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Cracked a darky? In this country that means... well, can't really say what that means. What's it mean there?

Anyone else who uses/is familiar with Panasonic's DMR line of stand alone DVD recorders is welcome to chime in if there's an answer to this. I was wondering if there's any way to read in the information of unfinalized/non-closed session DVD-R's (Or DVD-RW's on some models.) without finalizing them. i.e. take an unfinalized DVD-R/RW to a PC and read in its data without finalizing the disc? Saves time, if possible, to do it that way. Otherwise, with -RW, it can be read it, finalized, and then read on the PC. DVD-RAM is different because it uses .VRO which can be read in, but, only by a select few applications, and hardly any of them read the stuff in correctly. Thanks!

Yeah, it could always be worse. In Germany, it is a criminal offense to just even say the words hail victory. Say "Sieg heil" and you'll get 3 years in prison. Just for saying some words!

Now, here's the weird thing. The instructions for the Bellamy salute actually seem to indicate that you are supposed to have your palms up, as if you're lifting the flag by sheer force of will, radiated out from your upward palm. Also, it seems that it really did start with the hand over the heart, and then went into the other gestures. "Begun with the right hand over the heart during the phrase 'I pledge allegiance.' The arm is then extended toward the flag at the phrase "to the flag" and remains outstretched during the rest of the pledge, with the palm facing upward." Other versions also also began with the right hand in a military salute of some kind. There doesn't seem to be any solid, consistent information... probably because the real answers don't look nice. Because in that photo above, it is obvious that the palm is facing down, not lifting the flag, and thus, is a Roman/Nazi salute.

You something else that's kind of scary? Is how the salute has also been adopted by Hezbollah...

This makes me wonder. Is there an equivalent of the Pledge Of Allegience to the flag of the United States of America in England? Is there a daily morning ceremony where kids in Britain in school have to go through with the British flag? Part of A Levels? If so, what's it called and what are the words? I've always been a little uneasy about the Pledge. I'm not against it, but, I just find it a tad confusing. It seems a bit hypocritical to go through a sort of memorized Catholic mass type of procedure every morning to pledge your allegience to the government when you're given the freedom, supposedly, to do what you want. I mean, it's a sort of indoctrination. However, it's not forced to do, so, that's why I don't have a problem. But, just try NOT saying it. You'll be so ostricized by teachers and other students you might as well do it. And, of course, my merely discussing topics of debate like this in today's current political and ruling environment in my country makes me a target as a traitorous anti-American giving aid and comfort to the enemy, obviously.

Anyway, yeah, from 1892 until 1942, we Nazi saluted/Roman saluted the American flag as part of the Pledge. We adopted the hand over the heart because it soon became too associated with the Nazis to do the old salute. But, it's kind of hard not to be chilled slightly when you see that photo of kids Nazi saluting the American flag, isn't it?

It did when I put it in, but, I've deleted it since then. I completely misread, well, everything. Please stick with my edited version of the post for a correct one.

ACK! I completely misread it! Forget what I had previous said in my original version of this reply here and have conveniently deleted it. Right hand lifted, palm downward, to a line with the forehead and close to it means that photo at the bottom. It is poorly worded, but, the bit about close to it is throwing you, and at first me off. The last bit about close to it means the tip of the line with the forehead to the top of the fingers. A better way to have said the whole thing is the arm is held extended outwards at a 45 degree angle.

That last image was the photo that reminded me of the whole Bellamy salute thing.

Well, it had been established that Time Lords had 12 regenerations. But, the Master was able to circumvent it, so, the Doctor will, too, if he is popular enough. Plus, it is not entirely established if the Doctor is telling the truth or not. If Hartnell was the First, as the flashbacks from The Brain Of Morbius seem to indicate other regenerations before that one. Which I've always found it interesting about the First Doctor. How did he manage to live to be so old if he's regenerating every few years?

I just now realized. The Cybermen just turned 40 years old! They'd better start replacing the parts by now, I suppose. Which also means that we are approaching the 40th anniversary (the 29th) of a Doctor Who staple: the infamous regeneration. With a Doctor rapidly running out of regenerations himself.

Oh, man, I had forgotten about this! This absolutely FLOORED me the first time I learned of it! Even I had forgotten about it until I stumbled across a photo. It is conveniently left out of discussing the history of saying the Pledge Of Allegience in American schools, that's for sure! From 1892 until 1942, we used to "Nazi salute" the American flag when saying the Pledge! Called the Bellamy salute after the guy who initiated it, we used to not say the Pledge with our hands on our hearts. From 1892 until 1942, we used a Roman salute. (It's actually called a Roman salute, but, most associate with the Nazi's for their use of the Roman salute as a military greeting, as its original intent in Rome.) Actual notes, apparently, distributed to schools on what to do: At a signal from the Principal the pupils, in ordered ranks, hands to the side, face the Flag. Another signal is given; every pupil gives the flag the military salute -- right hand lifted, palm downward, to a line with the forehead and close to it. Standing thus, all repeat together, slowly, ?I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands; one Nation indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.? At the words, ?to my Flag,? the right hand is extended gracefully, palm upward, toward the Flag, and remains in this gesture till the end of the affirmation; whereupon all hands immediately drop to the side. So, the time I actually DID Nazi salute the American flag during Pledge in German III class was legitimate, I guess! I wasn't Nazi saluting the American flag; I was Bellamy saluting it.

Actually, it doesn't surprise me that the beta team members would have more replies. We have to help answer questions. Plus, if that count of posts also takes into account the posts we make behind everyone's back plotting a total Liberal domination of the world under the guise of testing the software then, we would have higher posts because we have to post logs, disc results, error checks, etc. amongst ourselves and feedback with the master of the bolts. Admittedly, I am surprised someone topped the commander in chief, but, not by much.

Didn't think about that! Once it starts, it can't be stopped save by purposeful, entire program abend.

Over at WeirdAl.com's front page: "White & Nerdy" hits #9 on the Billboard hot singles chart this week, making it Al's first Top 10 single, as well as his highest charting single of all time!

NO! Why should I?! I need the money, and, others have lived on far more delusional hopes than that! Besides, I need a reason to live. Cash, repeatedly burning useless shit on useless discs (An interesting metaphore for my life, perhaps?) and an endless supply of drives to burn them with sounds like a pretty good life.

Was burning an image for an MP3 CD made by another application, of course, with ImgBurn. (Actually, it was an image made by another app that I used UltraISO to inject files into.) It burned fine, buy, the verify came back with several dialogues. I 07:34:28 Image File File System(s): ISO9660, Joliet, UDF (1.02) I 07:34:32 Verifying Sectors... W 07:35:01 Miscompare at LBA: 20, Offset: 14 W 07:35:01 Device: 0x20 W 07:35:01 Image File: 0x19 W 07:35:01 Total Errors in Sector: 37 W 07:35:01 Note: The drive probably corrected the Sync/Header because it's wrong in the image file. Then, it would ask if I wanted to keep verifying. For kicks, I decided to see how many of these verify dialogs would come up. As a beta tester, one has to keep testing, right? 55 more such dialogues followed one right after the other. So, I got to thinking, what if someone needed to see a Verify through to the end to get whatever sectors were being returned. Thus, should there be a Yes To All included in this dialog for that reason?

Even if they don't, who cares? CMC is still paying me, so, I could buy a replacement.

Oh, I don't know. If they paid me to use CMC's, I would. Because, all I need to do is pocket their money and then burn some useless shit to the discs to keep my part of the bargain.

Well, quality tends to be something that builds brand loyalty. And, that doesn't make profits. The market seems to be focused in this area on its impending replacements on the horizon, so, they're trying to make as much as they can in a short period. Brand loyalty over time, then, has no place in such a paradigm.

That's a good question. Macs, supposedly, have good reputations for being machines to be able to make movies with. i.e. they were early adopters of it. Maybe the Mac version of Toast is okay. Or maybe Roxio/Sonic bought it from someone who made it work. Just give it time to suck, then, like how Easy Media died a slow death after Version 5's laborious trek to XP compatibility.

And, to revisit an ancient topic, I actually had this in some Post It notes to get around to doing. And, I FINALLY did! Anyway, found the record in question. It was called Shangri-La. http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Shangri-La:192...2VjA2FydHByb2Q-

You can also take a kind of short cut, depending on what you want to do. If you know what you're doing and don't need to test menus, etc. you can take a shortcut and load many images directly into DVD Shrink. Then, you can play in the preview window, though it's small, and navigate with some basic controls. Absolutely avoid Roxio/Sonic products. Easy Media 9 is just as messed up as 8... because it's just Version 8 with all the updates applied and a few regressions, like button menus taken out of some views where they used to belong, crashes occurring on the same data that version 8's apps were fine with, changes in overlays to menus to give them different colors and appear to be new and updated, etc. It's hard to imagine Sonic carrying on the Roxio tradition, but, they have. Each version is worse than the last. Sonic apparently decided, instead, rather than replace Easy Media with RecordNow, they just decided to toss both into a blender. So that parts of Easy Media get called when you want X done, and parts of RecordNow get called when you run Y app! An absolute mess!

For some more (possible) information on the invalid field, see this thread as to what it may mean. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=2300&hl=