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That after having pushed the orbiting satellite at 5 feet per second,
investigators found that the robotic shover space probe is heading toward earth to protect your grandmother from the Terrible Secret of Space.
Last message recieved from the robotic space probe was :
" Please go stand by the stairs, so I can protect you... "

Or they could shove them down the stairs.

Anime makers seem to not feel the need to complain like the the MPAA and RIAA despite:
http://animelyrics.com/
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/
http://www.jameswong.com/ykproject/core.html

Then there's the Laziest Men on Mars, which quickly turns up http://kilna.com/ and http://www.kilna.com/D88BE0D2/music
free downloadable music.

And there's more like that out there.

What do we need MPAA and RIAA and their supporters for again?

Anime makers seem to not feel the need to complain like the the MPAA and RIAA despite:
http://animelyrics.com/
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/
http://www.jameswong.com/ykproject/core.html

Then there's the Laziest Men on Mars, which quickly turns up http://kilna.com/ and http://www.kilna.com/D88BE0D2/music
free downloadable music.

And there's more like that out there.

What do we need MPAA and RIAA and their supporters for again?

Microsoft is clearly the Pusher robot here.

http://www.kilna.com/music/terrible_stairs
http://www.kilna.com/music/terrible_protected

I mean, come on... what rock have you been hiding under? These aren't even illegal free downloads!

Hmm... Maybe that's the problem.

Microsoft is clearly the Pusher robot here.

http://www.kilna.com/music/terrible_stairs
http://www.kilna.com/music/terrible_protected

I mean, come on... what rock have you been hiding under? These aren't even illegal free downloads!

Hmm... Maybe that's the problem.

Error: PANTS NOT FOUND.

I have found a couple common misspellings of my domain that are still available. By looking at the contents of the sessions on my site I see that the users who come in on certain misspellings actually stick around a bit. Either they ended up on my site by accident and liked it, or sitefinder actually helped me (and them) out by pointing them to the correct site. I don't currently have enough visitors from those misspellings to justify purchasing them, but Verisign has just given me a free service that is of at least some value.

I agree that it breaks DNS, and that it is an unfair use of their position (just imagine when they start removing non-Verisign registered domains from the list of suggestions!). Generating lists of domain misspellings in referer logs is certainly in Verisign's best interest, since some users will want to scoop them up.

But it's not all bad, just mostly bad.

So we have a Space Robot.

But, can it push or at least shove. I know I would need that capability to protect me from the terrible secret of space

I have made a couple of the more popular mixes made of the Terrible Secret of Space (Down the Stairs Mix, Protected Mix). The guy who did the original song truly is the Laziest Man on Mars, I've been pestering him since Terrible's heyday to add me to his MP3.com page. If he thought my stuff sucked all that bad, he could at least compose a two word "fuck off" email. :) In other news, my my sig is eerily on-topic today.

I have made a couple of the more popular mixes made of the Terrible Secret of Space (Down the Stairs Mix, Protected Mix). The guy who did the original song truly is the Laziest Man on Mars, I've been pestering him since Terrible's heyday to add me to his MP3.com page. If he thought my stuff sucked all that bad, he could at least compose a two word "fuck off" email. :) In other news, my my sig is eerily on-topic today.

I was refering to the scripting and/or other methods of embeding fonts. Not using CSS to tell the browser what fonts to use.

This demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of font embedding technologies. The WEFT and TrueDoc specifications do not require client scripting to be implemented. Embedding retrieves needed fonts via simple linking so it is in no way different in practical implementation than CSS, images or other auxiliary web data. In fact CSS2 was built with the explicit inclusion of font embedding (search the page for "download"). My personal resume is an example of a script-free web standards compliant site which implements both WEFT and TrueDoc, and is 100% disabled-accessible. I highly encourage you to read up on web font embedding, and hopefully revise some egregious misconceptions.

yzquxnet is protected.
yzquxnet has gone down the stairs.

If you can't do it shamelessly, then why do it at all?

yzquxnet is protected.
yzquxnet has gone down the stairs.

If you can't do it shamelessly, then why do it at all?

File sharing makes it impossible to use sales as a metric of music quality, but file sharing isn't going to go away, so P2P networks are a practical reality that musicians intent on making money will have to deal with. Sales matters (whether it be albums, tickets or swag), because it determines the resources available to the people making the music happen. But sales is inconsequential to the P2P debate, file sharing is something that exists in the here and now, and if you're going to treat your art as a business, you need to do the free market thing and go where the money is. When life hands you a lemon, go make lemonade, 'cause bitching about how sour it is doesn't sell very many shiny plastic dics. If he's a victim of a practical reality of modern culture, or specifically the practical reality of selling to a specific subculture, I suggest he change his target audience. If he cannot change because of the artist in him... well, art is the pursuit of self-expression, and it is its own reward. Business is making money. If he can't make his music in such a way that he can profit in the current climate, he's failed at being a salesman of his art. Blaming culture for not wanting to pay you for your art seems backwards.

Yes, P2P probably effects his sales, and it may be in a good or bad way, but he provides us with no way to make an informed decision. This is a hallmark of FUD. His suppositions as to the cause of his lost record sales are not backed up by any numbers. I wonder how many ticket sales and swag sales he's lost too? If it is proportional to the lost sales of he album, I would consider it hard to pin his record's failure on file sharing.

Oh yes, I am a musician too. Shameless plug... if you can't do it shamelessly, then why do it at all?

What's wrong with being pedantic and vague? Heck, that describes my music to a tee...
</plug>

That was a set-up, right?

It's those damn Pusher Robots, I tell you! They say they're here to protect us from the terrible secrets of space, they say it has a terrible power!

But don't believe them! Don't believe them! Look what happened to Grandma!

I may want to watch the boob tube and have it serve up content I may actually want to watch (i.e., from my collection), but maybe not something I want to bother to choose specifically (how often do you really set out to watch something like first season TNG, but one cannot help entranced by it when it comes on, if only for the mockery factor). Its just plain un-American to not enjoy flipping channels.

Regarding not having a life, think about how much less of a life I have than you, seeing as you're going around pointing fingers at all the people who supposedly don't have a life. On a slashdot article. Regarding Star Trek. Anonymously.

Yeah, I may be a geek, but at least I realize it. :)

Speaking from the perspective of also being a PC-based musician [shameless plug], I recommend Using a travel rackmount solution...

Compatibility - Lunchboxes are usually not built with upgradability in mind, and if you upgrade the mainboard you're usually at the mercy of the manufacturer.

Upgradability - Put more PCs in the travel rackmount case. Put hardware synthesizers in the road case. Put rackmount effects boxes in the case. Rackmout is the standard for stage equipment. Many hardware manufacturers produce rackmount versions of their breakout boxes. The possibilities are endless

Maintenance - Its an ATX format PC. There ya go. You can get a replacement mouse at Wal-Mart. If the screen, keyboard or mouse on a lunchbox goes south, you are fscked. On a rackmount PC, you use whatver screen you want (and you can even rackmount the monitor too if you want).

Reliability - A stage environment can get very hot. You have the option to mount as many fans as you can fit in a rackmount PC case, and rackmount cases almost always have better airflow because they're meant for server enviroments where many hot-running machines are clustered together.

Durability - A PC in a shock-resistant rackmount travel case is going to be comparably durable to a lunchbox. And if you can trust that it won't get dropped, you can get a cheaper non-shock resistant travel case.

Cost - You can have the functional equivalent of a lunchbox's durability using commodity hardware. I've seen military surplus rack travel cases selling on ebay for cheapo.

Portability - With a travel rack you can still lug it around without too much trouble. Not as portable as a lunchbox, but all of the above factors are much more important than moving the box.

Geekiness - When at home you can mount the PC and music hardware on the same rack as a bunch of network equiment. Can you really put a price on that?

Do *not* use a laptop. Period. Take all of the disadvantages of a lunchbox and add the fact that it isn't ruggedized. Bad idea.

Well, I guess this guy's doomed ;-)

From the LinuxToday story, it's been noted that the story was written by and reported by an Anthony Kilna. A whois query turns up a record for METAMIGA.COM, registered 17 July, 1999. The phone number listed, (619) 677-9830, responds with a "disconnected or no longer in service" message.

Which isn't to say this is a fake, but I'm dubious at present. There are details BTW at http://www.kilna.com/.

I've emailed Anthony for more information, we'll have to wait and see what turns up.