Whan I want to really listen to music, I far prefer my Sony noise-cancelling ear-cup headphones to using speakers. Ambient noise in this place is just too high to really enjoy music any other way.
Then you are not turning the speakers up loud enough. Funnily enough, the CAPTCHA is demolish.
Seriously, someone was asking me to tell the difference between a wav file and an mp3 file, both were sent to me as a wav. Once I turned the volume up loud enough I was correct on one song 100% of the time (Primus - My Name is Mud) and 2/3 of the time for a Metallica song. I would have had perfect detection for mp3 on the Metallica song but I had my amp (accidentally) still munging music to make MP3s sound better. The Primus song is never in question when encoded as an MP3. Something about it defeats the algorithm no matter how you tune it.
It had more than its share of gimmicks (engineering failures used as plot devices, apparently the concepts of fail safe and even the lowly circuit breaker don't exist in the 24th Century) but on balance it stands the test of time.
What annoyed me the most is that no prisoner could ever be contained. Every. Single. Prisoner. Left. Their. Cell. Every. Fucking. Time.
Really? They don't know how to do security? Oy oy oy.
Smokers should be charged much higher premiums for health insurance.
Then remove the obscene taxes. That is the reason they were passed to begin with, the supposedly much higher medical bills... however, the reduced pension/retirement usage never factored into the equation. Whatever.
I am flabbergasted. The reason Debian does not get corporate contracts is because they do not have a corporate program to provide assurances to customers like Redhat does. It has nothing to do with SystemD.
Redhat is about to lose a largish DoD contract because of SystemD. Debian has removed themselves as an option with this crap. Will my decision hurt Redhat? Individually, no. I will not be surprised if lots of other people responsible for choosing technologies refuse this crap as well. Will it hurt Debian? I was already not using them but now they have excluded themselves. They have limited their own potential growth.
I have quite a few Linux servers under my control. SystemD buys me nothing. SystemD has not caused me any problems in my professional life (yet) but it has caused me numerous problems in my personal life.
In my professional life, I have two services that I would like SystemD to restart when those services die. It does not restart them. Is this a problem? No. It is no different than previous behaviour.
Other than service monitoring, I am unsure what else SystemD is supposed to offer to me. My servers never change hardware, never change networks, never do anything at all other than the two services they provide. Binary logs makes troubleshooting transient boot problems impossible. It never gets far enough to start writing text logs through the other interfaces. I do not even bother to troubleshoot anymore. I have an ISO image that tkes less than 10 minutes to install and make fully functional. Is this the goal of SystemD? To just reinstall like we do with Windows?
Meh. There is no point in discussing this. Some people want SystemD. As a rejection of init, I can understand that position, but it is like worshiping Satan because Beelzebub was too evil. All I can say is, What the fuck is wrong with you people?
Ya, you're not the first to comment on my fat-fingers - though that you (both) felt compelled to do so might say more about you two than me.:-)
In this particular case, it is not about you, it is about the humour. It could have been anyone... even me. It is not the fact that a mistake was made that is important, mistakes are common in casual conversation like this. It is that the mistake was made in relation to the meaning of the word that the mistake was made upon (is that even coherent?!).:)
If a hiring manager could filter on "really can do what the CV/resume says", that would be great. Unfortunately, they can't.
I understand this, you understand this, it is orthogonal to what I am saying however. I was illustrating how "increasing requirements" merely result in increasing lies. Ask for what the job entails and filter on that. It will not help with the liars but it gets rid of the absurd, such as 10 years of experience with server 2012 when it is only the year 2015.
I'm going to suggest that, all other things being equal, a person with a college degree is a better bet than a person with a high school diploma, who in turn is a better bet than a high school dropout.
For apprentice level jobs, I wholeheartedly agree. If you want to play the odds then that is the way to go; however, for non-entry level jobs, I would say it is counter-productive, if not outright incorrect. A person who has 5 years experience actually doing something, and doing it well, is a FAR greater bet than someone who has 20 some certifications and a masters degree, but who never stays in any one one job for more than two years. I say this from experience.
I would go even farther (further? I need education) than that and say that the high school dropout who has 10+ years experience and great references is more valuable than a PhD in respect to getting the job done. Clearly there are things the PhD person can do that the high school dropout can not, but are those things relevant to the business? I would argue that those things will drive up the price of PhD in relation to the high school dropout.
The hiring manager is not looking for the best possible candidate, regardless of cost.
Change your filters and you have a better chance of finding the right candidate.
So, if you and I apply for a job, and we're both good candidates, I'm likely to get the interview before somebody who doesn't have the degree, and you may never get a chance.
I have been responsible for the hiring decision for numerous people. I have been burned many times by using degrees and certs as filtering tools. If there is nothing else there then yes, but otherwise, it is all about the experience and the employment history. Your experiences and employment history is what will get you the interview when I am reviewing CVs and resumes.
I don't know if this bothers you (you may run your own business or have enough people who know you're good), but it isn't going to bother the hiring manager.
I am not currently running my own business and I have suffered greatly at the hands of ignorant hiring managers, but then, I would argue that we were both better off never meeting. Willfully ignorant people piss me off. I have been making a six figure salary for over a decade. I have made enough money for them to stop taking social security taxes out after only 6 months because the maximum for the year had already been paid. Most people are not even aware there was a maximum that could be paid in a year.
My thesis is that filtering by education is counter-productive unless there are no other discriminators to use. Even then, we are talking about making it to the interview stage only, not as a hiring decision. If you can not find interesting people to interview, I would say your hiring practices need to be re-examined.
So, um, not to detract from your rant or anything... Putin invaded several countries, just to refresh your memory I will specifically name Georgia and Ukraine. Putin aided numerous bloody coups, you just do not hear about them because everyone, yourself included, is so focused on what America is doing.
Or should we move on to China and some of their imperialistic maneuvers too?
You speak like if we could just destroy America, everything would go back to being peaches and cream. Definitely a naive viewpoint.
If a company gets more applications for a position than it can deal with, it's going to filter them down. The hiring manager's job is to get somebody good with reasonable effort, not to get the best regardless of cost, and high school dropouts are generally unlikely to be all that good.
I am not the parent poster but your response caused me to immediately think: Go ahead. Keep filtering on arbitrary stuff... and keep whining about the lack of applicants who can do what their CV says.
I am one of those "real" people. If it says it on my CV, then I can do it. If it says I am an expert at it, then I really am an expert at it. You will never see my CV. Why? Because of the arbitrary filters you put up, it "forces" everyone else to lie just so their CV can be seen... but I will not lie.
Grrrrrrr. This kind of response pisses me off. Are you assuming that a few kind words could not educate this person? Not everyone is perfect at what they do or need to do; however, many/most are willing to learn from their mistakes. Should people really lose their job or should they be educated?
I would argue that they should only be fired if they prove they are incapable of doing the job even after being educated... but that is just me.
Unlikely, it is a minority of malcontents who are upset about SystemD who have created an echo chamber of half truths and outright lies.
Speaking of outright lies... where is your proof that only a minority of people are unhappy about SystemD?
Let's examine our current environment: Slashdot.
Here there are more people who are deeply against SystemD than there are for SystemD. If you look at the arguments against, there are numerous well-reasoned arguments that nobody from the SystemD has even begun to address. If you look at the arguments for, they do not seem terribly convincing, such as "this is a better way" or "startup is faster in the best case".
I mean really, even if the damned thing did what it claims to do, the specific implementation is clearly lacking. So I have to ask, why exactly are you so gung-ho for SystemD? Surely you should be gung-ho for a solution, not a specific method. No?
Debian switched because they were losing market share on larger systems that the current init system only handles under extreme protest.
What are you talking about? losing market share? larger systems? Which systems? How was market share measured? Show me where the Debian project claims this. You sound like an MBA.
Just because Tesla Motors has chosen to do OTA updates intelligently (so far), that does not imply that General Motors or Ford will do so. I would lay money on GM being the first to force an OTA update and the first to brick more than a thousand cars at once.
Nice myth. The "ice age panic" was one story that made Time magazine at a time when the majority of climate research indicated a warming trend due to human cause CO2 emissions.
That is not true. I was a child back then and I recall hearing it from several sources including teachers... but then, I had teachers who disliked the concept of evolution and expressed it by saying, "we did not come from fish".
Not trying to lend validity to the ice age argument, just saying that it was more than just a single article in a single magazine.
The biggest generational theft ever to happen is the tax cuts conservatives have enacted over the last 35 years that have caused the national debt to explode.
I disagree strongly. It is a huge theft but not the biggest: Social Security was the biggest.
This is less about ushering in accountability from UBER than it is about squeezing UBER for every penny she can. It saddens me that a fellow Indian would resort to this.
I am unsure why it saddens you. Many people from all nationalities would leap at almost any chance to go from poverty or middle class to upper class in one fell swoop. Being Indian in this instance is not unique. Russians, Americans, Arabs, whatever, you will find many in each that would do the same.
Bicycles, cars, and trains can push against the ground using friction assisted by gravity to propel themselves.
Ships and submarines can gather and push water to move themselves through the water.
Airplanes can gather and push air to move themselves through the air.
Rockets can gather and push... vacuum to move themselves through vacuum? No. Vacuum has no such properties to push or propel. Essentially, you have to take something up with you to throw out the back end of the rocket in order to move forwards as there is no surface to push against or material to gather and throw out the back end.
I am not telling you anything you do not know. Just saying for the benefit of the PP.
Social Security and Medicare costs are only going to get worse as our population ages. And those costs are what is really tanking the federal budget.
You are wrong. Social Security and Medicare were already paid for. Read that again please: The people who are pulling from Social Security and Medicare ALREADY PAID FOR IT.
Do you understand that? Saying that Social Security and Medicare is a drain on the budget is a lie.
No, what happened is that around 1980, the federal government passed a law that allowed them to trade government bonds for the cash that was on-hand at Social Security Administration.
What you are seeing now is that the government spent all of that money on domestic spying and other police state activities and are trying to frame the budget shortfall as a Social Security problem.
The bonds are due and have to be paid. This is not a Social Security problem at all. Social Security has enough of these bonds to pay for everything. The problem is that the government DOES NOT WANT TO PAY THESE BONDS... so they frame it as a Social Security shortfall rather than what it truly is: Theft from a paid-for program to fund an unconstitutional attack on American citizens.
If people could live forever, nothing would ever change. We would be stuck with the likes of Pol Pot, Hitler, and Stalin throughout all of eternity. The world would become a living hell until the human race was itself completely wiped off the face of the planet.
And then there are taxi drivers who just want to take your money as happened to me in Amsterdam. I told him to call the police if he really felt that the extra 50 euros was a required part of the fare.
There's so much good stuff out there I don't even know where to begin.
I do not believe you.
Perhaps you actually should begin somewhere because I can not find it. Perhaps there is just too much crap drowning out the good stuff? Perhaps there are not enough "DJs" sorting it out for us? I have no idea but I can not find this plethora of good music that you speak of.
Newsflash: every generation thinks their parents' music was lame, but my generation's music was the greatest ever, but my kids listen to complete shit. Talk to a 30-something and they'll think Pearl Jam or Nirvana were the greatest. Talk to a 60-something and they'll think Zeppelin and Queen were the greatest. Talk to a teenager now and they'll think Katy Perry or Taylor Swift are the best evar! Maybe this has to do more with the music you listed to as a teenager shaping your musical tastes (and associating good times with that music).
I have no doubt that this true to an extent for a lot of people; however, this is not the case for everyone complaining about good music. I am not 60 or older and I think Led Zeppelin and Queen were good. I am not 30 something and I think Pearl Jam and Nirvana were good. I am not a teenager now and I think Katy Perry and Taylor Swift are terrible (except for one song by Katy Perry which is actually pretty darned good. I think it may be called Alien (E.T.)).
Honestly, I have heard only one song in the last 4 years that qualifies as interesting: Turn Down for What. That is not anywhere near the genres that I normally like.
So again, we are not talking about what someone liked as a teenager, we are talking about a dearth of great music. Where is the musical/emotional/mental trip of Stranglehold by Ted Nugent? Where is the light and fun music like The Joker by the Steve Miller band? Where is the technological adventure of Vaski's Terrordome LP? Where is the deeply moving Smells Like Teen Spirit competitors?
There is no music out now that takes the listener on any kind of adventure like the backside of Metallica's And Justice for All album.
Or even just really interesting music like Suspicious Minds by Elvis Presley?
Where is this Golden Age of Music that you speak of? I can not find it.
Hm. Microsoft has decided that breaking the law and acting in an unethical manner are valid methods of earning more money. Saying Micro$oft may reduce the reputation of the person arguing, but really, emphasizing that they would do anything to get more money through any means by using a simple symbol seems legitimate to me.
And no, nobody is surprised that a company tries to make more money. What is surprising is the lengths that they will go to get it.
Slashdot Mirror
Up until I was about 3, I used to stutter. My mother and father became divorced, my father disappeared, and all stuttering went away almost overnight.
I am not sure how this fits into their narrative. I was probably just a one-off... as usual.
Whan I want to really listen to music, I far prefer my Sony noise-cancelling ear-cup headphones to using speakers. Ambient noise in this place is just too high to really enjoy music any other way.
Then you are not turning the speakers up loud enough. Funnily enough, the CAPTCHA is demolish.
Seriously, someone was asking me to tell the difference between a wav file and an mp3 file, both were sent to me as a wav. Once I turned the volume up loud enough I was correct on one song 100% of the time (Primus - My Name is Mud) and 2/3 of the time for a Metallica song. I would have had perfect detection for mp3 on the Metallica song but I had my amp (accidentally) still munging music to make MP3s sound better. The Primus song is never in question when encoded as an MP3. Something about it defeats the algorithm no matter how you tune it.
It had more than its share of gimmicks (engineering failures used as plot devices, apparently the concepts of fail safe and even the lowly circuit breaker don't exist in the 24th Century) but on balance it stands the test of time.
What annoyed me the most is that no prisoner could ever be contained. Every. Single. Prisoner. Left. Their. Cell. Every. Fucking. Time.
Really? They don't know how to do security? Oy oy oy.
Smokers should be charged much higher premiums for health insurance.
Then remove the obscene taxes. That is the reason they were passed to begin with, the supposedly much higher medical bills... however, the reduced pension/retirement usage never factored into the equation. Whatever.
It's right in their "Why SystemD" document.
I am flabbergasted. The reason Debian does not get corporate contracts is because they do not have a corporate program to provide assurances to customers like Redhat does. It has nothing to do with SystemD.
Redhat is about to lose a largish DoD contract because of SystemD. Debian has removed themselves as an option with this crap. Will my decision hurt Redhat? Individually, no. I will not be surprised if lots of other people responsible for choosing technologies refuse this crap as well. Will it hurt Debian? I was already not using them but now they have excluded themselves. They have limited their own potential growth.
I have quite a few Linux servers under my control. SystemD buys me nothing. SystemD has not caused me any problems in my professional life (yet) but it has caused me numerous problems in my personal life.
In my professional life, I have two services that I would like SystemD to restart when those services die. It does not restart them. Is this a problem? No. It is no different than previous behaviour.
Other than service monitoring, I am unsure what else SystemD is supposed to offer to me. My servers never change hardware, never change networks, never do anything at all other than the two services they provide. Binary logs makes troubleshooting transient boot problems impossible. It never gets far enough to start writing text logs through the other interfaces. I do not even bother to troubleshoot anymore. I have an ISO image that tkes less than 10 minutes to install and make fully functional. Is this the goal of SystemD? To just reinstall like we do with Windows?
Meh. There is no point in discussing this. Some people want SystemD. As a rejection of init, I can understand that position, but it is like worshiping Satan because Beelzebub was too evil. All I can say is, What the fuck is wrong with you people?
Ya, you're not the first to comment on my fat-fingers - though that you (both) felt compelled to do so might say more about you two than me. :-)
In this particular case, it is not about you, it is about the humour. It could have been anyone... even me. It is not the fact that a mistake was made that is important, mistakes are common in casual conversation like this. It is that the mistake was made in relation to the meaning of the word that the mistake was made upon (is that even coherent?!). :)
If a hiring manager could filter on "really can do what the CV/resume says", that would be great. Unfortunately, they can't.
I understand this, you understand this, it is orthogonal to what I am saying however. I was illustrating how "increasing requirements" merely result in increasing lies. Ask for what the job entails and filter on that. It will not help with the liars but it gets rid of the absurd, such as 10 years of experience with server 2012 when it is only the year 2015.
I'm going to suggest that, all other things being equal, a person with a college degree is a better bet than a person with a high school diploma, who in turn is a better bet than a high school dropout.
For apprentice level jobs, I wholeheartedly agree. If you want to play the odds then that is the way to go; however, for non-entry level jobs, I would say it is counter-productive, if not outright incorrect. A person who has 5 years experience actually doing something, and doing it well, is a FAR greater bet than someone who has 20 some certifications and a masters degree, but who never stays in any one one job for more than two years. I say this from experience.
I would go even farther (further? I need education) than that and say that the high school dropout who has 10+ years experience and great references is more valuable than a PhD in respect to getting the job done. Clearly there are things the PhD person can do that the high school dropout can not, but are those things relevant to the business? I would argue that those things will drive up the price of PhD in relation to the high school dropout.
The hiring manager is not looking for the best possible candidate, regardless of cost.
Change your filters and you have a better chance of finding the right candidate.
So, if you and I apply for a job, and we're both good candidates, I'm likely to get the interview before somebody who doesn't have the degree, and you may never get a chance.
I have been responsible for the hiring decision for numerous people. I have been burned many times by using degrees and certs as filtering tools. If there is nothing else there then yes, but otherwise, it is all about the experience and the employment history. Your experiences and employment history is what will get you the interview when I am reviewing CVs and resumes.
I don't know if this bothers you (you may run your own business or have enough people who know you're good), but it isn't going to bother the hiring manager.
I am not currently running my own business and I have suffered greatly at the hands of ignorant hiring managers, but then, I would argue that we were both better off never meeting. Willfully ignorant people piss me off. I have been making a six figure salary for over a decade. I have made enough money for them to stop taking social security taxes out after only 6 months because the maximum for the year had already been paid. Most people are not even aware there was a maximum that could be paid in a year.
My thesis is that filtering by education is counter-productive unless there are no other discriminators to use. Even then, we are talking about making it to the interview stage only, not as a hiring decision. If you can not find interesting people to interview, I would say your hiring practices need to be re-examined.
So, um, not to detract from your rant or anything...
Putin invaded several countries, just to refresh your memory I will specifically name Georgia and Ukraine. Putin aided numerous bloody coups, you just do not hear about them because everyone, yourself included, is so focused on what America is doing.
Or should we move on to China and some of their imperialistic maneuvers too?
You speak like if we could just destroy America, everything would go back to being peaches and cream. Definitely a naive viewpoint.
Only pendants are convinced the issue is black and white.
I am really sorry but I just can't help myself. The mis-spelling of the word pedants is just too humorous to pass up. ;)
If a company gets more applications for a position than it can deal with, it's going to filter them down. The hiring manager's job is to get somebody good with reasonable effort, not to get the best regardless of cost, and high school dropouts are generally unlikely to be all that good.
I am not the parent poster but your response caused me to immediately think: Go ahead. Keep filtering on arbitrary stuff... and keep whining about the lack of applicants who can do what their CV says.
I am one of those "real" people. If it says it on my CV, then I can do it. If it says I am an expert at it, then I really am an expert at it. You will never see my CV. Why? Because of the arbitrary filters you put up, it "forces" everyone else to lie just so their CV can be seen... but I will not lie.
But yeah, keep on filtering on arbitrary crap.
This guy likely shouldn't be a hiring manager.
Grrrrrrr. This kind of response pisses me off. Are you assuming that a few kind words could not educate this person? Not everyone is perfect at what they do or need to do; however, many/most are willing to learn from their mistakes. Should people really lose their job or should they be educated?
I would argue that they should only be fired if they prove they are incapable of doing the job even after being educated... but that is just me.
It's fighting a tidal wave...
Maybe you should understand the tidal wave and how it came to be rather than just fighting it reflexively.
Kind regards,
Dave
Unlikely, it is a minority of malcontents who are upset about SystemD who have created an echo chamber of half truths and outright lies.
Speaking of outright lies... where is your proof that only a minority of people are unhappy about SystemD?
Let's examine our current environment: Slashdot.
Here there are more people who are deeply against SystemD than there are for SystemD. If you look at the arguments against, there are numerous well-reasoned arguments that nobody from the SystemD has even begun to address. If you look at the arguments for, they do not seem terribly convincing, such as "this is a better way" or "startup is faster in the best case".
I mean really, even if the damned thing did what it claims to do, the specific implementation is clearly lacking. So I have to ask, why exactly are you so gung-ho for SystemD? Surely you should be gung-ho for a solution, not a specific method. No?
Debian switched because they were losing market share on larger systems that the current init system only handles under extreme protest.
What are you talking about? losing market share? larger systems? Which systems? How was market share measured? Show me where the Debian project claims this. You sound like an MBA.
Just because Tesla Motors has chosen to do OTA updates intelligently (so far), that does not imply that General Motors or Ford will do so. I would lay money on GM being the first to force an OTA update and the first to brick more than a thousand cars at once.
Nice myth. The "ice age panic" was one story that made Time magazine at a time when the majority of climate research indicated a warming trend due to human cause CO2 emissions.
That is not true. I was a child back then and I recall hearing it from several sources including teachers... but then, I had teachers who disliked the concept of evolution and expressed it by saying, "we did not come from fish".
Not trying to lend validity to the ice age argument, just saying that it was more than just a single article in a single magazine.
The biggest generational theft ever to happen is the tax cuts conservatives have enacted over the last 35 years that have caused the national debt to explode.
I disagree strongly. It is a huge theft but not the biggest: Social Security was the biggest.
This is less about ushering in accountability from UBER than it is about squeezing UBER for every penny she can. It saddens me that a fellow Indian would resort to this.
I am unsure why it saddens you. Many people from all nationalities would leap at almost any chance to go from poverty or middle class to upper class in one fell swoop. Being Indian in this instance is not unique. Russians, Americans, Arabs, whatever, you will find many in each that would do the same.
The poster you are replying to is a moron.
Bicycles, cars, and trains can push against the ground using friction assisted by gravity to propel themselves.
Ships and submarines can gather and push water to move themselves through the water.
Airplanes can gather and push air to move themselves through the air.
Rockets can gather and push... vacuum to move themselves through vacuum? No. Vacuum has no such properties to push or propel. Essentially, you have to take something up with you to throw out the back end of the rocket in order to move forwards as there is no surface to push against or material to gather and throw out the back end.
I am not telling you anything you do not know. Just saying for the benefit of the PP.
Of course, you are correct, but you do not negate what he said.
Fair share implies that the taxes they will have to pay are fair.
Just drop the word fair and the sentence becomes fine: They should pay their share.
Social Security and Medicare costs are only going to get worse as our population ages. And those costs are what is really tanking the federal budget.
You are wrong. Social Security and Medicare were already paid for. Read that again please: The people who are pulling from Social Security and Medicare ALREADY PAID FOR IT.
Do you understand that? Saying that Social Security and Medicare is a drain on the budget is a lie.
No, what happened is that around 1980, the federal government passed a law that allowed them to trade government bonds for the cash that was on-hand at Social Security Administration.
What you are seeing now is that the government spent all of that money on domestic spying and other police state activities and are trying to frame the budget shortfall as a Social Security problem.
The bonds are due and have to be paid. This is not a Social Security problem at all. Social Security has enough of these bonds to pay for everything. The problem is that the government DOES NOT WANT TO PAY THESE BONDS... so they frame it as a Social Security shortfall rather than what it truly is: Theft from a paid-for program to fund an unconstitutional attack on American citizens.
If people could live forever, nothing would ever change. We would be stuck with the likes of Pol Pot, Hitler, and Stalin throughout all of eternity. The world would become a living hell until the human race was itself completely wiped off the face of the planet.
And then there are taxi drivers who just want to take your money as happened to me in Amsterdam. I told him to call the police if he really felt that the extra 50 euros was a required part of the fare.
There's so much good stuff out there I don't even know where to begin.
I do not believe you.
Perhaps you actually should begin somewhere because I can not find it. Perhaps there is just too much crap drowning out the good stuff? Perhaps there are not enough "DJs" sorting it out for us? I have no idea but I can not find this plethora of good music that you speak of.
Newsflash: every generation thinks their parents' music was lame, but my generation's music was the greatest ever, but my kids listen to complete shit. Talk to a 30-something and they'll think Pearl Jam or Nirvana were the greatest. Talk to a 60-something and they'll think Zeppelin and Queen were the greatest. Talk to a teenager now and they'll think Katy Perry or Taylor Swift are the best evar! Maybe this has to do more with the music you listed to as a teenager shaping your musical tastes (and associating good times with that music).
I have no doubt that this true to an extent for a lot of people; however, this is not the case for everyone complaining about good music. I am not 60 or older and I think Led Zeppelin and Queen were good. I am not 30 something and I think Pearl Jam and Nirvana were good. I am not a teenager now and I think Katy Perry and Taylor Swift are terrible (except for one song by Katy Perry which is actually pretty darned good. I think it may be called Alien (E.T.)).
Honestly, I have heard only one song in the last 4 years that qualifies as interesting: Turn Down for What. That is not anywhere near the genres that I normally like.
So again, we are not talking about what someone liked as a teenager, we are talking about a dearth of great music. Where is the musical/emotional/mental trip of Stranglehold by Ted Nugent? Where is the light and fun music like The Joker by the Steve Miller band? Where is the technological adventure of Vaski's Terrordome LP? Where is the deeply moving Smells Like Teen Spirit competitors?
There is no music out now that takes the listener on any kind of adventure like the backside of Metallica's And Justice for All album.
Or even just really interesting music like Suspicious Minds by Elvis Presley?
Where is this Golden Age of Music that you speak of? I can not find it.
I am flabbergasted... Just, wow...
I want to go home now. This place is NOT home.
Hm. Microsoft has decided that breaking the law and acting in an unethical manner are valid methods of earning more money. Saying Micro$oft may reduce the reputation of the person arguing, but really, emphasizing that they would do anything to get more money through any means by using a simple symbol seems legitimate to me.
And no, nobody is surprised that a company tries to make more money. What is surprising is the lengths that they will go to get it.