a 1ton golden flying playing card

ahhh its been fun

2005-07-24T23:51:00.000-07:00

I felt the need to post tonight becuase of cal s post last night about
the strange events that happend. well one in particular, the fucking guy
who was hopped up opn something im not shur he was really/only?? drunk,
some chemical but im not shur drunk. in any case it was funny. One thing
that cal didnt say was that after he came over to us while he was
standing in the middle of us we actualy DID start to luagh AT the guy he
was so fucking rediculous, it was very funny and on top of it there were
three able bodied guys just waiting for him to pick a fight with us. I
think cals use of the word poised was a little contrived waiting is much
better i mean, and im not trying to sound tough this is how it was ask
cal, cal was squating, i was leaning back against a car arms behind my
head, and noph was just standing there. we were waiting, not batman on a
legde, not standing like the power rangers, hell not even standing ready
for it, we were hanging out luaghing at this joke of a man. meh

ny ways another thing cal forgot to mention is this 30-40 yo guy who
drove up in a scion and got out wearing a sports coat and nice pants. he
walks(with a nervious/confidant stride) into the closed bowling aley for
5 min walks out then drives away. can you say drug deal?? meh i could be
wrong but thats what it looked like ny ways now to the main point of
this post.

im closeing up shop. thats it im done. its been fun but this really isnt
working for me so no more blogs for me. im no writer and i just have
lost intrest and so i say adue or how ever thats spelled. maybe ill
continue in the navy but its not like ill beable to tell anything
intresting. it will mainly be a way to keep up with freinds and familly.
by all see ya

where do you think they get their bills??

2005-06-26T18:45:00.000-07:00

Well, I am bored out of my mind right now. probobly should of gone to
hang out with noph. bleh yea I need a car right now mines
{sarcasim}::SHOCK::{/sarcasim} broken right now. actualy what i really
need right now is more female companion ship, and im talking even just
freinds, cant wait to vist camp for a couplea days lots of them there. I
would settle for a motor cycle tho you know a fun way to get around AND
cheep, tho all id do if i had that would be to go to boreders. Luky kal
el (BASTAGE!!!) right now hes makeing me envious, well err rather thats
a luky secondary effect to his situation right now{music}Dana
Carvey-Choppin' Broccoli{/music}. ny ways thanks to a night of heavy
drinking that followed some other not so good for you stuff, my body is
going through an intense detox right nowits not so bad cept im permently
dehydrated which leaves me slightly quesy, oh and i cant even stomach
alcohol right now, i mean i dont think id get sick but {music}Bright
Eyes-Sunrise, Sunset{/music}i just dont want any, on the plus side the
hangover wasnt very longlasting. Oh and i learned somthing in that whole
ordeal DO NOT go to sleep wasted! do what you have to to stay up and
drink a lot of water till the effects pass. ahh well im probobly gonna
go out for a walk or something {music}garden state OST:Simon &
Garfunkel-The only living boy in New York{/music} wow I love this song
so much, course thats becuase it was from the GSOST.
bleh im gonna see what i can think of to do.

ps if you wanna know more about kal el visit his blog look it up your
self im to lasy to type it in its pertentusly titled blog or somatdo a
search on blogspot for that but spell it corecly unlike me.

ps for tho curious no i never have/will do drugs of any sort so :P

ps did you know platypuses are carniverous??

When Tech sux

2005-05-29T00:37:00.000-07:00

http://p2pnet.net/story/4999
have I ever mentioned how much RFID scares me. I hate it, and yes I know
that its short range and can be encrypted(tho encryption presently on
them is laughably weak. I with I had the link for you but its late do
another time), I know ALL of its limits, but that really means nothing.
One thing you have to know about me is I'm paranoid, I hate that sorta
thing. just like on star and its ability to track how you drive, nono
thank you I like to stay as anonomus as possible. Im the sorta guy who
likes to go unnoticed, which is funny considering im 6'6" and like to
stand on top of things.

too all those gamers out there, find and play giants at your next lan
party. SOOOOO much fun. giants is an older game but fun anyways, its a
FPS 3Dstratagy, that focuses more on the FPS part.

OHHH my friend got a beauty of a bike for his birthday, I know it was
orange but its copperish not bright looks really good. its a susuki
sports bike, fuck if I know which one but sexy.

alright I should sleep so night

-me

ps Sry I havent updated my other page much but I lost some stuff I was
gonna put on there and I have not finished setting up the blog for easy
posting. so its hard for me with dialup(meaning that it takes time and
im too lazy) this should be corrected for soon.

YAAAY ITS UP!!

2005-05-25T20:27:00.000-07:00

ok my new blog is at http://lzbyw.blogspot.com/ like i said before I'm still updating this one at the samepace as i have(ie. when i give a kowala poo). BUT I plan to update the new one hopefully 3 times a day. That wil of course change every day, like today I kinda have tree things in one post so I'm gonna keep it to one post(also cuase its late). anyways enjoy.

Finally!!

2005-05-25T14:55:00.000-07:00

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
i am finally hired for the airport job I applied for about a month ago.
that was a freaking nightmare, the retards down at cooperate would not
move on my app, finally after they did and I got my drug test, the
person in HR handling my app was on vacation, further prolonging my
working as a landscaper(effing landscaping). I wanted to cry, BUT it all
over I am now working one of the best jobs I know of. I am soo happy i
think I'm gonna go start that blog i mentioned in my previous post. ill
put a link up here when I find out what its gonna be called.

-I love Zim
Gir quotes

assfuckers unite!!!!

2005-05-23T21:19:00.000-07:00

uuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmm yea this post was gonna be a rant about my hate of
a man and the majority of my life but I decieded, after a days worth of
cooling off, that it would be in poor taste to post what I wrote. The
title of this post should give you some idea. I was very tighly wound
and spouting so NO POST FOR YOU, or rather not that one.

on a no angsty, stupid, life, note,I have this idea of starting a blog
of things that entertain me, I'll still keep up this blog(as much as I
have of late at least) but im gonna make one purely for quotes,
pictures, links to intresting articles and music. ohh short flicks too
not to many of them tho as I am still stuck with dial up.I feal like i
have more to say but I need bed and so i leave now without even
proofreading or spell checking this(I promissed my self not to do that
when i started this blog::sigh::) post.

-goodnight

ps my sympathys go out to cal and his computerness, and my
envy/respect/bestwishs with noph on his sexy new comp(and its lovly
booting problems:P)

wrrrrrrrrwheeeeegaaahblatCRACKURRNNNNNNBANG!!!tick tick tick KSSHHHHEHERRRRRRRRSHHHSSHSHHHHHHRRRRRRR

2005-04-17T20:48:00.000-07:00

OOOPPSS THIS POST WAS SUPPOST TO GO BE FORE THE LAST ONE AND I JUST
FOUND IT SiTING IN MY DRAFT BOX, ohh well here ya go.

you know im postponeing sleep for this(yes im going to sleep at3.30 pm )
but I was just thinking how this whole deal with drm is rediculass1 If
im gonna pay for my music not only is it for the most part cheeper to
jsut buy cds then download music but I can do more with cds. sure its a
little more work(damn im tired i was trying tofigure out why i know sure
wasnt spelled with an o when i knew that there was a word like
that.......i was thinking of shore.......im not gonna speel check this
screw it i need sleep)bvut if i want i can have MP3 or any other format
i want drm free(or not). While I understand that the atraction is to get
just the one or two sangs you like I'm sorry im not gonna pay for
something if I cant use it the way I need to. Actualy I've given up on
music from anyone suporting drm or the RIAA and what it stands for(in
case your ignorant or have been indoctranated that means, well um it
self and its power and money, and its right to fix prices, under pay and
sometimes not pay artists, oh and the and the technological and scocial
stagnation of the USA and if possible the whole world(tho this last one
is just a means to the aforementioned ends.). I will not even file share
their stuff, they dont need any more advertisements. I figure there is
plenty of other really good music out there that will cost me less and
get the artist more. THIS is the only music you will find in my shared
folder or indeed find on the rest of my computer, with the exception of
what I alredy own. The only thing that filesharing hurts is the cartels,
the music industry can only gain from the open sharing of music. I could
go on and talk more in depth about the DMCA and how flawed it is and why
open source can only stengthen and accelerate progress in computing and
socyity at large, BUT, im tired and you probobly have had enough of my
mad rabling so ill save it for another time.

-A time of sanity

ps ops forgot to spell check the last one eather please forgiveif you
don't for give me ask me if I care
pss the ansewr to that of course is NO!!!.

XMAZING or somat like that

2005-04-17T12:25:00.000-07:00

Well I just got done watching the anime X. ........... all I can say is
wow.............that was somuch better then I expected. X is very much
old style anime which I really can't stand, but this, this was amazing!!
So well done, it makes amazing use of the old anime style. gha I can't
explane watch it, its worth it.

blah well I may have to lose the paper route its a hazzard to me and my
health and I just can't keep at it reliably. Not with the way the rest
of my schedual is. On the bright side theres a good chance I may be
getting a job at TTN(trenton-mercer airport) with is one of the best I
can get at this point with the exception of the one kal has. YAY no more
landscaping!!!!!!! although I shouldn't rejoyce too soon I might jinx
it. Jusy got back from the MS walk, that was fun and they gave us free
food.

YAY FOR ME!!! I have to pay out 2500$$ and up to fix someones pimped out
mercedes benz SUV. I am NOT happy, and this after being robbed(only
twenty$$) and having a knife pulled on me. Yea I'm not happy with the
car thing, NJ drivers, do every one a big favor and don't have cars that
cost a hella lotta money to fix if you give them a love tap. JUST
DON'T!! you know its gonna get trashed, this sate is a night mare for
driving.

ok well now I go back to the X dvd and watch the special features!!night
all.

-on a sleep diet

Terry Schiavo

2005-04-10T23:15:00.000-07:00

This was provoked by Kal els post on the subject found here it is a very sadly over due post on the subject. It was originally intended as a response and I'm to lazy to retype it.

One more note about the whole Terry Schiavo incident, her husband had a whole bunch of neglect and abuse suits already against him AND he never ever attempted therapy for his wife!!!

Here is an interesting story, a couple were having a baby and on a regular checkup the doctor found out that the baby had almost no brain, brain stem and a little bit of brain, but most of the skull was filled with fluid. Of course the doctor suggested an abortion as the kid would be severely retarded and worse. Well the parents decided to have the baby anyways. Long story short after draining the fluid from the head of the baby its brain which was actually there the whole time, just smushed, filled in the skull and now the kid is just as capable as me or you. Moral is doctors mean well but aren't always right. Also doctors may not know about all possible treatments out there you have to check that!!!

One more thing, I'm sorry but that man was one sick sonofabitch! I know that sounds harsh but the man STARVED someone to death, one of the most painful ways to go!! That is just sick. If I truly believed that there was no return for my wife and she would rather die then stay like that, yes I might honer that, but let me tell you I would take a gun and shoot her in the head before I did what Mr. Schiavo did to his wife!! HOW HOW can that be legal?? Any man that would stave his wife to death should be thrown in a jail cell and have the favor returned!!!!! that or be castrated because he doesn't deserve to have a set!!!

-ROYALLY DISGUSTED BY PEOPLE!!

ps I am truly sorry if you found this offensive but hell were kind enough to put down our suffering pet without pain, why don't we demand the same from some one who would put down a human, a life we hold SO MUCH more dear?! Or does human life not even mean that much to you??

pss I don't care if Mr. Schiavo didn't have any other option, he had the choice to fight for the right to use a more humane method, or take matters into his own hands!

psss BTW I in no way advocate suicide, assisted suicide, euthanasia , or abortion. I abhor the use of any of these. Lord knows how incredibly torn I would be if anyone I love, much less my wife, asked any of these of me. My problem is the means of ending Terry Schiavo's life were down right abusive, and would have been highly protested(as they should be) if this was done to an animal. My point here is where do our and especially Mr. Schiavo's priorities lay.

to tired to care

2005-04-06T22:19:00.000-07:00

Wow I haven't posted in a while, and I dont care, I should but I really
really don't. I'll tell you why another time cuase do I have news.....
kinda .........sorta.
any ways im just here to post this.

-the sleepless man

GAHHHHHHHHHHHHYH

2005-04-03T15:23:00.000-07:00

did you know that they want to ban bibles in the jury room???? yea
something about church and state. You know the whole point about the
jury is that it is made up of peers NOT the government!!! THIS HAS
NOTHING TO DO WITH SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE!!! Wait thats not
true! If the bible is banned from the jury room that would be the
government saying that a privet citizen can not practice there religion,
that they MUST practice atheism. I fail to see how that falls under
church and state! you know this whole thing has gotten out of hand.
Suddenly the government can tell me where and when I can be religious??
Yes, in case you were wondering,yes i am against the ruling that forbids
children to pray or bring religious literature to school. I can
understand banning teachers from doing so in front of the students, but
not the students, once again the are citizens NOT part of the
government. Also religion should be taught in schools, if you don't
teach all religions what you end up teaching is atheism. I don't like
many other things have been changed in the name of separation of church
and state, but I can't say that they were illegal, just frivolous wastes
of time, caused by people with too much time on their hands.

Anyways I was leaving in may for the navy, now, not till nov. bleh nice
thing about that is that I will be able to read the next harry potter
book when it comes out. I'M SOO HAPPY!!! I really am wasn't being
sarcastic. ummmmm ahh well thought there was some thing else night all
see yae.

-your, royaly pissed off at brats with chips on their shoulder, freind

sleep now!!!

2005-04-02T00:54:00.000-08:00

umm lots o stuff to tell you all but I wanna sleep. Soo I'm just gonna
say if you want a Gmail account, comment on this post. I have a hell of
a lot of invites and no one to give them too. All the people I know are
to stupid to appreciate good work. Any ways sleep well mi amigos

Ipez

2005-03-29T02:17:00.000-08:00

http://www.pezmp3.com/
YAY!!! pez mp3 player with interchangeable heads!! reserve you
reservation to day!!!

Smart man in more ways then I can say

2005-03-27T20:12:00.000-08:00

http://p2pnet.net/story/4353
If I were a woman, I would hunt this guy down and bear his children. As
I am not I will most happly settle to suport his company!:P

blech

2005-03-27T19:15:00.000-08:00

Well I just thought I'd tell you all im feeling another period or
lethargy coming on so I'm guessing I won't be posting for awhile. I
sugest you get an RSS client(I use mozilla thunderbird, works well.) and
the you don't have to come to my sote to see if I posted. OOORRRR you
could stop coming altogether. I hope thats not the case. In any case
good night

2005-03-25T22:07:00.000-08:00

blah I was gonna post more tonight but I am distracted. SEE MY NEW LINKS!!! The wino commands you. gephple good night

More on a musician in a very fruity situation

2005-03-23T00:20:00.000-08:00

Here is a little more on the Fiona Apple situation. This article has little more info and all sorts of links. Now I know I'm kinda harping on this, but this is just such a blatant display of what is wrong with the music industry, that I can't help it.Also this shows why the copyright laws need work, these laws no longer protect the artists or are in the best interest of the public. I'm not trying to tell you that p2p should be legal or that I should be able to freeload off of artists. Actually I am saying quite the opposite, these laws need to be changed to protect the artists. Although I do believe that p2p and artists can, not only work together, but profit from each other. I believe that the well being of our artists, technology, and the general public, are all very closely knit together.

BAH I didn't mean to write this long tonight. Well in any case here is one more story. A story of a rather intelligent young man(although his owning an Ipod would suggest otherwise), a letter he wrote, and the schemings of a (hopefully) dieing cartel.

-night to all

PS Yes I'm insulting you if you have an Ipod take it up with Kal el at http://pretentiouslytitledblog.blogspot.com if you have a problem with it, he can tell you just how much you deserve it better then I can.

Filesharing bliss

2005-03-21T22:33:00.000-08:00

whaaa this really
turns me on, ohhhhhh who cares if its drm that can be cracked.

The cornered beast

2005-03-21T22:00:00.000-08:00

"The Supreme Court will soon rule on the legality of file sharing applications in America. The powerful media lobby claims that file sharing applications do not have any legitimate uses and are nothing but a part of a rogue industry that is getting rich on the backs of poor hard working actors and pop stars."

Getting rich off the backs of the poor?? hard working actors and pop stars. Thats debatable, now the music industry on the other hand, yes yes they are. the music industry gets rich off the backs of these people and the bands have to tour to make money. Oh wait thats if their contracts allow them to, after all Fiona Apple has had a new album out for years now and been unable to make a cent off of it. Why?? not because it's bad music(if that were the case 99.9% of all artist would be beggars, quite to the contrary its supposed to be amazing), and not because people won't pay for her album. The reason shes been denied a new sources of income is because the short sighted bigbosses of the music industry like keeping their heads up each others asses, and would rather push their CRAP down our throat instead of releasing her album. Because of this she can not tour or make money from her music.Now to those of you saying that they don't HAVE to tour, no your right they could just get by off of the 5-10% royalties they get. OH wait thats if they get paid.

Bah and as to the legality of p2p, common with that excuse you could say the same of IRC, never the less it still used legitimately. Wait tho as one of the best ways for independent artists to spread their music, just think what sort of threat banning p2ps would eliminate for the music industry. really common now privately owned guns are commonly used to rob banks and kill innocent people so lets ban that too huh?? for the love of god!!!

any ways I am not very coherent to night so I'm gonna end this now before it gets ugly night

-ME

ps visit http://www.downhillbattle.org/ I'm gonna put that in my
upcoming links section of the page along with their rss feed http://www.downhillbattle.org/rss

Why my dear sweat daughters mother won't marry me

2005-03-17T19:41:00.000-08:00

welll I just had an interesting realization tonight. I just realized its
easier for me to lie then tell the truth. Now that doesn't mean I'm a chronic lier or that I would rather lie then tall the truth, it just means this. If you ask me what I did today 1 of 4 things will happen. 1) I will tell you the very little, get frustrated for no apparent reason, and be like, "nothing GOSH". 2)I'll just shrug it off, say nothing, or say "not much". 3)I had a great day I won't shut up or, 4)Ill spin a whole story for you with all sorts of details happenings.

I don't know why but building half truths and stories come more
naturally and are probably closer what actually happens in general, then actually telling the truth. bah go figure, any ways this blog by email seems to like me except for the weird formating problems (I mean the weird carriage returns you saw in the last post) so this is how ill be posting from now on. I'm thinking of reviving my paper routes. I mean Ive been staying up all night till the papers would be dropped off to my house anyways so I might just flip my schedule. We will see, it depends on if there are any routes open in my neighborhood. night all I go on to bigger and better things.

-On to the continuation of the Xfiles marathon

PS don't take the title too seriously.

PSST its a joke:P

A whole new level of lasyness

2005-03-16T23:04:00.000-08:00

From now on, depending on how this ends up looking, I think I will be posting from my mailbox. This way I can type stuff offline and not be bothered with logging on to the site which is a [chose your own expletive] with dial-up. Sooo now I have next to no reason not to post more frequently, so we will see.

Today I took my 3rd test for the navy. This one was to see if I could make it into better jobs, it was sooooo easy. now that isn't to say I did well, I actually had quite a bit of trouble with it, but thats what I get for taking it with a unexercised brain. I am at the moment very envious of kal el, I'll let him gloat about that tho.

Ahh one more thing I just rediscovered the fact that you can manually edit the templates for blogspot.com, so maybe in the near future you will see some changes to the site. Hopefully yaa?? Actually when I said one at the beginning of the paragraph, I meant three that are connected. With the rediscovery of the template editing I decided to put an XML feed link on my site. Thats right folks, the demand for me is sooo great that I syndicated myself. Don't expect the link to stay where it is, I don't like the look, but until I can sit down for ten minutes at a time, and decipher the template code, thats the best I can do. Lastly I found out that blog spot has ftp support hopefully ill get a chance to play with that some more.

-good night all, sleep well

ps my expletive was "dairy cow trampling"

BIG BLANK NOTHING TITLE

2005-03-16T20:07:00.000-08:00

For more on the snowman invation of Moscow look here

2005-03-16T20:05:00.000-08:00

ahhhhzombie snowmen, sworn enemy of Frozone TM!!!! they want to eat.........ummmm your frozen parts....yea.
the mindless burn or impunity

2005-03-16T20:03:00.000-08:00

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm looks yummy
the mindless burn or impunity

lazy

2005-03-14T22:46:00.000-08:00

for those of you wondering yes, yes i did chose 600,000 for its easy division by six SEE AND UNDER STAND MY LEET PLANING what can i say im lazy and because of that you dont get to see the kowalla till tomorrow!!!!!PLAY TEKKEN 5

Like money out the A**

2005-03-14T21:28:00.000-08:00

Only more pain and fewer paper cuts...... ohhh wait a minute, that shed's a whole new light on why McGreevy raised the McGreevy for dropping a improper left turn(3 points) to a dangerous driving (0). GAHHHHHHHH I swear I hope that man dies soon so I can dance on his grave(even if kal pisses on it first(ohh ill bring my cat::evil grin::)). Ok I guess I better explain.

a simple left turn off of 206 has cost me $400. Lemme go back a little, I was driving around one night with kal el one rainy night. Hell I don't even remember where we were going, but I missed an exit and had to take the next one, can you guess witch one?? Yep 206. Anyways I get off onto 206 and then make a left at the next light, and one more left after that. When I make this turn, I cant see the road because there are street lights right at the intersection but none past, oh and no traffic. So I make the turn and end up in the wrong lane of traffic, which i promptly correct. Half a mile down the road I look in my mirror and see flashing lights coming up behind me. So to make a long story short, the cop pulls me over and tries to get me to admit to speeding, then proceeds to look over every part of my car for something to give me a ticket for(he does this casually outside only but he was REALLY looking and asking questions). In the end he gives me a ticket for an improper left turn for what I assumed was the second turn.

Well it turns out it was the first left which he was ticketing me for not the second. The turn off of 206 has a jughandle for all turns that I missed in the poor visibility. I mean I'm never down that road, never the less I accept the that I broke the law I'm fine with paying for that. What really gets my goat tho is that the cop knew that I didn't't't know I mean it was pretty obvious we were talking about two different things but he just gave me the ticket he did care he'd of loved to see me do what I did twice. This cop wasn't't't't there to uphold the law, he was there to make a quota, as he proved by pestering me on every perceived problem with my car. Also this happened around 10:00pm no traffic and no reason we shouldn't of been out(like if it had been 1am). I love to watch when some prick hops in the wrong lane because its faster and gets busted by the cops. Hell if you ever see me do that please run me off the road, But the roads WERE EMPTY, please cut me a little slack??

Now add on top of that that it costs $400 dollars to make it a pointless ticket!!! I mean common speeding or careless driving, fine i can see that but improper left turn, at what looked like a normal 2 lane intersection(1 lane one way one the other that is)!!!! You know what the hell was McGreevy thinking. any ways thats my life right now. I should sleep i have landscaping tomorrow and I need all the rest i can get for that, or i might blow up in a fiery ball of pure anger. Landscaping does that to me like 600,000lbs of jet fuel does to fire(btw thats roughly 100,000gal, so you could hear me screaming clear across the state I think).

-THE FIERY ANGER

PS if your wondering how far away you should be when and if I go off. don't worry, I'm a screamer, and after so much anger leaving me so quickly with that scream I'd probably implode with enough force to send me into another dimension. Last time I lost it I ended up here which was bad enough, so I think I'll try to avoid doing that again.

PSS This post really should go on so that one may speak but i didn't relize this till now and im tired and lasy and this reflects my state of mind so DEAL. I know i can and will:P

PSSSahhhhh I love the ghost in the shell sound track especaly the song inner univers. check it out and if you like anime check out the mangas and animes too. They each have their own style and all rock. ok im not gonna say more now cuase i sleep!!!!

Those of you with a VERY twisted sense of humor read Transmetropolitan

2005-03-12T22:51:00.000-08:00

Big Music cartel 'settlements'
The criminals aren't the people who have had enough of being ripped off by the cartel. Nor are the p2p networks and application operators (they could have, and should have, been used by the labels to enter the digital 21st century) the means by which crimes are being committed.

The true criminals are the highly skilled international organized crime gangs who routinely dance rings around the record label and move studio cartel executives who run the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's), BPI (British Phonographic Industry), and so on.

Gundersen says, "Unlike iTunes or Napster, enthusiast sites place community above commerce, earning credibility and loyalty that are crucial to luring youth dollars. That's one of the sticky challenges facing an industry that alienated downloaders with steep CD prices and piracy lawsuits."

Music industry spin doctors use the 'settlements' as PR fodder. They tell the media they've successfully 'sued' thousands of people for breaking the law: for sharing files, in the process depriving them of their rightful earnings.

That these people have 'settled' is used to suggest that by doing so, they've admitted guilt of some kind.

However, none of this is true, or even nearly true.

And no one has been sued.

What's happened is: approaching 10,000 people have received frightening subpoenas, documents most of them had never heard of before, let alone actually seen. But not one of the subpoena recipients has ever appeared in a court, and fewer than 2,000 'cases' have actually been 'settled'.

An average $3,000 settlement multiplied 2,000 times comes to what? And the labels have never said where the money goes. But you can bet it doesn't reach the hands of the hard-pressed workers the industry holds up as victims of file sharing.

Most of those who agreed to buy the RIAA off did so only because they literally had no other alternative.

They simply didn't, and don’t, have the financial or legal resources to take on the multi-billion-dollar industry with its bottomless pockets, teams of lawyers and obscene political influence.

It’s as if the labels have taken the famous line from Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather where Brando says chillingly, "I'll make him an offer he don't refuse."

Well, the RIAA makes its victims offers they don’t refuse – Pay us. Or else.

As RIAA spokesman Jonathon Lamy admits in the Village Voice, so far, "none have come to trial”.

And none will unless, by some awful mistake, the RIAA tries to nail someone important; someone with money and legal and political clout who can take them on in a fair and equal court trial.

Not guilty
In the meanwhile, no one has ever been found guilty of the crime of ‘file sharing,’ all the mainstream media reports to the contrary notwithstanding.

The time-honoured, almost sacred, principal of Innocent until proven Guilty is mocked by the entertainment industry which, with the active and enthusiastic assistance of the mainstream media, regularly and routinely holds people of all ages up as criminals who have been tried and convicted of the heinous crime of sharing with each other online.

And while all of this happens the true criminals – the counterfeiters and duplicators who use the readily and universally available physical software, music and movie CDs and DVDs as masters with which they make and sell their own ‘product’ underground – count their profits, virtually unscathed.

Jon Newton

BERY BERY INTRESTING!!! not one trial all these people touted as guilty with out a single trial! sounds like slander to me. to tired to write more this was the last part of the article read more here(p2pnet.net article)

-good night

2005-03-11T22:57:00.000-08:00

blah he gonna eat you
the mindless burn or impunity

2005-03-11T22:55:00.000-08:00

pss. kal-el would rather have the squirel eat his face off. ask him i dont have the pic
the mindless burn or impunity

yay another article post

2005-03-11T20:54:00.000-08:00

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=692

I swear geek articles are becoming my reason to post. Anyways this is not that interesting an article actually, most people probably know most of what it says, I'm just giving you the footnotes early. what was interesting tho was that second to last paragraph, the quote. Its a really good point I never thought of it that way. I mean I would NEVER buy DCMAed music, I'm sorry not gonna happen. While i always thought is was cool that schools were covering your music cost, I never realised I was still paying for it, just through my tuition. Why the hell am I gonna pay more(albeit a VERY tiny amount more) for a service I DO NOT support and I actually believe to in my best interests not to support. I think that the students should be given a choice. Hell I'll pay for my music IF, its in a non DRM format. I mean If I like the music I'm gonna support the artist.

That being said I still think that $.99 is an outrageous amount to pay for any music not given to me in a physical format. Albums average ohh 12 songs a CD, you can buy a CD for $11-$15 if you shop around. About the same cost as downloading the songs. but look at the costs. With CDs you have the cost of the disks, the cost of the hardware to burn them, and the maintenance of that hardware. Not to mention when I buy these, as a customer I get the added benefits of cover art,lyrics, and all the production info. Also a plus is that I can make a perfect copy of the original and stick the original some place where it will be safe baring catastrophes. Digital music(yes I know CDA is digital but I mean music you are not given a psychical copy of) has next to no production costs(I mean its just a matter of encoding the music), millions of copies can be spawned at the cost of bandwidth, and several layers of middlemen can be cut from distribution costs. From the end-user side, its hard to store the data safely, on any form of rewritable media data corruption is possible and even common and CD-Rs are not as reliable as professional CDs. There is also no information about the music that comes with it, except what is in (if there is any) the ID3 tag(or equivalent), and that is minimal at best. Now add DRM and it is illegal to make perfect backups(or any backup for that matter) of your music. How long till you misplace a music file, or you hard drive crashes, or you drop your DRM approved device in the mud while getting out of the car without noticing and leave it to freeze there over night???(not that hard trust me I've done it with my cell). Considering all of this why do CDs and downloaded music cost about the same???

Anyways I have a navy thing tomorrow morning so I go to sleep now. I bid you adieu.

-Your loving fellow driver

ps. I want a pet fox and a pet squirrel. preferably ones that get along. and ones that talk would be good too

People suck

2005-03-09T19:30:00.000-08:00

read this first

My gosh, comparing software to a high security building!!! I'd like to see some one replace or fix a building in under a week. Actualy the artical is not my problem. I agree that having software flaws passed on to those who would exploit it to the harm of others is not good. Never the less this will happen any ways, whether you play ostrich or not. Now on the other hand, if you pass a law that says that companies are the only ones to be notified of flaws, you may get the companies playing the ostrich. In high security buildings there are the builders, and the people whose job it is to respond to security issues. Thats two seperate groups, the latters job is to fix any problems with the formers its a check and balance of sorts. On the other had in security software the builder does both, and is therefore more likely to hide flaws. I think that it is much wiser to let those who want to know, know exactly what problems of the software they are using/buying are, and how quickly they are fixed. As I have said before almost all software sucks. I would be more suspicious of security software that seem to be and always have been perfect, then one that has had known flaws that were quickly atended to. To me what would be much more covincing to me is a full list of past problems and how the company reacted to them. As far as im concerned I would want the company I use to, encourage people to find flaws and to publish them, and to alert its users to these errors and tell them what precations to take until the holes were fixed.

well I had a great taichi class to tonight and I've been now 21 for a whole day almost two. Umm thats about it, ohh I saw Amelie last night for the first time and The jacket last night, both of which are great movies. night all sleep well.

-Meuus

{The most vile thing you can think of}

2005-03-06T12:34:00.000-08:00

Microsoft Does it again! Taking over an amazing company to do lord knows what with. This time the victim is Giant Company. Now I'm no Microsoft hater. Yes I believe they are the kings of mediocrity, and yes there software is BAD, but you know what, there is very little perfect software out there and NO perfect OSes out there. In any case I will give Microsoft is props where it deserves them, IE NOT ON THEIR SOFTWARE!!

Microsoft amazingly enough has under stood its need for better security in its OS, or rather the possibilities in the anti-spyware(AS) market, so what does it do?? Does it assign some of its own people to make and/or ask the AS community for help making some software?? NO! Instead it takes one of the best, although little know, AS company it can find and buys it out!!! This suggests that MS has no intention of giving back the the AS community and even worse may kill what was once one of the best pieces of AS software out there.

I suppose I should explain a little about Giant Company. Giant is one of those many Internet annoyances companies out there. They make Anti-spam/pop/spyware software. Interesting thing about AS programs is that, unlike firewalls and antivirus which were first marketed to companies and privet users latter, AS started as software for the every day user. Giant was looking like one of the first Professional level AS out there, they really had a very large database. Now I fear that With MS the DB will become outdated. I am also afraid of what MS will do to the software itself. MS is know for its bloated interfaces and security holes, and hell you know that because this program is made by MS, It will be targeted by every piece of malicious code out there. Great now the best AS software out there is a major target. Might as well of gone to cracker bb and/or chatroom been like bet you can't utterly decimate this software. Lastly I DO NOT TRUST MICROSOFT!!!!!!! Please MS stay a way from security leave it to people with morals(or vested interest in keeping your trust in its security) and coding skills.

Any ways life is good, tho i am jobless and feeling the squeeze. I am also sleeping days now and working nights till say ohh 5 am. Its a good life:).

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY is all I can say

2005-02-26T00:27:00.000-08:00

I decieded that a short post is in order, in celebration of sluggy regaining its dignity. Ian is gone, there it is proof that god DOES love sluggites. It preaty funny Pete said and I qoute "he has suffered the slings and arrows of occasional disgruntled sluggites with stride and grace" ahahaahahaa occationl!! If all the disgruntled sluggites had chiped in I'm quite possitive we could of bought a tacticle nuke to use insted of arrows.

Speaking of nukes I am now enlisted in the Navy go figure.

Well I need to finish a application and I need sleep, so goodnight.

BTW if you dont know what sullgy is pleas go to Sluggy.com and DO NOT read todays(sat same date as this post) comic, its what I'm rejoyceing about going.

broken cars make for bad transportation

2005-01-30T20:02:00.000-08:00

Well if you didn't guess from my title I'm having car troubles. Been having car troubles for about a week. I have to replace the belts on my car, and i managed to round a nut and can't get it off. Thank God for dremels, Ive been cutting off the bold but I only have 20 mins of daylight here and there thanks to work. Right now I am listening to my sister CD, and I was thinking hey you guys wanna hear it??? let me know and I'll see how I can do that. If your wondering its indie folk/rock played on guitar(actually right now listening to "TFK-last words" the song changed). On the topic of music Deadsy just came on.

These guys are a lot of fun.
Deadsy is led by the son of Cher and Gregg Allman. This happens to be a rather funny fact because Deadsy plays a very dark electronic(synth metal) music style. the music is well balanced and played, and the lyrics a lot of fun look in to it some time. Before i wrap this up I want to thank to every one who has ever told me to read hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. This book is amazing! If you are a fan of sci-fi or fantasy books I suggest reading this.

-Meuus

P.S. Anyone having any problem with the spell check in opera(cough cough calcough) make sure Aspell is installed and just reinstall opera. the spell-check will run fine and any problem/glitches will be fixed after that. Turns out opera is as bad as windows as far as needing to be reinstalled every so often.

MORNING ALLL!!!!!!!

2005-01-28T22:45:00.000-08:00

Welcome all, for the hundredth time I have decided to get a second job. I suppose we'll see if i go through with it this time. Today at work I had the weirdest thing happen. I have a very weird habit of letting my mind wonder on to what could happen. For example I have complete faith in my parents and their marriage, but I had at one time decided that my dad was cheating on my mom with some woman I just saw. Now this is completely random and so I created a back story and every thing. I do this all the time. Now as many people who know me know, I love the the thought of having justifiable reason to kick the living doily out of someone. This often becomes a focus of my cranial meanderings. Well today at work I this tallish lanky guy with long hair, a long face, and wearing jeans and a leather jacket, comes in and asks to see our headphones. Now mind you I work at an airport we sell aviation headsets, these things cost $300 to over a $1000. so I open the case and while the guy is looking my mind starts to wonder, and I start thinking: wow this guy scares me, I mean he seems nice enough, but if he were to cut and run with something the thought of having to fight him scares me. Now I look at big guys, I mean muscle bound could break me in half, and think I could take them, or I'd love to try. With this guy though I realized that his build was not one I could take easily and his thinness at something like 40 yo, indicates either hes in bad health, and I could break him with one hit, OR, that he was in good shape and trained in a very agile sport. The way he carried him self suggested the latter, and more, a natural strength and agility. Funny thing is the thrill that I got off just thinking of this. Ahhhhhhhh. And so now that you all think I like to pick fights and am a violent person, I'm going to sleep. I have a car to work on tomorrow before I go to work at 930. night all.

-meuus

the begining

2005-01-28T01:42:00.000-08:00

Ok first post! I just started this and i feel the need to post. The problem is that its late and i have to get up in 2 hrs. So tonight I leave you with three words:

SEE GARDEN STATE
catch a link
Garden State

I love that movie. I just hear frou frou's let go and it brings tears to my eyes, its really kinda pathetic. night all I need my sleep.

-Meuus
P.S. I'll post a pic of what I'm talking about tomorrow I cant find one tonight and I need some sleep

P.P.S. If you need help remembering my blogs address its my first email address, which is a misspelling of the name Karde. Karde is a smuggler in starwars and an extreamly cool character.