Your custom license plate

OK, when I get a new car being the vainn stuck up Dr. that I am, I'm going to get custom plates. Naw, I'm not vain (I hope I'm not), I just love my car. Anywho, my car needs to convey the fact that I'm in medicine as it is my lifestyle. It also needs to reflect my need for Speed (ahem, Speedfreak?) So my plates would either be "Dr. G", "Rx 4 Me", or "Speed Rx". I don't know if the last one is OK cuz it would be 8 spaces? Well, what would you guys do if you had custom plates? I'm just curious as to what you guys would put on your cars... ------------------ Ço£o§§ü§ - yeah you can read into it... __________________ anyone remember "I8A4RE" hehe __________________ Haha any of the "dr" or "rx" with the "speed" makes me think of methamphetamines haha. Dr. Speed...sounds like you might be a shady drug dealer It'd be even better if you could arrange to have a really big cadillac!! __________________ GOT APEX __________________ MUGNMR5 stands for mugen mr5 __________________ quote: Originally posted by Apex: GOT APEX How much you want to bet that apex really has a license plate saying that. __________________ Unfortunately, not yet. But I did apply for it. __________________ i'd like to say i have the courage for "NE146T9". but my gf would kill me! maybe "roniman", or "chi is a really handsome and rich guy." but i don't think i would spend the money on a spec plate yet. i'd spend it on the interior first. just out of curiousity, does anyone else feel like lowering your car/buying $2000+ rims/installing spoilers is a waste of money? to clear the air, i am taiwanese, but i just don't see the need/use for it. i went to work on thursday, and i don't know how many "souped up" cars i saw get stuck in traffic with everyone else. (i carpool, so i like laughing at them. "oh yeah, that double spoiler is doing you LOTS of good!".) granted, it'll make your car go really fast when the time comes. so i'd like to know, when is that time? (i mean no disrespect, but personally, i've NEVER had to go ANYWHERE that badly where i said "damn! wish i had nitro in my car." well...maybe once, but it was just b/c i REALLY had to go to the bathroom.) __________________ Willow Springs International is the time. __________________ how much does it cost to get custom plates anyways? __________________ It is probably more out in CA, but here in Kansas, it costs $44 plus taxes to get a custom plate. (At least that is what the lady quoted me when I called the other day.) __________________ HK 1997 __________________ I believe in CA the cost varies depending on the style vanity plate, and the "charity" you "wish" to donate to. That cost ranges from $50-100/plate. Then the extra fee per year is about $80, on top of your taxes. __________________ ILUVBEER http://www.bigbigsavings.com __________________ Thanks Alex. Man, I hear you're everywhere.

Where are you from?? I'm nosey!

I'm just curious of everyone's locations! Im in New York City! ------------------ ~Reeny (c: __________________ Boy, everybody but me is from someplace exciting! lol I'm out in the very southwestern corner of Kansas!!! LOL __________________ Kansas you say ouch I'm in California j/k __________________ SoCal. __________________ I'm from the Flemish speaking part of Belgium. Witch is in Europe ofcourse. __________________ I'm in SoCal as well. ------------------ §=-Sp34dFr34k-=§ __________________ Maryland, 15 min drive to 1600 Penn Ave. __________________ SoCow __________________ I'm in Northern Virginia __________________ Michigan __________________ I'm from Washington - we like Microsoft here. ------------------ dcsonic2k dcsonic2k@hotmail.com __________________ Poughkeepsie, NY. HEY, stop that laughin'! __________________ Socal, as well. __________________ Right in the very center of Cali. I'm three hours from the Ocean, two hours from snow(skiing or boarding), and 10 minutes from water skiing. Fuz ------------------ -Do we have any sort of plan? -Ride `till we find them, then kill them all. __________________ Irvington N.Y. 15 miles from NYC but quite another world here in this quiet river village ------------------ oops, another brain fart! __________________ Cali (Bay Area) and NY (right outside of Albany) __________________ Austin, the Heart of Texas __________________ NoVa: Pretty but Boring compared to CA or NYC __________________ SoCal here. Love it. __________________ People's Republik of Maryland-Montgomery County Chapter. __________________ Cali, Los Angeles Known for the worst drivers in the US. __________________ Lot of Californians...eh? (c: BTW...NYC isn't that exciting...same old stuff here! ------------------ ~Reeny (c: __________________ the real computer center of the world - Seattle Washington! (none of that california garbage for me!) j/k [This message has been edited by Crunch It Now (edited 04-27-2000).] __________________ Micro$oft country!! __________________ Renton, WA. About 3 mins from dcsonic2k __________________ Am I the only one from Europe here? I think I need a hug now. __________________ ChrisMG187 gives rynn a big hug. "This site is like one big family, everyone from anywhere in the world is welcome." __________________ SoCal born and raised. BTW, was that SoCow meant to be SoCal? Oh, and Rynn, just to let you know, I think Chris has cuties... colossus __________________ And Rynn already has a boyfriend. Namely me! __________________ Well...I'll give ya a hug! Where in Europe? ------------------ ~Reeny (c:

NAPSTER AND METTALICA THREAD-POST HERE

quote: Originally posted by Rettirc: Metallica can rot in hell. I got banned for three lousy songs. THREE! I can't get back on either. I tried with a new username and got shot out of the air. Even after cleaning all references to Napster out of the registry and searching extensively for Metallica and Napster refernces in the resitry and all storage. New IP did no good either. Wonder if they went as far as to log the mac addy of the NIC? Seems kinda unlikely. Did I miss something? dude-how is that possible? the only wat to get mac address i think is an arp-a or something like that after you ping an NT box. IF you did ping there server in the past, then they could have gotten it. This is so highly unlikely though. How can you not get on with a new ip and a new log on? You cannot ban by mac address. What if you sell your puter and then your like, Oh by the way dude- my nic card is banned from napster. Thats banning hardware not users. That **** is whacked, there is no way they did that. You just havent cleaned your system fully. I bet there is something still in your registry or your autoexec.bat still recognizing you as "you" on Napster. If you really want to get crazy then reformat and then try it with a new ip and a new username. If that doesnt work then..... Gee- that would be impossible-it WILL WORK- ANY ELSE WANT TO GIVE THIS ONE A SHOT? __________________ quote: Originally posted by Y2J: It doesnt matter how much money they've made, what matters is that they want more. Is there some sarcasm there, Y2J? ------------------ §=-Sp34dFr34k-=§ __________________ I think the thing Metallica is missing here is the tremendous marketing opportunity they are missing here. Lookit, few people buy their CD's now anyways. What was their last platinum album: Load, I think. First of all, the BEST a group can do is around 10 cents on the dollar, after all the other players take their piece of the pie. Metallica makes their money touring and doing promos. They are losing just a fraction of their income while alienating a ton of fans. They are stuck in the old way to market things. Why not examine Napster and try and figure out a way to make money with it? I'm not talking about user fees, because they have no control over that. What they need to do is come up with some new business plan...it would take a person with a little more time on their hands than me, but it is out there. __________________ i agree pennypinch-good post, but lets try tostay on track here. How is this kid still not able to get back on Napster after ip change, reg hack, etc... thats weird- __________________ I think Napster's cool. Even if they stop Napster, some other thing's going to come up and replace it. __________________ Metallica doesn't stand a chance between Napster. Those in favor of Metallica...you are the few...the proud...the morons. I understand their point of view...and it does suck...but there is no way to they can do anything about this kind of technology. I feel for those who got the boot from Napster...tragic __________________ I heard that some of those peope that got booted from Napster didn't do jack. Their names were accidentally placed on the "list." __________________ Speedfreak, Of course there is sarcasm, metallica always wants more money. Being a huge fan of them (I own 40 Metallica CDs including bootlegs), I respect their oopinion and will listen to them, but I can't see a casual fan caring what Metallica says. This won't stop, one can always find them, unfortunately, on other MP3 sharing servers, like CuteMX. After paying $65 a pop to see them in the summer, they must really be taking this loss of money over Napster too seriously __________________ Leon or Apex-I posted here to get the most attention-please move the thread to off topic if you want. I just wanted to generate traffic on it. __________________ First off, I think Mettalica is very talented however the stand they took is barbaric. F MEtalica Long Live Napster. __________________ Metallica can rot in hell. I got banned for three lousy songs. THREE! I can't get back on either. I tried with a new username and got shot out of the air. Even after cleaning all references to Napster out of the registry and searching extensively for Metallica and Napster refernces in the resitry and all storage. New IP did no good either. Wonder if they went as far as to log the mac addy of the NIC? Seems kinda unlikely. Did I miss something? __________________ There's a good interview with Lars on Slashdot today. __________________ Well, Its time you guys realize that Metallica is right. If you had live recordings and bootlegs, they didn't ban you. But you guys should know better than to share Metallica's songs. They work hard to produce an album an deserev to be rewarded. It doesnt matter how much money they've made, what matters is that they want more. We, as loyal fans, deserve to provide them with that. I have over a gig of just METALLICA mp3s on Napster, but they are all bootlegs. I would never share my precious songs for free. They've worked hard to provide a great service, and rightfully deserve to be rewarded for it. __________________ I heard Metallica in an interview on KROQ recently..i dunno if anyone else heard it..but anyways.. that is such bull about them not banning those who had bootleg versions. I have plenty of metallica non bootleg songs and I wasnt banned. What they did is probably searched napster over a weekend..if you werent signed on, you didnt get banned. If you were on, and you had a Metallica song, you were banned. I dont believe for a second that they searched through all 300,000 metallica songs to see which were bootlegged. F Metallica! __________________ That is true. They presented Napster with a list of user gathered over one weekend of users with Metallica songs __________________ i totally understand Metallica's view on this subject...but i'm just too addicted to MP3s. On another note...does anyone know where those Napster shirts come from? I want one of those almost as much as i want my gotapex shirt. ProMinx __________________ Try this link for those of you who got banned. Believe it or not...it was on Napster. http://www.rome.uni.cc/

Shmileys

I see people doing funky smilies in their posts... one's a smilie with question marks over it, one sticks its tongue out, etc... only the basic ones are covered in the FAQ. How do you do the others? Thanks. G __________________ When you write a post or a reply, look to the left of the box and it should say Smilies Legend. Click on it and it will bring up a new window that has them all listed. etc lol [This message has been edited by Jenny (edited 05-23-2000).] __________________ Thanks Jen-nay! G __________________ we need a blinky.... or a rolling smile... or one that's on fire... --------------------------------- [This message has been edited by Speedfreak (edited 05-23-2000).] __________________ how about just an evil one? ProMinx

Maturity in the fourms

THIS IS NOT A DEAL!!!! I repeat not a deal but a public notice to all members. Ok, I do not feel rules or punishments belong in this fourm, yet after the "11 free cd's" I think we need to grow up. Although this may be a way to relax and sit back after work (Or during work in my case) we don't need people playing games as the case of the post by German Superstar. Will an administrator please close the post or archive it... If you have a comment post or drop me a line. ------------------ --Andrew andrew@rivtec.com __________________ He's probably a Staples Employee ------------------ Ço£o§§ü§ - yeah you can read into it... __________________ What's this German Superstar thing??? Darn lectures, made me miss what went on..hehehe. __________________ AmRivlin: I agree with you completely. I found his post insulting to all those who make this board such an ongoing success. I'm relatively new here, and I would hate for such a great community to be annoyed by the posts from a very small minority of immature idiots. I've seen it happen... __________________ Amrivln: Although I don't know exactly to what you are referring, let's not get into people closing this thread or banning that user. I think we are of the type of community that has the intelligence and maturity to deal with idiots the way we deserve to be treated: no attention whatsoever. Just let it go. No harm done, just let the retard stew in his own stupid-juices. It's the self-governing nature of this board that makes it special. Let's not get into censure where none is needed. We've all seen where that primrose path leads! Penny __________________ Moved to Off-Topic. Go visit it there. __________________ true true if you ignore a problem it will go away (on the forums anyway ) The #1 thing that drives morons to post immature stuff is responses and flames, you dont like what you see, stay out of it. That how i feel anyway, unless its a pc-mac flame war hehe colossus: lol hehehehe __________________ PC rules!!!! Don't really like Mac, so freaken hard to upgrade and/or change the hardware. My 2cents. Note for all Mac user: Sorry, just my opinion. I use to have a Mac, can't do crap with it. __________________ Sjarred: sure, you can always use it as a paper weight i've gotten into too many pc-mac fights to care anymore. all i have to say is that the proof is in the real world. example: where i work we have 5 pc's and one mac. people wont touch the mac with a ten foot pole. __________________ I despise macs (unless a unix varient is being run on it, then I'll tolerate it), and I was shocked when I went into one of the schools computer labs. ALL of the macs were in use and only one of the PCs where in use. The only thing I could think of why so many people on macs was that a lot of stupid people goto my college. __________________ hmm there are no macs in the comp labs here...thank god __________________ yeah, we have no macs in the programming labs, but i hear that ucla does have them in the design computer labs, but luckily i never go there... ProMinx __________________ Yup we got a bunch of Macs here at UCLA. Some of the programmers even use it to design 3D visualizations on it. It's really impressive. __________________ Impressive???? Traitor...hehehe __________________ yeah we have about 5 imacs in my schools computer lab. (i swear sometimes when i'm hungry i think about licking them to see if they're flavored too ) needless to say no one ever uses them except for the guy who runs the lab __________________ Hmmm... That's interesting. Which is better, a Mac or a PC. I Really have NO opinion on this matter. I guess there has always been a battle in this issue, but I just don't see the point. ([brainwash]Pssst... Go Here to download iTrash, an iMac icon for your recycle bin.[/brainwash]) I really DO NOT want to get involved in a heated argument over this is. I mean.... Who really cares?? ([brainwash] Pssst.... Down with !!![/brainwash]) Thank You. Have a Nice Day. ------------------ §=-Sp34dFr34k-=§ __________________ hehehe __________________ Only reason I say impressive is cuz they got one hooked up to a huge screen called a Visualization Portal where i work. It's a 30 X 10 ft concaved screen. You guys should see the stuff they show on there... demo: http://www.oac.ucla.edu/portal/fly.htm It's running off a G4 with about 5 monitors hooking up to it simulating the curved screen.