I think the recording industry should be fined for
Posted By: smsg on 2009-06-23
In Reply to: Bunch of money-hungry people - sbMT
cheating consumers for decades by selling tapes, cds and albums with only 1, maybe 2, good songs on them out of 10-15 songs. Remember back when you'd buy an album, and MOST of the songs on it were good? Then RIAA, the middlemen, and managers got even more greedy than they already were, and if an artist wrote 15 good songs, instead of putting all or most of them on an album, they'd put only 1 or 2, and fill the rest of the album up with cr_p that wasn't any better than most teenage garage bands could produce. All the while continuing to raise the price of the product. So to get all 15 good songs, you'd have to buy anywhere from 10-15 albums. Rip-off to the max. I have no sympathy for the recording industry, or for their heavy-handed tactics with the public.
Most of the recording artists are GROSSLY overpaid for what they do. Kinda like most baseball/football players. I don't feel sorry for any of them.
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The men in the recording studio...
singing about Viagra--and the old guy with the false teeth going on and on about the post-t-vac--truly nauseating! Amazing that they put ads like that on TV!
Bummer. I'm an Oprah dork - been recording
DVR=digital video recorder. It's like a TIVO. I love it. It costs $10 extra per month but is so worth it! I usually save up a lot of Oprah shows, and when I'm feeling depressed or just bored I watch a bunch of them in one night - makes me happy! Anyway, I'm sure you could watch the episode online if you want. I'll try to post a link.
Wow. You know nothing about the pharmaceutical industry, do you?
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as well they should be fined
and you bet your sweet patoot I will report anybody i see not picking up their dog crap. I wouldn't let my kid leave his toys or trash out on the playground, why would you let your pet leave something 10 times as nasty on the grass? people are so lazy it disgusts me
I was in the pet care industry for over 30 years. I know about
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When I worked in pet industry, we called A/D the
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Why were you fined for him not going to school? nm
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By veterinarians. I was in pet care industry for years, and
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I disagree with this poster. No offense, but this industry is STILL looking for good MTs to sm
pump out the workload as so many are either: A. Getting out of the business (by the hundreds). B. Retiring. C. Moving into editing, etc.
I've been doing this from home for about 10 years now.
Don't discourage someone from getting into this field. She wants to be with her family and make an income. MTing can help her do that!
And if down the road this profession is null and void, then she has something to fall back on. At least she HAS something to fall back on, unlike a lot of us here.
To the original poster, I wouldn't leave my kiddies for anything in the world. There is no care like your care. Do whatever you can to find work at home. Email me if you are looking for a work-from-home opportunity.
dunno what state you're in but NEVER was I fined
Well, I did file quarterly for about 3 years but not one time in over 7 years of paying yearly was I ever fined by the IRS. I don't really think STATEs have anything to do with it so please ignore my subject line *lol*.......Perhaps you owed or something from prior? Perhaps not. I paid in one lump last year an estimated tax upon asking for my first extension ever - and they returned NEARLY all of what I had sent in - I over-guestimated.......by a milestone...
I've never paid and quarterly and never been fined either
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the best repellant is to call the HOA and the city and get them fined!
I am having the same problem. I have a small dog and I religiously pick up the poop; just had a new neighbor move in one condo over and they have a dog they don't even come outside with - just leave the back door open so it can come in and out on its own. Of course, everyone sees me out walking my dog and are assuming that it is my dog leaving the presents all over the lawn.
I am very upset about it myself - if I scoop the poop, they should also!
But back to your problem, the animal control office should be able to talk to them and in my city if they warn them twice, the third time they start fining them.
Woman Fined $1.9 Million For Illegally Downloading 24 Songs
(CNN) -- A federal jury Thursday found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman guilty of illegally downloading music from the Internet and fined her $80,000 each -- a total of $1.9 million -- for 24 songs.
Jammie Thomas-Rasset's case was the first such copyright infringement case to go to trial in the United States, her attorney said.
Attorney Joe Sibley said that his client was shocked at fine, noting that the price tag on the songs she downloaded was 99 cents.
She plans to appeal, he said.
Cara Duckworth, a spokeswoman for the Recording Industry Association of America, said the RIIA was "pleased that the jury agreed with the evidence and found the defendant liable."
"We appreciate the jury's service and that they take this as seriously as we do," she said.
Thomas-Rasset downloaded work by artists such as No Doubt, Linkin Park, Gloria Estefan and Sheryl Crow.
This was the second trial for Thomas-Rasset. The judge ordered a retrial in 2007 after there was an error in the wording of jury instructions.
The fines jumped considerably from the first trial, which granted just $220,000 to the recording companies.
Thomas-Rasset is married with four children and works for an Indian tribe in Minnesota.
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