Things get very sticky at this point, though. Most advanced math classes for the controlling portion of students, in High School, and probably half of those in college, are going to be totally useless in their field. In HS my AP Calc teacher told the class that for students like us, it was only a matter of helping us develop our creative problem solving skills. Granted, a calculator isn't very creative, but it's still a novel approach.

I was going to say the same exact thing. Making a keyboard that could be used for simple MIDI would be fantastic, but there's still nothing that can really replace a weighted keyboard, or a baby grand for that matter. Would be nice, though.

Wow, if I keep recycling these jokes...

She turned me into a newt! ...I got better.

Really though, the coffee cup already says "Caution: Hot!" Does that need to be supplemented by "Hot things can burn you, and burns hurt."

When I was a kid, all it took was my mom to say 'Santa's watching..." That would freeze me in my tracks even in June.

We passed it.

Unscrupulous registrars are bad for everyone. A registrar that will go to lengths to protect your identity is one thing, but fly by night, morally disinclined registrars hurt, for the most part, the people who they serve, particularly when they go out of business while your domain name is still under there control for a number of years.

Happened to me. Now my bands domain is parked for five years, and because the guy who parked it originally died, it's locked until it goes up on the market again.

...at which point we'll be huge rock stars and someone will extort lots of money from us to sell the rights of use back to us.

We're watching now, now.

I lost the beeps, I lost the creeps, and I lost the sweeps!

That's the second time in three days that this has been relevant.

LONESTAR!

But does that mean that our personal information shouldn't be protected from being leaked by means that most would consider grossly negligent? Someone had to click "Attach File" at some point. That same person had to click that send button, probably after realizing that attaching the spreadsheet with everyone's email on it wasn't the same as CCing everyone.

To me, this is, inherently, an issue of human error. Overworked, exhausted, undercoffee'd PR guy who just finished a, more than likely, exhausting and stressful marketing conference, tried doing the right thing, and messed up.

I feel like this is just another attempt to destroy the independent record store. My room mate runs one of said stores, since the sales of CDs have dropped out, he's had to modify his inventory first from new CDs to used CDs, then used CDs to used CDs and DVDs, then new and used CDs and DVDs, then vinyl, then stereo equipment, toys, music magazines, movie posters, and finally to buying electronics to sell on eBay. The cd section of the store is dwarfed by the DVD section, which is overshadowed by the vinyl section, but CD sales still account for the 'rent' money.

So if the independent has to buy off of chains like Walmart, then what about Walmart's censorship policies? Will I ever be able to buy subversive CDs ever again? Or will this just be the beginning of yet another middle person in the supply chain, once again causing the prices of new CDs to rise?

My band has decided to just stay out of it. We're going the Ben Folds route; release everything on 7" vinyl singles, with an available digital download. That way they get their album artwork, and the files to go on their iPods and such.

On the other hand, though, it makes deviously good business sense for EMI to work this way. By limiting themselves to large volume wholesale, their job becomes increasingly easier, so you really can't blame them for being shrewd.

I'm still gonna have to go get my pitchfork and torch on this one though, as a card carrying independent musician, I am fundamentally opposed to anything EMI does, or any of the other big four for that matter.

Although I do wear many hats at work, boss is rarely one of them. I don't have the patience or self-control to be a boss. My boss is just equally as colorful.

He was just peeved about being tagged as "...and the rest" in the theme music to the later seasons.

Thank you Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie.

No, you are not alone, although I was just able to call my boss a "dick wad," a "c*nt rag" and "testicle mouth" right before asking if I could go home early. He said yes. See you guys tomorrow!