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We had a tornado drill today, and our "Tornado Area", where you go during a tornado to crouch down,
was on the second floor!!!! The first rule that anyone who has ever lived in Tornado Alley knows is that you always get
to the lowest floor of the building whenever there is a tornado warning. Heck, even our own
government says to do that, "Go to the
basement or to an inside hallway at the lowest level." But noooooo, our school decides it likes it's
students to die a horrible death with the roof getting sucked off along with us, and keeps us on the
top floor in the chemistry lab, where there are glass beakers, and glass test tubes strewn all
about. It was also apparent that Florida does not get many tornado's, and hence little information
on them, because half the kids in my class were thinking that being under the sinks would be the
worst place to be lest they fall on us. I guess they rather have the ceiling fall on them. Needless
to say, if there ever was a real tornado here, I think I might just make a break for it and run down
to the bottom floor where I might be at least a little safer. Well, that's my little rant of the
day.
Slashdot is running a good piece on RIAA's misrepresentation
of how their CD sales have fallen 39%, and thus "Napster hurt record sales." It turns out that it
was for CD Singles, not CD Albums. Now I can see how possibly it could hurt single sales, since it'd
be so easy to just download one song, but I personally never saw the point of buying singles anyway,
since they usually cost about the same as half a CD, so I might as well get the whole CD. Besides,
the RIAA recieved $318,500,000 more for all the type of music Napster transfers (CD Albums) this
year over last year. Their net losses for the year stem from slowdown in vinyl, cassette, and music
video sales; things Napster doesn't even affect. It's a very nice insight into how companies will
spin facts to get them to say what they want.
And speaking of music, there is a new song of the moment. AYBABTU!
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