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2600 Appeal Rejected
blankmange writes "Wired is reporting that 2600's appeal has been rejected by a federal appeals court. "The Second Circuit Court of Appeals said in a one-line ruling that it was not going to revisit an earlier decision in which 2600 was found to be unlawfully distributing a DVD-descrambling utility. In January 2000, eight movie studios sued the legendary hacker quarterly for posting the DeCSS.exe utility, which decodes DVDs and allows them to be viewed on a Linux computer." The magazine now has 90 days to file a Supreme Court appeal." The Appeals court did not have to take the case, and they didn't. 2600 can appeal to the Supreme Court, but they don't have to take the case either - it's looking more and more as though Kaplan's ruling will stand.
10,000 people? it was less than 3,000.
i'm just trying to figure out how they were estimating 20,000 at first.
and anyway, who says the people in there were good, decent people?
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A few more fucks to add to my list of people who should have been in the WTC instead of the 10,000 good, decent people who actually died.
What a barbaric, inhumane thing to say. Of course I don't think I should expect too much from a non-person such as yourself -- you didn't even try to be remotely correct (<3000 died)
How is it barbaric or inhumane? The poster actually implies he wish those people didn't die, and that corrupt public officials would... what is wrong with that? That he was wrong about the death toll is secondary, and rather "nitpicky" imo.
3000 people that we know of. So I overstated things.
So, according to you, its inhuman to wish that -- if someone had to die, as is the case when the World Trade Center gets blown up during working hours -- the people that died were sick evil fucks as opposed to honest good citizens? Corrupt politicians, corrupt judges, rapists, murderers, child-molesters, and other criminals, as opposed to honest law-abiding citizens? The slime of the earth like these fucks at PETA, CC (Christian Coalition), NAMBLA, RIAA, and the MPAA, as opposed to honest law-abiding citizens?
If you say no to this, then you're saying you'd rather have the honest law-abiding citizens be dead.
Of course, your position is you wouldn't wish anything cruel on anyone. Bleeding-heart crap in my opinion, but if that's what you think.
You obviously don't put values on lives; I do. Do you really think that the life of sick fuck's like these pedophile priests, are better than the lives of people like say Colin Powell, an honorable man who fought for his country, and then later for children?
I'm not going to get nitty-gritty about it, but I'll say this much: I'd rather sick evil fucks die than ordinary people. Btw, I hate to use the word evil, b/c I associate it with Christian crap, but "sick evil fuck" is something George Carlin said, so that cleanses it of any religious crap.
Of course, in regards to the WTC, not all 3000 people who died were necessarily law-abiding citizens. But on average, the group was filled with good people.
If the terrorists had targetted a prison where they keep the worst offenders instead of the WTC, I would've been celebrating.
Call me whatever you will. But the fact is, 3000 people were going to die. It's only a matter of who died. The living victims of 9/11 probably wish it wasn't their family members who died -- in other words, wish it was someone else. Do you think they're inhumane too?
The fact is, we all put value on life, whether we want to admit it or not. Everyone values their family first, then friends. Most people value normal citizens over crooks.
Another nice side effect, were it a prison that were bombed instead of the WTC, is that there might not have been a war. GW Bush probably would've been secretly pleased, as would every other politician, had the terrorists somehow lost control of the plane and crashed into a prison (at a time when the gaurds/workers are gone, of course).
At least I have the courage to say what we all think and believe. You're just saying politically correct crap to up your "karma" or whatever.
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the people that died were sick evil fucks as opposed to honest good citizens? Corrupt politicians, corrupt judges, rapists, murderers, child-molesters, and other criminals, as opposed to honest law-abiding citizens? The slime of the earth like these fucks at PETA, CC (Christian Coalition), NAMBLA, RIAA, and the MPAA, as opposed to honest law-abiding citizens?
What laws has PETA broken? Or, do they deserve to die slowly, simply because you disagree with them personally? That is inhumane. As much as most people here dislike the RIAA and MPAA's not letting us download music and watch DVD's the way we like, I don't think that merits burning to death either. The fact you equate an animal rights group, the music industry, the christian coalition with child molesters and rapists makes you just as bad as the groups you despise.
What's your problem with the Christian Coalition? Is it that they have a set agenda, and spread hatred against all groups and individuals who disagree with them? Good job. I'll bet if the CC distributed pamphlets about how gays, jews and pro-choice advocates are the "scum of the earth" and deserve to burn to death, you'd have a few tasty words for them. You're not saying what we all think and believe...you're just a typical ass, spouting off the same crap we've all heard Archie Bunker say before.
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