Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
from our city hall correspondent
Why do folks care where other people eat their donuts?
I’m so confused.
speakeasy, and carry a big stick
computerweekly.com
British government is distressed that every business will soon have a copyable digital product or component.
thinking.grant-thornton.co.uk
Law enforcement figures indicate illegal copying of for-sale product is still on the rise.
socialsciencespace.com
Fewer sales mean fewer jobs and decreased taxes.
So the UK House of Commons took a bold step this week.
livetradingnews.com
They recommended “that the maximum penalty
for serious online copyright theft
be extended to ten years’ imprisonment.”
guardian.co.uk
According to their Ministry of Justice the average jail sentence for rape “was in excess of eight and a half years,” which is actually higher than the average prison sentence for manslaughter.
Governments are terrified.
Making a copy and not paying the investor, the manufacturer and the retailer for their merchandise is becoming a norm.
nytimes
Cue hopeless prohibition, part 2.
Monday, October 7, 2013
what goes around
"Everyday you live a life so full of hope.
Shouldn't drag your soul around you like a leather vogue
You remember everything you thought your life would be
Well its fallin’ through the cracks of ancient history."
"O-oh, Is this something that I never, something that I never had?
O-o-oh, Is this something that I never, something that I never had?
Tell you what I've heard:
The wheels are falling off, the wheels are falling off the world."
"Friday night and everything is a-okay.
We are living like we've always known a different way.
We are taking all our different roads before our goal
It'll bring you back around to the one you know."
O-oh, Is this something that I never, something that I never had?
O-o-oh, Is this something that I never, something that I never had?
Tell you what I've heard:
The wheels are falling off, the wheels are falling off the world.
From the album The Pursuit by Jamie Cullum, lasting 140 weeks on 14 different charts including the Dutch, UK, German, Danish, Spanish, Belgian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, Italian, French, Swiss, United States’ and Austrian top 100.
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Psalms 98:4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD
cbs
By now you’ve probably heard about the union disruption at Carnegie Hall.
The 5 stagehands employed at our fabled concert hall timed their strike to cancel the season opening gala. Only God is more powerful than the stagehands union.
Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees struck for more jobs.
They are apparently already making enough money.
forbes
Only the CEO of Carnegie Hall earns more
than his own stagehands.
forbes
The most lowly paid, a carpenter, somehow manages to scrape by on only $371,813 a year.
That’s not a misprint.
Two electricians earn over $425,000 each, and the top stagehand at Carnegie Hall earned $464,632 last year.
independent.com
But Carnegie Hall was launching a teaching initiative for musically gifted children and IA wanted a piece of that action too.
They demanded jobs in the new school or there would be no opening gala.
g2tours
Carnegie Hall explained this was to be a school. Classrooms with no stage. The teachers would not require the help of stagehands.
portobellomusicschool
The stagehands won.
Another union job will be added to the hall’s balance sheet.
But!
As part of the settlement the children will be allowed to move their own chairs and music stands.
And carry their own instruments!
There’s no more obligation to wait for a union member to do it for them. It’s a start.
God is clearly on the side of union workers.
But their highest profile member must be slipping.
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