Jon Stewart sums up Cheney’s bizzare behavior of late
Rolling Stone: The Record Industry’s Decline
So who killed the record industry as we knew it? “The record companies have created this situation themselves,” says Simon Wright, CEO of Virgin Entertainment Group, which operates Virgin Megastores. While there are factors outside of the labels’ control — from the rise of the Internet to the popularity of video games and DVDs — many in the industry see the last seven years as a series of botched opportunities. And among the biggest, they say, was the labels’ failure to address online piracy at the beginning by making peace with the first file-sharing service, Napster. “They left billions and billions of dollars on the table by suing Napster — that was the moment that the labels killed themselves,” says Jeff Kwatinetz, CEO of management company the Firm. “The record business had an unbelievable opportunity there. They were all using the same service. It was as if everybody was listening to the same radio station. Then Napster shut down, and all those 30 or 40 million people went to other [file-sharing services].”
Read part 1 of the article here.
Operating Systems for you religious fanatics
This is funny to me. Some Christians took the Ubuntu Linux code and made an Ubuntu Linux Christian Edition which includes all sorts of Christian related software: http://www.christianubuntu.com/
So these guys created a Satanic Edition: http://ubuntusatanic.org/
And of course, you have to have a Muslim Edition: http://www.ubuntume.com/
Absolutely hilarious. An Operating System for each major religion. Where
Dundalk Wedding…
Only in Dundalk. This was the funniest wedding ever:
AAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!
F*ck you Bob!
