I’m currently at the Libertarian Party of California Convention. So far we have been having a good time.
I recently read an article that Amazon has increased in It’s MP3 music sales to now make it the number online music retailer. It now stands in a place to be an actual challenger to the online music sales giant iTunes.
After recently having to deal with iTunes after my wife recieved a gift card, I thought that I would make a purchase from Amazon MP3 to compare the two.
My experience with iTunes left me less than happy as I had to use someone’s Windows computer to complete the purchase. In addition I was stuck getting the media in a lower quality AAC format. Sure I was able burn it to CD and rip it to my home computers hard drive but is that really necessary?
Shoot I’ve received better quality free garage band music from dowload.com music.
My experience with Amazon was a bit different. I searched and found some songs that I wanted to purchase. After selecting to purchase them I was initially bothered by the fact that I needed to install a download program to receive them. I thought, “great now another program that I’m going to need to try to install using Wine.” I was pleasantly surprised that Amazon supports Windows, Mac and four Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSuse). It was a quick and easy .deb install and I was ready to rock-and-roll. The client seemed to work in a similar manner as a bit torrent client and the music was easily downloaded and purchased. Best of all it was in a high quality MP3 format. I would have preferred .ogg but MP3 will do in a pinch.
In the future I think I will do all my music purchases through Amazon. It was quicker, easier and they provided me with the product and services that I wanted.
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1. Ron Paul doesn’t go the gym. He stays fit by exercising his civil rights.
2. Ron Paul delivers babies without his hands. He simply reads them the Bill of Rights and they crawl out in anticipation of freedom.
3. Ron Paul doesn’t cut taxes. He kills them with his bare hands.
4. Jesus wears a wrist band that says “What Would Ron Paul Do?”
5. When Ron Paul takes a shower, he doesn’t get wet…the water gets Ron Paul.
6. Ron Paul could lead a horse to water AND convince it to drink, but he doesn’t believe the government has the right to so he refuses.
7. Ron Paul’s midi-chlorian level is off the chart.
8. When Chuck Norris gets scared, he goes to Ron Paul.
9. Studies by the World Health Organization show that Ron Paul is the leading cause of freedom among men.
10. Ron Paul makes the U.S. dollar want to be a better currency.
11. Ron Paul has no alarm clock, but instead wakes every morning to the
call of freedom.
12. Ron Paul doesn’t sleep. He deliberates.
13. I just saved a bunch of money by switching to Ron Paul.
14. If you pull Ron Paul’s finger, a band will march by playing
Yankee Doodle Dandy.
15. The Declaration of Independence is printed with Ron Paul’s blood.
16. Ron Paul took a lie detector test. The lie detector tapped out.
17. Ron Paul’s idea of Gun Control is both hands on the weapon.
18. Ron Paul is Bill Maher’s hero.
19. Ron Paul is 9 feet tall, but the weight of his conscience makes
him look shorter.
20. Ron Paul declared war on the war on drugs.
21. Ron Paul uses tax returns of US citizens as toilet paper.
22. God calls Ron Paul for advice.
23. Ron Paul is like kryptonite to Rudy Giuliani.
24. Ron Paul has two first names…and is proud of it
25. Ron Paul once ordered a Big Mac from Burger King, and got one.
26. Rather than use his powers for evil, Ron Paul uses his powers
for awesome.
27. The government tried to steal once. Ron Paul made it sit in time out.
28. Ron Paul’s pen is mightier than his William Wallace broad sword.
29. Ron Paul wears running shoes so he can chase down “tax and
spend” Republicans & rip their hearts out with his bare hands.
30. Studies by the World Health Organization show that Ron Paul is the leading cause of freedom among men.
31. Ron Paul blew up both Death Stars, but the media spun the facts
in favor of Luke and Lando.
32. It was going to be called the Paul of Rights, but Ron Paul
is a humble man.
33. Ron Paul can believe its not butter.
34. When fascism goes to sleep at night, it checks under the
bed for Ron Paul.
35. Ron Paul personally approved this fact.
36. Ron Paul was the OB that Delivered Chuck Norris.
37. Ron Paul can stop Global Warming with one roundhouse
kick to the sun.
38. Ron Paul can recite pi to 1776 decimal places.
39. Ron Paul is able to leap tall stacks of congressional
legislation in a single bound.
40. Ron Paul played the role of V in the movie, “V for Vendetta”.
41. Before Rudy Giuliani goes to bed he checks his
closet for Ron Paul!
42. Ron Paul defies the Laws of (Political) Science!
43. In Braveheart, Mel Gibson was originally supposed to scream “RON PAUL!” however, it was changed to just “Freedom!” for legal reasons.
44. Ron Paul taught Jesus how to walk on water.
45. Ron Paul makes King Leonidas’ fight look like child’s play.
46. Ron Paul named his fists “Freedom” and “Justice”.
47. Ron Paul’s experience as a Gynecologist gives him the best
credentials to fix the BUSH Administration.
48. Chuck Norris and Ron Paul were once WWE Tag Team Champions.
49. …and on the seventh day, Ron Paul said “I’ll take it from here.”
50. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of government? Ron Paul knows.
51. If Ron Paul had lived in Sparta, the movie would have been called “1”.
52. The original pledge of allegiance ended with “Liberty, and Justice (and Ron Paul)”
53. Ron Paul is in talks with ABC to produce a new show… “Extreme Makeover: Country Edition.”
54. Ron Paul’s mother is the Statue of Liberty.
55. Ron Paul has bigger balls of steel than Duke Nukem!
56. Ron Paul uses the Libery Bell as an alarm clock.
57. Ron Paul once held a Congressional inquiry regarding the 2000 budget. There were no survivors.
58. At sporting events, most people stand during the Star-Spangled Banner. Ron Paul levitates.
59. Ron Paul is made up of 100% EPIC and 100% WIN.
60. Ron Paul eats the U.S. tax code for breakfast.
61. Ron Paul is one of the Ancient immortals called upon by Heaven in times of crisis.
62. Sliced bread is the greatest thing since Ron Paul.
63. Ron Paul is not watching you.
64. Ron paul was a obgyn in his private practice. But in congress hes a proctologist.
65. Yes, Ron Paul stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
..If the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) had delivered on the promises they made in the early 1990s, almost half of America’s households and the vast majority of the nation’s schools would already be wired with high-speed fiber optic networks.
.. The Bells told regulators they would wire more than 44 million households by the year 2000. Then, in many instances, they used those promises to convince regulators to replace traditional rate-of-return regulation with alternative regulatory schemes.
..The new regulatory plans gave the Bells more profits, ultimately making them some of the most profitable companies in the nation. Bell profit margins are more than double that of other regulated utilities and the major long distance phone companies and literally 167% above the profit margins of some of America’s best-known companies.
..Consumers have already paid over $45 billion in extra telephone charges, and continue to pay over $8 billion annually.
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