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From: High Plains Thumper on 9 Aug 2010 23:41
Homer wrote:
> High Plains Thumper spake thusly:
>
>> For a mechanic to listen in his shop would be considered a
>> violation because he is a business? This is shear nonsense.
>
> I'm in the process of starting up a new business, and one of the
> things I'm going to do is set up a music system in the shop playing
> /only/ Creative Commons licensed music, and then put a sarcastic
> notice in the shop window that has a PRS logo with a cross through
> it, and a Creative Commons logo underneath.

What an excellent idea! I was thinking similar, defeat them at their
own game! This is one way to boycott the media trolls.

Speaking of which about a month ago, I acquired a Roland Boss BR600
multitrack recorder on clearance (replaced by the BR800). Seems to be a
nice recorder, upgraded the flash memory, I am learning the ins and
outs. Combined with the audio editing tools in Linux, seems to be a
nice compliment.

If I do post something on the 'net, it'll be an instrumental classic
"circle of fifths" progression (there are very few copyrights on chord
progressions) with solo jazz improvisation on keyboard as percussion
organ and layering my alto sax. That will avoid the copyright police
(may be).

> If any of those PRS gangsters dare to come into my shop and start
> making demands and threats, I'm going to file criminal charges
> against them for extortion and demanding money with menaces.

Others have fought back and won when they were in the right.

>> I think the whole entertainment industry has gone bonkers.
>
> Ultimately they're only going to destroy themselves.
>
> Good riddance.

Agreed.

--
HPT
From: Homer on 10 Aug 2010 20:28
Verily I say unto thee, that thanatoid spake thusly:
> Moshe Goldfarb <moshe_goldfarb(a)hooya.com> wrote in
> news:5p91669m56qpsa1d58th7pq9mp34lldl1v(a)4ax.com:
>
> <SNIP>
>
>> Guess you missed The Industrial Revolution.

No, but I wish we all had, since it was this "revolution" that changed
the emphasis of human progress from creativity to mass-production, and
ultimately ... globalisation.

>> "More than the greatest gains of the Renaissance, the Reformation,
>> Scientific Revolution or Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution
>> implied that man now had not only the opportunity and the knowledge
>> but the physical means to completely subdue nature.
>
> "implied" - and incorrectly.

Yes, mankind has become quite adept at "subduing nature":

http://www.dba-oracle.com/golf_travel/images/a_seal_clubbing_self_defense.jpg

>> No other revolution in modern times can be said to have
>> accomplished so much in so little time."
>
> And it is leading us to total self-destruction. Yes, excellent.

Naturally a corporatist like "Moshe" is going to get all excited about
the birth of corporatism.

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K.
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