It's like kicking someone trying to commit suicide in the shin.

Use Virtual Audio Cable or a program that records everything going through your computer, to record all the music being played, then go back and remove the ads.

To clarify, this works best on pages that Internet Archive would miss--pages that use robot.txt, or that update enough for Internet Archive to miss between scans. I don't know of any feature that highlights changes between versions, but if you have both versions scrolled down at the same point, your eye should catch a difference in spacing that will lead you to the right place.

Firefox has an extension called Scrapbook that allows you to save to your cache entire copies of a webpage without saving screenshots to your hard drive. Your browser automatically downloads all pages from a website within a link depth that you set, and you can direct the process to be restricted to one domain.

I spidered www.whitehouse.gov on January 20 and January 21, 2009 to a link depth of 3. I wish I remembered to do the same thing with Blagojevich's webpages before they were changed.

I think we should rename AIDS so as to placate the hearing aids industry. We could call it Sean, or Christine.

"As long as they get to over-hype whatever story they want"

Isn't the idea of overhyping based on whoring out integrity to whatever sells, which would be the opposite of what is going on here? Just why are they overhyping if they aren't doing it for ratings?

Maybe you're both jackasses; the mother of the child is a jackass of the sort that has adamant beliefs about things for no good reason other than she needs something to believe to explain it, like parents that believe mercury in vaccines gave their child autism, seeing as how the tests for that farm came back negative; and I'm a jackass for joining in.

In Tennessee, third parties must get 2.7% of the vote in a gubernatorial election to be able to get on the ballot the next time. If they fail that, they have to get a petition encompassing 2.7% of the state's citizenry. The Greens, Libertarians, and members of the Constitution Party all joined together to sue in federal court for ballot access. I haven't heard about the case at all since mid-2008.

It comes with Windows Live, though I didn't install it, so I'm not sure if you could have opted out of it, but if you could have, it was automatically checked. If you installed it, you can go to your list of programs, then uninstall Windows Live. There's an option to uninstall the Family Monitoring thing and leave everything else there, which fixes it.

The navigation bar of Google's Blogger website was blocked for me. Random things were blocked that weren't noticeable as missing, popping up every time, so it felt like spyware. I tried to turn it off through Ctrl+Alt+Delete (actually, Ctrl+Shift+Esc since I use Vista). The process would not let itself die and restarted itself over and over. Then it blocked Wikipedia, I think before or after I went to "Stop Service." I asked if the owner of the computer meant to install it, and sure enough, it was hidden in some automatic update crap. The same automatic update crap rolls back my graphics drivers to the lazily outdated computer manufacturer-approved one, rather than the newest Intel one. The former has a problem with rendering bumpmaps on 3D objects so that if you're looking at an object with a bumpmap in front of an object with a bumpmap, both bumpmaps are rendered on the object nearest the camera. The latter fixes it. It also used to replace my wireless card driver with a driver from the same manufacturer meant for wirelessly communicating with other computers in a local area network, though this hasn't been a problem since I stopped using that card.

Sorry for the info dump. I could swear it separated into paragraphs last time I formatted it that way. Here it is with better formatting:

Why is it that when there's funding for a new fleet of presidential cars with increased fuel efficiency from Tesla---mind you, the Secret Service has been getting a new fleet of cars every year already, weirdly---on the basis that buying from them will ease mass production costs, the Republicans call it "massive wasteful earmark pork barrel spending", but when funding for a new presidential helicopter fleet with security features like shooting frickin' lasers is cut, there's also a massive backlash?

The cynic in me, considering that laser plane that is also being canceled in 41 states, says it all has to do with what states the companies are based in that the funding is going toward. When Republicans stop debating proposed projects on their merits or lack thereof, and instead just blankly categorize them with, say, a fake vomit factory in New Mexico, they just want it to go to the states they represent instead.

That's fine, relatively speaking; they're just trying to grab as much as they can for their constituencies at the expense of the welfare of the whole nation, and it's not anything new. It's not even the hypocrisy that's new, since 45% of the earmark spending comes from the Republicans, and half of the top ten earmark-getters in the Senate are Republicans. It's the cowardly way of throwing whatever they don't like (funding for the Smithsonian, volcano monitoring, etc.) into the category of wasteful spending without explaining why it is such, and using shock tactics of making you look like you're trying to fund a plastic beaver factory in Idaho if you dare question them. To turn your back on your colleagues in the body in which you represent the people, and take your case to people you know will agree with you on FOX News, is the essence, if not the definition, of partisanship.

Why is it that when there's funding for a new fleet of presidential cars with increased fuel efficiency from Tesla---mind you, the Secret Service has been getting a new fleet of cars every year already, weirdly---on the basis that buying from them will ease mass production costs, the Republicans call it "massive wasteful earmark pork barrel spending", but when funding for a new presidential helicopter fleet with security features like shooting frickin' lasers is cut, there's also a massive backlash? The cynic in me, considering that laser plane that is also being canceled in 41 states, says it all has to do with what states the companies are based in that the funding is going toward. When Republicans stop debating proposed projects on their merits or lack thereof, and instead just blankly categorize them with, say, a fake vomit factory in New Mexico, they just want it to go to the states they represent instead. That's fine, relatively speaking; they're just trying to grab as much as they can for their constituencies at the expense of the welfare of the whole nation, and it's not anything new. It's not even the hypocrisy that's new, since 45% of the earmark spending comes from the Republicans, and half of the top ten earmark-getters in the Senate are Republicans. It's the cowardly way of throwing whatever they don't like (funding for the Smithsonian, volcano monitoring, etc.) into the category of wasteful spending without explaining why it is such, and using shock tactics of making you look like you're trying to fund a plastic beaver factory in Idaho if you dare question them. To turn your back on your colleagues in the body in which you represent the people, and take your case to people you know will agree with you on FOX News, is the essence, if not the definition, of partisanship.

"ultra-religious state like WA" I learned from the 2008 Democratic primaries that Oregon and Washington have the highest non-religious rates in the nation, measured by church attendance and self-declared agnosticism and atheism. Of course, I can't blame you for listening to "analysis" like "Did white males vote for their gender or did they vote for their race?" (CNN's Bill Schnoeder)

You are wrong! Completely, utterly, and entirely wrong! You forgot Mukasey.