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Love it. Hand puppets rule.

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First impression is an old PSA on say no to drugs. Repetition with fast cut to scene to guy as a chorus is creepy.

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I listened for 27 seconds. I was searching for the Breakout ad. It's deleted everywhere.

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It is not a simple structure. Performance is what you hear when a song is playing; A big section of law to digest. Writer and publisher are handled more hands on - think Big Record Label is publisher of physical media for example. Writer is the guy that sells bands words and such. There is a block of law for them.

So, the band that performs the sheet music may not Own it. Big Record Label just wants to double dip, % per play & % to all performance AKA License. Basic thing is the catalogue owners want to treat streams like Radio Broadcasts - less payola.

I'm just painting a picture here. Best to read the copyright law. I never said I was giving legal advice, not that clever with words

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I thought this was a social media thing. Oops, all the folks at the top are the usual players; newspaper/magazine, booze, scratch Hollywood\'s back, and the marketing guys.

OMG, it is a wall plaque mill just waiting to be hung. I mean award-the-award-with-a-award. Please send money. (close opinion of (REDACTED) state of those in the award business.

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I have stood on a soapbox at a couple family gatherings stressing the point that once this service gets DNA the data base is theirs. All the we came to Virginia on (some boat - some better than others) or the coastal tribes married into Irish tobacco sharecroppers would it be cool to know for sure - it's painless.

Well, there are many levels of painless; the service is taking DNA to build a structure, make money off it, and it has no reason to expect the customer of the test to get anything but a colorful chart of everyone's mutt status for a $99 fee. Yeah, correct my typo -- 100 bucks is small change in the DNA biz but the ancestry guys are just building law enforcement tools. Johns Hopkins, U of Maryland and Pharmacogenomics research (read as patents) do the cool work.

I was told it's no big deal by some relatives who are usually clever at slight of hand tactics. Advertising campaign worked - Send DNA --> get report --> forget all about it by winter.

If, I wanted a DNA screen I would march over to University of Doing Stuff That Matters. A bit tough to research and pay for (edit: medical research trials can be free but not often). TANSTAFL
Edit: typo

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somewhere in 10TB

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Left thumb points to the left, index finger straight, middle finger straight, ring finger straight, pinky curls towards palm. Which movie did the British spy get caught by not counting with thumb. WWII flick.

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I thought Zima was undrinkable way back. Kids these days like soda pop so go Zima you found a market.

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On those days i want to scream into a pillow I'll use this. Could be fun.