Ironic really that if you pay for music online you actually get something worse than if you got it for free, but then thats the sort of crack addict business idea id expect in a time when business ethics means "lets trick all those dumb consumers into buying locked down hardware" If they start selling 'mp3' players that dont actually play mp3's but only DRM'd formats they should have to make it damn clear on the front of the box.
100 cups x starbucks price = about 200, and given that its starbucks coffee, you'll probably die of bordem and the realisation of how much money you just spent, long before you got to the last cup.
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Hey, so i noticed you standing here alone and i thought "you must be looking for a low-risk high-return investment!" now i know what your thinking - "whats the catch" and im not gonna pull the wool over your eyes, btw thats a great smile, keep it coming! you could be signed up and finished in about 3 minutes! and thats only because your my first customer! so erm, why dont you just follow me out here and i'll get my pen out.
Reminds me of market stalls - was on holiday and was walking past a stall and the guy tried to sell me something (a laser pointer i think), he started at about 10ML turkish whatever currency and i ignored him and slowely continued walking, then he started going down with every step i took - 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2 and i kept on walking with a big smile on my face.
Im wondering how long before we all get into a full scale witch hunt and how far it will go! It seems realistic that anyone with any computer skills above 'Excel' who doesnt belong to some software company will soon be branded terrorist, anyone who protests _anything_ is sure to join them and if you dont think [insert leader] is a wonderful person you better keep your mouth shut. Who thinks it will go as far as voting? with electionic voting coming in its going to be easy to tell who voted what, or to just fix votes, and once that happens, the only way to change things will be to rise up against the governments in some way, and that really will get you branded terrorist.
Just remember, the fight against terror is a catch-all filter.
And so what if they arnt? If the law was changed and modchippers and fileshareres were 100% protected do you think suddenly no-one would bother making music or building consoles? Fact is someone would build consoles and someone would make music and it would probably be 10 times the quality of the crap corporations push out - just like Linux.
I know lots of people who use mod chips to play legal? import games.
Legal or not, you cannot ban mod-chips, theres simply no way. The chip itself is just a blank microprocessor (usually a PIC) which is perfectly legal, and the code which goes on it is tiny and you just cant stop a tiny file spreading around the net. As far as im concerned the moment manufacturers started putting restrictions in their consoles they decided to play by the game of technology and if they have the right to do that then you have the right to modify something you own.
Word! what they are doing now is just terrorism, now is the time more than ever to show them that we are a unionised buying force not to be fucked with.
Ladies and gentlemen, todays events were an attack on freedom. A terrorist organisation known as the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry made an unprecedented, coordinated attack, simultainiously on 4 of our allies. This is a cowardly act but we will not give in. We know that various sleeper cells oparate around the world such as the IFPIG, DRIA, FIMI, CRIA and RIAA. We will work together with these countries and make sure that those that are resonsible are brought to justice! Acts like this are terrorism pure and simple and we will not live with it.
We used to be able to dump all the crooks out to austrailia too, that was a nice little number! I dont think everyone should be going around with guns doing the job of the police even if it is self defence, but i think we should be getting a bloody policeman on every corner instead of a stupid security camera. Waste of space, fuckwit kids who are just going to grow up to be criminals (well they already are) should be kicked right out of the country.
That said it really would give me pleasure to shoot a couple of them down - too much pleasure maybe, so you just gotta restrain yourself.
What happend to the days when artists ate dog food and enjoyed it? oh sorry other artists still do, its just musicians who are in it only for the money.
Erm du'h 70% of Americas presidents have been related to eachother(check it out) and some time in history, one of those presidents - almost certainly related to bush, didnt stop this satellite going up!
Squatting on stupid obvious patents is the same as squattng on stupid obvious domain names isnt it? This and the business plan of trading patents/ip for profit wasnt the intention of the patent system surely? so why hasnt this been fixed years ago? The patent system was supposed to give an incentive to innovate (which is debatable on its own) instead patents are just a commodety! Whats next? companies will start buying and selling jail time - you got jail? sell it to a company who will pay someone else _less_ money to take the sentence for you!
The RIAA is by far not the only distributer, if you want to get your music (that they turned away) out to people then the internet is there and affordable, filesharing can be used as mass distribution - if the song is popular it will spread. What the RIAA does to the most extent is use a formula and pump the music out to as many radio stations etc as they can, this is what gets people hooked to their reused, unorginal, repackaged melodies for a couple of weeks - enough time for them to buy it. Its every kids dream to be a pop-idol, why? because they want money, sex, and a feeling of being someone important, not because they want to make music.
I vowed never to buy a CD right from the start. In my view its no different from paying 15 for an icon (like in a recent story) And pricing CD's all the same just makes it even more clear to me that im buying a worthless piece of plastic.
Very few 'artists' are worth that price, and what if i want to listen to a slightly crapper one?: Theres so much music out there that is just a copy of something else, or a generic sound that was probably based on a keyboards 'demo' button and some lyrics inspired by the words 'baby' and 'oh yeahhh'. Music like this has the effect of being catchy for 6 days and then getting boring, just think back to the last 6 months of music you've heard and you'll know what i mean. Now am i really expected to pay lots of money so i can listen to this until i get bored, given that the ammount of effort put into it is 2 hours in a studio? (it would have been 1 but the drummer threw up and the producer thought the singing needed more work).
Now i wouldnt mind if i didnt know about a song - what am i missing right? but they are pimped out on all the radio stations, tv, and all the shops, i cant get away from being tempted and addicted to the sound! but im getting tempted and addicted to the same sound every time, its just re-packaged in a different way so ill accept it as new, but in reality, how many times do you hear the _same_ melody in a different form? and once a certain style catches on, how many others copy it to death (Sum 41, Busted etc..) all sounding exactly the same!
The few bands that keep on the ball get good honest fans who will turn up to every concert and buy every album even if they can get it for free, the stupid generic people who have teams of writers to come up with that next catchy melody (well really just re-invent the wheel) they get lots of sheep who buy their music anyway and dont care, either way the industry isnt under threat.
Well in a game atleast the item you buy does something useful in the virtual world. An animated gif not only doesnt do anything useful, it looks shite and you can already see it for free on the site without paying for it. The way it works is that firstly people are deluded (ok i really shouldnt judge) and secondly sad (mostly geeks by the look of the icons) think that if they give one of the top rated girls an icon.. well i dont have to say any more. In reallity, if i was one of these girls i would think a guy who sent me a virtual ring was pretty hopeless but id take my cut from funhi for having my shots on their page.
Anyone seen that southpark episode "raisins"? this reminds me of it so much!
"MissEvelyn: I need some virtual loot. If you want to show me you care, send me some. Your profile will show everyone you're a "Playa." I'll receive the icons and know i'm special. I'm counting on you to help me get noticed in style. Holla!"
"FunHi.Com has taken the lead as a next generation social networking site. Recognizing that online relationship time is replacing mainstay leisure activities like movies, TV and night clubs, it is successfully diverting leisure purchases to the relationship site itself. Results show that purchasing a virtual box of chocolates for another FunHi.Com member is far more satisfying than the passive glow of a film or TV screen?"
So basically you pay this company and the girls on the site get a cut. Now im not one to judge, i mean people are in to whatever they want, but really! some people are just too sad.
oh shit look! a linux thong!!! i have to get it for that cute girl on the front page, then maybe ill get laid?
Actually no really can you get linux thongs? i want!
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Ironic really that if you pay for music online you actually get something worse than if you got it for free, but then thats the sort of crack addict business idea id expect in a time when business ethics means "lets trick all those dumb consumers into buying locked down hardware" If they start selling 'mp3' players that dont actually play mp3's but only DRM'd formats they should have to make it damn clear on the front of the box.
100 cups x starbucks price = about 200, and given that its starbucks coffee, you'll probably die of bordem and the realisation of how much money you just spent, long before you got to the last cup.
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This post sponsored by Instant Decaff - for coffee that tastes like shit and doesnt do a thing.
Try wiretapping that you FBI bitches
"I just paid a about 6000 for this software, i want you to integrate it into our system"
Hey, so i noticed you standing here alone and i thought "you must be looking for a low-risk high-return investment!" now i know what your thinking - "whats the catch" and im not gonna pull the wool over your eyes, btw thats a great smile, keep it coming! you could be signed up and finished in about 3 minutes! and thats only because your my first customer! so erm, why dont you just follow me out here and i'll get my pen out.
Reminds me of market stalls - was on holiday and was walking past a stall and the guy tried to sell me something (a laser pointer i think), he started at about 10ML turkish whatever currency and i ignored him and slowely continued walking, then he started going down with every step i took - 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2 and i kept on walking with a big smile on my face.
Terrorist = Witch
Im wondering how long before we all get into a full scale witch hunt and how far it will go! It seems realistic that anyone with any computer skills above 'Excel' who doesnt belong to some software company will soon be branded terrorist, anyone who protests _anything_ is sure to join them and if you dont think [insert leader] is a wonderful person you better keep your mouth shut. Who thinks it will go as far as voting? with electionic voting coming in its going to be easy to tell who voted what, or to just fix votes, and once that happens, the only way to change things will be to rise up against the governments in some way, and that really will get you branded terrorist.
Just remember, the fight against terror is a catch-all filter.
You mean a terrorist organisation?
And so what if they arnt? If the law was changed and modchippers and fileshareres were 100% protected do you think suddenly no-one would bother making music or building consoles? Fact is someone would build consoles and someone would make music and it would probably be 10 times the quality of the crap corporations push out - just like Linux.
I know lots of people who use mod chips to play legal? import games.
Legal or not, you cannot ban mod-chips, theres simply no way. The chip itself is just a blank microprocessor (usually a PIC) which is perfectly legal, and the code which goes on it is tiny and you just cant stop a tiny file spreading around the net. As far as im concerned the moment manufacturers started putting restrictions in their consoles they decided to play by the game of technology and if they have the right to do that then you have the right to modify something you own.
Word! what they are doing now is just terrorism, now is the time more than ever to show them that we are a unionised buying force not to be fucked with.
Ill beat that - 21 and never bought a CD! ;)
Ladies and gentlemen, todays events were an attack on freedom. A terrorist organisation known as the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry made an unprecedented, coordinated attack, simultainiously on 4 of our allies. This is a cowardly act but we will not give in. We know that various sleeper cells oparate around the world such as the IFPIG, DRIA, FIMI, CRIA and RIAA. We will work together with these countries and make sure that those that are resonsible are brought to justice! Acts like this are terrorism pure and simple and we will not live with it.
We used to be able to dump all the crooks out to austrailia too, that was a nice little number! I dont think everyone should be going around with guns doing the job of the police even if it is self defence, but i think we should be getting a bloody policeman on every corner instead of a stupid security camera. Waste of space, fuckwit kids who are just going to grow up to be criminals (well they already are) should be kicked right out of the country.
That said it really would give me pleasure to shoot a couple of them down - too much pleasure maybe, so you just gotta restrain yourself.
What happend to the days when artists ate dog food and enjoyed it? oh sorry other artists still do, its just musicians who are in it only for the money.
Oh boy am i gonna get some hate mail for that;)
Well one things for sure, it aint gonna be Segway! It just amazes me how such a totall hyped-up failure like that can happen?
Should be "List of 'Nukler Whoopsies"
Erm du'h 70% of Americas presidents have been related to eachother(check it out) and some time in history, one of those presidents - almost certainly related to bush, didnt stop this satellite going up!
Squatting on stupid obvious patents is the same as squattng on stupid obvious domain names isnt it? This and the business plan of trading patents/ip for profit wasnt the intention of the patent system surely? so why hasnt this been fixed years ago? The patent system was supposed to give an incentive to innovate (which is debatable on its own) instead patents are just a commodety! Whats next? companies will start buying and selling jail time - you got jail? sell it to a company who will pay someone else _less_ money to take the sentence for you!
The RIAA is by far not the only distributer, if you want to get your music (that they turned away) out to people then the internet is there and affordable, filesharing can be used as mass distribution - if the song is popular it will spread. What the RIAA does to the most extent is use a formula and pump the music out to as many radio stations etc as they can, this is what gets people hooked to their reused, unorginal, repackaged melodies for a couple of weeks - enough time for them to buy it. Its every kids dream to be a pop-idol, why? because they want money, sex, and a feeling of being someone important, not because they want to make music.
I vowed never to buy a CD right from the start. In my view its no different from paying 15 for an icon (like in a recent story) And pricing CD's all the same just makes it even more clear to me that im buying a worthless piece of plastic.
Very few 'artists' are worth that price, and what if i want to listen to a slightly crapper one?: Theres so much music out there that is just a copy of something else, or a generic sound that was probably based on a keyboards 'demo' button and some lyrics inspired by the words 'baby' and 'oh yeahhh'. Music like this has the effect of being catchy for 6 days and then getting boring, just think back to the last 6 months of music you've heard and you'll know what i mean. Now am i really expected to pay lots of money so i can listen to this until i get bored, given that the ammount of effort put into it is 2 hours in a studio? (it would have been 1 but the drummer threw up and the producer thought the singing needed more work).
Now i wouldnt mind if i didnt know about a song - what am i missing right? but they are pimped out on all the radio stations, tv, and all the shops, i cant get away from being tempted and addicted to the sound! but im getting tempted and addicted to the same sound every time, its just re-packaged in a different way so ill accept it as new, but in reality, how many times do you hear the _same_ melody in a different form? and once a certain style catches on, how many others copy it to death (Sum 41, Busted etc..) all sounding exactly the same!
The few bands that keep on the ball get good honest fans who will turn up to every concert and buy every album even if they can get it for free, the stupid generic people who have teams of writers to come up with that next catchy melody (well really just re-invent the wheel) they get lots of sheep who buy their music anyway and dont care, either way the industry isnt under threat.
its just well suited that a condom packet and a FunHi icon are the same shape
Well in a game atleast the item you buy does something useful in the virtual world. An animated gif not only doesnt do anything useful, it looks shite and you can already see it for free on the site without paying for it. The way it works is that firstly people are deluded (ok i really shouldnt judge) and secondly sad (mostly geeks by the look of the icons) think that if they give one of the top rated girls an icon.. well i dont have to say any more. In reallity, if i was one of these girls i would think a guy who sent me a virtual ring was pretty hopeless but id take my cut from funhi for having my shots on their page.
Anyone seen that southpark episode "raisins"? this reminds me of it so much!
"MissEvelyn: I need some virtual loot. If you want to show me you care, send me some. Your profile will show everyone you're a "Playa." I'll receive the icons and know i'm special. I'm counting on you to help me get noticed in style. Holla!"
wonder what percentage they get?
Wow some people will buy anything!
"FunHi.Com has taken the lead as a next generation social networking site. Recognizing that online relationship time is replacing mainstay leisure activities like movies, TV and night clubs, it is successfully diverting leisure purchases to the relationship site itself. Results show that purchasing a virtual box of chocolates for another FunHi.Com member is far more satisfying than the passive glow of a film or TV screen?"
So basically you pay this company and the girls on the site get a cut. Now im not one to judge, i mean people are in to whatever they want, but really! some people are just too sad.
oh shit look! a linux thong!!! i have to get it for that cute girl on the front page, then maybe ill get laid?
Actually no really can you get linux thongs? i want!