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Recording Internet Radio is Illegal? [Copyright]

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

The U.S. has laws and the laws enforce and prohibit certain activities and protect certain rights. It gets tricky, even if you are a lawyer because some instances and cases have not been settled in court or defined explicitly in an Act or law.
For instance, did you know that each recording device sold requires the [...]

Declaration of Belated Independence

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

Like any other holiday in America, people get offended by celebrations. It’s not polite to wish a Merry Christmas. Instead we shall consolidate all holidays as to not offend minority holidays (please note that we don’t care about offending people, just the holiday itself). Today is the 4th of July. Nobody calls it by its [...]

Music and Politics

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Politics in music can be:

a political front, where political ideology writes the music before artistic expression is considered. An example would be a singer who writes songs specifically for a party (to gain acceptance by a political party or to affect swing states or something stupid). A sub-category might be songwriters writing Christian songs to [...]

Eating Healthy will Kill You

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

Health foods are sometimes more expensive than your basic genetically-modified, science-tampered, chemically treated food. So if you want to consume food that’s good for you, you’ll need to work harder than those eat junk. Small farmers can barely make a living to produce food. Maybe then it’s cheaper to have a garden for yourself, or [...]

Gender Standards

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Underarm hair is disgusting for females, yet ladies are to tolerate it on men? Don’t get me wrong: I don’t shave my pits, I’m a straight guy, and I’m not really a feminist (in the sense of increasing rights of women only; I’m more of a nongenderist [a made up word] where gender has the [...]

Partial Death Abortion

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Fetally speaking, I’m well past my 100th trimester (three-month term) since I’m over 20 years of age. Today in one of my classes, we were discussing the legalese of Roe v. Wade and recent law pertaining to abortion. From a legal standpoint (and in order to have relevance for the government to be involved), there [...]

Driving Speeds

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

There are speed limits in all areas of the U.S. Why? To ensure safety. The motive is definitely good, but how do we know the numbers add up and are actually optimal? The majority of people go above the speed limit, whether it is by 2 miles or 20. Do traffic engineers take into considerations [...]

Repetition of the Media

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

I don’t watch the news on television very often, nor do I take much interest in tabloids or pop culture gossip. I do like to be informed on important or interesting things, but not at the expense of being bombarded by “buzz” stories without value (Mr. So-and-So is in jail for whatever; Ms. Who-Cares is [...]

Entry into Virtuality

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Instead of working on a lengthy paper for college that is due in a few days, I have a slew of disorganized thoughts running around my treadmill of a mind. I am a slow writer, but I think this will be pretty easy. I’ve tried to stay away from writing solely personal entries here, but [...]

Blogging Less Says More

Monday, April 16th, 2007

I notice that traffic-hungry bloggers and web-savvy advertisers tend to follow SEO marketing schemes of creating filler content and fluffing up word count. They claim that it will keep visitors satisfied and search engines will flock to their precious keywords which will increase click-through rates. The latter may be true, but the former is problematic. [...]

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