This is a service which costs $26 a month (or less, depending on the state you live in), and allows you telephone access to lawyers for any question, any number of times.
They will write letters and make phone calls for you, for instance if you're trying to collect, or if you need help resolving a dispute. If the issue takes more resources, they have a reduced hourly rate (25% off) so it's worth it even if your problem is not covered for free.
They offer more services, like traffic defense, civil (or job-related criminal) defense, and audit defense; and there's a "legal shield" which is available 24-hours a day in case you're detained by a police officer or security guard.
Yes, I do make money when someone joins, but I use the service myself and it has saved me a ton of money. There's a short movie at the web site if you want to check it out.
They'll even be able to answer your zoning questions for you. For free.
I'm running the latest release on Windows 2000, and the Hulk trailer had a bunch of artifacts -- stars, white dots, in much of the black parts. Very annoying.
I don't know if these artifacts were my fault or the fault of the player/encoder, but none of the Family Guy episodes I downloaded from Kazaa have any artifacts.
And I say it's bollox that Kazza has the most content.
I guess it depends on what you're searching for. I had already installed eMule but rarely use it, as Kazaa generally has everything I search for.
For instance, looking for "Family Guy" I find only 10 files matching on eMule; only 8 of these are full episodes (>200 MB; the other two are 64 MB (a compressed episode perhaps?) and 1 MB).
On Kazaa, there are 54 full episodes (>200 MB).
My sister wanted to see "Strangers With Candy". I was able to get all the episodes from Kazaa (30 of them; not all were 200 MB, some were more compressed, down to 70-80 MB). However, eMule doesn't have a single episode (or match of any type).
Sometimes when my ReplayTV doesn't record something, I look for it on the net. In these cases I generally only find it using BitTorrent, as there's a big TV taping community sharing files through BT. Google for "BitTorrent TV" and you'll find it.
I downloaded the Bitzi software (BitCollider), but it can only tell me about files that I've already downloaded. And I have sig2dat but it's used by sites like FastTrackMovies -- they give a link, you click on it, and sig2dat converts the link into a search/download in Kazaa. I don't see a way for it to tell me whether a certain file which shows up from a search is valid or not. (If you know, please respond! Thanks.)
"We must ask ourselves what Elvis would do to stop the theft of music via the Internet, now so widespread and so brazen that it makes the Baghdad looters look like trick-or-treaters."
I think they're right: the Baghdad looters are a lot more like trick-or-treaters than people who use P2P networks to violate copyrights are.
Trick-or-treaters either deface your property (tricks), or remove your property (taking treats). The Baghdad looters are doing the same, destroying Saddam's buildings and museums and removing the property from within them (they also hit hospitals, which isn't so nice).
On the other hand, violators of copyright are simply making copies. There is no defacing of property, and there is no removal of property.
Honestly the only way we're going anywhere but down the drain is if people can someday stand up and vote for some candidates who will actually reduce the size of government and bring some efficiency to the table. I may sound a little too idealist, but there are alternatives to democrats and republicans out there.
And they'll never get into office in any substantial way (I know New Hampshire (or Vermont?) has some libertarians in office, and Jesse Ventura was from a third party as well).
Why? Because of the way the money situation is set up. Campaign contribution limits. Most people are for them -- "Don't let the politicians waste our money!" But people don't understand the real issue.
Republicans and Democrats have a huge donation-base. If everyone is limited to $100 a year, they're still taking in a lot of money. However, any third party has a significantly smaller population that can and will donate, so they're limited.
Even if that third party has a very wealthy backer, s/he is not able to pour all his/her funds into the party. And this is what is keeping third parties from growing.
I remember reading an article a co-worker had which described this in terms of the "big 3" television networks, back in the 70s. They wanted to pass laws restricting the newcomer, cable TV networks. They failed. But at the same time laws were passed restricting newcomer political parties, described as "benefitting the public", and they succeeded.
So well, in fact, that our most recent presidential election could have been called either way. By the only two parties able to (effectively) spend money.
So, I'd like to see it all liscensed under a liscense that permits those who modify it to change the terms of the liscense. Kernel Hacker Bob could liscense his changes to it under the GPL, and big bad software company MS could just incorporate it into Windows.
The problem with this approach is the taxpayers end up paying for the software twice: once for the government to develop it, and again when they purchase Microsoft software.
Sure, we're arguing ideology here but Microsoft has in fact taken open sourced software from BSD-style licenses and changed it so it's incompatible (Kerberos leaps to mind, I'm sure there are other examples).
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I'd like to see the studios (and yes, I know they're too dumb to do this) release a screener copy of say, Matrix Reloaded, to the P2P networks themselves
Have you searched Kazaa et al for "Matrix Reloaded"?
I have, and found many different file-sizes near 700 MB. So I decided to download a few (cable modem is very nice), and the titles I got were:
The Legend of Drunken Master
Almost Famous
Saving Private Ryan
Joy Ride
Lustgarden
Someone is having fun poisoning the network -- but they're poisoning it with valid movies, instead of output from/dev/random!
The last movie, Lustgarden, is a foreign (Swedish?) 3-hour fuckfest. Don't let your kids use Kazaa!
I don't think he can fork the US Government. (Tho it would be a lot more stable and secure if he did... )
I've been thinking a lot about this exact topic lately. Specifically, personal security (privacy) among politicians.
The US Constitution guarantees the right to privacy to our citizens. However, I would argue that it does not guarantee that right to its politicians, and I would advocate steps to move in that direction.
I think politicians should be taped (audio and video) at all times, and these recordings be made available on the Internet in real-time.
This would quickly eliminate the "back room" agreements between government and business (Bush and oil, Senator Disney and the RIAA/MPAA/etc.), and would guarantee that only people who truly believed in the office, would run for it.
I have no idea how to go about suggesting my idea, and I am convinced that nobody in office would accept it (although probably 99% of the populace would agree with it). But since we're a representative democracy, rather than a real democracy, there'd be no way to put someone in office who would agree with it and move to implement it.
Pipe dreams, I know. But a man can dream, can't he?
Unfortunately, cows can't digest corn, so they are also fed antibiotics to keep them alive. They are also fed hormones to accelerate their growth to slaughter weight, from about five years down to just 18 months.
Do you really think all of this comes for free (I'm not talking about dollar cost) to the one who eats it?
Something I've learned recently is that, thanks to our using growth hormones in chicken and cattle, our girls are developing secondary sexual characteristics at younger and younger ages.
This is frightening. Not only is it against nature to have nubile females at such a young age, it's also majorly against the law to lust after them.
And we desire nubile young females; the younger the better, because (this is history speaking, the condom has destroyed much of this) that means she's most likely a virgin, which means if she gets pregnant it's most likely yours, which means your genes will be carried forward instead of someone else's.
And we all know it's the genes that are important, not the individual. Thanks Richard Dawkins.
When I first read that I remembered the other definition of "prairie dogging it" (from the little girl in the car who had to go #2, badly).
I remember it being from the movie Vacation (the above link) but there's a reference to a similar scene from the movie Rat Race (scroll down to the section titled "Blood/Gore", second bullet item).
Can't find a reference to it from Vacation, so perhaps my memory's faulty?
How about people do something different, innovative even instead of trying to make Linux do what XP (or fill in your favorite blank) already does?
How about you do something different and innovative and let the developers (who are working on their own time, their own dollars) climb the mountains they want to climb "because they're there?"
If you were paying the developers, then you'd have the right to tell them what to do.
My wife uses Tijevo ("I see you" in Portuguese) to communicate with her friends in Brazil. The program includes video as well as "push to speak" in chat rooms.
People take turns talking, there's a "hand" icon to note who's next in line, each room has a "manager" who keeps order, and most of the room are music-oriented: people will start talking, say hi to their friends and a bit of background, then play a song.
Listening to the music there, and then going to Kazaa, she has gotten several CDs worth of music she wouldn't be exposed to otherwise. Obviously it would be nice if there was a way to pay the musician without having to buy the CD (and few of these are local bands, so she can't go to their shows), but it's broadening her musical tastes and also helping her learn English.
The drug is Modafinil, and is sold under the name Provigil.
This report is from Dec. 3 (doesn't say what year, I'd imagine 2002), and it discusses the military uses. It warns that we might be messing with something we don't fully understand (like the effects on the endocrine system), but I for one would love to try this out.
Personally, I'd rather my kids watch people making love all day long than to see a single instance where killing, maiming, and hurting is glorified.
If you let your kids use Kazaa, you just might get your wish!
On a lark, I decided to search for "matrix" to see if the new movie had been posted. Apparently it had! Seeing that there were many different file sizes (all 600-700 MB), I decided to download several of them just in case one was corrupt/incomplete.
Here are the films I received:
Almost Famous
Saving Private Ryan
Joy Ride
Lustgarden
The last one is a foreign-language (Swedish perhaps?) film, and is almost exclusively sex scenes, including money shots.
Hope your kids weren't looking for the next Matrix film!
Thanks for the link. I have a 1 GHz Athlon, and it couldn't keep up with the framerate under QuickTime -- it got very jerky and had annoying pauses (the sound played fine).
Under EO Video, it was a lot less jerky but still had pauses. And the sound was out of sync as well, about 2 seconds behind the video. I'm currently converting the video to AVI (using XVID compression), and it's taking quite a while (15 minutes and it's about halfway done).
There, it's done, and playing under BSPlayer, it isn't jerky but is somewhat pixelated during fast motion scenes. (The file went from 99 MB down to 17 MB from the XVID compression.) The sound is still wrong, it seems more off than under EO Video (3-5 seconds instead of 2).
From another comment, I downloaded and tried Media Player Classic but it was as bad as QuickTime.
Anyone else having these problems? It doesn't seem to make sense, as I have a decent processor and 1.5 GB RAM...
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Better idea: purchase a membership to Pre-Paid Legal.
This is a service which costs $26 a month (or less, depending on the state you live in), and allows you telephone access to lawyers for any question, any number of times.
They will write letters and make phone calls for you, for instance if you're trying to collect, or if you need help resolving a dispute. If the issue takes more resources, they have a reduced hourly rate (25% off) so it's worth it even if your problem is not covered for free.
They offer more services, like traffic defense, civil (or job-related criminal) defense, and audit defense; and there's a "legal shield" which is available 24-hours a day in case you're detained by a police officer or security guard.
Yes, I do make money when someone joins, but I use the service myself and it has saved me a ton of money. There's a short movie at the web site if you want to check it out.
They'll even be able to answer your zoning questions for you. For free.
Um... Yes?
I'm running the latest release on Windows 2000, and the Hulk trailer had a bunch of artifacts -- stars, white dots, in much of the black parts. Very annoying.
I don't know if these artifacts were my fault or the fault of the player/encoder, but none of the Family Guy episodes I downloaded from Kazaa have any artifacts.
So I blame quicktime.
So true. Although Superman is DC not Marvel, he's another example of the hero who is made greater by his fatal flaw, kryptonite.
It provides for more intricate plots, and puts fear in the viewer/reader, thinking perhaps Superman has been beaten this time.
Doesn't make sense, though, that Superman is weakened by rocks from his home planet. Smallville never explained this either.
I guess it depends on what you're searching for. I had already installed eMule but rarely use it, as Kazaa generally has everything I search for.
For instance, looking for "Family Guy" I find only 10 files matching on eMule; only 8 of these are full episodes (>200 MB; the other two are 64 MB (a compressed episode perhaps?) and 1 MB).
On Kazaa, there are 54 full episodes (>200 MB).
My sister wanted to see "Strangers With Candy". I was able to get all the episodes from Kazaa (30 of them; not all were 200 MB, some were more compressed, down to 70-80 MB). However, eMule doesn't have a single episode (or match of any type).
Sometimes when my ReplayTV doesn't record something, I look for it on the net. In these cases I generally only find it using BitTorrent, as there's a big TV taping community sharing files through BT. Google for "BitTorrent TV" and you'll find it.
I downloaded the Bitzi software (BitCollider), but it can only tell me about files that I've already downloaded. And I have sig2dat but it's used by sites like FastTrackMovies -- they give a link, you click on it, and sig2dat converts the link into a search/download in Kazaa. I don't see a way for it to tell me whether a certain file which shows up from a search is valid or not. (If you know, please respond! Thanks.)
Only problem is they don't have a plug-in for Kazaa, which has by far the most content.
I think they're right: the Baghdad looters are a lot more like trick-or-treaters than people who use P2P networks to violate copyrights are.
Trick-or-treaters either deface your property (tricks), or remove your property (taking treats). The Baghdad looters are doing the same, destroying Saddam's buildings and museums and removing the property from within them (they also hit hospitals, which isn't so nice).
On the other hand, violators of copyright are simply making copies. There is no defacing of property, and there is no removal of property.
And they'll never get into office in any substantial way (I know New Hampshire (or Vermont?) has some libertarians in office, and Jesse Ventura was from a third party as well).
Why? Because of the way the money situation is set up. Campaign contribution limits. Most people are for them -- "Don't let the politicians waste our money!" But people don't understand the real issue.
Republicans and Democrats have a huge donation-base. If everyone is limited to $100 a year, they're still taking in a lot of money. However, any third party has a significantly smaller population that can and will donate, so they're limited.
Even if that third party has a very wealthy backer, s/he is not able to pour all his/her funds into the party. And this is what is keeping third parties from growing.
I remember reading an article a co-worker had which described this in terms of the "big 3" television networks, back in the 70s. They wanted to pass laws restricting the newcomer, cable TV networks. They failed. But at the same time laws were passed restricting newcomer political parties, described as "benefitting the public", and they succeeded.
So well, in fact, that our most recent presidential election could have been called either way. By the only two parties able to (effectively) spend money.
The problem with this approach is the taxpayers end up paying for the software twice: once for the government to develop it, and again when they purchase Microsoft software.
Sure, we're arguing ideology here but Microsoft has in fact taken open sourced software from BSD-style licenses and changed it so it's incompatible (Kerberos leaps to mind, I'm sure there are other examples).
Have you searched Kazaa et al for "Matrix Reloaded"?
I have, and found many different file-sizes near 700 MB. So I decided to download a few (cable modem is very nice), and the titles I got were:
Someone is having fun poisoning the network -- but they're poisoning it with valid movies, instead of output from /dev/random!
The last movie, Lustgarden, is a foreign (Swedish?) 3-hour fuckfest. Don't let your kids use Kazaa!
Fight dirty.
It this individual has children, report him/her to the appropriate government agency (HRS?) as abusing his/her children.
Tell the IRS that this individual lied on his/her tax return.
Call the cops with an anonymous tip stating that this individual attempted to sell you drugs. RICO, anyone?
Treat this individual like a spammer and order tons of catalogs/goods to their house for C.O.D. or "bill me".
Report that this individual is a witch and will float in water. (Oh wait, a bit late for that one.)
I've been thinking a lot about this exact topic lately. Specifically, personal security (privacy) among politicians.
The US Constitution guarantees the right to privacy to our citizens. However, I would argue that it does not guarantee that right to its politicians, and I would advocate steps to move in that direction.
I think politicians should be taped (audio and video) at all times, and these recordings be made available on the Internet in real-time.
This would quickly eliminate the "back room" agreements between government and business (Bush and oil, Senator Disney and the RIAA/MPAA/etc.), and would guarantee that only people who truly believed in the office, would run for it.
I have no idea how to go about suggesting my idea, and I am convinced that nobody in office would accept it (although probably 99% of the populace would agree with it). But since we're a representative democracy, rather than a real democracy, there'd be no way to put someone in office who would agree with it and move to implement it.
Pipe dreams, I know. But a man can dream, can't he?
You say: "It's getting to be someone."
It should read: "It's getting hard to be someone."
I love that song. ;-)
Something I've learned recently is that, thanks to our using growth hormones in chicken and cattle, our girls are developing secondary sexual characteristics at younger and younger ages.
This is frightening. Not only is it against nature to have nubile females at such a young age, it's also majorly against the law to lust after them.
And we desire nubile young females; the younger the better, because (this is history speaking, the condom has destroyed much of this) that means she's most likely a virgin, which means if she gets pregnant it's most likely yours, which means your genes will be carried forward instead of someone else's.
And we all know it's the genes that are important, not the individual. Thanks Richard Dawkins.
I remember it being from the movie Vacation (the above link) but there's a reference to a similar scene from the movie Rat Race (scroll down to the section titled "Blood/Gore", second bullet item).
Can't find a reference to it from Vacation, so perhaps my memory's faulty?
How about you do something different and innovative and let the developers (who are working on their own time, their own dollars) climb the mountains they want to climb "because they're there?"
If you were paying the developers, then you'd have the right to tell them what to do.
These documents are now illegal.
How can a communications company continue their research without being able to document it?
Submitted too fast, wanted to include a link to Tivejo .
People take turns talking, there's a "hand" icon to note who's next in line, each room has a "manager" who keeps order, and most of the room are music-oriented: people will start talking, say hi to their friends and a bit of background, then play a song.
Listening to the music there, and then going to Kazaa, she has gotten several CDs worth of music she wouldn't be exposed to otherwise. Obviously it would be nice if there was a way to pay the musician without having to buy the CD (and few of these are local bands, so she can't go to their shows), but it's broadening her musical tastes and also helping her learn English.
Thanks!
Just made u a friend. You said something cool on the RIAA thread.
And with Apple purchasing Universal , we might see this new distribution model appearing sooner than the next five years.
The drug is Modafinil, and is sold under the name Provigil.
This report is from Dec. 3 (doesn't say what year, I'd imagine 2002), and it discusses the military uses. It warns that we might be messing with something we don't fully understand (like the effects on the endocrine system), but I for one would love to try this out.
If you let your kids use Kazaa, you just might get your wish!
On a lark, I decided to search for "matrix" to see if the new movie had been posted. Apparently it had! Seeing that there were many different file sizes (all 600-700 MB), I decided to download several of them just in case one was corrupt/incomplete.
Here are the films I received:
The last one is a foreign-language (Swedish perhaps?) film, and is almost exclusively sex scenes, including money shots.
Hope your kids weren't looking for the next Matrix film!
Under EO Video, it was a lot less jerky but still had pauses. And the sound was out of sync as well, about 2 seconds behind the video. I'm currently converting the video to AVI (using XVID compression), and it's taking quite a while (15 minutes and it's about halfway done).
There, it's done, and playing under BSPlayer , it isn't jerky but is somewhat pixelated during fast motion scenes. (The file went from 99 MB down to 17 MB from the XVID compression.) The sound is still wrong, it seems more off than under EO Video (3-5 seconds instead of 2).
From another comment, I downloaded and tried Media Player Classic but it was as bad as QuickTime.
Anyone else having these problems? It doesn't seem to make sense, as I have a decent processor and 1.5 GB RAM...