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   Steve R. (profile), Aug 24th, 2010 @ 1:52pm

   
   

   New Industries Emerge Old Ones Fade Out

   We are supposed to be a free-market system. New technologies always emerge, there are winners and for the lack of a better politically correct term, losers. Progress unfortunately requires adaptation. Regretfully, the dying industries in their attempt to survive assert that they have to deprive the consumer of their (consumer) rights including the freedom to choose. Unfortunately or political leaders have been accepting this premise without considering its effect on the free-market system. Basically, we have an entitlement/welfare society to protect those who can't adapt.

    

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   :Lobo Santo (profile), Aug 24th, 2010 @ 2:14pm

   
   

   Re: New Industries Emerge Old Ones Fade Out

   I agree.
   
   Also, "loser" is the old way of spelling it, it's now "Lüser." Make note to remember the umlaut, it's important.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 24th, 2010 @ 2:14pm

   
   

   Kill a banker use bitcoin. OOps! I mean Save a banker.
   
   Endangered speicies ACT of 2011 will try to also save, the labels, the hundreds of fronts they use, Bono, Studios, TV stations, News etc.

    

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   Karl (profile), Aug 24th, 2010 @ 2:15pm

   
   

   NAB, not RIAA

   In defense of the RIAA (shudder), it was actually the National Association of Broadcasters who said that MP3 players and cell phones should be required to have radios.
   
   They told the RIAA to support that law, in exchange for the NAB supporting performance royalties for terrestrial radio.
   
   I'm not entirely convinced it wasn't a joke on the NAB's part.

    

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   slander (profile), Aug 24th, 2010 @ 3:13pm

   
   

   Wait--Wired is still around?

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 24th, 2010 @ 3:31pm

   
   

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   Thanks to careful government lobbying in Uzbekistan. We're spreading the petition to get their two-ply back, but until then, they can feel proud knowing that they're keeping the magazine in business.

    

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   Big Al, Aug 24th, 2010 @ 3:46pm

   
   

   Re: Re: New Industries Emerge Old Ones Fade Out

   Having read comments on blogs for many years, I thought the new accepted term was 'looser'.

    

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   Anonymous Howard, Aug 24th, 2010 @ 4:34pm

   
   

   you can get any fm radio station on your phone already (streaming)

    

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   Pixelation, Aug 24th, 2010 @ 5:43pm

   
   

   The children...

   I think the RIAA needs to save the children before their industry. I mean which is more important, FM radios or children? They won't because they hate children.
   
   I crack me up.

    

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    PhilD, Aug 25th, 2010 @ 12:44am

    
    

    free parakeets?

    Wow,
    That's a novel idea, their songs would easily replace the drivel I hear on the radio nowadays, at least till the cats got to them.
    
    I can tell you, I don't look forward to cleaning that up.

     

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    drm made me into a pirate? (profile), Aug 25th, 2010 @ 1:51am

    
    

    long live buggy whips

    installation of pain modules at birth is the best way to ensure compliance with the will of hollywood
    
    hooray perversion!

     

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    Hephaestus (profile), Aug 25th, 2010 @ 7:04am

    
    

    to funny ....
    
    "Require companies to bundle a parakeet with every new tablet or e-reader device.
    
    This will create a groundswell of demand for newsprint with which to line the cages of the federally mandated house pets. I strongly suggest that all the major news consortium start talking to their representatives about making this a reality. This could have saved Cathy, dammit!"

     

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    Killer_Tofu (profile), Aug 25th, 2010 @ 7:28am

    
    

    Alt-Text

    I love Alt-Text. It is hilarious and I was glad when it became a weekly posting at Wired instead of Monthly. To be honest its about the only thing I read on Wired anymore these days.

     

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    bshock, Aug 25th, 2010 @ 10:26am

    
    

    some cute illustrations of this in a comic

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/8/18/

     

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