Thanks Ann! I drank my whole glass of milk without dribbling any! I’m having a great day!

That Muslim in the White House drove the threat level up in order to get elected? Sounds like he’s taking his lessons from Bush!

Although, terrorist threats tend to help Republicans rather than Democrats, but I’m sure that’s ALL. PART. OF THE PLAN.

Gee, It’s not like the election date isn’t set months in advance. Elections attract stupidity.

When the alerts start coming out to distract the networks from playing Obama walking into a door you might be on to something.

If there was any justice it would help the Dems.

One side allows massive terrist attacks and starts foreign wars, and the other doesn’t.

But somehow people think the attack allowers are better at national security.

Oh and look!

Actual evidence that the threat was real…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/30/cargo-plane-bombs-explode-midair

(please ignore a similar post at the bottom of the previous thread. Obviously an infiltrator.)

My whole life I thought that the East Midlands would contribute less than nothing to history, but now I realise that with the addition of Yemen, it can make Ann Althouse wish she was a better person than Rush Limbaugh, for a fraction of a second.

I’ve never felt this much civic pride in my life.

Because FUCK YEAH!, that’s why.

And now lettuce all join in on a round of “USA! USA! USA!”.
~

This is totally unlike all those elevated terrorist warnings right before big votes or when inconvenient questions were being asked under the Bush administration.

This quote is worth the rotten mangoes: “I readjusted my consciousness to suit an image of myself as a decent person.”

Bwah!

Ann thinks Rush is wise to wonder “who benefits” from hyping fear.

Surely you know the answer, Ann. Rush benefits.

Hallmarks of Al-Qaeda: when you scare enough to send the very best.

But it’s great that Rush is the first 10/30 Truther.

Fuckin’ Al Qaeda, always, always, always on the side of the Dems. Hell, they even voted applauded for that fake hero Kerry!!!1!!! Stupid libs can’t understand that Al Qaeda is fuckin’ stupid ragheads who always want the Dem to win. They knew that George W(in-at-any-cost) Bush would kill Muslims which would enhance…their….. recrui….aw, fuck, pwned again.

FSM, she’s dumb as a box of rockswine.

The Rally to Restore Sanity has failed.

As a Mac user, I am offended by that picture. It’s obviously Photoshopped, Outhouse couldn’t possibly use a Mac.

I never paid much attention to this clown until those disgusting posts wher she “stood by” her assesment that obama was squeezing his crotch over some girls ass. Up until that point I didn’t think that even the white and right crowd would wallow in the Black Dick Paranoia of yesteryear. Leave it to a pig like Althouse to prove otherwise.

For some reason, the phrase “vapid attention troll” comes to mind.
~

I see you!!!! YOU! Over there, I see you…

The Rally to Restore Sanity has failed.

Me like.

“I readjusted my consciousness to suit an image of myself as a decent person.”

Well then you just voided your warranty. Your conscious should only be adjusted by a certified consciousness technician. The user should not attempt to make their own adjustments because it can have deleterious effects such as sociopaths thinking that they are normal decent human beings.

Always. Trust. The. Shorter.™

Oh, Ann…where were you in 2004? You know, when mythical terrorists were mythically planting bombs and making plots, and people in Yemen weren’t being arrested?

How does Ann call herself a moderate when she’s an idiot?

By the way, wouldn’t false terror threats benefit the Republicans more?

I mean, really, you know that whole “Muslim sympathizer in the White House” bit wasn’t dreamed up for nothing!

This once again proves that there were no terrorists attacks under Bush Jr.

This once again proves that there were no terrorists attacks under Bush Jr.

Fixed that for ya.

Oh, Ann…where were you in 2004? You know, when mythical terrorists were mythically planting bombs and making plots, and people in Yemen weren’t being arrested?

If I recall correctly, she was pooping her panties dootifully whenever President Cheney said “Everybody POOP Now!”
~

Rush’s and Ann’s “thoughts” on the matter are so fucking stupid I have to wonder if they’re actually both brain-dead and currently being represented by a limp stalk of celery and a tuft of dryer lint.

President Cheney said “Everybody POOP Now!”

I’m seeing a YouTube in my future…

They knew that George W(in-at-any-cost) Bush would kill Muslims which would enhance…their….. recrui….aw, fuck, pwned again.

Great Holy Reagan! But I thought Bush was a liberal who was encouraging the enemy with his political correctness by refusing to declare war on Islam?

As a Mac user, I am offended by that picture. It’s obviously Photoshopped, Outhouse couldn’t possibly use a Mac.

It’s expensive and that’s what counts.

Whoops! Looks like stories of bombs on cargo jets were wrong.

It was on a passenger jet

Which sort of answers a question I had early on, which is what terror aim is achieved by blowing up a plane full of cargo?

Comment for you, S_McG.

(IF that is your real name!)
~

Rush’s and Ann’s “thoughts” on the matter are so fucking stupid I have to wonder if they’re actually both brain-dead and currently being represented by a limp stalk of celery and a tuft of dryer lint.

They, and in fact the entire GOP, are entering into Alex Jones territory.

How long before we see Alex Jones as a very serious political commentator on ABC?

Comment for you, S_McG.

Heh.

AA: They got everybody terrorized. Everybody’s scared now.

No, they don’t. And nobody’s scared. Adults are used to this by now. Those of us my age have seen lots worse threats; does the phrase “seven thousand megatons in the air” mean anything to you?

Jesus, lady, just keep drinking and you’ll pass out and then you won’t be so scared.

Mark Kleiman:

Althouse is smarter than the average glibertarian; in a contest with two dumber glibertarians she’d be the smartest. But that doesn’t make her … perhaps, in the interests of civility, I should leave the rest of that sentence as an exercise for the reader.

And this is what I love about Rush. He keeps going, expressing those thoughts you might get to yourself if you let your mind run free: – Lady of the Franzia

Yes, Rush Limbaugh is at the end of every mushroom/acid trip. That should scare kids against trying drugs.

the phrase “vapid attention troll” comes to mind

If she was less vapid & attention-y, I might very well find her delightful if she showed more willingness to hone & maintain her troll-skillz. Chain-yanking is a vital & wonderful cultural tradition that vastly predates Jesus making Jerusalem’s craftiest Pharisees stay up nights crying – & this stimulating pastime will surely carry on apace atop whatever piles of smoking rubble we leave in our wake.

Which is why I’m going to just cuntpaste up the love-letter I left under the Interwebs Bridge for Frau Althouse right about here, FOR GREAT LAZINESS JUSTICE:

“He keeps going, expressing those thoughts you might get to yourself if you let your mind run free”

Letting your mind “run free” may be helpful when you’re utterly stumped for a functional solution – it’s the cardinal rule of brainstorming – but the overwhelming majority of “outside the box” ideas you will come up with that way are useless garbage.

Anyone claiming legitimacy as a political commentator who is unable to distinguish between an elected government & a “regime” is wasting their listeners’ time – as is anyone spinning wool about a nefarious secret Obama “regime” plotting to use terrorist mail-bombs as vote-getters.

Fortunately, folks, we don’t have to worry about the Obama regime using fear of terrorism to help him in the elections like the Bush team did, right? That was always the charge. Every time we got an increased threat level near an election, the charge always was, “It’s not true. This is just Bush trying to help himself in the election.”

The charge was correct. Tom Ridge has repeatedly confirmed that he was pressured by his superiors to raise alert levels in the total absence of any new & relevant information from either domestic or foreign intelligence sources. Limbaugh’s attempt to rewrite recent history may be ideologically noble-minded but it is also intellectually bankrupt. It’s also pretty obvious that he’s recycling the “EVIL ECO-TERRORISTS DID DEEPWATER HORIZON WITH THEIR DOLPHINS OF DOOOOOOOM” agitprop from four or five months ago. Perhaps he can blame the next such event on crazed anti-war activists … because the pacifist menace will stop at nothing to destroy America!

The Paranoid Style In American Politics said everything anyone needs to know about Rush Limbaugh long before he became a national celebrity.

As you can see, I am a terrorist who hates America … for the lulz.

If I ever get the band² back together, we’re renaming it Blogging While Intoxicated.

² For great truthfulness, I never had a band. Or any musical skills whatsoever.
~

I see that Anne is wearing one of those trendy (in 2003) tops with the Eastern religious images silk screened on it. It just screams out:

“I’m a 60 year old female professor trying to look like I’m twenty again.”

“I see that Anne is wearing one of those trendy (in 2003) tops with the Eastern religious images silk screened on it. It just screams out:”

Ummm…yes. Did you also see the completely non-veiled silk screened penis* just below and to the readers right of her wineglass?

*CNVSSPR?

He probably put the Giants in the world series too, to get all those San Fran faggortz excited so they all vote. Does his depravity know no bounds!

“Always. Trust. The. Shorter.™”

There ought to be script to just generate automatic posts to just repeat these tired in-jokes again. Or maybe Actor212 is that bot, I dunno.

Say something about mangoes now. Too, also, Trig. The cleverness only increases with repetition!

“Everybody POOP Now!”

Wasn’t that a song by C+C Feces Factory?

The cleverness only increases with repetition!

Lucky thing we have you around to supply the larffs!

Huh, another Anonymous here.

These active addicts and their character defects- Rush the pillhead and Ann the winehead, projecting their diseased paranoia onto all us unsuspecting enablers. Perhaps an intervention would bring the deluded to their senses. Wouldn’t be as entertaining, but more sanity would be a nice trade-off.

Oh, yeah- 10/30 Truther- FTW!

If the terrorists did it, they did it to help the Democrats. If it didn’t happen, it was fabricated by the Democrats. If the Democrats did it and made it look like the terrorists, it was the Democrats.

Mrs. Althouse, when did you stop beating your wife? And don’t say you don’t have a wife, because then the question will be, when did you kill her?

“I see that Anne is wearing one of those trendy (in 2003) tops with the Eastern religious images silk screened on it. It just screams out:”

Ummm…yes. Did you also see the completely non-veiled silk screened penis* just below and to the readers right of her wineglass?

Not only will I stay in the boat, I will not look at the photo of A.A. long to enough to see what you two are talking about. I admire your fortitude, or supply of dramamine/vodka, as the case may be.

Anonymous said,

There ought to be script to just generate automatic posts to just repeat these tired in-jokes again. Or maybe Actor212 is that bot, I dunno.

Hello Ann. Long time no see.

Not only will I stay in the boat, I will not look at the photo of A.A. long to enough to see what you two are talking about.

It’s right there, standing at attention between her wine glass and the laptopwhichisnotanapple. And what’s that blue thing on the table? It doesn’t look like any pen I’ve seen. Kinda like a syringe maybe.

It’s expensive and that’s what counts.

We rest our case.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Althouse is smarter than the average glibertarian

2 x 0 = ?

Anne is thinking too small. The truth is that the date of this election was set to coordinate perfectly with the failed bombing, which had been set in motion 50 years ago by Black Panther Extremists and their Yemeni masters. We are so outclassed in this game …

which had been set in motion 50 years ago by Black Panther Extremists and their Yemeni masters.

Needs moar space Nazi lizardmen.

It is even scarier once you realize that the Black Panthers were in fact the long ranged back-up plan to the failed Civil War plan created by the very same Africans who tricked Europeans into taking them as slaves in the first place!

Wake up, sheeple! Isn’t it a little too coincidental that Obama’s father came from the very same region that many slaves volunteered from centuries ago?!

If blogging while intoxicated is wrong then I’m wrong.

the very same Africans who tricked Europeans into taking them as slaves in the first place

Aha! And set the whole damn thing up to elect Fascist Kenyan Obama as President of a country they didn ‘t even know existed!

OMFG TEH TRUTH IZ OUT DERE

Not only were there no terrorist attacks on the U. S. while Jr. was President, foiling a terrorist plot on the ground in the Middle East proves that Democrats are soft on terrorism. I. e., If the first premise is true, then the second must logically hold–must hold head, brain is exploding. . .

Hey speaking of Althouse, remember this?

7. And let me say one more thing to those who delighted in what they imagined was the political usefulness of the “stomping” incident. There is a big rally in Washington this weekend that will draw many thousands of persons. Within that throng of presumed liberals and lefties, there will be all sorts of characters, with their diverse problems and motivations. You don’t know who will act up, what foolishly overstated signs they will carry, and what provocations will lead someone with clouded judgment or poor impulse control to do something that will look awful on video. That will happen 3 days before the election, leaving very little time to explain. If that happens, you will want to eat all the words you’ve been saying about the stomper.

Fucking leftsists and their curb stomping – what with the violence and shit. Betcha lefties are all embarassed about picking on poor Tim Profitt now that it’s been demonstrated clearly that Lie-berals are teh real bully thugs.

Needs moar space Nazi lizardmen.

Yeah, but what doesn’t?

FYWP!

Okay then, link free. Remember when those Paultards wrestled that woung woman to the ground and then she curled up in the fetal position and then Tim Profitt stood on her head? If you look back a few threads here you’ll see a link to Althouse pointing out that it’s no biggie since that woman was obviously so very dangerous. She could have been Squeeky Fromme or maybe Vampirella. Well anyways, Althouse concluded her numbered list with (paraphrased)
7. wev, leftsists. Just remember UR complainin’ when after teh Colbert-Stewart thing ends with rubber bullets, water cannons and tear gas. Go and act all smug and whatnot, but we all know that you can’t get 2 lefties together (let alone 200,000) without some sort of riot breaking out.

I bookmarked it (actually I didn’t – and anyways I’m ascared that linkee will mean WP will chomp the comment).

10/30 Truther- FTW!

The failure of this attack is obviously Obama’s way of helping Al Qaeda – but was 10/30 LIFOP or MIFOP?

Knowing that a successful terrorist strike would unite & inspire America, Obama called in his markers to prevent a repeat of 9/11, but his methodology remains a mystery: LETTING it fail is clearly not as sinister as MAKING it fail.

Also: JFK? The Beanie Baby Riot? Kent State? Bhopal? Facebook? Three Mile Island? The finale of LOST? The fire on board the Hindenburg at Amherst, New Jersey? That other sock you can’t find in the dryer? The last Ice Age?

All Obama.

LETTING it fail is clearly not as sinister as MAKING it fail.

I heard he aggressively failed to ensure the aid of the Mossad in this plan.

Ann’s Halloween costume:
I readjusted my consciousness to suit an image of myself as a decent person.

As a Mac user, I am offended by that picture.

Also, my first thought…which was followed directly by Outhouse’s voice in my head saying, “I’M SO DRUUUUNK!”

Lakehurst, NJ.

I’m still back around last Wednesday, trying to catch up on the comments.

Has anybody reminded T&U to vote?

Lakehurst, NJ

GEOGRAPHY IS THEFT!

Hey T&U, please remember to vote.

Everybody POOP Now!

I smell a remix!!!

Shorter bedwetting wingnuts: Obama is ramming his terrorist packages down our electoral throats!

Doug Giles:

Eh, none of the above is anything they’d want to discuss with us questioning heretics; what matters is that we bow and kiss their ring. And OMG, if you don’t pucker up then man-oh-man are you in deep weeds.

Indeed, if you don’t thoughtlessly step-n-fetch to their left-of-hell fiddle or attempt to indulge the superfluity of naughtiness by not parroting and adhering to their tried and found wanting worldview, they will put your belligerent backside through … well … hell (I’m talkin’ H-E-double-hockey-sticks Hades). If you don’t believe me, ask Juan Williams.

And then the nurse turns his chair around to the window so he can look at the birds.

The tyranny of 2 million dollar contracts

From Substances’ link

“The cacophonic call to unquestioned and complete compliance to their controlling machinations is what the Left has pilloried us plebeians with via BHO’s admin, the Publik Skule system, university circles and Hollywood’s High Def backside.

And that’s in light of the fact that what they table:

doesn’t make a lick of fiscal sense,

– has miserably failed in the U.S. and other countries,

– jeopardizes our national security,

– demagnetizes what’s left of our moral compass, . . . ”

FUCKING MAGNETS!

The professor could not stand all the “carping and criticism” against wonderful George W. when he was in office. She uses the quoted phrase in the same manner as I use “honest criticism”. She neglected to mention that much of the republican criticism of President Obama is pulled out of their asses. How she could miss the difference is beyond me.

Remember when those Paultards wrestled that woung woman to the ground and then she curled up in the fetal position and then Tim Profitt stood on her head?

Tim Profitt? Oh, you mean the guy who was charged with 4th-degree assault earlier today?

Maximum of 12 months in the pokey, as I recall. And they do worse than stomp there.

“I see that Anne is wearing one of those trendy (in 2003) tops with the Eastern religious images silk screened on it. It just screams out:”

Ummm…yes. Did you also see the completely non-veiled silk screened penis* just below and to the readers right of her wineglass?

Must be a <a href="lingam.

Sorry, but when a politician suddenly discovers a TERROR PLOT right before a mid-term election which he’s sure to lose, it’s reasonable to wonder whether the TERROR PLOT isn’t kind of blown out of proportion.

Like those SPY RINGS people used to discover, you know?

In fact, a lot of these commentators are essentially saying “Bush did it too!” which makes me wonder whether they haven’t essentially drunk from the same bottle as Ms Althouse without realising it.

The cacophonic call to unquestioned and complete compliance to their controlling machinations

Works really well if you recite it in a beat-poetry intonation.

Works really well if you recite it in a beat-poetry intonation.

Bongo accompaniment optional.

Morning lols
“Why I’m a Tea Partier”
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/open-thread-68

Gen. Jerry Boykin and Gen. Jack Ripper explain the nuances of Marxist infiltration and indoctrination
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/gen-jerry-boykin-and-gen-jack-ripper

Like those SPY RINGS people Republicans used continually to discover fabricate, you know?

I think I see the problem with the translation.

Damn, I almost got out of the boat.

For just a second I thought about clicking the link. Trust the shorter.

In fact, a lot of these commentators are essentially saying “Bush did it too!” which makes me wonder whether they haven’t essentially drunk from the same bottle as Ms Althouse without realising it.

Umm… buddy… you would only have a point if discovering terror rings was the sort of thing that helped Democrats, which it’s not, even when they’re in office.

My favorite bullshit moment in the whole “terror rainbow” kerfuffle was when the DHS decided to raise the terror level in the NY metro area. Since the threat level of the region was perma-orange, a reporter asked the maladministration flack if the threat level was now “red”. After a brief pause, the flack said (I paraphrase), “No, it is orange plus.”

Orange-plus, like a fucking new Tropicana product.

In fact, a lot of these commentators are essentially saying “Bush did it too!” which makes me wonder whether they haven’t essentially drunk from the same bottle as Ms Althouse without realising it.

Sadly, no. The commenters are saying that members of the Bush administration have publicly admitted to doing this. Bush did it. It is common knowledge among those without their heads up their ass.

Not “Bush did it too.” That would imply that the current administration is doing it, which is doubtful at best. If Democrats were going to flog some sort of imaginary doomsday scenario right before an election, I hardly think it would be one that played to what many people bizarrely consider Republican strengths.

Protip, capslock isn’t really cruise control for cool.

“I see that Anne is wearing one of those trendy (in 2003) tops with the Eastern religious images silk screened on it. It just screams out:”

OMG, Anne is party to the whole Islamoterrorists 3rd wave…. why didn’t we see this coming……!!

OMG, Anne is party to the whole Islamoterrorists 3rd wave…. why didn’t we see this coming……!!

The wine fooled us, although Pammycakes and her anti-jihadists always insist that the Quran tells Mussulmen to lie to further their aim to convert the world.

Sorry, but when a politician suddenly discovers a TERROR PLOT right before a mid-term election which he’s sure to lose

Sure, some LIBTARDS might claim that Obama isn’t “running for office” this year, but isn’t that just another way of saying he’s not going to win a SINGLE STATE on Tuesday night?

OMG, Anne is party to the whole Islamoterrorists 3rd wave…. why didn’t we see this coming……!!

The copious wine consumption threw us off the trail- why didn’t we believe Pammycakes when she assured us that the Quran tells Muslims that they can lie and deceive to further the faith? WHY?!?!?

At the risk of starting a HOLY WAR, I’d like to tell all youse Apple addicts to lighten the fuck up. You don’t see people saying “as someone who enjoys wearing eye-gougingly horrible tops that look like they were made with recycled paintings on black velvet, I am offended by that picture” or “”as someone who drinks box wine in the middle of the day, I take great umbrage at the implication that I am in any way like Althouse”.

Apple’s a tech corp bent on a golbal hegemony of totalitarian-like control over every aspect of your life, albeit packaged in some fancily designed whatsits type of computer. It’s totally a cult-like religion not a religion.

I have a Mac now….after being hounded by my parents for years to get one. I was told it was de rigueur for artists. I’m not impressed.

The Ars Technica guide to trolling Mac users.

The Ars Technica guide to trolling Mac users.

Bookmarked. I notice that a lot of it is that “oh the irony of all these individualistic creative types being tied to a completely un-customizable cookie-cutter same-as-everyone-else machine”.

I have two iPod Shuffles (two generations ago, the first clippables) because I am lazy and do not like changing playlists to go jogging. They are fantastic little doodads and I can understand the appeal.

My desktop machine gave up the ghost a while ago. Imagine my delight when I found out that since my Shuffles were synced to my old machine, swapping them to the new one required erasing everything on them and reloading tracks from scratch. Funderful!

Despite that, I AM STILL USING iTunes.

Apple is a horrible horrible plague that lures you in by making all the right noises but at its heart is still a bloody-minded self-interested corporate identity that refuses to acknowledge that after it sells you something, it no longer owns it.

I notice that a lot of it is…

Whoah. Maybe not. A lot of the first page of five is what I thought.

iTunes really is shit, and the OS gets clunkier with every iteration. Work is finally making the Windows 7 leap: maybe it’s better.

The indispensable Mac offering is http://www.blacktree.com/projects/quicksilver.html

Yes, Rush Limbaugh is at the end of every mushroom/acid trip. That should scare kids against trying drugs.

I’m glad I gave up peyote. It was bad enough thinking that was Beezlebub.

My desktop machine gave up the ghost a while ago. Imagine my delight when I found out that since my Shuffles were synced to my old machine, swapping them to the new one required erasing everything on them and reloading tracks from scratch. Funderful!

Yep, I got the same problem.

At least when I bought those vinyl LPs all those years ago, they stayed mine forever. The songs I paid for on Itunes? Not so much.

Apple is a horrible horrible plague that lures you in by making all the right noises but at its heart is still a bloody-minded self-interested corporate identity that refuses to acknowledge that after it sells you something, it no longer owns it.

Really?

Cuz they gave me a new iPod after I spilled soda into mine…

The songs I paid for on Itunes? Not so much.

You get to register five machines for iTunes, so you should be able to get those tracks back (unless you’re already at five).

If you transferred a crapload of CDs onto iTunes. My problem was first: I transferred quite a lot of CDs onto iTunes. I figured I wouldn’t have to do that again because I could just pull the 3 gigs of tracks I actually listen to off of the non-jogging Shuffle. Secondly, I then discovered that after ripping all those tracks again, I’d have to either figure out which ones I want to load again or never be able to add another song to the thing. Yayys!

The real simple solution to all this, of course, is to back your iTunes library up (or like me, locate it on your backup drive in the first place).

Hey, there is a way in which iTunes got better! Used to be you couldn’t drag and drop more than a few files from your iTunes library into a folder and now you can do hundreds (at least). That’s something, and a minor step up in ownership of YOUR OWN GODDAMNED MACHINE.

The real simple solution to all this, of course, is to back your iTunes library up (or like me, locate it on your backup drive in the first place). let me move songs off of my iPod and onto my computer.

FTFY. I suppose your way works too, and is something I probably would have done had I known it was necessary. Incidentally, the reason my music library isn’t part of my back-up routine is because that stuff is backed-up already (source CDs, iTunes store, etc.). I was just figuring that I could bypass all that CD ripping since I already had this one device that held the majority of the tracks I actually listen to. Pre-selected and everything!

let me move songs off of my iPod and onto my computer.

What? You don’t know how to do that?

How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer

Anyways, enough about my iTunes woes. Here’s another story of potential buyer’s remorse

The real simple solution to all this, of course, is to back your iTunes library up (or like me, locate it on your backup drive in the first place) download shit illegally and buy it on vinyl if it’s worth paying for.

FEEEEEEEEEEEEEXED.

Although the open source media player/manager I currently use is ass, admittedly.

download shit illegally and buy it on vinyl if it’s worth paying for.

FEEEEEEEEEEEEEXED.
Are you suggesting that kidnapping the bands you like, and keeping them chained in the basement, to perform at a whim, like some kind of trained monkey isn’t the preferred option?

Although the open source media player/manager I currently use is ass, admittedly.

I’m sure once the community gets its hands on it, it will be fixed.

Eventually. One day.

Are you suggesting that kidnapping the bands you like, and keeping them chained in the basement, to perform at a whim, like some kind of trained monkey isn’t the preferred option?

The good thing is, the Runaways didn’t sue….

Okay, one more I guess.

2. Connect your iPod to your old computer and wait for it to appear in iTunes.

This does not happen. iTunes tells me that my iPod is synced to a different machine and it can erase everything if I’d like it to.

Actually, now that I’m bitching about it – I’m kinda glad I haven’t re-synced the thing. I ought to be able to open the iPod up with Windows Explorer and then pull shit off that way. I’ve already re-ripped the CDs, but at least this way I can get my track listing into a separate folder, and then something something – re-sync – ta da!

This does not happen. iTunes tells me that my iPod is synced to a different machine and it can erase everything if I’d like it to.

Is this the original machine? The Apple support forum ought to be able to lend you a hand with this. You’re Windows, right? Sounds like you have a corrupted Registry. Maybe if you hadn’t let your mom at it….

There are a few freeware programs out there that’ll interact with your iPod and treat it as a drive. No need to use iTunes.

Oh wait. I read it wrong.

2. Connect your iPod to your old computer and wait for it to appear in iTunes.

Uh – well if it ever gets past the bootscreen I might be able to do that. The machine died. The hard drive was so boned it killed the HDD controller (although more likely the other way around). I had a problem with bits on the motherboard.

This is exactly what I mean -Apple doesn’t even have a problem with me doing what I’d expect to be able to do with the device I bought, they just set it to disallow manual file management by default. Thanks, Apple!

DKW, because most people, something on the order of 90%, use it for music only. That’s why.

Now, you could try, I suppose, slaving your old computer to your new one as an external drive. That might give you the chance to port your library over without engaging the processor. I know I’ve done that successfully with other situations similar to this.

Of course, as always, vital data should be backed up. 🙂

DKW, because most people, something on the order of 90%, use it for music only. That’s why.

That’s not a good enough answer for why your data should be lost. Apple sells itself using an idea of simplicity that they’ve left behind in many cases. If you have files you should be able to move them from one place to another with no hassle.

Although the open source media player/manager I currently use is ass, admittedly.

Eventually. One day.

It’s just not particularly intuitive. Which I will admit is something that can be said for Apple products.

That’s not a good enough answer for why your data should be lost. Apple sells itself using an idea of simplicity that they’ve left behind in many cases. If you have files you should be able to move them from one place to another with no hassle.

Which I posted a link to instructions for…it’s not everyday that someone’s motherboard gets fried, you know.

As I said, go scan the support discussions. There is undoubtedly the answer to your problem there (likely, as Sub points out, it will involve a third party solution).

Does it mean anything, that between Althouse, Reynolds and the Mustard guy I’m seriously re-thinking applying to Law School this spring- I mean why would I want to spend 3 years and tens of thousands of dollars learning from people who seem by all accounts to be misinformed scum.

Does it mean anything, that between Althouse, Reynolds and the Mustard guy I’m seriously re-thinking applying to Law School this spring- I mean why would I want to spend 3 years and tens of thousands of dollars learning from people who seem by all accounts to be misinformed scum.

Also, there are no jobs. Too.

Now, you could try, I suppose, slaving your old computer to your new one as an external drive.

Tried that. Drive is dead. Possibly MBR dead, I can’t remember.

Of course, as always, vital data should be backed up.

I don’t back-up as frequently as I ought to, although I kinda lucked out in that the old machine died very shortly after the last back-up. I didn’t back-up my music files because it’s a PITA to do it. I back-up onto re-writeable DVD’s in three separate series, so I haven’t figured out a good way to do incrementals. Besides, all the music was backed-up, it just took two afternoons to restore.

I don’t think you can set up a Shuffle as an external hard drive but even on a regular IPod doing so means that a 100 gig library takes up 200 gigs because you have each song on their twice. If you do have the room, though, the external hard drive feature does allow those who’ve set it up to easily transfer their entire libraries to others’ computers for fun or profit.

Do people still back up to DVDs? I’m just thinking, with just the bare minimum data I have (a couple of movie projects, my photos, and my iTunes), a few dozen gigs, I still thought it was worth spending $100 for an external drive.

Welcome, Lisa Murkowski, to the liberal tent.

There is undoubtedly the answer to your problem there (likely, as Sub points out, it will involve a third party solution).

I have an answer. Windows Explorer. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

As for the freeware iPod interface – I’m guessing that it’s for putting tracks onto the iPod so that they’ll play. But I’m lazy (apparently in a highly inefficient way) and don’t want to figure out a new way of putting tracks onto my Shuffle. And THAT is why Apple does well – they capitalize on their users being lazy fucks who don’t give a shit enough to learn what the hell their hardware and software is actually doing. And there are a fuckload of us lazy fuckers.

Incidentally, while I’m ranting about hardware problems – the machine that died was an HP Slimline. I was trying to be all eco-friendly with a low power consumption desktop – plus the small footprint was a plus since tower cases are fugly. Will not do this again. That box had everything integrated into everything else so that nothing was recoverable from it except the power supply. Which of course is too small for anything other than another Slimline. Also, that machine has essentially zero expandability, much like computers made by some other company I’m not happy with.

Do people still back up to DVDs? I’m just thinking, with just the bare minimum data I have (a couple of movie projects, my photos, and my iTunes), a few dozen gigs, I still thought it was worth spending $100 for an external drive.

I think it’s worth it. And takes up less room than a mess of DVDs would. Easier to organize, too.

Welcome, Lisa Murkowski, to the liberal tent.

Dan Riehl, idiot.

Tintin? You might want to take a look at Sub’s link/

Which I posted a link to instructions for…it’s not everyday that someone’s motherboard gets fried, you know.

But that’s when you need it, and when you do need it, it’s a struggle to figure it out. Mac fans tend to go on at length about what’s “Mac-like” and what’s not: a lot of that revolved around the flexibility to get things done, and the ability to solve problems with what’s in front of you using your eyes and your intuition. Their human interface guidelines are still good, they just don’t pay as much attention to them these days.

Mac fans tend to go on at length about what’s “Mac-like” and what’s not: a lot of that revolved around the flexibility to get things done, and the ability to solve problems with what’s in front of you using your eyes and your intuition

True, but part of the trade-off for that is a clean and simple “best guess” flexibility. If 99% of the time, you’re transferring songs off your iPod because you got a new computer, then it doesn’t make sense to complicate things for that last one percent, but to leave that challenge to the discussions group. It can be done, in other words, it just takes an effort.

I may just send on to the Machead Asshat she married who truly believes that anyone who use ANYTHING but a mac is a stupid moron.

HEY!

Who said I was married?????

Who said I was married?????

Wait…what?! YOU’RE the dude my mom married? Then who’s the other guy?

I for one am grateful I did back up my ITunes library on data DVDs when my external hard drive itself died a year ago. The more backups, the better.

Wait…what?! YOU’RE the dude my mom married? Then who’s the other guy?

No, that’s me, the other guy. She must have married Dragon King Wangchuck.

She must have married Dragon King Wangchuck.

Jigme Khesar?! Ther but for the grace of a hyphen, go I.

Anyways, in the interests of fairness and balance, I want to point out that Windows can be pretty buggy too.

This Mac/PC flame war is rubbish. Put some more effort into it!

On a related note, I mention Schofield’s Second Law of Data, for your edutainment: if you haven’t got your data in at least two places, you haven’t got it at all.

And that’s a proper law, formulated by a man who smokes a pipe and everything.

if you haven’t got your data in at least two places, you haven’t got it at all.

Excuse me, but I was divorced for just that!

For some reason, the phrase “vapid attention troll” comes to mind.

I read that as “yapid”, and I thought that it was the perfect portmanteau.