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Berman Retreats, But Only To Regroup
thefinite writes "It looks like the P2P vigilante bill sponsored by Berman is going to have to be rewritten even just to be considered. A ZDNet story talks about the likelihood that the bill will get anywhere as currently written. Hopefully, the second time around will make it clear that the idea is flawed, not just the text."
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love--
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me--
Yes!--that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we--
Of many far wiser than we--
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling--my darling--my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
If I punched you in the throat, I bet no one would come to your aid.
1) find a old unarchived slashdot story
2) start posting your communications
3) no one notices =)
Really, then what happend to the Bono bill. Did it go back and forth a bunch of times? And then was passed after he nosedived into a tree whilst skiing. (Sympathy vote?)
Headline News:
Berman P2P Bill Struck Down in Senate; Other Palindromes (Such As the Following) Seek Safe-Haven
To lay aside life,
draw, set age.
Never one deed unfit
can a deity do
(by no mere ceremony).
Body tied-
An act if nude Eden or Eve
negates war.
Defiled, I say a lot.
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in the amount of U.S. $10 Billion:
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Woot,
Cheers
Hah! That's my fifth AC +5 post in a month!
Take that Karma whores!
There are only three books in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy!
To whit:
(Don't you hate it when some anal-retentive geek totally ruins a joke by interperting it literally?)
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff