Since you work with oxygen, I would suggest making it worth their while by giving those who comply with your procedures a small bottle of the 'good stuff' to suck on at their desk.
You could accelerate compliance by filling the office full of acrid smoke from a bad power supply, or making Friday 'Nitrous Oxide Day'.
Ugh. Makes me glad I'm not a resident. Or a Republican. Or a black lesbian trying to get time off of work to have an abortion after being beaten by white supremacists while wondering how my unmarriable lesbian partner is doing in jail for smoking a joint.
Different strokes for different folks. I hope Jesse has a good one.
As far as trolling, why not? Isn't trolling the same as playing the Devil's Advocate? I want people to think before they run around and sing, "Jesse is our friend!"
You might want to try opensecrets.org - he takes plenty of money from Big Tobacco, communications, ect. Unless a company lives in a house on Carolina St, rasing a family of small business owners, I don't see the 'people'. I see corporations.(Admittedly, everyone on the site has dirty hands..:(
All that is completely beside the point that Helms is a racist and a homophobe. NC has no gay people or black people, so it's ok.
Frankly, Jesse Helms has been a political Juggernaut, and points out many things wrong with the system, such as lack of term limits.
Sure I blame the voters. I blame the non-voters more.
Did you even check Google? Are you even old enough to vote? Give me a break.
I honestly don't know why Helms would be doing this, but I sure as hell know it's not for his consituents. If he would have spent half the energy on fighting for people that he spent on 'anti-homo/minority' legisltion, perhaps some good could have come out of his endless term.
Next time you mod, think. Or read. Or kill yourself, and save me the trouble of posting this.
MS didn't KNOW? Come on, any mouthbreather can read those 'Switched' pieces (of crap) and know immediately that nobody writes like that. Twelve year old kid with a vocabulary of a college TA? I think not, unless his middle name is Doogie Freaking Howser. Besides, I don't know of any school where kids actually learn anything other than how to dominate their schoolmates with threats of violence and/or how to get past Berzerkeroid on level 23 of Street Ninja XII.
MS is putting their spin back in, since they hosed it up the first time. The ironic thing is, had Word not crapped out a bunch of info (which it shouldn't), it wouldn't have gotten to this point. *Of course, actually taking pictures of real people wouldn't hurt either. I would be interested to know whether or not they *paid for the pictures, or just skimmed them off the site.
MS needs to have someone leave the ivory tower and go talk to real people. Those interviews in which Mom says, "I switched from a Brother Word Processor, and now I can print the Lutheran Bake Sale Price List in COLOR! I'm still trying to get 'the online' though."
Bob at the Garage says, "We used to do our stuff on this box here, then the boss says to me, he says, 'Bob! Get me a Module for an 89 Escort.'
I was like, 'What the hell? Napa's closed.'
And he said, we need to get 'the online'. He went out next day and got 'the online' and now we got 'the online'. We have to get the postits from the old one on here though."
After the 'Real People' interviews, MS will realize that they don't *want to know who uses windows, and quietly release Windows LX, which is Lindows, but crashes more.
What the hell happens if MS disappears? (admittedly unlikely) The Navy should not be using my tax dollars to benefit a private company(monopoly) when Open Source is available, more secure, easily 'fixed', modified, and robust.
IIRC, there used to be a law that the gov couldn't do business with a company that had done illegal things... WTF happened to that?
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I have 1,000,000 karma (Mega Super) so the 5 doesn't matter - what I'm am saying is: Have a relationship with unsigned artists. They are not hard to find. They will love the exposure, you will have a RIAA free radio station, and you get to bring unheard and sometimes startlingly original music to the public.
Nowhere did I say that it would be easy - other than the fact that in a town like Minneapolis, you can throw a rock and hit 9 musicians. (and 3 of them are amazing...)
I happen to be one of those 'unsigned masses'. I can tell you from personal experience that I have dealt with many incredible musicians who would love to 'give' a song or album to an independent streamer.
Sure, you have to look - but I guess that still would be easier than trying to deal with 30 pages of legislation.
If you've never gotten a roll of Gaffer's Tape (Cloth with duct tape-esque adhesive), you haven't lived.
You can apply gaffers tape to any surface and remove it *years later* with no sticky crap left over (see duct, electrical, packing, & masking tape) It is very strong and excellent for taping down cables(it is used by stage crews to do just that), or a quick hinge on a box, or cover a blister(wart) or pretty much anything that duct tape will do.
Unfortunately, it does not like to stick to wet surfaces; apply it to dry surfaces and it is great!
Best yet, it comes in all manner of colors(white, black, blue, green, neon pink & neon green are some I have seen)!
It's usually sold at pro-audio music stores (Think PA systems). Definitely worth finding.
Only play non-RIAA music! There are a million and one unsigned geniuses out there.
Granted, it would take more work to insure a semblace of quality, but artists can record in their basements what would have taken a mid-level studio five years ago. The RIAA can't touch what it doesn't have control over.
Leave the biglabel stuff alone. Christ, it gets enough airplay as it is. We certainly do not need another nuMetal station - The greatest hits of one band with different names!
There is plenty of music that has nothing to do with the RIAA, would bend over backwards to be on a station (probably would record a web only version just for you).
If you don't believe me, spend some time in Minneapolis, MN. The land of ten thousand lakes, and twenty thousand bands.
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hehe - the irony.
You could accelerate compliance by filling the office full of acrid smoke from a bad power supply, or making Friday 'Nitrous Oxide Day'.
That's very informative information. I always wanted to know that you were looking for a solid Power Supply review.
That's very informative information. I always wanted to know that you wanted to know that he was looking for a solid Power Supply review. ;)
Simple.
Different strokes for different folks. I hope Jesse has a good one.
You might want to try opensecrets.org - he takes plenty of money from Big Tobacco, communications, ect. Unless a company lives in a house on Carolina St, rasing a family of small business owners, I don't see the 'people'. I see corporations.(Admittedly, everyone on the site has dirty hands.. :(
All that is completely beside the point that Helms is a racist and a homophobe. NC has no gay people or black people, so it's ok.
Frankly, Jesse Helms has been a political Juggernaut, and points out many things wrong with the system, such as lack of term limits.
Sure I blame the voters. I blame the non-voters more.
Unless of course, Jesse did it. Eat these links, Mods.
http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MJ95/bates .html
http://www.bearcave.com/bookrev/helms_note.htm
http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&ie=I SO-8859-1&safe=off&q=jesse+helms
Did you even check Google? Are you even old enough to vote? Give me a break.
I honestly don't know why Helms would be doing this, but I sure as hell know it's not for his consituents. If he would have spent half the energy on fighting for people that he spent on 'anti-homo/minority' legisltion, perhaps some good could have come out of his endless term.
Next time you mod, think. Or read. Or kill yourself, and save me the trouble of posting this.
(doan hit me ;)
"Play that again!"
"Woop-Weep, Pooooo..."
Do I install these on the Clawhammer motherboard?
The funny thing is, they've both got the ass of a ten-year-old boy.
MS is putting their spin back in, since they hosed it up the first time. The ironic thing is, had Word not crapped out a bunch of info (which it shouldn't), it wouldn't have gotten to this point. *Of course, actually taking pictures of real people wouldn't hurt either. I would be interested to know whether or not they *paid for the pictures, or just skimmed them off the site.
MS needs to have someone leave the ivory tower and go talk to real people. Those interviews in which Mom says, "I switched from a Brother Word Processor, and now I can print the Lutheran Bake Sale Price List in COLOR! I'm still trying to get 'the online' though."
Bob at the Garage says, "We used to do our stuff on this box here, then the boss says to me, he says, 'Bob! Get me a Module for an 89 Escort.'
I was like, 'What the hell? Napa's closed.'
And he said, we need to get 'the online'. He went out next day and got 'the online' and now we got 'the online'. We have to get the postits from the old one on here though."
After the 'Real People' interviews, MS will realize that they don't *want to know who uses windows, and quietly release Windows LX, which is Lindows, but crashes more.
IIRC, there used to be a law that the gov couldn't do business with a company that had done illegal things... WTF happened to that?
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Or not. What was the question again?
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Nowhere did I say that it would be easy - other than the fact that in a town like Minneapolis, you can throw a rock and hit 9 musicians. (and 3 of them are amazing...)
I happen to be one of those 'unsigned masses'. I can tell you from personal experience that I have dealt with many incredible musicians who would love to 'give' a song or album to an independent streamer.
Sure, you have to look - but I guess that still would be easier than trying to deal with 30 pages of legislation.
We *need* to finish it so Parkes can double their city's science output!
That should be a front page story, right there.
I thought AOL was based on the idea that people need a never-ending supply of drink coasters.
You can apply gaffers tape to any surface and remove it *years later* with no sticky crap left over (see duct, electrical, packing, & masking tape) It is very strong and excellent for taping down cables(it is used by stage crews to do just that), or a quick hinge on a box, or cover a blister(wart) or pretty much anything that duct tape will do.
Unfortunately, it does not like to stick to wet surfaces; apply it to dry surfaces and it is great!
Best yet, it comes in all manner of colors(white, black, blue, green, neon pink & neon green are some I have seen)!
It's usually sold at pro-audio music stores (Think PA systems). Definitely worth finding.
Granted, it would take more work to insure a semblace of quality, but artists can record in their basements what would have taken a mid-level studio five years ago. The RIAA can't touch what it doesn't have control over.
Leave the biglabel stuff alone. Christ, it gets enough airplay as it is. We certainly do not need another nuMetal station - The greatest hits of one band with different names!
There is plenty of music that has nothing to do with the RIAA, would bend over backwards to be on a station (probably would record a web only version just for you).
If you don't believe me, spend some time in Minneapolis, MN. The land of ten thousand lakes, and twenty thousand bands.
I guess that would be the right time to find out...
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You be quiet, icon designer!
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