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If you want to die with laughter right now, go here:
http://www.slitfinger.com/film/t.htm
DL THE BOTTOM ONE FIRST, Watch it, then grab the TOP one after you're done watching that.
I swear, i haven't laughed so hard in a long time. My ribs are aching.

I just pick up that new beta game --- quake3 arena , and while I was at the store -- EB I was checking out the prices on gheyforce ddr cards . They are still at the 300.00 us of a dollar mark ,which I found to be strange with the gheyforce 2 out and all.I mean they should be about a hundren dollars less, like they did with the tnt ultra's,and I still don't understand why we have to paid for a beta release quake3 arena.

um..thanks for the BOOK there. Lets not double post from now on.

Cable sucks, anal business practices suck - http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,36107,00.html

Damn... I've got to stop using the Shack to sound off. Perhaps I oughta puke on my own 'lil news site.... how 'bout...

WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou.com - News that Aggrivates!
or
AStickUpTheirAss.com - Bitches! They're all Goddamn Bitches!
or
TheDailyShithole.com - Because that's what life is!


...ack... time for some Q3 instagib... I need to vent some anger before I go Columbine on someone's ass. *grin*

Cripes < what is this word or what does this word mean?

Good evening !

Cripes. I now have an ad banner. ( http://hammer.prohosting.com/~clandis/botda.html )
Anybody have some space I can borrow, or recommend a good free site without ads? I don't exactly want to store this at the quakeclan.net address :P

1984 continued... the proposed new world order: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36047,00.html

- Make it a crime to create, download, or post on a website any computer program that is "designed or adapted" primarily to gain access to a computer system without permission. Also banned is software designed to interfere with the "functioning of a computer system" by deleting or altering data.
Wee... security by obscurity! Great idea!

- Allow authorities to order someone to reveal his or her passphrase for an encryption key.
Sure thing brother! Go ahead and assume I'm guilty when I refuse to incriminate myself!

- Internationalize a U.S. law that makes it a crime to possess even digital images that "appear" to represent children's genitals or children engaged in sexual conduct. Linking to such a site also would be a crime.
Can't argue about this. Childporn is sick. However, pointing out (linking) where *anything* can be found shouldn't be a crime. Just like this (DeCSS): http://www.2600.com/news/1999/1227-help.html

- Require websites and Internet providers to collect information about their users, a rule that would potentially limit anonymous remailers.
Must... keep... track... of... every... criminal citizen...

off topic and all but I have a neat idea...

I presume alot of you here use napster... right?

well how bout we fuck with Dr Dre and Metallica by renaming a bunch of mp3's as follows.........

Dr Dre - Is Good........for me to poop on.mp3
Dr Dre - Download Me and I'll put a cap in yo ass.mp3
Dr Dre - I am only sue'in you cause I want publicity.mp3
metallica - we are whiney basterds.mp3
metallica - Enter Selloutica.mp3
metallica - Damn it we should be more like Limp Bizcut.mp3

just an Idea... I know I would stay logged in all day if others wanted to do this and give a big fuck you to them...
see first they take away our music... next the'll wanna take away our porn.

after reading the comments, a few more things...i agree that napster can be a very big problem in the future. for one, a lot of people don't bother with it because they have stupid crappy connections (me!). once faster connections come along, more stupid people who abuse it will be abound.
but really, if i get an mp3 and i totally love the band, i will definitely get all their latest stuff. show my support. i also love to attend shows, so i'll be there too, maybe even get a t-shirt or two. but alas, record companies will never see that a large portion of napster users actually do have an honor system of sorts, buying cds because of an mp3 they heard, or just supporting the band by going to their shows. instead, they will only see the fact that they are getting songs for free.

another good point mr. bandguy said (and metallica said too, for that matter) is the fact that there is a lot of poor-quality shit on there. and if i were a band, no matter what, i wouldn't really appreciate low-quality versions of my songs with no information of who/what being passed around.
HOWEVER, in counter to that, with the argument that people go on napster to find what they're looking for, they know what they have. and no doubt they know what kbps/whatever it's at..i sincerely doubt anyone is going to listen to a 26kbps mp3 and assume that that is cd quality.

but really, if a band is in it for the money, well damn it, now they have to be businessmen too. find out where else you can make money. even though it looks like record sales aren't decreasing in the slightest (nsync's 2308484238023 records, santana, whatever). as the for the small bands who are just trying to get by, well, normally you won't find barely anything by them on napster. go buy the cd :) seriously, for the most part, the more popular the band/the more money they make, the more mp3s are available. they'll live.

So what are some of the obscure bands that you guys listen to while were on the topic? I listen to "Hum" quite a bit and "Massivivid".

whenever i do a search for an artist on napster, i find only one or two people who actually have the entire album on mp3. i only use mp3s for singles, backups of my CDs, and hearing artists that i'd never heard before.

take TOOL for example. before, i had never heard of them. then i downloaded eulogy and aenima - i was hooked. i then bought undertow and aenima. without mp3s, i'd still have never heard of TOOL.

the fact is, casual computer users don't download entire albums. if napster is eliminated, the hardcore computer nerds who DO download entire albums on mp3s will still have access to ftp sites and mp3 channels on irc. i doubt shutting down napster will benefit any artists.

93, How does Napster/Gnutella get your name out there? How many people do you think accidently come across fred's music? (unless he renames it to something already popular) The Internet is a great way to become known, but via a Web site.

Thanks!

-Lex

OK let's cut out and forget Napster. It's a company looking for eventual profit and we all know it will be canned everntually or supplanted by better technology. The model has been skewed by other less user friendly progs: What to do about Freenet and Gnutella though, with no corporate backing and no central cutoff point? Will the media playah's start hounding on the ISP's to disallow this sharing system from being in effect? I think so. Watch for ISP's to start to be the next scapegoat, take more responsibility towards the users, even active scanning programs to make sure nothing illegal is traded.

geforce 2 rox!
and expect you to say the same cuz my new pc w/ geforce2 is as good as ordered.

I'm naked right now... ;)

Willow? Yeah, that was a good movie.

Thanks!

-Lex

73, He's not doing those anymore.

Thanks!

-Lex

no CTF?!? rats...

post 83!!!

Who's your mammy???

50 going on 14?
how does that work?

Shuddap milf

Thanks!

-Lex

Hey Steve, what happened to:

Wise Words
Suckage
Wack Links
10 Questions with Sam Hell
ImmyShack

???????

dammit!
3 times not pressed the reply link
sorry

didn't mean to insult you.
happy b-dayb}r!

i do reead the shack like everytime i get on a pc and then every 30 minutes or so.
but during spring break i was at the beach (with my girl), without a pc.
and ppl @ shack aren't nice http://www.shugashack.com/perl/show_thread.pl/reply=173730

It's Groin Grabingly good!

Thanks!

-Lex

who the hell is that martin-kid?
a wannabe maarten?