Here I'm allowed everything all of the time
A police chief in South Carolina is afraid of Halloween pranksters…. McCaster wants the townsfolk to turn off their lights tomorrow night and not answer the doorbell. Instead, the town plans a party in a local park. Officers and other volunteers in costume will be handing out treats to the kids. He says pranksters have …
…the economies that were shining success stories of development, from the United States in the 19th century to Japan and its East Asian neighbors like Taiwan and South Korea in the 20th, took off under systems of weak intellectual property protection. Doesn’t sound like the most exciting topic, perhaps…. but I find it interesting, the …
ABC has cancelled the full-season run of “Push, NV”… dangit, finally an intruguing show shows up for people like me that are bored by stuff like “Survivor” and “American Idol” and they have to cancel it because the ratings are poor (in a very competitive time slot, I might point out). D’oh!
A little-noted news item from yesterday: The five largest music companies and three of the USA’s largest music retailers agreed Monday to pay $67.4 million and distribute $75.7 million in CDs to public and non-profit groups to settle a lawsuit led by New York and Florida over alleged price-fixing in the late 1990s.
I’m sorry – but is the entertainment industry insane? They want to force EVERYONE to buy new TV’s and VCR’s in a few years so that they can force what we can and can’t record??? Is this some sort of twisted economic recovery plan – hey we’ll make so much money if we force people …
