But on the other hand, if you want to be a music superstar, you have to sign a contract with a major label. Otherwise
you don't get put on MTV/VH1, you don't get put on Clearchannel, you don't get put in the major record chains across
the country who are penalized (by withholding of ad material and certain albums, or pushed-back release dates) for
stocking music which doesn't come from a member of the RIAA.
Of course, if the record labels weren't so inflated in the first place, then all artists would have an equal chance of getting noticed. You'd get big purely on account of how good your music was, and it wouldn't be affected by which record manager's cock you'd been sucking. The only reason that not having a record contract is disadvantageous to a band is that when some other talentless eejut has got a record contract, their expensive hype automatically trumps anything you can drum up. Smash all the record industries and everything will be fine.
Err why, most Oxford students have zero contact with OUSU. There is not much point to a student union with no facilities to administer.
OUSU does the same as a lot of other (non-student) unions: It represents its members if they have something to complain about. This, IMHO, is more important than providing an enormous central bar like all the other universities have.
The Union, on the other hand, is just a debating society with an over-elevated view of itself, and a knack for (a) convincing all the students that it's worthwhile paying 150 pounds sterling to join, and (b) spending this money on getting these high-profile guests.
There wasn't a `different and confusing' set, as far as I recall. (I was there.) She asked how many downloaded and burned (I only download, I don't burn, so I couldn't be part of this statistic), then the confusion arose when she said `put your hands down, no, I mean keep your hands up, if you buy more music because of it' - so some of us were confused by which set of people she wanted to keep their hands up. When she saw what the result looked like, though, she quickly moved on to her next point.
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OK, but which one would you suggest we all do? Some of them seem more glamourous, or possibly just more interesting, than others, but if we were all trying to do our bit to help the most noble cause, then we'd all be running a cure-for-AIDS one. But lots of people find that too boring, and would rather check for extra-terrestrial intelligence.
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Maybe if that guy wasn't driving on the wrong side of the road there wouldn't be so many safety hazards.
Are you trolling, or just plain ignorant? It's on the BBC website, referring to a UK law. We drive on the left over here. Not wrong, but... different.
But on the other hand, if you want to be a music superstar, you have to sign a contract with a major label. Otherwise you don't get put on MTV/VH1, you don't get put on Clearchannel, you don't get put in the major record chains across the country who are penalized (by withholding of ad material and certain albums, or pushed-back release dates) for stocking music which doesn't come from a member of the RIAA.
Of course, if the record labels weren't so inflated in the first place, then all artists would have an equal chance of getting noticed. You'd get big purely on account of how good your music was, and it wouldn't be affected by which record manager's cock you'd been sucking. The only reason that not having a record contract is disadvantageous to a band is that when some other talentless eejut has got a record contract, their expensive hype automatically trumps anything you can drum up. Smash all the record industries and everything will be fine.
Damn, it's the capitalism debate again.
Err why, most Oxford students have zero contact with OUSU. There is not much point to a student union with no facilities to administer.
OUSU does the same as a lot of other (non-student) unions: It represents its members if they have something to complain about. This, IMHO, is more important than providing an enormous central bar like all the other universities have.
The Union, on the other hand, is just a debating society with an over-elevated view of itself, and a knack for (a) convincing all the students that it's worthwhile paying 150 pounds sterling to join, and (b) spending this money on getting these high-profile guests.
"European-style representation" is sometimes a bit like a wolf, a bear and a lamb having a debate about the lunch menu.
No, that's democracy in general. I don't think the European government have any special claim to it.
There wasn't a `different and confusing' set, as far as I recall. (I was there.)
She asked how many downloaded and burned (I only download, I don't burn, so I couldn't be part of this statistic), then the confusion arose when she said `put your hands down, no, I mean keep your hands up, if you buy more music because of it' - so some of us were confused by which set of people she wanted to keep their hands up. When she saw what the result looked like, though, she quickly moved on to her next point.
OK, but which one would you suggest we all do? Some of them seem more glamourous, or possibly just more interesting, than others, but if we were all trying to do our bit to help the most noble cause, then we'd all be running a cure-for-AIDS one. But lots of people find that too boring, and would rather check for extra-terrestrial intelligence.