Everything I've seen with him in the media over the past several years shows me he's turned into a bitter old man. He had the immature rant at the airport, had it out with Tina Turner (the dude is called a "diva"), and broke down in public at one point. He's entitled to his opinion, but other classic artists have embraced and revered changes due to the Internet. He's deciding to see the glass half empty, as it appears he's done in general anyhow....
This raises an important question: Are legitimate backup copies of a piece of software you own illegal under the DMCA?
I believe the more important question is: what's happening to our liberties?...
If we're not losing them in the name of fighting terrorism, then it's in the name of copyright laws. Between Hollywood and the middle east, liberty is bleeding.
No one ever said moderators earned or deserved their points....
It was meant to be part funny, but mostly serious. To me, the RIAA and DoJ are juggernauts. What chance does the little guy have? I think more and more, entities are having to choose a side in this thing. It will be the little guy, at the end of the day, who will decide the final outcome. No matter how huge and seemingly impossible to defeat these powers may be, they cannot stop the change in media that has been happening, and that will continue to happen.
Let's be honest: the RIAA is more interested in forcing everyone back to music distribution circa 1990 than they are in anything else.... It's the best way for them to make the best money regardless of how inefficient it is to the art or the listener....
Good stuff. I did tinker back in the day (had a '66 Chevelle post).
As for 1000hp, I believe I said, "near." I was thinking you could get a least another 100 or 200 or more before having to get after market rods/cams, etc. Com'on. Am I the only one that reads super chevy? You can tweak forever to eek out hp. No, not 1000. My bad for leading you there.
As for the rest: you guys are still pulling my 60s chevy's into the modern era. I'm not doing that. I'm not saying a 60s chevy is better or as good as. It was a different time with bigger cars, more metal and power could only get got by exploding more fuel. I mean, yes, an M1 Abram can own a Panther from 1944, but don'tcha just love those Panthers?
Good stuff, but I'm talking 1960s and that this was going on way back. Also, and I didn't mean to get into a d*ck size competition over power, but com'on. You could factory order a 500 hp Chevelle or Camaro in the late 60s/1970 -- did you get that? Factory! That VW you link is tricked out. Very interesting that it's done with factory parts, but it appears they went through some hoops to get there.
Of course, tricking a 450/500HP Chevy was cinch and going near 1000HP street has been done for decades with, yes, factory stuff just "reconfigured" like your VW.
Currently, certain mechanical car parts are interchangeable from model to model.
Currently? Back in my teens, in the 80s, I hung out with a family that built street machines. There used to be this company called GMC and it had others called Chevrolet and Pontiac, et al. We could take a bell housing off a 66 Pontiac whatever and fit it perfectly to a 68 Chevrolet whatever. ALL water thermostat housings between all of these makes were the same. I can remember helping my dad with his 69 Ford Bronco to replace a cracked thermostat housing, and when we went to the junkyard the dude pulls out a huge box of ford thermostat housings -- even between Ford cars they were different. You could fit a Nova front-end to a Ventura and all the bolts matched. Anyone toying around with American cars from the 60s learned to love the GMs, especially Chevys....
GMCs, and especially Chevys, from the 60s, were God's gift to cars and auto mechanics and it was all interchangeable. Couple this with the raw power of those cars (yes yes, environment concerns and all that) and those are some of the best memories of my life....
Hehe, currently.... Reminds me of my daughter saying, "way back in the 90s...."
How is parent offtopic? Truly, the vast majority of security woes in Windows is due to the entirely asinine practice instituted by microsoft ages ago wherein root is assumed. This has created both the hallofshame for applications that cannot work without it, and a useless registry entry for anonymous network access wherein, if changed to anything but default (where anonymous access across the network is wide open) then things just stop working in windows networking -- tiny things like, you can no longer see other computer or change your password or get to shares on servers....
If only mod points went to only the really technical member of/.
[Druidd00d] sow plz!
[Shamanguy] but you're a druid. You have sow.
[Druidd00d] dont have it memmed sow plz!
[Necroboi] Wtf is my pet?
[Pallygirl] I saw it attacking that merchant over the hill a minute ago
[Merchant03] "Guards! Guards! Defend me!"
(Merchant03 hits Necroboi for 623!)
(Merchant03 hits Necroboi for 623!)
(Merchant03 hits Necroboi for 623!)
(Necroboi has been killed by Merchant03)
[Shamanguy] zomg!
[Druidd00d] sow plz!
What ever happened to mmogs being about silly stuff like that?
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What about the pink rocket monkeys? He doesn't cover the pink rocket monkeys? Wtf?!?...
Barney Fife never underestimated the seriousness of a crime....
Everything I've seen with him in the media over the past several years shows me he's turned into a bitter old man. He had the immature rant at the airport, had it out with Tina Turner (the dude is called a "diva"), and broke down in public at one point. He's entitled to his opinion, but other classic artists have embraced and revered changes due to the Internet. He's deciding to see the glass half empty, as it appears he's done in general anyhow....
Bernie Taupin's gf was Marilyn Monroe?
This raises an important question: Are legitimate backup copies of a piece of software you own illegal under the DMCA?
I believe the more important question is: what's happening to our liberties?...
If we're not losing them in the name of fighting terrorism, then it's in the name of copyright laws. Between Hollywood and the middle east, liberty is bleeding.
I think the Rodney Dangerfield joke applies to most /.ers:
"Most kids are scared when they first have sex. I was scared.... I was all alone." --Dangerfield
...by the time I post this:
If you play wow, you're supporting the terrorists!
Or,
So that's where they kept the WMDs.... In Ironforge!
No one ever said moderators earned or deserved their points....
It was meant to be part funny, but mostly serious. To me, the RIAA and DoJ are juggernauts. What chance does the little guy have? I think more and more, entities are having to choose a side in this thing. It will be the little guy, at the end of the day, who will decide the final outcome. No matter how huge and seemingly impossible to defeat these powers may be, they cannot stop the change in media that has been happening, and that will continue to happen.
Let's be honest: the RIAA is more interested in forcing everyone back to music distribution circa 1990 than they are in anything else.... It's the best way for them to make the best money regardless of how inefficient it is to the art or the listener....
"Who can resist the union of the two towers." --Saruman
That was so wrong.
[Japanese guy walks by, hears that, waves and says]
"So rong!"
Courtesy of the movie, Young Einstein.
And how have you been coping?
And body by fischer....
Maybe I spelled that wrong as I did GM when saying GMC. Much good corrections all around though....
Good stuff. I did tinker back in the day (had a '66 Chevelle post).
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As for 1000hp, I believe I said, "near." I was thinking you could get a least another 100 or 200 or more before having to get after market rods/cams, etc. Com'on. Am I the only one that reads super chevy? You can tweak forever to eek out hp. No, not 1000. My bad for leading you there.
As for the rest: you guys are still pulling my 60s chevy's into the modern era. I'm not doing that. I'm not saying a 60s chevy is better or as good as. It was a different time with bigger cars, more metal and power could only get got by exploding more fuel. I mean, yes, an M1 Abram can own a Panther from 1944, but don'tcha just love those Panthers?
Yes, you could factory order up to 500hp:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Big-Block_
Look at the L88 notes. Factory was 430 at 5200 rpm, but at redline it exceeded 500hp, capable of 550hp....
First year for that was '67....
Good stuff, but I'm talking 1960s and that this was going on way back. Also, and I didn't mean to get into a d*ck size competition over power, but com'on. You could factory order a 500 hp Chevelle or Camaro in the late 60s/1970 -- did you get that? Factory! That VW you link is tricked out. Very interesting that it's done with factory parts, but it appears they went through some hoops to get there.
Of course, tricking a 450/500HP Chevy was cinch and going near 1000HP street has been done for decades with, yes, factory stuff just "reconfigured" like your VW.
Oh yea!
Pinks!?!
Currently, certain mechanical car parts are interchangeable from model to model.
Currently? Back in my teens, in the 80s, I hung out with a family that built street machines. There used to be this company called GMC and it had others called Chevrolet and Pontiac, et al. We could take a bell housing off a 66 Pontiac whatever and fit it perfectly to a 68 Chevrolet whatever. ALL water thermostat housings between all of these makes were the same. I can remember helping my dad with his 69 Ford Bronco to replace a cracked thermostat housing, and when we went to the junkyard the dude pulls out a huge box of ford thermostat housings -- even between Ford cars they were different. You could fit a Nova front-end to a Ventura and all the bolts matched. Anyone toying around with American cars from the 60s learned to love the GMs, especially Chevys....
GMCs, and especially Chevys, from the 60s, were God's gift to cars and auto mechanics and it was all interchangeable. Couple this with the raw power of those cars (yes yes, environment concerns and all that) and those are some of the best memories of my life....
Hehe, currently.... Reminds me of my daughter saying, "way back in the 90s...."
Did you see her again or was it just a one nighter?
I guess if Rove & Co were living in ancient ages, they would have made sure that any reference to catapults were removed from Library of Alexandria?
You've just brought doom upon warcraft 3....
No, no, no. Facts, man, facts. They used the supergun and shot 'em there....
For some reason that line from Godfather I popped in my head where Michael told Kate:
"The Corleone family will be totally legitimate in five years Kate."
How is parent offtopic? Truly, the vast majority of security woes in Windows is due to the entirely asinine practice instituted by microsoft ages ago wherein root is assumed. This has created both the hallofshame for applications that cannot work without it, and a useless registry entry for anonymous network access wherein, if changed to anything but default (where anonymous access across the network is wide open) then things just stop working in windows networking -- tiny things like, you can no longer see other computer or change your password or get to shares on servers....
/.
If only mod points went to only the really technical member of
[Druidd00d] sow plz!
[Shamanguy] but you're a druid. You have sow.
[Druidd00d] dont have it memmed sow plz!
[Necroboi] Wtf is my pet?
[Pallygirl] I saw it attacking that merchant over the hill a minute ago
[Merchant03] "Guards! Guards! Defend me!"
(Merchant03 hits Necroboi for 623!)
(Merchant03 hits Necroboi for 623!)
(Merchant03 hits Necroboi for 623!)
(Necroboi has been killed by Merchant03)
[Shamanguy] zomg!
[Druidd00d] sow plz!
What ever happened to mmogs being about silly stuff like that?
I just creates old, fat, white men....
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