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A 30+ year-old documentary on mouse men.

most music downloaders just want music but don't want to pay for it.

I think there's a proportion of downloaders who would pay, but just not to the RIAA. I'd certainly want to pay the artist directly.

--Rob

I'm getting a sense of deja vu, that strange feeling we sometimes get that we've commented on something before, that what is posted now has already been posted. I'm getting a sense of deja vu, that strange feeling we sometimes get that we've... (looks puzzled for a moment)

You want an example? Try the HoveRoc, which later became Nulka (p6). For a measly couple of million dollars, Australia produced the first few working units. America then spent tens (70?) of millions of dollars just developing a tethered rocket that hovered, and later they "co-operated" (read: bought/bribed their way into the technology) with Australian development.

The USA has a long history of turning down technology Not Invented Here (the Brit's Hawker Harrier "jump jet" being a classic; America changed its collective mind after an admiral found himself suddenly facing a rack-full of missiles at a range of about fifty feet during a joint exercise) - but once you melt down American hubris, the actual engineering is usually excellent (another classic example being American-built Spitfires, which you could park over a mirror without fear after a mission, whereas the Brit-built Spitfires often coated their windscreens with leaked oil, forcing the airmen to slide back the lid in order to see for landing). And as I mentioned above, there is an awful lot more of it; the American Navy is fond of looking for rowlocks on Royal Australian Navy vessels. Yawl probably have more tonnage in most State navies than Australia has overall.

Having hammered that point, yes, I agree that the problem is stomach. Israeli aircraft are never hijacked, because the hijackers know that they're dead within seconds of making themselves known. Israel has - or more particularly Israelis have - zero tolerance for hijacking, so it doesn't happen. America prevaricates, so their 'planes get hijacked. Israel has lots of things wrong with it, but lack of will is not one of them.

just doing the eye-crossing thing.

Why does this post appear twice? You'd have thought that one of the two CmdrTacos would have caught this goof-up.

Nobody leave the room ask shall - somebody I leave nobody in the room body shall, take the tablets Tigerbody. Alself me to my duce introlow left body in the roomself.

that thingy skit is so very very funny, but it reminds me of this one that is so very much more appropos: Skit about SCO and stuff and how greedy they are and how upset and huffy all teh 133T linux users are getting over it

But then again, this is Slashdot, so they probably wouldn't get very much...

Yep, Doom and Doom II for me too. I remember playing it and being completely immersed in it, forgetting the real world. Being really creeped out by hearing imps or demons (monsters right and left in the link of parent post, or see here for a Doom monster inventory) as they snuck around the building. As you got closer, the sounds they made got louder, while you finally rounded a corner and a demon suddenly started chewing your face off making horrible noises. It scared the crap out of me.

And after marathon sessions of Doom, dreaming feverishly about it at night...

Awesome game. :-) Gotta play it again sometime.

Cheers!

Costyn.