Yet, studies show that the buses in mexico are several fold more effecient
Have you ever seen a mexican bus?
They have 2x the internal capacity filled up AND people hanging off the sides! All the while running at about 1/5 the spped of light on narrow winding mountain roads...
Now there really are a large majority of right-handed persons on earth, but the gender balance is 50-50.
Its actually more like 51-49, since guys get killed more (accidents, wars, etc). : )
you turn off (or just marginalize) potentially half of your paying audience.
No, women are NOT half of the potential gamers. Yes, there are women gamers, but they are rare. See, most girls/women don't play games not just because they can't identify with the characters or the colour scheme of the console (buy a freakin' Hello Kitty special edition console allready), but also because they suck at hand-eye coordination. Hey, its true, I'm not making that up, I've asked women why they don't play game, and they often tell me its because they don't have the M4D SK1llZ needed to play 'em.
So too with game designers. If you want to capture the other 50% of the market, can you empathize with that other half?
Its not the other 50% any more then lefties are the other 50%. Come back to reality, bub
I see that attitude as a threat to my hobby. I like the gaming industry, I like games. You're talking about making changes that would aim for an impossible objective (making as many girls as boys interrested in holding on to a game controller), and that would entail many superflous changes that would be doomed to fail and would therefore simply crappyfy games for nothing.
You want an example? Ico I've heard people(girls) talk shit about Ico because you play a boy who saves a girls. Words like "sexist" and "cliché" were thrown around...I wanted to slap them. Ico is a great game, incredibly well developped gameplay, graphics, etc etc etc. And I heard one girl complain that it should be the girl that saves the boy. Well, for starters SPOILER WARNING SPOILAGE BELOW
Yorda (the princess) ends up saving Ico from the crumbling castle in the end by taking him up in her arms and walking him to the boat. That's a strong female character right there, but since she starts out as a drugged (or whatever, we don't really know) girl trapped in a cage, its somehow sexist in a very contrived way.
You know what? Its FUN to play a boy with horns trying to save a glow-in-the-dark princess from a haunted castle! That's a great game and the basic idea is classic "Hero and princess" fantasy. Injecting that politically correct crap into the game would have ruined it. There are 2 strong female characters in the game: The evil queen sorceress and the beautifull fragile princess. These work, and if girls need a butch lesbo fighter chubby girl with glasses and acne in order to appreciate a game, well let THEM make it and let the people who make good games with classic characters keep making 'em.
So did I, at first. But then I bought a stand alone DVD player, for a lot less than the PS2, and the quality is much better than the PS2's. Plus it reads all the DVDs, my PS2 had a hard time with some, especially multi-layer DVDs.
Ya know, I never had that problem. Well, once. I have one cheap double feature DVD I bought off some internet site that has to be coaxed to play the ending of one of the movies, but all other DVDs play fine. In fact, the layer change is sometimes much more noticable on regular DVD players...Ah well.
My PS2's drive is also going. It is over 2 years old, so I should be happy it lasted that long (my PSX had to be upside-down or it wouldn't work after I owned it for 6 months), but I'm still going to have to replace it soon. It rarely reads disks on the first try anymore, even when they are brand new.
Damn! I know I'm carefull with my things and I take good care of them and all, but damn!
You do know you ain't supposed to leave your consoles out in the rain? And you shouldn't use them as door stops or anchors or rhino-ticklers too...
Go buy a GameCube then.
I already have one, and an Xbox as well.
Go to hell;- )
It's just a matter of proper organization.;- I might have to move something if I get a home theater setup...
Yeah, I got the tv, the input switcher (tv only has 1 RCA input), the computer, printer, scanner, stereo, bookcase, etc...I had to get rid of the VCR (I got a DVD, who needs VCR? So what if I can't record shows and whatnot...sigh).
Man, I got too much stuff : ) Yay! (better too much stuff than not enough)
Backwards compatibility is a plus. But the older PSX analog controller doesn't have analog buttons....but most games don't really utlize them in multiplayer, if at all. The rumble and analog sticks are really all that are required for most games.
That's the beauty of it: Analogue buttons are for precision controlls, wich are rarely needed in multiplayer. I dare say that the good people of Sony thought this through!
Ya know, I was a bit edgy in that last post. But like I said, I loves my PS2 and I've heard so much insane crap against it by opposing fanboys that I tend to sometimes overreact to percieved attacks against my beautifull machine. : )
So, you got all 3 consoles? I want a cube, so I get that, but why an XBox? You just had to have all 3?
I bought a PS2 tp play games AND watch movies. So did my friend.
I want my game consoles to play games
Go buy a GameCube then.
I want my console to play games, play games from the previous console, play movies, play music, and some day, make me breakfast (playstation 6 or something). I want the bang for my buck.
I bought a PS2, now I don't need to buy a DVD that would eat away precious living-room real estate and precious bank account money.
Oh, and the cool thing about the PS2 is that since I allready had an original playstation, for wich my ex had given me an analogue controller, I don't need to buy an extra controller to play 2 player games! Hurrah for backwards compatibility! : ) I loves my PS2! I looooooooves it!
But the real money-burner is promotion and distribution. Thousands, hundreds of thousands are spent on replication and distribution and marketing just so regular people (including the non net-savvy) can hear about new music.
Yeah, and I don't want to be the one to pay for the promotion of every stupid pointless formulaic boyband out there!
The RIAA should pay ME everytime I hear an N*SYNC song...they should seriously give me 12 dollars everytime I hear a stupid annoying catchy tune I do not want to hear. They want me to pay for promotion? I want them to die DIE DIE DIE a horrible death.
Its like if spammers were charging us for every spam they send! Its not right dammit! Its just not right.
Annoying. And it gets worse, because mounting a remote ftp site often seems to threadlock the entire OS: the dreaded spinning wheel of death.
So I'm currently rebooting thanks to Safari.
Geez dude, when the finder locks up, just use Force Quit to reload the finder. It works just as well as any other application. That FTP-to-finder-then-freeze thing happened to me yesterday. Command-Alt-Escape brings up the Force Quit window. You reload the finder, and all is well with the world. The other applications don't even quit or crash or anything.
Main Entry: 2censor
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): censored; censoring/'sen(t)-s&-ri[ng], 'sen(t)s-ri[ng]/
Date: 1882
: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable
Main Entry: censorship
1 a : the institution, system, or practice of censoring b : the actions or practices of censors; especially : censorial control exercised repressively
Why would we stop calling the act of censoring "censorship"?
Someone at Fox wanted that show to fail. I dunno what they were shooting in their veins at the time, but they did everything in their power to make that show fail (12:20am! I kid you not!).
Kinda like Futurama gets the timeslot of death after Football? I seem to remember something similar happening to Babylon five later in the fourth season (I actually thought it ended there. I didn't realize there was another until I saw it on TNT) but I don't remember for sure if that was FOX.
Ah! If I wanted to watch B5, from the start, I had to either tape it or stay up so I could catch it when it was on at 12:05am on tuesday nights (wednesday morning, depends how you look at it)! Futurama settled on the football-overtime death slot, but for a while I'd stumble upon it on tuesday, wednesdays, or fridays...I think it changed days every week for a couple of months.
My theory is that its the result of internal wars. Vice Presidents torpedoing the shows of other vice presidents in their lil' dog-eat-dog corporate games. Pettyness seems the only reasonable explication.
No, it makes terrible business sense. What happens if Microsoft pushes the price up too high, and Apple decides to bail out?
Wow, you base your argument on incompetance? Yeah, if they are too stupid to pull it off, it doesn't make sense to try it. Jeeze.
Do you keep that assumption of impending plunders in all aspects of buisness decision making? What if they code windows wrong and it never even boots? What if GM makes a car that explodes when you make a right turn? Gimme a break.
Obviously, MS isn't really interrested in buying Universal, but its good buisness to make sure that your competitors have a hard time pulling their deals.
MS makes a bid, forces apple to hike up their bid. In the end, MS doesn't buy anything and apple had to spend way more to get what they wanted, wich hurts them and therefore indirectly helps MS.
Is tricky, its devious, its evil...its Microsoft at its best.
I would think that there are a lot of people who don't know that show. It was only on for 11 episodes...out of order, on a random timeslot, and not hyped very much. It was also cancelled before they aired the pilot. Wich on a stupidity scale of 1 to 10 is an easy 15.
Does anyone have a better description than "space western"?
Yes, here is a sci-fi site with reviews of all the episode that made it to the air.
You can also read my journal entry on the subject. Of course, I wrote that entry in a time long-gone when other networks were maybe gonna air it instead of Fox, but alas, that never came to be.
Nope All the networks passed up on it (the show costs 2 millions per episode...they'll do cheap-ass "reality" tv instead).
Sci-fi has decided to move away from "space" shows. The reason for this move is up to debate, personally I think they had a bad batch of crack and are now brain dammaged (sci-fi is moving away from space shows???).
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Fox didn't handle Firefly particularly well but I'm sort of doubtful that was the reason for its demise at the end of the day.
Seriously? You don't think that airing it on alternating weeks on a random time slot (8pm, 12:05am, 12:20am) is the reason for its demise? How about airing episodes out of order so that they would talk about stuff that was supposed to have happened but we haven't seen yet.
How about hyping the girl in the box for a whole summer and then cancelling the series before even ever showing the girl-in-a-box pilot?
Someone at Fox wanted that show to fail. I dunno what they were shooting in their veins at the time, but they did everything in their power to make that show fail (12:20am! I kid you not!).
I was with you right up 'till "Flash gets you nothing- it's just for lazy designers who are too stupid to learn how to properly code HTML.", wich is flamebait. I have a moderator point I could burn you with, but I'll reply instead.
First of all, most of your comment made sense. Yes, having a 100% flash site is a bad idea: it limits your site's availability. But generalization and insults are not helping you to drive your point home. Now if you'd be so kind as to learn proper etiquette and to start behaving in a polite civilised nature, we'd all appreciate it very much.
Moving on to the constructive discussion and the sharing of ideas: The webheads and the boss at my old job were flash-happy. They redid the company's web site all in flash. I was pretty allright. But I kept telling them "make a simple HTML interface that lets people get to the content too", and they ignored me. Until the boss tried to show off the pretty new website to a client who's old laptop couldn't handle the flashiness. Then he realised I was right and had the webmonkeys do as I said. The moral is: Make your store wheelchair acessible and your company website html acessible. Its just good buisness sense.
It is illegal. Those people are benefiting without compensating the owners.
See, this is where I say "fuck you, and the horse you rode in on!".
Because I d/l music off P2P networks, and I still buy records! I bought one just las friday!
See, just because I can spend hours hunting down and d/l badly encoded and dubiously named songs doesn't mean I can't also go all the way to the record store (its far), spend time hunting down the record I want in their dubious inventory (so many boys bands!) and then wait in line to give 'em my cash and leave with a record.
I use the P2P to shop for music! I don't buy everything I d/l because its not all actually available in stores. Now, I had a very hard time downloading "At First Sight" by The Stems (80's australian rock band), and while looking for it I learned that they are rereleasing their debut album. As soon as I can get my hands on the album, I'll buy it. In the mean time, I have a mp3 of my fave song from the album.
See, the record companies like to make people believe that d/l songs is stealing, and we all know that that is pure bullshit. I know this because I don't steal, I think stealing is wrong, and I don't mind d/l off limewire one tiny bit. When you steal, you take something away from someone. When you d/l, you don't. Simple as that. Its illegal, and if you just leech off and never buy anything anymore because you can steal it instead, then you don't have something against stealing in the first place and wouls walk out of record stores without paying if you could.
The record companies used to controll the production and distribution of music. They are loosing that controll. The record companies have time and time again abused their power, and its a good thing that they are loosing their abuse power. When parents neglect and abuse a child, the state steps in (when possible) and takes the child away. Now the internet is taking the controll away from the abusive cartell of record companies, and its about freakin' time!
Sharing music is illegal, but it isn't wrong. Sharing music is illegal, and everybody is doing it! So everyone who ever used Napster of Kazaa or whatever is a de-facto criminal. Maybe we should jail everyone under the age of 40? See, sometimes laws are stupid and wrong, following the law is all well and good when the laws are good, but when special interest groups bribe politicians into passing laws that should not be, things are different.
What we are looking at right now is widespread civil disobediance. That's not something governments like usually. If the politicians were actually in it for the people instead of the free RIAA boats and cars, then they would correct the law according to the best interest of the people, not in the best interest of their wallets.
In short: The records companies can get bent. I want music and I'll get it anyway I can, whether through them or despite them. If they can offer good products at good prices, they don't need to fear piracy. If they want to use their oligoly to controll prices, availability and distribution to maximise profit, then they have reasons to fear alternate music sources. See, maybe I don't care that you spent five gazillion dollars on promoting N*STINK and I don't want to pay more for my records to compensate for that expense? And maybe I'd like to replace my broken casette right now and not wait another 10 years before you get off your lazy ass and print another batch of it (or wait 'till I die because your too busy printing Britney posters to get around rereleasing the stuff I want).
The music companies need to adapt to the internet, not to try and go back in time to when there was no internet.
The US now specialises in renaming junk food and having marines shoot each other in Iraq.
Japan took over the gadgets LOOOOOOOOOONG ago. All the US has to show for itself in that department recently is the iPod (wich is, admitedly, freakin' kewl).
Other areas in wich the US has taken the lead are obesity, childish behaviour of elected official (freedom toast? For real???), and unmanned air vehicles (wich are gadgets of a sort, I guess).
See, its all about priorities: Japan has gadgets and hummanois robots, the Us has weapons and patriotic junk food for its obese patriots!
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Yet, studies show that the buses in mexico are several fold more effecient
Have you ever seen a mexican bus?
They have 2x the internal capacity filled up AND people hanging off the sides! All the while running at about 1/5 the spped of light on narrow winding mountain roads...
Its efficient? Its also the scariest thing ever!
Wanna bet those "unnoticeable" flickers are likely to give people some terrible migraines? How 'bout epileptic seisures?
I tell you, if the movies strat giving me migraines, I'm suing somebody.
Its bad enough that they insist on having the sound up a few notches above the pain threshold, now they're gonna mess with our eyes too? Geez!
Its actually more like 51-49, since guys get killed more (accidents, wars, etc). : )
you turn off (or just marginalize) potentially half of your paying audience.
No, women are NOT half of the potential gamers. Yes, there are women gamers, but they are rare. See, most girls/women don't play games not just because they can't identify with the characters or the colour scheme of the console (buy a freakin' Hello Kitty special edition console allready), but also because they suck at hand-eye coordination. Hey, its true, I'm not making that up, I've asked women why they don't play game, and they often tell me its because they don't have the M4D SK1llZ needed to play 'em.
So too with game designers. If you want to capture the other 50% of the market, can you empathize with that other half?
Its not the other 50% any more then lefties are the other 50%. Come back to reality, bub
I see that attitude as a threat to my hobby. I like the gaming industry, I like games. You're talking about making changes that would aim for an impossible objective (making as many girls as boys interrested in holding on to a game controller), and that would entail many superflous changes that would be doomed to fail and would therefore simply crappyfy games for nothing.
You want an example?
Ico
I've heard people(girls) talk shit about Ico because you play a boy who saves a girls. Words like "sexist" and "cliché" were thrown around...I wanted to slap them. Ico is a great game, incredibly well developped gameplay, graphics, etc etc etc. And I heard one girl complain that it should be the girl that saves the boy. Well, for starters
SPOILER WARNING
SPOILAGE BELOW
Yorda (the princess) ends up saving Ico from the crumbling castle in the end by taking him up in her arms and walking him to the boat. That's a strong female character right there, but since she starts out as a drugged (or whatever, we don't really know) girl trapped in a cage, its somehow sexist in a very contrived way.
You know what? Its FUN to play a boy with horns trying to save a glow-in-the-dark princess from a haunted castle! That's a great game and the basic idea is classic "Hero and princess" fantasy. Injecting that politically correct crap into the game would have ruined it. There are 2 strong female characters in the game: The evil queen sorceress and the beautifull fragile princess. These work, and if girls need a butch lesbo fighter chubby girl with glasses and acne in order to appreciate a game, well let THEM make it and let the people who make good games with classic characters keep making 'em.
Ya know, I never had that problem.
Well, once. I have one cheap double feature DVD I bought off some internet site that has to be coaxed to play the ending of one of the movies, but all other DVDs play fine. In fact, the layer change is sometimes much more noticable on regular DVD players...Ah well.
My PS2's drive is also going. It is over 2 years old, so I should be happy it lasted that long (my PSX had to be upside-down or it wouldn't work after I owned it for 6 months), but I'm still going to have to replace it soon. It rarely reads disks on the first try anymore, even when they are brand new.
Damn!
I know I'm carefull with my things and I take good care of them and all, but damn!
You do know you ain't supposed to leave your consoles out in the rain? And you shouldn't use them as door stops or anchors or rhino-ticklers too...
I already have one, and an Xbox as well.
Go to hell
It's just a matter of proper organization.
Yeah, I got the tv, the input switcher (tv only has 1 RCA input), the computer, printer, scanner, stereo, bookcase, etc...I had to get rid of the VCR (I got a DVD, who needs VCR? So what if I can't record shows and whatnot...sigh).
Man, I got too much stuff : ) Yay! (better too much stuff than not enough)
Backwards compatibility is a plus. But the older PSX analog controller doesn't have analog buttons....but most games don't really utlize them in multiplayer, if at all. The rumble and analog sticks are really all that are required for most games.
That's the beauty of it: Analogue buttons are for precision controlls, wich are rarely needed in multiplayer. I dare say that the good people of Sony thought this through!
Ya know, I was a bit edgy in that last post. But like I said, I loves my PS2 and I've heard so much insane crap against it by opposing fanboys that I tend to sometimes overreact to percieved attacks against my beautifull machine.
: )
So, you got all 3 consoles? I want a cube, so I get that, but why an XBox? You just had to have all 3?
I bought a PS2 tp play games AND watch movies.
So did my friend.
I want my game consoles to play games
Go buy a GameCube then.
I want my console to play games, play games from the previous console, play movies, play music, and some day, make me breakfast (playstation 6 or something). I want the bang for my buck.
I bought a PS2, now I don't need to buy a DVD that would eat away precious living-room real estate and precious bank account money.
Oh, and the cool thing about the PS2 is that since I allready had an original playstation, for wich my ex had given me an analogue controller, I don't need to buy an extra controller to play 2 player games! Hurrah for backwards compatibility! : )
I loves my PS2! I looooooooves it!
freaky
Mental note: do not click on ftp links in safari...
But the real money-burner is promotion and distribution. Thousands, hundreds of thousands are spent on replication and distribution and marketing just so regular people (including the non net-savvy) can hear about new music.
Yeah, and I don't want to be the one to pay for the promotion of every stupid pointless formulaic boyband out there!
The RIAA should pay ME everytime I hear an N*SYNC song...they should seriously give me 12 dollars everytime I hear a stupid annoying catchy tune I do not want to hear. They want me to pay for promotion? I want them to die DIE DIE DIE a horrible death.
Its like if spammers were charging us for every spam they send! Its not right dammit! Its just not right.
Annoying. And it gets worse, because mounting a remote ftp site often seems to threadlock the entire OS: the dreaded spinning wheel of death.
So I'm currently rebooting thanks to Safari.
Geez dude, when the finder locks up, just use Force Quit to reload the finder. It works just as well as any other application.
That FTP-to-finder-then-freeze thing happened to me yesterday. Command-Alt-Escape brings up the Force Quit window. You reload the finder, and all is well with the world. The other applications don't even quit or crash or anything.
stop calling every administrative attempt to restrict a display of objectional art to children censorship.
/'sen(t)-s&-ri[ng], 'sen(t)s-ri[ng]/
One entry found for censor.
Main Entry: 2censor
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): censored; censoring
Date: 1882
: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable
Main Entry: censorship
1 a : the institution, system, or practice of censoring b : the actions or practices of censors; especially : censorial control exercised repressively
Why would we stop calling the act of censoring "censorship"?
Ah! If I wanted to watch B5, from the start, I had to either tape it or stay up so I could catch it when it was on at 12:05am on tuesday nights (wednesday morning, depends how you look at it)!
Futurama settled on the football-overtime death slot, but for a while I'd stumble upon it on tuesday, wednesdays, or fridays...I think it changed days every week for a couple of months.
My theory is that its the result of internal wars. Vice Presidents torpedoing the shows of other vice presidents in their lil' dog-eat-dog corporate games. Pettyness seems the only reasonable explication.
No, it makes terrible business sense. What happens if Microsoft pushes the price up too high, and Apple decides to bail out?
Wow, you base your argument on incompetance?
Yeah, if they are too stupid to pull it off, it doesn't make sense to try it. Jeeze.
Do you keep that assumption of impending plunders in all aspects of buisness decision making? What if they code windows wrong and it never even boots? What if GM makes a car that explodes when you make a right turn? Gimme a break.
Obviously, MS isn't really interrested in buying Universal, but its good buisness to make sure that your competitors have a hard time pulling their deals.
MS makes a bid, forces apple to hike up their bid. In the end, MS doesn't buy anything and apple had to spend way more to get what they wanted, wich hurts them and therefore indirectly helps MS.
Is tricky, its devious, its evil...its Microsoft at its best.
We watched the pilot, however, and didn't miss an episode since.
Since the pilot was the last episode aired, that wasn't very hard to do.
Fox is stupid.
Am I the only one who hasn't heard of this show?
I would think that there are a lot of people who don't know that show. It was only on for 11 episodes...out of order, on a random timeslot, and not hyped very much.
It was also cancelled before they aired the pilot. Wich on a stupidity scale of 1 to 10 is an easy 15.
Does anyone have a better description than "space western"?
Yes, here is a sci-fi site with reviews of all the episode that made it to the air.
You can also read my journal entry on the subject.
Of course, I wrote that entry in a time long-gone when other networks were maybe gonna air it instead of Fox, but alas, that never came to be.
I wished they'd had a muppet reporter imbedded with a marine unit in Iraq...
Maybe scifi will pick it up.
Nope
All the networks passed up on it (the show costs 2 millions per episode...they'll do cheap-ass "reality" tv instead).
Sci-fi has decided to move away from "space" shows. The reason for this move is up to debate, personally I think they had a bad batch of crack and are now brain dammaged (sci-fi is moving away from space shows???).
Fox didn't handle Firefly particularly well but I'm sort of doubtful that was the reason for its demise at the end of the day.
Seriously? You don't think that airing it on alternating weeks on a random time slot (8pm, 12:05am, 12:20am) is the reason for its demise?
How about airing episodes out of order so that they would talk about stuff that was supposed to have happened but we haven't seen yet.
How about hyping the girl in the box for a whole summer and then cancelling the series before even ever showing the girl-in-a-box pilot?
Someone at Fox wanted that show to fail. I dunno what they were shooting in their veins at the time, but they did everything in their power to make that show fail (12:20am! I kid you not!).
Where are the BuffyBots?
I'd settle for a Cherry 2000, but that model is outdated already.
I was with you right up 'till
"Flash gets you nothing- it's just for lazy designers who are too stupid to learn how to properly code HTML.",
wich is flamebait.
I have a moderator point I could burn you with, but I'll reply instead.
First of all, most of your comment made sense. Yes, having a 100% flash site is a bad idea: it limits your site's availability. But generalization and insults are not helping you to drive your point home. Now if you'd be so kind as to learn proper etiquette and to start behaving in a polite civilised nature, we'd all appreciate it very much.
Moving on to the constructive discussion and the sharing of ideas:
The webheads and the boss at my old job were flash-happy. They redid the company's web site all in flash. I was pretty allright. But I kept telling them "make a simple HTML interface that lets people get to the content too", and they ignored me. Until the boss tried to show off the pretty new website to a client who's old laptop couldn't handle the flashiness. Then he realised I was right and had the webmonkeys do as I said.
The moral is: Make your store wheelchair acessible and your company website html acessible. Its just good buisness sense.
Get your picies here!
This link will take you to an article with a picture of the clawy tentacle.
Early astronauts used 100% oxygen atmospheres at a low pressure without any problems.
Except being torched.
I know you meant toxicity-wise, but jeez, that was a dumb accident.
It is illegal. Those people are benefiting without compensating the owners.
See, this is where I say "fuck you, and the horse you rode in on!".
Because I d/l music off P2P networks, and I still buy records! I bought one just las friday!
See, just because I can spend hours hunting down and d/l badly encoded and dubiously named songs doesn't mean I can't also go all the way to the record store (its far), spend time hunting down the record I want in their dubious inventory (so many boys bands!) and then wait in line to give 'em my cash and leave with a record.
I use the P2P to shop for music! I don't buy everything I d/l because its not all actually available in stores. Now, I had a very hard time downloading "At First Sight" by The Stems (80's australian rock band), and while looking for it I learned that they are rereleasing their debut album. As soon as I can get my hands on the album, I'll buy it. In the mean time, I have a mp3 of my fave song from the album.
See, the record companies like to make people believe that d/l songs is stealing, and we all know that that is pure bullshit. I know this because I don't steal, I think stealing is wrong, and I don't mind d/l off limewire one tiny bit.
When you steal, you take something away from someone. When you d/l, you don't. Simple as that. Its illegal, and if you just leech off and never buy anything anymore because you can steal it instead, then you don't have something against stealing in the first place and wouls walk out of record stores without paying if you could.
The record companies used to controll the production and distribution of music. They are loosing that controll. The record companies have time and time again abused their power, and its a good thing that they are loosing their abuse power. When parents neglect and abuse a child, the state steps in (when possible) and takes the child away. Now the internet is taking the controll away from the abusive cartell of record companies, and its about freakin' time!
Sharing music is illegal, but it isn't wrong.
Sharing music is illegal, and everybody is doing it!
So everyone who ever used Napster of Kazaa or whatever is a de-facto criminal. Maybe we should jail everyone under the age of 40? See, sometimes laws are stupid and wrong, following the law is all well and good when the laws are good, but when special interest groups bribe politicians into passing laws that should not be, things are different.
What we are looking at right now is widespread civil disobediance. That's not something governments like usually. If the politicians were actually in it for the people instead of the free RIAA boats and cars, then they would correct the law according to the best interest of the people, not in the best interest of their wallets.
In short: The records companies can get bent.
I want music and I'll get it anyway I can, whether through them or despite them. If they can offer good products at good prices, they don't need to fear piracy. If they want to use their oligoly to controll prices, availability and distribution to maximise profit, then they have reasons to fear alternate music sources. See, maybe I don't care that you spent five gazillion dollars on promoting N*STINK and I don't want to pay more for my records to compensate for that expense? And maybe I'd like to replace my broken casette right now and not wait another 10 years before you get off your lazy ass and print another batch of it (or wait 'till I die because your too busy printing Britney posters to get around rereleasing the stuff I want).
The music companies need to adapt to the internet, not to try and go back in time to when there was no internet.
The US now specialises in renaming junk food and having marines shoot each other in Iraq.
Japan took over the gadgets LOOOOOOOOOONG ago. All the US has to show for itself in that department recently is the iPod (wich is, admitedly, freakin' kewl).
Other areas in wich the US has taken the lead are obesity, childish behaviour of elected official (freedom toast? For real???), and unmanned air vehicles (wich are gadgets of a sort, I guess).
See, its all about priorities: Japan has gadgets and hummanois robots, the Us has weapons and patriotic junk food for its obese patriots!
Damn you Nintendo! Damn you and your shiny gadgets that make my wallet hurt!
Luring me with your Metroids!
Windoze screwed up his external HD, twice and he blames the drive? What a dolt!
Wanna bet he's running a warezed beta version of windoze too?