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Cringely On Civil Disobedience
Sauron23 writes "Robert Cringely over at PBS has his usual weekly Pulpit out. This weeks it's a follow up to last weeks discussion of one of the enforcers of the DMCA, BayTSP. He clarifies some of the issues surrounding a planned bust in October for P2P users sharing movies and makes perhaps an unusual request for civil disobediance from P2P users. I don't know what 10 million pirated copies of "Debbie does Dallas" would be worth either Bob. Probably more than the courts would want to handle. Worth the read." Some of the stronger parts of the column, IMHO, is the commentary on the e-mails people sent in.
of Debbie does Dallas. Anyone know where I can get it? I promise to turn myself in before I watch it.
What is pirate software? Software for inventory of stolen treasure?
I've said this before, but I'll say it again [a little extra karma never hurt anyone] -- we need a Cringely topic icon.
Why, you ask?
Basically, some of the best discussions come from the Slashdot community after we collectively read a piece from Cringely. His ideas are often fairly original and interesting, which makes for a nice "vacation" from the usual OS Wars, Text Editor Wars, and Software Licensing Wars.
I'd even be happy to make the icon for the Cringely topic.
So, editors, care to give a little feedback on this? There are several other topic areas that we could certainly do without, but I feel that a Cringely area of the site would be well worth it.
Thanks for listening.
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1. Never
2. Sometimes
3. Always
4. In South Florida
5. For Cowboy W. Neal
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I'm not trollin' honest.
My Opinion.
The the bit about the NG, well I'm saying that at Kent State, it wasn't the Government behind the trigger pulling, it was just guys in a militia. Big difference. Well unless it's a Milita in like Zim taking a Farm where the media will clearly make the distinction that the Milita isn't the Government.
No the Soviet Union wasn't created by spikes in trees, but for some reason a passive-agressive stance has been taken by Eco-Terrorists and Anarchist. My point was, that's not the way to win a revolution, some eggs must be broken and I do not see that any of the social change or revolutionary groups in the Western World have the courage to let some members die for the cause.
The Clean Air Act has nothing to do with the focus of the revolutionaries that annoy police at Economic meetings. The Clean Air Act and the Indian Independace was created by a MAJORITY of the people wanting a change. A majority in Imperial Russia wanted change, but it took the violence and ruthlessness of the Soviets to make it happen.
That was the point of my morning rant.
That's exactly what he wants! Pretty soon the slashdot moderation system will be bogged down with everyone trying to mod down his post, and then they'll be forced to repeal it!