>> ^MrFisk:

spoco2 assume the royalties of movies go to the writers, actors, musicians, etc. In fact, the royalties, largely, go to the copyright holder.
I'm with dag. If the latest blockbuster sifts, kill it. But if it's older than your ex-wife, let it ride.


Ahh, the old 'well the money only goes to rich pig corporations anyway' justification. If it makes you sleep better that you're taking away the small bit the artist gets as well as the rest. ..then yeay, but it doesn't make any sense.

spoco2 assume the royalties of movies go to the writers, actors, musicians, etc. In fact, the royalties, largely, go to the copyright holder.

I'm with dag. If the latest blockbuster sifts, kill it. But if it's older than your ex-wife, let it ride.

>> ^bareboards2:

music
Kudos to Lady Gaga for allowing the rights to that song at the end.


I'm going to hazard a guess and say that she wasn't even consulted, the BBC has a music buyout agreement with the majority of the record companies, which allows them to use all their music, royalty free.
Still an appropriate song none the less, its not just for queers .

Your video, Doug Stanhope on Royalty, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Right on.
except for the part where he says America has a democracy. we don't. In a figurative sense yes, but "democracy for sale" isn't democracy.

Plus the Bush's are as much Royal Family as the next, and we're pretty retarded if we don't understand that.

America' royalty are the 1#, and they ain't going anywhere either

>> ^nach0s:

What is it with the heli chase overdub? The narrator was obviously not in the chopper or a part of the original newscast. My guess is that these videos are made without any audible sound, so to make it an interesting package, they get some hack who pretends he's either in the chopper or commenting on a live feed.


They re-dub the helo guy on America's Wildest Car Chases (or whatever it is they call it) to get around paying him a royalty.

Smells like ROYALTY!

You Do NOT Speak to Porn Royalty like that...I wanna hit that guy with a tire iron and watch his brain shut down while his body jolts and shivers.

Do you have a better example in mind? I mostly use her as my go-to example because she's a name people will recognize, associate with being ridiculously rich, has a reputation for having a crap work ethic, and a reputation for being completely out of touch with how normal people live.

I have more nuanced reasons for picking her as well, but that's really more of a springboard into a discussion about what "work ethic" really means...

In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
I think you've picked the wrong example there. If you check out Miss Hilton's IMDB page, she hasn't spent her life sitting around the pool living off interest even though she could have.

Now you could argue that the people who have paid her modeling fees, salary, appearance fees, travel, expenses etc. have overpaid, and I wouldn't disagree, but it was their choice and that's not the argument you made.
In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
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Instead, the real "entitlement society" is comprised of people like Paris Hilton. They don't really work, certainly they don't do hard work, or even seem to possess valuable skills. They just collect interest, and act like they're royalty, entitled to collect the vast majority of the fruits of our labor.

I think you've picked the wrong example there. If you check out Miss Hilton's IMDB page, she hasn't spent her life sitting around the pool living off interest even though she could have.

Now you could argue that the people who have paid her modeling fees, salary, appearance fees, travel, expenses etc. have overpaid, and I wouldn't disagree, but it was their choice and that's not the argument you made.
In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
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Instead, the real "entitlement society" is comprised of people like Paris Hilton. They don't really work, certainly they don't do hard work, or even seem to possess valuable skills. They just collect interest, and act like they're royalty, entitled to collect the vast majority of the fruits of our labor.

I think it's worth reminding you of the context here.

For one, if work is the thing we want to encourage, then why should Mitt Romney's taxes be lower than it is on people whose income actually comes from wages?

All Romney's doing is collecting interest on investments. Worse than that, he claims it's all in a blind trust, which means not only is he not exerting any control over where his money is being invested, he doesn't even know where his money has been invested.

To me, the big problem I have with the picture of the "neighbor" who "won't work" is that they don't actually exist. Nobody is living high on the government dole. Welfare queens never existed, and never will.

Instead, the real "entitlement society" is comprised of people like Paris Hilton. They don't really work, certainly they don't do hard work, or even seem to possess valuable skills. They just collect interest, and act like they're royalty, entitled to collect the vast majority of the fruits of our labor.
>> ^quantumushroom:

I salute your inspiring life story. The system worked for you, but you still did most of the work. The suggestion that you never would've made it without all the aid I do not believe. What about your neighbor who is perfectly happy living off of unemployment insurance, welfare, food banks, etc. forever? Are you willing to support those who won't--not can't--work as hard as you? Why should you have to raise his children with your taxes along with your own?

As someone commented on the blog where I found this:

"If he devoted the continuing royalties from his prior use [of the words] to a women's group, then I think he's made some progress."

@ChaosEngine, someone agrees with you.

What I keep thinking is -- he had a wife before he had a daughter. That didn't bring about this change of heart. When his daughter grows up and starts being a person and stops being an adorable innocent lump, will he stop feeling so protective?

It's all good. It has a conversation going. I'm glad he had a change of heart. I hope it lasts. I hope it reaches others who still don't get it.

>> ^marbles:

Herd mentality in action!
@dystopianfuturetoday @Skeeve @Zyrxil @Januari @Issykitty @hpqp @rottenseed @enoch @Boise_Lib
Good job guys. You made my point. 13 down votes and 0 rebuttals. No mind control here. Just free thinkers.


Marbles, it's been quite a while since many critical thinking sifters and siftettes have ceased to take you seriously (re: conspiracy theories). The downvote is, at least in my case, a quick way of saying "your argument is bunk but I don't wish to waste my time on you". But if you feel better turning downvotes into a sign of your rightness, feel free, although you should probably pay royalties to your fellow TRUTH-teller shinybee, he's been using that pathetic line for a while now.

>> ^mizila:

Wonder if they paid this kid any royalties.


Oh my god! That literally made me cry real tears of laughter!

Wonder if they paid this kid any royalties.