Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) said:Gary said:
The biggest thing I remember about Metallica is their stance on Napster.
Oh, don't get me wrong, they *shred*. I remember the lyrics to all the songs on Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets and the like.
But the biggest thing I remember about them is their stance on Napster. I never even used Napster.
I understand their position completely. Their music is their livelihood. It is their intellectual property and it was being stolen. People can put whatever face they want on it. If you take something without paying for it, you are committing theft.
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They were also the people who had a section of audience specifically for people who wanted to make bootleg tapes.
IIRC they were asked for an opinion on Napster before they knew what was going on.
Records make money for record labels, touring makes money for musicians, so their old "free boots!" stance made a lot of sense.
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You forgot to hotlink a picture. 
Making a dub of a cassette tape was also theft, but Metallica probably sold more records and had more concert attendance in the early days due to E36 M3ty dubs getting passed around than radio airplay or touring.
Despite never using Napster or Limewire, I, for one, welcomed the swift kick in the nuts that the internet gave to record companies. In the recent past, digital distribution (Youtube, Vemo, hell, MYSPACE) did more to get good, niche music out from bands that never would've gotten a record contract than anything prior to it. The same is happening on a slightly different scale in publishing- people sell lots of ebooks and suddenly get a publishing deal.
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Former employer's dad had a PSI screw compressor on his Top Alcohol car.
I forget the exact numbers, because it was almost 20 years ago already, but he said that the old Roots blower took 1000hp to make 45psi boost and the PSI took less power to make 60psi.
At that time they had been running a SMALL-block Chevy based engine to run 5.5 at 250. With a 2 speed trans. They lost a rod the last time they were out (before my employment started) and the engine broke hard enough to break the cam into little chunks. A piece kept as a souvenir looked like it had a half inch base circle. A long time later, Dave told me some of the machining tricks he used to allow a SBC based engine to make 1800hp and live, and I am not comfortable mentioning them although I will allow that he did an end run around the problems the silly head bolt pattern made. He mentioned this while we were standing around his OE-as-possible LS3 swapped Solstice GXP. (As in, he made his own wiring harnesses by terminating all the different wires directly into the different modules needed for the swap, no splices...)
The last time I saw the drag car it had a BBC.
Forgot to add a pic. Speaking of block integrity.
Yellow means we got a new Pope. That or a 1.6 Ecoboost with a probable cracked block.
I want to like the 1.6 but the block failures scare me. Says the guy who bought an S60R.
Edit: searching "S60R cracked block" got me this thread on SwedeSpeed that I'd started... because my block was uncracked after 230k miles, but I put a crack in the cylinder head you could see light through after a coil failed... during a blizzard... three hours from home... while I was towing a trailer
Cool.
Been thinking about radial engines. A lot lately .
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914Driver said:Cool.
Is this for reals? I don't know much about aviation, but I understand there's something called ground effect. Would an SR71(?) even be able to fly that low?(obviously during takeoff/landing)
No way that is real. Cool concept but zero reason to do that with an actual plane. I mean, it certainly COULD fly that low, but no way they would.
This one is for Appleseed:
The only way an SR is that low is its crashing. Especially over water...with the burners lit...and the gear up. The Blackbird was not maneuverable. It didn't have to be. At 3.2 Mach, it took the state of Texas to do a 180. But the rendering is rad.
Makes me think of a Bone painting from the 80s.
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