Mr.Mike

anyone recommend some good torrent sites?

trying to locate 80's-90's american indie/post rock (mission of burma, minor threat, minutemen etc)

tried torrentspy.com but not much luck. any help would be appreciated.

tchai ovna is amazing.

shame they're away to build a block of flats right next to it...

kill 'em all...

in my experience, no one in their right mind should want to be at uni it's a means to an end.

why won't someone just figure out a way for me to get halo, the FFseries, Resident evil and Zelda on my PC? then I wouldn't need to waste my money on any of these next generation book ends...

six fucking transfers made yet I still can't get this bloody team sorted... I blame my blind love of liverpool for most of these problems but I also blame chelsea cos they're a sack of cunts...

Car manufacturers advertise in print' date=' online and on the tv. Most cars are capable of going over the speed limit. Doesn't mean the car company is breaking the law when the owner drives over the speed limit. Get off your high horse.[/quote']

get off my high horse? how about sticking the high horse up your arse?

I'm trying to make a point, the point being that this dude is trying to make money selling merchandise which to be honest is not worth buying. more than the piracy thing, what happens if someone buys a 360 from this guy then a year down the line it fucks up (for whatever reason). if it was a 360 from a shop you could send it back to microsoft where it would be fixed or replaced. in this case the customer would have a rather attractive book end because microsoft sure as shit aren't going to do anything with it if you've tampered with the insides.

how's that for a high horse?

fair enough. but the tobacco industry isn't allowed to advertise in print, online or on tv anymore so why should you be allowed to advertise your questionable wares on a public website?

i dont chip the 360.

xbox 360' date=' prepared to play backed up games,region free. depends on what package you want, premium or core

and a note on the side, if you want to back up your games you will need additional software which can be downloaded free online. i can help you with that if you need it.

you will also need a dual layer dvd burner[/quote']

ok. for a start, I can't imagine the market in selling chipped x-boxes just to play backups is that high so dont act like you have no idea that people buying your wares are going to break the law with them. Still you're not breaking the law 8) you're just providing the means for others to do it.

secondly, i'm pretty sure playing games from other regions may not be strictly illegal but it's frowned upon and it's only a matter of time till the big guns crack down on it.

in my experience the sort of chipping that people such as yourself do with consoles can lead to problems. it also voids any warranty that comes with the machine. so if you fuck it up (not saying you will just saying if) then your customers don't have a leg to stand on.

one last note. the 360 has a massive range of games that are free to download from x-box live. many of these are bedroom coded etc and in my experience can often be better than the games available in the shops. (nothing really to do with what we're talking about but i thought people would like to know.)

sounds an awful lot like it to me...

no more takers? i'm disappointed...

The Jimmy Calderwood Fake Tan Experience:

GK J Jaaskelainen BOL 3.5

DF J Carragher LIV 4.8

DF K Toure ARS 4.7

DF T Bramble NEW 3.7

DF A Ferdinand WH 3.6

MF S Gerrard LIV 5.3

MF C Ronaldo MU 5.2

MF P Scholes MU 5.0

MF A Lennon TOT 3.9

ST W Rooney MU 8.5

ST R van Persie ARS 6.3

i just hope this proves to riise that he's much better off staying at anfield than moving to "we've bought fucking loads of quality players but have no idea how to play them together" Chelsea.

nae luck chelsea...

'MON THE POOL!!!

The same as SSP members can't understand why people would want New Labour running it....

neither can a lot of us. doesn't mean that the SSP would do any less damage though does it? try thinking before typing.

I agree 100% Tab discourages guitarists from a) learning to read and write music in a disciplined way that other musicians can understand and b) learning to work out how to play music by ear.

Plus' date=' publishers have owned the rights to sheet music for long before recorded music ever came along.[/quote']

ok. fair point again. but can you or anyone else direct me to sheet music for bands such as mogwai, sebadoh or fugazi?

because if you cant then you're missing my point...

also on a slightly different note: i think people perhaps need to get off their highhorse about people learning instruments in a disciplined way. it doesn't matter how you play your instrument so long as the end product is pleasing to the ear (IMHO of course)

looking like the old cliche of infighting' date=' hypocritical socialists of old, full of python-esque "splitters". QUOTE']

i think that describes what I've seen from the SSP aptly...

i just personally don't understand how anybody could want/contemplate that lot running the country.

you may giggle but i used to work with a guy who ate pie sandwiches every day. except instead of softies he used 2 rowies...

Mr.Mike any chance of sharing said link?

it's actually from a couple of sites that I just closed the windows for. and unfortunately i'm late for work right now but I'll find them and put them up later tonight when i get in.

not sure that the 2nd set are all 100% true. both links were found on ABC's official lost forum, a site that used to be great for discussing thoughts on the plotlines etc but sadly has descended into shit since the yanks are waiting till after summer for season3.

anyway, I shall return this evening, post some links and perhaps even start a new thread that I've been contemplating putting up on here for a wee while.

OK: I found the info from that link i was speaking about. This is full of spoilers. I'm not shitting you, if you haven't seen the end of S2 or you don't wanna know anything about S3 then DON'T READ THIS! (you need to highlight it to see it (good call jaseyboi)) :

- Season three will focus more on adventure.

- We'll learn more about The Others and Alex's story.

- An event will happen mid-season that will blow people away!

- J.J. Abrams will co-write the first episode which is titled "The Tale of Two Cities."

- They are going to reveal what happened to Locke, Desmond and Echo.

- They are adding new regular characters, which they are casting for now.

- You'll see more scenes from the outside world

- Desmond and Penny's relationship forms a new seed for a new element in the series.

- Libby will be back to fill in the gaps.

- Within the first few episodes Kate "gets with someone".

- They are going to explain the medical miracles.

- They debunked the rumor that the monster is a cloud nanobot.

- The hyroglypics on the countdown clock are signs of the underworld.

- They have 4 to 5 seasons planned out, and they knew the beginning and ending from the start. Going beyond 5 seasons would be stretching it, they said.

- If they introduce a question on the show, they already know the answer.

- They do look at fans' reactions and that does affect how they do things on the show.

- They showed a promo for the 13 "Lost" diaries that will be on Verizon, which featured Hugo finding a camera and interviewing people on the island.

- A "Lost" game from Ubisoft is coming next year which features a new story.

- On the season two DVD, you can expect one feature which has all of Sawyer's famous lines!

now some REAL spoilers, you might not wanna read these even if you've seen all of S2 (then again they might not be true...)

- Fake HENRY's real name is Thomas Radzinsky

- Chris Shephard is both JACKS and Claires FATHER

- Kate chooses Sawyer!!

- Rose dies this season OF Cancer!!

- Sayid manages to rescue Kate & Sawyer but not Jack!!

- There is no Walt/Michael in the mini-series start to the Season!!

- There will be a Danielle flashback this season, currently planned for March 2007!!

- Locke leg injury was never a physical injury!!

- Libby's last name is Winchester!!

- Libbys husband was killed in the decking accident that Hurley thought he caused!!

- Libby was after Hurley's money as revenge!!

The BLOW us away MOMENT is!!

"This is quite good actually. We have a flashback or so we think to Penny watching the news just after the phone call she recieved from the artic monitoring station. It shows that Flight 815 has just "gone missing" and the previous couple of months have actually taken place in a matter of moments. The time on the island runs a lot quicker than the outside world. It's a real wtf moment."

another +point for S3 is that venom is set to keep his characteristic long tongue.

i'm thinking if they manage to make S3 dark enough then it could be a rival to batman begins. but given that the first 2 seemed to be aimed at the whole family I dunno how much chance there is of it. then again, I can think of a whole heap of superhero movies that would've been better had they been worthy of the 15/18 certificate.

I weep. Shoulda been Crispin "George McFly" Glover.

at least brokeback will have given him the chance to perfect the jokers characteristic over sized mouth and lips. if you catch my drift

as usual I can't remember where i heard this but i'm pretty sure it's not just speculation:

Eddie Brock/venom in the new spiderman movie is set to be played by the guy who plays eric in "that 70's show"...

and the joker for the new batman movie (currently going under the name of "the dark knight") is set to be played by...

Heath "I'm an ass loving cowboy" Ledger!

slightly suspect casting choices if you ask me...

actually' date=' that just made me remember something i learnt in my copyright honours class last year, that there was some legal theorist called john locke, made his name easy to remember for the exam lol.[/quote']

also there's a nineteenth century philosopher called john locke. some of his work focussed on the theme of identity being related tp memory etc... sound familiar?

bit of series3 info:

first 6 episodes will be shown as a "mini-series" and will focus on what happens to certain characters that we see at the end of the series2 finale. it will also cover a lot more of the others past.

the rest of the series will not be shown till a few months after that but episode seven will be directed by jj abrahms (his first since he fucked off to do Mi3)

i did find a link that had the supposed titles of the first 6 episodes of S3 but i can't find it at the moment. I know one of them is centred on jack and it is assumed the flashbacks will cover what happened between him and his wife (and hopefully how he got those tatoos?)

I seem to remember that one episode is called "the way we were" or something along those lines and has flashbacks centred around zeke... sounds fucking cool!

I don't trust Jack. something not right about the way he acts, and bits of his past don't fit either... suspect geeza I'd suggest.

edit: i forgot to mention. apparently we'll be seeing a lot more of "the monster" in series 3. one of the producers has supposedly said that we've seen it a lot more in series 2 than we realise...

I dont understand why this thread should be titled "fucking lawers" the lawers only do the bidding of whoever retains them.....would you be pissed at the girl behind the desk when you pay your council tax?

well to start i don't pay council tax. I'm a student:D

but fair point' date=' i guess my rage at the situation may have clouded my judgement when naming the thread. still, as spellchecker said, the lawyers are the ones who pick apart the loopholes in these laws and they essentially profit form the misery of others (i don't mean in all cases before you get all pedantic again).

anyway the lawyers aren't really my concern so don't take the piss.

as the link i provided points out (or maybe it's [url']www.mxtabs.net , i forget) these people aren't even willing to strike up any form of licensing agreement that would allow the sites to continue providing their service whilst also increasing revenue for the publishers.

I really do feel this is a step too far. As i said before, how can you claim loss of revenue on products you don't supply?