Linden already open-sourced the Second Life client. This move adds to the shine. Sure, it’s smart PR. But maintaining a sense of humor and perspective is rare these days, and it’s great to see.
So yeah, people will steal movies this way; nothing has changed. Aside from illegal bootlegging, people will make legal backups too, and other people will creatively edit Jar-Jar out of terrible movies and make the world better. The studios still have no clue, and no one is surprised. Thanks hackers, for pwning the studio n00bz. Again.
I don’t condone theft, but the music and movie industries have made an awful mess for themselves. Most movies suck, and most music sucks. Plenty of attention is paid to production values, but little to no effort is put into writing a song or telling a story. These industries mass-market shiny garbage and are wholly responsible for their products’ absurd lack of perceived and actual value. The product has become disposable to the consumer. No value, no pay. Tough nuggies.
If music studios and record labels would stop relying on formulas and trends, have faith in their audience, and actually have the stones to take chances, develop artists, and reward artistic courage, they’d have a shot at turning things around. Unfortunately, in addition to flooding the market with dried beer puke, they’ve also been treating paying customers like thieves, so they’ll have quite a job of earning back consumers’ trust. In the meantime, people who really care about music and film just do it themselves however they can, and learn as they go. It makes for mistakes with heart, and a growing number of people will empty their wallets for that kind of honesty.
1. In “Krusty Gets Kancelled”, competition from whose show kills Krusty’s ratings?
2. From “Selma’s Choice”: Tipsy, Queasy, Surly and Remorseful are four of the seven what?
3. Who plays Stanley Kowalski in “A Streetcar Named Marge?”
4. Regarding a riot at “Kamp Krusty”, who says, “I’ve been to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together.”
5. Whose voice? In “Mr. Plow”, what guest star sings, “Señor Plow no es macho / Es solamente un borracho”?
6. Complete the line. Homer in “Marge vs. the Monorail” when someone opens the fire extinguisher cabinet, but inside there’s a family of opossums: “I call the big one _______.”
I’m not saying there was any bad intent there at all. He isn’t some Bush pioneer or conspiracy theorist, doesn’t work for Roger Ailes, and has a really clear perspective about political things. But as I’ve communicated to him privately, Ian’s post re. whether WMD’s had really, truly been found in Iraq and that the media may not have been reporting that fact wasn’t really the most well-articulated argument. It appeared he was parroting an already discredited story (well, discredited according to Wikipedia anyway). While INC isn’t exactly getting linked to ABC’s The Note—yet!—anyone reading Ian’s post would probably have come to the conclusion that he was another critic of the Liberal Media not reporting the “true” story coming out of Iraq.
I can let him speak for himself, but suffice it to say he isn’t and that wasn’t point of the post. But perhaps he can be clearer next time.
I was reading the ‘Letters’ section in the Rocky Mountain News the other day and this letter which I retyped:
“Many WMD Found”
News columnist Paul Compos says “Everyone was wrong about whether Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction” (Bush knowingly mislead us,” Nov. 8).
No, they weren’t. To date, the following WMD have been found: 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium (used to make nuclear warheads), 17 chemical warheads containing cyclosarin (nerve gas), more than 1,000 powdered radioactive aerial dispersal agents and 1,500 gallons of chemical weapons agents.
Campos also disputes the fact that al-Qaida terrorists were in Iraq. Recently, al-Qaida terrorists blew up three hotels in Amman, Jordan. Al-Qaida itself claimed they were all Iraqis. That there were WMD and al-Qaida in Iraq is quite clear. You’d think Campos would be better informed.
Charles Newton, Highlands Ranch
This letter was written at the end of last year and no one has disputed Mr. Newton’s letter, at least not yet. I always get a proud feeling when a man has the guts to speak the truth. I have heard some of this data before on the radio.
I haven’t heard a PEEP about this from any media outlet. Not a thing. Wouldn’t this be HUGE news? Wouldn’t W put that “enriched uranium” an a float and put it at the front of the Macy’s Day Parade? This would SAVE HIS PRESIDENCY.
Is there any truth to this? I spent some time on Google News and came up blank. Lots of fears about Depleted Uranium in armor, but nothing weapons-grade.
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