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Inquiry Into RIAA's Piracy Crackdown Tactics
MongooseCN writes "Sen. Norm Coleman started an inquiry to check the RIAA's tactics on attacking online music swappers. He believes the RIAA's tactics may not be taking into consideration the damage they do to innocent people. It's good to know that someone remembered people in the US have Rights." As a former roadie, Senator Coleman doesn't oppose file sharing penalities, he merely wants to make sure the punishment fits the crime.
Who, after his political opponent Paul Wellstone was killed in an airplane crash, gave his first televised interview posing against a small private plane in a hangar?
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Democrats in general care about issues that encourage class conflict (guns, "make the rich pay their fair share") and keep minorities voting in a block for democratic candidates (eg. block meaningful election reform).
Plus, the entertainment industry holds more influence over democratic bigshots.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
Except he shot the burglar in the back, while he was climing out of a window. Shortly after he begged for his life. Self defense, my arse.
Quite. One of those cases where both sides were in the wrong. However like a scissor-paper-stone game, nutter always beats gippo in the public opinion stakes.
Martin was using an illegally owned pump action shotgun. He had already (allegedly) previously shot his brother-in-laws windows out after an argument. And then let a 16-year-old bleed to death in his garden. Far from a saint.
OTOH the burglers must have expected something if they were challenged by the homeowner. Despite what you read in the rags, you do have the legal right to defend your property, and the right to act in self defence.
OT enough?
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I got the party right, the state wrong. But I still stand behind my original post.
It means this is the only good thing this Bush monkey has done. Minnesota was taken over by republican drones from it's former "free thinking" leaders (ie Wellstone and Ventura). This is actually astonishing... this guy has done nothing worthwhile until now.
I think a lot of what sells as music nowadays is also "cruel and unusual".
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You spelled truly wrong in your sig.
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