Sell them the artwork, and the mp3 downloads are "freebies". Sending someone a small envelope with artwork, cd inserts and band info would go a long way to making people want to "buy" a band's music. Production costs can be absorbed by the bands, as with the majors, but in a fair world, the distributor gets a small chunk for each sale, and the band gets the rest.
The biggest issue I have these days with the major labels, is that they want to sell you a cd for 20 bucks (CAN), but they don't want to actually give you anything but a 5 cent piece of plastic with an embedded metal media holding the recording. Cheap bastards.
Back in the seventies, and the album era in general, one of the great joys of buying an album was being able to peruse the artwork, and info included wiht the vinyl. Ahhh, glorious were those days. Now I need a magnifying glass just to read the cd formatted info included with the disc, but that's another issue all together.
Given that the American air force couldn't get their shit together when fundamentalist assholes were flying commercial aircraft into various east coast buildings, somehow I doubt that a 16' rocket at 5500 ' (big deal) would even cause a blip on the NORAD screens. And, BTW, Canada is a member of NORAD.
Fuck Lars and fuck metallica. Don't buy their shit, don't even download the free stuff. If Lars wants to get into bed with those fucking cunts at the RIAA, that's his fucking problem. Think I'm pissed off about all this shit? Damn right I am. Do I download mp3's? I can count the number on one hand that I've downloaded illegally. Think I'm pissed that I will be paying almost a dollar to the record industry whenever I buy a CDR? Damn right I am. Just yesterday I was experimenting with making a bootable cd and fucked it up twice so it ended up costing me two bucks that goes directly into the pockets of the record industry, with *maybe* a penny or two going to the so-called artists under the control of those same record companies. Canadian? Pissed off about this bullshit too? Visit this site to find out where to complain,
Anyway, Wilco did this already with a live recording, and we all know how successful Wilco was by making the mp3's for YHF available to one and all as a marketing gimmik.
Support Wilco and all bands that encourage sharing of mp3's. Fuck Lars, fuck Madonna, fuck the RIAA and fuck all the other bands that look upon us as criminals first.
Feel free to go back to O'Reilly and Limbaugh for more Bush propoganda anytime. This kind of logic is just the sort of bullshit that these fucking lackwits spew on a daily basis.
There are two encryption projects for gaim over on sourceforge. gaim-e and gaim-encryption. The former uses gpg while the later uses openssl. I've been using the gaim-encryption for about a month now, very easy to compile into gaim as a project. I found this to be a bit easier to use since the keys are generated automagically, but if you want to go a more secure route you would probably want to go with the gpg model, since you have better control over trust.
I mean, too bad it didn't work out between these two idiots, TuckerMax and KatyJohnson, because they, if any two living humans, deserve each other. He's a complete asshole -- he admits it so it's less of a character flaw -- and she is an utter moron and admitted hypocrite.
Feh. Give it a chance, and I would recommend staying away from slack if you're not a linux geek. I used slack back in the early days, but would recommend RH9 or any of the other major distros. Sure there are some hurdles to getting printing working, but cups is a lot easier to configure than lprng. Anyway, I know several FCN's who are now using RH9 with a little help from yours truly and they are all pretty happy with the desktop.
Definitely ready for the desktop, and it gets better and better with every release.
And as far as gtoaster is concerned, I pretty well stopped using cdr's because windows would produce so many bad ones, but I can't think of one single bad gtoaster cdr since I started using it again a few months ago.
Don't give up man, do a dual boot if you need windoze.
And turn off the DHCP server. Persumably, your network is small enough that you can limit access to only those boxes whose MAC addresses are known, and you can set IP addresses manually.
Good advice, but I would recommend using an SSID that is like a secure password, something like, "timfwswdujbo4n" (which reads, This Is My Farking Wap So Why Don't yoU Just Bugger Off 4 Now).
Oh yeah, make sure you turn off the SSID broadcast feature. Should be off by default, IMHO, but because most L^Husers are idiots they have to turn it on by default otherwise no one would ever figure out how to connect to their WAP).
Of course, as it stands right now, with the major labels at least, you're not even giving your favourite artists 50 cents when you buy a cd.
My feeling is that musicians should provide a reasonable quality (say 32 kbps) download of their tunes for evaluation purposes, and continue selling CD's or DVD's with higher quality versions. Sell them yourself at cdbaby, and hope that you get some national exposure, which is probably just as likely as getting a contract (life sentence) with a major label. And if net radio picks up on artists distributing their music like this that might just be possible. And, thankfully, this system will not support the fucking Brittany's, or Michael Jackson's, or Madonna's or J.Lo's, et. al.
In fact, the federal government has taken action against foreign factory fishermen (or fishers if you insist) but only when they were caught outside of international waters. There is little the Canadian government can do if these jerkoffs are fishing the fuck out of the grand banks in international waters, except plead with the respecitive European countries to limit their catch. Unfortunately, there is little incentive for their goverments to be prudent, unless, perhaps, they could be convinced to heed Prof. Diamond's arguments.
What's wrong with a pencil and paper ballot system. If the polls are properly counted, there's no possibility, other than minor statistical error, for fraud in the voting system. Of course, if the ballots are thrown away in an attempt to swing the vote you have a bigger problem than errors associated with voting machines. If Floridians had used a paper and pencil ballot, we wouldn't currently be subjected to the lunacy of the boy king they call President, because the Supreme Court wouldn't have had the chance to subvert voter intentions and hand the presidency to the jackass that some regard as presidential material -- and not part time swing manager at Chucky Cheese.
Does anyone, other than Americans, use voting machines?
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The biggest issue I have these days with the major labels, is that they want to sell you a cd for 20 bucks (CAN), but they don't want to actually give you anything but a 5 cent piece of plastic with an embedded metal media holding the recording. Cheap bastards.
Back in the seventies, and the album era in general, one of the great joys of buying an album was being able to peruse the artwork, and info included wiht the vinyl. Ahhh, glorious were those days. Now I need a magnifying glass just to read the cd formatted info included with the disc, but that's another issue all together.
Fuck the RIAA!
I almost fell for that one too, but you're looking at the dates of the forum user's creation, not the posting date.
Given that the American air force couldn't get their shit together when fundamentalist assholes were flying commercial aircraft into various east coast buildings, somehow I doubt that a 16' rocket at 5500 ' (big deal) would even cause a blip on the NORAD screens. And, BTW, Canada is a member of NORAD.
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Anyway, Wilco did this already with a live recording, and we all know how successful Wilco was by making the mp3's for YHF available to one and all as a marketing gimmik.
Support Wilco and all bands that encourage sharing of mp3's. Fuck Lars, fuck Madonna, fuck the RIAA and fuck all the other bands that look upon us as criminals first.
And fuck Bush too, because he's an idiot.
Face it, Bush is a moron.
Anybody but Shrub in 2004.
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Didn't seem to take much to hose that site, mirrors anyone?
Too bad, the wedding would have been fun.
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre and you should be able to plow through it in a day, if you put your mind to it.
Definitely ready for the desktop, and it gets better and better with every release.
And as far as gtoaster is concerned, I pretty well stopped using cdr's because windows would produce so many bad ones, but I can't think of one single bad gtoaster cdr since I started using it again a few months ago.
Don't give up man, do a dual boot if you need windoze.
And any unix geek worth their salt would have a postscript printer to obviate the need for ghostscript.
Ug. I read that as 11 Mbps, I gotta take my dog for a walk.
But then I thought, well what if a spammer just issued an automatic repsonse, then the spam would end up in the L^Husers inbox anyway.
Probably would cut down on spam though.
BTW, zombo com rocks!
Oh yeah, make sure you turn off the SSID broadcast feature. Should be off by default, IMHO, but because most L^Husers are idiots they have to turn it on by default otherwise no one would ever figure out how to connect to their WAP).
My feeling is that musicians should provide a reasonable quality (say 32 kbps) download of their tunes for evaluation purposes, and continue selling CD's or DVD's with higher quality versions. Sell them yourself at cdbaby, and hope that you get some national exposure, which is probably just as likely as getting a contract (life sentence) with a major label. And if net radio picks up on artists distributing their music like this that might just be possible. And, thankfully, this system will not support the fucking Brittany's, or Michael Jackson's, or Madonna's or J.Lo's, et. al.
I will enjoy the day that the RIAA goes tits up.
In fact, the federal government has taken action against foreign factory fishermen (or fishers if you insist) but only when they were caught outside of international waters. There is little the Canadian government can do if these jerkoffs are fishing the fuck out of the grand banks in international waters, except plead with the respecitive European countries to limit their catch. Unfortunately, there is little incentive for their goverments to be prudent, unless, perhaps, they could be convinced to heed Prof. Diamond's arguments.
Bastards!
Does anyone, other than Americans, use voting machines?