Up on my soap box on file sharing.

It has been known for a very, very long time that it costs record companies no more than £1 to produce an album, that’s not just the cd, that’s everything, the cd, the artwork the jewel case, everything, and yet you will universally pay an average of £13 for that album. What does this mean? For a start it means that they are making an obscene profit of over 1000% and more disturbingly seeing as this price is near universal it must be assumed that they are grouped together in a cartel for the purpose of keeping the price of albums artificially high, correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this illegal! I’m certain there have been laws against it for a very, very long time, and yet, of course they get away with it. When you buy an album, record companies are by definition taking money out of your pocket, with your consent, I might add, I’m not saying they have someone stand next to you and pick your pocket while you look at the album, that would be absurdly costly and inefficient but joking aside if the price of the album is kept high via an illegal method, ie the cartel, then that money is being illegally charged and therefore it charging must be seen as an act of theft.
I believe that in light of this file sharing must be seen as a protection against this sort theft, this consumer abuse, but somewhat unsurprisingly the law seeks to protect the thief, not you.
The case with downloads is even worse. Each track costs something like a penny or perhaps even less to put online and to maintain, yet you are charged an average of 99p to download it, sometimes they feel a bit more generous and charge 89p or 79p, this means that at the very least they are making a profit of almost 8000% per track! How can this be seen as right, how can it be allowed?!? it means that a lot of the time you will be paying more to download an album than to buy it in the shops! the record companies save money, and you loose it! So lets here no more of the rights of musicians, copyright may have been made to protect them but right now it just protects the record companies, and allows them to continue their abusive and illegal practices!

the curse of batman!

Heath Ledger dead! Christian Bale accused of assault! Morgan Freeman injured in a car crash! Michael Caine STILL unable to act! its a curse i tell you! watch out Gary Oldman you're next!!

The Chinese fashion police that broke the camels back.

I am for the most part against boycotts and other such sanctions, political and otherwise, I always feel that they simply make the problem worse, that they force the country in question into ever more and more extreme actions simply to prove that you can not push them around, this is particularly true in the case of China where pride is especially important, as such I have always felt that what needs to be done is that they should be brought out into the world and that if you do that it will encourage them to change and that slowly but surely things will get better, but then I heard this story, that as a result of the Beijing Olympics the people of China are being handed down dictums about what they can and cannot wear, how they can and cannot have their hair and even how they should stand, it is like the straw that broke the camels back, this is by no means the worst thing that the Chinese authorities have done, but I react so harshly against it because this in one important manner is so much worse because it is an extra tyranny levied against the Chinese people because of us, because if they were not getting the Olympics, then this would not be happening, we can not allow this to happen, because it is in effect being done for our benefit, we must say no to it and if necessary say no to the Olympics, if everyone refuses to go, the Chinese will have to listen to us or run the risk of becoming an international laughing stock.

Barry George cleared of jill Dando murder!

I always said he didn’t do it, the evidence never added up, it was all circumstantial, and peppered with spurious and highly prejudiced and what’s more illogical statements about his mental state, his conviction amounted to little more than authorities pointing at the local crazy like a bunch of slack jawed yokels, and blaming all their ills on him or her, or in this case one particular ill, it was something akin to a witch trial. Now that it is all over we need to examine what may well be an institutionalized prejudice levied against the mentally ill, this is every bit as bad as institutionalized racism, and must be routed out.
I am writing about this having just heard it, so I apologize for the lack of witty title.

Knife Crime

This is something that i sent into london radio station (LBC) suffice it to say that it was not read out.

When i was a child i would often carry around knife, such as a small hunting knife or a pen knife, i had no intention of stabbing anyone, i just liked the knife, i thought it was cool, but had i been picked up by the police and given a jail sentence, i would have been criminalised, may well have ended up as a criminal, certainly the likelihood of this happening would have been put up, having mandatory sentences for possession of a knife, ultimately will not curtail knife crime, and in the long term will end up putting crime up overall.
whats more if a person is carrying a knife because they don't feel that the streets are safe and feel that they need to carry one as protection, and you tell them that they can't do that, then from their perspective you are basically saying that they don't have a right to protect themselves, they are unlikely to listen to this or heed it and who can blame them.

Wierd

so..................
people think i'm wierd, or so i've been told, well i guess i am then, and as such i think it would be interesting to look at the derivation of the word, bassically it comes from the ancient norwegian idea of the web of wyrd ie the network by which one traverses the worlds (midgard, asgard, svartlehiem, and so on and so forth) the shaman would be able to project themselves through those pathways and bring back knowledge for the benifit of the tribe, this person would be strange in so much as they would be by their very nature somewhat unconnected with the everyday normal world, because they were bassicaly insane, atleast by modern standards but now in the larger than tribal world the word has become watered down and now just means strange which means unknown and wierd which as i have just demonstrated really just means having knowledge beyond the normal or knowing the unknown if a wierdo is both strange and knowledgable of the unknown then to be wierd is to know yourself in all your wierd and strange glory, as such you're probebly a bit nuts as well, but thats Ok, who isn't a bit nuts in this day and age, i know i am. Ha ha ha aha aha ahaha haha ha ah aha ha.

My First post of 2008

Listen and hear my words, for i have sojourned in the land outside of ye blogsphere and i return to you with..........................not very much at all in fact, nope i haven't written anything new, i've given it very little thought in fact.............but can you blame me???? after a while i just got the impression i wasn't really talking to anyone, in fact i'm not sure i'm talking to anybody now, but i'll post a few things from the unpublished archive, and we'll see what happens.

I hope it didn't dissapoint.

As you may have guessed

i am so bored with blogger, my new internet addiction is mobile website itsmy at wap.itsmy.com enjoy, or whatever.

movies coming out in the cinema that i am strangely interested in seeing, probably not while they're actually in the cinema but you know maybe when

they come out on DVD or more than likely in 5 or 6 years when they put them on TV.

Bee movie

And

Fred Claus

Now cower before the mighty mightyness of this post!

The funny graffiti plague

In a car park.

On a library!

Next to a bus stop!! taunting the glumly waiting commuters!!!

The replacement blog asks? Will this madness never end!!!!

Super what now..........

I'll say it again.

Jesus says...........

AHHHRRRRRG! THERE'S A WHEEL ON ME HEAD!!

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Bang bang bang

bang.............. i want some attention.

Picture exclusives: Racist BNP advertises at Wimbledon tenis finals.

The Replacement Blog asks:

Is this freedom of speech gone mad?

Pieces of film memerabilia that i would love to own.

From 'the shining' the red jacket worn by Jack Nicholson's character, the photograph right at the end with Jack Nicholson's character in the front row, the huge model of the maze, and all of those 'all work and no play make jack a dull boy' bits of paper.

From 'Hellraiser' The bloody mattress, the puzzle boxes, the column of souls or whatever it was called from the third film the one that they have 'Pin Head' in obviously it was hollow so the actor, Doug Bradley, would be able to stand in it, just think it would be really cool to stand in it, though i think they may have destroyed it in the filming, and of course all of the cenobite costumes from all of the movies but particulaly 1 to 3.

Thats it for now

Buzz Whirrr buzz buzz.

Just nearly run over by an electric car...... well i'm assuming it was an electric car it was buzzing and whiring like a childs wind up toy so i'm assuming it was, i tell you this their going to have to make them sound an awfull lot meaner before they really catch on.
Still it could have been worse i know someones who's friends aunt WAS run over by a HOBNOB van......... course it actually killed her........ and yet some how its still funny, we used to joke that they should cattered the funeral free of charge to make up for it,,,,,,,,,, though maybe such an offer would have been seen as being obnoxious insulting and hoghly insensitive......but damn it would have been funny and i do love my hobnobs.
Oh and the van was ACTUALLY shaped like a hobnob.
The electric car that nearly ran me over was just shaped like a cream coloured mini.

Pulling the trigger: the gun as sorcerors wand.

You pull the trigger and your just open hand becomes a fist, try it, put your hand out, close three of the fingers leaving the fourth just curved round a bit at the top, close it, and your making a fist, there is a power in this, you point a hand, make a fist and bad shit happens to the guy you point it at. MAGIC, that’s what this must have seemed like to those who first discovered it, and so it was for those who first made gunpowder would have been alchemists, men of magic and of science, and though I cannot speak of science, magic is always addictive; what’s more when gunpowder was first made, the urine of priests was used in the process, so gunpowder and by extension guns became holy and right and correct and of the path of god, would that they had seen the demon but they did not, for magic is always beguiling.

Exerts from a recent essay i wrote for my retail skills course. pt1

Body language, by which I mean things such as posture, stance, positioning of arms and so on and so forth. These can tell someone a lot about what a person really thinks when they are saying something for instance they could be saying I love you” but their body language may tell you something else.

Talking, i.e. direct communication, standing in front of someone and imparting information to them through a complex series of organized sounds called words.
Non verbal communication, similar to talking in terms of its directness but less complex, it basically constitutes someone making sounds and noises in order to indicate something such as grunting to imply aggression, disdain, or even amusement, sighing to indicate boredom, tiredness so on and so forth.
Gestures, similar to non verbal communication but visual rather than auditory, this can include such things as shrugging your shoulders in order to indicate that you do not know or in fact do not care, and brandishing a clenched fist to indicate any number of things such as aggression annoyance or even, as is the case in movements such as communism / socialism and anti - fascism, solidarity.
Actions, like all previously mentioned methods of communication, this is direct, face to face, and often toe to toe; however unlike the previously mentioned methods this one is not primarily a method of communications though it is likely to speak louder, for instance telling someone that you hate them is very direct and leaves little room for misinterpretation but seeing as some people are big headed and / or dumb enough to believe that everyone is incapable of feeling anything but love or at the very least compassion for them, just saying that you hate them won’t cut the mustard, but if you try and strangle them then this leaves no room for doubt or naiveté on anyone’s part. Likewise anyone can say I love you, but kissing someone hugging them or doing something for them will make your words sound far more convincing.

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not sure whether its somesort of secret code, or toaist poetry, or just someone who isn't very good at english, but damn its interesting.