Band Aid for Apple
Wednesday.Advent Calendar.
It's coming ever nearer. Even the Hole in the Ground bar has installed a Santa over the entrance. Knowing my luck I'll be right underneath when it falls off the roof. At least we still have a roof in Bogsville and the Hole in the Ground isn't a shell crater.
Canada might be right next door to the USA but the Canadian press isn't exactly supportive of US foreign policy. CBC News carries a handy background to the situation in Iraq and even drags the Vietnam War's My Lai massacre into the equation weighing in with a cynical, "In words that are echoed by U.S. officials today when discussing Abu Ghraib, the U.S. secretary of the army at the time said the My Lai massacre was "wholly unrepresentative" of American national or military policy."
"The man who commanded the company that carried out the massacre, Lt. William Calley, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Calley spent just three days in a military stockade before President Richard Nixon commuted the sentence to house arrest, partly due to pressure from conservatives. Three years later, Calley was released on full parole."
Wisconsin Deer Hunting Season Opens
MINNEAPOLIS - Five deer hunters died and three were injured on Sunday in an apparent shootout over who could occupy a hunting platform in a northwestern Wisconsin forest.
They shoot them here, they shoot them there, those Yankees shoot them everywhere......
Merry Christmas.
Merl just emailed this link - The Band Aid single is now on sale for 79p from iTunes in UK - the usual cost of a song - with those "good old boys" at Apple donating a further 70p to the charity for each song downloaded. A copy of the original 1984 song is also available for download at 79p - with all proceeds going to the charity.
Quite true, but only after a lot of pressure. Times Online carried a story on 25 November that said -
Folks you get a bargain at Apple but if you're prepared to pay the going price for the track you should download twice from iTunes - that way you and Apple are both paying the going rate and Band Aid benefits too. Not such "good guys" after all but it's wonderful what adverse publicity can achieve.
It's coming ever nearer. Even the Hole in the Ground bar has installed a Santa over the entrance. Knowing my luck I'll be right underneath when it falls off the roof. At least we still have a roof in Bogsville and the Hole in the Ground isn't a shell crater.
Canada might be right next door to the USA but the Canadian press isn't exactly supportive of US foreign policy. CBC News carries a handy background to the situation in Iraq and even drags the Vietnam War's My Lai massacre into the equation weighing in with a cynical, "In words that are echoed by U.S. officials today when discussing Abu Ghraib, the U.S. secretary of the army at the time said the My Lai massacre was "wholly unrepresentative" of American national or military policy."
"The man who commanded the company that carried out the massacre, Lt. William Calley, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Calley spent just three days in a military stockade before President Richard Nixon commuted the sentence to house arrest, partly due to pressure from conservatives. Three years later, Calley was released on full parole."
Wisconsin Deer Hunting Season Opens
MINNEAPOLIS - Five deer hunters died and three were injured on Sunday in an apparent shootout over who could occupy a hunting platform in a northwestern Wisconsin forest.
They shoot them here, they shoot them there, those Yankees shoot them everywhere......
Merry Christmas.
Merl just emailed this link - The Band Aid single is now on sale for 79p from iTunes in UK - the usual cost of a song - with those "good old boys" at Apple donating a further 70p to the charity for each song downloaded. A copy of the original 1984 song is also available for download at 79p - with all proceeds going to the charity.
Quite true, but only after a lot of pressure. Times Online carried a story on 25 November that said -
The Apple iTunes music store has refused to sell the charity Band Aid song Do They Know It's Christmas? because it would damage the company's dominance of the download market.
The track costs £1.49 on other major online sites which have agreed to donate their profits to relief efforts in Africa. Apple sells individual tracks at 79p but has refused to raise its price for the charity song.
Because of iTunes's dominance of the online market, Apple's refusal to sell the track could reduce the revenues raised through online sales by 70 per cent. Millions of iPod owners will not be able to play the track over the Christmas period.
Record Company Universal was able to secure online Band Aid deals with MyCoke Music, Tiscali, NTL, Wanadoo, Virgin Mega-store, MSN, Virgin.net, MTV, HMV and Napster, as well as an official site.
Folks you get a bargain at Apple but if you're prepared to pay the going price for the track you should download twice from iTunes - that way you and Apple are both paying the going rate and Band Aid benefits too. Not such "good guys" after all but it's wonderful what adverse publicity can achieve.
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