OT music smells

On Feb 1, 8:54 am, wrote:

I like rdean's attitude here. The RIAA guys are
greedy pricks and they're killing the music
industry.....not that it didn't need killing anyway.

The laws that exist (murky or not) are what they are
because they have more money and better lawyers than
consumers. But that doesn't make those laws what they should be.

If I buy digital music I should be able to copy it at will.
Reselling it is another story.

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On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 07:35:10 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Jan 31, 9:19 pm, wrote:

I'm not offering definitive legal advice, but if I understand it
correctly, it's not illegal to download music (for personal use) if you
already own a "hard copy" and retain the hard copy.


It appears that such use of your CD/album collection is a copyright/
fair use murky area, and that the RIAA would like it to be illegal:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...122800693.html

HTH,
B

And I'm sure Bill and Hil would like it to be illegal for anyone to vote
for anyone but them, but...

KLINTON! KLINTON! KLINTON! KLINTON! KLINTON!
KLINTON! KLINTON! KLINTON! KLINTON! KLINTON!
KLINTON! KLINTON! KLINTON! KLINTON! KLINTON!

Seriously, though, one part of me would L-O-V-E to get such a letter
from RIAA and, of course, another part wouldn't want the hassle. I
guess I wouldn't ASK for one, but I'd have one hell of a good time with
it if I got one....FWIW, I don't "share" stuff in the Napster sense, but
I do have (some) electronic copies of "hard" copies (music and print) of
media that I have purchased and in Larry's case, if I had an electronic
copy, since he has a "hard" copy that he purchased, I'd send him a
personal-use electronic copy.

Ooh! You make us wet!

IAC, I think as long as there is not even a scintilla of evidence that
the person who made the electronic, personal-use copy either "shared" it
or didn't retain the "hard" copy, the RIAA is **** out of both luck and
sense in filing such a pleading.

How fortunate for us that you have rendered the courts and the rest of the
American legal apparatus obsolete and null. Now we can all go out and do as
we please without fear of pesky legal repercussions.

Wolfgang
oprah oprah emeril absinthe absinthe emeril.

"while-one" wrote in message
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On Feb 1, 8:54 am, wrote:

I like rdean's attitude here.

Ineffably sad.

The RIAA guys are greedy pricks

Which makes them a lot like pretty much everybody in every business. Yawn.

and they're killing the music industry....

Yeah, boy, another week or two and there'll be no more music.....or books.
You'd best get busy publishing an epitaph while there's still a place to do
so.

not that it didn't need killing anyway.

Well then, what are you whining about?

The laws that exist (murky or not) are what they are
because they have more money and better lawyers than
consumers.

Which startling revelation some of us were jsut about THIS close to
ferreting out on our own! Another generation or two and we'd have had
it.....I'm certain of it.

But that doesn't make those laws what they should be.

O.k., that part we would never have gotten without help.

If I buy digital music I should be able to copy it at will.

Why?

Reselling it is another story.

Yeah. There are lots of other stories.

Wolfgang

"Steve" wrote in message
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On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:21:16 GMT, "Larry L"
wrote:

I didn't answer Steve in this thread
with his "don't remember much of the 60's" joke because I never find it
funny.

Sorry Larry.
It was trite anyhow.

Not trite, just an old joke. Jokes get to be old jokes for the obvious
reason. If someone who prides himself on his absolute inability to get
along with human beings fails to see the humor (which is, after all, an
exercise in humanity), so what?

Wolfgang

"Steve" wrote


Sorry Larry.
It was trite anyhow.


Oh, Steve, I didn't mean my comments to in anyway insult you. The "I was
so '****ed up' ... joke" is simply a part of our culture, of ROFFian
culture, for sure. I'm the odd man out, not you ... I don't find such
jokes "bad" ... I simply don't find them funny, either.


Larry L

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Not trite, just an old joke. Jokes get to be old jokes for the obvious
reason. If someone who prides himself on his absolute inability to get
along with human beings fails to see the humor (which is, after all, an
exercise in humanity), so what?
Wolfgang

I just love the smell of fresh brewing coffee.
-tom

On Jan 31, 4:29*pm, "Larry L" wrote:
It's amazing how sometimes a smell, taste, *.... or some music, can bring
back floods of long forgotten memories ( mostly good :-)

Had a similar mind transport this morning. For whatever reason, a co-
worker & I were discussing the since-discontinued marketing of colored
live baby chicks at Easter. He remarked that a woman in our
accounting dept, Shelly, was Jewish, but her mother had bought her one
once. The original subject matter evaporated in my head, and I found
myself thinking Jewish...Shelly; and Shelly Berman popped into my
head, followed by a host of all of the great Jewish comics of my
youth, Berman, Shecky Greene, Milton Berle, Jackie Vernon, Marty
Allen, etc.

I suppose my youth was more comedy than musically oriented; and I
fondly remembered laughing at these guys on Sullivan and the other
variety shows of that time. Sitting in the family living room,
laughing in front of the old black and white. Great stuff.

Joe F.

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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Not trite, just an old joke. Jokes get to be old jokes for the obvious
reason. If someone who prides himself on his absolute inability to get
along with human beings fails to see the humor (which is, after all, an
exercise in humanity), so what?
Wolfgang

I just love the smell of fresh brewing coffee.

....in the morning.

It doesn't work if you don't finish the punch line.

Wolfgang

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Not trite, just an old joke. Jokes get to be old jokes for the obvious
reason. If someone who prides himself on his absolute inability to get
along with human beings fails to see the humor (which is, after all, an
exercise in humanity), so what?
Wolfgang

I just love the smell of fresh brewing coffee.

...in the morning.

Sometimes in the evening too.
Although I seldom drink it at night.


It doesn't work if you don't finish the punch line.

Think I heard that before in Jonestown Guyana.

Wolfgang

Well Mr. ROFF Iron Chef...
got any good dessert recipes handy?
I have to bring one to a Super Bowl party.
-tom

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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Not trite, just an old joke. Jokes get to be old jokes for the obvious
reason. If someone who prides himself on his absolute inability to get
along with human beings fails to see the humor (which is, after all, an
exercise in humanity), so what?
Wolfgang

I just love the smell of fresh brewing coffee.

...in the morning.

Sometimes in the evening too.
Although I seldom drink it at night.

It works well with many desserts.

It doesn't work if you don't finish the punch line.

Think I heard that before in Jonestown Guyana.

I believe you.


Wolfgang

Well Mr. ROFF Iron Chef...
got any good dessert recipes handy?
I have to bring one to a Super Bowl party.
-tom

I've seen a few chefs (Emeril, for example, comes readily to mind) on T.V.
(back when I had a T.V.). I'm not a chef. I'm just a guy who likes to play
in the kitchen. What's more, I rarely concern myself much with desserts.
When I have guests, I leave that to them. When dining alone, I usually just
have a store bought muffin or something else really simple.
However, I DID get some good reviews on a little concoction some years
back.......

Add a bunch of brown sugar, some orange zest, a bit of freshly ground
cinnamon (yes, freshly ground DOES matter) and a bunch of finely chopped
hazel nuts to a half pint or so of heavy cream (aka whipping cream). Pour
the whole mess onto a slice of good pound cake.....the usual dessert breads
will do in a pinch, I suppose.....and top off with fresh raspberries.

Wolfgang

who, given that he did not use a recipe for this dish, is forced to the
conclusion that both he and it are authentically creole.