IronY: Pirates angry at P2P sharing, loses money!

Over here at TorrentFreak

We're treated to the reflections of a Software pirate from the UK, reflecting on the early 90's when his business was booming:

...He started his life of piracy ... in the 1990’s working markets, (back of car... sales and pubs in the UK, selling counterfeit PC applications/games and console discs for a fraction of the retail price.
“The profit was amazing back then” he recalls “We were getting £25 ($48) for a couple of PSX games and £15 ($29) for a single CDR with the latest utilities on. We couldn’t make them fast enough.” Things were looking good for his little enterprise and before long he was clearing up to £1000 ($1,942) profit each week.

Eventually, This guy was...

very clear about why his rags to riches story has gone back to rags again. “File-sharing, P2P - call it what you like. When you asked a customer why he wasn’t buying anything, 9 times out of 10 it was ‘BitTorrent this, LimeWire that’. Add that to the fact that huge numbers of PC users have burners and fast broadband and its obvious why I had to get out and earn a living another way. We had it good for a while but I don’t think those days are coming back.”

I thought this was really funny, and that's why I wanted to share this story (see the ORIGINAL for a FULL laugh...)

Impeach NOW: BUSH and CHENEY MUST GO

OK I'm tired. TELL THE GUY with THE button,

HE LOST the last election!

Sorry. THIS IS BULLSHIT.

ABC News (I like their RSS feeds, I don't watch their news, ok?) leads off with THIS STORY here

stating:

A defiant President Bush warned Democrats Tuesday to accept his offer to have top aides testify about the firings of federal prosecutors only privately and not under oath or risk a constitutional showdown from which he would not back down.

Oh YEAH, BRING it on. Unlike CLINTON, HE WILL LOSE the F#&#$%^ Impeachment vote in the SENATE..

And I also say IMPEACH the DAMNED VP at the same time.

As I said PREVIOUSLY... PRESIDENT Pelosi will work fine for me!

Ditch the LYING THIEVING, ANTI-DEMOCRATIC, PRO-TORTURE, PRO-"US-citizen spying" PRESIDENT that thinks HE IS America's answer to the congress and the democrats

Start with the Attorney GENERAL
THEN GO TO CHENEY
THEN remove SECURITY CLEARANCE from CARL ROVE

Just IMPEACH the ENTIRE Presidential Branch for VIOLATING our CONSTITUTION


There. I feel Somewhat better.
Now if the damned congress would JUST get started with this!

Censorship: Death of A President (A mock documentary)

I am flabergasted. I feel so "DIRTY"

Thank you mainstream media for TOTALLY ignoring this, and PROTECTING me (not) from
a fantasy dream come true...

From an article that ran last fall when it was released LAST YEAR!!

Held up by a secret service bodyguard in his dying moments after being shot in the stomach, this is President Bush being assassinated.

Surrounded by a crowd of panicking onlookers, the American leader is pictured just seconds after being gunned down by a sniper following an anti-war demonstration.

Death Of A President, which at the Toronto Film Festival in AUGUST month, and was then shown on Channel 4's satellite channel More4 in October, the assassination is a starting point for a retrospective fictional documentary about what happened next. (modified article to correct the date--mb)

This scene, which was created by putting the President's face onto an actor with digital wizardry, shows him being gunned down just hours after driving past an anti-war demonstration while doing a talk in Chicago.

The two hour drama, in which events are 're-created' by the use of footage and interviews, shows the media storm around the War on Terror as Muslims are fingered as the culprits before there is any evidence.

In the wake of the assassination, authorities focus on a Syrian-born man in the search for the culprit.

'In the hunt for the killer, this will show how America has been affected by the War on Terror,' said a spokesman. 'It is about the polarisation of America in all the events post 9/11.'

IN OTHER WORDS, essentially a great deal of the damage that's been dealt to our country, and how the USA Patriot act has affected our freedom, is told in this
MOCK-u-mentary about our freedom


I am ASTOUNDED by the fact that this MOVIE was TOTALLY surpressed in this country!

AMAZING!!!

Markbnj

Doy: Video gamers make better surgeons

Doy in the I knew that....Department...

The Reg reports
That... Laparoscopy skills are linked to one's game playing experience....

Sounds suspiciously like confirmation of the 1992 Robin Williams film, Toys, in which Williams uses gamers, to control REAL miniature war toys...


At any rate, I think society has already confirmed that our gaming experiences are NOT useless, and this quote absolutely confirms this.

Of the 33 surgeons from Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, the nine "who had at some point played video games at least three hours per week" boasted "37 per cent fewer errors, performed 27 per cent faster, and scored 42 per cent better in the test".

In the No Way department, Iowa State University psychology prof Douglas Gentile, (one of the co-authors of the study) said:

"It was surprising that past commercial video game play was such a strong predictor of advanced surgical skills."

Obviously, someone WAY past Gen-X, or even MY generation, I'd guess to have THIS thick a skin!