Whenever I come out of a concert, usually on a high after seeing the band, I tend to blow all the cash I have on me on crap that the touts are flogging outside. Rip off merchansise, posters, that kind of thing.
It would be great to be able to come out, get a much better souvenir and also contribute to the band. I imagne it would also hit the knock off merchants that hang outside pretty badly. RIAA and whoever, surely, should be able to see the sense in that.
Then again, maybe not;)
I was brought up the traditional way fir a reasonably educated family in England. Led to believe that you go to school, college then university. It was never questioned and always assumed that this is the way it goes. If you want a good job, you go to uni.
So I went and did it, at a decent uni too, came home and now, 3 years after leaving, I'm working in some crappy tech support job for peanuts. Meanwhile, the people I used to look at with pity that left school at 16 to take on some government youth training scheme have been working for almost 8 years. They've worked their way to a higher employment status than I'm at now.
I assumed that since I had the degree I would quickly be able to progress past these and all the years of studying (well, partying) would become worthwhile, but I'm finding this isn't the case. To employers, I'm just another kid out of university like the thousands of others. The other kids though, the ones that left school? They're seen as valuable workers that have years of experience on the job.
I don't regret going to uni, but occasionally I feel the bitterness rising:)
It's new years eve! Do you people really not have anything more exciting to be doing than reading Slashdot?
You'd never catch me posting on a geek news site on the party night of the year. Ever.
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Whenever I come out of a concert, usually on a high after seeing the band, I tend to blow all the cash I have on me on crap that the touts are flogging outside. Rip off merchansise, posters, that kind of thing. It would be great to be able to come out, get a much better souvenir and also contribute to the band. I imagne it would also hit the knock off merchants that hang outside pretty badly. RIAA and whoever, surely, should be able to see the sense in that. Then again, maybe not ;)
I was brought up the traditional way fir a reasonably educated family in England. Led to believe that you go to school, college then university. It was never questioned and always assumed that this is the way it goes. If you want a good job, you go to uni. So I went and did it, at a decent uni too, came home and now, 3 years after leaving, I'm working in some crappy tech support job for peanuts. Meanwhile, the people I used to look at with pity that left school at 16 to take on some government youth training scheme have been working for almost 8 years. They've worked their way to a higher employment status than I'm at now. I assumed that since I had the degree I would quickly be able to progress past these and all the years of studying (well, partying) would become worthwhile, but I'm finding this isn't the case. To employers, I'm just another kid out of university like the thousands of others. The other kids though, the ones that left school? They're seen as valuable workers that have years of experience on the job. I don't regret going to uni, but occasionally I feel the bitterness rising :)
It's new years eve! Do you people really not have anything more exciting to be doing than reading Slashdot? You'd never catch me posting on a geek news site on the party night of the year. Ever.
It's about time... How about another Revenge of the Mutant Camels? How about Sheep In Space? All hail llamasoft. http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/.