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Day 17 — A Song That You Hear Often On The Radio — Need You Now — Lady Antel­bel­lum — Need You Now

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My com­puter at home is act­ing up. I knew that the ATi 4800 series ran hot, so I got a ver­sion of my card that had a bet­ter fan, but appar­ently that isn’t enough or the fan is dying or some­thing, because my video card keeps over­heat­ing and forc­ing my sys­tem to shut down.

Now that I’ve beaten Fall­out 3, not sure if I need the video card for any­thing, so I might just pull it out tonight. The on-board video can han­dle web brows­ing and play­ing videos fine, and that’s all I’ll be doing until Fall­out 4 comes out or some other 3-D game catches my fancy. Plus I’ll be sav­ing some energy. If you’re read­ing this, I hope you’re happy, Gina L!

I was also think­ing about get­ting net­work stor­age, but it would go to waste since my fam­ily is split­ting up this sum­mer. Plus I’m try­ing to save money for other things. Maybe if needed wher­ever I end up, I’ll recon­sider. Since gam­ing isn’t a big con­cern for me any more, huge net­work stor­age and a lap­top could be a lot more prac­ti­cal for me.

What if every­thing in the world was more like Wikipedia?

Besides the more obvi­ous changes in edu­ca­tion, I think an area that would really be turned on its head is adver­tis­ing. What if all the ads you see and hear had to cite sources to prove their claims?

I bring this up because of the recent news of MGMT suing Sarkozy of using their song with­out per­mis­sion at an event and in online videos. As the arti­cle points out, it is extremely ironic because Sarkozy and his party have been push­ing very strongly worded anti-filesharing laws.

I don’t know how MGMT’s views on copy­right line up with mine, so I won­der if they are really try­ing to get paid for this, or if they are using the sit­u­a­tion to spread brand aware­ness.

When I was in Japan, every com­mer­cial on TV started with text at the bot­tom giv­ing you infor­ma­tion about the back­ground music, sim­i­lar to the start of music videos. I won­der if more musi­cians would open up on copy­right if they received credit, even non-monetary, for their efforts and contributions.