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3 unusual facts about ripping


Alt.binaries.boneless

However, boneless is completely irrelevant, and this appears to hold true as a description of the content, which can include fully ripped DVDs, entirely ripped CDs or individual music files, images and image sets, as well as software and documents of every content type imaginable.

Remux

A rip of Blu-ray or HD DVD disk to another container format or just stripping the disc of menus and bonus material while keeping the contents of its audio and video streams intact, guaranteeing the exact 1:1 movie quality as on original disk.

Ripped

Ripping, the process of copying audio or video content to a hard disk


2013 Oznobishino bus crash

The bus had been travelling from Podolsk to Kurkino when the accident occurred, ripping its back half off.

3D printed firearms

Attempting to restrict the distribution over the Internet of gun plans has been likened to the futility of preventing the widespread distribution of DeCSS which enabled DVD ripping.

American/English

This is the first of Acoustic Alchemy's albums to include EMI's Copy Control technique, designed to prevent illegal reproduction and audio ripping of the disc.

Brain implant

In the 1981 BBC serial The Nightmare Man the pilot of a high-tech mini submarine is linked to his craft via a brain implant but becomes a savage killer after ripping out the implant.

Buses in Melbourne

There was also resistance from the unions, and the Chairman of the MMTB, Sir Robert Risson, successfully argued that the cost of ripping up the concrete-embedded tram tracks would be prohibitive.

Dreaming with the Dead

"Dreaming with the Dead" is the full-length studio debut by death metal band Ripping Corpse, released in 1991.

Dysbarism

But if we move quickly to a lower ambient pressure, then the gas comes out of our blood and tissues violently, in large bubbles, like to the difference between slowly opening a bottle of soda (dropping the pressure in the bottle slowly down to sea level), versus ripping the cap off quickly.

Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood

British extreme metal band Cradle of Filth covered "Death Comes Ripping" for their 1999 release From the Cradle to Enslave.

How the Ghosts Stole Christmas

Mark Snow, the composer for the episode, admitted to "ripping off" Joseph Haydn's "Toy" Symphony to create the eerie Baroque-inspired harpsichord score.

Jimmy The Idiot Boy

Jimmy has also appeared in the television series The Ripping Friends, in which he was created from the combined DNA of all four Ripping Friends.

Lāčplēsis

His name means "Bear-slayer", because as a young man, living as the adopted son of the Lord of Lielvārde, he kills a bear by ripping its jaws apart with his hands.

Ohio State Route 59

Akron mayor Don Plusquellic has suggested ripping up the northern end of the freeway, making it a regular road, and developing the surrounding land.

Polybotes

During the ensuing battle, known as the Gigantomachy, the god Poseidon defeated Polybotes by ripping a part of the island Kos apart with his bare hands or trident, and hurling it at him.

Superman robots

In Superman (vol. 2) #170, Jeph Loeb wrote a very controversial story where, in defending Lois Lane from certain death, Krypto almost killed Mongul by ripping his throat out.

Telephone directory

The Guinness World Record for ripping the most telephone directories is 27; the record for French telephone directories is 29, held by Georges Christen.


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