Means Furry News
I posted in an adult section of a board I will not mention at least here of peoples opinion on Furries. I know it is very unscientific but the results are interesting. But here how it breaks down on the replies I actually got.
60% believed it was just a fetish
30% believed they were only in to role play
10% other
The following is taken directly from an email from someone in the music industry. I think you might find it interesting.
Personally… I have never sold many albums of my own, and all were regional, all in the 70s and early 80s. I always made more money by selling songs to production houses (film and TV producers for use as ‘script songs’ – based on some character or story-line), and doing instrumental compositions.
Since the early ’90s, however, more artists have started leasing music. “Here, take a 2-year-lease on this song, and you can use it exclusively for THIS purpose, but not for anything else… or, pay me more, and you can use it for other purposes, too. At the end of the lease, the rights go back to me and I can re-lease to whomever for whatever purpose.”
Studios tried to halt that, but many people took class-action suits against them as “restraint of trade”, and now, 16 or 17 years later, leasing is fairly commonplace. AND GOOD FOR ARTISTS. But screw the studios.
Honestly, they have ripped off so many artists for so many decades, I couldn’t give a flip if Sony or BMG or Virgin Records lives or dies.
Those people, along with the warehouse middlemen called “distributors”, have ruined the industry thru their theft and tyranny.
No one talks about that.
Do you remember the whole Sue-Napster-Thing? Napster’s “giving away music” wasn’t the big issue. The BIG issue was that Napster could deliver an accurate count of how many times a song was played over the internet, or downloaded.
Napster could tell an artist EXACTLY – hour by hour, minute by minute – how popular his song was.
The record companies HATED that. “Accurate accounting?!! OH MY!!” That was their biggest fear. Accurate accounting. Accurate counts. REAL money could be traced and fed to artists.
They HAD to stop that.
Even to this day, I’ll bet there are 200 lawsuits against recording companies by artists who’ve discovered they aren’t getting paid properly.
Yet the recording industry says THEY are the ones losing money! Yeah. Right. Just like pirates complain that they can’t steal as much!
THAT is their real complaint.
Who doesn’t recall those very funny and often quite cute Taco Bell commercials featuring Gidget the Chihuahua, I even have a friend who has quite a collection of Taco Bell promotional items featuring the famous Chihuahua, which has been reported loved being on the set. Sadly Gidget died July 21 of a stroke, who would be sadly missed. It may be a surprise to you as it was to me Gidget was in more than just the Taco Bell commercials, she was also in “Legally Blonde 2.” She also had a role as an extra in, “Beverly Hills Chihuahua.”
You got to love this the town of Otisfield, Maine is fighting to keep the last and seemly only curbside mailbox in the entire town. With the use of email and electronic texting, USPS has removed around 188,000 mailboxes nationwide, and this is no exception the USPS says it has to be removed for plain lack of use. But you got to plain love an entire town for getting together to save a symbol of the past.
That is what I call the following series of stories, that questions the logic of seemly reasonable human beings.
That the biggest overcharge I ever heard of when Josh Muszynski, a 22-year-old from New Hampshire was charge $23,138,855,308,184,500 when he bought a pack of cigarettes on his debt card. Worst yet his bank Bank of America also charged him a $15 over limit fee. What is even more outstanding and what you may not of heard it took Josh Muszynski 2 hours on the phone with his bank to get both charges removed.
As of January 2009 Electronic Gaming Monthly ceased publishing due to the fact it’s parent company was purchased by Dennis Publishing the publisher of Maxim magazine. Former subscribers got a huge surprise starting in May when they started to receive Maxim magazine to make up for the issues of EGM they had paid for. As a EGM subscriber myself why Maxim? I can’t find anyone who can figure that one out. The only good thing that Maxim did allow prorated refunds.
Here is one you are going to love the free Iphone app that costs you $149 a year. It seems the Wall Street Journal has this seemly free Iphone app that lets you access the WSJ site. But if you use this app, you are going get billed $149, for accessing a pay site. Get a load of this when other reporters tried to get anyone to comment about this whatever you call it. The people at WSJ absolutely refused to comment
That is the only way I can describe the way I currently feel, call it the effects of not too much to drink, but rude behavior when to comes to some people setting off fireworks. I know it’s the Fourth and living in America where the laws allows it or not, people are going to get off fireworks…and I can accept that as a fact. But between July 3rd,
at roughly 7:30 PM to July 5th at 2 AM fireworks went off at it furtherest apart not more than 45 minutes between explosions. Not only is my dog totally unnerved by the whole experiance but I have got such a hangover type
headache I hope it ends soon. I wish I could of said that was it, but it wasn’t we had a long break only to about 7 PM that Sunday night…then it started up again but only to 11 PM. Ever heard of the expression “Give me a break!!!” I wish someone would. But by Monday
I was finally allowed to recover, I know you might find this hard to believe but it took until Tuesday afternoon until the smell of sulfur finally vanished.
All material above the 15+ rating in Austalia is called “RC” – refused classification, and is banned. This means a total ban on internet porn, sexually explicit images (including the material you see on YiffyTimes) and now Second Life. News machine The Inquisitr have been keeping an eye on this, and the overall situation of the Australian censorship, for years. You can read their full article on the censorship of Second Life here:
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