Posts made by trentreviso

@raphjd:

Originally, Fiats were to be sold by Fiat dealerships in the US when they made their comeback into the US market.  However, due to the current economic climate, Fiat decided to use a dealership system that was already in place to keep costs down. Then they were to be sold under GM's dealerships.  Now it looks like they will be sold under Chrysler's dealerships.

Part of the problem that lead to the break up of the GM/Fiat joint venture {design and sales} was that GM wanted to rebrand some of the Fiat cars as Chevys when they went on sale in the US. Fiat only wanted to have their cars badged as Fiat, not rebranded as Chevy as well.

Ironically, now that Fiat owns a big chunk of Chrysler, many Fiats will be sold under the Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep brand names. The "500" will probably be sold as a Fiat or simply offered as the "500" (without a company name) by Chrysler dealers. But the Punto will be rebranded as a Dodge or Chrysler. The 4-wheel drive Panda SUV will be sold as a Jeep. And the Grande Punto will probably be sold as a Chrysler.

You should be using a Virtual Private Network (VPN), hudson.

The question is NOT how safe gaytorrents.ru may be. It is "How safe is the Internet?" And the answer is, "not very safe."

Your ISP can monitor your torrent traffic and peek into the packets you are uploading and downloading.  They can keep track of what movie titles you are uploading and downloading, if they choose. If they have been alerted to look for certain titles, sharing those titles via torrents could trigger notification of organizations like the RIAA of your activity. Normally, ISPs  will not share such information without a court order. But it is not inconceivable that organizations like the RIAA and the MPAA may some day obtain court orders or succeed with legislative efforts to force ISPs to screen all of their traffic for sharing of virtually any copyrighted material.

Your ISP will always know exactly who you are, and they can share information regarding your Internet activity with anyone they choose to share it with.  It has nothing to do with the diligence of any particular torrent site in attempting to preserve your anonymity.

Your best protection is to use a VPN. Under such circumstances, the information in the packets is encrypted between you and the provider of the VPN service. Your ISP can still peek into the packets, but won't be able to read anything there.  All that your ISP would be able to determine is that you are communicating with a VPN provider. Your ISP will not be able to determine what information is being exchanged. Only your VPN service and you will have knowledge of your Internet activities.

Even this is not foolproof. The VPN service itself can be ordered by a court to hand over information regarding your Internet surfing (including torrent) activity. However, if you utilize a VPN provider in a country other than your own, the legal barriers presented to organizations like the RIAA for obtaining your private information become substantial.

Look into hxxps://www.relakks.com. Relakks is an inexpensive VPN service based in Sweden.

@raphjd:

I've been up for a while now and I don't need or want a cigarette at all.

As Karlus said, I keep finding myself reaching for my cigarettes that are no longer there out of habit.

I keep thinking about cigarettes, but there is no desire to have one.

Champix (Chantix) is an excellent drug which is generally very effective at reducing the craving for cigarettes. If, months from now, some stressful event should cause you to experience cravings again, you can resume the Champix at that point as well, rather than go back to the cigarettes.

Congratulations, raphjd!  ;D

I've seen battery-powered battery chargers for cell phones, also.

It's supposed to be ready as a backup if your phone battery dies.

Can't see it, leatherbear. Sorry.

The link returns nothing but a blank white page for me.

I am not impressed.

Since his election, Obama has filed a brief in SUPPORT of DOMA and he has supported the discharge of a record number of gays from the military. He remains opposed to marriage rights for gays and says we're going to have to wait until the time is right for him to support us in our quest for rights.

So, just when is the right time for a group of human beings to have rights?

I'm not sure this belongs under "Jokes and Funny Stuff."

Obama's reversal of position on GLBT issues since his election is not what I consider a laughing matter.

All of my ads are for beautiful, fit people who live in my own little town in Ohio.

But when I'm in Los Angeles, the same people have all suddenly temporarily moved to LA; no doubt so they can be handy in case I have need of their companionship.

:laugh: I'll be sure not to try to squeeze 34 guys into my Alpha Trentatre!

You need to obtain Microsoft's "hotfix" for this.

Instructions and a link to download the hotfix is available from this page: hxxp://support.microsoft.com/kb/840781

(Click on "View and request hotfix downloads" at the top of the page to get the hotfix).

I think this is a problem of access control to the files, raph. Windows won't let you delete them because it thinks (at some level) that you do not have appropriate ownership/permission to delete those files. Handling file permissions/security issues is something Windows has never done very elegantly.

Here is an explanation on how to delete these files: hxxp://www.blogsdna.com/2166/how-to-delete-undeletable-files-in-windows-7.htm

Check the file sizes of your converted files, chatman. The ISO standard for DVDs does not allow any single file to exceed 2 GB in size (that's why the 3.65 GB original was split into two files in the first place). Although a standard DVD can hold up to 4.7 GB of data, no single file on the disk may be greater than 2 GB.  Even a long play DVD movie of 4.7 GB is stored on the DVD as a collection of smaller "chapter" files. You don't see that when the movie plays, because the files are usually called sequentially, without any prompt from you.

Your burner program may be refusing to write to the DVD because it can't, if you are trying to burn files > 2 GB. Some burner programs won't warn you of this ahead of time, and will attempt to burn the first 2 GB of data to the disk, then the program will hang or crash.

Manifested Glory Ministries could do mankind a service by casting out also the demons of left-handedness and red hair.

Damn gingers are Satan's army!

Looks like it's 10:26.

I am shocked!!!

Shocked to my foundation, I say!!!

I was sure Ernie was the top.

The billboard is hot, but the video is dull almost to the point of being Victorian. Thirty seconds of three different (heterosexual) couples kissing is not my idea of "too hot to handle."

I guess the interracial couple (black guy, white woman) is what has Americans so upset.

Some day, it will be okay for a black man to kiss a white woman on the lips in America. And a thousand years after that, maybe two men will be allowed to hold hands in public in America.

@trukr:

Between ALL the different communities (Gay, Bi, Lesbian, Transgender, etc) we are big enough to make a difference, but we all have to vote.
I bet you'd be surprised what we can accomplish if we all voted…

Altogether, we make up about 2% of the public.

98% of the world is against us, including the president and almost every member of Congress. It would not matter if every one of us voted and every one of us voted in exactly the same manner. We would still not be able to make a difference.  It is becoming quite clear that this president is not an advocate of civil rights and he does not intend to lead America into enlightenment.

They're never going to let us have any rights. If we want to have rights, we're going to have to take them.

@leatherbear:

Right, so we will see if he can be re-elected with out the Gay Community support next time!!!!

Therein lies the problem. We aren't big enough to make a difference to anyone.

So it is safe to ignore/attack/injure/annihilate us at anyone's discretion.

I am beginning to think that nothing will ever change unless we become violent and destructive. That seems to be the only way to obtain rights in a democracy.

None of the categories quite work for me.

I like fit, muscular young guys (twenties) but with little to no chest hair.

First, there is just a chance that your DVD burner is fine, but that the laser lens is getting dirty. Before you trash it entirely, you might want to try cleaning the lens first.

hxxp://www.llamma.com/xbox/Repairs/cleaning_your_dvd_drive.htm

{DVD lens cleaning instructions are for an xbox, but they're all the same}

Next, aside from a slight preference that I have for the faster SATA drives, I think that all DVD burner brands are comparable. I would not be a brand bigot - I'd buy whatever is cheapest and would look good in your computer. Also, I'd make sure to get a double-layer (DL) drive, so that you can use the high-density DL disks if the occasion should arise.