![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.6){kind=small}
gesundyke at All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012rainflowermoon at All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012miintikwa at All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012heartbreakangel at All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012atalantapendrag at All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012ericadawn16 at All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012hoperomantic at All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012southrnbygrace at All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012jesco0307 at All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012sheryden at All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012meridian_rose at All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012brontefanatic at All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012philstar22 at All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012lk737 at All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012According to this article, dated March 15, 2012:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/webnews/maj
"File-sharers, beware: By July 12, major US Internet service providers (ISPs) will voluntarily begin serving as copyright police for the entertainment industry, according to Cary Sherman, chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The so-called “six-strikes” plan is said to be one of the most effective anti-piracy efforts ever established in the US."
The article goes on to give details. After six notices, internet providers will decide to throttle a person's internet speed, or cut it off altogether. I don't know if they will crack down on torrents only, or if it is up to the internet provider. I get the sense it is up to the internet provider. So some people could get away with downloading non torrents, while others might get their internet service cut off. I urge you to click it and read, as we all know people who download.
No more downloading eps of your favorite shows for vidding, gifs, or fanfiction art. No more downloading screencaps possibly. I'm so sorry my friends. I don't even know if BT Guard will work to protect you, but I would google it if I were you. It is a professional service that supposedly can protect you from the invasive eyes of your internet provider.
Just, my friends, please make each other aware. Please be aware of the date JULY 12TH. Mark your calendar and double check with your internet provider by then. If you start receiving notices of downloaded activity, this is why. And your internet service could be throttled or cut off.
Fox news confirms this:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/1
Youtube video explaining this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5OG0R-y
SIGN THE PETITION!
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/backd
I helped a bunch of guys start up what I thought was a worthy project. Building the continent of Westeros from Game of Thrones in Minecraft. We started with the ice wall, then moved to other keeps..I stopped just just as they started King's Landing cause my laptop's motherboard blew up... I keep meaning to go back...
AND NOW IT'S ON THE FIRST PAGE OF KOTAKU.
Here's a link to the article if you'd like to see it. aaaaand here's the server info in case you'd like to come in and fly around in Westeros yourself.
*sniff* it's so beautiful when something you do gets recognition.
EDIT: the project has a video!
Edit #2:
- Mood:
ecstatic
http://www.wikihow.com/Increase-Privacy-w
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/29/tech/web/p
I checked these out and came across some gems on what Google has "assumed" about me based on my searches. The first one is pretty accurate:
The second one is what I'm laughing about:
Interested in what google's tied together about you? use these links:
https://www.google.com/dashboard/
https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onwe
(you may need to sign in to your google account to see it if you have one)
- Mood:
amused
Go here to take it if you like: http://rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php
- Mood:
contemplative
(This post will have a Wiki-note-style bibliography at the end. I want you to read it without clicking away from what I have to say. Therefore, if you see Superscript, refer to the link list at the bottom of the post. I have the impression from the lack of comments on most of my posts, most of you wan't read this anyway. It's been knocking around in my head for a while, I just need to get codify it somewhere.)
I'm dissatisfied with the leadership of this country.
Stay tuned, because I codify this into a coherent conclusion at the end.
( Click here to read about this and follow my train of thought. )
- Mood:
discontent
if the above link doesn't work.. use this:
http://grooveshark.com/s/Somebody+T
- Mood:
mellow
I'm amazed I did.. But I managed to get haltingly through this entire poem out loud.
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Fe0ffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
English Pronunciation by G. Nolst Trenité
http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2011/12/23/engl
- Mood:
accomplished
