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I think RIAA is doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing. The real problem is that the Business Model being used by the Labels is failing and they dont know what to do about it yet. Artists no longer need Labels to get distribution. They can do it themselves over the internet. I think the Artists are going to make alot more money if they can cut out the Labels completely. The labels keep the vast majority of the revenues from CD sales. The artist actually sees only a small fraction of each CD sale. By taking the music dirsctly to the consumers and cutting out the Middlemen, I think we will get a better deal and Artists can make more money.

Interesting new strategy from Trent Reznor. He is releasing his new 36 Track CD online. Download the first 9 Tracks Free or for $5 get all 36. http://ghosts.nin.com/main/order_options Looks like at least one artist is learning how to make a living in the digital age. Maybe the Labels will start paying attention and realize their business model is no longer going to work in today’s world.

Actually what was said is that Washington once again caved into a special interest Lobbyist group. The really sad about this is that the Law we are discussing was actually part of an Anti-Terrorism Bill. The B&M (Traditional Brick & Mortar) Casinos spent Millions getting this legislation rail roaded through congress because they saw online gambling (Poker in particular) as a HUGE threat to their revenue. This has noting to do with any Ideology other than He who has the most money to buy congress with Wins.

But you CAN play Poker Legally where you live. You just cant play ONLINE. This is not about an illegal substance. It is about an activity that is legal inmany parts of the US.

The Casinos hired the best Lobbyists around and had them Push through the legislation that basically killed online Gambling here in the US. Basically they made it illegal for BANKS to deal with online gambling sites. In doing that, It is now difficult for US citizens to get money into and out of Online Gambling accounts.

There was time when Union were very much needed in this country. There were very few Labor Laws, Working conditions were horrible and Factories were unsafe. That time is long gone. There are certainly still some examples of these things left but they are by far the exception and no longer the rule. We also now have laws in place to protect people. Unions now serve only to enrich the Union Leaders, Stifle productivity to the point the Companies have no alternative but to shut down or relocate to remain competitive. Unions will soon strike themselves out of existance. I spent my entire life working in Industrial Manufacturing. Worked in both Union and Non-Union Plants. there is no way I will EVER work in a Union Plant again. Union Rules make it impossible to be productive and get the job done. Also I know that I can negotiate a MUCH better deal for myself without having someone else negotiate an employment contract for me.

I have a Bucket by my fireplace. All pocket Change goes into the bucket. Then about once a year I Take bucket down to the Grocery Story and Pour it into the sorting machine and get cash (I think they keep about 7% but it is worth it not to have to deal with Rolling all that change). Past several years I have gotten between $600 to $800 each time. Usually do this before heading to Vegas and whatever is in the Bucket is my Gambling money.

When I was in the Market for a Home, My biggest rule was ABSOLUTLEY no HOA. I am Not a fan of Lawn Nazi`s and value my privacy. Last thing I want is a busybody committee of bored housewives telling me what I can and cannot do with MY property. I know HOA`s a big plus for some people and I could understand why some would want them but I personally cant stand them.

To the imperialist British colonizers. In the light of your indecision over joining a common European Currency, your dissatisfaction with the European Union, your bickering with European Governments and the fact that you already almost speak our language and refuse to speak any other European languages, you are to be annexed as a State of America. Your state code will be GB. Zip codes will be assigned to replace your old postal districts. The state capital will be Stratford-upon-Avon which is a lot prettier than London. Princess Diana will be declared a saint. You have already assimilated so much American culture that you are unlikely to notice the transition. To aid in the assimilation, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect: 1. Look up "aluminum" in any good American Dictionary. Check the spelling and pronunciation guide. We discovered it, we named it, you are mispronouncing it. Learn to live with it. You are, of course welcome to your idiosyncratic and illogical place-names such as Edinburgh, if you wanted it pronounced 'Eddinburra' you have spelled it that way in the first place. You will quit using words such as "fortnight". The correct term is "a two week period". You will learn words such as "credenza", "intern" and "chad". 2. There is no such thing as "UK English". UK English is the relic of a defunct colonialist power which attempted to impose British English linguistic superiority on a nation which has a higher number of English speakers. 3. Your film-makers should learn to distinguish the American and Canadian accents. American accents are not limited to redneck drawls or New York accents. Mainland Americans have more than enough accents to cope with in our own country, so all British dramas will now bear subtitles, especially those made in impenetrable dialects such as Scottish, Scouse or Geordie. To make life easier for mainland America, all British films and TV programs must use American vocabulary and accents; Scotch characters will wear plaid, Irish characters will have shamrocks on them, Welsh characters will not be used since we don't have Welsh Americans, and English characters will wear bowler hats and pinstripes. 4. The British film industry will no longer portray all Americans as cowboys, rednecks, trailer trash or Beverly Hills billionaires. Hollywood will continue to use "Mockney" and "Posh" British accents as this makes it easier for viewers to identify which characters are British. You can have Hugh Grant back. He's a lousy actor and we don't want him either. All British films will be made in Hollywood where the weather and scenery are better. Your film industry is already unable to make a halfway-decent film which doesn't contain a American in the starring role. All American characters should be 'good guys'. 5. You will learn your new national anthem "The Star Spangled Banner". It shall be sung every morning at kindergarten, high school, university and your places of work. Your Union Flag will be hung up any damn way we wish so stop bitching about it being upside down. If there was meant to be a right way up you should have made it simpler. All Union flags will be replaced by the Stars and Stripes over a 12 month period of time. 6. You should stop playing soccer and rugby. There is no need to have two games, one of which is confusingly like Football and one of which is called football but patently isn't real football. If it doesn't require 45 pounds of padding, it isn't football. You should also stop playing cricket. Americans can't understand the rules. If you insist on playing this game which is only played by former British colonies, you will introduce a simplified scoring system, timeouts, colored strips and cheerleaders to make it more interesting. Any match which takes longer than 90 minutes will be declared a draw. 7. In films, as in real life, we decide who the bad guys are. The bad guys are those guys who don't do as we tell them. They are also the guys who attract the biggest audiences into movie theaters. You will cease using the word "cinema". They are "movie theaters". The snippets of forthcoming films are not "trailers" they are "teasers". 8. November 5th is no longer a day for fireworks. July 4th is the appropriate fireworks festival. If you want a big fireworks party on November 5th, we will help you to blow up your Houses of Parliament. You won't be needing them any longer; Disneyland London will be situated there. Hunting with packs of dogs is also banned. Instead, you will go hunting with a pick-up truck, some six-packs of beer, two coonhounds and enough guns and ammo to equip a private militia. There is also no such activity as "caravanning". It is properly called "camping". The thing boy scouts do with tents and bedrolls is called "tenting". 9. Roundabouts will be banned. What is the point of turning left in order to turn right? They are confusing to Americans and are death traps. You will start driving on the right with immediate effect. Most of the world drives on the right already. You will be allowed to turn right on a red light if safe to do so though you must check local county legislation as this is not permitted in all areas. 10. Those things which you call chips are cholesterol-soaked abominations. You will start to eat fries - light fluffy potato in crisp coating. If you want to eat British-style fried potato sticks you will need a certificate from your doctor and good medical insurance. Beer is to be served cold. The warm, flat drink you call beer is properly termed 'ale' and the FDA have determined it to be unfit for human consumption. You will also learn the difference between crackers, cookies and biscuits to avoid causing unnecessary confusion to mainland Americans. 11. All inter-personal communications between family members, even if resident in the same house, must be through a lawyer. It is compulsory to sue somebody at least once per year - be inventive. It is compulsory to have therapy three times each week and to recover false memories of your childhood which allow you to sue your parents and/or your therapist. Therapy will take the place of speaking to family members. You will be given compulsory courses on how to become dysfunctional. Name your children after interesting medical conditions. 12. You will not have guns. In the eyes of Mainland Americans you are wayward children. Children are not permitted to play with firearms unless they have a legitimate reason to do so i.e. they plan to gun down the population of a small town (self-defense) or slaughter every living creature within a mile radius (hunting). Thank you for your co-operation. You will be assimilated.

Back in the lead!! Misty May Treanor 48456 49.9% Roberta Mancino 48570 50.1%

get with it peoples!! She be loosin Ground!! Misty May Treanor 48386 52.0% Roberta Mancino 44673 48.0% Down by 4000 Clicks!! (I gotta make sure I get in on the mad Thank You Loving that this Hottie will surely be doling out when we get her on the cover!!)

In that case, I am certain that upon her great victory (Thanks to YOU of course) she will seek you out and reward you with mad monkey sex over and over again. You may want to go ahead and stock up on some viagra just in case.

there are already a couple posts on this.. But if you are going to look at that, You should get the whole story.. Starting with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PZNfOZXPJk&feature=related Then you get http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jirn3jWenA&feature=related Follwed by your link.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnVJZkDuVBM And culmanating with Kimmels great response.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lcmNaXmjvs

Watch out Andy.. That is one strange Bird you are playing with there. You might want to ask who is TOP and who is Bottom before getting too drunk. I heard her mention something about a strap-on a while back.

I believe that Mike G at Chuting Star Rigging is taking care of HiperUSA Business. Contact him and I am certian he can point you in the right direction.

I have been left holding the bag more times than I can count in my life. It is a Non-issue. I have no problems at all holding a purse at anytime however, I will NEVER look inside of a woman’s purse. If she wants me get something out of her purse for her, I will just bring her the purse. Just the way I was raised. Men don’t go in a woman’s purse EVER. There might be FEMALE things in it and we are not supposed to see those things.

Actually.. What is being reported is the Cousin CLAIMS the Tanks were empty. AA Claims they were full and working. Let me throw a Hypothetical situation at you.. Lady is having trouble breathing. They give her oxygen.. She says she still cant breathe, The oxygen tank must be broke or empty since she still cant breath, so they another one, She still cant breath. She goes into arrest. They get a Defib but the defib doesn’t shock her like everyone has seen TV. So the cousin comes out of this thinking, The Tanks were empty because she still could not breath once they gave her oxygen and the Defib didn’t work because it didn’t Shock her and magically bring her back to life like on TV. In reality, The oxygen may have been working perfectly but it just wasn’t making a difference, the Defib may have been working exactly as designed but there was no shockable rhythm. This is just one possible plausible explanation for what could have happened here. Do not believe ANYTHING you read in the news. It is most often sensationized and spun so many ways by the time we read it that finding out what really happened is next to impossible.

The reality is we dont know anything here other than what the media is trying to sensationalize. Was there oxygen on board? Yes. Was there a Defib on bard? Yes. Did they function correctly? The untrained Haitian cousin looking for a lawsuit says NO!! The corrupt power hungry evil Airline Corporation trying to cover its ass says, YES. He said, She said. The media will print whatever they think will sell the most papers or attract the most viewers. The FACTS are pretty much totally irrelevant to the American press. Will American Airlines eventually settle this Lawsuit?? Most likely they will weather they are at fault or not. It will cost them much more in legal fees and bad press if they don’t even if there was absolutely nothing wrong with the oxygen and the Defib worked exactly as designed.

She is listed as a Brooklyn Woman so the thread title is a little misleading. Also other reports I read on this same story say the airlines dispute that the Two Oxagen Tanks were empty. http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080225/flight_death.html?.v=1 You ca bet the Liars I mean Lawyers are already drooling over this one.

Plain and simply, 2 girls, One cup is the most digusting thing ever posted here. Expect any reference to it to get deleted.

I would urge you NOT to do that. If you really do feel strongly about this, Please.. Remain a Member of the USPA and VOTE in the next BOD elections. We have members of the BOD and Executive Committee that are Direct Business associates of Skyride. Find out which ones are and Vote accordingly. To those that think they dont have Dog in this fight, PLEASE open your eyes. If you skydive anywhere in the US, You DO have a dog in this fight. Skyride is using the Money they are siphoning from YOUR local DZ to buy up other DZ`s. Pretty soon they will be in your backyard too. So few USPA Members in the past actually vote, every single vote counts. If everyone that is upset about the decision to settle this lawsuit quits, There will be no one left to Vote in a Board that will stand up for what is Right. All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

Having dealt with several Government contracts, I can say with confidence that the vendor probably LOST money selling those $5,000 Toilet seats by the time they got done with the RFQ, RFI and RFP and then the contracting process. My Government customers always ask me if I have special Government pricing. Yep I tell them, Look at the Price sheet and add a Zero to all prices and I will still loose money on the deal.

The mods have commented on this several times. I am not sure why you feel that you would be titled to special treatment. If they feel a post should be deleted, It gets deleted. No one else gets a PM saying why. And the rules are pretty clear on this one. From the forum Rules: Followed by That may very well be the case. Sangiro recently said that several of us (And I include myself in this) have been abusing the forums lately. Perhaps you are on that list and may get less leeway than those who are not on that list. In general your posts do tend to be more confrontational and condescending than most here. I do not mean this as any form of Personal attack, just a statement of opinion. I think Sangiro and the Mods have a certain "Vibe" they would want to nurture here. It is Sangiros house and we are guests.

Start a Contest. Pay it forward is the theme. The Altimeter is the Prize. Let the people that want to Win State what THEY are willing to do to Pay it forward. Pick the one that you like best.

just dont drink the farm's water when you go. I think they put a secret potion in it. You Too?? Something you are trying to tell us??