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Helblinde - Dango Daikazoku This is what made me respect dance music more.

Dark Moor - The Dark Moor I'm pretty sure none of them can speak a word of English. Still good music.

Nice to know there's another fan on here. :) To be honest, I don't know a great deal of 20th Century composers. The majority of the classical music I know of comes from what I play on the violin, so I don't know much past the mid-19th and early-20th century. But Shostakovich remains my favourite classical composer. :) Hehe, I've loved Shostakovich since I started listening to music, in fact, my first exposure to music of any kind was through my grandma's classical cassettes on car journeys. :D And it still remains one of my favourite genres as of today, and I love any music with classical elements in it (be it symphonic, progressive or anything). I've come across a few really obscure 20th century composers when trying to build up some kind of repertoire for bass trombone (not easy, it never was and never will be an acceptable solo instrument) and some of them are really forgettable. :P However, you find the odd gem amongst the bad, and I was so sick of playing transcribed music for b. tb. that I was willing to just play anything that sounded interesting for once rather than some cello sonata that had been rewritten. (although the Bach cello suites do sound awfully good on trombone) Anyway, Kamelot - Millennium Khan is awesome.

There's no spyware in Tiscali's equipment. I've had no problems with my ISP looking in on me since I signed up to their dial-up service in 2005. No letters, no warnings. And OldJoe, I heard about the FRA law. Good on the ISPs for protecting their customers' privacy.

I'll be damned. Thought I'd be further to the right.

My first kiss? Still awaiting it. I'm sure it'll happen with time.

Daily Mail. More like 'Daily Fail'. Conservative bias upon conservative bias. Quick to blame the media for deaths of young people in the United Kingdom. Maybe not the worst newspaper, but it misses out on that accolade by a very small amount. Right, now I have that out of the way. I can't help but thinking it was little more than either a teenager seeking attention or a cry for help. His parents obviously ignored his tantrum, so maybe he decided to attempt it and see if they would find him, with no intent or knowledge of the possible result of it. However, the lines 'sensitive' and 'great imagination' kind of tells me that he could've had trouble elsewhere; or maybe they were just adding that to make the obituary look good. I have no clue on how to interpret stuff like this; the newspapers twist it beyond comprehension, so I'll just post my opinion.

We've made three pages and nobody's discussed the NOISE made by dial-up? UGH. That 'beep'. Every. Time. Then you connect and get cut off. Rinse and repeat until you go insane. Also, you can't use the phone either. But I guess when I had dial-up, I didn't use the Internet as much as I do now, so I didn't notice. The house next door still has dial up, and when I had to go around their house to fix their computer... it took some self control when I was setting the Internet back up and trying to connect.

Intriguing, Shostakovich is indeed amazing. He's up there with Schoenberg and Stockhausen on my list of favourite 20th century composers. Truly a revolutionary musical period, and one that people who are too obsessed with melody dismiss as 'terrible'. Dark Moor - Cyrano of Bergerac Still trying to get into them. I much prefer their current vocalist to Elisa. Sounds like a poor man's Roy Khan, if you will.

For a 1.5meg line, at peak hours, it's not too bad. Hardly accurate, I'm getting 130kB/s download on files from sites with dedicated download servers. I can vouch for Tiscali being unlimited, I've not once had a letter from them or cut speed due to downloading too much. Even if they advertise a cap it certainly isn't enforced. Maybe I'm just a lucky punter. The reliability is pretty good. It does its job, provides you with a cheap, useable service with few faults. I've only had to call them twice in three years, and that was no fault of theirs. BT have been messing with our line (which they don't even own) and that's been causing us to cut out a lot, but Tiscali got back to me today about it and all is well. Even if I may complain about them, they're a pretty good provider. Cheap and it does the job just fine provided you don't P2P, which I don't anymore. All of the s___ they get is from the uninformed who haven't bothered to read up on their policies. [hide=Tiscali's Fair Usage Policy]Tiscali UK Ltd - Fair usage policy Tiscali's Fair Usage Policy is designed to make sure your broadband service is quick and reliable whenever you use it. A very small number of customers use Peer to Peer or file sharing software, which constantly sends and receives video and other very large files, throughout the day. This type of activity uses a lot of bandwidth and can significantly reduce the speed at which other customers can access the internet during peak hours. Approximately 1% of customers use more than 30% of the available bandwidth during peak hours. We don't believe this is fair to the vast majority of our customers. This fair usage policy automatically identifies the very small number of extremely heavy users and manages their bandwidth only during peak hours (6pm to 11pm Monday to Sunday), to protect the service for all our other customers. Outside peak hours, the use of the internet by these heavy users is unaffected. We think this is the fairest approach. It protects the quality of service for the vast majority of our customers when they most use the service, while at the same time allowing the extremely heavy users to continue to send and receive without restriction outside of peak hours. How do I know if I am likely to be affected by the Fair Usage Policy? If you don't use Peer to Peer or file sharing software it is unlikely you will ever be affected by this Fair Usage Policy. If you do use Peer to Peer or file sharing software, all we ask is that you use this software considerately and send and receive large files outside of peak hours. If you are affected, we will contact you by email to let you know that your usage at peak hours is excessive and is affecting other customers. The email will be sent to both your Tiscali email address and your contact email address (if different) and will contain simple advice on how to reduce your usage. If your usage is still excessive, we will contact you again by email to ask you to reduce your sending and receiving of large files during peak hours. If your usage still remains excessive during peak hours, we will contact you a third time to advise you that we will be restricting your bandwidth during peak hours for the good of all other customers. This restriction will only apply during peak hours and there will be no restriction at other times of the day. How can I manage my usage? Simply ensure that any file sharing, sending and receiving of large file is done outside of peak hours. What happens if you are affected by the Fair Usage Policy? During peak hours, customers affected by the fair usage policy will share bandwidth with each other and will be separated from other customers. The amount of bandwidth available for affected customers to share, will be at least as much as for those customers unaffected by the policy. The speed affected customers experience when downloading at peak hours will therefore depend on what these customers are doing. If they are all web-browsing and reading emails, they will experience normal broadband speed. If on the other hand they are using Peer to Peer or file sharing software they will experience slow broadband speed. Outside of peak hours, no restrictions will apply.[/hide] How is that vague? It clearly explains that you can't P2P, download large files, upload large files between peak hours. It's totally fair. Seriously, I would hate to be a Tiscali rep. The amount of complaints they get from people who download insane amounts and not expect to be limited is laughable. Yes, they limit P2P. I wouldn't be surprised if they blocked it in future since the amount of bandwidth it takes up is insane, especially for us folk who live out in the middle of nowhere with 1.5mbps lines. You can tell when people are P2Ping during peak hours as we suffer 300kbps speeds as a result. @Vidi: I guess Virgin have changed a lot. I was really basing my experience with them on my ADSL days. It was the most horrible service I'd ever used, and its given me an overall negative view of the company as one that provides consisitently inconsistent service, nonexistant customer support and refusal to cancel contracts, although BT seem to have taken up that role in recent years. I'm sorry about it, I guess I should've checked into their cable before throwing a fit over it. If we ever get cable here (yeah, right) I'll be sure to switch from ADSL.

Demons&Wizards - Heaven Denies

a) No, it doesn't. A 2mb cable connection should be between 200/300kB/s, not 200/300kb/s. B) All of the major ones (Virgin, BT, Tiscali, TalkTalk, Eclipse, o2, Orange) do this so they can advertise higher bandwidth packages for less money. c) Yes, because Virgin is dire. c) i. If you have the money, and if you can get them in your area, UKFSN or Be. c) ii. They'll continue to do the same regardless of how much you pay them.

I'd sooner choose death than use a Compaq... If you're going to buy a desktop, you \have\ to spend more to get a good one, at least in my experience. Cheap desktops tend to be terribly unbalanced component-wise and also have other issues. (Dell entry and mid-level desktops are a fine example of this) Also, I lol'd at the way the person is trying to sell that PC as a super machine. It's far from it, I mean, 512MB RAM, a non dual-core P4, 40GB HDD and onboard graphics + sound... sure, they offer upgrades but by the time you get it up to your needs you'd have gone over your budget by a long shot. As for the laptop... I'd say you'd be lucky to get past £50 on it, if the processor in question is a Celeron. I certainly wouldn't buy it for more than £65, and I'm being generous even then. If it's a Turion/C2D I'd say closer to £100, but yeah, you won't get £200 for it. What exactly do you plan to do with the desktop? Light gaming, Internet, schoolwork? Heavier, more intense usage? I won't link to any until I know exactly what you want out of it. I noticed this as well.

I'm hoping to sign up to UKFSN next year to get away from Tiscali, BT, Virgin and all of their continued attempts on peoples' privacy. It disgusts me. (in before 'you rent a line from them, they can do as they please') 3_Hit_U, that's exactly what I would've done in your situation. You're lucky due to Karoo being a pretty small company, though.. I seriously doubt Tiscali would let me talk to anyone if I'd been banned for filesharing/whatever. They just put you through to India/Pakistan and let someone who barely speaks English tell you that 'they can do nothing'. And since we're on the topic of privacy infringement: https://nodpi.org/ Dear God. Its come down to this?

Hi Fool. You probably know me from #runescape. Good luck.

[hide=] Oh shut up, /h/ is not that bad. What about /d/ or /hc/? Those can be, and usually are, much worse than /h/. Have you been to /hc/ recently? Horrid. At least /h/ looks good most of the time. Just because it doesn't suit your interest doesn't make it the worst board on 4chan. Now if you said /y/ I would probably agree to a point, I hate that board. /gif/ can go either way, some days there are good gifs on there, other days it's absolutely horrible. Tentacle. *grabs sick bag* [/hide]I agree with urbest... /d/ and /hc/ are disgusting, /y/ is vile, /gif/ is vile. /u/ can be a bit, 'errm', but not as much as the other boards. And tentacle is far from the worst thing you'll see on 4chan. Far.

Hi. Long time, no talk. Well done on the levels and all. I might play Runescape for a bit sometime soon, who knows. Keep it up.

Super congratulations to you. (:

System of a Down is hilarious.

Hey There Delilah by the Plain White Ts. Heard it on the radio yesterday and I felt like vomiting.

Today it's: - Sonata Arctica - Nightwish - Dream Theater - Opeth - Yes - The Beatles - Pink Floyd - Porcupine Tree - Gamma Ray - Children of Bodom

It's up to yourself to decide how many partners is an acceptable amount. As for myself, I'd certainly hope that I'll have more more than one partner in my life.

Sonata Arctica - Shy Takatalvi track 4.

I'm seriously claustrophobic. Any small space will reduce me to a cowering wreck.