The original article and all of it's comments from January 2nd, 2007 through January 13th, 2007 can be seen here: http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/21083

Please continue your discussion within this new thread. Thanks!

New thread started. Thanks for the suggestion, Shmoo!

Twarrior,

"All you seem to be is just one of those elitists who think they rule the bbs scene and take pleasure in twisting words, manipulating others and going on a profanity-laced personal insult tyraid when you disagree with someone elses point of view. You gained my respect. Until now. Go join SinX on his anti-tw campaign or something. This s"

Elitist bbs scene? Kid, I didn't even talk about bbses until you got here. You've mad e an ass of yourself and you don't even see it. Most of the people who come to this forum do not know what a bbs is! And why should they even care? They don't matter except to hobbyists and door players (heh) anymore.

Your wanting to go so far as to link Synchronet into the system, you intend to teach everyone telnet do you?

As for putting up the code... You think I'm talking shit huh kid? Okay then... here ya go...
http://bughunter.it-mate.co.uk

It's a legit application. If you'd like to see the keygens or cnn news articles on some of my previous work, you just ask... Punkass.

"Right now theres alot I am forced to "let slide" but JUST LIKE in the BBS SCENE (looks at raid) -- obsessive offenses of insighting flame wars will be punnishable by being BANNED just as it has always been in the scene. I"

You really shouldn't make threats you have no fucking chance in hell of ever backing up, kiddo. HHI is well fuckin known in the scene.. Again, your a punkass fuckwit; and I'm not talking shit here kid, I'm calling it as I see it.

" It's more of a disrespect to the system / bbs / website *USERS* when people do that sort of thing. Sites and Sysops come and go but its the USERS that truly mater."

You ignorant piece of shit you, Who the fuck do you think your fooling?

Independent,

"But I am going to try to stay out of such arguements over Twarrior's handling of things from now on. (Pro or con.) Sticking my nose in to defend either side seems to do more harm than good."

You've been fairly neutral in so far as I'm concerned. I've tried ignoring the kiddo, but he posts so much bullshit I can't resist...

Christ... How many fucking times are you going to comment about your own fucking comments?

Oh, btw fuckwit, I'm paid very well for my technical skills. Like you, I'm a certified technician (assuming you are certified of course...).... heheh.. elitist bbs user... dumb dumb kid.

Raid, that's just plain rude and you damn well know it.

We could use some of your expertise and constructive input rather than disrespectful f-bomb attacks on Twarrior. (Especially at the top of the page here at the site where new visitors are likely to see it first thing.)

If you want to cuss at Twarrior with such venom, send him e-mails or use the forums to do it or something else. Why ya gotta insist on showing your ass so prominently on the very top article of the front page?

You have been here far, far long enough to know how this site works. Your above comment was placed deliberately and rudely for the sake of harm.

You should be ashamed.

I can't help but wonder why we don't have an open (off-topic) thread actively near the top of the webpage here. The last time that occurred was about ten days ago.

The need becomes obvious.
When there isn't one available,
people (hell, including myself)
are tempted to use the regular threads
for strong or off-topic remarks.

I'll try to post an open (off-topic) article when I get home in the next day or two if Twarrior doesn't beat me to it. (Sorry folks, I'm unable to access the back-end from work.)

Twarrior, if you get back online before I get home, there are a couple other articles sitting in the inbox that need approval.

Independent,

I'm not ashamed of my post in the least. Twarrior just isn't what he's trying to come off as, and it's irritating as all hell.

What I said, I'm sorry man, it had to be said, regardless of your friendship with the fellow. He doesn't represent any serious aspect of any scene. He cries out for attention and thinks he's impressing people.

Did nobody post anything about this yet:

Default Judgment Entered Against Patti Santangelo's Daughter

A default judgment has been entered against Patti Santangelo's daughter, Michelle Santangelo, in Elektra v. Michelle Santangelo and Robert Santangelo, Jr. ("Elektra v. Santangelo II")

From the website linked above came a response by CodeWarrior:

I was particularly interested in Scott's personal story. The "justice" system is an odd system. In a case I know of, attorneys had violated an individual's copyright rights, and despite appeal to that state's Supreme Courts, nothing was done to the attorneys; not even a finding of copyright infringement was made (though it was a clear case in that the attys. had copied and printed pages (and distributed them) of a copyrighted, internet site in violation of the copyright owner's rights.

What I have seen of the law is kind of like a "good old boy's version" of the law here in the South in which the letter of the law is ignored, and the courts and judges decide what is legal and what is illegal.

Here in Texas, the Bar tends to ignore wrongdoings of attorneys unless they overtly rip off their clients, stealing settlement money.

And, the American legal system is based on a system which posits that the authority to rule over the people comes from God (and that rulers rule by virtue of God selecting them).

How about "consent of the governed"?
When was the last time the people were polled and asked if it was OK the government told them what to do.

I can guarantee you there are lots of people who call themselves "conservatives" here in Texas who would take issue with this idea.

ENDofRANT
~CodeWarrior

posted by CodeWarrior : Thu Jan 11, 12:43:21 PM EST

There are only two things I'd prefer to see on the revised website (that aren't here now):
1) editing function for one's posts
2) when refreshing/reloading the page, some way you could see what, if any, new posts have been made (perhaps there could be a highlighting of the posting number that shows after the article's listing), compared to nothing different about the number if it has remained the same

The picture at the top of the briaa site is hideous. Sorry.

"Independent,

I'm not ashamed of my post in the least. Twarrior just isn't what he's trying to come off as, and it's irritating as all hell.

What I said, I'm sorry man, it had to be said, regardless of your friendship with the fellow. He doesn't represent any serious aspect of any scene. He cries out for attention and thinks he's impressing people."

I'm simply here trying to do what i've been asked to do. If you think I care about what you think of me -- think again. To me, your the ranting little kid looking for attention. In any scene, for any cause, in any forum -- there is no excuse for this sort of flamatory attitude. Hate me all you wish, but if you were really for this cause and truly respected everyone *else* here you'd CEASE this rediculous banter.

I've been civil with you regardless of your combustable posts. I will remain civil. I think my civil attitude says more than any long rant I could ever make about anything.

This isn't anyones personal playground. This is the hope of having a chance to defeat the RIAA. Nuff' said.

As for everyone else about the BBS Scene: if your interested in it, cool. If not -- thats fine too. I use Synchronet as a server for both business and personal use. It's my choice. My box sitting here. I decide what platforms I use on it. If I think anything on my box can aid this site, I'll link it in. If not, then I won't.

FYI -- the current site is controlled by DMusic. I don't control that. Until it is completely migrated over to the new setup -- I would like to request of the DMusic staff that if RAID keeps up these counter productive attacks, that he be banned from the system. I take no personal offense to his idiot ramblings. But these sort of posts are well known for chasing people away and losing peoples interests. We're here to fight the RIAA. Not flame eachother.

Shmoo -- thanks. I know you've said the same thing even if i wasn't an admin and you didn't know me from atom.

you'd have said the same*

"As for putting up the code... You think I'm talking shit huh kid? Okay then... here ya go...
http://bughunter.it-mate.co.uk

It's a legit application. If you'd like to see the keygens or cnn news articles on some of my previous work, you just ask... Punkass."

One other small thing for the record. I never doubted your coding skills. In fact, I asked for your assistance with coding for the new setup. It's ashame I will not be able to utilize your obvious talents. As for coding, you're the shit. As for your attitude, a peice of... *AHEM* ... anyways, nuff said. I just wanted to make it clear that i never disbeleived you about your skill.

Twarrior, as you can see, I put up an "Odds and Ends" article. If you decide on keeping it, perhaps the folks will now use it instead of using this (and other) threads when they want to get off-topic.

(Hint: a thing that COULD be done is that when someone posts something blatently off-topic on any other thread is that the comment be copy & pasted to the "Odds and Ends" ...then deleted from its' original wrong place.)

Not telling you how to run things of course... just giving you some of the solutions (by example) of how we did things around here in the past. (Seemed to work fairly well.)

Feel free to over-ride and "zap" what I have done if you decide it to be a "no-go"
and want to do things differently.

Now folks, let's get back on track with THIS thread.

READ THIS (the original article for this thread) before making any further comments HERE. I believe Twarrior's intent was for THIS thread to be used for suggestions about upcomming improvements to the site. (Or, for you opposition to any would-be/could-be changes.)

Continue...

Damn my spelling and missed keystrokes!!!

I too vote for that edit button.

(But I will avoid using my own "spooky admin powers" this time to correct the above mistakes I made ...so as to help illustrate my point.)

Maybe a preview function like the one in the DMusic forums would be good. You can see your post the way it will appear before it is actually posted, and make any corrections. These little boxes can make it difficult to see sometimes.

I think the Joomla Article System has such a feature. The problem is the friggen Joomla Comments REFUSE to work. I may have to use the Synchronet Forums for comments and I assure you those do not have a spell checker just yet. You know it is amazing, this day and age -- just how many various posting applications DO NOT have a spell checker for crappy spellers like Shmoo and I! Argh! Bad Spellers of the World: UNTIE!

Oh -- I heard a rumor someplace that Firefox has a spell checker addon and most people do seem to use Firefox these days. I think this rumor is worthy of investigation.

I just found quite a few, but theres a problem. Most are for only the absolute newest versions of Firefox (which on Linux and other non-windows oses can be quite problematic seeing as Windows takes priority in development for things like this over the Linux & "other OS" versions). The only one I got to install was "ASpell" and when i try to use it -- it generates an error. Oh, joy!

For any really awesome coders *glares at RAID* it would be nice if there was some way to take advantage of Google's ability to spell check things. I'm sure that Google does have some sort of API for that -- however -- as a non-programmer -- I am unable to utilize this myself. Provided I can get Joomla Comments to work properly -- I'll see if there is a spell checker addon for that on the Joomla Homepage.

Oh and another thing -- I'm in the proccess of implimenting the new chat system for BRIAA. I've been given many "private props" for this endeavor seeing as i've been told how badly the current chat environment simply sucks! More information can be found on the redesign top navigation at http://boycott-riaa.com

STATS TRACKING:

Regardless of whether or not the Alexa Stats were or were not accurate -- has now become irrelevent.

I've implimented a shared stats tracker on both BRIAA sites which can be seen at the bottom of both main pages as a little purple globe looking icon.

These statistics are public and anyone can check them at any time they wish. I know that from the millions of hits we used to get -- Alexa did indicate a huge slump in our traffic.

We need this tracker to see just how nasty of a slump so that we can figure out how to rectify it. This slump may pleasently prove to be an "all for nothing" worry or it may manifest a rather large nightmare statistic for just how much interest we've LOST.

So folks, be prepared for anything!

I'm inclined to believe there was significant loss of interest.
(Always assume worst-case scenario in any situation.)

I figure any and all of the following possibilities to be true:

- Our site peeks every time the RIAA goes above and beyond the call of pissing everyone off

- Our site peeks whenever anyone, on an individual basis, feels personally screwed over by the RIAA

- Our site delcines whenever there is excessive stupidity, moscoordination and fighting (trolls, inter-user-hostility, etc..) which is also why I'm strongly enforcing the "civilly agree to disagree" policies

- Our site declines when less articles and / or less informative articles are posted

- Our site declines when too long of a period of "nothing getting done" is experienced (people check back several months later to see if that situation has changed or not)

I think there are alot of possible variables to account for traffic increases and decreases.

Well so far so good. I'd say after about a month we'll have some accurate averages. It's amazing all the data this thing pulls in. You all should check it out in dept.

"The picture at the top of the briaa site is hideous. Sorry."

Well for the moment it stays. My overall goal is to find a way to have that thing randomly rotate so that we can use as many header images as we wish to. This would also mean if anyone wishes to submit art for header images we'd be able to easily add it. Rome wasn't built in a day but i'll do my best to make sure everyones concerns are addresses to the best of my abilities.

concerns are addresseD *

Our main DMusic Coder is also being forced to step down due to personal reasons, which of course take priority over BRIAA or DMusic. I'm not sure who i'll be working with once he does this and how much more or less time he or she will have to help me out with server / coding related things. I'll keep everyone updated.

If any coders reading this would like to voulenteer to help out -- that would be appreciated. Fluency in PHP required. Fluency in Mysql a plus.

ANOTHER SMALL UPDATE:

I'm also currently working on a descreet advertisement system to help generate some income for BRIAA. If you look at the new site down towards the right and scrolling down alittle -- you'll see a "Random Offsite Link" rotation that has "3 test ads".

I want to offer free advertising for anyone thats non-profit and pay for businesses. Of course, we'll be screening to make sure no spammers / spyware assholes / etc... end up in there and we're going to try to provide you guys with some QUALITY links that are USEFUL -- and not just any ole horse crap.

Oh and one company i wanna try to get on board is my current ISP. I'm EXTREMELY happy with their service. First I used Earthlink, which went to crap as soon as they started outsourcing to Osama's Cousins. Then I went with Anet Communications who WAS good but then they went to shit. Now Speakeasy is my current ISP and they've been really awesome. They WERE starting to goto crap awhile back before i joined them (earning the nickname of "Spameasy") because most of their shit was NOT in house and their venders allowed zombie bots and all sorts of nasty stuff on their network and it was REALLY hurting their reputation, BAD. They made the wise choice of bringing it all in house and thankfully -- they're also running Unix and Linux servers as opposed to like Micro$hit Enterprise Warp Core Breach 2003.

STATS TRACKER CONCERNS:

It has been brought to my attention that users may possibly feel that this tracking being public, some may concider to be a breach of priacy and make people feel paranoid and singled out.

I disagree. I feel the users have a right to know the traffic details of the site to be able to get the exact information of what other sites people are coming from, how well we're doing, etc... I don't feel that BRIAA should "have anything to hide" because I think purposely hiding this information might make people paranoid -- thinking we have something to hide when really, we do not.

These stats are no more of a threat than everytime you might use BitTorrent, talk to someone on instant messenger or go into a web chat or on a message forum.

However -- I will let the users decide. What do you all want? I'll let majority rules in replies to this post decide it.

UPDATE:

I just emailed the Extreme Tracker people and asked if maybe they could impliment something that keeps the tracker public *BUT* allows viewing of the ip addresses of the site visitors to be toggled as private. I'll let you know what they say about it.

TWarrior -- *glares at RAID*

Perhaps you are unaware that Raid is a self-professed virus writer. If you let him start coding, anyone using Windows would be well advised to avoid the site like the plague.

Well -- I also know that with time comes change and ones past should not be held against him if in fact he has changed. However, it's his present that i'm concerned about. He has not changed and his attitude is quite violent. Which is why I said it is ashame he won't be able to assist us. At this point -- if he emailed me today with a fully appology and offer of help, i'd decline the help.

Just as a bio-engineer could just as easily create a cure as he could a dissease, and a hacker and network security professional are one in the same. Ones abilities are not under scroutiny. It's ones ATTITUDE that is or is not. And quite frankly -- his attitude sucks.

George and Raid have never often been friends.

I had always tried to reach out to Raid because SOMETIMES he says some smart things instead of just being a prick.

But, I am gonna wash my hands of him and his deliberately harmful attacks upon us from now on.

I enjoy and invite criticism of the views held by Boycott Riaa admin and "member/regulars" (Raid is always ready to provide THAT)

...but the ABUSE of our chalkboard has gone on far too long.

Raid knew fully what he was doing by acting as a troll in this (and many other unpunished instances.)

I won't go so far as to say RaidHHI is an "RIAA schill" (as has been accused by many of our faithful participants in the past.) But, I am now about convinced that he is a disruptive egotistical harm-bringer (despite the professed mutual hate for the RIAA.)

From now on, let's all simply INGNORE him.

(The olive branch had already been offered to him dozens and dozens of times over the years.)

Let him just go back to his virus writing, copyright infringing, warez whooping ways.

I guess you CAN'T teach everyone. (All you can do is try. Eventually, sometimes you gotta "give-up" and call it a "lost-cause".)

NOW, BACK ON TOPIC FOR THIS THREAD:

(I was holding out hope that OTHERS would suggest some of these following things before I did for Twarrior to implement


"SUBMIT BUTTON" - There should be a very visible clickable button on each and every Boycott Riaa page for folk to send in links to articles or items they find on the web that we would be interested in.

"EXPIRATION" - ALL front-page articles/items should NOT be allowed to be commented on after a week or two after being posted. (Without special approval by the admin of Boycott Riaa.) Like it or not, most folk (especially admin/regulars) don't pay any attention to anything that in time slips off of the main-page here at this site. HOWEVER, those "old" items are subject to spam and whatever. Let's put some sort of "time limit" on how long an article is "commentable".

"UPDATE-UPDATE-UPDATE" - Good lord, Twarrior, if NOTHING ELSE, please either update the sidebar links at http://boycott-riaa.com (they are STILL older than Methusela) ...OR, delete them permanantly and start over. (Archive.com still has a zillion "snapshots" of our old stuff I'm sure. There is NO POINT in keeping old, out of date stuff prominent on our front pages.)

My advice is that if YOU (Twarrior) yourself are not "handling it" personally (or you know who actively IS handling it) GET RID OF IT!.

Old dead links SUCK!

Millions of other nit-picky things like that I'd bring up now, but will await to see if others bring them up before I do.


BTW. I suspect the problem with the Joomla comment is not in the software add-on. (which I must point out was a free, unsupported open-source ADD ON module)

,,,the actual PROBLEM is some bug (probably caused by the spammers) on the php/MySQL database hosted on DMusic servers.

Joomla itself isn't to blame. (Joomla is just a CMS for us admin who were wanting a shortcut to functionality. Some hacker WRECKED it for us in regards to the "Joomlacomment" plugin.)

Yup, THAT's why we need more CODERS on our side 'round here.

(Loosing fuDog is an OUCHIE! Bigtime!)

"George and Raid have never often been friends.

I had always tried to reach out to Raid because SOMETIMES he says some smart things instead of just being a prick.

But, I am gonna wash my hands of him and his deliberately harmful attacks upon us from now on.

I enjoy and invite criticism of the views held by Boycott Riaa admin and "member/regulars" (Raid is always ready to provide THAT)

...but the ABUSE of our chalkboard has gone on far too long.

Raid knew fully what he was doing by acting as a troll in this (and many other unpunished instances.)

I won't go so far as to say RaidHHI is an "RIAA schill" (as has been accused by many of our faithful participants in the past.) But, I am now about convinced that he is a disruptive egotistical harm-bringer (despite the professed mutual hate for the RIAA.)

From now on, let's all simply INGNORE him.

(The olive branch had already been offered to him dozens and dozens of times over the years.)

Let him just go back to his virus writing, copyright infringing, warez whooping ways.

I guess you CAN'T teach everyone. (All you can do is try. Eventually, sometimes you gotta "give-up" and call it a "lost-cause".)"

RAID is certianly *NOT* an RIAA Kitchen Slave by any means. In fact, if it weren't for the legal and / or cheap means of obtaining RIAA Music -- I'd likely still be pirating it, having no other option. However -- there simply *ARE* options now! There were none before. There are now. You've got places that sell CDs that give away a free full track or two as a download. Second Spin where you can buy used CDs VERY CHEAP. Rhapsody where you can get unlimited music for a small monthly fee and it greatly reduces the RIAAs "per unit" marketing that they REFUSE to give up on when it NEEDS to be given up on. Tons of ways to get your music and sabotage the RIAA at the same time. With legal downloads your seriously hurting sales, as I pointed out in the begining and George rescently gave a good example of my point. Of course theres ways of eliminating their sales completely with purachasing used CDs, etc..

So piracy would be a valid means *IF* there was NO OTHER WAY. But the truth be told -- there are TONS of other ways!

"
Date: January 21, 2007 @ 11:04 PM
NOW, BACK ON TOPIC FOR THIS THREAD:

(I was holding out hope that OTHERS would suggest some of these following things before I did for Twarrior to implement


"SUBMIT BUTTON" - There should be a very visible clickable button on each and every Boycott Riaa page for folk to send in links to articles or items they find on the web that we would be interested in."

There will be.

""EXPIRATION" - ALL front-page articles/items should NOT be allowed to be commented on after a week or two after being posted. (Without special approval by the admin of Boycott Riaa.) Like it or not, most folk (especially admin/regulars) don't pay any attention to anything that in time slips off of the main-page here at this site. HOWEVER, those "old" items are subject to spam and whatever. Let's put some sort of "time limit" on how long an article is "commentable"."

I don't know if Joomla supports this, but if it does -- why have an expiration? Thats a form of censorship. Someone sees it a 2 weeks later and can't post their opinion? I know if that happened to me i'd be alittle pissed.

"
"UPDATE-UPDATE-UPDATE" - Good lord, Twarrior, if NOTHING ELSE, please either update the sidebar links at http://boycott-riaa.com (they are STILL older than Methusela) ...OR, delete them permanantly and start over. (Archive.com still has a zillion "snapshots" of our old stuff I'm sure. There is NO POINT in keeping old, out of date stuff prominent on our front pages.)"

Once I FIGURE OUT HOW! I've been unable to find it just yet. There is no "admin control panel" just tons and tons and tons of directories and code, code, code and more CODE!

It took me awhile to figure out how in the heck to edit the main page in the way that i already have! Give me time to weed through the mess of code and eventually i'll figure it out.

"My advice is that if YOU (Twarrior) yourself are not "handling it" personally (or you know who actively IS handling it) GET RID OF IT!.

Old dead links SUCK!"

My advise is be patient or FIND ME SOME HELP. Leflaw won't let me bring in any coders. I think "show me the money" was his reply to my request?!

FIND ME some CODERS willing to WORK FOR FREE and things will get done much faster. Capeesh?!

"BTW. I suspect the problem with the Joomla comment is not in the software add-on. (which I must point out was a free, unsupported open-source ADD ON module)"

I had to uninstall Joomla Comments because you are PARTLY right. Not only is it an unsupported addon -- but the author site is DEAD. Absolutely ZERO support for it. I've been scouring the Joomla website for a suitable replacement. So far nothing -- but -- their site is vast and their addons many. Theres gotta be an addon needle in the haystack of modules that will suit our needs.

"Yup, THAT's why we need more CODERS on our side 'round here.

(Loosing fuDog is an OUCHIE! Bigtime!)"

I'll be working on an advertisement system to bring in some revenue to correct leflaws "lack of vision" as per my request for a "working for peanuts" coder. As it stands -- unless he, or someone else -- is willing to correct this problem and provide me with ONE CODER -- yes, just ONE -- then no one retains the right to claim i'm not working fast enough, etc.. such "pushing" will be met with a 3 fold push back from me.

When you push, you push away. So if leflaw won't grant my request -- maybe SOMEONE out there that can code will read my pleas for some assistance and offer to help. But until that time -- we're all in Rome and must do as the Romans do.

NEW SITE LOGO CONCENRS:

I've run into a girl who does some excellent artwork, supports the cause and is willing to help. Theres a link she sent me that i think could replace the "blnd folded guy" and better make the point of our mission.

I'd like you all to check this out (as well as the rest of her work) and tell me (and her) what you think!

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/2069813/

http://legalmusicsearch.com/briaa2.jpg

This is a rough draft for a potential new logo for the new site using Sya's Deviant Art graphic (previous link). This is by no means a "final production" image. It's just for the sake of getting peoples opinions on if this fits the bill better than the blindfolded guy everyone seems to hate.

On a side note -- in under 2 decades i've made quite a bit of music and i've been trying to organize it into albums. As a result, i'm making album covers. It's DVD Case Format because I think that looks more professional. So, just wanted everyone opinions on what they think of what i've got "so far".

http://malkaviabbs.com/TW_01_NO%20CARRIER_DVDC.jpg
http://malkaviabbs.com/TW_02_MORE_ADDICTIVE_THAN_COKE.jpg

http://legalmusicsearch.com/briaa2.jpg

Ummmm....no...sorry...can we have a contest and send in ideas? And then take a vote? just an idea...

"There is no "admin control panel" just tons and tons and tons of directories and code, code, code and more CODE!"

Yup, Boycott Riaa's backend is a vast jungle buried in the midst of DMusic's much larger jungle for sure. (It's why I never was able to do much with it without fuDog's help.)

The files themselves are mostly html, css, php, a little java and etc. That's not so bad. But you are right, the hard part is just finding the right file in the right directory that you want to update or modify.

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BTW, Twarrior,

When I said "expire" above I didn't mean that the article or comments would disappear...

I meant that nobody could post anything further past the "expiration date" without admin approval.

(I mean, c'mon... do YOU have the time and inclination to watch over 2 or 3 month old threads?)

I say, if the article is old enough to have already become a thing that is past the first page or two here at Boycott, simply TURN OFF the ability for visitors to make any further comments. (unless they specifically ask an admin first.)

You and I barely have time enough to post or respond to the most CURRENT stuff (much less try to police the old.)

Why give spammers a back-door?

When I say "turn off"

I mean, turn off the ability to make a "comment" on an article that is not within our view anymore.

Grok?

Twarrior,

" I take no personal offense to his idiot ramblings."

idiot ramblings? heh... Kiddo, I'm not the only one here who sees you for the incompetent little shit that you clearly are. Idiot... laugh laugh, fucking moron you are.

"But these sort of posts are well known for chasing people away and losing peoples interests."

Translation: I can't defend myself, Raid is kicking my ass, please somebody save me.

"We're here to fight the RIAA. Not flame eachother."

Ahh, but I'm not flaming you, I'm pointing out factual information, flaws if you will.

Twarrior,

"I'm simply here trying to do what i've been asked to do. If you think I care about what you think of me -- think again. To me, your the ranting little kid looking for attention. In any scene, for any cause, in any forum"

ranting little kid looking for attention? HAHAHAHAAH, Put the crack pipe down. When cruising the various articles, it would seem you can't even stay on the topic long enough to create one or two posts. Cripes, you'll ramble on and keeping posting away!.

and if It was attention I wanted kiddo, I could easily get an interview..

Grow the fuck up, and until you do a bit, I'm going to be there in the shadows just waiting for your next blunder.

"One other small thing for the record. I never doubted your coding skills. In fact, I asked for your assistance with coding for the new setup. It's ashame I will not be able to utilize your obvious talents. As for coding, you're the shit. "

you contradict yourself in an effort to get me to cease fire by trying to kiss my ass? I told you punkass, you have to earn respect. this is NOT how you do so.

"I'm not sure who i'll be working with once he does this and how much more or less time he or she will have to help me out with server / coding related things. "

Dude, seriously. You don't have a clue about the source code or the backend, you don't know what the hell your doing. and you have admin level commands? Your incompetent... And I'm not trying to pick a fight. You know as well as I do that someone who doesn't know the system should not be in a position to be able to make changes to it. You've said yourself you don't code, you don't know how websites work from the server side, but you wanna screw around with it?

George,

"Perhaps you are unaware that Raid is a self-professed virus writer. If you let him start coding, anyone using Windows would be well advised to avoid the site like the plague."

a former virus writer, yes. As for coding, read these and weep:

http://www.completelyfreesoftware.com/link_du_w31_BUGHUN.html
http://www.softpedia.com/progClean/BugHunter-Clean-50616.html

very well respected sites, BugHunter is in use all over the world now... And it's written by me!

Now, please, go back to lurking you stupid pile of cow shit.. ok? Or better yet, whine about how the riaa fucked you over and how your wife has to support your talentless ass.


Independent,

"I had always tried to reach out to Raid because SOMETIMES he says some smart things instead of just being a prick.
"

If you mean prick by correcting ignorance, then yes, I'm a big prick. If you mean prick by a low tolerance for buddy bullshit, yes, score 2.

"But, I am gonna wash my hands of him and his deliberately harmful attacks upon us from now on.
"

Thats' a very big brush your painting with. The attacks are not "upon us". You don't speak for everyone here. And as you know, I don't have problems with everyone here, just a few.

"From now on, let's all simply INGNORE him."

Yes, ignoring those with differing viewpoints does get one far in life. Have a sandbox near by?

"Let him just go back to his virus writing, copyright infringing, warez whooping ways."

Ouch, the assinine comments you make. Many of the people you wanted to raise donations for are copyright infringers, stupid. They just happened to have gotten busted and tried to plead ignorance to get out of it.

Warez whooping ways? I don't do warez. I write decent software, and work professionally for a living. What do you do again?

"in under 2 decades i've made quite a bit of music and i've been trying to organize it into albums"

I suspected you were a kid...

"The files themselves are mostly html, css, php, a little java and etc. That's not so bad. But you are right, the hard part is just finding the right file in the right directory that you want to update or modify."

it's called a roadmap, and most decent site admins have one.... Actually independent, the files you list are what comprimises most sites on the web.

I can see why you'd want everyone to ignore me, with statements like that your no better than your supposed enemy the riaa. They want people to ignore you.


(The olive branch had already been offered to him dozens and dozens of times over the years.)"

This place is just as bad as when I left last time.

As long as you have guys like RAID shitting all over the place, no one is going to stick around.

He may think he's God's computer genius Messiah but he's also the Devil's right hand asshole.

Bye again.

Can someone send me an email or something when this bad case of forum acne clears up?

pinemikey,

"As long as you have guys like RAID shitting all over the place, no one is going to stick around. "

You remind me of a school kid. "If you want to play with Tommy, I won't play with you."

"He may think he's God's computer genius Messiah but he's also the Devil's right hand asshole. "

This has nothing to do with computer genius?!? WTF?!?, but more to do with a few individuals who have an attitude problem. My initial comment was directed towards Twarrior, not yourself.

"Can someone send me an email or something when this bad case of forum acne clears up?"

Since you have trouble playing with others, I think you should remain outside the camp for awhile longer. When you learn that you have to deal with other humans that don't share your viewpoints, then you may rejoin.

"Bye again."

I didn't know you left the first time. If you leave for a 3rd time, will you take out a news paper ad?

I'm a little unclear why some of you think I'm out to get anybody. That's not my motivation. I'm not oblivious to the fact that others realize what's going on, because a few of you have already commented about Twarrior. I've just gone slightly beyond the snide remarks made about him to directly in his face...

And to clear something up, this is the digital age people, computer knowledge is a plus. Unless it's your desire to BE a stupid consumer. It's my sincere hope that your not one of those people. If you are, I've likely offended you, so your pretty easy to spot.

"pinemikey
Date: January 25, 2007 @ 10:40 PM
This place is just as bad as when I left last time.

As long as you have guys like RAID shitting all over the place, no one is going to stick around.

He may think he's God's computer genius Messiah but he's also the Devil's right hand asshole.

Bye again.

Can someone send me an email or something when this bad case of forum acne clears up?"

Have some patience and do alittle research into the last few months. There have been signifigant reductions in outbursts such as raids. Rome wasn't built in a day, but it is being built. Running from the problem isn't the answer. Correcting the problem is. This part of the system is merged in with DMusic and unfortunately i've got no control over that. However, it has apparently become clear that I need to take some strong measures in convincing leflaw to ban raid. I agree that this is rediculous and must be rectified.

RAID: pot, kettle, black. I've done alittle homework on you. this isn't the only forum you're an imfamous troll within. ironic that you have this website supported in your web sigs though. you're obviously not for the cause at all -- just your own ego.

Let me state this for the record:

http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/21206

Dave, leave it alone.

RaidHHI is our "pet troll"

(I guess you are just gonna have to deal with it.)

Poke it with a stick, no MATTER how sharp you have honed the point, the amorpheous blob still creeps at you.

========

RaidHHI, I have never had a problem with your goop when you wanted to dump it on me.

(But please, let our new admins have a couple of months to assimilate to the enormous task of running this place before you wail like an unfed/neglected child.)

I am STILL pissed off at you.

You COULD show a smidgen of self-character by HELPING the "new guy" instead of bringing down the Boycott Riaa effort with snide rudeness.

But, I am starting to doubt you even have it within you. (Despite all your "tech skills")


Damnit Raid, help us or GO AWAY.

" BTW. I suspect the problem with the Joomla comment is not in the software add-on. (which I must point out was a free, unsupported open-source ADD ON module)

,,,the actual PROBLEM is some bug (probably caused by the spammers) on the php/MySQL database hosted on DMusic servers. "

Perhaps then ...

( coming from someone who can't code ) .

Stop trying to 'fix' the new site.
Dump it all .. start from scratch.

Yeah, I know, easy for me to say
But sometimes a 'repair' project gets to
that point.

"BugHunter is in use all over the world now... And it's written by me!"

Oooh! DOS! You must be so proud to be on the cutting edge of 1980.

"" BTW. I suspect the problem with the Joomla comment is not in the software add-on. (which I must point out was a free, unsupported open-source ADD ON module)

,,,the actual PROBLEM is some bug (probably caused by the spammers) on the php/MySQL database hosted on DMusic servers. "

Perhaps then ...

( coming from someone who can't code ) .

Stop trying to 'fix' the new site.
Dump it all .. start from scratch.

Yeah, I know, easy for me to say
But sometimes a 'repair' project gets to
that point.""

Thats not nessesary. Joolma itself is fine. I just need to locate another comments module, thats all. And eventually, I will. Joomla has tens of thousnads of available and supported addons. Just takes ALOT of time to search through all of that. But fear not -- i shall locate a replacement.

""BugHunter is in use all over the world now... And it's written by me!"

Oooh! DOS! You must be so proud to be on the cutting edge of 1980."

HAHAHAHAHA! Dude! Fight-O-Net (Fidonet) hasn't updated their specs since like 1989. lol .. FTN is still a very useful format but they're all living in the past. Hell, they still try to force people to have a DIAL IN NODE if they're a hub -- when NO ONE dials in and everything -- for the obvious reasons -- do everything by way of broadband now as far as home servers (or any other type of server for that mater).

Twarrior,

" However, it has apparently become clear that I need to take some strong measures in convincing leflaw to ban raid."

Good luck. Leflaw and I have had our rounds, he knows where I'm coming from.

"RAID: pot, kettle, black. I've done alittle homework on you. this isn't the only forum you're an imfamous troll within. ironic that you have this website supported in your web sigs though. you're obviously not for the cause at all -- just your own ego."

Again with your bullshitting huh kiddo? You must be doing one sorry ass job on your homework if you think I am anything like you.

Oh, I'm infamous punkass, but not for trolling. Please don't try any more l33t bs with me ok kid? I'm getting tired of 0wning your stupid ass here. Not only that, But I seem to be irking a couple of your supporters who don't know why I'm really attacking you. Although it would seem GrumpGeezer has figured out the reason why I fire on you. I do wonder tho, do you now realize why your target practice?

It's a serious question. Check the new thread I just followed to. You know the one, Dave just created it? It's a post which might as well be a voting pool.

George,

"Oooh! DOS! You must be so proud to be on the cutting edge of 1980."

Cutting edge of 1980? LoL! DOS predates that, by a few years or so. *grin*. If it's your intention to be insulting, your going to have to do better. Most eeprom writers are dos based. As are flashbios upgraders. Fucking Asus, Gigabyte and myself, all stuck in the 1980s DOS world, damn us!

Do you know why some low level apps are still dos based moron? Because it's far easier to do some hardware interactions without linux or windows being present to get in the way. With regard to malware removal, it's always nice to be able to scan your system from a bart disc...

Twarrior,

"HAHAHAHAHA! Dude! Fight-O-Net (Fidonet) hasn't updated their specs since like 1989. lol .. FTN is still a very useful format but they're all living in the past. Hell, they still try to force people to have a DIAL IN NODE if they're a hub -- when NO ONE dials in and everything -- for the obvious reasons -- do everything by way of broadband now as far as home servers (or any other type of server for that mater)."


What the hell are you going on about now? Fidonets major uplinks are done via telnet/ftp now, idiot. Not very many boards still run real potts modems.