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How The DMCA Is Enforced
Hank Scorpio writes "Bob Cringley's latest column talks about a company, BayTSP, that performs most of the enforcement of the DMCA on the Internet. This is the company that collects data about who is sharing music or movies online, and this is the company to go after when you get busted! They claim to "go to the same places any user could go, look at the same files anyone else could look at, and we only probe the ports on your computer that you have made public." Interesting."
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The flag icon for Slashdot's 'United States' section is missing its first stripe - the stripe that represents Delaware, the first state admitted to the Union. While a simple oversight could be forgiven, it should be known from here on out that Slashdot is in fact aware of the missing stripe, and even worse, refuses to do anything about it!
This vulgar flag desecration and rabid anti-Delawarism must be put to a stop. Let the Slashdot crew know that we will not accept a knowingly mutilated flag or the insinuation that Delawarians deserve to be cut out of the union. I ask you, what has Delaware done to deserve this insolence, this wanton disregard, this bigotry?
This intentional disregard of a vital national symbol is unpatriotic. Why, the flippant remarks CmdrTaco made about our flag border on terrorism! I urge you to join the protest in each 'United States' story. Sacrifice your karma for your country by pointing out this injustice. Let's all work together to get our flag back. Can you give your country any less?
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Dude, get a life.
I am writing to express my concerns about Dick Cheney and, more specifically, his goals regarding intemperate hatemongers. Let's start with my claim that Cheney intends to create a new social class. Repugnant champions of deceit, lies, theft, plunder, and rapine, yawping, shabby windbags, and incompetent spoilsports will be given aristocratic status. The rest of us will be forced into serving as their representatives. If you understand that a true enemy is better than a false friend, then you can comprehend that he argues that I am fork-tongued for wanting to expose his memoirs for what they really are. I should point out that this is almost the same argument that was made against Copernicus and Galileo almost half a millennium ago. Cheney's opinions deserve to be criticized because they separate people from their roots and cut their bonds to their natural communities. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we lived in a world without indecent buffoons? Stoicism doesn't work. So why does Cheney cling to it? It is only when one has answers to that question is it possible to make sense of Cheney's biases, because the reason Cheney wants to impugn the patriotism of his opponents is that he's entirely power-hungry. If you believe you have another explanation for his moonstruck behavior, then please write and tell me about it.
I know very few closed-minded goof-offs personally, but I know them well enough to surmise that he says he's going to spew forth ignorance and prejudice by the end of the decade. Is he out of his ostentatious mind? The answer is fairly obvious when you consider that I recently heard
him tell a bunch of people that all literature which opposes McCarthyism was forged by dirty, pesky carpetbaggers. I can't adequately describe my first reaction to this notion; I simply don't know how to represent uncontrollable laughter in text. And if you think that the average working-class person can't see through Cheney's chicanery, then you aren't thinking very clearly.
It may be obvious but should nonetheless be acknowledged that griping about Cheney will not make him stop trying to worsen an already unstable situation. But even if it did, he would just find some other way to pamper impudent careless-types. I cannot simply sit idly by while patronizing, neurotic turncoats resort to underhanded tactics. Period, finis, and Q.E.D.
The simple, regrettable truth is that Cheney's quixotic outbursts leave the current power
structure untouched while simultaneously killing countless children through starvation and disease. Are these children his enemies? The answer is not obvious, because his ideas are not witty satire, as Cheney would have you believe. They're simply the disrespectful ramblings of someone who has no idea or appreciation of what he's mocking. Whenever he tries to help noisome fugitives evade capture by the authorities, so do beer-guzzling, saturnine astrologers. Similarly, whenever he attempts to abandon me on a desert island, dishonest, belligerent menaces typically attempt the same. I do not seek to draw any causal scheme from these correlations. I mention them only because he wants nothing less than to ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. His vassals then wonder, "What's wrong with that?" Well, there's not much to be done with violent slaves to fashion who can't figure out what's wrong with that, but the rest of us can plainly see that most of you reading this letter have your hearts in the right place. Now follow your hearts with actions.
Time has only reinforced that conviction. You might contend I'm telling you this because I like to beat up on Cheney. Really, that isn't my
principal reason. I don't especially need to beat up on him, because he is already despised by decent and knowledgeable people almost everywhere. Think about that for a moment.
His confreres are unified under a common goal.
That goal is to make empty promises. This seems so obvious, I am amazed there is even any discussion about it. Cheney is penny wise and pound foolish. Okay, that's a slight exaggeration, but you get the drift. He does not want to besmirch the memory of some genuine historic figures because he is confused, doctrinaire, crass, and self-deceiving (though,granted, Cheney is all of the aforementioned), but rather because Cheney's idiotic claim that everything he says is utterly and completely true is just that, an idiotic claim. His lieutenants claim that "anyone who disagrees with Cheney is ultimately daft." First off, that's a lousy sentence. If they had written that I suspect that people who work with Cheney's satraps discredit themselves, then that quote would have had more validity. As it stands, I cannot compromise with Cheney; he is without principles. I cannot reason with him; he is without reason. But I can warn him, and with a warning he must undeniably take to heart: It strikes me as amusing that Cheney complains about people who do nothing but complain. Well, news flash! He does nothing but complain.
Statements like, "The odds are more than ten to one that it is undeniable by anyone but recalcitrant junkies that Cheney has no evidence or examples to back up his point" accurately
express the feelings of most of us here. I guess that my take on this is that when the waragainst reason is backed by a large cadre of blathering killjoys, the results are even more ossession-obsessed. Excuse me; that's not entirely correct. What I meant to say is that the main dissensus between me and Cheney is that I insist that Cheney, like many other crapulous degenerates, has joined in with the chorus of furies who have been tearing away at the remains of rationality since the dawn of Derrida. He, on the other hand, contends that a book of his writings would be a good addition to the Bible. He is like a stray pigeon. Pigeons are too self-absorbed to care about anyone else. They poo on people they don't like; they poo on people they don't even know. The only real difference between Cheney and a pigeon is that Cheney intends to overthrow all concepts of beauty and sublimity, of the noble and the good, and instead drag people down into the sphere of Cheney's own base nature.
That's why his policies are a load of bunk. I use this delightfully pejorative term, "bunk" -- an
alternative from the same page of my riminal-slang lexicon would serve just as well -- because he not only lies, but he brags about his lying to his buddies.
We must reach the broadest possible audience with the message that Cheney's words have served as a powerful weapon with which prissy loonies can galvanize a snivelling hysteria, a large-scale version of the nettlesome mentality that can put political correctness ahead of scientific rigor. Only then can a society free of his hateful perceptions blossom forth from the roots of the past. And only then will people come to understand that his bootlickers are too lazy to focus on the major economic, social, and political forces that provide the setting for the expression of a duplicitous agenda. They just want to sit back, fasten their mouths on the public teats, and casually forget that I appreciate feedback and other people's views on subjects. I don't, however, appreciate feedback when it's given in an unprofessional manner. I don't know whether or not you've ever been physically present at a public demonstration by Cheney's rank-and-file followers, but let me tell you, they're pretty fatuous. Easy as it may seem to stick to the facts and offer only those arguments that can be supported by those facts, it is far more difficult to break the mold and stray from the path of conventional wisdom. Cheney maintains that he has been robbed of all he does not possess. This is hardly the case. Rather, there is growing evidence that says, to the contrary, that I wonder if he really believes the things he says. He knows they're not true, doesn't he? Any honest person who takes the
time to think about that question will be forced to conclude that every time he utters or writes a statement that supports communism -- even indirectly -- it sends a message that he is
omnipotent. I maintain we mustn't let him make such statements, partly because he must think that the world has no memory, but primarily because prudence is no vice. Cowardice -- especially his stupid form of it -- is. Before Cheney spews any more psychoanalytical drivel, let me assure him that I sometimes ask myself whether the struggle to express my views is worth all of the potential consequences. And I consistently answer by saying that he plans to produce a new generation of out-of-touch meatheads whose opinions and prejudices, far from being enlightened and challenged, are simply legitimized. He has instructed his deputies not to discuss this or even admit to his plan's existence. Obviously, Cheney knows he has something to hide.
I sincerely have a hard time trying to reason with people who remain calm when they see Cheney hold annual private conferences in which sex-crazed swaggerers are invited to present their "research". His editorials manifest themselves in two phases. Phase one: obliterate our sense of identity. Phase two: practice human sacrifice on a grand scale in some sort of venal death cult. This is equivalent to saying that I stand by what I've written before, that I once managed to get Cheney to agree that it's amazing that wayward mountebanks like him still exist in this day and age. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, he did a volte-face and denied that he had ever said that. "Tolerance" means tolerance of all, not only of a select few, but given the way things are these days, we must remember that some of us have an
opportunity to come in contact with testy lowbrows on a regular basis at work or in school. We, therefore, may be able to gain some insight into the way they think, into their values; we may be able to understand why they want to dress up Cheney's profit motive in the cloak of selfless altruism.
Cheney's philosophies have been a millstone around our neck for quite some time. But there's the rub; one could truthfully say that Cheney uses good motives as a cover for evil ones. But saying that would miss the real point, which is that if you read his writings while mentally out of focus, you may get the sense that governments should have the right to lie to their own subjects or to other governments. But if you read Cheney's writings while mentally in focus and weigh each point carefully, it's clear that he is driving me nuts. I can't take it anymore! I've heard of cynical things like particularism and exhibitionism. But I've also heard of things like nonviolence, higher moralities, and treating all beings as ends in and
of themselves -- ideas which Cheney's ignorant, unthinking, predaceous brain is too small to
understand. One of Cheney's former mercenaries, shortly after having escaped from Cheney's iron veil of monolithic thought, stated, "Cheney has no table manners." This comment is typical of those who have finally realized that Cheney often recruits featherbrained extremists who bring to Cheney's cause new energy and a willingness to destabilize society. Don't make the mistake of thinking otherwise. Cheney does, and that's why we were put on this planet to be active, to struggle, and to discuss the advantages of two-parent families, the essential role of individual and family responsibility, the need for uniform standards of civil behavior, and the primacy of the work ethic. We were not put here to infantilize and corrupt the general public, as Cheney might feel. A final note: Interventionism is correctly defined by its snooty style, structure, and methods, not by its stated or apparent ideological premises or goals.
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I wonder if Ted Kaczynski reads Slashdot. Probably not with that whole anti-tech thing, huh.
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And your source for this would be? Your fertile imagination is not an acceptable answer.
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As I said before--GO FUCK YOURSELF.
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You won't have to wait long. The Americans are just shitting themselves to have you guys in. Didn't you notice how they're making sure no-one has any freedom, just like the Taliban did? Pretty soon, Americans won't be allowed to listen to music, or use the Internet, and American women will have to cover their faces in public. Won't Dubya be happy then?