As far as I can tell, they have not created any music. They have created a M&Ms commercial.

So the idea seems to be to focus entirely on the commercial side of the music industry and completely ignore the artistic side.

Right after I submitted my reply I noticed your 4 digit UID. Very impressive.

It doesn't look like they have. I just spent 3 minutes trying to hear some of the music from this band, or at least learn what kind of music it is. Literally the only thing I can find for free is an M&Ms commercial they made. Asking people to pay money to listen to a band they've never heard before is more than a little insane. But so are crypto nuts, so we'll see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-N-pFG_oo0

I was reading yesterday about how the vast majority of Americans believed that Jane Fonda, after having been given notes from American POWs in Vietnam, handed those notes to their North Vietnamese captors. It was never true, but pro-war Republicans wanted to discredit a leading anti-war celebrity- so they made up a bullshit story about her and repeated it often enough that everyone believed it.

This was before Fox News and before Ronald Reagan. Republicans have always been like that.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

-Martin Luther King 1963

What you're calling "bigoted prejudice" is really just decent people judging you by the content of your character.

There's another facet to this, that I'd label "corporate fad chasing".

That would occur when a bunch of corporations, looking for the next "big thing", pick a market that is growing or is supposed to start growing any day now, and try to chase the current market leader. In order to chase the market leader they try to copy the market leaders development process and wind up with job requirements that seem to match what the market leader is currently using. So, there's suddenly demand for a set of skills needed for one particular type of solution.

In Jared Diamond's book "Collapse", he has a list of stages that all the societies that collapsed went through.

They go something like this

There's nothing going on that would negatively affect our society

There might be something going on that would negatively affect our society, but nobody knows for certain. So, we shouldn't do anything different.

There's probably something going on that would negatively affect our society, but it would cost too much to do anything about it.

Our society is definitely in trouble, but it's too late for us to do anything about it. Everybody pray..

Of course, there are also societies described that didn't collapse, but they had a different response at some stage before the last on.

There's another option that's rarely discussed here. There's a pretty good article here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... that has a description of functional prototypes that use intermittent power sources to generate different gas products (methane, towngas, hydrogen...) that can be handled by existing power and gas infrastructure equipment. The typical capacity of a national gas system is weeks to months of supply.

In short, take intermittent power sources like solar, wind, tide,.. generate methane, feed it into the standard natural gas infrastructure to be delivered and used by the natural gas power generation plants. Sufficient storage without additional huge investments in power storage research, development and construction.

And the question I have is, "Was he running a con during the campaign, or is he running a con now when he's acting all "Presidential".

The worst case scenario is both, I think.

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2016/09/23/whos-behind-group-police-say-submitted-fraudulent-voter-registration-forms/90778006/

"the group has submitted about 40,000 registration forms" ... "at least 10 of the group's voter registration forms from Marion and Hendricks counties contained fraudulent information. Local election officials said some of the group's forms were missing key information, such as Social Security numbers and birth dates."

So, 10 out of 40000 had missing info.

I am underwhelmed.

I didn't know we were "Waiting for Godwin".

Although there is some resemblance to a dinner conversation.

Remember when everyone was calling Tom Wheeler, and by extension Obama, shills that were in the pocket the of the cable industry?

That's been Uber's plan since day 1.

So we have a thread to talk about how much we like Netflix and hate Comcast. Were you expecting some kind of insightful content or intelligent discussion here? It's not 2003 anymore.

Did you see Watson demolish Ken Jennings on Jeopardy?

IBM didn't do all of that R&D to impress Alex Trebec. The plan is for Watson to replace customer service reps.