It's called "principle". The race in Texas was between an incredibly regressive incumbent who runs away from his party... and endorses the Republican agenda.
And yes, Kos has targeted tough races so the fact that there's been a lot of losses isn't unanticipated. On the other hand, he has helped win some races, too. Ask Stephanie Herseth if the netroots helped her campaign.
Do you think the megastores would keep selling the same thing as last year with a fresh coat of varnish if it weren't, you know,
selling?
Sure. Many analysts have said that the decline in music sales has more to do with a lack of hetergeneity in the selection of music than online trading.
The industry has been averse to risk, doing massive promotion of a few acts, trying to create blockbuster stars... and increasingly failing.
The reason you find a zillion Eminem and Britney songs on Napster is because there definitely is a big slice of the pie for big acts. But it is far from the only slice.
Frank Zappa wrote something amusing in his autobiography about how the music industry got lost. He said that in the 60's, the cigar smoking bosses of the music companies didn't have a clue what the kids were going to like... so they tried *everything*, hoping something would stick. Eventually they started asking the longhaired kid in the mail-room what kinds of stuff he liked to listen to... and suddenly you had a next generation of longhaired music execs who thought they knew what the kids liked.
Combine that with the demographics of an aging baby boom who don't buy 16 records a month anymore, and you get a music industry scrambling to put out more of the same and marketing the hell out of the same 5 acts while the artists with something new to hear can't get airplay.
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It's called "principle". The race in Texas was between an incredibly regressive incumbent who runs away from his party... and endorses the Republican agenda.
And yes, Kos has targeted tough races so the fact that there's been a lot of losses isn't unanticipated.
On the other hand, he has helped win some races, too. Ask Stephanie Herseth if the netroots helped her campaign.
In the long run, communism lost and capitalism won.
This will come as welcome news to the 25% of the world population that live in China. And those in Cuba, North Korea, Laos.
Oh, and Vietnam.
Are you saying that Photoshop didn't show up on the Mac first? Interesting