You should not be so lucky...
Wednesday, June the 18th at 10:57 AM
in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Three (10 years ago)
T
he above title comes from some seriously weird song that I no longer remember. Sad but true. It might be The Dead Milkmen. Speaking of t00nz, I finally downloaded a new version of Kazaa Lite the other day. This is one of the file-swapping programs the RIAA would like to see go away. The RIAA is the basically the Recording Industry mafia. These folks are crazy-go-nuts when it comes to holding on to a bloated and increasingly ineffective business model. They scream piracy, which is true. They are just too flaming stuck on trying to litigate away their problems rather than offering a decently priced easy means of distribution.
Take Apple's iTunes for example. 99 cents per song, $9.99 for a whole album. The prices will drop as competitors enter the market, but the key here is that for slightly less than your price at the store, you can pick up tons of music electronically, and more importantly, legally. There have been tons of articles written about it, but the point is SOMEBODY is capitalizing now and going to realize a profit. This is really a dead horse that thousands have been beating. So I'm not sure why I'm joining in now...
What's everyone else up to this summer. Who's going on the coolest vacation?
16 Comments
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10 years ago
chad
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I don't know about the coolest, but I'm going to the smokies to hike and raft, staying in the top floor of a B & B with a private balcony overlooking the mountains, as well as going to look at some flowers or something at biltmore.
2
10 years ago
Chad - where in the smokies are you going to hike and raft? Cindy and I went to WV to raft (well - at least I went rafting) a couple years ago, and to the Biltmore last summer. Both awesome places! I highly recommend taking the "Behind the Scenes" and "Rooftop" tours of the Biltmore if you have the time.
3
10 years ago
Bryson City, NC.. The Folkestone Inn is just a quarter-mile from the Deep Creek area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where an hour's walk will take you by rushing mountain streams and three sparkling waterfalls. As for rafting, the Nantahala River is about 12 miles from Bryson City. If time permits we may also do a little mtb on the Tsali trails.
6
10 years ago
Hiking, Rafting AND Biking? I'm jealous. I wish Cindy was a little more of an outdoor girl. Her idea of "roughing it" is a vacation without a visit to the mall...
7
10 years ago
You be nice Shep. Without her you might do more stuff outdoors, sure, but you'd probably still have that mullet. =)
8
10 years ago
Ouch! I resent that... but - yeah, you're probably right. My mullet rokked!! I bet you were one of those skater-bang cold neckers in high school weren't you? That's like a reverse mullet, you know.
9
10 years ago
Ouch! I resent that... but - yeah, you're probably right. My mullet rokked!! I bet you were one of those skater-bang cold neckers in high school weren't you? That's like a reverse mullet, you know.
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10 years ago
I'm not sure if I really want to kill the echo... It provides hours of amusement for those of us who know how to avoid it...
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