What do you think I am? Trust me, I ain't been 17 for more than, oh, lets just say 17 years and leave it at that. I've been involved in some way with "the industry" for more than those 34 years. The waters are deeper than they appear on the surface.
And I recommend Thomas Fleming's "Liberty! The American Revolution."
...I know people like to think that it's now so much more secure. ..
Do they really?
I went from England to holland and never had to show anything but the colour of my passport . ..
Ahhhhhh! You're thinking of something different than I am. Would you like to think that you'd be more secure if you were only searched more diligently?
I'd certainly like to think you're smarter than that, but I'm prepared to think otherwise. Meaning no disrespect, unless it proves justified.
This is the manual. Feel free to ignore his editorial comments if you like. They don't affect the rest of the material (he has some very strong opinions on what constitutes "custom" frame building).
This is the one that got me started back in the 70s. It's a good starter book written expressly for the person who just wants to experience building a frame or two without having to mortgage the house for tools.
Yeah, yeah, they're losing money on each sale, but they're gonna make it up on volume.
I don't know where people get the idea that sales matter much. Profit is the point of business. Go talk to Amazon about it. $9 billion in sales last year, but they would have been better off stuffing their money into Certificates of Deposit. I know people with salaries higher than Amazon's earnings and they're only considered upper middle class these days.
I'd invest in the local video outlet with sales of only $9 million before I'd dump money into Amazon, because they're more profitable.
While still an inexperienced 21 year old college student in 1743, Samuel Adams, a man without whom the Boston Tea Party would not have taken place (and very possibly the War of Indenpendence itself) wrote a thesis entitled:
"Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved."
Is it your thesis that the progenitors of and participants in the war did not start out as 17 year olds with an axe to grind?
What was the average age of the pariticpants in the war anyway?
Or are you, perhaps, suggesting that men such as Lessing and Barlow are inexperienced?
People can debate the morality and legality all they want... but if people keep wanting something for nothing, there's going to be no more something eventually.
If we did not have strong rights orginizations there would be no incentive for the media companies to finance the high quality entertainment programming you now enjoy stealing in the first place.
The Black Software Company: Oh! Had enough, eh? Come back and take what's coming to you, you yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you! I'll sue your legs off!
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Mea Culpa, I dropped a decimal point on the $360 million net profit.
KFG
Boobs've gotta be WAY better in 3D.
Throw in Feel-A-Round and I think you've got a killer ap.
KFG
It is highly functional.
And highly 2D.
KFG
We have more gas now than ever.
More gas? Yes. Less reserve capacity and fewer untapped new discoveries. Yes.
As in "none."
Greater demand. Oooooooh yeah, and rising rapidly.
The coaster car is always highest just before it starts to fall.
KFG
. . .blow your congressmen's senator's ears off about the matter.
Our congressmen have their ears removed, just before being recited their oath of office.
Might just as well be shooting blanks after that.
KFG
Damn isn't there a party left for the common man......
Keg.
KFG
Real terrorists and criminals will use encryption, but the average person will not.
Therefore using encryption will be probable cause. Have nice day.
KFG
Or will encryption become illegal?
Well, not ecxaaaaaaactly. It'll just be defined as Obstruction of Justice.
KFG
I see you have a home network connected to the Internet. Here's your key logger, comrade. Have a nice day.
KFG
It was between colonist-businessmen . . .
What do you think I am? Trust me, I ain't been 17 for more than, oh, lets just say 17 years and leave it at that. I've been involved in some way with "the industry" for more than those 34 years. The waters are deeper than they appear on the surface.
And I recommend Thomas Fleming's "Liberty! The American Revolution."
KFG
...I know people like to think that it's now so much more secure. . .
.
Do they really?
I went from England to holland and never had to show anything but the colour of my passport . .
Ahhhhhh! You're thinking of something different than I am. Would you like to think that you'd be more secure if you were only searched more diligently?
I'd certainly like to think you're smarter than that, but I'm prepared to think otherwise. Meaning no disrespect, unless it proves justified.
KFG
Is saving 5 minutes in line REALLY worth the full cavity search????
Well, it's an extra twenty bucks if you get it done in town.
KFG
Ok, Sol8 I could see I guess, but for all that I'm a Mac bigot these days, I can't really blame MS for being unable to support software that old.
Well, they may not find it "feasable" to patch the hole, but I managed it in all of about five minutes.
I installed Firefox. Can't they handle that?
KFG
http://www.timpaterek.com/
This is the manual. Feel free to ignore his editorial comments if you like. They don't affect the rest of the material (he has some very strong opinions on what constitutes "custom" frame building).
Proteus Frame Building Handbook
This is the one that got me started back in the 70s. It's a good starter book written expressly for the person who just wants to experience building a frame or two without having to mortgage the house for tools.
Good luck finding a copy though.
Listmania:Bicycle Frame Building
Here's a Listmania page. Looks like a very good, pretty compreshensive collection if you intend to get a bit serious about it.
Manufactured wood and manufactured iron (steel), the wonder materials of all time and they get very little respect these days. I don't get it.
KFG
Yeah, yeah, they're losing money on each sale, but they're gonna make it up on volume.
I don't know where people get the idea that sales matter much. Profit is the point of business. Go talk to Amazon about it. $9 billion in sales last year, but they would have been better off stuffing their money into Certificates of Deposit. I know people with salaries higher than Amazon's earnings and they're only considered upper middle class these days.
I'd invest in the local video outlet with sales of only $9 million before I'd dump money into Amazon, because they're more profitable.
KFG
That's why the tea is crap in America and good in Britain.
.Tommy Lipton. :)
That's what we get for buying most of our tea from . .
KFG
Teenagers were not the leaders of Hezbollah. Nonetheless teenagers started Hezbollah and provided the grunt force on the ground.
.the teenage grunt force on the ground.
The leaders of Hezbollah were indeed older and more experienced, experience gained by being . .
KFG
Hell, it would probably improve a vast majority of music out there.
Ya ever hear a major movie studio/music distributor announce at a press conference that:
"Well, we couldn't find any decent material this year, so we aren't going to be releasing anything."
No? Didn't think so.
By their very nature they are required to push out a stream of something, even if they themselves know it's total dreck.
1067 channels; 24/7; and nothin's on.
KFG
While still an inexperienced 21 year old college student in 1743, Samuel Adams, a man without whom the Boston Tea Party would not have taken place (and very possibly the War of Indenpendence itself) wrote a thesis entitled:
"Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved."
Is it your thesis that the progenitors of and participants in the war did not start out as 17 year olds with an axe to grind?
What was the average age of the pariticpants in the war anyway?
Or are you, perhaps, suggesting that men such as Lessing and Barlow are inexperienced?
KFG
People can debate the morality and legality all they want... but if people keep wanting something for nothing, there's going to be no more something eventually.
I think you missed my point, entirely.
KFG
Do they realy believe a threat of "noones gonna make movies anymore if they can only become millionaires instead of multi-millionaires" is gonna work?
The other night I paid three bucks to perform a song.
I wrote the song for free because I had an itch to scratch (a very lovely itch, I might ad).
The itch writes songs, records them and sells them as an independant. God bless CD Baby.
The idea that art will curl up and die without without strong IP rights is ludicrous. Art was invented by people with no such rights.
KFG
If we did not have strong rights orginizations there would be no incentive for the media companies to finance the high quality entertainment programming you now enjoy stealing in the first place.
.wait. . .
Your Barney downloads would not even exist.
Oh. .
KFG
See the Boston Tea Party and the American War of Independence.
KFG
. . .what exactly would qualify as "evil", if anything?
Falling stock prices.
KFG
Aren't these guys dead YET?!
The Black Software Company: Oh! Had enough, eh? Come back and take what's coming to you, you yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you! I'll sue your legs off!
KFG