You do know that alot of music isnt produced by the RIAA right? The other fact is that in alot of cases, the RIAA has a defacto monopoly on representing big labels that are signing artists. If you want to get radio play in Canada and the usa, you need to be on a major label. So obviously most mainsream music is owned by the riaa, and if you only listen to the radio thats what you are hearing.
What most people I know do however, is find music through alternate channels. The last album I downloaded was by Lady Sovereign. Why would I want to download hanson, or whatever is popular today, when I can get way better bands from all over the world?
The problem with people like you is that you are shilling for the record industry, reinforcing their view that only the music that they own and they control is desireable to download. This is simply out of touch with reality.
"So they are cloning my steaks now. Sometimes I find a really good tbone at the butcher, sometimes it's not so good. I would love to find one that I like, and clone that over and over again. Give me another a1j447L2K please. Perfect every time. Whew hew"
Perhaps it is the occasional bad steak that makes the good ones taste better. Eliminate the occasional, or even regular, bad steak and the good ones will normalize out so that they wont be "really good" anymore and will end up being normal.
Looking for friends by pimping your disease. This is why I dont believe in these "attention getting conditions". Pure bullcrap. You had too much attention as a kid and now cannot deal with the lack of attention that normal life gives you. Or as described by the Brian Jonestown Massacre:
You watch them standing in line You see them going insane Because they're wasting their time While they're waiting in vain This is the way it should be You were born to be free
"North Korea and Iran are both playing dangerous games."
Um they if by 'dangerous' you mean 'completely different and not at all comparable' then yes. Iran has said many times that they only want nuclear power. Their president is either a very very good liar (I dont believe engineers are), or his statements about nuclear bombs being 'ways of the past' are true. He doesnt even really hate america, although he thinks that they are on the wrong course (who doesnt). North Korea on the other hand have nothing to lose and are, even if only based on rhetoric, a psycho force to be feared and delt with.
"They are acting like children at the grown ups tables."
You better lighten up there son, there is nothing "grown up" about the way america has acted in recent years. Dangerously adolescent comes to mind, or if I was in a more hatefilled mood, psychopathic. One who has no regard for others and uses them only for his own gains, without empathy or remorse.
"more likely their real first test will be over Japan/Israel/South Korea/"
Why on earth would NK nuke isreal? Thats so stupid I cant even believe im bothering to reply to your post.
And how many people has chavez killed? How many wars has he started? Unless you think petty namecalling is equivalent to hundreds of thousands dead. I mean the CIA even tried to kill chavez in a coup, if anything hes remarkably polite considering that. Saddam tried to kill bush's dad and look how he reacted.
NK != IRAN != VENEZUELA
Though that doesnt stop the administration from making you think otherwise.
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That was very well put. I do like to get out and do things, but not for the sake of going out and doing things.
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"So how can we elliminate step 3 for the benefit of society?"
In western countries, its the womens choice whether to have the baby. Don't believe anyone if they tell you the man has any say what so ever. The argument then becomes, well if youre willing enough to sleep with someone then you should be willing enough to raise a family with them. I disagree with this, as I am sure most other people of both sexes would. So your question is how to elliminate relationships from going bad. Buddy, if you ever find a solution to that, please don't keep it to yourself. It's a similar question to "why do bad things happen?". Its unanswerable, they just do. For more reasons than there are stars in the sky.
Some creative flamebait answers - Force all pregnancies to be supervised and agreed to by all parties, else aborted by the state. - Perfect contraception. - Give financial benefits/tax breaks to people who stay with their families. - Reinstitute christian or muslim moral values into the fabric of society. - Give fathers a legal say in whether a child can be born, disempowering women. - Give away all control of upbrining children to the state and leave the slaves^H^H^H^H^H people free to do work.
"The whole calling home thing is the copy protection to make sure that you are validated to play the game."
Thats not all that they are doing with steam. With episode one (and im sure everything else) they actually track such things as how many times you die, by what, what you were doing at the time, how much time it takes you to pass different parts, etc... This is kind of worrying to me, because if they are tracking that, what else are they tracking? Do they log keystrokes too? would they admit it if they did?
Don't get me wrong, episode 1 and halflife 2 are great games, but when I heard about the level of data logging that they do, you cant help but be a bit scared. I didn't know about the resale BS.. This is why I avoided steam for so long, but HL2 is such a compelling title that I sacraficed security for a gravity gun. Its really sad how easy it was for me to compromise my security for a little bit of teh shiny..
"Because a tenet of critical reading skills is to pigeonhole your source"
You're right. As I am sure its an unbiased site, lets take a sampling of other headlines from this wonderful site:
Why liberals channel Lucifer
- By Kevin McCullough
The underestimated communicator
- By David Limbaugh (Pro bush article)
More talk won't stop nuclear Iran
- By Jerome Corsi
And regarding the video (did you even watch it?), it was just complete flamebait and should have been blocked. I mean it was from the director of scary movie, aka fart jokes for 10 year olds.. His political intelligence obviously hasnt matured much beyond that. Do you also hate it when people forwarn you about going to goatse links? Or would you prefer that goatse wasn't "pigeonholled"?
Oh please.. What small to medium corporate site could survive a targeted DDos attack from tens of thousands of hosts? It just is not a concern for most people.
I'd rather see one misspelled truth, than a hundred accurately spelled falsehoods. It is the content that matters, not the presentation.
And this thing that we are on is a blog. This is a comment, but it is still in the container of a weblog so we are writing comments to a blog.
Spelling and grammar nazis detract/distract from a discussion as they have no input to add, and yet bring others down and meaninglessly discredit ideas in the most simplistic way possible.
Heres some extra punctuation for you as I am sure it was driving you *CRAZY* not having it in my blog comment.. ',.'',,;..'"":
"The tomato is botanically a fruit, since it contains the seeds."
So? green peppers have seeds too, are they a fruit? The tomato is a vegetable. It is present in most vegetable cocktails, and I do not like to eat fruit but I love tomatoes. QED.
"Final Fantasy or Chrono Trigger are RPGs? It's more like a book with press X to continue. I like those games but I would classify them as jRPGs (which means they are not RPGs at all)."
Your so right! They should list real rpgs like World Of Warcraft.
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Um why? One cable is fine but two is.... inconceivable?
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You do know that alot of music isnt produced by the RIAA right?
The other fact is that in alot of cases, the RIAA has a defacto monopoly on representing big labels that are signing artists. If you want to get radio play in Canada and the usa, you need to be on a major label. So obviously most mainsream music is owned by the riaa, and if you only listen to the radio thats what you are hearing.
What most people I know do however, is find music through alternate channels. The last album I downloaded was by Lady Sovereign. Why would I want to download hanson, or whatever is popular today, when I can get way better bands from all over the world?
The problem with people like you is that you are shilling for the record industry, reinforcing their view that only the music that they own and they control is desireable to download. This is simply out of touch with reality.
Did you try limiting your upload with something like netlimiter?
Usually ISP's just care about uploads, not downloads.
Perhaps it is the occasional bad steak that makes the good ones taste better. Eliminate the occasional, or even regular, bad steak and the good ones will normalize out so that they wont be "really good" anymore and will end up being normal.
Looking for friends by pimping your disease. This is why I dont believe in these "attention getting conditions". Pure bullcrap. You had too much attention as a kid and now cannot deal with the lack of attention that normal life gives you. Or as described by the Brian Jonestown Massacre:
You watch them standing in line
You see them going insane
Because they're wasting their time
While they're waiting in vain
This is the way it should be
You were born to be free
Um they if by 'dangerous' you mean 'completely different and not at all comparable' then yes. Iran has said many times that they only want nuclear power. Their president is either a very very good liar (I dont believe engineers are), or his statements about nuclear bombs being 'ways of the past' are true. He doesnt even really hate america, although he thinks that they are on the wrong course (who doesnt). North Korea on the other hand have nothing to lose and are, even if only based on rhetoric, a psycho force to be feared and delt with.
You better lighten up there son, there is nothing "grown up" about the way america has acted in recent years. Dangerously adolescent comes to mind, or if I was in a more hatefilled mood, psychopathic. One who has no regard for others and uses them only for his own gains, without empathy or remorse.
Why on earth would NK nuke isreal? Thats so stupid I cant even believe im bothering to reply to your post.
And how many people has chavez killed? How many wars has he started?
Unless you think petty namecalling is equivalent to hundreds of thousands dead. I mean the CIA even tried to kill chavez in a coup, if anything hes remarkably polite considering that. Saddam tried to kill bush's dad and look how he reacted.
NK != IRAN != VENEZUELA
Though that doesnt stop the administration from making you think otherwise.
That was very well put. I do like to get out and do things, but not for the sake of going out and doing things.
"Have you figured out the moral yet?"
Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks?
now ?
But more honestly, as someone once famously posted, the only point of ask slashdot is to make fun of the people asking slashdot.
In western countries, its the womens choice whether to have the baby. Don't believe anyone if they tell you the man has any say what so ever. The argument then becomes, well if youre willing enough to sleep with someone then you should be willing enough to raise a family with them. I disagree with this, as I am sure most other people of both sexes would. So your question is how to elliminate relationships from going bad. Buddy, if you ever find a solution to that, please don't keep it to yourself. It's a similar question to "why do bad things happen?". Its unanswerable, they just do. For more reasons than there are stars in the sky.
Some creative flamebait answers
- Force all pregnancies to be supervised and agreed to by all parties, else aborted by the state.
- Perfect contraception.
- Give financial benefits/tax breaks to people who stay with their families.
- Reinstitute christian or muslim moral values into the fabric of society.
- Give fathers a legal say in whether a child can be born, disempowering women.
- Give away all control of upbrining children to the state and leave the slaves^H^H^H^H^H people free to do work.
Sure if that works for you, but not everyone wants to fake being a child molester just so the fbi will dispose of their batteries.
I don't know.. I feel kind of enlightened.
At least they arent using the same old boring icons all the time like they usually do.
Thats not all that they are doing with steam. With episode one (and im sure everything else) they actually track such things as how many times you die, by what, what you were doing at the time, how much time it takes you to pass different parts, etc... This is kind of worrying to me, because if they are tracking that, what else are they tracking? Do they log keystrokes too? would they admit it if they did?
Don't get me wrong, episode 1 and halflife 2 are great games, but when I heard about the level of data logging that they do, you cant help but be a bit scared.
I didn't know about the resale BS.. This is why I avoided steam for so long, but HL2 is such a compelling title that I sacraficed security for a gravity gun. Its really sad how easy it was for me to compromise my security for a little bit of teh shiny..
You're right. As I am sure its an unbiased site, lets take a sampling of other headlines from this wonderful site:
Why liberals channel Lucifer
- By Kevin McCullough
The underestimated communicator
- By David Limbaugh
(Pro bush article)
More talk won't stop nuclear Iran
- By Jerome Corsi
And regarding the video (did you even watch it?), it was just complete flamebait and should have been blocked. I mean it was from the director of scary movie, aka fart jokes for 10 year olds.. His political intelligence obviously hasnt matured much beyond that.
Do you also hate it when people forwarn you about going to goatse links? Or would you prefer that goatse wasn't "pigeonholled"?
Oh please.. What small to medium corporate site could survive a targeted DDos attack from tens of thousands of hosts? It just is not a concern for most people.
Take your self righteousness elsewhere. Its only money we arent killing kittens. This is all part of the fun that is slashdot.
And how! I mean, you should see how many games it has available! Why theres tuxracer, nethack and um.. nmap! thats a game right?
Bravo. You win this thread.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
I'd rather see one misspelled truth, than a hundred accurately spelled falsehoods. It is the content that matters, not the presentation.
And this thing that we are on is a blog. This is a comment, but it is still in the container of a weblog so we are writing comments to a blog.
Spelling and grammar nazis detract/distract from a discussion as they have no input to add, and yet bring others down and meaninglessly discredit ideas in the most simplistic way possible.
Heres some extra punctuation for you as I am sure it was driving you *CRAZY* not having it in my blog comment.. ',.'',,;..'"":
So? green peppers have seeds too, are they a fruit? The tomato is a vegetable. It is present in most vegetable cocktails, and I do not like to eat fruit but I love tomatoes. QED.
Your so right! They should list real rpgs like World Of Warcraft.
Perhaps that kind of massive voter fraud will finaly push americans over the edge and into a titorian worldline.
I seriously doubt that apathy can be overcome in the usa but wouldn't it be grand..