You had a breadknife?!!
Our Dad used to have to cut thru our legs with small bits of gravel thet were left from yesterdays tea, justs e we could all fit in the cigarette box we lived in, all 14 of us!
All this just applies to the U.S.
There are other countries you know, I know this may come as a shock to some of you, but the world doesn't end at the US borders.
Now as far as this copyright thing go's, M. 'wacko' Jackson owns a fair few copyrights of Beatles songs. Now if he owns them for 'ever' nobody would ever be able to re-record some global classics.
Can you imagine 400 years down the road, a class of music students wanting to study ancient music from the 20th centuary, and Sgt Peppers wasn't available cos some mad man in the 21st centuary decided he was the only person allowed to perform it.
It has nothing to do with protecting artists from copyright theft, it has everything to do with large multinational companies making as much cash from a minimum outlay.
Where would we be if some record company eneded up owning all the copyrights of all this worlds classic music and they just recycled it every 5 years with the latest 'poop idol'. No new music, just the same songs rehashed every 5 years.
OK so I may have gone of the topic a little, but FUCK the 'establishment' all they are interested in is money, proffit and controlling what you 'want to listen to / read'. Imagine being taken to court for singing a song you didnt own copyright to, or even humming a vague tune. Opps I belive I just used a copyrighted song name there, best send Mr Jackson some money, after all he spent all that time thinking up the title, oh wait a min, no he just had enough money to buy it.
Makes me mad that a bunch of suits with cash feel they have the right to own the creative work of another person FOREVER.
Anyway I'll stop now, probably best....
IMHO T.V is the greatest weapon available to governments at the powers that be. They can constantly drown you in thier ideas, products and way of life. From as soon as we can foucus on the little screen we are subjected to someone elses ideals of what we need and want and how we should live.
The little box tells us what music we should listen to, what clothes we should wear, what is right in the world and what is wrong.
Even the 'radical new' TV shows that 'break down barriers' and 'tell it like it is' will have had to be passed thru several TV executives and OKed by the men at the top. There is no chance they will broadcast anything they dont want you to see.
Now if you want to get realy paranoid, programs like the X-Files, Startrek, Stargate etc are there to very slowly condition the public to the fact that we may not be alone in the universe. This sorta thing will put a big question mark on all global religions, and the 'fact' that we may not be alone will take a long time to accept. Not overnight orover a few years but over several generations.
OK now you are all probably laughing, but look back in history how various countries round the world misslead their populations with propoganda to get away with the undesirable stuff that they did.
Anyway as I said this is all IMHO and probably a load of old tosh, but there you go... Who do you believe?
Slashdot Mirror
Only in America......
You had a breadknife?!! Our Dad used to have to cut thru our legs with small bits of gravel thet were left from yesterdays tea, justs e we could all fit in the cigarette box we lived in, all 14 of us!
All this just applies to the U.S. There are other countries you know, I know this may come as a shock to some of you, but the world doesn't end at the US borders. Now as far as this copyright thing go's, M. 'wacko' Jackson owns a fair few copyrights of Beatles songs. Now if he owns them for 'ever' nobody would ever be able to re-record some global classics. Can you imagine 400 years down the road, a class of music students wanting to study ancient music from the 20th centuary, and Sgt Peppers wasn't available cos some mad man in the 21st centuary decided he was the only person allowed to perform it. It has nothing to do with protecting artists from copyright theft, it has everything to do with large multinational companies making as much cash from a minimum outlay. Where would we be if some record company eneded up owning all the copyrights of all this worlds classic music and they just recycled it every 5 years with the latest 'poop idol'. No new music, just the same songs rehashed every 5 years. OK so I may have gone of the topic a little, but FUCK the 'establishment' all they are interested in is money, proffit and controlling what you 'want to listen to / read'. Imagine being taken to court for singing a song you didnt own copyright to, or even humming a vague tune. Opps I belive I just used a copyrighted song name there, best send Mr Jackson some money, after all he spent all that time thinking up the title, oh wait a min, no he just had enough money to buy it. Makes me mad that a bunch of suits with cash feel they have the right to own the creative work of another person FOREVER. Anyway I'll stop now, probably best....
Hmm does the [Parent] link e-mail his parents?
IMHO T.V is the greatest weapon available to governments at the powers that be. They can constantly drown you in thier ideas, products and way of life. From as soon as we can foucus on the little screen we are subjected to someone elses ideals of what we need and want and how we should live.
The little box tells us what music we should listen to, what clothes we should wear, what is right in the world and what is wrong.
Even the 'radical new' TV shows that 'break down barriers' and 'tell it like it is' will have had to be passed thru several TV executives and OKed by the men at the top.
There is no chance they will broadcast anything they dont want you to see.
Now if you want to get realy paranoid, programs like the X-Files, Startrek, Stargate etc are there to very slowly condition the public to the fact that we may not be alone in the universe. This sorta thing will put a big question mark on all global religions, and the 'fact' that we may not be alone will take a long time to accept. Not overnight orover a few years but over several generations.
OK now you are all probably laughing, but look back in history how various countries round the world misslead their populations with propoganda to get away with the undesirable stuff that they did.
Anyway as I said this is all IMHO and probably a load of old tosh, but there you go... Who do you believe?
B.
5!? Come on guys are you sure? I must know 25% of the MAC using world, I never knew I was so in-touch with the underground scene.....