Invisible escreveu:
>>>>> I have to admit, Wikipedia's blackout is the very first time I'd even
>>>>> *heard* of The Pirate Bay.
>>>>
>>>> <boggle>
>>>
>>> What? Like it's famous or something?
>>
>> Arguably the most famous torrent site in the world.
> 
> And Edgar Froese is arguably the most famous band member ever to be in 
> Tangerine Dream... Have *you* ever heard of him?
> 
> Fame is a relative thing.

Are you really willing to compare the fame of a pretty obscure band to 
the fame of a website that serves every kind of content to pretty much 
everyone in the net?

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Invisible escreveu:
> On 23/01/2012 10:29 AM, John VanSickle wrote:
>> Wait, isn't Pipa some gal who's in the tabloids a lot?
> 
> I wouldn't know; I don't read comic books.

he didn't say comic books, he tablets, you know, like iPad?

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> On 23/01/2012 10:29 AM, John VanSickle wrote:
> > Wait, isn't Pipa some gal who's in the tabloids a lot?

> I wouldn't know; I don't read comic books.

  I don't know if that was just a jab at tabloids, or if you a honestly have
a confusion of terminology... Either way it's slightly amusing.

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On 1/23/2012 9:33 AM, Invisible wrote:
>>>> Actually, I don't think many of the users in Egypt were anything more
>>>> than normal users, but the techies made it easy for them to route
>>>> around the government-imposed outage during the uprising there.
>>>
>>> Am I missing something?
>>
>> You were aware that Hosni Mubarak is no longer in charge in Egypt and
>> that they had a "small" revolution last year, weren't you?
>
> Nope. The politics of remote countries isn't something I generally keep
> up with. (Heck, the politics of *this* country isn't something I avidly
> follow...)
>
There was a poll done a while back which showed that Fox News viewers 
where like 80%, or something, less likely to know *anything* that was 
going on in their own country, or the rest of the world, including that 
Egypt, and several other countries, had recently had a revolution.

Apparently its possible to not watch Fox, and still have this problem. ;)

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On 1/23/2012 8:17 AM, nemesis wrote:
> Warp<war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:
>> Francois Labreque<fla### [at] videotronca>  wrote:
>>> Le 2012-01-22 02:09, Warp a écrit :
>>>>     The day after SOPA was rejected in the US congress, the US government
>>>> took down megaupload.com. Coincidence?
>>>>
>>>>     The prevailing theory is that they were planning on taking it down for
>>>> some time (after all, the bureucracy and paperwork involved in this kind
>>>> of operation is not something that's done in one day) and were only
>>>> waiting for SOPA to pass in order to shut down the site, so that they
>>>> would have a justification. It did not pass, so no justification. However,
>>>> rather than let all the hard work go to waste, they took the website down
>>>> anyways.
>>>>
>>> Using existing laws, proving that PIPA and SOPA were unnecessary after all.
>>
>>    And now the US government has the IP addresses if millions of people who
>> have uploaded and downloaded illegal material to megaupload.com. What do
>> you think they will do with those addresses?
>
> they'll put the whole of society in jail, aside from those running jailbreakers.
>
>
So much easier than just hoping they will all buy a few ounces of pot, 
and get thrown in jail for that...

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On 23/01/2012 9:39 PM, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Fox News

??? :-P

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On 23/01/2012 9:41 PM, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> a few ounces of pot

Rich man. :-P

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     Stephen

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On 23/01/2012 6:13 PM, Warp wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> On 23/01/2012 10:29 AM, John VanSickle wrote:
>>> Wait, isn't Pipa some gal who's in the tabloids a lot?
>
>> I wouldn't know; I don't read comic books.
>
>    I don't know if that was just a jab at tabloids, or if you a honestly have
> a confusion of terminology... Either way it's slightly amusing.
>

It was not a joke. He spoke the truth. ;-)
Also called "Red Tops" in the UK.

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     Stephen

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On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:33:42 +0000, Invisible wrote:

>>>> Actually, I don't think many of the users in Egypt were anything more
>>>> than normal users, but the techies made it easy for them to route
>>>> around the government-imposed outage during the uprising there.
>>>
>>> Am I missing something?
>>
>> You were aware that Hosni Mubarak is no longer in charge in Egypt and
>> that they had a "small" revolution last year, weren't you?
> 
> Nope. The politics of remote countries isn't something I generally keep
> up with. (Heck, the politics of *this* country isn't something I avidly
> follow...)

So you didn't hear about any of the so-called "Arab Spring" events?

You do know that the US pulled out of Iraq, yes?  Or were you unaware 
that the US (and the UK) were at war in Iraq?  You know there's a war in 
Afghanistan too, yes?  And that's still going on?

And that Osama Bin Laden is dead?

>>>>> I have to admit, Wikipedia's blackout is the very first time I'd
>>>>> even *heard* of The Pirate Bay.
>>>>
>>>> <boggle>
>>>
>>> What? Like it's famous or something?
>>
>> Arguably the most famous torrent site in the world.
> 
> And Edgar Froese is arguably the most famous band member ever to be in
> Tangerine Dream... Have *you* ever heard of him?

Yes, as a matter of fact, I have - because I have a fair collection of 
Tangerine Dream albums here. :)

> Fame is a relative thing.

It is relative, but there's been a *lot* of news about illegal downloads 
and torrents in the past 5 years or so.  TPB has figured into a lot of 
that news, because the providers keep blocking access, and they keep 
getting unblocked.

I've found it kinda hard to avoid news about that.  I'm wondering how you 
managed it without even trying.

Jim

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On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:10:36 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 23/01/2012 9:39 PM, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> Fox News
> 
> ??? :-P

Some over here refer to them as "Faux News" - because a fair bit of the 
opinion side is "manufactured rage".

Jim

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