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Bingo!

Would you not want to click on something like "Do not click here."?

I've purchased some of their calendars (didn't get this year's because it's all old designs), and they're always funny, and far, far too true.

This is great, making it harder to watch TV on the device of your choice - the Broadcast Flag (77 days till lockdown) will seem like a stupid idea now there is competition.
Now Tivo's and PVR's can really take off with RSS enclosed VIDEO AND Film.
Don't forget Ourmedia http://www.ourmedia.org/ which does a similar thing, although they don't have a noporn rule.
The http://technocrat.net/article.pl?sid=05/04/13/2254 235&mode=thread Opening Up of the BBC's back catalogue will get things started. But they are banning anyone outside the US from watching all those great Dr.Who back episodes.
The Archive.org CC http://www.archive.org/movies/collection.php?colle ction=feature_films&PHPSESSID=b0292fc08fb009353794 c2240ea8cbb6 licenced B-movie, Charlie Chaplin and 50's Superman Fleischer cartoon collection is a similar great service, but their encoding sucks.

Folks always ramp on about how low quality downloads are. A properly ripped DIVX watched on a 16.7M colour hires monitor or projector beats the pants of DVD.
And this will mess with Sony's heads, as they plan an i-tunes for movies but knowing Sony, totally crippled by DRM.
And you can charge for people watching your stuff if you like.
BTW the TOS say no porn.

http://web.archive.org/web/19961226115028/http://w ww.urbanlegends.com/products/beta_vs_vhs.html linked to by http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,1 2449,881780,00.html would beg to differ on your betamax point.

Just in case site is ./'ed c/o Archive.Org Video 1 Video 2

Just in case site is ./'ed c/o Archive.Org Video 1 Video 2

i can eat glass, it does not hurt me

(adopted from the original which can be found on the wayback machine)

You can also access the http://www.thepreparation.com here, albeit an old version. Currently the server Bandwidth Limit has exceeded.

"p2p sharing of copyrighted material _is_ theft."

It is not, go here:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A %22drew%20Roberts%22

for some copyrighted material and feel free to share it via p2p. Not only no theft involved, no crime whatsoever. Just abide by the license.

Let's reword it a little better for you shall we?

"Illegal copying of copyrighted material _is_ theft."

Even with this better wording, no it is not, it is copyright violation, however, for the sake of arguement, I will grant that it is theft if you will grant that what the big record companies do/have done is rape, both of the artists with their over the top contracts, and of the fans with the price fixing that is alledged to have gone on in the past. If so, would you really have that big an issue in the real world if a person that was raped chose to then steal something from the person that raped them? I don't mean to condone theft (or copyright violations for that matter) but it would be interesting to hear your answer.

all the best,

drew

Anyone remember The OpenPPC Project? This was something Ralph Giles and I started a few years ago, to follow up on a PPC-based reference board designed by IBM. Unfortunately a parts problem prevented it from ever being produced commercially, despite creation of a commercial company (Pop Computers) to manage the process.

Anyway... while the Apple Mini/OSX solution isn't the same thing philosophically, I'm fairly content that it solves most of the problems for which that project was created: It's Unix, it's cheap, it's PPC.

What it *isn't* is open-source in any real way. As someone who's now more influenced by practical than ideological concerns these days, I'm content.

In this case, the messenger is Mike Olson CEO of Sleepycat Software.

For a long time Sleepycat software has an odd license.
It appered to be BSD, but...
They considered re-distribution to mean among other things...
"your application is distributed to more than a single physical location".
Source from wayback machine (http://web.archive.org/web/20030115155248/http:// www.sleepycat.com/download/licensinginfo.shtml)

Recently they have reverted to a more typical interpretation of re-distrbution, but I wonder if Sleepycat (i.e. Mr Olson) would like to nudge the open source community back towards their old position?

I personally think Mr Olson's ideas are bad, and suspect many in the FSF do, and he's looking for outside support for this proposal.

a working link: http://www.archive.org/download/dontcopythatfloppy /dontcopythatfloppy.wmv

The Internet Archive's Texts collection has about 25,000 books online, and is working with many partners to get more.

I have a list of about 1300 interesting texts hosted by The Archive, here, which has links to The Archive's details pages for those books.

Enjoy!

-- TTK

The Internet Archive's Texts collection has about 25,000 books online, and is working with many partners to get more.

I have a list of about 1300 interesting texts hosted by The Archive, here, which has links to The Archive's details pages for those books.

Enjoy!

-- TTK

Simple crash, here's the owner's current post about legaltorrents:
http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id= 32004

If you like previous poster's link to etree, give archive.org's live music database a shot. I download gigs of good music a week on there. Completely legal, like Etree.

Archive.org's live music section


--Dave

Shameless plugs to follow... check out:

Phish, Dead, String Cheese Incident and others

Live Music Archive @ Archive.org

These are amazing sites to get that show/song you are looking for, from bands who lived and survived by allowing their fans to tape and trade their shows.

Does this mean sites like Archive.org's Live Music Archive and bt.etree.org have to be shut down as well? I was under the impression that if the artist permitted taping and redistribution of live shows, it was all legit. Of course, I am aware that there were some instances of trade-unfriendly tapings being distributed through easytree (e.g. Bob Dylan), but all they'd have to do is implement a stricter policy of what can and cannot be seeded.

No, recording devices are not outlawed from all concerts, and the rights belong to the artist. Downloading live shows for free is perfectly legal as long as the band agrees to allow thier show to be recorded and distributed. http://wiki2.etree.org/index.php?page=TradeFriendl y . For example, you can find over 20,000 live, perfectly legal audience recordings at http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php

I don't know if the concerts EZtree were swapping were from okay-to-boot bands or not...but I will note that Archive.org, in conjunction with etree.org, are still making available literally thousands of live concert recordingsin lossless formatsfrom bands that allow concert taping and trading. If you take a look at their collection, you might just be surprised by some of the bands there. Gin Blossom, Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Rusted Root, Butthole Surfers, Cowboy Junkies, etc. etc.

I'd just like to plug a favorite band of mine, the Ozark bluegrass band Big Smith, to whose members I am distantly related (and with whose family mine used to have a blood feud going about 80 years or so back). If you're not into bluegrass/folk/gospel, then you're not into it...but if you are, check 'em out.

I don't know if the concerts EZtree were swapping were from okay-to-boot bands or not...but I will note that Archive.org, in conjunction with etree.org, are still making available literally thousands of live concert recordingsin lossless formatsfrom bands that allow concert taping and trading. If you take a look at their collection, you might just be surprised by some of the bands there. Gin Blossom, Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Rusted Root, Butthole Surfers, Cowboy Junkies, etc. etc.

I'd just like to plug a favorite band of mine, the Ozark bluegrass band Big Smith, to whose members I am distantly related (and with whose family mine used to have a blood feud going about 80 years or so back). If you're not into bluegrass/folk/gospel, then you're not into it...but if you are, check 'em out.

The Grateful Dead are perfectly fine with distribution of their lives shows. In fact, you can go here and download 2775 of them right now (in flac, shn or other lossless codes).

• Black Wolf meets a nun
• Black Wolf on MSN
• Audio Prank: The Dragonmaster

That's disappointing. Kick-ass sound has always been an important part of big walking machines even before Imperial AT-ATs. I hope that, with a 250cc motor, they didn't leave out the sound because it's http://www.nata2.info/humor/flash/dengdeng.swf">re ally annoying.

Hey super, it's up.

Here's a direct link to the movie.

May be Google has done some nifty things with their file-system, but can't we forget about it already? Their search hasn't changed much http://www.google.com/">in the past six years. Of course, the fanboys will salivate over Google calculator and Google unit converter, but on the scale of Internet these "innovations" barely register.

Some of the other search engines are comparable in quality to Google (Teoma, Vivisimo), and may be better, depending on how many points you take away from Google for spam-infested results, too many blogs, too many Wikipedia clones, too many commercial sites, etc. And some sites are so much further on the innovation scale (meet BrainBoost, an artifically intelligent Internet reference desk answering any questions asked in natural English, with amazing quality and accuracy in a very friendly and usable interface) that they put Google to shame.

First check BeOS!
http://web.archive.org/web/20010521150816/www.bene ws.com/beos/
to learn the root of the OS.

BeOS was originally developed for BeBOX(custom ppc based smp box) and later started supporting 60x lines of PPC based Apple's Macintosh computers and power computing(Taiwan's mac licensed manufactural).
With version 3.0 x86 versions started shipping.
There were 3.0, 4.0, 4.5 then 5.0 Personal Edition and 5.0 Professional Edition.

I personally believe that BeOS doomed itself with expensive public relations fund spend heavily on BeOS Preview release 2(Remember those BeOS preview release shipped with Mac related magazines for free?) and decision to start selling x86 version. They started offering free version for 5.0 called 5.0 Personal edition, which were bit late(developers have migrated to linux world then...). So company were bought out by Palm.

However, right before they were bought out by Palm, there were two main project which disappeared all together.

BeIA with SONY eVilla project and Dano(BeOS 5.5 release). BeIA pretty much slipped away when Be had office equipment auction when they closed down the building along with some handheld devices(tablet computers loaded with BeIA).

I've heard rumors that after Sony seeing the utter failure of QNX based iOpner(which was immediately followed by another QNX based 3com'saudrey), axed eVilla and destroyed all produced units, so only surviving units are the ones that were auctioned off with BE office closing in CA(developer's machine?).

After BE was sold to Palm...however, BE source along with Dano was leaked over Beshare(beos centric p2p software).

So Dano(considered as unofficial release ver 5.1d0) .

OpenBeOS movement started around this time.
Now OpenBeOS has changed its name to Haiku-OS.
http://www.haiku-os.org/.

And soon people started BeOS Developer's Edition
at http://www.beosonline.com/.

And other people started BeOS http://freshmeat.net/projects/beos-max/
http://www.beos-max.org/.

Both BeOS Developer's Edition and BeOS Max revolves around Be's latest official release BeOS Personal Edition 5.0 + 5.0.3 upates and many new improvement which were contributed by a user community developed opensource softwares & drivers.

However, there versions which includes some unofficial released stuffs(stuffs from Dano and some controversial stuffs)
http://phosphuros.tk/
You can read the article by OSnews here.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6948

Here are some screen shots provided by Korean BeOS UserGroup.
http://www.bekrage.net/gallery/view_album.php?set_ albumName=screen
BeOS is nice because Localization stuffs were incorporated into GUI nicer than most other OS, making easier to support different language than English, especially where language isn't based on phonetic latin based alphabet languages such as Korean/Chinese/Japanese. Thier alphabet is 8bit(or even 16bit) character based.

Currently, Haiku-OS programmers are plugging away diligently where OS is almost ready, where most of the bread and butter applications were already worked out! This is a nicer situation where applications are already there when OS still hasn't shipped, due to special current circumstances of BeOS.

ZetaOS is heavily based on BeOS R5.0.3 + Bone network(Dano style) + lots of improvement borrowed from drivers found on BeBits(opensource community of BeOS) + Haiku-OS(OpenBeOS).

ZetaOS, there are RC1, RC2, RC3, Zeta Neo(considered as RC4) a

Mirrordot only gets the page directly linked. Try http://web.archive.org/web/20040212091052/squeakla nd.org/ if you want to be able to browse the site.

Going way back to Slashdot circa 1998, posing the question, "Should Netscape GPL Mozilla?"? Link is http://web.archive.org/web/19980113191222/http://s lashdot.org/

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://slashdot.org

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://slashdot.org has some of the older versions of slashdot, so that should give you a glimpse of the history of slashdot I suppose

Here you can learn a bit of the history of slashdot. Also, you can browse through some of the older slashdot posts http://slashdot.org">Here

I spent some time consulting with my staff over where the source of your issues came from, regarding notacon's quality. After checking the location of the Holiday Inn and consulting my star chart, I think we've been able to triage your issues.

It's not usually known, but when you have a number of cosmic arrangements, specifically the pyramid shape of the nearby Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame and the metal plate in Nick Farr's head, something that is commonly referred to as a "dimensional rift" occurs. Unlike the cinematic portrayals of this rift (which are WAY off base, by the way), there is usually not a burst of orchestra music and vibrating white light. Instead, doors and hallways seem pretty much the same, although if your mind is open you can see it immediately. Closed minds, structured as they are to find the bad in everything and to look at the world as a big loving silver platter waiting for them to grab with thier chubby, slick fingers, will walk around unawares for a good amount of time.

Were you to not have gone through this portal, I suspect you would have seen Notacon as it was: a combination of talks, social gathering, and events stretching far into the night. For my own part, I recall a particularly good poker game played with a number of intelligent people, conversation topics flailing about like a trauma victim and the pot slowly rising between us. Of course, the real currency in that game were the ideas, but I digress.

In the actual reality of notacon, I happily attended a number of excellent talks, including my own. This is good, because my lack of attendance would have surely brought the talk down to the level that you experienced in NotNotacon, the portal dimension we figure you were in. The next time you think you might be there, check the labels of Snapple Iced Tea: they're blue instead of a brown-yellow mix.

My own talk, which is up for enjoyment both here and here, covered an excellent example of the merging of at and technology in what is commonly known as the ANSI art scene. I like to think we were engaging, multi-media, and intense. Of course, in the NotNotacon dimension, I believe our talk was replaced with a riveting account of ordering a sandwich. C'est la vie, as we say in the metaphysical sciences.

What concerns me, of course, is that, like your unawareness of the dimensional portal you found yourself in, you've been unable to give examples of conventions that NotNotacon can aspire to. Surely, giving helpful information instead of a litany of wild-eyed negatives will improve the world at large, if for no other reason than to gain the vital "Junior J. Junior III" market often described in articles in "Hacker Convention Monthly".

My staff at textfiles.com and I send our condolences that you spent your 5-hour jaunt in the alternate dimension and hope that your open-mind exercises will prevent this sad occurrence from happening in the future.

What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit By A Bus?

"so the producers and record company makes $14-$19 per sale."

Perhaps if they are selling direct, but things do not play out that way in the retail world.

Now, I am not happy with how things stand, but on the whole, we will be better off getting the facts right. (I think we can be fairly certain they will not.)

And for a little conspiricy theory...

Since you posted as AC, how do we know you are not from the ??AA and club and posting things as your opponents that you can then argue against?

all the best,

drew

Files that you can legally put on most (perhaps all) p2p networks:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A %22drew%20Roberts%22

Honestly,

"They didnt say 90% of file transmitted were copyrighted and transmitted illegaly just that they were copyrighted!"

So, if they are telling the truth, (and the quote acurrately reflects what they said) then we now know that 10% of the files transmitted are in the public domain.

So, we would still need to determine what percentage of the copyrighted files were legal transfers and what percentage resulted in copyright violations. Right?

all the best,

drew

Hey, you can find some of my copyrighted files to trade legally over the p2p networks here:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A %22drew%20Roberts%22

You know, most of the comparisons of speed between the ACID MySQL DB and Oracle have then having about the same speed.] http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=708&a=23115, 00.asp">here is one.

Here's what the MySQL docs (source: http://web.archive.org/web/20000619203550/http://w eb.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_Compatibility.h tml) used to say about foreign keys, for instance:

There are so many problems with FOREIGN KEYs that we don't know where to start:

• Foreign keys make life very complicated, because the foreign key definitions must be stored in a database and implementing them would destroy the whole ``nice approach'' of using files that can be moved, copied and removed.
• The speed impact is terrible for INSERT and UPDATE statements, and in this case almost all FOREIGN KEY checks are useless because you usually insert records in the right tables in the right order, anyway.
• There is also a need to hold locks on many more tables when updating one table, because the side effects can cascade through the entire database. It's MUCH faster to delete records from one table first and subsequently delete them from the other tables.
• You can no longer restore a table by doing a full delete from the table and then restoring all records (from a new source or from a backup).
• If you have foreign keys you can't dump and restore tables unless you do so in a very specific order.
• It's very easy to do ``allowed'' circular definitions that make the tables impossible to recreate each table with a single create statement, even if the definition works and is usable.

The only nice aspect of FOREIGN KEY is that it gives ODBC and some other client programs the ability to see how a table is connected and to use this to show connection diagrams and to help in building applicatons.

As to rebates that are not redeemed, here is a table about that.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010822172811/http://w ww.frontlinenow.com/newsletter/redemptionrates.htm l

The table doesn't go as high as a $100 rebate on a $200 item like TIVO, but it IS interesting.

BTW, the marketing term is "slippage". Rebates not paid, but someone bought the product to get it.

NB - slashdot's idiotic anti-troll measures fuck up display of links into the internet archive. The link itself works correctly. Silly asses.

"Of course, money saved from going to Microsoft's pockets will end up going to some politician's bank account, so who am I fooling."

If only it were different. Still, the country stands a chance of comming out ahead.

I wish ours would get a bit more of a clue in this area.

all the best,

drew

http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php? collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=drmidlife rev&PHPSESSID=4115ff7c0f9d7e520801fd5d772b9e38

"There are 43 million uninsured Americans - 4 million more than when the current administration took office. George W. Bush will reverse this trend by making health insurance affordable for hard-working, low-income families." Source:

Bush-Cheney 2000 website

Reality?

In the first two years Bush was in office, the number of uninsured American increased by nearly four million. Since Bush took office, health insurance premiums have risen by an average rate of 12.5 percent per year. According to a major study, "widespread adoption [of Bush's major health care plan] could drive up the annual deductible paid by workers." Source:

U.S. Census Bureau, 7/8/04; Kaiser Family Foundation, 4/04; USA Today, 4/25/04

Another Healthcare promise:

"George W. Bush will establish the 'Healthy Communities Innovation Fund' to provide $500 million in grants over five years to fund innovative projects addressing targeted health risks, such as childhood diabetes." [Source: Bush-Cheney 2000 website]

Reality?

Bush never established this fund. Source:

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1/20/04

Environmental promise:

George W. Bush "will also ensure that the federal government, which is the country's largest polluter, complies with all environmental laws." Source: Bush-Cheney 2000 website

Reality?

For the past three years, the Department of Defense has requested that Congress exempt it from environmental laws and regulations like the Clean Air Act of 1970. The exemptions were requested despite the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency has thus far declined to apply the policies to the military training facilities in question. Source:

Government Executive Magazine, 4/6/04

Education promise:

George W. Bush will "fully fund the Pell grant program for first-year students by increasing the maximum grant amount by more than 50 percent, to $5,100." Source:

Bush-Cheney 2000 - Education website

Reality?

President Bush has frozen the maximum Pell Grant at $4,050 in his FY 2005 education budget. This is the third year in a row that Bush has frozen or cut the maximum Pell Grant. Source:

House Committee on Education and the Work Force 2/2/04

Welfare promise:

"To encourage states to help families in crisis, Governor Bush will provide states an additional $1 billion over five years for preventative services to keep children in, or return them to, their homes whenever safely possible." Source:

Bush-Cheney 2000 - Child Welfare website

Reality?

Bush has proposed allowing states to use the federal funds currently earmarked for foster care room-and-board payments to be used for preventative services. In exchange, states must accept a spending cap on the amount of foster care funding they receive. Sour

"There are 43 million uninsured Americans - 4 million more than when the current administration took office. George W. Bush will reverse this trend by making health insurance affordable for hard-working, low-income families." Source:

Bush-Cheney 2000 website

Reality?

In the first two years Bush was in office, the number of uninsured American increased by nearly four million. Since Bush took office, health insurance premiums have risen by an average rate of 12.5 percent per year. According to a major study, "widespread adoption [of Bush's major health care plan] could drive up the annual deductible paid by workers." Source:

U.S. Census Bureau, 7/8/04; Kaiser Family Foundation, 4/04; USA Today, 4/25/04

Another Healthcare promise:

"George W. Bush will establish the 'Healthy Communities Innovation Fund' to provide $500 million in grants over five years to fund innovative projects addressing targeted health risks, such as childhood diabetes." [Source: Bush-Cheney 2000 website]

Reality?

Bush never established this fund. Source:

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1/20/04

Environmental promise:

George W. Bush "will also ensure that the federal government, which is the country's largest polluter, complies with all environmental laws." Source: Bush-Cheney 2000 website

Reality?

For the past three years, the Department of Defense has requested that Congress exempt it from environmental laws and regulations like the Clean Air Act of 1970. The exemptions were requested despite the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency has thus far declined to apply the policies to the military training facilities in question. Source:

Government Executive Magazine, 4/6/04

Education promise:

George W. Bush will "fully fund the Pell grant program for first-year students by increasing the maximum grant amount by more than 50 percent, to $5,100." Source:

Bush-Cheney 2000 - Education website

Reality?

President Bush has frozen the maximum Pell Grant at $4,050 in his FY 2005 education budget. This is the third year in a row that Bush has frozen or cut the maximum Pell Grant. Source:

House Committee on Education and the Work Force 2/2/04

Welfare promise:

"To encourage states to help families in crisis, Governor Bush will provide states an additional $1 billion over five years for preventative services to keep children in, or return them to, their homes whenever safely possible." Source:

Bush-Cheney 2000 - Child Welfare website

Reality?

Bush has proposed allowing states to use the federal funds currently earmarked for foster care room-and-board payments to be used for preventative services. In exchange, states must accept a spending cap on the amount of foster care funding they receive. Sour

"There are 43 million uninsured Americans - 4 million more than when the current administration took office. George W. Bush will reverse this trend by making health insurance affordable for hard-working, low-income families." Source:

Bush-Cheney 2000 website

Reality?

In the first two years Bush was in office, the number of uninsured American increased by nearly four million. Since Bush took office, health insurance premiums have risen by an average rate of 12.5 percent per year. According to a major study, "widespread adoption [of Bush's major health care plan] could drive up the annual deductible paid by workers." Source:

U.S. Census Bureau, 7/8/04; Kaiser Family Foundation, 4/04; USA Today, 4/25/04

Another Healthcare promise:

"George W. Bush will establish the 'Healthy Communities Innovation Fund' to provide $500 million in grants over five years to fund innovative projects addressing targeted health risks, such as childhood diabetes." [Source: Bush-Cheney 2000 website]

Reality?

Bush never established this fund. Source:

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1/20/04

Environmental promise:

George W. Bush "will also ensure that the federal government, which is the country's largest polluter, complies with all environmental laws." Source: Bush-Cheney 2000 website

Reality?

For the past three years, the Department of Defense has requested that Congress exempt it from environmental laws and regulations like the Clean Air Act of 1970. The exemptions were requested despite the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency has thus far declined to apply the policies to the military training facilities in question. Source:

Government Executive Magazine, 4/6/04

Education promise:

George W. Bush will "fully fund the Pell grant program for first-year students by increasing the maximum grant amount by more than 50 percent, to $5,100." Source:

Bush-Cheney 2000 - Education website

Reality?

President Bush has frozen the maximum Pell Grant at $4,050 in his FY 2005 education budget. This is the third year in a row that Bush has frozen or cut the maximum Pell Grant. Source:

House Committee on Education and the Work Force 2/2/04

Welfare promise:

"To encourage states to help families in crisis, Governor Bush will provide states an additional $1 billion over five years for preventative services to keep children in, or return them to, their homes whenever safely possible." Source:

Bush-Cheney 2000 - Child Welfare website

Reality?

Bush has proposed allowing states to use the federal funds currently earmarked for foster care room-and-board payments to be used for preventative services. In exchange, states must accept a spending cap on the amount of foster care funding they receive. Sour

"How about the gas station that writes down your license plate information when you purchase gas w/o paying at the pump. It's just for their economic safety they say. Do you know how much information you can get on the owner of a car from their license plate? What happens if I go inside, buy a few items, and pay w/my credit card? They now have my CC # and my personal information. That's enough for ID theft as well. I saw the clerk write down my license plate and I asked them for the paper when I left. They were a little confused as to how I knew they did that and they were VERY confused as to why I would want that back. I didn't feel the need to educate them on it though."

OK, but is the real problem that identities should not be so easy to steal. In other words, that should not be enough for identity theft?

all the best,

drew

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A %22drew%20Roberts%22

Check out his old soup site, this guy is a scum bag...
http://web.archive.org/web/20010812025016/cardsite s.com/domainsoup/

"You apparently forgot about Kolchak, The Night Stalker. That was quirky and interesting and didn't last very long."

Yes, Kolchak slipped my mind. I do remember enjoying at least some of those though.

all the best,

drew

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A %22drew%20Roberts%22

"Yes, this is not the "usual" way of stealing, but at the point where he registered the book as returned, yet still kept it, I consider it stealing."

Certainly, although like I say, there may actually be another legal term for this.

I my country, I have heard the phrase: "stealing by reason of employment."

Does anyone know what this relates to?

all the best,

drew

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A %22drew%20Roberts%22

" "not what people might think of as 'stolen goods' " ..."

"ok, IANAL, but surely most people realise that taking something that is not yours, selling it and keeping the money is stealing?"

Perhaps what the poster was referring to was that the person doing the selling did not come into posession of the item in question by a means that would normally be looked at as stealing. Not that selling them doesn't amount to stealing them.

I go to the library and check out a book and take it home and read it. At this point I am in posession of the book and it is not considered stolen.

As opposed to I sneak the book out of the library and take it home and read it. At this point, I am in posession of the book and it is (isn't it?) considered stolen.

Also as opposed to I break into the library at night and take the book home and read it. At this point, I am in posession of the book and it is considered stolen.

In all three cases, when I sell the book, it is certainly "stolen" although the law can be funny and may have a different term for this type of misappropriation of the property of another. (Anyone know? I do not like to use the wrong terms in matters like this, especially by mistake or out of ignorance.)

I took it to be that the poster was talking along these lines.

all the best,

drew

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A %22drew%20Roberts%22