I worked in a Fortune 500 company's World HQ NOC, and of course, we were in the basement. World class NASA launch station looking facility. Anyway, since we were in the basement, we had no windows. So our window to the outside world was CNN.
God does that station play the same annoying commercials all the time, it was horrible. However, CNN generated so many political arguments that work used to fly by. Seeing 9/11 happen live was quite scary. Nothing got done for quite a while after that, as CNN was the only thing being monitored.
I disagree, and for a different reason than most people. I'd love to stick around and argue too, but I'll be driving all day.
Anyway, Bush could care less about Iraq or WMD. What he did do, however, is say that "if you dare terrorize us again, we'll annihilate another one of your countries" to the arab world. Personally, I think it's working. They now know that we're a looser canon than you'd hope for.
And in the meantime, Bush got revenge on his arch-nemesis. The man who tried to kill his father. The arab world now knows that SOMEONE, possibly ANYONE, will pay a price if they dare touch us. Bush sent quite a message.
I'm in college, I like to learn and play, and plus, i JUST got out of my last exam, so i have a couple of hours to waste before I start drinking at noon!
Very interesting, a bit funny, but most of all, very informative:
Also, listen to your body. If your bowels send an email with the following words in the subject line: "Gotta poo, Daddy" then don't reply: "Wait, I've just got to finish this last few lines of copy" or whatever else that's preventing you from going when your body tells you to.
Enjoy! (PS: I finally made a new bertoline comic in my sig... hahaa)
I don't feel like looking for my post in the posting we had here back when 2.6 was announced for testing, but I did predict a release of Dec. 9 (my birthday)... looks like I still have a good shot of winning the bet!
This is one of the most hilarious posts i've read for a while, but at the same time, it's very insightful! Think about how many of us freeloaders there are? I'm one of them. It's quite a challenge to turn freeloaders into programmers/donators/documenters/anything...
This is true, and if you've seen pictures of him, he's an absolute monster! I think it's stupid though, he sings Maiden songs that he had no part of. He should grow up and get his own gig.
I'm not trying to be "elite". I'm trying to open eyes by saying that there's something DIFFERENT and BETTER out there. Maybe not my music, but it's out there. Alas, I've learned that the ignorant enjoy it that way, and don't want to have their eyes opened. You disappoint me, but there's nothing I can do.
Besides -- Iron Maiden/Nevermore/Iced Earth? Not death metal. Hell, In Flames and Soilwork are even losing their pure death metal tone in their latest releases. Just examples buddy. There's more to hard rock/metal than Limp-Korn-Parktalica. Anyone can tune their bass down and try to call it metal. Someday you too will get sick of it, and we welcome you to open your eyes. irc.newnet.net #mp3_metal and #mp3_metal2 for chat.
Points well taken, and you're right, that's unfortunate. It just seemed that underground metal, techno, and other types of music thrived very heavily in Europe. Guess the mainstream stays the same in both places though.
I don't need to get into a pointless flamewar of which band is better and "this sucks but mine doesn't", but you honestly need to pick up a musical instrument -- any musical instrument -- and understand how music works. You obviously don't have much appreciation for "washing socks" if you believe in St. Anger.
Find me a good chorus. Find me an interesting bassline. Find me a good guitar solo. Find me a well-produced CD. Find me powerful drumming (not a 15 minute protools job). You won't find any of those on St. Anger. You will in many of the true metal bands that are out there. Don't limit your scope, buddy. The stubbornness of metallica fans is quite amusing to me. I'm willing to admit that some of my old time favorite bands (In Flames, Queensryche, Gardenian, Fear Factory) are all but done as far as I'm concerned. You're allowed to do the same.
Corporate america has everything to do with it. My point is that they push one-hit-wonder shit bands down your throats through MTV and Radio stations that play 10 bands, maybe 15 songs on a decent rotation.
Then they wonder why no one wants to buy the complete album. Why would I buy LOAD when I can just download the one song on it that I like?!
I use Apache to distribute mp3s, some of them illegal, others not. Why don't they shut down Apache? But I also use Apache for legal things, such as my (often unfunny) comic strip. The same goes for napster.
RIAA is treating the effect, not the cause. That's my main point. They can chase their tails as much as they want, my money will go to bands that deserve it
Wildest Dreams is one of the weakest tracks on Dance of Death. I think DoD will end up being better than BNW, and I'm a HUGE BNW fan. I haven't had enough listens yet, but there are blow-you-away songs that BNW doesn't have so much.
While that's awesome, I still think that small businesses and big ones should both have offsite tape backups. Even if this means the owner brings back and forth a case of tapes to his home once a week or so. That alone would have saved much of this trouble.
Then I've seen the other end of the spectrum - a 6 Billion dollar corporation's world HQ IT center... wow. They have disaster recovery sessions and planning like I never would have imagined. Very cool facility, but it has to be like that. Some day if they get burned, it's all over.
You miss the point. Yes, Metallica, at one point, was bigger than God, and they can do whatever they want with their music.
But to have corporate america push it to the kiddies, claiming it's the best thing since And Justice For All? Give me a break.
The point is that while corporate america is busy suing their best customers, they aren't doing what they should be doing - promoting good music. The metal scene has flown right by Metallica, they longer stand for anything. If only kids out there knew what existed -- the Iron Maidens, the In Flames (the older the album the better), the Nevermores, the Iced Earths, the Soilworks. Stuff that's real metal out there but still palatable. Then you'll see kids buying albums again, if at a decnet price (9.99 or less I say).
Because I'm sure not going to buy your new crapmetal band of the week because they have ONE catchy tune and no talent for 15.00.
I know the article mentiones Justin Timberlake, but maybe another part is that the British are not being forcefed the same shit that we Americans are.
They are making real music decisions, and buying real music.
One British band whose new CD you're going to want? IRON MAIDEN.
You might have thought Iron Maiden was washed up long ago, but that's quite contrary to the truth. I've gotten my filthy hands on their new Dance of Death release a bit early, and I can say that these guys are firing on all cylinders.
Whereas the classic American metal band, "Metallica", put out absolute slop this year, Britain's best put out a classic. For any metalheads out there, try to find Montsegur on Maiden's new album. WOW.
Point is, if the Europeans are sticking to their own music, then that might be another reason why more people buy it. Europeans know better than this Linkin Park Metallica bizkit garbage.
This is besides the point -- the fact is that he's really testing the system as far as purchasing music and re-selling it. E-Bay is just a popular way to sell, if they take the auction down, he can still sell somewhere else. He's got enough attention from this by now that he doesn't even need E-Bay!BR.
It will be released on my 22nd birthday -- December 9th, 2003. Also the MONDAY of our exams week here at Ohio State.
It really sucked last year when my 21st birthday was also on the Monday of exams week. OSU's present to me? The toughest exam (EE) I've had there yet, at 7:30am nonetheless. But don't worry, after that, the rest of the week was a blur.
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God does that station play the same annoying commercials all the time, it was horrible. However, CNN generated so many political arguments that work used to fly by. Seeing 9/11 happen live was quite scary. Nothing got done for quite a while after that, as CNN was the only thing being monitored.
Anyway, Bush could care less about Iraq or WMD. What he did do, however, is say that "if you dare terrorize us again, we'll annihilate another one of your countries" to the arab world. Personally, I think it's working. They now know that we're a looser canon than you'd hope for.
And in the meantime, Bush got revenge on his arch-nemesis. The man who tried to kill his father. The arab world now knows that SOMEONE, possibly ANYONE, will pay a price if they dare touch us. Bush sent quite a message.
I'm in college, I like to learn and play, and plus, i JUST got out of my last exam, so i have a couple of hours to waste before I start drinking at noon!
oops, i think liblame0 needs PLF source installed
mythtv-0.12-3thac.i586 (due to unsatisfied liblame0) (Y/n)
It didn't work for me!
Very interesting, a bit funny, but most of all, very informative:
Enjoy! (PS: I finally made a new bertoline comic in my sig... hahaa)
I don't feel like looking for my post in the posting we had here back when 2.6 was announced for testing, but I did predict a release of Dec. 9 (my birthday)... looks like I still have a good shot of winning the bet!
He hasn't had an audible fart for years.
This is one of the most hilarious posts i've read for a while, but at the same time, it's very insightful! Think about how many of us freeloaders there are? I'm one of them. It's quite a challenge to turn freeloaders into programmers/donators/documenters/anything...
BookArea.com - I buy my books for WAY less than my peers, and sell for more on half.com as well!
Sure, it sometimes takes a week to get my books, but it's not like i woulda started studying during the first week of classes anyway! :)
This is true, and if you've seen pictures of him, he's an absolute monster! I think it's stupid though, he sings Maiden songs that he had no part of. He should grow up and get his own gig.
Besides -- Iron Maiden/Nevermore/Iced Earth? Not death metal. Hell, In Flames and Soilwork are even losing their pure death metal tone in their latest releases. Just examples buddy. There's more to hard rock/metal than Limp-Korn-Parktalica. Anyone can tune their bass down and try to call it metal. Someday you too will get sick of it, and we welcome you to open your eyes. irc.newnet.net #mp3_metal and #mp3_metal2 for chat.
Points well taken, and you're right, that's unfortunate. It just seemed that underground metal, techno, and other types of music thrived very heavily in Europe. Guess the mainstream stays the same in both places though.
Find me a good chorus. Find me an interesting bassline. Find me a good guitar solo. Find me a well-produced CD. Find me powerful drumming (not a 15 minute protools job). You won't find any of those on St. Anger. You will in many of the true metal bands that are out there. Don't limit your scope, buddy. The stubbornness of metallica fans is quite amusing to me.
I'm willing to admit that some of my old time favorite bands (In Flames, Queensryche, Gardenian, Fear Factory) are all but done as far as I'm concerned. You're allowed to do the same.
Then they wonder why no one wants to buy the complete album. Why would I buy LOAD when I can just download the one song on it that I like?!
I use Apache to distribute mp3s, some of them illegal, others not. Why don't they shut down Apache? But I also use Apache for legal things, such as my (often unfunny) comic strip. The same goes for napster.
RIAA is treating the effect, not the cause. That's my main point. They can chase their tails as much as they want, my money will go to bands that deserve it
Highly recommended album, albeit offtopic now.
Then I've seen the other end of the spectrum - a 6 Billion dollar corporation's world HQ IT center... wow. They have disaster recovery sessions and planning like I never would have imagined. Very cool facility, but it has to be like that. Some day if they get burned, it's all over.
But to have corporate america push it to the kiddies, claiming it's the best thing since And Justice For All? Give me a break.
The point is that while corporate america is busy suing their best customers, they aren't doing what they should be doing - promoting good music. The metal scene has flown right by Metallica, they longer stand for anything. If only kids out there knew what existed -- the Iron Maidens, the In Flames (the older the album the better), the Nevermores, the Iced Earths, the Soilworks. Stuff that's real metal out there but still palatable. Then you'll see kids buying albums again, if at a decnet price (9.99 or less I say).
Because I'm sure not going to buy your new crapmetal band of the week because they have ONE catchy tune and no talent for 15.00.
metallica. hah. that ship has sailed, my friend.
They are making real music decisions, and buying real music.
One British band whose new CD you're going to want? IRON MAIDEN.
You might have thought Iron Maiden was washed up long ago, but that's quite contrary to the truth. I've gotten my filthy hands on their new Dance of Death release a bit early, and I can say that these guys are firing on all cylinders.
Whereas the classic American metal band, "Metallica", put out absolute slop this year, Britain's best put out a classic. For any metalheads out there, try to find Montsegur on Maiden's new album. WOW.
Point is, if the Europeans are sticking to their own music, then that might be another reason why more people buy it. Europeans know better than this Linkin Park Metallica bizkit garbage.
Exec 1: I agree that we should lower the retail price to $12.98
Exec 2: What?!?! Thta means our profit margin will only be 1250% now!!
I was the fastest bighweels rider in the neighborhood. You'd be toast where I came from, buddy.
This is besides the point -- the fact is that he's really testing the system as far as purchasing music and re-selling it. E-Bay is just a popular way to sell, if they take the auction down, he can still sell somewhere else. He's got enough attention from this by now that he doesn't even need E-Bay!BR.
It seems that they're updating the IPs frequently, and have even created an automatic bad ip updater. Good for them... it's better than nothing!
Hey! Finally, watching all of those Law and Order episodes has finally paid off for you!
It really sucked last year when my 21st birthday was also on the Monday of exams week. OSU's present to me? The toughest exam (EE) I've had there yet, at 7:30am nonetheless. But don't worry, after that, the rest of the week was a blur.