Ladywriter

keep on naggin

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We finally have a quick and easy way to see the latest album comments on the forum homepage. Maybe vb4 will have this as a standard feature, but until then we can now see the latest picture comments without having to reload each picture.

When you find a topic on AC that is interesting and want to share it with friends, you can now click the link at the top of the topic to share it on your facebook or twitter!

In a recent press conference, President Obama said of this
legislation: "The nation that leads in the creation of a clean
energy economy will be the nation that leads the 21st century's
global economy. That's what this legislation seeks to achieve.
It's a bill that will open the door to a better future for this
nation..."
The Senate must heed President Obama's call to action and build
on the progress that we have made with our success in the House.
Will you contact your Senators
today to insist that they act quickly to strengthen and pass
this legislation?
Click here to send a message to your Senators asking them to
take action right away.
http://action.lcv.org/campaign/energy_aug09/ie87nn544j7xwmi5?
it HAS to be better then wtf it is

http://marvel.com/news/comicstories.8808.SDCC_2009~colon~_Marvel~slash~Madhouse_Anime_Team-Up
The trailers:

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Not so sure about the Wolverene one, but the Iron Man one looks awesome!

This amused me

teh funny

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Wow. You can see right inside the top of the tornado.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090611/ap_on_go_co/us_fda_tobacco

At least they got a trial, unlike the US where you get to kidnap someone, lock them up, and torture them for years until it gets closed.

[ame=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#31113549]Rachel Maddow Show[/ame]
telling it like it is

Announcement Tuesday; requirement to cost an extra $1,300 per vehicle
Too small and slow of a step all on its own. Unless we are drastically slashing emissions elsewhere while this is going on its nothing but a dog and pony show. I'll celebrate this small victory though because its part of phasing out fossil fuels and every tiny step forward is a step toward responsibly mitigating the damage of climate change. The auto industry doesn't need (or deserve) 5 years to make us better cars; imports will be meeting those standards long before GM.

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Rachel seems grossed out
[ame=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#30733185]Rachel Maddow Show[/ame]

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Freedom%20piracy%20Website%20founder%20wants%20courts%20decide/1552520/story.html

While the founders of one of the world's largest free file-sharing websites, The Pirate Bay, have been sentenced to jail, a 26-year-old Vancouver man is taking on the global recording industry with his own lawsuit, asking the courts to rule that his BitTorrent site is totally above board.
And since Gary Fung is arguing that his site — isoHunt.com — is a search engine, this copyright case is being closely watched, because if he loses on those grounds it has implications for Google and every other website that offers links to copyright material.
In essence, he says, every search engine, in fact every website, that links to downloadable content that is copyright protected could be held liable.
"That is what we have been arguing in court," he said. "I think that is why the judges are having so much trouble deciding our case. There is nothing simple about it, and the ramifications are huge.
"It goes far beyond our sites, it goes far beyond BitTorents. It goes to core issues about what liabilities website owners have running a website on the Internet.
"It is the issue of 'linking' — what liability do you have for simply linking to material that is copyright?"
Sitting outside a Vancouver cafe, Fung flips out his iPhone to demonstrate how Web surfers can use Google to easily find torrent sites just as they could go to isoHunt. Simply specify that you want to search for torrent files — BitTorrents being a free, open-source file-sharing application — and that's enough to provide links for everything from free movies to music and games.
For example, type "Slumdog Millionaire filetype:torrent" in Google search and in minutes you could be watching the film.
isoHunt is awaiting a U.S. court decision in which it has been sued by the Motion Picture Association of America. It recently asked the B.C. Supreme Court to rule it is not infringing copyright with its websites that include isoHunt, TorrentBox, and Podtropolis. The judge said he cannot make a ruling without a full court hearing.
So will the file-sharing world be looking to this University of B.C. grad as a bastion of BitTorrents, or will his websites join others shutting down in the wake of The Pirate Bay decision?
Fung doesn't believe his sites will shut down anytime soon, nor does he fear the type of treatment meted out to The Pirate Bay founders, who are now appealing a recent Swedish court decision in the wake of revelations that the judge is a member of several anti-piracy organizations.
Firstly, Fung's court cases are civil, not criminal as in the case of The Pirate Bay. And secondly, Fung doesn't consider himself a pirate. While The Pirate Bay publicly mocks requests by copyright holders to take down copyright material or links to it, Fung said his company has a full-time employee dealing with requests to take down copyright material. Additionally, he argues that isoHunt is simply a search engine, and that it doesn't host copyright content.
"Eventually, I want to work with them," Fung says of the recording industry. "It is unfortunate that they are making a war of this."
The crux of the problem, according to Fung, is that the recording and movie industries have been unable to adapt to new technology that has fundamentally changed the way content is distributed. Peer-to-peer file sharing is here to stay, he says, and attempts to turn back the clock are doomed to fail.
"They have made war against consumers, suing thousands of people. And then they stopped suing consumers and they are trying to shut down websites," he said. "What they are doing is [like] wack-a-mole — they can shut down The Pirate Bay or other sites, but look at Napster and where that got them. Trying to shut down websites is not a solution, you shut one down and another will come up."
Fung started isoHunt as a hobby while he was still a student at UBC, where he studied computer engineering. Now he makes money from advertising on the site, but he won't say how much.
"Right now I have to say it is a business. We have to make money to sustain our business, and to sustain the lawsuits that are costing quite a bit."
Isohunt doesnt host files, so if they are sued successfully, then it will be open season on linking to any files, linking to this article is actually illegal, as it is copywrited and ive not requested to do so

I wish it could shut some of these nut job preacher men the fuck up >.<

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this is the link to my thread on yahoo answers it also has the links...does anyone know what it is ???
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the other one that shows both there faces and half of an revealing boob is on yahoo answers the link above:nosebleed: lmao just kidding but i'm mainly interested in this one story line in particualar cause i want them to fall in love even though the guy is the enemy ...i love love stories...

Do not post links to erotic material. Surely you have more common sense than that. Read the rules before posting.
You have violated:
http://forums.ancientclan.com/faq.php?faq=age_appropriate#faq_rated
Read the whole thing:
http://forums.ancientclan.com/faq.php

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090419/ap_on_re_us/pharmawater_factories

http://www.greennexxus.com
Interesting little site. Lets you make an account and keep track of what you can do to help reduce carbon emmissions. There's a lot I can't do because I live in an apartment, but every little bit helps. Might be good for some suggestions if anyone's looking for some.

[nomedia=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk]YouTube - Susan Boyle - Britains Got Talent 2009 Episode 1 - Saturday 11th April[/nomedia]

Sarah Palin Suffers Massive Political Fallout from Her Latest Nutcase Nominee
In March, Palin nominated Wayne Anthony Ross for attorney general. Ross, a colorful far-right lawyer and longtime Palin ally who sports his initials, W.A.R., on his Hummer’s vanity plates, was once considered a shoo-in for confirmation. However, his nomination was thrown into grave peril when his opponents presented evidence that he called homosexuals “degenerates,” hailed the “courage” of a student who lionized the Ku Klux Klan, vowed to undermine the sovereignty of Native American tribes, and allegedly defended men who rape their wives. According to two sources close to the confirmation hearings, Palin may ask Ross to withdraw before his appointment comes to a vote.
Isn't enough of these kinds of fuck jobs in positions of authority? Maybe it is time to bust out the mutherfucking guns and take our governance into our own hands.

Spanish prosecutors will seek criminal charges against Alberto Gonzales and five high-ranking Bush administration officials for sanctioning torture at Guantánamo.
Spanish prosecutors have decided to press forward with a criminal investigation targeting former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five top associates over their role in the torture of five Spanish citizens held at Guantánamo, several reliable sources close to the investigation have told The Daily Beast. Their decision is expected to be announced on Tuesday before the Spanish central criminal court, the Audencia Nacional, in Madrid. But the decision is likely to raise concerns with the human-rights community on other points: They will seek to have the case referred to a different judge.
The six defendants—in addition to Gonzales, Federal Appeals Court Judge and former Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee, University of California law professor and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, former Defense Department general counsel and current Chevron lawyer William J. Haynes II, Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff David Addington, and former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith—are accused of having given the green light to the torture and mistreatment of prisoners held in U.S. detention in “the war on terror.” The case arises in the context of a pending proceeding before the court involving terrorism charges against five Spaniards formerly held at Guantánamo. A group of human-rights lawyers originally filed a criminal complaint asking the court to look at the possibility of charges against the six American lawyers. Baltasar Garzón Real, the investigating judge, accepted the complaint and referred it to Spanish prosecutors for a view as to whether they would accept the case and press it forward. “The evidence provided was more than sufficient to justify a more comprehensive investigation,” one of the lawyers associated with the prosecution stated.
But prosecutors will also ask that Judge Garzón, an internationally known figure due to his management of the case against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and other high-profile cases, step aside. The case originally came to Garzón because he presided over efforts to bring terrorism charges against the five Spaniards previously held at Guantánamo. Spanish prosecutors consider it “awkward” for the same judge to have both the case against former U.S. officials based on the possible torture of the five Spaniards at Guantánamo and the case against those very same Spaniards. A source close to the prosecution also noted that there was concern about the reaction to the case in some parts of the U.S. media, where it had been viewed, incorrectly, as a sort of personal frolic of Judge Garzón. Instead, the prosecutors will ask Garzón to transfer the case to Judge Ismail Moreno, who is currently handling an investigation into kidnapping charges surrounding the CIA’s use of facilities as a safe harbor in connection with the seizure of Khalid el-Masri, a German greengrocer who was seized and held at various CIA blacksites for about half a year as a result of mistaken identity. The decision on the transfer will be up to Judge Garzón in the first instance, and he is expected to make a quick ruling. If he denies the request, it may be appealed.
Judge Garzón’s name grabs headlines in Spain today less because of his involvement in the Gonzales torture case than because of his supervision of the Gürtel affair, in which leading figures of the conservative Partido Popular in Madrid and Valencia are now under investigation or indictment on suspicions of corruptly awarding public-works contracts. Garzón is also the nation’s leading counterterrorism judge, responsible for hundreds of investigations targeting Basque terrorist groups, as well as a major recent effort to identify and root out al Qaeda affiliates operating in the Spanish enclaves of North Africa.
Announcement of the prosecutor’s decision was delayed until after the Easter holiday in order not to interfere with a series of meetings between President Barack Obama and Spanish Prime Minister José Zapatero. However, contrary to a claim contained in an editorial on April 8 in the Wall Street Journal, the Obama State Department has been in steady contact with the Spanish government about the case. Shortly after the case was filed on March 17, chief prosecutor Javier Zaragoza was invited to the U.S. embassy in Madrid to brief members of the embassy staff about the matter. A person in attendance at the meeting described the process as “correct and formal.” The Spanish prosecutors briefed the American diplomats on the status of the case, how it arose, the nature of the allegations raised against the former U.S. government officials. The Americans “were basically there just to collect information,” the source stated.The Spanish prosecutors advised the Americans that they would suspend their investigation if at any point the United States were to undertake an investigation of its own into these matters. They pressed to know whether any such investigation was pending. These inquiries met with no answer from the U.S. side.
Spanish officials are highly conscious of the political context of the case and have measured the Obama administration’s low-key reaction attentively. Although Spain is a NATO ally that initially supported “the war on terror” under Bush with a commitment of troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan, relations with the Bush administration deteriorated after Zapatero became prime minister and acted quickly to withdraw the Spanish contingent in Iraq. In the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican John McCain referred to Spain as a hostile state in comments that mystified Spaniards (it appears that McCain may have confused Spain with Venezuela and Zapatero with Hugo Chávez). Recently, the United States and Spain also wrangled over Spain’s decision to withdraw its troop commitment in Kosovo as well. Both Zapatero and Obama, however, have given a high priority to improving relations between the two long-standing allies. Spanish newspapers hailed the fact that Obama referred to Zapatero three times as “my good friend” during the recent European summit meetings, a sharp contrast with meetings at which former President Bush gave Zapatero a cold shoulder.
Both Washington and Madrid appear determined not to allow the pending criminal investigation to get in the way of improved relations, which both desire, particularly in regard to coordinated economic policy to confront the current financial crisis and a reshaped NATO mandate for action in Afghanistan. With the case now proceeding, that will be more of a challenge. The reaction on American editorial pages is divided—some questioning sharply why the Obama administration is not conducting an investigation, which is implicitly the question raised by the Spanish prosecutors. Publications loyal to the Bush team argue that the Spanish investigation is an “intrusion” into American affairs, even when those affairs involve the torture of five Spaniards on Cuba.
The Bush Six labored at length to create a legal black hole in which they could implement their policies safe from the scrutiny of American courts and the American media. Perhaps they achieved much of their objective, but the law of unintended consequences has kicked in. If U.S. courts and prosecutors will not address the matter because of a lack of jurisdiction, foreign courts appear only too happy to step in.

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