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There is that annoying ad on the front of zp--

I dont understand. Why do people think Britney is sleazy?

Im sure glad Sinclair Broadcasting is not in my area - Ive just added them to Walmart, ClearChannel and Maytag as companies i wont do business with.

What kind of list is this? Where's CTC Command?

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Both arguments were eloquently stated :good job:

Amen, Ken. I have problems when politics and economics take precedent over human dignity. Yes we are a connected world - that doenst mean it cant be done in a better way.

Eloquently stated, James. "I look good, feel good, make love good"

Welcome aboard :scratchin: :read this: http://www.beatking.com/forums/style_image...me/playback.htm

I love the album covers for Metal Bands. Why do the artists who make them tend to be more creative than alot of other genres??

I see what you say about the accent thing... It's nice to England developing a garage band thing. In the sixties, British rock ruled.

Pretty impressive, BF. You must have you feet on the pulse of things...

:good job: This just reminded me to play Into the Mystic again. Thanx, Umma...

The UK Radio Academy recently honored George Michael as the most popular artist in Britain over the last two decades. Over 600 radio stations participated in the survey. You can read the full story in the BBC News: :read this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3666541.stm

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Welcome back, and yes, you should rev up the bigger thread again :bigsmile:

With high-definition DVD's requiring five times the storage space of the standard DVD, the race is on between competing groups to establish the winning standard format. Sony has teamed up with a dozen companies to develop the Blu-ray technology, including Matsushita Electric (Panasonic), Thomson (RCA and GE), LG, Philips, Pioneer, Sharp and Samsung, Dell and Hewlett-Packard. Toshiba and NEC, on the other hand. have developed the HD-DVD. You can read about the differences between the two competing standards, and how they work, in the NY Times: :read this: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/technolo...its/29howw.html

In the increasingly competitive battle between Microsoft's X-Box, Sony's Playstation and Nintendo's GameCube, video game artists are choosing the X-Box because of its versatility. To learn why the makers of Doom III went with Microsoft, you can read the full story in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/technolo...its/29xbox.html

By JOHN MARKOFF Published: April 29, 2004 AN FRANCISCO, April 28 - Apple Computer said Wednesday that it had sold more than 70 million songs during the first year of its online iTunes music service. The company, which struck a landmark deal with record companies last year to permit iTunes users to download copyrighted music, had originally said it believed it would sell 100 million songs during the first year of the service. Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, said the company, based in Cupertino, Calif., is now selling 2.7 million songs a week, charging 99 cents a song. Advertisement "We feel we have lots of momentum," Mr. Jobs said. He also said the iTunes music service had generated a small profit during the most recent quarter. In recent weeks, Apple has renegotiated licensing arrangements with the five major record labels - Warner, Universal, EMI, BMG and Sony. In a teleconference, Mr. Jobs said the iTunes service now offered more than 450 independent labels and during the first year of operation had expanded the number of songs available for purchase from 200,000 to 700,000. On Wednesday, the company released a new version of its iTunes software, available for Macintosh and Windows PC users, that offers several new features, including music videos and the ability for users to publish "playlists" of their favorite songs. When it was introduced last year, the iTunes service was considered a breakthrough for the music industry in its battle against the illegal downloading of music. Mr. Jobs said that Apple had negotiated with the record companies several modifications of the use rights permitted with digital music downloaded from the iTunes store. It is now possible to share iTunes songs among five personal computers instead of three. But the number of times a particular playlist can be burned on a CD has been reduced from 10 times to 7. "We don't think this will affect many of our users at all," Mr. Jobs said. You can read the full story here: :read this: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/technology/29apple.html

By LAURA M. HOLSON LOS ANGELES, April 28 — The Magic Kingdom is no longer under assault, but its king remains under siege. The Comcast Corporation, the nation's largest cable operator, abandoned its $54.1 billion hostile takeover bid for the Walt Disney Company on Wednesday, but the move is hardly a triumph in the storied career of Michael D. Eisner, Disney's chief executive. Mr. Eisner still faces a raft of issues, most notably restive shareholders so convinced that he has mismanaged an American icon that they forced Disney's board to strip him of his chairman's title last month. Analysts and investors are also concerned about whether Disney can deliver on the company's promised turnaround given the continuing troubles at its ABC network and animation division Read the full story here in the NY Times: :read this: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/business.../29DISN.html?hp

Madonna finds herself in the unusual postion of being sued by Warner Brothers Music, here record company for twenty years. The bone of contention - Maverick Records - Madonna's money losing record label. ...Will Tanous, a company spokesman, issued a statement repeating Warner Music's statement in the lawsuit that Maverick has been unprofitable for the last five years. In its complaint Warner Music says that Maverick has amassed more than $60 million in losses since 1999, and would have to repay $92.5 million before it could buy out Warner's' half of the joint venture. Maverick's filing paints a more complicated picture. Its partners charge that Roger Ames, the former chairman and chief executive of Warner Music, refused to provide the promotional, sales and marketing support to Maverick required by the venture agreement. "They have consistently over a pattern of years refused to deal with our problems and have misled us," Ms. Dashev said. You can read the full story here in the NY Times: :read this: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/arts/mus...MADO.html?8hpib

They may have chosen to be solidiers, true. But it is the responsibility of the Commander in Chief to insure that when they are sent into battle that proper preparations have been made and there were none. Zero. Zilch.

i wouldnt know...i guess i only hang with the other half :rotfl:

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