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I can't believe someone would just give them away if they weren't throwing it away. To me the biggest detraction seems to be that you have to go online to a website and type in the code. If you're going to have to type a code into a website why would someone choose this one over pepsi.com or whatever? The only people I could see doing this are the 55+ crowd who may or may not listen to MP3s. Wtf do i know though.
Not everyone uses an ipod, so it really isn't that far fetched - but thanks for the support!
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Last year I got 60 codes. It was very thoughtful for posters to take their time to send me those. It was a nice distraction shopping for some music as I just started doing the whole iTunes/MP3 thing.
I have received 1 so far and if that is all I get - I'll be equally thankful for that one. I presume with the exploding popularity of the ipod that many people probably have closer friends than me to give the codes to this year as opposed to last year. Still, if there are some out there that are going unused - I might as well ask...
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I did this last year and quite a few Pepsi drinkers offered their iTunes codes to me instead of throwing them away.... Thank you very much!
They are running the promotion again, so I thought I would ask again for unused codes. If you have them and don't want them - I would love a chance to use them.
Please PM any codes you may have. TIA!
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and have to take a stojan, so I head in the bathroom, and see a couple mags on the back of the toilet. "Great, reading material" I think since I hadn't brought any with me. Pick one up, it's a Playboy. Wooo.... Pick the other one up, it's a Penthouse. I gotta schedule more service calls there.
sue for harrassment and retire like a REAL American...
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I would love to have that back, but I would need new photos and a lot of help with photoshop getting them in the right format. It can be very tedious outlining everyone and we would really need about 50-100 of them, so that they don't get too repetitive.
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back to the original topic - I changed it to WM.
I'm open to other suggestions, if not WM.
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it's an artifact from switching servers. I just haven't had time to switch it back.
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-- Dolphins Watching Cuts Closely --
The Palm Beach Post reports Miami will be watching closely to see if RB Shaun Alexander (Seattle) or RB Edgerrin James (Indianapolis) receive franchise designations, with the deadline at 4 p.m. today. If they're not tagged, they become unrestricted free agents.
WOOOOOOOW! If the Colts and Seahawks decline to tag their Running Backs, do you really think the Fins would take a run at them? I just can't imagine.
They better watch closely because if either of those guys gets cut - it just might get overlooked....
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The problem with thin mints is they're exactly the same as Keebler Grasshoppers.
http://i2.peapod.com/c/HG/HGZYT.jpg
So why bother buying them from the Girl Scouts?
I like the coconut ones with chocolate.
CW
because you are supporting the girl scouts?
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that's interesting... you didn't know it was off, but yet you love it? Seems to me that if you didn't notice, it probably wasn't that big of a deal in the 1st place. <shrug>
However, guest posting is like politics - perception is reality.
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unless you do something illegal and strip the DRM - all songs cease to play when your monthly sub is cancelled. Basically, you are renting.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/09/pl..._dmca_takedown/
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050106-4508.html
I'm not blaming Apple on this at all; their DRM is very consumer friendly and is pretty easy to circumvent from what I've read. In my opinion, the MPAA is the group that's forcing them to use it to "protect their assets."
The DCMA has nothing to do with "trafficking" from what I've read. That's why programs like DVDXCopy have been shut down - it defeats copy protection. Do a search for DCMA and garage door opener for some fun. Or DCMA and Sony and marker.
Here's a great article:
http://fury.com/article/1318.php
Expect DRM to get even more stringent in the near future.
CW
notice that they talk about 100% perfect copies....
In iTunes - I can choose to rip my protected songs into an unprotected format. That is allowed as per the agreement between Apple and the music companies. The DRM is stripped through the legal means of burning an audio CD.
I do not believe there is a restriction in re-ripping that CD, since the sound quality would be poor. Of course, if you re-ripped it and thene mass distributed it - then you would still be liable.
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The legal difference is that a CD doesn't have any copy protection. Therefore, since I'm not breaking any copy protection, I'm not in violation of the DMCA.
With a song downloaded from iTunes, there is DRM on it, so by circumventing the DRM, I'm in violation of the DMCA.
Not that I agree with it -- the DMCA is a peice of crap that was hurried through by lawmakers who didn't know what they were talking about. But tecnically, there ya go.
CW
Incorrect.
Songs from iTunes can be transferred to a music CD - and thereby stripping the DRM - with only the small limitation that the same exact playlist can only be recorded 7 times. That is hardly onerous.
If you wanted to re-encode that to play on a separate device - there is no problem with that either, other than the obvious quality loss. The DCMA is about *trafficking* in protected files, as stated in the regulation you posted.
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Thank you.
I wanted Bledsoe gone as much as anyone, but I'm not willing to make up history to justify it. Whatever the truth of King's claim, he's guilty of shoddy reasearch. Bills defended the west goal at the start, and Pitt scored most of their points going east - west (against the wind). There may be an excuse for King, as NFL Gamebook is also wrong in its account of which goal Pitt defended in the 2nd half.
Questions about which goal to defend in Buffalo is always a big decision for coaches, and I always had a beef with Gregg W in not recognizing the wind patterns and having Bills heading westward in 4Qs.
Maybe King had a nugget of truth in there somewhere, but his case would have been aided if he got the basic facts of the story straight.
how do you remember this stuff?
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"Hope Elizabeth May Hoffman born 17 Feb 05 at 8:34pm, weighing in at 8lbs, 2oz, and she is 21.5 in long. Both Mom and Baby are doing wonderfully. Hope started nursing less than an hour after birth. Angelique started having contractions at about 3am, and we were at the hospital by about 6 am. It was a long day, but Angelique and Hope both did great. Talk to you all soon and thanks for the thoughts and prayers."
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No, they are being read here by the administrators. Not "could". "Are".
And frankly, SDS is within his rights doing so, since it's his friggin' database. In fact, I'd wager he pretty much has to, just to keep his ass protected (even if PM's are "private", they're not so private that if someone's advocating criminal activity in them, SDS wouldn't get in trouble.) So he reads PM's...big deal.
But what he does with that information...well, that's a whole 'nother story. Say, if he uses it to break into other private systems, or screw people over out of pure egomaniacal spite...
Well, if you are keeping track of things you are wrong about - you can add this to the list.
I'll leave the inappropriate aspect of this thread aside and just address the innuendo.
1. Admins do not read PMs. Never have, never will.
2. There is no admin function to actually do this. The only way for the admins to make sense of the PM's is to log-in as the poster. This is impossible since all the passwords are one-way encrypted. (i.e. there is no "de-encrypter" available.) So, I cannot steal passwords.
3. Only 3 people have access to the raw dB - me, mcjeff (who helped me with some configuration files last fall), and our hosting company. NG does not have this access.
4. To access the PM's - I would have to do the following:
a. make a back-up of the dB and download the file.
b. decompress this (the dB that was at our last server expanded into a 500 MB text file).
c. Pour through 500,000 lines of MYSQL insert statements.
d. All posts and PM's have their subject line and message separated into separate tables, so you only have 1/2 the info per one line of code.
e. I would then have to memorize the dB scheme to know that column A was the recipient and column G was the sender.
f. in those columns are member numbers - not names. I would then have to lookup or memorize everyone's member number in an attempt to follow a message.
g. within that mysql insert statement - everything is contained on a single line, complete with raw html/bbc code. That would make for easy reading as I scroll to the right reading code from member 34 to member 4123.
h. to find out the date of sent messages - I would need to have handy a unix time converter as all dates are stored in that format.
I looked through the old dB ONCE - for AKC and his Foxboro Mike bet - and it was a huge waste of time. I spent an hour and half searching for that friggin' bet. If it wasn't AKC (or perhaps a handful of others) - I would have said no. In fact, I would never do it again and I have had requests to do so. It nearly made my eyes bleed.
That is just the mechanics of it.
The other half would be why I would want to do that in the 1st place. I barely read 5% of what is posted here and I barely have time to answer my OWN PM's. Anyone who has PM'd me in the past knows about my lack of response time. So, with a fairly new job, a house, a 4 year old and a 3 month old - if there someone in this thread that actually thinks I have the time and inclination to read through coded messages, w/o subject lines from some member number to another member number they are delusional.
So, you are correct in the fact that I COULD read PM's. However, due to the dB scheme and the inherent board functions - it makes completely impractical for anyone other than a UNIX guru or a single person to actually pull it off. I am neither.
If anyone has concerns about this then PM me.
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Dave,
do you still have that pic of you and TH and his freakishly small hands?
[OT] Pepsi iTunes bottle cap codes
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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look for the yellow caps!