Oddly enough that same image is used in china as a pro-government propaganda. It shows its the military being passive and understanding to the people. "look, see, we are nice, we didnt just run over this guy in our tank!!!"
Digital Socialism would work perfectly since there is really no limitation on how many times you can copy files. Hence, regardless of the size of the demand there would always be enough for everyone. (This is after they are able to afford a computer and internet services of course)
With this ability, why not just share everything? The limitations placed on the physical world simply cant be held in the digital world. Infinite copying makes socialism entirely feasable.
I hate blatent commercialism as much as the next guy, but dont lambast all the toyetic shows. The entire gundam universe is based around toyetics, yet they manage to relay an incredible story around the mechas and their pilots.
Come on people, lets be serious here. The excuse that it could be used as a military tool is just a cover. Everyone knows that the Japanese government and the Japanese buisnesses are very closely tied. (moreso then america) This is just a plot to get more money out of us. They fear that if too many people export then they wont buy the other region releases.
Sony says "hey! too many people are exporting ps2s and selling them" (as the demand is super-high.) Then they re-sell them at an inflated price and sony is unable to get the profits from selling to the person in the states.
yes, this logic is highly flawed, but since when have big buisnesses/government made sense?
They dont literally mean that they are afraid people are going to start a war with ps2s.. they just want to save the profit margins of Sony.
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So open source the planet.
I know its cliche, but online open source textbooks for schools could be a godsend. The absolutly disgusting quality of textbooks in schools now, if theyve got the new ones, is one of the primary reasons i found highschool mindboggingly boring. My personal favorite is how at the beggining of every semester they re-taught everything we learned over again.. what a fucking waste of my time.
Im starting to drift, but someone could create a forum for online textbooks that proffessors and teachers all around the world could collectivly work on.
Then again, I imagine a distinct conflict of interest would arise.. would science books have to cover creationism?
Ah screw it, the education system is totally fucked and needs to be compleatly reworked anyways. Just set them loose on Everything2 and see what they find out.:)
I Belivethis is the scan you are referring to. It is the cover art for the HK black market DVD.. I dont know anyone who has managed to get ahold of this, but ive heard its craptastic quality.
I don't own a DVD player and i'm seriously sick that i get punished for not being on the cutting edge of tech - no...most people still don't own DVD players, we just get to watch the movies released for DVD several weeks/months earlier at a friend's house.
This is a common misconception. DVDs and VHS are released at the same time, however.. VHS has two releases. The first VHS release is highly-overpriced and basically for rentals.. but you can buy them if you look hard enough, usually its around 100$ a tape. The 2nd VHS release is the general public release, those are usually 15$ or so.
Jane M Healy addresses this issue in her book "Failure To Connect." All about schools and computers, she outlines some of her own personal experiences with computers and schools.
One of my favorite anecdote's is when some buisness involved in "Educational programs" came to visit her school and sell their product. When she asked the person-behind-the-desk how their programs would improve on the current system, they were at a complete loss and said "noone has ever asked us that."
There isnt a valid reason to have laptops for 7th graders, everything they need to do on a labtop can be done on a public terminal. And even then, its rare that the computer becomes more then a glorified toy. Im sure the student being able to change the color of their text in Word is a great contribution and huge advancement in the writing process. Not to mention the evils of spell checkers when introduced at a young age.
She also goes on to mention the problem with alot of educational software. Most education software is wholly developed by the programmers without even getting advice from an educator. The quality of educational software is poor at best. I mean, how much did you really learn from the oregon trail? (who else used to kill off their characters just to leave a dirty message on their tombstone for future players to see? "miss jane died here, she was a filthy fuck.")
BlackDouglas is right, educators are being sold on the flashy-ness of computers and the idyllic fantasy that comes along with it
Save the money thats being wasted on such frivilous expenditure and buy the students some better books or for-dues-sake give the teachers a fucking raise! Teaching is the 2nd most important job in this country next to doctors, and they are all paid piddly-shit. When did it become ok for our children to be taught by 2nd or 3rd rate teachers because everyone with a proper background in education can find a better paying job somewhere else?
I think im going to homeschool my kids
please note, I only got 4 hours of sleep last night and my mind is a bit foggy, I apologize for any blather that may have come from this post. Im going to bed.
Im a sociology major and I graduate in May. I've been working on a novella covering this topic exactly. (although recently ive been quite lazy in those regards)
First and foremost you must realize that social change is gradual. The ultimate ends to nanotechnology is the ability for anyone to have anything they want at the push of a button. But that wont happen for a long.. long time. Using today as an example, it should already be possible to access any song with a click of a mouse (or a few clicks) but basic marxist theory states that the people in power want to stay in power and will fight for that power to the bitter end. They actually reconstruct society in order for the people not in power to think they have opportunities to advance, but the opportunities for these people to excel are next to nothing. (spare me the story of your great grandfather working in a coal mine, those are outliers usually based on luck.)
So when nanotechnology comes into play, look for billions of dollars being spent to -fight- the introduction of this technology to the general public (similar to the RIAA's spending now). Once the ability to reconstruct matter efficiently and effectivly gets in the hands of the people, there is no -need- for a true power structure anymore, and that scares alot of people.
There would be no need for a governmental system beyond regulating abuse of nanotech (but then again, who cares about that when i can make a cheeseburger out of a rock? Or have natalie portman walk out of my wall for a quick shag.) Puritan morals would be, well, crushed. With everyone being able to recieve instant gratification, we must look towards the other human abilities.
I imagine you would see the division of society into a few categories.. Artists, Explorers, Scientists and Nanobums.
Artists figure out new things to create with nanotech. Explorers travel the universe, as humans are now immortal. Scientists continue thier pursuit. And nanobums live in utter physical extacy or just have fun.
I think there would be alot more nanobums then any other group
I want to again stress that to reach this form of society will take centuries, even after efficient nanotech is invented.
Keep in mind the above are merely the opinion of a sociology student, and are based on my applications of basic sociological theory with a few assumptions on what super-advanced nanotech will be able to do. I dont consider myself an expert in either field, I just find them fascinating.. I wish you the best of luck and feel free to plagerize my ideas.
If you liked robotech (Which was a basterdization of three seasons of macross) try macross plus.
Macross plus takes place long after minmei and the robotech saga takes place, but it still specializes in the Macross subtext of music (besides the big robots.) With yoko kanno doing the music, your ears are in for a particluar treat.. Not only that, the visuals are incredible and the story line is nothing short of amazing. Not even mentioning the references to HAL.
It wasnt a gun, it was a cannon. The Yamato had a single wave motion cannon that could take out an entire fleet or a single planet if it was deemed necessary.
The Yamato actually has a sister ship, i dont remember her name.. but it had 2 wave motion cannon's. Why it would need to i would never know.. but hey, its anime.. overkill is a requirement! (woo, a slashdot post on anime!)
First, let me apologize for this post being off topic, but I'd really like to get this issue/idea out there.
In startrek, all it takes to listen to any song is for Picard to request the computer to play it, and the song is played. Imagine, if you will, if music was non-propriatary (sp?) Now that studio equipment cost has gone down a significant amount, Its not uncommon for people to have small music studios in their house. Hell, ive got a friend who se got a studio in his dorm room.
Moving right along, the main thing that is preventing us from having a full database of all the creative works in history is greed. There is this amazing resource that could be distributed worldwide, but corporate greed is slowing down a massive transition in human history. We have the ability, the means, and some say a duty to give as many people access to these musical expressions as possible.
Let's face it people. The future is in widely distributed creative content for free. Now many say that if its free then the artists will be discouraged from their creativity, but society will find a way to continue to create. It always has.
I know I'm being Idyllic, but the internet could be making many more fundamental social changes if it wasnt for corporate greed and a fearful government who both know that the internet threatens their power and status.
If these institutions do not conform to the new system there will be a social revolution. How it will go down i dont know, but it will happen eventually.
Ill stop with the katz-esque revolutionary blather now.
Basically these institutions are trying to halt an extremely socially benificial system, and that is a Bad Thing. They could pull their head out of their collective asses and realize that this is not something to fight, but to embrace for the good of society. (wow, how cliche)
If the judge allows this to happen, he cannot have much knowledge about the internet.
This proposes another question for me. How can these companies (arnt they publicly traded?) justify such an expenditure? They cannot stop something once it gets on the internet, this has been proven over and over again. Pamela anderson came to recognize this when she attempted to stop that sex tape from being distributed from the internet.
With an extreme commitment to the stockhodlers, they must be using some twisted logic to think that this whole case is in their best intrest.
Or i could be wrong and they arnt publicly traded.
Allright, even if they arnt publicly traded, how can the people behind this case justify such a foolish notion that they can stop distribution of something on the internet. Its impossible. Period. There is no way to remove something on the internet once it gets out there.. its the nature of the beast. The expenditure of such a large amount of money on such a fruitless effort is, well, stupid.
Sounds to me like the lawyers have been giving the buisness owners some false information on the way the internet works. The Internet is a more powerful freedom-of-information tool then ever before. Even if the courts do make everything about DeCSS illegal, guess what. It wont go away.
So why all the foolish effort? Can anyone explain their mindset? Id like to know where they are coming from.
In reaction to the arrest of Linus Torvalds, the internet community organized a protest. This protest explains the lack of many internet services, as the protestors took off of work and were unable to maintain the network. Sites such as yahoo.com, cnn.com and even hotmail.com were unreachable for the good of the week. When Torvalds was released on bail, the sites were again reachable.
Right now the whereabouts of Mr. Torvalds is unknown. Internet rumours state that he was taken to a hidden "hacker compound" somewhere in california, but there is no evidence to back this up.
Rob Malda, and Jeff Bates have been in police custody for the good of a week. These two, also known by the hacker psudonyms "cmdrtaco" and "hemos" run an underground linux hacker webpage known as slashdot. On this site, illegal activities are openly discussed and a large amount of anti-government propaganda is spewed from the hacker community.
I'm not too sure about this. But don't the stockholders get shares in all the baby-bills if MS gets broken up? Then all of those stocks go through the roof and the stock holders get even more money. It would seem to me that now would be a great time to buy stock in MS:/
Heh, time to prank call it a-la bart simpson. Ivanna Tinkle has been really depressed lately, and she spends alot of time on the internet looking at weird websites like freshmeat too! And little Rob Malda helps run this dangerous website filled with hate towards society today! He should be in jail! Seriously for half a sec, this is ridiculous, not only will geeks be scrutinized because of this, but most all teens go through some kind of depression, its normal for teen life. bah, someone find me the 800 number:)
Ha! this is too easy:) Lets take a look at my favorite paragraph
"He's not just a passive provider like America Online," Curzon-Brown told London. AOL? Passive? they are probably the least passive isp out there! Besides their intensive waste of cds at my expense, and how aol 5.0 "took over" a users computer, there is all the Spam. They sell email adresses to advertisers people.. how many isps do that?
"He's actually pointing to certain teachers and saying, 'Don't take these teachers. Look at their grade point average.' Tell me exactly why teachers can grade students on their performance but students cant grade proffesors on theirs?
And the horrible part of it is, those grade point averages are based on reviews by people who were never their students. Most of the reviewers mention if they are students.
Or by the same angry students sending in multiple reviews, so your grade point average is a lie to begin with, and yet the webmaster is saying, 'Use this to choose your classes.' I don't know what to say. How can anyone defend this?" Watch me. Just read the reviews. I mean, there are B's and F's on this guy. This contradiction must mean something. And if the students feel a need explore that, they should have the ability. ---
I can see it now, Poopster. a non-centralized internet based form of waste removal and recording. If you search it, you can get samples of celebrities poop. Of course, the WIAA (waste industry association of america) is fighting poopster on the grounds that it violates the copyright they hold on everything deposited in the toilets.
There is an extraordinarly large archive of band's-that-do-this's mp3s at sugarmegs. Theyve even got copies of their communication with the band's lawyers on the entire legality of the situation. For a brief period of time, distributing grateful dead concerts over the internet was illegal. But it was soon found out that this was simply because the lawyers had not decided what to make of internet based distribution yet.
BTW Please spare us your hippie-music bashing.. grateful dead and phish have a number of excellent songs.. and a few horrible ones. (I don't know what phish was thinking when they wrote "bouncing 'round the room.) They were probably on some weird drug that I've never heard of.
Ah well, the phish concerts I have attended have been some of the most fun I've ever had.
Slashdot Mirror
Oddly enough that same image is used in china as a pro-government propaganda. It shows its the military being passive and understanding to the people. "look, see, we are nice, we didnt just run over this guy in our tank!!!"
Digital Socialism would work perfectly since there is really no limitation on how many times you can copy files. Hence, regardless of the size of the demand there would always be enough for everyone. (This is after they are able to afford a computer and internet services of course)
With this ability, why not just share everything? The limitations placed on the physical world simply cant be held in the digital world. Infinite copying makes socialism entirely feasable.
I hate blatent commercialism as much as the next guy, but dont lambast all the toyetic shows. The entire gundam universe is based around toyetics, yet they manage to relay an incredible story around the mechas and their pilots.
:)
But pokemon still sucks
I think that Dragon Warrior was the first of the genre.. although several argue that adventure preceded it, i dont think it qualifies..
oddly enough they are up to dragon warrior 6/7 now, we didnt get any of them after 4.. i dont understand enix.
Lain uses a liquid carbon based cooling system for her setup, and she hacked reality! so feh!
hehe
Come on people, lets be serious here. The excuse that it could be used as a military tool is just a cover. Everyone knows that the Japanese government and the Japanese buisnesses are very closely tied. (moreso then america) This is just a plot to get more money out of us. They fear that if too many people export then they wont buy the other region releases.
Sony says "hey! too many people are exporting ps2s and selling them" (as the demand is super-high.) Then they re-sell them at an inflated price and sony is unable to get the profits from selling to the person in the states.
yes, this logic is highly flawed, but since when have big buisnesses/government made sense?
They dont literally mean that they are afraid people are going to start a war with ps2s.. they just want to save the profit margins of Sony.
So open source the planet.
:)
I know its cliche, but online open source textbooks for schools could be a godsend. The absolutly disgusting quality of textbooks in schools now, if theyve got the new ones, is one of the primary reasons i found highschool mindboggingly boring. My personal favorite is how at the beggining of every semester they re-taught everything we learned over again.. what a fucking waste of my time.
Im starting to drift, but someone could create a forum for online textbooks that proffessors and teachers all around the world could collectivly work on.
Then again, I imagine a distinct conflict of interest would arise.. would science books have to cover creationism?
Ah screw it, the education system is totally fucked and needs to be compleatly reworked anyways. Just set them loose on Everything2 and see what they find out.
I Belivethis is the scan you are referring to. It is the cover art for the HK black market DVD.. I dont know anyone who has managed to get ahold of this, but ive heard its craptastic quality.
I don't own a DVD player and i'm seriously sick that i get punished for not being on the cutting edge of tech - no...most people still don't own DVD players, we just get to watch the movies released for DVD several weeks/months earlier at a friend's house.
This is a common misconception. DVDs and VHS are released at the same time, however.. VHS has two releases. The first VHS release is highly-overpriced and basically for rentals.. but you can buy them if you look hard enough, usually its around 100$ a tape. The 2nd VHS release is the general public release, those are usually 15$ or so.
Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
Jane M Healy addresses this issue in her book "Failure To Connect." All about schools and computers, she outlines some of her own personal experiences with computers and schools.
One of my favorite anecdote's is when some buisness involved in "Educational programs" came to visit her school and sell their product. When she asked the person-behind-the-desk how their programs would improve on the current system, they were at a complete loss and said "noone has ever asked us that."
There isnt a valid reason to have laptops for 7th graders, everything they need to do on a labtop can be done on a public terminal. And even then, its rare that the computer becomes more then a glorified toy. Im sure the student being able to change the color of their text in Word is a great contribution and huge advancement in the writing process. Not to mention the evils of spell checkers when introduced at a young age.
She also goes on to mention the problem with alot of educational software. Most education software is wholly developed by the programmers without even getting advice from an educator. The quality of educational software is poor at best. I mean, how much did you really learn from the oregon trail? (who else used to kill off their characters just to leave a dirty message on their tombstone for future players to see? "miss jane died here, she was a filthy fuck.")
BlackDouglas is right, educators are being sold on the flashy-ness of computers and the idyllic fantasy that comes along with it
Save the money thats being wasted on such frivilous expenditure and buy the students some better books or for-dues-sake give the teachers a fucking raise! Teaching is the 2nd most important job in this country next to doctors, and they are all paid piddly-shit. When did it become ok for our children to be taught by 2nd or 3rd rate teachers because everyone with a proper background in education can find a better paying job somewhere else?
I think im going to homeschool my kids
please note, I only got 4 hours of sleep last night and my mind is a bit foggy, I apologize for any blather that may have come from this post. Im going to bed.
Im a sociology major and I graduate in May. I've been working on a novella covering this topic exactly. (although recently ive been quite lazy in those regards)
First and foremost you must realize that social change is gradual. The ultimate ends to nanotechnology is the ability for anyone to have anything they want at the push of a button. But that wont happen for a long.. long time. Using today as an example, it should already be possible to access any song with a click of a mouse (or a few clicks) but basic marxist theory states that the people in power want to stay in power and will fight for that power to the bitter end. They actually reconstruct society in order for the people not in power to think they have opportunities to advance, but the opportunities for these people to excel are next to nothing. (spare me the story of your great grandfather working in a coal mine, those are outliers usually based on luck.)
So when nanotechnology comes into play, look for billions of dollars being spent to -fight- the introduction of this technology to the general public (similar to the RIAA's spending now). Once the ability to reconstruct matter efficiently and effectivly gets in the hands of the people, there is no -need- for a true power structure anymore, and that scares alot of people.
There would be no need for a governmental system beyond regulating abuse of nanotech (but then again, who cares about that when i can make a cheeseburger out of a rock? Or have natalie portman walk out of my wall for a quick shag.) Puritan morals would be, well, crushed. With everyone being able to recieve instant gratification, we must look towards the other human abilities.
I imagine you would see the division of society into a few categories.. Artists, Explorers, Scientists and Nanobums.
Artists figure out new things to create with nanotech. Explorers travel the universe, as humans are now immortal. Scientists continue thier pursuit. And nanobums live in utter physical extacy or just have fun.
I think there would be alot more nanobums then any other group
I want to again stress that to reach this form of society will take centuries, even after efficient nanotech is invented.
Keep in mind the above are merely the opinion of a sociology student, and are based on my applications of basic sociological theory with a few assumptions on what super-advanced nanotech will be able to do. I dont consider myself an expert in either field, I just find them fascinating.. I wish you the best of luck and feel free to plagerize my ideas.
If you liked robotech (Which was a basterdization of three seasons of macross) try macross plus.
Macross plus takes place long after minmei and the robotech saga takes place, but it still specializes in the Macross subtext of music (besides the big robots.) With yoko kanno doing the music, your ears are in for a particluar treat.. Not only that, the visuals are incredible and the story line is nothing short of amazing. Not even mentioning the references to HAL.
Goto anime on dvd
Oh yeah, shameless plug for the anime mag i write for, at anime
It wasnt a gun, it was a cannon. The Yamato had a single wave motion cannon that could take out an entire fleet or a single planet if it was deemed necessary.
The Yamato actually has a sister ship, i dont remember her name.. but it had 2 wave motion cannon's. Why it would need to i would never know.. but hey, its anime.. overkill is a requirement! (woo, a slashdot post on anime!)
First, let me apologize for this post being off topic, but I'd really like to get this issue/idea out there.
In startrek, all it takes to listen to any song is for Picard to request the computer to play it, and the song is played. Imagine, if you will, if music was non-propriatary (sp?) Now that studio equipment cost has gone down a significant amount, Its not uncommon for people to have small music studios in their house. Hell, ive got a friend who se got a studio in his dorm room.
Moving right along, the main thing that is preventing us from having a full database of all the creative works in history is greed. There is this amazing resource that could be distributed worldwide, but corporate greed is slowing down a massive transition in human history. We have the ability, the means, and some say a duty to give as many people access to these musical expressions as possible.
Let's face it people. The future is in widely distributed creative content for free. Now many say that if its free then the artists will be discouraged from their creativity, but society will find a way to continue to create. It always has.
I know I'm being Idyllic, but the internet could be making many more fundamental social changes if it wasnt for corporate greed and a fearful government who both know that the internet threatens their power and status.
If these institutions do not conform to the new system there will be a social revolution. How it will go down i dont know, but it will happen eventually.
Ill stop with the katz-esque revolutionary blather now.
Basically these institutions are trying to halt an extremely socially benificial system, and that is a Bad Thing. They could pull their head out of their collective asses and realize that this is not something to fight, but to embrace for the good of society. (wow, how cliche)
Ok I'm done.
Try The Pico Scenario
Its not GPLed... but i think this is what you are reffering to.
Its flash btw.
If the judge allows this to happen, he cannot have much knowledge about the internet.
This proposes another question for me. How can these companies (arnt they publicly traded?) justify such an expenditure? They cannot stop something once it gets on the internet, this has been proven over and over again. Pamela anderson came to recognize this when she attempted to stop that sex tape from being distributed from the internet.
With an extreme commitment to the stockhodlers, they must be using some twisted logic to think that this whole case is in their best intrest.
Or i could be wrong and they arnt publicly traded.
Allright, even if they arnt publicly traded, how can the people behind this case justify such a foolish notion that they can stop distribution of something on the internet. Its impossible. Period. There is no way to remove something on the internet once it gets out there.. its the nature of the beast. The expenditure of such a large amount of money on such a fruitless effort is, well, stupid.
Sounds to me like the lawyers have been giving the buisness owners some false information on the way the internet works. The Internet is a more powerful freedom-of-information tool then ever before. Even if the courts do make everything about DeCSS illegal, guess what. It wont go away.
So why all the foolish effort? Can anyone explain their mindset? Id like to know where they are coming from.
In reaction to the arrest of Linus Torvalds, the internet community organized a protest. This protest explains the lack of many internet services, as the protestors took off of work and were unable to maintain the network. Sites such as yahoo.com, cnn.com and even hotmail.com were unreachable for the good of the week. When Torvalds was released on bail, the sites were again reachable.
Right now the whereabouts of Mr. Torvalds is unknown. Internet rumours state that he was taken to a hidden "hacker compound" somewhere in california, but there is no evidence to back this up.
Rob Malda, and Jeff Bates have been in police custody for the good of a week. These two, also known by the hacker psudonyms "cmdrtaco" and "hemos" run an underground linux hacker webpage known as slashdot. On this site, illegal activities are openly discussed and a large amount of anti-government propaganda is spewed from the hacker community.
I'm not too sure about this. But don't the stockholders get shares in all the baby-bills if MS gets broken up? Then all of those stocks go through the roof and the stock holders get even more money. It would seem to me that now would be a great time to buy stock in MS :/
Heh, time to prank call it a-la bart simpson. :)
Ivanna Tinkle has been really depressed lately, and she spends alot of time on the internet looking at weird websites like freshmeat too!
And little Rob Malda helps run this dangerous website filled with hate towards society today! He should be in jail!
Seriously for half a sec, this is ridiculous, not only will geeks be scrutinized because of this, but most all teens go through some kind of depression, its normal for teen life.
bah, someone find me the 800 number
Ha! this is too easy :)
Lets take a look at my favorite paragraph
"He's not just a passive provider like America Online," Curzon-Brown told London.
AOL? Passive? they are probably the least passive isp out there! Besides their intensive waste of cds at my expense, and how aol 5.0 "took over" a users computer, there is all the Spam. They sell email adresses to advertisers people.. how many isps do that?
"He's actually pointing to certain teachers and saying, 'Don't take these teachers. Look at their grade point average.'
Tell me exactly why teachers can grade students on their performance but students cant grade proffesors on theirs?
And the horrible part of it is, those grade point averages are based on reviews by people who were never their students.
Most of the reviewers mention if they are students.
Or by the same angry students sending in multiple reviews, so your grade point average is a lie to begin with, and yet the webmaster is saying, 'Use this to choose your classes.' I don't know what to say. How can anyone defend this?"
Watch me.
Just read the reviews. I mean, there are B's and F's on this guy. This contradiction must mean something. And if the students feel a need explore that, they should have the ability.
---
I can see it now, Poopster. a non-centralized internet based form of waste removal and recording. If you search it, you can get samples of celebrities poop. Of course, the WIAA (waste industry association of america) is fighting poopster on the grounds that it violates the copyright they hold on everything deposited in the toilets.
There is an extraordinarly large archive of band's-that-do-this's mp3s at sugarmegs. Theyve even got copies of their communication with the band's lawyers on the entire legality of the situation. For a brief period of time, distributing grateful dead concerts over the internet was illegal. But it was soon found out that this was simply because the lawyers had not decided what to make of internet based distribution yet.
BTW Please spare us your hippie-music bashing.. grateful dead and phish have a number of excellent songs.. and a few horrible ones. (I don't know what phish was thinking when they wrote "bouncing 'round the room.) They were probably on some weird drug that I've never heard of.
Ah well, the phish concerts I have attended have been some of the most fun I've ever had.
Its more like a belly laugh. :)
Will there be a super-powerful variety made out of gundanium?
This is really cool. Military technology leaks down to the population eventually. This makes the future that much cooler.
The dreamcast is SEGA's last console.. they are going to be a software developer from now on. (where did I read that anyways?)