The OT Thread

[moofs]

You know, if you like comic books, go find the trade paper back for the ultimate spider man volumes 1-2 or so. It's what the new spider man is based off of.

I know Moofs will eat me if I suggest you go on pirate bay and look. So don't go to pirate bay and look for it because it is most definitely not there, even if you are certain that the copyright holders have not pressed a dvd of the show since 2001.

Huh? Where did that come from? I think modern copyright law is a rogue IRS agent's idea of standup comedy.

I support 14 years, 28 with a 14yr extension (1831 version) at the max.
The modern 190 years is pure lunacy.

Really curious how you came to that conclusion...

[moofs]

By the way spolgar, not intended to revive any unspecified conversation whatsoever, but very nice method of putting it all.

Beez

You have never once in the time of me posting here said anything of value to me. Please don't talk to me again.

This is the last time I am responding to you.

I asked folks to stop in a kind of round about way. I guess nobody reads between the lines anymore.

This applies to pretty much all walks of people. Exceptions can be found in some really strange places, though. In my experience, the people most capable of attentive, detached rational argument are asylum-oriented communist russian expats. No clue why.

Admins can take this as yet another prompt in my LONG line of requesting PM's to be enabled

[spolgar]

You know, if you like comic books, go find the trade paper back for the ultimate spider man volumes 1-2 or so. It's what the new spider man is based off of.

I know Moofs will eat me if I suggest you go on pirate bay and look. So don't go to pirate bay and look for it because it is most definitely not there, even if you are certain that the copyright holders have not pressed a dvd of the show since 2001.

Huh? Where did that come from? I think modern copyright law is a rogue IRS agent's idea of standup comedy.

I support 14 years, 28 with a 14yr extension (1831 version) at the max.
The modern 190 years is pure lunacy.

Really curious how you came to that conclusion...

I posted a link to the torrent for the movie Network and I remember that I got a bit nagged. I felt like I was being a bit cheap too, so the nag worked.

Agreed, 190 years is silly. I work for the music industry, so I understand their point of view. But here's a bit of anecdotal evidence:

When you have copyright that expires, what happens is that an era of music suddenly becomes 'The Commons' where radio, media/ads/copy etc can exploit, and often times over exploit it. So what you have in the song writing industry is a constant need to not have a sound that resembles anyone famous in the last 25 years. In fact, being unique sold.

Now that you wouldn't have that incentive to innovate, things get recycled back into fashion quicker because kids are less liable to have access to their parents songs. So they don't get to hate it and demand something else.

One of the more hilarious side effects is when you go to a club you might find a 35 year old house/hip hop dancer acquaintance still consistently pulling tail, especially today because many many club hits borrow heavily from electronica music that was popular 15 years ago.

By the way spolgar, not intended to revive any unspecified conversation whatsoever, but very nice method of putting it all.

I asked folks to stop in a kind of round about way. I guess nobody reads between the lines anymore.

This applies to pretty much all walks of people. Exceptions can be found in some really strange places, though. In my experience, the people most capable of attentive, detached rational argument are asylum-oriented communist russian expats. No clue why.

Admins can take this as yet another prompt in my LONG line of requesting PM's to be enabled

Well, I'm just excising negativity from all walks of my life. I should've done it a long time ago. I think subtlety really comes more prevalent in cultures where a fear of authority is the norm. WASP culture doesn't have it, and I think modern African American culture sorta eschews it as well. Chinese culture back home has it with abundance. If paranoid ex-soviet expats**COUGHCOUGH** spies have it, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

[moofs]

I posted a link to the torrent for the movie Network and I remember that I got a bit nagged. I felt like I was being a bit cheap too, so the nag worked.

I do have this crazy hope that if enough truly fine art was supported, people would try and create more truly fine art. At any rate, it's better for people to see that movie than to not see that movie, and it's not like the director isn't, most sadly, dead.

In general though, I wish people would pirate Beyonce and Michael Bay out of existence.

When you have copyright that expires, what happens is that an era of music suddenly becomes 'The Commons' where radio, media/ads/copy etc can exploit, and often times over exploit it. So what you have in the song writing industry is a constant need to not have a sound that resembles anyone famous in the last 25 years. In fact, being unique sold.

Now that you wouldn't have that incentive to innovate, things get recycled back into fashion quicker because kids are less liable to have access to their parents songs. So they don't get to hate it and demand something else.

It sounds like then you might end up with some sort of crazy, out-there, societal stability formed through newly connective intergenerational threads as commercial music stabilizes back into a cultural orientation from its current falsely cyclical pattern of profit taking. Or maybe that's just me talking out my arse with wild postulations (hint: it is).

Well, I'm just excising negativity from all walks of my life. I should've done it a long time ago. I think subtlety really comes more prevalent in cultures where a fear of authority is the norm. WASP culture doesn't have it, and I think modern African American culture sorta eschews it as well. Chinese culture back home has it with abundance. If paranoid ex-soviet expats**COUGHCOUGH** spies have it, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

Quite possibly. I have a pretty hefty fear of authority. Dunno entirely where it came from? Maybe I'm just well-versed enough in history for it to come naturally...

I doubt the soviet expats I've run into were spies, but I hadn't really even thought of that possibility before. The impression I've gotten is that they thought it was hellish and wanted as far away as possible.

[spolgar]

I do have this crazy hope that if enough truly fine art was supported, people would try and create more truly fine art. At any rate, it's better for people to see that movie than to not see that movie, and it's not like the director isn't, most sadly, dead.

In general though, I wish people would pirate Beyonce and Michael Bay out of existence.

The problem with Beyonce and Michael Bay isn't that what they are doing is banal and trite. They perform the equivalent of carb filled fast food for the 14-22 year old crowd. The problem is that the goods produced here simply reflect that what kids liked for summer blockbusters and prom songs hasn't changed in structure for 20 years. I can go and turn on top fourty radio and imagine someone I know 20 years ago toe tapping to that crap, then and now. In a way, that kinda bugs me.

It sounds like then you might end up with some sort of crazy, out-there, societal stability formed through newly connective intergenerational threads as commercial music stabilizes back into a cultural orientation from its current falsely cyclical pattern of profit taking. Or maybe that's just me talking out my arse with wild postulations (hint: it is).

Well, you do get newer music that is well produced but sounds different. My issue with music is that despite the distribution channels have changed from physical media to online, the recording companies still wield much of the same power, as do the copyright enforcement companies such as ASCAP and BMI. BMI takes a 15% cut of the royalties collected from folks playing songs on the radio, television, covers of live music, jukeboxes, etc and last I checked that came to about 800 million a year on very much a down year. The rest go back to the performers and the song writers (whoever has the copyright). I'm sure ASCAP gets more since they have a better roster.

BTW, both ASCAP and BMI and non-profits. I'll just let that sink in for a bit.

Quite possibly. I have a pretty hefty fear of authority. Dunno entirely where it came from? Maybe I'm just well-versed enough in history for it to come naturally...

I doubt the soviet expats I've run into were spies, but I hadn't really even thought of that possibility before. The impression I've gotten is that they thought it was hellish and wanted as far away as possible.

My wife accused me of being a chinese spy once when I was moving some books around and a copy of Kropotkin fell out of a box. Since then every other week when I mess around with electronics or read something remotely leftist, she'll attack. Truthfully when you posted that I was going over this guy's autobiography. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Shevchenko. Not a pleasant dude at all, but he was good at selling himself.

[Mr. E]

In case you hadn't heard, the stretch of Highway 59 from 610 North to Cleveland has become the second segment of Highway to officially be renamed "Interstate 69" as part of the NAFTA Highway plan.

I fully expect I-69 street signs to be regularly stolen only to be found in college dorm rooms next to the Bob Marley poster.

[rocketsballin]

lol do my eyes deceive me? did realgm just incorporate a rep system? i gotta get off this fire og kush mang, i be trippin balls

[zapatasblood]

In case you hadn't heard, the stretch of Highway 59 from 610 North to Cleveland has become the second segment of Highway to officially be renamed "Interstate 69" as part of the NAFTA Highway plan.

I fully expect I-69 street signs to be regularly stolen only to be found in college dorm rooms next to the Bob Marley poster.

‘Nother Afternoon F**king That Ass!

lol do my eyes deceive me? did realgm just incorporate a rep system? i gotta get off this fire og kush mang, i be trippin balls

You got that dank?

[kam_soluusar]

Sorry, just had to show this, on the Olympic theme.



I will be watching the synchronised swimming this year me-thinks!!!!!!

[rocketsballin]

they're in the **** olympics? daam, i dont think i can go outside for at least 10 more minutes shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

[moofs]

Please tell me that the rep system isn't linked with facebook...

Those are synchronized swimmers? I've been missing out!

[Zubby]

Kam got my 1st "rep"? point, with that post... What country is that.



The Olympics - Uniting pervs around the world...

[zapatasblood]

Sorry, just had to show this, on the Olympic theme.



I will be watching the synchronised swimming this year me-thinks!!!!!!

They seem very flexible

Have not watch the Olympics but I have been wondering about volleyball, and not talking the the game

[Zubby]

^^Damn fine example of the shameless pervert!

lol




Are those girls so hot cause they are together in a group? Or are they all individual hot? Reminds me of this "How I met your mother episode"

Honestly I just stare at the one on the left... then the one to her right.. and thats as far as I can go before I go left again.

[moofs]

2 hot, 2 ok, pry only 1 hot in 10 years.

And yeah, it's fun to go to volleyball clubs. Lots of nice decorations there.

Wish I'd spent more time playing vball instead of basketball when I was younger.
Lessee, cardio work in an injury-prone sport with nothing but men, or cardio work in an impact friendly sport with lots of fine bikini-clad women.

GEE I THINK I'LL PICK BASKETBALL.
:facepalm:

[rocketsballin]

You got that dank?

[moofs]

Can someone please explain the rep system to my dumb ass right quick?

[spolgar]

You log in, then go to a message board you frequent and find a post that you like.

You click on the +1 icon (there are two, the one without the buddy icon, i.e. just the +1, is the one you want) to vote.

As you can see, I went ahead and +1ed Z3Snap and your post for illustration purposes. You click on the +1 icon to the right to see who up voted you.

The number between the +1 icons is the tally.

I don't know how this is all going to be pushed into your account latter, but it's new. Here's the feedback page for it:

viewtopic.php?f=40&t=1199428

[moofs]

So naturally, it's different today.

The updated version makes sense. The previous was bad UI, and more importantly, I didn't want to click anything before I was sure it didn't integrate with fashbook or twatter or some crap like that.

[spolgar]

So naturally, it's different today.

The updated version makes sense. The previous was bad UI, and more importantly, I didn't want to click anything before I was sure it didn't integrate with fashbook or twatter or some crap like that.

Yeah, totally agree with you.

I have no facebook or twitter presence, and the email I use to register for my account here is a one off.