President Dwight D. Eisenhower coined this term in his farewell address to refer to "a conjunction of an immense military establishment and large arms industry".
Here's how it works: our taxes support a massive military budget which is doled out to large defense contractors. These corporations use this money to buy politicians and impel the United States to enter unending wars in order to assure that their contracts never end and grow increasingly bloated.
Here's how it works: our taxes support a massive military budget which is doled out to large defense contractors. These corporations use this money to buy politicians and impel the United States to enter unending wars in order to assure that their contracts never end and grow increasingly bloated.
Dick Cheney was Defense Secretary, CEO of Halliburton, and then Vice President of the United States, and is a key member of the military industrial complex. It kinda explains why Halliburton is profiteering off all these wars.
by khashishi April 11, 2010
1 - "Record company people are shady", in the immortal words of A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip.
2 - By extension, a rule reminding not to trust anybody whose actions in a particular situation are driven by the urge to make money.
2 - By extension, a rule reminding not to trust anybody whose actions in a particular situation are driven by the urge to make money.
1 - "Industry rule #4080, record company people are shadyyyy!" - Q-Tip, "Check the Rhime"
2 - "Don't trust that guy, remember Industry Rule #4080."
2 - "Don't trust that guy, remember Industry Rule #4080."
by mika_shinryu October 05, 2006
A rockin' ska punk band(ish) led by Jeff Rosenstock. Members include Jeff Rosenstock, John DeDomenici, Laura Stevenson, Mike Costa, James Lynch, Dave Solomon, Jason Rutcofsky, Jenna Beatty, Sean McCabe, Steve Foote, Sean Qualls, Christine Mackie, Robert Dale Sager II, Jeff Tobias, Corey Landis, Montgomery, Craig Howe, Rick Johnson, Matt Kurz. Many of the members were formerly in the Arrogant Sons of Bitches
by Dan Hamilton June 29, 2008
Legal-industral complex (n): The tendancy for a system of laws to become self-reinforcing and ever-increasingly complicated in order to provide continual employment for legal professionals. The legal-industrial complex is especially prominent in the United States, where a disproportionately high number of educated individuals choose to become lawyers as a default career path and/or attend law school without having much idea of what they actually want to do with a law degree, the result of which is a lawyer for roughly every hundred people.
Joe Bob: "Have you decided what to do with your liberal arts degree yet?"
Mary Jane: "Well, in an economy like this, there are no jobs available for people with my training. So I guess I'll go to law school."
Joe Bob: "Wow, you're going to become part of the legal-industrial complex."
Mary Jane: "Well, in an economy like this, there are no jobs available for people with my training. So I guess I'll go to law school."
Joe Bob: "Wow, you're going to become part of the legal-industrial complex."
by SpliffRollaJ June 27, 2010
A very retarded song created by a wannabe cowboy that admits he's a sellout and a white person who can't rap
Lil Nas X fan: Did you listen to INDUSTRY BABY?
Me: No
Lil Nas X fan: u should it's fire
Me: Ok, I will *Listens to the song* WTF IS THIS SHIT?
Lil Nas X fan: it's rap
Me: This doesn't sound like Rap, it sounds like someone having a stroke in auto-tune
Me: No
Lil Nas X fan: u should it's fire
Me: Ok, I will *Listens to the song* WTF IS THIS SHIT?
Lil Nas X fan: it's rap
Me: This doesn't sound like Rap, it sounds like someone having a stroke in auto-tune
by NepgearAfficionado August 13, 2022
Guy who is unemployed/underemployed that has a hobby of doing something with music, but he puts himself out there as working in the music industry as a professional, as if its a real full time job.
Guy read the ad in the back of Rolling Stone, or saw the commercial on daytime TV since he is realistically unemployed about "working with the stars of tomorrow, today."
Since "graduating" from the recording vocational "school" (that has no selection criteria), when he goes out and people ask what he does, he says "I'm in the music industry/sound engineer/music producer/in a band." He'll name drop artists you've heard of, but you'll never read his name credited on any of their albums.
Realistically, he is unemployed, but has a 'hobby' of making one or two albums for others with day jobs every year.
He is flat broke, and will make up fake albums that he has deadlines to meet as an excuse why he can't afford to spend $10 on Friday night.
This guy, is a music industry poser.
Since "graduating" from the recording vocational "school" (that has no selection criteria), when he goes out and people ask what he does, he says "I'm in the music industry/sound engineer/music producer/in a band." He'll name drop artists you've heard of, but you'll never read his name credited on any of their albums.
Realistically, he is unemployed, but has a 'hobby' of making one or two albums for others with day jobs every year.
He is flat broke, and will make up fake albums that he has deadlines to meet as an excuse why he can't afford to spend $10 on Friday night.
This guy, is a music industry poser.
by Hobby shot caller November 29, 2010
The Prison Industrial Complex is a system situated at the intersection of government and private interest. It uses prisons as a solution to social, political and economic problems. It includes human rights violations, the death penalty, slave labor, policing, courts, the media, political prisoners and the elimination of dissent.
The Prison Industrial Complex is just another way the government and corporations are fucking America up!
by The Booty Warrior May 01, 2011