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Reply to Do you use Bittorent or know someone who does? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Here's the difference between recording shows and downloading copyrighted work: television is made available to anyone with a television set, and cable is available for those who steal it. It was ruled that recording a show and watching it later, "time-shifting" as it came to be called, is covered under the fair use clause of copyright laws. those that used bittorrent and napster and other P2P software to download copyrighted content did not pay for it

Reply to What Happened to Science Fiction? in Fiction JoeUser Forums

I absolutely love science fiction. Oddly enough, I have never read any Asimov except for some short stories. However, I've devoured everything else I've come across. The two most notable that I can think of are Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert Heinlein. Lately however, I have been getting into the short stories by many of the most famous names in science fiction. I found a book entitled The Ascent of Wonder, which is a collection of about 70 short works.

Reply to Christrian rock music in Religion JoeUser Forums

I agree with you. While I like some of the bands that trina mentioned, not a single one even comes close to the greatness of Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, or Jimi Hendrix, to name a few of my favorites.

Reply to Gotta Love Media Misinformation in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The only vaccinations I have recieved are Tetanus and Hepatitus C. My mom made my sister and I get tetanus because we played outside all the time, and I was required to get the Hepatitus C vaccine to enroll in college. However, I got sick my less than most of my friends throughout school. Plus, chicken pox sucks for a couple days, that's it, then you never have it again. If parents are considered negligent for not vaccinating young children, why is the

Reply to String Theory in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

If you are mathmatically minded at all you know that if you keep moving toward a point by moving half the distance per move, you will never get there. Yes you will. If each move takes the same amount of time, then you would need to take an infinite number of moves. However, if you keep up a constant sp

Reply to A Response to Evolution, Fact or Theory? in Misc JoeUser Forums

Some of those stickers are funny. But the one about special relativity is dumb. There are a lot of physicists that fully understand Special Relativity. If they didn't, it would be taught to first year undergraduate physics students. Plus, some of those are stupid and derogatory. To equate the the theories in physics, which have been observed to be true countless times, to the notion that species change into new species, which has never been observ

Reply to UCSB Soccer makes it to the Championship!! in Sports & Leisure JoeUser Forums

Yeah, it was a really good game. And since the Home Depot Center is in LA, which is close to Santa Barbara, there were tons of UCSB fans.

Reply to "friday five" ... you're history ! in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

1/ What is your initial thought upon hearing the news? Well, that was nice while it lasted. 2/ Who is the first person you would contact? My friend Steven. 3/ How would you spend your last day on earth? With Steven and Victor, doing the dumbest things we could think of. Because, who cares if you die? The world is about to end. This would probably include car surfing, hang gliding, bungee jumping, finding a helicopter to steal, etc.<br

Reply to Good Final in Misc JoeUser Forums

Physics is the best. You should definitely become a physics major.

Reply to UCSB Soccer makes it to the Championship!! in Sports & Leisure JoeUser Forums

We're not the slugs. We're the Gauchos. But we lost on penalty kicks. Which really sucks. We dominated the second half and overtime, we just couldn't put another one in the goal. Well, that's how things go. Oh well.

Reply to NPR and The Kyoto Protocols in Politics JoeUser Forums

I hadn't read what you quoted until just now; there were simply too many posts to read them all. I'm assuming that you were referring me to the part that said more life is lost to low temperatures than is lost from high temperatures. Which is what I said. You said it first though, so you get credit.

Reply to NPR and The Kyoto Protocols in Politics JoeUser Forums

I do not remember where, but when I just read the Kyoto Protocol, it was stated in several places that the measures taken to reduce emmissions of CO2 and pollutants should be environmentally friendly. Cutting down rainforests is not environmentally friendly. Therefore, Brazil's actions are violating the Kyoto Protocol. So the Kyoto Protocol is not at fault in this particular case. Arguing that "Kyoto said, Brazil did" and therefore it is Kyoto's fault

UCSB Soccer makes it to the Championship!! in Sports & Leisure JoeUser Forums

My university, UCSB, beat Duke 5-0 to advance to the NCAA Championship for Division I. I can't belive how awesome this is. I got to see them win 4-1 at home to make it to the semis, and now they're in the final. The game here was crazy. Everyone rushed the field afterward. It was great. Some of my roommates helped hijack one of the goals, but they only made it about 3

Reply to The 10 WORST Songs of 2004 ... * in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

Limp Bizkit should be ranked higher for the fact that they ruined one of the best songs by the Who.

Reply to "friday five" ... let's go to bed ! in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

1) boxers. 2) I talk. But its more mumbling than talking. My roomate last year did too, so I think we talked to each other in our sleep. 3) one regular comforter in the summer, a regular and a down in the winter 4) almost always on my stomach. 5) my bed is almost queen sized. Being in college, my room is barely larger, so my room is basically a bed and a desk. so i do everything in my bed. get dressed, read, listen

Reply to Jazz As A Way Of Life in Music JoeUser Forums

Make sure you get some of the recordings that John Coltrane and Miles Davis made together. They'll blow your mind.

Reply to Punk Rawk Sellouts in Misc JoeUser Forums

Zeppelin beats them all.

Reply to World of Warcraft begins: Wanna create a guild? in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

Provided I can scrape up enough money to pay for the game and a subscription, I'd be interested to join a JoeUser guild.

Reply to Mozilla Firefox in Windows Software JoeUser Forums

I agree with the above poster that Opera is better than anything else. And that anything is better than IE.

Reply to My problem with dicks in Work JoeUser Forums

That's how I was in high school. Everybody thought it was incredible if I would get something wrong. So I stopped answering anything at all. And when somebody would ask me a question, I would just say "What, you don't know? But I thought you knew everything!"

Reply to My New Half Life 2 computer in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

That is a ridiculously low price for such a machine. If I had that much money, I'd buy one of those right now. Too bad I've gotta pay for college.

Reply to Irony in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

Luckily, my friend wasn't mad at me. He just didn't want to talk to me because she was his ex-grilfriend and he didn't want to be reminded of her. So we're talking again, which is good.

Irony in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

A girl just ended her relationship with me. Everybody thought this time would be different with her. I thought it would be different. She said it would be different. She was flaky before. She seemed fine this time. Then out of the blue: "I don't think this is going to work. It's not working for me." I'm numb from the shock. At least every other time I could see it com

Giving Bad News in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

Yesterday I was talking to one of my friends. I asked him about a girl he mentioned the last time I talked to him. He filled me in. He then asked me whether I had anything going on with the opposite sex. The answer was yes. But I had to make a hard decision very quickly. Because, the girl I'm dating is his ex-girlfriend. Now, if I saw him everyday and I was really goo

Reply to Browsers Browsers Browswes in Software Development JoeUser Forums

Opera is my favorite. And I have no problem logging on here with it. Very rarely do I come across pages that Opera cannot handle anymore. Plus, it uses less memory than any of the other browsers.