Frankly I hope they DO, I would really like to see this country get back into real space exploration and something like that would REALLY kick us into overdrive. I've been saying for a while now what we need is a good competitor for space exploration, once Russia went kaboom we quit going ourselves, nothing like a good pissing match to get us back in space.
I remember the "generic" legos from when I was a kid, they sucked, plain and simple.
These Mega Bloks we bought him are several steps above the olden days and after building 11 models (we got him a LOT of Mega Bloks for Xmas) I was quite impressed with the near "lego" quality of them.
I love Legos I had them as a kid a big 5 gallon bucket full of bricks of all types though thinking back on it I bet the total number of unique bricks (discounting color we're talking shape) was small, maybe 50 including the tires and stuff. Now you can buy a 200 piece set and you might get 50 different pieces in that one set. But that aside here's why Lego failed with me.
Price
I go to and I see Lego sets priced roughly 2 to nearly 3 times as much as the competition. When I went Xmas shopping for my kid I bought him an assload of "legos" but they were Mega Bloks, the BIG sets of Mega Bloks are around $50 and we're talking aircraft carrier/detailed clipper ship big. And the little sets (65-80 pieces) ran like $3 each, the mid sized sets (500-800 pieces) ran in the $20 range. Legos was more like $8 and $50 and when I got ready to spend my money I spent it on Mega Bloks.
I spent Xmas morning building the models for my kid (he's only 3 but he's learning) and he spent the morning tearing them up:) I put them all in a big rubbermaid tub and we spill them into the floor and play with them together.
Also bought him K'nex god those are cool, wish I had those as a kid.
Fair play aside, the fear of being handed a big can of whoop ass by some pissed off vendor would be a deterrant to me, oh and the fact I'm just too lazy to get off the computer or off the couch long enough to do something so energetic. What morals doesn't cover, pure laziness will make up for!
I guess this would be just like any other grift. You tell someone a cock&bull story and if they buy it you end up with their "stuff" in this case pirated(?) cd's where a good con nets you money usually.
At the same time, the RIAA has gotta be bordering on breakng some laws here too (if not well across the border). When Microsoft goes in guns blazing for license violations they bring search warrants and sheriff's deputies from the accounts I've read. I don't see mention of either here.
from getting an 'official looking' jacket with RIAA on it, an "id" and busting a street vendor myself and scoring some free cd's? Well what's to stop me other than the fact I'm a lazy git.
Last I checked "impersonating an RIAA employee" is not illegal or breaking any law I'm aware of, and if they give you their stuff voluntarily it's not stealing.
It'd be FUNNY as heck to hear of fake RIAA agents busting vendors like this...
He also has his own computer that he plays children's games on, don't see no problem there. He enjoys playing Mario Sunshine and Pacman world on the gamecube, he likes to watch Dora or Land Before Time while he's falling asleep (or most any time).
He also has a huge library of children's books and a basement of ride on toys and a yard full of stuff to play on. I refuse to apologize for being able to give him all the cool shit he has.
Oh and I've started him on K'nex and Legos, he's got a tub of each that we play with and we build things and then he breaks them apart.
He also loves Pirates of the Caribean and Ghostbusters on DVD which he watches in the living room typically and not in his room, they scare him a little but he likes to watch them, but I still give him rips/burns of those so the originals stay usable.
I make burns of all my dvd's especially those for my 3 yo son. He has a dvd player in his room and knows how to change the movies out and stuff, but he's still a little heavy handed with them and scratches aren't uncommon, so instead of leaving $20 originals in his room I rip and burn them to dvd-r and give him those, that way when one gets scratched I just load the saved image up off my drive burn him a new copy and he's good to go. Wish I could do this with his Gamecube games too:(
I'm betting it's a twofold effect, if I were using any p2p networks recently I would definitely be apprehensive, the last p2p I used more than passingly was the old Napster and I hated it, broken and misripped and mislabeled files really piss me off. On the other hand the fact you CAN find legit music online is probably helping somewhat too. Though $1 a song is still a little bit on what I'd consider the "kinda expensive" side of things, when it hits $.30-.40 per song I might even start using a service like that myself.
Personally I use amazon.com and buy used CD's from there, averages around $4-8 per CD and I can deal with that.
Imagine doing this in Best Buy then hanging out in the printer section nonchalantly watching over the shelves of printer cables as they try and figure out what's wrong, of course they're gonna start by doing the main (and for many only) troubleshooting they know how, reboot the machine. Of course being on cd it'll just bootup back into your fun and the hilarity continues.
Mmmm might just have to do this the next time I get bored and want to kill a few minutes. Maybe start a database of "how long it took them to either A: fix it or B: pull the display down and take it into their service department, or C: just turn it off and leave it off" with bonus marks for the lowpaydroid blaming it on a virus.
Oh come on get a grip did you read the article? Here's a quote:
Ohio's bill, signed in December by Gov. Bob Taft and taking effect in March, gives movie theaters the right to detain people suspected of videotaping movies, just as a department store can hold a suspected shoplifter.
"suspected of videotaping a movie" someone with a digital camera or whatever taking pictures of their friends having a good time is hardly "videotaping a movie" and no theatre owner/security guard in their right mind is gonna bother someone doing this.
I mean I still think this is a silly law, and redundant on many levels but I still say, it doesn't really affect anyone because it's just well, silly and redundant and no one should be recording a movie while watching it in a theatre anyway.
I would leave the camcorder in my car, yes. I'd be MUCH more likely to get up and go get some popcorn leaving the camcorder at my seat to get stolen than it would be to get stolen from the rental.
Also if the camcorder is in a bag and you're not recording I doubt anyone's gonna mess with you, no cop in his right mind or prosecutor is gonna throw a mother in jail for having a camcorder in her diaper bag while watching a movie.
And finally, I don't ever "just decide" to see a movie, I plan it but that's just me, I like to plan events when they're gonna end up costing me a lotta cash to attend ($7.50 each to get in, $3.50 for a coke, $4.50 for popcorn, crap I'm out $80 easy when we go).
Ok so it's now punishable by law to record in a theater, does this affect you? Were you planning on doing it before it became illegal? I already considered this a "bad idea" figuring any theater that caught me recording their warez would throw me out immediately forfeiting my HEFTY entrance fee.
I mean it's not like they made it illegal to go watch a movie and tell your friends the plot and ending (though in some cases I almost wish that were illegal!).
Though I wish they'd waste their time more productively but how is illegalizing (is that even a word) something most anyone with a brain would already realize was not something you'd want to do anyway all that big of a deal?
That's ok, I prefer my motorcycle for those moments when I'm feeling like I would like to be an extra in Fast and the Furious.
Plus I have too much custom work in my Tracker getting the 2000 watt stereo system in it to go ripping it out now to trade it in (the alternator is hand made in order to get the ~160 amps I need for the stereo).
Besides if I buy a sports car now I can't afford the new boat I'm planning on buying this spring.
Yeah I'm so whipped, I'll go crawl into my hole and pout now.
So the guy gives a small sum up of how capitalism works and then some vague unsubstantiated arguments that "oh well it'd just get worse" if we didn't buy cheap shit and then that's that.
I don't buy a $30 dvd player, or $119 25 inch tv or a $299 computer expecting quality, I buy it because it's cheap. My 3 year old has a $39 AMW DVD player in his room, it plays dvd's on the 8 year old 27 inch tv I put in there (well 8 years ago I bought it used from a pawn shop, no clue how old it really is) and well, that's about it, if he slides a piece of cheese in there I'm not gonna get pissed about it and he doesn't need optical outputs or S Video or composite or progressive scan or none of that jazz, he wants to see Nemo in bright orange and Spongbob in yellow and he's happy as a clam. Down in the living room it's a Panasonic progressive scan with all the trimmings on a 57" Hitachi wide screem, neither of which are the cheapest (or most expensive) in their class.
My wife's car is a nice mini van with high safety ratings leather seats, blah blah blah. She does a lot of running around and my kid is in there a lot as well, safety is a huge issue and I want them safe in a newish car that isn't likely to break down. My car is a 1997 Geo Tracker beer can on wheels, I put about 3K miles on it per year, I don't NEED a good car, I need a pos I can run to Staples in when I need some blank DVD's. If it breaks down I park it on the side of the road and call my wife on my cell to come get me.
Do I or you need to be told that "cheap stuff tends to be cheap" and furthermore do I need to be told that "working conditions in China aren't good" and that "WalMart doesn't pay employees much"? Sheesh man use a little common sense, this is why #1 I only buy the cheap shit when I have a reason for buying it (as in letting a 3 year old watch DVD's in his room) #2 I am glad I don't live in China, and #3 I'm glad I don't work at WalMart.
Still the part about the name brands and the off brands going down the same assembly line surprised me, oh wait, no it didn't, how many rebadged Lite-On CD's and BTC's marked as Creative or other "big name" brand does one need to see to realize it's often the same cheap shit under the hood?
I don't much care about forbidden material, nothing a parent does is gonna stop a teenage boy from pulling his pud, short of maybe cutting his arms off, so I have no delusions about stopping my kid from looking at dirty pics:) For now it's just an attempt to at least be in the same room as much as possible, plus all I have to do is move 3 feet over to the recliner and watch it with him while occasionally craning my neck to make sure no emails or pages are waiting on my screen.
Not sure if it's still around but we used to use the corporate ICQ server, where you could run your own private server in house and that was VERY handy, plus not being on the "regular" icq network we didn't get spam and we didn't have employees hanging on chat with outside friends all the time either.
At home I refuse to have the computers across the house, it's hard enough to get family time as it is without having junior huddled in his bedroom and me in the basement/etc so we put all the PC's in one room along with the TV and entertainment system, we call it the family room and it's where we spend most of our time, this way if my son is watching Nemo for the 113th time and I'm doing whatever on the PC we're still in the same room and I can also watch over my shoulder the TV and comment on his favorite parts.
Once he gets old enough to go from Finding Nemo to something a little racier we'll put a PC in his room probably, teenagers do need some privacy but not a 3 year old.
From lines are pitifully easy to forge and, just pulling a statistic out of my ass, I'd say at least 99.99% of spam has forged and bogus from lines.
I see very little spam actually sent FROM aol.com IPs, the vast majority is either APNIC ips, Mexico or South America (Brasil) or open relays on broadband here in the good old US (and Europe and elsewhere).
Every now and then we'll wake up to find one or more of our servers blocked by aol, you can test it quickly by telnetting to port 25 on one of their MX's and it'll tell you right away if you're blocked.
Call, stay on hold 45 minutes, and you get "white listed" for 30 days and they ask you to setup a special email to send you spam complaints to if that IP becomes a problem again in the future. Sounds good right? I mean we host nearly 13,000 web sites for over 6000 customers, we DO get some spam sent through us once in a while (open formmail.php is the worst) and we handle it the second it's noticed.
HOWEVER we have YET to recieve ONE, and I mean that as in a SINGLE complaint from AOL for ANY of our ips. Yet 7 times now we've been blocked. Luckily it hasn't happened in a few weeks.
Do you know how annoying it is when 13,000 web sites become unable to talk to aol? Jesus christ.
Here's the funny part, often times it's only 1 or 2 of the (best I can tell) 4 main MX servers blocking us, so much for keeping those in sync.
I applaud them for trying to curb the incoming spam but goddamnit make it POSSIBLE to work with and if you block someone TELL THEM WHY and maybe a little warning please! If I'm notified of a problem I'll GLADLY nuke the spammers ass, or if it's just an open script, we can help the customer secure it, but if we're not informed what can we do? At least spamcop sends us emails with headers of the spam so we can take care of it.
So I gotta wonder how many of that half trillion is REALLY spam and how much is erroneous blocking.
You think this is stupid? I have Knology and Comcast is my other choice I saw Comcast now has "Business CLass" cable modem for $99 per month, I have a web server locally that runs my billing system, pretty low usage but we're taking credit cards so having the machine "in my house" would have been an awesome thing, as I could have done a lot more to secure it having it on my desk than across town (using an external database etc. So I called up Comcast all ready to sign up when they inform me that YOU STILL CAN'T RUN SERVERS ON A BUSINESS CONNECTION! Wait just a damn minute, you can't DO BUSINESS on your BUSINESS ACCOUNT?
If you think it's stupid you can't run servers on a "Home plan" how stuipd is it you can't run servers on a BUSINESS plan?!
I saw this episode of Junkyard Wars it was very cool, they made these big monstrous "Mad Max" type cars with steal spikes bristling all over and stuff, definitely one of my favorite episodes.
I was gonna post about this very point, that it was already done on JY Wars and done in 10 hours, using mostly "junk" albeit finely picked over and amassed "uber junk" but junk nonetheless.
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I'd predict it probably already HAS a way to block this.
If this runs on Mozilla under Suse 9.0 on my system I'll be amazed, not mad, later I'll be mad, but first I'll be amazed.
I doubt I'm gonna be amazed.
Frankly I hope they DO, I would really like to see this country get back into real space exploration and something like that would REALLY kick us into overdrive. I've been saying for a while now what we need is a good competitor for space exploration, once Russia went kaboom we quit going ourselves, nothing like a good pissing match to get us back in space.
I remember the "generic" legos from when I was a kid, they sucked, plain and simple.
These Mega Bloks we bought him are several steps above the olden days and after building 11 models (we got him a LOT of Mega Bloks for Xmas) I was quite impressed with the near "lego" quality of them.
I love Legos I had them as a kid a big 5 gallon bucket full of bricks of all types though thinking back on it I bet the total number of unique bricks (discounting color we're talking shape) was small, maybe 50 including the tires and stuff. Now you can buy a 200 piece set and you might get 50 different pieces in that one set. But that aside here's why Lego failed with me.
:) I put them all in a big rubbermaid tub and we spill them into the floor and play with them together.
Price
I go to and I see Lego sets priced roughly 2 to nearly 3 times as much as the competition. When I went Xmas shopping for my kid I bought him an assload of "legos" but they were Mega Bloks, the BIG sets of Mega Bloks are around $50 and we're talking aircraft carrier/detailed clipper ship big. And the little sets (65-80 pieces) ran like $3 each, the mid sized sets (500-800 pieces) ran in the $20 range. Legos was more like $8 and $50 and when I got ready to spend my money I spent it on Mega Bloks.
Two examples:
772 Piece Lego Truck $59.99
635 Piece Mega Bloks Ship $15.99
I spent Xmas morning building the models for my kid (he's only 3 but he's learning) and he spent the morning tearing them up
Also bought him K'nex god those are cool, wish I had those as a kid.
Fair play aside, the fear of being handed a big can of whoop ass by some pissed off vendor would be a deterrant to me, oh and the fact I'm just too lazy to get off the computer or off the couch long enough to do something so energetic. What morals doesn't cover, pure laziness will make up for!
I guess this would be just like any other grift. You tell someone a cock&bull story and if they buy it you end up with their "stuff" in this case pirated(?) cd's where a good con nets you money usually.
At the same time, the RIAA has gotta be bordering on breakng some laws here too (if not well across the border). When Microsoft goes in guns blazing for license violations they bring search warrants and sheriff's deputies from the accounts I've read. I don't see mention of either here.
from getting an 'official looking' jacket with RIAA on it, an "id" and busting a street vendor myself and scoring some free cd's? Well what's to stop me other than the fact I'm a lazy git.
Last I checked "impersonating an RIAA employee" is not illegal or breaking any law I'm aware of, and if they give you their stuff voluntarily it's not stealing.
It'd be FUNNY as heck to hear of fake RIAA agents busting vendors like this...
He also has his own computer that he plays children's games on, don't see no problem there. He enjoys playing Mario Sunshine and Pacman world on the gamecube, he likes to watch Dora or Land Before Time while he's falling asleep (or most any time).
He also has a huge library of children's books and a basement of ride on toys and a yard full of stuff to play on. I refuse to apologize for being able to give him all the cool shit he has.
Oh and I've started him on K'nex and Legos, he's got a tub of each that we play with and we build things and then he breaks them apart.
He also loves Pirates of the Caribean and Ghostbusters on DVD which he watches in the living room typically and not in his room, they scare him a little but he likes to watch them, but I still give him rips/burns of those so the originals stay usable.
I make burns of all my dvd's especially those for my 3 yo son. He has a dvd player in his room and knows how to change the movies out and stuff, but he's still a little heavy handed with them and scratches aren't uncommon, so instead of leaving $20 originals in his room I rip and burn them to dvd-r and give him those, that way when one gets scratched I just load the saved image up off my drive burn him a new copy and he's good to go. Wish I could do this with his Gamecube games too :(
I'm betting it's a twofold effect, if I were using any p2p networks recently I would definitely be apprehensive, the last p2p I used more than passingly was the old Napster and I hated it, broken and misripped and mislabeled files really piss me off. On the other hand the fact you CAN find legit music online is probably helping somewhat too. Though $1 a song is still a little bit on what I'd consider the "kinda expensive" side of things, when it hits $.30-.40 per song I might even start using a service like that myself.
Personally I use amazon.com and buy used CD's from there, averages around $4-8 per CD and I can deal with that.
Imagine doing this in Best Buy then hanging out in the printer section nonchalantly watching over the shelves of printer cables as they try and figure out what's wrong, of course they're gonna start by doing the main (and for many only) troubleshooting they know how, reboot the machine. Of course being on cd it'll just bootup back into your fun and the hilarity continues.
Mmmm might just have to do this the next time I get bored and want to kill a few minutes. Maybe start a database of "how long it took them to either A: fix it or B: pull the display down and take it into their service department, or C: just turn it off and leave it off" with bonus marks for the lowpaydroid blaming it on a virus.
"suspected of videotaping a movie" someone with a digital camera or whatever taking pictures of their friends having a good time is hardly "videotaping a movie" and no theatre owner/security guard in their right mind is gonna bother someone doing this.
I mean I still think this is a silly law, and redundant on many levels but I still say, it doesn't really affect anyone because it's just well, silly and redundant and no one should be recording a movie while watching it in a theatre anyway.
I would leave the camcorder in my car, yes. I'd be MUCH more likely to get up and go get some popcorn leaving the camcorder at my seat to get stolen than it would be to get stolen from the rental.
Also if the camcorder is in a bag and you're not recording I doubt anyone's gonna mess with you, no cop in his right mind or prosecutor is gonna throw a mother in jail for having a camcorder in her diaper bag while watching a movie.
And finally, I don't ever "just decide" to see a movie, I plan it but that's just me, I like to plan events when they're gonna end up costing me a lotta cash to attend ($7.50 each to get in, $3.50 for a coke, $4.50 for popcorn, crap I'm out $80 easy when we go).
Ok so it's now punishable by law to record in a theater, does this affect you? Were you planning on doing it before it became illegal? I already considered this a "bad idea" figuring any theater that caught me recording their warez would throw me out immediately forfeiting my HEFTY entrance fee.
I mean it's not like they made it illegal to go watch a movie and tell your friends the plot and ending (though in some cases I almost wish that were illegal!).
Though I wish they'd waste their time more productively but how is illegalizing (is that even a word) something most anyone with a brain would already realize was not something you'd want to do anyway all that big of a deal?
That's ok, I prefer my motorcycle for those moments when I'm feeling like I would like to be an extra in Fast and the Furious.
Plus I have too much custom work in my Tracker getting the 2000 watt stereo system in it to go ripping it out now to trade it in (the alternator is hand made in order to get the ~160 amps I need for the stereo).
Besides if I buy a sports car now I can't afford the new boat I'm planning on buying this spring.
Yeah I'm so whipped, I'll go crawl into my hole and pout now.
So the guy gives a small sum up of how capitalism works and then some vague unsubstantiated arguments that "oh well it'd just get worse" if we didn't buy cheap shit and then that's that.
I don't buy a $30 dvd player, or $119 25 inch tv or a $299 computer expecting quality, I buy it because it's cheap. My 3 year old has a $39 AMW DVD player in his room, it plays dvd's on the 8 year old 27 inch tv I put in there (well 8 years ago I bought it used from a pawn shop, no clue how old it really is) and well, that's about it, if he slides a piece of cheese in there I'm not gonna get pissed about it and he doesn't need optical outputs or S Video or composite or progressive scan or none of that jazz, he wants to see Nemo in bright orange and Spongbob in yellow and he's happy as a clam. Down in the living room it's a Panasonic progressive scan with all the trimmings on a 57" Hitachi wide screem, neither of which are the cheapest (or most expensive) in their class.
My wife's car is a nice mini van with high safety ratings leather seats, blah blah blah. She does a lot of running around and my kid is in there a lot as well, safety is a huge issue and I want them safe in a newish car that isn't likely to break down. My car is a 1997 Geo Tracker beer can on wheels, I put about 3K miles on it per year, I don't NEED a good car, I need a pos I can run to Staples in when I need some blank DVD's. If it breaks down I park it on the side of the road and call my wife on my cell to come get me.
Do I or you need to be told that "cheap stuff tends to be cheap" and furthermore do I need to be told that "working conditions in China aren't good" and that "WalMart doesn't pay employees much"? Sheesh man use a little common sense, this is why #1 I only buy the cheap shit when I have a reason for buying it (as in letting a 3 year old watch DVD's in his room) #2 I am glad I don't live in China, and #3 I'm glad I don't work at WalMart.
Still the part about the name brands and the off brands going down the same assembly line surprised me, oh wait, no it didn't, how many rebadged Lite-On CD's and BTC's marked as Creative or other "big name" brand does one need to see to realize it's often the same cheap shit under the hood?
I don't much care about forbidden material, nothing a parent does is gonna stop a teenage boy from pulling his pud, short of maybe cutting his arms off, so I have no delusions about stopping my kid from looking at dirty pics :) For now it's just an attempt to at least be in the same room as much as possible, plus all I have to do is move 3 feet over to the recliner and watch it with him while occasionally craning my neck to make sure no emails or pages are waiting on my screen.
Not sure if it's still around but we used to use the corporate ICQ server, where you could run your own private server in house and that was VERY handy, plus not being on the "regular" icq network we didn't get spam and we didn't have employees hanging on chat with outside friends all the time either.
At home I refuse to have the computers across the house, it's hard enough to get family time as it is without having junior huddled in his bedroom and me in the basement/etc so we put all the PC's in one room along with the TV and entertainment system, we call it the family room and it's where we spend most of our time, this way if my son is watching Nemo for the 113th time and I'm doing whatever on the PC we're still in the same room and I can also watch over my shoulder the TV and comment on his favorite parts.
Once he gets old enough to go from Finding Nemo to something a little racier we'll put a PC in his room probably, teenagers do need some privacy but not a 3 year old.
From lines are pitifully easy to forge and, just pulling a statistic out of my ass, I'd say at least 99.99% of spam has forged and bogus from lines.
I see very little spam actually sent FROM aol.com IPs, the vast majority is either APNIC ips, Mexico or South America (Brasil) or open relays on broadband here in the good old US (and Europe and elsewhere).
Every now and then we'll wake up to find one or more of our servers blocked by aol, you can test it quickly by telnetting to port 25 on one of their MX's and it'll tell you right away if you're blocked.
Call, stay on hold 45 minutes, and you get "white listed" for 30 days and they ask you to setup a special email to send you spam complaints to if that IP becomes a problem again in the future. Sounds good right? I mean we host nearly 13,000 web sites for over 6000 customers, we DO get some spam sent through us once in a while (open formmail.php is the worst) and we handle it the second it's noticed.
HOWEVER we have YET to recieve ONE, and I mean that as in a SINGLE complaint from AOL for ANY of our ips. Yet 7 times now we've been blocked. Luckily it hasn't happened in a few weeks.
Do you know how annoying it is when 13,000 web sites become unable to talk to aol? Jesus christ.
Here's the funny part, often times it's only 1 or 2 of the (best I can tell) 4 main MX servers blocking us, so much for keeping those in sync.
I applaud them for trying to curb the incoming spam but goddamnit make it POSSIBLE to work with and if you block someone TELL THEM WHY and maybe a little warning please! If I'm notified of a problem I'll GLADLY nuke the spammers ass, or if it's just an open script, we can help the customer secure it, but if we're not informed what can we do? At least spamcop sends us emails with headers of the spam so we can take care of it.
So I gotta wonder how many of that half trillion is REALLY spam and how much is erroneous blocking.
NO way, my wife wears Spongebob boxers around the house... My kid and I watch Spongebob every afternoon after his nap.
Yeah both people I know who use Macs are total newbies to computers so there's your proof!
You think this is stupid? I have Knology and Comcast is my other choice I saw Comcast now has "Business CLass" cable modem for $99 per month, I have a web server locally that runs my billing system, pretty low usage but we're taking credit cards so having the machine "in my house" would have been an awesome thing, as I could have done a lot more to secure it having it on my desk than across town (using an external database etc. So I called up Comcast all ready to sign up when they inform me that YOU STILL CAN'T RUN SERVERS ON A BUSINESS CONNECTION! Wait just a damn minute, you can't DO BUSINESS on your BUSINESS ACCOUNT?
If you think it's stupid you can't run servers on a "Home plan" how stuipd is it you can't run servers on a BUSINESS plan?!
You mean "Hi my name is Larry, this is my brother Darryl and this is my other brother Darryl" (aka Larry Darryl and Darryl)
I saw this episode of Junkyard Wars it was very cool, they made these big monstrous "Mad Max" type cars with steal spikes bristling all over and stuff, definitely one of my favorite episodes.
I was gonna post about this very point, that it was already done on JY Wars and done in 10 hours, using mostly "junk" albeit finely picked over and amassed "uber junk" but junk nonetheless.