how easy it is to download mp3 music on the internet.
with kazaa, or other sites, it becomes child play.
do you feel that it's right or wrong for a person to do that?
Just the same as (in the UK at least) it is unlawful to store TV shows on video cassette
Are you sure? I'm in trouble then!
I think it is in Germany - I read in the paper ages ago that in some countries you can't buy blank video tapes because it's illegal to tape off of TV.
I've actually downloaded a Kingdom Melody midi before! <Hangs head in shame> I had a good reason though, I needed plinky plonky music for a game I was making!
i'd really appreciate any tips on where i can get a copy of 'crisis of conscience' by raymond v. franz from.
i'd prefer to get a copy online, and i imagine it's not the typical stock that my local books etc will stock!.
i have looked on amazon, and other searches that have come up within yahoo, but so far they're either out of stock, or don't ship outside of the us.
If you're in the UK and can't/won't buy online - then ring up your local Waterstones bookshop and order from there - they definitely can get it.
how easy it is to download mp3 music on the internet.
with kazaa, or other sites, it becomes child play.
do you feel that it's right or wrong for a person to do that?
It's a grey area - sorta - it's illegal, but is it morally wrong?
It's illegal to buy or borrow a CD and record it to a tape or blank CD for your own use, let alone make copies for your friends or sell it.
The man who is making a mix tape is still breaking the law, but it's not as wrong as criminals selling pirate CDs, VCDs, games etc - what else are these people selling or involved in?
About 90% of my downloaded MP3s are of songs that have long been deleted by the record company and are nigh on *impossible* to find elsewhere (other than maybe searching second-hand record stores for 10 years straight and the company wouldn't see a penny from that either). Of the other 10% it's a mix of things I already own and stuff I plan on getting in the very near future (checking if like the album tracks etc) and only keep temporarily.
People have been making compilations for each other for as long as there has been recordable media. I don't think it's *bad* unless there's money changing hands.
If I was making a CD for an elder, I'd make sure all the files were converted to .wav so it'd play in a regular CD player, not just on a computer, and never mention the words "MP3" of "Internet".
A few weeks ago an elderette told me I was daft for buying original DVDs when "you can get VCDs so cheaply"!
there is christmas music blaring out in every shopping centre now, it started in mid-november.
it works a treat, reminds everyone to get spending.
most of it is rubbish, i feel so sorry for shopworkers having to listen to that for 7 weeks.
"Alien for Christmas" by Fountains of Wayne is reaaaallly cool and funny.
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look at this site below.
it offers a huge choice of animated gif .
It's just as easy (and better) to save the picture to your computer (right-click and click "Save As") then in "Modify Profile" click where it says "Click here to upload for your profile" and upload the picture onto this site.
It works exactly the same way. It's just that it's not fair on the owners of websites to directly link to their images without permission.
click on where it says, "more on this story:" pictures.
it's just shocking!
what is wrong with this man dangling a small child out of the hotel balcony????.
If Michael Jackson was a single dad on a housing estate he'd have had his kids taken away from him long ago.
Who in their right mind would give birth to Michael Jackson's child and then leave him to raise it? Oh yeah - $$$.
9 month old babies kick and wriggle and throw themselves about - if he'll endanger a baby in this way in public, what on Earth is he doing to his kids at home in private?!
It could have been Eric Clapton's boy all over again, only this time it wouldn't have been an accident. This freak should be in jail.
His upbringing is no excuse - plenty of kids have even worse upbringings and they don't behave like this. I dread to think what his children will grow up like.
He's just too mental to be left in charge of children full stop.
this is so funny!
edited to replace embed command with link...the language is pretty bad...hehehehehehehehe..... .
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=435&p=1edited by - syn on 19 november 2002 5:17:19.
I knew there was a reason I love Something Awful!
representatives of the jehovah's witnesses didn't show.
but their work on the former masonic temple at 385 broadway was praised by the commission's executive director, michael wing.. the jehovah's witnesses are cleaning up, repainting and refurbishing the temple in a way that meets their needs for worship but doesn't despoil the building's original intent, said wing.
a large masonic symbol in ornate floor tile has been covered with a circular rug, he said.
If the building was an ideal price, size and in a good location, that it's fair enough that they bought it, it's just a building afterall - but unless the building is listed (is it called the same thing in the US?) then why on Earth wasn't the floor ripped out and entirely replaced? Why would they want anything to do with the Freemasons?
Of course we know it's because they're disgusting hypocrites - but also as 1 in 6 men is a Freemason maybe they got a *really* good deal on it because of connections from some of the congregation or something and they didn't *want* to remove the symbols.
i need some advice on this one: a friend of mine who is still an active jw called me today all freaked out because another friend of hers, who only got baptized this summer, wants to leave "the truth".
this is because she's been talking to "worldly" people and they've almost got her convinced that the religion is a cult.. .
my girlfriend, sarah says of course, that this is "satan" trying to blind her, etc.
Definitely try to speak to the person who is wanting to leave. Perhaps offer to speak to her and then tell her she's right and that you'll help her explain to your friend how she feels and why she feels it.
Only stick to the scandals and policy changes, things that are definitely true and provable - I don't think saying things about the Trinity, for example, would be as effective for getting JWs to get out for good.
What I'm scared of is a JW saying "this is wrong, I want out. Tell me what you know about them" and then them changing their mind about leaving, then grassing me up to the elders and it causing loads of trouble - so be careful.
