Used MP3 Stores

by gofromjrocknyc
March 9, 2013 09:20 pm ·
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NYTimes:

On Thursday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published Apple’s application for its own patent for a digital marketplace. Apple’s application outlines a system for allowing users to sell or give e-books, music, movies and software to each other by transferring files rather than reproducing them.

Meanwhile, a New York court is poised to rule on whether a start-up that created a way for people to buy and sell iTunes songs is breaking copyright law. A victory for the company would mean that consumers would not need either Apple’s or Amazon’s exchange to resell their digital items. Electronic bazaars would spring up instantly.

Would I start buying more than a couple albums or CDs each year if these used shops come about? Probably not.

“The technology to allow the resale of digital goods is now in place, and it will cause a dramatic upheaval,” said Bill Rosenblatt, president of GiantSteps, a technology consulting firm. “In the short term, it’s great for consumers. Over the long term, however, it could seriously reduce creators’ incentive to create.”

I’m fucking SWIMMING in movies and music that I have zero energy or time to digest, and I still love music and film. The world could USE some reduced creatoring!

USA Today: Jamie Sniffen, 39, held back a charging pitbull and watched as the two men fought, her boyfriend stabbing and pistol whipping her obese paramour, who came at him with a stereo speaker. LOL 
by gofromjrocknyc
February 26, 2013 10:01 am · 1
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USA Today:

Jamie Sniffen, 39, held back a charging pitbull and watched as the two men fought, her boyfriend stabbing and pistol whipping her obese paramour, who came at him with a stereo speaker.

LOL 

This five-year-old boy in Alabama(?) got kidnapped. He’s stuck in a bunker with some nutty Vietnam vet.  abc.go.com:  Clouse said the boy has Asperger’s syndrome, an autism-like disorder, as well as ADHD. Police have been delivering medication to him through the pipe, he said. I hope that medicine has Iocaine powder in it, and that they’re secretly building up the boy’s resistance, so when the man runs out of cans of beans and demands a pizza SWAT can POISON THE FUCK OUT OF IT
by gofromjrocknyc
February 1, 2013 04:21 pm · 1
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This five-year-old boy in Alabama(?) got kidnapped. He’s stuck in a bunker with some nutty Vietnam vet. 

abc.go.com: 

Clouse said the boy has Asperger’s syndrome, an autism-like disorder, as well as ADHD. Police have been delivering medication to him through the pipe, he said.

I hope that medicine has Iocaine powder in it, and that they’re secretly building up the boy’s resistance, so when the man runs out of cans of beans and demands a pizza SWAT can POISON THE FUCK OUT OF IT

by gofromjrocknyc
January 22, 2013 08:45 pm ·
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http://newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/100583.php

Japan’s finance minister Taro Aso said Monday the elderly should be allowed to “hurry up and die” instead of costing the government money for end-of-life medical care.

“This won’t be solved unless you let them hurry up and die,” he said.

“I don’t need that kind of care. I will die quickly,” he said adding he had left written instructions that his life is not artificially prolonged.

He’s not totally wrong. The bulk of Medicare money here in the U.S. (and I can only assume it’s worse in Japan) gets spent trying to pull out a few more so-so years from elderly people. It should really be going to children who haven’t yet lived a full life. 

by gofromjrocknyc
January 5, 2013 08:48 pm ·
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SHADOWOPSWEAPONRY:

Our goal is to have all of these lowers before any legislation goes into effect in July of 2013. We are guestimating that it will take 3 months past January to come up with a law to ban AR-15 from new manufacture and an 90-day notice to us to stop manufacturing.

Interesting.

via slickdeals

by gofromjrocknyc
January 4, 2013 04:09 pm·
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The question is whether Mr Abe can keep the government on-message. In picking his 19-member cabinet he has given reason to doubt that, in the long run, he even wants to. Consider the following. Fourteen in the cabinet belong to the League for Going to Worship Together at Yasukuni, a controversial Tokyo shrine that honours leaders executed for war crimes. Thirteen support Nihon Kaigi, a nationalist think-tank that advocates a return to “traditional values” and rejects Japan’s “apology diplomacy” for its wartime misdeeds. Nine belong to a parliamentary association that wants the teaching of history in schools to give a better gloss to Japan’s militarist era. They deny most of Japan’s wartime atrocities.

The line-up includes Hakubun Shimomura, the new education minister, who wants to rescind not just the landmark 1995 “Murayama statement”, expressing remorse to Asia for Japan’s atrocities, but even annul the verdicts of the war-crimes trials in Tokyo in 1946-48. Mr Abe has made no secret of his wish to revise three of the country’s basic modern charters: the American-imposed constitution of 1946, committing Japan to pacifism; the education law, which Mr Abe thinks undervalues patriotism; and the security treaty with the United States, under which Japan plays a junior role. To describe the new government as “conservative” hardly captures its true character. This is a cabinet of radical nationalists.

http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21569046-shinzo-abes-appointment-scarily-right-wing-cabinet-bodes-ill-region-back-future

I wonder if it’s less about “denying” and more about “that shit was seventy fucking years ago and everyone who did it is dead, can we PLEASE move on.”

by gofromjrocknyc
December 17, 2012 10:24 pm · 1
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The Atlantic:

A record-low 26% of Americans favor a legal ban on the possession of handguns in the United States other than by police and other authorized people.

When Gallup first asked Americans this question in 1959, 60% favored banning handguns. But since 1975, the majority of Americans have opposed such a measure, with opposition around 70% in recent years.

thx e!