$1.29 is the new $0.99, RIAA mascots including Snake Comma Esquire, Mitt Romney's $24 million, Emmylou Harris and Dana Carvey
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THe big deal about Apple & EMI and EMI's decision to offer DRM-free music has at least one catch. EMI has forced Steve Jobs to raise the already-too-high price of $0.99 per song - something Jobs had vowed not to do - to $1.29 per song if that song is DRM-free. And songs with this too high price will be called, "PREMIUM" and will make you feel better about yourself every single time you spin one on your shiny little hard drive.
This is not THE BIG DEAL I had hoped for. It is a bigger deal than if nothing had happened and it has found its way into my Intellectual Property, The Internet, Digital Transmission of Intellectual Property
& Future Issues Timeline. It is good too because April 2 is not of the better days for Big Events, is it? (Surely I've overlooked a friend's birthday with that stupid remark.)
A quick check reveals that April 2 is the birthday of Emmylou Harris and Dana Carvey, and the day when Samuel F. B. Morse, Buddy Rich and Gil Hodges died. Never mind. It is an important day. Anyone born on April 2 must be glad that Mom held out for another 24 hours. Who wants to be celebrated along with foolishness? (That's a bad rhetorical question I posed.)
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because I'm not in nyc and because the television is on various news channels, i've already had an anna nichole smith day. is so and so the father or not.......... anna nichole smith again and again. dick cheney's got the right way to express my contempt for all things anna all the time. as soon as i leave this subject i'll revert back to usign upper and lower case letters nd feel better about myself and my morning as a result.....
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HERE'S SOME HEARTWARMING STUFF from Gizmodo - four potential (or rejected) RIAA mascots.
First, there's Rat Baron
Next, comes Snake comma Esquire
Thirdly, we have Consumer Sheep
Fourthly, there be Lars Ulrich
I would have refrained from using Lars Ulrich for that. I'd rather stick with bad animals as mascots - substitute a cock roach for Lars, for example. Cecil Cock Roach.
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IN THIS QUARTER
Rudy G has raised $15 million in his bid to become Mayor of the United States.
Hillary RC has raised $26 million.
But the new big news is that Mitt Romney has raised $23 million!!!!! Strangely, some Republicans do not see how much of a sleazy snake oil salesman Romney really is. Romney will say and do anything to get elected. Small insects have more backbone than Mitt Romney.
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JOHN McCAIN, War Hero, is now showing his age
John McCain is seeming to be crazier than ever with his remarks of how safe and peaceful Baghdad is now that The Surge is on.
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