I don’t listen to the Dixie Chicks much, but I really dig where this is coming from… because it’s a letter to all the people who can’t stand their politics. Keep it up Natalie, Emily, and Martie.
“Not Ready To Make Nice” from the album Taking The Long Way
by Dixie Chicks
Forgive, sounds good.
Forget, I’m not sure I could.
They say time heals everything,
But I’m still waiting
I’m through with doubt,
There’s nothing left for me to figure out,
I’ve paid a price, and i’ll keep paying
I’m not ready to make nice,
I’m not ready to back down,
I’m still mad as hell
And I don’t have time
To go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is
You think I should
I know you said
Why can’t you just get over it,
It turned my whole world around
and i kind of like it
I made by bed, and I sleep like a baby,
With no regrets and I don’t mind saying,
It’s a sad sad story
That a mother will teach her daughter
that she ought to hate a perfect stranger.
And how in the world
Can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Saying that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over
I’m not ready to make nice,
I’m not ready to back down,
I’m still mad as hell
And I don’t have time
To go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is
You think I should
I’m not ready to make nice,
I’m not ready to back down,
I’m still mad as hell
And I don’t have time
To go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is
You think I should
Forgive, sounds good.
Forget, I’m not sure I could.
They say time heals everything,
But I’m still waiting
“I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me. I do not regret this. All I ask is that my results should convince seekers after truth that there is beyond doubt something worth while seeking, attainable by methods more or less like mine. I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics, or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.”
–Aleister Crowley
“Attain”
by Charlotte’s Webb
lyrics by Matt Duncan
What I see and what you see
Are two extremes — an unspanned gulf
You give me grief with your belief
That you are right and I am wrong
My own misdeeds create my creed
I am my judge, I make my rules
You bait me with your weak disease
And sow the seeds that bloom in fools
You scorn me with your practiced lie:
“Without wings you cannot fly.”
You nail me down, I ask you “Why?”
With my own will I’ll touch the sky.
My ears will bleed
My eyes will burst
My bones will break
My fear will fade
The substitute for wings refused,
I forge my path with my bare hands.
Escape this shell in which I dwell,
Escape the world and its demands.
You cannot follow. I won’t lead.
You will succeed like me — Alone.
The path you seek to strong from weak
Is inborn, find it on your own.
The seasons change, the leaves will die
Blown by the wind, and with them, I’m
Caught in the Spiral, curl and fly,
I need no wings to touch the sky.
My ears will bleed
My eyes will burst
My bones will break
My fear will fade
From Schneier, the man himself when it comes to security:
Windows Vista includes an array of “features” that you don’t want. These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure. They’ll make your computer less stable and run slower. They will cause technical support problems. They may even require you to upgrade some of your peripheral hardware and existing software. And these features won’t do anything useful. In fact, they’re working against you. They’re digital rights management (DRM) features built into Vista at the behest of the entertainment industry.
And you don’t get to refuse them.
[…]
Microsoft put all those functionality-crippling features into Vista because it wants to own the entertainment industry. This isn’t how Microsoft spins it, of course. It maintains that it has no choice, that it’s Hollywood that is demanding DRM in Windows in order to allow “premium content”–meaning, new movies that are still earning revenue–onto your computer. If Microsoft didn’t play along, it’d be relegated to second-class status as Hollywood pulled its support for the platform.It’s all complete nonsense.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/drm_in_windows.html
Well now. Isn’t this interesting? A recent study shows that even though album sales (which actually means SHIPPED, not SOLD) dropped by 80 million units, P2P probably only accounts for only 6 million of them. That’s excellent… and it reveals another HUGE problem with the music industry, in that they base everything on shipped units, not true sales.
It’s timely, given this study and Jobs’s comments last week and Schneier’s commentary on Vista, that EMI is moving toward dropping DRM altogether.
(For full disclosure, too… There have been issues with DRM and media with Macintosh computers for a long time. There are limits in Quicktime (especially copying still frames and clipping video), obviously there’s the DRM in iTunes, and other issues. None of these is as insidious nor as bloated as what Vista appears to be doing.)
Steve Jobs doesn’t like DRM any more than you do. Good points about CDs, licensing Fair Play, and why DRM isn’t working.
(ok, so maybe Jobs likes it more than you do since it’s the only way the iTunes Store can stay in business…)
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