Scan barcode
daeros's review
5.0
This topic is one of my personal obsessions. I was formally diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome in 1999 now under the DSM V known as Autistic Spectrum Disorder. I am relatively high functioning, I'd like to report I just got my driver's license which is more challenging for us because we're adapted best to focus on a single task at a time and while nearly everyone overestimates their multitasking skills and actually sucks at it, And if you think you are good at it, you're probably wrong that goes doubly for someone with Autism. I do need to self report as well that I am not personally afflicted with some of the language oriented challenges that people autism have, I am sensitive to Sarcasm although if I detect a hint of it I might ask you to confirm that you're being sarcastic, I've never been wrong when I've asked for confirmation to date, I deploy a lot of metaphor and idiom in my own speech and sarcasm as a means of essentially flexing because I like to show off my vast vocabulary, my logophile nature that loves learning new words, think of me as the kind of nerd who a Great Birthday gift for would literally be a dictionary and thesaurus because ooooo new words!
I get sucked in when I visit Wikipedia I end up with so many tabs open its insane. I'm not trained as a critic at all.
I enjoyed learning about these groups, I Recently learned about Russia's using Xray film to substitute for vinyl and essentially produce bootleg music and bone music which means Piracy has been around for a long, long time, and is going nowhere. Anything that's lasted 70 years just doesn't go away. And that's despite mounting legal pressure, it isn't working. I have long decried in more personal spaces the war on piracy as Thepiratebay remains up today, and that If Laws are going to justify spending our taxpayer money, they should have to prove that they are effective in some way at discouraging the crime that they are prosecuting and essentially stamping it out.
I'm TIRED of being expected to fork over taxes for a drug war where despite fully militarized police the coast guard only catches 1 in 10 Narco Submarines and further I would have it STRESSED heavily that there is an above ground legal market for Opioids and that while OCCASIONALLY there are complications from their use in that space the rate is NOTHING like it is among those who engage in illegal use of Opioids as Addicts and get it on the black market, Where Deaths and complications skyrocket.
Lately it's with Fentanyl, and it happens essentially because the Cartels are trying to depurify it so It's less potent and to make more money, but they're cutting their product with basically safe stuff, but they are mixing it in Blenders and stuff and such the fentanyl is not evenly distributed between product so a pill you pick up on the black market is one in which the actual dosage you're taking is fully unpredictable.
Which tells you, if only we just changed the law to legally require that doctors instead of controlling access managed the cases of and kept supplying their addicted patients that Death rates from opioid abuse would plummet and tons of lives would be spared as you turned broken dysfunctional addicts into functional addicts.
And I, Now the son of a homeowner, Object to her tax dollars, being wasted to fight a Feckless ineffective war on drugs and internet warez.
Frankly too, my proposal policy wise would save far more lives than the cops do jailing addicts.
If we are truly concerned about these people and Truly want to protect them, keeping them on the legal market is the best way to actually achieve that result.
Why be against drug use unless it is for the purpose of wanting to prevent people from hurting themselves and their communities?
So if we truly have benevolent motives, and it's about saving lives, we should supply the Junkies on the streets with the pharmaceutical grade version of the drug, because Big pharma for all it's greed and ills, actually adheres to quality control standards.
I'm not saying no one will ever die on a Legal supply, but it will drastically reduce deaths from opioid abuse.
I think that's worth it, And of Piracy, Dude people have been innovating to Bootleg and get free copies of shit for 70 years now as Bone music demonstates -It's here to stay. Nothing we throw at it is going to take it down. So why Waste money fighting it?
I get sucked in when I visit Wikipedia I end up with so many tabs open its insane. I'm not trained as a critic at all.
I enjoyed learning about these groups, I Recently learned about Russia's using Xray film to substitute for vinyl and essentially produce bootleg music and bone music which means Piracy has been around for a long, long time, and is going nowhere. Anything that's lasted 70 years just doesn't go away. And that's despite mounting legal pressure, it isn't working. I have long decried in more personal spaces the war on piracy as Thepiratebay remains up today, and that If Laws are going to justify spending our taxpayer money, they should have to prove that they are effective in some way at discouraging the crime that they are prosecuting and essentially stamping it out.
I'm TIRED of being expected to fork over taxes for a drug war where despite fully militarized police the coast guard only catches 1 in 10 Narco Submarines and further I would have it STRESSED heavily that there is an above ground legal market for Opioids and that while OCCASIONALLY there are complications from their use in that space the rate is NOTHING like it is among those who engage in illegal use of Opioids as Addicts and get it on the black market, Where Deaths and complications skyrocket.
Lately it's with Fentanyl, and it happens essentially because the Cartels are trying to depurify it so It's less potent and to make more money, but they're cutting their product with basically safe stuff, but they are mixing it in Blenders and stuff and such the fentanyl is not evenly distributed between product so a pill you pick up on the black market is one in which the actual dosage you're taking is fully unpredictable.
Which tells you, if only we just changed the law to legally require that doctors instead of controlling access managed the cases of and kept supplying their addicted patients that Death rates from opioid abuse would plummet and tons of lives would be spared as you turned broken dysfunctional addicts into functional addicts.
And I, Now the son of a homeowner, Object to her tax dollars, being wasted to fight a Feckless ineffective war on drugs and internet warez.
Frankly too, my proposal policy wise would save far more lives than the cops do jailing addicts.
If we are truly concerned about these people and Truly want to protect them, keeping them on the legal market is the best way to actually achieve that result.
Why be against drug use unless it is for the purpose of wanting to prevent people from hurting themselves and their communities?
So if we truly have benevolent motives, and it's about saving lives, we should supply the Junkies on the streets with the pharmaceutical grade version of the drug, because Big pharma for all it's greed and ills, actually adheres to quality control standards.
I'm not saying no one will ever die on a Legal supply, but it will drastically reduce deaths from opioid abuse.
I think that's worth it, And of Piracy, Dude people have been innovating to Bootleg and get free copies of shit for 70 years now as Bone music demonstates -It's here to stay. Nothing we throw at it is going to take it down. So why Waste money fighting it?
46jjsg's review
What is this man yapping about?? Like get to the factual interesting parts about tech and music- who cares what the researchers look like or what they're wearing... if the author wants to write prose he should go into litfic. Not a nonfiction book where I just want my facts straight.
grottle's review
4.0
Really interesting and captivating. Some storylines were less so than others (mp3 tech stuff) but it left me want to read a follow up about the rise of music streaming
warrensampson's review
5.0
This was such an enjoyable read. The stories here are a part of my life (and my generation) as a music lover, tech geek, and once pirate, but they're so much deeper and more interesting than I ever knew.
eliaszuniga's review
5.0
Witt's “How Music Got Free” is essentially a history of the mp3 digital music format. Using his professor’s research into human hearing, Karlheinz Brandenburg, a German university student, constructed algorithms that shrunk audio data to 1/12th of its size. Though it was technically superior to Phillips’ and the Motion Picture Experts Group’s (“MPEG”) competing formats, Brandenburg had a difficult time trying to market the format, losing to the much more experienced rivals not on technological merits, but by being out-marketed and even downright trickery. Nevertheless, the indefatigable (at one time while inventing the format he listened to Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner” 600 times in a row) Brandenburg would eventually prevail, unknowingly unleashing the tool that the Warez scene and other hackers would use to fundamentally change the entire music industry. Witt includes other players such as Doug Morris, an old white guy and brilliant executive with an ear for hit music, who would make much more money off “gangsta rap” than Kanye West, Shawn Carter (“Jay Z”), and Curtis Jackson (“50 cent”). Morris would create VEVO after watching Curtis Jackson’s “In Da Club” music video with his grandson on Youtube.
Witt’s account is thorough, and, most of all, highly entertaining. In it we’re introduced to “douchebag rockers Nickelback.” (Apparently “douchebag rock” refers to an actual music genre (like “hard rock,” and “classic rock,” for example).) In describing Tupac’s nascent posthumous album sales, Witt writes, “Tupac’s death was a senseless tragedy, but it was also a great career move.” If you enjoyed the movie “The Social Network,” you’ll enjoy this fast, interesting read; it’s much better.
Witt’s account is thorough, and, most of all, highly entertaining. In it we’re introduced to “douchebag rockers Nickelback.” (Apparently “douchebag rock” refers to an actual music genre (like “hard rock,” and “classic rock,” for example).) In describing Tupac’s nascent posthumous album sales, Witt writes, “Tupac’s death was a senseless tragedy, but it was also a great career move.” If you enjoyed the movie “The Social Network,” you’ll enjoy this fast, interesting read; it’s much better.