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Uh... yeah... it will do that... because ImgBurn should only detect the drives on start. It could be written to poll all the time for drives, but, that would be quite intensive, and probably mess up other read and write activities if it did it too often in a short period of time while a drive was in use. Just a guess, though. I would think, though, using Refresh (F5) should detect the drive if you've turned it off after opening ImgBurn? Give that a try. I forget if Refresh does a drive list poll or not. I know it can "free" a drive that may have been "caught" by ImgBurn, but, not always. So, even if it would do a drive list on Refresh, it may not necessarily find it. Thus, it's better to just turn the drive on before ImgBurn starts. So, shut down ImgBurn and then reopen it is probably the best bet.

was you thinking of those dirty basts called Italy ? , well the "kick the crap out of teams " part anyway. oops my mistake , you didnt mean in a normal game No, my team never wins because they're the non-existent Bolivian Pel?s. Can you imagine it? Some sweet, glorious day, two teams take to the field, thinking they're going for that ultimate prize... when the sanctity of the event is SHATTERED by an army of Pel? clones rushing out onto the field in perfect unison. "Hut! Hut! Hut! Hut!" While everyone on the green is staring in confusion much as I'm sure most of you are now my army of genetically perfect footies ATTACKS! Kicking the crap out of whoever happens to be unlucky enough to have made it to the cup finals, and declares victory by proxy... FOR ME!

Oh, and, here I had my heart set on this year being the one where a team that did not make the finals would storm the stadium, kick the crap out of the other two teams, and declare victory by proxy.

I thought it was written in ancient Sanskrit, with a dash of Satanese added...

He probably can't reply right now. He's in Lock Down Mode: locked down, in front of the telly, with the cooler, transfixed to the World Cup, hoping that his team will just fuck the rules, storm the stadium, kick the crap out of both teams, and declare victory by proxy.

My question is... why does ANYONE care? I am reminded of a sketch from Saturday Night Live ripping into the Chicago Bears for their idiotic rap video: "We play with ball! We kick the ball!" And, that's ALL BOTH football and soccer are.

I think it was 1919 when American Indians serving in the armed forces were granted American citizenship across the board, thus, they could vote since they were "legalized" citizens. But, I'm only going from memory, and, history and politics aren't my strongest suits.

Oh, they still make that strange jelly substance contained in a plastic cage? I can remember how it creeped me out as a kid!

It's because we DON'T! America is a representative oligarchy. It sounds better to placate the people with the term Democracy, though. In fact, if you examine the Constitution, etc. closely, it pretty much quite clearly spells out the general populace is too stupid to run itself and cannot be trusted to do so. Thus, the idea of electing people charged to speak for the concensus of the group was established. Which is a good idea, but, as always, lousy in execution, because it's easier to buy 1 person than it is to buy the vote of every voter. Plus, even at the start, it was never really a Democracy, because, not everyone could vote. If you were black, poor, or a woman, you didn't get a say in the goings on where you lived. I mean, good god, it wasn't until 1920 century when a woman could "legally" vote!

Nope, there are, at least, two.

There is one thing to keep in mind, folks. In American Idol, people can, and do, vote numerous times for the same person. The American President isn't picked that way. In fact, he's not picked by the people. But, in some cases, people can, and have voted multiple times like... no, no, that would just be a cheap shot.

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It should stay years off, probably. Who wants fiber optic cable inserted into cows, anyway? What's the best having an Internet connected cow can offer? "PING! YOU'VE GOT MILK!"

Are you sure that wasn't a commercial for a recent Hugh Grant movie?

There are supposedly 6x and 8x rewritables out now, though, I've not seen any in stores here, but, that doesn't surprise me. In fact, in stores, you have to make sure to check the speeds on the boxes. Because, the stores still have 2x stock they want to get rid of.

As for what I would recommend, well, just don't get any CMC. Other than that, what I've found that works well for me because I can get it easily here in town as the ones from Office Depot, which are Riteks with their badge on them. However, picky players like the Playstation 2 have had some random skipping problems on playback, but, the kind that are truly random. Meaning, you can rewind back over the brief pause and resume play and not get it again. Unfortunately, there's no real recommendation to make. You have to just find what works for the hardware you have. One of the real problems, IMO, with writable DVD's of any kind. Despite there being a book standard, very few hardware manufactures and some disc manufacturers just choose to ignore them and slap anything together. On the DVD+RW side, though I normally prefer - to + in general across the board, I've found Maxell and HP DVD+RW discs played without problems in all the test hardware I currently have.

Oh, like how Sakai-san, apparently, thinks anything can be made into ice cream?

My favorite is Iron Chef Chen Kinichi.

That appears to be the Paramount home video logo... Anyway, have you tried making an image of this disc and burning it to a rewritable DVD for testing? If you get it on both the PC and a standalone, then, there are only 2 possibilities, within reason: 1.) really lousy compression codec/error during processing so that the file itself was created that way 2.) there is a problem with the physical disc, either during the burning process, the dye itself, or the reflectivity of the surface. All of which could be either a dying burner or a bad disc, even in a batch of good ones.

Hey, I kid you not! Pain_Man can back me up. I actually received an error dialog window that said: "Error The operation completed successfully."

I'm no expert, but, as far as I know, Congress never passed any laws, even with the Betamax case. That that was a Supreme Court decision. If it was laws put into the books, then, none of the media companies would have any leverage at all in terms of copying from TV, etc. The DMCA and useless copyright extensions ad infinitum are the only laws I know of that were passed to give the content owners the strong arm they currently have. Which was exactly what they wanted. Something like DMCA passed that was so vague it gave virtual power through fear over everything.

Well, remember, there is a subtle difference between DRM and the remote disabling, which actually was to physically destroy your hardware. Ala with a small explosive charge, apparently. Also, DID the House/Congress even have to okay DRM? Or was it just like so much else of that and just added in their by the respective consortiums to placate someone else?

Well, Jack, since you're so old, treat yourself to a bottle of Jack instead. Down a Daniels and drown your sorrows for another year lost to old age and that race to the grave.