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• On the post: MTV Supposedly Boycotting Warner Music Artists In Rock Band

  

  Doug B ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2009 @ 06:10am

  How?

  Anyone want to explain to me how this man still has a job?

• On the post: Jailtime Seems A Bit Harsh For Online Music Store Owners Who Didn't Get All The Right Licenses

  

  Doug B ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2009 @ 07:52am

  There's a funny thing about this

  At the All Of MP3.com prices I would have spent the money to simply download copies of songs I already own rather than spending the time to rip them all manually myself. At $2 or so per disc this is feasible. At $10 per disc it's overpriced.
  
  It's funny how the recording industry simply doesn't get that. So I spent a ton of time ripping and labeling all 300 of my CDs. And instead of the $600 they could have gotten from me for music I already bought they ended up with $0.

• On the post: 20% Of Teens Send Sexually Explicit Photos Of Themselves?

  

  Doug B ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2009 @ 11:05am

  A different perspective on surveys

  Speaking from my own experience, whenever I filled out these surveys in highschool/middle school/grade school I suddenly became a sick freak. I would answer things like drinking and doing drugs daily even though I never touched the stuff. I had sex weekly even though I was a virgin. I broke the law, etc, etc.
  
  So, I'm just saying, take these surveys with a grain of salt. Just because it's a survey does not mean it's accurate.

• On the post: Judge Says School Can Suspend Student For Fake MySpace Page Of Principal

  

  Doug B ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2008 @ 09:44am

  The parents are morons

  I urge you to look at the link posted above by Jubilee
  
  How dare the parents sue the school district. Have we no shame anymore? Who in their right mind would defend their childs "right" to do something like this?
  
  The parents should have to pay the schools fees to defend themselves and be sent to a parental training class to learn how to behave in society. This is utterly preposterous.
  
  If this was my child, they would be forbidden indefinitely from using the computer while still under my roof. They would further lose all privileges indefinitely. The fact that the parents and the ACLU sued the school district only goes on to enforce this child's belief that she can do no wrong.

• On the post: There They Go Again: Movie Industry Takes Yet Another Shot At DRM

  

  Doug B ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2008 @ 12:58pm

  There is one good thing about this

  It keeps giving developers jobs

• On the post: Is Amazon Getting Ready To Take On PayPal?

  

  Doug B ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2008 @ 09:33am

  Re:

  Huh? For me, paypal has nothing to do with not giving out my credit card number. With paypal I can accept credit cards as payment from anyone with a credit card. Without paypal I would need a credit card merchant account to do this, which is far more expensive than a free paypal account. When you just sell something every once in a while on ebay, and want to accept credit cards, paypal is most assuredly the way to go.

• On the post: Web Browsers' 'Visited' Feature Creates Privacy Concerns

  

  Doug B ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2008 @ 09:20am

  Re: Firefox rocks

  Too bad you don't know what you're talking about. This affects all browsers, not just IE.

• On the post: Will Politicians Now Ban Walking While Talking On A Mobile Phone?

  

  Doug B ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2008 @ 09:49am

  No.

  Your whole last paragraph indicates you haven't truly thought about this issue. Idiots talking on cell phones while driving can kill OTHER PEOPLE due to inattentiveness. On my way to work today a lady barreled through a red light while talking on her cell phone, narrowly missing a car crossing the intersection from the left. Pedestrians can't kill other people due to their inattentiveness. The comparison simply isn't there. Please re-think your analogy.
  
  Doug

• On the post: Just Copying Someone's Technology Isn't Enough

  

  Doug B ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2008 @ 06:46am

  MSN & Yahoo DID NOT copy google.

  To confirm, simply go to each website. Google is a plain and simple search. Yahoo and MSN is a amalgam of a bunch of crap all of which distracts from the reason I went there - to search the freaking Internet.