Sick amount of disk space

[Richard Creager]

The ultimate internet archive!
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70944-0.html
Man, the amount of comedy gold they must have, I wonder if they have all of my best works.

[Jeenyuss]

I didn't read it, what was the summary of the article?

[Subjugation]

In 2003 AT&T built "secret rooms" hidden deep in the bowels of its central offices in various cities, housing computer gear for a government spy operation which taps into the company's popular WorldNet service and the entire internet. These installations enable the government to look at every individual message on the internet and analyze exactly what people are doing. Documents showing the hardwire installation in San Francisco suggest that there are similar locations being installed in numerous other cities.

That's what he was referring to. It's like the ultimate wayback machine, but creepier.

[Doc Flabby]

I wonder if they will get sued by the RIAA

I mean someones gonna have sent some mp3s sometime :P

[Blood]

i do not know a single person who wouldn't have at least downloaded and shared mp3s, even everyone who is otherwise challenged when it comes to computers. most of the people I know download everything from games to movies and tv-shows.

[Doc Flabby]

i do not know a single person who wouldn't have at least downloaded and shared mp3s, even everyone who is otherwise challenged when it comes to computers. most of the people I know download everything from games to movies and tv-shows.

exactly so the US goverment has taken billions of illegal (by there own laws) copies of these videos/music/etc.

[Mr. Peanuts]

Blood is absolutely right, I have friends who are basically quite computer illiterate yet download on Limewire, KaZaA lite and even some use Torrents.

You have to remember that legislative enforcement would cost the government a lot of time and if they don't win their case, a heck of a lot of money.

[Richard Creager]

But they can make it all back by selling back the copies of people's literary works (trolling accomplishments son, trolling accomplishments) and the like that they have from the vast encompassment of this world wide wab.

[Doc Flabby]

I think my point got lost - i was saying the RIAA could end up suing the us goverment because they are "pirating" music :P

[DoTheFandango]

I thought we were going to brag.

Free Space:
467.8 GB

Total Space:
509.0 GB

[Richard Creager]

I thought we were going to brag.

Free Space:
467.8 GB

Total Space:
509.0 GB

This is about bragging, think about the numbers those guys have got to be pushing at those places and the main place they gather all the stuff the seperate offices get.

It's like a literal archive of the entire internet since 03, if you ask me, I think they're a bit nuts for even trying to record something so big, it really reminds me of this:

[Subjugation]

I think my point got lost - i was saying the RIAA could end up suing the us goverment because they are "pirating" music :P

Not at all, because this government doesn't obey laws, they change them so they can't be held accountable. "National Security" is a large umbrella, if you know what I mean.

Let me put it this way, the government says that they're not breaking any laws by doing the wiretaps in the first place. However, most reasonable people would agrue the US constitution prohibits the kinds of invasions of privacy that the gov't is now doing. However, if the government changes a law here, a law there (eg: Patriot Act), they are no longer required to go through the proper channels (a court order).

[Squeezer]

Where the fuck is George Fucking Orwell when we need him?

[DoTheFandango]

On January 21, 1950, Orwell — aged 46 — died of pulmonary tuberculosis. He wanted to be buried “according to the rites of the Church of England”. As he did not belong to any parish, two of his friends arranged for a funeral at Christ Church which was near Regents Park. Malcolm Muggeridge recalled that the Vicar was “excessively parsonical”. The service by all accounts was a “melancholy” affair. Thanks to David Astor's influence, Orwell was buried as he wished in a “country churchyard”, in an Oxfordshire village where the Astors had an estate. As Orwell requested he is buried under his own name:

HERE LIES
ERIC ARTHUR BLAIR
BORN JUNE 25TH 1903
DIED JANUARY 21ST 1950

[Squeezer]

i know he's dead you prick, it's a figure of speech.

And we share the last name. Oh happy days! :flowers: