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| 2006/3/23-25 [Politics/Domestic/Abortion] UID:42387 Activity:moderate |
3/22 I'm a foreigner and new to the concept of the legislative branch.
If both the executive and the congress are controlled by
pro-Life Republicans, why don't the congress & Bush pass an
anti-abortion law? Why do you guys need the judiciary branch to
interpret what is legal and what is not when the other 2 branches
can create the law?
\_ The Constitution places limits on the power of Congress and the
executive branch; the Supreme Court's job is to enforce those
limits by striking down legislation which is unconstitutional. -tom
\_ this is the most interesting part of US government. There is
one branch of government which is not exactly democratic and
provide a check and balance for those who are in the minority
group. I don't think other government put this much power to
a handful of judges like the way US does.
\_ not being democratic ensures that one branch can
do what is right as opposed to what is popular.
\_ that is why when I said "not exactly democratic," I meant
in a good way.
\_ huh? every branch of the government has its checks and
balances. in the case of the judicial branch, the
president nominates the judges and senate has to confirm
\_ And judges can be impeached, as well.
\_ my point is that once they are confirmed, they are
there for life, and they can do things that are
right but unpopular. If all 3 branches are
elected, they may all be susceptible to the
current popular opinion, which may not always
be what is right. In that sense, the judicial
branch is a good check on susceptibility to
the current popular opinion.
\_ Canada has a judicial branch that has pretty much the same
powers (as I understand it) but they are appointed
unilaterally by the Prime Minister.
\_ I wouldn't exactly call it "undemocratic." Congress can
always amend the constitution, which overrules the judges.
We all agreed (3/4?) on the constitution when we became
states, overrulling a 3/4 majority with a 1/2 majority isn't
very democratic either.
\_ Actually, this is true, it is possible for Congress to pass
legislation that will essentially overturn Roe
v. Wade. Whether that law will withstand a Constitutional
Challenge is questionable. The reasoning behind Roe v. Wade
is actually rather flawed (at least according to many law
pundits) and is based on the rather flimsy (at least in my
opinion) "right to privacy." The Court itself refused to
delve into when "life" begins and the dissenting opinion by
Rheinquist shows that the debate is hardly resolved. Roe
v. Wade has a good chance of being overturned with the
recent SD legislation. I'm quite sure that the reason why
the right wing government has avoided pushing for
anti-abortion legislation is because it will no doubt
polarize the nation even further and may result in the
party losing many seats. Abortion is one of those things
that most politicians really don't want to deal with in
reality because it is so controversial.
\_ Check your assumptions. While there are aspects of Roe v.
Wade that suffer from flimsy reasoning, the right to privacy
is well understood and established. It's true that some
pundits with very specific and narrow agendas make a lot of
noise in an effort to raise doubts about the existence of the
right to privacy, but the vast majority of case law in the last
thirty years upholds and supports the right to privacy. I am
not aware of any practicing lawyer that would actually try to
argue a case on the basis that there is no such thing as a right
to privacy. -dans
\- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_case you may also wish to
read THE FEDERALIST PAPERS, esp say #51. BTW, there are sort of
two isues involved, one if the separation of powers/checks and
balances and the constitution, the second is that of federalism.
for example the congress doesnt get involved in say laws about
shoplifting. that is left to the states. --publius
\_ Underlying all of the above is the concept that our Founders did
not trust government so they went out of their way to create just
enough government to keep things going but put in enough road
blocks and snags to keep it from growing out of control. They
made it to the 1940s. Not too shabby for a bunch of old dead
rich white guys in powdered wigs.
\_ s/1940s/1860s/ |
| 2006/3/23 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:42388 Activity:nil |
3/22 OJ
\_ Simpson
\_ guilty
\_ Chewbacca Defence
\_ juice
\_ vitamin C
\_ Oliver Juang
\_ hello kitty
\_ Japan
\_ TRACI LORDS
\_ engineer
\_ LIBERTARIAN!!1!!
\_ nerd
\_ Oliver Klozoff |
| 2006/3/23-25 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:42389 Activity:kinda low |
3/22 I'm writing a word association program that parses motd text and
links to other words. For example, if enough people write the
following on motd:
Bush
\_ crook
\_ Nixon
\_ Bush
\_ katrina
\_ disaster
\_ incompetence
then the program will "learn" and associate Bush with the words
crook and katrina. It'll also loosely associate Bush with disaster.
The more it learns, the more it'll understand how people on motd
think. So go ahead and play the word association game. Only simple
words (with nouns) are parsed. Anything more complex will be ignored.
Results will be shown this summer.
\_ This needs to be smart enough to draw these relationships from
the regular motd posts, not these artificial one-word things.
Nobody is really gonna be posting those except maybe yourself.
\_ I beg to differ. Look at the responses we got from "Republican"
\_ But that's an artificial troll for responses to a chosen
word. Real posts would illustrate more meaningful
relationships as well as offer much more data points.
\_ look into Shannon's Information Theory
\_ kchang
\_ twink
\_ points
\_ excuse me I have nothing to do with this troll, why is my
name here? |
| 2006/3/23-25 [Recreation/Dating] UID:42390 Activity:nil |
3/22 When MOTD boob guy gives up on the boobs
http://www.bearchive.com/~chili/pestorieshome.html |
| 2006/3/23-25 [Recreation/Dating, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Israel] UID:42391 Activity:nil |
3/22 http://ijc.typepad.com/ijc/2004/09/the_start_of_it.html http://www.flickr.com/groups/ijc Welcome to the world of the IJC. These girls are called IJC's for the simple reason that both on the surface and underneath they are all more or less exactly the same Interchangeable Jappy Chick. Common characteristics of IJC's include but are not limited to: -full breasted -straight dark hair -well tanned -slightly overweight -over-educated and underemployed -teeth a little too white and straight (daddy is a dentist after all) \_ Given the amount of time you invested in posting this trash, did she dump you for someone else or what? \_ "Jappy"? \_ Since she doesn't look like a Nip, I'm going to guess "Jewish American Princess" --Jon \_ this makes no sense whatsoever. \_ It's more of an east coast phenomenon. The slightly overweight thing is inconsistent with my experience, but, eh. Things change. Oh, just read the blog entry. Dude, you go to the Bowery Bar, what do you expect? -dans |
| 2006/3/23-25 [Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:42392 Activity:very high |
3/22 Leaders of the muslim faith
"Cut off his head!" he exclaimed, sitting in a courtyard outside
Herati Mosque. "We will call on the people to pull him into pieces
so there's nothing left."
\_ Link?
\_ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,188903,00.html
\_ No, no, CREDIBLE link.
\_ quotes are always credible regardless of source
\_ Au Contraire, Mon Frere! The NYT is an excellent example
of a place that not only gets quotes wrong but gets the
most basic story points and often the entire story wrong.
Foxnews doesn't have nearly as poor a record of this as
the NYT but they're still just people. However in this
case I don't find the quotes out of character with other
things we know.
\_ I am willing to bet that the vast majority of people
in this world would say that NYT is one of the most
respected news organizations in the world. Only
right wing political freaks would dare to discredit
that. You want to say Fox News is more respected than
NYT? Try passing that by the typical educated
American.
\_ The pp didn't say it wasn't respected. He
criticized their accuracy. cf the recent Saturday-
edition retraction about their identification of
"the man in the hood" in Abu Ghraib.
\_ This isn't an opinion poll world wide about news
quality. It is a fact that the NYT has a really
poor track record for several years now (that we
know of). Respect and opinion has nothing to do
with it. You want to say that the NYT has a great
track record for fact checking? Try passing that
by the typical educated American. Call me whatever
names you'd like. That doesn't change the facts.
When you're doing nwes and claim to be "all the
news thats fits to print" you damned well better
get it right, especially when you're doing hit
pieces. Anything less leaves you open to valid
criticism for being a propaganda organ instead of
a news organisation. -pp
\_ So are you simply referring to the Jayson Blair
scandal? Or do you take equal issue with their
blatant pimping of the Whitewater "story,"
their huge flubs on WMD reporting, and the
whole mess they've gotten themselves in over
Plamegate? Or is inaccuracy in reporting only
bad when it's against conservatives?
\_ At what point did you decide what my politics
are? The fact is the NYT has a really shitty
record re: accuracy in reporting the last
several years. I could be anything from
ultra liberal to arch conservative and the
facts would remain unchanged. I am not a
part of the facts. I merely state the
publicly known. I note you haven't yet
actually addressed my point which is that the
NYT's accuracy is in the toilet. Thanks.
\_ It's pretty obvious that if you're
criticizing the NYT over Fox News, we
can safely assume where your political
leanings are. Fox News makes no attempt
\_ No you can safely assume that I was
on topic with the thread noting that
the NYT has a bad track record for
accuracy and that at least in this
case, we have no reason not to believe
the foxnews quotes were anything but
genuine. Anything more is just your
personal bias coloring the situation.
Not everyone here has a political axe
to grind. Some of us actually care
about the truth and more to the point
are sickened by hypocrites at places
like the NYTimes. At least fox doesn't
pretend to be much more than op/ed
with a wink to objective news. Quite
the contrary, anyone defending the
integrity of the times is much more
likely to be the one unable to see the
truth. The NYT has no integrity. And
while we're here, why would you assume
that only a conservative would attack
the NYT? Could it be because the NYT
has shown over and over that they can't
report anything like objective truth
without inserting their agenda? Even
if they were able to do so, they still
continue to screw up like a bunch of
Daily Cal quality amateurs pretending
to be journalists. When it is hard to
tell the difference between the op/ed
page and the news pages, all is lost.
\_ In case, you've forgotten,
journalism has always had its
roots in placing checks on
government. "muckraking",
"investigative journalism" are all
aimed at bringing out the truth, and
obviously our current president
has a problem with the idea of truth
and likes to bend it.
And really...
you dont think NYT was there
covering Clinton and his scandals?
\_ I'm ok with muckraking. In fact,
I love muckraking. I can't
stand hypocritical self
righteous and *inaccurate*
muckraking. If the NYT got it
right I'd be their biggest
supporter and renew my daily sub.
\_ What grievous errors did they
commit (and not correct) that
you just can't forgive?
I suspect "getting it right"
may mean "supplying the facts
I like".
\_ You'd suspect wrong. They
'correct', sure, after
being busted by someone
else and dragging it out
and doing a page 18 mini
blurb hidden behind the
ad for shoe deodorant.
\_ You didn't answer
my question. I continue
suspecting...
\_ Answered your
question. It is the fact that they never fess up to anything until
someone else busts them on it and then the correction is grudging, duh.
Suspect all you want, you have yet to do anything but attack my
integrity when the NYT's is a matter of public record. This is the
exact issue we're been discussing but on a micro level. Instead of
looking at the NYT's facts, you have decided you like the NYT's
message so it's ok they're a bunch of wankers. You don't like my
pointing out their flaws so I become the one with flaws. I'm sorry
the NYTs has a long public track record of screwing up and only
correcting or retracting after being forced into it (a la Dan and
the "forged but accurate Bush papers") and you consider that ok.
Where as you don't like the Fox op/ed slant on the world, therefore
anything they say is automatically bad for you yet you are unable
to provide an example of them screwing anything up. It is your own
suspicians and bias that colors the truth and prevents you from seeing
the reality of the situation. Go ahead and have another shot at my
character without responding to my core point and then we can stop.
I've tried to take you seriously but you refuse to respond in kind.
\_ I asked you for examples. You should be able to come up with
at least one. You haven't "pointed out flaws". You've made a
claim. You haven't backed up that claim.
\_ From Jason B. to WMD coverage to falsely identifying the Abu
photo victim to the one they had a few days after that fuckup
and a few others along the way. I'm not going to prove the
sky is blue, I don't have to but there's 3 specific and 1 more
from a few days ago I can't recall the details of. NYT = teh
suk. Thanks for the chat but I'm now really truly done here.
I'm going to delete this whole thing later today to save
precious bits if someone else doesn't first.
to hide that they are a right wing
organization and are headed by one of
Bush's distant relatives, if I remember
correctly. NYT, and other news
organizations like CNN, at least try to
apply the traditional news models of
being unbiased. So if you want to talk
about being a "propaganda organ", you're
looking in the wrong direction.
As for accuracy, NYT at least tries for
it, and admits wrong when its news isn't.
I have never seen Fox News do that,
but that's prob because Fox News gives
mostly opinion pieces anyway.
\_ "we cannot find security." GWB, SotU.
\_ Hey, a real martyr in the Christian tradition.
\_ I like how the cleric calling for the execution of the Christian,
no matter if he's labelled "insane" or not, is labeled "a moderate".
no matter if he's declared "insane" or not, is labeled "a moderate".
What, you don't believe in OUR invisible all powerful deity? You
must be insane!
\_ This illustrates a point made in "The End of Faith", namely that
religious moderates provide "cover" for religious extremism...
even across faiths. Do you think Bush is going to say "you
shouldn't use religion/holy texts to guide your courts"? Of
course not. But he should.
\_ Which is why we'll never win the war against islamist
extremists as long as those fuckers are in the white house.
This global conflict centers on the two things this
administration is more incapable of speaking truthfully about
than anything: religion and oil.
\_ What's the truth about oil?
\_ That 1) the peak in production is imminent (might
be now, prob right around 2010, 2020 if we're
insanely lucky) and that 2) this fact is the main
driver behind our foreign policy, for example,
invading Iraq.
\_ I'm actually reading the book right now. It has some good
points but also long rambles about ethics. |
| 2006/3/23-25 [Reference/Tax] UID:42393 Activity:high |
3/23 Chinese levies taxes on non-environmentally-friendly products:
http://tinyurl.com/k3922 (NY times)
I can't wait to see what would happens if USA does the same thing.
and... if Bush is serious about remove dependency on foreign oil,
he should levy taxes on gasoline :p
\_ bush would never raise taxes. well, except on the poor.
\_ I think any commodity tax is innately a regressive tax, and
therefore "on the poor".
\_ Does he also call them fees?
\_ are you nuts? any idea how much each gallon is already taxed?
what do you mean "he should levy taxes on gasoline". we already
have gas taxes and they only go up.
\_ I am talking about raise it to $1 / gallon. Use these taxes
to fund roads, freeway, bridges.
\_ Seriously, dude. It's already higher than that. It already
funds roads, freeways and bridges.... Wanna do a little
research before deciding on public policy?
\_ he's just dumb. he also has bad grammar. "Chinese levies..."
\_ not if levies is a noun
\_ then "Chinese levies taxes" doesn't work. so you're
dumb too.
\_ bad grammar, but dumb? I beg differ. I am just making
too much sense here, because gasoline tax will encourage
people drive less, drive a smaller car, etc.
\_ How about if the US would just stop subsidizing so many
environmentally UNfriendly things?
\_ wow, ship all the democrats to china, they'd love these taxes.
\_ Why not send the Republicans--they'd love the oppression,
prison camps and corruption?
\_ We already ship all of our pollution to China, by proxy.
\_ Gasoline should be taxed to pay all the costs of roads, pollution
cleanup, etc. etc. A lot of car ownership and usage is
subsidized.
\_ That's a nice delusion tree-hugger. Keep smokin' whatever it
is you are smoking, it obviously makes you smarter than the
suits that run the world.
\_ Are you trying to bait foaming-at-the-mouth anti-car guy
into a rant?
\_ how much was the highway bill last year again? you don't
call it a subsidies?
\_ because without highways our economy and society would
mostly collapse. all government spending is a form of
subsidy for something. if you don't like subsidies
then let's cancel taxes and stop having a government.
\_ Yep. Without those billions spent on bridges to
nowhere in Alaska, the fucking planet would probably
stop spinning.
\_ Every bill has pork. Picking a single pork
project and painting the entire system with it
is intellectually dishonest and rhetorically
cheap. What's the point of posting one liner
snap shots?
\_ That may or may not be true, but it is hard to
argue with a straight face that car driving is
not subsidized.
\_ Of course it is. Who said it wasn't? -driver
\_ why highway? why not railroad tracks? light rails?
bike lane?
\_ Rails are already subsidised and have been for
150+ years. Bike? Nice for short single trips
for healthy people but we're not about to
restructure society so everyone lives in a village
or near quality public transit. Public transit
\_ Why aren't we? Do you think magic Jetson
style perpetual motion runs on air funny
cars are going to be sold by GM next year?
We should start preparing for a non
car centric lifestyle now or suffer
the serious consequences later.
has other issues such as inflexibility and one
event can bring 10s of thousand of people to a
halt such as the Oakland BART shut down the other
day. We need a variety of transit options and
quite frankly all of them have already been
subsidised. How many bikers ever paid for using
or creating a bike lane, for example?
\_ Would people please stop bitching about
subsidies for mass transit/biking? The
subsidies for automobiles dwarf any other
transit subsidies.
\_ I wasn't bitching. I'm saying *all*
transit is subsidised. Yes, some more
than others but it all is.
\_ URL? I want to see the amount of $$$
spent on highways outside of the $$$
collected by gas and automobile
taxes versus the amount spent on
mass transit.
\_ Actually a Carter-era tax idea was to raise taxes on gasoline $1-
$2 per gallon, and then rebate the same money back in the form
of lower payroll taxes (most Americans pay more in payroll taxes
than in income taxes). It doesn't raise taxes and still encourages
conservation.
\_ Don't "payroll taxes" _include_ income taxes?
\_ no.
\_ until they make up a reason to raise payroll taxes later then
you're stuck with both taxes which will continue rising.
\_ You mean like what Reagan did? Well the current climate
is to never raise taxes, cut them whenever possible and
have future generations & massive inflation deal with the
ensuing problems. |
| 2006/3/23-25 [Recreation/Food] UID:42394 Activity:moderate |
3/23 What do you think of the latest South Park, Chef Returns episode.
\_ I haven't seen it, but heard it was totally over the top. I'm
looking forward to it. -dans
\_ It was awesome.
\_ It was indeed awesome, if a bit silly.
\_ What happened, did they get a new Chef voice or something?
\_ i hear they spliced and re-used his old lines
\_ yep, and worked that into the plot
\_ They also worked in a few digs at Isaac Hayes and Scientology
through metaphor.
\_ almost as good as zardoz. |
| 2006/3/23-25 [Politics/Domestic/California, Reference/Tax] UID:42395 Activity:high |
3/23 Have you done your taxes yet? Do you owe or do you get a refund?
\_ owed $4500 (too much capital gains)
\_ L'chaim. -dans
\_ Only got $1500 from the feds, $600 from CA.
\_ you didn't "get" anything. it was your money in the first place.
\_ Except for the portion lent to us from China, Japan, Europe,
etc.
\_ Damn alternative minimum tax cost us $4000 above what we'd
normally pay. No weird deductions, just a mortgage. Doh!
\_ Yeah so? That just means you're rich and need to be taxed even
more.
\_ $160 back Fed, $700 CA (don't ask)
\_ $3k Fed, $3k CA...first year with a home, I immediately raised
my exemptions after I found out how much money I could have had
all year to invest. I love home ownership, I compared my apt to
home taxes and have saved $12K overall. Even accounting for
property tax ($7k), I still save $5k a year with a home.
\_ really? can you show us the math? |
| 2006/3/23-25 [Recreation/Pets, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:42396 Activity:nil |
3/23 http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/22/doghandler.sentenced/index.html Abu Ghraib dog handler conviction "He also was convicted of allowing the dog to participate in the lewd acts of licking peanut butter off of a woman's chest and a man's genitalia." (Not off prisoners, but fellow soldiers, for entertainment) \_ Dog's razor sharp teeth + genitalia == Worst jackass episode evar! \_ A dog's not going to _accidentally_ bite you while licking peanut butter. \_ Uhm, either way, why would anyone want a dog doing that to them? Yech! \_ I beg to differ. I think the dog would try to take a bite out of what it's licking. For instance, I've never seen a dog satisfied with just licking a piece of meat - it usually tries to bite a chunk off of it. -!pp \_ dogs are experts at licking balls.. \_ Dogs know the difference between a hunk of meat and a person. \_ That's true in general...but once a dog gets excited, the line often gets a little blurry, then Bad Things are (much) more likely to happen -- especially when you've mixed dog+genitals+food. -!PP \_ I don't think peanut-buttered dangling penises are things a dog normally knows much about. \_ How drunk would you have get to test that theory? \_ That would be a great darwin award. \_ So this joker just magically got it in his head one day to "release the hounds"? What about his superiors? \_ I think the way it worked was: there was a lot of bad stuff that happened that produced some sort of results. The superiors didn't order or condone it, but probably rewarded the results. The people we're seeing are the failures who got caught. \_ Umm... "let slip the dogs of war"... \_ So all the underlings had spontaneous outbreaks of uncontrollable urges to torture inmates? I still don't know how anyone prosecuting the absolutely lowest people on the totem pole do not break out laughing uncontrollably. \_ Maybe they used to be Wal-Mart executives. "Here's your payroll. You can't actually run your store with it legally, but that's your problem. Be creative!" |
| 2006/3/23-25 [Uncategorized] UID:42397 Activity:nil |
3/23 Incompetence or planned chaos? Your choice:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11965317/site/newsweek |
| 2006/3/23-25 [Computer/Blog] UID:42398 Activity:nil |
3/23 Ickiest Flickr set ever
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90495823@N00/sets/72057594066067989
\_ Ick factor is high. Thanks for the warning, ass.
\_ Hard to tell for sure what some of them are - is there a list
anywhere? Guesses from people?
\_ Dude says "micro photos". Microscopic photos of his skin?
\_ certainly microscopic photos of the body, just trying
to figure out which specific parts each are, and whether
this set is educational or pornographic. |
| 2006/3/23-25 [Uncategorized] UID:42399 Activity:nil |
3/23 I love these
http://www.flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/motivator.php
http://static.flickr.com/36/83315953_82ca365610_o.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/25/56787838_e675c8e66f_o.jpg
http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=25925432&size=o
\_ Text borrowed from http://www.despair.com
\_ With additional typo. |
| 2006/3/23-25 [Recreation/Dating] UID:42400 Activity:very high |
3/23 I was watching Donny Deutsch show, and he was doing the child
sex baiting thing again. How come all the 50 people who showed
up at the house ready to have sex with a "13 year old girl" were
guys. Also, how come like 49 of them are white guys (only
exception is one indian sikh dude)? Is internet porn turning
lots of ordinary people into sex perverts? Then again, while
we think of these peole as law breaking perverts, they behavior
would be okay in ancient Greece, China, Rome, etc., and also some
third world countries today. Also, many of them seem to be gay
(likes boys too). This particular sting was done in LA.
\_ http://www.anthemamerica.com/New%20Jpegs/Chance_1%5B1%5D.jpg
As time goes on you become more and more frustrated. That's all.
\_ Isn't 14 the legal age in at least one state? And in a lot of
countries even today I think it's that or even lower. So 13
being a "child" is a little misleading. I'm not saying it's
right, but there is a huge difference between say 8-9 and 13.
I guess they picked the oldest plausible age for a "child".
I wonder how the turnout statistics would vary with a lower age.
\_ Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.
\_ What do you mean by asking "How come all the 50 people who showed
up at the house ready to have sex... were guys"? Were you
expecting lots of dykes?
\_ Donny was mentioning about it, and there were previous shows
where the bait was a 13 year old boy, and everyone showing
up were also guys.
\_ Yes, because lots of women just love sex with strange teenaged
boy. I don't understand your comments. Are you surprised?!
\_ Especially if they are grade school teachers!
\_ That's why I added 'strange'. The teachers had
'relationships' with these kids. |
| 2006/3/23-25 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:42401 Activity:nil |
3/23 FYI, I extolled the virtues of Emacs TRAMP mode on the motd a little
while back. It still rocks out, but takes a little tweaking to work
effectively on soda. I was unable to get it working with tcsh, so I
changed my default shell to bash. I didn't put much effort in to
this. If you're married to tcsh, it's probably doable. More
importantly, you'll want to set '(tramp-chunksize 150) in your .emacs.
-dans |
| 2006/3/23-25 [Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:42402 Activity:high |
3/23 Any one reccomend a mod chip installer for the ps2?
\_ Well, if all you want to do is play your completely legitimate
single backup copy of a game or imports, you will most likely
be better served by a bootdisc. While there are a couple odd
exceptions that don't work with it, they are a minute minority.
The office currently is using Swap Magic 3.6 to great effect.
There are physical mods for your case (for both the regular and
slim line) that make swapping the disc really easy. All in all,
considering the probability of borking your ps2 terribly or
paying through the nose for a modchip and someone to install it,
the bootdisc is the better deal.
\_ If you have the old school ps2, you can backup your games to an
IDE hard drive w/ the network adaptor, and play them using a
memory card + PS1 game with buffer overflow trick --
google for PS2 Independence exploit -- it's quite nice:
no swapping, reduced loading times, etc...
You will probably need to swap once, or know someone who can write
arbitrary data to a memcard to get you started though.
\_ I should have been more specific Iwant to modify
a ps2 to play Japanese games. I know, for example, the ps1
required a single mod chip that I got installed at a local
shop that is no longer in business.
\_ Apparently hdloader (the program you boot with the
exploit trick) ignores region checks so it will
allow you to play most .jp games, no mods needed
BTW, a similar trick supposedly exists for XBOX, too.
\_ all of the hardware you have to buy online ? |
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