Educational standards and common sense standards for police and elected officials in Boston certainly have fallen since Revolutionary War times when John Adams and others in Massachusetts led the way for Independence and for the rights of man in society. Now Boston is known for ignorance, thuggery, incompetence and a place willing to take the rights of humans away for the false security afforded by uniformed idiots with their self presented jangling medals and uniform bling while they all whore their way in front of cameras at the least provocation to strut and self congratulate each other about how well they are doing. Boston is a joke and an embarrassment. That's my two cents.
I've played it on the XBox and I know it's a great game and I know it would be even better on the computer but the Steam Valve activation crap has kept me from ever getting it and you know, the Orange Box and the two episodes/add ons just make me wish I could buy it but then of course I know the joys of activation and no way would I reward these guys with my money. I haven't even bothered looking to see if there is a 'crack' to make it work without making your computer a Steam Valve slave. No sale to me.
You know everyone has an opinion. My opinion is that I like the original version, not the directors cut, the second directors version, the laser disk version, the version without the narration, the version released only in Nambia, the version released to the airlines, the tv version or any of that. Does that make me an idiot because my opinion differs from your self described superior opinion? Calling people illiterate or otherwise belittling their opinions to prove how smart you are or how superior you believe your own opinion to be is just sad. It's a movie, buy the super deluxe version and pull it off your shelf every once in a while and lecture your cat about how your opinion is better than anyone else's opinion. I'm sure the cat will be impressed.
Spoken like someone with false assumptions and a false sense of superiority. 'Here's the thing' - if by 'key answers' you mean like the little Walls of Jericho story and you know, walking around it three times, the walls come down and the soldiers go in with the orders to kill every man, woman, child and animal in the place, I guess your 'key answer' there would be genocide is the way. You can get better and more rational 'key answers' to life from an episode of the Sopranos. So get off your high horse there. And as you find it amusing that some atheists spend time and effort trying to use logic and reasoning to help people who display irrational believes in an invisible man in the sky, it's that human idea of hope for others. Many atheists, many of them right next to you in Church, know you can't reason with insanity and don't bother. We realize that no matter how many mysteries of the mind are answered by science it can't overcome the basic irrationality of religion. The article looks at yet another bit of the 'mystery' and provides an explanation. Science marches on.
This guy is like the Florida taser idiot - attention whores who create a big problem for attention. There are plenty of options available to you if you don't like the way a store choses to enforce it's security policies. I won't walk into a Guitar Center because of their ignorant and over the top 'security check' at the door. Go to Sam's they check your receipt, go to Best Buy and they check your receipt. Those last two places have been polite about it. I get it - people steal stuff and some of that theft if actually through the cash registers so to stay in business some businesses decide to have receipt checkers. When they are obnoxious like at Guitar Center I complain to the manager and never shop there again. I don't go cause a scene at the door while I'm with family members, involve the police and act like a complete ass as this guy did. Like the 'Don't taser me Bro' guy, this guy knew he was causing trouble and decided to push it until he was arrested. Good, and I'm glad it cost him some money, perhaps this clown will find better ways to 'fight the man' if he wants.
He doesn't really 'rock' but I've always liked him. I'm rediscovering music videos at youtube, veoh and stage6.divx for music videos from around the world. Russian trance, jpop, cpop, kpop, European pop, 80's, 90's and just stuff I wouldn't have ever heard of. I'm learning guitar faster with lazyfret on youtube and there is also interesting anime and much more available. Who knew they even made videos any longer, who knew that Dolores O'Riordan from the Cranberries had a new album out and it sounds great. These services are reconnecting folks with the parts of culture they've disconnected from because of fragmentation and balkanization of interests combined with the lowest common denominator you find every cable network passing through so you get to where MTV and VH1 don't do music any longer. Long live Rick Astley!
It's also obvious to me that this guys is a dick. He sought confrontation and found it. The store has a legitimate interest in preventing theft either from shoplifting or employee assisted theft - i.e. the cashier in cahoots with the customer. If he found it too obnoxious, as I find the 'loss prevention efforts' at Guitar Center to be overboard, then don't shop there any longer and complain. Which is what I did there. I read this guys blog over this and he comes across to me as an absolute prick. Just a complete ass without a thought for any other human being but himself. He had people with him and he decided to initiate this confrontation. The guy fits some of the profile of someone who would shoplift, just by his arrogant attitude and his 'I'm the only person in the world' attitude which comes through in his words and his actions.
Vista is what it is, a bloated, DRM filled, resource hog designed to take more of your computer away from you and in exchange it gives you unrecognized drivers, unsupported software and nothing but aggravation. The new spectacular games that were supposed to be there are not there, all we can see are promises and vaporware for sometime in the future but for now all you get is pain and misery. Tell me again why I want that? Tell me Microsoft why DirectX 10 is so much more special? I see the side by side comparisons and I don't see much difference, certainly not worth me busting everything I own now and investing in something with no real tangible difference. I hear the FUD, the hear the huckster Microsoft cheerleaders saying how great it is but this is the internet and the voices of everyone else are heard loud and clear so the lying isn't being believed. 8 Percent using it? Sounds on the high side to me. It's just a matter of how long until Microsoft admits they've created a loser and perhaps we can get to real innovation. I won't hold my breath on that second part though.
I'm pretty sure they aren't off shooting guns in the city in those other countries which have better high speed access than we do. This is why we can't have nice things.
That's what I was thinking,no patches, no fixes for broken stuff, no fixing it so XP will play DX10 - and so what is XP missing that Vista has? Extra DRM 'enhancements' to take control of your computer away from you. Don't think I'll be putting this thing on my computer.
Well, to analyze my own satire there let me say that I've heard various Global Warming advocates say that those who deny global warming are like holocaust deniers and should be treated as such. You might or might not remember that the bastion of civil liberties (Europe) did in fact put the historian David Irving in jail for writings suggested the holocaust didn't happen. David Irving is of course disagreed with by other historians but when disagreement becomes a jail sentence that's the end of free speech and free discussion. It's a matter of having the proper opinion or face jail. This is the attitude taken by a number of those people who Believe in man made global warming. One of the Kennedy clan, a congressman, said that those who denied global warming are like traitors. Traitors are traditionally shot you know. This is the rhetoric I was writing on. The number of replies in this thread shows that people have strong feelings on the matter. And some of them are extreme in their beliefs and in what should be done with people who don't share their beliefs. And it is a belief. When you move from a review of the facts and into name calling you are dealing with beliefs. Facts be damned, incomplete and inaccurate facts be damned. On the other side you have the black helicopter people and the world government is coming people who say that the whole thing is just an attempt to have the UN take over the United States or variations on that theme. Fruitcakes and nutcakes on both sides. Facts and science go out the window, every new study, new theory and new fact set comes with an agenda, a point of view and a built in set of attackers. Not science, the clash of belief structures.
The last bits about it being George Bush's fault and America's fault are also themes of many people from the Church of Global Warming. Bush didn't sign the Kyoto Accords is one theme frequently mentioned as a reason for the world going to hell in a hand basket. That Japan isn't going to meet it's quota or that China and India aren't even required to do anything even though their economies are getting huge and their pollution is massive - not so much. And that's about it.
I've been told in no uncertain terms that I must BELIEVE in global warming and that man has caused it. Many of the Brethren have warned the unbelievers that they face arrest, scorn and treatment as if they were traitors, holocaust deniers and altogether evil less than human creatures that must be silenced at all costs. By presenting the other side of the argument, (which by the way, according to the Brethren there is no other side of the argument) these people are giving comfort to the enemy. If there are facts which cause doubt about the truth of global warming then those facts must be suppressed. It is for the good of all. Oh, and it's all George Bush's fault I've been told. And America's fault.
Freedom versus the Illusion of of Freedom and all you are losing now is your illusion of freedom. Welcome back to the Gilded Age where all the rights belong to the business interests and where your government uses it's police powers not to find Osama Bin Laden, but to find the kid who has a mod chip in their Xbox so they can play those hideously illegal imported Japanese games. It's not for the common good, it's not the best use of limited resources, it's the use of those limited resources to help protect poor downtrodden Microsoft. It's the use of your government resources for whoever pays your Congressman the most money. Not for you, not yours. Your rights to unionize have been taken away, your jobs have been outsourced to other countries where slave labor wages can be paid and you've been led by the nose to believe it's for your own good and to 'compete on the world stage' and only now is there a tiny bit of noise when your Engineer and IT jobs are being outsourced to India or through those work visas. It ends up sort of being a Nazi paradise with government for the Corporations, by the Corporations with you and I asked to wave the flags while believing we're all suspects and under surveillance for the good of the country. Long live the fatherland and you there with the Xbox, stop or we'll shoot.
You know, folks are wanting to see or read the ending before they invest the time and energy into something when they might not like the ending. I don't watch 24, they always kill the folks I like. I found out how the Transformers movie went before going - didn't much like the cartoon movie where Optimus dies so I didn't particularly want to see that either. There are enough surprises out there and nobody wants to pay for a bad surprise so you know, the folks will noodle the facts out as soon as possible.
I can see this as an opportunity for the Save the Great Lake folks and the Greenpeace folks and everybody else here with a dog in the fight against pollution. Protests at BP in Indiana, a nice live web cam showing the BP pollution going into the lake. A nice graphic counter ticking it all off and available on the web. Hell, by the time the light of day shines all over BP and the 'business friendly/environment unfriendly Indiana state government they'll wish they never tried to put an extra teaspoon worth of pollution in the environment and BP which has it's absurd 'we're green' commercials will be shown to be not so green. Boycott Indiana, boycott BP, support your environment, protest against the state government. Sounds like a nice little fight shaping up. I'll go get my popcorn.
One of the things that upsets folks (I mean RIAA demon spawn) is me getting a copy of how to play American Pie without buying the sheet music or buying a video where someone else paid money to the music mob so they can sell me something that shows me how to play American Pie. Folks on YouTube are showing me generally how to play "Hey There Delilah-Plain White T's" which is a fairly new song. Seeing this story reminded me of hearing that Plain White T's song last night and thinking that it sounds pretty easy to figure out. And I had never heard it before and it's a great song. I searched for it on YouTube and a whole lot of folks are there with their guitars puzzling the song out. When I was taking guitar lessons I'd bring the cd or a copy of the song and my teacher would puzzle out a song with me. Actually for me since he was really a great player and teacher and could listen to a song and pull it out, like these folks on YouTube do. By the way YouTube user jnye078 rocks in explaining that song. And the guy whose videos we're talking about are still on YouTube but might not be in a while. He very clearly showed me how to play a Counting Crows song, Mr. Jones - I've the CD and the sheet music for it. And since the RIAA might be running to stomp all these guys I've downloaded all of the lessons. (a simple youtube grabber found on download.com) Now if Justin Sander Coe was selling these versions of copyrighted songs then the copyright owner would be justified to stop him. This guy is coming out with a Blues DVD which if it's as conversational and cool as the other videos I've seen so far I'd be happy to buy. These folks aren't hurting anyone, they're helping create music fans by being enthusiastic and in love with music and aren't making money that the RIAA might otherwise get. So, I'm on topic but not clearly spelled out.
Well, then it's not an American company if it doesn't employ Americans is it? Don't pretend to be an American company, advertising yourself as the best and brightest that America can offer and then cutting your American workers to get that last penny for your shareholders. Don't pretend that you have to move to Canada cause of some regulations that keep you from hiring cheaper labor. In American companies get all sort of Corporate Welfare subsidizing them, your and my tax dollars paying to keep them here and keep them healthy. Then they move their asses to Canada saying 'Don't blame me, blame the regulations that made me move." All we're doing here is pointing out their lies.
Except Head On and Axe Body spray are not subtle or persuasive. Head On makes me change the channel when I see it come on. Axe Body spray makes me laugh. Neither commercial even begins to tell me that I'll be cooler, better looking, more manly (I mean really, the Axe commercials are funny and not really trying to persuade me). And the cigarette and liquor ads were more than one Head On and One Axe Body spray ad campaign, they were everywhere and they all in various ways told you you were cool and hip if you used the products. And as for information no longer being censored, I think that the warning labels on cigarettes were on the side for a long time before the commercials went off. I think. But you are right, the commercials went off then the public service announcements went on. Anti Drunk Driving ads, MADD ads, heck, even the cigarette companies had to pay for the anti smoking ads. Obviously it's more complicated than one or the other.
"If you are asking Microsoft to pay you more than another similarly skilled candidate based on geography or nationality then you are just asking them to subsidize you."
No, you're asking an American Company to employee Americans. An American company that earns it's money in America and then goes on to say that the United States makes it hard to employ lower cost workers from other countries and then whines about it being unable to pay American workers less doesn't deserve a lot of sympathy. And when you parrot that 'Global Economy' propaganda you're merely helping to pass on that big lie. The American government needs to tighten the foreign workers visas because they are being used to kill off the jobs of higher paid American workers. And big companies have a tendency towards doing evil to their employees when government doesn't look out for the workers. Whether it's 19 Century Mining companies that would charge their employees a dollar a day for the use of the tools and pay them 90 cents or it's Microsoft outsourcing jobs from Americans so as to squeeze that last penny out for the shareholders.
Yes, but banning the images of pot and drug use do stop the idea that that drug use is approved of by the schools. And if not approved then tolerated. And toleration is a short stop to 'they don't care' if we use these drugs or not. Nobody expects that banning the depiction of drug use and drugs from popular culture will stop that drug use but it's a constant battle isn't it. MTV will blur out the same thing from videos and images on their network as well. Why? They know they aren't going to stop the use of drugs but they can decide to not be part of the problem, the problem of acceptance of illegal behavior in popular culture.
As for the curtailing of cigarette and liquor advertisements, well you know smoking is down. Before the laws against advertising smoking was depicted as 'cool' and a sign of being grown up, sexy, masculine, etc. Same with hard liquor advertisements. Both type of products being sold to children and young people. No problems will be solved by banning pictures or advertisements but in many cases it's to the benefit of society that commercial speech is controlled.
Lots of artists have themselves a place at the MySpace where music can be sampled and you can get exposure. And lots of folks happily pay to get those little CD disks that they can put in their collection. There are all sorts of ways to keep playing music and get paid for it but then there are lots of musicians who are less successful doing that and become music teachers, or bus drivers or whatever. Just cause you want to make a living doing it is no guarantee that you can make a living doing it.
It's comical is what it is. Take our DRM loaded, slower and less able Vista over the stable XP. What's wrong with XP? It doesn't have as many 'protections' for you, we mean protections against you using your computer as you might wish. And these super special shiny new games can only play on Vista! We promise, we swear! Wha what? Some warez dudes fixed that for you? You can actually play those games on XP? Don't worry, we'll get every man we have on this problem - there, download this emergency patch to your XP, and or your game. There, we told you it doesn't work on XP. Fixed it. Thanks bye. (A-holes)
Deliberately misspelled words that the writer cannot be bothered to fix or shortened words which they might think are cute or otherwise 'cool' - It's fine for lolcats but everyone else needs to at least listen to their spell checkers.
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Educational standards and common sense standards for police and elected officials in Boston certainly have fallen since Revolutionary War times when John Adams and others in Massachusetts led the way for Independence and for the rights of man in society. Now Boston is known for ignorance, thuggery, incompetence and a place willing to take the rights of humans away for the false security afforded by uniformed idiots with their self presented jangling medals and uniform bling while they all whore their way in front of cameras at the least provocation to strut and self congratulate each other about how well they are doing. Boston is a joke and an embarrassment. That's my two cents.
I've played it on the XBox and I know it's a great game and I know it would be even better on the computer but the Steam Valve activation crap has kept me from ever getting it and you know, the Orange Box and the two episodes/add ons just make me wish I could buy it but then of course I know the joys of activation and no way would I reward these guys with my money. I haven't even bothered looking to see if there is a 'crack' to make it work without making your computer a Steam Valve slave. No sale to me.
You know everyone has an opinion. My opinion is that I like the original version, not the directors cut, the second directors version, the laser disk version, the version without the narration, the version released only in Nambia, the version released to the airlines, the tv version or any of that. Does that make me an idiot because my opinion differs from your self described superior opinion? Calling people illiterate or otherwise belittling their opinions to prove how smart you are or how superior you believe your own opinion to be is just sad. It's a movie, buy the super deluxe version and pull it off your shelf every once in a while and lecture your cat about how your opinion is better than anyone else's opinion. I'm sure the cat will be impressed.
Spoken like someone with false assumptions and a false sense of superiority. 'Here's the thing' - if by 'key answers' you mean like the little Walls of Jericho story and you know, walking around it three times, the walls come down and the soldiers go in with the orders to kill every man, woman, child and animal in the place, I guess your 'key answer' there would be genocide is the way. You can get better and more rational 'key answers' to life from an episode of the Sopranos. So get off your high horse there. And as you find it amusing that some atheists spend time and effort trying to use logic and reasoning to help people who display irrational believes in an invisible man in the sky, it's that human idea of hope for others. Many atheists, many of them right next to you in Church, know you can't reason with insanity and don't bother. We realize that no matter how many mysteries of the mind are answered by science it can't overcome the basic irrationality of religion. The article looks at yet another bit of the 'mystery' and provides an explanation. Science marches on.
This guy is like the Florida taser idiot - attention whores who create a big problem for attention. There are plenty of options available to you if you don't like the way a store choses to enforce it's security policies. I won't walk into a Guitar Center because of their ignorant and over the top 'security check' at the door. Go to Sam's they check your receipt, go to Best Buy and they check your receipt. Those last two places have been polite about it. I get it - people steal stuff and some of that theft if actually through the cash registers so to stay in business some businesses decide to have receipt checkers. When they are obnoxious like at Guitar Center I complain to the manager and never shop there again. I don't go cause a scene at the door while I'm with family members, involve the police and act like a complete ass as this guy did. Like the 'Don't taser me Bro' guy, this guy knew he was causing trouble and decided to push it until he was arrested. Good, and I'm glad it cost him some money, perhaps this clown will find better ways to 'fight the man' if he wants.
He doesn't really 'rock' but I've always liked him. I'm rediscovering music videos at youtube, veoh and stage6.divx for music videos from around the world. Russian trance, jpop, cpop, kpop, European pop, 80's, 90's and just stuff I wouldn't have ever heard of. I'm learning guitar faster with lazyfret on youtube and there is also interesting anime and much more available. Who knew they even made videos any longer, who knew that Dolores O'Riordan from the Cranberries had a new album out and it sounds great. These services are reconnecting folks with the parts of culture they've disconnected from because of fragmentation and balkanization of interests combined with the lowest common denominator you find every cable network passing through so you get to where MTV and VH1 don't do music any longer. Long live Rick Astley!
It's also obvious to me that this guys is a dick. He sought confrontation and found it. The store has a legitimate interest in preventing theft either from shoplifting or employee assisted theft - i.e. the cashier in cahoots with the customer. If he found it too obnoxious, as I find the 'loss prevention efforts' at Guitar Center to be overboard, then don't shop there any longer and complain. Which is what I did there. I read this guys blog over this and he comes across to me as an absolute prick. Just a complete ass without a thought for any other human being but himself. He had people with him and he decided to initiate this confrontation. The guy fits some of the profile of someone who would shoplift, just by his arrogant attitude and his 'I'm the only person in the world' attitude which comes through in his words and his actions.
Vista is what it is, a bloated, DRM filled, resource hog designed to take more of your computer away from you and in exchange it gives you unrecognized drivers, unsupported software and nothing but aggravation. The new spectacular games that were supposed to be there are not there, all we can see are promises and vaporware for sometime in the future but for now all you get is pain and misery. Tell me again why I want that? Tell me Microsoft why DirectX 10 is so much more special? I see the side by side comparisons and I don't see much difference, certainly not worth me busting everything I own now and investing in something with no real tangible difference. I hear the FUD, the hear the huckster Microsoft cheerleaders saying how great it is but this is the internet and the voices of everyone else are heard loud and clear so the lying isn't being believed. 8 Percent using it? Sounds on the high side to me. It's just a matter of how long until Microsoft admits they've created a loser and perhaps we can get to real innovation. I won't hold my breath on that second part though.
Take your Root Kit and well, you know the rest.
I'm pretty sure they aren't off shooting guns in the city in those other countries which have better high speed access than we do. This is why we can't have nice things.
That's what I was thinking,no patches, no fixes for broken stuff, no fixing it so XP will play DX10 - and so what is XP missing that Vista has? Extra DRM 'enhancements' to take control of your computer away from you. Don't think I'll be putting this thing on my computer.
Well, to analyze my own satire there let me say that I've heard various Global Warming advocates say that those who deny global warming are like holocaust deniers and should be treated as such. You might or might not remember that the bastion of civil liberties (Europe) did in fact put the historian David Irving in jail for writings suggested the holocaust didn't happen. David Irving is of course disagreed with by other historians but when disagreement becomes a jail sentence that's the end of free speech and free discussion. It's a matter of having the proper opinion or face jail. This is the attitude taken by a number of those people who Believe in man made global warming. One of the Kennedy clan, a congressman, said that those who denied global warming are like traitors. Traitors are traditionally shot you know. This is the rhetoric I was writing on. The number of replies in this thread shows that people have strong feelings on the matter. And some of them are extreme in their beliefs and in what should be done with people who don't share their beliefs. And it is a belief. When you move from a review of the facts and into name calling you are dealing with beliefs. Facts be damned, incomplete and inaccurate facts be damned. On the other side you have the black helicopter people and the world government is coming people who say that the whole thing is just an attempt to have the UN take over the United States or variations on that theme. Fruitcakes and nutcakes on both sides. Facts and science go out the window, every new study, new theory and new fact set comes with an agenda, a point of view and a built in set of attackers. Not science, the clash of belief structures. The last bits about it being George Bush's fault and America's fault are also themes of many people from the Church of Global Warming. Bush didn't sign the Kyoto Accords is one theme frequently mentioned as a reason for the world going to hell in a hand basket. That Japan isn't going to meet it's quota or that China and India aren't even required to do anything even though their economies are getting huge and their pollution is massive - not so much. And that's about it.
I've been told in no uncertain terms that I must BELIEVE in global warming and that man has caused it. Many of the Brethren have warned the unbelievers that they face arrest, scorn and treatment as if they were traitors, holocaust deniers and altogether evil less than human creatures that must be silenced at all costs. By presenting the other side of the argument, (which by the way, according to the Brethren there is no other side of the argument) these people are giving comfort to the enemy. If there are facts which cause doubt about the truth of global warming then those facts must be suppressed. It is for the good of all. Oh, and it's all George Bush's fault I've been told. And America's fault.
Freedom versus the Illusion of of Freedom and all you are losing now is your illusion of freedom. Welcome back to the Gilded Age where all the rights belong to the business interests and where your government uses it's police powers not to find Osama Bin Laden, but to find the kid who has a mod chip in their Xbox so they can play those hideously illegal imported Japanese games. It's not for the common good, it's not the best use of limited resources, it's the use of those limited resources to help protect poor downtrodden Microsoft. It's the use of your government resources for whoever pays your Congressman the most money. Not for you, not yours. Your rights to unionize have been taken away, your jobs have been outsourced to other countries where slave labor wages can be paid and you've been led by the nose to believe it's for your own good and to 'compete on the world stage' and only now is there a tiny bit of noise when your Engineer and IT jobs are being outsourced to India or through those work visas. It ends up sort of being a Nazi paradise with government for the Corporations, by the Corporations with you and I asked to wave the flags while believing we're all suspects and under surveillance for the good of the country. Long live the fatherland and you there with the Xbox, stop or we'll shoot.
You know, folks are wanting to see or read the ending before they invest the time and energy into something when they might not like the ending. I don't watch 24, they always kill the folks I like. I found out how the Transformers movie went before going - didn't much like the cartoon movie where Optimus dies so I didn't particularly want to see that either. There are enough surprises out there and nobody wants to pay for a bad surprise so you know, the folks will noodle the facts out as soon as possible.
I can see this as an opportunity for the Save the Great Lake folks and the Greenpeace folks and everybody else here with a dog in the fight against pollution. Protests at BP in Indiana, a nice live web cam showing the BP pollution going into the lake. A nice graphic counter ticking it all off and available on the web. Hell, by the time the light of day shines all over BP and the 'business friendly/environment unfriendly Indiana state government they'll wish they never tried to put an extra teaspoon worth of pollution in the environment and BP which has it's absurd 'we're green' commercials will be shown to be not so green. Boycott Indiana, boycott BP, support your environment, protest against the state government. Sounds like a nice little fight shaping up. I'll go get my popcorn.
One of the things that upsets folks (I mean RIAA demon spawn) is me getting a copy of how to play American Pie without buying the sheet music or buying a video where someone else paid money to the music mob so they can sell me something that shows me how to play American Pie. Folks on YouTube are showing me generally how to play "Hey There Delilah-Plain White T's" which is a fairly new song. Seeing this story reminded me of hearing that Plain White T's song last night and thinking that it sounds pretty easy to figure out. And I had never heard it before and it's a great song. I searched for it on YouTube and a whole lot of folks are there with their guitars puzzling the song out. When I was taking guitar lessons I'd bring the cd or a copy of the song and my teacher would puzzle out a song with me. Actually for me since he was really a great player and teacher and could listen to a song and pull it out, like these folks on YouTube do. By the way YouTube user jnye078 rocks in explaining that song. And the guy whose videos we're talking about are still on YouTube but might not be in a while. He very clearly showed me how to play a Counting Crows song, Mr. Jones - I've the CD and the sheet music for it. And since the RIAA might be running to stomp all these guys I've downloaded all of the lessons. (a simple youtube grabber found on download.com) Now if Justin Sander Coe was selling these versions of copyrighted songs then the copyright owner would be justified to stop him. This guy is coming out with a Blues DVD which if it's as conversational and cool as the other videos I've seen so far I'd be happy to buy. These folks aren't hurting anyone, they're helping create music fans by being enthusiastic and in love with music and aren't making money that the RIAA might otherwise get. So, I'm on topic but not clearly spelled out.
Been meaning to grab a copy of the worried prairie dog video and such. How might I do that? :-)
Well, then it's not an American company if it doesn't employ Americans is it? Don't pretend to be an American company, advertising yourself as the best and brightest that America can offer and then cutting your American workers to get that last penny for your shareholders. Don't pretend that you have to move to Canada cause of some regulations that keep you from hiring cheaper labor. In American companies get all sort of Corporate Welfare subsidizing them, your and my tax dollars paying to keep them here and keep them healthy. Then they move their asses to Canada saying 'Don't blame me, blame the regulations that made me move." All we're doing here is pointing out their lies.
Except Head On and Axe Body spray are not subtle or persuasive. Head On makes me change the channel when I see it come on. Axe Body spray makes me laugh. Neither commercial even begins to tell me that I'll be cooler, better looking, more manly (I mean really, the Axe commercials are funny and not really trying to persuade me). And the cigarette and liquor ads were more than one Head On and One Axe Body spray ad campaign, they were everywhere and they all in various ways told you you were cool and hip if you used the products. And as for information no longer being censored, I think that the warning labels on cigarettes were on the side for a long time before the commercials went off. I think. But you are right, the commercials went off then the public service announcements went on. Anti Drunk Driving ads, MADD ads, heck, even the cigarette companies had to pay for the anti smoking ads. Obviously it's more complicated than one or the other.
"If you are asking Microsoft to pay you more than another similarly skilled candidate based on geography or nationality then you are just asking them to subsidize you." No, you're asking an American Company to employee Americans. An American company that earns it's money in America and then goes on to say that the United States makes it hard to employ lower cost workers from other countries and then whines about it being unable to pay American workers less doesn't deserve a lot of sympathy. And when you parrot that 'Global Economy' propaganda you're merely helping to pass on that big lie. The American government needs to tighten the foreign workers visas because they are being used to kill off the jobs of higher paid American workers. And big companies have a tendency towards doing evil to their employees when government doesn't look out for the workers. Whether it's 19 Century Mining companies that would charge their employees a dollar a day for the use of the tools and pay them 90 cents or it's Microsoft outsourcing jobs from Americans so as to squeeze that last penny out for the shareholders.
Yes, but banning the images of pot and drug use do stop the idea that that drug use is approved of by the schools. And if not approved then tolerated. And toleration is a short stop to 'they don't care' if we use these drugs or not. Nobody expects that banning the depiction of drug use and drugs from popular culture will stop that drug use but it's a constant battle isn't it. MTV will blur out the same thing from videos and images on their network as well. Why? They know they aren't going to stop the use of drugs but they can decide to not be part of the problem, the problem of acceptance of illegal behavior in popular culture. As for the curtailing of cigarette and liquor advertisements, well you know smoking is down. Before the laws against advertising smoking was depicted as 'cool' and a sign of being grown up, sexy, masculine, etc. Same with hard liquor advertisements. Both type of products being sold to children and young people. No problems will be solved by banning pictures or advertisements but in many cases it's to the benefit of society that commercial speech is controlled.
Lots of artists have themselves a place at the MySpace where music can be sampled and you can get exposure. And lots of folks happily pay to get those little CD disks that they can put in their collection. There are all sorts of ways to keep playing music and get paid for it but then there are lots of musicians who are less successful doing that and become music teachers, or bus drivers or whatever. Just cause you want to make a living doing it is no guarantee that you can make a living doing it.
It's comical is what it is. Take our DRM loaded, slower and less able Vista over the stable XP. What's wrong with XP? It doesn't have as many 'protections' for you, we mean protections against you using your computer as you might wish. And these super special shiny new games can only play on Vista! We promise, we swear! Wha what? Some warez dudes fixed that for you? You can actually play those games on XP? Don't worry, we'll get every man we have on this problem - there, download this emergency patch to your XP, and or your game. There, we told you it doesn't work on XP. Fixed it. Thanks bye. (A-holes)
Deliberately misspelled words that the writer cannot be bothered to fix or shortened words which they might think are cute or otherwise 'cool' - It's fine for lolcats but everyone else needs to at least listen to their spell checkers.