"The illusion of freedom [in America] will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."

If you're using windows and need scripting, learn powershell.

--- before you all chime in calling me a schill, I'm typing this on a linux machine which is my favourite tweaked goodness. I'm only reading up on this story because I want more games to play here. Win7 doesn't suck if you bother to learn it (although I still prefer bash+awk+sed+grep). I buy MS products for games because MS software is a toy.

The media creators will still have their toys, but this is all about the media consumers. Big money hates that every joe can create content and IP without them getting a cut, so they're pushing for a (licenced) media delivery only internet and killing the tools end users have for being creative.

Persactly. I worked in big arse joe (main stream media), now I'm indie and I'm loving cheap media tools, subscribing and loving. Will I still get them? Can I still use the linux toolchain I have built for my work? Or am I f**king screwed to use adon'tbe? (%$^^ing %$^^)

I know, stupid me, I never thought of not being able to buy parts.... I just thought I could put the PC in a cupboard and still access it. (High end sound, graphics processing, etc...)

What becomes of media creators? Do we have to buy more and more dedicated gadgets?

I'd imagine you're from the USA... If ever there was a fat bunch of useless weight on the rest rest of the world with no respect for the rule of law (plenty of fox "news") and stupid respect for a non constitutional authority (Dept. of homeland security), it would be the stupid Americans.

Giving them an opportunity to flag anything they disagree with for "governmental review" would result in them flagging just about everything.

Further, there are also the of actions of governments that in lay terms as distinct from legal terms, could be considered terrorism. For example hailing drone strikes on suspected terrorist cells, including innocent civilians in Afghanistan, or Iranian anti-Israel propaganda. Both of these examples are not directly examples of terrorism from a legal perspective, but either could be construed as such by individuals with partisan leanings in either direction. It's too easy to say someone is a terrorist, even Julian Assange is a terrorist according to some. (Rapist maybe under Swedish law, but terrorist!?!?!?)

The whole idea seems to me like a big brother attempt to entrench a singular political paradigm. It seems to me that this is a way to ensure public service employment (reviewing dodgy websites all day - what a gig!!!!) and in many cases I wouldn't trust a vested interest bureaucracy to make balanced decisions on matters like these.

Whatever it is like to be a cockroach, it is almost certainly nothing like what it is like to be a human.

What you mean hiding in secluded dark places waiting patiently for the moment of total world domination? The only difference between us and the cockroaches is we have computers.

---wow just replied to your previous post and then saw this where you basically outline a non orthodox rig that gets the sound you like. Nice. I agree with your assessment of the zoom compression. I don't have a pedal but I do have the same effect unit build in to my handy dandy portable four track.

Hell, I used to play into a Roland effects unit (forgot the model) and from that straight into a dual 300W RMS Jands PA power amp driving a split 1x18" + 2x10" cabinet. It looked awful but sounded awesome. Clean, fat, effortless and very loud, even down tuned 3 semis. Play bass one meter from a rig like that with loose underwear and you can generate a very pleasant sensation between your legs if you get the notes right....

You're kind of saying the same thing as the technobabble but you're using a different paradigm. I agree with the valve for guitar, transistor for bass thing. The kind of compression you want in a bass sound is very different to the rounded waveform you get over-driving a tube (that warmth can turn to mud at lower frequencies). I tend towards all solid state with dedicated compression circuits for bass sounds, be they from a bass guitar or synth, and tubes for guitars.

I do sometimes like a harsh transistor distortion on guitars too, so I'm a huge fan of using a two channel set up with the choice of either a valve or transistor preamp driving a transistor power amp. If you keep the power amp well within it's range, can choose from a faithful reproduction of the valves "warmth" with the option to go for a harsher transistor sound with a stomp on a pedal. Sure it doesn't look as cool as playing through some Marshall rig that glows, but it can sound a heap better, especially if you like variety.

(too much repetition I'm told) Idiots.