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17. Letzte Instanz – Schuldig Alt-rock/folk metal Rather poppy, but catchy. Sounds like they’ve found a groove. 16. Amorphis – Skyforger Heavy metal Very catchy riffs, as far as standard metal goes. 15. Eluveitie – Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion Celtic folk/rock The acoustic sound works… sort of. It’s hit or miss, but many good [...]
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Though it was originally instituted for the protection of the distributors of media, copyright has come to be regarded in popular mindset as protection for the incentive of artists and innovators to create. The distribution industries know that the function of protecting the distributors as such has been made unnecessary by the advent of the internet, so they no longer try to justify copyright laws that way. They would have us believe instead that without copyright laws, actors, musicians, and writers could not make a decent living…
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$787 billion worth of fiscal stimulus to get the economy back on track, and the best volley Conservatives can lobby is that it didn’t work. With the Obama administration’s widely off-the-mark estimates as to the unemployment rate with or without the stimulus (the actual job losses exceeded the estimates without the stimulus), the debate now [...]