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scatboy writes "Tex9 has software for using an iPod (yes, another iPod story) on Linux. It uses a graphical drag-and-drop interface through xtunes, their version of iTunes on Linux. They are looking for beta testers of the xpod software now.
I have a dual boot box that has only gone into Windows lately to load my iPod with the betas of XPlay. I held out on making the final purchase of XPlay due to rumours of Apple coming out with their own Windows software at MacWorld New York. This is an even better reason to wait. I am very excited about a chance to measure uptime in months again!"
Karen whimpered as she looked up at the filthy barbarian who swaggered before her father's throne. Her late father's throne. She was nud before he and his snickering men, a shocking and humiliating experience for her, for her life had been quite isolated to that point in time. Next to her was her sister - Stacie - like her, big breasted and naked, kneeling in terror, arms bound tightly back at the elbows by strong chain.
The blacksmith came in, and she and Stacie were bent across his block, screaming as heavy collars were placed around their throats. The man hammered the thick bolts into the collar, then used a white hot iron to sodder them firmly in place. The collar would not be removed now, not without another blacksmith.
One of the guardsmen raised her wrists high into the air, bending her over a table, and the ropes around her arms were cut. Thick iron manacles were hammered and welded into place, first around her wrists, then up higher, around her arms just below the elbows. The same was done to Stacie, and then they were knelt on either side of the throne as the conqueror took his place.
As a final act of indignity, her small tiara was placed on her head, and Stacie's on hers as the doors were open and the frightened surviving members of the her father's court were ushered into the room. Her eyes dropped in shame and mortification until the chain bound to her collar yanked her head up and back.
The courtiers stared in fear at the man sitting on the throne, then at the two princesses kneeling naked on either side.
Karen felt the same dig deep into her vitals, felt a sense of humiliation which almost made her vomit - though she had not eaten in more than a day.
"Here are your princesses!" he shouted. "You can see I have kept my promise and they are in excellent health."
His men laughed uproariously, and new shame flooded Karen.
"Now you will see that they too have sworn their loyalty to me. Why, so loyal are they, so eager to make up for the offense caused me by their family, that they have dedicated their lives and their bodies to pleasing me and my men."
There were more howls of laughter from his soldiers, while the crowd shuffled fearfully. Some were frightened, but others were casting sly eyes on the white faced girls kneeling on either side of the throne, recalculating how best they could profit by flattering those now in command.
Karen recognized many of the faces, faces which had long smiled upon her, lips which had flattered her and sought her favour. Young men who had sought liaisons in hopes of stealing a brief kiss, older men who had helped educate her on the ways and dangers of the court. There was Sir Morton, whom she had called Uncle Morton, though he was no relation, and Lord Conway, with his daughter Sarah, who had been one of her best friends through her youth.
"They will demonstrate that loyalty for you now," the man crowed.
With a yank on the chain attached to her collar Stacie's head was pulled into his groin and Karen cringed in horror as the man drew aside his codpiece and took out a thick, purple haded erection. She saw Stacie wriggle desperately, then another yank from the chain and suddenly her lips were around the monstrous thing.
Then her own chain was yanked and she too was drawn around to the front of the throne, her face pulled into the man's groin.
"Suck on my balls," he roared.
She shuddered in humiliation, for her bottom was now pointed at the court, and bent over as their view of her private parts was unhindered. Yet as the man's finger tore at her hair the pain flayed her and the terror forced her lips down around his testicles even as her sister sucked and slurped on his shaft. The big man chuckled as he looked over their heads a the court, and shame made her want to die.
He tore Stacie's lips up and forced her mouth down on his cockshaft. She sucked, bobbing her head up and down, tears spilling from her eyes as his foul cock slid across her tongue. Beside her, Stacie leaned in, closing her lips around his testicles.
They traded places again, as his men shouted obscene comments on their bottoms and privates, then he hurled them back, chuckling. She groaned as she saw him drop to his knees, saw him twist Stacie onto her knees, pushing down so her face was against the floor and her bottom raised. Then his thick cock thrust into her from behind and Stacie cried out, her cry lost in the cheers of his men.
Horrified, Karen watched the big man rut into her sister, watched his cock pounding violently into her small slit while the entire hall looked on. And then it was her turn, and she felt dazed as she was taken, right there before the court. Her body was pummelled by his heavy hips, and she grunted and gasped in pain as she felt his thick organ slicing back and forth inside her.
She was lifted up by the hair, screaming as she was thrown on her back on one of the tables. Then Stacie was beside her, an the beer flowed freely as the crowd surged around them. She stared up in horror at a dozen faces leering down at them, and cried out as the first man thrust his cock deep into her belly.
They laughed and jeered at her, hands reaching around him to squeeze and slap at her breasts and pinch her nipples. Beside her, Stacie was getting the same, as one man after another hammered his groin into their bodies and spilled his seed within their wombs.
First it was only his officers, then his soldiers, but then came the formerly loyal members of her father's court eager to demonstrate their loyalty to the new order. She sobbed as she saw familiar faces leering down at her, groaned as they raped her. Even Uncle Morton, sneering down at her, squeezing her breast together and calling her a whore and a big teated cow as he rammed his hips into her bottom and pistoned his cock within her aching sex.
"Whores!" the conqueror shouted, laughing.
They dragged her off the table and onto a bench, and her arms screamed as she was bent back across it. A fist gripped her hair and forced it down as rough hands pried her thighs apart. A cock rammed into her sex even as another thrust into her open mouth. She gurgled and tried to twist away, but rough fingers closed around her throat even as the cock thrust deeper. She gagged and tried to scream, but the cock lurched even deeper, thrusting into her throat.
The raping continued on into the night as the sounds of celebration and laughter echoed through the hall. When they were done she was dragged along the floor and hung by her ankles, the drunken crowd gathering around with eager eyes as a man with a whip stood before her. She shrieked in agony as the whip cut down across her sex again and again, then howled as it sliced sideways across her belly and breasts.
this would be really cool. now i know where to spend my first paycheck from my new job!
President Bush said he was "deeply concerned" about some of the accounting practices in corporate America and called "outrageous" the disclosure that WorldCom, which is $32 billion in debt, had hidden $3.8 billion in expenses.
The president added, "We will fully investigate and hold people accountable for misleading not only shareholders but also employees."
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed fraud charges against the nation's No. 2 long-distance telephone company, as the company slid toward bankruptcy. WorldCom is being called the biggest case of crooked accounting in U.S. history, where it hid nearly $4 billion worth of expenses from investors in order to make its bottom line look good. But is WorldCom really America's biggest case of accounting gimmickery and deception? I don't think so.
Ask the president or any congressman: How much debt does the federal government owe? Nine will get you 10 that they'll tell you that it's $3.5 trillion. If they had just a tad of sophistication or honesty, they might add intragovernmental debt that'd bring the "total debt" to slightly more than $6 trillion. Even that figure represents a level of creative accounting, deception and lies that make the actions of Enron and WorldCom seem like child's play.
Washington's deception about federal debt can be found in a report by Andrew J. Rettenmaier, a senior fellow at the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis, titled, "How Big Is the Government's Debt?" Rettenmaier says that, as of 2001, the accumulated federal obligations to all people who've earned Social Security and Medicare benefits are $12.9 trillion for Social Security and $16.9 trillion for Medicare. Combined with the public and intragovernmental debt, the total federal debt burden is an unimaginable $35 trillion. That amounts to roughly $120,000 for every man, woman and child in America.
It will be impossible for the government to pay that kind of debt. Washington will do what all governments do when it cannot make good on its debt. Congress will repudiate agreements with creditors by refusing to pay on agreed-upon terms or choose government's traditional method of repudiation -- inflating the currency.
There's no question that both Enron and WorldCom engaged in deceptive and dishonest practices -- in a word, fraud. Here on Earth, there'll never be the end to deceptive and dishonest practices, notwithstanding supposed protection by the SEC. We're going have to wait until we get to heaven for total honesty. But let's compare what happens when deceptive accounting practices are discovered in private industry versus when they're discovered in government.
Without the SEC, the supposed guarantor against corporate hanky-panky, lifting one finger, the market has exacted high penalties. Enron and WorldCom shares of stock and their reputations are virtually worthless. Heads have rolled.
By contrast, what happens when Congress cooks the books and deceives Americans into believing that government debt is $3.5 trillion or $6 trillion, when it's really $35 trillion? Absolutely nothing.
I bet that if you brought this up to one of our Slashdot moderators, he'd say: "That Anonymous Coward guy is -1, Offtopic. What we owe to Social Security and Medicare recipients is not debt."
Of course, Enron and WorldCom might get out of their troubles by redefining what debt is as well -- but the economic arena, unlike the political arena, doesn't play that game.
But it is lame!
People who disagree with you are not automatically evil, greedy, or stupid.
...is 'scatboy'?
Man, I don't wanna know where that came from.
Someday you will wake up and find that all the time you have spent throwing mentally-deficient, socially-lacking, functionally-hollow, pointless, self-detracting, stupid (look it up, "stupid" is not the same as "dumb") comments has brought you that much closer to the cadaverous wretch that you have become, devoid of joy, imbittered against the world by your own misguided prejudice.
Perhaps you will never reach this state. In a moment of clarity, an otherwise unafflicted person will mercifully force your car off a bridge, and you will die, never having known how pathetic you seem to be at this moment.
What is this obsession with uptime? It almost sounds like innuendo! It seems it's the geek version of my car is bigger than your car, and we all know what that's really about. Give it a rest: turn your computer off at the end of the day and be nice to the environment,