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Thursday, November 04, 2004

Thu, 04 Nov 2004 05:02:30 GMT

Scrutinize every word, memorize every line
I spit it once, refuel, reenergize, and rewind
I give sight to the blind, mind sight through the mind
I exercise my right to express when I feel it's time
It's just all in your mind, what you interpret it as
I say to fight you take it as I’m gonna whip someone's ass
If you don't understand don't even bother to ask
A father who has grown up with a fatherless past
Who has blown up now to rap phenomenon that has
Or at least shows no difficulty multi task
And juggling both, perhaps mastered his craft slash
Entrepreneur who has held long too few more rap acts
Who has had a few obstacles thrown his way through the last half
Of his career typical manure moving past that
Mister kiss his ass crack, he's a class act
Rubber band man, yea he just snaps back

Come along, follow me as I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark, that we need to proceed
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength,
Come with me, and I won't stear you wrong
Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
Till the light, at the end, of the tunnel, we gonna fight,
We gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march through the swamp
We gonna mosh through the marsh, take us right through the doors

To the people up top, on the side and the middle,
Come together, let's all bomb and swamp just a little
Just let it gradually build, from the front to the back
All you can see is a sea of people, some white and some black
Don't matter what color, all that matters is we gathered together
To celebrate for the same cause, no matter the weather
If it rains let it rain, yea the wetter the better
They ain't gonna stop us, they can't, we're stronger now more then ever,
They tell us no we say yea, they tell us stop we say go,
Rebel with a rebel yell, raise hell we gonna let em know
Stomp, push up, mush, fuck Bush, until they bring our troops home come on just . . .

Imagine it pouring, it's raining down on us,
Mosh pits outside the oval office
Someone's trying to tell us something, maybe this is God just saying
we're responsible for this monster, this coward, that we have empowered
This is Bin Laden, look at his head nodding,
How could we allow something like this, Without pumping our fist
Now this is our, final hour
Let me be the voice, and your strength, and your choice
Let me simplify the rhyme, just to amplify the noise
Try to amplify the times it, and multiply it by six
Teen million people are equal of this high pitch
Maybe we can reach Al Quaida through my speech
Let the President answer on high anarchy
Strap him with AK-47, let him go
Fight his own war, let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our soil
No more psychological warfare to trick us to think that we ain't loyal
If we don't serve our own country we're patronizing a hero
Look in his eyes, it's all lies, the stars and stripes
They've been swiped, washed out and wiped,
And Replaced with his own face, mosh now or die
If I get sniped tonight you'll know why, because I told you to fight

So come along, follow me as I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark, that we need to proceed
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength,
Come with me, and I won't stear you wrong
Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
Till the light, at the end, of the tunnel, we gonna fight,
We gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march through the swamp
We gonna mosh through the marsh, take us right through the doors

And as we proceed, to mosh through this desert storm, in these closing statements, if they should argue, let us beg to differ, as we set aside our differences, and assemble our own army, to disarm this weapon of mass destruction that we call our president, for the present, and mosh for the future of our next generation, to speak and be heard, Mr. President, Mr. Senator

Only in America would anyone vote for an idiot like Bush.....sometimes, people take religion and "moral values" way too seriously that they take policies for granted(especially the southern and midwestern states).....do people not realize the mistakes Bush made in invading Iraq? spending taxpayers' money on these unnecessary military acts? What happened to domestic issues? People across the nation are losing jobs! It doesn't matter if you have a strong conviction in your policies if your conviction means to invade and conquer. And...has anyone seen the friggin debates?!?! Does Bush look like he knows what he's doing? he certainly hasn't shown that other than the few months after 9/11....unfortunately...Bush does not know how to keep a country united with his idiotic policies.

Monday, August 30, 2004

Mon, 30 Aug 2004 05:10:06 GMT

haha, free Napster is great...in 2 hours i've downloaded 200 songs

too bad it can't be burnt or be put onto my iPod, but still....really cool

Friday, August 27, 2004

Fri, 27 Aug 2004 04:45:01 GMT

CORNELL UNIVERSITY FALL 2004

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9:05 – 9:55	CHEM 357 Lecture Baker 200	SOC 101 Lecture Baker 200	CHEM 357 Lecture Baker 200	SOC 101 Lecture Baker 200	CHEM 357 Lecture Baker 200
10:10 – 11:00	CEE 331 Lecture Kimball B11	SOC 101 Section Malott 406	CEE 331 Lecture Kimball B11		CEE 331 Lecture Kimball B11
11:15 – 12:05	BEE 350 Lecture Riley-Robb 105		BEE 350 Lecture Riley-Robb 105	Chem 251 Lecture Baker 200	BEE 350 Lecture Riley-Robb 105
12:20 – 1:10	BIONB 221 Lecture Uris Auditorium		BIONB 221 Lecture Uris Auditorium	CEE 331 Section Hollister 314	BIONB 221 Lecture Uris Auditorium
1:25 – 2:15		CHEM 251 Lab Baker 301Cor
2:30 – 3:20			BEE 350 Section Riley-Robb 105
3:35 – 4:25

The blanks are left for a possible 10 hour job......

fucked...

Thursday, August 19, 2004

Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:57:37 GMT

damn, my two weeks of summer is almost over lol....I get like no break

Fuck, Junior year is going to be the worst year in my life....gotta take classes such as orgo (which will kill me) and some other crap like fluid mechanics, bio engineering transport n processes whatever the hell that means, neuro behaviorial biology, sociology (I shall assume easy A but there's a new professor so i don't know). I'm gonna get real serious about work this upcoming semester. And i gotta find a job and volunteer at Cayuga Med Center....holy shit~!!! I'm damn sure lookin forward to senior year heh

So, i've been watching Dave Chappelle a whole lot this past week....that n199a is funny as hell. I'm Rick James BITCH!!!

Saturday, July 24, 2004

Sat, 24 Jul 2004 22:10:48 GMT

Son of a bitch! Yeah Varitek, real heroic hitting A-Rod in the face with your mask on! what a pussy

Friday, July 23, 2004

Fri, 23 Jul 2004 05:32:21 GMT

FOR RELEASE: July 21, 2004

Contact: Bill Steele
Office: 607-255-7164
E-Mail: ws21@cornell.edu

ITHACA, N.Y. -- This fall, Cornell University will conduct a one-year experiment in legal downloading of music. A campuswide site license for the Napster online music service will provide students with streaming and downloading access to the company's library of more than 750,000 songs. The service also will give students access to interactive, commercial-free radio stations, six decades of Billboard 's chart information and an online magazine. In addition, there will be programs to support legal music downloading through computer platforms that are not compatible with the Napster service.

During the pilot program, the Napster service will be free to students. The pilot will cost $210,000, with all but $25,000 coming from corporate sponsors. The balance will be paid from an unrestricted gifts fund in Cornell's Division of Student and Academic Services. In the fall of 2005, the Cornell Student Assembly will decide if the program should be continued, with the cost added to student activity fees.

"If the students want this to continue after the trial, they will evaluate all of the vendors available and recommend a chosen service," said Polley Ann McClure, Cornell vice president for information technologies.

If the university continues with Napster, the cost should be about $20 a year per student, according to Kent Hubbell, the Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean of Students at Cornell. The normal subscription cost of the Napster service is $10 a month. Napster currently sells this service to two universities, and five others besides Cornell will introduce it in the fall.

"This is an effort to try to explore constructive alternatives," Hubbell said. "It's kind of a commercial and technological experiment to come up with a method by which this generation of young people can legally obtain music and learn about the appropriate use of protected intellectual property. After all, students may well need these tools to protect their own creative work."

The decision to try Napster's campus service was made in May by unanimous vote of the Student Assembly after its 23 members tested the service for three months."Napster simply outperformed our expectations," said Nick Linder '05, who was president of the Student Assembly when the decision was made and will act as liaison between the assembly, Napster and Cornell's administration during the coming year. "In our role representing the student body, we needed to find a universitywide solution to online piracy and dispel the common fear of looming lawsuits. Napster offers a unique blend of a name students recognize, a broad music library that appeals to every taste and community features that let you discover new music and share your favorites with friends."

The fact that the service provides a legal alternative was an important factor in the decision, Linder noted. "Students are much more apprehensive about using a pirate music service than they were a year or two years ago, because there have been lawsuits," he said. Music copyright infringement lawsuits have been filed against students and others across the country. The Cornell University counsel's office said it knows of no such lawsuits filed against Cornell students.

Since the Student Assembly sets its budget and determines the amount of student activity fees only once every two years, availability of a service financed by those fees during the 2005-06 academic year is "still something that has to be worked out," Linder said.

In developing the proposal to bring Napster to the campus, Cornell worked closely with the Campus Action Network, an initiative led by Sony Music Entertainment and other record companies dedicated to facilitating the introduction of legitimate digital music services to campuses.

Penn State University and the University of Rochester already have put the Napster service in place, and George Washington University, Middlebury College, the University of Miami, the University of Southern California and Wright State University will introduce it in the fall, each campus with a customized program. Other universities are experimenting with competing services.

At Cornell this year, Napster will be available to all undergraduate and graduate students, both on and off campus. Each user will be able to download as many tracks as desired on up to three computers. Napster is available only on computers running the Microsoft Windows XP and 2000 operating systems, and uses Microsoft's digital rights management system, which causes the music files to "expire" when the user ceases to subscribe to the service. To retain a track permanently or burn it on a CD the user must pay 99 cents per track. The service also is compatible with about 60 brands of portable digital players using the Microsoft system. The university is exploring other alternatives for Macintosh and Linux users, McClure said.

An added benefit to Cornell will be a reduction in off-campus Internet traffic. The service will use a cache server located on the campus network that will store most commonly downloaded tracks. Cornell, like other universities, pays an external service provider for the amount of traffic that moves between the campus and the wider Internet. At Penn State, Napster said, students have been averaging about 100,000 streams or downloads a day, but only about 8 percent have been off-campus traffic, with the rest handled by the cache server. The cache server hardware will be purchased by Cornell Information Technologies, but its cost eventually will be absorbed into the cost of service paid by the students.

YAY, free Napster streaming service!

Monday, July 19, 2004

Mon, 19 Jul 2004 20:42:57 GMT

Sunday, July 18, 2004

Sun, 18 Jul 2004 00:49:06 GMT

Steve Jobs with the new 4th gen iPod (to be released on Monday?)...yeah, Newsweek leaked the picture, props to them

July 26 issue - Veteran Podsters understand that at least once a year Apple performs a feat that at once infuses them with dread and delight: an iPod upgrade. The delight comes from a new look and new capabilities. The dread comes from the realization that you're a step behind the cutting edge and must consider whether to buy your way back on it.

And here it goes again. The considerably tweaked fourth-generation iPod will roll out this week, and NEWSWEEK got an advance peek. It looks a bit different, operates more efficiently, has a few more features and costs less. Here are the highlights.

The click wheel.
The iPod keeps getting slimmer and more streamlined. While the initial version had a relatively boxy feel, subsequent versions have been curvier and smaller. This one is about a millimeter thinner and, more significantly, eliminates the control buttons that sat under the display screen. Instead, it uses a "click wheel," where the controls are placed on the compass points of the circular touchpad that lets you scroll through menus. This is an innovation carried over from the diminutive iPod Mini. "It was developed out of necessity for the Mini, because there wasn't enough room [for the buttons]," says Steve Jobs. "But the minute we experienced it we just thought, 'My God, why didn't we think of this sooner?' "

More efficient menus.
There's less thumbing required to get to your favorite stuff. "Music" is a first-level entry, and now a single click initiates the popular technique of shuffling your library for playback.

New features.
You can create multiple on-the-go playlists and delete songs from those ad hoc mixes. And audiobooks are not only easier to find, you can listen to them at normal speed, slower or 25 percent faster, without its sounding like a Munchkin.

Longer play.
Coast-to-coasters rejoice: the new iPods are rated for 12 hours of rockin' between charges—a 50 percent boost in battery life. This is accomplished, Apple says, not by a heavier battery but diligent conservation of power.

Lower price.
The top-of-the-line iPod, holding 10,000 songs (40 gigs, as geeks will tell you), now costs $399. The lower-capacity model, with room for 5,000 songs (20 gigs), costs $299. That's a $100 price reduction for each. (There's no more 15-gig model.)

Color.
Fuggedaboutit. Despite rumors to the contrary, the wide-bodies are still as pure as the driven snow.

Bottom line: If you have yet to jump on the iPod bandwagon, it's cheaper and more attractive to do so. If you're already plugged in, the question is whether you should engage in the "iPod Bump," where you snap up the spiffy new version and pass Old Reliable to a grateful friend or family member (or the highest eBay bidder). If your music collection has exceeded your iPod's storage space, or your listening binges exceed your current iPod's battery life—or if you want to hear Bill Clinton's abridged book in 4-1/2 hours rather than six—consider the Bump this time around. Of course, if your heart went aflutter at the very sight of this year's model, you're probably in line at the Apple Store already.

tell me they screwed up...where the hell is 60gb?

and I predict, by the end of next week, Big Unit will be sporting his new pinstripes (not D-Backs fake pinstripes but the Yankee pinstripe)

Sunday, July 11, 2004

Sun, 11 Jul 2004 19:46:37 GMT

wow...

Saturday, July 03, 2004

Sat, 03 Jul 2004 06:00:09 GMT

SPIDER-MAN 2 was beyond amazing.....
the characters are awesome, and there are some hilarious scenes (elevator scene, classic) as well as ultra-cool action. Doc Ock is friggin amazing.