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Kazaa Offices Raided
rj writes "ZDNet Australia is reporting the Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) this morning raided the offices of Kazaa owners, Sharman Networks, along with P2P company Brilliant Digital Entertainment, and the homes of key executives. Background on prosecution of copyright music in Australia over P2P is also available."
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I'm afraid I am going to have to stop you on this one.
Just because someone is 'conservative' does NOT mean that they are idiotic, nor foolish. I would be considered quite conservative, and I consider the Patriot Act to be an insult to everything this country was founded on and has stood for all these years. Just because some conservatives in office do horrible things, don't place the blame on all of us.
After all, just because President Clinton was a flaming imbecile doesn't mean that I think that all 'liberals' are.
As to the topic: This did take place in Australia, and their laws are different from ours. But, I can easily see this happening here. Get ready for the USSA.
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Why oh why didn't I take the purple pill?
Cocaine! The earmark of all rich white people!
But... but I like Clippy.
He gets a bad rap, he's only trying to help people. There's a lot of people who have bad grammar, you know! Clippy's just trying to prevent other peoples' stupid mistakes!
And he does it with a smile!
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
Why stop me? gangien's .sig claims he's "conservative", yet he defends the Patriot Act, which you agree is an agressive destruction of liberty. That's idiotic, or worse. None of the people under discussion here are "conservative" - at best, they're all reactionary, or retro to some imaginary history that never existed.
As for Clinton's imbecility, whether you believe he was ethical or not, he was clearly extremely smart. And just because the fake "conservatives" running the US now are actually stupid, doesn't mean that I think that all stupid people are fake, or "conservative", nor do I think that all "conservatives" are stupid or fake. I just don't think anyone has any idea what "conservative" even means anymore, except a brand of "winner" in American politics.
As for the topic, the Patriot Act looks like fascism, as does the Australian raids on Kazaa's staff's homes, QED.
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Clippy has to service more people every day than Lil' Kim does at The Source awards every year. He does his best. Back off.
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
Right, and do you hear that thumping of my hand on the desktop? You should thank god that I'm using my extra-secret powers to keep Al Queda from invading your office and cutting your throat. The sound you don't hear is my other hand picking your pocket. What would we do without patriots like you, Anonymous Dupe?
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>and misuse of the simple phrase "I couldn't care less"
It means TWO possible things. Both phrases can be interpreted, validly, in two opposite ways. It depends if you are looking at the current or future state of the person.
"I could care less about cars"
Indicates either that, on a "care" scale of 1 to 10, you're at a 10, and therefore care more about cars than the minimum (you are positive towards them in an immediate manner), or, that, on a scale of 1 to 10, you're at 2, and therefore could (and shall) care less about cars than normal (you are negative towards them in a future manner).
"I couldn't care less about cars"
Indicates either that, on a "care" scale of 1 to 10, you're at 1, and therefore hate cars more than you ever will (future), or, you are at 10, and love cars to death at that moment to the point that it would be impossible for you to care less (immediate, although this example doesn't clearly show it, unfortunately).
This might help, a bit.
Some are mistaken, that's because they forget to visualize the scale not as two dimensional (love and hate), but as three dimensional (love, hate, and time). When a time component is added, one can see the phrases' meanings reverse. And yes, I love them both -- complaints about them are a perfect example of what happens when one limits their thoughts to the present, and not the future. I could, and couldn't, care less about them.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
Your exposition underscores my point. "I could care less", in the context of disinterest, is some kind of threat to care less about something, which ironically matters little to an adversarial opponent. Or "I could care less" is a similarly irrelevant warning, no less silly for being inaccurate, that it is impossible for the utterer to care less, because they care so much. Either way, reversing the sense of the well understood "I couldn't care less" is no way to obtain emphasis of the original sense. To the experienced ear, it is a sign that the utterer is used to repeating catchphrases without parsing their meaning.
BTW, without getting too philosophical about the oppositions of love, hate, and dispassion (philology alone is esoteric enough right now), love/hate and time are two dimensions, not three, unless you are somehow positing a state where you love and hate cars, now and later. Only in some kind of tightly closed society would the phrase "I couldn't care less about cars" mean that abstruse superposition of states.
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You'd think regular /. poster would know how to include an URL so you can click on it
Siggy Sig Sig? Where is the sig?
I guess similar arguments can be used against the gun makers too. They know for certain that their product is used in committing crimes and yet they continue to make them.
War is necrophilia.