I've watched a few 9/11 videos, one that's available on archive.org and a couple of others. The footage and information most disturbing to me is anything related to the Pentagon. There NEEDS to be a more serious discussion on why there were never any scraps of planes found at the Pengtagon site, and why -- to this day -- there is no video readily available of the Pentagon "attack."
If there were ever a Big Lie in out midst, this may be it. If they can do this, stealing elections certainly isn't beyond the realm of possibility.
1. How long has it been since you bought a physical music CD? 2. How long has it been since you were in an actual music store? 3. How long has it been since you bought a physical movie DVD?
1. Tuesday of this week -- the new Slackers record
2. Tuesday of this week -- a local independent music store to buy the new Slackers record
3. Early January, which was also the first time in a very long time. And they were used.
More questions: 4. When was the last time I made a legal mp3 purchase? Last night on iTunes.
5. When was the last time you downloaded music from a torrent site? Again, last night.
I would think, eventually, big media companies would recognize people are more than willing to spend money for worthwhile product.
Doesn't seem fair, does it? The ignorant not only get to elect our presidents, they also get to keep what little knowledge they have sloshing around their brains for longer.
The funniest, if not stupidest, part in the whole episode is that it has lead the Washington Post's ombudsman -- the ombudsman! -- to say the following: "From now on, I don't reply."
So the Post's supposed reader liason has just said she is no longer interested in doing her job. Great.
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I'll happily admit to not knowing how to turn of the Mini Store. I just switched from a PC to a Mac last night and iTunes has been running slow and giving me problems, the ministore being the biggest hassle of them all.
I'm very pleased for the dedication of the members of this site.
What about printing all of your text data and keeping it in folders? Hiring someone to paint all of your images onto canvas or papyrus? Then perhaps dip everything in honey and bury it deep underground?
Provided everything is kept airtight, your mummified data should last a few thousand years or so. That's pretty good, right?
Oh, you didn't know? They've since created MTV Fuse, which this time -- for real! -- will only play music videos. It's available on digital cable and probably sattellite.
And some unpopular songs will have higher prices because they appeal to a market with few people willing to spend a lot of money (say, "rare" jazz recordings or concert bootlegs).
It's a point that doesn't need to be made, but no one should EVER have to pay for a concert bootleg. If iTunes starts carrying Grateful Dead shows, well then, I guess hell will have frozen over.
I'm glad you posted that. I missed the article in my first go-round at nytimes.com, and if I knew OK Go's lead singer had written something, I would have read it. OK Go's a good band and deserves the attention this article will give them.
Appreciated. I don't like the Grateful Dead and don't really get the idolatry of Garcia and the band. But I guess it makes sense, disappoinment and whatnot.
Eh...Mother Theresa locked up the infirmed so they could suffer without doctors' attention or medicine. She encouraged suffering as a way to be closer to God. She provided a place for people to die with pain. Phil Lesh might actually be a better person.
The Grateful Dead played music for a while until itsfounder fried his brain. They have rabid fans who are completely over-the-top in their devotion. Their music is widely and easily available for even the most casual of fans, last week's events nonwithstanding.
I think we have the same point. I'm annoyed by the complaining of Grateful Dead fans because one avenue of show collecting was partially cut off. There are many more readily available. Go Grateful Dead. Boo whiny GD fans.
Wow, excellent observation. You have encapsulated my feelings and concerns about the whole issue very well, and I think your question is at the exact heart of the matter. I'm 24, and there are many people my age that had no contemporary appreciation for the Dead that are probably up in arms over the whole thing.
To extend the debate, I have been downloading and burning Dave Matthews shows like crazy. They are widely available, easy to find, and for the most part, are very high quality. I've seen one of the band's shows live and own exactly one Dave Matthews DVD, that I bought with a gift certificate, no less.
So what do I own the band? Technically, I'm breaking no laws and am not selling these shows for profit. If Dave Matthews gets tired of my free-loading and decides taping at DMB shows is no longer allowed, do I have the right to be upset? It would appear not. But having something taken away that I enjoyed would probably hurt.
The answer? Do what Pearl Jam did a few years ago. Sell a bunch of "bootlegs" in the stores for $15 apiece, and watch as the rabid fan base eats it up. Sigh.
I don't get it. Your fandom is so fickle, that one week of bad news for you, and suddenly you hate the band? I can't believe the reaction I'm seeing from GD fans. For a long time, the Internet Archive and the Grateful Dead were freely GIVING away high quality show downloads. There were hundreds and hundreds of shows available for your collection and you had ample time to save each and every one. To this day, every single show is still available for your listening whenever you want.
Morals established in the 1970s are, for the most part, being carried today. If the band really wanted to be pricks, they would find every single GD torrent site and shut those down too. It would be really easy to police GD downloads, and they choose not to. In fact, they are STILL encouraging the trading of GD shows. This isn't good enough for you? A lifetime of on-demand free material, and you still aren't happy? Give me a break.
Oh whatever. I can't think of a band's music that is easier to collect over the Internet than the Grateful Dead. Any torrent site is teeming with GD shows (just look at bt.etree.org), and there are GD-specific sites, and every other trader on a site like etree.org has hundreds of GD shows.
I find the GD complaints to be a bit much. The Internet Archive was probably not meant to be a Grateful Dead repository, but over the past week or so, it's been good for little else.
I could care less about Jerry's vision. Pardon me for wanting what I want and being annoyed by the crybabys getting in the way. I would think that a member of Slashdot would more than understand that attitude.
Whiny Grateful Dead fans have complaining about this since last week, but it was great, since downloads of any of the other numerous bands hosted on the Archive went much, much faster. Then this whole story broke mainstream yesterday, crippling traffic.
And today? It's on Slashdot. Awesome.
Way to go, Grateful Dead fans. Ruin everything for everybody.
You're probably right, but I wish you weren't. My cable package is $45/month for 70 or so channels. That should about $.65 for channel, but you and I both know it won't be.
That was my first reaction to this. A la carte seems to be what I want, but I would absolutely hate for the FCC to cave one more time to a fringe minority group.
My cable box offers passwords, blocks by rating, blocks by channel, and blocks by time. My television's V-chip will also block out adult-rated programs. I do not want the FCC instituting what would be a bold consumer victory only in the face of placating the ridiculous righteous.
"However, I have to say, being able to download Lost and watch it at my convenience is a very tempting propect."
Going back to a point you made earlier, imagine if iTMS had a fully categorized and searchable database of Seinfeld, Friends, Simpsons, or whatever episodes? What market does this hurt the synidcates in? I can't imagine people wouldn't jump at the opportunity to easily pay two bucks for a favorite episode of Seinfeld that they could easily watch at their convienence.
I think we're only beginning to see the effects of pay-per-episode downloadable television.
What I'm upset about is that the music videos on iTMS used to be free to view, and now there is only a 20 second preview available. I don't like monkeying around with Launch and certainly not MTV or the radio. Nuts to iTunes.
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I've watched a few 9/11 videos, one that's available on archive.org and a couple of others. The footage and information most disturbing to me is anything related to the Pentagon. There NEEDS to be a more serious discussion on why there were never any scraps of planes found at the Pengtagon site, and why -- to this day -- there is no video readily available of the Pentagon "attack."
If there were ever a Big Lie in out midst, this may be it. If they can do this, stealing elections certainly isn't beyond the realm of possibility.
Explain Dennis Kozlowski, Ken Lay, and John Rigas, amongst plenty of others.
I think it's more apt to say that we all steal. Poor people are more likely to be caught is all.
1. How long has it been since you bought a physical music CD?
2. How long has it been since you were in an actual music store?
3. How long has it been since you bought a physical movie DVD?
1. Tuesday of this week -- the new Slackers record
2. Tuesday of this week -- a local independent music store to buy the new Slackers record
3. Early January, which was also the first time in a very long time. And they were used.
More questions:
4. When was the last time I made a legal mp3 purchase?
Last night on iTunes.
5. When was the last time you downloaded music from a torrent site?
Again, last night.
I would think, eventually, big media companies would recognize people are more than willing to spend money for worthwhile product.
Doesn't seem fair, does it? The ignorant not only get to elect our presidents, they also get to keep what little knowledge they have sloshing around their brains for longer.
So you are comfortable with the notion of killing 10,000 Iraqis 2,000 Americans JUST to make up for your father's death?
Wow.
The funniest, if not stupidest, part in the whole episode is that it has lead the Washington Post's ombudsman -- the ombudsman! -- to say the following: "From now on, I don't reply."
So the Post's supposed reader liason has just said she is no longer interested in doing her job. Great.
I'll happily admit to not knowing how to turn of the Mini Store. I just switched from a PC to a Mac last night and iTunes has been running slow and giving me problems, the ministore being the biggest hassle of them all.
I'm very pleased for the dedication of the members of this site.
What about printing all of your text data and keeping it in folders? Hiring someone to paint all of your images onto canvas or papyrus? Then perhaps dip everything in honey and bury it deep underground?
Provided everything is kept airtight, your mummified data should last a few thousand years or so. That's pretty good, right?
You forgot the most important newspaper feature of them all: the Classified. Huge money-maker, and one of the most read sections by far.
And, for what it's worth, the opinion page is the most read news section of the newspaper.
Oh, you didn't know? They've since created MTV Fuse, which this time -- for real! -- will only play music videos. It's available on digital cable and probably sattellite.
Just saying...
Did you know that Mike Tyson has Che tattooed on his belly? I find that to be extremely funny.
It's a point that doesn't need to be made, but no one should EVER have to pay for a concert bootleg. If iTunes starts carrying Grateful Dead shows, well then, I guess hell will have frozen over.
I'm glad you posted that. I missed the article in my first go-round at nytimes.com, and if I knew OK Go's lead singer had written something, I would have read it. OK Go's a good band and deserves the attention this article will give them.
Appreciated. I don't like the Grateful Dead and don't really get the idolatry of Garcia and the band. But I guess it makes sense, disappoinment and whatnot.
The Grateful Dead played music for a while until itsfounder fried his brain. They have rabid fans who are completely over-the-top in their devotion. Their music is widely and easily available for even the most casual of fans, last week's events nonwithstanding.
In any event, I think you may be overreacting.
I think we have the same point. I'm annoyed by the complaining of Grateful Dead fans because one avenue of show collecting was partially cut off. There are many more readily available. Go Grateful Dead. Boo whiny GD fans.
To extend the debate, I have been downloading and burning Dave Matthews shows like crazy. They are widely available, easy to find, and for the most part, are very high quality. I've seen one of the band's shows live and own exactly one Dave Matthews DVD, that I bought with a gift certificate, no less.
So what do I own the band? Technically, I'm breaking no laws and am not selling these shows for profit. If Dave Matthews gets tired of my free-loading and decides taping at DMB shows is no longer allowed, do I have the right to be upset? It would appear not. But having something taken away that I enjoyed would probably hurt.
The answer? Do what Pearl Jam did a few years ago. Sell a bunch of "bootlegs" in the stores for $15 apiece, and watch as the rabid fan base eats it up. Sigh.
Morals established in the 1970s are, for the most part, being carried today. If the band really wanted to be pricks, they would find every single GD torrent site and shut those down too. It would be really easy to police GD downloads, and they choose not to. In fact, they are STILL encouraging the trading of GD shows. This isn't good enough for you? A lifetime of on-demand free material, and you still aren't happy? Give me a break.
I find the GD complaints to be a bit much. The Internet Archive was probably not meant to be a Grateful Dead repository, but over the past week or so, it's been good for little else.
I could care less about Jerry's vision. Pardon me for wanting what I want and being annoyed by the crybabys getting in the way. I would think that a member of Slashdot would more than understand that attitude.
Whiny Grateful Dead fans have complaining about this since last week, but it was great, since downloads of any of the other numerous bands hosted on the Archive went much, much faster. Then this whole story broke mainstream yesterday, crippling traffic. And today? It's on Slashdot. Awesome. Way to go, Grateful Dead fans. Ruin everything for everybody.
Damn monopolies.
That was my first reaction to this. A la carte seems to be what I want, but I would absolutely hate for the FCC to cave one more time to a fringe minority group. My cable box offers passwords, blocks by rating, blocks by channel, and blocks by time. My television's V-chip will also block out adult-rated programs. I do not want the FCC instituting what would be a bold consumer victory only in the face of placating the ridiculous righteous.
"However, I have to say, being able to download Lost and watch it at my convenience is a very tempting propect." Going back to a point you made earlier, imagine if iTMS had a fully categorized and searchable database of Seinfeld, Friends, Simpsons, or whatever episodes? What market does this hurt the synidcates in? I can't imagine people wouldn't jump at the opportunity to easily pay two bucks for a favorite episode of Seinfeld that they could easily watch at their convienence. I think we're only beginning to see the effects of pay-per-episode downloadable television.
What I'm upset about is that the music videos on iTMS used to be free to view, and now there is only a 20 second preview available. I don't like monkeying around with Launch and certainly not MTV or the radio. Nuts to iTunes.