DudeAsInCool

: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 :)

We could call him Reking293.300: reking BeatKing Newbie Group: Members Posts: 1 Member No.: 300 Joined: 25-April 04

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

The Beatles cartoons aired on ABC-TV from September 25, 1965 to April 20, 1969. It was produced by Al Brodax for King Features in New York. The animation was done by various studios including TVC of London, the same studio that later produced "Yellow Submarine", the Beatles feature-length cartoon. Three other animation studios were also involved in the series. They were Artransa in Australia, Cine-Centrum in Holland, and CanaWest in Vancouver, BC. (http://www.toontracker.com/beatles/beatles.htm) This isnt as flashy as the I Feel Fine music video, nor the animation excellence of Yellow Submarine, but here's an excerpt from the tv show centered around their tune 'Strawberry Fields'. Age has not been kind to the images, so if you dont care for the tv show, you can just listen to the music at about 1:40 in :) The song was produced at the height of their psychedelic period, was innovative for its studio efx, and i think its still catchy today beatles.ram

April 24, 2004 | Caution, you're about to enter a No Spin Zone. Or is it the Twilight Zone? We'll report, and you decide, based on this recent "unspun" news update from Fox News' flagship primetime program "The O'Reilly Factor." "Why are some Americans hindering the war on terror?" O'Reilly barked at the camera. "As we predicted, President Bush's poll numbers have gone up after last week's press conference. The elite media wanted Mr. Bush to grovel, but he remains defiant and determined to fight the terror war his way. Today the Supreme Court heard arguments that the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay should have lawyers and due process. Predictably, the New York Times wants lawyers for the accused terrorists, editorializing that some of them 'may have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.' "Sure. They just took a wrong turn into Uzbekistan and wandered onto the battlefield. How ridiculous is that?" Remember, the Spin Stops Here. There was a time, not too long ago, when Fox News was a joke -- albeit a bad and sick one -- to liberals and TV journalists raised on Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley. But even those who rue the success of Rupert Murdoch's flag-waving cable channel have to admit: The old boy has done it. CNN founder Ted Turner once famously mocked Murdoch, saying he'd squish his cable news rival like a bug. We all know now who has squished whom. You can read the full review at Salon.com (non-members must watch a commercial): :read this: http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/04...x/index_np.html

:good job:

You only have to sign up at the Times once.. Here's a few: Tiger Woods, Shaquille O'Neal and Henry A. Kissinger are among those lucky enough to own a sliver of Google.

...That for the millions of dollars corporations have spent on erecting firewalls and installing expensive intruder-detection systems on their networks, the weakest link in any system remains the ordinary, well-meaning but hopelessly gullible user.." Read the full story here in the NY Times: :read this: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/weekinreview/25rivi.html

:read this: Read it here in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/technology/25RICH.html?hp

lol

I like everything but the graphic for Beatbox--the lettering looks too large and something tells me it should be two colors--say red and blue

You must be referring to the Zombie's 'Tell Her No' ? :)

Nice post :good job:

Not good. This Presidency has been more secretive about their dealings than Nixon's. :reallymad: :reallymad:

I was just watching a CNN interview with the woman who posted the photo over the internet. She says that a government man recently showed up to her house and said he was supposed to take her (to an undisclosed place for 4 hours). I thought this was one of the strangest things yet to come out of this affair... If true, I wonder who was behind it..their head(s) should roll... :reallymad: :reallymad:

There goes my conspiracy theory

Pretty dumb...