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Hear ye! Hear ye! The prosecution calls G. Hovah to the stand! I had a bizarre but intriguing thought. What does one do if they call god to the stand in a court of a law? In the US, a person accused of something has the right to face his accusers, i.e. to see who it is who is laying charges against them. This got me to thinking about how some people have god persecutory complexes, so, it made me think of the concept of calling god himself to the stand in a court of law. To call G. Hovah to take the stand. Naturally, god isn't going to do it. So, could that be a way to "legally prove" that god does not exist? Now, this rather facetious line of thinking, though, leads to an actual legal issue, IMO. If someone pressed it, the court MUST make a decision regarding the existence or not of god. Obviously, a person cannot call a witness that does not EXIST to take the stand. A person CAN, of course, call someone to take the stand, but, that called person does not have to show up and take it. So, what would the court do if someone DID call god to take the stand to examine a witness against him? If the court rules in contempt for the person who called god, they'd have to explain IF the decision was made because god does not exist and you cannot call a non-existent person. Then, you have a precedence of a court establishing god does not exist. But, does it then allow the person to call god to the stand, knowing full well that god won't? The court then can't stop someone from calling god to the stand, because that would also be establishing that god does not exist. The court must allow god to not attend of his own accord, which means, in essence, that the court has made it precedence that god does exist! So, what's a court to do? I should call G. Hovah to the stand in court someday and see what happens. If only Darrow had done this! "I call GOD himself to the stand! Let's see if HE doesn't want us teaching evolution?"

You know? It's Orwellian language like this that makes me glad I might, some day, escape this world of increasing fingers tightening around my throat. Squeezing every drop of blood from a stone. http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7941.cfm Universal seek MySpace, YouTube royalties The chief of Universal Music Group, the world's largest record label, has hinted that the company may sue viral video sharing site YouTube for copyright infringement. "We believe these new businesses are copyright infringers and owe us tens of millions of dollars," said UMG boss Doug Morris, speaking at a conference this week. "How we deal with these companies will be revealed shortly." First, MAY sue? You KNOW they will because they're seeing easy money. Second, BELIEVE anything all you want, doesn't make it so. "We believe they are infringing on our copyrights, even though, IF they somehow were, it is because of how the users are using the service." And, belief is not enough to make a fact. But, when they believe they owe them tens of millions of dollars, they REALLY want it to be a fact. Third, we KNOW how they will deal with it. Suing dead users, YouTube executives who never existed, random people in the center of the US who never had a computer, 90 year old women, etc. After all, WHY would they sue YouTube for tens of millions when they sue tens of thousands of people signed up to the service for ten thousand bucks a pop to make the lawsuits go away? SHEESH!

In other words, it ain't gonna matter because Microsoft crippled Windows Explorer to only display 32 characters, regardless. I've made many complaints about this before during my ceaseless dedication to testing Label functions.

HA! I'm not the ONLY one who fools around with the label fields! And all the other beta testers LAUGHED at my dedication to Labels.

Wow... get a load of this http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7940.cfm "DVDs will soon be embedded with radio transmitter chips which will allow the major movie studios to remotely track individual discs as they travel from factories to retail shelves and to consumers' homes. The studios hope the technology, which can be used for Blu-Ray and HD DVD discs as well as normal DVDs, will prevent unlawful copying and pirating of their films." So, all you do is simply not buy any new hardware for your PC or DVD players or any home entertainment electronics that support this idiotic idea. Or, if worse comes to worst, get some cheap electronics at Radio Shack, build a tiny radio transmitter of your own, and simply interfere the radio wave energies being used and cross cancel them out with other garbage. In the end, this will just raise the price of DVD's and drive customers away when they realize that they're uselessly paying for a so called rights protection technology which is actually a rights dictation scheme. Which, of course, won't actually stop any real pirates; they can just use the above mentioned methods. Last but not least, these guys are all fuckers, anyway. They can never do any of this right, so, they'll end up with DVD's that fry some technology on down the road in some way because of interfering radio frequencies. The irony of which ALL household electronics have those little tags that say they can only be sold as long as they comply with some things. One of these is that they will NOT emit frequencies that cause interference with other household electronics. So, the first time one of these RIDF DVD's fries something, class action lawsuits will flood down the pike.

Unicron plays football with the Death Star.

Seems that those SONY16D1's are the cheaper ones they're farming out to K-Mart and places like that. Me mum got a tub of these at K-Mart to make copies of her mother's recent funeral, so, I have to make the copies, of course. Naturally, I used a GOOD one for the master copy of hers.

I was recently put on something so new that it didn't have a trademarked name yet. Just a chemical name.

Quoth: How "Smart" Is Releasing Five Seasons of a Single Series? Get Smart might not rank as one of television's most memorable classics, but the DVD release of the series, which originally aired between 1965 and 1970, will be memorable in its own right as the first ever to be issued in its entirety -- 138 episodes on 25 discs. The series was restored from the original negatives and each episode will contain all of the earlier scenes, unlike the versions that were shortened for subsequent syndication. Repackaged by HBO Video, the DVD package, which will be priced at $199.95, will initially be available only via corporate sibling Time-Life Video's website until the fall of next year, when it will then be distributed to retail stores. The package will also include more than 10 hours of "extras." First, I find most interesting is the word repackaged. That would indicate the DVD's were already released, yet, the article sounds like HBO Video was releasing it for the first time. Myself, I'd pass on this. I'd be more likely to buy individual seasons, but, I would want the option of all of them in a boxed set like this for completists. But, $200 for a boxed set? I believe the Monty Python's Flying Circus set was near that price, but, was also released in separate disc entries. Actually, I'd prefer individual episode discs ALWAYS released, along with seasonal boxed sets. I'd be more likely to buy 1 disc with, say, 4 episodes if I only wanted one or two episodes from a season versus buying an entire season's boxed set to get those 2 episodes. Take, for instance, Get Smart. There are some I'd have to have, like all 5 HYMIE episodes, since I met him. Plus, the one with Michael Bell, who I also met.

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I still have a copy of GWBASIC.EXE for some of my ancient file storage progs I wrote in high school. As for what happened to it? Prepare for this pun, folks! Basic met its... Waterloo! As for Delphi, I wasn't aware that it was Pascal, actually. Because, last I checked D E L P H I did not spell Pascal.

Dr. Demento has been... instrumental in Al's career. He's also been playing a lot of Al's unreleased recordings from his college days, etc. In fact, Weird Al is the in studio guest for this week's upcoming show, to promote the new album out on Tuesday. That music video should be on the bonus DVD side of the disc.

BTW, in a piece of on the fringe, peripheral information to the subject, the G4 network has, apparently, produced an animated series for the Star Wars spoof, Spaceballs.

I freely admit, I never got the series on VHS. I've stated it before, will uselessly repeat myself. I don't CARE how much of a cultural milestone it has ingratiated itself into... it's OVERRATED!

Ah, but is that Borland's fault or a conflicting Microsoft DLL?

You do realize that says James's FATHER, right?

What an insult! WHERE'S Turbo Pascal?! I grew up on 7 and 8! At least C++ is still there. Who knows? Maybe that fabled Q&A 5 might actually come out someday, then.

I do so much for you guys that the very fact that I haven't been emperor of all corporeal matter by now is simply apathetic. Anyway, just passing along, as is my usual wont, which makes me wonder why since, invariably, I will end up paying for helping others by spreading my knowledge, that there could be some issues involving the latest update to Firefox, 1.5.07. Especially in regardless to Extensions and, in particular, so called "session" ones. The session ones, well, may just not work. Or behave oddly. For instance, Session Manager doesn't like 1.5.0.7 much, it seems. My guess is a simple fix can fix these various issues, but, who knows? Any, SM just always reloads the last session saved, regardless of user preferences. It will also ignore the prompt for a session option UNLESS there is only one window of tabs to open. Then, it's fine.

Well, in his defense, this WAS a Microsoft issue he had to fix. So, he, naturally, encountered other fucker gotchas that had to be worked around.

Plus, I think we're starting to see more and more cases where slower write strategies and descriptors just aren't being included in firmwares and discs. For instance, the 8x DVD+RW's I've seen, granted it's only 1 brand, did not write at less than 6x.

Well, he was his father. James Earl Jones's father, fellow actor and a former boxer Robert E. Jones, died at the ripe ol' age of 96.

I had to laugh at this! It should show up on Leno's headlines. As it people's wonts, especially these people, Muslims took the streets over the Pope's recent comments. In a surprisingly civil demonstration, I saw some footage of people carrying a wide banner down a street. What made me laugh was a typo that changed the meaning entirely. The sign was in English, but, instead of reading "THE POPE'S COMMENTS" followed by the pretense of the protest, the sign read "THE POPS COMMENTS!" Yeah, whatever the Top Of The Pops has to say is of pinpoint political significance in today's world! Especially consider it's no longer on any more, right?

Yeah, I've also tried some ways to think of "automating" searches based on what drives can return versus what rpc1 has in its database. While there's no one to "blame," rpc1's database, with how some, but not all, of its entries are designed, are to, well, blame. Because of this little bit of incosistency (CONSISTENCY, people! CONSISTENCY!) it makes it really impossible to do anything beyond what we have at the moment. But, at least, the site is opened with the drive ID string already entered, so, there's 2 steps you don't have to do.

My favorite is from Jurassic Park.. By just LOOKING at a GUI, the kid miraculously knows that the system is a UNIX based one. "I know UNIX!" Or in that recent series, Surface, where the lead character, a supposed marine biologist, looks at a DNA stream and makes a remarkable discover that the creature is a mammal. Wow! Of course, by just LOOKING at a DNA sequence, it could also be FROG DNA or human DNA or...

It's a good question. Near as I know, a buffer can be both physical and virtual. A physical one being attached to a piece of hardware and a virtual one linking to storage in RAM or swapped disk space. The buffers on the drives themselves are just as good a question. I would guess they're FLASH RAM of some kind. But, I, too, would like to know what this 8 MB or whatever buffer on the drive itself is. I should know, but, it goes to show, once again, that I most likely overestimate my own value. In the words of the Weird One, Al: "You suffer from delusions of adequecy."