About 10 years ago while working at a summer camp I witnessed one of my fellow counsellors watching Britney Spears gyrate on stage (the type of performance immortalised by Lewis Black's description of the Pepsi commercial); she looked at the TV completely entranced and dreamily uttered: "She is SO talented." Forget the Chinese labourer: I don't even understand the people who like that music over here. Though I suspect that Bieber and Spears and others aren't all that different from the Cantopop stars.
I checked the link to the article and clicked through on some related links. So riddle me this: the suit was brought by International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). (That's Phonographic not that other thing!) It represents worlds biggest record labels though none of the ones from mainland China... It does include the Honk Kong-based labels though a number of them are just local subsidiaries of the American and European labels. So obviously the reason people in China spend so little on their music is because there's no possible reason why people in China would spend money on the music from labels not represented by IFPI, say those from CHINA!
I guess I didn't attend the right pre-school (and my Ivy League degrees must be mistakes).
Maybe they are a mistake... Maybe, the writer of this is not really Mike Masnick. I think the people deserve to know the truth. Let's see the diplomas along with a long-form birth certificate and photo ID... :)
Someone should e-mail this image to Jon Bon Jovi (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110315/02072513497/bon-jovi-thinks-steve-jobs-killed-music-more- old-rockers-shooing-those-darn-kids-off-their-lawn.shtml). Let's hear his explanation of how Steve Jobs is responsible for this as well.
As a backup strategy, I also propose that we do not elect any politicians that had played football in college. You know, to stem the tide of brain-dead lawmakers...
My suggestion? Just make it mandatory that all machines on earth must do a ten year stint playing football or hockey. Today's matchup, the Texas Toasters up against the Rochester Refrigerators! Join us next week on ESPN when the Carolina Computers skate the ice against the San Diego Smartphones!
Sorry DH. But your sarcasm is woefully misplaced and wholly inappropriate. We need real world solutions for what is obviously a serious problem. Instead of your clearly technocratic proposal of having machines play football (are you a communist?), we should simply make sure that, while in high-school and college, only the students with C-average and below be allowed to engage in physical sports like football, lacrosse, hockey, etc.
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Maybe they are a mistake... Maybe, the writer of this is not really Mike Masnick. I think the people deserve to know the truth. Let's see the diplomas along with a long-form birth certificate and photo ID... :)
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Sorry DH. But your sarcasm is woefully misplaced and wholly inappropriate. We need real world solutions for what is obviously a serious problem. Instead of your clearly technocratic proposal of having machines play football (are you a communist?), we should simply make sure that, while in high-school and college, only the students with C-average and below be allowed to engage in physical sports like football, lacrosse, hockey, etc.
Oh, wait... we already do that...
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