When customers ask us why record companies have done various things (putting things out in one country but not others, pulling things out of print, playing games with pricing, etc), our stock answer has become “Because record companies are insane and evil.” The customers just tend to nod sagely. — Joseph Zitt
Author Archives: paulschreiber
fun in brooklyn
i can safely say is one of the finest pleasures i’ve experienced that doesn’t involve a second person. —kyler england
the law is an ass
“If the law supposes that,†said Mr. Bumble,… “the law is a ass—a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience—by experience.†— Mr. Bumble, Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
the moron doesn’t fall far from the tree
“What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. And so many of the people in the arena were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.” —Barbara Bush on hurricane refugees.
microsoft fixes their process
SmartOfficeNews summarized a Wall Street Journal article on Microsoft, covering how they fixed their software engineering process. Spin aside, the best part (emphasis mine): By late October, Mr. Srivastava’s team was beginning to automate the testing that had historically been done by hand. If a feature had too many bugs, software “gates” rejected it from …
shabot 6000’s rosh hashannah
RIAA countersued
Tanya Andersen, a 41 year old disabled single mother living in Oregon, has countersued the RIAA for Oregon RICO violations, fraud, invasion of privacy, abuse of process, electronic trespass, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, negligent misrepresentation, the tort of “outrage”, and deceptive business practices: 11. Settlement Support Center also falsely claimed that …
egan’s irish pub
for google’s benefit: Egan’s Irish Pub in Fort St. John BC. 9404 Alaska Road Fort St. John, BC V1J 6L5 780-263-9992
the dangers of gerin oil
It is a highly addictive drug, but governments everywhere encourage its use: Gerin oil (or Geriniol to give it its scientific name) is a powerful drug which acts directly on the central nervous system to produce a range of characteristic symptoms, often of an antisocial or self- damaging nature. If administered chronically in childhood, Gerin …
religion makes you worse off
Societies worse off ‘when they have God on their side’: “In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies.