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About the RIAA assault on file traders: personally, the reason I don't buy CDs is because A) they're too damned expensive, and B) I don't have any money. There are 1.3 million more people below the poverty line this year, and the poverty line itself is a scandal; it should have been indexed to the real cost of living and adjusted by region to take local housing costs into account, but instead it's a complete fantasy.
A report just released showed that in Rhode Island, it would be necessary to make double the minimum wage just to afford a two-bedroom apartment; more than that would be necessary to eat and get transportation to work, I suspect.
Bush & Co. (the top 1% or fraction thereof who now own the US) have been squeezing the hell out of all the lower classes (which includes the middle class, and much of the so-called upper class) as hard as they can. There's a lot more they're going to do if they can, but the lack of disposable income is just an early symptom of the disease that is BushCo.
In many ways the Bush people are similar to a cancer in the body politic, in that they are happily doing their best to destroy the environment, both literal and political, in which they live - but will only end up killing themselves along with their host, should they succeed.
I know a hell of a lot of people out of work, and only ONE of them has even a prospect of a job. Consider the record companies and the RIAA an early casualty of the changeover to a banana republic economy.
On other fronts, I posted a new installment of Chatter recently; it basically announced that a lot of the activity that used to go on there, will now be here on LiveJournal instead. It's just so much easier and more convenient to post here. I'll probably still use Chatter for roleplaying-related chatter, and of course the site as a whole will continue unabated.
I only wish more people would comment on my stuff here...it would be nice to have some feedback.
A report just released showed that in Rhode Island, it would be necessary to make double the minimum wage just to afford a two-bedroom apartment; more than that would be necessary to eat and get transportation to work, I suspect.
Bush & Co. (the top 1% or fraction thereof who now own the US) have been squeezing the hell out of all the lower classes (which includes the middle class, and much of the so-called upper class) as hard as they can. There's a lot more they're going to do if they can, but the lack of disposable income is just an early symptom of the disease that is BushCo.
In many ways the Bush people are similar to a cancer in the body politic, in that they are happily doing their best to destroy the environment, both literal and political, in which they live - but will only end up killing themselves along with their host, should they succeed.
I know a hell of a lot of people out of work, and only ONE of them has even a prospect of a job. Consider the record companies and the RIAA an early casualty of the changeover to a banana republic economy.
On other fronts, I posted a new installment of Chatter recently; it basically announced that a lot of the activity that used to go on there, will now be here on LiveJournal instead. It's just so much easier and more convenient to post here. I'll probably still use Chatter for roleplaying-related chatter, and of course the site as a whole will continue unabated.
I only wish more people would comment on my stuff here...it would be nice to have some feedback.