One thing that hasn't been mentioned is the live show, where the "instant gratification" model is turned on its head. If the group only handed out flyers with a web site on it, many people who would have been willing to buy a CD right then will have forgotten about it by the time they get home.
In a few years perhaps a cell phone-like device will be sufficiently ubiquitous and well-developed to allow everyone to download the music while they're watching the concert.
Until then, the best answer is to have phyiscal CDs at the show and digital downloads on your website.
Congratulations, Mr. President. That was a great inaugural address. And what a party last night! Here's your seat behind the oval office desk.
Before you is a legal pad emblazoned with the Presidential Seal on the top, a few pens, a pitcher and glass with cool water off to one side, within easy reach, a phone with which you can use to contact anyone in the world to initiate policy change. Take a deep breath, you've earned it. Now...
What's your first move? Which program do you think is causing the most harm, wasting the most money, or restricting the most freedoms, and what steps would you take to accomplish the goal of shutting it down?
is this a step in the right direction for the historically gender-biased institution?
Does any institution that exhibited a historically negative trait ever get to put it behind them? Just once in a while I'd like to see us focus on the current positive status of a group, and not unceasingly rehash the historical negative.
If we continually focused on former traits of groups, places, or organizations, we'd still be calling all Native Americans cannibals, all Germans Nazis, and all white men racist slave holders.
By all means, strive for perfection (whatever that may be), but acknowledge the progress!
It drives me nuts that people actually believe that the rich are all like "Scrooge Mc'Duck" and have a huge 5 story safe where they put all the money in.
Youngster, I didn't just keep my money in a big bin; I skipped the investment route and put it right back into the environment; i.e. buried underground, stuck into trees, sunk under a big lake, or hidden in bales of cabbage.
And by doing so I offered incentives to low-income workers (i.e. the Beagle Boys), who kept trying to redistribute my wealth among the poor (themselves)...
Bah! When Bill Gates gets five cubic acres of money, *then* I'll be impressed (but only if his ball of string is longer than mine!)
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In a few years perhaps a cell phone-like device will be sufficiently ubiquitous and well-developed to allow everyone to download the music while they're watching the concert.
Until then, the best answer is to have phyiscal CDs at the show and digital downloads on your website.
I'd like to see them air a commercial from the point of view of the poor guy stuck at his desk all day...
"....yes....yes....yes....yes....yes....yes...."
...so in other words, he's ineligible for a Darwin award because he *knows* he doing something idiotic?
...so he's the old man from Scene 24...
What's he doing here?
Congratulations, Mr. President. That was a great inaugural address. And what a party last night! Here's your seat behind the oval office desk.
Before you is a legal pad emblazoned with the Presidential Seal on the top, a few pens, a pitcher and glass with cool water off to one side, within easy reach, a phone with which you can use to contact anyone in the world to initiate policy change. Take a deep breath, you've earned it. Now...
What's your first move? Which program do you think is causing the most harm, wasting the most money, or restricting the most freedoms, and what steps would you take to accomplish the goal of shutting it down?
Does any institution that exhibited a historically negative trait ever get to put it behind them? Just once in a while I'd like to see us focus on the current positive status of a group, and not unceasingly rehash the historical negative.
If we continually focused on former traits of groups, places, or organizations, we'd still be calling all Native Americans cannibals, all Germans Nazis, and all white men racist slave holders.
By all means, strive for perfection (whatever that may be), but acknowledge the progress!
Youngster, I didn't just keep my money in a big bin; I skipped the investment route and put it right back into the environment; i.e. buried underground, stuck into trees, sunk under a big lake, or hidden in bales of cabbage.
And by doing so I offered incentives to low-income workers (i.e. the Beagle Boys), who kept trying to redistribute my wealth among the poor (themselves)...
Bah! When Bill Gates gets five cubic acres of money, *then* I'll be impressed (but only if his ball of string is longer than mine!)
So, they didn't actually launch an Amateur Satellite into orbit (darn!).
To be precise, they did place their satellite into an orbit, just a highly eccentric one with a path that happens to intersect the Earth.
Still a fantastic achievement, in any event...