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Rosen Floats ISP Fee Idea -- Charge Everybody!
iconian writes "Hillary Rosen of RIAA wants to impose a type of fee to ISPs which in turn will be passed to all their customers indiscriminately to recoup supposed damages done by file-sharing. The RIAA considers downloading music illegally over the Internet to be the moral equivalence of stealing. I wonder then what is the moral equivalence of the RIAA taking realized cash from people who do not download music?"
Woooooooooo First Post biatch. ROBS is here!!!!
RIAA steals from YOU!!!
Oh, wait...
The levy is included in the price when the CDs are sold by the importers manufacturers. You'll never see a tax on your bill because it's a levy included in the price of every single CD.
It's better to burn out than to fade away
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, 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, except of coarse
believing that God sent his only begotten Son in the world to die for the sins of the world and that God hath raised him from the dead and is alive.
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: Nowhere in the bible does it say you have to ask forgiveness for your sins, 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.
9/11 and afterwards
19. And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. 20. Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. 21. And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. 22. And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; 23. And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. 24. And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Much better..... :)