Saab, BMW, Volvo, you know, any decent European car. The problem is, a lot of Americans don't know what they are (even the people who own cars that have the fog lights) so when people are tailgating obnoxiously I hit the switch (I have rear fogs on both sides, not just the driver side) and the people behind me invariably back off, thinking I am breaking, but I actually accelerate slightly to confuse them and get them to back off further.
You've seen rear fog lights. Ever see a volvo or saab with one super-bright "brake" light that is stuck on? You've seen an idiot who doesn't know what the rear fog light is for and thus leaves it on all the time.
Can we get Tim Burton to direct, and make it a franchise reboot?
I can see it now: the hobbits living in an advanced society not unlike 21st century Europe undergo a genetic mutation as the result of exposure to radioactive volcanic ash. One of the hobbits becomes Lord Sauron, who proceeds to rise up and conquer the lands, forming an oppressive kingdom where he removes and monopolizes all modern technology. Society within that first generation regresses to a 10th-century-style existence. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Starbuck, an astronaut who crashed on some faraway planet, helped the hobbits form a rag tag resistance group comprised of wookies, psychlo, and griffins, stumble across a cache of F-35 Lightning fighters, and although they have never seen so much as a flashlight or even matches, over the course of two weeks, become expert fighter pilots. Did I mention these F-35 Lightnings were not what they appeared, but are actually transformers, and in the bunker-style hangar they came across, there was a large semi. Well, the transformers were remaining covert to try to learn what all these strange creatures were up to since the creatures showed a barely perceptible spark of conscious thought. Optimus Prime took pity and he and his brothers revealed their true nature to the rag tag team. They agree to help the hobbits, psychlo, wookies, and griffins wage war to overthrow Sauron. The battle was quick and decisive.
Now for the Tim Burton twist ending: Glinda, the good witch told Lieutenant Starbuck "sorry man, but you have to go home now. I'll service you first." She gives him a BJ and tells him all he needs to do is to play the hokey pokey then he will be swiftly transported home. He does the hokey pokey, except he put is left foot in when he should have put in his right foot, so he landed in a parallel universe where the Earth is now ruled by giant tarantulas.
How hard are you driving to get below EPA ratings?
I have to drive my Saab REALLY hard to get worse than the EPA rating. When I drive conservatively I get 33mpg to 36mpg combined, and that includes city driving. I usually get 26-27mpg combined though, because I like acceleration, so the turbocharger is usually spooled up, especially through onramps and offramps.:) As far as highway mileage is concerned, I have achieved 43mpg on a 65 mile drive from a client site in Cape Cod to Cambridge. On the highway I generally drive the speed limit, or if traffic is really moving (as in 85mph average) slightly slower than the prevailing speed. I'm looking forward to my next vacation - I'm going to drive to see just how good economy I can achieve in that car. Is your car a Cobalt SS? If so, it has basically the same engine and turbocharger as my Saab; it just has a different ECU but mileage should not be that much worse than I am getting.
In my ZR-1 I regularly achieve 26-27mpg combined with the stock program (19-23 on the tuner's program), as high as 33-34mpg on the highway; level road, steady speeds (in sixth gear at 93mph), and about 17-20 in the city. I do not accelerate gently in that car. Also: I live just outside of Boston so I do deal with a fair bit of city traffic.
So, I would guess that you are either ignoring the maintenance schedule for your car, going >95mph on the highway, or driving the car so hard you're abusing it.
Fuck drive by wire. Fly by wire works well because there is a ton of redundancy in aircraft plus a ground check is (theoretically) performed before every single flight. Do you think a pre-drive drive-by-wire systems check would really work? How many drivers do you see driving around on tires that are inflated so low that the sidewalls are actually folding? When people can't even be bothered to glance at their tires before driving on the highway, what makes you think that drive by wire on an automated system could be safe?
If you change human behavior, sure, it would work. However, for the many thousands of years so-called "civilization" has been in existence, people remain thoughtless, uncivilized, and lazy.
Look into some of the capabilities CHDK can provide; it absolutely can be useful on a DSLR. You can do a lot of advanced scripting and CHDK is hard to beat if you want to capture consistently good shots of lightning.
The EOS 7D is not professional; look at the EOS 1D or D3S. The EOS 7D is positioned as a prosumer camera.
And don't try preaching trading freedom for security. There's no freedom to run from the police, any more than there's a freedom to discharge weapons in crowded places.
That is true in America today. Will tomorrow bring tyranny and rampant corruption, where the average citizen will have to exercise second amendment rights because the first, third through tenth, thirteenth through fifteenth, seventeenth, twenty-fourth, and twenty sixth amendments no longer apply? There is truth in the quote. One can't be so shortsighted just because today things are just peachy.
Or, disable it. Come on, geeks here can't figure that out? Cut the antenna lead, or on other cars just disconnect the harness. Problem solved. In other cars, it's integrated more tightly (such as some cars with the CAN bus) but even those can be deactivated with some effort.
I use it on my S5 IS. I use the intervalometer, various grids (for composing level shots when it matters), the extended shutter modes (both slower and faster than the "stock" firmware allows) and of course the RGB histogram and on rare occasion raw. I don't use raw too often though because it slows the camere down a fair bit. However, CHDK is a wonderful tool and scripting it isn't too bad. The documentation is actually pretty good for a "young" open source project. In short, it makes point-and-shoot cameras usable where they otherwise wouldn't be, and where a point-and-shoot camera is preferable to a DSLR (such as when traveling), it can give you some of the capabilities you would normally turn to a DSLR for.
I hope they manage to port it to the DSLRs, particularly the EOS 7D.
Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free?
What I want to know is this: when is Microsoft going to pay everyone for all the IP they've stolen. borrowed, and cheated others out of?
Remember the MSIE screwjob they did to the original developers? That they'd give the developers they licensed it from a cut of the profits from sales, then proceeded to GIVE it away, getting MSIE nearly for free when they had NO browser to compete against Mozilla, Netscape, et al
Remember when MSIE needed a TCP/IP stack and had nothing to compete against trumpet, sun, and so forth? What did they do? Copy & paste from BSD. Since they recognize that hobbiests cannot do all that work for nothing, when are they going to pay the BSD developers for the BSD sockets stack that became winsock?
When are they going to pay the Stacker folks what they really deserve, rather than the pittance the courts awarded? Shouldn't they (Microsoft) have been fined $750,000 per unit shipped since it was copyright infringement at its most blatent level, and distributed for commercial use?
Funny how MS loves to talk about IP when they perceive the fact that they're past their peak, but when it comes to others' IP, the value of IP suddenly diminishes.
Oh no no no, you intolerant clod! Who are you to say that the square root of 36 is 5? I choose to believe the square root of 36 is 7, because that works for me. To say my opinion is incorrect is intolerant!
This seems like a strategic decision more than anything, much like sitting on our tremendously huge oil reserves and not letting anyone drill them. The problem is, we lack refining capacity for raw materials such as petroleum, rare earths, and have even lost steel refineries in recent decades. Should there be a WWIII, without the production facilities in place, the US will be a sitting duck. We buy all our shit from China and Russia, who in reality are not our friends, never were, and make no attempts today to be. They're happy to sell us stuff while we keep shutting down refining and manufacturing facilities, and helping us spend our way into bankruptcy. Should there be a war with China or even Russia, how can the US possibly win with no access to local manufacturing?
We've happily been selling China our banks, manufacturing tooling that 'we don't need anymore' (GM sold a lot of automotive manufacturing tooling to China, including Saab 9-5 tooling) and we've likewise shifted North American manufacturing to Mexico and Canada by and large (is your "American" car really american? Chances are the unibody, chassis and brake components were manufactured in Mexico, the electronics and interior items in China, and it was slapped together in either Canada or the USA by lazy low-skilled union workers. What manufacturing and oil refining base do we have domestically, aside from rubber dog poop factories?
It's one thing to strategically set aside certain reserves for the sake of defense and possible combat or economic warfare, but it's a half-assed step at maintaining such leverage because if it takes 5-10 years to build production facilities, or oil refineries, and so forth, what good does having the reserves do but to give the would-be winners of any war unfettered access to the reserves? Even if the US decides to restrict mining/pumping and production of those materials, the infrastructure should be in place and be continuously running at levels which will ensure that not only do the production facilities work, but manpower and distribution are on hand to quickly ramp up production if required.
Why do we continue to build up the manufacturing base of potential enemies, and either destroy or export our own to those same potential enemies?
"My gigabytes and gigabytes of media that I stole from you is good enough to tide me over for the rest of my life. "
You've stolen from them? As in film reels, tapes, and hard disks? If so, you deserve to do jailtime.
If by "stole" you mean "downloaded" then you have stolen nothing. You have infringed on copyrights, which may or may not be legal in your locale. You might have deprived a lackey at one of those production houses (record label, movie producer, TV producer, etc.) a job or a raise, but come on. You've stolen nothing.
If you're so intent on getting stuff for free, why not turn to Pandora, crackle, hulu, and the like? There is a lot of free content up there. By doing what you're doing, and bragging about it with that attitude you have, you are only giving the MPAA and RIAA ammo to say "See? See? This kind of asshattery is why P2P should be illegal."
Or, if it's available on hulu or crackle, you can watch standard def streams of the shows a week after broadcast, totally for free. Not only do you get to watch the shows, but the producers earn fair revenue in exchange. Nothing is "stolen" in the process, and by supporting such streaming services, you are showing the producers it doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing situation.
I'm so glad the courts came to the conclusion that mercury-based preservatives in vaccines do not cause autism. I guess they should teach scientists a few things about the scientific method? Just make a declaration and the facts will follow!
(FWIW, I don't think it does since the mercury levels are so minute. How many of our parents played with mercury as young children and are just fine (well, as healthy as the American diet of the time allowed;))?
at the Division Bell show I went to they played Dark Side of the Moon in entirety, a bunch of pre-Meddle pieces (including songs from "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" and "Saucerful of Secrets" - IIRC they kicked off the show with Astronomy Domine followed by Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun) as well as Division Bell, Dogs of War and Learning to Fly, Wish You Were Here, plus standard bits from The Wall. It was a long show, but still not nearly long enough.:-) Sadly, I was too young to see any of their earlier tours.
On top of that they're fortunate in that they retained ownership of their music, and EMI only has distribution rights. EMI doesn't own jack. The copyrights belong to Pink Floyd Music Publishing, Ltd. so they're on better footing than most signed recording artists. I'm sure if they really wanted to push the issue they could yank EMI's distribution rights since they (EMI) are in breach of contract.
If I want to play it at 2x speed so they all sound like chipmunks, play it backwards and listen for satanic messages, chop it up, or whatever, I will.
"Congratulations. You have just discovered the secret message. Send your answer to Old Pink, care of The Funny Farm, Chalford, UK."
"Roger, Carolyn's on the phone!"
"Julia, however, in light and visions of the issues of Stanley, we have changed our minds. We have decided to include a backward message, Stanley, for you and all the other book burners."
After the Live8 performance they were reputedly offered a guaranteed $100mil each if they would go on tour.
They turned it down. Although the band members have pretty much resolved their differences (i.e., Gilmour's and Waters' overblown egos) they stated that they might play for future charity events but not go on extended tours as Pink Floyd. Although now, it seems that Wright's health may have been a factor in their decisions.
Their decisions haven't been about Money;) for a very long time. For some people, enough money is enough and it ceases to be their driving motivation. For others (such as EMI execs) money becomes their god, an you know, so they say, money is the root of all evil today.
DSotM was released in 1973, making it 37 years old. The compositions are actually a bit older as they were playing much of it at live shows for a year or two prior to recording it in the studio.
Try listening to Pre-Meddle albums sometime. Both Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Saucerful of Secrets are incredible. They are very, very different. The first one was mostly Syd Barret compositions, the second was mostly Gilmour-Waters composed but did feature Syd on one or two tracks and carried a very strong influence from Syd. Relics is a collection of their earlier singles (a bunch of Syd stuff on that one) and it's well worth listening to as well. DSotM and The Wall may be their most well known albums but they have a LOT of great stuff on all of their albums.
My favorite track by them is Echoes. Interstellar Overdrive is great, too, and that one dates back to 1965.
Pink Floyd was also unique in that they often worked out their new material at shows; it wasn't uncommon for them to play much of the material that was on DSotM and other albums such as (Animals) well before recording them in the studio, even after they were well established on the pop charts in the UK.
WWRX used to play Pink Floyd album sides and even entire albums on occasion before they switched formats (and callsign). Now it's an "alternative" rock station. Alternative my ass, it's just pop now.:(
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Saab, BMW, Volvo, you know, any decent European car. The problem is, a lot of Americans don't know what they are (even the people who own cars that have the fog lights) so when people are tailgating obnoxiously I hit the switch (I have rear fogs on both sides, not just the driver side) and the people behind me invariably back off, thinking I am breaking, but I actually accelerate slightly to confuse them and get them to back off further.
You've seen rear fog lights. Ever see a volvo or saab with one super-bright "brake" light that is stuck on? You've seen an idiot who doesn't know what the rear fog light is for and thus leaves it on all the time.
Can we get Tim Burton to direct, and make it a franchise reboot?
I can see it now: the hobbits living in an advanced society not unlike 21st century Europe undergo a genetic mutation as the result of exposure to radioactive volcanic ash. One of the hobbits becomes Lord Sauron, who proceeds to rise up and conquer the lands, forming an oppressive kingdom where he removes and monopolizes all modern technology. Society within that first generation regresses to a 10th-century-style existence. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Starbuck, an astronaut who crashed on some faraway planet, helped the hobbits form a rag tag resistance group comprised of wookies, psychlo, and griffins, stumble across a cache of F-35 Lightning fighters, and although they have never seen so much as a flashlight or even matches, over the course of two weeks, become expert fighter pilots. Did I mention these F-35 Lightnings were not what they appeared, but are actually transformers, and in the bunker-style hangar they came across, there was a large semi. Well, the transformers were remaining covert to try to learn what all these strange creatures were up to since the creatures showed a barely perceptible spark of conscious thought. Optimus Prime took pity and he and his brothers revealed their true nature to the rag tag team. They agree to help the hobbits, psychlo, wookies, and griffins wage war to overthrow Sauron. The battle was quick and decisive.
Now for the Tim Burton twist ending: Glinda, the good witch told Lieutenant Starbuck "sorry man, but you have to go home now. I'll service you first." She gives him a BJ and tells him all he needs to do is to play the hokey pokey then he will be swiftly transported home. He does the hokey pokey, except he put is left foot in when he should have put in his right foot, so he landed in a parallel universe where the Earth is now ruled by giant tarantulas.
How hard are you driving to get below EPA ratings?
I have to drive my Saab REALLY hard to get worse than the EPA rating. When I drive conservatively I get 33mpg to 36mpg combined, and that includes city driving. I usually get 26-27mpg combined though, because I like acceleration, so the turbocharger is usually spooled up, especially through onramps and offramps. :) As far as highway mileage is concerned, I have achieved 43mpg on a 65 mile drive from a client site in Cape Cod to Cambridge. On the highway I generally drive the speed limit, or if traffic is really moving (as in 85mph average) slightly slower than the prevailing speed. I'm looking forward to my next vacation - I'm going to drive to see just how good economy I can achieve in that car. Is your car a Cobalt SS? If so, it has basically the same engine and turbocharger as my Saab; it just has a different ECU but mileage should not be that much worse than I am getting.
In my ZR-1 I regularly achieve 26-27mpg combined with the stock program (19-23 on the tuner's program), as high as 33-34mpg on the highway; level road, steady speeds (in sixth gear at 93mph), and about 17-20 in the city. I do not accelerate gently in that car. Also: I live just outside of Boston so I do deal with a fair bit of city traffic.
So, I would guess that you are either ignoring the maintenance schedule for your car, going >95mph on the highway, or driving the car so hard you're abusing it.
** Rear fog lights are excellent for dealing with people who tailgate.
Fuck drive by wire. Fly by wire works well because there is a ton of redundancy in aircraft plus a ground check is (theoretically) performed before every single flight. Do you think a pre-drive drive-by-wire systems check would really work? How many drivers do you see driving around on tires that are inflated so low that the sidewalls are actually folding? When people can't even be bothered to glance at their tires before driving on the highway, what makes you think that drive by wire on an automated system could be safe?
If you change human behavior, sure, it would work. However, for the many thousands of years so-called "civilization" has been in existence, people remain thoughtless, uncivilized, and lazy.
Look into some of the capabilities CHDK can provide; it absolutely can be useful on a DSLR. You can do a lot of advanced scripting and CHDK is hard to beat if you want to capture consistently good shots of lightning.
The EOS 7D is not professional; look at the EOS 1D or D3S. The EOS 7D is positioned as a prosumer camera.
That is true in America today. Will tomorrow bring tyranny and rampant corruption, where the average citizen will have to exercise second amendment rights because the first, third through tenth, thirteenth through fifteenth, seventeenth, twenty-fourth, and twenty sixth amendments no longer apply? There is truth in the quote. One can't be so shortsighted just because today things are just peachy.
Or, disable it. Come on, geeks here can't figure that out?
Cut the antenna lead, or on other cars just disconnect the harness. Problem solved.
In other cars, it's integrated more tightly (such as some cars with the CAN bus) but even those can be deactivated with some effort.
I use it on my S5 IS. I use the intervalometer, various grids (for composing level shots when it matters), the extended shutter modes (both slower and faster than the "stock" firmware allows) and of course the RGB histogram and on rare occasion raw. I don't use raw too often though because it slows the camere down a fair bit. However, CHDK is a wonderful tool and scripting it isn't too bad. The documentation is actually pretty good for a "young" open source project. In short, it makes point-and-shoot cameras usable where they otherwise wouldn't be, and where a point-and-shoot camera is preferable to a DSLR (such as when traveling), it can give you some of the capabilities you would normally turn to a DSLR for.
I hope they manage to port it to the DSLRs, particularly the EOS 7D.
What I want to know is this: when is Microsoft going to pay everyone for all the IP they've stolen. borrowed, and cheated others out of?
Remember the MSIE screwjob they did to the original developers? That they'd give the developers they licensed it from a cut of the profits from sales, then proceeded to GIVE it away, getting MSIE nearly for free when they had NO browser to compete against Mozilla, Netscape, et al
Remember when MSIE needed a TCP/IP stack and had nothing to compete against trumpet, sun, and so forth? What did they do? Copy & paste from BSD. Since they recognize that hobbiests cannot do all that work for nothing, when are they going to pay the BSD developers for the BSD sockets stack that became winsock?
When are they going to pay the Stacker folks what they really deserve, rather than the pittance the courts awarded? Shouldn't they (Microsoft) have been fined $750,000 per unit shipped since it was copyright infringement at its most blatent level, and distributed for commercial use?
Funny how MS loves to talk about IP when they perceive the fact that they're past their peak, but when it comes to others' IP, the value of IP suddenly diminishes.
Oh no no no, you intolerant clod! Who are you to say that the square root of 36 is 5? I choose to believe the square root of 36 is 7, because that works for me. To say my opinion is incorrect is intolerant!
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This seems like a strategic decision more than anything, much like sitting on our tremendously huge oil reserves and not letting anyone drill them. The problem is, we lack refining capacity for raw materials such as petroleum, rare earths, and have even lost steel refineries in recent decades. Should there be a WWIII, without the production facilities in place, the US will be a sitting duck. We buy all our shit from China and Russia, who in reality are not our friends, never were, and make no attempts today to be. They're happy to sell us stuff while we keep shutting down refining and manufacturing facilities, and helping us spend our way into bankruptcy. Should there be a war with China or even Russia, how can the US possibly win with no access to local manufacturing?
We've happily been selling China our banks, manufacturing tooling that 'we don't need anymore' (GM sold a lot of automotive manufacturing tooling to China, including Saab 9-5 tooling) and we've likewise shifted North American manufacturing to Mexico and Canada by and large (is your "American" car really american? Chances are the unibody, chassis and brake components were manufactured in Mexico, the electronics and interior items in China, and it was slapped together in either Canada or the USA by lazy low-skilled union workers. What manufacturing and oil refining base do we have domestically, aside from rubber dog poop factories?
It's one thing to strategically set aside certain reserves for the sake of defense and possible combat or economic warfare, but it's a half-assed step at maintaining such leverage because if it takes 5-10 years to build production facilities, or oil refineries, and so forth, what good does having the reserves do but to give the would-be winners of any war unfettered access to the reserves? Even if the US decides to restrict mining/pumping and production of those materials, the infrastructure should be in place and be continuously running at levels which will ensure that not only do the production facilities work, but manpower and distribution are on hand to quickly ramp up production if required.
Why do we continue to build up the manufacturing base of potential enemies, and either destroy or export our own to those same potential enemies?
You've stolen from them? As in film reels, tapes, and hard disks? If so, you deserve to do jailtime.
If by "stole" you mean "downloaded" then you have stolen nothing. You have infringed on copyrights, which may or may not be legal in your locale. You might have deprived a lackey at one of those production houses (record label, movie producer, TV producer, etc.) a job or a raise, but come on. You've stolen nothing.
If you're so intent on getting stuff for free, why not turn to Pandora, crackle, hulu, and the like? There is a lot of free content up there. By doing what you're doing, and bragging about it with that attitude you have, you are only giving the MPAA and RIAA ammo to say "See? See? This kind of asshattery is why P2P should be illegal."
Or, if it's available on hulu or crackle, you can watch standard def streams of the shows a week after broadcast, totally for free. Not only do you get to watch the shows, but the producers earn fair revenue in exchange. Nothing is "stolen" in the process, and by supporting such streaming services, you are showing the producers it doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing situation.
I'm so glad the courts came to the conclusion that mercury-based preservatives in vaccines do not cause autism. I guess they should teach scientists a few things about the scientific method? Just make a declaration and the facts will follow!
(FWIW, I don't think it does since the mercury levels are so minute. How many of our parents played with mercury as young children and are just fine (well, as healthy as the American diet of the time allowed ;))?
at the Division Bell show I went to they played Dark Side of the Moon in entirety, a bunch of pre-Meddle pieces (including songs from "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" and "Saucerful of Secrets" - IIRC they kicked off the show with Astronomy Domine followed by Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun) as well as Division Bell, Dogs of War and Learning to Fly, Wish You Were Here, plus standard bits from The Wall. It was a long show, but still not nearly long enough. :-) Sadly, I was too young to see any of their earlier tours.
On top of that they're fortunate in that they retained ownership of their music, and EMI only has distribution rights. EMI doesn't own jack. The copyrights belong to Pink Floyd Music Publishing, Ltd. so they're on better footing than most signed recording artists. I'm sure if they really wanted to push the issue they could yank EMI's distribution rights since they (EMI) are in breach of contract.
"Congratulations. You have just discovered the secret message. Send your answer to Old Pink, care of The Funny Farm, Chalford, UK."
"Roger, Carolyn's on the phone!"
"Julia, however, in light and visions of the issues of Stanley, we have changed our minds. We have decided to include a backward message, Stanley, for you and all the other book burners."
After the Live8 performance they were reputedly offered a guaranteed $100mil each if they would go on tour.
They turned it down. Although the band members have pretty much resolved their differences (i.e., Gilmour's and Waters' overblown egos) they stated that they might play for future charity events but not go on extended tours as Pink Floyd. Although now, it seems that Wright's health may have been a factor in their decisions.
Their decisions haven't been about Money ;) for a very long time. For some people, enough money is enough and it ceases to be their driving motivation. For others (such as EMI execs) money becomes their god, an you know, so they say, money is the root of all evil today.
DSotM was released in 1973, making it 37 years old. The compositions are actually a bit older as they were playing much of it at live shows for a year or two prior to recording it in the studio.
Try listening to Pre-Meddle albums sometime. Both Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Saucerful of Secrets are incredible. They are very, very different. The first one was mostly Syd Barret compositions, the second was mostly Gilmour-Waters composed but did feature Syd on one or two tracks and carried a very strong influence from Syd. Relics is a collection of their earlier singles (a bunch of Syd stuff on that one) and it's well worth listening to as well. DSotM and The Wall may be their most well known albums but they have a LOT of great stuff on all of their albums.
My favorite track by them is Echoes. Interstellar Overdrive is great, too, and that one dates back to 1965.
Pink Floyd was also unique in that they often worked out their new material at shows; it wasn't uncommon for them to play much of the material that was on DSotM and other albums such as (Animals) well before recording them in the studio, even after they were well established on the pop charts in the UK.
WWRX used to play Pink Floyd album sides and even entire albums on occasion before they switched formats (and callsign). Now it's an "alternative" rock station. Alternative my ass, it's just pop now. :(
If I had my way, I'd have all of ya shot!
Considering that they're all worth over $100mil I think they don't care much about money.