Oldies but goldies - Members of Mayday - Sonic Empire

Un grup de breakers vechi, nu se poate sa nu ii stiti, plini de idei, inca un show de calitate marca Flying Steps

Un site care promova descărcarea de filme piratate a fost închis de politiştii bucureşteni. La percheziţia făcută în locuinţa proprietarului site-ului au fost găsite mii de cd-uri cu filme preluate de pe internet.

Poliţiştii îi cercetează pe cei doi proprietari ai site-ului pentru promovarea de mărfuri piratate. Infracţiunea poate fi pedepsită cu cel mult patru ani de închisoare.

au inchis frate torrentbits. Ce tare, in loc sa mearga pe urmele celor care fura miliarde in guvern, merg dupa site-urile de torrenti. bravo politia romana !!!

am primit pe mess acum, o chestie.

YVE WROTE:

Am observat ca dezinformarea pleaca tot de la voi. Hai sa o lamurim sa nu mai lansati zvonuri aiurea…

1. Nu am vandut niciodata nici un disc piratat. Ei stiu asta (anchetatorii)
2. Am fost dat in gat de cineva. Nu mai conteaza cine. Mai rau este ca sunt in cercetare inca vre-o 10 trackere. Ii intereseaza serverele si ownerii. Userii sa stea linistiti
3. Am fost monitorizat, urmarit si filmat pe strada, ascultat telefoanele…etc (de parca eram mare spion) timp de peste 4-5 luni… Stiau absolut tot. Au stiut exact cand si unde sa vina.
4. Nu am avut niciodata echipamente de copiere si/sau de distributie a materialelor piratate. Am avut un simplu dvd-r ( Samsung).
5. Totul a fost doar un hobby…nimic mai mult.

Yve

Melodie de relax:

The very public split threatens the ruling coalition

A war of words between Romanian President Traian Basescu and Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu has erupted on live national television. The two former political allies accused each other on air of involvement in dubious multi-million-dollar energy deals.

The outburst happened ahead of a debate in parliament on a motion of impeachment against the president.

Mr Basescu has constantly criticised Mr Tariceanu since the start of 2007.

The setting was innocent enough. Mr Tariceanu was invited to talk on television about the role of Romania’s “media moguls” on Tuesday evening.

However, the discussion quickly turned to the long-running feud dominating political life in Romania, between President Basescu and the prime minister.

Allegations and insults

Mr Tariceanu accused the president of intervening on behalf of an aluminium company, to help it secure a cheap energy deal.

“Every one of us has had to pay for this,” said the prime minister.

Minutes later, the president himself phoned in, to respond live on air.

Just because you are on TV, it doesn’t mean you can say anything you want about me President Basescu addressing PM Tariceanu

“Excuse me, Mr Prime Minister - I don’t want a nasty scene - but I’m asking you not to lie in public. Just because you are on TV, it doesn’t mean you can say anything you want about me,” Mr Basescu said.

He went on to accuse the prime minister of involvement in dubious contracts himself, and of tolerating what he called “a mafia” in the energy sector.

Impeachment looming

He said that he intervened in the case of the aluminium company in an effort to expose how officials were taking “suitcases full of cash”, in exchange for granting energy contracts.

Then the exchange between the two men got even more bitter and personal.

At one point, the president mocked the prime minister’s appearance.

The episode underlines the deepening rift between the two, threatening the fragile, centre-right coalition government.

The opposition Social Democrats are trying to cash in, by pushing for a referendum on impeaching the president.

The impeachment debate is scheduled to take place on 28 February and if a majority of deputies and senators vote in favour, a referendum has to be held within a month, on whether to remove the president from office.

Basescu promised a new leadership style when he won the 2004 election

The Romanian parliament has voted to suspend President Traian Basescu amid a deepening political crisis.Members of parliament have accused him of violating Romania’s constitution, even though the constitutional court found no evidence of that.

He has been at odds for several months with the Prime Minister, Calin Popescu Tariceanu.

The vote paves the way for a national referendum on Mr Basescu’s impeachment within 30 days.

But correspondents say he remains the most popular politician in the country.

Mr Basescu and Mr Tariceanu have accused each other on television of involvement in dubious multi-million-dollar energy deals.

In the parliament on Thursday 322 members voted to suspend Mr Basescu, with 108 against and 10 abstentions.

The suspension was proposed by the leftist opposition party PSD.

Mr Basescu denies any wrongdoing and has vowed to resign if a referendum on his impeachment is called.

The killings at a university in the state of Virginia have sparked yet again a heated debate about gun control in the United States. The BBC News website looks at some of the issues arising from the worst shooting spree in the country’s peacetime history. Why are shootings at educational institutions so common in the US?

This depends on who you ask. For those opposed to the country’s liberal gun laws the key problem is easy access to highly powered weapons. They say the school shootings merely throw into sharp relief what is happening across a country where 30,000 people die of gun wounds every year. Others contend that these killings take place within a deep culture of violence, which they say is promoted in the US through music, film and video games.

But there are those who argue these incidents take place not because there are too many guns, but because there are not enough. “All the school shootings that have ended abruptly in the last 10 years were stopped because a law-abiding citizen - a potential victim - had a gun,” said Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America. “The latest school shooting at Virginia Tech demands an immediate end to the gun-free zone law which leaves the nation’s schools at the mercy of madmen.”

Others argue that schools and colleges are not sufficiently protected, and that the lack of security is tantamount to an open invitation.

Have gun controls been tightened after previous incidents?

After the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado in 1999 more than 15 state legislatures passed gun control bills or dropped liberalisation bills supported by the National Rifle Association (NRA).

Nonetheless, in many cases these simply restricted the number or type of guns which could be bought. California for instance limited gun sales to one firearm per customer per month and outlawed some assault weapons.

And at the federal level, little changed. Following the Columbine killings President Bill Clinton proposed tougher legislation including raising the legal age of possession to 21 and closing loopholes on sales without background checks.

But they proved intensely controversial, and by the time the bill was to be voted on by Congress the president himself denounced it as so watered down it was “worse than current law”.

Mr Clinton did however introduce the Assault Weapons Ban, a 10-year ban on semi-automatic weapons. The ban expired in 2004 under President George Bush and has not yet been renewed.

What is security like at US institutions?

Some educational institutes, both high schools and colleges, have metal detectors at the entrance to stop guns being brought on site. But this is easier to do at institutions which are self-contained, and harder on universities which are spread out on campuses and have many points of entry.

What is the public view on gun laws?

The right to bear arms in America is seen as an important civil liberty, and the debate concerns how far to impose restrictions on that right. Politically, most Democrats favour tighter gun laws whilst the majority of Republicans are opposed to any new legislation, saying the problem lies in the lax enforcement of existing laws.

According to the Pew Charitable Trust, support for greater restrictions has slipped in recent years among the general public. A recent poll for the organisation suggested that 52% of people had favourable views on the NRA compared to 32% who did not.

In a separate poll in October last year, some 56% of people did however tell Gallup that they wanted stricter laws. However, when given the choice in that poll between enforcing current gun laws or passing new gun laws in addition to enforcing the existing ones, most people preferred simple enforcement.

How does the US compare with other countries around the world?

Accurate figures on firearms are scarce, but there are an estimated 200 million guns in circulation in the US, a country with a population of about 300 million.

According to a Harris poll conducted in 2001, approximately 39% of all American households own at least one gun.

The risk of being killed by a firearm in the US is higher than in any other Western nation. Of countries outside war zones, the risk is greatest in South Africa, according to a United Nations report.

There are no recent statistics available but UN figures from 2000 showed for every 10,000 Americans, 0.3 were killed by firearms, compared with 0.01 in the UK where handgun ownership was banned in 1997.

In Switzerland where every man of military age is required to keep a gun at home as part of the country’s civil defence policy, the number of deaths per 10,000 population was 0.05.

In South Africa it was 7.1 for every 10,000 people.

Some students sought comfort at local churches

An air of unreality hangs over the small town of Blacksburg, home of Virginia Tech University and scene of the worst gun rampage in US history.Less than 12 hours after the shooting that left 33 people - including the suspected gunman - dead, few people brave the icy wind to venture on to the streets.

Three young girls huddle on the pathway of the Luther Memorial Lutheran Church, opposite the flashing lights of police cars blocking an entrance to Virginia Tech.

They are trying to light candles as a tribute to fellow students killed in the shooting - and to friends touched by the tragedy.

‘Very surreal’

“This is the closest we can get to the campus,” they say. “Our friends who live on campus can’t get out and we can’t get in to see them.”

Eventually, defeated by the wind, they head for home, candles unlit.

“It’s surreal, very surreal - it still hasn’t sunk in yet,” one says.

Both students, who make up a large part of the town’s 40,000 population, and townspeople are left shocked by the day’s events.

I saw a guy running into the building but I didn’t really think anything of it. Then it all started going off Christian, 20 In pictures: Virginia shootings Eyewitness accounts

Christian, 20, saw much of what happened in Norris Hall - the teaching building where 30 of the victims died.

“I saw a guy running into the building but I didn’t really think anything of it. Then it all started going off.

“Probably the most startling thing was when you saw the police Swat team try to go in and the doors were chained shut. The leading Swat guy had a shotgun so he just blew the thing to pieces.”

Gun control?

Mala Kumar, a 22-year-old student from Richmond, has two of her friends in hospital being treated for injuries.

She is keen to see gun controls tightened - but realises how difficult a task that is. “If the guy had come through with any other weapon that wasn’t firearms, it would have been much, much less harmful.

“But it’s a handgun, not a weapon you would think of as a horribly, horribly dangerous weapon. It’s something there are millions and millions of in America.

“How are you ever going to get rid of them?”

Patrick Bieli, a student from New Jersey, says: “I am surprised and disturbed, I guess.

“When you look at the factors that may have led up to cause it, you have to wonder, has there been a change in society? What’s breaking society, what’s making people do this?”

He is also upset that the day’s events will skew people’s perceptions of what is a quiet, peaceful, rural town, making it “synonymous with Columbine”.

“As the reality sinks in you realise that all your friends are going to be going through really difficult times now,” he adds.

Psychology student Hojin Kim, originally from South Korea, is among some 40 people seeking comfort at one of several special church services held in the town on Monday evening.

“We spent a good deal of time praying for the families of the lost ones, and just in general,” he said.

There’s a rumour going round that the shooter might be an Asian guy about six feet tall - like me Hojin Kim, psychology student

The 25-year-old, who was in a class close to Norris Hall at the time of the shootings, says he fielded dozens of calls from relatives and friends in northern Virginia worried about his safety.

“There’s a rumour going round that the shooter might be an Asian guy about six feet tall - like me,” he says.

“I was told by my own mother ‘don’t go outside because you might be treated as a suspect’.

“I’m sure there’s a story behind everything, but I just hope this won’t develop as a racial issue.”

Unable to go back to his own apartment, he sits in a dormitory hall on campus with friends, listening to the news bulletins to try to grasp what has happened. It only really sank in when they went out and saw police with dogs and rifles everywhere, he says.

But, he says, the strong sense of community will help the town get through its pain. “We will take this hit and try to get better, given time,” he says.

‘It’s so tragic’

Stuart Feigenbaum, a 55-year-old PhD student and professor at the university, as well as a parent with a child at college, says he feels deeply for everyone involved.

He has spoken to dozens of younger students, acting as a parent figure for many who are far from home.

“I don’t know yet if anyone I know was there or injured - but it doesn’t matter, it hurts.

“The thing that makes me cry is that everyone has so many memories of their college days, it’s a significant part of your life, and for these kids this is going to be their memory. It’s so tragic, it isn’t supposed to be this way.”

It is hard to predict how the students will cope as time goes on, he says.

What if I were the professor in that class and I had my firearm. Might there have been less damage? Stuart Feigenbaum, professor

“The best thing we can possibly do is try to get people on to some kind of positive course as soon as possible,” he says. “The first classes we have are going to be a little more open - the grieving process is going to have to take place.”

Mr Feigenbaum, who has a gun licence, believes society must do more to look after the unstable people who commit such crimes.

“There’s something wrong with us as a society that we’ve become so desensitized to each other - and maybe it’s too easy to get a gun,” he says.

But a ban on carrying firearms altogether may not be the answer, he says.

“Two years ago, all universities came out saying they didn’t want people to carry their guns on campus.

“It just makes me think, what if I were the professor in that class and I had my firearm. Might there have been less damage? I don’t know.”

The campus has now been closed and students evacuated Scene of shootings

A US shooting rampage at the Virginia Tech university has left 33 people, including a suspected gunman, dead.There were two incidents two hours apart, at a student dorm where two were killed and at an engineering building where 30 and the gunman died.

Officers said they were working to link the attacks and had a preliminary ID of the gunman but would not release it.

After the deadliest shooting rampage in US history, President George W Bush said the US was “shocked and saddened”.

“Schools should be places of safety and sanctuary and learning. When that sanctuary is violated, the impact is felt in every American classroom and every American community,” he said.

The state university in the town of Blacksburg is home to 26,000 students.

Click here to see a map of Virginia Tech campus

The shooter shot the door twice at chest level, which resulted in two holes in the door, one of which hit the podium in the front of the classroom Nikolas Macko, student Shooter tried the door E-mail witness accounts

Virginia Tech police chief Wendell Flinchum said that emergency services had received a call at 0715 (1215 GMT) alerting them to a shooting at the dormitory - West Ambler Johnston Hall.

He said that two hours later there was a second report of shooting, this time at the engineering building, Norris Hall.

Asked why the campus was not closed after the first shooting, Mr Flinchum said that, at that stage, it was thought to be an isolated incident.

Police believed the first shooting may have been a “domestic incident” and that the gunman had left the campus.

‘Many, many shots’

Eyewitnesses said some students jumped from classroom windows to escape the gunfire, which triggered panic on campus.

Some of those locked down inside the university buildings were using the internet to try to glean information about what was happening and many e-mailed the BBC News website.

Nikolas Macko was in a mathematics class in Norris Hall when he heard a series of loud bangs in the hallway which prompted a female student sitting near the door to move to close it.

WORST US SCHOOLS SHOOTINGS 1 August 1966 - Sniper Charles Whitman kills 14 people and injures dozens at University of Texas 20 April 1999 - Two teenagers at Columbine High School, Colorado, kill 13 before killing themselves 21 March 2005 - A teenager on an Indian reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota, kills nine In pictures: Virginia shootings In quotes: Shooting reaction Timeline: US school shootings

“She peeked out into the hallway, and saw the shooter, so she immediately closed the door. Three other students moved a table that was in front of the room - it seats approximately 40 students at capacity - and barricaded it against the door.

“A few seconds later, the shooter tried to open the door, but my classmates kept it well shut, as they held the table against it from floor level.

“The shooter shot the door twice at chest level, which resulted in two holes in the door, one of which hit the podium in the front of the class room and the other continued out the window. At this point he reloaded, shot the door again - this shot did not penetrate - and moved on to the other classrooms,” Mr Macko said.

Virginia Tech student Erin Sheehan said she survived an attack on her German class and described the gunman.

She said: “He was, I would say, about a little bit under six feet tall, young looking, Asian, dressed sort of strangely, almost like a boy scout, very short-sleeved light, tan shirt and some sort of ammo vest with black over it.”

Motive unclear

Mr Flinchum said it was unclear if the dead gunman was a student.

He could not confirm that the man was involved in the first attack.

Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said: “Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions.”

He said the university was in the process of informing the next of kin of those killed and that counsellors were in place at the campus for student families.

The university urged students to call parents to let them know they were safe.

The deadliest mass US shooting prior to the Virginia attack was in Texas in 1991 when George Hennard killed 23 people and himself in a cafeteria.

The US also has a history of deadly school shootings.

In 1966, the day after killing his wife and mother, gunman Charles Whitman opened fire from a tower on the campus of the University of Texas killing 14 people and injuring 31 others.

In 1999 two teenagers at Columbine High School in Colorado killed 12 fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives.

VIRGINIA TECH CAMPUS 1. 0715, shooting reported at the dormitory building 2. About two hours later a further shooting is reported