[Fmpro] A near death experience

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Mark, I just joined your fan club. Reading posts like this actually takes a 
big bite out of my usually rather thick nihilistic depression - hey, I think 
I can see the friggin' sun! Thanks! And congrats on beating the rap with the 
infection from hell. I too have had my butt pulled out of the fire by a 
top-notch doc. Doc.Friday treated my breathing problems since I was a kid. 
When I was in college he used to always ask me, as I was leaving the 
examination/treatment room, "Hey kid, you still in school?" and I'd say 
"Yea." Every time this happened, and by the time I had walked to the front 
office to pay the bill, I would be told by the secretary that I didn't owe 
anything for the visit. That is what I call a true doctor, and a real man. 
My wife now bakes a huge batch of her famous muffins for him every month 
(he's been retired for a while). - JohnB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark McKee" <mark at unm.edu>
To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:59 PM
Subject: [Fmpro] A near death experience


> I've been away due to a Staph/MRSA infection.  It appears that I'm among 
> the lucky 10% who survive, thanks to a my great primary care physician, 
> who was recently voted the top internist here in Albuquerque, by his 
> fellow doctors.  Without him, the hospital would have certainly killed me. 
> Apparently the practice of washing your hands, has no place in modern 
> American medicine.
>
> I am saddened to find that Les is gone.  He always had a great talent for 
> shining the light on the cockroaches, and so, in tribute to Les, I'd like 
> to weigh in on the recent decision regarding royalties for online 
> performances.  Anyone who thinks this will be good for ASCAP members is 
> naive at best.  Consider these non music analogies and note that each 
> "somehow" in quotes is my little tribute to Les:
>
> Diebold can build an ATM that tracks your bank accounts as well as the 
> bank accounts of millions of your fellow citizens, and all their 
> transactions, yet "somehow", they can't make a voting machine that only 
> has to track votes.
>
> Those ATMs save the banks untold millions in labor fees, yet "somehow" 
> they find a way to pop you for each transaction, and if you believe that 
> you are getting any free ATM service, well, you are mistaken.
>
> In 1995 or 1996, the US Congress passed the Telecommunications Act, which 
> allowed the phone companies to charge you $5 a month for, say, 
> call-waiting, which costs the phone company one penny a month.   They got 
> the go-ahead to gouge you, and in return, they would use the windfall to 
> lay fiber optic cable across America, and thereby provide "internet 2" 
> speed to every home for about $15 a month.  Well, we've been paying these 
> outrageous rates for about 12 years now, and in America, we still have 
> crappy bandwidth, (Americans believe that DSL and Cable are actually high 
> speed), because the phone companies "somehow" diverted the money to the 
> shareholders, upper management, and the board members.  They haven't laid 
> a foot of cable.
>
> I agree that one should invest in fingerprinting technology.  It may turn 
> out that you can become your own PRO in the new age.  Here's hoping the 
> PROs go the same way as the record industry.  They certainly deserve it.
>
> I for one, will never join ASCAP.  I think the whole paradigm, like the 
> great Hank Mancini, is dead.
>
> And in one last nod to Les, I'd like to share with you all, a simple trick 
> for getting your web site to the top of the dirty, payola ridden search 
> engines.  It's called the META TAG.
>
> 1. Simply go to your favorite search engine
> 2. Enter the search parameter that you would like your site to come up 
> under, ex: film, music, Les, etc.
> 3. When the search is displayed pick any of the top 3 results, and go to 
> their site.
> 4. Reveal their HTML code, copy their META TAG, and paste into your own 
> site.
>
> In a couple of days you'll find that your site is near the top of the 
> search, and you didn't have to pay huge dollars to someone for doing what 
> I just described!
>
> There's your freaking free market! Fight the Power!
>
> Long Live Les!
>
> Mark McKee
> Multimedia Development Specialist
> Course Development Group
> New Media & Extended Learning
> The University of New Mexico
> 505-277-0691
>
> "We are a nation of laws, poorly written and randomly enforced."
> Frank Zappa - American Composer
>
> "Now the majors are what they used to think I was: history."
> Dolly Parton - American Role Model
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