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Also, if you live in the Philadelphia region, The Philadelphia Inquirer has their own classifieds with real estate listings.

Also, if you live in the Philadelphia region, The Philadelphia Inquirer has their own classifieds with real estate listings.

I live in center city Philadelphia, so the RNC did a great job doubling the length of my commute. My solution was to take the train... until I left the train station, found myself in the middle of a fairly violent demonstration, with cops trying to smack the shit out of me, and Septa having locked the doors behind us, so I couldn't go back into the train station.

I can vouch, firsthand, that in the violent demonstration I was part of, at least 75% of us were just trying to get out of there, but were being kept back by the same police who were beating us. Philadelphia went overboard trying to make sure the RNC was happy, so they'd get lots of money. But then Philadelphia police have a habit of doing that.

Canada looks better every day.

"Don't blame me! I voted for Kodos!"

Several times during the Yahoo chat, it is stated that Metallica needs to be able to control the distribution of its music.

As you know, guitar rock is the most unpopular it has been in years. Billy Corgan outlined a paradigm for distributing material in a re cent interview that would release EPs every 3 months. He has reached the opinion that "the editing process is inconsequential," and says "even amongst the crap there's still something to be heard. That's why I buy bootlegs, or Picasso's sketchbooks."

Metallica obviously thinks that something like this would be ineffective, and wants to control its music. What advantages do you believe the current distribution method has over the hypothetical one above?

Dan Young says he never thought calling his mother from the road to tell her he was on his way home would make him an outlaw.

In Hilltown Township, home of the state's first local ban on handheld phone use while driving, it did. And yesterday a judge told Young, 42, that even though he was not aware of the law - Young lives in Fleetwood, Berks County - he was still guilty of violating it and will have to pay a $75 fine.

Jenni is exploring the last frontier of privacy: the home. Although the images are sometimes erotic, they are in no way pornographic. I've seen worse in the average "I know what you did last summer" type slasher flick.

Interesting that Katz's story should be posted the same day that this article was front page news in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Maybe they're both right. The gist of both seems to be that women of all ages are using the net as a tool (which is as it should be) rather than as an end in itself and are turned off by the adolescent, masturbatory male geek culture......

The actual Inquirer web site is here, and the actual article is here.

-ac

The actual Inquirer web site is here, and the actual article is here.

-ac

Yes, but my post was not a real post. It was humor. Darn, I forgot to put "HUMOR" in the subject line again...

Besides, if they call themselves the "Inquirer", there will be that negative association. Why don't they change their name? Maybe web filters will eventually block all "suspicious-lookin g Inquirer sites too. Check out the link, their journalism isn't that serious. Anything that's written at a sixth-grade level for the below-average american can't be.

So what do you think? Inquiring minds want to know... :)
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Because unfortunately, most of the stories your paper runs from outside the local area are probably from one source (the AP collective). And because, like it or not, if the NYT or the WSJ or the Washington Post prints it, most reporters think something is true. And because if a newspaper prints it, the TeeVee drones dutifully put it on the air, minus 99 percent of the content and analysis. And because most of the media (probably including yours) is owned by gigantic evil mega-corporations obsessed with increasing shareholder value at the expense of their viewers'/readers' minds.

More importantly, though, your average local reporter knows a little about a lot, but a lot about only a little, of what she or he covers. That means we rely on experts, and I think too often, we anoint experts without really knowing too much about how much they actually know.

And I think using the Nexis-Lexis database to find experts is just about the WORST thing a reporter can do. Because that leads to the kinds of vicious spirals that turn idiots like Vranesevich into spokesmen for things they know little or nothing about. We should spend a little extra time and find our own experts by researching the field we report on, talking to the relevant players, and figuring out who they respect.

This is an interesting discussion, so don't be offended by my self righteous tone. I sometimes rely on these anointed experts too, but I wish I didn't.

[ps-this was already posted once, but somehow ended up in a completely different article]

You should check out http://www.phillynews.com/packages/tibet/ for an example of what those "morons" have to put up with.

Perhaps if your friends in Beijing shoved an electric cattle prod up *your* ass, you'd want your own government too.

I live in the Philadelphia area and there's a weekly Tech section in the Inquirer(Philly Newspaper)

Yesterday they had an article about the 'Dark Net'. That was the actual term used by the Author. He went on for a while about how software companies have chased all the evil warez people off the web and then they've all moved to the Dark Net where they can trade their illegal software with impunity. After reading the article a couple times trying to figure out what he was talking about I noticed a single reference to FTP which is apparently the Dark Net.

The author seems to believe that anything done on FTP couldn't possibly be legal because the web is so much easier.

There were also some references to 'other software' and non-standard (non-web) protocols that make it simpler for pirates to trade stolen software at higher speed. All I can think of is Hotlne, but there's no reference to any real information. The entire article seems to be based on some vague notion of pirates being everywhere and being the only people who use high speed connections.
for more info you can read the whole article on the Inquirer's website

I saw a Dateline story and found this article that confirms it. A Burlington Coat factory sold coats lined with dog fur. An interesting aside, I thought. It's still great news that linux is getting some commercial use. Gives me hope that I'll be able to get a job programming that doesn't involve knowing MFC.

Also, they call linux shareware!?