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Cops never apologized. How disgusting is this? :read this: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/s...07738251705.xml

Spammer :) J/K..Ive never been a Kiss fan, but I like the title of the project, and this looks more interesting than usual. Who would have ever figured Gene Simmons with the likes of Bob Dylan, Dave Navarro and the late Frank Zappa??

Worth a rerun for those who missed it...

Their approach is to sensationalize to bring attention... Their cause is noble, their tactics are shoddy

This must be one of Sunday Afternoon matinee specials Medusa snuck this in earlier this week while you were studying :) http://www.beatking.com/forums/index.php?s...6&hl=mastercard

I picked the righthook guy by mistake lol. I was kinda expecting some rap music like the big boys use when they bring in their entourage, and was surprised to hear uptempo jazz music instead in the bg

I prefer Busch to Bush...did I get that spelling right? :P

I read on some thread that Jorge initially intended ZP as a music website..but, there wasn't much talk about music over the last 6 months or so, other than people complaiinng about Tamarisk's threads, or Seph deciding to break the What Are You Listening to thread without discussion and start it over again because it was too long. It's a good addition, I think..

My sister went into Law so she could protect animals. Not many jobs in that area, so she went into child welfare. She had me buy Iams exclusively--now I have to tell her we have to look into Iam's business practices. I heard that Iams was going out of business...so what do I know. Anyway, why would any organization picket a store that doesnt carry the product they are picketing? Overzealous stupidity

Once you've had a Mac, you never go back :bigsmile:

There are several translations--get the one by Mira Ginzburg is the best (Grove Press)

Welcome aboard, H.U. :strumma:

The real question is--How did this get from here to there??? :wha':

Cutting edge Rock always had a shock value element. It's an interesting article and the compendium or references, or hodgepodge of Satanic references as i see it, simply shows that Rock has always flirted with bad boy images. There was however a dividing line: the peace and love generation was shocked by the Altamont concert and the Hells Angeles violence, and shocked again with the murder of John Lennon. (Lennon's killer actually met Kenneth Anger (beforehand), whose book on Hollywood excess and murder, Hollywood Babylon, is filled with Satanic references--and he scared the shit of Anger). I guess if you connect the dots you can make a strong argument for just about anything... I've met a couple people in the article, but Im about as Satanic as Method77---oops, I take that back We all know about those Godless Greeks PS This reference: ...it is documented that Mick Jagger had been intrigued by The Devil and Margarita, a book given to him by his girlfriend (at the time), Marianne Faithful.. is incorrect. The book is called The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov--a satyrical look at Russian Communist society and how its turned upside down by the devil--its also one of my favorites, and acknowledged by many to be the greatest Russian book of the 20th century.

:read this: No invitations received! :reallymad: You're probably right about Umma--she'd usually be pipin' her ass into this thread by now--but nooooooo, not a peep! * * * Looks like a beautiful area, MI.... Pretty nice college pad.. :strumma: Lots of grass to roll around with the filleys in :)

He could have at least invited us, Koop, and shared one of those Fosters! :reallymad:

I've actually met the guy--several times. He has a good sense of humor and a real knowledge of the music business. Don't know what to say about his gang connections--I wouldnt go there... Other than Tupac, Im not a big fan of the music. But I really think he's more a scapegoat for the feds, than as criminal as he markets himself

They responded--that means they liked it :)

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Welcome to Beatking :strumma: http://www.thomasscott.net/flash/ninja/pla...php?id=13250673

Yo, LiquidAcid... Welcome to Beatking :strumma: http://www.beatking.com/forums/style_image...me/playback.htm

Terrific rhythm stuff...I like 'Small Memory', Cut 2, cause it reminds me of me

Stanford, one of the country's richest universities, also stands to add considerably to its bottom line. Mr. Brin and Mr. Page, who met in 1995 at a party for incoming computer science graduate students, worked together on a university-funded data-mining project. During that collaboration, the pair invented the search technology that would eventually be Google's core technology. "The university owns the technology," said Katharine Ku, the director of Stanford's Office of Technology Licensing. "We license it to Google, which back then was just these two kids. They pay Stanford royalties annually. We also took a bit of stock in the deal." Under the terms of that deal, the royalties are evenly split three ways among Mr. Brin and Mr. Page, the computer science department and the university's engineering school. That deal was struck in 1996. For two years, the university tried to license the deal to existing search companies; at least one company "offered a significant amount of money" to buy Google, but in 1998 "the two decided to start their own company." Ms. Ku declined to share the terms of the licensing deal, which is still in effect, or to speculate on the potential value of the university's equity stake. David R. Cheriton, a computer science professor at Stanford, introduced Mr. Bechtolsheim to Google's founders. In August 1998, the four sat on the porch of Mr. Cheriton's Palo Alto home, where Mr. Page and Mr. Brin tried to demonstrate their product for Mr. Bechtolsheim. Before the pair could finish, he had decided to write them the first of two $100,000 checks. "They needed money to pay the lawyers to incorporate the company," he said. "And I wanted to make sure I was part of this company." The founders raised roughly $1 million that September, including Mr. Bechtolsheim's investment. Other early investors include Mr. Cheriton and Ram Shriram, a former Netscape and Amazonexecutive. "Basically they needed money to buy the machines so they could prove out the concept," Mr. Bechtolsheim said. The company closed on a second round of financing in June 1999. By then, much of Silicon Valley's elite wanted a piece of Google, which had become the default search engine of choice among the area's digerati. That is when Ron Conway and Bob Bozeman, two partners in a venture fund called Angel Investors, discovered Google — and, according to an investors list prepared by Angel Investors, brought along many famous people, including Mr. Woods and Mr. Kissinger, and some of the Valley's best-connected entrepreneurs and financiers, among them at least five billionaires. A former executive at the personal computer maker Altos Computer Systems, Mr. Conway had been investing his money in Internet start-ups. Enough wealthy friends asked him if they could piggyback on his investments that in late 1998 he created Angel Investors as an Internet index fund that would invest in an array of Web-related start-ups. That year, under the title Angel-1, he raised $30 million; the next year, under Angel-2, $150 million, Ultimately Mr. Conway raised money from more than 500 people, only a few of whom he had known before entering a business relationship. Anyone who invested in Angel-1 or Angel-2 owns a small stake in Google, though those in Angel-1 own shares obtained at a much better price (roughly 50 cents a share, compared with $2.34 a share), given that the investments were made six months part. "If I decide I want something to happen and I'm very motivated," Mr. Conway said in 2001. "I try real hard to make it happen." Mr. Conway, Mr. Bozeman said, is "the premier elbow guy in the business." Mr. Conway declined to comment for this article. Based solely on the Google deal, Angel-1 should "make each of us several times our original investment," an investor in both funds said. This investor, who receives updates from Angel Investors, insisted on anonymity because of a confidentiality agreement. Most of the companies in which Mr. Conway and Mr. Bozeman invested with money raised in Angel-2 in 1999 and 2000 have gone out of business. But such is the potential power of Google that, though Angel-2 includes nearly 200 worthless investments, an investor said, "we might actually get our investment back, if not make a little extra." The typical Silicon Valley start-up endures several rounds of venture financing before reaching profitability, and no longer needing additional outside money. With each round the founders' shares are further diluted, until they end up owning only a small share of the company. Yet Google raised only one round of venture capital. In June, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia, two of the Valley's most highly prized venture capitalists, bought a total of roughly one-quarter of the company, according to financial documents spelling out the terms of the deal. There was the deal with Yahoo, and the hiring of a new chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt, in 2001, who undoubtedly received a handsome stock package — yet one rival venture capitalist marvels at the size of the equity stake the two founders retained. "That's what makes this deal so unusual," the venture capitalist said. "There's been no almost no dilution of financing. The founders did a first round, they basically did a deal with the C.E.O., there's the deal with Yahoo, and that's it." Andrew Anker, an entrepreneur and former venture capitalist, said: "This is the deal of the century as far as I'm concerned. No matter how you cut it, this will make a lot of people very happy."

Marion "Suge" Knight, the founder of Death Row records, has been released from prison after serving 10 months for breaking his parole on a 1997 assault. "Model inmate" Knight was released from Mule Creek State Prison in California on Thursday, said a prison spokeswoman. Knight was sent back to prison on 4 August for a second parole violation after he punched a parking attendant outside a Hollywood nightclub in 2003. Knight said on Monday he plans to make a charity album for soldiers' families. Knight's Death Row Records label, which he founded after a failed career as a football player, became a huge success in the early 1990s. It boasted rap stars such as Dr Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg and Shakur, and brought the so-called "gangsta" rap style into the mainstream. The label is now known as Tha Row. Knight still faces a federal investigation into the 1997 murder of rapper Christopher Wallace, known as Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Small. Wallace's murder followed the shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur, who was shot dead in Las Vegas while riding in a car driven by Knight in September 1996. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3655221.stm