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This accomplishment fulfills an important Cibo Matto mandate. You got to "Know Your Chicken."

Bravo! Very well done. That is, if it's an original work. :)

However, might you not mean sung to Bohemian Rhapsody instead of "Inperial Rhapsody"? (or, as I suspect you intended, "Imperial Rhapsody") I know of no such "Inperial Rhapsody". Maybe I'm simply uninformed?

Reading the comments in this thread so far, most Americans seem to be whining that "Broadband's too hard" in America, compared to urban S. Korea. Grasping for reasons why "we're not lame", though we're losing. It's not that hard - and even if it were, what happened to the famous "Can Do" American spirit? We raised skyscrapers, dammed thousands of rivers, put a man on the Moon... Oh, right, that was our *parents* and *grandparents*. They already did the hard stuff, made America #1 forever, right? Why should we work hard now, and ignore all the advantages to be lazy and cop out that our ancestors slaved for?

"Forces of evil on a bozo nightmare
Ban all the music with a phony gas chamber
'cuz one's got a weasel and the other's got a flag
One's on the pole, shove the other in a bag
With the rerun shows and the cocaine nose-job
The daytime crap of the folksinger slob
He hung himself with a guitar string
A slab of turkey-neck and it's hangin' from a pigeon wing
You can't write if you can't relate
Trade the cash for the beef for the body for the hate
And my time is a piece of wax fallin' on a termite
That's chokin' on the splinters"

- Beck, "Loser"

...Or Would You Rather Be A Fish?

We've taken care of everything The words you hear, the songs you sing The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes

I use this same reason to refuse the belief in a graviton until it is shown that it must exist, and that the only explanation available which account for the observed phenomena requires them.

"el resto" means "the rest" holy god...That's incredible. Hey, if you speak Spanish, I've always wondered what "taco" means...

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/randy-travis/114204.h tml

The Site's Slash-dotted, click it and see
Net Timeout Errors and 503s
C'mon server, Do the packets do more than bounce?
It's slashdotted, it's slashdotted

I don't get to read their site
Like some other users might
Honey you oughta know
Before it served so fine
There were pages online
I wanna know when this page will finally load

Now it's up to you, make it static
strip the images too
Let the packets through
I wanna read something I never knew

But now it's Slash-dotted, click it and see
Net Timeout Errors and 503s
C'mon server, Do the packets do more than bounce?
It's slashdotted, it's slashdotted

If the host is right, it can serve pages all night
But now i'm just slapping keys
Server, you've got to give me a sign
come on Google, a cached sign
Tell me, are melting server?
You sure look that way to me

Are you holding up?
Will you be ready if I remember this stuff?
Is my timing right?
Did you save bandwidth for me tonight?

Yeah, it's Slash-dotted, click it and see
Net Timeout Errors and 503s
C'mon server, Do the packets do more than bounce?
It's slashdotted, it's slashdotted

Now it's up to you, make it static
strip the images too
Oh, before we do,
you'll have to get rid of a user or two

Well, it's Slash-dotted, click it and see
Net Timeout Errors and 503s
C'mon server, Do the packets do more than bounce?
It's slashdotted, it's slashdotted

Slashdotted, at least for tonight
Slashdotted, you were looking so right
Slashdotted, this clicking's gotten me riled
Slashdotted, I have to wait a while
Slashdotted, traffic a little bit high?
Slashdotted, your poor server died
Slashdotted, I hope your doing something
Slashdotted, cause here's your chance for publicity

Would they have been happier if SSO had blown up in a spectacular fashion?

Probably.

I don't remember about "violence against women" in lyrics from Lou Reed.

Perhaps this ?

Look up the lyrics here.

Both are correct.

I revised the Kristoffersen lyrics to fit the sense of the news: our freedom is only a word, representing something we can lose. Not actual liberty, not something we can exercise. The original lyric is an ironic reflection of a vagabond, free of property and even a companion, left with nothing to tie them to anything. Americans now find our property ties are being served better than our liberty.

I was thinking of Pantera's Fucking Hostile or Front Line Assembly's Vigilante.

Gotta have something to remind both CSR and customer of their places in life: Target practice for each other.

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I think, I think I am, therefore I am, I think.

~~Oh we make the standards and we make the rules~~

~~And if you don't abide by them you must be a fool~~

From The Jam - Standards

You are a legitimate user. Please send your keys and passwords to the FBI. And the CIA. And the NSC. And your local police. And the lawyers in your town, nearby city, your state capitol. And their accountants. And their psychiatrists. And their priests. And their doctors. What are the chances something bad will happen? You have nothing to hide, and they're all trustworthy, right? And with your passwords and keys so widely distributed, you won't ever get locked out of your car, house or ATM, and you need never remember anything, keychain to wallet. You have achieved total freedom!

"Freedom's just another word
For nothing left to lose"
- Kris Kristofferson, "Me & Bobby McGee"

Sadly, it seems that the music of the Dire Straits doesn't seem to be very popular these days... (before you ask: imagine a background voice singing "I want my MTV" :))

(Or should that have been linked here?)

That a Better Off Dead reference made it before a Lifeforce comment.

I was thinking along the lines of, "Look out the window. If she's naked don't let her in."

Or the truly obscure, I guess the Lion added a drum solo.

History shows again and again How open source points out The folly of closed, MOZILLA!

If you don't understand this joke go listen to some Blue Oyster Cult

I DJ college radio, mostly hardcore and punk. I am not a "shock jock", and most of what I play and say on the air is not intended to get a rise out of people. However, I have almost been kicked off the air multiple times because of the lameass obscenity rules imposed by the FCC. Songs such as this, this, this, and this have cost me much grief in the past.

None of these songs are terribly obscene, and really, the use of this language is really commonplace in our culture now. The reason that blanket laws like this trigger kneejerk, eye-rolling reactions is because it's silly. In the same way that nobody is particularly shocked or taken aback to hear about someone smoking pot or drinking underage, these milquetoast rules dilute the force of the law because nobody takes them seriously.

Likewise, none of the songs that I posted up there are really that offensive; you'd have to be living under a rock to be offended by that. On the other hand, "obscenity" is a really slippery slope. For instance, none of these songs have any bad words.

This song will probably offend you
But what about this one? It's only kind of bad, I guess....
And what about this one?

Where do you wanna draw the line?

In both the radio show and the BBC TV Series, what made the jokes work was the voice characterization and acting. Without a good director at the helm who has a letter perfect sense of comic timing and voice characterization necessary to pull off the sarchasm, this movie will fail.

Do you know his video of the song "Coffe & TV" by Blur? This song has lyrics full of melancholic sarcasm, quite like some passages from the HTTG. Garth Jennings managed to translate it to the screen, thought there is no storyline in this song and he had to find this weird yet cute visual metaphore. If his movie will be as good as this video - we will all be happy.

De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
They're meaningless and all that's true

In fact, I'll argue that the main idea in the heads of the terrorists is to provoke a US reaction so bad that it will again provoke 2 billion arabs to become so furious that it starts a full scale war.

So far, I think the US has done its best to full-fill the goals of the terrorists. What the terrorists OTOH have misunderstood is the will of Mohammad Average Arab to get into a fight. The massive uprising of two billions arabs the terrorists hoped for is simply not going to happen, not because of Bush, but in spite of him. They have no interest in it, when I've been travelling in arab countries, I have met nothing but respect and peacefulness. Or to paraphrase Sting:

What might save us, me, and you
Is that the arabs love their children too

Unfortunately society will go on ignoring the concepts that make the Linux community such a powerful force.

People are too cowardly to embrace anarchy, and to accept eachother for what we really are. So..

Follow the school into the net
Cuz swimming alone at sea
Is not the kind of freedom you actually want.

NOFX

As far as Moby is concerned regarding highs that don't hurt: think back to the days of everyone's first LEGAL high: spinning around and around.

Huey Lewis first brought this up

I heard this song on the radio today and thought "This should be the SCO anthem!".
In the words of the great Don Henley:

Dirty little secrets
Dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers in everybody's pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry

We can do "The Innuendo"
We can dance and sing
When it's said and done we haven't told you a thing
We all know that Crap is King
Give us dirty laundry!

The whole thing applies...

a doctor is only qualified to treat a gunshot would if he fired the pistol.

If a police force refused to arrest a rapist/mugger (the song "Maxwell's silver hammer" runs through my brain at this point, followed by "Excitable Boy", both about the sort of psychopathy France turned their back on), and the army subsequently arrest said rapist, why should the police force then have any say in how the rapist is sentenced?

You think you're gonna need a Mac to listen to U2?

If you live alone and don't have neighbors, you probably can't understand why that would be a problem. If you live in a family, an apartment, or any other situation where you'd be disturbing someone else, you can understand where too much dynamic range and bass can be a problem.

I agree, but dynamic range is what it's all about, especially with classical (or Kansas, for that matter).

Maybe I'm dating myself (heh-heh, he said he was dating himself, snicker), but I like ACDC, Rush, April Wine and other ear-bashers, but there's nothing like sitting in front of a live orchestra with all the sonic nuances, pauses and well-placed assaults on the ears. Being able to simulate this at home is really neato.

http://www.kansasband.com/discography.html

Moderate -1 for use of the word "neato"

I'm talking between CDs.

Here, let's look at his views on internet song-swapping through his lyrics:

"I'm Shady" by Eminem clearly shows a bias against copying (dubbing) music.

People don't buy shit no more they just dub it That's why I'm still broke and had the number one club hit (Yup, uh huh)

Now, turning back the clock, "The Real Slim Shady" Eminem suggests people copy audio (assumedly illegally) for their own purposes:

I should download her audio on MP3

Heck, he even derides his own abilities. In "The Real Slim Shady" he admits his abilities don't extend past swearing:

Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell his records; well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too!

I think I'll tell eskimos how to use a fridge, and when people tell me to shut up, I'll say "I'm providing education, man!".

I'm talking between CDs.

Here, let's look at his views on internet song-swapping through his lyrics:

"I'm Shady" by Eminem clearly shows a bias against copying (dubbing) music.

People don't buy shit no more they just dub it That's why I'm still broke and had the number one club hit (Yup, uh huh)

Now, turning back the clock, "The Real Slim Shady" Eminem suggests people copy audio (assumedly illegally) for their own purposes:

I should download her audio on MP3

Heck, he even derides his own abilities. In "The Real Slim Shady" he admits his abilities don't extend past swearing:

Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell his records; well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too!

I think I'll tell eskimos how to use a fridge, and when people tell me to shut up, I'll say "I'm providing education, man!".

I'm talking between CDs.

Here, let's look at his views on internet song-swapping through his lyrics:

"I'm Shady" by Eminem clearly shows a bias against copying (dubbing) music.

People don't buy shit no more they just dub it That's why I'm still broke and had the number one club hit (Yup, uh huh)

Now, turning back the clock, "The Real Slim Shady" Eminem suggests people copy audio (assumedly illegally) for their own purposes:

I should download her audio on MP3

Heck, he even derides his own abilities. In "The Real Slim Shady" he admits his abilities don't extend past swearing:

Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell his records; well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too!

I think I'll tell eskimos how to use a fridge, and when people tell me to shut up, I'll say "I'm providing education, man!".

"...I'll be stripped to the skin
You'll be stripped to the bone
And we'll all say no to the picture-phone
It was so easy to cheat on a blind line
With an alibi and your image intact
Whatever the number -
Whatever the crime -
Not only the famous will have to resign
And you have come to depend
On your right to pretend you're alone
Would the star of the screen
Ever wish to be seen
Red-eyed and dying through the morning call
And the president's friends
Would they live for long
If they saw down the wire what really goes on
When you're home to relax
Come the facial attacks
And the breathers in masks - oh no!..."

"The Ketchup Song (Hey Hah)" has already topped the charts in 18 countries. A ring tone is available for mobile phones. A parody of the song that mocks Chancellor Gerhard Schröder for raising taxes has raced to the top of the charts in Germany.

I prefer the Stompin' Tom version