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Thus far, the most startling difference has been that people here appear to try to sell open source software, rather than making it available for free.

Are you really that surprised?

https://www.redhat.com/apps/commerce/
https://shop.mysql.com/
http://www.novell.com/linux/
http://www.cafepress.com/officialgentoo/1227454

etc...

And if you prefer the free approach:

ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/

You must be referring to pictures with Atomium in it
Obviously, yes, and the lawyers were convincing enough for him to remove the picture on his site.

But then, it was not a vacation picture on his family blog as I had first thought, but a picture of the Atomium for a site about architecture.

Anyway, these European copyright laws which apply to public buildings are completely insane...

On the other hand, just before clicking on submit, I see that there is also a shop connected to that site. Now this is getting sort of different, and I could understand that the architect of that Lippo Centre on the mug feels that he is entitled to some share on the profits. But still, I'm not convinced he should be granted such rights; how does one stop on that slippery slope before you really cannot publish your vacation photographs on your family blog because someone has some right on something which happens to be in the picture.

You must be referring to pictures with Atomium in it
Obviously, yes, and the lawyers were convincing enough for him to remove the picture on his site.

But then, it was not a vacation picture on his family blog as I had first thought, but a picture of the Atomium for a site about architecture.

Anyway, these European copyright laws which apply to public buildings are completely insane...

On the other hand, just before clicking on submit, I see that there is also a shop connected to that site. Now this is getting sort of different, and I could understand that the architect of that Lippo Centre on the mug feels that he is entitled to some share on the profits. But still, I'm not convinced he should be granted such rights; how does one stop on that slippery slope before you really cannot publish your vacation photographs on your family blog because someone has some right on something which happens to be in the picture.

we are but one step closer to the fearsome reign of Robot Nixon.

Big Ass Round Thing = Planet
Pluto = Big Ass Round Thing
I like it.

I was surprised so many people were pissed off Pluto isn't a planet. I was but I'm kinda wierd. I even saw some guy wearing a t-shirt today.

I can just imagine this "demonstration". A bunch of guys just standing around fiddling with their blackberries and cell phones while avoiding eye contact.

Maybe someone should show up and hand out these fine products: http://www.cafepress.com/ebrushdesign/1727415

http://www.cafepress.com/DakineStuffs

For all you supporters: http://www.cafepress.com/keepplutoaplane.71612518

I love that book, so I made a shirt about it. Check it out.

Here's the direct link to the "Honk if Pluto is still a planet" bumper sticker...
http://www.cafepress.com/keepplutoaplane.71612518

After the ambush by the Dwarf Planet camp, on the last day, the IAU appears ready to fragment into smaller sub-unions, or dwarf unions.

Meanwhile, astrologers going out of their minds over the contentious issue of what constitutes a planet, how many of them there are and how it will impact births, weddings and divining portents, have finally had enough. This evening Seoul, Mumbai and San Francisco are in flames as astrologers and their clients rampage.

today's lesson: if you don't like the result of the last vote, wait until your opposition has left and then call another vote.

And what's this 472 of 2,700 being 10% stuff?

Stern said like-minded astronomers had begun a petition to get Pluto reinstated. Car bumper stickers compelling motorists to "Honk if Pluto is still a planet" have gone on sale over the internet and e-mails circulating about the decision have been describing the IAU as the "Irrelevant Astronomical Union".

I want one of those bumper stickers. I mean, how geek!

Ah, here's more info on merchandising the Pluto debate and a place you can vote with your $.

Does that mean that your mission was to waste as much money as the congress let you ? That's what you get when you don't bother defining victory conditions before going to war - it drags on without any clear resolution.

Yes. That's how it works. We've done it before and we seem to be doing it again. But there is one other positive outcome.

Oh, did you win or lose ? Saddam was owerthrown but you're leaving because you ran out of money, so I can't tell... The Iraqi people certainly lost quite a few of its members, not to mention its infrastructure, but I guess that was never important to the US in the first place, as long as Bush got his war.

Some questions are never resolved. Ask someone who won the Vietnam War. I think in this case (at least if we do what the poster is suggesting) as well as that one the argument can be made that both sides lost, but you'll never get an answer that satisfies...

...

Does NATO serve any real purpose anymore, now that the Cold War is over ?

It serves the same purpose it always has. It pisses off the Russians.

Why ? Without your continued aid for the various dictatorial governments and terrorist organizations (you have heard of "School of America", have you ?), the area isn't a threat to anyone. Leave the muslims alone and let them build a democracy for themselves, don't forcefully keep them locked in Dark Ages just to get oil from them.

The Army School of the Americas no longer exists. The Army School of the Americas never existed. The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation is a benevolent institution. We have always been at peace with Eurasia and at war with East Asia. Long live our Great Leader :D.

Now as for the muslims it's not fair to lump them all in one basket. But the only people who are forcing them to live in the Dark Ages are themselves. Some (like Al Qaeda/Muslim Brotherhood and friends) seem to like it that way. (That is rather their point, that the Dark Ages were the Good Old Days and God wants us to live that way again). Those who do not seem free enough to get out of that mode. For instance the US should be so lucky as to build something as advanced as Dubai's Internet City, where not only technological but social advancement outpaces us (there is a much higher ratio of female workers there than here).

Not to mention their leaders, who've watched your less than succesful attempts to capture Osama for the past five years.

It seems to serve some people's purpose to leave him around. Not that that means that our government isn't just too incompetent to catch him, but he's more valuable alive to the current administration (as a boogeyman) than he is to his own organization.

I wouldn't trust a CEH for advice on how to tie shoes, let alone anything security related :P....

Saw these funny stickers, thought the CEH people would like to see them...

http://www.cafepress.com/defconshirts

They have to be -- anyone who raids as much as they do has to be turning down sex.

Easy to police two, just the bear population. Unless they are considered terrorists too?

That depends on your level of paranoia...
for example: " What do we got here ?"

Should we buy the Teddy bear in order to stop terrorism? Or Should we stop funding those terrorists bears?

Not to mention the opinion of one of america's top minds: Colbert on Bears

lol, was I the only one who got this?

You really need to get some of these.

You really need to get some of these.

God uses a Mac.

If a bumper sticker says, it must be true!

This is why if you wanted to make a toilet tissue named "microsoft" with a picture of a nerd wearing glasses, or boxer shorts with a similar theme, you can legally do so (presuming Microsoft is not producing personal hygiene items).

I use a bumper sticker. It's not much but it's a start.
Get The Sticker

Heh, time to send some of these out to your Congresscritters.

We the [Redacted]

Are you RFID?

You should be RFID.

You should be VERY RFID

Is a guy who wears this.

1. Steal mp3's
2. ???
3. Profit!

http://www.cafepress.com/pirate999

My favorite pad is the one I designed for myself at CafePress http://www.cafepress.com/randomvariable.43609878

Alas, they don't carry hard mousepads, or I'd definitely have done that. But my pad is still an excellent optical mousepad.

http://www.cafepress.com/objectivemin.29369752

If they look around long enough they'll realize it's satire.

Yes, those athiests, Agnostics , or polythiests (romans, greeks, chinese, hindus, early middle east where civilization sprang from) never did much for us.

OTH, the christians have a long history of good research, teaching and education.

I believe Douglas Adams claimed he came up with the answer 42 while staring at his garden. Perhaps he had his alleged favorite Earl Grey # 42 in hand as well.
42 = for tea two = tea for two: http://www.cafepress.com/42_tea_for_two
"So the best advice I can give to an American arriving in England is this. Go to Marks and Spencer and buy a packet of Earl Grey tea." --Douglas Adams Salmon of Doubt

That's a Chinese Fox News.

You mean CNN -- Commie News Network. Even so, wouldn't your suggestion correspond to Chinese Wikinews more than to Chinese Wikipedia?

Look, if your not earning a "living wage" then adapt.

Basic algebra for you ...

"X" number of ppl in workforce
"Y" number of jobs that pay above poverty level
"Z" number of ppl that will live in poverty because all the good jobs are taken

X - Y = Z

The exact value of the variables is variable, but it is impossible statistically that X = Y
as we know that Z exists in the millions .

Keep in mind also the unemployment rate is not based on the number of ppl out of work
its based on some survey that is not pursued aggressively, and does not have truly
random sampling .

http://www.underreported.com/modules.php?op=modloa d&name=News&file=article&sid=1092&mode=thread&orde r=0&thold=0

In the summer of 2003 it is presumed that the rate was almost 11% of the country had no
job at all and many were working below the level of their education .

Their shirt of choice :

http://www.cafepress.com/overeducated

The stories of ppl qualified to do more, but are losing their homes :

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0930/p09s01-coop.htm l

The so called soft landing, and recovery economy is a load of crap .

Ex-MislTech

Nothing new here to see, move along folks.

I think companies are trying to push these sorts of products out the door without fully understanding what consumers are looking for -- so far it has been nothing more than a lot of hype.

I think we have another 5 years before our living rooms become transformed.

_
Buy this t-shirt (cheap)

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

1. Excessive breadth of coverage: people obtain trade mark registrations covering a wide range of goods and services, which locks other people out of using a similar name even where there's no real risk of confusion. As with spurious patents, an excessively wide trade mark can be challenged, but (also as with spurious patents) that's an expensive and time-consuming process.

There's more you can do than just boycott RIAA labels. Here's some ideas:

1. Write your congressman - you can even do it via email. Follow this link for a really simple way to do that. Will they listen? If enough of you complain they will. (Don't be negative and say democracy doesn't work.)

2. When you talk to your friends, let them know this is going on. Believe it or not, a lot of people don't know about this issue. The more people you tell, the more this becomes an issue.

3. This stuff is making the mainstream news. When you see this issue come up in a newspaper, write a letter to the editor about it. More people read letters to the editor than articles in the paper. Tell people the ideas in this message to get them to not support RIAA.

4. Complain on artist websites and give artists bad press. Not planning on buying the latest Bruce Springsteen CD? Why don't you write him and tell him you're not doing it because he's on a RIAA label. Big artists are not "victims" of decisions by their labels.

5. Buy indie labels and let people know you're buying indie labels.

6. Buy a t-shirt about this. Here's some to choose from:
#1, #2, and #3

Your other alternative is to not give a fuck like everyone else. Everyone has to have their issue and maybe this one isn't yours. Hopefully I've given you some ideas for getting involved about something though.

There's more you can do than just boycott RIAA labels. Here's some ideas:

1. Write your congressman - you can even do it via email. Follow this link for a really simple way to do that. Will they listen? If enough of you complain they will. (Don't be negative and say democracy doesn't work.)

2. When you talk to your friends, let them know this is going on. Believe it or not, a lot of people don't know about this issue. The more people you tell, the more this becomes an issue.

3. This stuff is making the mainstream news. When you see this issue come up in a newspaper, write a letter to the editor about it. More people read letters to the editor than articles in the paper. Tell people the ideas in this message to get them to not support RIAA.

4. Complain on artist websites and give artists bad press. Not planning on buying the latest Bruce Springsteen CD? Why don't you write him and tell him you're not doing it because he's on a RIAA label. Big artists are not "victims" of decisions by their labels.

5. Buy indie labels and let people know you're buying indie labels.

6. Buy a t-shirt about this. Here's some to choose from:
#1, #2, and #3

Your other alternative is to not give a fuck like everyone else. Everyone has to have their issue and maybe this one isn't yours. Hopefully I've given you some ideas for getting involved about something though.

and we'd never allow the WoW gameplay experience to suffer

Yeah, because we know Blizzard is doing everything possible to ensure people can log in without queues (or at all). And the game is completely lag free...oh wait... I saw this today: http://www.cafepress.com/lootlag so obviously I'm not the only one who's gameplay experience is suffering.

When Total Information Awareness was first let out of the skunkworks, it had a logo: An Illuminati pyramid bathing the earth with a glowing searchlight:

http://www.cafepress.com/buy/total%20information%2 0awareness

(I have absolutely no association with the Cafepress "store" linked to above. Just pointing it out because I had the link and knew there was a picture of the old logo there.)

I miss that logo. It really laid things on the table. The fact that they not only chose that design, but put it on their web page suggested an arrogance so deep it wrapped around into cluelessness. When they pulled the plug, you almost had to feel sorry for the creepy ivory-dungeon darkside academic creeps involved.

Well, we still have TIA, but no cool logo. I guess they learned their lesson.

Hey! Maybe we'll get a chance to see the new, secret logo when they drag us into the local Halliburton-run Reeducation Center after the post-2006 election coup^H^H^H^H Patriotic Values Revolution.

Stefan

Holy Jesus on a thong, this webpage would probably make those "Christians" threaten violence: http://www.cafepress.com/illbedamned/604339

(Note: I'm not affiliated with CafePress or venganza.org -- this is a genuine suggestion...)

Why not bop over to CafePress and send a Flying Spaghetti Monster mug to George Deutsch? You can get his contact information with "finger george.deutsch@hq.nasa.gov", but I'll list it here. Please don't send anything obnoxious. On the other hand, Mr. Deutsch sounds like a man who could use a few dozen Flying Spaghetti Monster mugs (or perhaps a "This mug holds coffee and pisses off Jesus" mug or two).

name: gdeutsch
George Deutsch
postal address: NASA Headquarters
    300 E ST SW
    Washington DC 20546-0001
postal code: 20546-0001
room number: Building: HQ, Room: 3C54
surname: Deutsch
telephone: +1 202 358-1324
title: Public Affairs Officer, Science Mission Directorate

In Soviet Russia, you buy Soviet Russia Shirt!

As a fellow karma pwner, you will surely relate to this pigeon pwning soviet russia shirt. And being a karma whore in a previous life time, You can probably understand if I troll slashdot with slashdot jokes! 0_o

Obviously the start of something bigger. No doubt the work of Zak, the Flesh-eating Zombie Squid!

So is Café press.

DONE! http://www.cafepress.com/backhoe
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i don't know what you mean! ;)

It looks fine to me. Maybe you should get one of these

http://www.cafepress.com/dsmatthews.43337864

;-)

The moon rules! Take that Rack of DVDs, and sink it deep within your body.

So you hate Jack Thompson, but fear litigation? Fear not!

Intelligent Design... Isn't

http://www.cafepress.com/idsnot