yes, Yes, YES ! ! ! THANK you, THAT is exactly what has beetled my brow during this whole tempest in a teapot: THE LABELS are taking the lion's share of the 'royalties', and giving 'their' artist's a pittance (as per usual), and the idiot artists are blaming SPOTIFY/et al, INSTEAD of the labels ? ? ?
i'm sorry, that just sounds like the stupidest rationalization i have ever heard... i mean bone-deep stupid...
when i hear the (MOSTLY rich, MOSTLY 'entitled') musicians say this shit, i think: good thing they can make a living off of playing/singing, 'cause they sure aren't cut out for the real world...
i guess they are so stupid as individuals, they *really* do need lawyers, and accountants, and stylists, and managers, and valets, and personal assistants up the ying yang, because evidently they are incompetent thinkers who are unable to take care of themselves...
sure, *MAYBE* i can get show X from here and show Y from there, but it is a massive PITA for something that is such a minor thing to do 'right'...
that is the thing that pisses me off: it is probably EASIER to do it 'right' than it is to lock it up, but they get that shit 'wrong' ALL THE TIME...
also, WTF validity does it have to say a show is 'pirated' if it is a 'free' show and is otherwise available to download/stream ? ? ? how can you steal something that is given away ? ? ? (i know: mafiaa 'logic'...)
don't know why, but i continually *try* to go online WHILE I'M WATCHING A SPORTING EVENT I PAY FOR to get the 'extra' camera angles thing they keep bugging me with on the teevee... i think that is a GREAT idea: let ME choose which camera angle i want to see at any particular time ? way cool... but it NEVER FUCKING WORKS... i don't even get a nastygram on screen that tells me, 'oh, so sorry, even though you fucking PAY for this crap, some other bullshit is going on at the korporate level that won't allow you to watch it...'
it. just. doesn't. work.
you'd think a huge MEDIA company would have this shit figured out, but all they do is manage to PISS OFF their viewers with crap that DOES NOT WORK...
Re: Senator Dianne Feinstein has no problem at all
stop it: you are confusing the ILLUSION of choice in our electoral process, with ACTUAL choice...
when The System effectively locks out ANY third party incursion into the process, we are left with only two heads of the hydra-headed Korporate Money Party to 'vote' for...
here is the 'range' of choices you get: Korporate Money Party stooge from Brand R, or, Korporate Money Party stooge from Brand D...
BOTH espousing essentially the SAME policies, with minor differences without a distinction...
sure, Brand R may be big on ______, and Brand D may be big on _____ (fill in the blanks with hot button issues to distract the sheeple from their inherent sameness), but on the actual organization of society and the ABSOLUTE primacy of unrestrained kapitalist imperialism, there is little disagreement between them: the 99% are not paying *their* bills, so fuck'em...
which would be a handful of green party members who will be marginalized by the korporate press...
next great idea ? ? ?
(Hint: the electoral process is both a closed shop, figuratively 'fixed', and literally 'fixed'... that way lies madness... hmmm, what does that leave us ? ? ? hmmmmm...)
nearly EVERYTHING these slimepigs have 'speculated' about, or 'wished for' has turned out they've been doing it 'illegally' (which has no meaning any longer, THANKS TO SLIME LIKE THEM) for years or decades...
have no doubt they are doing this shit anyway, plus more we don't/won't know about...
alphabet soup spook orgs are INIMICABLE to the survival of small dee democracy...
(aside: dog damn it, either get a decent spel czech on this damn input box, or get rid of the damn thing: INIMICABLE is too a fucking word, you POS spel czecher...)
we did that as kids, except we called it 'maul ball', give someone those big red rubber balls we had in elementary school, and everyone else took after them... prob much like a rugby scrum...
don't remember anyone getting hurt, but we did have fun, so that is probably why it is outlawed...
i mean, that *is* the point of all this: to bleach the fun out of fucking *EVERYTHING*...
geezus, what a sterile, boring, antiseptic world uber-PC assholes are working to make...
yes, have calibre on my 'puter, but have not messed with it much, yet... i will give that a shot, thanks...
it is kind of an annoying layout, a good 1/4 of each page is blank because of a wide margin on one side which is used to put a big, gronky, 'THIS WORK IS COPYRIGHTED' bark bark bark, bullshit... (oh, *and* *still* has it at the bottom of EVERY SINGLE page!)
actually wrote the author on that, that it was both insulting and annoying to have a HUGE 'YOU ARE A THIEF' message on EVERY SINGLE PAGE; he just said 'meh'...
guess who i will not be buying any more ebooks from, NO MATTER how useful ? ? ?
for that matter, have the book on my home 'puter as well, but need the portable 'droid version for using as a reference at work...
we 'teach' killers that killing is wrong by killing them...
we 'teach' bullies that bullying is wrong by bullying them...
we 'teach' kids that _____ (fill in the blank with unknowable, mutable, quixotic, vindictive, and unenforceable rule) is wrong by terrorizing them...
the 'administration' of all 'our' (sic) institutions are simply goons to enforce broadly worded rules of no consequence, enforced randomly and violently...
The State is now the number one bully in all our lives...
we are all criminals to the state; while the criminal state gets away -literally- with murder most foul...
uh oh...
better watch that 'reasoning', otherwise you will find yourself obligated to start eliminating xtians, who are 100 X's the killers moose limbs are...
you know how extreme and violent those crazy xtians are; they are all guaranteed to have 72 ho's in the afterlife ! ! !
i have bought very few ebooks for the very reason they are too pricey, and i'm too cheapy...
its either free stuff, stuff from inertnet archive, or, um, nothing...
the *one* exception, is i paid 19.95 *directly* to an author for a technical book of almost 1000 pages (albeit with a lot of screen shots and white space)...
when reading/deciphering some of the 2.5 point text, makes me wish i had the 10" nexus instead of 7"...
(insert obligatory "that's what she said..." heckle here)
wife goes to the lie bury so much, she has her approx 20 character alphanumeric lie bury id memorized...
*mostly*, she gets dead tree books, but gets ebooks regularly, too...
says they put borrowing limits such that only 2-5 people (depending on how many 'licenses' the lie bury buys) at any given time can 'check them out'.!.!.!
'cause,
you know,
electrons don't come easy,
you know they don't come easy...
(drum break)
this great moment in pop music brought to you by Empire.
(cue wagnerian theme music, with voiceover of digital combination of clint eastwood and kacey kasem)
Empire: because you have no choice in the matter.
of course, the very un-funny point about your joke, is that repugs, faux news propagandists, xtian water carriers, etc, *would* make that exact 'argument', were it to be some 'liberal' building of some sort (social security bldg? planned parenthood HQ?) that had MUCH less worse issues...
(un)funny how that doesn't work when the shoe is on the other foot...
(10!? 10 arc-fires ! dog damn, tesla woulda been proud!)
a faux-biblical quote comes to mind:
none so blind, as those who will not see...
On the post: Why Pulling Music From Spotify Only Holds Back The Artist Doing The Pulling
Re: Re:
THANK you, THAT is exactly what has beetled my brow during this whole tempest in a teapot: THE LABELS are taking the lion's share of the 'royalties', and giving 'their' artist's a pittance (as per usual), and the idiot artists are blaming SPOTIFY/et al, INSTEAD of the labels ? ? ?
i'm sorry, that just sounds like the stupidest rationalization i have ever heard... i mean bone-deep stupid...
when i hear the (MOSTLY rich, MOSTLY 'entitled') musicians say this shit, i think: good thing they can make a living off of playing/singing, 'cause they sure aren't cut out for the real world...
i guess they are so stupid as individuals, they *really* do need lawyers, and accountants, and stylists, and managers, and valets, and personal assistants up the ying yang, because evidently they are incompetent thinkers who are unable to take care of themselves...
proof that dinosaurs still walk among us...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: When Will Hollywood Stop Blaming Everyone Else And Help Itself?
Re:
sure, *MAYBE* i can get show X from here and show Y from there, but it is a massive PITA for something that is such a minor thing to do 'right'...
that is the thing that pisses me off: it is probably EASIER to do it 'right' than it is to lock it up, but they get that shit 'wrong' ALL THE TIME...
also, WTF validity does it have to say a show is 'pirated' if it is a 'free' show and is otherwise available to download/stream ? ? ?
how can you steal something that is given away ? ? ?
(i know: mafiaa 'logic'...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: When Will Hollywood Stop Blaming Everyone Else And Help Itself?
Re:
don't know why, but i continually *try* to go online WHILE I'M WATCHING A SPORTING EVENT I PAY FOR to get the 'extra' camera angles thing they keep bugging me with on the teevee... i think that is a GREAT idea: let ME choose which camera angle i want to see at any particular time ? way cool...
but it NEVER FUCKING WORKS...
i don't even get a nastygram on screen that tells me, 'oh, so sorry, even though you fucking PAY for this crap, some other bullshit is going on at the korporate level that won't allow you to watch it...'
it.
just.
doesn't.
work.
you'd think a huge MEDIA company would have this shit figured out, but all they do is manage to PISS OFF their viewers with crap that DOES NOT WORK...
FOAD cbssports...
you too, espn...
dicks...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Newspaper Editor: If The Gov't Tells Me Publishing NSA Secrets Is Not In The Public Interest, Who Am I To Disbelieve Them?
Re: now we are back to usual disagreements
On the post: Dianne Feinstein Plays The 9/11 Card For Why The NSA Should Keep Spying On Every American
Re: Senator Dianne Feinstein has no problem at all
you are confusing the ILLUSION of choice in our electoral process, with ACTUAL choice...
when The System effectively locks out ANY third party incursion into the process, we are left with only two heads of the hydra-headed Korporate Money Party to 'vote' for...
here is the 'range' of choices you get:
Korporate Money Party stooge from Brand R,
or,
Korporate Money Party stooge from Brand D...
BOTH espousing essentially the SAME policies, with minor differences without a distinction...
sure, Brand R may be big on ______, and Brand D may be big on _____ (fill in the blanks with hot button issues to distract the sheeple from their inherent sameness), but on the actual organization of society and the ABSOLUTE primacy of unrestrained kapitalist imperialism, there is little disagreement between them: the 99% are not paying *their* bills, so fuck'em...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Do You Trust The Government Or Journalists More To Determine If Snowden's Docs Are Safe To Publish?
Re: who do I trust?
i don't 'trust' Big Media, but i 'trust' individual journalists: your bill moyers, your glenn greenwalds, your jeremy scahills, etc...
here is the thing: you should NEVER 'trust' your gummint, EVEN IN THE BEST OF TIMES...
these are not the best of times...
we 99% are propagandized, marginalized, and criminalized...
the 1% doesn't even make a pretense of 'needing' us for our labor any longer; most of us are expendable...
we are zombies, and don't know it...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Snowden: DOJ Won't Prosecute Official For Lying, But Will Stop At Nothing To Persecute Someone For Telling The Truth
Re: Re:
next great idea ? ? ?
(Hint: the electoral process is both a closed shop, figuratively 'fixed', and literally 'fixed'... that way lies madness...
hmmm, what does that leave us ? ? ?
hmmmmm...)
On the post: NSA Claims It Doesn't Do Online Attacks; That's A Different Organization... Run By The NSA
Re:
*as if* the defense spooks have not shadowed and spied on civilians ? ? ?
think again...
frankly, it don't matter WHICH gummint branch is doing the actual spying, they ALL are NOT trustworthy under Empire...
On the post: Mississippi The Latest State To Claim Copyright Over Official Compilation Of Its Laws
Carl Malamud = Great Citizen
On the post: As Expected, Snowden's Four Laptops Were A Diversion; Didn't Contain Leaked Files
Re: OR, THIS is the diversion. -- EIther way, who cares?
even your dog doesn't like you, blue bawls...
On the post: NSA's Keith Alexander Doubles Down On His Plan To Spy On Wall Street To 'Protect' Wall Street
Re: NSA and Wall Street
nearly EVERYTHING these slimepigs have 'speculated' about, or 'wished for' has turned out they've been doing it 'illegally' (which has no meaning any longer, THANKS TO SLIME LIKE THEM) for years or decades...
have no doubt they are doing this shit anyway, plus more we don't/won't know about...
alphabet soup spook orgs are INIMICABLE to the survival of small dee democracy...
(aside: dog damn it, either get a decent spel czech on this damn input box, or get rid of the damn thing: INIMICABLE is too a fucking word, you POS spel czecher...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Schools Ban Tag, Cartwheels And 'Unstructured Play:' The Inevitable Outcome Of Unrealistic Promises And Expectations [UPDATED]
Re: You're it!
On the post: Schools Ban Tag, Cartwheels And 'Unstructured Play:' The Inevitable Outcome Of Unrealistic Promises And Expectations [UPDATED]
Re: The good old days
prob much like a rugby scrum...
don't remember anyone getting hurt, but we did have fun, so that is probably why it is outlawed...
i mean, that *is* the point of all this: to bleach the fun out of fucking *EVERYTHING*...
geezus, what a sterile, boring, antiseptic world uber-PC assholes are working to make...
On the post: The Good And Bad In Chaotic eBook Pricing
Re: Re: Re:
it is kind of an annoying layout, a good 1/4 of each page is blank because of a wide margin on one side which is used to put a big, gronky, 'THIS WORK IS COPYRIGHTED' bark bark bark, bullshit... (oh, *and* *still* has it at the bottom of EVERY SINGLE page!)
actually wrote the author on that, that it was both insulting and annoying to have a HUGE 'YOU ARE A THIEF' message on EVERY SINGLE PAGE; he just said 'meh'...
guess who i will not be buying any more ebooks from, NO MATTER how useful ? ? ?
for that matter, have the book on my home 'puter as well, but need the portable 'droid version for using as a reference at work...
thanks again for tip...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: 15 Year Old Student Commits Suicide One Week After Arrest For Streaking During Football Game
makes sense...
we 'teach' bullies that bullying is wrong by bullying them...
we 'teach' kids that _____ (fill in the blank with unknowable, mutable, quixotic, vindictive, and unenforceable rule) is wrong by terrorizing them...
the 'administration' of all 'our' (sic) institutions are simply goons to enforce broadly worded rules of no consequence, enforced randomly and violently...
The State is now the number one bully in all our lives...
we are all criminals to the state; while the criminal state gets away -literally- with murder most foul...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: UK Intelligence Boss Blames Snowden And Reporters For Giving A 'Gift' To Terrorists
Re: Re:
better watch that 'reasoning', otherwise you will find yourself obligated to start eliminating xtians, who are 100 X's the killers moose limbs are...
you know how extreme and violent those crazy xtians are; they are all guaranteed to have 72 ho's in the afterlife ! ! !
that's a true story i just made up !
On the post: The Good And Bad In Chaotic eBook Pricing
Re:
its either free stuff, stuff from inertnet archive, or, um, nothing...
the *one* exception, is i paid 19.95 *directly* to an author for a technical book of almost 1000 pages (albeit with a lot of screen shots and white space)...
when reading/deciphering some of the 2.5 point text, makes me wish i had the 10" nexus instead of 7"...
(insert obligatory "that's what she said..." heckle here)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: The Good And Bad In Chaotic eBook Pricing
its even worse than that...
*mostly*, she gets dead tree books, but gets ebooks regularly, too...
says they put borrowing limits such that only 2-5 people (depending on how many 'licenses' the lie bury buys) at any given time can 'check them out'.!.!.!
'cause,
you know,
electrons don't come easy,
you know they don't come easy...
(drum break)
this great moment in pop music brought to you by Empire.
(cue wagnerian theme music, with voiceover of digital combination of clint eastwood and kacey kasem)
Empire: because you have no choice in the matter.
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: NSA's Massive Utah Datacenter Having Serious Electrical Problems: Has Already Had 10 Fiery Explosions
Re:
(un)funny how that doesn't work when the shoe is on the other foot...
(10!? 10 arc-fires ! dog damn, tesla woulda been proud!)
a faux-biblical quote comes to mind:
none so blind, as those who will not see...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Maryland Tops Off Awful Cyberbullying Law With Direct Line To Facebook To Remove Content 'Without Societal Value'
Re: Re: Facebook is a permitted entity: it has NO "entitlement":
ORIGINALLY, companies were ONLY 'chartered' by the state IF their company had some PUBLIC BENEFIT...
(...*and* said charters were TEMPORARY)
you were ONLY supposed to be chartered by the state IF there was a component that benefited the public, NOT SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO MAKE MONEY...
now, don't get me wrong, whether still *technically* true or not, that moral obligation is no longer binding in any way, shape, or form...
that don't mean that wasn't the ORIGINAL INTENT in *ALLOWING* corporations to be granted a charter by the state...
we have strayed so far, not even the constitution is in force any longer...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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