Re:John Peel's record collection: 25k
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25k only comes to about 375k songs.
However, it's still impressive, and of course legal.
Re:Dimnishing marginal returns
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I can agree with your assessment with Kazzaa. But as he mentioned (and probably left much unmentioned) he was using private torrents, etc. You can visit the Jazz newsgroup each day for about 20+ different albums a day. And that's just one genre (and a pretty much bottomless one at that)
Since they're full albums, they're usually ripped by original jazz loving owners, high bitrate, tagged correctly, and nothing missing. The techno newsgroups has people converting their vinyl singles and sharing. You can even find out-of-print tape rips for Punk tapes in their newsgroup. You'd be surprised what you can find online.
Well, it's not like he's looking at each bit as it downloads. He queues it up in the morning, lets it run all day while he WORKS, and then tags/renames and archives it at night.
Re:King? I don't think so ...
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You should get a hold of that guy and see what number he's up to. I used to know a large group of people that traded full albums, and the biggest I had seen was in the 40K album range. I would LOVE to know a higher number.
Re:he is obviously sharing with others
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No, I thought one of the great things about torrent was, that it was able to have a partial download be available for downloading to others. This would be more apparent in larger files such as movies. A friend of mine got a letter from his ISP via the MPAA who warned him about sharing a movie. He said that the movie never even finished downloading.
Re:Storage for that would be...
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No he doesn't. He's throwing the RIAA off his scent.
Re:Interesting idea of "middle class"
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Upper middle class IS the new rich.
We're all being shoveled into the lower class realm.
Re:this guy is just holding up a sign
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You're very low on your estimate. The article mentions 256 bitrates, and he also replaces smaller ones when he finds a better one.
He should be pushing 4TB.
The fact that he is downloading single (from what I could tell) instead of full albums, it's possible the more popular songs are a bit shorter. Hard to say.
What impresses the hell out of me is that he did this in 10 months. I know a friend of a brother of a friend who collects mp3's also, and I've been, errr, he's been at it for over 4 years and only at a third of that size.
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There's no way he's downloading it from P2P sources. Too slow.
And yet crack smoking street trash are allowed to get married.
It is, however, implied or explicitly stated in the US that marriage is a pact between a man and a woman
And it was explicitly stated in the Constitution that only white, land-owning men could vote.
If in response to that you meant the holy religious sacrament of marriage, then I ask why do all the people hiding behind the bible to explain their dislike for gays always point to the old testament? The same place explaining 'eye for an eye', and numerous examples of where slavery is a fact of life. Times change. We found dinosaur bones that are older than what was described in Genesis. The bible need not be literal when it comes to discriminating against certain people in legislation.
I have ONE question I really would like you to answer. It would really help me figure this out.... Do you think gays should be allowed in the military?
"Marriage does have meaning beyond getting some more money out of your paycheck."
I don't know why you're holding homosexuals up to a higher standards than others. An 80 year old man is allowed to marry a hot 20 year old. One's in it for the money, the other for the sex.
And what value does marriage mean in Vegas for those that get married 1 hour after meeting each other by an Elvis impersonator, and they're allowed to annul it 2 weeks later?
"But I should point out that some of the benefit that married couples receive from society is because they are building a family unit, which I do not believe gay couples do"
That's just crap on so many levels. If that was actually true, then there'd be a law against gay couples being allowed to be artificially inseminated, and for eligibility for adoption.
Felons are allowed to build a family unit. Disabled people are allowed to build family units. The head the Klu Klutz Klan is allowed to build a family unit. Imagine what he's teaching his kids right now...
Big words from a little man. You'd do the same in a heartbeat. I'd like to see what you've contributed.
In terms of Nullsoft, we are talking about Justin Frankel... who has contributed plenty to open source. Creating a valid version of WinAmp to 2.x, and then selling, is hardly a sellout. You can still use 2.x. You can still add on skins to it. The community around WinAmp thrived for years. How much further could he have really gone on with it? Selling it allowed him to move on to new projects, and be financially able to do it for the rest of his life.
It's been ingrained in my head ever since I got my learner's permit: Driving, It's a Privilege, not a Right.
I am sure there would be holy hell if gay people were not allowed driver's licenses. By your definition though, they don't have a foot to stand on because it's a privilege.
I will concede, however, that after reading all your posts in this area, you shouldn't be lumped into the harsher definition usually associated with the word "homophobia". And you're certainly not in the minority on the topic.
I do however, feel that whatever formed your beliefs on the subject, may be similar to circumstances and thoughts going through the minds of people who were against interracial marriage, integration of 'coloreds' to schools, etc.
How is a person's "civil" dislike for gays any different than a person's dislike for blacks? How does a child grow up in an open environment hating disliking gays or blacks on their own? They don't.
Even if somehow that kid grew up picturing Kenny kissing Mike as being gross on their own, it shouldn't be any grosser in their mind than Kenny kissing fat, ugly Shelly.
My [bad?] point is that it's not a natural dislike, it's a learned dislike. Brought up by opinions of our parents, brought up by Old Testament preachers, and peers.
And as far as "rights" vs. "privileges", I disagree. Common Law gives "priviliges" to a couple who have been living together for 7 years the same 'priviliges' as a married couple. And they NEVER had to go through the sacred "institution" of marriage.
I have heard both sides of the aisle for and against Gay Marriages, and the most telling were the heart-felt fears of the religious definition of marriage being trampled on. There I can respect that problem, and bring up the fact that I'm really just in favor of gays gaining Civil Unions. Government forms, including taxes, should ask if you're Single or Civil Union'd. And when you get married in a church, you should then be awarded a Civil Union, as far as the government is concerned.
There are gay couples in their 60's right now that have lived together in a house for the last 30 years. I don't see why one is not allowed to see the other in the hospital under 'family'.
I know what you mean. Even though most of the people responding to your post are showing dictionary quotes to show that my term of homophobia was ok...
I just wanted to say that when I used the term, I didn't mean to be inclusive to everyone that were against Gay Marriage. In my mind, I was picturing a subset that were more vocal/angry/outspoken against homosexuals. Unfortunately, that's a large subset. Then again, I don't have exit polls on these opinions:)
However, Homophobia isn't like Arachnaphobia. Where the 'unreasonable fear' when in the vicinity of spiders is so apparant. It's not like a gay person walks into a room, and they jump on the table and scream, kill it, kill it, eek!
It's more like racism. Hatred. Maybe the word should Homoism.
You know, I hear that a lot. "Don't do the crime, then". The first thing that comes to mind is the the members of DrinkOrDie who got almost 3 years in prison.
Not only do I think 3 years is too harsh for their crime (now that is only my opinion) but do you think anal rape in prison for such crimes is ok then?
Since you're a level-headed conservative that knows what the word 'discussion' means, answer me this:
I know people who are republican ONLY because of the Abortion issue. Why are people willing to vote only republican because they support the banning of abortion? We've had how many Republicans in office since Roe Vs. Wade? None of outlawed abortions.
So I wonder... Why do people vote on this one issue, that isn't going to be changed if their republican goes into office? Why not vote on the issues that more likely will change when X beat Y for office?
Your excuse there has been used and abused a thousand times by scamming heterosexuals. There are marriages to get people citizenships, marriages to old guys to inherit their money, even tax deductions, etc.
The scams in homosexual marriages vs. heterosexual marriages are going to pretty much the same, since both are dealing with humans.
"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."
Not to mention the huge conservative Christian community that helped Bush into office because of their fear (or possibly valid religious beliefs) against Gay Marriage.
The same homophobic people will then turn around and chuckle at the thought of men raping men in prison. It's got to stop. That is not the punishment that judges hand out, but it is definately one that gets handed out in all serious prisons.
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However, it's still impressive, and of course legal.
Since they're full albums, they're usually ripped by original jazz loving owners, high bitrate, tagged correctly, and nothing missing. The techno newsgroups has people converting their vinyl singles and sharing. You can even find out-of-print tape rips for Punk tapes in their newsgroup. You'd be surprised what you can find online.
Well, it's not like he's looking at each bit as it downloads. He queues it up in the morning, lets it run all day while he WORKS, and then tags/renames and archives it at night.
You should get a hold of that guy and see what number he's up to. I used to know a large group of people that traded full albums, and the biggest I had seen was in the 40K album range. I would LOVE to know a higher number.
No, I thought one of the great things about torrent was, that it was able to have a partial download be available for downloading to others. This would be more apparent in larger files such as movies. A friend of mine got a letter from his ISP via the MPAA who warned him about sharing a movie. He said that the movie never even finished downloading.
My name is Terry, so blame my parrents.
No he doesn't. He's throwing the RIAA off his scent.
We're all being shoveled into the lower class realm.
He should be pushing 4TB.
The fact that he is downloading single (from what I could tell) instead of full albums, it's possible the more popular songs are a bit shorter. Hard to say.
What impresses the hell out of me is that he did this in 10 months. I know a friend of a brother of a friend who collects mp3's also, and I've been, errr, he's been at it for over 4 years and only at a third of that size.
There's no way he's downloading it from P2P sources. Too slow.
You're just
It is, however, implied or explicitly stated in the US that marriage is a pact between a man and a woman
And it was explicitly stated in the Constitution that only white, land-owning men could vote.
If in response to that you meant the holy religious sacrament of marriage, then I ask why do all the people hiding behind the bible to explain their dislike for gays always point to the old testament? The same place explaining 'eye for an eye', and numerous examples of where slavery is a fact of life. Times change. We found dinosaur bones that are older than what was described in Genesis. The bible need not be literal when it comes to discriminating against certain people in legislation.
I have ONE question I really would like you to answer. It would really help me figure this out.... Do you think gays should be allowed in the military?
I don't know why you're holding homosexuals up to a higher standards than others. An 80 year old man is allowed to marry a hot 20 year old. One's in it for the money, the other for the sex.
And what value does marriage mean in Vegas for those that get married 1 hour after meeting each other by an Elvis impersonator, and they're allowed to annul it 2 weeks later? "But I should point out that some of the benefit that married couples receive from society is because they are building a family unit, which I do not believe gay couples do"
That's just crap on so many levels. If that was actually true, then there'd be a law against gay couples being allowed to be artificially inseminated, and for eligibility for adoption.Felons are allowed to build a family unit. Disabled people are allowed to build family units. The head the Klu Klutz Klan is allowed to build a family unit. Imagine what he's teaching his kids right now...
If he was going to use his name, he would have come up with "Gateway".
In terms of Nullsoft, we are talking about Justin Frankel... who has contributed plenty to open source. Creating a valid version of WinAmp to 2.x, and then selling, is hardly a sellout. You can still use 2.x. You can still add on skins to it. The community around WinAmp thrived for years. How much further could he have really gone on with it? Selling it allowed him to move on to new projects, and be financially able to do it for the rest of his life.
5 eats up WAY too many resources on my machine at home. 2.X for me also.
I am sure there would be holy hell if gay people were not allowed driver's licenses. By your definition though, they don't have a foot to stand on because it's a privilege.
I will concede, however, that after reading all your posts in this area, you shouldn't be lumped into the harsher definition usually associated with the word "homophobia". And you're certainly not in the minority on the topic.
I do however, feel that whatever formed your beliefs on the subject, may be similar to circumstances and thoughts going through the minds of people who were against interracial marriage, integration of 'coloreds' to schools, etc.
Even if somehow that kid grew up picturing Kenny kissing Mike as being gross on their own, it shouldn't be any grosser in their mind than Kenny kissing fat, ugly Shelly.
My [bad?] point is that it's not a natural dislike, it's a learned dislike. Brought up by opinions of our parents, brought up by Old Testament preachers, and peers.
And as far as "rights" vs. "privileges", I disagree. Common Law gives "priviliges" to a couple who have been living together for 7 years the same 'priviliges' as a married couple. And they NEVER had to go through the sacred "institution" of marriage.
I have heard both sides of the aisle for and against Gay Marriages, and the most telling were the heart-felt fears of the religious definition of marriage being trampled on. There I can respect that problem, and bring up the fact that I'm really just in favor of gays gaining Civil Unions. Government forms, including taxes, should ask if you're Single or Civil Union'd. And when you get married in a church, you should then be awarded a Civil Union, as far as the government is concerned.
There are gay couples in their 60's right now that have lived together in a house for the last 30 years. I don't see why one is not allowed to see the other in the hospital under 'family'.
If your next question is what is warez, then that's pirated games & software, or music & movies. Whatever your poison is.
I just wanted to say that when I used the term, I didn't mean to be inclusive to everyone that were against Gay Marriage. In my mind, I was picturing a subset that were more vocal/angry/outspoken against homosexuals. Unfortunately, that's a large subset. Then again, I don't have exit polls on these opinions :)
However, Homophobia isn't like Arachnaphobia. Where the 'unreasonable fear' when in the vicinity of spiders is so apparant. It's not like a gay person walks into a room, and they jump on the table and scream, kill it, kill it, eek!
It's more like racism. Hatred. Maybe the word should Homoism.
Not only do I think 3 years is too harsh for their crime (now that is only my opinion) but do you think anal rape in prison for such crimes is ok then?
I know people who are republican ONLY because of the Abortion issue. Why are people willing to vote only republican because they support the banning of abortion? We've had how many Republicans in office since Roe Vs. Wade? None of outlawed abortions.
So I wonder... Why do people vote on this one issue, that isn't going to be changed if their republican goes into office? Why not vote on the issues that more likely will change when X beat Y for office?
The scams in homosexual marriages vs. heterosexual marriages are going to pretty much the same, since both are dealing with humans.
"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."
The same homophobic people will then turn around and chuckle at the thought of men raping men in prison. It's got to stop. That is not the punishment that judges hand out, but it is definately one that gets handed out in all serious prisons.