the E.C. actually wants MS to remain out-of-compliance, so they can continue to levy fines against them? i.e. Why do criminals rob banks? Because that's where the money is.
I personally am not holding my breath for traditional radio to go digital. DBOC (Digital Broadcast On-Channel), or "HD Radio" as it is known nowadays, has been percolating for almost a decade, and it's still going nowhere fast. Here's why:
It's based on proprietary technology which comes from a single vendor.
The startup costs run around $100,000 per station, thus shutting out the few independent station owners that remain.
You can hardly find the HD Radio receivers anywhere, and even if you can, they start at about $500 per.
Easy there, magical dude... I was not refering to you in particular. Sorry if my point eluded you, but it can be boiled down to two bullets:
1- there is a significant market demand for the Dead's vault material, and
2- to the extent that archive.org became basically a giant Grateful Dead music store where everything was free, this reduces the value of the vault music GDM is selling now, and will sell in the future.
I don't see what's so hard to understand about that.
The portion of the Dead's fanbase who are obsessed over this issue may believe they speak for all deadheads. They do not. Most fans of the group are perfectly willing to pay plenty of $$ for reliable, well-packaged vault product (downloadable or otherwise).
Witness: Earlier this year, the band offered for pre-sale a massive boxed set of four consecutive 1969 Fillmore West concerts, considered by deadheads to be among the "best ever" run of shows. Even though the band, at that time, barely had enough repertoire to cover two nights, let alone four, the limited-edition run of 10,000 boxes was an immediate sellout.
A couple of weeks ago, when the packages finally started shipping, the resale value on eBay QUADRUPLED the orig. list price (from $100 to $400, approx.)
Precisely what to do with the vault material has long been a bone of contention between Bobby and Phil, but clearly, the vault is the goldmine, and to the extent that the massive concert soundboard library on archive.org was diluting that product, well, it makes sense to me.
I'm a deadhead (as if you couldn't tell by my/. username) but I'm also a capitalist. It's naive to think the Dead somehow are not, or should not be. Phil can continue to release his Phil Lesh 'n' Friends shows for free (which we love!), but he's gonna lose this battle.
While I thought at one time that this was a good idea, actually if you choose to leave your coding job it can be a pain. My successor called me on the phone for almost 6 months asking "What does this do - what does this mean..." etc. until I finally had tell him "Man, I just don't remember anymore. Sorry!"
You guys are missing the point completely. He didn't "cash out." He stills holds most of his original virtual investment. From the article:
"We've really only just begun with the estate sales and land management, there is still more room for growth and revenue with the untapped resources surrounding the land."
So it stands to reason that if he recouped his investment in a year, he could double it (or more) a year from now. Put another way, it's not like buying a house; it's like buying 1000 acres and subdividing to maximize profits.
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On the contrary, I was very clear about what you said (hell, I even quoted you in my reply).
And I see your original post has been (appropriately) modded down to troll.
I have nothing more to add.
"trying to force a state religion"
Ya know, I was just thinking that the other day as I was driving past the synagogue, the mosque, the temple, and the cathedral... damn those pinheads for trying to force their state religion on me!
Ah, now you're presuming to know what I think/believe/realize. A billion people don't even have a pot to piss in? Gee, I had no idea. How do I sleep at night.
So if you're a billionaire, you're automatically a criminal? What is the threshold of wealth that separates the obscene from, say, the merely naughty? A million? A hundred-million? Who gets to make that call?
Nah, I'm not gonna enjoin you further in this squabble. The anti-rich bile in your post, and your use of a made-up word ("corporatocracy") tells me where you're coming from. Suffice to say your world-view beliefs aren't the same as mine.
Have a nice life.
Are you so clairvoyant that you can discern what Murdoch's thoughts and intentions were, are, or will be in the future? Bullshit. Spare me your sanctimonious judgement. He's just a businessman.
What Murdoch is best at is giving media consumers what they want. That's how he made his fortune. That's the reason FOX News' ratings are more than double that of CNN (and four times that of MSNBC). He saw an unserved market and acted to fill the need.
And if the internet is all-powerful (which it is), how on earth can Rupert Murdoch destroy or restrict it?
[Ritalin] actually slows your brain down enough to work properly
I certainly do realize that this is the desired effect. But it is a stimulant; that's its official classification.
My son took Adderall for five years (Ritalin was took strong). And while I can't speak for other parents' kids, with us eventually it got to where he simply couldn't make it from point A to point B in his life without being dosed. Plus it cut his appetite so sharply that eventually he just stopped gaining weight.
I'm not saying, necessarily, that there's no such thing as ADD, but that it is enormously over-diagnosed, to the benefit of (1) pharmeacutical companies, for obvious reasons, and (2) overworked, underpayed teachers who can't give personal attention to such kids, along with the 35 others they have in the room.
Indeed. Back in olden days (i.e. the 1960s and 70s) "short attention span" was simply a personality trait, not a physiological flaw.
Many years ago (1993, actually) when my oldest son entered first grade, he was immediately tagged as an ADD kid. We went along with it simply because we didn't know any better. We eventually came to the realization that Ritalin and Adderall were nothing more than speed for little kids, and took him off the stuff.
We were told flat-out by the school "your son needs to be medicated or we can't have him here." So we took him out of public school and have home-schooled him (and his little brother) ever since. He's now a healthy, drug-free college-bound 18 year-old. Best decision we ever made.
Fact: the more ADD/ADHD kids that the schools have on their rolls, the more money they get from the government. It's a BIG scam.
I agree the orig. Dick Van Dyke show was great, but that's mainly because it was written by Carl Reiner, back when he was great. But then, like now, for every one great show there's eight or ten that sucked hard: My Mother the Car. My Favorite Martian. Gilligan's Island. Hogan's Heroes (funny ol' WW II).... etc. etc.
"It's a situation based in mob-hysterical truthiness. Anything to the right of Limbaugh is now biased and lefty and of course, wrong."
That doesn't even make any sense.
"The rightists have a stranglehold on reality now. They are holding a bag over reality's head and will not let it breath until the body goes limp."
Metaphor alert... metaphor alert...
"The economy is collapsing from the bottom upwards."
I guess that's why 90% of welfare recipients nowadays have a car, color TV, cellphone, etc. etc. Anyway, the rest of your post is basically nonsensical. Sober up next time before typing.
Yep, pretty close... it depends on the value of the estate of the deceased up against any debts held by creditors against the estate. Mom and/or Dad may have left you a million dollars in their will, but if they left 20 grand on the Amex card, that debt must be satisfied before you cash in. Probate court will see to this.
Correspondingly, children whose parents die, leaving behind no estate or other significant assets, are not liable for the debts of the parents.
...on expensive newspaper advertising, perhaps Team Firefox could do more to evangelize the web development community to *not* write any more IE-only applications. Sure seems like this is a big stumbling block to widespread acceptance of non-IE browsers.
More to the point, if you truly believe that technology always gets better-faster-cheaper (and more ubiquitous), then how could you not believe that we'll someday have cheap, wireless broadband nationwide (not expensive, pseudo-broadband like we have now). And when this happens, any digital music stream will be available anywhere.
Man, I'd put a bullet in my head if I had to do that. I have 6000 songs on my 40 GB iPod, and I bitch and moan when I hear the same song play twice within a month or so. I usually listen in alpha-order by song title, just to keep this from happening.
Is it too far-fetched to suggest that the E.C. actually wants MS to remain out-of-compliance, so they can continue to levy fines against them? i.e. Why do criminals rob banks? Because that's where the money is.
CRIVENS!!!
... would be like drinking bear-piss from a champagne glass. Oh sure, you could do it, if you really wanted to...
MILF.... MILF..... MILF.....
And don't forget...
Larks' Tongues in ASP
That's great. Now I can listen to all lesbian-punk-country all the time.
URGE will not be compatible with Macintosh computers or iPods.
Sorry, but URGE == DOA. Or, put another way, MSMTV will be about as successful as MSNBC.
Slashdot doesn't link to him anymore, but he's still out there:
http://www.bigempire.com/filthy/
It's based on proprietary technology which comes from a single vendor.
The startup costs run around $100,000 per station, thus shutting out the few independent station owners that remain.
You can hardly find the HD Radio receivers anywhere, and even if you can, they start at about $500 per.
Easy there, magical dude... I was not refering to you in particular. Sorry if my point eluded you, but it can be boiled down to two bullets:
1- there is a significant market demand for the Dead's vault material, and
2- to the extent that archive.org became basically a giant Grateful Dead music store where everything was free, this reduces the value of the vault music GDM is selling now, and will sell in the future.
I don't see what's so hard to understand about that.
p.s. your website appears to be broken.
Illusion indeed!
/. username) but I'm also a capitalist. It's naive to think the Dead somehow are not, or should not be. Phil can continue to release his Phil Lesh 'n' Friends shows for free (which we love!), but he's gonna lose this battle.
The portion of the Dead's fanbase who are obsessed over this issue may believe they speak for all deadheads. They do not. Most fans of the group are perfectly willing to pay plenty of $$ for reliable, well-packaged vault product (downloadable or otherwise).
Witness: Earlier this year, the band offered for pre-sale a massive boxed set of four consecutive 1969 Fillmore West concerts, considered by deadheads to be among the "best ever" run of shows. Even though the band, at that time, barely had enough repertoire to cover two nights, let alone four, the limited-edition run of 10,000 boxes was an immediate sellout.
A couple of weeks ago, when the packages finally started shipping, the resale value on eBay QUADRUPLED the orig. list price (from $100 to $400, approx.)
Precisely what to do with the vault material has long been a bone of contention between Bobby and Phil, but clearly, the vault is the goldmine, and to the extent that the massive concert soundboard library on archive.org was diluting that product, well, it makes sense to me.
I'm a deadhead (as if you couldn't tell by my
While I thought at one time that this was a good idea, actually if you choose to leave your coding job it can be a pain. My successor called me on the phone for almost 6 months asking "What does this do - what does this mean..." etc. until I finally had tell him "Man, I just don't remember anymore. Sorry!"
You guys are missing the point completely. He didn't "cash out." He stills holds most of his original virtual investment. From the article:
"We've really only just begun with the estate sales and land management, there is still more room for growth and revenue with the untapped resources surrounding the land."
So it stands to reason that if he recouped his investment in a year, he could double it (or more) a year from now. Put another way, it's not like buying a house; it's like buying 1000 acres and subdividing to maximize profits.