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Piracy is a big problem for large software
vendors licensors like Microsoft. As such, the Redmond giant is undertaking several anti-piracy efforts all over the world, and, of course, it attempts to make its software harder to crack through activation and validation. As The New York Times has discovered, however, the prevalence of pirated Microsoft software in Russia is giving the Russian authorities a pretence to raid the offices of outspoken advocacy groups or opposition media - supported by Microsoft lawyers. Update: Microsoft responds with a blog post that says all the right things, including "Microsoft will create a new unilateral software license for NGOs that will ensure they have free, legal copies of our products."
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RE[4]: You can't expect much from Microsoft lawyers
by Laurence on Mon 13th Sep 2010 14:03 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: You can't expect much from Microsoft lawyers"
In the face of protests from the accused, this is not a PR-credible act for a government ... at the very least it is considerably less credible than the case where the accused admit to be using commercial software.
Somehow I don't think the Russian government has much to worry about when it comes to PR.
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UN Women Executive Director to call for women's economic empowerment at the 2014 World Economic Forum
Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka will travel to Davos, Switzerland to attend the 2014 Annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) from 23-25 January. At the WEF, Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka will meet with representatives of government, civil society and business, and will sit on a "Gender-Driven Growth" panel alongside Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, and Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. The interactive discussion, to focus on gender-inclusive policies and practices to address barriers to empowerment and economic growth with a focus on gender, to be webcast live here at 3:30 p.m. CET (9:30 a.m. EST) on Saturday 25 January.
The panel will be moderated by Linda Yueh, the BBC's Chief Business Correspondent, and segments will be broadcast on the BBC News programme "Talking business with Linda Yueh". In her contribution, UN Women's Executive Director will make the case for government and the private sector to tear down the barriers holding back women's equal participation in the economy, whether they are discriminatory laws, inflexible workplaces, or widespread failure to acknowledge unpaid care work.
On the evening of 23 January, Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka will deliver remarks at a reception hosted by UN Women partner The Coca-Cola Company, a large annual event attended by 500 prominent guests, and take part in a reception celebrating Africa's vitality, growth and promise, hosted by SABMiller.
The next morning, Friday 24 January, the Executive Director will participate in a "fishbowl" discussion on global gender parity and the WEF's own Gender Parity workstream, to be attended by 60 high-level participants, primarily CEOs and Ministers. Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka will stress the need to build partnerships across sectors with government, the private sector, and civil society, to remove barriers to women's full and equal participation in the economy.
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Later, Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka will participate in an informal gathering of world economic leaders around the theme "Reshaping of the World: Defining the Imperatives for 2014", before attending a public workshop on "The Power of Different", which will focus on diversity (including gender diversity) and creativity as assets for building more resilient and robust institutions.
The Executive Director's second day at Davos will conclude with her role as a discussion leader at the "Women Empowering Women" Dinner. With over 100 expected participants, discussion will focus on the role of mentorship in supporting women in leadership, with Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka sharing her personal experience and focusing on the role of mentoring for women entrepreneurs in the developing world.
Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka's final day at the WEF will include key bilateral meetings and the "Gender-Driven Growth" panel at 3:30 p.m.
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Pratt & Whitney Canada's (P&WC) PW210 engine has been selected by Eurocopter to power the next-generation X4 helicopter. The PW210-powered X4 is expected to enter into service by 2017.
The PW210 engine - the latest in P&WC's turboshaft product line - is powering a new era in helicopter flight with three applications confirmed. By the time the X4 enters service in 2017, the PW210 family will have accumulated well over half a million flying hours across the three platforms.
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LA Galaxy striker Robbie Keane believes David Beckham can continue his playing career 'for years' - and would welcome a club move for Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard.
In an interview with Sky Sports, the Republic of Ireland international praised the impact Beckham has had in North America, as the former England captain prepares to play his last competitive game for the Galaxy, in the MLS Cup against Houston Dynamo on Saturday.
"His ability on the ball is the best I have seen," Keane told Sky Sports News. "His passing is ridiculous. He still has a few years left in him. He still has that hunger and drive.
"He's been in England for a long time, and won the Premier League, so whether he wants to go somewhere else, and win the league there, I'm not too sure."
Keane said that Beckham has not told his current team-mates where he plans to move to next, but added that whichever league in any given country, should be only too pleased to take him.
With the 37-year-old planning to depart, another high-profile player that has been recently linked with a move to the MLS is Chelsea star Lampard.
The England international's contract at Stamford Bridge expires at the end of the season, and speculation has suggested he is looking to finish his career alongside Keane in Los Angeles.
"Frank is obviously a great player." he added. "He's proven over the years to be a top professional at Chelsea and we certainly need players like Frank."
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — The Pacific Ocean either swallowed an adventurous couple and two young children aboard a sailboat off the Monterey coast this week, or someone played a cruel hoax that wasted Coast Guard resources and tugged at the hearts of coastal residents over two days of desperate searching.
The Coast Guard on Tuesday called off the search for a boat that reportedly sank in rough seas far off the Central California coast, saying nothing more could be done and that the family's distress calls might have been a hoax.
''We've exhausted the possibilities,'' Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Mike Lutz said. The Coast Guard is treating the incident as a rescue, with the possibility the calls came from a trickster. Neither the family nor the boat has been reported missing.
Crews started looking for the family by sea and air after receiving their first distress call Sunday afternoon, when the boaters said their 29-foot sailboat was taking on water and their electronics were failing. The 42-hour search involved hundreds of rescuers from the Coast Guard and the California Air National Guard.
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Creates virtual COM ports directly from your own programs and fully control them! Virtual ports look like real hardware serial ports for all serial communications applications. On the other hand, developer API allows your program to access data written to virtual serial port by communications application and to respond with your own data. OEM license allows you to distribute this ActiveX control as a part of your software.
If there is a task to provide interaction between communications application and your own program (e.g. serial device emulator), there is no common solution to accomplish it. It is considered that communications applications are intended to work only with hardware serial devices connected to physical serial ports.
Virtual Serial Port Control is an ActiveX control which makes it possible to create virtual serial ports directly from your program and fully control them. At the same time virtual ports look like real hardware serial ports for all Windows applications. And any communications application can work with them as if they were physical ports.
On the other hand, developer API provided by Virtual Serial Port Control allows your program to access data written to virtual serial port by communications application and to respond with your own data. The data will be read by communications application from virtual serial port as if they were read from a physical port.
Event driven architecture is a snap to use. You don't have to check ports periodically in order to find if their state is changed or new data available for reading from a port. Simply define a function in your program that will be triggered automatically by the appropriate event and process the data.
At the same time Virtual Serial Port Control immediately notifies your application about any actions done by communications application with serial port (port opening/closing, setting DTR/RTS handshake, baud rate setting, XON/XOFF symbols setting, etc).
Virtual Serial Port Control provides developer with full control over virtual serial port. Everything that can be done with physical serial port by a serial device is possible to be done with virtual serial port by VSPC.
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Issue Type: Bug Created: 2007-12-12T04:55:05.000+0000 Last Updated: 2008-03-21T16:25:35.000+0000 Status: Resolved Fix version(s): - 1.5.0 (17/Mar/08)
Reporter: Fabrizio Balliano (balliano) Assignee: Thomas Weidner (thomas) Tags: - Zend_Locale
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in this doc: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/… you say that the getQuestion method returns the regular expressions for matching "yes" and "no" strings but this is not true
running getQuestion('en_US') returns: Array ( [yes] => yes [no] => no [yesabbr] => y [noabbr] => n )
Posted by Thomas Weidner (thomas) on 2007-12-12T07:28:13.000+0000
The documentation reads:

Use getQuestion() to obtain an array containing the correct word(s) or regex strings to use for prompting the user
It is not said that you will get regex strings for sure because the underlaying data is provided from the cldr repository. Some languages and versions provide regex strings, and some not.
Therefor the documentation states "OR"... But if you receive Strings it should be very simple to use them within an regex, or even to ask them plain.
If the new CLDR version does no longer provide regex strings we will rewrite the docu, because this is nothing we could do per code for all languages.
Therefor this issue is closed because we will check this with our unittests and the new cldr version which we are awaiting until christmas.
Posted by Thomas Weidner (thomas) on 2007-12-12T08:23:37.000+0000
I've just seen that this data is no longer supported and depreciated since CLDR 1.4 It is now recommended to self create the regex string which has been integrated with SVN 7090.
Posted by Fabrizio Balliano (balliano) on 2007-12-13T03:23:01.000+0000
yeah that's great and thank you for the speed!
anyway i can see a problem in svn version of locale.php, problem comes with non-english languages, for example in italian the word "yes" is translated into "sì", well... the generated regexp seems to be something like
but the problem is that we should also add the ì char without the accent, to have something like
you think it's possible?
Posted by Fabrizio Balliano (balliano) on 2007-12-13T03:32:19.000+0000
reading the CLDR xml files i found an interesting part
that "yesstr" (think also nostr exists) contains the full match for yes (separated by ":") thus this should be used to generate the regex, maybe simply using the "case insensitive" modificator
$yes = "sì:si:s"; $regex = str_replace(':', '|', $yes); $regex = "/($regex)/i";
what do you think?
Posted by Thomas Weidner (thomas) on 2007-12-15T13:42:00.000+0000
That's not possible because several locales do not contain the abbreviation and read only

This would then produce failures.
The colon ':' is just an option which can be avaiable but it's not recommended as per definition of the cldr standard.
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Integrated with SVN-7141.
See the new docu and the changed array informations.
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Columbia is a planned city in Central Maryland. It differs strongly from most notions of what constitutes a "city," as the planner divided the densely populated, but decidedly suburban in character, city into ten "villages," each of which are divided into several neighborhoods, leaving the city with a less obvious center.
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Offensive linemen in the zone at training camp
By Ed Bouchette / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
July 31, 2013
There are videos on the Internet of Alex Gibbs detailing the intricacies of the zone-blocking scheme he made famous for those who have a spare six or 10 hours.
Or, you could allow Jack Bicknell Jr. to explain it in capsule form over the next few minutes. He is the Steelers' new offensive line coach, and he has coached a zone-blocking scheme, most recently in Kansas City.
The Steelers long have used a power-blocking philosophy with double-teams and specific holes assigned for runners to hit. A zone-blocking philosophy uses more of a flow of blockers to the right or left without specific defensive players assigned for them to block. They cut off the backside (away from the flow) -- often with the cut block that has so annoyed defensive players -- and block whomever is in front of them. The back looks for daylight wherever it might appear and cuts it up, cuts it back or heads around the corner.
Save that previous paragraph for future reference. Now, here is Bicknell on zone-blocking in a nutshell:
"It's basically, exactly what it says. [Blockers] are going to go to an area, primarily. The philosophy behind the play is that the running back can hit it in a lot of different areas, depending on what the blocking scheme is.
"The reason I like it is, if you have a running play and the defense knows how to fit it and where the ball is going, it's tough in this league in my opinion, to be successful with that.
"But, hopefully, with the outside zone, you're spreading the whole field, similar to a zone-read type of concept in college -- of course we don't want to run the quarterback. How can we spread the field and at least make it hard for them to fit? Here comes the safety, he doesn't know exactly where to fit -- 'if I fit too far outside he may cut it up, if I fit in here, he may get around the edge.'
"Those are the things that are exciting to me. The philosophy is we want to try to cut the backside, cut off the pursuit there, run guys on the front side and, hopefully, there are some seams for the running back."
One difference for Bicknell with the Steelers is they will keep the power-blocking scheme as well, using the double teams when they need to be used. They have big enough linemen, versatile enough and quick enough he believes to do both. One reason the Steelers did not pursue Max Starks again when he became a free agent is they did not think he was athletic enough to run the zone-blocking scheme.
Running backs have thrived in zone-blocking schemes. The Denver Broncos have been running the zone since the mid-1990s when Gibbs was their line coach, and it did not seem to matter who ran behind it, he was successful. Terrell Davis rushed for 2,008 yards one season. When he was hurt, someone named Olandis Gary ran for 1,159 yards in 12 games as a rookie. Mike Anderson was next and so on and so forth.
Mike Shanahan, the head coach of those Denver teams, selected Alfred Morris of Florida Atlantic in the sixth round for the Washington Redskins last year. Morris, running behind a zone-blocking scheme, set a Redskins record with 1,613 yards rushing.
Any doubt that Le'Veon Bell might like the new zone scheme with the Steelers?
"You have to have enough speed to threaten them, that's the big thing," Bicknell said of the backs running behind the zone blocks. "You don't have to be a 4.2 guy. You just have to have enough speed to threaten the outside, to make them think 'Hey, he could get around the edge,' and I think we have that.
"Then it's vision and toughness. It's not a sideways play, it's a downhill play if you run it right. What I like the best is when everybody thinks we're going outside and then we hit it right down the center of the field. That makes it tough for the defender."
Simply put, the back reads the tight end's block on the end defender. If he hooks him inside, the back runs outside. If he doesn't, the back cuts inside.
"It's kind of our job to make the reads clean for the running back, and then try to get that backside pursuit cut down, so that they can't make the play," Bicknell said of his linemen.
Holding off that backside pursuit often means a cut block, which is an offensive linemen diving at the lower legs of a defensive player. Those receiving that block hate it because they believe it carries a higher rate for a knee injury. Recall the angry response by the Steelers to Baltimore's use of the cut and chop blocks in the 2011 season opener, won by the Ravens, 35-7.
"Yes, there will be cut blocks," Bicknell said. "But it's not all the time you want to cut it. Sometimes, if you stay up, you can actually run people by the running back. So, he's running, you're blocking him and the running back can cut right off your butt."
If defensive players don't like it, said guard Ramon Foster, too bad. "We love that. There's defensive guys now who cut us when we pull. If we can give that favor back, more power to us."
The new zone-blocking scheme is popular with the linemen.
"It adds a dynamic to us," Foster said. "When you're doing power plays the entire game and they know what's coming, they can stack the box or anchor down. With this outside zone, it keeps them on their toes, keeps them honest, and it opens up to what we can do best. We're still a power team, it's just the outside zone caters to what we do most."
Roster moves
The Steelers signed cornerback Ryan Steed of Furman and tight end John Rabe of Minnesota and released defensive tackle Omar Hunter of Florida and cornerback Nigel Malone of Kansas State.
Gerry: The stretch is no good if you don't have the right RB
All the talk about zone blocking sounds good, but if the Steelers dont have a running back who fits that type of attack or knows how to utilize that scheme, then the whole approach will be futile. To run an outside zone-blocking scheme, a team needs a running back who is patient enough to let the defense stretch itself toward the boundary and has the vision to find the gaps in the defense. And he has to be comfortable enough, and capable enough, to cutback against the pursuit. LeVeon Bell, their No. 2 draft choice, ran a lot of stretch plays at Michigan State and would appear to be a good fit for the system. Thats one of the reasons they drafted him so high. Isaac Redman and Jonathan Dwyer are not those types of backs. They are more power-oriented backs who run inside, and the Steelers will still utilize a lot of the inside man-blocking techniques theyve employed for years.
Will A Run Heavy Offense Bring The Steelers Success In 2013?
August 2nd, 2013 by Matt Loede
The Steelers early results from camp clearly has the team heading into a different direction one that hasnt been seen from the club since the days of Jerome Bettis and Franco Harris,
That direction is focused more on the run game, using rookie LeVeon Bell, and two players who this offseason dedicated themselves to getting lighter and faster Issac Redman and Jonathan Dwyer.
The threesome, if all wind up on the roster, could give teams a headache in 2013, and it is sounding more and more if the Steelers are going to have a big season, it might be built around this three-headed monster.
Today we look at the main reasons just why a run game may be successful and win in 2013 in the AFC North.
1. Pressure Off Ben The last couple seasons has been QB Ben Roethlisberger take some vicious shots that will take years off his career and life. Last season they almost lost him for the rest of his NFL career, but luckily got him back. With the reality that hes not going to last forever, the way to extend him is to no have him get crushed with 30-40 sacks every season (30 a year ago, 40 in 2011), and a run game will be the key to that this upcoming season.
2. Confidence for the line No question that when you talk to offensive linemen, they will always say they love to run block more than pass block. If the Steelers employ a new zone-blocked running game as they have early into camp, it will give these young OLs like David DeCastro and Mike Adams something to look forward to. The backs need to make sure to find the holes, but I would be willing to be the lineman love this new thought of running the ball more and a lot.
3. RBs an Area of Strength The Steelers lost WR Mike Wallace this offseason, and unless a deal gets done, could lose Emmanuel Sanders after the 2013 season. The running backs seem to actually be an area of strength for this team, with Bell already having the best camp of any of just about any player on the roster. Redman and Dwyer appear to be hungry and have something to prove after not getting the job done a season ago in an 8-8 season, so play to your area of strength, that being the backs.
4. Something Different Going back to Steelers Football has been craved by fans for some time, and if the Steelers do it, theres no doubt that other teams will follow. Problem is, at least for 2013, the Steelers will own the book on running and time of possession in 2013. They also will work to be more physical and outhit teams, something that it looked at times got away from them last season. If the Steelers have success, it will be a fresh new take on something that most teams have gotten away from in past seasons.
We need a good mix of pass\rush to be successful. We need to execute better on plays, especially pass plays
then we will run better.
We need to execute the pass successfully to open the run game....
I agree with this. It's become a passing-heavy league, with more emphasis on stopping the pass. But then look at the Rats last year. Rice was a beast. Having a threat of run AND pass makes you much more difficult to defend.
I think it will always be true... offenses that are not 1-dimensional will have the most success. Running opens up the pass. And passing opens up the run. If you can't do one of them well, the opposing defense will focus on taking away your strength.
Colin Dunlap: LeVeon Better Answer The Bell
By: Colin Dunlap
August 5, 2013
Rookie LeVeon Bell is trying to earn a job with a Steeler running game that ranked just 26th in the NFL in per-game yardage in 2012. (Photo Credit: Justin K. Aller/Getty Images)
The Steelers held a fourth-quarter lead in 11 of 16 games in 2012.
The Steelers finished 2012 with an 8-8 record, missing the playoffs.
Know whats the easy takeaway from the previous two sentences? The Steelers couldnt churn through and melt away that clock as the game neared an end, gutting the hope of the opposition by keeping the ball on the ground and squeezing the last bits of life from the contest.
Enter rookie running back LeVeon Bell. Or, well, at least that should be a heavy dose of the plan for the 2013 season.
When the Steelers drafted Bell out of Michigan State in the second round with the 48th overall pick the chatter immediately began about whether or not he would be the starter this season.
While such a role is pivotal (and I think he will start) theres much more interest from where I sit on whether or not Bell will be the finisher.
Preferably, he can be both. Man, I sure hope so.
Because, thats precisely what the Steelers need.
At 6-feet-1-inch, 244-pounds, Bell is a brawny back who has the ability to run behind a guard to grit out the tough yards, but also showed a counterbalance at Michigan State, where he was just as apt to bounce the play to the edge and make yards along the hashmarks.
Such versatility is needed in a ground game this year for the Steelers; a ground game that amassed just 1,537 yards last year as Jonathan Dwyer, Isaac Redman and the since-departed Rashard Mendenhall and Chris Rainey were the primary players to carry the football.
Certainly, the Steelers dont have much of a recent track record with entrusting the run game to a first-year man, as Tim Worley came out of Georgia in 1989 and served as the last rookie running back to start for the franchise.
But, in all honesty, why not Bell? Why not now?
Again, Im far more concerned with making him the unchallenged finisher, because, to me at least, that role will probably be just as important, but the Steelers would do well to anoint him the No. 1 back coming out of camp if all continues to go as it has at St. Vincent.
In three seasons, Dwyer has played in 21 games and, at least from this vantage point, has underwhelmed. While his back-to-back games of 122 and 107 yards against Cincinnati and Washington in late-October last season were impressive, he never again gained more than 56 yards in a game.
Might it be time to realize that Dwyer will, forever, be a complementary piece in the NFL and never a feature back? Thats the way I think.
As for Redman, he had that marvelous showing against the Giants in early-November of last season, ripping through them for 147 yards. In eight games he played thereafter, he had a combined 136 yards.
You want to put your ground game hopes in him? I sure dont.
When the Steelers went out in the offseason and drafted Bell, they made a concerted effort to get better in the run game, to safeguard against going 8-8 again this season.
Heres the thing though: Head coach Mike Tomlin and offensive coordinator Todd Haley should use Bell right from the jump, make the unopposed go-to guy on the ground as the starter.
If they are unwilling to put that much trust in the rookie, if they learned anything from last season, they would at least make him the closer.
I don't think the Steelers are going to be a heavy rushing-oriented team. The Steelers need to be better at rushing the ball but I don't think there will be a substantial increase in attempts.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Rookie Le'Veon Bell, the team's second-round pick, is blowing away the competition to start at halfback. During live 11-on-11 he has ripped off several good runs. Bell has come out of the gate fast and continued to do so until he bumped knees in practice Friday with a teammate and missed a few practices. That is a minor bruise, however, and while they did not put him with the first team permanently before the injury, there is little doubt that he will start. [URL]http://sports.yahoo.com/news/team-report-pittsburgh-steelers-054021145--nfl.html[/URL]
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I was recounting this for someone who asked me how my wife and I were able to get along so well. "You guys never argue about anything!"
Well ...
I knew my wife for many years before we were married. We dated for a long time and simply cannot remember arguing about much of anything. So we marry, and money is extremely tight, as in we generally had less than $50/month left over after paying our bills for the month. For the first time, we found something to argue about, money. :(
We were polar opposites on how we should utilize our fundage. Mrs. gonelong prefered to have creature comforts on a somewhat regular basis (coffee, eat out with friends, etc) while I prefered to save for larger ticket items I wanted. How could you spend $400 on golf clubs? Because I didn't spend $400 on coffee and wicker baskets in the last 3 months?
After a year or two of paying off debts and a few raises money was not as tight, however, the discussions/arguments about money persisted, much to my chagrin. It took me a few years, but I solved it. We literally don't discuss money for months at a time anymore, which means peace and harmony. :)
I opened up 3 checking accounts and a savings account at a credit union, all joint accounts. The savings account and one checking account are for our bills, savings, etc. Both our checks are direct deposited to the savings account and then trickle into the checking account to pay bills. Bills are paid first, savings is second, and then what is left over is our "allowance". [As we had less debt and more income, we set up sub-accounts for various other things such as a vaction fund, christmas fund, car payment (or saving for next car), and "next big purchase". Money is transferred automatically each month into these accounts. Occasionally we voted to raise our allowances. :D ]
This was the key:One checking account is "hers" and the other is "mine". Automated transfers move money into the Bill paying checking account, and each of us get an equal "allowance" (I make 2.5x what she makes, but hey, we're partners). This is for gas and any enterainment/misc - spend it however you like, don't ask for more (this goes for *both* of us). If you buy something via credit card, you are responsible to pay it off out of your account, etc.
There is some gray area here (clothes, tools, makeup) - you will need to set the ground rules for (and be semi-flexible about) these and things will change from time to time.
We both have side gigs that we make a little cash at. Breadwinner can decide to either put it all into a sub-account ... savings/vacation/next purchase or split 50/50 with each other. (While you were out making that extra cash, I was picking up slack at home, it should be mutually beneficial).
It's probably not for everyone, but it puts everything out in the open and ensured we were working towards some common goals. One for all and all for one kinda deal. :thumbup:
The guy I explained this too was intrigued, so I thought I would share this with you. Hopefully you find something useful in it and it adds to your thinking.


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On the off-chance someone was going to RTFA, here is the FA [linux.com], since it doesn't seem to have made it into the story.
The following line probably tells most people what they want to know:
Also missing are features that those familiar with Flash Professional or Adobe Captivate might expect, such as drawing tools, a scripting language, and support for sound and video.
So what does it do? Well, slideshows. Handy, but not hugely exciting.
But it might be interesting to see what some creative artists can do with it. Like many, I've found Flash to be a common irritant on the Web, but I've seen some wonderful work done with it, and I think it's got some value as an artistic medium.Maybe some flash presentations could be done slide-by-slide but most can't
Salasaga seems to be about authoring slide shows in SWF format. In which case, it will need to do a better job than the Export function of the Open Office Impress application.
Adobe are supporting [Flex] under Linux...
If by supporting you mean "have thrown an alpha or two over the wall for 32-bit x86 processors back in December", then yes, Adobe supports Linux with Flex.
If by supporting you mean "have thrown an alpha or two over the wall for 32-bit x86 processors back in December", then yes, Adobe supports Linux with Flex.
Personally, I'm very happy about them releasing alphas. It's already quite usable.
Also, there's another commercial IDE [powerflasher.com], the SDK [adobe.com] itself is under the MPL, and there are alternative (non-Adobe) tools [swfmill.org] as well.
Anyway, I highly recommend haXe [haxe.org], it's a fine language that you can also use to generate JavaScript, with a great type system.
Trying to do OSS development on the Flash platform is kind of a nightmare in terms of licensing.
Re Flex, check out the EULA [adobe.com], e.g., "No Modifications, No Reverse Engineering." The swf spec [adobe.com] says "a. You may not use the Specification in any way to create or develop a runtime, client, player, executable or other program that reads or renders SWF files." If you look at the list of codecs that are supported for Flash, or that may be supported in the near future, it's a mixture of totally proprietary codecs and others that are not quite as proprietary, but are not totally free and open either: mp3, a modified version of h.263, AAC audio, H.264 video, Nelly Moser. The EULA for the player [adobe.com] says you can't modify it or reverse-engineer it, and can't run it on a portable device. As of a year ago, there were also a lot of compatibility and licensing issues with the Version 2 Components.
If you want to do totally OSS development on the flash platform, you can also do it using mtasc, haxe, and gnash. However, you then have to accept that mtasc supports an old version of actionscript, and haxe isn't the same language. I.e., you can't buy a flash book and expect to get the examples working.
OpenOffice already has the ability to export Impress presentations in Flash
It worked for me, I did it earlier today. Youtube seems to work, no firefox crashes yet. Ubuntu 7.10, Firefox 188.8.131.52, about:plugins should display the following once it is installed:sudo apt-get install nspluginwrapper
sudo nspluginwrapper -i FILENAME.so
File name: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r115
No idea, but here's one tip: mplayer will play the videos.
Visit the youtube page with a broken flash implementation and it may still download the file to your browser's cache. (It does in opera). Drop to command line, launch mplayer
I second mplayer. All the flash video I've thrown at it plays well, though I admit I haven't tried a huge amount.
I'm certain there is a firefox plugin for mplayer. I've seen mentioned. I don't use it because...well I am on dialup and I think video in web pages is evil!
Epistax: "Can I have an integrated flash player that WORKS please? [...] arg please don't say contribute, I haven't the time to do anything but work and flame on slashdot"
If you don't have the time to contribute, how important is that integrated flash player for you? Contribution doesn't neccesary mean it will cost you time, contributing money (even a small sum) can be a way too. Or you could send Adobe a polite email, asking them to add support for your platform. Adobe is increasingly paying more attention to linux. A friendly reminder of lots of people helps
Epistax: "Gnash is utter crap"
There are people on projects like Gnash, GPLFlash player, etc who tried or still trying to solve your problem. It's not easy to build an open source flash player. It takes a lot of effort from people with very busy lifes who make the time to contribute code. If all open source developers had your attitude, we all wouldn't even have something like a amd64 open source distribution. So please don't say open source x or y is utter crap, but you don't have time to contribute.
Geez, and people in hell want ice water. I mean, some people are just never satisfied.Here I am in amd64... can I have an integrated flash player that WORKS please?
I use nspluginwrapper [beauchesne.info] and the 32-bit Flash plugin, it works fairly well, although occasionally Flash "goes away" (blank window with no content) and you need to reload the browser.
That being said, it's certainly better than most of the other alternatives.
Like any sensible person, I don't install Flash. As for Youtube, youtube-dl [arrakis.es] works quite well.
So what does it do? Well, slideshows. Handy, but not hugely exciting
Not only that, OpenOffice can already export slideshows into
From the project homepage
An Integrated Development Environment for producing eLearning. Imagine a free, easy to use GUI authoring environment that helps you create visually impressive and actually useful learning material. The short term goal for this project is to provide such an environment, and we're well on the way to a first release for doing that.
To me, this seems to suggest this is designed as an educational tool, not a linux flash replacement. But it fails to show (at least to me) why it is any better t
It in fact depends on that library.
It's not only about flash.
I never noticed that Linux had a problem in that regard.
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Up until February of 2005, my only real experience with photography was dabbling over the years with various cameras to be able to keep memories of holidays alive (namely, a Kodak disc-based [circa 1984] camera and Fuji APS-based camera [circa 1995], any other camera I used was a disposable from the local Chemist).
I bought my first digital camera in February of 2005 (a Sony DSC-V3 digital compact) and soon saw everything around me from a different perspective. Within six months, I realised I wanted to take this new-found passion further and bought my first digital single lens reflex camera (a Canon EOS 350D), attending evening classes to grasp the basics of photography (composition, shutter speed, aperture).
My main passion is photographing motorsport but I am keen to try all "genres" of photography (low light, portraiture, still life, wildlife, etc.) as a way of continuously learning and pushing my own personal boundaries.


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So, based on no further information than that in the article... can you say Multi-level marketing scam? I knew you could
"like those herbal juices you see advertised on the back of peoples cars"
You mean the ones that get sold with a pitch that makes them out to be some elixir of eternal youth? While the scheme may be legitimate, I've yet to see it being used in conjunction with a product that wasn't a load of horseshit.
Tupperware parties ?
"multi level, or network marketing is a legal scheme provided that there is a tangible product or service in the mix,"
Even if there is a tangible product, it's still a scam. See the Illinois rulings against Scentura Creations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scentura [wikipedia.org]
In fact, most MLMs are violating one or more various laws in individual states.
The way MLMs are operated now is a violation of some state and some federal laws.
Actually, for a MLM to be legal in the US, it has to sell more than 50% (iirc) of its products to non members. Currently the most successful MLM in the us only sells about 17% of its products to non members.
Too lazy to google, I looked it up a few days ago because someone tried to sucker me into going to a scamway meeting.
I use this criteria for telling off a MLM distributor:
If you can get me a better deal by buying your product through you as opposed to what I can buy at the local Wal-Mart or from other local retailers, I'll buy it from you.
Sadly, I have yet to get a single MLM marketer to take me up on the offer. The truth is they can't compete except on sky high promises and on schemes that ultimately put so many hands into the profit stream that you can't get a reasonably priced product even if you tried. In fact, as a
You hit the nail on the head with your 'dreams' comment.
If you take a poll of the average person anywhere in the world and you ask them "would you like to have more of $dream in your life" 80% of them would answer yes to more than one of $dream, which could be TIME (a favourite of MLM's), money, posessions, even happiness or a bunch of others.
MLM schemes promise the chance to let you realise that dream, "If you work hard now on your "Independent Business" you can be "financially free" or you can "have two h
My old boss gave me a bottle of acai juice one time... not bad with Gosling's black seal rum. Just dilute the acai juice a bit first or its going to be really strong. Best use I could find for it. Personally, every time I see one of those MonaVie stickers on someone's car I mentally substitute the word idiot in its place.
Sorry, but there is no such thing as real MLM. It's just a term, pyramid scheme criminal organizations use, to describe themselves, so they officially can stay legal. In reality, there is no difference between MLM and pyramid schemes. They are the same. Their purpose is fraud. Always. No exceptions.
Scam is right. Multilevel marketing makes it almost seem legitimate, which apparently it wasn't.
BTW - I'm using the word "apparently" in the "please don't sue me" sense of the word.
What? Are you scared? Of a bunch of criminals?
There I said it: MLM = pyramid scheme = fraud/scam = criminals. Always. Period.
It's the whole and only point. And they not only know it, but that's the whole and only reason they did it. Also always. Also Period.
Come and try to sue me, fuckers. I'll rip your balls off trough your throat!
From the summary:
began recruiting salespeople who paid a monthly fee to be part of a sales program
What more do you need to know?
From the summary:
began recruiting salespeople who paid a monthly fee to be part of a sales program
What more do you need to know?
What other kind of place that charges you to work comes to mind? Strip clubs.
Any others?
Salespeople were promised payment based on how many other salespeople they signed up to the program, although few appear to have received payment.
Seriously? How people ever think this sort of plan makes fiscal sense and isn't at all dodgy I will never understand.
Most people are bad at math and logical reasoning.
Compared to what? The average person? That's impossible. The top 5% of people at math and logical reasoning? Well, they would be by definition. Compared with the level of math proficiency and logical reasoning -you- think they should be at? If that's the case, I'd argue you have unrealistic expectations. Compared to you?
It's rational to join an MLM if you're high enough on the pyramid. Speaking for my self, the reason I don't join these things is that 1. I "know" (or believe that I know) I am very low on the chain; 2. I'm a bad salesperson anyways because I have trouble buying into lies.
I've never even bothered to compute my expected payoff, mostly because of the uncertainty associated with point 1., supra.
Most people are bad at math and logical reasoning.
Compared to what?
Thank you for providing that excellent example of how most people are bad at logical reasoning.
In the same way that most people are bad at flying, jumping over the grand canyon, time travel, and teleportation. You determine a set of objective critera to form a test and see what the mean score is. If the mean score is above 50%, then most people are good at that task.
Now, if you'll excuse me I have some tests to administer to some subjects in Arizona.
I think what he means to say is that about half the people is below the 50% avarage. That is a lot.
Well, 50% of the population has below average intelligence, by definition. What is even scarier to think about is that they vote too (in places with elected representatives).
The problems with most geeks is that they tend to hang out in circles where there are substantial social filters to weed out those with lower intelligence, and you tend to think that average intelligence is somebody who can do a derivative in their sleep and understands the concept of a coefficient of friction from a mathematical viewp
Most people are bad at math and logical reasoning. The sooner you accept that, the sooner the world will suddenly make sense.
Meh. Many people are greedy fools who think they're smarter than average and can't be easily tricked. Con artists have time-tested, good methods to exploit these attributes. Pyramid schemes are actually a great tool for exploiting people who think they're smarter than average - after all they only have to con X other people into the scam and then they're set. Clearly they're going to be able to find X other people who are dumber than they are that they can exploit and get money out of. And the X other people they con into the scam? Who cares - they're idiots and shouldn't have let themselves get conned into a pyramid scheme...
Nobody in a pyramid scheme thinks they're going to be left holding the bag at the end. That's how pyramid schemes work. They work great even if all of the participants are fully aware of the fact that they're in a pyramid scheme because everyone at every level is convinced that it's only the suckers below them who are going to lose their shirts and that their own risk is minimal. Even if everyone has awesome logical reasoning skills if they start from a faulty premise (i.e. I'm too smart to be left holding the bag at the end of this scam) they're going to reach a faulty conclusion.
Don't forget Greed. See the mortgage collapse. A majority of those people were good at math and reasoning, but they were greedy. They thought they could cut a few corners and make it big.
People in financial trouble tend to get desperate and throw all logic out the door. I got taken for an incredibly stupid scam, once. It was one of those "The post office is hiring. Pay us for the training kit" scams, and I cannot stress hard enough that it was stupid. But, I had an unemployed wife and a baby to support, and I had just lost my job.
Things seemed desperate, and in those situations, people tend to throw logic out the door. So, the problem isn't just that most people are stupid, and some of us a
Greed is probably the greatest foe of common-sense.
I say "probably" only because I think religion is neck-and-neck.
Combine the two, and, well...you end up with the likes of the Trinity Broadcast Network and Joel Osteen.
"Combine the two, and,"
You end up with our government for the past half century.
It's only 2010. We haven't had half a century yet
But maybe the next one is real.
Bah. Next thing you'll say is that lotteries are a waste of money, and horoscopes aren't real.
Bet you don't visit church on Sundays, either.
Bah. Next thing you'll say is that lotteries are a waste of money . .
Depends what your expectations are. I don't expect to win but can't help the excited anticipation which I get when I check the numbers. That excitement cost me one pound. Good investment if you ask me.
A simple adage - "If it's too good to be true, it probably is". People never seem to learn it. Always falling for scams. I'm not surprised.
it -probably- is. Even you hedged your wording, because even you know sometimes it just really is as good as the promise. Lots of stuff seems too good to be true, but delivers. Enough that its often hard for even a fairly intelligent and rational person to really know.
I mean, who'd believe linux, or bsd, or asterix, or postgresql, or apache,
I mean, who'd believe linux, or bsd, or asterix, or postgresql, or apache,
The catch is that they typically require some effort and expertise on your part to make them useful. They're not generally fully-productized turnkey solutions.
Some of us like it that way by comparison with the alternatives, but the catch is there.
"People never seem to learn it. Always falling for scams. I'm not surprised."
Even if people did learn it, there are new suckers being born every minute. See also: Construction in earthquake/flood areas, regulations on financial industries, international bodies to avoid war, etc.
"Salespeople were promised payment based on how many other salespeople they signed up to the program, although few appear to have received payment."
The only newsworthy part of this is that Slashdot and others thought this business model was newsworthy in the first place.
It's a Pyramid Scheme with the phrase "Cell Phone" tacked on, anyone who bought into this deserved what they got.
Amway actually sells products. They're a bit odd, but for a lonely bachelor or housewife, having a sales person turn up at your door and let you know about deals on things you actually use like plates and dishes and paper towels can be helpful. And for a _modest_ percentage of households, it can be a few hours of work a week that feeds that fourth kid.
It's the high pressure "make your friends into salespeople, that makes you money" that makes them an addictive and much hated pyramid scheme. But they've mana
And for a _modest_ percentage of households, it can be a few hours of work a week that feeds that fourth kid.
It's the high pressure "make your friends into salespeople, that makes you money" that makes them an addictive and much hated pyramid scheme. But they've managed to stay in business because they actually sell a useful set of products, and they don't engage in the wholesale fraud of the "laundry balls" or the "Mangosteen Juice" or "Scientology E-Meters".
Feeds the fourth kid? Not hardly. A few m
Cosmetics have been a part of human life for a lot longer than Estee Lauder. From the Ancient Egyptians [king-tut.org.uk] to the Greeks [fjkluth.com], to the Native Americans [ethnicpaintings.com] - the idea of applying colour to your face or other parts of your body for one reason or another has been prevalent for thousands of years. Typically it's done to influence others' view of you - to find you attractive, or scary, or powerful. You may not consider that utilitarian, but do you dress entirely in hessian sack cloth? No? Then are your clothes strictly util
but do you dress entirely in hessian sack cloth? No? Then are your clothes strictly utilitarian?
My T-Shirts and Jeans, made in Pakistan / China, are cheaper than a sack... In fact I've been considering the price of coin-operated laundry, and how close we are to the point that buying new clothes every week becomes cheaper than washing them...
Of course we've far since gone past that point when you count full-service laundry, particularly that found in hotels...
Salespeople were promised payment based on how many other salespeople they signed up to the program.
And were those other people promised payment based on how many others they signed up? Was the payment structure a hierarchical top down system like a pyramid?
Damn the link you provided requires Flash, I am so sorry to miss important opportunities...
Or maybe Quixtar [quixtar.com]?
I had a girlfriend trick me into going to a quixtar meeting when they first started it up (forget the ploy she used, but she definitely wasn't up front about where we were going). Part way into the opening pitch I click, "WTF, you brought me to a amway meeting?!"
Her: "No, it's quixtar. It's totally different."
Me: "Ah.... no. It's not."
She was an english major so I forgave her for being tricked into joining a MLM scam.
Post makes the point that Global Verge is suing Zer01.
Don't infer hostility!!!!!
Collusive (friendly) lawsuits are a fraudulent way one person can transfer money to another person (himself?), thereby dodging legitimate creditors.
Instead of multi tier marketing schemes, we just need more cooperatives: owned and run by members, for the benefit of the members!
recruiting salespeople who paid a monthly fee to be part of a sales program. [...] Salespeople were promised payment based on how many other salespeople they signed up to the program,
That has pyramid scheme written all over it. I wonder why it took so long and why no legal action was taken against them. Or are these scams legal in the US?
The moment somebody comes to me and tells me I can earn a lot of money, but first I need to pay a bit up front will NOT be my new employer. The will NOT be my business partner. They will be sorted under scammer. If I need to recruit people and payed on basis of how many people I can enlist, I will NOT work for that company (unless I am HR.)
Why were they not closed sooner? Even without the links to other dubious companies, this sounds like a first class pyramid scam.
The (sic) will NOT be my business partner.
So you expect to go into partnership with someone without putting in any equity? If you don't put something in, you're not a partner -you're an employee.
That's not true at all.
If you have the skills/contacts/whatever that someone wants they could employ you or the could offer you an equity stake and some control over the company.
You don't have to actually put money down to be a business partner. It's the usual case of course, but there's no requirement for it.
If you have the skills/contacts/whatever that someone wants they could employ you or the could offer you an equity stake and some control over the company.
Taking a partner on for their customer or vendor contact lists opens you up to a lawsuit, and to having to basically turn over your company to their former employer. Do you really want to engineer your own liquidation?
Taking them on as an employee is only slightly less risky.
This isn't just the case in high tech. From industrial rubber products to f
Doesn't matter if it's a stupid move or an unlikely move, it's a possibility and hence your "If you don't put something [equity] in, you're not a partner -you're an employee" isn't true
So now you are claiming it is illegal to be a partner in a business without putting money up front into the business?
Your statement: "If you don't put something [equity] in, you're not a partner -you're an employee" is simply 100% false, incorrect, a lie.
Seriously, you want to stick by that claim? Do you have a legal reference for it???
[Note I wasn't thinking vendor/client lists when I said "contacts" you invented that.]
Two parties legally capable of formulating a contract
The object of the contract
The consideration ("thing given") by each side;
A contract that is one-sided (that you don't put anything into, or that is disproportionate to the benefits) is easily voidable, and WILL be voided by outside parties in, say, a bankruptcy, where the legal presumption will be that it was made to defraud the estate of the bankrupt. It will also be voided by your "partner" should they decide that they
Taking a partner on for their customer or vendor contact lists opens you up to a lawsuit, and to having to basically turn over your company to their former employer. Do you really want to engineer your own liquidation?
I'd have thought that you'd generally only be at risk if you poached someone from another employer. If they're no longer employed by them (and there's no enforceable non-compete agreement in place) then there's really no comeback by the ex-employer. After all, if they really wanted to keep their former employee's expertise then they would still be employing them.
Even with no formal non-compete, the former employee is not allowed to use the previous employers customer and supplier lists. They are not the employee's property - they're part of the "work-for-hire" product.
Hope this clears it up a bit. It's a land-mine out there, and nowhere near as simple as things used to be.
The problem is that, if they had come up with a viable product, then they would be a legitimate business and the people scammed would be either investors, or retailers. The only difference between them and a hot dog vendor, or a guy who sells cellphones at the mall, would be the location.
The only difference is that it's O1 (the letter 'O'), not 01
Seems to me that, to add insult to injury, the typo-squatter picked the better domain name to begin with...
...and the two companies began recruiting salespeople who paid a monthly fee to be part of a sales program.
Any time that you're required to pay money to work - and I mean this outside of regular expenses such as supplies and travel, etc. - it's probably a good idea to turn around and run as far away as you can. A monthly fee to be part of a sales program? This is even worse than the typical MLM such as Primerica or Quixtar. At least those programs offer some sort of good or service in return, despite having an initial start-up cost.
But to collect money like that on a monthly basis and to vanish?
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The M&G and Concerts! (Public Entry) - Me and My Thoughts
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The M&G and Concerts! (Public Entry)
[Sep. 23rd, 2005|
02:36 am
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del taco
frankie muniz
hanson merch
jessica hanson
jumping on pianos
mexican food
nikki (isaac's gf)
one life to live
ryan cabrera
water bottle
Current Location
So Totally Amazing Night, The Roxy, Los Angeles, California
Current Mood
Current Music
Hanson - If Only (At the Fillmore San Fransisco, CA June 27, 2000) (Song 11)
OMG! Wednesday was sooooooooooo totally awesome!!!
I cannot believe it happened... I will write everything in sections so it won't look like one huge, really long entry. I will for sure get into detail because this is one night I will never forget!
Meeting up with Megara (
So I woke up yesterday morning feeling really excited. I totally couldn't wait to meet Hanson.
So I got ready to leave for Megara's work. When I got there it was lunchtime. What we did first was make a shirt to promote Katie (
). Some of you know why we really had that shirt made. LOL!
Anyways after that we got something at the cafeteria there then went back to her office and ate. Then after that I had to wait in the cafeteria for an hour. While waiting I ended up watching One Life To Live. Then we left for the Roxy.
On the way there we were like anxious.
Waiting To Meet Hanson
When we got there there was a somewhat of a long line. We went to the box office first so we could get our tickets. Things were somewhat confusing. Someone was told they could get the tickets at 4pm then it was pushed back to 4:30pm. Then we were told we could only get the tickets for the 7pm show and at like 6:30pm is when we could pick up the tickets for the 9:30pm show. After that we went to look for all the other M&G people. It just so happens that the reporter who we were suppose to meet up with was right there where we were standing. I called
Shelly because we were suppose to meet up. So we met up and said hi and stuff. Eventually we, the M&G people, all met up. It was funny because we didn't know where to stand and the security guard kept on moving us. LOL! We all didn't want to leave each other because we didn't want to get lost or like miss any important info or any other stuff like that so we like waited together. We kept on asking the security guard what time we were suppose to meet Hanson and he said 6:30pm. We didn't really believe him. Then this SUV pull into the little parking area on the side of the Roxy. It was Taylor and Zac.
They got out and headed inside. Everyone saw them and crowded the the entrance to the parking lot to take a look. Zac was on the phone
and just waves to us with his fingers. Silly Zac. Taylor just like nodded his head in a "hey what's up" kind of way. Isaac
was already there. The reporter at that time talked Taylor and Zac for a bit then to I think it was Hanson's
tour manager. The security guard was right about us meeting Hanson at 6:30pm. We were all kind of annoyed because we were told to meet up at 4pm. Well actually we understood why, but the wait was terrible!
We just wanted to meet Hanson already. LOL! So we picked a spot to meet at and decided to meet at 6pm. After that Megara had to call someone and while she was talking on the phone
a Range Rover pulled up and the person in the front passenger seat was waving at us. I kept on poking Megara and was trying to tell her that I think someone was in the Range Rover was waving at us. She got out of the car and headed right towards us and it was Alice's (
) mom. She said hi to us. Megara and I were all like "Oh my gosh! Hi!" LOL! We didn't realize who it was. So then we walked up to the Range Rover and met up with Alice and her sister. Alice's friend from LJ came with them. We talked for a bit then Alice and her sister and her LJ friend had to go get in line before it got any longer. When it was 6pm we all met up near that little parking area. Then all of a sudden Jessica, Hanson's
sister for those of you who may not know who she is, came out. She came out a few times and was on the phone
most of the time. She was probably calling her friends and was looking for them. Then one time Nikki, Isaac's gf for those of you who may not know who she is, came out too. While waiting most of us had to pee partly because it was cold and the wind was blowing. We were all joking that once we get in there to meet Hanson
we will say, "Uh hi! It's nice to meet you, but we gotta use the restroom." LOL! We so totally couldn't wait to meet them.
Then came time to meet them.
Meeting Hanson
Well they check to see who's who and gave us the sticker passes and we all went on in. They were doing the last bit of soundcheck. We were all watching them and they were all amazing! I noticed Taylor
and Zac
looking at my direction a lot and they were looking at me kinda funny. Maybe it was the shirt I was wearing.
When they were all done Taylor
said hi and they each talked and stuff. One girl asked why they had a wrench with them and Taylor said that it was for tightening the bolds on the drums. Then he said that if we all weren't good he will throw the wrench at us. LOL! Isaac
noticed one of the girls' shirt. He couldn't see what it said from where he was so she told him what it said. It said, "If my music is too loud then you must be too old." The guys loved that shirt. Taylor said that "hell ya" or something should be put on the back of the shirt. LOL! Somewhere there they all said sorry for being late and that they will all each sign something for us and we will take a group pic instead of individual ones since they were running late.
Typical of them to be on HST. LOL! Next someone asked Taylor
if we were suppose to go back outside to lineup before the concert and Taylor said that he thinks that we were suppose to go back out. Then their tour manager or whoever said that we could just stay inside and Taylor said that we should disregard what he said. LOL! Then they all jumped off the stage to sign. Taylor
was the first one to sign the cardboard slip cover thingy for my Limited Edition Underneath album. Of course I said thank you. I was able to avoid from looking in his eyes. That was a really good thing.
For those of you who don't know why that's not such a good thing, you will like totally melt when look in his eyes. If you are talking to him or he is talking to you he will try to look in your eyes. They are so blue and beautiful. Next was Zac.
As I gave him and took from him my CD I touched his hand. Eeeeeppppp!!!!!
He is sooooooooo gorgeous!!! After he gave me back my CD I said thank you very much and he said no problem back to me. Eeeeeeeepppppp!!!! Then I let Isaac
sign. I said thank you to him and he just smiled at me. Then I got to talk to Zac
for a bit. I said to no one in particular that we have been standing out there for so long and my feet hurt and stuff and Zac must have heard me and he said that that was interesting and thanks for the visual and he was smiling. After that we took the group pic. I don't think anyone really cared where they were standing because the guys were kinda in a rush and we just grouped together. Once the pix were taken the guys had to go and get ready for the first concert.
At first it was just the M&G people standing there for a bit and then people started to come in. Megara and I kinda got separated. She was over on Isaac's
side of the audience and I was in the middle which was Zac's
side. Some people and I were talking to the security guard because there weren't any barricades or anything. I think we kinda scared him because we were talking about how Hanson fans act during concerts. It was funny because he said that "this sucks." LOL! He only took this job because a family member or I think a friend got it for him and he ended up liking this job. He's still in college and this was only a temporary job. Megara and I were able to find each other before the show started and we stayed on Isaac's
side even though I would have rather be on Zac's.
Some person was yelling at us that she and her friend slept overnight and blah blah blah because we like cut in font of her or something, but we didn't care. Nothing could ruin our night because we just met Hanson!
I knew she was just getting all restless and stuff because as usual Hanson
was taking so long to start. Megara and I talked for a bit. Then everyone started to chant Hanson.
Finally the show started. Before Being Me Isaac
was talking then all of a sudden someone screamed out "Kiss Taylor!" Isaac said, "What did she say?" and so she screamed it again. You can tell he was disgusted by just looking at his face and he said that we should just ignore what she said. There are some things that should be kept just between the fan base and incest is one of them. If you are going to any concerts on the Live and Electric Tour, do not mention or scream anything incest or anything related to that. I felt sorry for Isaac.
If he didn't like it then what more with Taylor
and Zac.
Anywho, before they did When You're Gone, Isaac
was talking about them being somewhere on the TTA tour when the song was written, but didn't remember where exactly. Zac
said that they were in the "middle of nowhere" when they wrote it. Silly Zac! LOL! Everytime I remember that part of the show I cannot help but laugh... During the middle of the song Zac
broke a guitar string so he had to hand it to one of the stage crew people to fix up. He was left rubbing his hands for the rest of the song. When the song was over, Zac
said that he broke a guitar string for the first time. Taylor
said that he told us there were going to be some surprises during the show. LOL! During With You In Your Dreams I was crying because when I found out my Lolo (which means grandfather in Filipino) died that song was playing on my WinAmp player. Before Zac
began to play Need You Now as his solo he was talking in a like playful way about how us H.Net members will remember that song and that the song will be new to non members. Me and some of the people around me just laughed at that. Oh for sure he knows that that song and many others have leaked. They all do. Thats why he joked about it. LOL! During Penny and Me Isaac
kinda messed up on the bridge because he was thinking of the chords to Strong Enough To Break instead. LOL! You could tell he messed up at that part by looking at his face. During MMMBop we were made to sing the verses by ourselves which was very cool. One thing I love about Hanson fans is that they know every single word to every Hanson song and when we are in concert we sing a-long with the guys. During Hey, This Time Around and Rip It Up they made us do some of the same stuff as on the UAL DVD.
Setlist for Acoustic Concert:
01. Strong Enough To Break
02. Where's The Love
03. Madeline
04. Sure About It
05. Being Me (I)
06. Runaway Run
07. When You're Gone
08. With You In Your Dreams
09. Need You Now (Z)
10. Crazy Beautiful (T)
11. Penny & Me
12. MMMBop
13. Ain't No Sunshine
14. Hey
15. This Time Around
16. Rip It Up
After the First Concert:
Megara and I quickly went out so we could get our tickets for the next show from the box office. Then we met up with Alice, her sister and her LJ friend. Shelly passed by to get some water and then she passed back to get back to her spot in line. We did talk for a little bit. Megara and I ended up talking to a group of 3 people who were in front of us in line for a bit. Back in 2000 I think it was they met the guys and they remember Zac
being mean or something like that. When Megara and I met him he was very nice. They just must have met him when he has having a bad day. While talking to them we talked to Alice, her sister and her LJ friend. Then it was time to go in for the next show.
Right when we all got in, Alice, her sister and her LJ friend went right to the back where there are some chairs to sit for the concert. Megara and I bought some merch right when we got in. There was this like booth on Taylor's
side. I bought the new black and white poster and the Hanson black tank top. Since we were already on Taylor's
side Megara and I just stayed there. We were able to get to the front and we just talked until the show started. Then during either during You Never Know or If Only I noticed the person in front of me. She had blond wavy hair and was wearing jeans and a pink long sleeves shirt with gold sequences on it. Megara kinda noticed her too. The thing that made us notice her was the she was drunk. She was humping the air and singing really badly to the songs. Since her friend was behind me she was trying to reach over me and stuff. But like I said, nothing could ruin our night because we just met Hanson!
So as she was trying to reach over to her friend I was pretending to be so into the song and not notice her so I just jumped up and down. LOL! During Gimmie Some Lovin, Isaac
and Taylor
did their little dance. Sometime during that song someone threw a bra at Taylor.
He picked it up with one finger and threw it off to the side. LOL! When they played Love Song I totally died because I love that song. I love how the piano sounds on that song. I love that song so much that on the night of Christmas of '03 I listened to that song for 3 hours straight from 7pm to 10 pm. It was cool hearing them play Believe. Every Word I Say. I love that song live! As they were performing that song I kept on remembering the Hanson Day tribute video CaptainAmerica on the member's side of H.Net made for Hanson Day back in '04 because he used that song as background music. During In A Little While Taylor
was in the middle of the stage kinda leaning over to the audience and someone threw a bit of water on him. He took the persons water bottle and poured all the water on her. Then he took his own water bottle and poured the water on the audience and threw the water bottle into the audience. Shelly got the water bottle and it is now hanging on her wall. WAY TO SO SHELLY!!!! Hearing Man From Milwaukee was amazing! Zac
dedicated Rock & Roll Razorblade to Frankie Muniz. Yes folks! Frankie was there. He is always at Hanson's
concerts in LA or the OC. And of course Taylor
jumped on his piano during that song. After that song was over they left the stage. Everyone waited for a bit and then chanted Hanson.
The guys came back out and did Lost Without Each Other as an encore.
Setlist for Electric Concert:
01. Crazy Beautiful
02. You Never Know
03. If Only
04. Look At You
05. Gimme Some Lovin'
06. Underneath
07. Love Song
08. Believe
09. Hand In Hand
10. Teach Your Children
11. Optimistic
12. Every Word I Say
13. Speechless
14. In A Little While
15. Thinking Of You
16. Man From Milwaukee
17. Rock & Roll Razorblade
18. Lost Without Each Other
End of the Night:
When Megara and I got out I was hoping to say goodbye to Alice, her sister and her LJ friend, but we didn't get a chance to meet up with them. We ended up going to Del Taco to get a drink and something to eat. We were joking that if we would have mentioned that we were going there after the show to Isaac
then he probably wanted to come with us. Isaac loves Mexican food. Then we headed to Megara's house for a much needed rest.
Other things that went on at the concert:
I heard that Ryan Cabrera was there. For those of you who don't know, he does like Hanson.
Shelly saw Taylor leave with Natalie and Penelope so they must have been there for both concerts.
That was the best night of my entire life! Not only did I get to meet Hanson
, but I got to go to 2 concerts in one night! Plus I got the best of both Hanson worlds, Acoustic and Electric. Now that totally rocked! The weird thing was that I met someone I knew online and have been talking to for about a year on AIM without knowing it. The girl with the "If my music is too loud then you must be too old" shirt was Jayme. Somewhere from the time all the M&G people met until sometime before the first concert she mentioned her screen name and I mentioned that I talk to the person with that screen name a lot. Then like a night or so later that's when we found out we met without knowing it. The whole week before the concert Megara was talking to her. How weird. Jayme said that if she knew we were meeting then she would have thanked me in person for all the Hanson songs I have sent her. That is like so weird but so cool at the same time.
There you have it! My review of the best night ever. I'm finally glad to have finished it.
I think I saw you at the electric concert. I was standing right next to you, but I didn't want to say "Hi!" and have some chick who wasn't you give me a weird look.
Glad you had fun, the shows ROCKED.
, I guess after you have read this you can find out if it was me you were standing next to at the electric concert or not.
2005-09-23 09:57 am (UTC)
you are awesome!
that was the ultimate read and you - rock!
you have no idea how absolutely flabbagastered i am that you wore that shirt!i love you. thankyou.
2005-09-23 10:00 am (UTC)
Re: you are awesome!
Hehe! I'm glad you liked my review. And you're welcome.
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2005-09-23 02:55 pm (UTC)
Re: you are awesome!
hey how tall are you? just curious - i may well be taller lol. thats weird as im the shortest person i know other than my mate claire lol.
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2005-09-24 02:36 am (UTC)
Re: you are awesome!
I'm 5 feet.
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