The music industry is pure scum. Never give a penny to those cockroaches and the washed up has-beens they purport to represent. No one deserves ongoing compensation for work they did decades ago.
For those who are brave and upstanding patriots, the best thing is to share - download, upload, and liberate as much music as possible. CULTURE BELONGS TO EVERYONE.
For those like me who live in fear of our repressive regime and their jack booted thugs, the best thing is simply not to listen to any non-free music. Never subscribe. Never login. If an ad starts to play, closer the stream. Most of it is garbagey pap anyway. This course also provides a convenient occasion to spit at snobby consumerist music scenesters.
Funny thing - in most areas, minimum wage is not enough to eat and live indoors. Even McDonald's pays their floor moppers more than the state mandated cruel joke minimum wage.
So any statistics that use official minimum wage as a baseline are pretty bogus. Very little descriptive or explanatory value.
Let's stop euphemizing it as the "Great Recession". For the millions of Americans driven into precarity or indigence, it's a depression. The formerly industrial cities of America have been mired in this long depression at least since the 1980s.
One of the awesome things about Vietnam is that it most definitely does NOT have a SJW infestation.
The Party does try to promote Communist values in the official propaganda. But that has basically no similarity to the degenerate values of the running dogs on the American "left".
Somewhere I read the term "Confucian Right" used to describe the Communist Parties in Vietnam and China. While I'm pretty certain the Party would not endorse that terminology, I think it has some good descriptive value.
Why do you imagine Vietnam as an oppressive place? Given the terrible history of the French and American wars just a few decades ago, this country has achieved remarkable levels of prosperity, freedom, and social cohesion.
Right now there are more than 200 highrise buildings under construction in Ho Chi Minh City alone. The streets are clean and safe to walk at night. (Safe from crime - not safe from motorcycle traffic!). Small mom & pop business is thriving. The government here takes a "commanding heights" approach to socialism - megacorps must have a degree of state ownership, but the government leaves small business alone.
There's no freedom of press or freedom of political speech here. Those are some of America's few remaining strengths, and we should guard them jealously. So yes, calling for capitalist parliamentary democracy would be considered a wrong view. And calling for a new split between North and South would be tantamount to treason.
Outside of a few political topics, people here enjoy rather more practical personal freedom than we do back in the States. There is no Gulag here. No heavily armed cops just milling around downtown looking for trouble, like you see in New York or San Francisco. Most of the cops don't even carry guns.
Families and family values are strong here. Divorce is rare. Feminism is rare. Thus most children grow up in (reasonably) happy homes with two parents.
The biggest concern among educated Vietnamese is the threat from an increasingly militaristic China. It's no minor worry if you know history. It seems like half the major streets here are named after one or another of the many historic heros who kicked out Chinese invaders.
One of the big social advantages that American citizens living in Vietnam enjoy is that, despite the unfortunate history of war between our two countries, we Americans are most definitely not Chinese.
Bankers rob the poor and give sweetheart deals to the rich. Bought & paid-for government not only allows but facilitates their mass robbery. News at 11!
Get real. Public policy, not individuals sharing data, is responsible for the great hollowing out of the once-prosperous American software industry.
DUH LAW demands free international movement of capital but not free movement of labor. Therefore American wages steadily decline in a furious race to the bottom.
The various "Quantitative Easing" programs have pumped untold billions into the coffers of well-connected Venture Capital oligarchs. Therefore said oligarchs have come to totally dominate the software industry. Their companies turn a handsome loss for years on end, driving all legitimate competitors out of business.
The inbred silverspoon VC oligarchs cannot be bothered to hide their contempt for working people. They actively seek the proletarianization of software workers, the destruction of all remnants of craftsmanship and independence.
The good people your deride as "pirates" have done nothing to harm our industry. They are decent honest patriots exercising the charitable Christian impulse to give and share. That badlaws make sharing illegal is a condemnation of those badlaws, not of the good men and women who defy them.
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They're a VC-owned company. Therefore always assume the sleaziest plausible answer. I'll leave which one that is to your discretion.
Let's hope the fully licensed streaming services are NOT profitable. The recording industry has become a parasite on culture. It deserves to end.
The music industry is pure scum. Never give a penny to those cockroaches and the washed up has-beens they purport to represent. No one deserves ongoing compensation for work they did decades ago.
For those who are brave and upstanding patriots, the best thing is to share - download, upload, and liberate as much music as possible. CULTURE BELONGS TO EVERYONE.
For those like me who live in fear of our repressive regime and their jack booted thugs, the best thing is simply not to listen to any non-free music. Never subscribe. Never login. If an ad starts to play, closer the stream. Most of it is garbagey pap anyway. This course also provides a convenient occasion to spit at snobby consumerist music scenesters.
The obvious solution: fire all the /. editors.
Funny thing - in most areas, minimum wage is not enough to eat and live indoors. Even McDonald's pays their floor moppers more than the state mandated cruel joke minimum wage.
So any statistics that use official minimum wage as a baseline are pretty bogus. Very little descriptive or explanatory value.
Let's stop euphemizing it as the "Great Recession". For the millions of Americans driven into precarity or indigence, it's a depression. The formerly industrial cities of America have been mired in this long depression at least since the 1980s.
You don't REALLY believe that, do you? For reals??
That's some nice fundamentalist religious zealotry you've got there, bromeister.
Yup, a petulant dunce.
Go back to Reddit.
Nice dogmatism, broham!
Wow, you really come off as a petulant dunce.
NYT is a semi-official propaganda organ.
Property is theft, AC.
That's correct, most of us are not paid shills for patent monopolists. The ownership of ideas is immoral.
Googledouches love censorship. It reinforces their feeling of smug self-satisfaction.
One of the awesome things about Vietnam is that it most definitely does NOT have a SJW infestation.
The Party does try to promote Communist values in the official propaganda. But that has basically no similarity to the degenerate values of the running dogs on the American "left".
Somewhere I read the term "Confucian Right" used to describe the Communist Parties in Vietnam and China. While I'm pretty certain the Party would not endorse that terminology, I think it has some good descriptive value.
Why do you imagine Vietnam as an oppressive place? Given the terrible history of the French and American wars just a few decades ago, this country has achieved remarkable levels of prosperity, freedom, and social cohesion.
Right now there are more than 200 highrise buildings under construction in Ho Chi Minh City alone. The streets are clean and safe to walk at night. (Safe from crime - not safe from motorcycle traffic!). Small mom & pop business is thriving. The government here takes a "commanding heights" approach to socialism - megacorps must have a degree of state ownership, but the government leaves small business alone.
There's no freedom of press or freedom of political speech here. Those are some of America's few remaining strengths, and we should guard them jealously. So yes, calling for capitalist parliamentary democracy would be considered a wrong view. And calling for a new split between North and South would be tantamount to treason.
Outside of a few political topics, people here enjoy rather more practical personal freedom than we do back in the States. There is no Gulag here. No heavily armed cops just milling around downtown looking for trouble, like you see in New York or San Francisco. Most of the cops don't even carry guns.
Families and family values are strong here. Divorce is rare. Feminism is rare. Thus most children grow up in (reasonably) happy homes with two parents.
The biggest concern among educated Vietnamese is the threat from an increasingly militaristic China. It's no minor worry if you know history. It seems like half the major streets here are named after one or another of the many historic heros who kicked out Chinese invaders.
One of the big social advantages that American citizens living in Vietnam enjoy is that, despite the unfortunate history of war between our two countries, we Americans are most definitely not Chinese.
Fucking dunce.
"Alliance for Securing Democracy" is a seriously Orwellian name. Really splendid.
Bankers rob the poor and give sweetheart deals to the rich. Bought & paid-for government not only allows but facilitates their mass robbery. News at 11!
Sounds like a problem with that company's cash management procedures, more than a problem with cash itself.
And I want a pony!
Get real. Public policy, not individuals sharing data, is responsible for the great hollowing out of the once-prosperous American software industry.
DUH LAW demands free international movement of capital but not free movement of labor. Therefore American wages steadily decline in a furious race to the bottom.
The various "Quantitative Easing" programs have pumped untold billions into the coffers of well-connected Venture Capital oligarchs. Therefore said oligarchs have come to totally dominate the software industry. Their companies turn a handsome loss for years on end, driving all legitimate competitors out of business.
The inbred silverspoon VC oligarchs cannot be bothered to hide their contempt for working people. They actively seek the proletarianization of software workers, the destruction of all remnants of craftsmanship and independence.
The good people your deride as "pirates" have done nothing to harm our industry. They are decent honest patriots exercising the charitable Christian impulse to give and share. That badlaws make sharing illegal is a condemnation of those badlaws, not of the good men and women who defy them.
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