personally I think that Clay was supposed to win but the show wanted Rueben to win. The show was fixed to show the more popular PERSON instead of the more talented artist.
Clay was "good". I don't care for that artsy singing that he was doing but he was far better than Rueben.
Responding to the AC that posted here as well. Racism? What about equal hatred? Clay as obviously feminine. People in this society do not like those that are feminine anymore than they like those of color. Do you think it made a difference if Rueben was black when Clay wasn't what the majority of the public consider normal either?
Us deciding what is good or the music industry telling us what is good?
This company's stuff doesn't do much good when society is bombarded by what the industry wants us to hear.
It becomes a hit because we don't get much of a choice. ClearChannel plays no variety, the non conclomorate channels don't play variety but instead endlessly repeat that they are not owned by ClearChannel and Infinity...
The only way hits can be decided is through freedom of music.
Support those artists that support the free distribution, copying, and playing of their music. Start your searchs at Sharing the Groove and FuthurNET
they will require that two cell connections be installed. One is the main and the other is the "backup" just incase one fails due to various reasons.
It will be passed as a safety measure for consumers and a backdoor for the feds.
Of course the systems will be mandated to be put into all cars. Remember people we NEED GPS locaters on our cell phones because what happens if you are hurt... I would prefer that I get to make the descision of whether or not something is enabled the government isn't here to protect me, I'm a big boy now.
If my car breaks down, I'd rather walk uphill both ways, barefoot in the snow than have the chance that I could be spied on.
My father and I can whistle very loud. When I was little I could hear him quite a distance. I had exactly 5 minutes to get home from when I heard that.
So a) I better be in range to hear it and b) I better be back within 5 minutes.
I have no problems attracting attention to those who I want to know where I am. Most of my friends know that I can make your ears ring for 5 to 10 minutes if I am close enough to you (5 to 10 ft) and I can quickly get them to notice me:)
it also happens when you show your personal information to anyone on the service. Disable that option (on AIM) and they don't find you.
Better option yet... Don't let anyone contact you that isn't on your list. If they can't search for you in the first place it won't matter if they can't contact you if they happen across your AIM screen name.
I am less concerned with what the medical transcriptionists do and what my doctor must get by giving me medications...
I have high blood pressure (a not so common occurance for people under the age of 25) and my doctor had me coming in for office visits at least once a month. Everytime I would go in my blood pressure wasn't getting any better. Another medication was added to the list I was already taking...
One of the medications she had me try was a low dose prescription that rarely works for people with problems like mine. I questioned her on why she felt the need to use that particular drug. Her eyes got wide. She apparently wasn't used to people questioning her or having any clue about what the meds do or possible side effects that they might have (outside of the label on the bottle).
She charged my insurance company $108 for a "EKG Consultation" when I asked her to explain to me what it meant (5 minutes is a generous time frame, I was putting on my coat).
When I told her that I could no longer afford any medications to be added her quick reply was "you have excellent insurance, what do you mean?" (at $12/prescription/month that she REFUSES to write for a single month + refills) she has to be getting a kickback somewhere). I end up having to argue w/the pharmacy everytime to give it to me 1 month + refills regardless of what the doctor says.
I don't trust anyone in the medical/insurance/anywhere anymore. There has to be kickbacks, incentives, etc. Is giving out a prescription to a patient with "good insurance" like selling the most candy bars at school?
For new technology like this to catch on, people need incentives to use it, not more limitations compared to old technology.
Exactly. You know what my incentive is to buy an HDTV capable set? NOTHING. There is NOTHING on TV worth watching in HDTV. NOTHING. Hell, I refuse to pay for cable and my apt. complex has made it cost prohibitive to get a dish.
I watch fuzzy TV every night (except Fox which comes in fine) and I am ok with it. For the two hours of TV a day I might passively watch (outside of football) it doesn't matter.
HDTV was mandated by the government as something the people needed. I don't care how crystal clear my picture is, how widescreen it is, nor how it sounds. What I care about is GOOD PROGRAMMING. "Everybody Loves Raymond", "Seinfeld", and Soaps suck. They do NOT constitute good programming to me. Let's have the fucking government mandate that everyone receive HIGH QUALITY PROGRAMMING not streams.
Things changed a lot in the 6 years I was using Linux. Things had changed a lot in Windows as well.
Windows doesn't crash anymore, Windows is easily updated, Windows is fast, etc.
Linux has some application support, Linux *can* be easily updated, Linux is getting better, etc.
They both have their good and bad points. That wasn't my intention for writing the post. It was to a) show that Windows is better for me than Linux b) that Roblimo was overly obnoxious in his review of his switch and c) using Windows in a Windows-world is far easier than trying to get Linux to stumble along in that same Windows-world.
oh I know you *can* do the same things with Linux and I spent countless hours doing just that.
It was just far easier to click on a movie and have IE open it (including downloading the codec) rather than having to compile mplayer (with GUI options), make sure it worked fullscreen with X options, and make sure I had the codecs.
Or how about opening a Word document and making sure it looks identical to the one that was saved elsewhere?
Alternate viewpoint on "switching from Linux to Windows".
Some background: I had been a Windows user for a short time back in the Win 3.1 (and prior days). I had a 386SX-16 with 5mb of RAM so Windows wasn't terribly good. I used a lot of DOS programs and Desqview for task switching. I decided it was time to go to something decent and I switched to OS/2. It was a dream world for me, ran DOS, Windows, and OS/2 (and unix-based applications compiled for it). Then I went to Linux and stayed there from 1996 until 11/2002.
Of course I had used Windows on school/friend's computers and was familiar with most of the applications for it. I was 100% against MS's evil empire and Bill's attempts to takeover the world.
I was out of work for a short period of time and had been searching for a job for probably the nine or so months I was working in a hell hole. I was sending out my resumes as a TXT email or printed from Wordperfect for Linux. I got NO hits. My parents wanted to do video conferencing with me but we couldn't because Linux didn't support my USB camera well enough (and they didn't want to use anything other than Netmeeting). I acquired a 1.8Ghz e-machine in November of 2002. It came w/WindowsXP and I began to use that...
First thing was switching away from the native XP interface to the Win2k look. Nice and comfortable. Second was installing Office (no problem, as a student it was $10). Third was using IRC (Cygwin + irssi). Last was getting used to IE from Mozilla (not a problem, Mozilla is slow, clunky, and doesn't support anything as easily as IE on Windows).
Office was MUCH better than WP for Linux. Interoperability with EVERYONE else I knew. No converting and reformatting, no font problems, no nothing. It was fast, easy, and nice. IE was far superior to Mozilla. I never used tabs as Roblimo did and I never thought Mozilla was fast. I opened the browser and pages loaded faster, nice. I clicked on movies and low and behold codecs were downloaded automatically and the movies started playing (all without having to compile mplayer, get codecs, and fool with Mozilla to get it to play them).
Upgrading Windows was easy. Either do it through the web or through the GUI. I didn't have to worry about dependencies breaking, problems with "stable", "unstable", or "seriously broken and use at your own risk".
While I have complaints about Windows (still evil) I think it is a far superior experience to Linux.
The problem is that too many parents cave in today when their 10 year old says "You do it, so it's not FAIR for you to not let ME do it." Sorry, gang "I'm the {Mommy|Daddy}" may not be fair, but that's the way it's SUPPOSED to be. Don't like it? Get married as soon as your state of residence allows and go pay your own way in life. If you want the same rights an adult has, shoulder the same responsibilities we do.
If I had mod-points (I never get them anymore I guess I post too much) I would give you +500 for Insightful and Informative!:The problem is that too many parents cave in today when their 10 year old says "You do it, so it's not FAIR for you to not let ME do it." Sorry, gang "I'm the {Mommy|Daddy}" may not be fair, but that's the way it's SUPPOSED to be. Don't like it? Get married as soon as your state of residence allows and go pay your own way in life. If you want the same rights an adult has, shoulder the same responsibilities we do.
"Life sucks then you die" was my father's favorite quote to me when I would complain shit wasn't fair. There are things that are acceptable for children (ie the tub full of balls at McDonalds) and there are things that are acceptable for adults (everything that's not acceptable for children).
You live under your parent's rules or you leave. Simple as that. "Don't like the rules in my house buy your own." Life as a child isn't a democracy and they shouldn't be taught that it is even close to one.
This is why kids are assholes to their parents, their peers, their friend's parents, and everyone. We taught them that it's a free country and that there are no ramifications for what they do. "Go and sit in the corner and think about what you did" is not a valid punishment. Talking it over with them is also not a valid punishment. Children are too smart these days. YES MOM/DAD is all you will get.
Umm, I was a child. I know what time-outs are and I didn't mind them. OH NO, NOT 10 MINS OF SILENT TIME!!! Give me a break. The sound of my father's belt whipping off his jeans was enough to make me piss my pants. THAT'S what deterred me. I think he used the belt less than 10 times but all I had to do was hear it come off and I was sorry enough for what I had done.
With a timeout session, I talk things through with my children. I try to explain them what they did wrong and why. It doesn't always work, but if it does, they understand the punishment, and I'm far more sure they won't do it again.
How about both a physical punishment and a discussion? Children learn quickly that a time-out is of no consequence (as well as the discussion). The physical punishment is not desired and will lead to a better memory.
What's your opinion on the statement "Games make killers out of gamers"? BULLSHIT. If that was actually true we'd have a helluva lot more Columbines and snipers, but thank God we don't. I'll tell you whats really disturbing that a lot of good people are being fed that shit and actually eat it up. I have 1 thing to say RESPONSIBILITY, what the fuck ever happended to saying you're wrong, I made a mistake, I did it...I honestly think our society has blown itself into a jerkoff corner and now we cant figure how to get out. How about we start with disciplining our kids, yeah I mean hitting them, and as for criminals fuck rehabbing rapist, I wouldn't even waste time with castration, just get the power generator going and hook it up to a big ass sofa and start the bbq. And we should start with criminal politicians that would help clean up that pimp house known as Congress.
People don't have to take responsibility for their actions anymore. Parents don't punish children they give them time-outs (hey folks, it doesn't work). Parents in some areas can now pay for their children's community service hours so that they don't have to work them...
Kids do dumb stuff and used to get in deep shit for it. Now we can't get kids in trouble because that hurts them later in life. NO SHIT? You mean fucking up when you are young might have ramifications later in life? What's the detterent to doing stupid stuff?
Guns don't cause violence and neither do video games.
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personally I think that Clay was supposed to win but the show wanted Rueben to win. The show was fixed to show the more popular PERSON instead of the more talented artist.
.02,
Clay was "good". I don't care for that artsy singing that he was doing but he was far better than Rueben.
Responding to the AC that posted here as well. Racism? What about equal hatred? Clay as obviously feminine. People in this society do not like those that are feminine anymore than they like those of color. Do you think it made a difference if Rueben was black when Clay wasn't what the majority of the public consider normal either?
Just my worthless
Us deciding what is good or the music industry telling us what is good?
This company's stuff doesn't do much good when society is bombarded by what the industry wants us to hear.
It becomes a hit because we don't get much of a choice. ClearChannel plays no variety, the non conclomorate channels don't play variety but instead endlessly repeat that they are not owned by ClearChannel and Infinity...
The only way hits can be decided is through freedom of music.
Support those artists that support the free distribution, copying, and playing of their music. Start your searchs at Sharing the Groove and FuthurNET
they will require that two cell connections be installed. One is the main and the other is the "backup" just incase one fails due to various reasons.
.02,
It will be passed as a safety measure for consumers and a backdoor for the feds.
Of course the systems will be mandated to be put into all cars. Remember people we NEED GPS locaters on our cell phones because what happens if you are hurt... I would prefer that I get to make the descision of whether or not something is enabled the government isn't here to protect me, I'm a big boy now.
If my car breaks down, I'd rather walk uphill both ways, barefoot in the snow than have the chance that I could be spied on.
Just my worthless
My father and I can whistle very loud. When I was little I could hear him quite a distance. I had exactly 5 minutes to get home from when I heard that.
:)
So a) I better be in range to hear it and b) I better be back within 5 minutes.
I have no problems attracting attention to those who I want to know where I am. Most of my friends know that I can make your ears ring for 5 to 10 minutes if I am close enough to you (5 to 10 ft) and I can quickly get them to notice me
they need the bong to release their brain from the hard seize that it goes into after reading Quantum Mechanics.
The project can show the Internet growth.
Until everyone stops allowing connections from him or everyone continues to firewall off whatever they don't want.
it also happens when you show your personal information to anyone on the service. Disable that option (on AIM) and they don't find you.
Better option yet... Don't let anyone contact you that isn't on your list. If they can't search for you in the first place it won't matter if they can't contact you if they happen across your AIM screen name.
what happens when they work out a deal w/the IRCd and end up with the ChanServ doing the watching?
I guess you could move to EFnet but w/EFnet as bad as it has been do you really want to do that?
It is written in a style which should accommodate Linux newcomers and more experienced users alike.
We all know that this is the big RED flag. Anytime a review says this, it is time to move along.
wasn't such a good idea to have it open on a Wednesday then was it? Now everyone will know before Friday that the movie blows and it will fail.
Time to short the stock on HSX.
I am less concerned with what the medical transcriptionists do and what my doctor must get by giving me medications...
I have high blood pressure (a not so common occurance for people under the age of 25) and my doctor had me coming in for office visits at least once a month. Everytime I would go in my blood pressure wasn't getting any better. Another medication was added to the list I was already taking...
One of the medications she had me try was a low dose prescription that rarely works for people with problems like mine. I questioned her on why she felt the need to use that particular drug. Her eyes got wide. She apparently wasn't used to people questioning her or having any clue about what the meds do or possible side effects that they might have (outside of the label on the bottle).
She charged my insurance company $108 for a "EKG Consultation" when I asked her to explain to me what it meant (5 minutes is a generous time frame, I was putting on my coat).
When I told her that I could no longer afford any medications to be added her quick reply was "you have excellent insurance, what do you mean?" (at $12/prescription/month that she REFUSES to write for a single month + refills) she has to be getting a kickback somewhere). I end up having to argue w/the pharmacy everytime to give it to me 1 month + refills regardless of what the doctor says.
I don't trust anyone in the medical/insurance/anywhere anymore. There has to be kickbacks, incentives, etc. Is giving out a prescription to a patient with "good insurance" like selling the most candy bars at school?
Anyone know?
For new technology like this to catch on, people need incentives to use it, not more limitations compared to old technology.
Exactly. You know what my incentive is to buy an HDTV capable set? NOTHING. There is NOTHING on TV worth watching in HDTV. NOTHING. Hell, I refuse to pay for cable and my apt. complex has made it cost prohibitive to get a dish.
I watch fuzzy TV every night (except Fox which comes in fine) and I am ok with it. For the two hours of TV a day I might passively watch (outside of football) it doesn't matter.
HDTV was mandated by the government as something the people needed. I don't care how crystal clear my picture is, how widescreen it is, nor how it sounds. What I care about is GOOD PROGRAMMING. "Everybody Loves Raymond", "Seinfeld", and Soaps suck. They do NOT constitute good programming to me. Let's have the fucking government mandate that everyone receive HIGH QUALITY PROGRAMMING not streams.
That's the solution to all of our worries.
two possible scenarios:
A) they know it's going to be delayed anyway and they might as well admit it now instead of two months from the originally planned release.
B) they know DRM is in its infancy (and is worthless w/o the BIOS controlling the OS choice)
Once the computer refuses to boot w/o a DRM-enabled OS we are all screwed for no reason.
Things changed a lot in the 6 years I was using Linux. Things had changed a lot in Windows as well.
Windows doesn't crash anymore, Windows is easily updated, Windows is fast, etc.
Linux has some application support, Linux *can* be easily updated, Linux is getting better, etc.
They both have their good and bad points. That wasn't my intention for writing the post. It was to a) show that Windows is better for me than Linux b) that Roblimo was overly obnoxious in his review of his switch and c) using Windows in a Windows-world is far easier than trying to get Linux to stumble along in that same Windows-world.
I haven't figured out how to put app icons on the Windows bottom panel. I don't even know if it can be done.
This coming from the guy who thinks that CTRL-C/CTRL-V is so difficult.
Drag the icons to the taskbar, they stay there, you can run applications from there. TOUGH stuff.
oh I know you *can* do the same things with Linux and I spent countless hours doing just that.
It was just far easier to click on a movie and have IE open it (including downloading the codec) rather than having to compile mplayer (with GUI options), make sure it worked fullscreen with X options, and make sure I had the codecs.
Or how about opening a Word document and making sure it looks identical to the one that was saved elsewhere?
Alternate viewpoint on "switching from Linux to Windows".
.02
Some background: I had been a Windows user for a short time back in the Win 3.1 (and prior days). I had a 386SX-16 with 5mb of RAM so Windows wasn't terribly good. I used a lot of DOS programs and Desqview for task switching. I decided it was time to go to something decent and I switched to OS/2. It was a dream world for me, ran DOS, Windows, and OS/2 (and unix-based applications compiled for it). Then I went to Linux and stayed there from 1996 until 11/2002.
Of course I had used Windows on school/friend's computers and was familiar with most of the applications for it. I was 100% against MS's evil empire and Bill's attempts to takeover the world.
I was out of work for a short period of time and had been searching for a job for probably the nine or so months I was working in a hell hole. I was sending out my resumes as a TXT email or printed from Wordperfect for Linux. I got NO hits. My parents wanted to do video conferencing with me but we couldn't because Linux didn't support my USB camera well enough (and they didn't want to use anything other than Netmeeting). I acquired a 1.8Ghz e-machine in November of 2002. It came w/WindowsXP and I began to use that...
First thing was switching away from the native XP interface to the Win2k look. Nice and comfortable. Second was installing Office (no problem, as a student it was $10). Third was using IRC (Cygwin + irssi). Last was getting used to IE from Mozilla (not a problem, Mozilla is slow, clunky, and doesn't support anything as easily as IE on Windows).
Office was MUCH better than WP for Linux. Interoperability with EVERYONE else I knew. No converting and reformatting, no font problems, no nothing. It was fast, easy, and nice. IE was far superior to Mozilla. I never used tabs as Roblimo did and I never thought Mozilla was fast. I opened the browser and pages loaded faster, nice. I clicked on movies and low and behold codecs were downloaded automatically and the movies started playing (all without having to compile mplayer, get codecs, and fool with Mozilla to get it to play them).
Upgrading Windows was easy. Either do it through the web or through the GUI. I didn't have to worry about dependencies breaking, problems with "stable", "unstable", or "seriously broken and use at your own risk".
While I have complaints about Windows (still evil) I think it is a far superior experience to Linux.
That's just my worthless
Ok, this is weird:
Sorry, gang "I'm the {Mommy|Daddy}" may not be fair
I did NOT type the sentence like that. Slashdot edited my post to look like that.
What the fuck is going on?
The problem is that too many parents cave in today when their 10 year old says "You do it, so it's not FAIR for you to not let ME do it." Sorry, gang "I'm the {Mommy|Daddy}" may not be fair, but that's the way it's SUPPOSED to be. Don't like it? Get married as soon as your state of residence allows and go pay your own way in life. If you want the same rights an adult has, shoulder the same responsibilities we do.
:The problem is that too many parents cave in today when their 10 year old says "You do it, so it's not FAIR for you to not let ME do it." Sorry, gang "I'm the {Mommy|Daddy}" may not be fair, but that's the way it's SUPPOSED to be. Don't like it? Get married as soon as your state of residence allows and go pay your own way in life. If you want the same rights an adult has, shoulder the same responsibilities we do.
If I had mod-points (I never get them anymore I guess I post too much) I would give you +500 for Insightful and Informative!
"Life sucks then you die" was my father's favorite quote to me when I would complain shit wasn't fair. There are things that are acceptable for children (ie the tub full of balls at McDonalds) and there are things that are acceptable for adults (everything that's not acceptable for children).
You live under your parent's rules or you leave. Simple as that. "Don't like the rules in my house buy your own." Life as a child isn't a democracy and they shouldn't be taught that it is even close to one.
This is why kids are assholes to their parents, their peers, their friend's parents, and everyone. We taught them that it's a free country and that there are no ramifications for what they do. "Go and sit in the corner and think about what you did" is not a valid punishment. Talking it over with them is also not a valid punishment. Children are too smart these days. YES MOM/DAD is all you will get.
It's sad but true.
Umm, I was a child. I know what time-outs are and I didn't mind them. OH NO, NOT 10 MINS OF SILENT TIME!!! Give me a break. The sound of my father's belt whipping off his jeans was enough to make me piss my pants. THAT'S what deterred me. I think he used the belt less than 10 times but all I had to do was hear it come off and I was sorry enough for what I had done.
TIME OUTS DO NOT WORK.
With a timeout session, I talk things through with my children. I try to explain them what they did wrong and why. It doesn't always work, but if it does, they understand the punishment, and I'm far more sure they won't do it again.
How about both a physical punishment and a discussion? Children learn quickly that a time-out is of no consequence (as well as the discussion). The physical punishment is not desired and will lead to a better memory.
See what Merriam Webster defines "inanimate" as...
Guns are inanimate. People cause violence.
What's your opinion on the statement "Games make killers out of gamers"? ...I honestly think our society has blown itself into a jerkoff corner and now we cant figure how to get out. How about we start with disciplining our kids, yeah I mean hitting them, and as for criminals fuck rehabbing rapist, I wouldn't even waste time with castration, just get the power generator going and hook it up to a big ass sofa and start the bbq. And we should start with criminal politicians that would help clean up that pimp house known as Congress.
BULLSHIT. If that was actually true we'd have a helluva lot more Columbines and snipers, but thank God we don't. I'll tell you whats really disturbing that a lot of good people are being fed that shit and actually eat it up. I have 1 thing to say RESPONSIBILITY, what the fuck ever happended to saying you're wrong, I made a mistake, I did it
People don't have to take responsibility for their actions anymore. Parents don't punish children they give them time-outs (hey folks, it doesn't work). Parents in some areas can now pay for their children's community service hours so that they don't have to work them...
Kids do dumb stuff and used to get in deep shit for it. Now we can't get kids in trouble because that hurts them later in life. NO SHIT? You mean fucking up when you are young might have ramifications later in life? What's the detterent to doing stupid stuff?
Guns don't cause violence and neither do video games.
convert even.
we need ImageMagick to support it in covert. Not everyone has the Adobe SVG plugin and saving as a JPG via screenshots is a pain.
:)
Then I would be happy