It has nothing to do with being spineless, you just have to balance your desire to do what you want with the desire to stay sane. (yes i am saying that she will drive you crazy if you ignore her objections to your behavior)
For some women, a big rock can tilt that equation more in the man's favor.
In an email to GamePolitics, Thompson has responded to this request, writing, "You want to play hardball...? You want to try to throw me in jail? You have no idea what you are unleashing in doing this. You're at the brink..."
Does he think Blank-Rome is some kind of hick law firm in a backwater town? I seriously doubt they are underestimating what Thompson can "unleash" at any given time. How many different ways does everyone have to tell this guy to STFU?
As regards taking the original recording and playing about with it, anyone with enough time and a bit of computer software can do it - so I fail to see what "musicianship" is involved in that process."
Thats just silly. There is a whole range of skills required just to take the samples and that "bit of computer software" to produce something of high quality, then on top of that is the creative mindset to make it something that is interesting and enjoyable to listen to. Just because people aren't plucking strings or blowing in a mouthpiece doesn't mean it doesn't take skill or musicianship. I'm sure there are a lot of bad remixes too, but there is always a lot of crap in any art form - it doesn't make the good stuff any less worthy.
Also, I thought I would mention that there was a lot of remixers in the "Shock the Monkey" contest sang and played instruments for their remixes, so it wasn't just a bunch of people twiddling samples in software.
I don't think you should try to speak for all musicians when you say that they don't want or need their songs to be remixed. Some may not, but certainly not all of them and unless an artist's label is commissioning remixes against the artists' wishes, there has to be SOME sort of artist agreement for published remixes.
Oh, yeah. We really need to hear more versions of that. No thanks. I used to like that song before I heard it 10,000 times including remixes and covers.
What about all the fat, yet intelligent and creative people, or the gorgeous stupid people? What about good-looking people who are attracted to power and mate with the fat and ugly, yet rich and powerful? Is everyone all of a sudden going to start mating with people who only look somewhat like themselves? It's an amazingly short-sighted theory.
I have never installed an ISP sofware package. I have no idea why anyone would. I pay for an internet connection not a "ISP- name" portal to the internet.
Doesn't matter, Thopson is still a big fucking hypocrite for complaining that the judge didn't "see" the game when he was the one that complained vociferously for MONTHS about the game, threatened lawsuits loaded with lies and slander without having seen anything more than a marketing blurb and a handful of screenshots.
Would it be that hard for the manufacturer to make a camera tha brackets the shots and creates fake HDR images internally? Seems like all it would take is adding DSP chip.
All the debit cards I've used on the VISA system prevent you from overdrawing, at least more than one transaction. "Running up huge debt" sounds more like what you do with a traditional credit card than a debit card.
It's kind of silly for the article to insist that teens don't buy MP3's because the only place they can shop with cash, record stores, won't sell them. Besides the fact that it's partially untrue, that iTunes gift cards and similar are sold in stores, the article seems to ignore the thousands of media files sold in stores on small plastic circles that can almost effortlessly turned into MP3s.
This brings me to the advertisements that play at the start of DVD's here in Australia; something along the lines of you wouldnt steal [item - ie a car] so dont steal movies piracy is a crime etc etc.
What bothers me the most about these messages is that you can't skip them even though you have already PAID FOR THE DVD! It's ironic that people who use P2P to download movies ripped from DVD's will never see the message so all the message does is annoy the paying customer.
That was what I was thinking. It wouldn't matter that much if the did have a mechanism for buying because they often don't have money anyway. When I was a teen, we traded tapes with our friends because we couldn't always afford albums/CDs.
Besides, I don't buy the whole "no credit card" thing, unless they really mean that they can't overspend and run up huge debt by buying more than they can afford. Debit cards (aka Visa Check Cards) are given out like candy at all the banks I know.
How is it possible to run up debt from a debit card?
How about protecting the public from censorship and violating our basic rights to free speech.
Just because someone says something in and internet message board is no reason to put them behind bars for 3 years. You want to protect one worthless groups "rights" by violating those of another, how hypocritical.
This is the key issue here. I feel sorry for the victim and his family, but I don't think what his mother said here makes any sense:
"Hitler started with an idea, slavery started with an idea, so it is good that this was stopped in time."
Censorship was one of Hitlers most effective tools, so equating this verdict to "stopping Hitler" is absurd.
Doesn't everyone tend to just skim past this kind of verbal garbage these days? Even non-marketing/advertising people talk like that now. Sometimes, I think it is a company directive to use certain language in describing the company's product or processes.
I remember LOL at a radio interview a few years ago of a Microsoft Office project manager talking about making changes to their document format, ostensibly to make improvements, but mostly just to keep OpenOffice users from opening word documents. The quote: "We want to be able continue to innovate our document format." Holy hyperbole! Now "innovate" means merely "improve" or, more accurately here, "change"?
Isn't the real problem that consumers don't like the music you're putting out?
If people don't like today's music, why are they illegally downloading literally billions of new songs each month?
Luckily I have one: users download that much just wading through the shit to find the good songs, which they buy on CD or iTunes. Funny that the RIAA doesn't see the connection between this and the previous question.
I think the music industry hurts itself. When CD's were release they promised that they would cost around $5 in a few years as the costs of R&D were covered and mass production set in. The only CD's that sell for $5 are either crappy or used. They want to maintain their monopoly status and are unwilling to change. Those are the reasons I no longer buy CD's.
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You're not married are you?
It has nothing to do with being spineless, you just have to balance your desire to do what you want with the desire to stay sane. (yes i am saying that she will drive you crazy if you ignore her objections to your behavior)
For some women, a big rock can tilt that equation more in the man's favor.
Does he think Blank-Rome is some kind of hick law firm in a backwater town? I seriously doubt they are underestimating what Thompson can "unleash" at any given time. How many different ways does everyone have to tell this guy to STFU?
Thats just silly. There is a whole range of skills required just to take the samples and that "bit of computer software" to produce something of high quality, then on top of that is the creative mindset to make it something that is interesting and enjoyable to listen to. Just because people aren't plucking strings or blowing in a mouthpiece doesn't mean it doesn't take skill or musicianship. I'm sure there are a lot of bad remixes too, but there is always a lot of crap in any art form - it doesn't make the good stuff any less worthy.
Also, I thought I would mention that there was a lot of remixers in the "Shock the Monkey" contest sang and played instruments for their remixes, so it wasn't just a bunch of people twiddling samples in software.
I don't think you should try to speak for all musicians when you say that they don't want or need their songs to be remixed. Some may not, but certainly not all of them and unless an artist's label is commissioning remixes against the artists' wishes, there has to be SOME sort of artist agreement for published remixes.
Oh, yeah. We really need to hear more versions of that. No thanks. I used to like that song before I heard it 10,000 times including remixes and covers.
What about all the fat, yet intelligent and creative people, or the gorgeous stupid people? What about good-looking people who are attracted to power and mate with the fat and ugly, yet rich and powerful? Is everyone all of a sudden going to start mating with people who only look somewhat like themselves? It's an amazingly short-sighted theory.
If this becomes common, we'll have to start a wiki to keep track of the ports we need to block on our routers.
I have never installed an ISP sofware package. I have no idea why anyone would. I pay for an internet connection not a "ISP- name" portal to the internet.
Doesn't matter, Thopson is still a big fucking hypocrite for complaining that the judge didn't "see" the game when he was the one that complained vociferously for MONTHS about the game, threatened lawsuits loaded with lies and slander without having seen anything more than a marketing blurb and a handful of screenshots.
Fuck you, Thompson!
It's not too bad except for the limited file space:
http://www.ipodnetworks.com/
You're thinking iPods. They are all USB2 now.
Would it be that hard for the manufacturer to make a camera tha brackets the shots and creates fake HDR images internally? Seems like all it would take is adding DSP chip.
All the debit cards I've used on the VISA system prevent you from overdrawing, at least more than one transaction. "Running up huge debt" sounds more like what you do with a traditional credit card than a debit card.
It's kind of silly for the article to insist that teens don't buy MP3's because the only place they can shop with cash, record stores, won't sell them. Besides the fact that it's partially untrue, that iTunes gift cards and similar are sold in stores, the article seems to ignore the thousands of media files sold in stores on small plastic circles that can almost effortlessly turned into MP3s.
What bothers me the most about these messages is that you can't skip them even though you have already PAID FOR THE DVD! It's ironic that people who use P2P to download movies ripped from DVD's will never see the message so all the message does is annoy the paying customer.
That was what I was thinking. It wouldn't matter that much if the did have a mechanism for buying because they often don't have money anyway. When I was a teen, we traded tapes with our friends because we couldn't always afford albums/CDs.
How is it possible to run up debt from a debit card?
This is the key issue here. I feel sorry for the victim and his family, but I don't think what his mother said here makes any sense:
Censorship was one of Hitlers most effective tools, so equating this verdict to "stopping Hitler" is absurd.
Oh, here I thought it was something other than a silly joke.
What does this have to do with FIFA?
Doesn't everyone tend to just skim past this kind of verbal garbage these days? Even non-marketing/advertising people talk like that now. Sometimes, I think it is a company directive to use certain language in describing the company's product or processes.
I remember LOL at a radio interview a few years ago of a Microsoft Office project manager talking about making changes to their document format, ostensibly to make improvements, but mostly just to keep OpenOffice users from opening word documents. The quote: "We want to be able continue to innovate our document format." Holy hyperbole! Now "innovate" means merely "improve" or, more accurately here, "change"?
Funny that the RIAA doesn't see the connection between this and the previous question.
But we are supposed to be happy that CD prices didn't rise to $30 or more by following inflation of other consumer goods.
http://www.riaa.com/News/newsletter/062503_b.asp
No, those would be counted for YouTube. TFA mentions this.
If so then we wouldn't have anything to be annoyed about here. Boring!