Name one case, just one case, which wasn't summarily dropped, where some actually innocent person was made to pay the RIAA's fines as a result of the RIAA's "extortion tactics".
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what has the RIAA ever done for us?
According to http://www.rube-goldberg.com, there's an annual competition at Purdue University each year to build a Rube Goldberg-ian machine. In fact, the one for 2003 was last Saturday!
Did anyone go?
Results available at http://www.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/rube/rube.index.html .
If they are going to go through this (no doubt) expensive cleansing process to put this water on the mountain, it must cost them a SHITLOAD to use fresh water to make the snow.
"An earlier report of detection of water masers on extrasolar planets has been debunked."
Of course there aren't any. That's because Maisers are Sims. The/. poll said so.
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Tons of mind-boggling cases of hardware, software, OS and tech support abuse can be found at the Computer Stupidities Page.
As for the squeaky clean computer, this is one from there:
* Customer: "My computer doesn't work." * Tech Support: "Ok, what happens?" * Customer: "When I turn it on, nothing happens." * Tech Support: "Hmmm. Can you think of anything you might have done to cause it to stop functioning?" * Customer: "Well, I just cleaned it. There was dirt on the fan, and I wiped it off." * Tech Support: "Oh, that shouldn't have hurt anything." * Customer: "Then I opened up the computer and wiped the insides as well. I took it apart and washed everything with Windex."
Laurie Bauer, public relations director for Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Best Buy, told Computerworld in an e-mail last night that the company had returned the wireless registers to service after adding additional security measures that she did not identify.
Having a song in your head that you can't identify ranks right up there with having a bit of popcorn stuck between your teeth. you can't get squat done until you get the matter resolved...
I recall reading an article a number of years ago about this guy who published a book/catalog where you could identify songs by the relative values of the notes.
You start with a base note (notated by something arbitrary like a *), then notate whether the next note is (H)igher, (L)ower or (S)ame. I seem to recall the article saying the algorithm worked well enough to uniquely identify most any piece of music, given a sufficiently large input.So something like the start of Beethoven's 5th would go: (ahem) *SSL HSSL
I never did see the actual book, and I definitely haven't seen any such database online, but I thought it was an interesting concept. Anyone else ever heard of this technique for identifying songs?
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let's just call it The A-Hole Bill, shall we?
I bet this is what would be sent.
Fortunately, someone has already done all the work for us.
Name one case, just one case, which wasn't summarily dropped, where some actually innocent person was made to pay the RIAA's fines as a result of the RIAA's "extortion tactics".
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what has the RIAA ever done for us?
I don't see what all the fuss is about. Mine burns just fine.
I like They Might Be Giants, but I'll be damned if I'm paying $20.79 (let alone $62.79 at the $2.99/song level) for their song "Fingertips". You might also want to reconsider picking up that track Descendents tracks "All" (1 second) and "No, All!" (2 seconds).
According to http://www.rube-goldberg.com, there's an annual competition at Purdue University each year to build a Rube Goldberg-ian machine. In fact, the one for 2003 was last Saturday! Did anyone go? Results available at http://www.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/rube/rube.index.html .
This gives a whole new meaning to "taking a powder".
If they are going to go through this (no doubt) expensive cleansing process to put this water on the mountain, it must cost them a SHITLOAD to use fresh water to make the snow.
Actually the term is now "SNOWLOAD".
Of course there aren't any. That's because Maisers are Sims. The /. poll said so.
Tons of mind-boggling cases of hardware, software, OS and tech support abuse can be found at the Computer Stupidities Page.
As for the squeaky clean computer, this is one from there:
* Customer: "My computer doesn't work."
* Tech Support: "Ok, what happens?"
* Customer: "When I turn it on, nothing happens."
* Tech Support: "Hmmm. Can you think of anything you might have done to cause it to stop functioning?"
* Customer: "Well, I just cleaned it. There was dirt on the fan, and I wiped it off."
* Tech Support: "Oh, that shouldn't have hurt anything."
* Customer: "Then I opened up the computer and wiped the insides as well. I took it apart and washed everything with Windex."
Laurie Bauer, public relations director for Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Best Buy, told Computerworld in an e-mail last night that the company had returned the wireless registers to service after adding additional security measures that she did not identify.
Having a song in your head that you can't identify ranks right up there with having a bit of popcorn stuck between your teeth. you can't get squat done until you get the matter resolved...
I recall reading an article a number of years ago about this guy who published a book/catalog where you could identify songs by the relative values of the notes.
You start with a base note (notated by something arbitrary like a *), then notate whether the next note is (H)igher, (L)ower or (S)ame. I seem to recall the article saying the algorithm worked well enough to uniquely identify most any piece of music, given a sufficiently large input.So something like the start of Beethoven's 5th would go: (ahem) *SSL HSSL
I never did see the actual book, and I definitely haven't seen any such database online, but I thought it was an interesting concept. Anyone else ever heard of this technique for identifying songs?
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