To be perfectly honest, I've been using torrent sites with private trackers so I'm not as affected as much.  Like Axlin08 mentioned just google searching for megaupload or rapidshare (or others) links can be just as effective.  There's also zero chance of getting bad hash fails when downloading from links.

For those who download from isohunt I have a question:  Weren't US users blacklisted from isohunt trackers?

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When are the people going to get the money instead of the corporations?  Shit, pay off 1 mortgage for every household (US Citizens and Green Cards only).  That will get far more money back into the economy than bailing out any bank or car company.

What are these checks going to do other than prop up the Chinese economy and allow more of their worthless trinkets to flood Wal Mart? I realize free money is great and would love a quick check so I'll have extra spending money at the Santogold concert next month, but I don't really see what it accomplishes. Did the Bush free checks in 2008 save us? No, it just made it worse.

The days of borrowed money to prop up foreign economies needs to grind to a complete halt. I don't care if it gets worse. Our system and way of life need a massive correction.

Our manufacturing base has to be resurrected in some aspect. This situation is never going to improve as long as Joe and Jill public keep demanding foreign garbage at Wal Mart.

Resurrecting our manufacturing base(jobs, and plenty of them) will ignite a trade war to end all trade wars, but better that than the complete and total collapse of our nation.

Not one penny of the almost one trillion "stimulus" goes towards this.......

and it will fail. Just like the last stimulus did. Later this year we'll be discussing a 2 trillion "stimulus", which will also fail.

Joe and Jill just don't get it. They yell "change" while maxing out their last credit card to buy the latest bullshit gadget, sitting in a soon to be foreclosed home, driving a car not even worth half of what they paid, yet unable to comprehend that they advocate more of the same.

Give them one more credit card and they're happier than pigs in shit until they need another stimulus check.

Our service economy can no longer run on free credit and a yearly trillion dollar stimulus. The chickens are here to roost. Let em roost.

Good stuff Axl you have just proven that you are Guns n' Roses, great new album.
Hopefully we get to hear more new stuff. Chinese Democracy is the first album i have bought in about 15 years and it is worth every cent. You are a legend.
Thank you

With midseason now in full swing, I thought I'd round up some of my favorite shows that I'm keeping tabs on at the moment. This is Part 1.

How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
One of the last sitcoms standing, How I Met Your Mother continues widening its fanbase thanks to stellar writing and an ensemble that includes the madcap genius of Neil Patrick Harris as loathsome lothario Barney Stinson.

Heroes (NBS)
While the fantasy/sci-fi epic has admittedly seen better days, things got kicked up a notch upon entering the third season's second half. Fortunately, with the return of writer Bryan Fuller, the creative upswing looks set to continue.

Nip/Tuck (FX)
Now in the midst of its fifth season's long delayed (thanks writers' strike) second half, TV's most superficial drama has thankfully regained much of its edge and remains my favorite serialized, stylized melodrama.

Burn Notice (USA)
Originally approached by this viewer as "The New Bruce Campbell TV Vehicle I Must Religiously Watch," Burn Notice quickly became an entity unto itself, with Campbell relegated to a supporting (scene stealing) role. This spy series is also USA's best series. Ever.

Degrassi: The Next Generation (The N)
Yeah, I went there.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (FOX)
A vast storytelling improvement over T3, SCC should please fans of the franchise and features the best John Connor since Eddie Furlong (until Christian Bale, who I am done with professionally).

Dollhouse (FOX)
Because its Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly. Because Eliza Dushku's always been hot and people are just now realizing it. Because it was given a death sentence and put on FOX's Friday night sci-fi suicide slot (R.I.P. The Adventures of Brisco County Jr., M.A.N.T.I.S., Brimstone, Dark Angel, The Lone Gunmen, the oft-mentioned Firefly, and all the others who have fallen).