I'd be apathetic if I cared
We're all sick of this shit, right?
ajc.com | ELECTION 2002 | RESULTSAnd in her traditional south DeKalb stronghold, McKinney's voters didn't come out in the kind of numbers she has typically drawn. For example, at Stoneview Elementary School, a McKinney stronghold and the site of a melee over ballot access for the 1,767 people who showed up to vote in the 2000 general election, only 169 people cast ballots Tuesday, most of them for McKinney.
Yep, people giving up on the political system entirely is exactly what's needed now. Thanks, Fucking White Oppressor!
Playing a Quick Mix from My.MP3.com. Handly little thing.
- Deadly Nightshade Family Singers* -DNFS - Silence Descends
- Rachel Sage* - Big Star (live)
- Tori Amos - Pretty Good Year
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - O'malley's Bar
- Terror Core* - STRICT NINE - The Haunted Apple Tree
- Leonard Cohen - The Future
- Rachel Sage - Obsessive Love Song (live)
- Sister Soleil - Strength
- Audra* - In All Our Androgyny
- INDIA.Arie* - Butterfly
- Cowboy Junkies* - I'm So Open
- PJ Harvey -M-Bike
The * indicates an MP3.com page for the artist where you can hear/download their songs. The rest are official sites or cool-looking fanpages or whatever. I left out the songs which are currently locked due to rights issues. And everyone knows about Beam-It, right?
Putting your personal CDs online is a breeze with MP3.com's Beam-it technology. [. . .]
- Insert a CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive.
- Click on the Beam-it button.
In a few seconds, you'll see a status message indicating which tracks from your CD were added successfully. It's that easy!
This "click" business only applies to Windows and Mac users, mind. Some of us have to type in arcane commands, including our bloody password, every time we want to add something. Unless they've updated the Linux client, which I doubt. I'd check, but I'm too apa-- never mind.
Update: The protestations are true. I'm not a geek, so I forget some of the little controversies.
From the previous link, Robert Szarka's Notes on MP3.com's Beam-It Protocol:
The privacy concerns associated with the service are real, though as someone else noted it's unfair to equate MP3.com's stated policies with RealNetwork's violation of its customers' privacy with no prior disclosure. Personally, I'm happy to provide information about my musical tastes to companies like MP3.com and CDNow that provide a real service and do so responsibly. MP3.com, however, should do a better job of informing customers that it collects other data (e.g. the IP address and MAC address) and disclosing the ways in which it is used.
For the non-geeks, some definitions from Webopedia.com:
- IP address
- An identifier for a computer or device on a TCP/IP network. Networks using the TCP/IP protocol route messages based on the IP address of the destination. The format of an IP address is a 32-bit numeric address written as four numbers separated by periods. Each number can be zero to 255. For example, 1.160.10.240 could be an IP address.
- MAC address
- Short for Media Access Control address, a hardware address that uniquely identifies each node of a network. In IEEE 802 networks, the Data Link Control (DLC) layer of the OSI Reference Model is divided into two sublayers: the Logical Link Control (LLC) layer and the Media Access Control (MAC) layer. The MAC layer interfaces directly with the network media. Consequently, each different type of network media requires a different MAC layer.
The practical upshot of all this is, MP3.com knows who you are when you tell them what cds you own. If your reaction to this stunning revelation is saying "duh," you're not a geek either. You're far too sensible.
If you're horrified at this invasion of your privacy and thinking about swapping out ethernet cards whenever you use the program (since most of us have dynamic IPs to begin with). . . um, yeah, keep fighting the power. You probably refuse to get one of those savings cards at the local supermarket, yet pay using a check or debit card.
My only problem with Beam-It was my idiot early-adopter instincts and weird music tastes. They might have an alternate solution now, but way back in the day, if you submitted a cd that wasn't in their database they would, um, rip it. And upload the rip. Again for the non-geeks, this is a Bad Thing. A Bad, time, bandwidth and drive-space consuming thing.
After the RIAA lawsuit (you may now hiss the villain), not all songs on all cds are available. ABBA must have freaked, since all of their songs from the Muriel's Wedding soundtrack are locked. Yes, even the orchestral versions of Dancing Queen. Bastards.
Comments
I reviewed Rachel Sage's new CD a few months ago. I just really could not get into it. She sounds like she can't differentiate between being 'influenced' by someone (Tori, Ani, etc.) and sounding just like them.
Posted by: Michelle | August 26, 2002 9:59 AM
Have to agree on that. Think I listened to her cd all the way through once, and haven't pulled it out since.
That one's getting sold at some point.
Where's the review? Guess I could just look for it at GoGirlsMusic. . .
Posted by: Aaron | August 26, 2002 10:13 AM
Yep that's where you can find the review.
Posted by: Michelle | August 26, 2002 1:22 PM