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Petition to Remove CARP!

At this link there is a petition going to ask Apple to reconsider the $100/year fee for those who thought Apple was serious when they said "email address for life".

At this link there is a petition going to ask Apple to reconsider the $100/year fee for those who thought Apple was serious when they said "email address for life".

Please take a minute to sign this petition to ApplePetition

The online petition to oppose the new .Mac charges is available at here.

My 2 cents: The email accounts should remain free. The rest can be value-add fee-based.

Just search this page for Towers and you will see how many petitions there are to NOT rename the movie. Now if only the people would think enough to search before they start a new petition, like these things work anyway.

well check out signee no 2
I think you may be right

I just can't wait for the protest rallies against the Two Towers!

You mean Rename "The Two Towers" to Something Less Offensive Petition

http://www.petitiononline.com/nocarp/petition.html .

Another great reason to Revoke CARP. (Well, hey, it's a start.)

I wonder if this online petition had any effect...

> Yet again, to be able to run AmigaOS4 it will need
> the modified Bios Dongle. The sort of thing I've
> come to call a "pissmark" like a dog marking it
> territory (Dog Released Marking).

True. For more info on the AmigaOS distribution policies and locking of third party hardware vendors' products by Amiga Inc, check out this site (with links, FAQs, users' and developers' comments and more). Please read this petition to Amiga Inc. and consider signing it! It's for the good of competition, pricing and development in the non-Apple PPC hardware market as well as of the future of AmigaOS.

No, "The Amiga" is not coming back. There will not be any more Amiga hardware, nobody is designing, making, selling or planning any Amiga hardware. Amiga-the-hardware-platform is dead. I don't blame you cbr372 though, this article is really whacked out.

This is not "New Amiga hardware", it's a "generic" POP board cloned from the Mai TeronCX, only its new distributor Eyetech has licensed the "AmigaOne" trademark from Amiga Inc.

Forthcoming versions of AmigaOS running on hardware from third parties like this would be fantastic news if only Amiga Inc. hadn't decided to f*ck things up as usual with some seriously demented distribution policies for new versions of AmigaOS: Any hardware, in order to be allowed to run AmigaOS, must be licensed by Amiga Inc. The hardware vendor must also get a license for himself and his support/financial organisation, he must equip his hardware with a hardware license verification mechanism (although Amiga Inc. affectionally calls it "anti-piracy measures") and he must sell AmigaOS bundled with his hardware. AmigaOS will not be available for sale separated from hardware to us users who wish to choose our hardware and hardware vendors ourselves.

Of course this is unacceptable for independent hardware vendors, especially those who design Open Hardware like POP which is what AmigaOS will run on, and thus Amiga Inc. are killing AmigaOS in a very effective way. If it's intentional it's probably to redirect resources to their "AmigaDE" project. Unfortunately they're at the same time splitting the "potentially AmigaOS compatible" hardware market into "hardware for AmigaOS" and "the exact same hardware but for everyone else".

Please consider signing this petition to Amiga Inc. if you wouldn't like this to happen. There's more info about all this available here.

WOW! This is one seriously misleading article! It must be pointed out that this is NOT any "New Amiga Hardware". It's a clone of the Mai TeronCX POP motherboard. Nobody is designing, making or selling any "new Amigas", least of all the software company Amiga Inc. The forthcoming AmigaOS4 will run on generic POP/PPC hardware from third party distributors and on old Amigas with PPC accelerators. Eyetech, the distributor of this motherboard has simply licensed the "Amiga" trademark.

Unfortunately AmigaOS4 is being killed by Amiga Inc. themselves before it has a chance to take off. They have come up with an insane distribution policy for all future versions of AmigaOS. In order to be allowed to run AmigaOS, any third party hardware vendor is supposed to buy a license from Amiga Inc for both himself and his hardware, he must modify his hardware with license verification measures (Amiga Inc. uses a nonsensical "anti-piracy" argument for this), and he must sell AmigaOS bundled with his hardware. AmigaOS will not be available for sale separately to users who wish to choose their own hardware and hardware vendors.

Please consider signing this petition to Amiga Inc. to make them at least give AmigaOS a fair chance and to wake them upo from their megalomanic dilusions of trying to control an independent hardware market! There's more info about this dirty business here.

And of course it runs MOL/MacOS - it's a POP board with OpenFirmware and it's running Linux. Is this news?

http://www.petitiononline.com/nocarp/petition.html

Sign it and show the Librarian of Congress that he made a BAD DECISION!

Someone believed to be funny (well... I hope so) and did this

To: Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema
Those of us who have seen The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring know what an amazing director Peter Jackson is. When I learned that there apparently was to be a sequel, I was overjoyed. However, Peter Jackson has decided to tastelessly name the sequel "The Who Towers". The title is clearly meant to refer to the attacks on the Whorld Trade Center. In this post-September 11 world, it is unforgiveable that this should be allowed to happen. The idea is both offensive and morally repugnant. Hopefully, when Peter Jackson and, more importantly, New Line Cinema see the number of signatures on this petition, the title will be changed to something a little more sensitive.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

I wonder if Google is responding to AllTheWeb's claim to have the largest nuber of indexed pages by refreshing/rebuilding their index?
I'm wondering because the site in my .sig and all pages mentioning or linking to it are no longer to be found by Google. Gone. Vapourised. The cache is empty as well. This and this site used to be the first results listed when you searched for "amigaos petition distribution policies". Now see for yourselves what turns up (it's just 3 hits).

Use the view current signatures link at http://www.petitiononline.com/twotower/. FYI, if you look at the bottom of the page you'll find that the petition was not legit and was posted by a slashdot troll.

To: Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema
Those of us who have seen The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring know what an amazing director Peter Jackson is. When I learned that there apparently was to be a sequel, I was overjoyed. However, Peter Jackson has decided to tastelessly name the sequel "The Two Towers". The title is clearly meant to refer to the attacks on the World Trade Center. In this post-September 11 world, it is unforgiveable that this should be allowed to happen. The idea is both offensive and morally repugnant. Hopefully, when Peter Jackson and, more importantly, New Line Cinema see the number of signatures on this petition, the title will be changed to something a little more sensitive.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

• 60 of 98 FBI Terrorism Cases were thrown out because of lack of evidence - The article even has a quote from an FBI spokesman admitting to arresting and trying to prosecute people knowing that it would never go through.
• Village Voice Analysis - It's the Village Voice, take it with a grain of salt. (I'm just adding it to this list because it is quite insightful.
• Business Week Article discussing the various infringement of civil rights
• NYTime Editorial on naming an American citizen as an illegal combatant
• Ohio State graduates threatened with expulsion/arrest if they "demonstrate or heckle" during Bush's speech - "But immediately before class members filed into the giant football stadium, an announcer instructed the crowd that all the university's speakers deserve to be treated with respect and that anyone demonstrating or heckling would be subject to expulsion and arrest. The announcer urged that Bush be greeted with a "thunderous" ovation.
• Federal Courts strike down Bush Administrations attempt to prevent people from challenging censorship laws
• Justice Department raising questions about case on John Lindh
• Another NYTimes article on illegally detaining American Citizens

Information wants to be wide !
You migh say now: "Hello, woot, fuxx0r, %@/& !"
But someday all will be lost and there will be no wide information anymore, unless......
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You sign this petition !

Please wide your clit. THX.

Modchips for Xbox? Hah! The clowns running Amiga Inc are trying to beat MS at their own game - Amiga wants to install "modchips" in POP mobos from other companies. Way to kill an independent POP/PPC market, morons.
Too bad that you're killing AmigaOS, LinuxPPC and committing suicide at the same time. That's where you differ from MS, they are smarter and don't mess with hardware distributors nearly as much.

I kid you not. Check out the "Rename 'The Two Towers' to Something Less Offensive Petition". I like the note from the webmaster of petitiononline.com basically stating that the guys who created the petition are idiots. And check out the "View Current Signatures" section for extra chuckles.

GMD

Bow before me!

YBHT!

Bow down before me!

YHBT!

"..Tribes and Tribes 2 are all team-based, but it never came out for the Mac (or Linux AFAIK)..."

Loki ported Tribes 2 to Linux. You can probably find it pretty cheap now. here's a petition to port it to Mac OS X.

I don't think there's been a single example of an online petition having an effect. Please provide examples if I'm mistaken.

Well there's always the Information wants to be wide petiton - that has been quite successful for IE users. Of course in this case both bases are covered here and the Narrow Information for Life petiton isn't doing so well!

I don't think there's been a single example of an online petition having an effect. Please provide examples if I'm mistaken.

Well there's always the Information wants to be wide petiton - that has been quite successful for IE users. Of course in this case both bases are covered here and the Narrow Information for Life petiton isn't doing so well!

Join the league against narrow information on the internet !
Just sign this.

Just help the league against narrow information on the internet.
We want information on the internet, specially on slashdot becomes broader and therefore more informative.
Just sign here.

An evil conspiracy wants to narrow all information on the internet !
This must be stopped !
Help freedom and sign this petition !

SIGN OUR PETITION!!!

We want Steve Irwin, host of Crocodile Hunter, to star in Star Wars Episode III as a Jedi Knight! Please, if you're a Star Wars fan, or a Crocodile Hunter fan, sign our petition!

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We want Steve Irwin as a Jedi Knight in Star Wars Episode III! Sign the petition and let George Lucas know!

This is serious, btw! Thanks for signing!

Information is under attack !
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This must be stopped !
Information wants to be wide !
Sign this petition !

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We want Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin in Star Wars Episode III, so sign our petition!

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That's right, a petition to Cast Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin in Star Wars ep. 3! Combining the coolness of Star Wars with the great character that is everyone's favorite Australian. Sign the petition and let George Lucas know who you want to see in the final Star Wars Prequel!

Sign Our Petition!

That's right, a petition to Cast Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin in Star Wars ep. 3! Combining the coolness of Star Wars with the great character that is everyone's favorite Australian. Sign the petition and let George Lucas know who you want to see in the final Star Wars Prequel!

The free world is enaged in a war.
The war against page narrowing.
An axis of evil seeks to narrow all information on the internet.
It's our duty to stop them.
Sign here !

A sinster conspiracy wants to narrow all pages on the internet !
Sign here to save all wide information !

Sign the Narrow Information Society petition. Keep our pages narrow!

Only you can save the wide space !
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This is it's last chance !
Sign here before it dies !

Sign this petition !

"The Two Towers is offensive!

We interrupt your regularly scheduled widening for this important message.

Please forward this to everyone on your list!

Just made a petition to boycott Best Buy. Sign it here and let them know this is not acceptable!

http://www.petitiononline.com/BBBC/petition.html

If we are to really believe some of Apple recent rhetoric, they are listening to the community. There was a proposal floating around the net and a petition to support it. Also the 'Feedback' button on the MacOS X support page apparently is attached to some Apple interns or some such who actually sort through the comments. The fact that the resources to start adding more meta data and journaling to HFS+ are available at Apple may indicate that they are listening. The way to find out is to continue to let Apple know that the BFS and its features (along with the features of other good, modern file systems) should be brought to HFS+ and that meta data as the primary MacOS X file association system should grow, rather than diminish.