That was ASCAP and BMI, not the RIAA lobbying for webcasting royalties. The RIAA gets nothing from jukeboxes, radio airplay, stadium play. That money goes to the music publisher (Lennon/McCarthy or Hetfeild/Ulrich or Dianne Warren)
Excellent idea, getting a computer classroom might be a bit harder, the elementary schools already have a lab or 10, but getting authorization to use the High School lab for the community might take a little more hoop jumping.
Get out to the elementary/middle schools. The technology education they are getting is a joke and so MS centric many will never be functional without Uncle Bill's CrackOS. Show them OpenOffice, teach kids HTML without using MSWord, code up a (secured) gradebook app or homework list in PHP on Apache/MySQL for the teacher/parents to view. When they get advanced, show the kids how to program in ECMAScript, PHP, Perl, or C. Hold a community education night to teach adults how to use a computer effectively. There is plenty of things you can do to help out, just poke around and see what the Elementary teachers are screwing up.
have to order their cable/DBS as an "entertainment" establishment that gives them the right to "rebroadcast" to their patrons at the location. Their prining is much higher than your monthly cable bill call up you cable co or a Sat TV provider to find out pricings, its probably based on seats/TV's/Patrons in the building. Pay-Per-View wrestling and boxing matches are outrageous (One bar I know was charged $2000 to show a Tyson fight), but there were we'll over 600 people that night, so they made that back on the cover.
Does someone have Linus's BitKeeper logs? It's not like there is a CVS committer named IBMfred that they can prove droped that code in (or at least someone authenticated as IBMFred at an IP address that is Fred's workstation).
Apologies for the late reply, busy schedule at work
But what right do you have to determine what and when Wal-Mart stocks, are you a shareholder in Wal-Mart? Wal-Mart is a corporation that has one duty, to produce a return for their shareholder's investment in their enterprise, not to "play fair" or artificially inflate prices to keep local businesses open. There is nothing stoping you from opening a bookstore right down the street that sells magazines that Wal-Mart refuses to sell from Maxim to Hustler. Wal-Mart, has responded to its shareholders desire to maintain high profits by selectively selling guns but not birth control pills or skin mags, it is a value judgement that they have the right (and responsibility) to do as owners of a business in a free market. There are two solutions, buy tons of wal-mart stock (Perhaps Misters Turner and Diller would be helpful in this?) or open your own store that sells what you want it to sell, requiring signifigant risk and investment on you part, but has potentially great rewards if you are right about the demand for birth control pills and skin mags while being opposed to guns.
Hey mod...if you don't have anything constructive to say, stay out. I was having a quite pleasant coversation over the finer points of this ruling with the other two posters and I do not appreciate your downmod because you and I have a different agenda. Why not find a real troll to downmod, not a legitimate post in a relevant conversation.
Frankly, I don't have that much faith in the politicians to leave it alone, right, left or center. You don't have to watch Fox, I don't have to watch CNN or FSTV, I think that there is a ballance in the media today that is unparralleled in the course of history.
Again, if you built a store that was cheaper than wal-mart (or just a combination pharmacy, videogame outlet, and bookstore that carried those items that wal-mart refuses to carry, could you stay in business?) Wal-mart isn't stupid, they really could do without a bunch of reactionaries hijacking their trucks and burning their stores, so they make a decision not to sell those items. Ask yourself, does Joe's drugstore in Podunk, TN carry RU-486? Probably not, so why should Wal-mart in Podunk?
I contend that we are just now seeing a free flow of information, 100 channels of TV, newspapers from national to neighborhood, radio stations from NPR to Limbaugh, all competeing with each other for your time to spread their view, not to mention the competion that the internet provides were I can see and hear every side to every issue with a quick trip to google.
Yeah they are tied to Clear Channel (Dead giveaway is the Harley Day's of May promo on the aforementioned hairband station). CC are not stupid, the advertising guru's they have are some of the best on the planet, but CC normally has 2 "rock" stations per market, one a "Clasic 60's-70's-80's) rock and a modern rock station (Mid/Late 80's-today with the occasionaly old Areosmith or Zeplin tune). It works out for the CC markets I've been in, Lexington and Louisville, and I'm pretty sure Nashville and Cinci do it as well.
And with news media, there should be at least one source that is entirely removed from markets altogether. It should have no advertising and be publically funded.
Let's take a look at what this would turn into, a parrot for whatever party is in control. On the off chance Nader gets elected in 2004, he would try to bend the rules of this (USA)BC to spout his views to the masses, just the same as Bush or Clinton would. I say make the bastards pay for their own campaigns. Lets remove the caps on individual spending and ban any corprate, labor union or PAC donations to political parties, canidates, or campaigns. If Warren Buffet and Billg were to square off with their respective bankrolls, it would at least be fun to watch, while stimulating the economy.
ABC and NBC nightly news had their moan session on Thursday, same garbage, Clear Channel/Fox evil, GE/Disney good. What makes one corporation better than another, perhaps its a value judgement on what you want to hear?
Another UK alum climbs out, the Petty boys and Soward still lurk around here every now and then but that's about it.
No one here has the cash to start up an indy station
Free markets hard at work. If you could convince a bank to finance your opening of a new radio station, you would have no problem. Could it be that they don't think you would have enough listeners/advertisers to survive?
I can't figure out where these "bad" clear channel stations are. The Louisville market CC's, especially 100.5, are really supportive of Louisville's (and the rest of KY/South Indiana) music scene. Plus we get Loveline in the Bible Belt, who'da thunk it.
Then why were they bitching and moaning about it...CNN, CBS, ABC, and NBC are all opposed to this, why didn't they stand up before last week, could it be that their viewers could give a damn? Seriously, what so bad about this, are you telling me that Ted Turner couldn't outspend Murdoch in this environment, bullshit, he's got close to a billion in liquid assets as we speak from dumping a ton of AOL/TW stock. Teddy knew this was coming and I'm sure he and Diller and all the other closet commies have big plans for spreading their message of lost freedom and soverignity, too bad we now have other sources to listen to, like Fox, Limbaugh, Hannity, etc.
...let it be noted the Mr. Turner and Mr. Diller would have no problem with Aaron Brown, Larry King, and the three village idiots (Jennings, Rather, and Brokaw) force-feeding us their drivel every night. Folks, times have changed, instead of watching the big three (ABC, NBC, and CBS) and relying on local radio, TV, and newspapers, Americans can get their news from literally thousands of sources, be it the from the right (Fox News) or left (CNN, MSNBC, old guard). In fact they honestly could ignore TV and stick to talk radio, read a newspaper of their chosing, or hit the blogs and read whatever wackjobs they want to. Turner and his ilk are all opposed to free markets and that is the problem here. If people didn't like Fox and other right wing news, they wouldn't have ratings and they would be off the air, plain and simple. If you provide a product that people want to see, you get ratings and you stay on the air.
As an example, lets say I got fed up with slashdot and started my own geek news blog. What if down the road, I started spell and grammar checking my posts, and people enjoy this feature and depart/. because of the editorial incompetence around this joint. What right would OSDN, Taco, or VA Software have to say, you are stealing our revenue, cease and desist, while we crank out the same garbage posts.
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Fear of lawsuit based on this law, they are the ones that are leaking this info like a seive.
I forget, he first appeared in the majors as part of Samson Jawbones, right?
That was ASCAP and BMI, not the RIAA lobbying for webcasting royalties. The RIAA gets nothing from jukeboxes, radio airplay, stadium play. That money goes to the music publisher (Lennon/McCarthy or Hetfeild/Ulrich or Dianne Warren)
Yeah, but we want JonKatz to come back with more of his insightful "Hellmouth" series
Excellent idea, getting a computer classroom might be a bit harder, the elementary schools already have a lab or 10, but getting authorization to use the High School lab for the community might take a little more hoop jumping.
Get out to the elementary/middle schools. The technology education they are getting is a joke and so MS centric many will never be functional without Uncle Bill's CrackOS. Show them OpenOffice, teach kids HTML without using MSWord, code up a (secured) gradebook app or homework list in PHP on Apache/MySQL for the teacher/parents to view. When they get advanced, show the kids how to program in ECMAScript, PHP, Perl, or C. Hold a community education night to teach adults how to use a computer effectively. There is plenty of things you can do to help out, just poke around and see what the Elementary teachers are screwing up.
XP Pro SP1, no QBASIC, pretty sure that everything after Win 95 does not have QBasic.
have to order their cable/DBS as an "entertainment" establishment that gives them the right to "rebroadcast" to their patrons at the location. Their prining is much higher than your monthly cable bill call up you cable co or a Sat TV provider to find out pricings, its probably based on seats/TV's/Patrons in the building. Pay-Per-View wrestling and boxing matches are outrageous (One bar I know was charged $2000 to show a Tyson fight), but there were we'll over 600 people that night, so they made that back on the cover.
Visicalc
Ummm FreeBSD is non-commercial.
Does someone have Linus's BitKeeper logs? It's not like there is a CVS committer named IBMfred that they can prove droped that code in (or at least someone authenticated as IBMFred at an IP address that is Fred's workstation).
Apologies for the late reply, busy schedule at work
But what right do you have to determine what and when Wal-Mart stocks, are you a shareholder in Wal-Mart? Wal-Mart is a corporation that has one duty, to produce a return for their shareholder's investment in their enterprise, not to "play fair" or artificially inflate prices to keep local businesses open. There is nothing stoping you from opening a bookstore right down the street that sells magazines that Wal-Mart refuses to sell from Maxim to Hustler. Wal-Mart, has responded to its shareholders desire to maintain high profits by selectively selling guns but not birth control pills or skin mags, it is a value judgement that they have the right (and responsibility) to do as owners of a business in a free market. There are two solutions, buy tons of wal-mart stock (Perhaps Misters Turner and Diller would be helpful in this?) or open your own store that sells what you want it to sell, requiring signifigant risk and investment on you part, but has potentially great rewards if you are right about the demand for birth control pills and skin mags while being opposed to guns.
Hey mod...if you don't have anything constructive to say, stay out. I was having a quite pleasant coversation over the finer points of this ruling with the other two posters and I do not appreciate your downmod because you and I have a different agenda. Why not find a real troll to downmod, not a legitimate post in a relevant conversation.
Frankly, I don't have that much faith in the politicians to leave it alone, right, left or center. You don't have to watch Fox, I don't have to watch CNN or FSTV, I think that there is a ballance in the media today that is unparralleled in the course of history.
Again, if you built a store that was cheaper than wal-mart (or just a combination pharmacy, videogame outlet, and bookstore that carried those items that wal-mart refuses to carry, could you stay in business?) Wal-mart isn't stupid, they really could do without a bunch of reactionaries hijacking their trucks and burning their stores, so they make a decision not to sell those items. Ask yourself, does Joe's drugstore in Podunk, TN carry RU-486? Probably not, so why should Wal-mart in Podunk?
I contend that we are just now seeing a free flow of information, 100 channels of TV, newspapers from national to neighborhood, radio stations from NPR to Limbaugh, all competeing with each other for your time to spread their view, not to mention the competion that the internet provides were I can see and hear every side to every issue with a quick trip to google.
Yeah they are tied to Clear Channel (Dead giveaway is the Harley Day's of May promo on the aforementioned hairband station). CC are not stupid, the advertising guru's they have are some of the best on the planet, but CC normally has 2 "rock" stations per market, one a "Clasic 60's-70's-80's) rock and a modern rock station (Mid/Late 80's-today with the occasionaly old Areosmith or Zeplin tune). It works out for the CC markets I've been in, Lexington and Louisville, and I'm pretty sure Nashville and Cinci do it as well.
And with news media, there should be at least one source that is entirely removed from markets altogether. It should have no advertising and be publically funded.
Let's take a look at what this would turn into, a parrot for whatever party is in control. On the off chance Nader gets elected in 2004, he would try to bend the rules of this (USA)BC to spout his views to the masses, just the same as Bush or Clinton would. I say make the bastards pay for their own campaigns. Lets remove the caps on individual spending and ban any corprate, labor union or PAC donations to political parties, canidates, or campaigns. If Warren Buffet and Billg were to square off with their respective bankrolls, it would at least be fun to watch, while stimulating the economy.
ABC and NBC nightly news had their moan session on Thursday, same garbage, Clear Channel/Fox evil, GE/Disney good. What makes one corporation better than another, perhaps its a value judgement on what you want to hear?
Another UK alum climbs out, the Petty boys and Soward still lurk around here every now and then but that's about it.
Then Ms. DiFranco could play a street corner, surely Clear Channel can't keep her off the streets of San Fransisco
No one here has the cash to start up an indy station
Free markets hard at work. If you could convince a bank to finance your opening of a new radio station, you would have no problem. Could it be that they don't think you would have enough listeners/advertisers to survive?
See, regulated media can't even count...stupid regulated media.
I can't figure out where these "bad" clear channel stations are. The Louisville market CC's, especially 100.5, are really supportive of Louisville's (and the rest of KY/South Indiana) music scene. Plus we get Loveline in the Bible Belt, who'da thunk it.
Then why were they bitching and moaning about it...CNN, CBS, ABC, and NBC are all opposed to this, why didn't they stand up before last week, could it be that their viewers could give a damn? Seriously, what so bad about this, are you telling me that Ted Turner couldn't outspend Murdoch in this environment, bullshit, he's got close to a billion in liquid assets as we speak from dumping a ton of AOL/TW stock. Teddy knew this was coming and I'm sure he and Diller and all the other closet commies have big plans for spreading their message of lost freedom and soverignity, too bad we now have other sources to listen to, like Fox, Limbaugh, Hannity, etc.
...let it be noted the Mr. Turner and Mr. Diller would have no problem with Aaron Brown, Larry King, and the three village idiots (Jennings, Rather, and Brokaw) force-feeding us their drivel every night. Folks, times have changed, instead of watching the big three (ABC, NBC, and CBS) and relying on local radio, TV, and newspapers, Americans can get their news from literally thousands of sources, be it the from the right (Fox News) or left (CNN, MSNBC, old guard). In fact they honestly could ignore TV and stick to talk radio, read a newspaper of their chosing, or hit the blogs and read whatever wackjobs they want to. Turner and his ilk are all opposed to free markets and that is the problem here. If people didn't like Fox and other right wing news, they wouldn't have ratings and they would be off the air, plain and simple. If you provide a product that people want to see, you get ratings and you stay on the air.
/. because of the editorial incompetence around this joint. What right would OSDN, Taco, or VA Software have to say, you are stealing our revenue, cease and desist, while we crank out the same garbage posts.
As an example, lets say I got fed up with slashdot and started my own geek news blog. What if down the road, I started spell and grammar checking my posts, and people enjoy this feature and depart
You know, Lake Erie actually caught on fire once, from all the crap in it. Wish I coulda seen that. --T-Bird, The Crow