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TimR

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  1. The VPN we use at work is. But as @Bassassin points out, very hard to do as everyone would just use an offshore VPN server. Unless, of course, those VPN servers are also blacklisted.
  2. You don't need to collect user data. You just need to block IPs. They already do this for known malicious Websites.
  3. Ha. Yes. I'm not talking about banning VPNs. I'm talking about fixing a white list to VPN software. Although I'm not sure of the exact mechanics behind VPNs. Edit: you're essentially using the VPN services server as an ISP. So yes, it would be pretty simple to do.
  4. You don't police it. You make it illegal to access it. And if VPN companies are creating software that allows its use, then they're also culpable.
  5. All vulnerable people. Which is going to include old people and any of us who are open to be scammed etc. Effectively if you own a property and you knowingly allow undesirables to hang around and cause harm, you could be held responsible for failing to deal with it. Online should be no different other than the number of people could be exponentially higher.
  6. I've not read it yet but that's my gut feeling from what I've been seeing. The number of small sports clubs and societies that have and rely on BBs amd small Web platforms runs to the thousands. You'll just need a policy in place and an audit trail to show you're following the policy. If your users step out of line then you just need a report function and then you need to show you acted on it. We did find it a struggle when facebook was new to moderate our group as certain people would pile on and in some cases be malicious. But that was swiftly dealt with and people calmed down. I guess the online bullying and harassment is their main reason for clamping down.
  7. I have a tape of 20 or so songs that I put onto CD with some noise reduction, multiband compression and EQ to master it a bit. I often wonder what it would sound like with competent musicians, recorded in a recording studio with someone with some musical experience to tweak the ideas. The songs are OK, and they're of a time but have potential to sound quite good if anyone had the time and interest. Probably best left as tape recordings.
  8. I met the drummer and 'singer' in the 90s having not spoken to them for over 10 years. The drummer is now professional and the singer hasn't sung since we broke up. I'm still in contact with the guitarist and have played quite a bit with him. I used the drummer as a dep on a couple of gigs. I don't think that's got any legs. One of the guitarists I used to play with contacted me to play in the band he originally played in. Seems the bass player still had the same issues that caused the band to break up originally, and they'd resurfaced when they'd tried to get together again. I rehearsed for a few weeks with them and played 3 gigs. The gigs were superb and I think they found another (more local) bass player to join shortly after. I think elements of the band still play together in one form or another.
  9. It's not supposed to be good. In fact the worse the singers are, the more people will get up, the more people lsugh and the more drink is consumed. As soon as someone good goes up, everyone else will be put off getting up.
  10. Would it be a bad time to mention the brown note?
  11. The video claims that the nautral frequency of 8hz is the resonance of thunder. And our ears have evolved to resonate at certain frequencies because of that. I didn't watch further than that.
  12. What a load of nonsense. Octaves based on 8hz are 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 and 512. People will believe anything it seems. 🤦‍♂️😂
  13. Drummer from British Lions, Simon Dawson, set to take over. Makes sense if Steve Harris already knows him and plays well with him.
  14. Why?
  15. First, it's difficult to get musicians together on the same night to rehearse, musicians with common music choices, musicians who stick around long enough to get gig ready, and musicians who are interested in doing the same number of gigs as each other. A solo artist makes all of that redundant. @Lozz196 point regards modern music; it's difficult to find creative musicians who want to take a modern tune and rearrange it to suit the band's instrumentation. I've lost count of the number of times I've been told "We dont have a keyboard player", "We only have one guitarist", or "That's a male song.". A solo artist can pretty much perform with a different band for each song.
  16. What is teh requirement for stereo monitoring. Seems a lot of extra faff for no reward whatsoever. Especially if you're taking a FOH feed from the main PA and mixing it in to your bass.
  17. Following the SBL IEM video, I have put some ZS10s on my Christmas list. I'm not sure if I'll use them as stage IEMs as seems like a bit of a faff fot not much return, although following our last gig, even moderate volume is giving me ringing in the ears when I get to bed. Wanted to try them to see how good they were for home practice while isolating external noise/distractions. If they're good will look at wireless and mini mixer options.
  18. An instrumental version of Money For Nothing at a house party. Aged 17. We unplugged the rhythm guitarist and he played the whole thing without realising. Might as well start as I meant to go on... Although quite possibly it wasn't the first. We also played One Vision, Tie Your Mother Down, a Status Quo Medley, Paranoid, some others and I think a handful of tunes we had written ourselves.
  19. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/15Lr8WDHBe/ Nick trying to buy back his Wal... ...if his wife lets him. 😂
  20. I was just looking at that. Looks like the controls have been modded as well.
  21. Didn't he play drums or was that George Best?
  22. Maybe everyone else is aware, but watching TOTP2: Boy bands; Bros are on, drummer and singer are Bros and there's a Bass player - no other musicians. So Google... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Logan
  23. Use of rit. and passing chords.
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