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[FONT=Arial]Hopefully the same will be true for me. I can never tell, though. As a bit of a teaser for Beth, it had something to do with summoning. That's all I'll say.[/FONT]

[quote name='Chabichou][COLOR="#004a6f"']Looks like I missed one. At first, I had all "I"s in the sentence, and then, I switched to "you"'s.[/COLOR][/quote] [FONT=Arial]That's what I figured. (^_^) [quote name='Chabichou][COLOR="#004a6f"']And in reply to your post, I would like to point out that I already acknowledged what the law is, but I suggested that it be changed.[/COLOR][/quote] Yes, but you didn't give any concrete reasoning for it. All you said was "you should be able to", and really you shouldn't. Like I said, the law protects the artists' rights, which supersede your own...whatever rights you have regarding the situation, which aren't any except what the artists say you can have. Now, I [I]have[/I] participated in music sharing from both sides, and this is where I get my exposure to different genres from. I still prefer the authentic recording, though, both because I know the mix and volume levels will be correct (as opposed to the uncertainty of someone else's burning procedures), in addition to whatever scratches or gouges may have been on their CD, and even if it my burned copy is more than one generation away from the original; and because I get actual information about the individual songs, the album, and the band. I dislike online lyric databases because I have yet to find one that is one-hundred percent accurate. (Also, your CD library doesn't get clogged up with tacky Memorex. :p)[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]See, when you guys say "robot", I think steel. And steel is hard, and usually kinda cold. Yeah. Anyway, as far as the sentience angle goes, I'm deferring to Asimov. I think he pretty much laid down the law for robotics. (Haha, pun. :animesmil) Other than that, I say the heck with robots, all you guys should wait for androids. At least they [I]look[/I] human.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]I'm just concerned that we're the only two still interested. Haven't heard either way from [COLOR="DarkRed"]SunfallE[/COLOR] or [COLOR="DarkRed"]Rachmaninoff[/COLOR], and I can never tell with What's-His-Name (:p). But no, I'm never out of ideas. I actually forgot to completely work out my scythe thingummy; I got distracted by thoughts of blue fire. [I]*grin*[/I][/FONT]

[quote name='indifference][COLOR="Indigo"']*Adrian smacks DB upside the head because he's in a bad mood* :p[/COLOR][/quote] [FONT=Arial]Wow. That was almost a month ago. That must be one friggin' hardcore bad mood. Anyway, hooray for filler episodes! :p I might do something with Isen after you post. She [I]is[/I] actually doing something while she's off-camera, after all. Marching band is almost over. Saturday is basically it. So hooray for actual weekends again.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]Firstly, [QUOTE][COLOR="#004a6f"]...so [B]you[/B] should be able to do what [B]I[/B] want with it,....[/COLOR][/QUOTE] Watch your tenses, bucko. :p Anyway, [quote name='Chabichou][COLOR="#004a6f"']Well, I would have to disagree with you there. I think that If you buy something, it is yours and you can do what you want with it.[/COLOR][/quote] Ehh, to a point. When a musical group makes a recording and puts it up for sale through a record label, they are licensing you the consumer the right to use their music for your own personal interest; in a sense, they are selling you ownership of that recording?the right to listen to it whenever you want. If you give that recording [I]as a gift[/I] to another person, you are transferring ownership. You bought the rights to it, and you give those same rights to someone else. The problem arises when you give those rights of ownership to another person while simultaneously keeping them for yourself: distribution of copied material. That is a duplication of rights that was not authorized by the original retainer of those rights, which is a violation of [I]their[/I] rights...rights that supersede your own. [I]They[/I] own the music, so [I]they[/I] decide who else can own it. You can't make that decision. Also remember: you can make as many copies as you like. It's when you [I]distribute[/I]them that you overstep the law. And this entire spiel is based on your "I can" as meaning "I have the right". Naturally you possess the ability to copy music, or any other CD, DVD, HDDVD, minidisk, or Blu-Ray (sp?) that you happen to own. :rolleyes: [QUOTE][I][COLOR="#004a6f"]It doesn't matter that less people would buy the CD if they could get copies.[/COLOR][/I][/QUOTE] Yes, it does. Your analogy is flawed because you are relating this debate to the production of original material. Music recordings (and any recorded media) are unique in that they require no effort to reproduce, and each reproduction is an [I]exact] replica[/I] of the previous recording. Corn cannot be copied, so the entire analogy fails. Record sales are how music artists get paid for doing their job: [I]entertaining you.[/I] If you want their music, you want their services, and you are required by law to pay them. Nothing is preventing you from breaking the law, but you [I]are[/I] playing Russian Roulette by doing so. I wouldn't advise making a business of it. It'd be non-profit, anyway, so where's the incentive? :p[/FONT]

[quote name='Rachmaninoff']And I still see no reason why it should make sense for someone to actually hate a show.[/quote] [FONT=Arial]I hate the Jerry Springer show. It specializes in contriving situations where their cast members-of-the-day abandon all logic, reason, abstract reason, dignity, self-respect, and basic human intelligence for the sake of "being on television", at the same time catering to an essentially gladiatorial audience. Since I hate it, I refuse to watch it. Makes perfect sense to me. --------- Although I do not hate moe, or even "harem", I am not fond of it, and the presence of either aspect to a contrived standpoint begins to ruin a series for me. Eva was well-done. Fate/stay Night began to irritate me, even though I enjoyed the story. (And it wasn't the Shirō–Saber deal that bothered me. I actually liked that. It was the [I]rest[/I] of the [I]house[/I] being full of females for [I]no reason at all[/I] except to make things awkward that I disliked. I could even have dealt with Sakura's presence, or Rin's. But having Saber, Taiga, Rin, Sakura, [I]and[/I] Illyasviel all at once was just bothersome.) (And yes, I am aware of the origins of the series. Still doesn't mean the writers couldn't have [I]tried[/I] to make sense of things. [I]Lord[/I] have mercy. :p)[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial][CENTER]We're sorry, but not only does Yu-Gi-Oh! just suck compared to Magic, but... [IMG]http://edward.oconnor.cx/2006/01/The_Spanish_Inquisition.jpg[/IMG] [I]Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition![/I][/CENTER][/FONT]

[QUOTE=Shy][size=1][b]RPG Title:[/b] Time for Tea [PG] [b]Genre:[/b] Adventure/Fantasy [b]Setting:[/b] The early 20th century, loosely inspired by Jules Verne, Fritz Lang and Wes Anderson. Most of the RPG would take place in the British Empire, almost exclusively India. [b]Basic Summary:[/b] Following a powerful monsoon most of the world?s tea reserves have been destroyed. This, combined with the ever-expanding British Empire has made tea the most valuable substance on Earth. As a result, India has become a hotbed for merchants, criminals and aristocrats each desperate to claim some of the last remaining leaves for themselves. The Queen has personally dispatched several of her most talented and eccentric agents to the strange nation in hopes of finding a solution to the world?s tea shortage. Little do these brave men and women realize that they are being followed, and that this simple beverage is being used to balance the scales of global power.[/indent][/size][/QUOTE] [FONT=Arial]Actually, that sounds about right up my alley. Maybe we should discuss it sometime. :animesmil (I'm not joking.)[/FONT]

[quote name='James][color=#606060]But I would never say that I have the right to acquire such things illegally simply because I can't access them any other way. You won't fall over and die without a CD; it's a product, [B]it's a luxury item.[/B'][/color][/quote] [FONT=Arial]Quoted for [U]truth[/U]. Don't ever confuse "right" with "desire".[/FONT]

[quote name='Sojiro47][FONT="Book Antiqua"]To make my position worse, I'm a senior in high school looking for [B][U]collages[/U][/B']. [/FONT][/quote] [FONT=Arial]Try the local art studio. There's probably a group of scrapbooking mothers [I]somewhere[/I] in your town that could help you out, too. [quote name='desertphoenix][COLOR="DarkRed"']But seriously, what make me feel old is when I have to explain to freshmen who Gambit was.[/COLOR][/quote] I know. Aggravating as hell, pardon my language.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]My head doesn't like looking at her spinning counter-clockwise because it looks like she's going to tip over. I guess that means that left-brained people are unbalanced mentally and right-brainers are secretly stiffnecks. Seriously, I was going [I]"She's gonna fall, she's gonna?oh, she switched."[/I] But she stayed mostly going clockwise. (...also known as [I]to the right[/I]. Funny how that worked out.) Dunno why you guys were so gung-ho about a bias-based illusion, though. :p Perception has nothing to do with how someone set up an image that [U]looks[/U] like it's spinning. I mean, I even forced it to go 2-D on me...which looks really weird, lemme tell ya.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]Well, it would help if he wouldn't traipse around holding a gigantic neon sign over his head that said [I]"Pick On Me!!"[/I], ya know? :p Oh, and for the record: [quote name='Revolver][COLOR="Olive"']My ego isn't the only thing I'm stroking.[/COLOR][/quote] Epic comeback.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]I just wish I wasn't so hammered by this semester, is all. Things are lookin' that way for the spring, too. :animesigh Otherwise, I'd love to try my hand at this concept. I just can't guarantee the time to spend on it.[/FONT]

[quote name='Paramount][size=1']...Ew. There's one more mental image I didn't need. :animedepr[/size][/quote] [FONT=Arial]Join the club. [QUOTE][I][size=1]Although, I suppose that's what I get for venturing into a thread on self-pleasure. :P So, my bad then.[/size][/I][/QUOTE] Yeah, probably not the best place to hang out after just getting back, eh? Actually, the only real reason I've been coming into this thread [I]at all[/I] is so I can watch [COLOR="DarkRed"]Premonition[/COLOR] [[COLOR="DarkRed"]Revolver[/COLOR]] make an utter fool of himself. :animesmil It's quite a lot of fun, especially since it sounds like the only thing he's actually stroking is his ego...and he's not even doing [I]that[/I] well. [CENTER]:p[/CENTER] (The lyrics to "Pretty Fly" have never been more apropos.)[/FONT]

[quote name='Aaryanna][COLOR="goldenrod"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]So no I am not going to join the dance as you put it. :p[/FONT'][/COLOR][/quote] [FONT=Arial]:p It was a Lewis Carrol reference, anyway.[/FONT]

[quote name='Aaryanna][COLOR="goldenrod"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]As for this topic. I have no opinion. It's people's choice really, as to whether or not they want to engage in self-pleasure. XP[/FONT'][/COLOR][/quote] [FONT=Arial]First, bosh. It is impossible to have no opinion. That's not to say one has to go around announcing it all the time, but there you are. And, my [I]dear[/I] girlie, the topic isn't about whether or not you think people should do it. It's poster-specific. Do you, don't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? [I]*slapped*[/I][/FONT]

[CENTER][IMG]http://karmafactory.emlekkonyv.hu/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/image029.jpg[/IMG] [FONT="Arial"]But the Five-Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique kills you in [I]five steps[/I].[/FONT][/CENTER]

[quote name='Boo][size=1']Oh yes, sorry about the pile thing. It's dutch translated rather directly.[/size][/quote] [FONT=Arial]And that means it's automatically bad? I'm sure there's a more accurate translation for it. (Idiomatic, perhaps?) I mean, I knew it was there for a reason; I just wasn't following, is all.[/FONT]

[CENTER][IMG]http://a0.vox.com/6a00bf76d0a9b7438300c2252095a08e1d-500pi[/IMG] [FONT="Arial"]I pity the fool who posted above me![/FONT][/CENTER]

[FONT=Arial]Weird spacing? Bosh. I see no weird spacing. I see well-communicated thought and time breaks constructed from the creative use of spacing. I enjoyed reading "Dreaming". I liked how you had the line breaks fall in the middle of a thought, and how you tied everything back to the opening line/stanza/two words. I was caught a little off guard by [I]"I dream everything on a pile"[/I], though. Not too sure where you went with that. :animesmil I wonder if you repeated the [I]"I dream...."[/I] tag a bit much, but I can't decide. I don't think it really hurts anything, it just seems a bit quick to me. (And that comes from Mr. Verbosity, so take that as you will. :p) I don't know what else to comment on, since poetry isn't exactly my specialty. It just didn't feel right not to say anything at all, and I [I]did[/I] enjoy it. Well wishes on future endeavors. -A[/FONT]

[QUOTE=Shy][size=1][u]Trivia:[/u] Newer and less informed members often think that AzureWolf is a girl. This is not the case.[/size][/QUOTE] [FONT=Arial][U]Addendum:[/U] It is that confounded "Azure" at the beginning of his name that is the most likely culprit for such a misconception.[/FONT]

[quote name='sakurasuka][FONT="Arial"][SIZE="1"]But in all seriousness, to those who look down upon the ones who masturbate for religious reasons,....[/SIZE'][/FONT][/quote] [FONT=Arial]Wait. People masturbate for religious reasons???[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]Hey, Aceburner? Ya might wanna check your image tags. I think you double-http'ed, there. :p [CENTER]IMAGE DELETED!!! (No prob, bro.)[/CENTER] Anyway, Wal-Mart isn't the devil....yet. Someone else beat them there. [CENTER][IMG]http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:VQgCGFjcZnlqtM:http://www.robopuc.cl/larc/images/Microsoft.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER] [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]Umm, [I]you[/I] did. [QUOTE][I]I'm trying to become a more... pleasant in my moderation, but since I'm also a professional upbringer in real-life, I can be quite stern and decided.[/I][/QUOTE] :p[/FONT]