No wonder things are horrible here. It figures that something like this is keeping us from getting the technology we desire. I'm starting to wonder...
When Earthlink began to offer DSL (they rent the lines from Verizon to do so), I called them up to ask when it would be available in my area. The representative said that it would be available in about three months. Guess what. No big surprise really, but two years later, still no DSL.
Adelphia and Charter, the two big cable companies around our area, have begun to offer Cable Modem services in our relatively rural area. Unfortunately, it's not available in the town where I live yet (covered by Adelphia). Five miles down state Route 53, however, it's available in the next town. The fiber optic to coaxial hybrid nodes are hanging all over town, they just haven't gotten around to making them active yet.
The sad part of it all is there is only one reason they're not bringing us this service: Money. The almighty Buck. You know, it's really quite asinine, since there is a huge demand for it in my area. You'ld think they'd be more than happy to bring it to us so they can start collecting fees, thus making more money.
I think that on Monday, I'm going to bring this story to the attention of my local State House Representative, who just happens to also be my uncle. Unlike alot of politicians, he's a good man and has served this area well for over 30 years. He has alot of pull down in Harrisburg...
Me? I'm a small-time web designer working out of my house. I do web sites for bands (1,a href="http://itsbeerthirty.tripod.com">2), fire halls, and also maintain my own little network of sites, flagshipped by my blog. My sites aren't anything flashy, rarely including Shockwave/Flash, JavaScript, or even Frames. As any web developer should, I keep multiple browsers around for testing sites and making small fixes in the code.
The first browser I always check in is Opera. Opera is my broser of choice when I'm surfing, so I always make sure that Opera likes my sites at sever different resolutions. It kills pop-ups totally (which is good since I use Tripod as a quick hosting solution), and allows me to test different browser identities at once as well. In the Windows environment, Opera is my King browser.
Then I move on to IE. Like alot of other/. users, I'm fairly anti-Microsoft. The only reason I use it is because, while Linux solutions are good and getting better, what I want to do still lives only in MS's domain. Anyway, I use IE 5 to debug for the IE family. If it works in 5, it'll most likely work in 6, too, and ultimately 7 (whenever that decides to get here).
Then it's off to the latest Mozilla release. Every time a new release is put out, I'm on it. Mozilla is used to test for Netscape compatability as well (like IE, if it works in M, it should work in N) since I haven't the desire to try and download it on my measly 56K connection.
My final destination is Linux, where I check it in Mozilla and Konqueror (I'm a big KDE nut), and have a buddy check them in other Linux solutions.
In the end, this article goes on at length about the IE problem. That problem doesn't really bother me. Chances are that by the time MS gets IE7 on the shelves with Longhorn, I'll be well into Linux land using development solutions that, within the three years it will most likely take Longhorn to arrive, will most likely have improved quite a bit given the current rate of open source development.
Meanwhile, my work will most likely remain simple, to the point, and still able to work in any browser it needs to. In the end, I really don't care if there's another 'Browser War' or whatever. I'll be happy if enough people can see my work and say "Hey, that looks good. Easy on the eyes, and simple to use." That is the goal of any good website, no matter what the size.
Everybody got the Great Seal part right. But the Immortality granted by the Grail wasn't really erased once the person stepped beyond the Seal. The third Knight said "But the Grail cannot pass beyond the Great Seal. That is the boundry, and the price of immortality."
As long as you drank from the grail, immortality qualified. But the Seal prevented one from drinking from the Grail elsewhere. Immortality was limited by the Seal because the Grail was. When Ilsa took the Grail past the Great Seal, that's when shiat hit the fan. Not when Indy crossed it. Since the Grail was lost forever, the immortality granted by drinking from it constantly went bye bye as well.
I hate to sound nitpicky, but I just thought I'd clear that up.
Let me tell you something about ADHD. While it is a proper diagnosis in a few cases, it wasn't in mine. Here's the story:
I was diagnosed with ADD when I was 13. My teachers in school thought my attention span was too short, and were afraid that I wasn't living up to my potential. In that respect, they were partly right, which I will explain later. But, as a result, I was put on ritaline, the common "solution" to the AD(H)D problem.
Ritaline, for the most part, had no effect on me that I could tell. I didn't feel more focused than I already was, I didn't feel more calm, I didn't feel different at all. I did feel, however, that my parents were wasting their money on the whole deal.
My teachers were partially right when they felt I wasn't paying much attention. And here's why: I've known since I was in the 2nd grade that I had a high IQ (146) compared to my classmates. The reason my attention span was so dismal was because I felt (and still feel) that the public school system is a total failure. Information was not coming at me fast enough. Teachers would often spend a week hammering over and over on the same subject matter. Personally, I needed information coming at me at a faster rate.
I retain what I read/learn rather quickly, and rather well. But of course, at that time, I was a minor and adults thought otherwise. They made the mistake of lumping me together with the other kids, and I couldn't convince them otherwise. But when they kept pounding at the same bit of information over and over (sometimes for a week or more), I became both bored and distraught at the fact that I wasn't getting the quality education I felt I deserved. So what did I do? I became defiant. I rebelled in my own little way towards a system which I believe has failed, both me and many millions of children all accross this country. I refused to do homework, and I was always good with tests, never needing to study much at all. I felt my point was being made, but that it wasn't being received, because I was expected to be like all the other students in my class. <br>It was around then that the Internet became available on a wide scale. I saw the oppertunity and jumped on it with reckless abandon in an attempt to educate myself. And boy, did it work. If it weren't for the Internet and the wealth of information I was able to get from it, I would have suffered the same fate that the good majority of public school students have been doomed to: a sub-standard education.
Our society these days is too quick to want to find a medical or physiological answer to a problem that it created by its damn self. We want to run off to the doctor or the shrink because we don't want to face the reality of the situation. Basically, we want someone to tell us that it's going to be OK instead of making it OK by ourselves. We perscribe drugs that have little or no effect on us, yet we're firm in the belief that they will solve all the problems for us. BULLSHIT.
We need to get our heads out of our asses and realize that things don't work because WE FUCKED UP, and there's no magic pill that will solve these problems. There's no pill on the market today (or even in the far future) that will fix the nightmare that our public school system has become. And there's no pill that can cure the pains in the ass that people have become over the last 20 years, either...
How about, instead of cutting back on the caffine, parents take an active role in the education of their children instead of relying on the public school system to do it all for them. Get off your duff, quit being an asshat and START BEING AN ACTIVE PARENT. It's not the school's job to prepare your child for entry into society as a functioning member - IT'S YOUR JOB.
Amazingly enough, it is possible to mod a Power Glove to work with a PC. Check This Out, as well as this page. That should get you started. I know there's a driver for it somewhere, it was featured in a/. story sometime in the last 1.5 years...
Ahhh, Memories. We Will Enjoy Them
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Remember The Wizard?
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/obvious Coneheads refference
Yeah, he's right. That IS the same Dinosaur Pee-Wee got laid in.
All kidding aside, I remember waiting dilligently for this to come out on VHS as a kid. My parents hardly ever took me to the movies. When it did, and I finally saw it, I wasn't really all that impressed. By then, SMB3 was already out, and I had already whomped it's digital ass. But it was still a fun movie none-the-less.
Religion should NOT get in the way of human progress. And this looks like human progress to me. So take that Catholic Church, take that President Dubya, and take that Religion in general. Science is the way, the truth, and the means to make humanity better.
Hopefully, M$ loses the suit and gets a black eye. Even if this whole thing doesn't help the OS community or even force M$ to change its evil ways, a black eye is better than nothing at all...
First, there was Final Fantasy VII, the first game to get an emotional response from me, ever. And I'll bet you all can't guess which moment ripped it out of me. Yeah, it was when Sephiroth shishkabobbed Aeris. I litterally bawled, not to mention resolved that if I ever had a daughter, I'd name her Aeris...
Another one was Earthbound for the SNES. Sure, it was an RPG for kids, but it was one of the most fun games I've ever played. I'd always make my character's favorite thing LSD, since his magic animations were so trippy, it just kinda fit...
The Hallilujia Chorus is heard (and subsequently downloaded)...
Wow. I'm impressed. There's actually a judge that isn't in someone's pocket, and can see things clearly. This ruling is a special gift to myself and independant musicians like me, since they're not going to shut down the P2P networks that we use for self promotion.
The RIAA and MPAA needed this, honestly. After going too long with too much power, it's nice to see them not get their way...
These junkets happen in almost every facet of the entertainment industry. Movies and TV especially. For more information, check out some of the features at Hollywood Bitchslap, they'll give you the straight dirt on that whole mess, including "quote whores" and tidbits on spin-meisters using message boards and chat channels to schill movies the rest of us wouldn't even consider seeing...
And by "broad" I mean widespread. I live in a somewhat rural area (central Pennsylvania). Broadband has finally made its way to the area (no thanks to the greedy fucks at Verizon and Adelphia), but how they've deployed it is rediculous. In my town, all we have is dial-up. That's all we've had since the Internet became widely available. Yet, five miles down the road, they can get Cable service. The whole area is wired, I watched them hang the lines in front of my house. All they have to do is turn it on, but they won't.
128K would be a godsend to me, even though it isn't all that fast in the grand scheme of things. I could get it (via ISDN), but it's too damned expensive ($150+). It'd be more sensible to wait out Adelphia and get Cable service ($60), more speed for less cost. But the wait is getting a bit tiresome. I've complained to them several times, and one time I even got fairly lippy when they told me the lines weren't ready when I knew for a fact that they had been ready for two months. It's almost like Baghdad Bob is working for them
The sad thing is we can't do a damn thing about it. They're in control, and only listen to Dead Presidents instead of their customers...
Do you meant to tell me that Hell has finally frozen over? Now I don't feel so bad about going there when I die...
I still have reservations about this, even after reading this particular blurb. But it is a step in the right direction. Can't believe I'm saying this, but Kudos to Microsoft.
Being a small-peanuts web designer, it falls on me to debug in quite a few browsers. Mozilla and Opera are my "primary use" browsers, and most sites I design (1, 2, 3), I debug using those two, IE (which I hate to no end), Netscape, and if I can get my hands on someone's account, I'll also see how it looks under AOL's browser. Gotta figure that most people are using IE (which likes to use its own settings for viewing text, bad M$), a nifty chunk uses Netscape, and of course we of the nerd set that like to use other options.
It's all about having your site viewed by everyone, and making it look as good as it can for any browser.
As a student at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, I recieved a rather lengthy education in the facets of Copyright Law (which is essential when producing creative works). While my knowledge pales in comparison to Mr. Barillari's, I can safely say that the RIAA has no case against Mr. Peng.
The basis of Copyright Law is simple: A copyrighted work can not be used to make money by anyone but the copyright holder. If Mr. Peng were "bootlegging" copyrighted music - ie Making CDs and selling them for a personal profit - then yes, he would be in violation of Copyright Law. But this wasn't the case.
WAKE, the program Mr. Peng used to index publically available files on the campus network, is not a file trading system, like Napster or Kazaa. Like Google, it's just a search engine. All it does is let you know what's out there and where. To download something you find using WAKE, you'ld have to go about it in some other manner.
Also, the nearly 650,000 files that the RIAA claim's Peng was distributing weren't all his. How can they sue him for something that's not his? It's yet another attempt at a power grab by a bunch of rich folks who only want to get richer. Sad.
My prediction: While the RIAA might get some considerations, they won't get anywhere near what they want. Peng won't see any jail time, and the RIAA will have a black eye.
Answer: Fuck No! They don't care about our privacy, why should we give a damn about theirs? I say post this guy's contact info on as many public sites as possible. If he has the right to stuff our inboxes with crap, we should have the right to do it to him, too.
How exactly would the DMCA help/hurt independant musicians such as myself? In the beginning, most bands have to try and fend for themselves, and would find things like P2P filesharing to be a great help in getting heard. It seems as if the DMCA is tailored to assist large record companies, and not so much smaller labels and/or independant bands...
Arista is the home of Santana, Whitney Houston, Pink, TLC and Kenny G.
Well, that makes one good artist (Santana) falling victim to Capitalism gone totally wrong. The others, I wouldn't spend 17 cents on, let alone 17 dollars.
Question on everyone's mind: Will Arista have the decency to warn it's customers which CDs are disabled, or will they sneak it in?
So, when is this new shuttle going to be rolled out? I've heard bits and pieces about it for a while now, along with some who say it's a few years off. Anyone have any info? Talk amongst yourselves...
Python's ultra-classic, The Holy Grail, has to be included here. Yeah, it's not underappreciated, but it still deserves mention. I've seen it hundreds of times, and it just never gets old!
And Saint Atilla raised the hand grenade up on high, saying "Oh, Lord, Bless this thy hand grenade, that with it, thou mayest blow thy enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths, and fruit bats, and breakfast cerials, and... -- Stop groveling! If there's one thing I can't stand, its groveling. It's always Forgive me this and forgive me that and I'm not worthy. What are you doing now?
I'm averting my eyes, oh Lord.
Well knock it off! It's like those miserable Psalms, they're so depressing...
I won't bore you with anymore quotes. You probably know it all, anyway. But it has to be mentioned, just because ^,^
After KFM, I never looked at a bottle of Jack Daniels the same way again. Great flick, which lead to Airplane! and many more Zucher Brothers hillarity.
Amen. One of the best films ever made, with music by the single greatest band ever to pick up instruments. A classic, and essential to any movie collection.
Amen, brother. Labyrinth was cool as hell, David Bowie was awesome as Jareth. And The Dark Crystal is a movie you should deffinately go out and find on VHS or DVD (or heck, get it from Kazaa). I'm 25 myself, and I loved all three of these flicks as a kid. I'm a big kid too (still love my cartoons), and these three are a permanent part of my movie collection.
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What the fuck?!?
No wonder things are horrible here. It figures that something like this is keeping us from getting the technology we desire. I'm starting to wonder...
When Earthlink began to offer DSL (they rent the lines from Verizon to do so), I called them up to ask when it would be available in my area. The representative said that it would be available in about three months. Guess what. No big surprise really, but two years later, still no DSL.
Adelphia and Charter, the two big cable companies around our area, have begun to offer Cable Modem services in our relatively rural area. Unfortunately, it's not available in the town where I live yet (covered by Adelphia). Five miles down state Route 53, however, it's available in the next town. The fiber optic to coaxial hybrid nodes are hanging all over town, they just haven't gotten around to making them active yet.
The sad part of it all is there is only one reason they're not bringing us this service: Money. The almighty Buck. You know, it's really quite asinine, since there is a huge demand for it in my area. You'ld think they'd be more than happy to bring it to us so they can start collecting fees, thus making more money.
I think that on Monday, I'm going to bring this story to the attention of my local State House Representative, who just happens to also be my uncle. Unlike alot of politicians, he's a good man and has served this area well for over 30 years. He has alot of pull down in Harrisburg...
Me? I'm a small-time web designer working out of my house. I do web sites for bands (1,a href="http://itsbeerthirty.tripod.com">2), fire halls, and also maintain my own little network of sites, flagshipped by my blog. My sites aren't anything flashy, rarely including Shockwave/Flash, JavaScript, or even Frames. As any web developer should, I keep multiple browsers around for testing sites and making small fixes in the code.
/. users, I'm fairly anti-Microsoft. The only reason I use it is because, while Linux solutions are good and getting better, what I want to do still lives only in MS's domain. Anyway, I use IE 5 to debug for the IE family. If it works in 5, it'll most likely work in 6, too, and ultimately 7 (whenever that decides to get here).
The first browser I always check in is Opera. Opera is my broser of choice when I'm surfing, so I always make sure that Opera likes my sites at sever different resolutions. It kills pop-ups totally (which is good since I use Tripod as a quick hosting solution), and allows me to test different browser identities at once as well. In the Windows environment, Opera is my King browser.
Then I move on to IE. Like alot of other
Then it's off to the latest Mozilla release. Every time a new release is put out, I'm on it. Mozilla is used to test for Netscape compatability as well (like IE, if it works in M, it should work in N) since I haven't the desire to try and download it on my measly 56K connection.
My final destination is Linux, where I check it in Mozilla and Konqueror (I'm a big KDE nut), and have a buddy check them in other Linux solutions.
In the end, this article goes on at length about the IE problem. That problem doesn't really bother me. Chances are that by the time MS gets IE7 on the shelves with Longhorn, I'll be well into Linux land using development solutions that, within the three years it will most likely take Longhorn to arrive, will most likely have improved quite a bit given the current rate of open source development.
Meanwhile, my work will most likely remain simple, to the point, and still able to work in any browser it needs to. In the end, I really don't care if there's another 'Browser War' or whatever. I'll be happy if enough people can see my work and say "Hey, that looks good. Easy on the eyes, and simple to use." That is the goal of any good website, no matter what the size.
Everybody got the Great Seal part right. But the Immortality granted by the Grail wasn't really erased once the person stepped beyond the Seal. The third Knight said "But the Grail cannot pass beyond the Great Seal. That is the boundry, and the price of immortality."
As long as you drank from the grail, immortality qualified. But the Seal prevented one from drinking from the Grail elsewhere. Immortality was limited by the Seal because the Grail was. When Ilsa took the Grail past the Great Seal, that's when shiat hit the fan. Not when Indy crossed it. Since the Grail was lost forever, the immortality granted by drinking from it constantly went bye bye as well.
I hate to sound nitpicky, but I just thought I'd clear that up.
Let me tell you something about ADHD. While it is a proper diagnosis in a few cases, it wasn't in mine. Here's the story:
I was diagnosed with ADD when I was 13. My teachers in school thought my attention span was too short, and were afraid that I wasn't living up to my potential. In that respect, they were partly right, which I will explain later. But, as a result, I was put on ritaline, the common "solution" to the AD(H)D problem.
Ritaline, for the most part, had no effect on me that I could tell. I didn't feel more focused than I already was, I didn't feel more calm, I didn't feel different at all. I did feel, however, that my parents were wasting their money on the whole deal.
My teachers were partially right when they felt I wasn't paying much attention. And here's why: I've known since I was in the 2nd grade that I had a high IQ (146) compared to my classmates. The reason my attention span was so dismal was because I felt (and still feel) that the public school system is a total failure. Information was not coming at me fast enough. Teachers would often spend a week hammering over and over on the same subject matter. Personally, I needed information coming at me at a faster rate.
I retain what I read/learn rather quickly, and rather well. But of course, at that time, I was a minor and adults thought otherwise. They made the mistake of lumping me together with the other kids, and I couldn't convince them otherwise. But when they kept pounding at the same bit of information over and over (sometimes for a week or more), I became both bored and distraught at the fact that I wasn't getting the quality education I felt I deserved. So what did I do? I became defiant. I rebelled in my own little way towards a system which I believe has failed, both me and many millions of children all accross this country. I refused to do homework, and I was always good with tests, never needing to study much at all. I felt my point was being made, but that it wasn't being received, because I was expected to be like all the other students in my class.
<br>It was around then that the Internet became available on a wide scale. I saw the oppertunity and jumped on it with reckless abandon in an attempt to educate myself. And boy, did it work. If it weren't for the Internet and the wealth of information I was able to get from it, I would have suffered the same fate that the good majority of public school students have been doomed to: a sub-standard education.
Our society these days is too quick to want to find a medical or physiological answer to a problem that it created by its damn self. We want to run off to the doctor or the shrink because we don't want to face the reality of the situation. Basically, we want someone to tell us that it's going to be OK instead of making it OK by ourselves. We perscribe drugs that have little or no effect on us, yet we're firm in the belief that they will solve all the problems for us. BULLSHIT.
We need to get our heads out of our asses and realize that things don't work because WE FUCKED UP, and there's no magic pill that will solve these problems. There's no pill on the market today (or even in the far future) that will fix the nightmare that our public school system has become. And there's no pill that can cure the pains in the ass that people have become over the last 20 years, either...
How about, instead of cutting back on the caffine, parents take an active role in the education of their children instead of relying on the public school system to do it all for them. Get off your duff, quit being an asshat and START BEING AN ACTIVE PARENT. It's not the school's job to prepare your child for entry into society as a functioning member - IT'S YOUR JOB.
It isn't rocket science...
Amazingly enough, it is possible to mod a Power Glove to work with a PC. Check This Out, as well as this page. That should get you started. I know there's a driver for it somewhere, it was featured in a /. story sometime in the last 1.5 years...
/obvious Coneheads refference
Yeah, he's right. That IS the same Dinosaur Pee-Wee got laid in.
All kidding aside, I remember waiting dilligently for this to come out on VHS as a kid. My parents hardly ever took me to the movies. When it did, and I finally saw it, I wasn't really all that impressed. By then, SMB3 was already out, and I had already whomped it's digital ass. But it was still a fun movie none-the-less.
Oh well. Nostalgia sure is fun, isn't it...
Religion should NOT get in the way of human progress. And this looks like human progress to me. So take that Catholic Church, take that President Dubya, and take that Religion in general. Science is the way, the truth, and the means to make humanity better.
Let the Karma-bashing love-fest begin!
The Hallilujia Chorus is heard...
Hopefully, M$ loses the suit and gets a black eye. Even if this whole thing doesn't help the OS community or even force M$ to change its evil ways, a black eye is better than nothing at all...
First, there was Final Fantasy VII, the first game to get an emotional response from me, ever. And I'll bet you all can't guess which moment ripped it out of me. Yeah, it was when Sephiroth shishkabobbed Aeris. I litterally bawled, not to mention resolved that if I ever had a daughter, I'd name her Aeris...
Another one was Earthbound for the SNES. Sure, it was an RPG for kids, but it was one of the most fun games I've ever played. I'd always make my character's favorite thing LSD, since his magic animations were so trippy, it just kinda fit...
The Hallilujia Chorus is heard (and subsequently downloaded)...
Wow. I'm impressed. There's actually a judge that isn't in someone's pocket, and can see things clearly. This ruling is a special gift to myself and independant musicians like me, since they're not going to shut down the P2P networks that we use for self promotion.
The RIAA and MPAA needed this, honestly. After going too long with too much power, it's nice to see them not get their way...
These junkets happen in almost every facet of the entertainment industry. Movies and TV especially. For more information, check out some of the features at Hollywood Bitchslap, they'll give you the straight dirt on that whole mess, including "quote whores" and tidbits on spin-meisters using message boards and chat channels to schill movies the rest of us wouldn't even consider seeing...
And by "broad" I mean widespread. I live in a somewhat rural area (central Pennsylvania). Broadband has finally made its way to the area (no thanks to the greedy fucks at Verizon and Adelphia), but how they've deployed it is rediculous. In my town, all we have is dial-up. That's all we've had since the Internet became widely available. Yet, five miles down the road, they can get Cable service. The whole area is wired, I watched them hang the lines in front of my house. All they have to do is turn it on, but they won't.
128K would be a godsend to me, even though it isn't all that fast in the grand scheme of things. I could get it (via ISDN), but it's too damned expensive ($150+). It'd be more sensible to wait out Adelphia and get Cable service ($60), more speed for less cost. But the wait is getting a bit tiresome. I've complained to them several times, and one time I even got fairly lippy when they told me the lines weren't ready when I knew for a fact that they had been ready for two months. It's almost like Baghdad Bob is working for them
The sad thing is we can't do a damn thing about it. They're in control, and only listen to Dead Presidents instead of their customers...
Do you meant to tell me that Hell has finally frozen over? Now I don't feel so bad about going there when I die...
I still have reservations about this, even after reading this particular blurb. But it is a step in the right direction. Can't believe I'm saying this, but Kudos to Microsoft.
Being a small-peanuts web designer, it falls on me to debug in quite a few browsers. Mozilla and Opera are my "primary use" browsers, and most sites I design (1, 2, 3), I debug using those two, IE (which I hate to no end), Netscape, and if I can get my hands on someone's account, I'll also see how it looks under AOL's browser. Gotta figure that most people are using IE (which likes to use its own settings for viewing text, bad M$), a nifty chunk uses Netscape, and of course we of the nerd set that like to use other options.
It's all about having your site viewed by everyone, and making it look as good as it can for any browser.
As a student at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, I recieved a rather lengthy education in the facets of Copyright Law (which is essential when producing creative works). While my knowledge pales in comparison to Mr. Barillari's, I can safely say that the RIAA has no case against Mr. Peng.
The basis of Copyright Law is simple: A copyrighted work can not be used to make money by anyone but the copyright holder. If Mr. Peng were "bootlegging" copyrighted music - ie Making CDs and selling them for a personal profit - then yes, he would be in violation of Copyright Law. But this wasn't the case.
WAKE, the program Mr. Peng used to index publically available files on the campus network, is not a file trading system, like Napster or Kazaa. Like Google, it's just a search engine. All it does is let you know what's out there and where. To download something you find using WAKE, you'ld have to go about it in some other manner.
Also, the nearly 650,000 files that the RIAA claim's Peng was distributing weren't all his. How can they sue him for something that's not his? It's yet another attempt at a power grab by a bunch of rich folks who only want to get richer. Sad.
My prediction: While the RIAA might get some considerations, they won't get anywhere near what they want. Peng won't see any jail time, and the RIAA will have a black eye.
Should spammers get some privacy protection too?
Answer: Fuck No! They don't care about our privacy, why should we give a damn about theirs? I say post this guy's contact info on as many public sites as possible. If he has the right to stuff our inboxes with crap, we should have the right to do it to him, too.
Have you tried Crack Light(TM)? Because regular Crack is making you do some pretty messed up thinking on this matter...
How exactly would the DMCA help/hurt independant musicians such as myself? In the beginning, most bands have to try and fend for themselves, and would find things like P2P filesharing to be a great help in getting heard. It seems as if the DMCA is tailored to assist large record companies, and not so much smaller labels and/or independant bands...
Arista is the home of Santana, Whitney Houston, Pink, TLC and Kenny G.
Well, that makes one good artist (Santana) falling victim to Capitalism gone totally wrong. The others, I wouldn't spend 17 cents on, let alone 17 dollars.
Question on everyone's mind: Will Arista have the decency to warn it's customers which CDs are disabled, or will they sneak it in?
So, when is this new shuttle going to be rolled out? I've heard bits and pieces about it for a while now, along with some who say it's a few years off. Anyone have any info? Talk amongst yourselves...
Python's ultra-classic, The Holy Grail, has to be included here. Yeah, it's not underappreciated, but it still deserves mention. I've seen it hundreds of times, and it just never gets old!
And Saint Atilla raised the hand grenade up on high, saying "Oh, Lord, Bless this thy hand grenade, that with it, thou mayest blow thy enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths, and fruit bats, and breakfast cerials, and...
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Stop groveling! If there's one thing I can't stand, its groveling. It's always Forgive me this and forgive me that and I'm not worthy. What are you doing now?
I'm averting my eyes, oh Lord.
Well knock it off! It's like those miserable Psalms, they're so depressing...
I won't bore you with anymore quotes. You probably know it all, anyway. But it has to be mentioned, just because ^,^
Yeah, this movie made me want to head to Huntsville, too. Fun flick, and one of the few good performances by Lea Thompson.
I'm gonna be the first man to open a burger joint in space. Rudy T's. Some astronaught gets a Big Mac Attack in space, Rudy T's will be there!
Yeah, I'm paraphrasing, it's been forever since I've seen it.
After KFM, I never looked at a bottle of Jack Daniels the same way again. Great flick, which lead to Airplane! and many more Zucher Brothers hillarity.
Amen. One of the best films ever made, with music by the single greatest band ever to pick up instruments. A classic, and essential to any movie collection.
Amen, brother. Labyrinth was cool as hell, David Bowie was awesome as Jareth. And The Dark Crystal is a movie you should deffinately go out and find on VHS or DVD (or heck, get it from Kazaa). I'm 25 myself, and I loved all three of these flicks as a kid. I'm a big kid too (still love my cartoons), and these three are a permanent part of my movie collection.