Random Thoughts or Whatever
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Pio1980
AK Member
"He bought her a diamond for her throat
He put her in a ranch house on a hill
She could see the valley barbecues
From her window sill
See the blue pools in the squinting sun
Hear the hissing of summer lawns"
Joni Mitchell
Quadman2
Lunatic Member
Mys' share on this chart (Water Stress) has supported my POV, that fresh water will be the most valuable "resource" in demand.
This belief is also being taken into consideration by the amount of finances being spent on desalination".
I wonder (random thought for the day) how the storage of both ice-fields at the topical ends of the world will be dealt with in the immed future. Russia seems interested in the northern area for various reasons!
Q
After an afternoon nap, I walked out of my room and my roommate was listening to some woman singing "Don't Stop Believing" You know, the Journey tune. I'm not going say that she's a bad singer, she might very well be quite good. However, her voice simply does not go with that song. I went back to my room and John Coltrane both with and without Miles Davis.
Mystic
We're all born mad
2023 was another good year for the music industry. According to IFPI’s latest Global Music Report, worldwide recorded music revenues climbed 10 percent to $28.6 billion last year, a new record - at least in nominal terms. This marks the ninth consecutive year of growth for the global music industry after nearly two decades of gradual decline. And while streaming was once again the biggest driver of that growth, reaching $19.3 billion in 2023, physical music sales also increased for the third consecutive year. Thanks to a rebound in CD sales and the continued popularity of vinyl, physical format sales climbed to $5.1 billion, up from a historic low of $3.7 billion in 2020.
According IFPI, the music industry bottomed out in 2014, when revenue was at a 20-year low of $13.0 billion, more than $9 billion less than 15 years earlier, when physical music sales alone had amounted to $22.2 billion at the peak of the CD era. After some initial hesitance by the music industry to embrace streaming services, record labels and artists appear to have followed consumers’ lead in accepting that the future of music lies in digital distribution. Last year, digital music accounted for the lion's share of worldwide music revenues, with streaming services alone accounting for 67 percent of the industry’s total haul. According to IFPI, 667 million people were using a paid music streaming subscription by the end of 2023 and streaming revenues are now considerably bigger than digital download sales ever were.
As our chart nicely illustrates, the transition to digital distribution has both fueled the music industry’s decline and helped stop it. After the golden age of the CD, which propelled worldwide music revenues to unprecedented highs through the 1990s, the advent of MP3 and filesharing hit the music industry like an earthquake. Between 2001 and 2010, physical music sales declined by more than 60 percent, wiping out $14 billion in annual revenue. During the same period, digital music sales grew from zero to $4 billion, which wasn’t even remotely enough to offset the drop in CD sales. It wasn’t until the appearance and widespread adoption of music streaming services that the music industry’s fortunes began turning around again.
I think he meant this:
Quadman2
Lunatic Member
Now this is one "cool cat"...you would not want to p*** off!
Neighbour almost lost his younger cat to one coming in the cat door to the garage last week. If he hadn't of come out to see what the wailing was all about...his feline would have been inside the WC!
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Pio1980
AK Member
Reminded of the Vangelis clip in the Lynx commercial. Took me years to track down to him and his China album.
spicer
Lunatic Member
True, it's also what Mercury meant. Look at the legs on that thing, powerful and sure footed. I bet that thing can scramble. Great ears, not much of a tail, performance built.
SolderIron
Addicted Member
A big body doesn't match with small head. I realize there are a lot of fur, but still look mismatched.
Mystic
We're all born mad
Whah????
spicer
Lunatic Member
That's how every house cat imagines itself.
SolderIron
Addicted Member
With the cat.
Bill Ferris
Lunatic Member
It wouldn`t be because that snow bound cat is wearing it`s nature provided heavy/bulky mid winter coat, one might think ?
Look at its built in "snow shoe" like paws !
nailer
audionerd
I'm still using the FM streaming service via the ether.
Cooking a Digiorno pizza includes 4 actual steps; preheat, prep, place, bake 20 min. Then, there is a 5th step: enjoy. My first thought was "Are there really people who need to be told this?" Assuming of course that one likes Digiorno in the first place, which I do. Then, I remembered that there are actually people who need to be reminded to remove their children from jackets before washing.... nevermind. We're gonna be extinct in 26 years or less anyway.
nailer
audionerd
Their selves, children or jackets? Washing all together saves time, electricity, soap and water.
Bill Ferris
Lunatic Member
You forgot the pizza prep/cooking instructions say to remove pizza from the box and plastic wrap before cooking, unless that`s what you meant by prep ^^ ?!
I used to love and frequently eat Digiorno deluxe topping thin crust pizzas until they started reducing the topping`s density, and raised the price almost 10 yrs. back.
I`ve converted over to my 4 blocks away Papa Murphy`s that`s freshly made in front of you deluxe toppings thin crust while you wait, take home and bake since.
