The problem is, anyone can check with the Federal Election Commission and see who got money from whom. Ms. Howell didn't do this. She just ran accusations and never checked to see there was any truth to the accusations.
Abramoff didn't give ANY money to the Democrats. The entire purpose of the K street project was to freeze out any campaign funds going to the democrats. This is a purely republican scandel & it has the potential to run enough republicans out of congress to move it back into democratic hands. Abramoff has many connections to the republican party & the party apparatus is shitting bricks over this issue.
Again, what had everyone up in arms at the Washington Post was Ms. Howell making accusations that have no basis in fact.
Well, what set everyone off was the fact that 1st she stated some clearly innacurate "facts". She continues to repeat those "facts" inspite of all of the evidence provided to her that her "facts" were bald-faced lies.
Nowadays, when the media follows a story, they are more concerned about protecting "access" to sources, and facts be damned.
I hate to tell you, the rest of the Beatles considered landing Ringo to be a really big thing. The general musical consensus in Liverpool was that Ringo was going to make it. Yes, I know 42 years on this is very, very difficult to believe, but it is what was thought at the time.
If you gotta ask what the prices are, you can't afford it.
I think this is a much greater issue than the record company's incompetence.
Back in the 70s, bands could tour 9-20k seat halls with record sales in the 400,000 area. Tickets were 9.95 to 12.95 (Kiss always cost $1 more than anyone else.). You could count on 3 hrs of music and you could afford the tickets & purchase merchandise.
Nowadays, tickets go from $56 and up very steeply. Christ, 5 years ago a ticket to a Yes show was $75. This is a major reason the music industry is dying. Most people cant afford to go to concerts on a regular basis.
In addition to this, there is a lack of venues for bands to play. There are arenas & bars & nothing inbetween; There are very few places baby acts can play.
You can't live on a diet of Zep, Cream and Santana alone. Every now and then you gotta fall off the wagon & toss a Gary Glitter CD in; or a Sweet CD; or if you are daring, a little Suzi Quatro (Yep, I have dated myself) or jump forward to the 80's and listen to a little Poison, Littlle Ceaser, Danger Dander, just do like I do & don't watch the videos (they suck).
Yes some of it is inane, but the songs themselves are quite catchy stuff.
Err, I hate to tell ya, but punk was very unsuccessful in killing off prog rock. Burning the system down is great as long as you have something to replace it with, and the punks didn't.
But please, explain the difference between Tales of Topographic Oceans by Yes and Sandanista by the Clash. Other than the fact that Sandanista was 3 lps (yes I am that old & I remember when it was released) Both sets were monuments to glorious excess (and they sold millions of copies).
In addition to that, The punks sold out just as quickly as the hippies did. When I saw the Clash open for the Who, I knew the punk movement was over.
By the way, are there any punks from the 70's still around releasing music? I know quite a few of the prog folks are still releasing albums.
Not all of it. If you have the attention span of a gnat, I am sure it is all quite boring.
A number of them are quite dreary, but there is a great deal of great music in them also.
Large scale works require both interest from the listener and a wee bit of patience, whether it is The Who's Tommy, Marillion's Misplaced Childhood, the Kinks A Preservation Society, and Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage or to another extreme a Havergal Brian's Symphony #4 (Das Siegeslied) or any of Anton Bruckners Symphonies.
Of course, I am someone who can listen to Yes' Tales of Topographic Oceans without chemical assitstance so I don't know how reassuring my comments are to the parent poster.
No, what I am refering to is that Corel promised us an upgrade to CorelDraw 2.5 when IBM was moving 1 million copies of OS/2 a month. When CorelDraw 4 came out, we were assured that the OS/2 version would be out shortly. Then CorelDraw 5 came out, the OS/2 users were _still_ waiting for an upgrade . In interviews during this period they asked us OS/2 users to keep the faith, it would be out shortly. I am still waiting. Well, not really, I moved on. But I learned to take anything than Corel says with a truck load of salt.
Corel buggered out long before IBM did. Just about the same time WordPerfect killed WP 6 for OS/2 (3 weeks before gold code).
They were also going to be the first software house to give us a JAVA based office suite (No one on this side of the pond had heard of Star Division at the time.)
They bugged out on that too.
On the other hand, that 20% share includes my mom. I picked up Corel Office 7 for a _very_ good price last summer ($29.95 w/ a $30 rebate).
Well, all I can say about Corel is that I am still waiting for CorelDraw 3 for OS/2, CorelDraw 4 for OS/2, CorelDraw 5 for OS/2. All promised, none delivered.
As a further note, It is funny to see Corel bitching about java when I have CorelOffice for Java on one of my harddrives around here.
Corel is nothing more than a bunch of opportunists. Rest assured, they will ditch this band wagon at the first sign of trouble.
Of course I could just be bitter about all the other products they promised us & never delivered on.
Well, there seems to be a hierarchy of users in the computing world. This is how I have seen it over the years. Please understand that this is a broad generalization & not meant to be fodder for a flame war, just my observations:
UNIX - (to include Linux, BSD etc.) Programming & Engineering types, they know the internals of the kernals, & have the programming expertise to fix any problems (real or perceived).
OS/2 - Power users - Most of us don't have programming expertise (so we don't write all that much software & constantly whine about what software is available). Of course for END USERS we have the best OS, too bad we can't convince anyone to try it out.
Windows (of any variety) Annoying & obnoxious - Convinced that personal computing began with the release of Windows 3.1. They spend most of their time on the upgrade mill, foolishly upgrading all of their products regardless of whether the new product answers a need or fixes a problem. They also tend to tell everyone that uses anything other than MS products that they are behind the times, yet can't give one technical reason as to why anyone should buy the product that they use (other than "it is made by MS"). Their ingnorance of computer history, the inner workings of their computers (both hardware & software) is legendary.
Worst of all, they feel that their opinions matter.
Mac - View the computer as a "black box". They don't care how the computer works. They just want to do what ever the task is at hand (play games, do incredible work in graphics, or DTP).
Of course, this is just my opinion & I could be wrong.
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The problem is, anyone can check with the Federal Election Commission and see who got money from whom. Ms. Howell didn't do this. She just ran accusations and never checked to see there was any truth to the accusations.
Abramoff didn't give ANY money to the Democrats. The entire purpose of the K street project was to freeze out any campaign funds going to the democrats. This is a purely republican scandel & it has the potential to run enough republicans out of congress to move it back into democratic hands. Abramoff has many connections to the republican party & the party apparatus is shitting bricks over this issue.
Again, what had everyone up in arms at the Washington Post was Ms. Howell making accusations that have no basis in fact.
Well, what set everyone off was the fact that 1st she stated some clearly innacurate "facts". She continues to repeat those "facts" inspite of all of the evidence provided to her that her "facts" were bald-faced lies.
Nowadays, when the media follows a story, they are more concerned about protecting "access" to sources, and facts be damned.
AKA "faith-based" reporting
I hate to tell you, the rest of the Beatles considered landing Ringo to be a really big thing. The general musical consensus in Liverpool was that Ringo was going to make it. Yes, I know 42 years on this is very, very difficult to believe, but it is what was thought at the time.
MSG Bryan
If you gotta ask what the prices are, you can't afford it.
I think this is a much greater issue than the record company's incompetence.
Back in the 70s, bands could tour 9-20k seat halls with record sales in the 400,000 area. Tickets were 9.95 to 12.95 (Kiss always cost $1 more than anyone else.). You could count on 3 hrs of music and you could afford the tickets & purchase merchandise.
Nowadays, tickets go from $56 and up very steeply. Christ, 5 years ago a ticket to a Yes show was $75. This is a major reason the music industry is dying. Most people cant afford to go to concerts on a regular basis.
In addition to this, there is a lack of venues for bands to play. There are arenas & bars & nothing inbetween; There are very few places baby acts can play.
MSG Bryan
What's wrong with glam rock????
You can't live on a diet of Zep, Cream and Santana alone. Every now and then you gotta fall off the wagon & toss a Gary Glitter CD in; or a Sweet CD; or if you are daring, a little Suzi Quatro (Yep, I have dated myself) or jump forward to the 80's and listen to a little Poison, Littlle Ceaser, Danger Dander, just do like I do & don't watch the videos (they suck).
Yes some of it is inane, but the songs themselves are quite catchy stuff.
MSG Bryan
you left of the smiley
MSG Bryan (too lazy to change my sig)
Err, I hate to tell ya, but punk was very unsuccessful in killing off prog rock. Burning the system down is great as long as you have something to replace it with, and the punks didn't.
But please, explain the difference between Tales of Topographic Oceans by Yes and Sandanista by the Clash. Other than the fact that Sandanista was 3 lps (yes I am that old & I remember when it was released) Both sets were monuments to glorious excess (and they sold millions of copies).
In addition to that, The punks sold out just as quickly as the hippies did. When I saw the Clash open for the Who, I knew the punk movement was over.
By the way, are there any punks from the 70's still around releasing music? I know quite a few of the prog folks are still releasing albums.
MSG Bryan (too lazy to update my profile)
Not all of it. If you have the attention span of a gnat, I am sure it is all quite boring.
A number of them are quite dreary, but there is a great deal of great music in them also.
Large scale works require both interest from the listener and a wee bit of patience, whether it is The Who's Tommy, Marillion's Misplaced Childhood, the Kinks A Preservation Society, and Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage or to another extreme a Havergal Brian's Symphony #4 (Das Siegeslied) or any of Anton Bruckners Symphonies.
Of course, I am someone who can listen to Yes' Tales of Topographic Oceans without chemical assitstance so I don't know how reassuring my comments are to the parent poster.
MSG Bryan (too lazy
No, what I am refering to is that Corel promised us an upgrade to CorelDraw 2.5 when IBM was moving 1 million copies of OS/2 a month. When CorelDraw 4 came out, we were assured that the OS/2 version would be out shortly. Then CorelDraw 5 came out, the OS/2 users were _still_ waiting for an upgrade . In interviews during this period they asked us OS/2 users to keep the faith, it would be out shortly. I am still waiting. Well, not really, I moved on. But I learned to take anything than Corel says with a truck load of salt.
Corel buggered out long before IBM did. Just about the same time WordPerfect killed WP 6 for OS/2 (3 weeks before gold code).
They were also going to be the first software house to give us a JAVA based office suite (No one on this side of the pond had heard of Star Division at the time.)
They bugged out on that too.
On the other hand, that 20% share includes my mom. I picked up Corel Office 7 for a _very_ good price last summer ($29.95 w/ a $30 rebate).
How do these people stay in business?
Well, all I can say about Corel is that I am still waiting for CorelDraw 3 for OS/2, CorelDraw 4 for OS/2, CorelDraw 5 for OS/2. All promised, none delivered.
As a further note, It is funny to see Corel bitching about java when I have CorelOffice for Java on one of my harddrives around here.
Corel is nothing more than a bunch of opportunists. Rest assured, they will ditch this band wagon at the first sign of trouble.
Of course I could just be bitter about all the other products they promised us & never delivered on.
Well, there seems to be a hierarchy of users in the computing world. This is how I have seen it over the years. Please understand that this is a broad generalization & not meant to be fodder for a flame war, just my observations:
UNIX - (to include Linux, BSD etc.) Programming & Engineering types, they know the internals of the kernals, & have the programming expertise to fix any problems (real or perceived).
OS/2 - Power users - Most of us don't have programming expertise (so we don't write all that much software & constantly whine about what software is available). Of course for END USERS we have the best OS, too bad we can't convince anyone to try it out.
Windows (of any variety) Annoying & obnoxious - Convinced that personal computing began with the release of Windows 3.1. They spend most of their time on the upgrade mill, foolishly upgrading all of their products regardless of whether the new product answers a need or fixes a problem. They also tend to tell everyone that uses anything other than MS products that they are behind the times, yet can't give one technical reason as to why anyone should buy the product that they use (other than "it is made by MS"). Their ingnorance of computer history, the inner workings of their computers (both hardware & software) is legendary.
Worst of all, they feel that their opinions matter.
Mac - View the computer as a "black box". They don't care how the computer works. They just want to do what ever the task is at hand (play games, do incredible work in graphics, or DTP).
Of course, this is just my opinion & I could be wrong.