False. The afrementioned Mr. Yankovic takes great pains to get permission from the artist for his parodies. The only case where he didn't was for Coolio's "Gangsta Paradise" — and in that case, Weird Al's mistake was in taking the label's word that they had received Coolio's permission.
On the plus side, you are right about the dick move part.
Lewinsky Corollary: As soon as any online discussion mentions George W. Bush, any unfavorable actions attributed to him will be defended by stating "Clinton did it too."
YEAH! Someone should find a way of making the iPhone work without having to sign a 2-year contract with AT&T. Even if they have to sacrifice the cellphone functionality. I sure hope that when someone does that it becomes a story on SLashdot. Of course then, I'd probably have to respond to someone too dense to Read The Fucking Title.
This is what I hate about this crap these days. Just because I think King George is a blight on our nation it somehow immediately means that I must be a liberal Clinton supporter. I think Clinton was an ass too, I just think on the grand scale of things he was far better than Bush.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaa-fricking-MEN. I have enough hate for both sides; it's just at the moment the scale is in danger of tipping over. Hell, he could have ACTUALLY had Vince Foster killed AND fucked the corpse while singing "The Internationale" and the scale wouldn't move a hair. Who knew we had it so good back then.
And I like how only knowing that a person is someone who has committed perjury, is convicted in a court of law after a fair hearing, and has lost on appeal, should serve his rightful time in jail, makes it clear that that person is a LEFTIST. As opposed, to say, simply assuming that that person believes in the laws and Constitution of his country.
No -- I base my opinion that his appeal was bullshit because the (mostly Republican) appelate court said that the trial run by the (Republican) judge was run properly, denying his appeal that argued otherwise. They did not deny him the right to further appeal, but based on the unlikelihood of that appeal succeeding that he must surrender to the court and await the outcome of that further appeal in jail. In short, they thought a further appeal would be bullshit.
Convert my files - I ripped my entire CD collection I own into WMP. iTunes won't touch any of those songs or play them because they are WMA's with DRM. Other players will play them just fine. Our two MP3 players play them just fine. iTunes is demanding that I convert 20 gigs of music to suit its whims. That is bullshit, but rather a cold-hard fact. So much for "it just works" when it fails to serve the primary purpose, playing my music.
Waitasec, you ripped your CDs int oa format with DRM? Sorry, I didn't realize you were so, well, stupid. (Sorry, but it had to be said.) Do yourself a favor and rerip it in any format you can without DRM. Since you have two mp3 player, I would suggest mp3.
Now, as to iTunes going through your computer and gathering up your music: don't blame iTunes. It asked if you wanted it to scan your computer for music, and you said yes. Irrelevant anyway, since you ripped it all in WMA. With DRM! Jeezus, do you even READ Slashdot?
And just to assuage your fears, yes iTUnes has CD burning built in. That is assuming you aren't stupid enough to rip in WMA WITH FUCKING DRM. Christ on a cracker, man.
And before you ask, iTunes does NOT rip CDs in a format with DRM. The only tracks in an iTunes library with DRM are the ones you buy in the iTunes Store. Which I would suggest that you never do, because you're the type of person who RIPS HIS OWN CDS WITH DRM. Just, and i mean with this with all of the sympathy in the world, but FUCK, MAN. Just, just...FUCK!
Lessee, would this be the fault of the Bush-appointed head of the CIA, or the Bush-appointed federal prosecutor from Chicago who was apoointed by Bush to run the investigation. And a crime *was* committed: perjury. That's why there was a conviction and a sentence. There was a time when Republicans cared about such things. Mabe it died of loneliness when they stopped caring about deficits.
His party's rigging of the Illinois vote in 1960 was just as blatant as what happened in Florida in 2000.
Goddam it, I am so tired of this besmirching of the election of 1960. Get this through your thick skull: the Democrats did NOT, I repeat, NOT rig the election results in 1960. Quit proffering this ridiculous and slanderous LIE.
So if Valerie Plame wasn't a covert agent, why did the request to investigate the leak of a covert agent's identity, that initiated all of this folderol, come from THE FUCKING CIA?
The reason why the Judge wanted Libby to go to jail NOW is to force the President to pardon him now, for whatever reason he sees fit, so that the political/personal loyalty or obligation is balanced with the stigma of bad press.
Actually, the judge wanted Libby to go to jail NOW because he was convicted. The only reason he didn't go to jail immediately was his bullshit appeal, which we denied. Oh and, by the way, Libby's trial judge was appointed by Bush, and two of the three judges on the appeal board were appointed by Republicans. The only impact that the Democrats have had in all of this is talk, which seems to be all they're good for these days anyway.
And it's not a pardon, it's a commutation. Libby is still a convicted felon — at least he is until January of 2009.
I just did something crazy. Everyone is telling me how incredible every Apple product is, so I just installed iTunes again to give it another whirl.
It wants to covert my music files before it will play them
Bullshit.
the browser interface is poor
Opinion, but still kinda bullshit
and it wants my credit card information to display album art.
COMPLETE bullshit. You have to have an iTunes Store account to DOWNLOAD album art from the iTS. If the artwork is already in your files it displays properly.
You have a great future living under a bridge and charging tolls.
I stood in line for two hours. The difference between standing in line and not standing in line was getting to talk to other like-minded people.
My family lives 1000 miles away; so I spend time with them by using a (wait for it) cellphone. I don't have a job yet, as we moved here a few months
ago because the "wife" got a better job. As for her and our friends, they were all at work. Which is why I had TWO WHOLE HOURS OF FREE TIME to stand in line.
As for phones being "no-nonsense", all I ask is that a phone make calls AND sync with my computer, so I don't have to spend more time than I did
in line typing in all of my numbers. Of the last three phones I have had, only one has been able to do that, and I've had it for three days.
So why did I waste perfectly good time standing in line? So that the "wife" could have an iPhone to take with her on her business trips instead of
lugging her camera and laptop with her, and now she can email me from anywhere, save while on the plane. I got it for her on Friday so that she would have
the whole weekend to have it set up before work on Monday. The fact that it took fifteen minutes was a pleasant surprise; meanwhile, I'm still trying to figure
out the shortest menu navigation on my phone to check voicemail (I'd like to keep it under five, but who knows.) And, as a bonus we're with the same cell company now,
so we save money overall.
So let's see: I spent two hours in line talkng to friendly strangers to get a phone to make life easier for the woman I love. Wow, I AM a selfish, time-wasting,
family-hating prick. Thank you, kind sir, for freely giving your informed judgements about other people's lives.
No, it's not crazy. Why did I (and thousands of others) stand line up for hours? If you would like a hint, pick up an iPhone and try to exploit its advertised features. Now pick up an unfamiliar cellphone and try to exploit its features. The amount of time I spent in line is dwarfed by the amount of time I spend trying to learn how to use a fraction of the advertised features of whatever cellphone a plan offers me. That's assuming, of course, that the usefulness of the cellphone hasn't been hampered by the provider itself.
So, unless you prefer dumping hours of your precious life down the tubes reading a poorly-written manual to learn (or, morel likely, not learn) a crappily-designed UI, it should seem quite normal. Life is too short to memorize arbitrary menu navigation.
Those who went to AT&T had their phones activated in-store, thus causing slower activations and the incompetence that you expect from your mobile phone carriers.
That's an interesting perspective. It's a perspective that only suffers from one tiny flaw: AT&T were not activating iPhones in the stores. Anywhere. Every one had to do so through iTunes. So the only activation problems the AT&T monkeys had to deal with were the ones produced by incompetence up the food chain. In a word: corporate.
So, do you see the lack of difference now? Your comment is pure crap.
and worst of all, you open the door for *EVERYONE* to take a piece of your service revenue - why wouldn't Motorola/LG/Samsung/etc. ask for the same deal? (You did it for Apple - either split revenue with us, or no RAZR2 for you.)
Oh noes!! Please don't withhold the RAZR2 from us!! Our customers will die -- all three of them!!
Well OK, the RAZR sold more than three units. I assume. Anyway, the curent economic model between the cellphone manufacturers and service providers sucks. It leads to stupid shit like feature-blocking.
I want my cellphone provider to provide service. And usable information about that service. My cable company didn't sell me a TV. My ISV didn't sell me my computer (and if they did I'll bet it wouldn't be one that I wanted.) Sure, I wish the iPhone was usable with all carriers, but it isn't. Yet. One step at a time.
Oh, and P.S. When the RAZR came out it cost $500 as well WITH a service agreement; $800 without. Just saying.
This may come as a surprise, but Bill Clinton and Al Gore are different human beings. Our constitution doesn't give vice-presidents any right to veto things.
Well, be fair -- maybe his experience with how the President and Vice-President act within White House administrations is limited to the current one.
Youve obviously never:
1. Worked in a mac shop I have.
2. Worked with mac users I have.
3. Or come to the realiztion how immature desktop *nix isn't. There, fixed that for you. And in the time it took to fix that I could have started the Apache webserver on my machine by clicking a single button.
and as for the comment that led to your, um, response
>Unix and Mac users in fact liked to joke I have.
If conspiracy theories make you feel better thats great, but you're just fooling yourself.
I'm sorry, I've lost track. Do you mean the conspiracy theory about the territoriality of those who run IT (true), or the
conspiracy theory that those who run IT push certain manufacturers in order to earn kickbacks from said manufacturer
(true -- *coughcough* Dell *coughcough*)?
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False. The afrementioned Mr. Yankovic takes great pains to get permission from the artist for his parodies. The only case where he didn't was for Coolio's "Gangsta Paradise" — and in that case, Weird Al's mistake was in taking the label's word that they had received Coolio's permission.
On the plus side, you are right about the dick move part.
Lewinsky Corollary: As soon as any online discussion mentions George W. Bush, any unfavorable actions attributed to him will be defended by stating "Clinton did it too."
Yes I would —I recently sat through Eps I-III.
YEAH! Someone should find a way of making the iPhone work without having to sign a 2-year contract with AT&T. Even if they have to sacrifice the cellphone functionality. I sure hope that when someone does that it becomes a story on SLashdot. Of course then, I'd probably have to respond to someone too dense to Read The Fucking Title.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaa-fricking-MEN. I have enough hate for both sides; it's just at the moment the scale is in danger of tipping over. Hell, he could have ACTUALLY had Vince Foster killed AND fucked the corpse while singing "The Internationale" and the scale wouldn't move a hair. Who knew we had it so good back then.
I suspect an upstanding corporation like Halliburton would give a nice ex-con a chance to pull himself up.
And I like how only knowing that a person is someone who has committed perjury, is convicted in a court of law after a fair hearing, and has lost on appeal, should serve his rightful time in jail, makes it clear that that person is a LEFTIST. As opposed, to say, simply assuming that that person believes in the laws and Constitution of his country.
No -- I base my opinion that his appeal was bullshit because the (mostly Republican) appelate court said that the trial run by the (Republican) judge was run properly, denying his appeal that argued otherwise. They did not deny him the right to further appeal, but based on the unlikelihood of that appeal succeeding that he must surrender to the court and await the outcome of that further appeal in jail. In short, they thought a further appeal would be bullshit.
So, yes. BULL. SHIT.
Waitasec, you ripped your CDs int oa format with DRM? Sorry, I didn't realize you were so, well, stupid. (Sorry, but it had to be said.) Do yourself a favor and rerip it in any format you can without DRM. Since you have two mp3 player, I would suggest mp3.
Now, as to iTunes going through your computer and gathering up your music: don't blame iTunes. It asked if you wanted it to scan your computer for music, and you said yes. Irrelevant anyway, since you ripped it all in WMA. With DRM! Jeezus, do you even READ Slashdot?
And just to assuage your fears, yes iTUnes has CD burning built in. That is assuming you aren't stupid enough to rip in WMA WITH FUCKING DRM. Christ on a cracker, man.
And before you ask, iTunes does NOT rip CDs in a format with DRM. The only tracks in an iTunes library with DRM are the ones you buy in the iTunes Store. Which I would suggest that you never do, because you're the type of person who RIPS HIS OWN CDS WITH DRM. Just, and i mean with this with all of the sympathy in the world, but FUCK, MAN. Just, just...FUCK!
Lessee, would this be the fault of the Bush-appointed head of the CIA, or the Bush-appointed federal prosecutor from Chicago who was apoointed by Bush to run the investigation. And a crime *was* committed: perjury. That's why there was a conviction and a sentence. There was a time when Republicans cared about such things. Mabe it died of loneliness when they stopped caring about deficits.
That's an original interpretation. Or should I say ABoriginal.
So if Valerie Plame wasn't a covert agent, why did the request to investigate the leak of a covert agent's identity, that initiated all of this folderol, come from THE FUCKING CIA?
Sorry, I'm extremely allergic to bullshit.
Actually, the judge wanted Libby to go to jail NOW because he was convicted. The only reason he didn't go to jail immediately was his bullshit appeal, which we denied. Oh and, by the way, Libby's trial judge was appointed by Bush, and two of the three judges on the appeal board were appointed by Republicans. The only impact that the Democrats have had in all of this is talk, which seems to be all they're good for these days anyway.
And it's not a pardon, it's a commutation. Libby is still a convicted felon — at least he is until January of 2009.
So, you admit that he committed a felony. That's what lying to a grand jury is, after all.
Oh, and it's Plame. Dumbass.
Bullshit.
Opinion, but still kinda bullshit
COMPLETE bullshit. You have to have an iTunes Store account to DOWNLOAD album art from the iTS. If the artwork is already in your files it displays properly.
You have a great future living under a bridge and charging tolls.
For the record:
I stood in line for two hours. The difference between standing in line and not standing in line was getting to talk to other like-minded people.
My family lives 1000 miles away; so I spend time with them by using a (wait for it) cellphone. I don't have a job yet, as we moved here a few months ago because the "wife" got a better job. As for her and our friends, they were all at work. Which is why I had TWO WHOLE HOURS OF FREE TIME to stand in line.
As for phones being "no-nonsense", all I ask is that a phone make calls AND sync with my computer, so I don't have to spend more time than I did in line typing in all of my numbers. Of the last three phones I have had, only one has been able to do that, and I've had it for three days.
So why did I waste perfectly good time standing in line? So that the "wife" could have an iPhone to take with her on her business trips instead of lugging her camera and laptop with her, and now she can email me from anywhere, save while on the plane. I got it for her on Friday so that she would have the whole weekend to have it set up before work on Monday. The fact that it took fifteen minutes was a pleasant surprise; meanwhile, I'm still trying to figure out the shortest menu navigation on my phone to check voicemail (I'd like to keep it under five, but who knows.) And, as a bonus we're with the same cell company now, so we save money overall.
So let's see: I spent two hours in line talkng to friendly strangers to get a phone to make life easier for the woman I love. Wow, I AM a selfish, time-wasting, family-hating prick. Thank you, kind sir, for freely giving your informed judgements about other people's lives.
No, it's not crazy. Why did I (and thousands of others) stand line up for hours? If you would like a hint, pick up an iPhone and try to exploit its advertised features. Now pick up an unfamiliar cellphone and try to exploit its features. The amount of time I spent in line is dwarfed by the amount of time I spend trying to learn how to use a fraction of the advertised features of whatever cellphone a plan offers me. That's assuming, of course, that the usefulness of the cellphone hasn't been hampered by the provider itself.
So, unless you prefer dumping hours of your precious life down the tubes reading a poorly-written manual to learn (or, morel likely, not learn) a crappily-designed UI, it should seem quite normal. Life is too short to memorize arbitrary menu navigation.
That's an interesting perspective. It's a perspective that only suffers from one tiny flaw: AT&T were not activating iPhones in the stores. Anywhere. Every one had to do so through iTunes. So the only activation problems the AT&T monkeys had to deal with were the ones produced by incompetence up the food chain. In a word: corporate.
So, do you see the lack of difference now? Your comment is pure crap.
Oh noes!! Please don't withhold the RAZR2 from us!! Our customers will die -- all three of them!!
Well OK, the RAZR sold more than three units. I assume. Anyway, the curent economic model between the cellphone manufacturers and service providers sucks. It leads to stupid shit like feature-blocking. I want my cellphone provider to provide service. And usable information about that service. My cable company didn't sell me a TV. My ISV didn't sell me my computer (and if they did I'll bet it wouldn't be one that I wanted.) Sure, I wish the iPhone was usable with all carriers, but it isn't. Yet. One step at a time.
Oh, and P.S. When the RAZR came out it cost $500 as well WITH a service agreement; $800 without. Just saying.
That's nothing — most of the anti-evolution crowd is capable of fitting their heads up their asses.
Maybe he was reflecting on this.
Well, be fair -- maybe his experience with how the President and Vice-President act within White House administrations is limited to the current one.
2. Worked with mac users I have.
3. Or come to the realiztion how immature desktop *nix isn't. There, fixed that for you. And in the time it took to fix that I could have started the Apache webserver on my machine by clicking a single button.
and as for the comment that led to your, um, response
>Unix and Mac users in fact liked to joke
I have. If conspiracy theories make you feel better thats great, but you're just fooling yourself.
I'm sorry, I've lost track. Do you mean the conspiracy theory about the territoriality of those who run IT (true), or the conspiracy theory that those who run IT push certain manufacturers in order to earn kickbacks from said manufacturer (true -- *coughcough* Dell *coughcough*)?
It's your parents' and English teachers' fault, for not fostering a better taste in literature in you.