The Monty Python's Flying Circusss

I do my own live concert recordings at a local jazz club.

I also listen to music I like when it is distributed on CC-like terms. This is because I enjoy live music and attend concerts when I have an opportunity to.

I usually have no permission to distribute and/or broadcast what I record, but I have all the rights to do whatever constitutes personal use, including listening to them, backing them up in clouds of my choosing. I would slap on the face any label representative who would claim I have ripped off their CD, or if they would ask for my money just in case a mere thought of such possibility has the faintest opportunity to cross my mind.

First, it's because I haven't, second, because their records' quality stinks due to amount of dynamic range compression and limiters applied. I would be offended upon hearing that my music sounds like their shit. Third, to make such claims, it takes more unwarranted self-importance than our universe can possibly handle, to make such claims — and Sony is guilty doing it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRkUV73LPNM). Makes me regret that the earthquake hasn't destroyed their headquarters. In that case, the march in question would be so appropriate...

> The delays are largely due to the fact that Google is negotiating for cloud music rights and not just the authorization to distribute the songs themselves.
> The search giant wants to be able to store users' existing music libraries on the company's servers.

Would you mind, Mr. Big Label Representative, if I ask, pardon for jumping in, what the bloody hell does your label have to do with _my_ music collection? May I suggest you shove your bloody greed up your stinking bottom, sir?

Well, if I wash my hair daily, keep it trimmed, shave and so on, what on earth am I doing wrong?

Jokes aside, physical attractiveness is a lame excuse for not getting job done which was the point of gp's post. And which you seem to have completely missed. So much for social injustice: problems with comprehension lead to problems with pay.

Oh, it's not dead. It's resting!

> Well, that and the fact that not many girls think dinner in a basement is romantic.

Nice guess, but I have a fifth floor apartment and no basement at all. As well as possessing some skills in “romantic talk” girls tend to like, but which I'm constantly aware to be total and absolute bullshit.

I think it takes quite a time to find a girl these days who would have honesty, trustworthiness, self-sacrifice, you name it, at a higher priority than making nonsensical poems about her (which are lousy quality ripoffs anyway), flowers (never found a delight in giving dead plants which last for several days tops), and dancing abilities (something which I was never interested in having).

And if you ever find a girl not full of the sickeningly romantic bullshit, she will inevitably accuse you of not yet having a luxurious car or a similarly luxurious house (or better yet, both).

Life sucks, and then you die.

If my date ever wanted to know a thing about my past relationship, she would just *ask*. No need to say that if I ever found her grepping my phone for things, she wouldn't be my date anymore. That's awful to date anyone distrustful to that extent.

But again, maybe that's precisely the reason why I don't have any dates. The 21st century is sick.

Their version is more akin to BSDs, which is more akin to naked POSIX, which is kinda frustrating after all GNU goodness you've had. The only thing more feature-crippled is Busybox, but it has a very good reason to be like that —being tremendously small, which unfortunately Mac OS X does not.

I doubt it was a hand though, hands are not what you create humans with.

“Neo, presented as a biological human, can disable machines via stressing muscles in his hand and face. Numerous times.

“If that's not enough - he can be in the Matrix (or close - the "subway station") while apparently not connected.”

It was just an upgrade to a wireless broadband connection. With all unpatched security vulnerabilities it had at the time, like trainman-in-the-middle attacks or buffer overflows with arbitrary code execution (Smith/Bane) we all know and love so much here in the real world.

He's on OS X (judging from /Library, /Users etc). Its default rm is not that smart.

That's security through ignorance, not security through obscurity. Your reasoning is quite reminiscent to that of the monarchs of the old days: The education should be as limited as possible, or else too much people will discover we're screwing them and will overturn us.

Of course we now know that the truly secured dictatorship is the one in which all people know they're being bent over and how exactly they're screwed, but still are unable to do a single thing against that.

Information security in this respect does not differ very much.

I heard once a reason: We have invested $ridiculously_high_number in that tool and you're gonna use no matter what. That is a non-reason, especially if my training in that tool usage is going to last months.

Oh, so you want to say that holding hands and singing whateveryounameit (are you referring to the silly teambuilding practices HR folks enjoy so much?)is the priority? How do you find time to produce anything, then?

Well there is one exception when a customer is deserving to be called a cretin he/she is.

It's when a customer makes a tragedy over a simple bug, or changes requirements at the slightest whim, or has requirements so custom that no part of his/her product cannot be reused for anyone else, without having properly understood that those things are going to cost extra.

In my experience, the worst nitpickers are notorious cheapskates, and as such don't deserve to have deals with —you're gonna end up with negative balance and headaches. And the business is about turning some profits, innit?

Would you mind sir, if I make a point by saying that, in your post above, you sound like a typical self-righteous purist company owner?

Maybe it helped you to earn a buck or two, but this approach of yours has got a strong smell of hypocrisy.

You need a worker because there's a problem to solve. If I prefer a tool over another tool to solve precisely that problem, it's because I have the damn experience with it, and I just happen to know my own set of skills better than you. There is no hatred for tools, but there's hatred for people who force broken tools on their workers ("because we have invested large sums of money in them anyway") and still expect them to deliver ahead of an unbelievably ridiculous schedule conceived by a bunch of childish folks all shouting to have their ponies right now no matter what.

P. S. As for customers, they may be idiots (and that's their right which I deeply respect as long as they are paying customers), but I would cuddle them all night long if it brought us some extra thousands of cash. Not sure however, what the proper wording on the invoice should be.