@quantumushroom

Really? Reagan? I see you've bought into an incorrect historical narrative, a.k.a myth, that paints Reagan as some sort of conservative/libertarian god. Allow me to type some stuff that you won't believe because you're clearly in some sort of fantasy land, but is true anyway.

The economic model put into place during the Reagan years (supply-side economics) was, to put it bluntly, a one-hit wonder. It worked in that situation, in that time, and it has "worked" pretty well until recently, though its collapse has been fairly inevitable.

Our legal tender law forces everyone to use our governmentt-issued fiat currency. This combined with our fractional reserve banking system is what allows Reaganomics to seem like a good idea. All of our money is debt. If everyone (including the government) paid back all their debt there would be no money. So, when you vastly increase the national debt (defense spending in Reagan's case), there is more money(debt) created. Banks create money(debt) from nothing when someone signs a piece of paper promising to pay the money back with interest. When there's more money(debt) in the system, it's a lot easier to get credit and therefore easier to start businesses, etc. Combine this with low taxes and corporations will invest in factories and such and create jobs.

That's the logic, anyway.

Problem is, the reality of what has actually occurred as a result of supply-side policy is vastly different. The frustrations expressed in this video are a direct result of that. Really, since legal tender law was passed under Nixon, we've had a series of boom/bust failures in our economic system that everyone's pissed about in one way or another. This includes all subsequent administrations regardless of political affiliation.

We can go through all the stuff...the 1987 stock market meltdown, the S&L crisis, the creation of complex speculative financial instruments, the Financial Services Modernization Act...the list goes on. This stuff occurred under Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush again. It's not a Democrat vs. Republican thing. It's not a Right/Left thing. Until you open your mind to realizing that, you're going to be effectively asleep.

Most people don't even know how to express their problem with what's going on economically in our country, and so you have this sort of general anger that's let out in various ways. Tea party, Obama haters, Bush haters, etc. None of that matters, though...none of these (important) social issues like abortion, gun rights, gay rights, etc, really matter until our money system is reconstructed in a way that jives with reality and sustainability.

I get your point, and it's not my intention to take away from it with this tiny knit-pick...

But "great community"? I do hope you're kidding.

Take the most annoying youtube/break.com trolls and throw them all on a server together. Then listen to them spam the chat channels with insults towards lesser-geared players. Great community... riiiiiiight... I've played online games with fantastic, helpful, genuinely kind communities, so it's not like they don't exist. WoW is just the furthest from it that I've ever experienced.


But to make my comment relevant to the main point of this video... I quit months ago. I had 5 decently geared level 80s and enjoyed my time with the game for the most part. But I'm never going back. Had I known the deletion of my characters would've made me a one-hit wonder internet celebrity, I'd have recorded me unsubscribing, but it honestly wasn't that big of a deal to me. This guy was obviously in love with this game, which does happen to some people. And if that's the case, this video is as depressing as someone recording themselves breaking up with their girlfriend. Except their girlfriend is a robot and he's the one crying. Or something. I'm not really sure where I'm going with this...

I'll never play another MMO again!

...Until Star Wars: The New Republic comes out. I'll have to warn my loved ones beforehand. /endrant
>> ^shagen454:

Wow, great. Yeah, so you quit so you could back to watching Dexter for 5 hours a day, or buying tons of Xbox 360 games and playing them 5 hours everyday. Shit, you may have even gone back to doing straight up junk 12 hours a day... or drinking 24 packs of pabst in five hours everyday. Maybe you went back to "trying" to make beats and being the next DJ Premiere smoking hellsa doobs in the process. Maybe you went back to kissing your girl and wasting time watching "Sex in the City" with her annoying assed friends. Maybe you stopped because you got a new job which requires you to waste 2 god damn hours each way on the LA freeway. We all waste chunks of time; face it.
WoW is a great game - great graphics/art, great sound, great mechanics, great community - take it with a grain of salt- hell man, I play in an experimental noise band, take drugs with my friends on the weekends, fuck random girls every once in a while, play WoW maybe a hour or two a day. But we all have hobbies and a lot of our hobbies are a complete waste of time. So, yeah, quit WoW and have fun with your other fun yet pointless hobbies. You only live once so you better have as much fun as you possibly can and well - there is just no way for me to say that WoW is not pointless, time-wasting... and a huge amount of fun.

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@rosser99

I think it's impractical to think about it as right and wrong anymore. File sharing isn't going away, policing the internet is never going to be plausible or practical, lawsuits are a drop in the ocean and the measures they're using now with having ISPs in certain countries such as France disconnect you on a 3 strikes rule are bound to be circumvented in one form or another. I mean sure, you can have opinions on it either way, but moral arguments won't change the state of things. The real question should be how should the industry adapt?

What record companies should be doing is slimming down by moving towards internet distribution and promotion, and casting a wider net by relying less on one-hit wonders and more to catering to a broad range of niche audiences that they're losing by the throng. Instead they're going in the opposite direction.

I remember reading a thread in a popular music file-sharing hub by an ex-recording industry professional that back-catalogues and collectors editions are where the real dough is made. Many of the 'artists' (I use the term loosely) will be forgotten and never heard of by the end of the year. Plunging sales have meant that record companies have become more concerned with making the quick buck, extract the one hit, and move on. As a result the vast majority of artists are simply not able to develop their musical talent on big-name record companies over time because they're passed on for the next big hit. Similarly bands that are selected and promoted are the ones that have the most broad and banal appeal. You know, the ones that sound like every generic hip-hop song you've heard in last 3 years, the ones that have strippers prancing around during the entire video clip. The problem is, there's a sizable group of people who no longer have any interest in laying down money for this disposable music.

The successful ones are also generally bled dry nowadays. It used to be that live performances and merchandise profits were entirely or mostly in the purview of the artist, now that record companies are having their purse strings tightening, they're extending their contracts to include chips out of these earnings too. It'll be hard to tell what this environment will eventually lead to in terms of mainstream music progression. I think it's inevitable though that the likes of iTunes (which has more or less already adopted this model) will begin to dominate. Perhaps at that point we will see some kind of turning point.

As far as I'm concerned the ability to sample music has meant that I've been able to discover some great bands, and had the opportunity to buy their albums (I tend to buy in 10+ bulk orders every so often) and otherwise support them by going to see their shows. It has also meant that I've only paid good money for albums that stand the test of time and have been able to support bands that genuinely need the monetary support to continue their endeavor rather than reward big-name labels for their exorbitant ad campaigns.

So YEAH! I challenge you to read all that

When I saw her 'Jesus is Magic' movie I was convinced we had the next super comedian on our hands. She's been doing the same 2-3 gags ever since. One hit wonder.

There's a parody of her on the sift somewhere which runs through all her usual suspects.

Found it: http://www.videosift.com/video/Aubrey-Plaza-funny-people-mystery-team-does-Sarah-Silverman

*dead
Replacement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI6KTW0Z-4Y

Makes a nice addition to my One Hit Wonders of the World Playlist

With his amazing disembodied voice and the huge success of his one-hit-wonder, it's curious that he didn't go further.

Apparently it's because he's been spending far too much time on the internet:

"In April 2009, he wrote an article for Time Magazine about moot [the owner of 4chan]." - Wikipedia

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>> ^Deano:
Great idea for a playlist as Edd says. However, some of these acts did have more than one hit just looking at the first page. Particularly Adam Ant. Be fair to Adam! Even though he went off the rails for a bit



Yeah some had two or three, but all of them have that "one hit" feeling to them...

Legend indeed, but if you go by the number of international #1 hits I guess it´s fair to put him in there.
Most people you ask outside of Australia would only remember "You´re the voice".

If we ever have a *legends channel I´ll make sure to add him to it!

In reply to this comment by spoco2:
Geeze, yeah... one hit wonder? I think not. This man is an Australian legend. He has a career that spans from 1964 through to, well, nowish... I don't know whether he actually is still touring, but man.

Don't call him a one hit wonder.... at all!

Geeze, yeah... one hit wonder? I think not. This man is an Australian legend. He has a career that spans from 1964 through to, well, nowish... I don't know whether he actually is still touring, but man.

Don't call him a one hit wonder.... at all!

Definitely one of the one hit wonders of the world

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I wish I found this! I had this as a ring tone for a year. This song is the #1 one-hit-wonder and coolest one-hit-wonder of the 80s.

Well done

One Hit Wonder List worthy for Jason...
http://www.videosift.com/playlists/maatc/The-one-hit-wonders-of-the-world