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Eh
I'm back from a mostly terrible vacation...enough said about that. Haven't had much sleep for the last three days and nights because my baby boy is sick. He's still running a fever, but I think (I hope) he's on the mend.
Anyway, here are some new postings I made on the Yahoo boards. The first one is about the "legitimate" online music services; the article says they're charging surprisingly high fees for downloading full albums.
Of course, I wouldn't be writing this stuff if I wasn't basically completely insane right now...severe sleep deprivation will do that to you.
Anyway, here are some new postings I made on the Yahoo boards. The first one is about the "legitimate" online music services; the article says they're charging surprisingly high fees for downloading full albums.
Subject: $9.99 to $12.79?!
They're charging that much for an album with NO PHYSICAL COMPONENT?
How %$@#ing stupid do they think the public is?
Shiver me timbers, but the RIAA needs a damned good keelhauling - followed by a taste o' the cat and a quick walk on the plank. Go pirates!
Subject: Re: Americans are idiots, too
I agree, it's really not a big secret that the right-wing fanatics in the White House plan to basically break the financial back of the government of this country - the government that helped saved the world in WW2, among other things. Their goal seems to be to forcibly eliminate every social program and steal every possible penny from the middle class and the poor.
They think that this will lead to a banana-republic-style paradise for them; they'll live in guarded compounds while we peasants cluster docilely outside, praying for a morsel of food or that some young rich noble will take a momentary interest in one of our daughters.
The interesting thing is that that's as stupid and unrealistic as the flower-throwing Iraqui "liberatees" fantasy. The American people can be soothed and misled by the right-wing corporate media for a damned long time, but what the GOP is planning to do is going to cause (is causing) way too much pain for that to work.
You can only screw a nation for so long before they fight back...and there are a hell of a lot of poor people out there, a lot more than there were even three years ago. When the American public wakes up and starts moving, it's going to be pretty damned scary.
These greedy rich bastards understand only one thing: as long as anyone but themselves has ONE DIME to call their own, they can't rest. The robber barons of the early 1900's did the same thing. FDR saved their asses from a second American revolution with the New Deal; it eased the general economic pain enough to keep the people quiet and contented. FDR was the best friend the rich ever had, but they never knew it.
The new robber barons (Bush and Co.) are just as stupid as the earlier ones. They think that they can basically screw us all forever, and soothe us with reality TV and corporate-media propaganda. I think that's because they basically are unable to think of "lower" classes as human beings; we're basically producing/consuming animals, to them.
By the time they realize just how wrong they are, it will be too late.
Of course, I wouldn't be writing this stuff if I wasn't basically completely insane right now...severe sleep deprivation will do that to you.