Just because they "start screwing" at an early age doesn't mean that it's not illegal. You may not care about it, but the line has been drawn. The point is that where do *you* draw the line? Are "art" pictures of naked children acceptable? Or maybe pictures of your children in the tub? I would rather have people be able to look at and think whatever they want to. The government should not be involved - period. If you want to to watch Faces of Death then fine by me, even though I think that someone who gets pleasure out of watching people die is much worse than someone who wants to see naked children I am not going to impose my own view on anyone. The problem isn't that people look at these kinds of things, it's that they have the desire to look at them. Might as well make that illegal too right? I mean first they start thinking about it, then they start looking at it, then they're doing it. Might as well get them now before they start looking at dirty pictures. Thoughtcrime laws in 2004!
how could you even think of getting young people into a business like this.[?]
I imagine that quite a few people would say the same thing about the USA's legal pornographers who recruit "barely-legal" girls into the buisness. When you talk about "kiddie porn", you should realize that defintion is used quite broadly here. What's the difference between a Dutch porn merchant who peddles photos of 16-17 year old girls and an American who does exactly the same thing with 18 year olds? "How could they even think about such a thing?" Your morals are your own, please try and keep them that way.
Perhaps the various native American tribes who lived on the land have more of a "right" to live there than a bunch of people of mixed orgin from Mexico and other countries? Just because you are "Hispanic", or Mexican doesn't mean that you have some kind of "right" over land that your ancestors probably have never lived on. My people are from Europe, specifically Ireland. Does that give me some kind of right to sneak into Wales or maybe Belgium and setup shop?
Well from reading Rolling Stone, (I know, I'm sorry), I've discovered that tons of the musicians that they interview talk about how much music they download and how cool it is to listen to on their iPods. I also personally know a more than one millionaire who downloads music in addition to buying it. I think a better question might be "Do you think that people with those kinds of financial resources are going to rip and encode their own CDs just so they can load up their iPods? Do they have the time/knowledge to do that? Or are they going to fire up Kazaa like "everyone" else?" Also don't forget that rich people can be just as cheap as the rest of us. I'm reminded of the story of "J-Lo" replacing a $10,000 tip that Ben left for two casino dealers with a couple hundred bucks.
Sorry to bring my negative opinion to this thread, but since we're discussing what's good and what's not... James Alan Gardner? Only in science fiction could that guy be praised as a quality writer. Somehow I managed to work my way through Expendable and Commitment Hour... ugh. Predictable doesn't even begin to describe it. Almost as bad as Weber's Heirs of the Empire. With authors like Iain M. Banks, Peter Hamilton, and Gene Wolfe around I'd rather not waste my time with stale crap. The only problem with science fiction is that Sturgeons Law definitely applies. For every Diamond Age and Consider Phlebas there are a dozen In the Company of Others and a hundred books by David Weber. Thankfully the wheat amongst the chaff more than makes up for it.
Sorry Mr. Asscroft those porn hounds have been everywhere... as some of us will recall Napster was used by warez d00ds and pervs alike. A simple renaming of the extension of a file to ".mp3" allowed you to share any kind of file you wanted. I downloaded and shared tons of music files of various formats, (vqf, shn), and occasionaly stumbled across an "mp3" that turned out to be a jpeg, movie, or an executable. Often times these files were named authentically, "photoshop-v5.0.mp3", "hotteen.mp3", "lezbobitch.jpeg.mp3". Other times it was a given a song name as camo. While I personally never saw any child porn on Napster I'm certain that it was there, and this link from TechTV seems to back that up.
Napster and Child Pornography
isnt that a [mis]quote from "VCPR- Pressing Issues" in GTA:Vice City?
No. It's from the episode, (1F13, "Deep Space Homer" - Featuring the bittersweet folk rock of James Taylor), of the Simpsons where Homer becomes an astronaut, and Kent Brockman utters the phrase "And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves." This was quite a few years before GTA VC came out. I would suspect that the GTA reference is an homage to the Simpsons. Also haven't we been over this about a thousand times already? "It must be wonderful to ring in the new year over and over and over." Please, kill me.
Always concentrated on the case? Easy there patriot... have you forgotten about the constant threats and Darl claiming that IBM was behind the "attacks" on SCO?
"We have absolute direct knowledge of this. If you go behind the scenes, the attacks that we get that don't have IBM's name on them, underneath the covers, are sponsored by IBM... That's why it looks like they're sitting back and not doing anything. It's us fighting a whole bunch of people that they put on the stage."
Now what is more ridiculous, calling Darl names and joking about SCO, or claiming that Big Blue is somehow sponsoring the "attacks" on SCO? Instead of concentrating on the case of copyright infringement they are trying to fight the battle in the press, and causing a major shitstorm in the process. Add to that the fact that they are basically trying to extort money from Linux users of all sizes before there has been any evidence besides a snippet or two of very questionable code, or any kind of ruling or decision made at all. Perhaps if SCO was really focusing on the case I would have a bit more respect for SCO. Perhaps.
On a side note I think that this "proud patriot" fellow is just trying to make Republicans look bad, (not that they need help). His post is so riddled with spelling/grammar errors and factually incorrect that I think it's merely an anti-Republican troll. I think the sig is specifically designed to piss people off.
A cheap shot such as "to the right of Karl Marx" makes you look like even more of a partisan/conservative than you no doubt already are. Insults mostly serve to shore up your base and piss off your opponents. The rest of your post carries your message much more effectively.
Funny is indeed a stretch. I was just going for a FP and expected an "Offtopic" at best. Now if only I had referenced the Simpsons somehow... wait I know! "Nerds conduct electricity!"
At least he was correct about dropped samples and not being BFBP for the Nomad with the old firmware, which I guess was the last I read on the issue, (sorry for the mistake). I'm happy to read that the Nomad is now BFBP, although some of the posts about it being "picky about what is feeding it the digi signal" cause me some concern. Also the group seems to have a somewhat mixed opinion about whether or not the Nomad makes DATs obsolete. Being limited to Windows only, and the lack of 24-bit support currently make Laptop-taping a more flexible option than the Nomad. Although for ~$300 it sounds like a good deal, especially now that I know a bit more about it's capabilities.
I agree with you that the Nomad is a pretty damn good piece of recording equipment, and the end result is probably better than if you were to record a show on a laptop with an "inferior" soundcard, or just tape on a D8 and do a bad transfer to get it to your computer. Personally I'm not one of the anal audiophiles, but I do know what they're talking about and I trade with them. If it sounds good, then great. The more folks taping the better, whether they've just got MD and Oktavas or bit-for-bit perfect u89 > VX Pocket. The only "problem" with the Nomad is that according to various reports from tapers, it is not bit-for-bit perfect, just the same as if I were to record a show with my Edirol UA5 with the improper settings. It will no doubt be very high quality, but as it is not BFBP it will be "inferior" to the same rig recorded with the proper settings to ensure that every bit of audio is captured. Does any of this really matter? Only to the most anal of the already anal taper geeks. AFAI concerned, all I want from a recording is a 100% correct lineage of what was used to record it. I've got quite a few moe. shows that were taped on a Nomad, and they sound great to me, as long as it's properly sourced I'm happy. Of course I'll be even happier when we all can tape on a BFBP Nomad that runs Linux and can tape in 24/96... and maybe a built in Mini-Me.
No they wouldn't. After I steal the BSD code and follow the license by giving the Regents of Cali blah blah some credit you'll never see any of the code or changes I've made to EvilBSD. Nothing in the BSD license says that I must let you see my source code or have any rights over it. Other than my giving some sort of credit for the free code I don't have to do shit. I guess you've never heard of the commercial BSDs?
Jamie Lutch knows what he's talking about re: dropped samples and bit-for-bit perfect. Amongst us truly anal audiophiles every transfer and every step of the recording process needs to be bit-for-bit perfect. This ensures that when we make lossless audio files from the recording we will get the best possible quality, in effect an exact copy of what we recorded. Us tapers have been looking into these kinds of things for years, and bit-for-bit perfect soundcards, or standalone recorders are not the norm. It's more nitpicking really than anything else that makes me say that your Nomad is not the "ideal" taping solution, as most people who do DAT > PC transfers probably don't bother to get things "perfect". Most of the high-end soundcards that the group has tested aren't BFBP. My recommendation - start taping on your laptop. DAT is dying, and the laptop/HD will replace DATs before long. Especially when we start migrating to 24-bit sound. You can currently tape in 24-bit on your laptop and then make 24-bit FLACs out of your audio. Check out the laptop-tapers group on Yahoo for more info - Laptop-tapers If you get a good sound card like the VX pocket or the Audiophile 4896 and you'll have archival quality audio. Why is this important to you? Well I guess you could always get it declared a dankseed...:)
If he simply wants more traffic and to get to the top of google he should just strip his kids down to their birthday suits. The sexual deviants amongst us will do the rest.
Maybe the "decades of sanctions" part is a joke, as the UN sanctions were imposed after Iraq invaded Kuwait, so "decades" is clearly wrong. However during the actual period of time Iraq was under UN sanctions they did not attack anyone other than internal dissidents. With the largest incident being the Shi'ite revolt following the end of Desert Storm that we, (The US), encouraged and then watched them die by the thousands after we did nothing to help them. Other than that there were certainly dozens of countries and leaders who did much worse than Hussein and Iraq during the last 10+ years. When was the last time you heard about the Congo on FAUX News?
The point is that you can do the exact same things with the location bar in Mozilla as you can with the Firebird search bar. Search keywords, (I've got google mapped to g... etc.), and searching using your favorite search engine. Sure in Mozilla you have to hit the down key in addition to just "enter", but just use the keywords to search if you are used to hitting enter. Just MO guy.
Others have argued the same point I'm about to make and were dubbed "Trolls" for some reason - but for me, one of the most annoying differences between Mozilla and Firebird is the extra search bar in addition to the "location bar". An extra text entry field just for searches doesn't make sense to me, especially when Mozilla has search capabilities integrated into it's one text entry field. The Mozilla search bar is just so finely done that I dislike using another setup for searching and entering URLs. Of course I think both browsers are great and I use them both, but that is the "feature" I find lacking in Firebird.
The two main CD-R companies are Ricoh, in Taiwan, and Taiyo Yuden in Japan. Now which company do you suppose makes the better discs? Check the "made in, hecho... etc." label before you buy discs. "Made in Japan" discs are head and shoulders above Ricoh discs. Not only do they have higher standards in Japan, they also use higher-quality dye. After that the main thing to look for is a nice, non peeling top. I recommend Fuji, Mitsui, HP, and Kodak discs if you are looking for a CD-R that will keep your data safe. I've burned thousands of CD-Rs over the last 5+ years, and not a single one of my archive discs have ever "gone bad", or flaked out on me. Those archive discs are mostly TDKs from back when they were made by TY, and Fujis.
Some people do want the legal files.
Furthurnet Etree.org Sharing in the Groove BT.phishhook.com
Besides the dozens of ISOs I've gotten via BT and P2P I've also downloaded 100s of GBs of music and video. All of it legal. Plenty of people use P2P and other applications for legitimate uses, but piracy gets all the attention and therefore you have people asking silly questions like "Using P2P for legitimate aplications?". Of course it has legitimate applications, I thought this dead horse had been beaten.
Stuff like that? You must be pretty ignorant to think that "stuff like that" could not, and has not taken place regularly during the last 50+ years. Chile, Guatamala, Honduras, Iran, Panama... the list goes on. Maybe you could try searching before exposing your ignorance on/. A simple search on google for "iran, coup, cia, 1953" turns up these results - Google . There's even a link to a Christian Science Monitor story about the 50th anniversary of the coup. "50 years later Iranians remember US-UK coup". Learn to use the damn internet for more than posting stupid questions.
They only used 7 letters to make up all numbers. So it was probably simple for them to differentiate normal words and numbers that were usually not pronouncable, like CDXX, DXXVI, and XXX. Also the Greeks usually wrote a bar over numbers, or wrote them sideways so clear up any confusion. So I imagine that the Romans, standing on the shoulders of the Greeks, had that taken care of in some way by the time they rolled out their own numerical system.
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Just because they "start screwing" at an early age doesn't mean that it's not illegal. You may not care about it, but the line has been drawn. The point is that where do *you* draw the line? Are "art" pictures of naked children acceptable? Or maybe pictures of your children in the tub? I would rather have people be able to look at and think whatever they want to. The government should not be involved - period. If you want to to watch Faces of Death then fine by me, even though I think that someone who gets pleasure out of watching people die is much worse than someone who wants to see naked children I am not going to impose my own view on anyone. The problem isn't that people look at these kinds of things, it's that they have the desire to look at them. Might as well make that illegal too right? I mean first they start thinking about it, then they start looking at it, then they're doing it. Might as well get them now before they start looking at dirty pictures. Thoughtcrime laws in 2004!
Perhaps the various native American tribes who lived on the land have more of a "right" to live there than a bunch of people of mixed orgin from Mexico and other countries? Just because you are "Hispanic", or Mexican doesn't mean that you have some kind of "right" over land that your ancestors probably have never lived on. My people are from Europe, specifically Ireland. Does that give me some kind of right to sneak into Wales or maybe Belgium and setup shop?
Well from reading Rolling Stone, (I know, I'm sorry), I've discovered that tons of the musicians that they interview talk about how much music they download and how cool it is to listen to on their iPods. I also personally know a more than one millionaire who downloads music in addition to buying it. I think a better question might be "Do you think that people with those kinds of financial resources are going to rip and encode their own CDs just so they can load up their iPods? Do they have the time/knowledge to do that? Or are they going to fire up Kazaa like "everyone" else?" Also don't forget that rich people can be just as cheap as the rest of us. I'm reminded of the story of "J-Lo" replacing a $10,000 tip that Ben left for two casino dealers with a couple hundred bucks.
Sorry to bring my negative opinion to this thread, but since we're discussing what's good and what's not... James Alan Gardner? Only in science fiction could that guy be praised as a quality writer. Somehow I managed to work my way through Expendable and Commitment Hour... ugh. Predictable doesn't even begin to describe it. Almost as bad as Weber's Heirs of the Empire. With authors like Iain M. Banks, Peter Hamilton, and Gene Wolfe around I'd rather not waste my time with stale crap. The only problem with science fiction is that Sturgeons Law definitely applies. For every Diamond Age and Consider Phlebas there are a dozen In the Company of Others and a hundred books by David Weber. Thankfully the wheat amongst the chaff more than makes up for it.
Sorry Mr. Asscroft those porn hounds have been everywhere... as some of us will recall Napster was used by warez d00ds and pervs alike. A simple renaming of the extension of a file to ".mp3" allowed you to share any kind of file you wanted. I downloaded and shared tons of music files of various formats, (vqf, shn), and occasionaly stumbled across an "mp3" that turned out to be a jpeg, movie, or an executable. Often times these files were named authentically, "photoshop-v5.0.mp3", "hotteen.mp3", "lezbobitch.jpeg.mp3". Other times it was a given a song name as camo. While I personally never saw any child porn on Napster I'm certain that it was there, and this link from TechTV seems to back that up. Napster and Child Pornography
Too bad you weren't trolling. In my book that's preferable to being a total moron.
A cheap shot such as "to the right of Karl Marx" makes you look like even more of a partisan/conservative than you no doubt already are. Insults mostly serve to shore up your base and piss off your opponents. The rest of your post carries your message much more effectively.
Funny is indeed a stretch. I was just going for a FP and expected an "Offtopic" at best. Now if only I had referenced the Simpsons somehow... wait I know! "Nerds conduct electricity!"
That'll keep those damn Americans off my base.
FP
At least he was correct about dropped samples and not being BFBP for the Nomad with the old firmware, which I guess was the last I read on the issue, (sorry for the mistake). I'm happy to read that the Nomad is now BFBP, although some of the posts about it being "picky about what is feeding it the digi signal" cause me some concern. Also the group seems to have a somewhat mixed opinion about whether or not the Nomad makes DATs obsolete. Being limited to Windows only, and the lack of 24-bit support currently make Laptop-taping a more flexible option than the Nomad. Although for ~$300 it sounds like a good deal, especially now that I know a bit more about it's capabilities.
I agree with you that the Nomad is a pretty damn good piece of recording equipment, and the end result is probably better than if you were to record a show on a laptop with an "inferior" soundcard, or just tape on a D8 and do a bad transfer to get it to your computer. Personally I'm not one of the anal audiophiles, but I do know what they're talking about and I trade with them. If it sounds good, then great. The more folks taping the better, whether they've just got MD and Oktavas or bit-for-bit perfect u89 > VX Pocket. The only "problem" with the Nomad is that according to various reports from tapers, it is not bit-for-bit perfect, just the same as if I were to record a show with my Edirol UA5 with the improper settings. It will no doubt be very high quality, but as it is not BFBP it will be "inferior" to the same rig recorded with the proper settings to ensure that every bit of audio is captured. Does any of this really matter? Only to the most anal of the already anal taper geeks. AFAI concerned, all I want from a recording is a 100% correct lineage of what was used to record it. I've got quite a few moe. shows that were taped on a Nomad, and they sound great to me, as long as it's properly sourced I'm happy. Of course I'll be even happier when we all can tape on a BFBP Nomad that runs Linux and can tape in 24/96... and maybe a built in Mini-Me.
No they wouldn't. After I steal the BSD code and follow the license by giving the Regents of Cali blah blah some credit you'll never see any of the code or changes I've made to EvilBSD. Nothing in the BSD license says that I must let you see my source code or have any rights over it. Other than my giving some sort of credit for the free code I don't have to do shit. I guess you've never heard of the commercial BSDs?
Jamie Lutch knows what he's talking about re: dropped samples and bit-for-bit perfect. Amongst us truly anal audiophiles every transfer and every step of the recording process needs to be bit-for-bit perfect. This ensures that when we make lossless audio files from the recording we will get the best possible quality, in effect an exact copy of what we recorded. Us tapers have been looking into these kinds of things for years, and bit-for-bit perfect soundcards, or standalone recorders are not the norm. It's more nitpicking really than anything else that makes me say that your Nomad is not the "ideal" taping solution, as most people who do DAT > PC transfers probably don't bother to get things "perfect". Most of the high-end soundcards that the group has tested aren't BFBP. My recommendation - start taping on your laptop. DAT is dying, and the laptop/HD will replace DATs before long. Especially when we start migrating to 24-bit sound. You can currently tape in 24-bit on your laptop and then make 24-bit FLACs out of your audio. Check out the laptop-tapers group on Yahoo for more info - Laptop-tapers If you get a good sound card like the VX pocket or the Audiophile 4896 and you'll have archival quality audio. Why is this important to you? Well I guess you could always get it declared a dankseed... :)
If he simply wants more traffic and to get to the top of google he should just strip his kids down to their birthday suits. The sexual deviants amongst us will do the rest.
Maybe the "decades of sanctions" part is a joke, as the UN sanctions were imposed after Iraq invaded Kuwait, so "decades" is clearly wrong. However during the actual period of time Iraq was under UN sanctions they did not attack anyone other than internal dissidents. With the largest incident being the Shi'ite revolt following the end of Desert Storm that we, (The US), encouraged and then watched them die by the thousands after we did nothing to help them. Other than that there were certainly dozens of countries and leaders who did much worse than Hussein and Iraq during the last 10+ years. When was the last time you heard about the Congo on FAUX News?
The point is that you can do the exact same things with the location bar in Mozilla as you can with the Firebird search bar. Search keywords, (I've got google mapped to g... etc.), and searching using your favorite search engine. Sure in Mozilla you have to hit the down key in addition to just "enter", but just use the keywords to search if you are used to hitting enter. Just MO guy.
Others have argued the same point I'm about to make and were dubbed "Trolls" for some reason - but for me, one of the most annoying differences between Mozilla and Firebird is the extra search bar in addition to the "location bar". An extra text entry field just for searches doesn't make sense to me, especially when Mozilla has search capabilities integrated into it's one text entry field. The Mozilla search bar is just so finely done that I dislike using another setup for searching and entering URLs. Of course I think both browsers are great and I use them both, but that is the "feature" I find lacking in Firebird.
The two main CD-R companies are Ricoh, in Taiwan, and Taiyo Yuden in Japan. Now which company do you suppose makes the better discs? Check the "made in, hecho... etc." label before you buy discs. "Made in Japan" discs are head and shoulders above Ricoh discs. Not only do they have higher standards in Japan, they also use higher-quality dye. After that the main thing to look for is a nice, non peeling top. I recommend Fuji, Mitsui, HP, and Kodak discs if you are looking for a CD-R that will keep your data safe. I've burned thousands of CD-Rs over the last 5+ years, and not a single one of my archive discs have ever "gone bad", or flaked out on me. Those archive discs are mostly TDKs from back when they were made by TY, and Fujis.
Some people do want the legal files. Furthurnet Etree.org Sharing in the Groove BT.phishhook.com Besides the dozens of ISOs I've gotten via BT and P2P I've also downloaded 100s of GBs of music and video. All of it legal. Plenty of people use P2P and other applications for legitimate uses, but piracy gets all the attention and therefore you have people asking silly questions like "Using P2P for legitimate aplications?". Of course it has legitimate applications, I thought this dead horse had been beaten.
Stuff like that? You must be pretty ignorant to think that "stuff like that" could not, and has not taken place regularly during the last 50+ years. Chile, Guatamala, Honduras, Iran, Panama... the list goes on. Maybe you could try searching before exposing your ignorance on /. A simple search on google for "iran, coup, cia, 1953" turns up these results - Google . There's even a link to a Christian Science Monitor story about the 50th anniversary of the coup. "50 years later Iranians remember US-UK coup". Learn to use the damn internet for more than posting stupid questions.
Maybe, but check out this link - too lazy to href it - http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_016.html
They only used 7 letters to make up all numbers. So it was probably simple for them to differentiate normal words and numbers that were usually not pronouncable, like CDXX, DXXVI, and XXX. Also the Greeks usually wrote a bar over numbers, or wrote them sideways so clear up any confusion. So I imagine that the Romans, standing on the shoulders of the Greeks, had that taken care of in some way by the time they rolled out their own numerical system.