The WTO has given Antigua and Barbuda permission to ignore US copyrights in films, television, and music because of the US' refusal to allow Antiguan internet gambling websites to accept US clients.
Details here.
It's about time - when a country signs a treaty, that country should abide by it. The US didn't. This was the only sanction that Antigua could get against them.
So, how long before Antiguan copies of Hollywood blockbusters start showing up on eBay?
-Rob Kelk
"Actually, my goal is to write neat stories. The money just makes it possible for me to write them faster and then buy neat toys."
Ryk E. Spoor, 7 November 2007
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Ok, I'm trying to find a Turn-based game that makes a good multiplayer game for PC. I'm tired of Master of Orion 2, Birth of the Federation, and Civilizition II. I'd like to find a game that starts up kinda fast, any suggestions?
EdwardIF SRW means Sexy Romance Weapon, does DW mean Dynamic Woman?
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In the epic rage of furious thunder
legends create their tales
when the twilight calls and the dark lord falls
our glory will prevail

I just clicked 'Confirm' on an order for memory using money given to me for Christmas; it should arrive by the end of next week. That will eliminate my computer problems with CoH. I've been running in 768 megs RAM so far, which is a bit... tight.
So there's one excuse down.
After my next paycheck my finances should be back to the point where I have 'play money' again. I don't know if I'll resubscribe or simply buy game cards, but either way, I should have the funds and my wife is threatening to use HER money to get me back into the game if that's what it takes. (I'm apparently grumpy, or something, I dunno.)
So there's the other excuse down the toilet.
Fair warning, y'all: I'm coming back.
(Great. Now I've got a cheesy movie trailer scene running through my head:
"Coming to a server near you this January! Sofaspud Returns: Attack of the Alts!"
Sheesh.)

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

Bob, You sure no-one like this exists in Doug's homeplane?
Link to Apple Quicktime site.

Youtube vid of a completely virtual idol singer.
Clicky
I am amazed at the quality of the Japanese voices for this technology versus the English ones.
Somewhere you can also find this same "performer" doing Fly Me to The Moon at LEAST as well as Megumi Hayashibara did it.
And... Someone has already created a "Rickroll" video with the synth voice.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

I've got a page of anime-related RPG resources on my website, and was wondering whether anybody here knew of any additions that should be made to it. I figure if anybody knows, then so do the folks here.
It doesn't have to be GURPS stuff - any system is fine, as long as it's related to an anime or manga. Even a writeup of a single character qualifies...-Rob Kelk
"Actually, my goal is to write neat stories. The money just makes it possible for me to write them faster and then buy neat toys."
Ryk E. Spoor, 7 November 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

"Marshall Dillon! Marshall Dillon!"
"What is it Festus?" Dillon asked.
"There was a shootin' star landed in old man Petrie's north 40! He want's someone official ta see what he's found in it!"
"Right, I'll be along shortly."
--Later--
Marshall Dillon looked into the crater amid the rows of corn and gaped at the blonde man in the singed red duster curled up in a ball.
"Is he... SLEEPING?"
Old man Petrie piped in, "Well that's the thing, I saw the fireball come in, and there he was, holdin' on to this little lady here." With that, he gestured to the somewhat scandalously attired woman beside him. Oh, she had a long enough white overcoat, but her skirt gave teasing glimpses of her knees over the tops of her boots. The slight tilt to her eyes betrayed a mixed heritage.
Dillon tipped his hat. "Pleased to meet you, Miss. I'm Marshall Matt Dillon, and I'm the law around here."
The young woman bent at the waist. "I'm Meryl Stryfe, of the Bernadelli Insurance Agency." She handed over a calling card. "And that," she said, pointing to the snoozing man, "is Vash the Stampede."
-- Kindasorta prologue for: "TriGunsmoke"
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

my family gave to me
one (1) stepladder (where the hell I'm gonna put that I have no idea, much less what use I have for one);
The Right Hand of Doom and Other Tales of SOlomon Kane
Airwolf (the DVDs, not the version tha require's a pilot's license)
Mobile Suit Gundam novelisations & BOLOS: Honor of the Regiment
Napolean (neither the Emperor nor the cannon, but a bigoraphy of the former) & an illustrated history of the Napoleanic Wars
Attack of the Clones and Return of the Jedi (which finishes my collection of the Star Wars movies)
and a hot water bottle (which is damn useful since I got back from my family to find the boiler not lighting and am therefore living in an icecube - engineer should be here tomorrow and could have been here if I didn't have to go to work... for the same company sending the engineer)
Ranting aside, I had a great christmas with lots of food, seeing relatives I haven't seen in a while and an assortment of board games.
How'd everyone else do?
D for Drakensis

You're only young once, but immaturity is forever.

Just in case nobody noticed... Outward Trajectory is out at the usual place _______________________________
"Walls are meant to be broken." - Makes sense figuratively and literally.
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Take Your Candle, Go Light Your World.

3D displays and headtracking with the Wii.

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....