The Do Not Call List attracted the numbers of thousands if not millions of Canadians. We forked over all the phone numbers we could think of in the hopes of cutting down the massive numbers of scam *cough* fraud *cough* telemarketing calls we get each day. These types of calls should not be allowed period, but of course, we will take anything our government gives us. Thus was born the DNCL.
The DNCL was supposed to stop the calls from everything except Canadian registered charities, political parties and candidates, newspapers, businesses that you have done business with in the past 18 months, or a company whos product you have touched, tasted or even thought about in the last 6 months. PIZZA!!! Well now Pizza Hut, Pizza 73, Boston Pizza, etc can now phone you since I made you think about one of their products.
The worst part about this DNCL is that it is being sold to telemarketers. No, not sold for a few dollars so they can know who not to call. It is being sold for $11,280 for the entire list, or $615 for a specific area. The catch for telemarketers? Well this is how the call must go down:
"Hello... (pause) HELLO!?!"
In a foreign language "Hello Mr. A...pl Appl... Apel..."
"Mr. Apple you fuck face."
"Hello, I am phoning you this evening at 6pm probably while you are eating to... (sniff sniff) Is that Spaghetti? Anyways, I am phoning you to see if you have time to take a survey on our newest product."
"No, my damn food is getting cold. I thought I registered my number on the Do Not Call List... Please remove my numbe..."
"GOOD!! OK THEN! Would you be interested in buying this very handy 'thingamabob'."
"No, not at all. Now PLEASE remove me from your cal..."
"ALRIGHT THEN, to do that, I need your phone number..."
"You called me, shouldn't you know it?"
"Your name?"
"No, just remove my number."
"Your credit card number?"
"WHAT?!"
"Your bank pin?"
"Fuck this."
*Hangs up*
"Your S.I.N?"
"...and finally your permission to ruin your life... of wait, it says that part is optional."
"Sir? Hello?"
*Click*
OK, so just remember, DO NOT ADD YOUR NUMBER. I hope somebody starts a class action lawsuit.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Coalition / Politics / Dion
I am posting this in response to the public out burst of anger over the NDP - Liberal coalition government. They plan on over taking the Harper government which would bring Dion into the Prime Ministers chair.
I for one am not overly concerned with a coalition government. Maybe it will help the federal government get some work done. As you may not have noticed, Harper seems to be ignoring the biggest issue right now. The economy. He claims we are going to be fine, even while the businesses that make up this country come crashing down. OH! No Mr. Harper, we will be JUST fine... no need to panic yet, the TSX just lost several billion dollars.
No, the problem I have is who is going to lead this part. Mr. Stéphane Dion. Yup! The guy who brought the Liberal party to their knees. The guy who was the main reason the Liberal lost so much last election. The guy who was about to get his ass kicked out of the Liberal party because he did all that. Suddenly, he will become our Prime Minister? Only in Canada...
Another reason I am worried is because all of this is making the separatists scream out even louder. Western Canada and Quebec want out. Aren't we supposed to be proud to be Canadian? proud to be a part of Canada? Not anymore. I for one am ashamed to be Canadian. While I don't believe in separating to resolve our differences, we have a lot of work to do to get this country back on track. Slowly, Canada is being pulled apart at the seams, and sooner or later we will come apart and the sweater is ruined. (Anybody know a good seamstress?)
On a related note, as a member of CPTDB for almost 1 year, I have never seen our board fall apart as much as it has today. It's not so much the political topic, but the members right, it seems, to cry when they disagree with something. If you are going to be human, you need to get the f**k over the fact that somebody disagrees with what you said. Instead of politely sharing your thoughts, you have to close off a thread or personally attack another member. This is uncalled for and child like. Learn to be a little more understanding and you won't be killed in this world as fast.
I for one am not overly concerned with a coalition government. Maybe it will help the federal government get some work done. As you may not have noticed, Harper seems to be ignoring the biggest issue right now. The economy. He claims we are going to be fine, even while the businesses that make up this country come crashing down. OH! No Mr. Harper, we will be JUST fine... no need to panic yet, the TSX just lost several billion dollars.
No, the problem I have is who is going to lead this part. Mr. Stéphane Dion. Yup! The guy who brought the Liberal party to their knees. The guy who was the main reason the Liberal lost so much last election. The guy who was about to get his ass kicked out of the Liberal party because he did all that. Suddenly, he will become our Prime Minister? Only in Canada...
Another reason I am worried is because all of this is making the separatists scream out even louder. Western Canada and Quebec want out. Aren't we supposed to be proud to be Canadian? proud to be a part of Canada? Not anymore. I for one am ashamed to be Canadian. While I don't believe in separating to resolve our differences, we have a lot of work to do to get this country back on track. Slowly, Canada is being pulled apart at the seams, and sooner or later we will come apart and the sweater is ruined. (Anybody know a good seamstress?)
On a related note, as a member of CPTDB for almost 1 year, I have never seen our board fall apart as much as it has today. It's not so much the political topic, but the members right, it seems, to cry when they disagree with something. If you are going to be human, you need to get the f**k over the fact that somebody disagrees with what you said. Instead of politely sharing your thoughts, you have to close off a thread or personally attack another member. This is uncalled for and child like. Learn to be a little more understanding and you won't be killed in this world as fast.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Sick....
I am so sick of Canada. Just after an election, our government is on the brink of collapse. On top of that, the separatists of Western Canada and Quebec are shouting louder than ever. What has become of this country? Are we even a country anymore? I doubt we can call ourselves that since we are being pulled apart thread by thread. Good job, I am now ashamed to be Canadian, for the first time in my life.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Useless Facts (Unless you're at work and bored)
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The first NFL team that plays its home games in a domed stadium to win a Superbowl was the St. Louis Rams in 1999.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game
The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosy is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosy..."), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of posies..."), People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!")
Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
A. No theme song.
Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace.
Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
A. Obsession
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
Q. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.
Q. This is the only food that doesn't spoil.
A. Honey
Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year.
A. Father's Day
Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
A. He was allergic to carrots.
40% of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.
An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this you can pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet.
The estimated number of M & M's sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
Wine will spoil if exposed to light, hence tinted bottles.
A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not. (I'm going home to boil an egg tonight)
Domestic cats hate lemons or other citrus scents.
Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money in one year. (which is more than real money printed in a year)
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
No word in the English language rhymes with "month".
If you put a raisin in a champagne bottle, it will rise and fall continuously.
The letter J does not appear ANYWHERE in the periodic table of elements.
In Canada, if a debt is higher than 25 cents, it is illegal to pay it with pennies.
Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the United States.
Federal law forbids recycling used eyeglasses in the United States
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in U.S. coins without being able to make change for a dollar
If you are hedenophobic, you have a fear of pleasure.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom more often.
The longest word that can be typed solely with the left hand is stewardess
There is only ONE word in the English language with THREE CONSECUTIVE SETS OF DOUBLE LETTERS.... Bookkeeper
Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C."
The # symbols is often referred to as a "number sign" or "pound sign." Its actual name is an octothorpe
The letter "W" is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have just one syllable - it has three.
The letters in the abbreviation e.g. stand for exempli gratia - a Latin term meaning "for example."
Women blink nearly twice as much as men do.
This one is deep...think about the cultural impact this could have: NO WAR HAS BEEN FOUGHT WHERE BOTH COUNTRIES HAD A McDonalds
For the "wrong handed" people...Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! That means DEATH to Lefties
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation.
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
The youngest person to give birth was a five-yr. old tribal girl (C-Section of course)
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The first NFL team that plays its home games in a domed stadium to win a Superbowl was the St. Louis Rams in 1999.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game
The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosy is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosy..."), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of posies..."), People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!")
Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
A. No theme song.
Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace.
Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
A. Obsession
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
Q. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.
Q. This is the only food that doesn't spoil.
A. Honey
Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year.
A. Father's Day
Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
A. He was allergic to carrots.
40% of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.
An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this you can pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet.
The estimated number of M & M's sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
Wine will spoil if exposed to light, hence tinted bottles.
A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not. (I'm going home to boil an egg tonight)
Domestic cats hate lemons or other citrus scents.
Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money in one year. (which is more than real money printed in a year)
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
No word in the English language rhymes with "month".
If you put a raisin in a champagne bottle, it will rise and fall continuously.
The letter J does not appear ANYWHERE in the periodic table of elements.
In Canada, if a debt is higher than 25 cents, it is illegal to pay it with pennies.
Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the United States.
Federal law forbids recycling used eyeglasses in the United States
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in U.S. coins without being able to make change for a dollar
If you are hedenophobic, you have a fear of pleasure.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom more often.
The longest word that can be typed solely with the left hand is stewardess
There is only ONE word in the English language with THREE CONSECUTIVE SETS OF DOUBLE LETTERS.... Bookkeeper
Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C."
The # symbols is often referred to as a "number sign" or "pound sign." Its actual name is an octothorpe
The letter "W" is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have just one syllable - it has three.
The letters in the abbreviation e.g. stand for exempli gratia - a Latin term meaning "for example."
Women blink nearly twice as much as men do.
This one is deep...think about the cultural impact this could have: NO WAR HAS BEEN FOUGHT WHERE BOTH COUNTRIES HAD A McDonalds
For the "wrong handed" people...Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! That means DEATH to Lefties
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation.
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
The youngest person to give birth was a five-yr. old tribal girl (C-Section of course)
Monday, September 22, 2008
Half a RAWR!
I thought I would get around to posting something yesterday, but I slept through most of it. The same happened today but I am forcing myself to make a post. I think I might be sick with something as I woke up at 2am this morning with a pounding headache. I stayed away until 5am when I think I passed out because of the pain. This wasn't any normal headache, not even a migraine. Well maybe a migraine since I had nausea. It felt like somebody had ripped the top part of my face off and was drilling into my brain. It was horrible and I hope I never have to have another one. Come to think of it, I did go to bed with a little headache, but that was hardly anything. I also woke up again at 9am with a headache although not nearly as painful as the one was last night. Lets hope it just stays away.
I can't wait till I receive my iPod Touch tomorrow! Well I am trying to keep my hopes up, but on the website it says "PREPARING ORDER" still, which leads me to believe I will still be waiting for it come next Monday. (I just rechecked the thing and mine still does say "PREPARING ORDER" and the stock went from "IN STOCK" to "PRE-ORDER EXCPECTED TO SHIP BY SEPT. 23rd" which is tomorrow. I just have a bad feeling about this. Not much I can do, they have my money.)
I just started to read the first book based on the popular game RuneScape. It's called "RuneScape Betrayal at Falador". It's a very, very good read. It's so real to the game, which makes it easy to visualize the areas, characters and things. Check it out even if you don't play the game.
Last I will talk about the ETS Centennial stuff going on around the city on Saturday. Everything was fantastic including the DLM garage tour, the historic 202 Brill ride and the display of buses. The only turn off was the Ferrier Tour. It was more like a 5 minute ride on a bus through the garage, then a 1 hour recruitment drive. Really wasn't impressed. There are times and places to try and boost your employee count, and a celebration is not one of them. Also being under 26 doesn't make your attempt to employ people any more "fun", since you wouldn't be able to hire me anyway.
All in all the ETS Centennial Celebrations were great, although a lot of it was focusing on the present and future. I would have liked it a lot more if they went into the history a bit more instead of providing us with a bunch of historic buses and unanswered questions. Don't get me wrong!! I did enjoy the buses! ;)
I can't wait till I receive my iPod Touch tomorrow! Well I am trying to keep my hopes up, but on the website it says "PREPARING ORDER" still, which leads me to believe I will still be waiting for it come next Monday. (I just rechecked the thing and mine still does say "PREPARING ORDER" and the stock went from "IN STOCK" to "PRE-ORDER EXCPECTED TO SHIP BY SEPT. 23rd" which is tomorrow. I just have a bad feeling about this. Not much I can do, they have my money.)
I just started to read the first book based on the popular game RuneScape. It's called "RuneScape Betrayal at Falador". It's a very, very good read. It's so real to the game, which makes it easy to visualize the areas, characters and things. Check it out even if you don't play the game.
Last I will talk about the ETS Centennial stuff going on around the city on Saturday. Everything was fantastic including the DLM garage tour, the historic 202 Brill ride and the display of buses. The only turn off was the Ferrier Tour. It was more like a 5 minute ride on a bus through the garage, then a 1 hour recruitment drive. Really wasn't impressed. There are times and places to try and boost your employee count, and a celebration is not one of them. Also being under 26 doesn't make your attempt to employ people any more "fun", since you wouldn't be able to hire me anyway.
All in all the ETS Centennial Celebrations were great, although a lot of it was focusing on the present and future. I would have liked it a lot more if they went into the history a bit more instead of providing us with a bunch of historic buses and unanswered questions. Don't get me wrong!! I did enjoy the buses! ;)
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Something cute to brighten your day!
Oh and just so you know I will be blogging tomorrow since I was out for 12 hours today and I'm dead tired!
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Happy Time!
Most of my blogs have been about bad things, or things that just aren't "positive". Well that's about to change!
I got my refund from The Source with a "We are sorry, we hope to see you again soon!". PFFT! As if... Anyway so I ordered my iPod from Apple, making sure to skip the so called "Free Engraving". All that is is a guaranteed sale for them because once it's engraved you can't return it. Anyhow, I was thinking I would try the express shipping, but found out that it wouldn't get it here any faster since they won't ship before the 24th anyways. I was going to go with the 16GB Silver Nano, but I ended up choosing the Black one of 16GB as well. YAY for FREE shipping. Tax was a bitch. Now I sit and wait.
I also spent 8 hours yesterday completing THIS. Yes, another drawing of a bus. This time the Prevost XL-II (My favorite bus in the world). You can guess how excited I am that it's finished!!
On another note, I'm kinda sick of the teachers at my school screaming at the top of their lungs to communicate with somebody sitting right in front of them. I am trying to get work done, but shitting my pants every time you start talking doesn't help. Do you know anybody who screams to communicate? Yes, No, or I Do are your choices! Leave me a comment and I will reply!
That's it for today! Later!
I got my refund from The Source with a "We are sorry, we hope to see you again soon!". PFFT! As if... Anyway so I ordered my iPod from Apple, making sure to skip the so called "Free Engraving". All that is is a guaranteed sale for them because once it's engraved you can't return it. Anyhow, I was thinking I would try the express shipping, but found out that it wouldn't get it here any faster since they won't ship before the 24th anyways. I was going to go with the 16GB Silver Nano, but I ended up choosing the Black one of 16GB as well. YAY for FREE shipping. Tax was a bitch. Now I sit and wait.
I also spent 8 hours yesterday completing THIS. Yes, another drawing of a bus. This time the Prevost XL-II (My favorite bus in the world). You can guess how excited I am that it's finished!!
On another note, I'm kinda sick of the teachers at my school screaming at the top of their lungs to communicate with somebody sitting right in front of them. I am trying to get work done, but shitting my pants every time you start talking doesn't help. Do you know anybody who screams to communicate? Yes, No, or I Do are your choices! Leave me a comment and I will reply!
That's it for today! Later!
Sunday, September 14, 2008
*Grumble Grumble* Online Shopping *Grumble*
With the release of the new Fourth Generation iPod Nano by Apple, I thought it was time I bought one. I kind of needed it because none of the LEGALLY downloaded music from iTunes would work on my brand new $120 Creative Zen. Would I crack and go back to illegally downloading music? No. Nope, I put down $219 on an iPod Nano while I chucked my Zen in the trash. (Not really, I still have it.) Now I have a $120 Zen I can't use, and a $250 iPod I can't get! The Source has delayed shipping of the new iPods because they claim "Apple's shipment won't come until the 26th". I noticed other stores have theirs already, while others are getting theirs very soon. I asked The Source to issue a refund and cancel the order, but so far I have been ignored. This reminds me that when I ordered my Zen, they claimed they ran out of stock and it might be a month for I see it. Turns out after a couple of really angry emails they seemed to have found some and shipped it out really fast. This time it's not working. I suggest never shopping at thesource.ca or Radio Shack (both are the same company).
As for what I'll do now? I'm thinking of going back to illegally downloading music and I'll do it with pride. JUST TRY AND SUE ME! I HAVE NOTHING ANYWAY!
As for what I'll do now? I'm thinking of going back to illegally downloading music and I'll do it with pride. JUST TRY AND SUE ME! I HAVE NOTHING ANYWAY!
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
The Music Industry Screws Me Over Again!
Once again the music industry has found a way to screw me over, as well as countless other people. By now you've probably heard of the DRM seal of approval being locked onto every song you buy on CD or download online. What does this do? It prevents perfectly law abiding people from ripping CDs to their computers so they can then put the music on their mp3 or iPods. Oh and I'll get to iPod/Apple in a minute. Anyway, this little ball and chain keeps music from being transfered illegally, right? WRONG!!! A big W-R-O-N-G! With a few programs and a little bit of time I can ruin the audio, but atleast I have the satisfaction of removing the DRM lock. The music industry needs to put more pressure on programs like Limewire, as well as people who download music illegally to stop it. But until then I'll continue to by my music just to listen to it on my computer.
Awhile back Apple released a online store for music called iTunes. iTunes fit right in with the iPod, iMac, iMovie, iRack, iDryer, iStove, iHouse, and iOwntheworld products and applications. This wonderful program might seem like the perfect solution to people looking to download one or two songs from Albums, then transfer them directly to their iPod, and it is. Notice how I didn't say anything other than the iPod. Yeah, that's because that music you buy then try and transfer to anything other than an iPod has an enhanced DRM lock on it made of fluffy bunnies that attack you if you try and break it. Call it a copyright protection lock, I'll call it BS lock. This lock prevents any other mp3 from playing that music unless you break the lock with alot of work and time.
What does this all mean? It means my $120 video mp3 is useless, and now I have to try and find cash to buy an iPod just so I don't have to go through all that crap everytime I buy a song LEGALLY. I guess their BS worked on me. Don't ask me why I continue to support just a stupid industry... oh wait it's because it's not the artists fault.
Sorry I needed to vent that. Now time to stand up and smash a pricey electronic item.
Awhile back Apple released a online store for music called iTunes. iTunes fit right in with the iPod, iMac, iMovie, iRack, iDryer, iStove, iHouse, and iOwntheworld products and applications. This wonderful program might seem like the perfect solution to people looking to download one or two songs from Albums, then transfer them directly to their iPod, and it is. Notice how I didn't say anything other than the iPod. Yeah, that's because that music you buy then try and transfer to anything other than an iPod has an enhanced DRM lock on it made of fluffy bunnies that attack you if you try and break it. Call it a copyright protection lock, I'll call it BS lock. This lock prevents any other mp3 from playing that music unless you break the lock with alot of work and time.
What does this all mean? It means my $120 video mp3 is useless, and now I have to try and find cash to buy an iPod just so I don't have to go through all that crap everytime I buy a song LEGALLY. I guess their BS worked on me. Don't ask me why I continue to support just a stupid industry... oh wait it's because it's not the artists fault.
Sorry I needed to vent that. Now time to stand up and smash a pricey electronic item.
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