Ecstasy really does change how one experiences some kinds of rave music.
You have to see it or do it to really understands this, but the two really do complement very well. x gives you an increased capacity to percieve and the music fills it all up. The dancing can get very robotic, but at breakneck pace, fun stuff.
Cyberpunk fiction is full of recreational drug use. Gibson, Sterling and Effinger all include it as essential parts of the new world morality of the settings of their novels.
He who contral Arrakis, controls the Spice. He who controls the spice,..gets lots of presents, or something.
The Dune series pays huge homage to the usefulness of drugs. The "spice" (of life, perhaps) allowed for intersteller travel by allowing pilots to bend space with their minds. It's also addictive, turns your eyes blue, and comes from the anus of giant worms.
And while it's the subject of the day..X is fun, but will rot your brain like nothing else, be cafeful.
PS: I'm wearing my DeCSS source code shirt to work today, and if I have to explain it means one more time, I'm going to go nuts.
Please don't go nuts, calmly and rationally explaining our position to laypeople is the best way to garner widespread public support. Taking the "you're too stupid to understand it anyway" route, and getting frustrated hurts the cause, if you don't have time to advertise, don't wear a billboard.
What I want is the server portion so anyone and everyone can create their own server as MP3 broadcaster.
you want live365. (I am not affiliated, but it's amazing what kind of free advertising you can get from people who like your service...) here's the deeper link
..is a power that mass media has always had. It used to be that you could trust/. to be "totally" unbiased and out there, now that is no longer the case. Whether or not there is a conscious decision to skew content, VA is still paying all the checks and the posters of stories now have an obvious vested interest in promoting, or at least raising awareness of, their company. When tech rumors can cause billion dollar swings in stock valuations, you must be able to trust the source and now we now it's tainted (the potential for ulterior motives has increased a hundredfold)
Unfortunate but such is life when big money knocks on the door and demands action, one way or the other.
That's the same way many political polls are run. I remember answering the phone one afternoon and getting polled about NAFTA. One of the 20+ questions was like "Do you think that opening the borders to Mexico will increase unemployment or decrease employment?" O.k. maybe I can't remember the exact questions, but all of them were long and leading. Remember 42% of statistics are made up on the spot (or biased so much in their gathering as to mean nothing, which amounts to the same thing)
Authors should not be given an amount of control over their work that is so excessive that it hinders instead of promotes progress.
I think part of the problem is that our Congress (for sure) and our Judges (perhaps) equate profits with progress. I guess that's how they justify it at the end of the day.
if the judge thought the DMCA is corrupt and unconstitutional (which it is) it is the duty of his position to kill it.
he didn't, and therefore he didn't. The media lobby knew exactly what it was doing when it got the DMCA passed. I don't think consumer interest or knowledge about it was raised even a tiny bit, you can thank a biased media for that. Ain't democracy grand?
this is only "fair" (in the judge's mind) because of the crap that is the DMCA, which basically ignores all new media technology and keeps us wired to 19th century property laws. Here's to corporations screwing people mightily, and the dumbasses that support them! Sharing is bad people, if your friends didn't pay like you did, they should never have access to interesting things. Sharing is EVIL!
(note: I mixed some sarcasm in there, see if you can spot it)
14. SDMI-compliant PDMPs [personal digital music players] will incorporate a unique ID used to enforce the Usage Rules specified by the copyright holder. Do you feel this raises valid privacy concerns?
I'm not gonna even repost the results. This is *another* point you can make to your friends and associates against SDMI. All your music listening habits will be tracked, recorded, compiled, and marketed against you. And woe be unto that silly consumer who thinks he can get around it, the DMCA will put you in jail for that (no matter what country you live in, it would seem).
The SDMI spec states that you can play non-SDMI files even when Phase II (of thier world-take-over-plan) is initiated. The catch is that all files that are entered into the SDMI domain (for example transferred to the protable player) have to be converted to SDMI.
Um, doesn't "the catch" wipe out the first part of your statement. You WILL NOT be able to play normal MP3s on ANY SDMI devices after they "throw the switch" (converting them to a tainted format does not count). This is the point you need to make to your friends when they ask you about buying portable MP3 players.
SDMI is a bad thing (for consumers) that will get massive media and advertising support (it's backed by basically everybody). All of this will be done under a "protecting the artist" mantra, which is the exact friggin' same as the "protecting the children" b.s. we've heard so many times before.
What, pray tell, would be a larger transaction? It's skewed in the fact that the History of Linux isn't particularly long (esp when mixed with the word "transaction"), but I can't remember a bigger one. It's just PR speak anyway, filter it before you process it.
Left mouse button: fire. (point click and kill interface) Right mouse button: next weapon.
Gets yourself a wheelmouse. I love teaching people how to play Q3 and say "to change weapons just roll the wheel." RMB is used for "zoom" or grapple if available.
I tried using a joystick with lots of buttons when I started playing doom, but it just isn't fast enough. Kebo-mouse is the only way to go, everybodies already got 'em and after a couple hours (years) practice, it's just like breathing.
if he's a spoiled little kid, I wonder what you are?
Do you have a point, I've seen you pipe up on this issue before.
I like free software. If the guy who *started* the whole shebang says this is a bad thing and threatens free software, I believe him. I've seen what UCITA promises, it's scary. I'm sure Doubleclick, M$, and Real all support it though, this might be a big fight.
"Welcome to you first day of Writing Press Releases for the Internet class. Now, just to make it clear. You do not need to know what buzzwords mean, just how to use them in a sentence. Everyone got that? Class dismissed, see ya next year."
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Ecstasy really does change how one experiences some kinds of rave music.
You have to see it or do it to really understands this, but the two really do complement very well. x gives you an increased capacity to percieve and the music fills it all up. The dancing can get very robotic, but at breakneck pace, fun stuff.
play Quake on acid, I DARE YOU.
(that does count as the Internet, BTW)
Cyberpunk fiction is full of recreational drug use. Gibson, Sterling and Effinger all include it as essential parts of the new world morality of the settings of their novels.
He who contral Arrakis, controls the Spice. He who controls the spice,..gets lots of presents, or something.
The Dune series pays huge homage to the usefulness of drugs. The "spice" (of life, perhaps) allowed for intersteller travel by allowing pilots to bend space with their minds. It's also addictive, turns your eyes blue, and comes from the anus of giant worms.
And while it's the subject of the day..X is fun, but will rot your brain like nothing else, be cafeful.
the best way to do it would be a browse "lowest scores first" option, but since that would serve no other purpose, it doesn't exist...yet.
you're looking for one of these, shitheel.
WE HAVE DETECTED A MOMENT OF CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION, CEASE AND DESIST ALL MERRY-MAKING AND RETURN TO OFFICIALLY APPROVED FUNTIMES.
PS: I'm wearing my DeCSS source code shirt to work today, and if I have to explain it means one more time, I'm going to go nuts.
Please don't go nuts, calmly and rationally explaining our position to laypeople is the best way to garner widespread public support. Taking the "you're too stupid to understand it anyway" route, and getting frustrated hurts the cause, if you don't have time to advertise, don't wear a billboard.
What I want is the server portion so anyone and everyone can create their own server as MP3 broadcaster.
you want live365. (I am not affiliated, but it's amazing what kind of free advertising you can get from people who like your service...) here's the deeper link
..is a power that mass media has always had. It used to be that you could trust /. to be "totally" unbiased and out there, now that is no longer the case. Whether or not there is a conscious decision to skew content, VA is still paying all the checks and the posters of stories now have an obvious vested interest in promoting, or at least raising awareness of, their company. When tech rumors can cause billion dollar swings in stock valuations, you must be able to trust the source and now we now it's tainted (the potential for ulterior motives has increased a hundredfold)
Unfortunate but such is life when big money knocks on the door and demands action, one way or the other.
That's the same way many political polls are run. I remember answering the phone one afternoon and getting polled about NAFTA. One of the 20+ questions was like "Do you think that opening the borders to Mexico will increase unemployment or decrease employment?" O.k. maybe I can't remember the exact questions, but all of them were long and leading. Remember 42% of statistics are made up on the spot (or biased so much in their gathering as to mean nothing, which amounts to the same thing)
Authors should not be given an amount of control over their work that is so excessive that it hinders instead of promotes progress.
I think part of the problem is that our Congress (for sure) and our Judges (perhaps) equate profits with progress. I guess that's how they justify it at the end of the day.
as the cost to an individual or business of setting one up wouldn't exceed the cost of a server and the tracks being played.
visit live365 (this free plug in return for all the commercial free music I get from them)
The DMCA isn't eliminating Fair Use, it's defining it. Defining it with a narrow definition provided by those who lobbied for it (hint: plaintiffs).
if the judge thought the DMCA is corrupt and unconstitutional (which it is) it is the duty of his position to kill it.
he didn't, and therefore he didn't. The media lobby knew exactly what it was doing when it got the DMCA passed. I don't think consumer interest or knowledge about it was raised even a tiny bit, you can thank a biased media for that. Ain't democracy grand?
I just saw you guys on CNBC for their merger coverage (quick pan over a convention floor). No mention of /., tho...
this is only "fair" (in the judge's mind) because of the crap that is the DMCA, which basically ignores all new media technology and keeps us wired to 19th century property laws. Here's to corporations screwing people mightily, and the dumbasses that support them! Sharing is bad people, if your friends didn't pay like you did, they should never have access to interesting things. Sharing is EVIL!
(note: I mixed some sarcasm in there, see if you can spot it)
(from the above link)
14. SDMI-compliant PDMPs [personal digital music players] will incorporate a unique ID used to enforce the Usage Rules specified by the copyright holder. Do you feel this raises valid privacy concerns?
I'm not gonna even repost the results. This is *another* point you can make to your friends and associates against SDMI. All your music listening habits will be tracked, recorded, compiled, and marketed against you. And woe be unto that silly consumer who thinks he can get around it, the DMCA will put you in jail for that (no matter what country you live in, it would seem).
The SDMI spec states that you can play non-SDMI files even when Phase II (of thier world-take-over-plan) is initiated. The catch is that all files that are entered into the SDMI domain (for example transferred to the protable player) have to be converted to SDMI.
Um, doesn't "the catch" wipe out the first part of your statement. You WILL NOT be able to play normal MP3s on ANY SDMI devices after they "throw the switch" (converting them to a tainted format does not count). This is the point you need to make to your friends when they ask you about buying portable MP3 players.
SDMI is a bad thing (for consumers) that will get massive media and advertising support (it's backed by basically everybody). All of this will be done under a "protecting the artist" mantra, which is the exact friggin' same as the "protecting the children" b.s. we've heard so many times before.
What, pray tell, would be a larger transaction? It's skewed in the fact that the History of Linux isn't particularly long (esp when mixed with the word "transaction"), but I can't remember a bigger one. It's just PR speak anyway, filter it before you process it.
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Step 2 : Cut Paste Edit
Step 3 : Trolling goes to a whole new level...
How about this one
Left mouse button: fire. (point click and kill interface)
Right mouse button: next weapon.
Gets yourself a wheelmouse. I love teaching people how to play Q3 and say "to change weapons just roll the wheel." RMB is used for "zoom" or grapple if available.
I tried using a joystick with lots of buttons when I started playing doom, but it just isn't fast enough. Kebo-mouse is the only way to go, everybodies already got 'em and after a couple hours (years) practice, it's just like breathing.
Those responsible for the posting of said stories, have been sacked.
if he's a spoiled little kid, I wonder what you are?
Do you have a point, I've seen you pipe up on this issue before.
I like free software. If the guy who *started* the whole shebang says this is a bad thing and threatens free software, I believe him. I've seen what UCITA promises, it's scary. I'm sure Doubleclick, M$, and Real all support it though, this might be a big fight.
"Welcome to you first day of Writing Press Releases for the Internet class. Now, just to make it clear. You do not need to know what buzzwords mean, just how to use them in a sentence. Everyone got that? Class dismissed, see ya next year."