I'm still running a Cyrix MII P300. Coupled with 192 mb of pc100 SDRam, and a GForce2 PCI card, it is able to run Half-Life, Diablo2LOD, MaxPayne, Mechwarrior4, and Baldur's Gate2 at pleasingly playable levels. Anything much more than that is out of it's class, but it is still running good, I've had it since 1997, only problem I've had with it was a bad power supply in 1998.
I want to make something. I'm tired of buying the same cheap plastic / particle board / rubber crap. I'm tired of replacing the same basic furnishings in my life every two years. I'm tired of being a consumer. I want to be a creator. I want to make things by hand so that they will have meaning to me. I want to feel alive, and be a consumer in every aspect of life is not the way. I love being an avid woodworker / carpenter and I'm starting a blacksmith apprenticeship next week.
The WOJA or We Ownz JOO Association has issued a patent on independant thought. The large stick that has just been removed from Hilary Rosen's ass has issued a statement expressing his dissapproval that people be allowed to think things that have not been approved by the advertising execs of major companies. He was quoted as saying " Us poor hardworking multinational conglomerates have spent billions of dollars to tell evil normal people what to think, and if they don't comply, we have lost billions of dollars!!!!!"
A spokesman for the justice department release a related comment today from the deck of his new 80 foot yacht. Thoughts of corporations or their products must be aligned with the current advertising campaign. Original thought of family, friends or creative musings must be licensed on a thought per thought basis. Offenders will be lobotomized, which will also be charged on a case by case basis. That will be all.
Oh, and one more thing, we have also patented the phrase " All your (insert word here) are belong to us!", violators will be shot. Survivors will be fed to rabid wolverines.
"Having access to an artist work is a privilege"
This is the same bullshit coming out of the mouth of almost every new musician out there. Well here is the bottom line. You are NOTHING without your fans. If people don't listen to you, you're going to be playing bad bass riffs in your mothers basement till you're 40 and you'll never make a dime. If I decide that your music is worth listening to, YOU should feel privilaged that I didn't just keep walking past your gig, or just put your CD down or whatever. Yesterday I downloaded a copy of "Have You Forgotten" by Darryl Worley and a couple other songs. Heard it on the radio and I thought I liked it. I listened to it for a couple of days, enjoyed it's message, thought the quality of the music and lyrics was good, and after work today, I bought his whole CD. That my friend is capitalism. You make an excellent product, and I will purchase it, thereby investing in you to make more of the same. On the other hand, I heard some samples of the new Godsmack at the friendly local Walmart. The samples weren't long enough so I came home, and downloaded a couple songs off the new CD. I honestly couldnt tell a difference from the music they have already done, IMHO it was pure drivel. I didn't go purchase the CD and the MP3's are no longer taking up my valuable hard drive space. And as far as the laws go, it was once against the law for blacks and whites to go to the same schools, ride on the same parts of a bus, or even drink from the same fountain. Laws only exist as long as the people follow them. The people have the power, and if you want to make a law that instantaneously makes us all criminals, fine. Now 999 out of 1000 people are in jail and nobody is paying taxes and GASP, nobody is buying music.
People should stand up and fight for what they know is right, but at the same time, should realize that rights come with responsibilities.
Support your local band (if they are worth a crap). If you don't like it, feel free not to buy it, but don't download whole alblum's of something you say you don't like. I don't think it should be a crime, it's just bad class. People who are talented musicians don't have a right to be paid, but if you want them to keep producing the quality music you enjoy then you need to give them an incentive.
Power to the People.
Burn the Corps to the ground.
Democracy works by the will of the people, and the law is not absolute. For example in the majority of states, there are blue laws regarding what sexual acts you may perform, even with a spouse. Nobody really gives a crap. They will do what they want. Laws only work so far as people decide they will live by them. If the vast majority of people think it is ok to do something, then they will do it, government and law be damned. The bottom line is that Joe and Mary Public of Regular Person Drive are going to decide what is right and wrong for themselves, and while politicians and laws can be purchased by global corporations, public opinion of what should be legal and what should not cannot be purchased. Want to arrest us, fine. Better start building prisons now because you'll need to round up all the artists from the 80's that made thier millions due to the fans they acquired from bootlegs. Grab everybody who has ever worked for, bought, or sold a CDRW. Send a SWAT team to the house of everybody who has hooked up 2 VCR's to dub a movie rental, and call the FBI on my neighbor who likes to sing Britney Spears in the shower. I'm not sure how you're going to pay for those jails though, as you now have a country full of convicts and nobody left to pay taxes. Wonder what these MegaCorps will do then, when there is nobody left to purchase their overpriced plastic crap made in China?
Sometimes I get really tired of living in the Corporate States of America. Every time I hear an advertisement I can't help but hear "Consume like the rest of the sheep or DIE!" in the background.
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I'm still running a Cyrix MII P300. Coupled with 192 mb of pc100 SDRam, and a GForce2 PCI card, it is able to run Half-Life, Diablo2LOD, MaxPayne, Mechwarrior4, and Baldur's Gate2 at pleasingly playable levels. Anything much more than that is out of it's class, but it is still running good, I've had it since 1997, only problem I've had with it was a bad power supply in 1998.
I want to make something. I'm tired of buying the same cheap plastic / particle board / rubber crap. I'm tired of replacing the same basic furnishings in my life every two years. I'm tired of being a consumer. I want to be a creator. I want to make things by hand so that they will have meaning to me. I want to feel alive, and be a consumer in every aspect of life is not the way. I love being an avid woodworker / carpenter and I'm starting a blacksmith apprenticeship next week.
The WOJA or We Ownz JOO Association has issued a patent on independant thought. The large stick that has just been removed from Hilary Rosen's ass has issued a statement expressing his dissapproval that people be allowed to think things that have not been approved by the advertising execs of major companies. He was quoted as saying " Us poor hardworking multinational conglomerates have spent billions of dollars to tell evil normal people what to think, and if they don't comply, we have lost billions of dollars!!!!!" A spokesman for the justice department release a related comment today from the deck of his new 80 foot yacht. Thoughts of corporations or their products must be aligned with the current advertising campaign. Original thought of family, friends or creative musings must be licensed on a thought per thought basis. Offenders will be lobotomized, which will also be charged on a case by case basis. That will be all. Oh, and one more thing, we have also patented the phrase " All your (insert word here) are belong to us!", violators will be shot. Survivors will be fed to rabid wolverines.
Oh, and one other thing"Having access to an artist work is a privilege" This is the same bullshit coming out of the mouth of almost every new musician out there. Well here is the bottom line. You are NOTHING without your fans. If people don't listen to you, you're going to be playing bad bass riffs in your mothers basement till you're 40 and you'll never make a dime. If I decide that your music is worth listening to, YOU should feel privilaged that I didn't just keep walking past your gig, or just put your CD down or whatever. Yesterday I downloaded a copy of "Have You Forgotten" by Darryl Worley and a couple other songs. Heard it on the radio and I thought I liked it. I listened to it for a couple of days, enjoyed it's message, thought the quality of the music and lyrics was good, and after work today, I bought his whole CD. That my friend is capitalism. You make an excellent product, and I will purchase it, thereby investing in you to make more of the same. On the other hand, I heard some samples of the new Godsmack at the friendly local Walmart. The samples weren't long enough so I came home, and downloaded a couple songs off the new CD. I honestly couldnt tell a difference from the music they have already done, IMHO it was pure drivel. I didn't go purchase the CD and the MP3's are no longer taking up my valuable hard drive space. And as far as the laws go, it was once against the law for blacks and whites to go to the same schools, ride on the same parts of a bus, or even drink from the same fountain. Laws only exist as long as the people follow them. The people have the power, and if you want to make a law that instantaneously makes us all criminals, fine. Now 999 out of 1000 people are in jail and nobody is paying taxes and GASP, nobody is buying music. People should stand up and fight for what they know is right, but at the same time, should realize that rights come with responsibilities. Support your local band (if they are worth a crap). If you don't like it, feel free not to buy it, but don't download whole alblum's of something you say you don't like. I don't think it should be a crime, it's just bad class. People who are talented musicians don't have a right to be paid, but if you want them to keep producing the quality music you enjoy then you need to give them an incentive. Power to the People. Burn the Corps to the ground.
Democracy works by the will of the people, and the law is not absolute. For example in the majority of states, there are blue laws regarding what sexual acts you may perform, even with a spouse. Nobody really gives a crap. They will do what they want. Laws only work so far as people decide they will live by them. If the vast majority of people think it is ok to do something, then they will do it, government and law be damned. The bottom line is that Joe and Mary Public of Regular Person Drive are going to decide what is right and wrong for themselves, and while politicians and laws can be purchased by global corporations, public opinion of what should be legal and what should not cannot be purchased. Want to arrest us, fine. Better start building prisons now because you'll need to round up all the artists from the 80's that made thier millions due to the fans they acquired from bootlegs. Grab everybody who has ever worked for, bought, or sold a CDRW. Send a SWAT team to the house of everybody who has hooked up 2 VCR's to dub a movie rental, and call the FBI on my neighbor who likes to sing Britney Spears in the shower. I'm not sure how you're going to pay for those jails though, as you now have a country full of convicts and nobody left to pay taxes. Wonder what these MegaCorps will do then, when there is nobody left to purchase their overpriced plastic crap made in China? Sometimes I get really tired of living in the Corporate States of America. Every time I hear an advertisement I can't help but hear "Consume like the rest of the sheep or DIE!" in the background.