The next generation may be the one that grows up without very expensive music.

FTFY. Quality music is no longer expensive to produce; the labels are pocketing the savings rather than passing it to the customer. In lots of 2000 a CD cost about a buck, including professional stamping and packaging. That makes it a couple grand to professionally produce a CD. That's far less than musical instruments cost.

Most indie bands sell their CDs for five bucks around here.

This "streaming music is dying" isn't a blow to music, it's a blow to independently produced music -- the majors still have radio (and radio station streams are all in good health), TV, and movies to showcase their merchandise. Indies are losing their power to market, which is why the RIAA hates internet streaming and P2P.

Corporate merchandise 1, indie art 0. Now what? We still have noisy merchandise but we're losing noisy art. God damn corporate greedsters and their God damned paid-off congress...

Conversely is to converse what literally is to literal. So I fail to see your point.

Christ, guys, this is the dumbest thing I've heard all week. Grow up without music? Right, like internet-only streaming music is the only music there is. You dumb kids do realize, don't you, that I was over forty before there was such a thing is internet-streaming music at all? Do you also know that there are these old-fashioned things called "radios" (I'll bet there's one in your car) that you can... GASP! Stream music from? Even record that streaming music?

What's more, unlike when I was a kid when you could only hear stations that are within about seventy miles or so, now you can hear almost every single radio station in the world. Want to listen to KSHE in St Louis? It's on the internet. KZAP in California (do they still play rock?)? Probably on the internet. A British station? On the internet. Brazilian? On the internet.

And you can stream those THOUSANDS of radio stations from your phone.

Guess what? You can also BUY CDs, RENT music from iTunes, or pirate it from TPB. You can rip CDs and put them on your phone.

A generation without music? How fucking naive. Dumb kids...

I'm still on an older Virgin Mobile economy froyo phone (Optimus V), no flash. It's tough as hell, still works after many drops to concrete and one fall into a creek. I figure why upgrade while this one is still working fine. It gets the internet when I need to googlemap something, functions as an mp3 player, and the phone's mike/speaker still function.

Well, that said, I guess I gotta' go shave my neck now...

It's not cheap to get rid of that much processor power without improving anything.

Office XP system requirements: Single core processor at 0.133 GHz minimum. 0.4 GHz recommended. RAM 0.024 GB (OS) + 0.008 GB (Office). Storage 0.21 to 0.26 GB.

The only societal differences are artificial. There's no difference between Limbaugh and a junkie with a needle in an alley.

Thanks, I needed that.

Actually, the link in the sig actually is from 1998, a blast from the past that hasn't been on the internet in ten years. The other is simple html; a single graphic, text, and links. Ever heard of the KISS principle?

BTW, su Englis es no mal por un Hispanico.

I'm fairly certain legalizing things like meth and cocaine wouldn't do much to aid the addicted.

It's better than sending them to prison, AKA Criminal University. If their drugs were cheaper they wouldn't be stealing from me. I never knew a cigarette smoker or alcoholic stealing to support their addictions.

Legalization would end the drug violence, just as Prohibition's end ended the violence of the illegal liquor trade. All the arguments for Prohibition as well as against it still apply in today's prohibitions, and history shouldn't be ignored.

Shouldn't these bought dogs be looking to balance the budget?

The deficit has been falling for years.