Well this is a completely uncharted lake with like hitherto unclassified marine life man, so the whole scene's wide open for a scientific exploration. The real hang-up was with the bread man but when the top brass pigs came through we got it together in a couple of moons. Commodore Betty Grable, who's a real sub-aqua head, has got together diving wise and like the whole gig's been a real gas man.
I look forward to the inevitable parody of this in an episode of Dr. Who, with all the presenters gleefully participating. Thompson missing a massive spaceship blazing through the atmosphere in the background, that sort of thing. "Oh, bugger, not again!"
It's the ad-supported free versions of apps that ask for Full Internet Access. Or you can crowbar a dollar out of your wallet and get the "standalone" version.
It was a few years later when the REAL crackdown came. The Listener’s License. What a fantastic concept. I can’t believe it. See it happened like this. There was this - there is all this piracy, see everybody was - piracy was - Uh, piracy is now what they now consider a theft. See in order to combat piracy which was getting really rampant, all this information was flowing around nobody really liked that so they wanted it gone. And they wanted to get rid of piracy. But they couldn’t stop it.
The Internet was growing everyday. No one could stem the flow so they created the Listener’s License. Started real easy. See music, legitimate music to purchase, was, you know, say 20 bucks. And then what they did was, if you signed up to get this card, you know like a loyalty program card of the day. You’d get 75% percent off. So a 20 dollar CD became a 5 dollar CD. And you could buy it legitimately. For 20 bucks you would walk out of there with 4 CD’s. Amazing.
Of course people were signing up for it in droves, I mean why wouldn’t ya? You could go buy a pirate CD for 6 bucks or you could buy the reall thing for 5. Consumers are such mercenaries. So they signed up en masse.
2 years went by, 2 years. Then it became mandatory. See if you didn’t have your listener’s license, if you couldn’t present your card, well you weren’t able to buy music. Part of the licensing agreement came when you got the card. And all of sudden people were out in the cold.
But it wasn’t just the music you know. The listener’s license was created by the conglomerates. They all got together. If you wanted to see a movie, hey if you had your listener’s license you could get in for 2 dollars. (chuckle) 2 bucks. Oh you don’t have a listener’s license, well you can’t get in. See they couldn’t control the piracy so they stopped it at its source.
If ever you were found to be a pirate or if your computer was ever found to have MP3s that weren’t appropriate on it you were eliminated, your listener’s license was revoked and you were out of the loop. It's all private enterprise, you don’t have a right to music, you never had a right to it. It's all private.
No more movies no more shows. Can’t even buy art. Cause you can scan it. What if you scanned that picture? So, regulation of course is always the first step to total domination. But we didn’t see that either. We weren’t ready for the horror.
At that time the listener’s license had huge power. Not the power it has today, I mean now. If you do not have a valid listener’s license. I mean - well in our time you can’t do anything, I mean, you’re a pirate. If you can’t present, that is part of your paperwork. It’s part of your identification. See the listener’s license, after they came out with that. That was a huge step one.
But everyone was so focused on the listener’s license they didn’t see where the REAL power play was made. See everyone was so whipped up, and the media again, you know the corporately controlled media. Got everyone focusing on the benefits and the drawbacks, a big debate over the listener’s license. But then what they didn’t see was, was the regulations that went into play on the recording equipment. See that was the one that really came back. They started putting these standards on microphones and any kind of recording media. You wanted to record, well you gotta adhere to this standard. Because this is the future. Got to make sure the quality is there.
How do they explain Tim's (presumably) Klingon parents not shooting his lame, shorty, sickly butt out the nearest air lock as soon as his illness manifested itself?
And for that matter, why doesn't Klingon Bob or Ebenezer's nephew simply challenge Ebenezer to bat'leth deul, cut his head off, and take over the company? Just sayin'....
TRON came out during my "BASIC programming on the school's PETs and making regular runs to Radio Shack and the video arcade" days, so of course I loved it. The best part for me was when one of the characters says "Bring in the logic probe!" and being one of the smattering of people in the audience who laughed because we knew what a logic probe was.
(Also had to love the available-ten-years-from-now graphics used in the fake arcade games. Still love how completely batshit the Comic Con audience went over the sneak preview trailer for "TR2N". )
Is sat phone ownership illegal in China, Iran, etc.? More to the point, do the sat phone providers cooperate with the countries where the calls originate from (block calls, turn over records, etc.)?
I imagine fast-cheap-discreet-and-out-of-control sat phone service (not to mention fast-cheap-discreet-and-out-of-control sat internet service) would be a headache to many of the world's republics. Is such a service physically feasible, like "millions of simultaneous users" feasible?
A NumLock key on a laptop/netbook is absolutely essential! Who doesn't need a virtual keypad right in the middle of the keyboard?
Sarcasm of course. Not gonna name any names (ThinkPad) but I've had to deal laptops that had the NumLock turning on by default during boot up and users unable to login, thinking either the keyboard was broken or something was wrong with their password. Most don't even know NumLock on a laptop is an option, much less notice the eensy-weensy LED indicating its on or what it means. And we couldn't get it to stop, BIOS or registry changes be damned. One laptop even had its keyboard replaced (not by me.)
The eventual fix: Boot up laptop, don't log in, turn off the NumLock, power down, start back up as usual, bash head against wall.
I was thinking more about loudness over time rather than how the loudness is measured at any point. If my thirty second commercial consisted of two seconds of an airhorn blast cranked up to 11, followed by twenty-eight seconds of quiet, would that pass since the ad is, on average, pretty quiet?
Funny, I was about to suggest the feds should deputize the RIAA and make them the Spam Police. "Sure, we'll back you up on your infringement claims; we just got a little job we'd like you to take care of for us." (The enemy of my enemy is, well, not my friend, certainly, but it'd at least keep them out of our hair for awhile.)
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I see your Johnny Cash and I raise you...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIXz_vzROrw
...King Missile!
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Well this is a completely uncharted lake with like hitherto unclassified marine life man, so the whole scene's wide open for a scientific exploration. The real hang-up was with the bread man but when the top brass pigs came through we got it together in a couple of moons. Commodore Betty Grable, who's a real sub-aqua head, has got together diving wise and like the whole gig's been a real gas man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DlN4Sh06po
Bloody sharks.
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I look forward to the inevitable parody of this in an episode of Dr. Who, with all the presenters gleefully participating. Thompson missing a massive spaceship blazing through the atmosphere in the background, that sort of thing. "Oh, bugger, not again!"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FepgxmNDuZ4
Mac Cloud. It don't take no guff.
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What does this mean!?
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It's the ad-supported free versions of apps that ask for Full Internet Access. Or you can crowbar a dollar out of your wallet and get the "standalone" version.
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EWWWW!! It was in the back of the machine shop? And it was covered in WD40? EWWWWW!!1!
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From Sean Kennedy's Tales From The Afternow ( http://rantmedia.ca/afternow/ )
(from transcript http://thinkforyourself.vaillife.net/assets/afternow/01tota.streamjack.doc ) -
It was a few years later when the REAL crackdown came. The Listener’s License. What a fantastic concept. I can’t believe it. See it happened like this. There was this - there is all this piracy, see everybody was - piracy was - Uh, piracy is now what they now consider a theft. See in order to combat piracy which was getting really rampant, all this information was flowing around nobody really liked that so they wanted it gone. And they wanted to get rid of piracy. But they couldn’t stop it.
The Internet was growing everyday. No one could stem the flow so they created the Listener’s License. Started real easy. See music, legitimate music to purchase, was, you know, say 20 bucks. And then what they did was, if you signed up to get this card, you know like a loyalty program card of the day. You’d get 75% percent off. So a 20 dollar CD became a 5 dollar CD. And you could buy it legitimately. For 20 bucks you would walk out of there with 4 CD’s. Amazing.
Of course people were signing up for it in droves, I mean why wouldn’t ya? You could go buy a pirate CD for 6 bucks or you could buy the reall thing for 5. Consumers are such mercenaries. So they signed up en masse.
2 years went by, 2 years. Then it became mandatory. See if you didn’t have your listener’s license, if you couldn’t present your card, well you weren’t able to buy music. Part of the licensing agreement came when you got the card. And all of sudden people were out in the cold.
But it wasn’t just the music you know. The listener’s license was created by the conglomerates. They all got together. If you wanted to see a movie, hey if you had your listener’s license you could get in for 2 dollars. (chuckle) 2 bucks. Oh you don’t have a listener’s license, well you can’t get in. See they couldn’t control the piracy so they stopped it at its source.
If ever you were found to be a pirate or if your computer was ever found to have MP3s that weren’t appropriate on it you were eliminated, your listener’s license was revoked and you were out of the loop. It's all private enterprise, you don’t have a right to music, you never had a right to it. It's all private.
No more movies no more shows. Can’t even buy art. Cause you can scan it. What if you scanned that picture? So, regulation of course is always the first step to total domination. But we didn’t see that either. We weren’t ready for the horror.
At that time the listener’s license had huge power. Not the power it has today, I mean now. If you do not have a valid listener’s license. I mean - well in our time you can’t do anything, I mean, you’re a pirate. If you can’t present, that is part of your paperwork. It’s part of your identification. See the listener’s license, after they came out with that. That was a huge step one.
But everyone was so focused on the listener’s license they didn’t see where the REAL power play was made. See everyone was so whipped up, and the media again, you know the corporately controlled media. Got everyone focusing on the benefits and the drawbacks, a big debate over the listener’s license. But then what they didn’t see was, was the regulations that went into play on the recording equipment. See that was the one that really came back. They started putting these standards on microphones and any kind of recording media. You wanted to record, well you gotta adhere to this standard. Because this is the future. Got to make sure the quality is there.
Chips were put into place. All recording med
"Nazis........I hate those guys."
This is derivative of The Blues Brothers from ten years earlier.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2EoOZKjAjlk#t=90s
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I do not think it means what you think it means.
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The center's purpose isn't clear, but it apparently sports many catwalks, large video displays, and exercise facilities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8
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How do they explain Tim's (presumably) Klingon parents not shooting his lame, shorty, sickly butt out the nearest air lock as soon as his illness manifested itself?
And for that matter, why doesn't Klingon Bob or Ebenezer's nephew simply challenge Ebenezer to bat'leth deul, cut his head off, and take over the company? Just sayin'....
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If TRON Legacy makes bank you can expect to see "TRON 1.1" or "TRON Special Edition", the 80s film revised with 2011 graphics, probably in 3D.
The horror...the...horror...
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TRON came out during my "BASIC programming on the school's PETs and making regular runs to Radio Shack and the video arcade" days, so of course I loved it. The best part for me was when one of the characters says "Bring in the logic probe!" and being one of the smattering of people in the audience who laughed because we knew what a logic probe was.
(Also had to love the available-ten-years-from-now graphics used in the fake arcade games. Still love how completely batshit the Comic Con audience went over the sneak preview trailer for "TR2N". )
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Or a Rocky Horror revival.
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Uwe Boll wobbles but he don't fall down.
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Is sat phone ownership illegal in China, Iran, etc.? More to the point, do the sat phone providers cooperate with the countries where the calls originate from (block calls, turn over records, etc.)?
I imagine fast-cheap-discreet-and-out-of-control sat phone service (not to mention fast-cheap-discreet-and-out-of-control sat internet service) would be a headache to many of the world's republics. Is such a service physically feasible, like "millions of simultaneous users" feasible?
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Everyone knows C.H.U.M.P. is behind this one!
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Not to mention What's Up Tiger Lily? (Woody Allen's first "film"!)
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A NumLock key on a laptop/netbook is absolutely essential! Who doesn't need a virtual keypad right in the middle of the keyboard?
Sarcasm of course. Not gonna name any names (ThinkPad) but I've had to deal laptops that had the NumLock turning on by default during boot up and users unable to login, thinking either the keyboard was broken or something was wrong with their password. Most don't even know NumLock on a laptop is an option, much less notice the eensy-weensy LED indicating its on or what it means. And we couldn't get it to stop, BIOS or registry changes be damned. One laptop even had its keyboard replaced (not by me.)
The eventual fix: Boot up laptop, don't log in, turn off the NumLock, power down, start back up as usual, bash head against wall.
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I prefer to use it when filling out forms - name, shipping address, that sort of thing.
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No, no, you rent the bombs, that you get a steady income with less overhead.
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I was thinking more about loudness over time rather than how the loudness is measured at any point. If my thirty second commercial consisted of two seconds of an airhorn blast cranked up to 11, followed by twenty-eight seconds of quiet, would that pass since the ad is, on average, pretty quiet?
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Will the loudness of a particular ad be determined by...
...its peak loudness...
...or its mean loudness...
"blah blah BLAH!! blah blah blah" = BLAH!!
"blah blah BLAH!! blah blah blah" = BLAH
If its the first one, it's all good. If it's the second, this could get ugly. (The specs are posted but tl;dr and I'm no audio engineer.)
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Funny, I was about to suggest the feds should deputize the RIAA and make them the Spam Police. "Sure, we'll back you up on your infringement claims; we just got a little job we'd like you to take care of for us." (The enemy of my enemy is, well, not my friend, certainly, but it'd at least keep them out of our hair for awhile.)
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