ISPs are NOT common carriers. Ma Bell can't shut off your telephone if it doesn't like your point of view on a political issue. An ISP can refuse to sell you access if they don't like your politics. Just ask Neal Horsley about that.
I imagine that the ISPs are not going along because they will have to pay people to forward these requests. If the RIAA were to say, offer $0.50 for each IP address that they want the ISP to look up and send the letter for, maybe they'd get a better response.
Unless it's mandated by law, what reason do the ISPs have to do all of that work for free?
"The guns also aren?t one-shot kills. If they are, so would be the MP44 Sturmgewehr or AK-47 at shorter distances, which use similarly sized ammunition."
This idiotic fuck knows NOTHING about external or terminal ballistics. It's not only the SIZE of the bullet that makes it lethal, it's the amount of energy that the bullet delivers.
The MP44 Sturmgewehr fired 7.92x33mm Kurz ammunition, it pushed a 122 grain bullet with a muzzle velocity of 2,055 fps. The AK-47 fires 7.62x39mm ammunition, this pushes a 125 grain bullet with a muzzle velocity of approx 2130 fps. The.338 Lapua Magnum caliber can push a 200 grain bullet to over 3200 fps.
Or if we were to consider the.338 Lapua at 250 grains, we get a muzzle velocity of 3000 fps.
Are you fucking high?
It's a heavier bullet (in one case twice the mass) at nearly 150% of the velocity of the two lesser calibers. There is no way under the sun that you can liken their lethality.
The two lesser calibers would bounce off of a target armored to level IV spec, but the.338 Lapua would slice through it like butter.
In short, Mr. Jakub, you don't know what in the fuck you're talking about.
I'm sick and tired of people who know nothing about ballistics pretending to be experts when they are trying to bolster a weak position.
Fine, he [whiney little bitch voice] doesn't like campers and snipers.[/whiney little bitch voice], he has the right to his opinion, but don't take this asshole's word for gospel, because that it ain't.
Ask any combat veteran about how demoralizing it can be to encounter a REAL sniper in the field. A friend of mine who was in Vietnam told me about one night where they spent the WHOLE NIGHT firing beehive rounds from a recoilless rifle into a treeline to take out one sniper.
Carlos Hathcock, a USMC scout sniper during Vietnam has 93 confirmed kills and over 200 probable kills.
He did all of the things that people bitch about FPS snipers doing. He would crawl into position. He would wait. He would kill people before they knew that they were being watched. When they sent people to take him out, he killed them too.
Snipers are a pain in the ass in the FPS world because they are a major pain in the ass in the real world.
Sure CS isn't the real world. In the real world 1 shot from a.50 caliber desert eagle hitting you in the thigh will sever your femeral artery and you will die, quickly. In CS it's not that big a deal.
But let's keep it in perspective. Dealing with snipers is, and should be ugly business.
When I went to college in 1988, I had a Macintosh Plus with an attached hard disk. Actually, I had two attached hard disks via SCSI chain. I had all my programs and school work on one hard drive, and my games and personal projects on the other.
When I went to college, in 1993. I had a Mac Plus with 1 Mb of RAM and a 20 Mb hard drive that connected through the external floppy controller. No SCSI here buddy boy!
Also, I personally opened my Macintosh Plus and added memory to it on two separate ocassions. The last time was to upgrade to System 7 (what a memory hog!;-) )
I upgraded my Mac Plus to 4Mb of ram and added an 80Mb SCSI HDD. This was like 3 years ago. I did it, just because it cost me like 10$ for the stuff to do it.
Because we don't like 12 year olds screwing with filenames, ripping at horrid bitrates and sorting through looped sequences. P2P is a wasteland nowadays.
Maybe if you weren't searching for Brittney Spears, you'd have better luck.
Most of what I listen to, has been ripped and compressed (along with proper ID3 v1 & v2 tags) by me. Once in a while I'll download something that I can't find or want to try. But for the most part my listening pleasure comes from files that I have made from CDs that I bought.
I have even downloaded MP3s of songs so that I can listen to them on the ride to buy the album that they're from.
I have every album that Scarface has ever made. (some on CD and cassette) Once in a while, I'll download some of the custom remixes that fans make and end up on P2P services.
We don't care about Ally McBeal. We don't care about Dharma and Greg. We're sick of all the metrosexual bullshit that they show us on TV.
In previous decades, if people didn't like what was on TV, what were the choices? Books? Radio? Movie theaters?
Sure all of them are valid, but they're nothing like video games.
In one hour I can switch from being a Florida Drug Kingpin (GTA:VC) to being the NSA's top agent (Splinter Cell).
How can "Queer Eye" compete with that?
Oh and cutting back on the number of ads wouldn't hurt either. Don't have 10x$1000 ads. Have 1x$100.000 ads. Same money less channel hopping.
This I seriously doubt. If there is one commercial to skip, it will be much easier to change the channel. I don't channel surf between commercials because I don't want to miss the beginning of the next segment. If I only needed to change the channel twice per hour, I'd be more likely to do it.
It was the latest data to confirm that video gaming, once almost exclusively associated with teenagers, has become a mainstream interest that is dramatically altering the pattern of media consumption by men.
DUH! We grew up!
It was people of my generation that popularized the atari2600, NES, Sega Master System, Genesis, SNES and the rest. Did they think we'd stay the same age forever?
We aged into our 20s and 30s. That was going to happen. DUH!
If they had reasonable suspicion or probable cause, then I have no problem with raids. If they are bootstrapping, IE saying that they have no evidence but that they KNOW they'll get some if they are allowed to raid, then I have a serious problem with that.
Since when has the US government had a problem breaking rules?
Since never. The US Government doesn't even have a problem breaking its own rules. Cointelpro ring any bells?
The UN did not find any weapons of mass destruction, and therefore voted against attacking Iraq... Bush did it anyway.
The UN is an impotent wast of time. They're average at providing humanitarian aid, but good for nothing else. Hell, Israel is in violation of 69 UNSC resolutions, I don't remember seeing a single blue helmet in Tel Aviv on the news.
The US helped work and develop the Kyoto Treaty (the agreement to lower pollution internationally), however once Bush got into power, he scrapped it. (Some good info on that here)
Even before Bush, the US was not going to sign on to the Kyoto Accord. Clinton knew the damage that it would have done to the US economy and even if he had REALLY wanted to get on board, there wasn't the support in congress for it.
For the last few years, there has been talk about building the "Missle Defense Shield" around the United States & Canada. This of course, would (and probably will) break the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty.
That treaty was between the USA and the USSR. One of those two countries no longer exists. The argument can be made that the treaty is null and void once one of the signing parties ceases to exist.
If the United States can break a treaty at will, can it be trusted to respect others?
Like what? We never signed on to Kyoto. The 1972 ABM treaty was voided when the USSR dissolved. And what UN treaty requires us to get their support before launching a military action?
For these reasons, I don't feel that the US government can be trusted to respect any kind of law/treaty that treats the moon, mars, and other celestial bodies as un-claimable. Any comments?
Problem is that those treaties only apply to the nations that signed on to them. Not their private citizens, lets say that a few billionaires got together and privately funded a trip to the moon, set up shop and claimed it as a new country. We'd have a situation not unlike Sealand.
They could conduct all of their "official" business, relocate their companies' HQs, and store all of their assets there. Talk about a tax loophole, this is the fucking grandmother of all tax loopholes.
LK
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There is a bit of difference between us saying "We built these structures, so they're ours to control." and "Since we were here first, we control this whole rock."
I don't think anyone has a problem with the former statement, it's the latter that would be the problem.
LK
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The US never signed the "Moon Treaty" that came after, that was more specific about a certain celestial body.
Article II of the "Outer Space Treaty" states that
"Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means."
When I worked in retail, it was often the woman who made the decision as to what would be purchased. But let's tell the truth, men and women have different concerna about technology.
I would spend several minutes answering questions from both parties, the man would ask about upgradeability, or future expansion. Women were usually uninterested in such matters. They were usually more concerned with whether or not they could run educational software for the children, "can I burn CDs with this setup?" or the way a new PC would match their existing furniture.
I never once had a female customer ask me why L2 cache is important, or how a 400 Mhz PII could be faster than a 400 Mhz VIA/Cyrix chip.
Unfortunately many salespeople allow these patterns to cause them to assume that ALL WOMEN are unfamilliar with technology. It's important to treat every customer the same. Feel them out to find out how much they understand.
Never assume that a man does know everything that you know and never assume that a woman does not.
This philosophy is what lead me to consistantly being one of the top two salemen in my store(not department, but the entire store).
I think it's strange that I remember it so clearly. I mean, it's not like it was a first kiss or anything."
I remember both very clearly.
First Kiss June 1992. Tammy FXXXXX, ugly girl with short hair and a bad smelling vagina.
First MP3 not sure of date, I think it was sometime in 1996 or 1997. Sheryl Crow, Strong Enough. Someone emailed it to me. I remember posting on a usenet newsgroup asking if anyone could email me a WAV or an AIFF of the file. I had no idea that MP3 existed. I got an email a couple of days later that has a huge (in those days) attachment. I was using a Macintosh at the time so I didn't really get the whole file extension business. I held on to the files long enough to email them back to myself and download them on my PC(before I had a LAN in my bedroom). It was FANTASTIC! I've been hooked ever since. Most of what I listen to is stuff that I own on CD and have ripped and encoded myself.
I still have the Zip file that contains the player that I used back then. By checking the creation/modification dates on the Zip it looks like it was in March 1997 that I downloaded my first MP3.
I haven't seen Tammy in years, but Cheryl still spends a little time in my WinAmp playlist.
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ISPs are NOT common carriers. Ma Bell can't shut off your telephone if it doesn't like your point of view on a political issue. An ISP can refuse to sell you access if they don't like your politics. Just ask Neal Horsley about that.
LK
Somebody should carjack an Infernus and run these assholes over.
If you keep saying that violent video games make us violent, I'll fucking kill you!
LK
Eww LK ... I'm older than you?!? Damn I'm feeling more and more like an old fart during this past year of my life.
That's right grandpa. I was still in middle school when you went away to college.
My Mac Plus finally crapped out in 1998. Power supply went terminal. The cost of replacing it was half the cost of those shiny, new Bondi Blue iMacs.
Then you should have looked here.
So I bought a Rev.A, which my son now uses for his "edutainment" software.
You have a child old enough to use a computer? You ARE old.
I, now, split time between an eMac and a Dell Wintel.
I highly recomment building your own PC. Once you try, you'll spend far less money buying retail or mail order boxen.
LK
Let me get this straight, you'd dump your ISP because someone using YOUR IP address was caught sharing copyrighted material on the internet?
Is this to punish the ISP or to avoid getting caught?
LK
I imagine that the ISPs are not going along because they will have to pay people to forward these requests. If the RIAA were to say, offer $0.50 for each IP address that they want the ISP to look up and send the letter for, maybe they'd get a better response.
Unless it's mandated by law, what reason do the ISPs have to do all of that work for free?
LK
From the article
.338 Lapua Magnum caliber can push a 200 grain
.338 Lapua at 250 grains, we get a muzzle velocity of 3000 fps.
.338 Lapua would slice through it like butter.
"The guns also aren?t one-shot kills. If they are, so would be the MP44 Sturmgewehr or AK-47 at shorter distances, which use similarly sized ammunition."
This idiotic fuck knows NOTHING about external or terminal ballistics. It's not only the SIZE of the bullet that makes it lethal, it's the amount of energy that the bullet delivers.
The MP44 Sturmgewehr fired 7.92x33mm Kurz ammunition, it pushed a 122 grain bullet with a muzzle velocity of 2,055 fps. The AK-47 fires 7.62x39mm ammunition, this pushes a 125 grain bullet with a muzzle velocity of approx 2130 fps. The
bullet to over 3200 fps.
Or if we were to consider the
Are you fucking high?
It's a heavier bullet (in one case twice the mass) at nearly 150% of the velocity of the two lesser calibers. There is no way under the sun that you can liken their lethality.
The two lesser calibers would bounce off of a target armored to level IV spec, but the
In short, Mr. Jakub, you don't know what in the fuck you're talking about.
I'm sick and tired of people who know nothing about ballistics pretending to be experts when they are trying to bolster a weak position.
Fine, he [whiney little bitch voice] doesn't like campers and snipers.[/whiney little bitch voice], he has the right to his opinion, but don't take this asshole's word for gospel, because that it ain't.
LK
Ask any combat veteran about how demoralizing it can be to encounter a REAL sniper in the field. A friend of mine who was in Vietnam told me about one night where they spent the WHOLE NIGHT firing beehive rounds from a recoilless rifle into a treeline to take out one sniper.
.50 caliber desert eagle hitting you in the thigh will sever your femeral artery and you will die, quickly. In CS it's not that big a deal.
Carlos Hathcock, a USMC scout sniper during Vietnam has 93 confirmed kills and over 200 probable kills.
He did all of the things that people bitch about FPS snipers doing. He would crawl into position. He would wait. He would kill people before they knew that they were being watched. When they sent people to take him out, he killed them too.
Snipers are a pain in the ass in the FPS world because they are a major pain in the ass in the real world.
Sure CS isn't the real world. In the real world 1 shot from a
But let's keep it in perspective. Dealing with snipers is, and should be ugly business.
LK
When I went to college in 1988, I had a Macintosh Plus with an attached hard disk. Actually, I had two attached hard disks via SCSI chain. I had all my programs and school work on one hard drive, and my games and personal projects on the other.
;-) )
When I went to college, in 1993. I had a Mac Plus with 1 Mb of RAM and a 20 Mb hard drive that connected through the external floppy controller. No SCSI here buddy boy!
Also, I personally opened my Macintosh Plus and added memory to it on two separate ocassions. The last time was to upgrade to System 7 (what a memory hog!
I upgraded my Mac Plus to 4Mb of ram and added an 80Mb SCSI HDD. This was like 3 years ago. I did it, just because it cost me like 10$ for the stuff to do it.
LK
I distinctly remember an episode of "Beyond 2000" in which they show a prototype of a car than can parallel park itself.
Not too bad at all, it's only 4 years "Beyond 2000" and these things are showing up.
LK
Sorry. Wasn't me. But the fact that you "loved" it, speaks volumes about you.
LK
Because we don't like 12 year olds screwing with filenames, ripping at horrid bitrates and sorting through looped sequences. P2P is a wasteland nowadays.
Maybe if you weren't searching for Brittney Spears, you'd have better luck.
Most of what I listen to, has been ripped and compressed (along with proper ID3 v1 & v2 tags) by me. Once in a while I'll download something that I can't find or want to try. But for the most part my listening pleasure comes from files that I have made from CDs that I bought.
I have even downloaded MP3s of songs so that I can listen to them on the ride to buy the album that they're from.
I have every album that Scarface has ever made. (some on CD and cassette) Once in a while, I'll download some of the custom remixes that fans make and end up on P2P services.
LK
We don't care about Ally McBeal. We don't care about Dharma and Greg. We're sick of all the metrosexual bullshit that they show us on TV.
In previous decades, if people didn't like what was on TV, what were the choices? Books? Radio? Movie theaters?
Sure all of them are valid, but they're nothing like video games.
In one hour I can switch from being a Florida Drug Kingpin (GTA:VC) to being the NSA's top agent (Splinter Cell).
How can "Queer Eye" compete with that?
Oh and cutting back on the number of ads wouldn't hurt either. Don't have 10x$1000 ads. Have 1x$100.000 ads. Same money less channel hopping.
This I seriously doubt. If there is one commercial to skip, it will be much easier to change the channel. I don't channel surf between commercials because I don't want to miss the beginning of the next segment. If I only needed to change the channel twice per hour, I'd be more likely to do it.
LK
It was the latest data to confirm that video gaming, once almost exclusively associated with teenagers, has become a mainstream interest that is dramatically altering the pattern of media consumption by men.
DUH! We grew up!
It was people of my generation that popularized the atari2600, NES, Sega Master System, Genesis, SNES and the rest. Did they think we'd stay the same age forever?
We aged into our 20s and 30s. That was going to happen. DUH!
LK
Is there any evidence against these people?
If they had reasonable suspicion or probable cause, then I have no problem with raids. If they are bootstrapping, IE saying that they have no evidence but that they KNOW they'll get some if they are allowed to raid, then I have a serious problem with that.
LK
Since when has the US government had a problem breaking rules?
Since never. The US Government doesn't even have a problem breaking its own rules. Cointelpro ring any bells?
The UN did not find any weapons of mass destruction, and therefore voted against attacking Iraq... Bush did it anyway.
The UN is an impotent wast of time. They're average at providing humanitarian aid, but good for nothing else. Hell, Israel is in violation of 69 UNSC resolutions, I don't remember seeing a single blue helmet in Tel Aviv on the news.
The US helped work and develop the Kyoto Treaty (the agreement to lower pollution internationally), however once Bush got into power, he scrapped it. (Some good info on that here)
Even before Bush, the US was not going to sign on to the Kyoto Accord. Clinton knew the damage that it would have done to the US economy and even if he had REALLY wanted to get on board, there wasn't the support in congress for it.
For the last few years, there has been talk about building the "Missle Defense Shield" around the United States & Canada. This of course, would (and probably will) break the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty.
That treaty was between the USA and the USSR. One of those two countries no longer exists. The argument can be made that the treaty is null and void once one of the signing parties ceases to exist.
If the United States can break a treaty at will, can it be trusted to respect others?
Like what? We never signed on to Kyoto. The 1972 ABM treaty was voided when the USSR dissolved. And what UN treaty requires us to get their support before launching a military action?
For these reasons, I don't feel that the US government can be trusted to respect any kind of law/treaty that treats the moon, mars, and other celestial bodies as un-claimable. Any comments?
Problem is that those treaties only apply to the nations that signed on to them. Not their private citizens, lets say that a few billionaires got together and privately funded a trip to the moon, set up shop and claimed it as a new country. We'd have a situation not unlike Sealand.
They could conduct all of their "official" business, relocate their companies' HQs, and store all of their assets there. Talk about a tax loophole, this is the fucking grandmother of all tax loopholes.
LK
There is a bit of difference between us saying "We built these structures, so they're ours to control." and "Since we were here first, we control this whole rock."
I don't think anyone has a problem with the former statement, it's the latter that would be the problem.
LK
The US never signed the "Moon Treaty" that came after, that was more specific about a certain celestial body.
LK
At least he isn't Katz.
LK
Article II of the "Outer Space Treaty" states that
"Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means."
See it here.
When I worked in retail, it was often the woman who made the decision as to what would be purchased. But let's tell the truth, men and women have different concerna about technology.
I would spend several minutes answering questions from both parties, the man would ask about upgradeability, or future expansion. Women were usually uninterested in such matters. They were usually more concerned with whether or not they could run educational software for the children, "can I burn CDs with this setup?" or the way a new PC would match their existing furniture.
I never once had a female customer ask me why L2 cache is important, or how a 400 Mhz PII could be faster than a 400 Mhz VIA/Cyrix chip.
Unfortunately many salespeople allow these patterns to cause them to assume that ALL WOMEN are unfamilliar with technology. It's important to treat every customer the same. Feel them out to find out how much they understand.
Never assume that a man does know everything that you know and never assume that a woman does not.
This philosophy is what lead me to consistantly being one of the top two salemen in my store(not department, but the entire store).
LK
Why do we assume that P2P networks are only being used by college students who want porn and music.
Some of us downloading porn and music are out of college.
LK
96% of the people I see on a day to day basis are male. Either there is a conspericy at work here or I chose the wrong damn profession.
Well, working in the gay porno section of the newsstand would probably be the reason why you see so few women.
LK
I think it's strange that I remember it so clearly. I mean, it's not like it was a first kiss or anything."
I remember both very clearly.
First Kiss June 1992. Tammy FXXXXX, ugly girl with short hair and a bad smelling vagina.
First MP3 not sure of date, I think it was sometime in 1996 or 1997. Sheryl Crow, Strong Enough. Someone emailed it to me. I remember posting on a usenet newsgroup asking if anyone could email me a WAV or an AIFF of the file. I had no idea that MP3 existed. I got an email a couple of days later that has a huge (in those days) attachment. I was using a Macintosh at the time so I didn't really get the whole file extension business. I held on to the files long enough to email them back to myself and download them on my PC(before I had a LAN in my bedroom). It was FANTASTIC! I've been hooked ever since. Most of what I listen to is stuff that I own on CD and have ripped and encoded myself.
I still have the Zip file that contains the player that I used back then. By checking the creation/modification dates on the Zip it looks like it was in March 1997 that I downloaded my first MP3.
I haven't seen Tammy in years, but Cheryl still spends a little time in my WinAmp playlist.
But, I'd venture a guess that your wrist was fine.
Personally, I'd say that if people search for "playmate" without intending to find Playboy's web site, the trademark has lost its value.
What if they're searching for former Playboy Playmates, like Teri Weigel?
BTW, have a look at the link. Playboy has a history of defending their trademarks, no matter who it is that they believe is infringing upon them.
LK