marc johns. Exactly like that, no caps. He's awesome. I found him through my love of Savage Chickens. But back to marc johns.
Above is the new ad by Audrina Patridge for PETA. Firstly, she is not that hot. That's ridiculous. Secondly, just look at the extent to which she has been photoshopped. She has no knees! The only way she could have knees that smooth is if she were a Barbie doll. And we all know she's more skank than doll.
thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. -Arab Proverb
As you may or may not know or care, I toyed with the idea of walking to work after I moved. As the bird flies, the distance between my home and my office is so near it's scary. The problem lies in the distance that I'd have to walk, and given the rising crime rate, snatch thefts and rape cases, it's always a worry for safety.
So that plan was scrapped.
The other day, I suddenly thought, 'Why not cycle?'. For some reason, it never cross my mind before. How odd is that?
Anyway, I'm now considering cycling to work. I've scoped out the route there and worked out that there is a sidewalk that goes most of the way. The only issue lies in U-turning, meaning I have to make my way across a busy, 4-lane highway. Suicide? Maybe not.
Issues to be considered:
I'm seriously leaning towards this. Come help me solve my issues and help me become greener.
From Reuters: Pirate Bay's fileshare four get year in jail:
I salute the Pirate Bay four for standing up for what they believe in. You may balk at my support of piracy, but I believe that it's the ultimate way of using my economic power to support the artists that I want, and to signify the need for change. If I thought Kelly Clarkson's CD was worth RM40+, I would have paid RM40+ for it. As it is, I'd rather pay the radio stations RM40+ to not play Kelly Clarkson's songs.STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Four men behind The Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest free file-sharing websites, were each sentenced to a year in jail on Friday for breaching copyright, and ordered to pay $3.6 million in compensation.
Analysts said the guilty verdict in the closely-watched test case could help music and film companies recoup millions of dollars in lost revenues, though they doubted it would stem the tide of illegal downloading.
In a broadcast on The Pirate Bay's website one of the four defendants, Peter Sunde, taunted the court, holding up a mock IOU note for 31 million Swedish crowns ($3.6 million) followed by the initials "JK" -- Internet lingo for "just kidding."
"That's the closest they're going to get to getting money from me," Sunde said.
International trade body IFPI, which represents some 1,400 record companies across the world, reported earlier this year that about 95 percent of music downloaded in 2008 was illegal.
On its website, The Pirate Bay scorned the ruling, calling it a "crazy verdict."
"It was lol (laugh out loud) to read and hear," the message read. "But as in all good movies, the heroes lose in the beginning but have an epic victory in the end anyhow. That's the only thing Hollywood has ever taught us."
IFPI Chairman John Kennedy welcomed the court sentence which he said in a statement provided a "a strong deterrent" against copyright infringement.
"This is good news for everyone, in Sweden and internationally, who is making a living or a business from creative activity and who needs to know their rights will protected by law," he said.
The men linked to The Pirate Bay -- Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom -- were charged early last year by a Swedish prosecutor with conspiracy to break copyright law and related offences.
They denied the charges.
Companies including Warner Bros., MGM, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox Films, Sony BMG, Universal and EMI also sought damages of more than 100 million crowns ($12 million) to cover lost revenues.
The Stockholm district court said in a statement the four were found guilty of breaching copyright laws and each sentenced to a year in prison.
APPEAL
Lundstrom's attorney, Per Samuelson, told journalists he was shocked by the verdict and the severity of the sentence.
"That's outrageous, in my point of view. Of course we will appeal," he said. "This is the first word, not the last. The last word will be ours."
The lawyers defending Sunde and Neij told Reuters their clients would also appeal the verdict.
The group that controls The Pirate Bay, launched in 2003, says that no copyrighted material is stored on its servers and no exchange of files actually takes place there so it cannot be held responsible for what material is being exchanged.
The prosecution said that by financing, programing and administering the site, the four men promoted the infringement of property rights by the site's users.
Industry experts were not convinced the verdict would have a lasting effect.
"Every time you get rid of one, another bigger one pops up. Napster went, and then up came a whole host of others ... The problem of file-sharing just keeps growing year on year, and it's increasingly difficult for the industry to do anything about it," said music analyst Mark Mulligan of research firm Forrester.
Dan Cryan, senior analyst at media research firm Screen Digest, said the lack of international copyright law meant websites dedicated to illegal downloads could simply move on to a new country if legislation tightened where they operated.
"Pirate Bay was brilliant at self-publicity, but the reality is there are lots of other torrent-tracker sites," he said.
"The closing of the one that shouts the loudest won't make any difference."
