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My PC was booting fine, before I removed the Bios battery. But now it awaits input and doesn't boot to Vista. But even, if it would boot to vista, I have no input, so I can't start tools, which check my ports. And like I said the reason it won't boot and waits for input is because the CMOS is gone. It doesn't know where to find anything. Like for one where the hard drive is with the OS on it. Try and see if there is a flash for your bios on a website that makes the bios on it. You might be able to get the CMOS back that way. Booting up through a floopy with the flash on there.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, unveiled plans on Monday to film its gun sales in the United States and create a computerized log of purchases in a bid to stop guns falling into the wrong hands. Wal-Mart, which is the largest seller of firearms in the United States, agreed a 10-point code, which also includes rigid inventory controls, with a bipartisan coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns led by New York's Michael Bloomberg. The retailer said it will develop a first-of-its-kind computerized crime gun trace log that will flag purchases by customers who have previously bought guns later recovered in crimes. "Wal-Mart currently uses a strong point of sale system," said J.P. Suarez, senior vice president and chief compliance officer of Wal-Mart. "This code is a way for us to fine-tune the things we're already doing and further strengthen our standards. We hope other retailers will join us." The Responsible Firearms Retailer Partnership is designed to strengthen the points in the gun purchasing system that criminals have exploited in the past, Wal-Mart and the Mayors Against Illegal Guns said. According to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, 46 percent of its criminal gun trafficking investigations involved cases in which someone who is not legally allowed to purchase a firearm does so through the use of a proxy, known as a straw buyer. Ok this might stop a couple guns sales but really do they think this is going to really curb gun violence? Give me a break it starts with education of guns and of respect for life in general. I give props for Wal-Mart and their efforts but I don't really see much happening from this. Criminals will always find a way to buy and get guns. Don't take them away from the everyday gun owner.\ Source HERE

Thirty miles west of the Taj Mahal, on the road to the pink city of Jaipur, tourists on buses pass a sight that the guide books rarely mention. A mile beyond the town of Bharatpur in Rajasthan, where the highway is being widened to four lanes, traffic slows down for roadworks. But the workmen who lounge by their bulldozers have their eyes on something else - a cluster of makeshift shelters where girls, several under 18 and at least two younger than 15, can be seen strolling or sitting, in view of the dusty carriageway. Tonight, one girl in particular is attracting attention as she sits on a stool by a fire so that she can be seen by passing vehicles. Her heavily made-up, striking face and beautiful pink sari make her look as if she were on her way to a party. But the truth is different. Suli, 14, is a virgin and a bidding war is being held for the right to be the first to sleep with her. The collection of shelters where she lives houses 59 families, all members of the Bedia tribe, which has a long tradition of caste-based prostitution. Girls born here become prostitutes in a rite of passage into "adulthood" as routine as marriage is to the rest of Indian society. The "first time" is a valued commodity for which the middle-class businessmen who pass this way are prepared to pay a premium. The normal rate is 100 rupees (£1.30) but a virgin is sold to the highest bidder for anything over 20,000 rupees. If she is very pretty, the community would hope to get up to 40,000 rupees. For this, the man can have access to the girl for as long as he likes - several hours, days, or even weeks. When he tires of her, there is a celebration. Because it is considered unlucky for a girl to keep the money from her first time, it is spent instead on an extravagant party. Jewellery is bought for her and for her relatives, goats are slaughtered and alcohol runs freely. There is dancing, and offerings are made to the gods. Once a girl has lost her virginity she cannot marry. The choice has been made and the community celebrates it - this is her non-wedding night. Suli said she was happy to enter the trade. "I chose it," she said, though she admitted being "a little" frightened. "I do not know how it is going to be. I know other girls who are in the trade but I have not asked them how it is." She claimed it did not matter what the man looked like. "I will go with whoever pays the highest price," she said, before running off as her mother called her for supper. Nita, a virgin in the hut next door, has four sisters, all prostitutes. She wears jeans and a skimpy top, and giggles a lot. One sister boasts that as Nita is particularly pretty, they hope to get 40,000 rupees (£600). "We have been offered 25,000, but it is not enough." Nita is only 13 but has opted to follow her sisters into the trade. It is her own "choice", because, she giggled, "I won't have to do any housework." But in avoiding making chapatis, Nita has signed up to a life in which she will deal with 20 to 30 clients per day, until she reaches her forties. After that, when she is no longer considered desirable, she will depend on any children she may have for support. Two of her sisters, Ritu, 35, and Manju, 25, have built one of the few stone houses in their village, for which they paid the equivalent of £14,600, and are proud of their success. "There was a lot of poverty, we had nothing to eat," said Manju. "What you see now has come with hard work." They support 50 family members - 35 children and 15 adults. Elsewhere in India, the birth of a boy is celebrated with dowries paid by the bride's family, one of the reasons given for the high abortion rate for female foetuses. But in the villages around Bharatpur there is a shortage of girls to marry, and the custom is for the boy's family to pay the girl's family a large lump sum before the wedding can take place. Possibly because the money comes from prostitution, and because any granddaughters will be destined for the trade, the sums are high. Ritu and Manju paid for four of their five brothers to marry, and now support their sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews. They earn between 1,000 and 1,500 rupees a day. It was more before the government knocked down their shelters to make room for the highway. "We need a shelter by the road," they said. "Tell the government to build us somewhere we can work. We used to have 25 or 30 clients a day, now the average is 10 or 15." They said they were able to keep their rates up because they could provide a nice room and running water for their clients, who are mostly married businessmen from Agra. The prevalence of caste-based prostitution in certain tribes in the region - the Bawaria, Nuts, Bedias, Kanjars and Sansis - came to light after a raid on a brothel in Delhi. Now an attempt is being made to break the cycle by which the girls of each generation enter the trade. Dr KK Mukerjee, a social work professor at the University of Delhi, who was commissioned by the government to research the scope of prostitution, has founded a group, known as GNK. Supported by Plan International, a child-centred community development agency, the organisation has set up a hostel to look after prostitutes' children. Many of the women said they did not wish their daughters to follow them into the trade. Ritu and Manju each have a daughter, whose fathers were clients. "My daughter will get educated, and not enter this profession," said Ritu. "I have seen what it is like. I don't want it for her." A young boy at the hostel told proudly how he had persuaded his grandmother not to push his aunt into prostitution. "My grandmother said that she would kill herself if my aunt did not go into the trade and earn money," he said. "But I persuaded her, and my aunt got married." This is so sad. The things that go on that most people don't even realize. The things that people have to do to survive and what they will do. This happens in a lot more places then you imagine. The stupid part to me is the first time she don't even get to keep the money but has to spend it on a big party to celebrate it and then can't even marry later. Source HERE

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Have you been Rick Rolled yet? If you have, you join the ranks of as many as 9 million people who have been hit by this Internet phenomenon, in which unsuspecting Web surfers get tricked into watching one-hit-wonder Rick Astley's one hit, "Never Gonna Give You Up." New York Mets' Fans were surprised when Rick Astley's 1980's song "Never Gonna Give You Up" was played as one of the nominees for the team's theme song. The average Rick Rolling victim is duped by a friend (or enemy, depending on your aversion to catchy 80s tunes) who sends him or her a link to the song under the guise of something relevant — the latest Lindsay Lohan video, or General Petreaus' recent testimony. What comes up instead is a link to the Astley video, spandex-wearing backup dancers included. The latest target? The New York Mets. Internet Gag Hits a Homerun When the Mets decided to pick a new theme song to be played during the 8th inning of their games, the team's marketing department decided to let fans vote for their favorite tune. And while choices included classics like Jon Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" and Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline," it was Astley's song that racked in the most votes. Millions, in fact. "Rick Astley's song was voted No. 1," said Jay Horowitz, a spokesperson for the Mets. "There were over five million votes for the song." Nobody is quite sure who started the Rick Rolling trend, but the movement grew after April Fool's Day, when YouTube.com disguised links on their homepage to direct viewers to the video. In the vote for a Mets theme song, YouTube, along with sites like Fark.com and Digg.com, drew attention to fans who then flooded the Mets' Web sites with votes. Even so, Horowitz advises fans not to get too excited that the corny tune from the 80s will be the team's new song. The final decision will be made not only on the number of votes but also on audience reaction when the contenders are played at the team's first few home games. "If you're betting, I wouldn't bet on Astley," said Horowitz, who added that he found Rick Rolling to be "very funny … The song wasn't well received, people booed." This is funny as hell. What a laugh bet the players and management are not to happy about this. Full Story HERE

Nvidia CEO and co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang's jeremiad against Intel heralds future melees with the chip giant over computer graphics technology. Behind the sound and fury lurks Moore's Law. Most observers agree that the graphics processing unit (GPU) is gaining on the central processing unit (CPU) as the single most important piece of silicon inside the PC. "When you start looking at a PC today, the (central) processor means less and less," according to Jim McGregor, an analyst at In-Stat. The GPU is simply becoming a better way for PC makers to differentiate in a landscape dominated by Intel CPUs, he said. The question is, who is going to be the largest provider of that differentiation and what form will it take? The pressure on Nvidia--expressed by Huang on Thursday at an analyst meeting--is understandable, as the company seeks to fend off both Intel and AMD, who are increasingly focused on graphics, said McGregor. "Nvidia faces serious challenges. One of their big customers (AMD) went out and acquired a competitor (ATI) and then (you have) Intel saying we're going into your territory." That has put Nvidia on edge. Intel, not surprisingly, is the biggest threat. "Intel is going to be as competitive as they can possibly be," said Dean McCarron, founder and principal of Mercury Research. "There is a pretty different vision between what Nvidia has and what Intel has about the future of the market. You seem to see a lot of pressure on some kind of integrated solution (from Intel). That is not compatible with a standalone graphics market, where Nvidia is the largest player." Huang sees his company doing battle not only with Intel but with a guiding principle put forward by one of the company's founders, Gordon Moore--that the number of transistors on a microprocessor would double every two years--as Intel continues to integrate more graphics silicon into its chipsets. "We can get integrated into anything. Integrated into a (chipset's) south bridge. If you're not good enough, then Moore's law is your enemy. Moore's law will stick you in some random chip. We get integrated into a speck of dust," Huang said at the meeting. Here he was saying that if Nvidia doesn't stay well ahead of Intel--where it is now--the CPU giant will simply integrate the graphics technology into its own silicon and Nvidia will become irrelevant. Huang is confident his company can maintain its lead. "GPU technology is far, far ahead of integrated graphics," he said. "We can innovate our way forward. The world already has computing companies that make processors for everybody. I'm supposed to add the secret ingredient that differentiates it for the few. Now the few that I'm talking about happens to be hundreds of millions of people. I'm OK with that." Intel sees a future where it is a bigger graphics player at the high end of the market. At the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai earlier this month, Senior Intel VP Patrick Gelsinger spelled out Intel's vision: ray tracing-based rendering technologies that can be used in high-end gaming, an Nvidia stronghold. "An intro of these capabilities into mainstream gaming we believe is possible in the future," Gelsinger said. Another prong of Intel's strategy is to offer a graphics platform, code-named Larrabee, based on the long-standing x86 instruction set. Referring to a question from the audience about Intel's Larrabee chip at the analyst meeting on Thursday, Huang responded: "The question from the gentleman is we haven't really talked about Larrabee and is he opening up a can of worms. Well, we're going to open up a can of whoop-ass in a little bit," Huang said, referring to future technology that Nvidia is working on. Bravado aside, to effectively do battle with a circa-2009 Intel that excels in both central and graphics processing and AMD-ATI, Nvidia must seek new partners. It is turning to one of the only other--aside from Intel and AMD--x86 processor suppliers to build an alternative PC platform. Billed as "The World's Most Affordable Vista Premium PC," the sub-$45 processing platform will combine Via's Isaiah processor with an integrated Nvidia graphics chipset. "Supporting Via's new CPU is not a big leap for them. And, it's a fantastic vote of confidence for Via because Nvidia wouldn't commit the engineering talent to it if Nvidia didn't believe the processor had a big opportunity," according to Jon Peddie of Jon Peddie Research. Nvidia, as it prepares for a long, grueling fight with Intel, got some solace on Friday from a report issued by Doug Freedman of American Technology Research itemizing why Nvidia may be in a better position than casual observers believe. These include: • Nvidia remains the No. 1 graphics supplier as up to 73 million Intel integrated Graphics Processors (IGPs) are unused in systems due to "double-attach" with a Nvidia solution. (Note: Market share calculations from researchers such as Mercury Research and Jon Peddie Research show Intel as the No. 1 graphics supplier--ed.) • Intel projects strong performance gains in IGP roadmap (10x performance in 2010), but from a very low performance base. 66 percent of top selling games fail or have issues in current IGP solutions. • Intel multicores do not handle tasks better than discrete GPUs, but they are complementary in a heterogeneous computing environment. • Integration of IGP with CPU does not present a threat, but may increase double-attach (adding a graphics card to a system with an existing integrated graphics chip) opportunities for Nvidia as it continues to add differentiated features for the few high-end graphics, gamer customers. I found this a very good read. Nvidia is on top now but if Intel does continue on the pace it has in CPU technology Nvidia could be a thing of the past in time. Motherboard will just have graphic onboard. It could happen. Source HERE

Rock fans across the country who can brave the heat will have ample opportunities to see acts like Jack Johnson, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and the Raconteurs take the stage in an array of unconventional settings as part of the concert industry’s increasing wager on summer music festivals. Faced with an audience that has been atomized by the dizzying music choices available online, concert promoters are straining to book diverse shows in whatever open space is available, be it a ranch in Michigan, a soccer field in Colorado or a racetrack in Maryland. In a slumping music business such events pack a box office punch: the top five American festivals generated a combined $60 million in ticket sales last year, according to Billboard magazine’s estimates. At least four new festivals will make their debuts this summer, raising the total to more than a dozen. Various concert promoters are already warning of the dangers of oversaturation, and point to the clutch of stars headlining multiple festivals. The most extreme case: Jack Johnson, the laid-back singer-songwriter who has released the top-selling album of the year so far, is booked for at least five festivals, including two on the second weekend in August: the inaugural All Points West event in Jersey City and the Virgin Mobile Festival in Baltimore. The risk of overlapping talent lineups means that each promoter must try to suffuse his event with a distinct flair. In Michigan, where organizers of the first Rothbury festival (July 3 to 6) have booked the Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer and Snoop Dogg, fans can attend yoga sessions or sit in on a discussion of energy independence with a Stanford professor. But there is no guarantee that all the events will survive. Promoters of a planned festival in Vineland, N.J., canceled it to avoid direct competition with All Points West. Sales at some of the new events have been uneven, promoters say. The Mile High Music Festival in Denver (July 19 and 20), featuring the Dave Matthews Band and John Mayer, is regarded as a breakout hit; the outlook for All Points West, featuring Radiohead for two nights and Mr. Johnson on the third, is more uncertain, based on early ticket sales. The established festivals do not appear to be suffering much. Lollapalooza, which was reimagined as a two-day festival in the lakeside Grant Park in Chicago in 2005 after sputtering as a touring attraction, is seen as an especially strong draw this year (Aug. 1 to 3), with Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine and Kanye West among the acts. Charlie Walker, a partner in C3 Presents, Lollapalooza’s promoter, said sales were roughly 15 percent ahead of last year, with three-day tickets selling for $175 to $205. “It’s a big marketplace,” he said. “We’ve got a little ways to go before we see any saturation.” The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which began in 1999 at a polo field in the desert two hours from Los Angeles, stunned fans this week by adding Prince to a lineup that had been branded as underwhelming. (The event’s previously announced headliners included Roger Waters, Portishead and Mr. Johnson). Organizers of the festival, which runs from April 25 to 27 and customarily draws as many as 60,000 people a day, said before the Prince announcement that they were not concerned that it had not yet sold out. Last year’s edition sold out in February, mainly because of its booking of a reunited Rage Against the Machine, an event that Coachella’s promoter, Paul Tollett, called “an anomaly.” All the festivals, however, are coping with another X factor: whether the faltering economy will dampen ticket sales. That has not stopped organizers from trying to woo well-heeled fans and corporate clients. Lollapalooza offers private cabanas, with an all-day buffet, for $25,000 and up for parties of 20 or more. Bonnaroo, held on several hundred acres of Tennessee farmland, where fans camp for the weekend (June 12 to 15), is marketing V.I.P. passes, which include access to a private prefestival party and special restroom and shower facilities, for $1,169.50 per pair. (Scheduled bands include Pearl Jam and Metallica.) In general, rock festivals have built their reputations by offering fans the chance to pack months of club crawling into one weekend and discover new favorites. But some talent managers caution against the idea that emerging acts can build their names through playing the full complement of festivals, where artist sets are sometimes abbreviated, and fans can be distracted. Mike Martinovich, who manages the rock group My Morning Jacket, said the band had agreed to play the two most established festivals, Coachella and Bonnaroo, and turned down other offers to keep from seeming like too much of a commodity. “Doing a whole tour of festivals would be disastrous,” he said. And some promoters worry that similar talent lineups will limit the festivals’ collective appeal. Mr. Tollett said the fear was “that it could become homogenized, and everyone have the same bill and the same sort of feel at the festival.” “If every one of them is just a McFranchise,” he added, “there’s a specialness that’ll be lost.” I agree that this year should be better then last. Though last year was fantastic I thought. The only thing I have though is the price of the tickets just keep going up. If it continues this way soon only the rich will get to attend the concerts. I know that most bands don't want this. Because after all the reason to tour is for the love of playing live in front of all your adoring fans. If was not for us fans the bands would have no income. Also these prices for VIP tickets is really getting out of hand. I have bought a few in my time. Use to be $150 a ticket and last I bought was $300 a ticket for Megadeth but hell now they go for over a Grand and there is no way in hell I am paying that. Get your heads out of the clouds Musicians and bring it back to reality. Source HERE

Ya that is if you accidentally change you CMOS settings. But if you pull the battery and leave it out for any length of time all is lost. Backup and all.

When you swing for the fences it is not always easy to hold on to the bat. Things happen and it is a well known fact at most ballgames. There are signs posted that say be alert and watch for flying objects.

Well since you are living the life sorta like in the hit tv series Threes Company..except one of the women is your actual girlfriend. But just think what a eposide this would have made for the tv series. Jack comes home to have Janet and Chrissy watching porn...say some John Holmes stuff....lol. What a hit that would have been.

Old rockers give new meaning to life and lyrics. The unlikely image of a 92-year-old war bride screaming The Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go" into a microphone backed by an elderly chorus has already captivated live audiences around the world. Now the film version is set to do the same. "Young at Heart" documents the group of U.S. senior citizens belting out songs by Sonic Youth through to James Brown. The small-town act has been running for some 25 years but international fame is now at hand. "A monster has been created," British filmmaker Stephen Walker joked in an interview about the film's rise. It started as a 2006 British television documentary and became an audience favorite at the Los Angeles and Sundance film festivals in 2007 and 2008. The opening sequence showing Eileen Hall, then 92, singing the 1982 hit from punk-rock group The Clash provided the inspiration for Walker when he first saw the group onstage in London in 2005. "I was totally blown away," Walker said. "It was an amazing way to look at this song afresh. It becomes a song about love and death and not about relationships." That led to Walker spending several months filming the group in Northampton, Massachusetts -- population 30,000 -- as members struggled to master lyrics from Sonic Youth's "Schizophrenia" to Allen Toussaint's "Yes We Can Can." The film opens across the United States this week and, after scoring distribution deals, will soon open in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Japan and Australia. Besides giving new meaning to lyrics from popular hits, the film is comedic and poignant as it explores friendship, old age and death. It also addresses a society fed up with a "youth-obsessed and celebrity culture," Walker said. "People are getting something extraordinary from this," Walker said about the standing ovations at preview screenings in the United States. "Somehow a nerve is being touched here." Bob Cilman, the group's musical director for the past 25 years, said the popularity showed that audiences wanted to see more elderly people in the public spotlight, on stage or in film. "Whether it is Australia, France or America, everybody is obsessed with youth and we fly in the face of that," said Cilman, 54. "People applaud it because (youth culture) is not what people want but it is what people are spoon-fed." Stan Goldman, 78, shown in the film singing a duet of James Brown's "I Feel Good," told Reuters the group did not seek rock star status. "In our wildest imaginations we never anticipated this," he said. Pat Linderme, 77, said the goal was simple -- to sing and be happy. "You get so caught up in your singing you forget your pain," she said. Man this is cool as hell. I hope when I get to the ripe old age of 92...if I live that long...that I can still belt out a note or two. Rock on all you oldsters out there. Source HERE

Employees of the Dr. Phil television show posted bail for a central Florida teenager jailed for taking part in a videotaped beating of another teen, a spokeswoman for the show's host confirmed Saturday. Staff members of the talk show helped one of eight teens facing charges in the case post bond this weekend, "Dr. Phil" McGraw's spokeswoman Terri Corigliano said in an e-mail. "We have helped guests and potential guests in the past when they need financial assistance to come on the show — assisting with clothing allowance, lost wages, accommodations, travel and necessities," Corigliano wrote. "In this case, certain staff members went beyond our guidelines (re the bail being paid)." "These staff members have been spoken to and our policies reiterated. In addition, we have decided not to go forward with the story as our guidelines have been compromised." The show's producers were in the process of booking guests for a program about the case, Corigliano wrote. Only two of the teens remained jailed late Saturday night, Polk County Sheriff's Office spokesman Scott Wilder said. The teens, whose ages range from 14 to 18, face kidnapping and misdemeanor battery charges. Three also face a felony charge of witness tampering. The state attorney's office says all will be tried as adults. They are accused of participating in a violent beating of another teenager, which was videotaped and has now been viewed widely on national television and the Internet. A judge on Friday set bails ranging from $30,000 to $37,000 for the teenagers. Can you say OOPS! So heads gonna roll on this one. Tsst tsst Dr. Phil guess you don't keep the staff on a short enough leash. Source HERE

J.K. Rowling has arrived at a Manhattan courthouse to testify about her lawsuit against a publisher. Rowling says her copyrights are being violated by a fan who plans to publish a Harry Potter encyclopedia. The showdown between Rowling and the fan, Steven Vander Ark, is scheduled to last most of the week in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Rowling is scheduled to testify Monday in a trial that is sure to generate huge interest among Harry Potter fans and the public. Her lawyer has arranged with the judge to have a private security guard for Rowling in the courtroom and for the author to spend breaks in the seclusion of a jury room — away from any die-hard Potter fans in attendance. The trial comes eight months after Rowling published her seventh and final book in the widely popular Harry Potter series. The books have been published in 64 languages, sold more than 400 million copies and spawned a film franchise that has pulled in $4.5 billion at the worldwide box office. Rowling brought the lawsuit last year against Vander Ark's publisher, RDR Books, to stop publication of the Harry Potter Lexicon. Rowling is actually a big fan of the Harry Potter Lexicon website that Vander Ark runs. But she draws the line when it comes to publishing the book and charging $24.95. She also says it fails to include any of the commentary and discussion that enrich the website and calls it "nothing more than a rearrangement" of her own material. One of her lawyers, Dan Shallman, on Friday told Judge Robert P. Patterson, who will hear the trial without a jury, that Rowling "feels like her words were stolen." He said the author felt so personally violated that she made her own comparisons between her seven best-selling novels and the lexicon and was ready to testify about the similarities in dozens of instances. David Saul Hammer, a lawyer for RDR Books, which plans to sell the lexicon, said the publisher will not challenge the claim by Rowling that much of the material in the lexicon infringed her copyrights. But the judge will decide whether the use of the material by the small Muskegon, Mich., publisher was legal because it was used for some greater purpose, such as a scholarly pursuit. In court papers filed prior to the trial, Rowling said she was "deeply troubled" by the book. "If RDR's position is accepted, it will undoubtedly have a significant, negative impact on the freedoms enjoyed by genuine fans on the Internet," she said. "Authors everywhere will be forced to protect their creations much more rigorously, which could mean denying well-meaning fans permission to pursue legitimate creative activities." In court papers, Vander Ark, 50, said he was a teacher and school librarian in Byron Center, Mich., before recently moving to London to begin a career as a writer. He said he joined an adult online discussion group devoted to the Harry Potter books in 1999 before launching his own website as a hobby a year later. Since then, neither Rowling nor her publisher had ever complained about anything on it, he said. In May 2004, he said, Rowling mentioned his website on her own, writing, "This is such a great site that I have been known to sneak into an Internet cafe while out writing and check a fact rather than go into a bookshop and buy a copy of Harry Potter (which is embarrassing). A website for the dangerously obsessive; my natural home." The website attracts about 1.5 million page views per month and contributions from people all over the world, Vander Ark said. He said he initially declined proposals to convert the website into an encyclopedia, in part because he believed until last August that in book form, it would represent a copyright violation. After Rowling released the final chapter in the Harry Potter series that same month, Vander Ark was contacted by an RDR Books employee, who told him that publication of the lexicon would not violate copyright law, he said. Still, to protect himself, Vander Ark said he insisted that RDR Books include a clause in his contract that the publisher would defend and pay any damages that might result from claims against him. He said it was decided that the lexicon would include sections from the Lexicon website that give descriptions and commentary on individual names, places, spells, and creatures from Harry Potter stories. In his court statement, Vander Ark still sounds like a fan, saying the lexicon "enhances the pleasure of readers of the Potter novels, and deepens their appreciation of Ms. Rowling's achievement." But the affection no longer seems a shared experience. In court Friday, Hammer said Rowling's lawyers did not want Vander Ark in the courtroom while Rowling testifies. Oh come on let the dude make some money. After all he put a lot of hard work into his site. Hell Rowling even likes the site. It is not like the money he makes off it is going to hurt her in the pocket book. Really the biatch needs to lighten up a bit. Source HERE

Man this is so true. Now we have so many channels it is unreal. And with the internet there is even more. You youngins have no idea how could you have it...lol.

Well the usb problem was most likely a driver problem with the converter at first. Vista is a pain about drivers and external devices. There is a possibility that you may have fried the usb ports but highly unlikely. Now the bigger problem. When you removed your battery from MB you lost your CMOS. Which is stored in the chipset of the MB. This is what tells your PC or MB where everything is. So guess what. Get another MB. There really is no way to restore the CMOS. You would have to input everything in your BIOS manually and that is not gonna happen. It is like when your battery dies in a MB samething happens. All I can suggest is getting another board. Hope this helps some. Sorry about your luck.

That's the animated movie right? So how you like it. I thought it was very good.

One step for the next thing and one leap for the next thing to come hopefully in my lifetime....lol.

I agree that record companies/labels are not needed anymore. But promoters are, you need a real good one to sell your stuff and get you the big gigs that really pay. Cause face it playing at big sold out shows is where the real money is. Just have to be careful when choosing a promoter cause they are those that like the RIAA will take you to the cleaners.

Hmmm today!

All it does is rain anymore here. The only plus side to this is the work I have got to help people waterproof their basements and homes. If it keeps up this pace I may just have to build a Ark. So anymore all I do lately is work and sleep. I did get to go out the other day and jam a little with some friends of mine at a local club. I am looking forward to the Children of Bodom concert on the 16th though. Will get good a drunk there for sure. I need it. Well that is about all for now. Expect I totaly hate Vista. Got a legit copy and it locked me out today. Said activation not valid but says it is activated. Anyway found out it is a known bug in Vista and Microsoft knows about it but has no 100% working fix for it. So now I lost 120gb of crap I didn't get to back up yet and I got to reinstall Vista. Along with all my programs. Yah me! Woot!

Ouch! I bet he pays attention next time I know I did. I got nailed in the chest by a lined foul ball. Was setting 2 rows up on home dugout side at a Reds game. Man it took the wind right out of my pipes. Could not breath for a minute. No broken bones just a bruise the size of most of my chest.

Hmm is it that time for ya? I have heard of blue balls but not pink ones.

Ouch my nuts hurt now. First off why are we so far to the left of the road in the first place? Second why do we drive over the tree in the first place? Third you live and learn I guess. At least I hope he did.

Been busy as hell helping people water proof their basements and homes. The amount of rain we have had last month was a record and this month so far is not looking any better. I just might have to build a Ark.

Welcome back Belthasar and like GC says looking forward to more bizarre posts by EM.