The anonymous blogger suspects someone at Microsoft typed "1/8/08" into their tracking system for the date of a follow-up call, instead of "1/8/98." Look, folks, if Microsoft had been spying on their employees back then, this never would have happened.
And use the space for what amounts to free advertising. I had never heard of Caravel games until reading this discussion, and probably a lot of people who found the file at pirate bay have never heard of it before either. If I cared about games (I don't) and I saw one that looked cool there, and read a note expressing good will from someone who actually gets it directing me to the website where I could buy a legit copy, you'd have made a sale from someone who would never have heard of your game otherwise. I don't care about games but I do care about music, and I shell out money all the time for bands I never would have heard of if I hadn't been able to download them online.
Keep in mind that the Libertarian and Green parties are slowly gaining supporters Sure, libertarians and greens have gained a small amount of ground this year compared to last year, perhaps, but looking historically things are really stuck in a 2-party state. Look at the first couple decades of the twentieth century. The Progressive Party was huge a hundred years ago. We actually had a third party President (Teddy Roosevelt). Eugene V Debs got about a million votes from prison in 1920 (a similar percentage to Nader in 2000) -- running as a socialist. From prison! And you don't even have to go that far to see potential -- Ross Perot, no matter what we might think of him, managed to land almost 20% of the popular vote. Of course, he didn't get a single electoral vote, meaning the 2-party system wasn't the least bit threatened even while losing one fifth of the vote. Anyone who represents a third party is routinely mocked in the media or simply ignored. Hell, today a court had to order them to let Kucinich take part in the debates and they still might not let him (link)-- and he's running as a Democrat!
no, I get mine 99.99% pure pyrotechnics grade on ebay. And if you think I'm kidding search 17 pound desolator smoke bomb on youtube Be sure to do all the search terms; that guy with the 18 pound desolator smoke bomb is a totally different guy.
It was not 19" screens though, much smaller, but LOUD ads playing 24/7. For about two weeks. Then the screens mysteriously disappeared. I think they got a lot of customer complaints, at least that's what I hope happened. I filled up a couple times when they were there and everyone had the same reaction I did -- complete annoyance.
I'm a DJ in LA and while there are plenty using CDs, I'd say most working DJs in clubs (at least, those playing electronic dance, hip hop, funk, disco, drum n bass, house, and the like) are using vinyl. With one caveat -- most of us have moved to Serato or similar methods of playing MP3s through turntables using specially coded vinyl records. Digital music is definitely dominant here, but it is generally played through vinyl on turntables rather than through CD players or ipods. Which just goes to show that DJs like vinyl for its tangible qualities primarily (and the ability to manipulate sound in a very tactile manner) rather than because we think it sounds better. That said, I'm not ready to sell my wax, and I still collect music on vinyl.
Well, try to listen to the ipod in a pair of these $5350.00 speakers and tell me again again about those "warmer, more nuanced" sounds. Umm, I'll listen to it that way, and tell you whatever the hell you want to hear, if you hook me up with a set of those speakers!
Cinea doesn't support their machine and I'm stuck with this crap player that I had my son beat it to death with a sledgehammer the other day, as I videotaped the ceremony. Coolest.... Dad.... Ever!
I just don't get it. Why does a file need to be tied to a purchaser? What if I buy the CD at a record store and pay in cash? Are they going to take my information now just to encode a stupid watermark on the songs so I can't share the music with my friends? Also it seems current law would allow for a digital file to be sold just the same as a used CD. So if I purchase an MP3 album online, decide I don't like it, sell it to a friend and delete my copy of it, am I going to be held liable since his or her copy is watermarked with my credit card info?
I would suggest an incinerator or strong acid. I agree!! The incinerator will melt the drive; the strong acid will make the flames all pretty-like. Be sure to keep a needle full of Thorazine handy in case you need to come down quick, however.
put holes in people. This makes it difficult for all but the most determined people to read. Yes, putting holes in people makes it difficult for them to read, if your aim is good, but I think the poster wanted a way to make the hard drive unreadable by anyone, not just by the people it was convenient to put holes in.
Gee, you think an encyclopedia anonymously edited by anyone who feels like it might get something wrong once in a while? It's possible that he was moved since 2005, but Leavenworth was where he was held then, according to the research I was able to do in the two minutes between deciding to make that silly joke and stupidly hitting "submit." It really wasn't that funny to begin with, but thanks for trying to ruin it anyway, Captain Bringdown;)
Let's not forget that the story's about licenses being read at the door of bars. They don't ask for your license at the bar when you actually purchase a beverage. So if you visit 6 bars in a night and drink lemonade or water at each one, you look like a severe risk, whereas if someone goes into one bar early before they start scanning ID's and stays there all night getting sloshed, he looks like he presents no risk at all. This is the dumbest idea I've heard this year.
Let's see, "cooler" is slang for prison, Leonard Peltier is being held at Leavenworth, so this company is offering little Leavenworth models in potato chip packages? Excellent.
That's because weed wasn't legal when they made alcohol illegal;-) Actually weed wasn't made illegal until the 1930s, well after alcohol Prohibition ended.
For example, we should all live in a thatched hut, eat weeds and grubs, wear the untanned raw skins of animals (or just go naked), and slave 18 hours a day.... I was with you up until the slavery part.
So sick and tired of people wasting court time on whiny things like this instead of voicing their opinion with their dollars. All lawsuit like this do is increase the prices of products to offset the cost of legal departments to fight these frivolous lawsuit. Actually, filing a lawsuit like this is in fact voicing their opinion with their dollars, since lawyers are not free. The difference is that they're expecting to use the public's dollars as well (court costs and time). Otherwise I think you're exactly right - this lawsuit is nonsense; whoever's idea this was should have their browser's homepage set permanently to this page with the volume turned up.
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Is there a link to the .torrent?
And use the space for what amounts to free advertising. I had never heard of Caravel games until reading this discussion, and probably a lot of people who found the file at pirate bay have never heard of it before either. If I cared about games (I don't) and I saw one that looked cool there, and read a note expressing good will from someone who actually gets it directing me to the website where I could buy a legit copy, you'd have made a sale from someone who would never have heard of your game otherwise. I don't care about games but I do care about music, and I shell out money all the time for bands I never would have heard of if I hadn't been able to download them online.
That web page also says the number of documents in the trial has tripled over the last six months.
It was not 19" screens though, much smaller, but LOUD ads playing 24/7. For about two weeks. Then the screens mysteriously disappeared. I think they got a lot of customer complaints, at least that's what I hope happened. I filled up a couple times when they were there and everyone had the same reaction I did -- complete annoyance.
I'm a DJ in LA and while there are plenty using CDs, I'd say most working DJs in clubs (at least, those playing electronic dance, hip hop, funk, disco, drum n bass, house, and the like) are using vinyl. With one caveat -- most of us have moved to Serato or similar methods of playing MP3s through turntables using specially coded vinyl records. Digital music is definitely dominant here, but it is generally played through vinyl on turntables rather than through CD players or ipods. Which just goes to show that DJs like vinyl for its tangible qualities primarily (and the ability to manipulate sound in a very tactile manner) rather than because we think it sounds better. That said, I'm not ready to sell my wax, and I still collect music on vinyl.
Umm, I'll listen to it that way, and tell you whatever the hell you want to hear, if you hook me up with a set of those speakers!
It was a delayed Y2K error.
I just don't get it. Why does a file need to be tied to a purchaser? What if I buy the CD at a record store and pay in cash? Are they going to take my information now just to encode a stupid watermark on the songs so I can't share the music with my friends? Also it seems current law would allow for a digital file to be sold just the same as a used CD. So if I purchase an MP3 album online, decide I don't like it, sell it to a friend and delete my copy of it, am I going to be held liable since his or her copy is watermarked with my credit card info?
Do you have a link to a MS Word version of the report?
Gee, you think an encyclopedia anonymously edited by anyone who feels like it might get something wrong once in a while? It's possible that he was moved since 2005, but Leavenworth was where he was held then, according to the research I was able to do in the two minutes between deciding to make that silly joke and stupidly hitting "submit." It really wasn't that funny to begin with, but thanks for trying to ruin it anyway, Captain Bringdown ;)
Let's not forget that the story's about licenses being read at the door of bars. They don't ask for your license at the bar when you actually purchase a beverage. So if you visit 6 bars in a night and drink lemonade or water at each one, you look like a severe risk, whereas if someone goes into one bar early before they start scanning ID's and stays there all night getting sloshed, he looks like he presents no risk at all. This is the dumbest idea I've heard this year.
Let's see, "cooler" is slang for prison, Leonard Peltier is being held at Leavenworth, so this company is offering little Leavenworth models in potato chip packages? Excellent.
Sorry, can't hear you over the music. Tell me later.
Looks like the webserver had some non-netflix content on it and its DRM got revoked.