I am now killing you this instant. You are dying. Blood everywhere...

Wanna ride bikes? 8D

Always be wary of motivation vs fact. Motivation is measured in dollars, fact is measured in labs, but only perceived by the public through the media, which are all motivated by dollars and not facts.

The key question is this: is there enough money to be gained from fracking to change publicly perceived facts? Absolutely. My problem is that if it turned out that fracking was actually OK, I'd have heard about it by now. I know folks in the field, and they don't know anything about any new scientific findings. They're reluctant workers getting paid mad cash to do what they hate for the sake of their families. They're not idiots, and they keep a close eye on this shit. Big media says it's ok? Fuck that.

This finally resolves the biggest problem for USB interfaces and hard drives for audio. The primary factor for performance in audio has always been access speed (seek time), and not throughput. Audio software has to access dozens of separate audio files in a very timely manner frequently, and the overhead of the USB protocol has always been a wrench in the gears. From what I'm reading, UASP offers the same advantages NCQ (Native Command Queuing) offers in SATA, which allowed for much higher track counts on the same drive rather than spreading files across several drives, which was a pain in the butt. It was only with NCQ in ~2005 that SATA finally caught up with SCSI-2 (ca 1994) in audio performance, provided the drive was 7200rpm or faster. Firewire has some form of queuing system built into the host, so it's always been better than USB for audio, but it is vanishing from laptops and desktop motherboards, even Apple products.

Now watch how long it takes before audio hardware manufacturers adopt it, and feel our pain. The first Firewire audio interfaces came out about 4 years after Firewire was standard on Mac desktops...

It's 'kinda' bullshit in that they're only 'kinda' spying on you. Do they harvest as much information about you as the law allows? Yes. Do they push the limit on this harvesting? Sure. Are they hiding the extent of how much information they harvest? Of course. But they are doing it on a systematic basis, and don't care about any one person in particular. Their objective is not to study any individual in particular, but to study a potential advertising market as thoroughly as possible. It's not like they're sending out people to follow you, more like you leaving bread crumbs for them to map.

The danger of this is only in how the information is abused, and the fault there lies in the security of the information and abuses of government access thereto. That's something to worry about, sure, but I see it as an inevitable evolution of the internet motivated by irrepressible marketing forces. If Facebook and Google+ didn't do it to this extent, surely some other social media would have. It's definitely a "don't hate the players, hate the game" situation.

So if you're that concerned about abuse of your personal information, I don't blame you one bit for avoiding social media. Myself, I only worry a thief may see that I'm out of town and take a shot at breaking into my house, but otherwise I'm not afraid of what can be done with what I post, and I'd say about 25% of my revenue stems from research and communications over Facebook. Works for me, might not work for you. I don't see the need for alarm.

As long as there are commercials there will be channels telling studios what kind of crap they want to shove down our faces to assemble demographics to match their potential advertising base. Channels should be paying us for allowing their garbage into our homes.

How many car accidents have you been in recently? Most cars have excellent crash test ratings these days compared to even 10 years ago. A friend recently slammed into a rock cut at about 40mph, her PT Cruiser did a 360 in the air and landed back out on the road. She walked away with belt burn and a bruise on her neck from the air bag. Also, SUV's are most prone to rollovers. Airbags don't help much when the passengers have been ejected from the vehicle.

City mileage drops fast with less weight, highway mileage drops fast with better aerodynamics, both drop fast with a smaller engine. Your 5.4L Expedition gets a reported 13mpg city 18mpg highway, so actual is probably more like 10/15. My 3.4L minivan (Pontiac Montana) gets 20/26 actual.

Many car models offer 4x4, Subaru only makes 4x4's for example.

Many cars handle this fine, so far I'd direct you towards a Ford Flex AWD

Catalytic converters reduce smog emissions by a factor of 430. By my math (880cc/5.4Lx430) your Harley emits about 70 times as much smog as your Expedition. You're not doing us any favors...

Well put. Similarly the Supreme Court can strike down a law passed by the House Of Commons or provincial Legislative Assemblies on the grounds that it violates the Constitution, Charter Of Rights & Freedoms, or provincial jurisdictions etc, however the Supreme Court can't introduce new law, only alter existing ones to suit evolving judicial interests and the Constitution and Charter. That's gotta feel pretty good, the "I know better, nyah nyah" part. That's why they don't wear pants under the robes.

Insurance companies insure cars, not drivers. If you lend your car to someone else, and they run over an old lady, you can be sued just as rightly as the driver. You are responsible for your vehicle unless it is stolen. How RelayRides insurance fits into that I don't know, but definitely some fine print worth reading.

"Real religion" wins oxymoron of the aeon

Pop scientology alt.support.ex-cult into Google groups search for some good creepy laughs. It's a shame it only goes back 4 years, the early 2000's saw many a scientology recruiter trolling that group.

WOW. I am fucking stunned. How is the systematic distribution of copyrighted data not the "carrying away" the "personal goods" of artists?! If you break into an artist's home and steal the master CD he sent away to be legally marketed, that's theft, but to distribute the EXACT SAME DATA you ripped off without license is what, a fundamental human right? Yeah sure, we still have our copy, but IT'S FUCKING WORTHLESS BECAUSE ANY IDIOT CAN NOW DOWNLOAD IT. Ice to eskimos? Hello?

And since I am an artist and you're too dense to figure that out, let's pretend I'm smart enough to figure out that you're not an artist. Let's run down a list of possibilities of what maybe you might be:

Plumber: suppose any idiot could take a magic X-ray picture of a house you worked on, and magically project it onto another house, so that they got paid for your work, and didn't pay you a damn thing. Since it's magic, you can't sue them. How long would you continue to be an unpaid plumber?

Cook: suppose any idiot could take a magic X-ray picture of a meal you cooked, and magically project it onto another plate, so that they got paid for your work, and didn't pay you a damn thing. Since it's magic, you can't sue them. How long would you continue to be an unpaid cook?

Taxi Driver: suppose any idiot could teleport via Google Street View? How long would you continue to be an unpaid taxi driver?

Politician: ok, bad example...

My point is that you don't seem to understand the DIGESTIVE TRACT of an artist. We need to EAT. Live gigs pay the exact same as they did in the 70's. We can't sell recordings to save our lives without coughing up HUGE percentages to labels (iTunes takes 85%). I'm doing fine because I'm diversified and established in many facets of the music industry, but it was a BITCH to get here, and I'm very lucky to have SURVIVED to this point, because I seriously would have killed myself trying if things didn't work out the way they did.

But go ahead and keep being the pirating armchair quarterback for artists. It won't make a dent in my need to create, it just causes suffering among the people you claim to respect. Might wanna ease back on the generalizing from the specific though, because it may take both hands to count all the artists you know that are happy to starve for the sake of their art, but it takes Facebook's $60B IPO to tally up all the depraved whores like yourself who have the crust to steal from artists and then tell them how they lack commitment.

Whatever he replies, please mod this fuckhead insightful again. It's part of my training to become a "true artist".

I don't even know how to "look at your mod points". I'm saddened that people who frequent /. give a shit about that.

Seriously, let's bicker about even more trivial shit than what we're paid for, in our spare time. What the fuck do you people come here for if not the opposite of that. If you're trying to prove that /.'ers have no lives, spouses, or kids, mission accomplished.

I use Firefox and AdBlock Plus on my desktop, the instant my cel carrier lets an ad through to my phone I'm switching and daring them to sue me for any "termination fees". I've already notified them of this. I do not allow advertising in my home, circumventing my reasonable efforts to prevent ads in my residence constitutes trespassing by law. I consider my phone to be equally protected wherever I go, and I'm confident the courts would agree.

Clearly, you do not live in Canada, maybe you did a while back or know someone who did. The 2011 national census was processed by Lockheed Martin. Don't get me started. Canada is for sale. Harper isn't our prime minister, he's our liquidator, elected by fraud.

Watch out for RIM, they're really sharp cats with equity to ride out the storm. Mark my words, they don't want to be bought out. Now that Apple has given up their crown as user-oriented developers in favour of content delivery, RIM stands alone. They're entrenching as opposed to making waves. They'll be my entire stock portfolio when I get word to buy.