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Damn! *throws gun away* On to plan #2.... :evil:

That's so true. :bigsmile:

Never! :bigsmile:

Griffey is by far my favorite baseball player. Has been since I got his autograph way back when I was a kid in Seattle. Plus, he's a fellow lefty. Lefties rule. :bigsmile:

It made me want to vomit all over the place, does that count? :bigsmile: Wee post #100! :P

I haven't gone outside since that incident. :shut up:

CSS: Cascading Style Sheets, a W3C Recommendation. Stylesheets when attached to documents describe how the document is displayed or printed, e.g. a CSS sheet is attached to an HTML document, to influence its layout when accessed via a browser. CSS supports cascading, i.e. a single document may use two or more stylesheets that are than applied according to specified priorities (=cascade). Opera doesn't have a problem with the original CSS. It's just CSS2 and CSS3. But they have quite a few nice features every web designer is switching to. Which is why Opera has to get on their horse and update it.

Mozilla mail client is Thunderbird. http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird Firebird was the initial release name but they had to change it because there's a Database company with software named the samething.

I don't suck up to potatos I eat them. She's really quite evil in person, I mean just look at these pictures. The first one she took over my bed and decided to take a nap while we were supposed to be hanging out. The second one she tortured me in to wearing a pink wig. :( It ruined my self esteem for rest my life... So, now you know the truth. She's an evil evil person. :bigsmile:

I edited it a bit. Reread it if you wish. ;)

The industry continues its crusade to scare the average consumer away from p2p with the flood of pay sites and the ever present lawsuit if identified today. This makes many wonder what the future holds. When one wonders about the future, it is wise to look at the past. One has to ask themselves, "Has this series of actions ever happened in the past?" To answer this question will mean that this happened even before the Great Depression happened on October 29th, 1929 known as Black Tuesday. What this event was is the time of prohibition. Also known as the Volstead Act, basically forbids the sale of liquor as well as the mere consumption of it. On one minute past midnight in January 16th, 1920, this act went into effect. This left many in America either dry or resorting alternate ways of getting what they wanted. Those enforcing this law were very much caught unprepared and faltered miserably. Even at times, in order to catch or arrest offenders took underhanded or questionably legal ways. Plus the fact that when arrests occurred, a huge media spectacle followed. This crusade continued until the futility was realized and increasing pressure from the people of the land. The end of prohibition was in February of 1933. Now with this recap, there are many similarities one can see. 1. The power of the consumer outweighed the enforceability. 2. Even at the height of it all with those like Elliot Ness and the so-called (Untouchables), many saw the futility. 3. By passing laws so opposed by the people caused repercussions that even exist today now 80 years later (Mafia and the drug cartels). Both consumers and the industry should pay attention to the above example in history. When looking ahead many will hope the industry will ask themselves how hard can they really push. The similar facts between the 2 subjects are the industry was caught way unprepared to handle p2p. Also it counts on their propaganda being believed by the mainstream media that sharing is illegal when much of the content still lacks studio quality. The bottom line is the hope of learning from the past and not making mistakes that leaves problems well into the future. Here's the lesson: Hard though it may be to believe, there was a time when the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages was a crime in the United States. Yet, at one minute past midnight on January 16th, 1920 the prohibition of the sale and consumption of alcohol became law, sanctioned under the Volstead Act, which was ratified in January of 1919. The law carried with it some heavy penalties. Fines of up to $1,000 were imposed on those caught defying the Volstead Act. Those who were unable to pay their fines faced a six month jail term. The Anti Saloon League of America was instrumental in the passage of the law to outlaw alcohol. Convinced that ridding the country of the demon drink was the only way to preserve Christianity, they were delighted with the new law. Many others, however, were less than pleased. There were, in fact, many attempts to defy it. In Texas, a still was found on the property of Senator Morris Sheppard, who had been instrumental in the drafting of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which had brought about Prohibition. Foreseeing future corruption in the law enforcement agencies as a result of the Volstead Act, future New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia commented that, it would take a police force of 250,000 to enforce the Prohibition Act and another 200,000 to police the police. True to La Guardias prediction, Prohibition spawned organized crime, bootlegging and corruption among the police on an unprecedented scale. It is fair to say that the Volstead Act indirectly gave rise to the American Mafia, along with its most famous figure, Al Capone. Capone, along with many others, including Kennedy family head Joe, made huge amounts of money running bootlegging operations from Canada all the way to Florida. Capone found a rival in the form of former attorney George Remus. Remus was a successful lawyer when Prohibition came into effect. He soon noticed that his criminal clients were making more money than he was from their bootlegging activities. Convinced that he could outdo them in the illegal alcohol business he became intimately aware of the Volstead Act. He soon found a loophole wherein he could buy distilleries and pharmacies in order to sell alcohol to himself under Government license for medicinal use. The liquor would disappear on the way to market. He moved to Cincinnati and bought up 9 whiskey distilleries. Remus bribed many officials in order to keep his operation going, including a half million dollar gift to the U.S. Attorney General. Speakeasies soon flourished across the country. These were underground saloons. By 1925 there were more than 100,000 speakeasies in New York alone. The job of the Prohibition Enforcement agency was a hopeless one. It was also demoralising. The 3,000 jobs of the Prohibition Agency were held by 10,000 different men over a six year period. Still, throughout the Prohibition years millions of gallons of alcohol were confiscated. By the late twenties Prohibition was becoming a very unpopular reality. Democratic Party Presidential candidate Al Smith campaigned against it in 1928. Although he lost the election, Smith did manage to weld together a groundswell of discontent against Prohibitionism. Four years later, the Democrats again used Prohibition as an issue and this time their candidate, Franklin Roosevelt was swept into the White House. In February of 1933 Congress passed the 21st amendment which repealed prohibition. On December 5th of that year the 21st Amendment was ratified. America was no longer dry! Sources: http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=513 http://inin.essortment.com/prohibitionamer_refo.htm

New version of Kiwi Alpha has been released. What's Kiwi Alpha you say? Read on to find out... It's Based on GnucDNA, Kiwi Alpha uses the same peer 2 peer technology now used by Morpheus, one of the leading file sharing programs today. Kiwi Alpha supports the well known Gnutella and the newer G2 networks. With Kiwi Alpha you can easily download any media type such as audio, video, images, documents and software. Source: http://www.kiwialpha.com

LOL......omg.......

Actually that's the only part of WinMX I like. Is the opennap support. :bigsmile: Wish they would make it easier for people to use though.

Ok, well I hope you get it fixed soon. I hate it when fellow geeks are with out their computers. ;)

Ok well there is only one real problem I have with Opera. It screws up any page using CSS2 or CSS3. It barely supports them period. Which really sucks from a web designers standpoint considering a lot of new websites use those. I admit it is fast. But again, the interface is fugly. I'm more the simplistic type person. But that's only my opinion. The CSS problem HAS to be fixed. It kills me when I'm trying to develop a site that works in every browser but I want to use CSS2 or 3 that have more options.

Exactly when I started using it. Now it's garbage unless you like waiting forever for stuff you could get in a couple minutes elsewhere. ;)

hahaha................... eww

No problem. If you have any other questions or problems just post them here. I'll either answer them before I go to bed, or before I go to work in the morning.

Not really. Nothing you couldn't find else where. Like BitTorrent, Shareaza, KCeasy, Mammoth, Ares, DC, Soulseek, whatever. Like I always say. BitTorrent is my P2P of choice. Everything I'll ever need is available somewhere on the internet over BitTorrent. For me, it's the greatest invention since sliced bread. ;)

If it's something you can download again I'd just forget it and redownload it once your computer is back to normal. You could also take the hard drive out of that computer and put it in the one you're using now and just back it up on his computer, then just have your roommate send it to you over the internet / your network once you get it all setup correctly.

Ugh, don't get me started on Opera. Opera :shootin:

Trust me, it doesn't run as well. Because all the old file fragments are left behind including the virus, or whatever it was you had before. Which COULD reactivate it self once you've upgraded. It's just safer to go the fresh install way. Unless, like I said, you have to back stuff up. Things run much faster after you do a fresh install anyway. I tend to format at least every 3 months. But I have 3 hard drives, and I back all my important stuff up on them so it's not a problem for me when I want to format.

It will ask you what you want to do when you boot up your computer with the Windows XP CD in your CD tray. It'll ask you if you want to upgrade (Which you DON'T want to do) and then it will ask you if you'd like to Format your computer. Which you'll say yes to. You'll select the hard drive (if you have more than one) with windows on it and continue. You shouldn't have a problem after it starts installing, it's pretty self explainable. Windows XP doesn't upgrade well from Windows 2000, so I don't think you should do that. But if you have important stuff on there that needs to be backed up I'd go that route then format after you get the stuff backed up. Because it's really unstable when you upgrade.