It's very simple and has been studied to death. It's APATHY, indifference.
It's not that we are too busy, it's not that we don't trust voting booths, it's not that we don't think our one little vote is going to make a difference... it's that we don't CARE who gets voted in.
Clown on the right or clown on the left, he's still a clown. "Who gives a rats ass. It's just powerful people doing shit for other powerful people. I work 50 hours a week, come home, eat dinner, let the dog out, watch corporate sponsored news, and go to bed, and it's what I'll do for the next four years too."
Is it sad? Hell yes, but it's not the "people's" fault. If they have a reason to vote, they will. They just don't see a good reason. They've literally given up.
We saw an election literally "stolen" in the last presidential election. We also saw a president get into office even though most in the country voted for the "other guy" (if you remember, Gore had the popular vote, but not the electoral vote). You wanna talk about an apathy spreader, that was it.
We (Americans) simply don't care, as we haven't been shown any reason to. Left or right, we still see a power hungry corporate lackey
...even it's feasable. Why? Because some of the most powerful entities on the planet are the current energy brokers, and they will use every last ounce of that power to keep it. This has been one of the most well documented facts in history.
Unless they can use it to make even more money, it will be thwarted at every turn of the implementation process, politically and scientifically.
We go to wars over oil, we define regions over oil, we assassinate leaders over oil... believe me, this will not see the "light of day". Heh.
When the most powerful entities in the world have the market cornered on the most sought after product in the world, things like the betterment of humanity play second fiddle. We are shown this over and over...
Very VERY glad I could help. Yes, the large labels give these guys mainly two things: Distribution and marketing. I'd rather have CD Baby do both while giving the artists 91% of the profit (CD Baby only keeps 9%).
I would suggest listening to other music. Indie lables and the like.
I'll be honest, it's gotten to the point where the alternative labels are putting out better music anyway.
I remember when music was fun. When music was an entertainment "entity". We made cassette tapes for each other profusely, and we loved it. We went to concerts, bought tapes by the trunk load, watched MTV, etc... it was pure entertainment... fun. It was as if the record companies knew that this was just "how it is". I bought more music during my Napster days that I had in the previous 7 years. It was like a re-introduction to the music "thang", the music "culture" if you will that seemed to become far less fun over the years
And then... *sigh*. The DMCA, the RIAA, attacking customers, bringing them to court, etc... I don't know about you, but to think this helps business you would have to be one of two things:
1. Completely disconnected with your customer base and what makes your business flourish, and will never entertain that the problems are due to their own shortcomings (bad music, horrible radio payoffs for even worse music, realizing that attacking your own customers is bad (sheesh, do I even have to say that?) etc...) or
2. A minion that is just giving us another example of greed run amok, plain to see by it's customers.
In either case, I think they are literally only going to make it worse for themselves.
I would also suggest listening to other music. Indie lables and the like.
I'll be honest, it's gotten to the point where the alternative labels are putting out better music anyway.
I remember when music was fun. When music was an entertainment "entity". We made cassette tapes for each other profusely, and we loved it. We went to concerts, bought tapes by the trunk load, watched MTV, etc... it was pure entertainment... fun. It was as if the record companies knew that this was just "how it is". I bought more music during my Napster days that I had in the previous 7 years. It was like a re-introduction to the music "thang", the music "culture" if you will that seemed to become far less fun over the years
And then... *sigh*. The DMCA, the RIAA, attacking customers, bringing them to court, etc... I don't know about you, but to think this helps business you would have to be one of two things:
1. Completely disconnected with your customer base and what makes your business flourish, and will never entertain that the problems are due to their own shortcomings (bad music, horrible radio payoffs for even worse music, realizing that attacking your own customers is bad (sheesh, do I even have to say that?) etc...) or
2. This is just another example of greed run amok, plain to see by it's customers.
In either case, I think they are literally only going to make it worse for themselves.
Insensitive clods.
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All you need is your number 1, and it is profitable. I JUST watched a Discovery Channel/TLC show about a man doing just this. He strips the chips from the machine that he turns around and resells. He then takes the reamaining "stuff" and pretty much grinds it up into little pieces that are then sorted by some pretty cool machines. One uses static electricity to "pull" out the metal, etc... He then sells the separated plastic and metal. Hes says he has increased his profitability by 100 fold from when he used to just strip out the gold, AND most of this stuff is now recycled instead of adding to landfills.
About landfills and those that are saying we don't have a shortage of them... until your entire city is up in arms about a new and needed local landfill, and until you are willing to have one 100 feet from your backyard, and until you are told that there is NO CHOICE, then shut the hell up.
No batteries. Lasts quite a long time (8 hours a charge), fits in your pocket, has a great GUI for organizing, charges either straight from Firewire when connected (or transfering your songs very fast...), or via the bas/AC adapter, or you can connect using USB 2.
Backlit, 30 GB's, alarm clock, will play MP3 or AAC, calendar, solitaire... did I mention it weighs less than 2 CD's?
Good luck. When I get home, I'll be purchasing 99 cent music with ONE CLICK, which is automatically updated in my iTunes and iPod. Bam, out the door. I will later most likely burn some CD's of it for my car CD player. Which, by the way, I can burn as many CD's of Apples music as I want. I can move the songs to 3 other computers. I can convert the songs to OTHER FORMATS, etc...
I'm sorry, it's just that having a Mac at home means I can look at crap like this and laugh. I mean, even on paper this doesn't even come CLOSE to a comparison. I, at this point, am forced to predict that when iTunes comes out for PC, that these other services will no doubt be doomed. Isn't this a no brainer? Why would I mess with these other, proprietary formatted, more restrictive, harder to use services? To save 10 cents a song...maybe (I have still yet to find a 79 cent song on this site)? Nope.
I just don't get it. If you have ever used iTMS, you know what I mean. It is seriously almost TOO easy. The biggest complaint I hear from other users is that they spend too much do to ease of use. A buck a click.
Independents are being added (awesome)...
I just don't understand what they are thinking. Wouldn't you need to make the service better knowing that iTMS is coming soon? I mean, they may make a few bucks until then, but when this easier to use, non-proprietary formatted, less restrictive service comes along (which all know it is), then why in the world would it survive?
I can't view the commercials as I am using Safari (not sure why tho, I have the WMP installed along with the plugin it states it needs (WMP)...hmmm).
I only ask because they look like they are exactly like the Apple commercials. Just some person in a white room singing part of a song. Is this what they are?
I only ask because so far Ninjai kills this stuff. Unbelievable music, voice overs and animation.
The only problem with Ninjai is that this will be the THIRD time they are re-releasing the chapters every two weeks. In other words, I have to wait a couple of months before those of us that have seen all of the chapters from the beginning can see a new one.
Anyway, the question still stands I guess. Does this get better? Has ninjai spoiled me?
Actually, according to a little research, it's because there is so much under one roof. You can shop for quite a bit there without having to go to 4 different places.
The prices due to volume are also incentive, but by no means the only one.
Japan (there are many other stats to show this) has arguably a far more graphic and violent media than the US, and yet we are still a much more violent society. How can this be? It "be" because the games are not at fault.
I think it's already been said here, but there is something seriously wrong with the person to begin with if a video game can provide the catalyst for murder. When things like this happen, I can't help but realize that these kids (in this instance) would have found ANYTHING to quelch their "desires". If this was 1900, they would have found Tarot cards (I'm making things up now) or whatever to be at fault. When is it the parents fault? When is it the individualists society's fault?. In THIS particular case, it could have been video games, but I seriously doubt is was the reason for the violence. The reason lies in what made them vulnerable to be swayed in this manner, because it certainly does not happen elsewhere, even in places with more graphic violence being portrayed.
You don't understand. The majority (I have read anywhere from 58% to 70%, movie industry editing news) of the computers that use professional video editing software are Macs. So, the Windows market is actually SMALLER than the Mac market for these softwares.
Now, throw in the fact that FCP became the de facto choice by pros a couple of years ago (overtaking AVID, which was more expensive, and cumbersome), and you have the reason Adobe is doing this. Apple simply beat them, and Adobe is bowing out. Nothing more.
I was thinking the same thing. I saw a bunch of guys showing the "things" they killed.
I would have much rather seen images of them in their habitat. Creatures from the deep sea just do not look the same dead and surfaced. They're flat, discolored, etc... have you ever seen a squid laying on the floor of a boat? It's jelly body look like a blob, not the magnificant creature it "was" swimming in it's habitat, so I'm not sure why showing us images of dead deep sea creatures was the preferred method of display here. I'm sure there were some great underwater shots of the same creatures...right?
I watch those deep sea exploration shows and they will find 2-3 new species of sea creature every dive. They say that the deep sea has more species of animals undiscovered than all known species to date, terrestrial life included. We know more about space, and the planets in the solar system than we do about life in the deep sea.
"Wealth and power tend to accrue to those who are ruthless, cunning, avaricious, self-seeking, lacking in sympathy and compassion, subservient to authority and willing to abandon principle for material gain, and so on." - Noam
I just don't think the "people" are power hungery enough (greedy) to properly fight back. We are gripped with fear, partially instilled fear I would argue, to breed consent for those in power, and it has worked wonderfully.
Uh, look. Just open Photoshop, or whatever you use. Make a color of #006666, and change it to CMYK or RGB. When it goes to print at the screen printer (or whatever), these values will be used for making the plates when printed. It could look orange on your screen, it doesn't mean a thing. As long as the digital output numbers are correct, it will be the correct color.
If it says it's Cyan: 90 Magenta: 42 Yellow: 55 Black: 22(which is what 006666 translates to) or R: 0 G: 102 B: 102 (ditto), then these are the values that will be used by the Raster Image Processor (RIP) when making the plates for printing. It couldn't care LESS how out of whack your monitor color is. It very simply doesn't matter.
These numbers are what's in the file, not colors from your screen.
Oh, we'll get involved alright, but ONLY if it serves our "interests". I wouldn't even know where to begin to account the UN and World Court mandates that we have simply ignored because it DIDN'T. These aren't little things, they are world consensus decisions that we outright undermine over and over again. Now, I'm not sure where you received your poly sci degree, but in my mind this doesn't bode well for a "happy" coexistant world, and therefore the world has a right to blame us, as it unanimously is.
Really, how much more specific would you like me to be? Would you like me to put up actual military spending numbers? Child welfare numbers? etc...?
Jeez, no I'M sorry that I offended little 'ol YOU. You, on the other hand, offered nothing accept derogetory comments and "blanket comments". And I'M the idiot? Wow... you really need to pick up a book on critical thinking or something. On the other hand, you had a few of us here laughing, so I guess that's OK. We weren't laughing AT you, we were laughing at the hypocracy of your own statement.
So, thanks, I guess.
And yes, send those that offend you "away" to another place (in this case, some care-bear forum). How American...
Ok, you guys are right. And yes, as it is we literally give power to those who want it the most, the greedy.
I guess I'm not satisfied with that "status quo" enough to sit still and bit my tongue. Hence, my original post.
Thanks.
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It's very simple and has been studied to death. It's APATHY, indifference.
It's not that we are too busy, it's not that we don't trust voting booths, it's not that we don't think our one little vote is going to make a difference... it's that we don't CARE who gets voted in.
Clown on the right or clown on the left, he's still a clown. "Who gives a rats ass. It's just powerful people doing shit for other powerful people. I work 50 hours a week, come home, eat dinner, let the dog out, watch corporate sponsored news, and go to bed, and it's what I'll do for the next four years too."
Is it sad? Hell yes, but it's not the "people's" fault. If they have a reason to vote, they will. They just don't see a good reason. They've literally given up.
We saw an election literally "stolen" in the last presidential election. We also saw a president get into office even though most in the country voted for the "other guy" (if you remember, Gore had the popular vote, but not the electoral vote). You wanna talk about an apathy spreader, that was it.
We (Americans) simply don't care, as we haven't been shown any reason to. Left or right, we still see a power hungry corporate lackey
...even it's feasable. Why? Because some of the most powerful entities on the planet are the current energy brokers, and they will use every last ounce of that power to keep it. This has been one of the most well documented facts in history.
Unless they can use it to make even more money, it will be thwarted at every turn of the implementation process, politically and scientifically.
We go to wars over oil, we define regions over oil, we assassinate leaders over oil... believe me, this will not see the "light of day". Heh.
When the most powerful entities in the world have the market cornered on the most sought after product in the world, things like the betterment of humanity play second fiddle. We are shown this over and over...
Very VERY glad I could help. Yes, the large labels give these guys mainly two things: Distribution and marketing. I'd rather have CD Baby do both while giving the artists 91% of the profit (CD Baby only keeps 9%).
Happy spending!
CD Baby
I would suggest listening to other music. Indie lables and the like.
I'll be honest, it's gotten to the point where the alternative labels are putting out better music anyway.
I remember when music was fun. When music was an entertainment "entity". We made cassette tapes for each other profusely, and we loved it. We went to concerts, bought tapes by the trunk load, watched MTV, etc... it was pure entertainment... fun. It was as if the record companies knew that this was just "how it is". I bought more music during my Napster days that I had in the previous 7 years. It was like a re-introduction to the music "thang", the music "culture" if you will that seemed to become far less fun over the years
And then... *sigh*. The DMCA, the RIAA, attacking customers, bringing them to court, etc... I don't know about you, but to think this helps business you would have to be one of two things:
1. Completely disconnected with your customer base and what makes your business flourish, and will never entertain that the problems are due to their own shortcomings (bad music, horrible radio payoffs for even worse music, realizing that attacking your own customers is bad (sheesh, do I even have to say that?) etc...) or
2. A minion that is just giving us another example of greed run amok, plain to see by it's customers.
In either case, I think they are literally only going to make it worse for themselves.
Insensitive clods.
I would also suggest listening to other music. Indie lables and the like.
I'll be honest, it's gotten to the point where the alternative labels are putting out better music anyway.
I remember when music was fun. When music was an entertainment "entity". We made cassette tapes for each other profusely, and we loved it. We went to concerts, bought tapes by the trunk load, watched MTV, etc... it was pure entertainment... fun. It was as if the record companies knew that this was just "how it is". I bought more music during my Napster days that I had in the previous 7 years. It was like a re-introduction to the music "thang", the music "culture" if you will that seemed to become far less fun over the years
And then... *sigh*. The DMCA, the RIAA, attacking customers, bringing them to court, etc... I don't know about you, but to think this helps business you would have to be one of two things:
1. Completely disconnected with your customer base and what makes your business flourish, and will never entertain that the problems are due to their own shortcomings (bad music, horrible radio payoffs for even worse music, realizing that attacking your own customers is bad (sheesh, do I even have to say that?) etc...) or
2. This is just another example of greed run amok, plain to see by it's customers.
In either case, I think they are literally only going to make it worse for themselves.
Insensitive clods.
All you need is your number 1, and it is profitable. I JUST watched a Discovery Channel/TLC show about a man doing just this. He strips the chips from the machine that he turns around and resells. He then takes the reamaining "stuff" and pretty much grinds it up into little pieces that are then sorted by some pretty cool machines. One uses static electricity to "pull" out the metal, etc... He then sells the separated plastic and metal. Hes says he has increased his profitability by 100 fold from when he used to just strip out the gold, AND most of this stuff is now recycled instead of adding to landfills.
About landfills and those that are saying we don't have a shortage of them... until your entire city is up in arms about a new and needed local landfill, and until you are willing to have one 100 feet from your backyard, and until you are told that there is NO CHOICE, then shut the hell up.
Very good. Thank you very much.
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iPod for PC.
No batteries. Lasts quite a long time (8 hours a charge), fits in your pocket, has a great GUI for organizing, charges either straight from Firewire when connected (or transfering your songs very fast...), or via the bas/AC adapter, or you can connect using USB 2.
Backlit, 30 GB's, alarm clock, will play MP3 or AAC, calendar, solitaire... did I mention it weighs less than 2 CD's?
Good luck. When I get home, I'll be purchasing 99 cent music with ONE CLICK, which is automatically updated in my iTunes and iPod. Bam, out the door. I will later most likely burn some CD's of it for my car CD player. Which, by the way, I can burn as many CD's of Apples music as I want. I can move the songs to 3 other computers. I can convert the songs to OTHER FORMATS, etc...
I'm sorry, it's just that having a Mac at home means I can look at crap like this and laugh. I mean, even on paper this doesn't even come CLOSE to a comparison. I, at this point, am forced to predict that when iTunes comes out for PC, that these other services will no doubt be doomed. Isn't this a no brainer? Why would I mess with these other, proprietary formatted, more restrictive, harder to use services? To save 10 cents a song...maybe (I have still yet to find a 79 cent song on this site)? Nope.
I just don't get it. If you have ever used iTMS, you know what I mean. It is seriously almost TOO easy. The biggest complaint I hear from other users is that they spend too much do to ease of use. A buck a click.
Independents are being added (awesome)...
I just don't understand what they are thinking. Wouldn't you need to make the service better knowing that iTMS is coming soon? I mean, they may make a few bucks until then, but when this easier to use, non-proprietary formatted, less restrictive service comes along (which all know it is), then why in the world would it survive?
I can't view the commercials as I am using Safari (not sure why tho, I have the WMP installed along with the plugin it states it needs (WMP)...hmmm).
I only ask because they look like they are exactly like the Apple commercials. Just some person in a white room singing part of a song. Is this what they are?
Ok. Cool, and thanks for the reply...I will continue the story...
I will say though, that the later chapters of Ninjai gave me the chills at times. The animation and the music is unbelievable...
Thanks again though, I've already bittorented the stie and will continue BS.
Ok. Cool, and thanks for the reply...I will continue the story...
I only ask because so far Ninjai kills this stuff. Unbelievable music, voice overs and animation.
The only problem with Ninjai is that this will be the THIRD time they are re-releasing the chapters every two weeks. In other words, I have to wait a couple of months before those of us that have seen all of the chapters from the beginning can see a new one.
Anyway, the question still stands I guess. Does this get better? Has ninjai spoiled me?
Actually, according to a little research, it's because there is so much under one roof. You can shop for quite a bit there without having to go to 4 different places.
The prices due to volume are also incentive, but by no means the only one.
...we won't need humans at all to retail.
Inventory, security, checkout... it seems every new tech that is supposed to help also intentionally takes jobs away from humans.
Who are the ones that are going to shop at Walmart when every low paying job is taken by more efficient, more cost effective technology such as this?
McDonalds is testing self-ordering kiosks, etc...
Dunno, but I sure see a future where the only good jobs will be in R&D and maintenance of these techs.
...that it's not the damn games or movies.
Japan (there are many other stats to show this) has arguably a far more graphic and violent media than the US, and yet we are still a much more violent society. How can this be? It "be" because the games are not at fault.
I think it's already been said here, but there is something seriously wrong with the person to begin with if a video game can provide the catalyst for murder. When things like this happen, I can't help but realize that these kids (in this instance) would have found ANYTHING to quelch their "desires". If this was 1900, they would have found Tarot cards (I'm making things up now) or whatever to be at fault. When is it the parents fault? When is it the individualists society's fault?. In THIS particular case, it could have been video games, but I seriously doubt is was the reason for the violence. The reason lies in what made them vulnerable to be swayed in this manner, because it certainly does not happen elsewhere, even in places with more graphic violence being portrayed.
You don't understand. The majority (I have read anywhere from 58% to 70%, movie industry editing news) of the computers that use professional video editing software are Macs. So, the Windows market is actually SMALLER than the Mac market for these softwares.
Now, throw in the fact that FCP became the de facto choice by pros a couple of years ago (overtaking AVID, which was more expensive, and cumbersome), and you have the reason Adobe is doing this. Apple simply beat them, and Adobe is bowing out. Nothing more.
I was thinking the same thing. I saw a bunch of guys showing the "things" they killed.
I would have much rather seen images of them in their habitat. Creatures from the deep sea just do not look the same dead and surfaced. They're flat, discolored, etc... have you ever seen a squid laying on the floor of a boat? It's jelly body look like a blob, not the magnificant creature it "was" swimming in it's habitat, so I'm not sure why showing us images of dead deep sea creatures was the preferred method of display here. I'm sure there were some great underwater shots of the same creatures...right?
I watch those deep sea exploration shows and they will find 2-3 new species of sea creature every dive. They say that the deep sea has more species of animals undiscovered than all known species to date, terrestrial life included. We know more about space, and the planets in the solar system than we do about life in the deep sea.
It's all very cool stuff.
"Wealth and power tend to accrue to those who are ruthless, cunning, avaricious, self-seeking, lacking in sympathy and compassion, subservient to authority and willing to abandon principle for material gain, and so on." - Noam
Some discussion along the same lines.
I just don't think the "people" are power hungery enough (greedy) to properly fight back. We are gripped with fear, partially instilled fear I would argue, to breed consent for those in power, and it has worked wonderfully.
Uh, look. Just open Photoshop, or whatever you use. Make a color of #006666, and change it to CMYK or RGB. When it goes to print at the screen printer (or whatever), these values will be used for making the plates when printed. It could look orange on your screen, it doesn't mean a thing. As long as the digital output numbers are correct, it will be the correct color.
If it says it's Cyan: 90 Magenta: 42 Yellow: 55 Black: 22(which is what 006666 translates to) or R: 0 G: 102 B: 102 (ditto), then these are the values that will be used by the Raster Image Processor (RIP) when making the plates for printing. It couldn't care LESS how out of whack your monitor color is. It very simply doesn't matter.
These numbers are what's in the file, not colors from your screen.
Oh, we'll get involved alright, but ONLY if it serves our "interests". I wouldn't even know where to begin to account the UN and World Court mandates that we have simply ignored because it DIDN'T. These aren't little things, they are world consensus decisions that we outright undermine over and over again. Now, I'm not sure where you received your poly sci degree, but in my mind this doesn't bode well for a "happy" coexistant world, and therefore the world has a right to blame us, as it unanimously is.
Really, how much more specific would you like me to be? Would you like me to put up actual military spending numbers? Child welfare numbers? etc...?
Jeez, no I'M sorry that I offended little 'ol YOU. You, on the other hand, offered nothing accept derogetory comments and "blanket comments". And I'M the idiot? Wow... you really need to pick up a book on critical thinking or something. On the other hand, you had a few of us here laughing, so I guess that's OK. We weren't laughing AT you, we were laughing at the hypocracy of your own statement.
So, thanks, I guess.
And yes, send those that offend you "away" to another place (in this case, some care-bear forum). How American...
Ok, you guys are right. And yes, as it is we literally give power to those who want it the most, the greedy. I guess I'm not satisfied with that "status quo" enough to sit still and bit my tongue. Hence, my original post. Thanks.
In the end they'll claim fiscal responsibility and shareholders will cheer. This sentiment couldn't be older.
Nutshell: Greed rules the day, and we celebrate it. It's what we promote here in the US. yay...
Screw privacy... there's no money there.
Oh yes, I'm trolling. I posted that merely to create a heated thread. I have absolutely no thought process behind it other than that.
*sigh*
Well, thanks at least for proving me right. Hurt those that think differently than you, it's the American way!!!
Now, to find a democracy somewhere...I know it's around here somewhere...