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| 2003/5/3-4 [Recreation/Music] UID:28310 Activity:very high |
5/2 Re: Apple Music service -- It's pretty cool! I couldn't find the
first few things I was looking for, but I eventually found something
I was interested in (Linton Kwesi Johnson's "Fite Dem Back").
The price is reasonable, and the sound quality very good.
\_ here's a challenge: name any industry that has lead as strong
an attack on the rights of Americans as the RIAA/MPAA.
fuck these assholes. I'll buy music when i know my money
actually goes to the musicians, not to pay for a legal war
against the American consumer and in particular engineers.
until then i'll just listen to my shitty magnetic tapes from the
'80s.
\_ why bother with tapes when you can download good quality
music with software like kazaa?
\_ Uhm ok and why would you do this when there's P2P?
\_ You've obviously never used P2P. After looking for a song, and
choosing among the various bit-rates, etc., half the time I get
a download that is damaged or sounds bad. Besides that, I'm
willing to pay a buck a song--if I buy the song, maybe more music
I like will be made. If I don't, there's no incentive. -Not OP
\_ There's no incentive anyway. Music isn't made based on some
sort of feedback loop. They make music and then push it via
radio and mtv until the kids brains turn to mush and there's
little else easily available. Until they create the next fad.
\_ OH My God! Pink is the new orange!
\_ No, that was last year. This year black is the new
black. Can't you keep up with simple trends?
\- Does anyone know how much of that $.99 goes to apple, how much to
the RIAA and how much to the musician? my guess would be 60, 35, 4.
\_ Your guess would be paying musicians about 20 times what they
are paid on CD sales.
\_ that still doesn't make it any more palatable
\_ 4 cens on the dollar is 20x what they are paid on cds? I
think not. 4 cents on the dollar is about what they are paid
on CDs based on my recollection of the heresay about the one
famous band that i've met personally and know friends of. There
how the RIAA etc would try ti quash that. --psb
is absolutely know way that artists (successful ones anyway)
make only .2 cents on the dollar. Stop believing all the
communist hype you are spoon fed. (teachers are not underpaid
You'd work 50+ hours per week trying to teach _/
20+ kids things they don't want to learn and
deal with parents who aren't willing to take
responsibility for their children for less
than $45k per year (or $21k per year for
starting teachers)? Stop talking out of your
ass.
\_ I think $45k is probably a good average, but where
I work (K-12 district) starting is $40k, $48k after 2
years, and you top out at $70k if you have a master's.
Decent benefits, impossible to get fired, etc... high
compared to blue collar work, but low for a job that
requires a college degree. probably more than most
artists, journalists, musicians, writers, etc.
\_ It's not a real college degree. I know someone
who got the $70k+ range and after her first 2
years just rehashed the same lesson plans and
did as little as humanly possible like the rest
of the slackers she worked with.
\_ 1) Teachers don't do 50+ hours.
\_ my sister used to be an elementary school
teacher and easily put in 50+ hours and
she wasn't putting in any more time than
any of the other teachers at her school
\_ Because she knows what the other teachers
did at home, huh? Riiiiight.
2) Most kids want to learn if the teacher doesn't
suck. There's nothing wrong with kids today.
3) Parents have nothing to do with it. I didn't
have a single friend in k-12 with parents that
did anything more than show at a parent teacher
meeting once a year, yet most of the kids did
all their homework, learned stuff, and got decent
grades they actually earned.
4) Yes, I know actual real teachers who are working
in California K-12 right now. I'm more motivated
at work after giving notice than they are during
normal days. I've got no sympathy for the poor
oppressed unionized teachers who are fucking up
anecdotal evidence? Are you trying to
look foolish?
the school system and the kids for their own
lazy asses.
\_ I know half a dozen teachers. They all work
hard and all but one is very motivated.
You are full of crap.
\_ Wow your anecdotal evidence sure made
mince meat outta me! Ow! I'll bet none of
your highly motivated hard working teachers
has been at it for more than about 3 years.
When you have something to say worth the
bits you can come back and say it and you
won't be mocked.
\_ Point 4 was anecdotal. You mock someone
who uses anecdotal evidence against
anecdotal evidence?
\_ I made several statements only one
of which was anecdotal. The reply
was 100% anecdotal. Back to basic
reading comp. for you. Thanks. I
still haven't seen an answer to how
many years these highly motivated
friends have taught which is a key
question. Teachers spend a lot of
time in the first few years making
lesson plans and then just rehash
the same shit from memory until they
pension out 30 years later. My
k-12 science teachers could tell you
all about the sun and the 7 planets.
\_ I didn't (and don't) disagree
with points 1-3. The teachers
I know have varying levels of
experience. The most senior ones
have 7 and 10+ years experience.
The one with 7 years experience
is hard working and well liked
by his students and also teaches
the tennis team.
either). Try getting/crunching some numbers on your own.
\- i wonder what would happen if bands started publicly
saying "if you steal out music, we'd appreciate it if you
sent a $1 to PO Box ...". it would be interesting to see
how the RIAA etc would try to quash that. --psb
\_ bands don't own their music, labels do that so
riaa wouldn't care (it's already been done too)
\- so what? i can say something on my
WEEB site saying "anytime you buy a U2
CD pls mail me a dollar". --psb
\_ Last time I looked at public figures, the typical band was
paid 5 cents... A CD. Madonna, Metallica, etc, are not
'typical' bands. Of course, given the volume of sales they
have and their average return on an album, their behavior
seems nothing if not greedy.
\_ Yeah, bad greedy artists! Trying to make money off
music...what avarice! Money should only be made by
geeks locked in flourescent-lit windowless rooms,
drinking jolt, and kernel hacking on linux until 4am.
\_ who's trying to make money hacking linux?
\_ huh? redhat? ibm? linus? where've you been?
\_ http://www.music-law.com/contractbasics.html
Basically, after paying back the label for studio time
promotions, etc., the band makes $1 per full priced US
album (to 50 cents for others). This is consistent
with what i have been told by my rock star acquaintences.
please stop talking out your ass, tnx.
\_ You have rock star friends?! Kewl! I met greenday
once! We totally chilled out on the patio and drank
a beer and everything! It was so kewl! Man! Those
were the days! Hanging out with rock stars, learning
the details of the inner working of the music biz,
getting their social security numbers and mother's
maiden names... yeah... band camp. Loved it!
\_ Except they have zero talent, and suck.
\_ Here's a case of someone so clueless and not
"getting it" they actually attacked the random
band I named (and never met) and skipped the
rest which was obviously not intended
literally. Don't they teach you anything in
school anymore, like basic reading comp? Isn't
that stuff still on the SAT? How'd you get
into Cal?
\_ I just think you are upset because
you are embarassed about being associated
with such garbage music.
\_ *laugh* okey dokey you got me. Yes,
green day used to come by my pad and
we'd smoke a bowl and do homeless
telegraph underage runaway chicks and
swap needles. That's much more likely
than I just chose the only local band
I know of that got famous. Yup, yup,
yup. You're too smart for the motd.
Or you're just upset because I mocked
your silly comment about you having
rock star friends who give you the
inside industry scoop. It's a tough
call but I'm sure you chose wisely.
\_ I have also heard the $1 per CD figure. I think
Prince mentioned it in one of his rants about how
arists are ripped off. That's bad enough. There's
no need to make up insanely small figures. --dim
\_ I'm not making up insanely small figures. Hello,
prince made the soundtrack for a Batman film.
He's a Maddona/Metallica/U2 class artist. Those
guys get paid much better than, say, Weezer,
the Eels, etc. etc.
\_ prince? You mean TAFKAP.
\_ You have to sell a million CDs before you see a dime:
http://dir.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/index.html
All these blowhards don't know anything about the way
the music industry actually works. Courtney Love does.
Or read the USA Today take on it all:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2002-09-15-artists-rights_x.htm
\_ Stop bringing facts to the motd. I'm going to have to
start bashing your sources since I can't disprove them.
"<insert newspaper/magazine name here> just sucks and is
totally biased and owned by the VRWC!"
\_ if you're making fun of people who get upset about the
whole moonie-washington times thing, maybe you should
look into who the moonies are more. I've dealt with
cults in person(the scientologists) and seen what
they do to peoples lives directly. the source
does matter, if only in that it is important not to
support Evil.
\_ I appreciate the sentiment, but the moonies don't
own the washtimes for the money, it's an investment
to help them build ties with Washington.
\_ If they were just in it for the money, I might
be able to believe what they have to say. As you
point out, they are in it for political reasons.
\_ so you've dealt with the scientologists and that
makes the moonies bad? oooookaaaaaay. So what
makes christians, jews, muslims, hindus, or anyone
else not bad? they're the same as the moonies and
other so-called cults. the *only* difference is
the major religions of today are much older and thus
had more time to be successful spreading their weird
shit. you're ok with successful cults, yet want to
destroy the newer ones? whatever....
\_ Courtney Love's article is a ripoff of of the classic:
http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/albini.html |
| 2003/5/3 [Recreation/Dating] UID:28311 Activity:high |
5/2 Someone called me a "bonobo". What does that mean?!
\_ It is a species of chimpanzee that has sex all the time.
\_ Not just that. They'll have sex with ANY other bonobo, male,
young, old, diseased, and for any reason.
\_ not quite. Parents wont have sex with post pubescent kids.
\_ which makes them a step up from the typical sodan....
\_ I don't think any sodans have post pubescent kids
has sex face to face rather than doggy style.
yet, so I don't think you can say for sure yet.
\_ none that survived the first encounter.
\_ interestingly they are the only primate (except for humans) that
has sex face to face - all others just do it doggy style. |
| 2003/5/3 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:28312 Activity:nil |
5/2 So we still haven't found WMD in Iraq yet. Assuming we never do,
and it turns out the intelligence was all wrong, do you think we
should apologise, leave and help Saddam get his country back? In
not, why not since we went in under false pretenses if we find
nothing. Iraq was innocent.
\_ The WMD were indeed just a pretense (as the War on Terrorism
was already funded, this kept them from needing to secure funding
specifically for ousting that really bad guy who just happens to
sit on humongous oil reserves. go go gadget congress). But there
were many reasons why we went to war. However, the administration
has to answer the people on this point (snicker snicker). I'm
interested to see how they handle this question come election
time. |
| 2003/5/3 [Uncategorized] UID:28313 Activity:nil |
5/2 Whats the best way to convince your lady to take contraceptives
so that you can be pleased?
\_ You've got the wrong attitude about it from the start. It isn't
about 'conning' her into anything. Go think about this and come
back when you've got the maturity to deal with it. |
| 2003/5/3 [Reference/Tax] UID:28314 Activity:very high |
5/3 Glad I don't live in Ney York.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2136-2003May1.html
So they add an extra tax on the "super wealthy" but the truly weathly
probably have enough losses from the last few years they're not paying
any taxes anyway, so this would only hit high salaried yet not rich
people like me. Can't wait until California decides to do the same
thing in an attempt to turn the state into Alabama.
\_ All business taxes are passed on to the consumer, regardless.
Confiscatory taxes introduce inefficiencies by encouraging people
to avoid them.
\_ that's a crock of shit. -tom
\_ It is self evident - the cost of a product reflects the
the cost of production.
\_ Taxes on business *profits* only tax the profit. If
a business raises its prices to try to keep the same
amount of profit after a tax hike, your vaunted
invisible hand will smack him down. -tom
\_ This was not meant to be a controversial, politics
laden statement. Don't work yourself into a frenzy,
just think about it - its not hard (where does the
money originate from?).
You assert businesses do not
incorporate tax estimates into investment proposals?
\_ I used to think this, but don't anymore. Simply because
if the price is set at the point of maximum profit, then
raising the prices will *lower* the profit. The same idea
applies to the idea that preventing shoplifting will keep
prices low.
\_ Taxes on labor are even worse then by your reasoning, since
they discourage people from working. What would you tax?
\_ I would tax use of non-renewable rescources. there are
ways of calculating how much that stuff is worth in dollar
amounts that includes all the death and destruction that
goes along with unwise resource use. abolition
of income taxes makes sense, yes. for a long(400pages)
detailed, and documented presentation of this arguement,
please read the book "Natural Capitalism." |
| 2003/5/3 [Recreation/Dating] UID:28315 Activity:moderate |
5/3 Watching a Great Paper Dive Into Pedophilia Chic
http://csua.org/u/e37
\_ Have you read the book in question or are you judging it only
based on what others have said about it? |
| 2003/5/3 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media] UID:28316 Activity:nil |
5/2 plugged in zip drive 250. said out of space, but clearly not filled.
anyone encounter this problem before? any good web page on this
topic?
\_ look for hidden files. run a media check on it. |
| 2003/5/3 [Recreation/Dating, Science/Biology] UID:28317 Activity:nil |
5/2 Bonobos!
http://songweaver.com/info/bonobos.html
\_ Don't feed the bonobos! How many times do I have to tell you that!? |
| 2003/5/3 [Finance/Banking, Recreation/Dating] UID:28318 Activity:high |
5/3 http://csua.org/u/e38 Cute chubby filipino girl. \_ 32 years old = cute filipina woman. Interesting NYT article, too. |
| 2003/5/3-4 [Computer/SW/Editors, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:28319 Activity:very high |
5/3 Question for motd grammarians. What do you think of words like
"nonlinearity" and "uncorrelated." These words are used in common
speach among scientists *constantly*, but they're not in the
dictionaries. Editors let us use these words in publications, but
i wonder what you purists think about it.
\- "uncorrelated" is in my dictionary. i didnt check nonlinear,
but i dont see what the issue is. these are simple modifications.
are you wondering if the correct negation for a particular word
is "in-" instead of "un-"? or if nonlinear should be hypenated?
see if you dictionary has "ruth" or just ruthless. i think it
is more interesting when the derivative exists but the original
is gone. --psb
\_ Disgruntled.
\_ "nonlinear" is perfectly acceptable in technical publications.
medical terminology isn't in common dictionaries either. so what?
\_ Hello, I'm not a grammarian. However, if someone used either of
those words I wouldn't bat an eye. Purists can bite me. --PeterM
\_ Oh, and "speech" is spelled "speech" not "speach." Thank you.
\_ Your words are impure. You shall be purged! -purist
\_ a slew of useless responses in typical motd fashion.
\_ it was a useless question. lighten up, it's just entertainment.
-op |
| 2003/5/3 [Uncategorized] UID:28320 Activity:nil |
5/3 Diane Krall and Elvis Costello to be married. |
| 2003/5/3-4 [Uncategorized] UID:28321 Activity:kinda low |
5/3 directv question. why would i get an HU (3) card instead of a P4 card?
\_ you'll go to prison less often.
\_ P4 hacks dont exist today. --OP, took 30 minutes of looking through
script kiddie sites to answer this. |
| 2003/5/3-5 [Uncategorized] UID:28322 Activity:high |
5/3 Every cordless phone I buy eventually get a lot of static and becomes
unusable. I've gone from x00 mhz to 2.4 ghz. Still eventually people
get the high frequency phones and it becomes a dud. I'm thinking of
going back to the wired phones. My problem is that I only have one
line. If I plug two or three phones in different rooms into that same
line I get a lot of static also. Is there a standard solution to
this problem? How can I boost the signal somehow. Thanks.
\_ I have a wired phone and a cordless. For long or personal
conversations, it's way better. You may have forgotten how clear
a phone call can be without cordless transmission. --aaron
\_ Stop buying cheap phones or else using them so hard? I don't have
this problem. --dim
\_ Buy a Panasonic 900MHz, and when you hear static, press the pad
to the left to change the channel.
\_ For wired phones, sometimes the problem is just a bad cord between
the phone jack and the phone. I once had a problem where the static
became so bad that my modem wouldn't connect. Then the PacBell guy
replaced two cords in my house, and the problem was solved. -- yuen
\_ back when my friend lived in berkeley (2415 College) the
telephone wires were so bad in his building that talkign on his
landline was barely audible with all the static
\_ Have you tried replacing the batteries in the handset? They don't
recharge well after a while and you get lots of static. |
| 2003/5/3-5 [Uncategorized] UID:28323 Activity:high |
5/3 MMC RE XMen 2: Should I watch it in theaters, d/l it and watch it at
home, or skip it?
\_ You should first learn to post properly.
\_ How to post properly?
but it was still a blast to watch.
\_ I enjoyed it. Coupla spots that dragged, and some minor plot holes,
but it was still a blast to watch. I'm not sure how well a d/l'd
camcorder video would capture Nightcrawler's beautiful teleporting
effects, which are almost worth the price of admission alone.
\_ Skip it if you think so little of the concept that you wouldn't
pay for it.
\_ fucking duh |
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