Where they would go into an Apple store, take up space and the time of Geniuses who could be helping people with REAL problems, by griping about the DRM on iTunes and whine about how "It's BROOOOKEEEEEENNNNNNNNN! DO SOMETHIIIIIIING!".
Until they were thrown out onto the sidewalk on their GNU/Asses.
YOU have NEVER been the target audience for iTunes.
YOU will NEVER be the target audience for iTunes.
Apple is REQUIRED by their contracts with the diverse media companies to add their DRM to the files they sell. Steve Jobs does not rub his hands in supervillianish glee at the thought of inconveniencing the 100 or so people who use OGG.
For those few files I buy from iTunes they get passed though the current version of Requiem. The stripped files remain in iTunes, the originals live in a folder of their very own. Just in case anyone with a warrant asks.
For the most part, I do not buy new CDs/DVDs. I buy them used. Rip and strip. Masters go in a box in the closet and I listen to MP3s and watch AVIs.
Well done! Way to COMPLETELY IGNORE the facts of the discovery made by a skeptic about how birth announcements were handled in the early 1960s by the newspapers in Hawaii and continue to float the COLB diversion.
Briefly, the hospitals collected all the live birth data and info and forwarded it to the Dept. of Vital Records, once a week, and the local papers picked up the copy provided by Vital Records and published it.
There's more solid proof that Obama was born in the U.S. in this one article, BY A SKEPTIC OF HIS U.S. BIRTH, and is a natural born citizen, than there is against his natural born birth status in ALL of the utter BS spewed by the "OMG! Scary Black Person with a Funny Name!!!!ELEVENTYONE" crowd.
"MSM Directive 4873.47(a) Anyone who voices an opinion unsubstantiated by factual information that could be contrived as not supportive of Mr. Obama is automatically a racist and afraid of Non-White Skinned People."
The secret muslim socialist who was born in Kenya and is in league with Teh Terrorists and was really the 20th 9/11 hijacker and who, as a 7 year old child, helped William Ayers plant bombs, and who also is the secret son of George Soros will personally dig up all the bodies of the Founders and sodomize them on a pile of Bibles is going to destroy us all.
He's also a Scary Brown Person with a funny name and big ears.
January 20, 2009, shortly after noon, upon the steps of Congress, in Washington, D.C.:
"I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God!"
I can see the need for commercialized flights to sub-orbital and even to orbit.
But really, what's next after this? I'd like to be able to get to the ISS for a not insane sum, like MAYBE 200 thousand dollars.
But, failing that, OK, you're in orbit. Now what? I think that "space tourism" will only be genuinely successful is if there is a destination in orbit. The whole "space hotel" thing makes a LOT of sense in that it is a destination AND a safe haven if the vehicle can safely reenter.
Buy them used. You get music, the RIAA gets nothing. Rip the CDs yourself and then sell the CDs back to the shop you bought them from.
Don't use BitTorrent. That can be traced easily. Instead, use the Alt.Binaries hierarchies in USENET. Using NZB, downloading is a couple of mouse clicks, and it's faster than BitTorrent. There are diverse websites which track the latest uploads to alt.binaries.foo.bar.baz and will generate the NZB for you at the click of a mouse button.
USENET usage is damned difficult for the RIAA to trace.
USENET also can provide you the latest movies and television. Ever run into a movie torrent that was full of files with the.rar suffix that you had to run through an application to assemble? That file was originally on USENET.
I pay about US$6.00 a month to a newsgroup provider and get almost 11 GB in data transfers a month. As I almost NEVER use all that in one month, it rolls over to the next month. I now have almost 40 GB of data transfer available to me, so it's unlikely that I will ever run up against any download limits in a month ever again.
US$6.00 a month equals the cost of one pack of cigarettes or a small pizza or a six pack of inferior beer or a 12 pack of Coke or half a movie ticket, etc, etc, etc.
The Boston Public Library has CDs and DVDs, free to borrow with a BPL library card. As do most other libraries across the US. Likely, your University library has them as well.
Yes, I am talking about copyright infringement. It's illegal. YOU have to decide about the morality of it.
I don't want YOU doing something stupid and getting caught by the MAFIAA.
Bertrand R. Brinley's 'Rocket Manual For Amateurs'.
Published in 1960, it has long been something of the Holy Grail for modern amateur rocketeers.
Chock full of technical details, design specs, and rocket fuel recipes. And that's the reason why it's been out of print for decades.
Rocket Fuel. There are some seriously dangerous formulas in this book. You could easily kill yourself if you did something stupid.
And of course, in this post 9/11, "BE AFRAID!" day and age, as well as the irrational fear of anything that might possibly hurt someone, no one is going to take on the potential liability for republishing this book.
However, getting back to the subject of this posting.
The book is on the Net as a PDF scan of the pages. I downloaded it myself. Not that I'm planning to brew up rocket fuel in my apartment or launch rockets from the roof of the building.
No, I downloaded it because I'm now one more person that has the PDF, making it just slightly more difficult for this book to be lost and forgotten.
While I'd love to have a genuine hardcopy of the book, the cheapest version I have seen recently was US$50.00 via eBay. Maybe someday I'll be able to spend that kind of money on a 40+ year old paperback book.
You'll have to download three separate files, though, via Rapidshare, which will take you about 45 minutes to get all of them, and then use some manner of file decompression utility to expand the.rar files.
Oh, and then there's the matter of the file password.
It's Brinley.
DISCLAIMER!!! I am not responsible for ANYTHING that YOU DO with this book. Don't be stupid! If you have a "Here, hold my beer" moment and wind up getting a Darwin Award, that's not MY FAULT. No way, no how.
Got that? Good.
Similarly, the Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments is similarly WAY OOP and will never, ever see the light of day as a reprint, again, liability issues.
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Where they would go into an Apple store, take up space and the time of Geniuses who could be helping people with REAL problems, by griping about the DRM on iTunes and whine about how "It's BROOOOKEEEEEENNNNNNNNN! DO SOMETHIIIIIIING!".
Until they were thrown out onto the sidewalk on their GNU/Asses.
Yes, you. Please pay attention.
YOU are NOT the target audience for iTunes.
YOU have NEVER been the target audience for iTunes.
YOU will NEVER be the target audience for iTunes.
Apple is REQUIRED by their contracts with the diverse media companies to add their DRM to the files they sell. Steve Jobs does not rub his hands in supervillianish glee at the thought of inconveniencing the 100 or so people who use OGG.
For those few files I buy from iTunes they get passed though the current version of Requiem . The stripped files remain in iTunes, the originals live in a folder of their very own. Just in case anyone with a warrant asks.
For the most part, I do not buy new CDs/DVDs. I buy them used. Rip and strip . Masters go in a box in the closet and I listen to MP3s and watch AVI s.
He has more friends, now.
Well done! Way to COMPLETELY IGNORE the facts of the discovery made by a skeptic about how birth announcements were handled in the early 1960s by the newspapers in Hawaii and continue to float the COLB diversion.
You've a future at Fox News Channel!
I dare you to make less sense!
(Paid for by the George Soros Foundation to Undermine the United States of America and Turn It Into A Socialist Hell Like France Or Something!)
Here's an interesting tidbit about the Birth Certificate non-issue.
Someone tracked down the birth announcement in the Honolulu paper. She then tracked down what was the procedure AT THE TIME of Obama's birth to GET A BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT in the paper.
Briefly, the hospitals collected all the live birth data and info and forwarded it to the Dept. of Vital Records, once a week, and the local papers picked up the copy provided by Vital Records and published it.
There's more solid proof that Obama was born in the U.S. in this one article, BY A SKEPTIC OF HIS U.S. BIRTH, and is a natural born citizen, than there is against his natural born birth status in ALL of the utter BS spewed by the "OMG! Scary Black Person with a Funny Name!!!!ELEVENTYONE" crowd.
He won. He's the President.
"MSM Directive 4873.47(a)
Anyone who voices an opinion unsubstantiated by factual information that could be contrived as not supportive of Mr. Obama is automatically a racist and afraid of Non-White Skinned People."
Fixed your typo!
HTH!
HAND!!!
Hal, thanks for 2006, 2008, and for 2010 and 2012, as well.
Palin as President? In the words of Chimpy McCokespoon, Shoe Target in Chief: "Bring it on!"
"This is a constitutional republic, not a dictatorship."
Got Habeas Corpus?
Yeah, didn't think so.
Yes, yes, I know.
The secret muslim socialist who was born in Kenya and is in league with Teh Terrorists and was really the 20th 9/11 hijacker and who, as a 7 year old child, helped William Ayers plant bombs, and who also is the secret son of George Soros will personally dig up all the bodies of the Founders and sodomize them on a pile of Bibles is going to destroy us all.
He's also a Scary Brown Person with a funny name and big ears.
Oh, the huge manatee!
I dare you to make less sense!
Hal, hate to be the one to tell you...
We Won. You Lost. Get Over It.
Because in a little over 30 days from now...
January 20, 2009, shortly after noon, upon the steps of Congress, in Washington, D.C.:
"I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God!"
"Botnets, spammer's botnets!
What kind of boxes are on botnets?
Compaq, HP, Dell and Sony, true!
Gateway, Packard Bell, maybe even Asus, too!
Are boxes, found on botnets.
All running Windows, FOO!"
I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.6, here.
Why, yes. Yes, I AM a smug bastard. Why do you ask?
Why, yes. I AM a smug bastard!
Thanks for asking.
For the truly lazy, this article describes how to use Miro, the open source media player and download app to find and download TV series from the Internet via BitTorrent.
Be aware, in the article one VITAL step in the set up process is left out, but IS covered in the comments.
Set it up and let it run in the background. No more compulsively checking trackers, Miro does it all for you.
Usually it's physical contact first, THEN the tissue.
And you're ALL Number 6.
Do you have the courage that Number 6 had? Will you fight back against Number 2?
Are you just "A number" or are you Free Men & Women?
The choice is yours.
I can see the need for commercialized flights to sub-orbital and even to orbit.
But really, what's next after this? I'd like to be able to get to the ISS for a not insane sum, like MAYBE 200 thousand dollars.
But, failing that, OK, you're in orbit. Now what? I think that "space tourism" will only be genuinely successful is if there is a destination in orbit. The whole "space hotel" thing makes a LOT of sense in that it is a destination AND a safe haven if the vehicle can safely reenter.
merely to foil the GNAA cretins.
Buy them used. You get music, the RIAA gets nothing. Rip the CDs yourself and then sell the CDs back to the shop you bought them from.
Don't use BitTorrent. That can be traced easily. Instead, use the Alt.Binaries hierarchies in USENET . Using NZB , downloading is a couple of mouse clicks, and it's faster than BitTorrent. There are diverse websites which track the latest uploads to alt.binaries.foo.bar.baz and will generate the NZB for you at the click of a mouse button.
USENET usage is damned difficult for the RIAA to trace.
USENET also can provide you the latest movies and television. Ever run into a movie torrent that was full of files with the .rar suffix that you had to run through an application to assemble? That file was originally on USENET.
I pay about US$6.00 a month to a newsgroup provider and get almost 11 GB in data transfers a month. As I almost NEVER use all that in one month, it rolls over to the next month. I now have almost 40 GB of data transfer available to me, so it's unlikely that I will ever run up against any download limits in a month ever again.
US$6.00 a month equals the cost of one pack of cigarettes or a small pizza or a six pack of inferior beer or a 12 pack of Coke or half a movie ticket, etc, etc, etc.
The Boston Public Library has CDs and DVDs, free to borrow with a BPL library card. As do most other libraries across the US. Likely, your University library has them as well.
Yes, I am talking about copyright infringement. It's illegal. YOU have to decide about the morality of it.
I don't want YOU doing something stupid and getting caught by the MAFIAA.
USENET is your friend.
"I haven't seen a collection of stupidity like this in years"
Never read the comments at the John McCain YouTube site, have you.
Pure, refined and concentrated crazystupid, all in 500 characters or less.
"Botnets, spammer's botnets!
What kind of boxes are on botnets?
Compaq, HP, Dell and Sony, true!
Gateway, Packard Bell, maybe even Asus, too!
Are boxes, found on botnets.
All running Windows, FOO!"
I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.5, here.
Why, yes. I AM a smug bastard!
Thanks for asking.
skoony, racist dickhead, barely literate.
Ladies and Gentlemen of Slashdot, I give you the Republican Base and Sarah Palin's ideal voter.
Is it TOO MUCH to hope for that you'll FOAD in the next 24 hours?
He's in Afghanistan! He simply found that kid that used his C=64 to email Katz.
Bertrand R. Brinley's 'Rocket Manual For Amateurs'.
Published in 1960, it has long been something of the Holy Grail for modern amateur rocketeers.
Chock full of technical details, design specs, and rocket fuel recipes. And that's the reason why it's been out of print for decades.
Rocket Fuel. There are some seriously dangerous formulas in this book. You could easily kill yourself if you did something stupid.
And of course, in this post 9/11, "BE AFRAID!" day and age, as well as the irrational fear of anything that might possibly hurt someone, no one is going to take on the potential liability for republishing this book.
However, getting back to the subject of this posting.
The book is on the Net as a PDF scan of the pages. I downloaded it myself. Not that I'm planning to brew up rocket fuel in my apartment or launch rockets from the roof of the building.
No, I downloaded it because I'm now one more person that has the PDF, making it just slightly more difficult for this book to be lost and forgotten.
While I'd love to have a genuine hardcopy of the book, the cheapest version I have seen recently was US$50.00 via eBay. Maybe someday I'll be able to spend that kind of money on a 40+ year old paperback book.
Oh, the URL?
Sure. Here you go: http://www.filestube.com/1144a11ae0e8381203ea/details.html
You'll have to download three separate files, though, via Rapidshare, which will take you about 45 minutes to get all of them, and then use some manner of file decompression utility to expand the .rar files.
Oh, and then there's the matter of the file password.
It's Brinley.
DISCLAIMER!!! I am not responsible for ANYTHING that YOU DO with this book. Don't be stupid! If you have a "Here, hold my beer" moment and wind up getting a Darwin Award, that's not MY FAULT. No way, no how.
Got that? Good.
Similarly, the Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments is similarly WAY OOP and will never, ever see the light of day as a reprint, again, liability issues.
"Botnets! Spammers Botnets! What kind of boxes are on botnets?
Compaq, HP, Dell & Sony, true! Gateway, Packard Bell, Maybe even Asus, too!
Are boxes, found on botnets. All running Windows, FOO!"