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Beyond Eldred v. Ashcroft
I thought I'd grab up some of the many commentaries and responses to the Eldred decision. If you read only one of these links, see Lessig's blog. Jack Balkin, another law professor who contributed to the case, is discussing it in his blog. The NYTimes has two distinct news stories on the decision (NYT1, NYT2), plus a biting editorial about the decision. Copyright scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan has a piece in Salon. The LA Times posts one of the very few stories to present the decision in a positive light. Reason is one of several to mock the mouse.
I DID IT!! FP AGAIN!!!!
In Soviet Russia, jokes kill YOU.
You used to have a really crappy sig, but then I stole it.
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Way to honor your Troll ancestors, grasshopper!
I'm Brian Fellows!!!
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This story was posted last week and can be found by clicking this conveniently placed link.
Goddammit,
Franc0!
you are "biting" my gangrenous left testicle.
Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, said the ruling was "a victory for consumers everywhere" because "copyright, whose aim it is to provide incentive for the creation and preservation of creative works, is in the public interest."
In other news, Adolf Hitler claimed that the Holocaust was a great victory for citizens everywhere because killing innocent Jews, for the purpose of cleaning the human gene pool, is in the public interest.
"Blog" isn't any more of a word than "zpolit" and "phthoom". Jesus, michael, you're an editor for this site! Have some respect for your work and please stop using whatever the trendy neologism of the day is!
So long, michael. Don't let the door hit you...
Ron Eldred was really good in Black Hawk Down. Great movie.
Q: How does one get saved?
A: For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Grace means unmerited favor and free gift, Meaning we don't deserve to be saved but God loves us anyway and gives us the faith of Jesus Christ, it is the faith that God gives us that saves us, not our own. Paul clearly says it's not of works, meaning it's nothing that we do that saves us, other than believing that Jesus is the Christ and that God sent his only begotten Son down to earth to die for the sins of the whole world.
Q: After the faith is given to us, do we continue to sin?
A: NO!, Now this IS GREAT NEWS!
A: Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
A: Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
A: For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of
faith. For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
Q: Why then do many say we need to ask for forgiveness for sins?
A: We will be judged according to Pauls version of the Gospel in which he clearly says,"For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth."
Many have misunderstood the term "repent" and we know that asking for something that Christ has already done for us by his dying on the cross, is indeed of works, not of faith. Repent means to turn from. I've always interpreted Repent as "Turn from disbelief to belief". Some churches could find it more profitable to keep you under the law, and
some people in our society would rather keep have you under the law.
Q: I hear often that you have to accept Christ in order to be saved, is this true?
A: Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
A: Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also
glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
A: We are chosen by Christ, "accepting Christ" sure sounds like works.