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Maybe they're just a lousy band. Don't worry. I'm just a tease!

I assume you've applied for the $1,000,000 reward offered by The Skeptics Society? No? No, I haven't applied yet, however, since I am astral projection through the Fourth Dimension, I already have in the future and claimed the prize by reviving Houdini from the dead. Even he, who helped set up such a fund, had to admit, it was a fair cop and pretty damn good trick!

Jealous of my Holmesian powers of observation?

We here have to hope not, because, soon, you guys in the UK will be the only way we can get digital TV shows. I am curious for shows like Doctor Who. I mean, does Sci-Fi Channel show it in digital, as the various BBC's did/do?

Has anyone ever noticed how incredibly strong is? I mean, look closely: the little guy is actually able to lift, hold, and swing that folding metal chair with ONE hand! What a char-athlete! Also, has anyone ever noticed the slight difference between this Smilie: and the one used for the Post Icon?

Can they show that?! Volvo's missus's vulv... Better not complete that, otherwise, they might come in and- (!) - ALERT POP-UP #23666 The rest of this post has been pre-sanitized for your mental convenience by the Thought Police who have gratiously agreed to travel back in time from where they rule all thought into your temporal zone to make sure you don't see anything you shouldn't.

And, it's probably in your better interests not to follow in my footsteps, given the results I tend to generate.

Maybe it was Bart PE? Since no one answered... I may never know.

Also, technically, it's only buried deep inside Afterdawn because the article is over a year old. However, a little more alarming was this recent story: http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7523.cfm "U.S. Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has snuck the dreaded and condemned "broadcast flag" into a bill on Net Neutrality. It is worth mentioning that the same guy previously rejected Broadcast Flags for radio. The broadcast flag clause would allow "the FCC to establish a broadcast flag to allow TV stations to protect digital content from Internet piracy." Previous attempts to bring about the Broadcast Flag have been highly criticised, and for good reason."

The funniest part of the whole thing, IMO, has been to look at the history of Sony. Sony helped to create the widely accepted mass market home video demand with Betamax. Hollywood tried to step in and curtail home video recording because they saw not a potential to release their vaults to the home market, but saw, instead, people taping the edited versions of their movies off of TV for a cheaper price. Sony cared about consumer rights then because it had a stake in them: if people lost the ability to record at home, then, Sony couldn't sell home video recorders. Now, notice how a simple thing like changing from an entirely hardware centric business to a combination hardware and content owner makes. When Sony started gobbling up movie studios left and right with acquisitions like Columbia, Tri-Star, etc. Sony suddenly lost the desire to make sure consumers could do things. Why? Because the market had been, instead, won by a competitor: VHS. Sony didn't want to lose the gravy train it had basically started, so, it covered both bases. Notice how Sony, after losing the VCR Format Wars, made sure, basically, there would be no format war with recordable DVD by making drives that were dual format? Also note how the Playstation was not just a proprietary video game system but also a CD player. And how the PS 2 was not only a proprietary video game system, but, also a CD player, player of the proprietary video game format from the previous generation, AND a DVD player. BUT, the real change comes when Sony is suddenly a combination provider for both hardware and content. This leads to the most incredible shift of all: after fighting so hard to get users to be able to record TV in their homes, because they had a stake in it through sales of the device to let you do it, Sony develops ARCOSS because it has the media side to it now. It's a variant on the sell the printers cheap, but, charge through the nose in perpetuity for the ink cartridges needed to run them. Hence why something dumb like claiming the DMCA meant people couldn't use cartridge refill systems because they added circuits to "check" things like ink levels, etc. when they were added in just to use the DMCA as a means to prevent anyone from selling an alternative to their money chain scheme. Sony suddenly didn't care about a user's right to make a backup of a DVD they bought from Sony because Sony would like to just sell you a 2nd one later. Sony sure didn't care about copying DVD's when they SOLD the hardware that enabled it. One of the reasons, I believe, why they got out of the manufacturing of the DRU line and just rebadged LiteOn drives to do it. Because Sony could still profit from the sales of the devices but have the "moral" high ground that they didn't make it. I had one other really fantastic point, but, I lost it.

I sense you doubt our powers... There! I have proven that divine powers of mind reading (Those of us who practice it call it Karnac.) exists! Without a doubt, argument won. Psychics, one; doubting, farting digits 0.

I wish I could take all the credit for that other case. But, I only had the feeling that it "sounded too good to be true." So, I figured it probably didn't happen and then thought of reasons why it probably wouldn't. I should have thought to check snopes.com because I've used it many times before to search up on things like giant camel spiders in Iraq. But, spinningwheel thought of it first.

IMO, she gets too much credit for this movie. Michael York and Joel Grey are the ones who make the film. Interestingly enough, Tomorrow Belongs To Me is only about 45 seconds in the original play book. It got extended into a longer song and sequence in the film version. (Strangely, when this film was translated into French, the song is sung in German, instead! )

Ah, I didn't know that "Spare Parts" was the source for a Cybermen story for this season. I liked "Spare Parts," too! Who knew the Doctor had such a direct hand in their creation? I think it's time for a new Big Finish Cybermen story directly involving the Doctor. I know they've recently finished a Cybermen only story, akin to Dalek War, but, as far as I can recall, there were only 3 Cybermen stories with the Doctor over at Big Finish.

Probably data mined. The service was sold to someone else and they received the registered users information as assets and then sold them to a spammer's list, maybe?

I still don't like the helments, but, otherwise, they're a great redesign! They have the feel of the Iron Giant and the Adi Granov covers to Iron Man comics. How was the K-9 episode? And "Tooth And Claw?" I admit to being somewhat of a fan of werewolf movies.

I was thinking the same thing as most of the replies here. If you're STARTING at 18 gig AVI, you're going to have a ridiculously large MPEG-2 video size for DVD. I believe the last time I used MainConcept MPEG Encoder to convert a 1 GB AVI to DVD Video, it created a 6 GB MPEG file. Now, if the same level of magnitude applies to this case, you're looking at a 108 GB MPEG file. At that size, can you even compress it down to DVD-Video at that level? The good news is, though, at 18 GB, the AVI should have fairly good video quality, I'd think. So, IF it could be converted, it should look pretty good as a DVD. I'd say the biggest hurdle is just having enough space to do this to start with.

It is continually asked: "How could the people who produced Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schiller, Heine, Goethe, Leibniz, Lessing, Kant, Schumann, Schubert have perpetrated the Shoah (Holocaust)?" There's a simple answer: World War I. It exposed 13.5 million German men to the largest occurence of industrialized killing in history (industrialized killing was, unsurprisingly, invented by the French with their Guillotine, tho' Dr. Guillotin thought he was doing the condemned a favor, instead he invented the first Assembly Line of Death). Which is why I've always found the most effective moment in Cabaret to be the part where "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" is sung. When one knows the history behind the events being depicted in the background, it is frightening, yet entirely, unfortunately, understandable, how even just a small gathering like that outdoor beer festival rallies (most) of the people around that Hitler Youth's performance.

Even more unimaginable was that 7 other episodes, I think, were made! They were never shown, of course, for obvious reasons.

And, conveniently enough, ABC Family Channel is premiering Looney Tunes: Back In Action this Sunday! I'll tape it then to see. Also, got a reply from a post on IMDB forums about Breakfast On Pluto, and, it does indeed appear to be a Dalek in that movie!

It's about as subtle as singing, to the tune of the between verses part of Supercalifragolisticexpialidocious ( sp? ) : "Join the Party! Goose step in time! Join the Party! Goose step in time! Obey the orders or you'll die! Join the Party! Goose step in time!" Or, just sing the theme to that hit Brit-com, "Heil, Honey! I'm Home!"

OH, MY GOD! I NEVER thought I'd live to see this! The infamous Heil, Honey! I'm Home! Basic premise: Hitler is living with Eva in an American suburb, who get some undesirable new neighbors. Wow! HOW this ever got on the air, even though it was cancelled after 1 episode, is one of those mysteries man will NEVER solve! The video quality is godawful, but, the fact that it just exists amazes me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEq5A2XeBCw...ch=heil%20honey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Eo_SCP77Tc...ch=heil%20honey

Wow... can someone explain THIS to me? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_%28sitcom%29 WHY is there a picture of Ian Levine in an article about "Soap" when it doesn't mention him at all?

Oh, the Open sub-menus when I pause on them with my mouse? Is there any way to get this to apply to the actual Start menu itself? Meaning, it works okay for the first two layers, but, once you actually get into All Programs, they open automatically whenever the mouse goes over them. Thanks, though! I was looking for that. Never thought it might be contained in a TASKBAR property... what a bunch of idiots! And, no, calling them the "Taskbar AND START MENU Properties" is just an easy excuse for Microsoft to be lazy.

No, it's not that. That's the MS-DOS 16 bit subsystem. My error is in the Windows one. The one Microsoft won't admit is there, but is. My error has nothing to do with CONFIG.NT It appears to be related to the temporary directory that Windows wants to set (C:\WINDOWS\Temp that gets made regardless of what you actually set or tell Windows to use.) because when apps that make calls to it try to run, they say they cannot write to the temp area, which brings up the cause of the error from the Windows 16 bit subsystem. So, this error is partially related to the Eudora one, I think. That Eudora, too, can't write to the temporary folder, for whatever reason. For those following my Environment variables saga in another post this was why I wanted an easy way to edit the variables. Because I needed a lot of testing to be done. Well, I KNEW I'd need a lot of testing, because, that's the Microsoft way.