http://www.acsblog.org/
In March, FEC Chairman Bradley Smith suggested the FEC might crackdown on blogging activities as political contributions. Following Smith's comments, the FEC released a draft of their proposal that proposed that political websites that are not password protected and read by more than 500 people a month should be regulated by the FEC. Nothing creates a firestorm faster than suggesting that bloggers might lose some of their rights. CNET reports that the March proposal was radically altered because of the, "the unusual public outcry that followed a public alarm that Commissioner Bradley Smith sounded about a pending government crackdown on bloggers. After Smith's warning, an army of bloggers mobilized to oppose intrusive regulations and prominent members of Congress warned the commission not to be overly aggressive." Redstate.org's Mike Krempasky said, "If the March 10 draft had gone into effect, it would have been bloggers with pitchforks and torches storming the Federal Election Commission at 999 E St." (Click here for ACSblog's coverage of Sen. Feingold's comments on the original draft proposal).
One political thread makes a board political, by the way...and there is no objective standard as to what is, or is not, political.
It was nice knowing you, GITM.
I think the Mgt. will destroy you soon.
Quote from: Irreverend Hugh, KSCIt was nice knowing you, GITM.
I think the Mgt. will destroy you soon.
If the FEC doesn't get her first.
Quote from: Ghost In The MachineQuote from: Irreverend Hugh, KSCIt was nice knowing you, GITM.
I think the Mgt. will destroy you soon.
If the FEC doesn't get her first.
They won't.
Eris grants the Mgt. pwnage over all.
Quote from: Irreverend Hugh, KSCQuote from: Ghost In The MachineQuote from: Irreverend Hugh, KSCIt was nice knowing you, GITM.
I think the Mgt. will destroy you soon.
If the FEC doesn't get her first.
They won't.
Eris grants the Mgt. pwnage over all.
Okay. Now, shouldn't you be spamming threads?
Nope. Today is threadjack day.
Quote from: Irreverend Hugh, KSCNope. Today is threadjack day.
So I see.
Actually, I would love to see the FEC try to enforce that, if it ever came into existence... Imagine, hordes of 'Net geeks, swarming every available public forum they can find, swamping them with political content...
The movie Hackers sucked ass, but it did have that "you can't stop allof us" moral.
Hackers wasn't great, but as nascent cyberpunk movies go, it was made infinitely better by a total lack of Keanu Reeves.
8)
... and brightened by a young, unpretentious Angelina Jolie
...Well, less pretentious, anyway.
Should add this to things to fuel my persecution fantasies.
Quote from: Irreverend Hugh, KSCEris grants the Mgt. pwnage over all.
I always kind of assumed that Eris WAS The Mgt.
Quote from: LMNO... and brightened by a young, unpretentious Angelina Jolie
...Well, less pretentious, anyway.
dont forget naked under her jacket as well
I love that scene
Angelina Jolee is the only woman I would ever fuck. She is totally beyond hot.
Quote from: Saint Zurtok Ah.D.Angelina Jolee is the only woman I would ever fuck. She is totally beyond hot.
Ever seen a picture of Utada Hikaru?
(http://traducziqueff.free.fr/photo/utada_hikaru_4.jpg)
Quote from: Sepia(http://traducziqueff.free.fr/photo/utada_hikaru_4.jpg)
Hikke-hime...
/me sighs and does the thing where hearts appear over one's head.
So.. what's her story? Can't seem to find a decent biography on the netz0r. Hit me!
Quote from: SepiaSo.. what's her story? Can't seem to find a decent biography on the netz0r. Hit me!
You only need to know one thing about Utada Hikaru. Her voice is like someone taking the world's finest alcohol, distilling it until one drop is a bottle's worth of potent happiness, and then cramming it into a vocal form, whose gestalt is a Japanese woman singing, and that singing happens to be liquid orgasmic ecstacy cascading through the neurons of your existance.
Also, she's a chick. Parents were a famous singer and either actor/playwright, it's early and I can't remember the specifics of the one parent's career. Brought up in a America. Biliginual: English/Japanese. She's got a successful career, and wrote and sang both the English and Japanese themesongs from the Square/Disney game Kingdom Hearts, known as Simple and Clean/Hikari(Light) respectively. Lyrics in English and Japenese Follow:
Simple and Clean:
*When you walk away
You don't hear me say
Please, Oh baby, don't go.
Simple and Clean is the Way that you're making me feel tonight.
It's hard to let it go.
You're giving me
Too many things lately
You're all I need, Oooooh.
You smiled at me, and said
Don't get me wrong I love you.
But does that mean I have to meet your father?
When we are older you'll understand
What I meant when I said, "No.
I don't think life is quite that simple."
*
The daily things (like this and that and what is what)
That keep us all busy
Are confusing me.
That's when you came to me, and said:
I wanna prove I love you
But does that mean I have to walk on water?
When we are older you'll understand
It's enough when I say so.
And maybe, some things are that simple.
*
**Hold me. Whatever lies beyond this morning
is a little later on.
Regardless of warnings the future doesn't scare me at all.
Nothing's like before.
*
**
**
Hikari:
Donna toki datte
Tada hitori de
Unmei wasurete
Ikite kita no ni
Totsuzen no hikari no naka me ga sameru
Mayonaka ni
Shizuka ni degushi ni tatte
Kurayami ni hikari o ute
Imadoki yakusoku nante fuan ni saseru dake kana
Negai o kuchi ni shitai dake sa
Kazoku ni mo shoukai suru yo
Kitto umaku iku yo
Donna toki datte
Zutto futari de
Donna toki datte
Soba ni iru kara
Kimi to iu hikari ga watshi o mitsukeru
Mayonaka ni
Urasai (When you turn my way) toori ni haitte
Unmei (Take it all the way) no maken o tore
Sakiyomi no shisugi nante imi no nai koto wa yamete
Kyou wa oishii mono o tabeyou yo
Mirai wa zutto saki da yo
Boku ni mo wakaranai
Kansei sasenaide
Motto yokushite
WAN SHIIN zutsu totte
Ikeba ii kara
Kimi to iu hikari ga watashi no SHINARIO
Utsushidasu
Motto hanasou yo
Mokuzen no ashita no koto mo
TEREBI keshite
Watashi no koto dake o miteite yo
Donna ni yokuttatte
Shinji kirenai ne
Sonna toki datte
Soba ni iru kara
Kimi to iu hikari ga watashi o mitsukeru
Mayonaka ni
Motto hanasou yo
Mokuzen no ashita no koto mo
TEREBI keshite
Watashi no koto dake o miteite yo
Translation:
No matter what the time
I'm just alone
Destiny forgotten,
Even though I kept going.
Inside of the sudden light I awaken
In the middle of the night.
Quietly,
Stand in the exit way,
And, in the pitch-black, take the light.
And about the recent promises,
Is it just that I'm so anxious?
A wish that's wanting to be said, but shall be repressed
I'll introduce my family,
You'll surely get along well.
No matter what the time
We'll always be together
No matter what the time
Because you're by my side
The light known as "You" finds me,
In the middle of the night.
Enter a noisy street.
And put on the mask of destiny.
Thinking too much about the future.
Stopping things that have no meaning.
Today I'll eat delicious things.
The future is always before us,
Even I don't know it.
It's not necessary to go right to the end,
Just keep going.
It's okay if the scenes
Go on one by one.
The light known as "you"
reflects my scenario.
Let's talk more,
And about the tomorrow that's before your very eyes.
Turn off the television,
And look only at me.
No matter how well we're doing
I don't believe in us completely.
But at those sort of times,
Because' you're by my side,
The light known as "you" finds me,
In the middle of the night.
Let's talk more,
And about the tomorrow that's before your very eyes.
Turn off the television,
And look only at me.
Uploaded both songs to my website.
Simple and Clean. MP3. 4.58 MB. (http://cevk.com/downloads/audio/UtadaHikaru-SimpleandClean.mp3)
Hikari. MP3. 4.62 MB. (http://cevk.com/downloads/audio/UtadaHikaru-Hikari.mp3)
you jut asked Eric about his favorite things
you made his day a lil bt less dark
Quote from: Malaulyou jut asked Eric about his favorite things
you made his day a lil bt less dark
Until I just spent two hours sitting out in the roasting hot Florida Sun in my Jeep.
::pops joy balloon::
Japanese Pop sucks ass.
Quote from: LMNO::pops joy balloon::
Japanese Pop sucks ass.
That just goes to show you're anouther unenlightened Fat Citian Heathen.
Quote from: Great Teacher LargoQuote from: LMNO::pops joy balloon::
Japanese Pop sucks ass.
That just goes to show you're anouther unenlightened Fat Citian Heathen.
Again with the self-referential comments...
I don't know why you're limiting yourself like that.
you could have just said that Japanese music sucks ass.
8)
Nah.
-Taiko drums.
-The Boredoms.
-Shonen knife.
-Cowpers.
-Guitar Wolf.
The Pillows.
No.
Because "Please Mr. Lostman" sucked.
Quote from: LMNOBecause "Please Mr. Lostman" sucked.
So you're going to set them aside for all time in the face of all their other mangi opi because of one feces?
Quite simply, yes.
Quote from: LMNOQuite simply, yes.
I salute you, sir.
Quote from: LMNONah.
-Taiko drums.
-The Boredoms.
-Shonen knife.
-Cowpers.
-Guitar Wolf.
seriously?
I'm of the opinion that we probably oughtta nuke those fuckers again for Shonen Knife.
You're probably not a fan of The Shaggs, then.
I'm not familiar with them, but if they sound like Shonen Knife, then no.
8)
Well, at least go along with the Boredoms, or Guitar Wolf.
again, not familiar, but I'll take your word for it. I would hope that somebody with the chutzpah to call themselves Guitar Wolf would live up to the name.
8)
http://www.guitarwolf.net/
does Dokken's "Beast From The East" live album count as Japanese music?
Quote from: The Open Bardoes Dokken count as music?
absolutely not.
i think my fetish for japan and japanese stuff clouds my judgment as i've listened to the songs 4 or 5 times now.
my fetish for japanese stuff pretty much only includes dirty schoolgirls.
oh, and streetbikes.
Quote from: Hate Factorymy fetish for japanese stuff pretty much only includes dirty schoolgirls.
oh, and streetbikes.
Melt banana? Takeshi Kitano? Anime? Tentacle hentai? Fashion? Photographers?
nope.
just dirty schoolgirls and streetbikes.
weirdo.
i'll bet you don't like courtney love or good charlotte too!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111|3443254325r234r5231||cvn
there can't be more than a dozen people on the face of the planet who hate Good Charlotte more than I do.
there probably isn't anyone who hates Courtney Love more than I do.
but you already knew all that.
Quote from: Hate Factorythere can't be more than a dozen people on the face of the planet who hate Good Charlotte more than I do.
there probably isn't anyone who hates Courtney Love more than I do.
but you already knew all that.
I may hate Courtney Love more than you do.
possible, but extremely difficult.
Quote from: Se?±or Misteriosopossible, but extremely difficult.
Not for me. hatred for her is sort of bred into me.
yeah.
but I used to live with one of the Mentors. I know about her and the things she's done.
Quote from: Se?±or Misteriosoyeah.
but I used to live with one of the Mentors. I know about her and the things she's done.
Well...
In that case...
::gives knife to Misterioso::
Be my guest and put that plague down.
Mmm... Takeshi Kitano...
Quote from: nurbldoffMmm... Takeshi Kitano...
GET THE FUCK OUT, ERIC!
Quote from: AnonymousQuote from: nurbldoffMmm... Takeshi Kitano...
GET THE FUCK OUT, ERIC!
Whoa!
That was deep.
Sounded almost like Crowley.
I'm still severly disturbed by the japs. It's not enough that their male anime characters have to look like chicks, but do they really think that their musicians need to as well? Ladies and gentlemen, I present you with the most disturbing thing you will ever see... a jap "guy" by the name...... Hide.
(http://www.saihitei.net/img/x-hide.jpg)
That's hot.
And can we move beyond World War Two rhetoric like "Japs"? What's next, complaining about the lazy coons not picking our watermelon fast enough and the lazy wetbacks stealing our jobs?
There's some good Japanese music, for example, The Pillows and Yoko Kanno. And I'm partial to PuffyAmiUmi, but I'm probably alone in this.
He's kind of cute.
But, does he play guitar well?
plays pretty good. he would sound better if he wasn't so obsessed with using only mockingbirds.
I'd hit it.
Quote from: Rev Thwackplays pretty good. he would sound better if he wasn't so obsessed with using only mockingbirds.
I wouldn't wipe my ass with a BC Rich, let alone play one on stage.
Ibanez is the only way to go.
Quote from: AnonymousQuote from: nurbldoffMmm... Takeshi Kitano...
GET THE FUCK OUT, ERIC!
Who's "Eric"? And who are you?
Quote from: nurbldoffQuote from: AnonymousQuote from: nurbldoffMmm... Takeshi Kitano...
GET THE FUCK OUT, ERIC!
Who's "Eric"? And who are you?
Eric = Great Teacher Largo = A emo pain in the arse = Japanophile.
Quote from: ScribeQuote from: nurbldoffQuote from: AnonymousQuote from: nurbldoffMmm... Takeshi Kitano...
GET THE FUCK OUT, ERIC!
Who's "Eric"? And who are you?
Eric = Great Teacher Largo = A emo pain in the arse = Japanophile.
wouldn't be srurpised if it is.
there's already a guy named nurbldoff here.
He said he forgot his password or something. And is trapped in a lab for the next 2 weeks, I think.
Quote from: Rev Thwackplays pretty good. he would sound better if he wasn't so obsessed with using only mockingbirds.
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