Are you always ready with an excuse for the status quo?
I'd like to think I defend the status quo less than you exaggerate. You've gone hyberbolic on this thread. I'm simply calling you on it, not making an excuse for anything.
Only in America can people still get the death penalty while corporations can't.
Your "corporate murder" charge was questioned. You responded with an incident in Bhopal, India. Later comes Love Canal -- orientation obtained.
Since when does speaking out against corrupt corporations equal class warfare?
Never mind that you later admit to the charge: I see the Bhopal incident, usually regarded as a corporate disaster, is really a case of corporate corruption. Care to provide a source for that?
Man, speak out about corporate malfeasance and corruption, really; just try to get the facts straight. And accusing the hyperbole-police of being the status-quo defender? Color me surprised. I'd say set the cake down, but none's left and it's all over your face.
Meh, calling middle-eastern nations representative of Islam[...]
You mean countries like "The Islamic Republic of Iran, or The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia/aka"The Land of The Two Holy Mosques"?
Hmm, methinks the question answers itself, nevermind.
A subjective distinction, without a difference. Yes, let's treat someone different, in the marketplace, because of their SUPPOSED motives. And some young people wonder how capitalism ever came about in the first place...
is when I accidentally "learn" the misspelled word, and then it appears throughout the whole text -- 1 step forward, 2 steps back. I also hate that spelling checker is more wrong than right, about guessing my word. I usually end up using google, which seems to have the best guessing algorithm around.
Just 'cause we can eat meat doesn't automatically mean it's a good idea.
Please go back and re-read the thread: the first mention of eat-by-design was in humorous refutation of it. Axx, apparently a vegan, jumped in, without understanding that, and proceeded to teach us all something. You appear to be doing the same thing, "teaching" us something, when it's you who has the misunderstanding. Lemme guess, you're a vegan/vegetarian also?
The sole purpose of art isn't to make a buck, hopefully there is some meaning behind it.
Don't tell that to the guy who draws money. But seriously, hopefully artists don't prioritize money, of the several/many rewards their artwork can bring. For them, well, they're just not artists, and so when they get less money for what they've produced it's ok, we won't feel guilty.
None of the artists I'm downloading music from are starving, that's for sure
How do you know either? You presume to know the solution to what economically ails musicians, better than the musicians who freely and voluntarily, and in most cases singularly desired, to become partnered with BigLabels. Make a case for your "right" to other's work, fine. But don't spoil your argument by professing to be helping musicians by downloading their music and never paying them - that's absurd.
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There's more of us, so watch it!
I call this job security.
he was generalizing there: as in a threshold of people who knew how to falsify each tech. At least it works better for me...
Oh, I forgot to mention, these bosses sign our paychecks.
Except in the this case it's more like, mess with the chihuahua, hear his piercing bark.
Someone let him out, he obviously needs to piss.
I steal?! More hyperbole. You're not very convincing.
I'd like to think I defend the status quo less than you exaggerate. You've gone hyberbolic on this thread. I'm simply calling you on it, not making an excuse for anything.
Your "corporate murder" charge was questioned. You responded with an incident in Bhopal, India. Later comes Love Canal -- orientation obtained.
Never mind that you later admit to the charge: I see the Bhopal incident, usually regarded as a corporate disaster, is really a case of corporate corruption. Care to provide a source for that? Man, speak out about corporate malfeasance and corruption, really; just try to get the facts straight. And accusing the hyperbole-police of being the status-quo defender? Color me surprised. I'd say set the cake down, but none's left and it's all over your face.
Since when does stupidity/negligence equal corruption?
Apparently, it happens in India too. I don't suppose you have a more continental example?
There's fluff and then there's demise.
You mean countries like "The Islamic Republic of Iran, or The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia/aka"The Land of The Two Holy Mosques"?
Hmm, methinks the question answers itself, nevermind.
you homed in on that phrase too! It feels like something gets destroyed every time I say that.
Electric Field Initiated Photodisintegration -- take that!
Me and everybody else I know who downloads them, too. Pity, the amount of energy expended wanting to ignore that.
A subjective distinction, without a difference. Yes, let's treat someone different, in the marketplace, because of their SUPPOSED motives. And some young people wonder how capitalism ever came about in the first place...
He wants ACCESS TO HIS ENTIRE LIBRARY, at ALL TIMES. No, he doesn't PLAY HIS ENTIRE LIBRARY at all times.
He's not alone.
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is when I accidentally "learn" the misspelled word, and then it appears throughout the whole text -- 1 step forward, 2 steps back. I also hate that spelling checker is more wrong than right, about guessing my word. I usually end up using google, which seems to have the best guessing algorithm around.
Please go back and re-read the thread: the first mention of eat-by-design was in humorous refutation of it. Axx, apparently a vegan, jumped in, without understanding that, and proceeded to teach us all something. You appear to be doing the same thing, "teaching" us something, when it's you who has the misunderstanding. Lemme guess, you're a vegan/vegetarian also?
deal with it.
Don't tell that to the guy who draws money. But seriously, hopefully artists don't prioritize money, of the several/many rewards their artwork can bring. For them, well, they're just not artists, and so when they get less money for what they've produced it's ok, we won't feel guilty.
sins of our fathers, and all. What's your last name?
The fierce competition for people's musical attention ($) doesn't magically go away once Mr. BigLabel exec starts driving a Toyota.
How do you know either? You presume to know the solution to what economically ails musicians, better than the musicians who freely and voluntarily, and in most cases singularly desired, to become partnered with BigLabels. Make a case for your "right" to other's work, fine. But don't spoil your argument by professing to be helping musicians by downloading their music and never paying them - that's absurd.
I know want to eliminate the middleman. However, I don't know a single one that thinks the answer lies in giving away all their recordings. Do you?
between citizen privacy and government intrusiveness has nothing to do with whatever I might want to hide. -