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The rebuttal is quite simple.

Get with the program; it's all about the balance of power. You cannot tip the scales and expect nothing to happen.

"Your papers please" comes to Ohio

So if you're an indie, and a radio station plays your song, you are obligated to license the radio station to play that song, and the RIAA gets the royalty.

It wouldn't surprise me if TiVo weren't already supplying a feed to a central U.S. database.

It wouldn't surprise me if TiVo weren't already supplying a feed to a central U.S. database.

There comes a time when private property starts to act like public property, and where free speech should start to apply because the public interest should ethically outweigh that of a large corporate landholder (and even the very existence of private large corporations in general is morally suspect). Clear examples are shopping malls and convention centers. In the virtual world, free speech should apply to a newspaper's discussion forum. Less clear is an entertainment venue -- normally I would say "no", but with a phenomenon as large as The Sims, I'm not so sure.

There comes a time when private property starts to act like public property, and where free speech should start to apply because the public interest should ethically outweigh that of a large corporate landholder (and even the very existence of private large corporations in general is morally suspect). Clear examples are shopping malls and convention centers. In the virtual world, free speech should apply to a newspaper's discussion forum. Less clear is an entertainment venue -- normally I would say "no", but with a phenomenon as large as The Sims, I'm not so sure.

U.S. corroborating with WIPO to overturn Betamax decision and also eliminate public domain

You are absolutely correct! I heard about it from this article at underreported.com which points to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

They actually maintain 6 different figures, with the one hovering around 5% being the one that gets reported in the media. The actual number of people really unemployment (as I take it to mean not having a job) is up around 9%-10%.

Here's their PDF explaining the various levels.

--Darren

The future is "wireless broadband" (somewhat tied to "3G"), available since October in Washington, DC and San Diego with speeds advertised as up to 2mbps, 300-500kbps typical.

WiFi's not going away, of course -- people will still want to connect their homes that were built before 2002. It could also serve as a tool to building a separate Internet away from excessive corporate/government control, though it seems to me it would be too easy to jam -- laser would probably be better.

All this hype about WiFi reminds me of 1997, when 1.5mbps DSL was available in limited areas around Washington, DC, and the rest of the country was harping on how to boost modem speeds from 40kpbs to a "full" 56kpbs.

If so-called victimless crimes are legalized, do you want to see bordellos in shopping centers next to Hair Cuttery? More importantly, do you -- as a result of making it part of the U.S. Constitution -- wish to prohibit U.S. states from regulating such behavior? Isn't that just putting more control into Washington, and isn't that tyranny of a different sort? See my blog article from two days ago, Fed has assumed so much power, Virginia to now make pretend laws.

Google does not allow sites to use their Google Adwords to advertise themselves if the topic suggests "anti-" anything (e.g. the public school system) in the slightest way. See my two stories on it, as well as one from another site experiencing the same problem.

Google does not allow sites to use their Google Adwords to advertise themselves if the topic suggests "anti-" anything (e.g. the public school system) in the slightest way. See my two stories on it, as well as one from another site experiencing the same problem.

Some honest leaders remain in Congress, but I have slim hope of this actually passing:
U.S. House Bill to Require All Voting Machines To Produce A Voter-Verified Paper Trail

Illegal to say "Rube Goldberg"

If Google spiders blogspot.com blogs from day one, that gives them an unfair advantage.

If Google spiders blogspot.com blogs from day one, that gives them an unfair advantage.

According to a Nov. 21, 2002 Seattle Times article:

...at the Comdex technology trade show this week, ... a mundane product quietly unveiled at Microsoft's booth may have more of an impact on the average computer user.

On display was an electronic stamp the U.S. Postal Service plans to sell to certify authenticity and delivery time of e-mail.

[...] The plan is to have e-mail-postage software available in the next 30 to 45 days At first, it would be an add-on to Microsoft's popular Outlook e-mail-management software.

Later, it would be bundled into the new version of Microsoft's Office suite, due around summer. When loaded, it would appear as several buttons on the Outlook control panel.

Users would pay the Postal Service anywhere from a penny to $2, depending on the volume of use, to add an official stamp of authenticity. The stamp would be applied with a click, not a lick.

[...] Several attempts by companies to charge per e-mail for authentication services have failed, noted analysts at IDC, a research company in Framingham, Mass. [...] A key reason is people still don't trust the technology enough, IDC's research shows.

[AuthentiDate Chief Executive Rob] Van Naarden said electronic postmarks will succeed because they have federal authority. He said the stamps would provide legal force to electronic documents, and the Postal Service can prosecute people who circumvent the system.

Going back to meatspace, for any of you who have actually tried to get a candidate or referendum on a ballot, you know how hard it is to get signatures in suburbia. You have to get permission from the proprietor. In the case of churches, it's illegal thanks to LBJ lest they lose their non-profit status. Sidewalks in suburbia, when they exist, are pointless as everyone is whizzing around in private automobiles.

In urban planning, there is frequently a distinction made between the "public realm" and "private space". (And then there are shades of gray in between, such as office lobbies). In meatspace, the public realm is dying thanks to the automobile (and the war on Iraq -- had to throw that in on this Jan. 18 day of protest). In cyberspace, the public realm of UseNet is dying thanks to fora such as Slashdot, newspapers, blogs, and even pest control companies. Yes, I'm contributing to the problem by continuing to post to Slashdot and even running my own blog -- mostly because traffic on UseNet is way down.

Going back to the case at hand, yes the Pest Control Forum is the private realm. If that isn't the private realm in cyberspace, I don't know what is. The issue gets stickier when it comes to news sites. Should a newspaper site be able to ban trolls? How about a special-interest newspaper?

Ubiquitous widely used P2P fora voter-moderated fora would be the best solution to resurrecting the dying public realm in cyberspace. Unfortunately, copyright violators have given P2P a bad name, and corporate entities such as Yahoo! Groups, Google Groups, newspapers, and Slashdot have captured the marketshare and mind share of cyberspace public discourse.

You say that the FBI was "too cautious" -- do you have any evidence that that was the motive?

I see no irony in being a privacy advocate while decrying FBI supervisors for denying the request to search Moussaoui's e-mail.

P.S. In another related story, the FBI supervisor who thwarted Rowley's investigation recently got a big cash bonus.

You say that the FBI was "too cautious" -- do you have any evidence that that was the motive?

I see no irony in being a privacy advocate while decrying FBI supervisors for denying the request to search Moussaoui's e-mail.

P.S. In another related story, the FBI supervisor who thwarted Rowley's investigation recently got a big cash bonus.

(Recall that Massaoui was already in jail before Sep. 11. These pre-Sep. 11 e-mail search requests were rebuffed, according to FBI whistleblower Colleen Rowley.)

And why should MS pay the distribution costs of other companies anyway?

How about forcing Ford to ship cars without seats, to stop them muscling into the upholstery market?

Of course MS want to increase market share and broaden their markets. That in itself doesn't make them the Evil Empire, it just shows that they have got to page 4 in any basic text on running a business.

To understand the difference, see my article "Anti-globalization vs. anti-capitalism."

It's only an operating system guys

Why get so concerned about the Constitution -- it's only a piece of paper.

The fear is that with everyone running MS-Windows and MS-Office for backward compatibility, every action, surf, and communication will be logged by the cooperating partners in power and control, multi-national corporations (such as Microsoft) and government.

For the latest attempt at domination, see the recent story on my blog, "Microsoft and US gov teaming up to monopolize new 'certified e-mail' postmark". Pretty soon, to send an e-mail to your Aunt Mildred, you're going to have to pay Microsoft a dollar whereupon it will possibly also be logged in a government database.

So the full 16 solar panels (not counting those in the science platform that will likely never be added) generate 1/4 Megawatt of continuous power. Now what would three people need with enough power for 200 homes? Recall that the space station was started (see history) in 1985 when Reagan was president.

Essentially, all the science and habitation modules of the space station have been nixed, but all the solar panels have been preserved.

From looking at your blog, I don't see evidence of conspiracies. All I see in your blog are the angry ramblings of a self-righteous individual who thinks the news media is playing up the wrong stories.

For real evidence of real conspiracies, read through the documents at The George Washington University's National Security Archive [gwu.edu] of declassified documents, like the proposal [gwu.edu] to incite world opinion against Cuba through propaganda, staged riots, staged attacks on the U.S., mock funerals and more.

As for this particular issue of the dead scientists, there's been no good evidence either way, and so it hasn't appeared at all in my blog.