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OMG WTF! hollywood releases massively hyped film based on boring, played out 1940s comic book franchise in an attempt to squeeze every last fucking penny out of it in lieu of actually funding creative, original, interesting films, and millions of sheeple obligingly flock to the cinemas to pay to watch it. nothing to see here folks, run along now but mind you don't step on the corpses of the tossers who went to see Ironman and died of coke and popcorn poisoning on your way out.

another good quote

have you heard of DRM?

I've heard it suggested that these ISP's (who already throttle and limit their heavier users) are agreeing with this because it gives them a straightforward excuse to give them the boot. I find the argument that just a small percentage of heavy downloaders are "a problem" really offensive, because you've paid for a service and you have the right to utilise it. What they really want is customers who pay 20-30 quid a month and do nothing more than check their email once a week because thats where the profit is.

There isn't really anything the ISP's could do to technically defeat filesharing beyond taking measures which would cripple the service so badly and have such horrendous privacy implications that their customers would leave in a flash. Deep packet inspection that identifies filesharing traffic is easily defeated by using properly implemented encryption, and basically what you would have on your hands is a technological "arms race" which ISP's will lose. What the BPI are doing is basically looking for torrents which contain their copyrighted material (infact I believe they are outsourcing this to 3rd party firms), then downloading the content and making a list of all the IP's in the swarm. Encyption doesn't help here but this kind of traffic analysis can be defeated relatively easily by using proxies or something like TOR Tor: anonymity online. Interestingly, the nature of bittorrent means that you're never sharing the whole file, your computer is only uploading fragments of the file, so the data from a single IP will mostly likely result in an unplayable file. It would be interesting to see someone force the BPI into court to test their position.

I saw an interesting comment about this

BBC NEWS | Technology | Net firms in music pirates deal

try going down to catterline, I was there the other day and saw loads of puffins among the usual guillemots, razorbills, gannets and seagulls. There was also hundreds of sand martins living in the cliffs that were getting chased by a pair of sparrowhawks. It's a nicer place than fowlsheugh to spot birds.

you may have noticed the price at the pump has dropped since the americans decided to open talks with the iranians. It may go down further given recent statements by former high ranking american foreign policy advisors (scowcroft, brzezinski) ( US/IRAN: Scowcroft, Brzezinski Urge Bush to Drop Precondition ) urging the american government to start *unconditional talks* with iran that don't stipulate suspension of uranium enrichment (which the iranians are perfectly entitled to do as signatories of the nuclear non proliferation treaty) as a precondiction to any kind of diplomatic discussion.

lydon became a characture of himself long ago, I fail to see how anyone can take him seriously and the whole lovey "dont you know who i am act" just makes me think he's even more of a prick. As someone pointed out, he was on that fucking desert island programme. In 30 years time "scary spice" will be on those shows, whoring her girl power fuck the system credentials, leering at the camera and being obnoxious, they are the same thing, and she will be playing to the same 2nd generation naive audience that lydon plays to now.

wierdly, i just re-watched this film last night Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975) and finally realised what it means.

The picture that shames Italy - Europe, World - The Independent this story from a couple of days ago went largely unreported here too.

The Raw Story | Lewis Black: It's the End of an Empire sale and everything must go the only people happy about mcdonalds presence in aberdeen are the hopeless droids that work and eat there, and the same goes for donald trumps "development".

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yeah I used to mostly use headphones to mix and monitor out of necessity, it is really really easy to just keep turning it up to the point that your ears are ringing by the time you call it a day and those mixes rarely sound acceptable on any other speakers. As you turn it up the headphones start to distort and kill the dynamics, which sounds seductive at the time but becomes incredibly fatiguing and lies to you about what the mix actually sounds like.

Jan-Deal: You need closed-back headphones when recording (particularly in a less than ideal environment), because they're designed to prevent sound leakage and attenuate ambient external sound. They can be uncomfortable to wear for long periods because they are meant to grip your head tightly. I had some really comfy openbacked sennheisers, they sounded great and I could wear them for hours but utterly useless in any kind of recording context, imagine that annoying twat on the bus with his headphones amplified 100x and you will see why they aren't any good if you're trying to record a guitar part or a vocal while listening to the clicktrack or whatever.

it looks like the old site with darker blues, a dark grey border and a worse logo. at 1680x1050 there is a huge empty space between the logo and the status/pm box on the right which looks really odd. It looks less legible with the darker blue titlebars/black underlined active links.

tbh i do think it's quite an ugly skin, and I second the notion that the logo is wrong.

what's actually changed, new version of vbulletin and a reskin?

part of the reason i want to ditch my sennheisers is that they are the most uncomfortable headphones i've ever had

neil you pisshead, your schedule has gone to pot

But all the best music is to be heard at corporate entertainment events such as glastonborey and t in the park!

stuff that gets used on a regular basis: intel core2duo e8400 3.0ghz with 2 gigs ram running xp pro single core laptop running xp pro both running flstudio/ableton/cubase sx3/adobe audition alesis photon x25 audio interface/midi controller soundcraft compact 10 mixer korg padkontrol casio cps-300 electric piano as master keyboard alesis m1 active 520 active monitors pair of cheapo decks and mixer sennheiser hd200 closed back headphones, which are due to be replaced with something that doesn't sound as gash cheapo stereo condensor mic + minidv camera for rough outdoor sampling/recording

spot on, the audio engines in most host software are all very similar and high quality, it's what you do with it that counts. I've seen phase inversion tests of a handful of the most common software that proves there is literally no difference between some of the audio engines. Don't let the "pro" in protools mislead you into thinking it's any better than cubase, logic or nuendo.

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