As for parents, if I give my kid a phone, and I care enough about her to wonder where she is, then tracking her with the cell (especially one I'm paying for) is my parental right. Parents are responsible for their kids. Part of that responsibility is having an idea whether they're out raising hell or really are over at their friend's studying like they said they were.
I whole-heartedly agree (I am not a parent, but I believe that parents should take an active part in their life long learning).
What I want to know is if you were constantly hounded by your parents when you were younger? Did you have ANY freedom?
I was REQUIRED to tell my parents where I would be and was frequently prepared to find my father outside waiting at the location that I claimed to be going to... That doesn't mean that I didn't have any freedom to do what I wanted.
I don't think that people will be able to grow (hell, I have dated too many girls that were entirely too sheltered and are now completely lost when it comes to doing anything on their own -- I am sure there are men like this as well).
Check up on your kid, make sure you know what they are doing, but Christ almighty, billions of us have made it this long w/o tracking the exact location of our children on the planet.
Please remember that life long learning includes repsonsibility and trust.
God, I'm not worried about that. You might as well bitch about radar detectors. (Speed Limits, while a tad bit low, are a good idea. You going at 91 anywhere but a nearly-empty highway is reckless endangerment--and in NYS, it'll [rightly] get you tossed in jail.)
You are obviously trolling now but I will bite... RADAR *GUNS* have nothing to do w/this. They are not able to instantaneously track EVERY single person driving with a RADAR gun. In fact, they are lucky to get 1 or 2 people out of a massive group (per police car).
You're personal opinion on how someone drives is irrelevant. It's the point of them being able to track you at all times and even tell how fast you are traveling.
land lines aren't carried around with you where ever you go. If you decide to pick up and go to City X no one knows that you did that.
Old school triangulation was an effort that took quite a bit of time and wasn't something that was used all the time.
I don't need my cell phone being equipped with GPS and having them beam localized advertisements to my exact location (I am standing outside McDonalds in downtown Place X) and BAM, a text message that says "Eat Rotton Ronnies Today!"
How about I leave the house and drive down the road at 91mph because I feel like it and the police track me going 91, wait for me ahead, and pull me over?
I am more worried about the 2005 law that requires GPS/triangulation in all cell phones for 911 call locating. Here's a link to an article in Popular Science about China and how people were using their cell phones to find out which buildings were infected with SARS.
People play a game where you "kill" a nearby person after you locate them using your cell phone equipped with GPS. Just what I want, ANYONE to be able to locate me on the street (opt-in service or not isn't my point).
The first major wave of location services could beam to the U.S. as early as Christmas, when 44 percent of the nation's 149.2 million cellphone subscribers are expected to be traceable, according to the research firm In-Stat/MDR.
No thanks, I would prefer to die after placing a call to 911 rather than have whoever decide that they want to track me via GPS/triangulation.
The jury said that eBay's "Buy It Now" option, which allows auction surfers to do the same thing, infringed on Woolston's patent.
From: Another patent of his (February 1999)... Auctioning an uniquely identified item (e.g., used goods or collectibles) with a computerized electronic database of data records on the Internet includes creating a data record containing a description of an item, generating an identification code to uniquely identify the item, and scheduling an auction for the item at the computerized database of records. The item is presented for auction to an audience of participants through a worldwide web mapping module executing in conjunction with the computerized database. The data record connotes an ownership interest in the item to a seller participant on the computerized electronic database of data records. The worldwide web mapping module translates information from the data record on the computerized database of records to a hypertext markup language (HTML) format for presentation through the Internet. Bids are received on the item from participants on the Internet through an auction process that executes in conjunction with the computerized database of data records. Auctioning of the item is terminated when the auction process reaches predetermined criteria. The auction participant is notified of the high bid in the auction process. The unique identification code is provided to the auction participant with the high bid to uniquely identify the item.
Seems like this fool was trying to go after EBay by filing patents that were VERY similar to what EBay had already been doing. Nevermind "Buy it Now", he wanted it all.
I want webpages to be designed like they currently are. For people that use 800x600 or 1024x768 (like they should) there is little need to scroll horizontally.
Let's not allow this to become commonplace. I would prefer that all information is easily seen on a single page.
while I agree whole-heartedly on the smoking issue, I find it difficult to accept that a blanket ban on smoking is an acceptable way to deal with the public being harmed by second-hand smoke.
In Bowling Green, OH they banned all smoking in public restaurants. If a bar had a restaurant as well, there had to be CLOSED off sections for those eating.
I think this is financially damaging to those retaurants.
It's up to the PEOPLE that frequent those places to decide whether the risk of inhaling second-hand smoke outweighs their desire to eat there rather than the small minority of people who propose the ballot and vote on it.
because we know that there are checks and balances with REAL people who are REAL determined that their party win (Republicans, Democrats, etc are all counting these votes individually).
We have gotten complacent with computers and their abilities.
If this crap isn't open source we are just going to believe whatever it spews without and checks?
sure, but look how long it took for legislation to "fix" these problems, and look at the current situations...
Only NOW are women finally being treated some-what fairly in the professional world. Minorities are being treated a little better but there is still too much left over hatred (it only happened 40 years ago), etc.
We need electronic voting NOW and we need open source NOW. We can't afford to wait 50 or 60 years.
but how many of "us" will realize the necessity of that? People are SO used to MS as being the only thing out there for computers and not knowing that there is such a thing as "open source" and that "trade secrets" aren't the most important thing when it comes to security.
Who's to say that just because we see the source code that they actually use that code when they compile it?
Who's to say that there isn't some hardware interface to mess with the votes?
The list goes on.
Basically what it comes down to is that the ignorance of the general public (and the fact that only a minority even care enough to vote as it is) is what is going to lead to the downfall of our voting systems.
ok and you don't think that advertising revenue is necessary? You think that you should just be able to goto any MAJOR website and use it w/o ads for free?
Bandwith, time, etc, all cost money. It has to be funded in some way.
I have my advertisements cut off at 5 per day and believe me, it's not hard for me to use that 5 up in a half hour or less.
Like I said, my money goes to the fact that I use this site daily. I have my gripes with it, but I feel that I get my $10 (so far) donation worth.
I subscribe. I don't do it for any of the "features" that subscribers get. I do it because I have freeloaded here forever. I use the site daily, all day, almost everyday.
I need to give them something back./. still allows you to read the content, post on the content, etc, w/o having to pay.
This guy wants you to pay to read 140 titles of shit that you are most likely only going to read 5 or 6 of anyway.
Do you think the freeloader mentality on the Internet is ready for change? I think it's at the turn of the hockey stick, because it's at about 15 percent of the Web population that's paying for content right now--that's still a low number. Very soon, you'll see that the content that's left to be free is content that will not be trusted; content that has a bias. Just like when you pick up a magazine that's free, and you don't trust it.
Umm, I don't trust sites on the web that I have to pay for. The only sites that I see on the web that have pay-for content are porn sites and I would MUCH rather use free sites like sublimedirectory or thehun.com just to avoid paying for stupid content. At least when I know that it is free and I am disappointed it's fine.
Will you get cooperation from some of the big media conglomerates that already own a collection of big-brand magazines, such as AOL Time Warner and Conde Nast? Oh, we don't have them at launch, but we're thrilled to have 140 titles. We've had a lot of meetings with them--extremely positive meetings--and I'm sure they'll come into the platform in short order.
You are thrilled to have 140 titles because no one is buying into your dotcom bullshit. If anyone is going to want to pay to read stuff online they are going to do it on that site only. Perusing the titles made me think, wow, this sucks hard. I will stick to news.google.com for now. At least I get free news that is basically interesting, and if it's not on the front page, I know I can quickly search for it.
I see the Googles of the world like the freeways, where you're going from one place to the next, and that's the place to go. They have a very viable business being the main artery across the Internet. Our approach is to be a walled garden, where we bring in this very high-quality content. As a consumer, you would certainly want to use the freeway and the walled garden for different needs. I (and plenty of others, including NON-GEEKS) see Google as God of the Internet. If I want to find an article, I search google and it finds it fast (including newspapers, magazines on the web, etc). Why in the world would I want to search your index of pay-for stuff (and limited to 140 titles currently) when I can use google to search 140+ titles on a SINGLE TOPIC in seconds? This idea is going back to Library's and making you pay to use them. I don't think it's going to work.
I just think that Google has cornered the market on this type of crap long before this guy could. news.google.com provides what everyone needs for EVERY media type.
what does this have to do with anything? When Sealand was claimed it was more than the 3 miles off shore that the UK had claimed as it's territorial waters. It later expanded those territorial waters but it could not also claim Sealand as it was already a soverign state at the time.
I seriously doubt that the UK is terribly interested in a reclaiming a rusted gun platform in the middle of the ocean with a single toilet.
How can the courts do that? This guy has rights that cannot under any circumstances be taken away.
felons (those convicted of serious crimes) lose their rights, plain and simple.
As a highschooler what am I to think growing up?
As a highschooler I didn't think, why are you any different?
Do we really have our Bill of Rights anymore?
Yes, and no one really listens to it or the Constitution. All in the name of protecting Freedom (Don't waive your rights while waving your flags...)!!!
I still think that all those doctors prescribing mentally and physically addictive drugs to their patients are more guilty than those being sentenced for growing/distributing medical marijuana to those that are in dire need of it.
Glad we have priorities in this country. Most of which include feeding more and more money to the drug companies. God forbid we allow drugs that are freely available over ones that are held back in quanity and priced out of the range of 95% of the population.
RTFA. First of all, they specifically mention 2.4 and 2.5. They consider Linux a direct descendant of their UNIX IP so whatever the kernel version is it's all irrelevant to them.
SCO has not been trying to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt to end users. We have been educating end users on the risks of running an operating system that is an unauthorized derivative of UNIX. Linux includes source code that is a verbatim copy of UNIX and carries with it no warranty or indemnification. SCO's claims are true and we look forward to proving them in court.
First off, don't use FUD in a press-release, that's just stupid.
Second, you might have been showing this section of code but the people you have shown it to have no fucking idea what it is, most people are speculating that it's bullshit anyway, and what's the fucking point? You are STILL fucking spreading GPL'd kernel code (in its entirety as we have been shown 1000x before on/.).
Third, *everyone* looks forward to you showing this in court because you haven't proven anything anywhere else except that you can play God with your stock prices.
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ugh, this is EXACTLY the kind of crap that I can't stand.
disclaimer: I feel that EVERYONE should be given the best education that they can.
What I am against is the fact that you believe that we should put these people in a "less pressure intenesive situation"... What happens when we baby this student all the way through school, he/she gets great marks and does well on their entrance exams (how that would be possible I will never know)... This student gets to college and may even pass there because of their "LD". These people move onto the real world where they have little or no sympathy for those without the ability to work under pressure.
I am a supervisor. We have time deadlines that MUST be met to be in compliance with the law. If my people don't make the goals I set for them we don't do what we need to do and we can be held accountable. So, I get one of these individuals in my area. I have to give him/her a low pressure job to do while everyone else has to carry them? You think that this is acceptable? I don't.
People need to learn that they have to work under whatever situations arise and they need to learn to adapt to those. If they can't, survival of the fittest.
You say one thing and then move another way jigging and jivin' one way or another all to prove that you really can't support any statement you've made.
My opinion is that artists that don't write their own music are worthless. I said that it doesn't apply to the cover songs sung by accomplished bands.
Because you are unable to win and you have now just fallen into a deep, dark, troll, I am no longer interested in continuing this discussion with you.
man, you really have a problem with reading comprehension... Let's go back to this post...
There are plenty of talented individuals that play other people's music, they should keep themselves where they belong, small bars and impersonation acts (this obviously does not include covers during the set of an accomplished band).
Quite a few GREAT singers and performers don't write their own stuff.
and I have no respect for them. what's your point? I never said anything other than "I have no respect for artists that don't write their own music"
Not everyone is a great musician, great performer AND a great writter. Sometimes you've got to settle for 2 of the 3.
*YOU* might have to settle for 2 of the 3, I most certainly do not.
What about folks like Elton John. Should Elton get all the credit and all the $$$ while Bernie Taupin is left pennieless because Elton decides that he's going to tell everyone to steal their music and just come see him in concert -- and as an added bonus, all performances are available a day after the show FOR FREE.
I don't see how this relates to anything, you are getting offtopic and your rant is actually becoming quite annoying.
You seem to think its the Britneys of the world that are killing the industry. The Britneys are a small portion of the industry in everyway other than sales.
They are and you're wrong. They are a big part of the sales and the promotion. Squeezing out the other more talented artists who are actually out performing live.
Of course, if you want to consider yourself a part of the 12 - 16 concert going crowd, I guess this IS everything to you.
And your childish rant continues without being even close to topic.
As for price fixing, it may be true they were convicted, but anyone that really believes they were effected by this actions that caused this judgment is a complete fucking looser that had no musical taste anyways -- or at the very least fickle and decide after the fact that they can decide that they were taken for a ride when an hour ago, they felt that they were buying something worth their money. If you don't want to pay a set price for something, don't pay it. Again, no one forces you...and anyone that is so willing to continually bring this up really does have a I Heart Justin tat on their ass (I hope ya don't want to sue over that too).
More ranting that's worthless and offtopic. My point about the price-fixing was that they were doing it, they were caught, they were found guilty (the penalties, your personal opinion on it, etc, are all irrelevant).
As far as me not buying it, I don't. I think I have made that abundantly clear.
In the future, your personal opinions and attacks are irrelevant when responding to me, keep them outside.
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As for parents, if I give my kid a phone, and I care enough about her to wonder where she is, then tracking her with the cell (especially one I'm paying for) is my parental right. Parents are responsible for their kids. Part of that responsibility is having an idea whether they're out raising hell or really are over at their friend's studying like they said they were.
I whole-heartedly agree (I am not a parent, but I believe that parents should take an active part in their life long learning).
What I want to know is if you were constantly hounded by your parents when you were younger? Did you have ANY freedom?
I was REQUIRED to tell my parents where I would be and was frequently prepared to find my father outside waiting at the location that I claimed to be going to... That doesn't mean that I didn't have any freedom to do what I wanted.
I don't think that people will be able to grow (hell, I have dated too many girls that were entirely too sheltered and are now completely lost when it comes to doing anything on their own -- I am sure there are men like this as well).
Check up on your kid, make sure you know what they are doing, but Christ almighty, billions of us have made it this long w/o tracking the exact location of our children on the planet.
Please remember that life long learning includes repsonsibility and trust.
God, I'm not worried about that. You might as well bitch about radar detectors. (Speed Limits, while a tad bit low, are a good idea. You going at 91 anywhere but a nearly-empty highway is reckless endangerment--and in NYS, it'll [rightly] get you tossed in jail.)
You are obviously trolling now but I will bite... RADAR *GUNS* have nothing to do w/this. They are not able to instantaneously track EVERY single person driving with a RADAR gun. In fact, they are lucky to get 1 or 2 people out of a massive group (per police car).
You're personal opinion on how someone drives is irrelevant. It's the point of them being able to track you at all times and even tell how fast you are traveling.
land lines aren't carried around with you where ever you go. If you decide to pick up and go to City X no one knows that you did that.
Old school triangulation was an effort that took quite a bit of time and wasn't something that was used all the time.
I don't need my cell phone being equipped with GPS and having them beam localized advertisements to my exact location (I am standing outside McDonalds in downtown Place X) and BAM, a text message that says "Eat Rotton Ronnies Today!"
How about I leave the house and drive down the road at 91mph because I feel like it and the police track me going 91, wait for me ahead, and pull me over?
That's what I am worried about.
I am more worried about the 2005 law that requires GPS/triangulation in all cell phones for 911 call locating. Here's a link to an article in Popular Science about China and how people were using their cell phones to find out which buildings were infected with SARS.
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People play a game where you "kill" a nearby person after you locate them using your cell phone equipped with GPS. Just what I want, ANYONE to be able to locate me on the street (opt-in service or not isn't my point).
The first major wave of location services could beam to the U.S. as early as Christmas, when 44 percent of the nation's 149.2 million cellphone subscribers are expected to be traceable, according to the research firm In-Stat/MDR.
No thanks, I would prefer to die after placing a call to 911 rather than have whoever decide that they want to track me via GPS/triangulation.
Live free or die.
Just my worthless
The jury said that eBay's "Buy It Now" option, which allows auction surfers to do the same thing, infringed on Woolston's patent.
From: Another patent of his (February 1999)...
Auctioning an uniquely identified item (e.g., used goods or collectibles) with a computerized electronic database of data records on the Internet includes creating a data record containing a description of an item, generating an identification code to uniquely identify the item, and scheduling an auction for the item at the computerized database of records. The item is presented for auction to an audience of participants through a worldwide web mapping module executing in conjunction with the computerized database. The data record connotes an ownership interest in the item to a seller participant on the computerized electronic database of data records. The worldwide web mapping module translates information from the data record on the computerized database of records to a hypertext markup language (HTML) format for presentation through the Internet. Bids are received on the item from participants on the Internet through an auction process that executes in conjunction with the computerized database of data records. Auctioning of the item is terminated when the auction process reaches predetermined criteria. The auction participant is notified of the high bid in the auction process. The unique identification code is provided to the auction participant with the high bid to uniquely identify the item.
Seems like this fool was trying to go after EBay by filing patents that were VERY similar to what EBay had already been doing. Nevermind "Buy it Now", he wanted it all.
I disagree. It's not up to the government to propose/ban smoking.
The public can choose whether or not to frequent a restaurant that offers no smoking/smoking.
Survival of the fittest you know.
I want webpages to be designed like they currently are. For people that use 800x600 or 1024x768 (like they should) there is little need to scroll horizontally.
Let's not allow this to become commonplace. I would prefer that all information is easily seen on a single page.
while I agree whole-heartedly on the smoking issue, I find it difficult to accept that a blanket ban on smoking is an acceptable way to deal with the public being harmed by second-hand smoke.
In Bowling Green, OH they banned all smoking in public restaurants. If a bar had a restaurant as well, there had to be CLOSED off sections for those eating.
I think this is financially damaging to those retaurants.
It's up to the PEOPLE that frequent those places to decide whether the risk of inhaling second-hand smoke outweighs their desire to eat there rather than the small minority of people who propose the ballot and vote on it.
because we know that there are checks and balances with REAL people who are REAL determined that their party win (Republicans, Democrats, etc are all counting these votes individually).
We have gotten complacent with computers and their abilities.
If this crap isn't open source we are just going to believe whatever it spews without and checks?
No thanks.
sure, but look how long it took for legislation to "fix" these problems, and look at the current situations...
Only NOW are women finally being treated some-what fairly in the professional world. Minorities are being treated a little better but there is still too much left over hatred (it only happened 40 years ago), etc.
We need electronic voting NOW and we need open source NOW. We can't afford to wait 50 or 60 years.
but how many of "us" will realize the necessity of that? People are SO used to MS as being the only thing out there for computers and not knowing that there is such a thing as "open source" and that "trade secrets" aren't the most important thing when it comes to security.
Who's to say that just because we see the source code that they actually use that code when they compile it?
Who's to say that there isn't some hardware interface to mess with the votes?
The list goes on.
Basically what it comes down to is that the ignorance of the general public (and the fact that only a minority even care enough to vote as it is) is what is going to lead to the downfall of our voting systems.
ok and you don't think that advertising revenue is necessary? You think that you should just be able to goto any MAJOR website and use it w/o ads for free?
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Bandwith, time, etc, all cost money. It has to be funded in some way.
I have my advertisements cut off at 5 per day and believe me, it's not hard for me to use that 5 up in a half hour or less.
Like I said, my money goes to the fact that I use this site daily. I have my gripes with it, but I feel that I get my $10 (so far) donation worth.
That's my worthless
I subscribe. I don't do it for any of the "features" that subscribers get. I do it because I have freeloaded here forever. I use the site daily, all day, almost everyday.
/. still allows you to read the content, post on the content, etc, w/o having to pay.
I need to give them something back.
This guy wants you to pay to read 140 titles of shit that you are most likely only going to read 5 or 6 of anyway.
Do you think the freeloader mentality on the Internet is ready for change?
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I think it's at the turn of the hockey stick, because it's at about 15 percent of the Web population that's paying for content right now--that's still a low number. Very soon, you'll see that the content that's left to be free is content that will not be trusted; content that has a bias. Just like when you pick up a magazine that's free, and you don't trust it.
Umm, I don't trust sites on the web that I have to pay for. The only sites that I see on the web that have pay-for content are porn sites and I would MUCH rather use free sites like sublimedirectory or thehun.com just to avoid paying for stupid content. At least when I know that it is free and I am disappointed it's fine.
Will you get cooperation from some of the big media conglomerates that already own a collection of big-brand magazines, such as AOL Time Warner and Conde Nast?
Oh, we don't have them at launch, but we're thrilled to have 140 titles. We've had a lot of meetings with them--extremely positive meetings--and I'm sure they'll come into the platform in short order.
You are thrilled to have 140 titles because no one is buying into your dotcom bullshit. If anyone is going to want to pay to read stuff online they are going to do it on that site only. Perusing the titles made me think, wow, this sucks hard. I will stick to news.google.com for now. At least I get free news that is basically interesting, and if it's not on the front page, I know I can quickly search for it.
I see the Googles of the world like the freeways, where you're going from one place to the next, and that's the place to go. They have a very viable business being the main artery across the Internet. Our approach is to be a walled garden, where we bring in this very high-quality content. As a consumer, you would certainly want to use the freeway and the walled garden for different needs.
I (and plenty of others, including NON-GEEKS) see Google as God of the Internet. If I want to find an article, I search google and it finds it fast (including newspapers, magazines on the web, etc). Why in the world would I want to search your index of pay-for stuff (and limited to 140 titles currently) when I can use google to search 140+ titles on a SINGLE TOPIC in seconds? This idea is going back to Library's and making you pay to use them. I don't think it's going to work.
I just think that Google has cornered the market on this type of crap long before this guy could. news.google.com provides what everyone needs for EVERY media type.
I will stick to free content thank you.
Just my worthless
what does this have to do with anything? When Sealand was claimed it was more than the 3 miles off shore that the UK had claimed as it's territorial waters. It later expanded those territorial waters but it could not also claim Sealand as it was already a soverign state at the time.
I seriously doubt that the UK is terribly interested in a reclaiming a rusted gun platform in the middle of the ocean with a single toilet.
How can the courts do that? This guy has rights that cannot under any circumstances be taken away.
felons (those convicted of serious crimes) lose their rights, plain and simple.
As a highschooler what am I to think growing up?
As a highschooler I didn't think, why are you any different?
Do we really have our Bill of Rights anymore?
Yes, and no one really listens to it or the Constitution. All in the name of protecting Freedom (Don't waive your rights while waving your flags...)!!!
I still think that all those doctors prescribing mentally and physically addictive drugs to their patients are more guilty than those being sentenced for growing/distributing medical marijuana to those that are in dire need of it.
Glad we have priorities in this country. Most of which include feeding more and more money to the drug companies. God forbid we allow drugs that are freely available over ones that are held back in quanity and priced out of the range of 95% of the population.
yay for our justice system's priorities.
RTFA. First of all, they specifically mention 2.4 and 2.5. They consider Linux a direct descendant of their UNIX IP so whatever the kernel version is it's all irrelevant to them.
he had to get the company to agree with his wishes. It's not like Eisner is behind this 100%.
SCO has not been trying to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt to end users. We have been educating end users on the risks of running an
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operating system that is an unauthorized derivative of UNIX. Linux includes source code that is a verbatim copy of UNIX and carries with it no warranty or indemnification. SCO's claims are true and we look forward to proving them in court.
First off, don't use FUD in a press-release, that's just stupid.
Second, you might have been showing this section of code but the people you have shown it to have no fucking idea what it is, most people are speculating that it's bullshit anyway, and what's the fucking point? You are STILL fucking spreading GPL'd kernel code (in its entirety as we have been shown 1000x before on
Third, *everyone* looks forward to you showing this in court because you haven't proven anything anywhere else except that you can play God with your stock prices.
ugh, this is EXACTLY the kind of crap that I can't stand.
disclaimer: I feel that EVERYONE should be given the best education that they can.
What I am against is the fact that you believe that we should put these people in a "less pressure intenesive situation"... What happens when we baby this student all the way through school, he/she gets great marks and does well on their entrance exams (how that would be possible I will never know)... This student gets to college and may even pass there because of their "LD". These people move onto the real world where they have little or no sympathy for those without the ability to work under pressure.
I am a supervisor. We have time deadlines that MUST be met to be in compliance with the law. If my people don't make the goals I set for them we don't do what we need to do and we can be held accountable. So, I get one of these individuals in my area. I have to give him/her a low pressure job to do while everyone else has to carry them? You think that this is acceptable? I don't.
People need to learn that they have to work under whatever situations arise and they need to learn to adapt to those. If they can't, survival of the fittest.
Short-term fixes aren't always your best options.
*THIS* is why I hate hippies. Sure -- communism work dude. Thats all you fuckers know anyways.
Wow, you are VERY hostile and pointless.
Before you start telling me what I am, maybe you should do a little background work first.
Please end the trolling.
You say one thing and then move another way jigging and jivin' one way or another all to prove that you really can't support any statement you've made.
My opinion is that artists that don't write their own music are worthless. I said that it doesn't apply to the cover songs sung by accomplished bands.
Because you are unable to win and you have now just fallen into a deep, dark, troll, I am no longer interested in continuing this discussion with you.
man, you really have a problem with reading comprehension... Let's go back to this post...
There are plenty of talented individuals that play other people's music, they should keep themselves where they belong, small bars and impersonation acts (this obviously does not include covers during the set of an accomplished band).
Quite a few GREAT singers and performers don't write their own stuff.
and I have no respect for them. what's your point? I never said anything other than "I have no respect for artists that don't write their own music"
Not everyone is a great musician, great performer AND a great writter. Sometimes you've got to settle for 2 of the 3.
*YOU* might have to settle for 2 of the 3, I most certainly do not.
What about folks like Elton John. Should Elton get all the credit and all the $$$ while Bernie Taupin is left pennieless because Elton decides that he's going to tell everyone to steal their music and just come see him in concert -- and as an added bonus, all performances are available a day after the show FOR FREE.
I don't see how this relates to anything, you are getting offtopic and your rant is actually becoming quite annoying.
You seem to think its the Britneys of the world that are killing the industry. The Britneys are a small portion of the industry in everyway other than sales.
They are and you're wrong. They are a big part of the sales and the promotion. Squeezing out the other more talented artists who are actually out performing live.
Of course, if you want to consider yourself a part of the 12 - 16 concert going crowd, I guess this IS everything to you.
And your childish rant continues without being even close to topic.
As for price fixing, it may be true they were convicted, but anyone that really believes they were effected by this actions that caused this judgment is a complete fucking looser that had no musical taste anyways -- or at the very least fickle and decide after the fact that they can decide that they were taken for a ride when an hour ago, they felt that they were buying something worth their money. If you don't want to pay a set price for something, don't pay it. Again, no one forces you...and anyone that is so willing to continually bring this up really does have a I Heart Justin tat on their ass (I hope ya don't want to sue over that too).
More ranting that's worthless and offtopic. My point about the price-fixing was that they were doing it, they were caught, they were found guilty (the penalties, your personal opinion on it, etc, are all irrelevant).
As far as me not buying it, I don't. I think I have made that abundantly clear.
In the future, your personal opinions and attacks are irrelevant when responding to me, keep them outside.