Flat Line's Life Line
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Comments test 2
Hmm... coments are not working. This seems to be a pattern - everytime I try to change something, it doesn't work. maybe i should just forget about comments. Nobody reads this thing anyway....
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Scott Peterson Trial Over
Scott Peterson got the death penalty and I'm happy he did. Oh, did I just lose some readers? Anyway, I think the death penalty is a good thing, but unfortunately it is just a joke right now. Mr. Peterson MAY be executed in 20 years or so, and we won't even get to see it. Our current punishments are not a deterrent to crime. No criminal right now is cowering scared that he may get the death penalty or even go to jail. If the punishment is not swift and serious enough, it will not deter crime, plain and simple.
I think we need to go back to public flogging in the town square, like Singapore. We should maybe even re-institute public hangings or beheadings, like France. Man, people back then were scared, which was the whole point.
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I think we need to go back to public flogging in the town square, like Singapore. We should maybe even re-institute public hangings or beheadings, like France. Man, people back then were scared, which was the whole point.
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Why I hate iPods?
Let me count the ways:
1) They are made by Apple, and I have a very strong dislike for anything made by Apple. (I think that will have to be a seperate topic as to why).
2) They are too damn expensive!!!!
3) They have a very strong DRM scheme that prevents you from doing what you want with YOUR music. (Remember, you paid for it on iTunes?)
4) They do not support many of the popular file formats: ogg, flac, wma.
5) Since everyone can download music now, a little bit of the mystery associated with hunting around the net for mp3's is gone. I've been downloading music from the Internet since 1995. I played it on Winamp (I especially like the release version 1.666), I shared my songs through a college LAN, I ran an FTP site that got hits from 52 countries, I was THE first person on my campus that got busted for hogging bandwidth by the administration who then gave me community service as punishment, since they were so inexperienced in these matters. People out there who know what I'm talking about will probably agree - that meant something. Now you grandma can walk around sporting an iPod, not even aware of the rich history that MP3's have. It makes me sad.
Just to close up, I'd like to mention that I have purchased a hard-drive MP3 player also. I got the RIO Karma, after much searching and researching on the net. I didn't just run into a shiny Apple store downtown and forked over money I got for Hannukah. I found it much cheaper than retail, plus I paid no tax and no shipping. I can listen to almost every file format known to man, I have a longer battery life than the iPod and I do not feel like a sheep. I can also do whatever I want with my music, and transfer other files to the Rio. Now leave me alone, I have an audiobook of The DaVinci Code to finish listening to. ¶ 9:02 AM 0 comments
1) They are made by Apple, and I have a very strong dislike for anything made by Apple. (I think that will have to be a seperate topic as to why).
2) They are too damn expensive!!!!
3) They have a very strong DRM scheme that prevents you from doing what you want with YOUR music. (Remember, you paid for it on iTunes?)
4) They do not support many of the popular file formats: ogg, flac, wma.
5) Since everyone can download music now, a little bit of the mystery associated with hunting around the net for mp3's is gone. I've been downloading music from the Internet since 1995. I played it on Winamp (I especially like the release version 1.666), I shared my songs through a college LAN, I ran an FTP site that got hits from 52 countries, I was THE first person on my campus that got busted for hogging bandwidth by the administration who then gave me community service as punishment, since they were so inexperienced in these matters. People out there who know what I'm talking about will probably agree - that meant something. Now you grandma can walk around sporting an iPod, not even aware of the rich history that MP3's have. It makes me sad.
Just to close up, I'd like to mention that I have purchased a hard-drive MP3 player also. I got the RIO Karma, after much searching and researching on the net. I didn't just run into a shiny Apple store downtown and forked over money I got for Hannukah. I found it much cheaper than retail, plus I paid no tax and no shipping. I can listen to almost every file format known to man, I have a longer battery life than the iPod and I do not feel like a sheep. I can also do whatever I want with my music, and transfer other files to the Rio. Now leave me alone, I have an audiobook of The DaVinci Code to finish listening to. ¶ 9:02 AM 0 comments
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