* Co-sponsored Constitutional amendment pushing coerced prayer in public schools
Because enforced atheism is the only true religion.
Nevermind European history...
Look, separation of church and state is to protect Christians from other Christians who happen to hold the seat of government. Prayer in school is a slippery slope to a religious war between those who think their particular Christianity is the way to salvation. Usually it revolves around the primacy of the Pope, but with the proliferation of many flavors of evangelicals, the more aggressive ones are probably a new wrinkle in that long bitter war. So, please give up the PC story about this being about atheist/secular/communist infiltration. Once the Constitution is corrupted (the source of freedom of religion and the security of your beliefs) it all comes down to details, and those details are not pleasant for anyone involved. The American Taliban has yet to even get warmed up.
Let see the joke goes like this. The RIAA sue people for sharing. The RIAA have publicly stated that mix CDs are a grey area they don't approve of and could possibly sue for. A public figure is reported to make a mix CD for another public figure. A lawyer, in the spirit of the RIAA's policies and actions, suggest they go after the public figure. Everyone knows the lawyer is being factious because the act is not really infringing, though the RIAA has been over zealous in pursuing copyright infringement.
Its not really "ha, ha" funny. But it is a fairly common comedy technique to point out the hypocrisy of authoritative institutions. How you managed to read it as a "liberal" attack on the current administration is beyond me. I kept expecting to read something about "Clinton did it too" in your post.
It seems you have an ax to grind with any written word that involves the Bush family.
It has nothing to do with the RIAA or President Bushes daughters. Headline should read; "Lawyer Blinded by Hatred Asks RIAA To Investigate Bush Twins"
Wrong. Try: "Lawyer Blinded by Hatred [of the RIAA and their screwed up sense of priorities jokingly] Asks RIAA To Investigate Bush Twins". It was a joke on a blog. Get defensive much?
The question is "do you like live music or vinyl better". Because with CD, you've basically got the exact same sound as if you were actually at the concert.
That is BS. CDs are no where near "live". First tracks (as in individual instruments) are recorded separately and then mixed together, edited in production and then eventually mastered for final encoding. There are many steps between recording and pressing and at each step there is loss/enhancement.
If CDs were so perfect, why was there a need to spec out SACD or DVD audio (other than the obvious audiophile cash grab)? Because CDs are mostly adequate. Also early CD mastering was pretty awful. CDs are convenient for the digital age, but I wouldn't consider them "source" perfect. Also, labels that produce vinyl might be recording and mastering analog so your point would be moot.
I'm not saying that vinyl is the most accurate recording of the source, but your CD worship is pretty baffling and ignorant of the audio recording/distribution process. The real question is: do you like the aesthetics of vinyl or the convenience of CDs? The question that the article is pointing too is that vinyl positive labels are now offering the convenience of digital with their experience. I don't see why people on either side of the "debate" must somehow declare superiority. People like what they like, and people will often set up business plans to make money off of it. This isn't a holy war...
Yes, you can hand write the ActionScrpt/Flex in a text editor and use the free SDK to command line compile the.swf file to be included in your web page. As long as you know the language and syntax.
The $700 package is a ide that has the compiler, debugger and a graphical design window to help you out.
The first number sets the scene perfectly with lyrics about coughing up blood and screwing whores, all done as a hilarious send-up of musicals, complete with jazz hands and jazz squares. ("You can be Bukowskical too!" they sing with all their hearts.)
I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry. I couldn't read the article all the way through to find out if it was any good (funny, campy, jaw-droppingly absurd). I suppose I would see it if it came to town. But the whole concept makes my head hurt.
He was fired for pissing off the advertisers who didn't know who they were really subsidizing (or they did know, but are now scared of the fallout). Imus delivers listeners to the real customers: the advertisers.
I know the web site and the whole DRM is evil thing, but as a hardware device (and this goes for iPods too) it plays non-DRMed files just fine. So what is the problem? What is the defective design. If you don't like DRM don't use it*. Simple, no? What am I missing? If the hardware only played DRM files, then yes, that is defective by design. Optional DRM file formats do not a defective device make.
Technically Windows and OS X would be defective by design. Hell even your ears are defective by design since they could, in theory, hear a DRM audio file.
*Excluding the wireless sharing limitations- I fully understand what a crap-fest that has turned out to be.
I couldn't find much info about which "age" of Conan they are using. I'd really like the old books version. There is definitely some weird stuff in there. However, this game play nugget sounded interesting:
The game will begin as a 20-hour single-player game in which gamers will create a specialized character before heading into a sprawling multiplayer online campaign.
I've love to play and re-play character creations just for fun, taking only my favorite characters farther. If the single player can be done with out having to access the internet, that would be even better. Then interacting with people who have cared to go beyond the initial phase may raise the social experience (or maybe not). Anyhow, it is interesting and I am actually curious about the details.
Hope they include Mac too (WoW runs fine on my Dual 533 G4).
will Boing Boing have a fit over MS scanning your iTunes directory? Even if it is to "unlock" your music. When do the DBD protesters arrive at the MS campus?
Ever been married? Look at the certificate. Legally it is issued by the County (ours is, maybe for some it is the state). We were not "married" in a church nor was it officiated by a religious person. So dude, marriage does mean more than one thing and it has very little to do with religion. It is a financial and social construct. The current debate (and there have been many over the centuries) is that one group of bigots want to withhold from a subset of people, much like bans on interracial marriages in years past. So yes, the meaning of marriage has changed over the years and will continue to change as our concepts of society and self do.
... do you think if they caught someone, they'd have a big news paper article about it and have interviews on CNN? I suspect they'll be really quiet about it, so people don't know just how much they listen to, how they do it, etc.
Yeah, not like when the Pakastani Intelligence Service got their hands on an actual Al Queda laptop, and the Administration crowed about it in the press before the info on it could be confirmed, secured or acted on...
- No one has to work at a Foxconn plant making iPods. No one. And if it's viewed as the best alternative by individual workers who choose to work there, then it's probably, well, the best alternative. (Arguments about how people have no choice, or assertions about how people may be "persuaded" to stay in the employ of such a company once "hired" are likely to not be very persuasive to me. And if it's Chinese police or governmental entities that don't let workers leave and/or don't let them have visitors, well...)
- Who cares if there are more female than male workers? What possible bearing does this have on the situation? (I'm trying to figure out exactly why this was mentioned, because it's clearly intended to imply something, though I'm not quite sure what.)
Part of the issue is that in most sweatshop working conditions, women suffer disproportionately due to a long, long history of rapes and beatings in this setting. Also in very poor regions, women have fewer resources to get out of these situations and a tradition of staying silent when they do occur. Poor women are also less likely to "rock the boat" and try to organize for better conditions, and when they do, police in conjunction with the plant managers will punish them and their families.
I agree that the article should have stated these claims or concerns. It is poor journalism to leave these things up to the imagination. Especially since our society has a short memory and a willingness to blame the victims for abuses leveled on them.
Apple represents a large part of the market, and they fail to provide content to those who dont use their hardware. This practice is bad for consumers, so governments everywhere should make it illegal.
When you wrote this, my iTMS tracks on my Dell/Windows computer stopped working. Gee thanks. Fail to provide content? Now it is Apple's civic duty to provide content to consumers everywhere? They said here is our store and here is how it works. People thought it was a good idea and they are the market leader. However, they are no where near saturating the potential market and I don't think they can be considered a monopoly in this respect. Digital music and downloads is still an immature sector and the rules are still being written.
Before you write me off as a fanboy- I have mostly switched to eMusic and Bleep both of which work fine on my iPod or any other device that I can find. But I would caution getting hung up on the Apple-ness of these stories. As stated earlier, this is about DRM and global distribution coming in to conflict with local laws and customs.
You brought up Clinton, so are you not part of the "we" who complianed about the executive power grab then?
I was joking that most republicans and fair weather patriots were too busy jacking off the the "impeachment" proceedings to hear the real complaints about the Clinton administration. The republican controlled congress was so deep into Ken Starr and Monica that they stopped caring about the country. Hence you did not hear the complaints about Clinton's executive power grab and domestic spying in our so-called liberal media.
And why should I care about the NYT's editorial pages (which have always been neo-con liars to the point of being oblivious to the news in their own pages). Power abused by any president (by any party or name) is bad. We complained then, we are complaining now. Its not partisan if _you_ only hear one side of it. Maybe you should think through your talking points rather than repeat what you've been given.
You say that like we didn't complain about it then. Maybe you were too busy reading up on the federally funded Ken Starr pornographic novel to care about the continual reach of executive power.
With the current administration (and their congresional/media enablers) its all about party and power over the interests of the country. It was bad then and its worse now. We said so then and we say so now.
Sorry. If you're doing something more complicated than building a 10-page static site, or even something with a little PHP-driven database, then it will take longer.
If you are truly building a large site or application, then you are using templates. Validate the template and you are 80% there. Then the content applied to that template should not be to difficult to manage.
In our templates only a couple of authors get wacky with their design, and they ask us developers to help them get it right.
If you can't bother with minimal standards, well, that is the kind of help our shop can do with out.
I have one problem with your statement. This years Academy films are not about PCness (get out of the 80s man). They were dramas. If you don't like drama fine, but jeeze get a grip man.
The (overblown) PC thing is about white guys feeling victimized for being forced to condider other points of view. No one was forced to make or see these movies. They just happen to be decent stories that were vehicles for good acting (and all the other categories). Would you like to explain how King Kong, Walk the Line or Pride and Prejudice were PC films?
I agree in general broad strokes, but radio has been rife with payola scandals and mega-media mergers. That was the only thing I was pointing out, I suppose I should have used a smiley or something.
Part of me would love to see lots of specialty on-line music stores, but another part, mostly my credit card, prefers one-stop shopping. But the point of the grand-grand parent is on target, that the barriers to entry should not be at the whims of the few distribution companies, but rather the innovation and service new comers can bring.
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Nevermind European history...
Look, separation of church and state is to protect Christians from other Christians who happen to hold the seat of government. Prayer in school is a slippery slope to a religious war between those who think their particular Christianity is the way to salvation. Usually it revolves around the primacy of the Pope, but with the proliferation of many flavors of evangelicals, the more aggressive ones are probably a new wrinkle in that long bitter war. So, please give up the PC story about this being about atheist/secular/communist infiltration. Once the Constitution is corrupted (the source of freedom of religion and the security of your beliefs) it all comes down to details, and those details are not pleasant for anyone involved. The American Taliban has yet to even get warmed up.
Maybe they could get Wal-Mart, Target, Amazon or Best Buty to raise their prices by threatening pull from them too.
Let see the joke goes like this. The RIAA sue people for sharing. The RIAA have publicly stated that mix CDs are a grey area they don't approve of and could possibly sue for. A public figure is reported to make a mix CD for another public figure. A lawyer, in the spirit of the RIAA's policies and actions, suggest they go after the public figure. Everyone knows the lawyer is being factious because the act is not really infringing, though the RIAA has been over zealous in pursuing copyright infringement.
Its not really "ha, ha" funny. But it is a fairly common comedy technique to point out the hypocrisy of authoritative institutions. How you managed to read it as a "liberal" attack on the current administration is beyond me. I kept expecting to read something about "Clinton did it too" in your post.
It seems you have an ax to grind with any written word that involves the Bush family.
Wrong. Try: "Lawyer Blinded by Hatred [of the RIAA and their screwed up sense of priorities jokingly] Asks RIAA To Investigate Bush Twins". It was a joke on a blog. Get defensive much?
That is BS. CDs are no where near "live". First tracks (as in individual instruments) are recorded separately and then mixed together, edited in production and then eventually mastered for final encoding. There are many steps between recording and pressing and at each step there is loss/enhancement.
If CDs were so perfect, why was there a need to spec out SACD or DVD audio (other than the obvious audiophile cash grab)? Because CDs are mostly adequate. Also early CD mastering was pretty awful. CDs are convenient for the digital age, but I wouldn't consider them "source" perfect. Also, labels that produce vinyl might be recording and mastering analog so your point would be moot.
I'm not saying that vinyl is the most accurate recording of the source, but your CD worship is pretty baffling and ignorant of the audio recording/distribution process. The real question is: do you like the aesthetics of vinyl or the convenience of CDs? The question that the article is pointing too is that vinyl positive labels are now offering the convenience of digital with their experience. I don't see why people on either side of the "debate" must somehow declare superiority. People like what they like, and people will often set up business plans to make money off of it. This isn't a holy war...
Yes, you can hand write the ActionScrpt/Flex in a text editor and use the free SDK to command line compile the .swf file to be included in your web page. As long as you know the language and syntax.
The $700 package is a ide that has the compiler, debugger and a graphical design window to help you out.
It gets worse: Bukowsica!: the Bukowski musical.
I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry. I couldn't read the article all the way through to find out if it was any good (funny, campy, jaw-droppingly absurd). I suppose I would see it if it came to town. But the whole concept makes my head hurt.
Broadway has jumped the shark.
He was fired for pissing off the advertisers who didn't know who they were really subsidizing (or they did know, but are now scared of the fallout). Imus delivers listeners to the real customers: the advertisers.
This Onion article seems appropriate: Teen Exposed To Violence, Profanity, Adult Situations By Family
Seriously though, other than money and the spot-light, what are these people looking for.
What crack pipe? Both the Zune and iPod play DRM-free formats. More DRM-free formats than DRMed formats in fact.
Or are you having trouble with the distinction between hardware and software? That was my question. Why is the hardware defective by design?
I know the web site and the whole DRM is evil thing, but as a hardware device (and this goes for iPods too) it plays non-DRMed files just fine. So what is the problem? What is the defective design. If you don't like DRM don't use it*. Simple, no? What am I missing? If the hardware only played DRM files, then yes, that is defective by design. Optional DRM file formats do not a defective device make.
Technically Windows and OS X would be defective by design. Hell even your ears are defective by design since they could, in theory, hear a DRM audio file.
*Excluding the wireless sharing limitations- I fully understand what a crap-fest that has turned out to be.
Yeah, its when I used to get most creative. But better, some of our more inspired kooks come out. Hooray for the last vestiges of commercial free fun.
Wee, this sounds good:
Ideas on the fee structure
will Boing Boing have a fit over MS scanning your iTunes directory? Even if it is to "unlock" your music. When do the DBD protesters arrive at the MS campus?
Ever been married? Look at the certificate. Legally it is issued by the County (ours is, maybe for some it is the state). We were not "married" in a church nor was it officiated by a religious person. So dude, marriage does mean more than one thing and it has very little to do with religion. It is a financial and social construct. The current debate (and there have been many over the centuries) is that one group of bigots want to withhold from a subset of people, much like bans on interracial marriages in years past. So yes, the meaning of marriage has changed over the years and will continue to change as our concepts of society and self do.
Yeah, not like when the Pakastani Intelligence Service got their hands on an actual Al Queda laptop, and the Administration crowed about it in the press before the info on it could be confirmed, secured or acted on...
Part of the issue is that in most sweatshop working conditions, women suffer disproportionately due to a long, long history of rapes and beatings in this setting. Also in very poor regions, women have fewer resources to get out of these situations and a tradition of staying silent when they do occur. Poor women are also less likely to "rock the boat" and try to organize for better conditions, and when they do, police in conjunction with the plant managers will punish them and their families.
I agree that the article should have stated these claims or concerns. It is poor journalism to leave these things up to the imagination. Especially since our society has a short memory and a willingness to blame the victims for abuses leveled on them.
When you wrote this, my iTMS tracks on my Dell/Windows computer stopped working. Gee thanks. Fail to provide content? Now it is Apple's civic duty to provide content to consumers everywhere? They said here is our store and here is how it works. People thought it was a good idea and they are the market leader. However, they are no where near saturating the potential market and I don't think they can be considered a monopoly in this respect. Digital music and downloads is still an immature sector and the rules are still being written.
Before you write me off as a fanboy- I have mostly switched to eMusic and Bleep both of which work fine on my iPod or any other device that I can find. But I would caution getting hung up on the Apple-ness of these stories. As stated earlier, this is about DRM and global distribution coming in to conflict with local laws and customs.
You brought up Clinton, so are you not part of the "we" who complianed about the executive power grab then?
I was joking that most republicans and fair weather patriots were too busy jacking off the the "impeachment" proceedings to hear the real complaints about the Clinton administration. The republican controlled congress was so deep into Ken Starr and Monica that they stopped caring about the country. Hence you did not hear the complaints about Clinton's executive power grab and domestic spying in our so-called liberal media.
And why should I care about the NYT's editorial pages (which have always been neo-con liars to the point of being oblivious to the news in their own pages). Power abused by any president (by any party or name) is bad. We complained then, we are complaining now. Its not partisan if _you_ only hear one side of it. Maybe you should think through your talking points rather than repeat what you've been given.
You say that like we didn't complain about it then. Maybe you were too busy reading up on the federally funded Ken Starr pornographic novel to care about the continual reach of executive power.
With the current administration (and their congresional/media enablers) its all about party and power over the interests of the country. It was bad then and its worse now. We said so then and we say so now.
If you are truly building a large site or application, then you are using templates. Validate the template and you are 80% there. Then the content applied to that template should not be to difficult to manage.
In our templates only a couple of authors get wacky with their design, and they ask us developers to help them get it right.
If you can't bother with minimal standards, well, that is the kind of help our shop can do with out.
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Deliver the I.O.U.
Seek the Ostentatious Orb
Fetch me a canoe
Deliver this dirtclod
I have one problem with your statement. This years Academy films are not about PCness (get out of the 80s man). They were dramas. If you don't like drama fine, but jeeze get a grip man.
The (overblown) PC thing is about white guys feeling victimized for being forced to condider other points of view. No one was forced to make or see these movies. They just happen to be decent stories that were vehicles for good acting (and all the other categories). Would you like to explain how King Kong, Walk the Line or Pride and Prejudice were PC films?
I agree in general broad strokes, but radio has been rife with payola scandals and mega-media mergers. That was the only thing I was pointing out, I suppose I should have used a smiley or something.
Part of me would love to see lots of specialty on-line music stores, but another part, mostly my credit card, prefers one-stop shopping. But the point of the grand-grand parent is on target, that the barriers to entry should not be at the whims of the few distribution companies, but rather the innovation and service new comers can bring.