Hi Guys.
 

Big Country
 

You can't download lots of bands with back catalogs that consistently sell well. Zeppelin is not on Itunes, nor are the Beatles. The Stones just put their full catalog on Itunes recently. AC/DC, believe it or not, is one of the top ten all time worldwide in record sales. I think they’d rather just keep collecting massive chunks of change from cd sales, rather than have people shop ala carte for those two or three great songs they put out per cd.*

Itunes fucks you on song selection. You can buy every Ray Charles tune except Georgia on My Mind and if you want to buy the one tune from a record that otherwise sucked, Itunes will list that one good tune as “full album purchase only.” But on the balance, Itunes does still save you piles of dough over the long haul.
And I already own the entire AC/DC, Zeppelin and Beatles catalogs, so I don’t really care.

* There are several AC/DC cds which contain ten solid songs (Back in Black, Powerage).

Big Country
 

I didn't realize that iTunes had the ability to force an entire album purchase. Which makes the AC/DC thing even weirder. I have no idea what the licensing terms look like, but it seems likely to me that the royalty stream to both the artist and the record company would be similar for a purchase off of iTunes as the sale of a physical CD (yeah, its cheaper to buy off iTunes, but you've got no packaging, shipping, breakage, etc. costs).


Of course, the flip side of the forcing buying an album to get a song equation is that I (probably pretty typically) am unlikely to shell out $10-18 for a single song, but I don't even think about the $1 a song they charge me for a single song. So I'd suspect on average they're losing revenue.

Various
 

Uma is very easy the eyes. Definitely a honey-limbed lovely.

Hi Guys.
 

That's not very entertaining.

<Sniff>
 

My major conflict is Wilco vs. Franz Ferdinand, which isn't really a conflict, because there's no way in hell I'm missing Wilco. I just sorta wish they'd put Franz Ferdinand in another spot.

Various
 

The only person less cuddly looking than Uma Thurman is Ethan Hawke. I could shave my legs with his cheekbones.

ETA: I wonder whether when those two were married Ethan gave Uma her Brazilians.

Hi Guys.
 

Which is more boring, the boring but possibly responsive post, or the post pointing out the response is boring?

I could talk about my sex life, but I've been banned.

Hi Guys.
 

http://games.yahoo.com/games/downloads/dm.html

I've gotten over 20k twice in the last week or so. Enjoy!

Hi Guys.
 

What if he wrote the word on her fabulous TITS! in whipped cream? Hmm. . . on second thought, what if B 'n B did it instead (sorry Balt)? Then ABBA and B 'n B would roll around in chocolate syrup while singing "Don't Stand So Close to Me." Of course the assorted sex toys would soon follow. They would of course film the entire event for all of us to watch. Now that would be entertaining!

aV

Hi Guys.
 

I don't believe you were banned. You received commentary that perhaps your posts on the subject were boring, and a bit sachrine.

Only a few posters really pull off the "post reporting on sex life." In general, those posts are interesting because they give some extreme detail- almost kicked out of condo- sex with blonde wig in bathroom stall- gay SM sex with main moderator- something that creates an image that catches the imagination.

Your posts on the subject tended to be " 1 of us got off the plane, then we had sex, then we ate then we had sex again." It reads like time reports.

If you want to do sex posts, it will take a brave post from you given that RT is also an oldschooler.

Here's what you should do- give up one sordid detail about RT that she doesn't want people here to know. Reveal the detail in a post. Of course, that will only last 1 post, so if you do a second you'll have to give up another detail.

Hi Guys.
 

That is entertaining. But I'd rather they sing "Next To You."

Hi Guys.
 

It'd be better if we just hummed.

Poker Fans
 

A friend of mine won $12,500 off of $100 in a Hold Em game at a casino in Vegas because of the Bad Beat Jackpot. Apparently (in places that have this), if Aces Full (of 10's or higher) gets beat, there is a set Jackpot that pays out. Where she was, it was a $50k jackpot and she beat Aces Full of Kings with 4 Kings (she had a pair of Ks, other player had pair of A's, board had A and 2 K's). Person who had the bad beat got 1/2 of jackpot, she got 1/4 of jackpot and the rest of the table split the other 1/4.

Anyone ever heard of this before?

Poker Fans
 

could you repeat what you said?