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[Bella]

You know what we should do?

We should start torrenting everything, and start donating money DIRECTLY to the artists. Like, send a letter with a 20$ bill and a note that says "I download your music because I don't want to feed the parasprites in Universal Music/BMG/Whatever affiliated label the artist is under. Here, take this." OR something.

Just to make a statement. And possibly get those fucking shitheads in the MAFIAA off their damn tricycles.

That would be freaking AMAZING. No idea how you could make it work, but imagine if actually did...

The last new album I've bought was Weird Al's newest. Otherwise, I tend to buy all of my CDs used; an act that companies in the video game industry are starting to claim is a form of piracy in and of itself >_<

Wait..... what....... huh? Is that really true?

Next they'll be telling us that buying secondhand clothing and furniture is a form of theft.

[Nichi]

Yeah. Some developers are already including things like "online vouchers" to activate online mode, which if you use that and then sell the game, the person is stuck only being able to play the offline part of the game unless they pay an additional fee to the developer to access online multiplayer and such.

Also, rumor has it that the next Xbox may not be able to play used games

[Red-Machine]

That'll never happen.  Sony planned the same thing for the PS3, but backed down due to public pressure.

[Paul]

So I just got a teriffic Garmin 1390T sat nav from my dad. Now I can roam the streets and will never lose my way again :D:D
btw, it's named Tachikoma :3

[Nichi]

My mom was given a GPS like that for Christmas last year. She finds it helpful, with how much driving she has to do for work :3

In other news, it feels like a pulled a muscle in my leg. For lack of a better way to describe it, it feels like I took an arrow to the knee, and to make things worse, work in about 20 minutes or so >_<

[NejinOniwa]

SO MUCH TIRE

[Bella]

My word, this is a BIG DAMN COMPUTER.

[Chocofreak13]

FUCKING COMPUTER CLOSING OPERA RANDOMLY SO I LOSE MY POST.

@piracy & mailing lists: nej, i love your idea. but how do we make it work?
@itunes: i like the interface and the fact that it lets my ipod work. other than that, i'm a bit "meh" on it. it sounds nice to be able to get an entire season for a tv show, though if i did i'd convert it to a different format so i wouldn't be bothered with activation.
@piracy & games: tbh, the developers are full of it on this one. the online code is a part of the game, and should be included as such. if the code has to be purchased seperately, then i can understand, but as for activation codes that should be included. it's like buying a used copy of the sims and not being able to use the damn activation key. >>;

@red: ahh, that makes sense. i haven't bought music from itunes in years, possibly before i got gothpod II. ^^;
@paul: my sister loves her tomtom, and it's quite convenient. it helps my mum, too, who sometimes gets lost, so when she got it we all agreed it was long overdue.
@pentium: heating pad when you get home ;^;
@bella: really now? HOW BIG IS IT

[Nichi]

Oh trust me; heating pad will be deployed soon :3

[Chocofreak13]

good, good. -w-

[Bella]

@bella: really now? HOW BIG IS IT

I'd say about 1/2 the size of a MicroVAX, or about the size of a PDP-8/s.

Actually, here's a pic comparison picture with a Blind Bag pony and a Mac 128k:

[Nichi]

O_O

That is awesome

[Bella]

Indeed it is.

Never thought I'd be able to bring a DEC computer home, let alone a complete system, let alone one with native DEC OS (as opposed to a Unix machine or DEC-made PC clone), let alone one that's essentially a desktop-sized PDP-11. Also, it was a good price... about 1/100th of it's original retail of $10,000...

So I just got a teriffic Garmin 1390T sat nav from my dad. Now I can roam the streets and will never lose my way again :D:D
btw, it's named Tachikoma :3

Nice! GPS's are really handy, I sometimes wish I had one when visiting strange places ... though I really only drive locally so it wouldn't be very useful for me. ^^;

Though Stew's Russian-speaking GPS saved us from too much needless wandering, lol.

[Chocofreak13]

lol, russian GPS. awesome. -w-

also, nice DEC. -w- make sure to name him/her right.

[Bella]

Quite awesome... had a pretty voice too, even if I didn't understand a thing she said.

No idea what I'm gonna name her (there seems to be some consensus that PDP-11's are females, so I suppose that goes for PDP-11 compatibles, too). Hopefully i can find something suitably kickass...