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Lets Paint The Kettle Black,Do You Have A Bitch On Whats Going On Around The Site Or Any Thing Negative To Report
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23. November 2006 @ 05:30 |
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I see....he gave himself a good spanking and then sent himself to his room without dinner and grounded himself until whenever LOL!
Dan...woun't you at least come back as a newbie and see if we can spot you?
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23. November 2006 @ 07:03 |
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Sony is a file sharing thief
p2pnet.net News:- What with its continuing incendiary batteries and rootkit spyware disasters, you'd think Sony was in enough trouble.
But Vivendi is in effect claiming Sony is something it and its Big Four Organized Music cartel colleagues (of whom Vivendi is one) accuse their own customers of being.
The people who run Sony are "criminals" and "thieves," says Vivendi's Universal Music Group, to all intents and purposes.
Sony's Grouper application gives users a way to share music videos with each other and, in entertainment and software cartel parlance, that's a criminal offence not even second to murder and rape.
Sony, however, is dismissing the UMG allegations.
"In a filing with the U.S District Court in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Grouper denied the copyright-infringement allegations and said Universal was using the lawsuit to boost a rival video-sharing site in which it has a stake," says Reuters, going on:
"Universal, owned by French media group Vivendi and the world's largest music company, has been leading an aggressive drive to get paid for all uses of its works on new digital services over the Internet."
Grouper, "denied it was engaged in mass copyright infringement and said that - like other such sites - it cannot prevent third parties from violating the company's terms of service that prohibit copyright infringement," says the story.
Interestingly, the entertainment cartels, with the Big Four Organized Music family in the lead, are using the US Supreme Court Grokster decision to kill independent p2p sites so they can later be resurrected as corporate p2p distribution systems.
Grokster says companies are liable for what users do with the software.
"Grouper also said it was fully compliant with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and was carrying out the requests of copyright owners to remove materials that users may have improperly uploaded to the site," says Reuters.
"Individually and collectively, through the Recording Industry of America (the 'RIAA') and other organizations and companies," the Big Four have engaged in unfair business practices, "for the specific purpose of eliminating sources of decentralized peer-to-peer file sharing and acquiring a monopoly over digital distribution of commercially valuable copyrighted music and movie content," says LimeWire, one of the independents being attacked.
In a court document, "In fact, these same persons and entities have been both secretly and publicly engaged in promotion of their own digital distribution technologies which permitted exchanges of copyright infringing files, such as instant messengering, email and other similar technologies only, in each case engineering the technologies to use a central server thus retaining for themselves the same knowledge and control held by Napster," says the company.
Vivendi's Universal also sued News Corp for alleged MySpace copyright infringement, and not only but also, UMG's Doug Morris said GooTube consistently violated music industry copyrights, just before it and Google reached an accord.
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Reuters - Sony says Grouper site not afoul of copyright law, November 22, 2006
being attacked - LimeWire versus the RIAA: Part II, November 17, 2006
sued News Corp - Vivendi's UMG vs MySpace, November 21, 2006
(Thursday 23rd November 2006)
http://p2pnet.net/story/10526?PHPSESSID=...de83055347f0fe8
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23. November 2006 @ 07:55 |
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My bitch for today is I can't meet a lot of the members here on AD face to face to wish you all a Happy Turkey day and say thanks to this brother hood and sister hood of fine folks. Peace Chris
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23. November 2006 @ 08:19 |
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What is Black FRIDAY MEAN????
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23. November 2006 @ 08:26 |
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Black Friday is the traditional US start of US Christmas Shopping. Christmas is a hug windfall for most retailers, and for many it represents when they finally make profits for the given year.
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23. November 2006 @ 08:33 |
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Why is people telling me this friday is black friday? it's not chrismas yet. IT's still november. SO are you saying everything is cheap in store or something?
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23. November 2006 @ 08:38 |
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Are you a bit slow or something?
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Black Friday is the traditional US start of US Christmas Shopping.
No one said it was christmas yet. No one said it was cheap or sales yet. Ireland did, however, say that Black Friday is the start of US shopping.
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23. November 2006 @ 08:41 |
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its the US start of US Christmas Shopping.
the day after thanksgiving,as i said above..
or if companys are in the red all year long they try to get in the black.with the start of black friday with a ton of sells....
thats what black friday means..
Definition: What is Black Friday?
The day after Thanksgiving in the United States, is frequently referred to as Black Friday.
General Use: One of the major U.S. holiday shopping days. The day many U.S. consumers begin Christmas shopping. The day is heavily promoted by retailers.
Origin: The origin of Black Friday comes from the shift to profitability during the holiday season. Black Friday was when retailers went from being unprofitable, or "in the red," to being profitable, or "in the black", at a time when accounting records were kept by hand and red indicated loss and black profit.
Also Known As: The day after Thanksgiving.
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23. November 2006 @ 08:55 |
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I wonder if the expression comes from going from red ink to black ink? Whether permitting, I'll be out people watching tomorrow. Center city philly is great on black friday people from the burbs everywhere and I can't figure out why .... they have the malls and the stores. Lots of the specialty stores do well though for those nuts enough to spend $600 on hand made shirts. I'm sure the protestors will be all over the center city furriers with their nasty pics of skinned critters. I'll stop by a dept store named Wannamakers (or whatever its called this week) and hear the pipe organ .... Philly boasts the world's biggest pipe organ:
YOu can't tell from the pic but the organ console itselt is the size of a fair sized room and blares an astonishing 40,000 pipes. I'll get to play that sucker one of these days!
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23. November 2006 @ 08:56 |
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That's a pretty bitchin organ Gerry ;-)
You can play that? I'm a musician too \o/
:-)
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23. November 2006 @ 09:06 |
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EAT YE HEART OUT,YE DID NOT THINK OF THIS..
Crooks thieve £750,000 worth of Xbox 360s
Look out for dodgy dealers
By INQUIRER newsdesk: Thursday 23 November 2006, 10:48
CRIMINALS HAVE NICKED a shipment of Xbox 360s worth about £750,000 during a lorry hijacking soon after it left a depot near Lichfield in Staffordshire, reports The Times.
No doubt the consoles will be popping up at dodgy market stalls across the country as Christmas time approaches. Police in Staffordshire are looking for witnesses to the hijacking which supposedly happened on Monday at about 5am, on the A38 motorway.
It's thought that there were at least three men involved in the hijacking, believed to be driving a Range Rover and Rover saloon. Apparently, they signalled for the driver of the lorry to slow down, at which point the driver assumed the gang was letting him know there was something trapped under the wheels of his lorry. This was not the case, though, and once pulled over, the gang attacked the driver and made off with the lorry, which was later found devoid of someone's Christmas presents on the A38 at Minworth in Warwickshire.
The driver was taken to hospital for his injuries but was deemed okay and discharged. Hellmann Worldwide Logistics UK, the distributor, has apparently ordered an internal investigation about the attack.
Staffordshire copper Peter Stevens told The TImes: "We are appealing for information from anyone who is offered these games in suspicious circumstances, such as in a pub, at a car boot sale or off the back of a lorry." Or from Nintendo employees. µ
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35929
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23. November 2006 @ 09:09 |
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Hi Ripper...yea, I teach piano and organ on the side...hard to make any real money at it. With all our science and technology, we still can't build anything electronic that will reproduce the sounds thse guys make. To think they were building these things 500 years ago! If you ever get a chance to view one in a church somewhere but behind the scenes you'll be amazed at what a marvel these are. Oh, they've modernized a way to force air into the pipes, but they've not yet been able to electronically reproduce the sound the sound of the pipes themselves...especially in the bass. Imagine the sound of blowing into a 50-60 foot tall coke bottle LOL! So too, it's the ideal way to test out a new home theater of stereo when you buy one....bring a CD of pipe organs; a much heavier duty test than any heavy metal which can do loud but not the astonishing depth of a 50 foot pipe or the high pitch of air through a pipe one inch tall and the diameter of a bar straw!
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23. November 2006 @ 09:12 |
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BUSTED. They are sooo screwed ;-)
Nice comment,
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Or from Nintendo employees. µ
@Gerry:
Cool, I play the cornet; have done for about 6 years now :)
I play piano too, not as well though, cos I didn't take it up, it just came to me Lol.
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Imagine the sound of blowing into a 50-60 foot tall coke bottle LOL!
That's one hefty coke bottle! :P
Organs make one hefty sounds though XD
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23. November 2006 @ 09:15 |
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my bitch. amazon was selling xbox 360 for $100 and it was sold out in one second.
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23. November 2006 @ 09:18 |
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Really? I doubt it... You got a link to that? Also, it's probably someone sellign through amazon; not amazon themselves...
I had a look, couldn't see any trace of it :P
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23. November 2006 @ 09:22 |
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ok fine, they probley didn't sold in seconds but in minute than.
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23. November 2006 @ 09:36 |
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Now now....lets not get testy boys. It's thanksgiving day so be thankful. "Dear Lord, my back and neck are raising all sorts of hell today and I'm so grateful! ...and least of the oxycontin and the percoset chaser" LOL! You know, that's the nice thing about oxycontin and percoset...so hard to get in a snit about anything.
@Ripper...Coronet is a rather unusual instrument to be studying....did this start for the school band or something of the sort. Such a smooth and mellow sound they have.
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23. November 2006 @ 09:39 |
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Me? Testy? Where? :P
Lol! And Gerry, I'm English, we don't have Thanksgiving ;-)
Hehe, anyway, yep, end of conversing between me and rihgt682! Lol
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23. November 2006 @ 09:50 |
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ME BITCH FOR TODAY....
DVD discs shortage predicted for next year
Digitimes reported today the results of a study in which the Japan Recording-Media Industries Association (JRIA) predicts that global demand for write-once DVD discs will be higher than supply for the discs.
According to JRIA's study, it seems also that Blu-ray and HD-DVD discs demand will increase balancing the DVD media shortage.
Are you ready to switch to next generation optical media?
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/DVD-discs-s...-next-year.html
CD-RW shortage due to cell phones sales
Submitted by: arnesr
Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11995.html
I know this was posted a couple months back, but here's an update.
Phone frenzy is jacking up CD-RW prices
The half of the population that owns mobile phones may have inadvertently pushed up the price of CD-RW drives.
It seems that a shortage of the drives - particularly the slimline versions designed for laptops - can be attributed to a deficit of RF amplifiers - chips that boosts radio signals. This is also used in handheld computers and cell phones, and these shortages have interrupted the manufacturing chain. Furthermore, shortfalls in all things silicon are predicted for Q4.
The problem starts at the source, with a scarcity of silicon. It seems that last year manufacturers placed extremely large orders with the fabs, which were not met by customer demand. This year the orders have been more conservative, and the PC manufacturers are unable to increase volume quickly enough, and since the factories are honouring contracts with the mobile companies they don't have any surplus.
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In the US at the end of last year a CD-RW drive sold for an average of $215. Over the last four months this has risen to $250.
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23. November 2006 @ 09:57 |
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OMG.
/me runs upsatirs to fetch the old Teac CD-RW drive he has lying on his bedroom floor! Back from the days when windows 95 was out.
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23. November 2006 @ 10:08 |
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Yikes...you remember windows 95?? I though you were 16-17? Personally, I'm still cursing windows 98 and I've been using XP for quite some time. I can't begin to tell you how much music and artwork I lost at the hands of windows 98 ... kept crashing all the friggin time!
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23. November 2006 @ 10:11 |
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i remember Win95 being released on 24th Aug '95 :P
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Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented graphical user interface-based operating system. It was released on August 24, 1995 by Microsoft, and was a significant progression from the company's previous Windows products. During development it was referred to by the internal codename Chicago.
Windows 95 was intended to integrate Microsoft's formerly separate MS-DOS and Windows products. It featured significant improvements over the popular Windows 3.1, most visibly the graphical user interface (GUI) whose basic format and structure is still used in later versions such as Windows XP. There were also large changes made to the underlying workings, including support for 255-character mixed-case long filenames and preemptively multitasked protected-mode 32-bit applications. Whereas the previous versions of Windows were optional "operating environments" requiring the MS-DOS operating system (usually available separately), Windows 95 was a consolidated operating system, which was a significant marketing change.
Windows 95 followed Windows for Workgroups 3.11 with its lack of support for older, 16-bit x86 processors, thus requiring an Intel 80386 (or compatible) processor running in protected mode.
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23. November 2006 @ 10:33 |
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Woot.com sells Wii for $1!!!
jader9920 submitted by jader9920 19 hours 51 minutes ago (via www.woot.com)
In the last Woot Off, some of the people lucky enough to score a "bag of crap" were surprised when they received a box with a note saying "We heard these spoil so we shipped it first" and inside the box 1 Nintendo Wii. First 61" TVs now Wiis. What's next?
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23. November 2006 @ 10:40 |
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Hell...guess I'm not the only old fart here LOL! I was first introduced to computers in 1993 at work....old slave things with the monotone screens. dos commands and we had to put any notes on a client on their address line. We were told that soon, we'd eliminate all the paper. Windows 95 as the first they gave us ... how good could it possibly be if you have to click start to shut down?
Well, I'm far more acclimated and experienced than I was but I'm glad I didn't hold my breath on the paperwork promise.
Well, thanks giving dinner starts a bit early. I'll be back after the shrimp cocktail and benedryl appetiser.
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