Ever heard of Beakman's world? It's a science kid's show and I used to love it's humor. If you've got netflix, you can stream an ep and check it out. The star isn't young, though. But it is hilarious. Think Bill Nye on steroids.

The feeling is mutual. Keep in mind though I had the restraint not to say it. You didn't.

Not really... Everything man-made degrades over time. All media degrades over time - digital or not. We can make archives and backups - but most people on their own won't do that. Or if they do they will to so in a non exact 1:1 way which will result in a less than perfect copy. In time without the riaa/mpaa, permanent movie and music loss (over time) is inevitable. In addition, I'd like to point out that it's not a string of numbers alone. Most music and movie masters are still on analog tape. As for consumer copies, which are mainly digital today, it's not numbers alone. It's hexadecimal code which are 0-9 and A-F. Also it's not always recorded in this hex code - I know cd's are recorded in eight to fourteen modulation instead of hexadecimal. I stand by my statement. Yours is flawed. Your statement requires people to care enough to make backups and most don't.

You are ignorant of the fact that they are the ones who store the master copies, and maintain / restore them. I don't like the Riaa/Mpaa much like most anyone else here. But we need them if nothing more than to keep the media in a few centralized locations where they can be maintained properly. Without this system, our master media will eventually disappear. With time, distributed media - cd's, dvd's, etc will become rare - to the point some titles no longer exist. Our mp3 copies or avi files will eventually become corrupt or become really bad quality (copies of copies, etc). The original master media will degrade to a point it's no longer watchable. And there won't be a central pool anymore to inject new copies of the media into the system. They are overpricing things and should be ashamed for suing everyone. But at the same time, should this file sharing continue, we will be shooting ourselves in the foot when the riaa/mpaa go out of business. It's sad - but we need them.

from the liberals... where else? didn't you know they could make money out of thin air?!!

Once a time warner ad stated "8 megabyte connection". It was pulled quickly - but still. Apparently the reader was arrogant of internet terminology and incorrectly substituted mbps with megabytes instead of megabits. Technically speaking they were advertising a 1,024 megabit connection. Have you ever noticed that ISP's always state that your game will lag or whatever without a 15mbps connection? Makes me wonder why they don't ever mention the effects of ping speed between two computers.

What a wonderful idea - especially the way California drivers drive... All they need to do is add a keyboard for the driver. You can text the person in front of you or behind you... imagine the possibilities...

"Hey, you, assh*** where the f**k did you learn to drive?!!!"

No more need to use the horn.

Sounds like a bad Austin Powers joke to me:

Dr. Evil: Shit. Oh hell, let's just do what we always do. Hijack some nuclear weapons and hold the world hostage. Yeah? Good! Gentlemen, it has come to my attention that a breakaway Russian Republic called Kreplachistan will be transferring a nuclear warhead to the United Nations in a few days. Here's the plan. We get the warhead and we hold the world ransom for... ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

Number Two: Don't you think we should ask for *more* than a million dollars? A million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days. Virtucon alone makes over 9 billion dollars a year!

Dr. Evil: Really? That's a lot of money.

[pause]

Dr. Evil: Okay then, we hold the world ransom for...

Dr. Evil: One... Hundred... BILLION DOLLARS!

I can see it now... A team of assembly women who all look exactly like 7 of 9. Maybe Honda isn't such a bad place to work after all!

Really? The combination to my luggage is 1 2 3 4 5. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=49180515