Considering that your "homemade independant move" has a projected revenue of Jack and Shit there is a huge difference.
Exactly my point. $=enforcement. Most likely outcome if I call the FBI about my movie? "Sorry, you'll have to call the local police department. They won't do anything either, but hey, it'll get you off the line."
If the police do not procecute ever such offence then the law becomes unenforceable.
Again, exactly my point. Same law, but one crime is important and has victimized 'real live movie stars', and the other is ignored and 'public cable access'.
Funny, I think if "little bad guy" took my homemade independent movie and spread it around, he'd be facing two charges. Jack and Shit. No prosecutors, no FBI, no nothing. Same if the big movie studio stole my film.
The reason this went anywhere is because the movie studio can afford endless lawyers, and can pull the strings that us 'mortals' can't.
We shouldn't prosecute any bad guy if the law is not equally enforced across the board.
I just don't understand any legitimate concern to decline a breathalyzer test.
How about the fact that the evidence that is used to convict you rejoins the atmosphere, and there is no way for you to independently check the results?
DUI laws and enforcement are stacked in favor of the state, to a ridiculous degree. Even here in MN.
Maybe because they are using those tax dollars to do pointless things that waste the money and fail to do any good. If the U.S. government and the States can't keep things going with close to half the GDP of the richest nation in the world, isn't it time to think the people in charge are incompetent?
Like the TSA, DHS, Border Patrol, and the astronomical amount of defense spending? I look forward to the link to your comment pointing out these failures when Bush was the head cheese.
Blind faith in government is what's nuts.
We agree on something! We probably both like ice cream too!
Please, enlighten me. You said, "I've never heard anyone wish physical harm on him. I've never heard of people in the media fantasizing on the airwaves about his assassination or any of the many other reprehensible things that were directed towards Bush, and seemingly accepted as perfectly reasonable by people I would think are above all that."
I said, and I paraphrase, "WTF, dood. It's everywhere. Open remaining eye, and take spoon out of cup."
Tea Partiers might be perfectly sane, but when you're that willfully ignorant about *everything*, anybody's going to look crazy.
As strongly as people feel about President Obama, and there is as much _strong_ feelings against him as there ever were for President Bush, I've never heard anyone wish physical harm on him. I've never heard of people in the media fantasizing on the airwaves about his assassination or any of the many other reprehensible things that were directed towards Bush, and seemingly accepted as perfectly reasonable by people I would think are above all that.
Really? You've seen enough rage against Bush to name/quote an invented disorder about it, but 'just haven't seen any evidence' of the Right's ridiculous, over-the-top, impotent rage over having a black 'liberal' man as president? The Facebook pages, the chain emails, the snippets of AM talk radio, the hand-painted signs, the mass-produced bumper stickers, and completely context-free anti-Obama comments that just "pop-up" when talking about other, politics-free subjects, like say, the weather?
You lose your keys when they're in your hand, don't you?
that if any of the jurors were 'investigated', you would find quite a bit of infringing material in their homes. I have yet to meet anyone that doesn't have a old cassette of songs dubbed from someone else, a CD of tunes made for a party or wedding, a photocopy of some book or newspaper, lyrics on their website or profile, etc. Even if they don't have these items currently, they've made infringing copies in the past.
Everyone in the US is guilty of copyright infringement at one time or another. Most people don't ever think about copyright, or if they do, it's to make up the rules as they go.
I wonder how the jury would react if they were sent invoices for damages for their past and current infringements, based on the ridiculous damages they approved for this woman.
You're all wrong. Paul Bigsby invented the solid electric Spanish guitar (held like 'normal'). The Frying Pan was a lap steel. Les Paul actually had a Bigsby guitar before he came out with the Log. Loyd Loar of Vivi-tone did the first electric hollowbody.
Read "The Bigsby Book", it just came out. I actually did a wee bit of work on photography for it, and know the guy who did quite a bit of research for it.
There's a lot of misinformation about the early years of guitars as people like Bigsby didn't keep records, he wrote tiny pencil notes on his homemade pickup winder.
There's going to be some books coming out that show a lot of people who did what when, and I expect there's going to be quite a lot of controversy.
Les Paul did give us the multi-track, for which I am eternally grateful.
Presidential candidates don't need your help, it's the local ones. They're the ones who grow up to be presidential candidates. If you get good ones in office locally, you not only benefit immediately, but you have a much better chance of getting 'bigger' candidates that have similar beliefs and concerns.
That said, I'm a locally active DFL'er - not because I agree with everything that the DFL stands for, but so I can try and make changes to the DFL at the low level, like Instant Runoff Voting, and other platforms that will hopefully trickle up. (Incidentally making other parties more viable)
An excerpt from my letter to Obama (sent several weeks before this vote):
...I am also very upset about his unwillingness to fight telecom
immunity. This is a serious issue for me. I, and many of my friends
and family are tired of being spied upon and considered seditious in
the overreaching "War on Terror"; this unwillingness essentially
rewards the companies that were "just following orders", and makes
Barack seem weak in the 'War on the Constitution'.
My wife and I are delegates for the first district in MN. We got
involved for the first time because we believed that Barack would kick
corporate interests out of Washington, that he would help restore the
Constitution, and that we would have someone in office who not only
held similar beliefs, but would not compromise them. I've combated
many false and slanderous emails, reached out to many independent
voters who were 'on the fence', and was the first in my town to sport
a Obama sign in my yard, sticker on my car, and button on my guitar
strap - but I'm sad to say that I'm becoming disillusioned.
I need Barack to stop compromising. I need him to hold the current
(and future) administration accountable, I need him to return
government to the people, rather than corporate interests. I need him
to keep to the ideals which made me want to actively support a
candidate for the first time in 20 years. I will do my best to get him
elected, but only if I can believe in him.
The response I got was a plea for money. Thanks, but I'll spend my dollars on local candidates in MN, who I can trust not to tell me one thing, and do another.
I just fired myself. If only there was a group of people that would take care of marketing and promotion for bands, so bands could concentrate on making music, rather than the drudgery of the business side of things. *sigh*
Here they are! The Schmoejoes Shirts! Don't forget to come to small town Minnesota and see us - or use the tubes!
In the face of widespread, escalating online piracy, music sales dropped to $11.5 billion in 2006 from a peak in 1999 of nearly $15 billion."
Cry me a river 'industry'. If there was an objective way to measure the quality of music coming from the big labels, I'm sure it would be would be in the red as well. The only good music I'm hearing is odd little acts going it alone, and mostly by choice.
The new indie is no record. Just free tracks, and an invitation to come to a show. Sadly, even doing this is a incredible money sink. Driving an hour to shows is ridiculously spendy; my drummer lives over one hundred miles away as well! Since we don't play covers, we draw less than your AC/DC/Zepplin/80's/Classic/Rock band. A crap economy, DVDs, PS3s, and other distractions don't help either.
I say, ignore this site - why again would I make someone buy a track, or put any obstacle in the way of more people hearing my music? Since it's a label partnership, the 'names' are going to get pushed, and get preferential placement anyway.
Support your local band and buy a t-shirt! It's pretty much the only business model left.:)
If you hold down option as you click on the 'Tivo Desktop' icon in System Preferences, you will get a 'Videos' tab, which allows you to share from your Mac to your Tivo. This only works for the non-Direct TV Tivos, as it requires a Media Access Key (just the video part).
If you have a Direct TV Series two that's hacked, you've already got this functionality. TivoTool was an excellent way to get stuff to and from your Tivo, if you're a Mac user. Unfortunately, it was broken somewhat by 10.5, and hasn't been fixed to work without a bit a a workaround (deleting files on app startup.)
If you haven't hacked your DTivo yet, do it - it's not that hard, and the end result is pretty great - more record time, remote scheduling, season pass management, permanent 30-second skip, and it's wife-approved! (actually, wife-required now...)
Carbon paper is still used to transfer designs to objects other than paper, or oversize paper that wouldn't fit in a copier/printer. Admittedly, it's use is nowhere near its once ubiquitous amount, but crafters, luthiers, carpenters and other tradespeople still use it.
A couple of years ago I recall seeing some scripts that would go through your Yahoo mailbox, and forward your old email to an account of your choosing. I hardly want to give MS $20 bucks to enable my jumping ship.
Slashdot Mirror
Considering that your "homemade independant move" has a projected revenue of Jack and Shit there is a huge difference.
Exactly my point. $=enforcement. Most likely outcome if I call the FBI about my movie? "Sorry, you'll have to call the local police department. They won't do anything either, but hey, it'll get you off the line."
If the police do not procecute ever such offence then the law becomes unenforceable.
Again, exactly my point. Same law, but one crime is important and has victimized 'real live movie stars', and the other is ignored and 'public cable access'.
We shouldn't prosecute any bad guy if the law is not equally enforced across the board.
it's a cautionary tale, not a manual.
I just don't understand any legitimate concern to decline a breathalyzer test.
How about the fact that the evidence that is used to convict you rejoins the atmosphere, and there is no way for you to independently check the results?
DUI laws and enforcement are stacked in favor of the state, to a ridiculous degree. Even here in MN.
According to one of the commenters, this may be a result of adjusting the algorithms to git rid of endless "Bieber" related trends.
At what price Bieber Freedom?
If a forest of trees fall, but no one can report it, did it really happen?
Maybe because they are using those tax dollars to do pointless things that waste the money and fail to do any good. If the U.S. government and the States can't keep things going with close to half the GDP of the richest nation in the world, isn't it time to think the people in charge are incompetent?
Like the TSA, DHS, Border Patrol, and the astronomical amount of defense spending? I look forward to the link to your comment pointing out these failures when Bush was the head cheese.
Blind faith in government is what's nuts.
We agree on something! We probably both like ice cream too!
Please, enlighten me. You said, "I've never heard anyone wish physical harm on him. I've never heard of people in the media fantasizing on the airwaves about his assassination or any of the many other reprehensible things that were directed towards Bush, and seemingly accepted as perfectly reasonable by people I would think are above all that."
I said, and I paraphrase, "WTF, dood. It's everywhere. Open remaining eye, and take spoon out of cup."
Tea Partiers might be perfectly sane, but when you're that willfully ignorant about *everything*, anybody's going to look crazy.
As strongly as people feel about President Obama, and there is as much _strong_ feelings against him as there ever were for President Bush, I've never heard anyone wish physical harm on him. I've never heard of people in the media fantasizing on the airwaves about his assassination or any of the many other reprehensible things that were directed towards Bush, and seemingly accepted as perfectly reasonable by people I would think are above all that.
Really? You've seen enough rage against Bush to name/quote an invented disorder about it, but 'just haven't seen any evidence' of the Right's ridiculous, over-the-top, impotent rage over having a black 'liberal' man as president? The Facebook pages, the chain emails, the snippets of AM talk radio, the hand-painted signs, the mass-produced bumper stickers, and completely context-free anti-Obama comments that just "pop-up" when talking about other, politics-free subjects, like say, the weather?
You lose your keys when they're in your hand, don't you?
The distributing was implied, but I agree.
that if any of the jurors were 'investigated', you would find quite a bit of infringing material in their homes. I have yet to meet anyone that doesn't have a old cassette of songs dubbed from someone else, a CD of tunes made for a party or wedding, a photocopy of some book or newspaper, lyrics on their website or profile, etc. Even if they don't have these items currently, they've made infringing copies in the past.
Everyone in the US is guilty of copyright infringement at one time or another. Most people don't ever think about copyright, or if they do, it's to make up the rules as they go.
I wonder how the jury would react if they were sent invoices for damages for their past and current infringements, based on the ridiculous damages they approved for this woman.
There's a lot of misinformation about the early years of guitars as people like Bigsby didn't keep records, he wrote tiny pencil notes on his homemade pickup winder. There's going to be some books coming out that show a lot of people who did what when, and I expect there's going to be quite a lot of controversy. Les Paul did give us the multi-track, for which I am eternally grateful.
'cause it's tough. Congrats.
It's me. shhh.
In 2001 I sumbitted this:
Search Google
teamhasnoi writes "Put some words in the box here and watch how results for your search come up. Awesome!"
had help?
Funny, for someone who doesn't give a shit, you certainly let me have two lines of it. Thanks for caring and sharing! :)
Presidential candidates don't need your help, it's the local ones. They're the ones who grow up to be presidential candidates. If you get good ones in office locally, you not only benefit immediately, but you have a much better chance of getting 'bigger' candidates that have similar beliefs and concerns.
...I am also very upset about his unwillingness to fight telecom
immunity. This is a serious issue for me. I, and many of my friends
and family are tired of being spied upon and considered seditious in
the overreaching "War on Terror"; this unwillingness essentially
rewards the companies that were "just following orders", and makes
Barack seem weak in the 'War on the Constitution'.
That said, I'm a locally active DFL'er - not because I agree with everything that the DFL stands for, but so I can try and make changes to the DFL at the low level, like Instant Runoff Voting, and other platforms that will hopefully trickle up. (Incidentally making other parties more viable)
An excerpt from my letter to Obama (sent several weeks before this vote):
My wife and I are delegates for the first district in MN. We got involved for the first time because we believed that Barack would kick corporate interests out of Washington, that he would help restore the Constitution, and that we would have someone in office who not only held similar beliefs, but would not compromise them. I've combated many false and slanderous emails, reached out to many independent voters who were 'on the fence', and was the first in my town to sport a Obama sign in my yard, sticker on my car, and button on my guitar strap - but I'm sad to say that I'm becoming disillusioned.
I need Barack to stop compromising. I need him to hold the current (and future) administration accountable, I need him to return government to the people, rather than corporate interests. I need him to keep to the ideals which made me want to actively support a candidate for the first time in 20 years. I will do my best to get him elected, but only if I can believe in him.
The response I got was a plea for money. Thanks, but I'll spend my dollars on local candidates in MN, who I can trust not to tell me one thing, and do another.
I did.
/. story from 6 years ago. :P
I don't know what's sadder, the fact I submitted this on Xmas, or that I remember a
Darl is a copy of an asshole.
I just fired myself. If only there was a group of people that would take care of marketing and promotion for bands, so bands could concentrate on making music, rather than the drudgery of the business side of things. *sigh*
Here they are! The Schmoejoes Shirts! Don't forget to come to small town Minnesota and see us - or use the tubes!
youtube.com/theschmoejoes
myspace.com/theschmoejoes
(I obviously need the link-makin' practice)
Cry me a river 'industry'. If there was an objective way to measure the quality of music coming from the big labels, I'm sure it would be would be in the red as well. The only good music I'm hearing is odd little acts going it alone, and mostly by choice.
The new indie is no record. Just free tracks, and an invitation to come to a show. Sadly, even doing this is a incredible money sink. Driving an hour to shows is ridiculously spendy; my drummer lives over one hundred miles away as well! Since we don't play covers, we draw less than your AC/DC/Zepplin/80's/Classic/Rock band. A crap economy, DVDs, PS3s, and other distractions don't help either.
I say, ignore this site - why again would I make someone buy a track, or put any obstacle in the way of more people hearing my music? Since it's a label partnership, the 'names' are going to get pushed, and get preferential placement anyway.
Support your local band and buy a t-shirt! It's pretty much the only business model left.
If you hold down option as you click on the 'Tivo Desktop' icon in System Preferences, you will get a 'Videos' tab, which allows you to share from your Mac to your Tivo. This only works for the non-Direct TV Tivos, as it requires a Media Access Key (just the video part).
If you have a Direct TV Series two that's hacked, you've already got this functionality. TivoTool was an excellent way to get stuff to and from your Tivo, if you're a Mac user. Unfortunately, it was broken somewhat by 10.5, and hasn't been fixed to work without a bit a a workaround (deleting files on app startup.)
If you haven't hacked your DTivo yet, do it - it's not that hard, and the end result is pretty great - more record time, remote scheduling, season pass management, permanent 30-second skip, and it's wife-approved! (actually, wife-required now...)
to allow continued recording for nine to 11 minutes if all aircraft power sources are lost or interrupted.
9 / 11? Odd arbitrary range of numbers.
Carbon paper is still used to transfer designs to objects other than paper, or oversize paper that wouldn't fit in a copier/printer. Admittedly, it's use is nowhere near its once ubiquitous amount, but crafters, luthiers, carpenters and other tradespeople still use it.
Anyone know where these went?