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  • Hard News: You've got to listen to the music,

    some interesting points about music 2.0...

    ...In Lanier's eyes, there is no longer a middle realm in which musicians can make music according to their own standards, sell it directly to fans, and not starve. Musicians are either kids in vans making just enough money for the next gig or dilettantes with a vanity career. The Facebook generation gets its music for free and doesn't expect to pay for it, and this has helped bring about a musical Dark Age. That's not a crazy idea, but it's just Lanier's hunch. When you start to poke around for data, you get a sense of the landscape. According to this U.K. study, artists now make the majority of their money doing live performances, and the total revenue accrued by artists has increased. Today's theoretical middle-class musician would probably have to travel more, but he or she could still make a living.


    here...

    somewhere else • Since Dec 2009 • 152 posts Report

  • I feel Ayn Rand,

    OTM lucy:)

    so maybe tiger should play the cultural/race card from his black heritage like 'monty' zuma the sth african polygamist.

    somewhere else • Since Dec 2009 • 152 posts Report

  • Field Theory: One in a billion,

    ^^yeah kinda what he said:)

    its all about perception. for my taste the word gets bandied about a little too much cos it may not neccessarily be true but once you start throwing shit around some of it sticks to things it shouldnt

    just saying, be mindful of using it if theres the slightest chance you might be confused about who and what you're applying it to.

    somewhere else • Since Dec 2009 • 152 posts Report

  • Field Theory: One in a billion,

    now i'm confused.

    You don't have to be homophobic to, for instance, publish a puberty guide for teenagers which assumes that every single person reading it is straight, but if it's pointed out to you that you've done it, and you don't acknowledge it or recognise the damage that erasure does, then there might be a deeper problem than just not thinking about it.

    ...and therefore you might be ?

    so heterocentric institutions/people are those which are homophobic but not conscious of it until you point it out by their behaviour ?

    and therefore all people/institutions which don't forthrightly acknowledge gayness are homophobic in much the same way as those which dont acknowledge the treaty are racist ?

    but homophobia is a bad thing yeah ? so if it goes against your moral upbringing as a religious person you are then a bad person ?

    somewhere else • Since Dec 2009 • 152 posts Report

  • Field Theory: The future's so different…,

    the nelson one upgraded specifically for 'avatar' and the 30 other 3d movies due this year. combined with the upgrade to digital sound last year, it made for quite a treat.

    somewhere else • Since Dec 2009 • 152 posts Report

  • Field Theory: One in a billion,

    By the reactions of others to your behaviours?

    and which others might they be ?... depends on the company you keep i suppose but even then that whole subconscious thing is a hole lot of unknown, hence the term.

    somewhere else • Since Dec 2009 • 152 posts Report

  • I feel Ayn Rand,

    i'm all for marriages of convenience as long as both parties are aware that that's what it is

    maybe tiger and gareth thought marriage would cure their bacon and smoke their screens but as public figures it is inevitable that all eventually comes out in the wash

    goes without saying that there had to be some media complicity in protecting both their reps

    somewhere else • Since Dec 2009 • 152 posts Report

  • Hard News: You've got to listen to the music,

    kiwiburn sounds like a choice idea. pity its not near nellyville:(

    somewhere else • Since Dec 2009 • 152 posts Report

  • Field Theory: One in a billion,

    I do use 'heterocentric', to mean people or institutions which actually aren't consciously homophobic, but have trouble remembering that non-straight people exist

    so if you're subconsciously or unconsciously homophobic. how would you know ?

    somewhere else • Since Dec 2009 • 152 posts Report

  • Field Theory: One in a billion,

    it's not because I'm "confused".

    not even as to whether the person you're labelling really does have an irrational fear of gays ?

    you'd have to be pretty cock sure of yourself to pull that one off:)

    somewhere else • Since Dec 2009 • 152 posts Report

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