Aye, you're right...my monetary figures were more "Let's jsut say" type of things. I have to disagree about tours only makign the money for really small and really big bands. All bands do their touring to support their album...but that's a bullship term honestly. Cause like I said Album sales don't mean much of anything. Where album sales really make bands money (i try to do this whenever possible) is at the merchandising section at their concerts. They can charge a dollar or 2 less than the stores, which makes it attractive, but, they need not go through distributors to get it, so they can make cash off that. All album sales REALLY do is, pay recording costs. This also goes into why TLC (the pop/R&B/rap group whose music i don't enjoy but it's a matter of personal taste really...) files for bankruptcy a few years ago...after going platinum: they didn't tour enough.
DMB and the Beatles all have used multi-track recording. Multi track recording has been around for decades...it was jsut analog before. with bands that actually play instruments, like DMB what multi tracking is used for is adding effects in later or correcting a mistake ont he recording, instead of re-recording it. Which i don't see as bad, since, after-all alot of music is written in the studio. Practice before the tour is what makes them sound so good live, but constant touring before studio time typically doesnt give this opportunity. That's also why alot of songs are done differently live than ont he album.
Did they steal someone else's songs? WEll not that we know of. Btw, black rock'n roll played got their inspiration from swing which came from jazz, which came from classical, and past that it doesn't matter. No one cares if the rock'n roll "originators" were black or white, it doesn't matter! If someone steals music McCartney has rights to, he has a legal right to sue them.
For your information one of my favorite guitarists is Chuck Berry, another Jimmy Hendrix yet my favorite bands of all-time: The Crickets, MxPx, The Ramones, Alice In Chains. Whine Whine Whine. Eww you're just a rascist, that's prolly the comment coming to your mind now but guess what, I'm not. But, you certainly are a liberal who supports a Cop Killer.
At this point, I butt in. Here's the deal. MPL is a publishing company. What purpose does a publishing company serve? Very little, it was an archaic little idea from the early days of the "Modern" music industry designed to suck more money. Your indy labels like mine ( P20 Records ) have to put up with a lot of bullsnip thanks to publishing companies. There are ways around them. More or less the publishing companies are the people who grant rights for the music and some other stuff and they act similarly to say companies like Sierra that publish other people's games and software. However software has a better model where the Label and Publisher are combined, creating more cash for both the label and the software company. The only decent purpose the publishing companies serve is they act as a 3rd party in contract disputes and have the final vote. Which does very little these days where usually the artist or thelabel is also the publishing company, For instance Alice In Chain's publisher is Buttnugget Publishing,and Jerry Cantrell is the President of Buttnugget Publishing...LAbels have subsidiary publish companies in most cases...and the purpose of one of those 2 parties being the publisher is to (honestly) screw the other party over. Now in this case the publisher who does own the rights to this music is sueing a company for something which doesn't violate any copyright, patent, liscense or contract. Now in most cases an artist gets 3-5% of all albums sold. Let's say you buy a CD here in atlanta for $16.95, there's a 6% sales tax you pay $17.97. Well You can thank the Georgia State Government and the City of Atlanta for $1.02 of that. You can thank let's say oh Alice Cooper for $.62 of that, mind you that $.62 is spread among him and anyone who played any instrument or did back up vocals for him, or let's say he had to pay a royalty for something ont he album, it comes out of there!Just imagine if he used a choir for BGVs!?!? Probably $1.50 of that goes to the Publishing company (guestimate). Now at this point prolly $1.00 went to the store your bought it from. $2.00 went to the distributor. The other $11.83, goes to Producers, sound engineers, et cetera et cetera, then finally the studio, the record label who all have employees to pay. Bills to pay. Liscense fees to pay. Oh let's not for get the $.10 per CD (even higher for small labels who press in less volume!!!!) so. Album sales do not make money. Royalties don't even make money! Tour do. LEt me make sure you know everyone...EVERYONE involved makes money off the tours. So tell me, is it really all that bad that your pay that much for a cd? Is it REALLY that bad?! If it's to much, tell record labels to ditch publishing companies, tell the government to get rid of operating liscenses, sales tax, and tell utility companies to stop charging for their services. Do that and you can cut the cost and thereby the price by maybe a $1.00 or $2.00. Either hush your cry baby mouths, or just don't PAY it and don't enjoy the music. And yes, my label is making plans for MP3 distribution. Derek Greene Punk Rock Guitarist/Vocalist Record Label Dude Programmer Technician Linux Freak
Puking, destroying you liver, drinking what is more or less spoiled food in liquid form that taste like shit is fun. Ok then you're a dumb ass. Oh by the way anyone who considers my swearing unintellectual or violates my own religion, tell me where int he Bible it says anything about swearing and hey, unintellectual....I don't need to prove my intelligence to anyone through my language skills. I'll do that at job interviews.:-)
I drive a 1987 Honda Civic CRX Si, small, quick, 40mpg too. Not to mention that it's a cheap buy and fun to work on. (With only 2 seats, it's a great method of birth-control also.:-) A 1999 Honda Civic Si, going the same speed, will turn my little plastic car into a pancake. Reason? Size. Size always matters in cars. While the Civic is not that much bigger than my CRX, that extra size will turn me into a dead man if hit the right way. Now change it up. 1999 Honda Civic and let's say (since I don't know the type of SUV this particular drunk bastard was driving) a Nissan Xterra. If they both were going 30 that Civic is still going to be minced meat! Size and weight make a hell of a lot more difference than speed (although, speed does not help save lives that's for sure!)
No one cares if the word exists! No one cares if you are at Harvard! Ewwwwww! I got a scholarship to Harvard, yet my I.Q. is to low to know not to that swearing makes me sound like an idiot. Everyone makes mistakes in spelling, you even did mister I got a scholarship to Harvard that no one really cares about, but I can masturbate to the letter in my dorm room while my friends who also got scholarships to Harvard do the same! How many people get scholarships to Harvard or other Ivy-League schools? You answer: plenty. Unless there's only one and you got it, you're scholarship makes you no more important than anyone else, okay?
I can't say how excited I was to be able to buy Quake 3 specifically the Linux version out or Electronics Boutique, but, the thing that keeps me from going linux full time to be honest, is a lack of flight-sims! Do you have plans to port any flight-sims anytime soon?
How about a device driver for the internal, or external USB Alcatel ADSL modems?:-) Would be kind of nice for those poor souls who were stuck with them by their evil ADSL provider.
you're being sarcastic right? please say yes... if you're not however well first off, one incident provesnothing especially since a) you don'tknow it's a linux machine b) it's one incident...windows servers go down all the time...linux machines have higher uptimes from what I've seen...aside from that umm hmm that's just a stupid comment to make, to be honest. i mean oh my God the supid msql server...mind you the server for a stupid database implementation that didnt need to be used for something so trivial as pictures...went down...this means linux sucks.
Umm tell me your being sarcastic? btw, how do you know it was kids? While family life these days sucks, and schools in America at least are CRAP! (hence, why I'm homeschooled) There is no proof it was kids, maybe DDoS is just a ploy for a sysadmin who screwed up? I mean no one is taking credit...
Well, gamer's really don't give a DAMN if there's source code for the driver or not, they jsut want it to work and be really fast and really pretty...and well is this intended to be for programmers? partly...that's what documentation is for...is this for gamers...YOUR DAMNED STRAIGHT IT IS! frankly, what gamers want is for that $350 Hercules 3d Prophet DDR-DVI that gets no less than 70FPS in windows to get that same FPS in linux....source code or not. Aside from that however...hmm well they gave source for their X server...they gave source for their GLX modules...hmm what on earth would the point be in closing the source?
Actually, I do better on everything than kids in our local public schools. I'm actually politically aware something most of these kids do not ever have a care about.
Go check records, when guns laws become more liberal, violent crimes go down. Reason? Simple, criminals are wimps, they are not going to try and kill people who are likely to be armed! Aside from that, as Jesse Ventura said in an interview recently, "We don't need anymore gun control, we don't need most of what we have now! If I wanted a machine gun and I had the money, you can rest assured somebody out there has one that I can get."
People who use guns for criminal purposes will usually buy them illegally, simple as that. In the Littleton, Colorado shooting, 17 laws were broken! Why do we need more? It'd be alot easier if we actually prosecuted the ones we have! Aside from that the second amendment says "...and the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." According to the dictionary infringed means: To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract.
By that definition, any gun control law is unconstitutional!
As for my kids killing me. I doubt it. Unlike most parents, i don't foresee myself neglecting to teach my kids about gun safety. I certainly wouldn't put my kids through the hell of conventional school that I went through.
Frankly your comment is pathetic. This child is perfectly normal to me. I'm 15, I've been programming since I was 9. I play first person shooters. I also left the conventional school system to be homeschooled.
Video games no more make people kill than movies. The military could just as easily teach soldiers to kill by exposing them to a repeat clip of one of their fellow soldiers firing a gun at a realistic looking dummy for hours on end.
If you want to know why these shooting like this happen, read the voices form the hellmouth series of articles. It's not gun availability doing this...in fact that causes violence to go down...it's that these kids are being a) terrorized into near insanity and pre hatred on a daily basis and b) simultaneously being told they need to get in touch with their feelings by liberal educators. Yet the liberal media wonders why this stuff happens? Go spend one day in the shoes of a so-called nerd. You'll find out really quick.
You hit the nail on the head. I'm a christian, but, I am by far not the right-wing FANATIC (I'm definitely right-of-center however:-), that most people here are. However, we now have alot of kids my age, plus, I play on a homeschooler baseball team (we kick alot of people's butts too...15-2 record.:-) I get alot of social interaction and heck I've always been kind of shy around kids (mainly because I find most of their subjects are stupid and boring, plus I'm afraid I'll say something and they'll ridicule me some more.) so I don't want as much as I get.
Hearing stuff like what you said reminds me of that line in Good Will Hunting...I'll paraphrase since I can't remember it exactly "Yeah man, so you're parents are dropping a hundred grand a year for an education you could get for 5 bucks in late feesat the local public library!"
Geez, I went to school for 5 years, and I woke up every morning hating it - but, no longer! Homeschooled now, thank God! I went from pre-school to 3rd grade, and even then, I was beaten daily. I'm not talked slammed into a locker or whatever, I am talking about being BEATEN! I was picked on, humiliated publicly...and people wonder why these kids hated others? Quit looking at the media around and start looking at who they hated!
I am no longer abnormal, on the surface. In fact, I don't think I ever was! I wear baggy jeans, and t-shirts. I look like your every day skater (I'm not, I just look it.) But, in fact, i play guitar, play baseball (dang good I will say!), and I also happened to have gotten into programming back when I was 10 and have loved it ever since!
Yes still, I'm ridiculed by people supposedly of my own religion (Christianity), I'm hated by girls (I'm yet to figure out why, I'd die to save most of the girls I know, even though most of them wouldn't give up a drop of blood for me if I needed it!), and most of all, all the preppy little jocks hate me.
Do I know why? Heck yeah I know why. I'm smarter than they are, I'm not afraid of being an individual, I'm not afraid to think on my own, I'm not afraid to have morals, and I'm not afraid of NOT conforming!
Parents hate me, for not dressing like a "good young man." Well sorry! Suck my dick and call me a weirdo if you don't like it!
People don't like a guy who tells them they're screwing their own lives up, so I guess they hate me for that too...my apologies if I don't wanna go out, get drunk, drive a car illegally into a tree and kill myself in the fire that ensues. Sorry I don't wanna fry my brain cells with narcotics, sorry I don't wanna destroy my lungs with cigarettes.
Yet, with all the "violent" games I play (flight sims, quake 1 and 2, half-life, wolf 3d back in the day, doom 1 and 2...et cetera et cetera) I have NEVER EVER said that I hated anyone who hated me, I have NEVER EVER even thought about killing any of them. I've just kept my mouth shut about all the crap that has happened to me and held it all in all of my life. Believe me, the emotional pain and scars stick, and it got to the point where I attempted to kill myself (I'm seeing a shrink now...she's actually quite helpful.)
Yet these stupid, idiotic teachers and stuff would ask me why I held it all in...WELL DUUUUUUUH!!! I didn't at first, I told people, but, do you think anyone would believe me? Heck no!
Do I like being "the geek?" No, I hate not being able to get a date, I hate not having many friends, I hate have self-esteem that is a 0 on a 0-100 scale...but, I put up with it because I know one day when all these people who put me through a living hell, made fun of me all of my life, beat me up when I was younger (I'm big enough now that I don't attract a whole lot of fights), and hated me, will be working dead-end jobs make crap, and I can say hey f--- you! You treated me like crap so screw off!
Educators gets your heads out of your @$$3$ start teaching kids, stop looking up to dumb jocks and little slut fashion queens, and start doing somethin about these kids who's lives are hell!
Derek
P.S. - No, I do not condone what those punks did, it was sick, and wrong! My heart still rbeaks thinking about all the footage of those girls crying. But I do understand them.
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Aye, you're right...my monetary figures were more "Let's jsut say" type of things. I have to disagree about tours only makign the money for really small and really big bands. All bands do their touring to support their album...but that's a bullship term honestly. Cause like I said Album sales don't mean much of anything. Where album sales really make bands money (i try to do this whenever possible) is at the merchandising section at their concerts. They can charge a dollar or 2 less than the stores, which makes it attractive, but, they need not go through distributors to get it, so they can make cash off that. All album sales REALLY do is, pay recording costs. This also goes into why TLC (the pop/R&B/rap group whose music i don't enjoy but it's a matter of personal taste really...) files for bankruptcy a few years ago...after going platinum: they didn't tour enough.
Derek
DMB and the Beatles all have used multi-track recording. Multi track recording has been around for decades...it was jsut analog before. with bands that actually play instruments, like DMB what multi tracking is used for is adding effects in later or correcting a mistake ont he recording, instead of re-recording it. Which i don't see as bad, since, after-all alot of music is written in the studio. Practice before the tour is what makes them sound so good live, but constant touring before studio time typically doesnt give this opportunity. That's also why alot of songs are done differently live than ont he album.
Did they steal someone else's songs? WEll not that we know of. Btw, black rock'n roll played got their inspiration from swing which came from jazz, which came from classical, and past that it doesn't matter. No one cares if the rock'n roll "originators" were black or white, it doesn't matter! If someone steals music McCartney has rights to, he has a legal right to sue them.
For your information one of my favorite guitarists is Chuck Berry, another Jimmy Hendrix yet my favorite bands of all-time: The Crickets, MxPx, The Ramones, Alice In Chains.
Whine Whine Whine. Eww you're just a rascist, that's prolly the comment coming to your mind now but guess what, I'm not. But, you certainly are a liberal who supports a Cop Killer.
At this point, I butt in. Here's the deal. MPL is a publishing company. What purpose does a publishing company serve? Very little, it was an archaic little idea from the early days of the "Modern" music industry designed to suck more money. Your indy labels like mine ( P20 Records ) have to put up with a lot of bullsnip thanks to publishing companies. There are ways around them. More or less the publishing companies are the people who grant rights for the music and some other stuff and they act similarly to say companies like Sierra that publish other people's games and software. However software has a better model where the Label and Publisher are combined, creating more cash for both the label and the software company. The only decent purpose the publishing companies serve is they act as a 3rd party in contract disputes and have the final vote. Which does very little these days where usually the artist or thelabel is also the publishing company, For instance Alice In Chain's publisher is Buttnugget Publishing,and Jerry Cantrell is the President of Buttnugget Publishing...LAbels have subsidiary publish companies in most cases...and the purpose of one of those 2 parties being the publisher is to (honestly) screw the other party over. Now in this case the publisher who does own the rights to this music is sueing a company for something which doesn't violate any copyright, patent, liscense or contract. Now in most cases an artist gets 3-5% of all albums sold. Let's say you buy a CD here in atlanta for $16.95, there's a 6% sales tax you pay $17.97. Well You can thank the Georgia State Government and the City of Atlanta for $1.02 of that. You can thank let's say oh Alice Cooper for $.62 of that, mind you that $.62 is spread among him and anyone who played any instrument or did back up vocals for him, or let's say he had to pay a royalty for something ont he album, it comes out of there!Just imagine if he used a choir for BGVs!?!? Probably $1.50 of that goes to the Publishing company (guestimate). Now at this point prolly $1.00 went to the store your bought it from. $2.00 went to the distributor. The other $11.83, goes to Producers, sound engineers, et cetera et cetera, then finally the studio, the record label who all have employees to pay. Bills to pay. Liscense fees to pay. Oh let's not for get the $.10 per CD (even higher for small labels who press in less volume!!!!) so. Album sales do not make money. Royalties don't even make money! Tour do. LEt me make sure you know everyone...EVERYONE involved makes money off the tours. So tell me, is it really all that bad that your pay that much for a cd? Is it REALLY that bad?! If it's to much, tell record labels to ditch publishing companies, tell the government to get rid of operating liscenses, sales tax, and tell utility companies to stop charging for their services. Do that and you can cut the cost and thereby the price by maybe a $1.00 or $2.00. Either hush your cry baby mouths, or just don't PAY it and don't enjoy the music. And yes, my label is making plans for MP3 distribution. Derek Greene Punk Rock Guitarist/Vocalist Record Label Dude Programmer Technician Linux Freak
Puking, destroying you liver, drinking what is more or less spoiled food in liquid form that taste like shit is fun. Ok then you're a dumb ass. Oh by the way anyone who considers my swearing unintellectual or violates my own religion, tell me where int he Bible it says anything about swearing and hey, unintellectual....I don't need to prove my intelligence to anyone through my language skills. I'll do that at job interviews. :-)
I drive a 1987 Honda Civic CRX Si, small, quick, 40mpg too. Not to mention that it's a cheap buy and fun to work on. (With only 2 seats, it's a great method of birth-control also. :-) A 1999 Honda Civic Si, going the same speed, will turn my little plastic car into a pancake. Reason? Size. Size always matters in cars. While the Civic is not that much bigger than my CRX, that extra size will turn me into a dead man if hit the right way. Now change it up. 1999 Honda Civic and let's say (since I don't know the type of SUV this particular drunk bastard was driving) a Nissan Xterra. If they both were going 30 that Civic is still going to be minced meat! Size and weight make a hell of a lot more difference than speed (although, speed does not help save lives that's for sure!)
No one cares if the word exists! No one cares if you are at Harvard! Ewwwwww! I got a scholarship to Harvard, yet my I.Q. is to low to know not to that swearing makes me sound like an idiot. Everyone makes mistakes in spelling, you even did mister I got a scholarship to Harvard that no one really cares about, but I can masturbate to the letter in my dorm room while my friends who also got scholarships to Harvard do the same! How many people get scholarships to Harvard or other Ivy-League schools? You answer: plenty. Unless there's only one and you got it, you're scholarship makes you no more important than anyone else, okay?
I can't say how excited I was to be able to buy Quake 3 specifically the Linux version out or Electronics Boutique, but, the thing that keeps me from going linux full time to be honest, is a lack of flight-sims! Do you have plans to port any flight-sims anytime soon?
Derek G.
How about a device driver for the internal, or external USB Alcatel ADSL modems? :-) Would be kind of nice for those poor souls who were stuck with them by their evil ADSL provider.
Actually no, you're just a a loser. :-) Cuz the Matrix == 2nd only to Star Wars.
you're being sarcastic right? please say yes... if you're not however well first off, one incident provesnothing especially since a) you don'tknow it's a linux machine b) it's one incident...windows servers go down all the time...linux machines have higher uptimes from what I've seen...aside from that umm hmm that's just a stupid comment to make, to be honest. i mean oh my God the supid msql server...mind you the server for a stupid database implementation that didnt need to be used for something so trivial as pictures...went down...this means linux sucks.
Umm tell me your being sarcastic? btw, how do you know it was kids? While family life these days sucks, and schools in America at least are CRAP! (hence, why I'm homeschooled) There is no proof it was kids, maybe DDoS is just a ploy for a sysadmin who screwed up? I mean no one is taking credit...
Well, gamer's really don't give a DAMN if there's source code for the driver or not, they jsut want it to work and be really fast and really pretty...and well is this intended to be for programmers? partly...that's what documentation is for...is this for gamers...YOUR DAMNED STRAIGHT IT IS! frankly, what gamers want is for that $350 Hercules 3d Prophet DDR-DVI that gets no less than 70FPS in windows to get that same FPS in linux....source code or not. Aside from that however...hmm well they gave source for their X server...they gave source for their GLX modules...hmm what on earth would the point be in closing the source?
Like eating pie when one uses the GUI utilities to do it.
Actually, I do better on everything than kids in our local public schools. I'm actually politically aware something most of these kids do not ever have a care about.
Go check records, when guns laws become more liberal, violent crimes go down. Reason? Simple, criminals are wimps, they are not going to try and kill people who are likely to be armed! Aside from that, as Jesse Ventura said in an interview recently, "We don't need anymore gun control, we don't need most of what we have now! If I wanted a machine gun and I had the money, you can rest assured somebody out there has one that I can get."
People who use guns for criminal purposes will usually buy them illegally, simple as that. In the Littleton, Colorado shooting, 17 laws were broken! Why do we need more? It'd be alot easier if we actually prosecuted the ones we have! Aside from that the second amendment says "...and the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." According to the dictionary infringed means: To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract.
By that definition, any gun control law is unconstitutional!
As for my kids killing me. I doubt it. Unlike most parents, i don't foresee myself neglecting to teach my kids about gun safety. I certainly wouldn't put my kids through the hell of conventional school that I went through.
Derek
Frankly your comment is pathetic. This child is perfectly normal to me. I'm 15, I've been programming since I was 9. I play first person shooters. I also left the conventional school system to be homeschooled.
Video games no more make people kill than movies. The military could just as easily teach soldiers to kill by exposing them to a repeat clip of one of their fellow soldiers firing a gun at a realistic looking dummy for hours on end.
If you want to know why these shooting like this happen, read the voices form the hellmouth series of articles. It's not gun availability doing this...in fact that causes violence to go down...it's that these kids are being a) terrorized into near insanity and pre hatred on a daily basis and b) simultaneously being told they need to get in touch with their feelings by liberal educators. Yet the liberal media wonders why this stuff happens? Go spend one day in the shoes of a so-called nerd. You'll find out really quick.
Derek
"Yeeee suckeeerrrs!"- G. Gordon Liddy
You hit the nail on the head. I'm a christian, but, I am by far not the right-wing FANATIC (I'm definitely right-of-center however :-), that most people here are. However, we now have alot of kids my age, plus, I play on a homeschooler baseball team (we kick alot of people's butts too...15-2 record. :-) I get alot of social interaction and heck I've always been kind of shy around kids (mainly because I find most of their subjects are stupid and boring, plus I'm afraid I'll say something and they'll ridicule me some more.) so I don't want as much as I get.
Hearing stuff like what you said reminds me of that line in Good Will Hunting...I'll paraphrase since I can't remember it exactly "Yeah man, so you're parents are dropping a hundred grand a year for an education you could get for 5 bucks in late feesat the local public library!"
Derek Greene
Geez, I went to school for 5 years, and I woke up every morning hating it - but, no longer! Homeschooled now, thank God! I went from pre-school to 3rd grade, and even then, I was beaten daily. I'm not talked slammed into a locker or whatever, I am talking about being BEATEN! I was picked on, humiliated publicly...and people wonder why these kids hated others? Quit looking at the media around and start looking at who they hated!
I am no longer abnormal, on the surface. In fact, I don't think I ever was! I wear baggy jeans, and t-shirts. I look like your every day skater (I'm not, I just look it.) But, in fact, i play guitar, play baseball (dang good I will say!), and I also happened to have gotten into programming back when I was 10 and have loved it ever since!
Yes still, I'm ridiculed by people supposedly of my own religion (Christianity), I'm hated by girls (I'm yet to figure out why, I'd die to save most of the girls I know, even though most of them wouldn't give up a drop of blood for me if I needed it!), and most of all, all the preppy little jocks hate me.
Do I know why? Heck yeah I know why. I'm smarter than they are, I'm not afraid of being an individual, I'm not afraid to think on my own, I'm not afraid to have morals, and I'm not afraid of NOT conforming!
Parents hate me, for not dressing like a "good young man." Well sorry! Suck my dick and call me a weirdo if you don't like it!
People don't like a guy who tells them they're screwing their own lives up, so I guess they hate me for that too...my apologies if I don't wanna go out, get drunk, drive a car illegally into a tree and kill myself in the fire that ensues. Sorry I don't wanna fry my brain cells with narcotics, sorry I don't wanna destroy my lungs with cigarettes.
Yet, with all the "violent" games I play (flight sims, quake 1 and 2, half-life, wolf 3d back in the day, doom 1 and 2...et cetera et cetera) I have NEVER EVER said that I hated anyone who hated me, I have NEVER EVER even thought about killing any of them. I've just kept my mouth shut about all the crap that has happened to me and held it all in all of my life. Believe me, the emotional pain and scars stick, and it got to the point where I attempted to kill myself (I'm seeing a shrink now...she's actually quite helpful.)
Yet these stupid, idiotic teachers and stuff would ask me why I held it all in...WELL DUUUUUUUH!!! I didn't at first, I told people, but, do you think anyone would believe me? Heck no!
Do I like being "the geek?" No, I hate not being able to get a date, I hate not having many friends, I hate have self-esteem that is a 0 on a 0-100 scale...but, I put up with it because I know one day when all these people who put me through a living hell, made fun of me all of my life, beat me up when I was younger (I'm big enough now that I don't attract a whole lot of fights), and hated me, will be working dead-end jobs make crap, and I can say hey f--- you! You treated me like crap so screw off!
Educators gets your heads out of your @$$3$ start teaching kids, stop looking up to dumb jocks and little slut fashion queens, and start doing somethin about these kids who's lives are hell!
Derek
P.S. - No, I do not condone what those punks did, it was sick, and wrong! My heart still rbeaks thinking about all the footage of those girls crying. But I do understand them.