I find this very easy to believe. Having been a victim of the USA's "drunk" driving laws, I know firsthand that a lot of people get paid when a driver is charged with DUI. The state gets a payoff immediately, then other organizations (like the Catholic church) recieve donations which are forcibly extracted from the hapless driver..
And when the legal limit is.08, you don't have to be drunk to get arrested. All that is necessary is that you are "under the influence", which is a pretty vague term in reality. Sure, drunk driving is a terrible thing, but the State's profit margin is great.
As far as this type of thing goes, why stop with devices to detect alchol? Lets put in smoke detectors so we can catch those pot smokers, sound detectors that will alert the police when Rap music is played. Hell, just install hidden cameras and mics in our houses in case someone's politics are not in line with the current regime. Excuse me, I think I hear boots marching..
You can buy the Silicon in a liquid/pasta form and then you can just paste it up and mixed with the right chemicals it wil get hard, fairly easy i guess...
Yeah, I think my local restraunt serves that silicon pasta. Blech!:P
The Amiga was not a Commodore. Sure, it had the company name stuck on it. But it was designed by Amiga, Inc., and marked the end of innovation for the company that brought us the "Personal Electronic Transactor".
Ah, that would be a white screen with a black border (on the good ol C64). Did you really prefer those colors? Seems like an invitation for eyestrain, I always preferred a black background, with gray border and cyan text, myself.:)
The SPA/MPAA/RIAA's propaganda has gotten the piracy term firmly entrenched in the public's mind now. Please try to remember that copyright violators are not scruffy villians who sail ships and rape and pillage.
Not that I doubt you or anything, but how the hell do they get away with this?
If a pattern of stored bits are interpreted as a trademark by software, fine. That pattern could just as easily be interpreted as something altogether different.
10110101110110010110100100110101110110111011010 (c) 2001 Fuzzy
I think the noise you're describing would have been coming from the monitor. I know the old, cheaply made monitor I used to have for my C64 would whine horribly when certain colors were displayed. Of course it later developed a hole in the insulation for the flyback transformer, so that could have been part of the problem. That made an interesting noise as high voltage would arc from the flyback.. (I later patched the hole with J-B weld! Great product, almost as useful as duct tape) The Commodore computers may have been pretty quiet, but the drives were not.. anybody remember the sound of a 1541 formatting a disk? Better yet, how about loading a heavily copy protected game on those drives? Sometimes I thought the thing was going to self destruct!:)
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$8.99 - $10.99 for a CD sounds reasonable to me. It's about what tapes used to cost, back in the 80's. Considering that CD's are cheaper to make than cassettes are, I would think that would offset inflation.
They've been ripping us off by about $5 per CD for years now.. the price fixing settlement wasn't even close.
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And when the legal limit is .08, you don't have to be drunk to get arrested. All that is necessary is that you are "under the influence", which is a pretty vague term in reality. Sure, drunk driving is a terrible thing, but the State's profit margin is great.
As far as this type of thing goes, why stop with devices to detect alchol? Lets put in smoke detectors so we can catch those pot smokers, sound detectors that will alert the police when Rap music is played. Hell, just install hidden cameras and mics in our houses in case someone's politics are not in line with the current regime. Excuse me, I think I hear boots marching..
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You can buy the Silicon in a liquid/pasta form and then you can just paste it up and mixed with the right chemicals it wil get hard, fairly easy i guess...
Yeah, I think my local restraunt serves that silicon pasta. Blech! :P
FuzzyThe Amiga was not a Commodore. Sure, it had the company name stuck on it. But it was designed by Amiga, Inc., and marked the end of innovation for the company that brought us the "Personal Electronic Transactor".
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Ah, that would be a white screen with a black border (on the good ol C64). Did you really prefer those colors? Seems like an invitation for eyestrain, I always preferred a black background, with gray border and cyan text, myself. :)
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..blaming America's obesity problems on Pac-Man? Fuzzy
The SPA/MPAA/RIAA's propaganda has gotten the piracy term firmly entrenched in the public's mind now. Please try to remember that copyright violators are not scruffy villians who sail ships and rape and pillage.
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If a pattern of stored bits are interpreted as a trademark by software, fine. That pattern could just as easily be interpreted as something altogether different. 10110101110110010110100100110101110110111011010 (c) 2001 Fuzzy
Real (crazy) men would use PETSCII.
PC does not have to mean IBM PC.
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I think he hits the nail on the head.
I think the noise you're describing would have been coming from the monitor. I know the old, cheaply made monitor I used to have for my C64 would whine horribly when certain colors were displayed. Of course it later developed a hole in the insulation for the flyback transformer, so that could have been part of the problem. That made an interesting noise as high voltage would arc from the flyback.. (I later patched the hole with J-B weld! Great product, almost as useful as duct tape) The Commodore computers may have been pretty quiet, but the drives were not.. anybody remember the sound of a 1541 formatting a disk? Better yet, how about loading a heavily copy protected game on those drives? Sometimes I thought the thing was going to self destruct! :)
$8.99 - $10.99 for a CD sounds reasonable to me. It's about what tapes used to cost, back in the 80's. Considering that CD's are cheaper to make than cassettes are, I would think that would offset inflation.
They've been ripping us off by about $5 per CD for years now.. the price fixing settlement wasn't even close.