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tenlittlebullets) wrote2003-10-31 07:40 am
tenlittlebullets) wrote2003-10-31 07:40 am
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Wow, I haven't updated in a while.
Quarter grades are coming in--miraculously, I turned in a whole bunch of late work and managed to scrape A's and B's in all my classes. Even English, which I was failing last week but possibly have an A in now.
Halloween today. I never did get around to getting a decent costume, so I just recycled the Trinity outfit from this spring. I think it looks pretty good, though.
I've found another journal site, not LJ-derived, and it rules. This would be my second day journaling there, and already I've commiserated with someone with the same food allergies as me, with someone who also gets mistaken for a member of the opposite sex, with someone who has AS, with like five people with the same eclectic taste in music that I have. And compared to all the LJ-based journal sites, it's tiny--a list of all the journals fits onto one page, albiet a long one. However, I'm not going to give the URL here, because I'm a selfish bitch and because you all would probably find me and read all the private stuff I put up there.
I have a devious and possibly annoying idea to piss off the RIAA. Email them claiming to be a student writing a paper on how file-sharing hurts artists, ask how much their sales have gone down in the past five years (Fig A) and how many artists are seriously affected by file trading (Fig B). Determine how much of Fig A is due to general economic slump, subtract accordingly to find how much worse they're doing than the rest of the businesses in the US. Give them the benefit of the doubt and assume the difference (Fig C) is all due to file-trading. Multiply Fig C by .05, which is about how much of each record sale the artist gets, and divide the product (Fig D) by Fig B. The result should be how much each artist is affected by piracy--from initial estimates, pretty negligible, which should debunk their cries of "You're hurting the artists you love!" Oooo, Britney Spears is losing $1000 a year from P2P? How will she ever survive off the millions she already has? Cry me a fucking river, Cary Sherman
Quarter grades are coming in--miraculously, I turned in a whole bunch of late work and managed to scrape A's and B's in all my classes. Even English, which I was failing last week but possibly have an A in now.
Halloween today. I never did get around to getting a decent costume, so I just recycled the Trinity outfit from this spring. I think it looks pretty good, though.
I've found another journal site, not LJ-derived, and it rules. This would be my second day journaling there, and already I've commiserated with someone with the same food allergies as me, with someone who also gets mistaken for a member of the opposite sex, with someone who has AS, with like five people with the same eclectic taste in music that I have. And compared to all the LJ-based journal sites, it's tiny--a list of all the journals fits onto one page, albiet a long one. However, I'm not going to give the URL here, because I'm a selfish bitch and because you all would probably find me and read all the private stuff I put up there.
I have a devious and possibly annoying idea to piss off the RIAA. Email them claiming to be a student writing a paper on how file-sharing hurts artists, ask how much their sales have gone down in the past five years (Fig A) and how many artists are seriously affected by file trading (Fig B). Determine how much of Fig A is due to general economic slump, subtract accordingly to find how much worse they're doing than the rest of the businesses in the US. Give them the benefit of the doubt and assume the difference (Fig C) is all due to file-trading. Multiply Fig C by .05, which is about how much of each record sale the artist gets, and divide the product (Fig D) by Fig B. The result should be how much each artist is affected by piracy--from initial estimates, pretty negligible, which should debunk their cries of "You're hurting the artists you love!" Oooo, Britney Spears is losing $1000 a year from P2P? How will she ever survive off the millions she already has? Cry me a fucking river, Cary Sherman