Looking at your sig, if I am remembering the addresses correctly, you are missing one. I don't remember the exact order, but you need to turn the text, the background, and the border (you know, the black area around your desktop no one uses anymore?) to 0 to set them all to black. I used to know the values by heart back in the day...
No the RIAA and MPAA are really concerned about making and hording as much money and power as possible, if they step on a few ants on the way to the gold, that's the ants problem aparently. Companies exist to make money. They do not exist to spy on the public. They do not exist to please the public. They make money, by whatever means they can get away with that produces the best results. If those means help or hinder you is no matter to them unless it means more or less $.
"Please follow the uniformed police officer to the designated 'Free Speech Zone' behind the building marked 'Garbage Dumpster.' All protesters are advised to leave before Tuesday morning so that waste management may complete their assigned duties. God Bless America!"
"For a lawsuit in America, a party must have injury. This may be financial, physical, emotional, or social, but there must be some form of injury. You can't just sue someone because you don't like them, or you need the money."
You've obviously have never heard of the RIAA or the MPAA...
"P.S. These laws may not hold true in California, none of the other laws do.:-P"
Lets say I think my neighbor might be beating up his dog that I sold him a few years ago. What do I do? If I where like the RIAA, I'd break into his house, steal his dog, and then beat the man into a pulp. But you see, I can't do that. That's illegal.
What can I do? Well, I could put down the baseball bat and just call the cops on his ass. They have the rights they need to do the investigating. If they find out he's doing something wrong, they'll handle it. If not, thats good. I did what I was supposed to do. There is a chance they messed up, but there is a bigger one that I made the mistake.
Aparently the AA's are now a legal vigilanty group. Damn it must be nice to have billions and not for the buying power either.
"This exists, and is present in this case. The alleged infringer was able to remain anonymous until evidence was gathered to indicate that a substantial amount of infringement took place. Remember that this is just one step in the process. Note that by this time, that the court takes the RIAA request seriously, the RIAA would have already had to have provided strong prima facia evidence that infringement occurred before the court would even take the request seriously."
Ok, as soon as I glanced at this and began to understand what was being said, one thought resoundingly permiated my being:
WHO THE FUCK MADE THE RIAA A POLICE FORCE?
Since when do they get the right to invade me and those that I deal with's private domain and force us to turn over information because they suspect, SUSPECT, I might be doing something wrong? I knew that they had the feds on a leash, but damn! Now they can preform search and seizure without a warent like their the CIA or someshit?!? What the hell is next? Imprisonment? Will suspected "pirates" be kidnapped and sent to some third world country for "Intelectual Property Reeducation"? I know that is far fetched, but so is this. If someone had told me this happened when I was 5 years younger, I would have told them they where full of shit.
Hey, I may have wailed on your ass, but at least I didn't drop to calling you stupid.
Ok...let me point it out _again_. Just because I say they _might_ be bribed or coerced does not mean I believe they where. I am acknowledging a possibility and expressing a suspicion. If I think they where I will say it outright. As for my second statement about the state of the US, I am looking at results, not actions.
And I got the shit flamed out of me when I was so "stupid" to even suggest that the supreme court might be bribed/coerced into taking the side of Media Cartels.
(Caps intentially scewed.)
Lets face it, this really is a country "Of the people, for the people, and by the people."*
* People refers to the top 1% which own %50 of the wealth, corporate trusts, and lawyers.
More likely the cop did. Now cops and feds can not only find out what you buy by rifling through your garbage, they can find out when, where, if, and how you paid for it. Smells like TIA.
"Math courses are rarely more complicated than figuring out a quicksort or Djiktras spanning tree algorithms."
Warning: Rant on the piss poor state of the public "education" system follows.
If only they where taught that way. Seriously, they burn your ass for years teaching you that something is illegal, and then they finally tell you that it's legal and it make things so much frickin easier. Or how they make people memorize 8 different equations and neglect to even hint that they are actually one damn equation in 8 different forms. Hell, people at community college bitch about algebra and I have tell them they've been doing it for years. 1+4=? Substitute a letter for the "?". Holy shit, basic algebra in a can. Or how geometry is just solving an algebra equation when you can't get just 1 answer by drawing it. Hell, we're lucky they give us the tidbit that the derivitive is the equation for the slope in differential calculus. Good luck getting them to tell you than the sumnation is an estimate of the integral.
Hell, my father wouldn't believe me when I told him that fractions where just division. You can't expect people to learn well when they have to have at least 130 IQ just to figure out on their own what the teacher refused to even give a clue about. Its real damn fun when you hit on a concept and the teacher or professor will outright refuse to answer any questions on it and sometimes threaten to penelize you if you use it. And the cherry on top is that they do this in most subjects and cases.
"I hope the majority of conservatives realize soon that it is impossible to have a certain Republican brand of freedom, without having all the rest. In many ways, I hate to say this, but you are either Libertarian, or you support facism in one form or another. There is little middle ground anymore."
This strikes eerily close to home. Despite my belief that moderation, where views are combined in an attempt to compensate for the faults of the extremes, is the best method, I find myself becoming more and more libertarian in my political views. This has me wondering, what does this say about the current situation in the US?
Actually, I'd have to question my own tastes if I'm watching my neighbor fuck a blow up goat every day. Ok, lets go through some of the little freaky freaky things people I know and consider my friends like.
1. BDSM/torture 2. Bi, men & women 3. Gay, men & women 4. Beastiality 5. Ponygirls, catgirls, & bunnigirls 5. Snuff 6. Food fetish 7. Pissing 8. hentai and toons, of varius types 9. rape 10. Oh, and a guy who bones a suffed cave girl thingy.
I know I'm missing some... Do, I look down on them? No, actually I look up to some of them. I know these things about these people because I don't ride their asses when they dare to be themselves. If you opened your eyes and shut your mouth a little more, you'd probably find much the same with the people around you.
If its one thing I've learned, it's not to knock what floats someone's boat just because it doesn't float yours. Just because their tastes don't match yours does not make them any less human. Intolerance is a great way to make enemies of people who otherwise wouldn't give a shit.
Oh, by the way, numbnuts, doujinshi is simply fan drawn manga. It is not necessarily pornographic. It seems you are thinking of hentai in general. Try learning a little more about things before you deside to snub it. It will make your argument much more sound if you know what you are talking about.
Ok, I'm done combing your boogers out of my hair now.
Well, intel has been using a quad pumped (overrated) 100mhz FSB until just recently (now its a 133) while AMD has been using double pumped (again overrated) 133mhz FSB since the 1Ghz+ Tbirds. The new opertons, hammers, or whatever supposedly have an fsb that truely runs at 166 to 200mhz. So the ante will be upped again soon.
Point: Its kinda keeping pace at 3/4's the speed.;P
Side note/rant: Personally, I'd rather have a 133 32bit frontside 1.0Ghz AMD than a 100 32bit frontside 2.4 Ghz Intel. Who gives a shit about the difference between 10 and 24 multipliers. What, so the cpu can wait 2.4 times more clock cycles to actually get something to do? Unless of course your PC is doing nothing but "i++;", etc. Then it can run off the cache.
Hell, I've got a P-classic 233mmx underclocked to 225mhz with a 75mhz fsb instead of 66mhz and it smokes most PII's(except the ones that have an fsb faster than 66mhz of course)
So in other words, unless the artist is payola'd into superstardom, they get about 2.25% to 6.75% of the CD's price as a royalty for the. Thats about 40 to 121 pennies per CD, depending to who the CD is sold to on an $18 CD. Then the artists have to pay for all the other shit like promotions, management, agent, studio time, merchandice, etc.
The head of Sasami or Pretty Sammy I believe. The 500 some odd year old little girl in Tenchi Muyo. She is Aeka's little sister and is friends with that cabbit. I can't remember how to spell the name and thousands of anime fans will feed me to the tentacle demons if I misspell it.
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Looking at your sig, if I am remembering the addresses correctly, you are missing one. I don't remember the exact order, but you need to turn the text, the background, and the border (you know, the black area around your desktop no one uses anymore?) to 0 to set them all to black. I used to know the values by heart back in the day...
Does it emulate this error that my c64 does?
:D"
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10 $B=9*9
20 PRINT "9 times 9 is ",$B,".
9 times 9 is 80.99999.
(I think I got the synatx right; its been a while.)
No the RIAA and MPAA are really concerned about making and hording as much money and power as possible, if they step on a few ants on the way to the gold, that's the ants problem aparently. Companies exist to make money. They do not exist to spy on the public. They do not exist to please the public. They make money, by whatever means they can get away with that produces the best results. If those means help or hinder you is no matter to them unless it means more or less $.
I can see it now:
"Please follow the uniformed police officer to the designated 'Free Speech Zone' behind the building marked 'Garbage Dumpster.' All protesters are advised to leave before Tuesday morning so that waste management may complete their assigned duties. God Bless America!"
" . . . how long can you milk 30-year-old technology?"
Ask Disney.
Note to readers: Don't bother trying to show off by informing me of the differences between media and technology.
"For a lawsuit in America, a party must have injury. This may be financial, physical, emotional, or social, but there must be some form of injury. You can't just sue someone because you don't like them, or you need the money."
:-P"
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You've obviously have never heard of the RIAA or the MPAA...
"P.S. These laws may not hold true in California, none of the other laws do.
...or maybe you have...
Lets say I think my neighbor might be beating up his dog that I sold him a few years ago. What do I do? If I where like the RIAA, I'd break into his house, steal his dog, and then beat the man into a pulp. But you see, I can't do that. That's illegal.
What can I do? Well, I could put down the baseball bat and just call the cops on his ass. They have the rights they need to do the investigating. If they find out he's doing something wrong, they'll handle it. If not, thats good. I did what I was supposed to do. There is a chance they messed up, but there is a bigger one that I made the mistake.
Aparently the AA's are now a legal vigilanty group. Damn it must be nice to have billions and not for the buying power either.
-Flame Alert-
"This exists, and is present in this case. The alleged infringer was able to remain anonymous until evidence was gathered to indicate that a substantial amount of infringement took place. Remember that this is just one step in the process. Note that by this time, that the court takes the RIAA request seriously, the RIAA would have already had to have provided strong prima facia evidence that infringement occurred before the court would even take the request seriously."
Ok, as soon as I glanced at this and began to understand what was being said, one thought resoundingly permiated my being:
WHO THE FUCK MADE THE RIAA A POLICE FORCE?
Since when do they get the right to invade me and those that I deal with's private domain and force us to turn over information because they suspect, SUSPECT, I might be doing something wrong? I knew that they had the feds on a leash, but damn! Now they can preform search and seizure without a warent like their the CIA or someshit?!? What the hell is next? Imprisonment? Will suspected "pirates" be kidnapped and sent to some third world country for "Intelectual Property Reeducation"? I know that is far fetched, but so is this. If someone had told me this happened when I was 5 years younger, I would have told them they where full of shit.
Hey, I may have wailed on your ass, but at least I didn't drop to calling you stupid.
"Is this illegal, or just annoying?"
Companies screwing people == legal.
People screwing companies == illegal.
People get pissed at companies screwing them == lay off 20,000 peons, do nothing to the higher ups that caused the problem.
Wealth, power, and might = right.
Poor, intelligence, and reason = wrong.
Want proof? Find it yourself. These are my opinions.
Ok...let me point it out _again_. Just because I say they _might_ be bribed or coerced does not mean I believe they where. I am acknowledging a possibility and expressing a suspicion. If I think they where I will say it outright. As for my second statement about the state of the US, I am looking at results, not actions.
Actually, when even trying to explain this to regular people, I almost always get a responce along these lines:
If it is illegal, there must be a reason for it. That means it must be wrong.
If it is specifically said to be legal, then there must be a reason for it. That means it must be right.
My responce: But what if that is not the case?
Thiers: Then oh well. *dismissal* *ignores*
And I got the shit flamed out of me when I was so "stupid" to even suggest that the supreme court might be bribed/coerced into taking the side of Media Cartels.
(Caps intentially scewed.)
Lets face it, this really is a country "Of the people, for the people, and by the people."*
* People refers to the top 1% which own %50 of the wealth, corporate trusts, and lawyers.
More likely the cop did. Now cops and feds can not only find out what you buy by rifling through your garbage, they can find out when, where, if, and how you paid for it. Smells like TIA.
"Math courses are rarely more complicated than figuring out a quicksort or Djiktras spanning tree algorithms."
Warning: Rant on the piss poor state of the public "education" system follows.
If only they where taught that way. Seriously, they burn your ass for years teaching you that something is illegal, and then they finally tell you that it's legal and it make things so much frickin easier. Or how they make people memorize 8 different equations and neglect to even hint that they are actually one damn equation in 8 different forms. Hell, people at community college bitch about algebra and I have tell them they've been doing it for years. 1+4=? Substitute a letter for the "?". Holy shit, basic algebra in a can. Or how geometry is just solving an algebra equation when you can't get just 1 answer by drawing it. Hell, we're lucky they give us the tidbit that the derivitive is the equation for the slope in differential calculus. Good luck getting them to tell you than the sumnation is an estimate of the integral.
Hell, my father wouldn't believe me when I told him that fractions where just division. You can't expect people to learn well when they have to have at least 130 IQ just to figure out on their own what the teacher refused to even give a clue about. Its real damn fun when you hit on a concept and the teacher or professor will outright refuse to answer any questions on it and sometimes threaten to penelize you if you use it. And the cherry on top is that they do this in most subjects and cases.
"I hope the majority of conservatives realize soon that it is impossible to have a certain Republican brand of freedom, without having all the rest. In many ways, I hate to say this, but you are either Libertarian, or you support facism in one form or another. There is little middle ground anymore."
This strikes eerily close to home. Despite my belief that moderation, where views are combined in an attempt to compensate for the faults of the extremes, is the best method, I find myself becoming more and more libertarian in my political views. This has me wondering, what does this say about the current situation in the US?
Actually, I'd have to question my own tastes if I'm watching my neighbor fuck a blow up goat every day. Ok, lets go through some of the little freaky freaky things people I know and consider my friends like.
1. BDSM/torture
2. Bi, men & women
3. Gay, men & women
4. Beastiality
5. Ponygirls, catgirls, & bunnigirls
5. Snuff
6. Food fetish
7. Pissing
8. hentai and toons, of varius types
9. rape
10. Oh, and a guy who bones a suffed cave girl thingy.
I know I'm missing some... Do, I look down on them? No, actually I look up to some of them. I know these things about these people because I don't ride their asses when they dare to be themselves. If you opened your eyes and shut your mouth a little more, you'd probably find much the same with the people around you.
If its one thing I've learned, it's not to knock what floats someone's boat just because it doesn't float yours. Just because their tastes don't match yours does not make them any less human. Intolerance is a great way to make enemies of people who otherwise wouldn't give a shit.
Oh, by the way, numbnuts, doujinshi is simply fan drawn manga. It is not necessarily pornographic. It seems you are thinking of hentai in general. Try learning a little more about things before you deside to snub it. It will make your argument much more sound if you know what you are talking about.
Ok, I'm done combing your boogers out of my hair now.
You put it here.
Now that you mention it, the state of Virginia did recently (in the past few years) make catching speeders by using aircraft legal.
Well, intel has been using a quad pumped (overrated) 100mhz FSB until just recently (now its a 133) while AMD has been using double pumped (again overrated) 133mhz FSB since the 1Ghz+ Tbirds. The new opertons, hammers, or whatever supposedly have an fsb that truely runs at 166 to 200mhz. So the ante will be upped again soon.
;P
Point: Its kinda keeping pace at 3/4's the speed.
Side note/rant: Personally, I'd rather have a 133 32bit frontside 1.0Ghz AMD than a 100 32bit frontside 2.4 Ghz Intel. Who gives a shit about the difference between 10 and 24 multipliers. What, so the cpu can wait 2.4 times more clock cycles to actually get something to do? Unless of course your PC is doing nothing but "i++;", etc. Then it can run off the cache.
Hell, I've got a P-classic 233mmx underclocked to 225mhz with a 75mhz fsb instead of 66mhz and it smokes most PII's(except the ones that have an fsb faster than 66mhz of course)
"I mean, what the hell fun is copper sulphate, etc?"
If I remember correctly, feeding a hydrated crystal of that stuff to another person is pretty fun after a few minutes.
Hint: "OH, SHIT!"
So in other words, unless the artist is payola'd into superstardom, they get about 2.25% to 6.75% of the CD's price as a royalty for the. Thats about 40 to 121 pennies per CD, depending to who the CD is sold to on an $18 CD. Then the artists have to pay for all the other shit like promotions, management, agent, studio time, merchandice, etc.
What a complete and utter load of Bullshit.
Hrm..in the spirit of fuckedcompany.com, how about "fuckedbyms.com?"
The head of Sasami or Pretty Sammy I believe. The 500 some odd year old little girl in Tenchi Muyo. She is Aeka's little sister and is friends with that cabbit. I can't remember how to spell the name and thousands of anime fans will feed me to the tentacle demons if I misspell it.
Why? Its not like one has to reinstall Windows from scratch on a freshly fdisk'd and formated hard drive every six months.
Oh, wait...
*looks down*