I got so fed up with it that the last show I played was a projection of myself DJ'ing, projected onto myself standing there, drinking
It's called "performance art." If youre too lazy to do it, it's not for you.
It's very difficult to make money doing music without a live show.
It's difficult for me to make money without showing up at work, too. A musician's JOB is making music, and musicians made a living performing for centuries before it was possible to record music.
If open source programmers had to tour to make money, programming live on stage while people danced around cheering, it would collapse
But many do the equivalent, which is support or training (etc) for the free product. Not unlike a musician going onstage.
Friends of mine who actually ARE serious musicians (not merely hobbyists) make money doing shows, selling stickers and tshirts, and selling CDs. Note their CDs are a lot cheaper than the RIAA fare; no middlemen. Most of them post MP3s (and shns even) on their websites or archive.org.
As to "trickle down economics", it's hogwash. Money doesn't trickle down, it flows up. Wealth is created in the cubicle, the factory floor, the cook's stove. The wealthy do not create wealth, they aggregate and control it. Investment does not create wealth, it merely lays the foundation for its creation.
An ad hominem attack would attack the person I was arguing with, not some inane TV network. You'll find I use creative tyos quite a bit; e.g. the newspaper "USA Toady" and "inyerface" (Y substituting for the letter T when speaking of certain software).
And no, I don't live in Wyoming, I'm in Springfield; the one with Alderman Gail Simpson (Homer's sister in law?).
I detest weak argumentation that argues one or two points and then jumps to a conclusion
Odd, it seems that's what you just did. You have your metaphors backwards; WE, the consumer, are the RIAA labels' employers. WE pay THEM, not the other way around. If you want my money, I don't jump through your hoops, you jump through mine. You don't tell the boss what to wear and where to go.
They feared that radio would kill them (like the movie industry feared VCRs would kill them) but it was untrue; radio ushered in a new age for the record labels, with record profits.
In the US radio never paid royalties to labels (they did pay the songwriters) and in fact "payola", its illegal polar opposite, hapopened - labels paid radio to play their tunes.
"This Machine Kills Fascists" was inscribed on Woody Guthrie's guitar.
So, we're now expecting labels to just let everyone freely copy music? The problem here is that labels own the copyright and make their money from album sales
It works for the indies. Note that Radiohead sold a lot of records. The industry should (if they weren't so dishonest and afraid of their competetion) embrace P2P and tout the CD's sueriority to lossily compressed files, and add "value added" value to the records like concert tickets, posters, etc.
Instead they'd rather sue their best customers - there have been studies going back to the outlaw Napster that show that ardent P2P users buy more CDs than anyone.
Because no artist or publisher ever starved from having his works pirated, but many have starved because of obscurity.
If I don't hear your record I'm not very damned likely to buy it, now am I? But if Joe says "hey that new band Grosweil* really ROCKS", well, I'm not very likely to go out and buy it either.
But I might be likely to download it and give it a listen, and well, if it does indeed rock I'll be buying the CD.
It helps their artists (and them as well), but it also helps artists who are not uinder contract with its members.
The RIAA has radio and empty-v to advertise its wares, as well as internet radio and P2P. Their competetion (the independants) only has internet radio and P2P. Killing internet radio and P2P is a blow against the indies, and since the RIAA has radio and empty-v, they can do without the internet. Their competetion can't.
What they are doing is blatantly illegal, but the government is their pawn. We, the People, are defenseless.
No, it's been a long time since I read the story; I remember the four bopxes, and that internal combustion engines were outlawed. I'll go through my old Heinlein books tonight and see if I can find it.
This isn't a Master's Thesis. Wikipedia is good for several things, one of which is curing an idle curiosity about something that doesn't matter (like in this case), or as a starting point for serious research. Its sources are cited, and they are good sources.
If you have a better link by all means please post it.
Not that they don't deserve to have access to everything, but it's their regulation and should be somehow respected as the rules and regulations of other countries. The US has a drug policy that the Netherlands would find intolerant, that doesn't give them any rights of providing tools to the people in the US to easily have access to drugs while in the US
Why not? Especially considering that our drug laws may well be unconstitutional, meaning the law is illegal. They had to pass a Constitutional Amendment to outlaw alcohol, why did they not have to amend it to outlaw other drugs?
Whether or not drug laws are constitutional, someone in the Netherlands is not under US law. It might be illegal for me to recieve tools to obtain drugs from someone in the Netherlands, but it would NOT be illegal fro him to provide them. He has every right to supply me with anything his country's laws allow, and I have every right to subvert Chinese law.
The "four boxes in defense of liberty" are from a short story by Robert Hienlien. I don't know who Ed Howdershelt is, but I would disagree and put "ballot" before "soap".
Columbus' discovery of America had nothing to do with any religion except mammon worship - he was trying to find a new trade route to India.
Yes, much evil has been done in the name of religion, but that evil is done by men who, as I pointed out, aren't precticing what their own bible tells them. In most cases they probably don't even believe in God, but know that they can use his name to take advantage of his fellow men.
I'm much more interested in how you make up for the lives & civilizations your organization destroyed.
I'm more interestded in how the list you pointed to is in any way relevant.
1492: Christopher Columbus discovers the New World. 1493: With the Inter caetera, Pope Alexander VI awards sole colonial rights over most of the New World to Spain. January 22, 1506: Kaspar von Silenen and first contingent of Swiss mercenaries enter the Vatican during the reign of Pope Julius II. Traditional date of founding of the Swiss Guards. April 18, 1506: Pope Julius II lays cornerstone of New Basilica of St. Peter. 1508: Michaelangelo starts painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. October 31, 1517: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses, protesting the sale of indulgences. 1516: Saint Sir Thomas More publishes "Utopia" in Latin. 1519: Spanish conquest of Mexico by Hernando Cortes. January 3, 1521: Martin Luther finally excommunicated by Pope Leo X in the bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. 1521: Baptism of the first Catholics in the Philippines, the first Christian nation in Southeast Asia. This event is commemorated with the feast of the Sto. Niño.
etc. What do any of these have to do with destroying people's lives?
I would think that the Catholic church could at least (as a sign of good faith) return these to their descendants or at the very least release them to a museum with all the information they have on it so that the rest of us can gain insight to their culture & religion.
I don't see how anyone could disagree with that. "Thou shalt not steal," not even if you are the Catholic Chruch.
The funny thing is that the Vatican probably has billions in capital at its disposal.
More pathetic than funny IMO, especially considering Matthew 19:23 - "Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. 24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God"
Never trust a preacher who wears a five thousand dollar suit preaching in a million dollar church.
It's 99% of the people who purport to follow him that manage to genuinely fuck up the world.
Amen to that. Pat Robertson has converted more Christians to athiesm than all the athiests at slashdot combined. Most of the people you find in any church worship money, not God.
The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Latin: Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici), commonly known as the Knights Templar or the Order of the Temple (French: Ordre du Temple or Templiers), were among the most famous of the Western Christian military orders.[3] The organization existed for approximately two centuries in the Middle Ages. It was founded in the aftermath of the First Crusade of 1096, its original purpose to ensure the safety of the many Christians who made the pilgrimage to Jerusalem after its conquest.
Officially endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church around 1129, the Order became a favored charity throughout Christendom and grew rapidly in membership and power. Templar knights, in their distinctive white mantles quartered by a red cross, were among the most skilled fighting units of the Crusades.[4] Non-combatant members of the Order managed a large economic infrastructure throughout Christendom, innovating financial techniques that were an early form of banking,[5][6] and building many fortifications throughout the Mediterranean and the Holy Land.
The Templars' success was tied closely to the Crusades; when the Holy Land was lost, support for the Order faded. Rumors about the Templars' secret initiation ceremony created mistrust, and King Philip IV of France, deeply in debt to the Order, began pressuring Pope Clement V to take action against the Order. In 1307, many of the Order's members in France were arrested, tortured into giving false confessions, and then burned at the stake.[7] In 1312, Pope Clement, under continuing pressure from King Philip, disbanded the Order. The abrupt disappearance of a major part of the societal infrastructure gave rise to speculation and legends, which have kept the "Templar" name alive into the modern day.
I fail to see how this is nerdy, but I do appreciate the humor of someone suing the pope.
You must be new here. Notice also that it's not only a dupe, but the summary says it's a dupe!
The "abortion of an article" was selected so it could be slashdotted, setting its host server on fire, and creating true cloud computing; clouds of smoke.
Which is what Microsoft's "cloud computing" vaporware is. They used to call these things "thin clients." Our mainframe at work served these workstations, which were dog slow, as many companies did. Departments bought "microcomputers" (PCs) to get away from the slow speed of the terminals and the stodgy IT people who didn't realise that their toys were tools that staff needed to get their jobs done.
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Wow, you're right! But they have a few freaks. And five fans.
working desperately to change public opinion of Microsoft's involvement in the open source community
After years of calling it "open sores" and saying open source is a "cancer", I'd say they have their work cut out for them.
Do they really wonder why open source people don't trust them?
I got so fed up with it that the last show I played was a projection of myself DJ'ing, projected onto myself standing there, drinking
It's called "performance art." If youre too lazy to do it, it's not for you.
It's very difficult to make money doing music without a live show.
It's difficult for me to make money without showing up at work, too. A musician's JOB is making music, and musicians made a living performing for centuries before it was possible to record music.
If open source programmers had to tour to make money, programming live on stage while people danced around cheering, it would collapse
But many do the equivalent, which is support or training (etc) for the free product. Not unlike a musician going onstage.
Friends of mine who actually ARE serious musicians (not merely hobbyists) make money doing shows, selling stickers and tshirts, and selling CDs. Note their CDs are a lot cheaper than the RIAA fare; no middlemen. Most of them post MP3s (and shns even) on their websites or archive.org.
As to "trickle down economics", it's hogwash. Money doesn't trickle down, it flows up. Wealth is created in the cubicle, the factory floor, the cook's stove. The wealthy do not create wealth, they aggregate and control it. Investment does not create wealth, it merely lays the foundation for its creation.
An ad hominem attack would attack the person I was arguing with, not some inane TV network. You'll find I use creative tyos quite a bit; e.g. the newspaper "USA Toady" and "inyerface" (Y substituting for the letter T when speaking of certain software).
And no, I don't live in Wyoming, I'm in Springfield; the one with Alderman Gail Simpson (Homer's sister in law?).
I detest weak argumentation that argues one or two points and then jumps to a conclusion
Odd, it seems that's what you just did. You have your metaphors backwards; WE, the consumer, are the RIAA labels' employers. WE pay THEM, not the other way around. If you want my money, I don't jump through your hoops, you jump through mine. You don't tell the boss what to wear and where to go.
They feared that radio would kill them (like the movie industry feared VCRs would kill them) but it was untrue; radio ushered in a new age for the record labels, with record profits.
In the US radio never paid royalties to labels (they did pay the songwriters) and in fact "payola", its illegal polar opposite, hapopened - labels paid radio to play their tunes.
"This Machine Kills Fascists" was inscribed on Woody Guthrie's guitar.
So, we're now expecting labels to just let everyone freely copy music? The problem here is that labels own the copyright and make their money from album sales
It works for the indies. Note that Radiohead sold a lot of records. The industry should (if they weren't so dishonest and afraid of their competetion) embrace P2P and tout the CD's sueriority to lossily compressed files, and add "value added" value to the records like concert tickets, posters, etc.
Instead they'd rather sue their best customers - there have been studies going back to the outlaw Napster that show that ardent P2P users buy more CDs than anyone.
Because no artist or publisher ever starved from having his works pirated, but many have starved because of obscurity.
If I don't hear your record I'm not very damned likely to buy it, now am I? But if Joe says "hey that new band Grosweil* really ROCKS", well, I'm not very likely to go out and buy it either.
But I might be likely to download it and give it a listen, and well, if it does indeed rock I'll be buying the CD.
*AFAIK there is no such band
The "Industry"? Surely not. Maybe the musicians and the artists themselves, yes, but certainly not the "Industry", which thives on artificial rarity.
Was that typo "thrives" or "thieves"? It works either way.
It helps their artists (and them as well), but it also helps artists who are not uinder contract with its members.
The RIAA has radio and empty-v to advertise its wares, as well as internet radio and P2P. Their competetion (the independants) only has internet radio and P2P. Killing internet radio and P2P is a blow against the indies, and since the RIAA has radio and empty-v, they can do without the internet. Their competetion can't.
What they are doing is blatantly illegal, but the government is their pawn. We, the People, are defenseless.
No, it's been a long time since I read the story; I remember the four bopxes, and that internal combustion engines were outlawed. I'll go through my old Heinlein books tonight and see if I can find it.
This isn't a Master's Thesis. Wikipedia is good for several things, one of which is curing an idle curiosity about something that doesn't matter (like in this case), or as a starting point for serious research. Its sources are cited, and they are good sources.
If you have a better link by all means please post it.
You are quite right. Money is not the root of all evil, as is often quoted. The LOVE OF money is the root of all evil.
But again, Cortez didn't conquer Mexico for religion, he did it for the gold.
"'m a space cowboy, bet you weren't ready for that! I'm a space cowboy, you know, you know where it's at, yeah yeah yeah yeah." -Steve Miller
In Larry Niven's A World Out of Time they do indeed move the Earth out to Jupiter's orbit, making it a satellite of that planet.
It would be a lot easier to move a mountain than an entire world, and moving a world would undoubtedly lead to ecological destruction.
Not that they don't deserve to have access to everything, but it's their regulation and should be somehow respected as the rules and regulations of other countries. The US has a drug policy that the Netherlands would find intolerant, that doesn't give them any rights of providing tools to the people in the US to easily have access to drugs while in the US
Why not? Especially considering that our drug laws may well be unconstitutional, meaning the law is illegal. They had to pass a Constitutional Amendment to outlaw alcohol, why did they not have to amend it to outlaw other drugs?
Whether or not drug laws are constitutional, someone in the Netherlands is not under US law. It might be illegal for me to recieve tools to obtain drugs from someone in the Netherlands, but it would NOT be illegal fro him to provide them. He has every right to supply me with anything his country's laws allow, and I have every right to subvert Chinese law.
The "four boxes in defense of liberty" are from a short story by Robert Hienlien. I don't know who Ed Howdershelt is, but I would disagree and put "ballot" before "soap".
Said Li Chung, a government representative
He's just an underling carrying out orders. His boss' name is Fow Kew.
Columbus' discovery of America had nothing to do with any religion except mammon worship - he was trying to find a new trade route to India.
Yes, much evil has been done in the name of religion, but that evil is done by men who, as I pointed out, aren't precticing what their own bible tells them. In most cases they probably don't even believe in God, but know that they can use his name to take advantage of his fellow men.
I'm not saying, I'm asking.
My comment sucked; I meant to say "dumb terminals".
I'm much more interested in how you make up for the lives & civilizations your organization destroyed.
I'm more interestded in how the list you pointed to is in any way relevant.
etc. What do any of these have to do with destroying people's lives?
I would think that the Catholic church could at least (as a sign of good faith) return these to their descendants or at the very least release them to a museum with all the information they have on it so that the rest of us can gain insight to their culture & religion.
I don't see how anyone could disagree with that. "Thou shalt not steal," not even if you are the Catholic Chruch.
The funny thing is that the Vatican probably has billions in capital at its disposal.
More pathetic than funny IMO, especially considering Matthew 19:23 - "Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. 24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God"
Never trust a preacher who wears a five thousand dollar suit preaching in a million dollar church.
It's 99% of the people who purport to follow him that manage to genuinely fuck up the world.
Amen to that. Pat Robertson has converted more Christians to athiesm than all the athiests at slashdot combined. Most of the people you find in any church worship money, not God.
So now you don't have to.
I fail to see how this is nerdy, but I do appreciate the humor of someone suing the pope.
You must be new here. Notice also that it's not only a dupe, but the summary says it's a dupe!
The "abortion of an article" was selected so it could be slashdotted, setting its host server on fire, and creating true cloud computing; clouds of smoke.
Which is what Microsoft's "cloud computing" vaporware is. They used to call these things "thin clients." Our mainframe at work served these workstations, which were dog slow, as many companies did. Departments bought "microcomputers" (PCs) to get away from the slow speed of the terminals and the stodgy IT people who didn't realise that their toys were tools that staff needed to get their jobs done.
It seems to have gone full circle.