http://youtu.be/zlDllZHJjeM

Equal opportunity...here are some clips of Justin Timberlake's concert the next night at the same spot: http://youtu.be/doiY3iVuSOU http://youtu.be/HkpHciikwjM

Autechre "Exai" Surfer Blood "Pythons" Daft Punk "Random Access Memories" Queens of the Stone Age "Like Clockwork" Sigur Rós "Kveikur"

The best of my last few month's purchases(bootlegs not included). Goldfrapp "Tales of Us" Nirvana "In Utero: 20th Anniversary Edition" Public Image Ltd. "First Issue" remastered reissue Seasick Steve "Hubcap Music"

These articles are from a week ago or so...it is sometimes a pain for me to copy and paste articles here, which is why I am not always able to post them here promptly. But I think it illustrates perfectly some of what ails our economy lately: 1) The raping of our money and taxpayer dollars by the corporate-elite and government; and 2) The hardships and obstacles faced by small businesses versus Big Business. First, another chapter in the nefarious misdeeds of our banks and financial institutions: Tell me again why Jamie Dimon is still chairman of JPMorgan By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times October 11, 2013 The toll of JPMorgan Chase's relentless lawbreaking under Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon may finally be getting real for shareholders. According to the bank's third-quarter financial results, released Friday morning, its litigation expenses of more than $9 billion (pretax) more than wiped out its third-quarter profits -- and then some. The bank booked a loss of $380 million. In the year-earlier quarter it made a profit of $5.7 billion. More hits from legal and regulatory problems are coming. Federal regulators are seeking a settlement over JPM's misdeeds in the mortgage market that could be as high as $11 billion. The bank's 2012 annual report listed legal exposure in no fewer than 19 categories, including the mortgage mess, alleged manipulation of international interest rates, involvement in the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme, an allegedly fraudulent bond deal involving the city of Milan, Italy, and Morgan's manipulation of the California electricity market, which I've documented here and here. Federal energy regulators let the bank off with a fine that looks like a big number but really amounts to chump change for the big bank, as I observed at the time. But federal prosecutors in New York are now looking into whether Morgan employees criminally obstructed the regulators' investigation. And that's not even counting the $6 billion the bank lost in poorly supervised trading in its London office, the so called "London whale" debacle. The bank last month agreed to pay nearly $1 billion in regulatory fines in connection with the episode, which Dimon dismissed when it first surfaced as "a complete tempest in a teapot." As the Wall Street Journal observed in May, "No large U.S. bank is operating under more regulatory sanctions" than JPM. So Dimon's reign at JPM should be coming to an end, right? Of course not. I'm only funnin' ya. Dimon's position as chairman and CEO looks more secure than ever. He easily fended off an attempt at this year's annual meeting to force him to give up one of the two posts. It's not hard to see why. The bank's shares have risen more than 61% since he became CEO in 2006--22% this year alone. This quarter's loss is the bank's first under Dimon. His admirers are already saying that it's no big deal -- a one-time charge, nothing to see here, move along. Yet Dimon's JPMorgan has been at the center of pretty much every crisis-making scandal that has afflicted the international financial system over the last decade. There's obviously something wrong when a bank can profit from this sort of chicanery and fraud and the ringleader gets lionized for it. (You won't hear a discouraging word about Dimon from his claque at CNBC.) Dimon hasn't merely presided over this lawbreaking; he's done almost nothing about it. No shakeup of management. Almost no changes in JPM's board. The problem raised by the Dimon case isn't managerial so much as regulatory. Dimon's continuing role is the harvest of a disciplinary system that punishes white-collar crime by exacting corporate fines, not personal responsibility. A chief executive sensitive to his moral and practical responsibility for JPMorgan's record would voluntarily step down. Since no one expects Dimon to do so, it's up to the authorities to force the issue. But that approach has been off the table for years, and the harvest is JPMorgan, the outlaw. As experts in white-collar crime have pointed out repeatedly -- every time a company like JPMorgan pays a few millions, or even hundreds of millions, to paper over its misdeed -- corporate fines have no deterrent effect whatsoever. Leaving aside that they're always a fraction of the real costs that corporate wrongdoing imposes on customers and the general public, they impose the cost of wrongdoing on shareholders, not the responsible executives. They send a signal to all corporate executives that prosecution for fraud is just a business expense; since the potential profits from fraud are so great, why not take a flyer? That's been the ethos at JPMorgan under Jamie Dimon. The record shows that as long as he's in place, more scandal will ensue. As long as he's in place, we'll all be paying. Second, the legal chicanery that targets small businesses: Start-up founder sees a troll behind patent lawsuit By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times October 13, 2013 Kevin O'Connor, founder of Findthebest.com, is fighting a patent holder's demand for money to settle patent infringement claims. To Kevin O'Connor, the first straw was also the last straw. In May, a start-up company he founded, Findthebest.com, got a letter from a Connecticut law firm explaining that it had filed a lawsuit accusing the start-up of infringing an obscure software patent and offering to discuss an out-of-court settlement. The letter also threatened, however, that if Findthebest so much as filed an answer to the lawsuit, the price of settlement would go up. For each motion Findthebest filed, the letter warned, "Plaintiff will incorporate an escalator into its settlement demand." O'Connor smelled a troll. "It was written in this Stalinist way," he said recently. "It said, you've committed a crime but we're not going to tell you how or why, just come clean and write us a check." The result is one of the most closely watched patent cases in the technology world. Instead of folding and settling, as do most young tech companies faced with the prospect of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight off a patent claim even if they're sure of winning, Findthebest is fighting back. In September the firm sued Lumen View, the shadowy plaintiff behind the demand letter, for racketeering and extortion. O'Connor's strategy of fighting purported patent trolls with RICO, the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act, is an unusual one, in part because it hasn't been successful in the past. But he thinks Lumen View's demands were so outrageous and its claims so threadbare that he has a chance of success. Plenty of people in the high-tech world are cheering him on. That's because patent trolls have become a multibillion-dollar burden for small companies. Trolls, loosely defined, are firms that own patents but don't use them to make or sell anything. (The technical term for them is "non-practicing entities," or NPEs.) Not all patent-owning companies are trolls; some exist legitimately to help inventors profit from their patented inventions, as inventors have a right to do. Nor is it entirely plain that Lumen View qualifies as a troll. That question depends on whether it's trying to enforce its software patent against companies it genuinely has reason to believe are infringing. Among the hallmarks of trolldom are lawsuits brought largely for the purpose of exacting hasty out-of-court settlements from defendants who can't afford to fight. These lawsuits are often sprayed out like machine-gun fire, aimed at dozens of companies at a time. Typically the plaintiffs do minimal research to determine if they have a legitimate case. Often, at the first sign of return fire in court, they withdraw — after all, pursuing a lawsuit to enforce a patent can run up six-figure legal fees. That's not the trolls' business model. "Trolls do a really good job of targeting start-ups at their most vulnerable moments," says Julie Samuels, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and holder of its Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents. That's not a joke: Cuban, the high-tech entrepreneur and owner of theNBA Dallas Mavericks, has been campaigning to outlaw software patents, the trolls' lifeblood. "Dumb-ass patents are crushing small businesses," he told an interviewer earlier this year. Several of his own start-ups have been fired at, he said. O'Connor feels almost as strongly. Findthebest, which offers online ratings of consumer goods from smartphones to mountain bikes, doesn't have the money in its corporate coffers to carry on an open-ended lawsuit. So he's putting up his own money — as much as $1 million of his take from the $3.1-billion sale of the online advertising service Doubleclick, which he co-founded, to Google in 2008. As O'Connor describes the genesis of the case, it looked like trolling from the outset. The patent cited by the demand letter from Damian Wasserbauer, a Lumen View attorney, didn't seem to apply to Findthebest's business. The patent covered the use of a computer to match two or more parties each listing their preferences — two users of a dating service, for example. Findthebest seeks preferences from only one user — the person looking for that best smartphone. O'Connor doubted the patent would survive a court challenge, anyway. The letter was excessively threatening. It advised Findthebest to collect and safeguard all its electronic messages and documents going back six years (the company was founded in 2009) including personal messages sent and received by employees they might "regard as personal, confidential, or embarrassing." Lumen View, which had acquired the patent from its inventor, Eileen Shapiro, a Cambridge, Mass., business consultant, didn't seem to have an existence outside of the 20 lawsuits it had filed alleging infringement. (All but two have been settled out of court.) When Findthebest executives called Wasserbauer, "he couldn't tell us how we were infringing," O'Connor says. "All he wanted to talk about was a settlement check for $50,000." O'Connor did reach Shapiro, who said only that she was the inventor, he says. A few days after that call, he says, the company got an email from Wasserbauer accusing him of a "hate crime" for having called Shapiro a patent troll in a message left on her phone. Lumen View wanted a payoff by the end of the day, he said, or he would seek criminal charges against O'Connor. (He never followed through on the threat.) Neither Shapiro nor Wasserbauer returned my calls asking for comment. O'Connor's RICO action won't be easy to win. Tech giants Cisco Systems, Netgear, and Motorola tried the same tack last year against Innovatio, a company trying to enforce a patent claim over WiFi by suing hotels and coffee shops that offered the service to customers using those companies' routers. They lost, although a case challenging Innovatio's patents is still on. For a RICO claim to succeed, Samuels says, the infringement claims must be "objectively baseless." That's a high bar because issued patents have a presumption of validity even when "the patents are so crappy and so broad," as she puts it. Aggressive countermoves like Findthebest's do tend to scare patent trolls off. A study by Georgetown law school found that counter challenges against non-practicing entities succeeded in court more than 90% of the time — but that most defendants settled before reaching that point. But the trolls won't really go away until there are changes in the law and U.S. Patent Office practice. Samuels and others argue that software patents are typically too vague, which allows their owners to exploit them on claims that shouldn't really apply. Their 20-year terms may also be too long. In the pharmaceutical industry, where it can take years and more than $1 billion to bring a drug to market, it makes sense to provide enough time to make a profit. "Software just doesn't need that," Samuels says. Whether software should be patentable at all is still a controversial question. It wasn't until the 1970s that the U.S. started issuing patents for computer applications, and not until 1996 when the patent office codified the rules for examiners. Patents were ruled out only on "abstract ideas, laws of nature or natural phenomena." Congress could resolve the question but hasn't chosen to take it up. The next battle may be waged before the Supreme Court, which has been asked to hear two cases, including one involving a patent for showing an advertisement on the Internet before showing copyrighted content. (Hulu is the defendant in that case.) Until that happens, it's up to people like O'Connor to stand their ground. Lumen View may have picked the wrong company to threaten with a lawsuit. On the other hand, given how unpredictable patent cases can be, maybe it will win. Michael Hiltzik's column appears Sundays and Wednesdays. Read his new blog, "The Economy Hub," at latimes.com/business/hiltzik, reach him at mhiltzik@latimes.com, check outfacebook.com/hiltzik and follow @hiltzikm on Twitter. Copyright © 2013, Los Angeles Times

Copy-cat. I posted that already.

Egg Russian Roulette. http://youtu.be/puipmbc_3CY

Macca's appearance on Jimmy Kimmel, including the entire hour-long concert out front on Hollywood Blvd. where Jimmy Kimmel's show is taped. The interview (in three parts): http://youtu.be/x5IwMV39JEg http://youtu.be/CP81f8_q_28 http://youtu.be/fH1GaZB5wpk The concert:

Here is the complete concert Paul McCartney played on Hollywood Blvd. last month for the Jimmy Kimmel show.

Don't remember those...but girl scouts are a little too young for me, anyway.

Kershaw shut them down in Game 2 and they still lost 1-0. He gets the worst run support of any of the Dodgers starting pitchers. I don't see that trend stopping in Game 6.

I'm surprised no one has responded to your post yet, chef free. I don't have the Wendy. Mine is Scorpio's "The Atrocity Exhibition". Not a great show, in my opinion. The band and Plant, especially, is rough in spots, and the soundboard has that weird sound that mar many of the 1973 soundboards. Seattle, Detroit, New York, Providence, and Boston are all better representations of the second stage of the 1973 U.S. Tour. If I had to pick a "highlight" from this boot, it would probably be "Since I've Been Loving You". Having the soundcheck full of oldies and "Night Flight", etc. (although I don't really think it is from this show) is also a bonus. July 6, 1973 is only recommended for "completists".

I remember this issue...still have it somewhere. Vielen Dank, Roger, for all your hard work and effort on this great thread!

CD sales may not be what they were 10 years ago, but they are still sold. I don't know where you live or where your insider is, but "nobody sells CDs anymore" is a bunch of malarkey. Besides, it doesn't make sense to release Deluxe Box Sets in a digital only format. How can it be a "box set" if there is no cd/album and box to house them in?

Her first two albums are really good. She didn't really get hung up on issues until after she ripped the Pope's picture on "Saturday Night Live". But then, given the hypocrisy and venal shenanigans of the Catholic Church over the centuries, why shouldn't she rip the Pope's photo? The Church deserves a lot worse. Sinead has a great voice and never needed autotune. I haven't seen her in years...not since Lilith Fair...but she was good in concert, too. A goofy dancer, though, hehe. http://youtu.be/5QFPfSfLi-Q She didn't need to strip naked and lick a sledgehammer to make an effective video, either. http://youtu.be/iUiTQvT0W_0

I always see you going on about Kelly Brook, so like a fool, I decided to click on the first clip to see what all the fuss was about. There's 1:55 of my life that I won't be able to get back. Sheer idiocy. I can't believe you waste your time watching this shite. No way was I clicking on the following clips in your post. All is not lost, however...as your other posts suggest, at least you listen to Goldfrapp and Sigur Rós.

That's a yummy tradition. Do you have a preferred grape or do you just get whatever is available in the UK at the time?

You forgot to add that Wes should take his PC with him on his walk to the nearest hill and toss it in the nearest junkheap.

Good win by Boston last night...and it was more of a MUST-WIN for them than it was for Detroit. But the Red Sox can't relax. They aren't out of the woods yet because if they lose Game 6, that means they will have to beat Justin Verlander in Game 7. As for the Dodgers, I said St. Louis would win in 6, and that is what will happen tonight...the Cardinals will win Game 6 to wrap it up. Don't be fooled by the Dodgers offensive outburst in Game 5...that was an anomaly. It was a rare day game and it was 84°...you knew the ball was going to carry well. Tonight, back in the cold in St. Louis, those home runs will turn back into flyball outs. The Dodger bats will be silenced again...especially with Hanley Ramirez being ineffective with a broken rib and Andre Ethier being a shell of his former self.

I think your computer is trying to tell you something.

^^^ While I want the Dodgers and Red Sox to get in the WS, I would definitely be less upset if the Tigers get in than I will if the Cards win. Detroit does need some good news. I feel sorry for Cleveland fans, too. More than I do for Cubs fans, who are obnoxious and kind of deserve to have the Cubs remain losers. Hard to believe it's been 10 years already since the Steve Bartman game. Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola on the NBC TV broadcast, back when NBC owned baseball coverage. Bob Costas and Marv Albert hosting the studio show and doing interviews. I miss those days. It's a shame the nation is deprived of Vin Scully calling baseball. Well, it was the 25th anniversary of Game 1 of the 1988 World Series last night, hence my focus on that particular at-bat. But yes, I also remember that 1984 World Series too. Another one where I won some money, thanks to some Padre fans in the Army. As a matter of fact, that whole 1984 season was about Detroit...the way the Tigers shot out of a cannon to start the season and dominated the rest of the league. When Detroit won the World Series, as expected, it was also the first time I saw a city riot in celebration of its team winning. Many people think that trend started in Los Angeles...uh uh, it was Detroit.

Nobody has any thoughts or reminiscences of Kirk Gibson's home run? I guess some of you are too young to remember.

Week 7 schedule: Seattle Atlanta Detroit Miami New England Philadelphia Washington St. Louis Jacksonville San Francisco Pittsburgh Green Bay Kansas City Denver NY Giants

Nice experience. Thanks for sharing.