I't's good to have the abuse in general
mostly I have the mistake in commen
sometimes I get the idea of reason
but mostly I have the pretention for saken 

It's both, and the latter I don't mind. Just the use of 'gay' as an insult I find offensive. 

that's becuase you're gay.


...not that there's anything wrong with that. 

Now, see, if I were to say "Fuck you", then the virgins around here would take offense. And that would be a lot of people I would offend. 

you could say someone is 'dumb' and really offend all the non-speakers here. 

political correctness is way out of style 

But surely the duality of meaning that is inherent in the English language, combined with the context leads any reasonable man to see it as an insult only, rather than a statement that someone is homosexual. Anyone who can't is a fucking faggot. 

(Or as a statement of intolerance towards homosexuals) 

#3687 gets my vote for post of the month. #3688 was just redundancy. 

Scampie hates my Blue Tick AngelEyes. Hate every Latinated chromosone in my body if you want but leave my dog out of it. That innocent soul has never harmed anyone that didn't get in between her and her food bowl first. 

I'm sure the term meant no harm to gay people, but LTH has a point. I'm sure we can in the future instead of calling someone a fag, call em Shambler. I'd take way more offense to that. 

I'm with Prod on this one.

Scampie you fucking Shambler! 

a good P2P music sharing program?

Mainly looking for something with a decent size base (Kazaa was good in this aspect but sucked in other features) and speed. 

Direct Connect, http://www.neo-modus.com/ (although somepeople feel http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/ provides a better client),althogh you'll a decent size collection to be allowed on a lot of the hubs.

EMule, http://www.emule-project.net/ , is good too, as is BitTorrent, http://bt.degreez.net/ , with http://www.suprnova.org/ being a good place to start looking for Torrents (more films than music though). 

Check out Blubster if your looking for music only. Its like a modern day Napster. No ads, no extra spyware, just fast relaible downloads. Check it out, google it. 

http://www.slsknet.org

Find pretty much everything I want on it (if it's been released), and has a slick interface. Only problem with it is that it's server uptime isn't that reliable (downloads won't pause if the server goes down, you just won't be able to do more searches until it goes back up) ... problems are normally solved quickly though. 

Soulseek is has a lot of good people on it, but the queues are often long. I've seen queues over a thousand. WinMX is another good choice for audiophiles. The selection is a little less but the queues are much shorter. So I recommend both. You'll need NapMX to go with WinMX for a list of rogue servers. 

It's heavily into the adware. Even if you run adaware afterwards you'll be encouraging them by downloading it. 

Its fine for me, I ran AdAware afterwards and its fine. You don't have anything to worry about. 

Scampie grow up, unban me. 

IK's download for ikbase isn't working, and neither are any of the other downloads I've found, and I need that set. Anyone got a working download for it?

wanders off muttering about fileplanet and gamespy.. 

ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub5/pc/games/idgames2/planetquake/ikq/ikbase_r2.zip 

soulseek looks good.

Does bit-torrent have ads or install other programs? 

BitTorrent doesn't. It's about the most minimal p2p around :)

And I considered recommending SoulSeek, but I just find it too unreliable these days. As I say, DC is by far the best, but I am presuming you have 30Gb+ of video/mp3s to share :) 

For those that are interrested, this months (uk) pczone has a new demo of painkiller on it containing a new "Venice" themed level (which is very very very cool!).

Search around on the net if your not in in uk, its bound to have made its way online somewhere...