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The difference between bloggers and readers is that bloggers can actually be Arsene Wengered to type out their views for all to read on a regular basis. I've always been sceptical of blogs' capacity to outmanoeuvre Old Media (given that the blogosphere is parasitical on Old Media). To me it's just a whole bunch of columnist/editors, where the individual blog is the equivalent of a newspaper consisting of one long op-ed (ostensibly dull as ditchwater, but strangely entertaining). I'll tell you one thing though: if I wanted to do something concrete in the here-and-now to change the world I wouldn't be bothering with this background theory malarky.
Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity, he added. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left. It's terribly exciting. But on the other hand it doesn't matter if you think it's exciting or not; it's what's going to happen.
If you're providing free entertainment, which is obviously what the music business is doing, then you have to figure out some way to sell advertising to the people who are paying attention to your free music. But nobody seems to have any idea how that might be done. Or you can provide stuff that's free, and use the free stuff to promote something else of more value that people, you hope, will buy -- now called the "legitimate alternative." (Putting video on the CD is one of those ideas -- though, of course, you can file-share video too.) Or sell the CD at a level that makes it cheap enough to compete with free (free, after all, has its own costs for the consumer).
While whisky and beer prices have doubled and cigarettes almost tripled in price over the decade, illegal drugs are now often cheaper than a night out in a pub. The cost of LSD, a hallucinogenic drug, is less than a packet of cigarettes.
An increasing number of pupils and their parents are taking disputes from the classroom to the courtroom. They are suing schools in record numbers, siphoning money out of education, costing taxpayers millions and prompting federal legislation to shield teachers from frivolous claims. Pupils say they simply exercising their rights, but school officials feel they are the latest victims of America's obsession with litigation. They point to particularly daft recent cases: the student who sued his school in Washington state because he was bullied for being gay, or the two Connecticut baton-twirlers who sued their school after their coach cut them from the cheerleading squad.
ONE of the bravest, most interesting and most valuable books about economic policy to have appeared of late has just been published�and it was written by a non-economist.The book is Does Education Matter?: Myths About Education and Economic Growth Shibboleth: 1. A word or pronunciation that distinguishes people of one group or class from those of another.
Three guys are golfing with the club pro. First guy tees off and hits a dribbler about 60 yards. He turns to the pro and says, "What did I do wrong?" The pro says, "Loft."
The next guy tees off and hits a duck hook into the woods. He asks the pro, "What did I do wrong?" The pro says, "Loft."
The third guy tees off and hits a slice into a pond. He asks the pro, "What did I do wrong?" The pro says, "Loft."
As they're walking to their balls, the first guy finally speaks up. He says to the pro, "The three of us hit completely different tee shots and when we asked you what we did wrong you gave the same exact answer each time, 'What is loft?'"
The pro says, "Lack of fucking talent."
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