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Google vs. DMCA and Scientology
Uebergeek writes "This article at the NYTimes (free registration, blah blah) details how google is dealing with the many complaints it gets from organizations when one of its links potentially violates a copyright (or just irritates the copyright's owner).
Specifically, it talks about how Google is dealing with the Scientologist's complaints about the list of the Operation Clambake site... now Google features a prominent link to another site that shows the complaint that the Scientologists filed, along with the delisted links."
LUNIX SUCKS!!!
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yeah i got the First Post Classica! !!!
I rule your world!
she had a corpse under her bed
Can we get a link that doesn't make my skin crawl?
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"All your Base are Belong To us!" Posting!
Crapflooding frees your mind!
This reminds me of another story on slashdot....you guys clearing out the 'ol email inbox?
Any religion with hidden/secret documents/ceromonies, along w/ mormon/lds and few others are cults.
:O
Now, while many here are agnostic (God doesn't believe in athiesm) and probably don't care, just when you see a bike rider let them know
Some folks have asked me what I know about Jon Katz. It occurs to me that most folks have probably never heard the story, and of the ones who have heard of it, few would know or remember the details. So here's what I know about Jon Katz, plus a little history to put it in context. The dates could be off a bit. I also have a copy of Ben Baker's take on the whole deal, which goes into a lot more detail.
In 1985 I wrote a program called ARC. It became very popular with the operators of electronic bulletin boards, which was what the online world consisted of in those pre-Internet days. A big part of ARC's popularity was because we made the source code available. I know that seems strange these days, but back then a lot of software was distributed in source. Every company that made computers made a completely different computer. Different architectures, operating systems, languages, everything. Getting a program written for one computer to work on another was often a major undertaking.
Then sometime around 1987 or so Jon Katz came out with PKARC, which was basically my ARC program with the compression/decompression routines rewritten in assembler, which made it run a lot faster. I have to hand it to him, he had a real talent for assembly coding.
We approached him about licensing, but he rejected the idea. One thing led to another, and eventually we sued him. Fortunately his program was such a blatant copy of mine that we were able to win the lawsuit before we ran out of money. In a negotiated settlement he again rejected any suggestion of licensing and went for a cash-out settlement. He repaid us for most of our legal bills and promised to stop selling his program sometime in 1988.
Then he fiddled with the file format a bit, renamed it from PKARC to PKZIP, and kept right on selling it.
We sort of lost touch after that. We would have liked to have kept in touch, but we couldn't afford the legal bills. There wasn't a lot to sue for anyway. None of us was getting rich.
So now Jon Katz is dead. He drank himself to death, alone in a motel room, a bottle of booze in his hand and five empties in the room. One can only guess what drove him to such a tragic end, but it is a fitting demise for a man whose professional reputation is based entirely on a lie.
I can think of no more fitting epitath than the final clause of the original ARC copyright statement:
It has come to my attention that the entire Microsoft community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.
What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Windows' most outspoken advocates:
The incredible faggotry of the Microsoft community can also be seen in its software products. Internet Explorer sounds harmless enough, but on the Microsoft 'campus' (obviously a reference to the colleges and universities where these perverts first practiced their filthy homosexual behavior) it is referred to as 'InterNUT Explorer' and refers to a device used to tickle the sensitive area of the scrotum between the testicles.
Microsoft Exchange clearly refers to the 'exchange of bodily fluids' which is of course how these depraved specimens of humanity plan to transmit the AIDS virus to the rest of the world.
As far as William 'Homo' Gates goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted in Time magazine as saying the following: "Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's alot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."
And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a God-forsaken homo slut!
Furthermore, Mr. Gaytes has been quoted as saying "There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go," proving that the fag sympathisers are wrong, and these perverts really do want to recruit our fine young heterosexual boys and turn them into flaming queers like themselves.
Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Microsoft's own self-confessed homo pimp Craig Mundi(e). He has already confessed, nay boasted of his status as a gay sex pusher. To quote from an interview
with Planet IT:
"One of the things we want to do and recognize that there's a market for [is] selling people services on a contract or recurring revenue basis, as opposed to traditional royalty bearing for the one-time shipment"
Selling 'people services,' eh? Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Craig? And charging the other boys money to touch it too?
We should also point out that Craig has been referred to as 'Microsoft's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Windows 'Shared Sauce Philosophy,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of small software companies
by gathering together their utilities and combining them en masse into the next version of Windows to further his twisted and manipulative agenda of world domination.
Sick, disgusting antichristian perverts, the lot of them.
In addition, many of the Windows error messages (an 'error message' is the most common way the faggots communicate) are full of homsexual slang. 'This program has performed an illegal operation' is their way of advertising that they have been engaged in the vile practice of sodomy. 'A fatal exception has occurred' is obviously stating that AIDS has claimed the life of another dick sucker. Rather than recognizing that the fag was properly punished for his deviant behavior, Microsoft-loving queers suggests giving a 'three finger salute' when this happens. Needless to say, this gesture of sympathy involves inserting three fingers into your rectum and farting loudly.
Another group of Windows anal violators, going by the code name 'Windows Update' ( ) encourage users to 'download' (receive into their rectums) 'service packs' (also known as 'fudge packs') and 'device drivers' (some sort of mechanical penis, I suspect).
The fags have even invented special tools to aid their faggotry! The program Outlook Express is an anagram of 'Super Sex Tool OK,' which obviously is an endorsement of all kinds of sick behaviors. And obviously PowerPoint is a motorized device for penetrating a virgin anal sphincter.
More evidence is in the fact that Windows users say how much they love 'My Computer.' They sometimes go so far as to say that all new Windows users (who are in fact just innocent heterosexuals indoctrinated by the gay propaganda) should use this icon. The correct spelling of this phrase can again be found in the 'Shared Sauce Philosophy.'
It is actually 'My cum pooter,' an endearing term used by dominant fags for their queer-love
partners. In no other system do users boast of frequently having their rectums pumped full of semen, then farting to expel the jism in a fine mist.
Other areas of the system also show Windows' inherit gayness. For example, people are often told of the 'C: prompt' but how many innocent heterosexual Linux users know what this actually means. The answer is shocking: Seek colon, prompt - a request given by a faggot to his partner when he desires immediate, deep penetration of his ass!
Even the icon 'Recycle Bin' originally referred to a homosexual practice. 'Recycle Bin' of course refers to the popular gay practice of using a young boy's anus as a repository for semen. Shortly after one disgusting faggot spews a load of hot jism into the boy's ass, another queer will lick the 'Shared Sauce' back out of the 'Recycle Bin'.
To summarise: Windows is gay. 'Microsoft' is the graphical description of the state of a fag's penis after he has spewed a load of hot sperm into his gay lover's mouth or rectum. And
Why hide when we can point and laugh?
That is awesome! thanks!
You underestimate the stupidity of the Great Unwashed.
Free Speech? You want fries with that?
Darwinism. Hey, wait a minute...
Please.. this is Slashdot. That's a rhetorical question.
Ugh, forgot about the blackout - not supposed to be reading or posting. My bad.
That depends on the style of Taiji you're studying.
Yang style (the most popular) has (in my opinion) been so polluted by New Age nonsense as to be almost totally unrecognizable.
If you want to see Taiji as a martial art, look for Chen style. Much more variation in the movements (there's even a jump-kick...whee), and it seems to make much more philosophic sense (at least to me).
Now, back to your regularly-scheduled rant....