Radiohead had a lot of trouble getting OK Computer through the record company as an already-signed band. There is no way Radiohead would have even been able to start with Kid A(except maybe through the Internet). But you're right that had it somehow been their first Radiohead's popularity would probably be much lower than it is now.
As for Halo, that ILoveBees thing doesn't seem that great. Maybe I'm missing something, but that doesn't seem to advance the universe or anything.
The Romans had the concept of a vote after the death of an emperor: "God or Tyrant?"
I propose a similar vote(as a plebiscite) after a President leaves office: "Hero or Criminal?"
Obviously, if "Criminal" is chosen, the former President should be sent to jail.
Software patents delenda est. That should be delenda sunt, because software patents are plural. (You can keep delenda because a case could be made for software patents being a neuter plural)
more recently unclassified documents (such as the Venona papers) indicate that he was more correct than wrong
Except that he didn't actually find any of the Communists, and such a clearing made it easier for the Real Communists(tm) to get in, making him exactly as Truman said: "the best asset the Kremlin has".
Well, actually, every Prime Minister since at least Churchhill has disliked the BBC for political reasons, but that's a sign they're doing something right politically. And I doubt the British government wouldn't come kick the shit out of Scientology if it tried to push down the BBC.
The answer is none. Now, it's an open question whether or not Brittany will still make music if she got no money for it... but it is doubtful that Nobody would make music.
Most artists make all their money from live shows anyways, CDs are basically glorified promotional material.
You do know that Martian global warming is related to the fact that one of its ice caps is frozen water and the other is frozen CO2 and so Martian global warming can't be related to Earthly global warming, right?
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Imperial galleons.
Radiohead had a lot of trouble getting OK Computer through the record company as an already-signed band. There is no way Radiohead would have even been able to start with Kid A(except maybe through the Internet). But you're right that had it somehow been their first Radiohead's popularity would probably be much lower than it is now.
As for Halo, that ILoveBees thing doesn't seem that great. Maybe I'm missing something, but that doesn't seem to advance the universe or anything.
The Romans had the concept of a vote after the death of an emperor: "God or Tyrant?"
I propose a similar vote(as a plebiscite) after a President leaves office: "Hero or Criminal?"
Obviously, if "Criminal" is chosen, the former President should be sent to jail.
I could have sworn Andrew Johnson was impeached for firing his Secretary of War.
Except that there's a minute chance OJ might have actually not done it.
Ken Jennings? Is that you?
A "natural" life tended to last about forty years. I'll be off, living unnaturally, living until at least eighty.
Do you really want me to put your chip in there? Most people choose their brains, but to each their own, I guess.
Also see Window of Opportunity.
Considering how long Vista took, they'll have to keep it going a long time...
Luckily, GNU/Linux starts with a G.
The list of those patents is right next to Joseph McCarthy's list of the 205 communists in the State Department.
The question is: Will the number of patents violated go down just as McCarthy's number of commies went down?
Or he was just out of chairs.
I thought that most of IBM's patents were on hardware and other things that are actually patentable
Well, actually, every Prime Minister since at least Churchhill has disliked the BBC for political reasons, but that's a sign they're doing something right politically. And I doubt the British government wouldn't come kick the shit out of Scientology if it tried to push down the BBC.
You do know that Martian global warming is related to the fact that one of its ice caps is frozen water and the other is frozen CO2 and so Martian global warming can't be related to Earthly global warming, right?