Monday is the day of my final exam in Air Traffic 305 so I will not be on tomorrow but I might be on after the xplay rewind episodes that air on Monday on G4TV from 11am to 12pm. Until then I guess I will see you around.

P.S.: I am putting off trying firefox until after my final on monday! The last thing I need to have happen is to have all of my bookmarks wiped out before a MAJOR exam is to take place.

P.S.S.: I was planning to do a real blog/rant about how I hate RV drivers(like the ones that drive through state parks at 20 m.p.h *COUGH*YELLOWSTONE*COUGH* ) and add onto that about how my PS2 lite has died but I will put it off until sometime next week.

Has anyone tried the newest version of Firefox? Do you think it is good? I tried to download it from download dot com and the download servers are all tied up at the moment.

It was the beginning of the 1982 Lebanon War. It was at first Israel and the South Lebanese Army versus the Palestinian Liberation Organization and there chief ally Syria and after a few decisive air battles the Syrian Air Force was pretty much destroyed . . . . again . . . for the fourth time. After the Israelis achieved air superiority all of the PLO's tanks and most of there surface to air weaponry had been either been destroyed or captured most of which was supplied by Syria. Iraq tried to send mountain troops, special forces, and fighter aircraft like their new Mirage F1 fighter jets but there attempt to get involved was cut to pieces when Iran decided to launch a counter attack and invade Iraq after their cease fire less than a year earlier. The Iran-Iraq War was going on and after Israel destroyed an Iraqi Nuclear reactor where they were planning to make an atom bomb to drop on Iran the Iranis invaded again to keep Iraq from entering the war.

In this war the Israeli Air Forces newest acquisition really shined. A now infamous fighter jet known as the F-15A Eagle or as the Israeli Air Force calls it the F-15A Baz. It shot down 40 Syrian jets during this war and to this day this remarkable aircraft has an unheard of kill ratio of 104 air to air victories for zero losses.

Hey thanks for the free hits Mo---loids at this site. I took down your artwork so its finished. I took it down and that's that. I really don't understand why you have to use underhanded tactics to get me to take it down. Indirect threats and this. You cannot even contact me directly. I haven't been back to my dev art page since Friday two weeks ago so . . . nice little note in my inbox there for me to read. I should get banned right. :roll: Yeah, but you put it on the Internet in the first place and I stashed it in my personal gallery. Its not like I went out and sold it on the street corner. God knows why I would waste my time doing that when I have other art that's way better than those particular works. Goodnight to you, you namby-pamby Internet dwellers.

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I just received a few PM's in the last couple of hours from the alleged 'owner' of a piece of 'stolen' tomb raider art I got from TRchronicles.com. I have since then taken the piece of offending artwork out of my personal images gallery. Now I am going to do a rant about copyright laws and how I feel about them. I personally think they are a joke so I will surmise my beliefs about this topic.

When I was in New York City in the year of 1998 I saw tons of pirated VHS tapes for sale on the STREET CORNERS in downtown new york. There were at least five NYPD cops on every street corner in NYC in what I will call the tourist part of town where as in the other parts of NYC(Bronx, Projects) there are no New York Police(off-topic :roll: ). These movies on VHS being sold out in plain view on every street were new movies like Armageddon which I had just seen in theaters a few weeks prior to my trip to NYC. They even had pirated movies that had not been released and no one seemed to care one bit.

Now I get to the interesting bit, the bit that really matters. Napster the illegal file shareing application appears in june of 1999 and like most of my friends I jump on board to the illegal downloading scene which at the time was not illegal and not very well known but if you had fast internet(which my P. school did) everyone was downloading music. The funny thing about piracy is that no one seemed to care about piracy or even Napster for that matter before Metallica jumped on Napster's back after one of there song was on Napster prior to its release. When they attacked Napster they actually did more to hurt themselves then actually fix the problem. Napsters user base exploded and went super nova practically overnight. When they shut down Napster in 2001 I was a bit mad since bands like Metallica make way more money than they deserve even though they arn't original, don't create music w/o the use of a computer and treat there fans like garbage. Twenty to thirty bucks for a CD with only one or two songs I like?!? Is this a joke?!? Pass!!!

The fall out of Napster's demise resulted in the birth of dozens of new services that provide newer features and even made it so you could download movies and music videos. Not long after the peer-to-peer services became illegal everyone jumps on the torrent wagon. Now I condone the use of P2P and torrent Networks because its illegal and its a very bad thing to do but at the time it seemed like the easiest way to get the one or two songs I wanted without buying the whole pie.

Truth and popular misconceptions about Napster and the music industry:

Napster caused musicians to loose tons of money in profits. FALSE. Fact: Napster appealed to computer users who did not like to go to music stores to purchace music and a large portion of the P2P users tried the music first and then went to the store and purchaced the album.

Napster caused a dramatic dip in music sales in the late 90's and new millennium. FALSE. Fact: The quality of music had slumped toward the end of the late nineties resulting in a down turn in profits on new albums. This trend had actually been going on since the mid nineties anyways.

Misconception about Napster: This P2P service hurt newer bands and garage bands by allowing there music to be pirated. FALSE. The reality about Napster is that people with noname bands actually profited from having there music get traded on a P2P network like Napster. Two popular bands were successful in using Napster as a powerful promotional tool were the bands Radiohead and Dispatch.

My rant again:roll: : My major problem with this new anti-piracy era is that the feds go after individuals for piracy and trading music/games/and movies but the even bigger threat to the entertainment industry that is the big harry gorilla in the corner of the room that America safely ignores which happens to be the country of CHINA. They put out revenge of the sith in its actual theater version on the streets of Hong Kong weeks before the movie was even out in theaters so the Feds go after chubby, acne covered, basement dwelling Americans for downloading RotS illegally and obviously not China :roll: Piracy laws in the US are for the most part a joke but I guess some people take that kind of theft personally. IMO, If you put your art out on the Internet for anyone to see and right click to save to there HD then you should not be surprised to find it in my personal GS images directory but if you put it on the Internet and don't expect this then its really your own fault for putting it on the Internet in the first place. You need a watermark or disable righ-click on. Or just don't upload your artwork to the Internet in the first place. Yeah I am done for now. I am going to go watch FFM on the military channel.

Disclaimer: I condone the illegal downloading of stuff(ex. music, games, movies) but Internet art is a sort of meah topic. Its out there so if you post it it will be uploaded w/o your permission. Besides, its not like people use Gamespot for there one stop shop for Internet art. This website isn't the Tate Modern of London. Get a grip!

Hi, Iffy350 here to rant about the video game industry and more specifically about you the average video gamer. I watch Xplay, I have been watching it since it was called extended play and was on ZDTV. I have been on Gamespot since 2004 and have grown quite tired of the incessant whining about the reviews some of the Gamespot communities favorite games get. Get over it already. The gaming industry on average hands out a rating at least one point higher than games truly deserve in the past six years(GTA 4 gets a 9.0 out of 10). I also hate the video game industry for trying to make the tinfoil more shiny but forgetting to add the good controls, story, gameplay elements, and making the game enjoyable. It's the movie industry syndrome all over again. Remember when movies use to always be good and they were never about just making money and putting out pure garbage? Remember the golden years of movie making? Neither do I but I remember the best time to be a game was during the late 90's and early part of this decade. Now video games try to hard to be just good enough to get a passing grade. Video games as a whole have stopped being original. It seems to be about rehashing old ideas or copying the Halo formula. Space Marines, raptors, and pirates oh my!

I hate those who bash Xplay and their reviews calling them biased. If it's so biased then why watch the show? If they bashed your beloved Dirge of Cerberus and you stated on the Game Spot boards that you will never watch the show again then why do you pop up three weeks later and bash there more recent final fantasy review on GS. Yah know the one I am talking about!?! The PSP game no one played!!! Xplay gets bashed with comments like they are unfair and biased. So, let me get this straight! You would rather have rubber stamp reviews where everyone gives your FF game for the PSP an 8.5 then have someone tell the truth and not use the same lame review elements over and over again found on every other internet review site out there such as good graphics and bad voiceovers? A review that is about an industry standard score rather than real reviews from those with real opinions! That's just insane. If you like FF then go waste your money on that PSP title but don't take it out on Xplay just because they want to warn the average consumer not to waste their money on another average cookie cutter JRPG. I have a hard time understanding where this biased thing comes from. JRPGS flood the market and at times it seems like an endless sea of bad JRPGs are pouring out of Japan. FFXII was a great game and they gave it a 5 out of 5 but then Square Enix had to go old school and make another Final Fantasy game with the old and boring stile of SE rpgdom and Xplay hates that stuff on top of it being for the PSP which they already dislike for poor controls. Yahtzee Croshaw gives the best reviews ever! They were designed to entertain and violently beat games into submission. People who watch his reviews say that they are in fact not reviews because he gives it no score or rank? When in the heck did someone decide that you needed to give a game you reviewed a number score or letter grade. Frankly I just enjoy watching Croshaw bash games for fun. I guess you game spotters would refer to it as trolling but I am just happy someone had the meat and veggies to do something like this and bring a little bit of happiness to my otherwise dull life. Get over it. It doesn't need a score. If he insults SSBB and you don't like his review then just deal with it but I thoroughly enjoyed has SSBB review and found that some points seemed to be very true. Why in the heck would I want to unlock sonic, snake or o'donnell? His views on the next gen consoles are totally realistic and unbiased. Kids these days don't know what quality is in a console or game? Taking a gamecube and sticking motion sensitive sticks on there is innovative but it is nothing more than a lame gimmick for you to shell out $20 dollars more for a gamecube with a new peripheral. The PS3 and PSP are a joke. The PS3 has no good games and like its predecessor the PS2 it has a terrible draw distance that makes objects disappear on the horizon. The games are less textured on the PS3 than the 360 and both Blu-Ray and HDDVD players are terrible. Making the resolution on my RETURN OF THE JEDI movie improve by 1.5x doesn't really warrant me running out and buying a Blu-Ray player. The 360 is just bad. The thing has a 33% mortality rate after one year of purchase. Microsoft is a terrible company, I purchased MSFT stock a year before they announced the Xbox and now the stock has lost 50-60% of its value and their Windows Vista OS is an unmitigated disaster. PC gamers got shafted twice, once by the xbox consoles and again when Microsoft crashed and burned with their Vista OS Plague. I am not going to bash World of Warcraft even though it's one of the primary reasons PC gaming is failing as a whole.

If you don't like X-Play then don't watch it. If you don't like it when Yahtzee Croshaw bashes your GTAIV or the crappy Sixaxis controller then you should know I laughed my butt off at his review of GTAIV. If your 360 fails and you buy another one and it too fails then you set yourself up for that. If you bought a Wii then you will love it as a door stop last year when that technology became ancient. If you have a PS3 or PSP then just remember that it's not your fault! Lol, PSP!!! Isn't that thing a joke!?! It doesn't even have two analogue sticks!!! I would rather waste my money on a Nokia NGAGE! Unedible taco for the win! Blogue OvR! :roll::roll::roll:

Just my luck but some young kid who also happens to be troglodyte like decided to give me a TOS for telling him or her to shut up! That is not cool. Telling some one to shut up isn't even an insult unless you have yet to enter grade school. Is this a joke. Its a load of boron silicon! I hate the human race becaues of immature brats like this on the internet that get offended by nothing. As far as my mood goes I was mad but now I feel better. I got my 30th kill as Mickey Simon flying for the VF-96 Fighting Falcons of the United States Navy over North Vietnam. I also just completed my AT 305 lab; its the pesudo pilot training one that took six hours to complete but it was worth it.

If the person reads this then thats what you get for making me mad the day before my vacation. I feel that my decision was vindicated and my actions were just. Its too bad you had to have such a poor reaction to nothing. I saw you as a mature young adult and you always seemed to be a good guy who seemed level headed but I guess I was wrong about the mature part. You could have notified me or done something other than notify the mods but you felt you had too since I locked the topic. Try PMing me before you fly off the handle or something like that.

End blog! I am off to play counterstrike and blow the heads off some CT!

Yeah, I got a 98 on my Air Traffic Management 305 test! :P I think I got the highest grade on the test! :D The exams average was a 90.87% so I guess there is still a chance someone scored 100. I just got back from my third Air Traffic Management 305 lab and that thing must have been set to hard because on top of juggling at least eight departures at once and five inbound planes as soon as one landed another three were taking off so it was hella hard. I am just as surprised that I only incurred three **'deal's.' That stuff was stacked to some crazy degree.

**A Deal is when an aircraft looses its minimum separation between itself and another controlled aircraft. Its a loss of vertical separation between two aircraft, or a loss of separation in the horizontal sense. Its a REALLY big issue but I am still a newbie and I am still getting use to the scope,' and procedures.

I hate that course. I dropped it last semester because I had a D by midterm. This semester I have just received my second D test but still maintain a 70 average. Man, I hate ERAU! All of the Aviation, Literature, and other classes are a breeze but the math and science courses are ridiculously hard! I use too love meteorology before I came to ERAU now I just want to pass this boring course with a C so it won't totally ruin my GPA. Its a 200 series course so it shouldn't be this difficult! Man its frustrating. I was going into midterms with a D in statistics last spring so I dropped the course the day before the final drop day then last summer I took it at another college for a summer session and managed a B. I got an A in Psychology my first term here since I transferred but at my last college I would have been lucky if I managed a C since that was that classes usual average. At a junior college a D will not transfer to another college so I decided to take Psychology 101 at ERAU instead. Its B88 Si88! If I take a 330 course and get a B or an A in the course then a Meteorology Class at the 201 level shouldn't be that difficult but its killer. Like I stated earlier, I loved Meteorology before I came to Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and now the subject is no good to me anymore. The prof at my last college actually did an excellent job teaching meteorology but this new professor at ERAU and my previous WX teacher both bore the heck out of me! They say each time, "I am going to relate this course to aviation," and both times they lied. If they actually talked about the aviation aspects and maybe played a video clip or two to explain some of the more complex ideas then I might be doing just slightly better but they just go, "Yak Yak Yak," for an hour or so. RANT OVER.

Finals are coming up so I will have to concentrate on Meteorology. All of my other classes so far are A's and Two B's. One of the B's is pretty close to an A. But this 70 average in WX 201 really freaks me out!

Leaving on a more positive note.

The Rebel Alliance/New Republic have seized Imperial Center(I.E. Coruscant)

I got an A on my Homeland Security midterm. That's just totally awesome! The class average was a 75. I also gout got back from the doctor and he said my Blood Pressure was 110 over 50. Yeah! I think I should celebrate by going and eating out at The Varsity. FYI, The Varsity has the BEST ONION RINGS IN THE WORLD! Update on Wings over Vietnam: I just completed my 17th sortie in Wings over Vietnam as Captain George W. Bush in the USMC Skyhawk squadron known as the VMA-311 'Tomcats.'