NoCalMike

If they seemed genuinely remourseful and ashamed, that is more important than missing 10 days of school, IMO. Kicking someone out of school for any amount of time, should generally be used for kids not interested in being there methinks.

Only thing worse than Ben/Jen has been Demi/Ashton. First it is a desperate attempt for Demi to put attention back on her, and that creates undeserving coverage to Ashton who should stick with Punk'd because besides that show, everything he does is shit.

biggest problem was the media covering them in the first place. Ben is a mediocre actor that can turn in a good performance every now & then, and J-Lo hasn't really done anything good since Money Train/U-Turn.....(The Cell was ok I guess). LOL@J-Lo wanting Ben to sign a prenup, not to avoid Ben taking her stuff in a divorce, but for her to take half his shit if he cheats on her. Funny but wasn't J-Lo fucking Ben for the final few months of her marriage to that latino guy?

I don't want it run by the RIAA though. No one should have control over what gets downloaded. That is the whole point. If RIAA controls the program, you know ClearChannel will be a part of it, and slowly they will eliminate anything that is not part of their agenda. Just about every artist I listen to and spend money on, openly supports file sharing, so I don't feel bad at all downloading some of their songs, since most of the time if I like what I download I will buy their cd anyway.

The RIAA can lie to us and say it is a money issue, but anyone with half a brain knows the truth. It is about consolidation of what is available to the public. They basically want ONE BRAIN telling everyone what they are supposed to listen to. File-sharing has done a hell of a lot of good for any band that isn't in the Top 40. It has introduced an entire BRAND NEW audience to genres besides hip hop/Country/Classic Rock/Adult Contemporary/Top 40....etc.... If music I like isn't played on the radio, where the fuck does the RIAA expect me to get it and/or listen to it. They know damn well it would better for them if I had never discovered file-sharing and just had it implemented into my mind that ADEMA was the new biggest thing in rock, bwahahahaha.

This game has been pathetic. Very sloppy. I like the Skins chances next week~!

It's only week 2

The RIAA can go to hell. They aren't doing anything for the artists behalf. Everytime I hear some specially selected artist to speak on their behalf I have to laugh my ass off. Lars Ulrich who was a regular supporter of bootleg material back in the day, suddenly doesn't like it anymore!?! Honestly I can care less what Top 40 bands/artists/vocalists think. They don't make their money from cd sales and they know it. It is right there in the contract they sign. If the RIAA wants to make more money, how about lowering cd prices(which it looks like they are going to do). Also, for someone like me, Non-Top 40 NEEDS TO BE MORE ACCESSIBLE. If there is a song I desperately want, I am not going to order it and wait a month or so to get it when I can download it in a matter of seconds. I don't need the RIAA teamed up with Clear Channel telling me what I am supposed to be listening too. Fuck them both.

Yes, but Shane should have the power to say, Fuck this, this is lame. I mean Vince is his dad, not like he would fire Shane if he refused to put over Kane.

I missed Stacy, what kind of panties was she wearing?

Tiki Barber just fumbled again.

Quincy Carter throws INT which is returned for TD. Bwahahahaha, gotta love it.

Dudleys/La Shite.....Turns on the game....

wow, WCW highlights.....*MARKS OUT*

I hate Triple Threat matches. Why not make it a 3-way dance elimination match. I predict Christian will find a way to escape I-C champ, as the homegrown Christian goes over. While RVD and Y2J are left looking dumb and weak.

Republicans are just trying to ride the Arnold gravy train, simple as that. They are just going to rally behind the candidate that has the best chance of winning, THAT IS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT in the world of politics. Believe me though, if Arnold was running as an independent as he fucking should have, there would be no republican backing, no matter what his policies are.

As far as Bush's approval rating goes and his chances of re-election. I think it is going to come down to which guy can get the NEW voters to come out to the polls. Something tells me the race is going to be extremely close. Now that is only of today of course. A lot can happen over the next year.

Bears on Sunday night & Cowboys on Monday night. UGH. Well the Skins are 2-0 so I can just sit back and relax for 6 days.

I wish the media quotes would call it quits on the both of them.

Don't compare KKFOS and Troll 2. Troll 2 was made to be serious and came off as cheesy & lame. KKFOS was a satire on the UFO paranoia of the 50's. I own the KKFOS DVD and the soundtrack.

No it isn't. Supreme Court said so. Is it illegal, immoral, etc? Yes. Actually able to be defined as stealing? No. Why? The only losses are on paper. A potential sale is simply potential and doesn't have any real worth. However, copyright violation is copyright violation. It's still not the same thing as stealing in all legal definition. How about this? The RIAA is the largest vertical monopoly since Carnegie Steel in the early 1900s. They are controlling everything from the production to putting it on the shelves, and there is no opposition. The RIAA actually ruins competition by being a middleman of all the labels. Without the RIAA in place, the actual labels would have to compete and would result in lower costs for consumers. Organizations like the RIAA go against almost every rule of successful Capitalism. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c.../11/MN12066.DTL "Lawsuits on 12-year-old kids for downloading music, duping a mother into paying a $2,000 settlement for her kid?" said rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy. "Those scare tactics are pure Gestapo." "File sharing is a reality, and it would seem that the labels would do well to learn how to incorporate it into their business models somehow," said genre- busting DJ Moby in a post on his Web site. "Record companies suing 12-year-old girls for file sharing is kind of like horse-and-buggy operators suing Henry Ford." Artists are feeling the downturn in sales, too. "My record royalties have dropped 80 percent since 1999," said Steve Miller, whose greatest hits album has been a perennial best-seller since its 1978 release. "To me, it's one of the weirdest things that's ever happened to me because people act like it's OK. " Recording artists have watched their record royalties erode over the past few years ("My Van Halen royalties are history," said vocalist Sammy Hagar), but, in fact, few musicians earn the bulk of their income from record sales. "Bruce Springsteen probably earned more in 10 nights at Meadowlands last month than in his entire recording career," said rocker Huey Lewis. Many artists painted the record industry as a bloated, overstuffed giant with too many mouths to feed and too many middlemen to pay, selling an overpriced, often mediocre product. "They have all these abnormal practices that keep driving the price up," said Gregg Rollie, founding member of Santana and Journey. "People think musicians make all that money, but it's not true. We make the smallest amount." The RIAA did not initiate these lawsuits to defend artists' rights, the musicians say, but to protect corporate profits. "For the artists, my ass," said Draiman. "I didn't ask them to protect me, and I don't want their protection." So let's pretend something. A person crawls in through the window of an empty hotel room and spends the night in it. He doesn't mess the beds, doesn't touch the mini-bar, doesn't harm a thing. He leaves in the morning before the housekeeping comes. Is that stealing? What precisely is stolen? This is the kind of thing we're talking about. You're under no legal obligation to buy a movie ticket to get into a movie. But the movie theater can excercise their right to throw you out. A movie ticket is not so much a license as it is a proof of purchase like what is on your cereal box and other goods. The hotel example is trespassing on private property, but is it theft? No. They could come out with new technology that is more copy-proof than this. Check out what the movie industry does: They haven't been suing individual downloaders. They've been putting out feelgood "don't download movies" ads while shutting down the people who are responsible: the groups video cam'ing the movies in the theaters and the sites that distribute them to the public. Or, the more likely scenario, they die like the gigantic dinosaur that simply grew too huge, ate everything in it's habitat, and is trying desperately to survive. The music industry has a whole lot of other incomes like tours and whatnot, but price fixing CDs is an easier way to make money for an organization that large. The MPAA is playing it smart. They will keep movie trading down to a minimum of those "in the know" who are willing to play the cat & mouse game, while the RIAA continues to act like a battleship that knows it's sunk and is firing all it's cannons simply because it can. Excellent work Jotw. It is nice to see that there is a only select few artists that actually support the RIAA. For every ONE Lars Ulrich, there is at least 10 Chuck D's.

File-sharing has done way more good then it has done bad. This is another attempt from the RIAA to control what we listen too. The money issue is a smoke screen. If you are bringing in 12.6 billion a year, there is no fucking money issue. Without file-sharing, people would be expected to just "press their luck" when trying to explore artists not featured on MTV or FM radio. File-sharing has allowed a wide variety(just about every single artist that has recorded a song) to get airplay SOMEWHERE. File-sharing is not hurting the artist because the contracts they sign don't give them any profit off the cds they sell. They make all their money from touring and promoting and appearances. The Artists KNOW THIS....so I lose respect every time someone joins the "stop file-sharing" bandwagon.

if the music aint worthy of spending the money on. Record sales will go down, regardless of whether file-sharing is available or not. It's not like before file-sharing everyone would still happily buy music they didn't like or think was worth the price.

Great, with that, expect Goldberg to job again at the ppv.

Umm, yer average wrestling fan I would say watches only WWE(Maybe WCW during the nWo prime days).