When will everyone wake up and realize that when they buy cd's, tapes, etc. that they are indirectly supporting the RIAA? Yes we all love music but we risk our musical freedom buying the products the RIAA sells. I have almost 1000 store bought cd's but I can no longer buy them from such a monopolistic, evil diety as the RIAA.
They want to dictate who, what, when, where, why and how I buy and listen to my music. It's my fucking choice and they have forced me to boycott all they sell. I can get anything I want free so I'll go back to that method.
Sueing your customers into a lifelong debt is unjustified and narrowminded bullshit in it's basis. By setting examples in ruining the avergae person's financial life is completely uncalled for and I will not have any part in supporting these fucks in buying their products.
If anyone has any self-respect or ethics then they'll also refuse to support this ridiculous entity called the RIAA. We stop buying they start to get the message.
Fuck the RIAA...you can't shit where you eat...unless you're Hilary Rosen:)
I was thinking July 4th also but went with the first but whatever the community thinks...I'm down with it. It doesn't matter what day but you make a good point and a good slogan to go along with it. Napster also had a good one called buycott:)
First off I've read previous posts about the RIAA finally getting a clue by going this new route. They haven't got a clue. They are only going this new way because of the case they lost that said p2p programs aren't only for illegal purposes. All they are doing is pursuing the same ideology in a different manner. They haven't become newly enlightened. They were litigated into this and not by choice.
In a post of mine last week I predicted this. Don't believe me? Go read it. This is the time for all of us to make our presence known. No matter what we say or what we do the only thing that makes a difference is money. Everyone who cares about this issue at all should agree on a day to boycott all music sales...maybe even a week. When a few million people decide to not buy a product then their voices are heard loud and clear. Ask Jesse Jackson. He's famous for extorting money out of nothing. Maybe we can "extort" the RIAA off of our backs:)
Instead of rehashing the same topic why not take action? Our words do nothing but not buying their products would change the landscape of things IRL. A true worldwide boycott would cost the RIAA millions and millions of dollars and why fund an entity that's out to sue the average person into bankruptcy? I say JULY 1st and if that goes well we add more dates until they buckle and they will if we can all join together and make a statement of this magnitude.
What do you say? Fuck off won't suffice. Spread the word and make a stand.
How many times have we heard or read what people want in terms of music? I'm talking price and ease of use. It's completely ignored and never explored. The RIAA has resorted to an over-zealous and somewhat vindictive approach which has alienated them from the customers they want to keep. I understand copyrights and such but I also understand what's good and what's bad business.
The RIAA has no one to blame but themselves. We as consumers have voted with our wallets and they simply refuse to accept this so they are trying to legislate us into doing it their way. It's obviously not going to turn out how they would like it to.
I saw this coming when they went after Napster. Take down the largest at the time P2P service with centralized servers and replace it with numerous decentralized servers with no one to go after except for the user and you're fucked. So going after the person you're trying to convince to buy more of your product is your business plan RIAA? You bunch of fucking idiots. Whoever is dishing out the advice to the worlds largest group of techology n00bs should be shot. This has to rank as the best example of how not to do business, how not to work the P.R. angle, and how not to work into motivating your customers to spend more on your products.
You cannot legislate the free market via scare tactics and propaganda while in the mean time not working to create a more technology based business model and not expect to demonize yourself in the process. As soon as the RIAA starts to bear down on users and suing the shit out of them then they'll really start to see a backlash of epic proportion. It will come to that and they're going to be in for the shock of their lives.
Fuck the the RIAA/MPAA. They are getting exactly what they deserve and there's not a person I know who feels any amount of guilt over not being ripped off and now having a choice.
After reading Orrin's (sp?) remarks I was hit with a great idea. Remember the movie Logan's Run? The premise was that when you reached 30 your hand had a glowing red beacon signifying a new "fun time". You were tied to some futuristic merry-go-round in front of an adoring audience and then blasted right the fuck into oblivion. Maybe when you reach a certain age in politics the same thing should happen? I'd pay to see that...as long as steps were taken to fully protect the crowd from the flying feces of the deceased men of yester year. Got Poop?
I'm sure a lot of people here build their own boxes like me so what does it matter what Dell does? I am my companies main support guy so it might matter there but if need be I'll just get a usb floppy but once again we don't even use Dell so I don't care.
We use Systemax boxes and they suck beyond belief. I've never seen so many boxes with dead cdroms and failed hard drives. It's like they never test their products. I guess when the company chooses to go cheap then this is what I have to deal with.
I also like the way our head IT guy does major hardware/network upgrades with no notice/warning during peak work hours. He is an MCSE so that might be the reason.
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Actually I've never played it but since they have this expansion pack I might pick it up:)
Maybe the MPAA should take a look at what the pron industry is doing in terms of downloadable movies. On gamelink.com you can download tons of movies in DivX format and also the choice of watching it once or for a month. It's also cheaper than going to the movies.
The MPAA would do well to inform Jack-off on how shit works so he doesn't spout off about things he has no idea on. In this day and age of P.R. you would think they would at least try to come off as being knowledgable on the technologies invloved.
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If they added a missle launcher, grenade launcher, rail gun, and BFG to the game I'd buy it in a second. I'd love to rail people from across the city and/or room. It'd also be sweet to spam some grenades into the hot tub when it's full.
Maybe they could add user flown planes like BF1942 so you could turn neighborhoods into craters? This would make the game more enjoyable:)
It's funny that I wrote this from a realistic point of view and it's viewed as flamebait by a mod. I even stated that it wasn't writtent o offend. Those who cannot accept the truth need a serious dose of reality.
We spend all of this money as taxpayers to get Astronauts into space yet what is the point? I know we have space to thank for life changing discoveries like Velcro and juice in a fucking box but what else? I know there's more but the after we walked on the moon how have we raised the bar? Look how old the technology is that we are using. It's like sending Columbus to America on a home made Haitian raft. If we are going to do this and mean it then the technology has to be recent and not from around 30 years ago. It's amazing we haven't had more fatalities. NASA should have been researching and developing serious alternatives in propulsion along with a newer shuttle design and integrated this into something that should have already been tested. All I know is astronauts are a brave bunch. To risk dying just to get into space is ballsy to say the least.
This weekend I thought about the last few minutes of their lives and the gamut of emotions that ran through their bodies. Think about it. You're 16 minutes from a worldwide home coming and you can't wait to share all of your experiences with your loved ones and the world. You are ecstatic and your veins are pumping like they are filled with magma. In the blink of an eye you sense a disturbance and it doesn't feel right but you try to tell yourself that it's normal. After all with the flames wiping across the nose of the shuttle as you enter earth's atmosphere are anything but normal but it is expected. The shuttle starts to shimmy and shriek and your stomach drops. You tell yourself this isn't right. Your scared shitless. You hope you're dreaming but your not. The shuttle starts to rip apart and you can see through the cracks and stare at the dead space out of it. At this point you're not coming home, you're not going to get to say goodbye to your family, and you know you're going to die. You cannot believe what is happening and there's nothing you can do about it.
In an instant the cabin has depressurized and the inner workings and guts of the ship fly around at light speed. This is it. There's no changing the course of events and you have to admit to yourself that you are going to die. It's over right then and there. When you're going 12,500 mph and 200,000 feet up there isn't a miracle in the world that could save you. I hate to even think about the violence of the moment because it's nothing any of us can imagine for a second. This post isn't meant to offend, annoy, or disturb anyone. I am merely articulating what I envisioned when I saw it happen. It looked so nice a peaceful from 40 miles below but in all actuality there are things that happened up there that none of us could have imagined. My only hope is when they died that it was over quick. People with this type of bravery don't deserve to suffer. I just hope that this didn't happen from some pencil pusher's oversight on the damage to the wing.
My last thought on this subject is do you really think they believe that it would happen to them? You know the "it won't happen to me" way of thinking? They are in my thoughts, as well as their families, so the next time we go let's get it right. No more tiny experiments and orbiting at ad nauseam. If we have people willing to risk their lives and believe in this way of life so deeply then we need to raise our goals and go to places we have never been.
Just another device that connects to the internet big deal. It's cool that it runs Linux but they probably only chose Linux because it more widely accepted by those in the know hence what they might think is a loyal user base for their product.
The truth is just because it uses Linux doesn't mean it'll be on anyone's must buy list. I completely understand why it won't run any version of Windows. Who wants their new Guard robot OS to crash and start killing the people who bought it? I don't want the HAL effect occuring in my house! I can see the thing fry and instead of saying MS's slogan "Where do you want to go today" or whatever the fuck it is it'll crash and say " WHo does the guard robot want to maim today".
Personally I will never buy one of these things until I can fuck them without the risj of being electrocuted:) No HAL...I'll take Hallie.
For a minute there I thought that it might affect the porn titles but luckily it didn't happen. I think we could have been looking at riots and possibly martial law.
You can steal my car, rob my mom, and beat my brother but DON'T FUCK WITH MY PORN!
Since there are so many Q2 references I must post this information as it pertains to it all. I'm sure most have you have played Quake 1/2/3 but the following is the best way to play it.
Roll the quote..."The CAVE is a million dollar projection-based VR system that provides real-time head-tracked perspective with a large field of view, interactive control, and stereo display. It's a 10x10x10 foot "cube" with images projected onto 3 walls and the floor."
check it out here...
Ok since I started this thread I need the two who gained points on my back to now donate them to me:) Just kidding. I forgot about the Adam.
A year or two ago someone came up with a life size version of Quake 2. You were surroung by the game almost like an IMAX version of it. Some of the bosses stood 10 ft tall. It was very spendy back then but I think they should let me demo it now. Check it out and how fucking cool is this... http://brighton.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~prajlich/caveQuake/
I don't see Colecovision on this list and was wondering how successful it was? I had one and it had some good games but I didn't know anyone else with one. For some reason the only games I can remember are Ladybug and Popeye and those were fun.
This system couldn't have been that successful since it pretty much came and went and there wasn't a Colecovision 2. I think it also had those lame ass controllers that were part joystick part keyboard like the Atari 8500 or whatever the hell it was called.
I can't believe I actually played pong at one time.
The feds are going to stop worms yet can't even stop illegal aliens from entering the country and that's much more simplistic.
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The day we have VR mixed in with AI in some form of virtual sex is the day crack is no longer the most addictive drug. Yes there are real dolls but a virtual real doll who responds in real time according to her AI and what you've done is where it's at. If that day ever comes I will never leave the house again unless I run out of paper towels.
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When will everyone wake up and realize that when they buy cd's, tapes, etc. that they are indirectly supporting the RIAA? Yes we all love music but we risk our musical freedom buying the products the RIAA sells. I have almost 1000 store bought cd's but I can no longer buy them from such a monopolistic, evil diety as the RIAA.
They want to dictate who, what, when, where, why and how I buy and listen to my music. It's my fucking choice and they have forced me to boycott all they sell. I can get anything I want free so I'll go back to that method.
Sueing your customers into a lifelong debt is unjustified and narrowminded bullshit in it's basis. By setting examples in ruining the avergae person's financial life is completely uncalled for and I will not have any part in supporting these fucks in buying their products.
If anyone has any self-respect or ethics then they'll also refuse to support this ridiculous entity called the RIAA. We stop buying they start to get the message.
Fuck the RIAA...you can't shit where you eat...unless you're Hilary Rosen:)
I was thinking July 4th also but went with the first but whatever the community thinks...I'm down with it. It doesn't matter what day but you make a good point and a good slogan to go along with it. Napster also had a good one called buycott:)
First off I've read previous posts about the RIAA finally getting a clue by going this new route. They haven't got a clue. They are only going this new way because of the case they lost that said p2p programs aren't only for illegal purposes. All they are doing is pursuing the same ideology in a different manner. They haven't become newly enlightened. They were litigated into this and not by choice.
In a post of mine last week I predicted this. Don't believe me? Go read it. This is the time for all of us to make our presence known. No matter what we say or what we do the only thing that makes a difference is money. Everyone who cares about this issue at all should agree on a day to boycott all music sales...maybe even a week. When a few million people decide to not buy a product then their voices are heard loud and clear. Ask Jesse Jackson. He's famous for extorting money out of nothing. Maybe we can "extort" the RIAA off of our backs:)
Instead of rehashing the same topic why not take action? Our words do nothing but not buying their products would change the landscape of things IRL. A true worldwide boycott would cost the RIAA millions and millions of dollars and why fund an entity that's out to sue the average person into bankruptcy? I say JULY 1st and if that goes well we add more dates until they buckle and they will if we can all join together and make a statement of this magnitude.
What do you say? Fuck off won't suffice. Spread the word and make a stand.
How many times have we heard or read what people want in terms of music? I'm talking price and ease of use. It's completely ignored and never explored. The RIAA has resorted to an over-zealous and somewhat vindictive approach which has alienated them from the customers they want to keep. I understand copyrights and such but I also understand what's good and what's bad business.
The RIAA has no one to blame but themselves. We as consumers have voted with our wallets and they simply refuse to accept this so they are trying to legislate us into doing it their way. It's obviously not going to turn out how they would like it to.
I saw this coming when they went after Napster. Take down the largest at the time P2P service with centralized servers and replace it with numerous decentralized servers with no one to go after except for the user and you're fucked. So going after the person you're trying to convince to buy more of your product is your business plan RIAA? You bunch of fucking idiots. Whoever is dishing out the advice to the worlds largest group of techology n00bs should be shot. This has to rank as the best example of how not to do business, how not to work the P.R. angle, and how not to work into motivating your customers to spend more on your products.
You cannot legislate the free market via scare tactics and propaganda while in the mean time not working to create a more technology based business model and not expect to demonize yourself in the process. As soon as the RIAA starts to bear down on users and suing the shit out of them then they'll really start to see a backlash of epic proportion. It will come to that and they're going to be in for the shock of their lives. Fuck the the RIAA/MPAA. They are getting exactly what they deserve and there's not a person I know who feels any amount of guilt over not being ripped off and now having a choice.
After reading Orrin's (sp?) remarks I was hit with a great idea. Remember the movie Logan's Run? The premise was that when you reached 30 your hand had a glowing red beacon signifying a new "fun time". You were tied to some futuristic merry-go-round in front of an adoring audience and then blasted right the fuck into oblivion. Maybe when you reach a certain age in politics the same thing should happen? I'd pay to see that...as long as steps were taken to fully protect the crowd from the flying feces of the deceased men of yester year. Got Poop?
I'm sure a lot of people here build their own boxes like me so what does it matter what Dell does? I am my companies main support guy so it might matter there but if need be I'll just get a usb floppy but once again we don't even use Dell so I don't care.
We use Systemax boxes and they suck beyond belief. I've never seen so many boxes with dead cdroms and failed hard drives. It's like they never test their products. I guess when the company chooses to go cheap then this is what I have to deal with.
I also like the way our head IT guy does major hardware/network upgrades with no notice/warning during peak work hours. He is an MCSE so that might be the reason.
Actually I've never played it but since they have this expansion pack I might pick it up:)
Maybe the MPAA should take a look at what the pron industry is doing in terms of downloadable movies. On gamelink.com you can download tons of movies in DivX format and also the choice of watching it once or for a month. It's also cheaper than going to the movies.
The MPAA would do well to inform Jack-off on how shit works so he doesn't spout off about things he has no idea on. In this day and age of P.R. you would think they would at least try to come off as being knowledgable on the technologies invloved.
If they added a missle launcher, grenade launcher, rail gun, and BFG to the game I'd buy it in a second. I'd love to rail people from across the city and/or room. It'd also be sweet to spam some grenades into the hot tub when it's full.
Maybe they could add user flown planes like BF1942 so you could turn neighborhoods into craters? This would make the game more enjoyable:)
It's funny that I wrote this from a realistic point of view and it's viewed as flamebait by a mod. I even stated that it wasn't writtent o offend. Those who cannot accept the truth need a serious dose of reality.
We spend all of this money as taxpayers to get Astronauts into space yet what is the point? I know we have space to thank for life changing discoveries like Velcro and juice in a fucking box but what else? I know there's more but the after we walked on the moon how have we raised the bar? Look how old the technology is that we are using. It's like sending Columbus to America on a home made Haitian raft. If we are going to do this and mean it then the technology has to be recent and not from around 30 years ago. It's amazing we haven't had more fatalities. NASA should have been researching and developing serious alternatives in propulsion along with a newer shuttle design and integrated this into something that should have already been tested. All I know is astronauts are a brave bunch. To risk dying just to get into space is ballsy to say the least.
This weekend I thought about the last few minutes of their lives and the gamut of emotions that ran through their bodies. Think about it. You're 16 minutes from a worldwide home coming and you can't wait to share all of your experiences with your loved ones and the world. You are ecstatic and your veins are pumping like they are filled with magma. In the blink of an eye you sense a disturbance and it doesn't feel right but you try to tell yourself that it's normal. After all with the flames wiping across the nose of the shuttle as you enter earth's atmosphere are anything but normal but it is expected. The shuttle starts to shimmy and shriek and your stomach drops. You tell yourself this isn't right. Your scared shitless. You hope you're dreaming but your not. The shuttle starts to rip apart and you can see through the cracks and stare at the dead space out of it. At this point you're not coming home, you're not going to get to say goodbye to your family, and you know you're going to die. You cannot believe what is happening and there's nothing you can do about it.
In an instant the cabin has depressurized and the inner workings and guts of the ship fly around at light speed. This is it. There's no changing the course of events and you have to admit to yourself that you are going to die. It's over right then and there. When you're going 12,500 mph and 200,000 feet up there isn't a miracle in the world that could save you. I hate to even think about the violence of the moment because it's nothing any of us can imagine for a second. This post isn't meant to offend, annoy, or disturb anyone. I am merely articulating what I envisioned when I saw it happen. It looked so nice a peaceful from 40 miles below but in all actuality there are things that happened up there that none of us could have imagined. My only hope is when they died that it was over quick. People with this type of bravery don't deserve to suffer. I just hope that this didn't happen from some pencil pusher's oversight on the damage to the wing.
My last thought on this subject is do you really think they believe that it would happen to them? You know the "it won't happen to me" way of thinking? They are in my thoughts, as well as their families, so the next time we go let's get it right. No more tiny experiments and orbiting at ad nauseam. If we have people willing to risk their lives and believe in this way of life so deeply then we need to raise our goals and go to places we have never been.
Just another device that connects to the internet big deal. It's cool that it runs Linux but they probably only chose Linux because it more widely accepted by those in the know hence what they might think is a loyal user base for their product.
The truth is just because it uses Linux doesn't mean it'll be on anyone's must buy list. I completely understand why it won't run any version of Windows. Who wants their new Guard robot OS to crash and start killing the people who bought it? I don't want the HAL effect occuring in my house! I can see the thing fry and instead of saying MS's slogan "Where do you want to go today" or whatever the fuck it is it'll crash and say " WHo does the guard robot want to maim today".
Personally I will never buy one of these things until I can fuck them without the risj of being electrocuted:) No HAL...I'll take Hallie.
For a minute there I thought that it might affect the porn titles but luckily it didn't happen. I think we could have been looking at riots and possibly martial law.
You can steal my car, rob my mom, and beat my brother but DON'T FUCK WITH MY PORN!
All your frog food are belong to Frodo
Humanure...it's what's for dinner!
Humanure...the other brown meat!
Humanure...bet you can't have just one
Humanure....bet cha' bite a turd
Where's the humanure?
Throw another Humanure on the barbie
Humanure...come on down!
Heeeeereeee's...Humanure!
Since there are so many Q2 references I must post this information as it pertains to it all. I'm sure most have you have played Quake 1/2/3 but the following is the best way to play it.
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Roll the quote..."The CAVE is a million dollar projection-based VR system that provides real-time head-tracked perspective with a large field of view, interactive control, and stereo display. It's a 10x10x10 foot "cube" with images projected onto 3 walls and the floor." check it out here...
http://brighton.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~prajlich/caveQuake
Ok since I started this thread I need the two who gained points on my back to now donate them to me:) Just kidding. I forgot about the Adam.
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A year or two ago someone came up with a life size version of Quake 2. You were surroung by the game almost like an IMAX version of it. Some of the bosses stood 10 ft tall. It was very spendy back then but I think they should let me demo it now. Check it out and how fucking cool is this... http://brighton.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~prajlich/caveQuake
Email him and ask him if his pubes have arrived yet. That is usually a good indication.
Infinium is the epitome vaporware. Nothing comes close and nothing ever will.
I don't see Colecovision on this list and was wondering how successful it was? I had one and it had some good games but I didn't know anyone else with one. For some reason the only games I can remember are Ladybug and Popeye and those were fun.
This system couldn't have been that successful since it pretty much came and went and there wasn't a Colecovision 2. I think it also had those lame ass controllers that were part joystick part keyboard like the Atari 8500 or whatever the hell it was called.
I can't believe I actually played pong at one time.
If they are using high grade pure cocaine flakes to cauterize wounds like a lot of places then I doubt they'll be using them for what they intended.
They already have.....http://www.railgun.org/
If you're talking Quake 2 or 3 I own with it!
The feds are going to stop worms yet can't even stop illegal aliens from entering the country and that's much more simplistic.
The day we have VR mixed in with AI in some form of virtual sex is the day crack is no longer the most addictive drug. Yes there are real dolls but a virtual real doll who responds in real time according to her AI and what you've done is where it's at. If that day ever comes I will never leave the house again unless I run out of paper towels.