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Three-Legged Dog
Story goes: in Jake's zeal to chase down some evil squirrels, he broke that same leg. The vet spotted cancer on the x-ray. Thankfully, it had not spread to his lungs, which, as I understand it, is the first place you look when you spot cancer anywhere. That was late summer 2005 when he was 10.
He turns 14 in November and he still gets a fairly clean bill of health, despite some breathing trouble for which he takes medicine.
Jake is well aware that he only has 3 legs and he falls from time to time but he's worked out a "fall system" on his own. When he knows he's falling, he points his chin up and absorbs the blow with his chest. It's fairly harmless. He's a good pooch.
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But has there ever been a successful boycott of anything? Has there ever been a boycott that didn't merely serve to publicize?
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Amazingly, this appears to be real. I could have sworn that Bill Maher paid these guys for this.
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Actually, I now believe this IS satire. Check out their other vids on YouTube and I think you'll agree. They had me going for a while though. Brilliant!!
Dear Mr. Obama
Pirate Bay Legal Section (Comedy Talk Post)
On the one hand, it really is just a continuation of Gutenberg's printing press of 1439, a device that radically altered global communication. There were serious obstacles to this device since, practically overnight, it created the publishing industry, something that never existed before. It took a while for those in power to adjust to the "new way" of the world, but they eventually did. Not only did the powers that be adjust, but they took over this "new way" to serve their interests and we can see that happening with the internet today. If someone told you back in 1995 that Apple Computer would be the de facto music distribution outlet in ten years, they would slap you silly.
On the other hand, the movie industry is basically the only industry America has left. That and tobacco. And say what you want about Hollywood, they do provide a lot of entertainment. Will they be able to continue to make movies as file sharing grows? It's not like they have another job they can fall back on. I realize I'm assuming that a shared file equals lost box office/DVD sales revenue, a super-simplistic equation but think about it: as file sharing grows, what will ultimately happen to the existing box office/DVD sales revenue? Surely, it must eventually shrink and given enough time, the dwindling revenue would collapse the industry altogether, wouldn't it?
Not helping matters is the movie industry itself: they seem to be fighting file sharing in the same way the music industry did, making all the same mistakes, desperately clinging to the old model because it's in their comfort zone. How much longer will it take for them to start suing individual file sharers?
A mere two years ago, I remember talk of simultaneous DVD and Theater releases, the thinking being: let pure demand for the product shape the direction the industry goes. What ever happened to that idea? The natural progression of this idea would be to enable downloading of movies from a website, charging a nominal fee of course. But this cuts out far too many middle-men, hence the reason for clinging to the old model.
To summarize, I think as time passes, they'll all eventually adjust to the "new way" just like they did back in the mid-1400s. Until then, we'll see a lot of hand-wringing and brow-sweat.
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