Last night’s episode of 24 was like an Oz mini-reunion. Kirk Acevedo (aka Miguel Alvarez) shows up as air marshal (prompting a “woo-hoo!” from my wife) and within five seconds is knocked unconscious by Jack. In another scene Blake Robbins (aka Officer Brass) meets with the business end of Chloe’s taser. So, welcome to the show guys. Try to stay conscious next episode.

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I’m glad someone else watched the Daily Show last week when that nimrod from the Wall Street Journal was on to discuss oil prices & profits. Core Econ points out the errors in her logic, which could have been avoided if she remembered that profit = revenue – expense.

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I’ve pretty much had it with the recording industry. I’m tired (and apparently so are a lot of Canadian musicians) of “copy-controlled” discs that make it hard to convert the music to the format I want and won’t play through my Roku because of license bullshit. I’m tired of paying $10 a month for a music download service when they only carry one out of every five albums that I’m looking for, or worse yet, tell me that I can’t download music by a Toronto band because the site and the label haven’t got their licensing shit straight.

So here’s what I’m doing: from now on when I want to download an album, I’ll check my official downloading options (I still pay for eMusic); if I can find it and download it from there, great. If I can’t, I’ll download it using P2P software. I’m sick of this. It’s not as if the technology doesn’t exist for me to listen to music in this manner; everyone and their dog has an MP3 player, so the music companies should be falling over themselves to get us digital music. But all buggy whip manufacturers know is how to build more buggy whips, and they’ll just keep trying to bend the world to their will. I’m done being bent.*

* That didn’t come out how I planned.

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[tags]24, daily show, economics, oil, filesharing, P2P, CRIA, emusic[/tags]