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Corbis, DMCA, And John Kerry Photos
Phronesis writes "Photo District News is running a story reporting that three historic photos of John Kerry from the early 1970s, including the one used for the Jane Fonda forgery, were pirated from Corbis. The photographers who own the copyright on the photos are asking Corbis to use its fancy watermarking technology to find the culprit. Corbis hopes either to track the responsible people down using watermarks, or to invoke DMCA if the watermarks were removed."
You all know Bill Gates started Corbis in 1989.....right....?
...some Karl Rove lackey is reformatting his hard drive right now? =)
With his current plans, I won't get a cent from the gov't after retirement age (Or my retirement age will be 90 yrs). I'll be a slave to my job until I die (or be homeless) if I remain in this country.
Why? Is your pot habit too expensive to allow you to save a little for retirement?
Ok, as a non US'ican I know pretty well who John Kerry is. Democrat presidential candidate, current front-runner. Vietnam vet and anti-war protester. But could someone explain the Jane Fonda thing? What did that forged photo purport to show?
Why would this be a bad thing anyway? It's not like newspapers don't crop and alter photos on a regular basis. Just take a look at one of the NYC tabloids if you really want to see this kind of thing.
Furthermore, why should Kerry care if he is in a picture with Fonda? Does he seek to deny his roots? Hmm?
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
What did that forged photo purport to show?
"Jane Fonda" is right-wing shorthand for someone who collaborates with the enemy. During the Vietnam war, Jane Fonda visited North Korea (gasp!) and was very vocal in her criticisms (double gasp!!) of the US war there.
It's simple: I demand prosecution for torture.
She was a prominent anti-war protestor.
I am also a non-US'ican, but I believe it has
something to do with Jane Fonda touring North
Vietnam, and reporting how nice the people were
to her.
She has subsequently been referred to as
"Saigon Jane" by people that believe she was a traitor.
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They're just trying to smear him by associating him with Jane Fonda.
Too bad the republicans needed to fake the photo. The democrats can always use this real photo:
Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein"BEHOLD, CORN!!" - Dr. Weird, ATHF
Of course, since we have no real clue as to where W was in 1972 (since we know he wasn't at his designated Air Force Base in Alabama), I suggest that W and Jane were in Hanoi together. W was so boozed and coked up (which is why he avoided 42 months worth of required Air Force physicals) that he probably didn't even realize that he was betraying his country.
Then most Americans are ignorant of the real reasons to hate the treasonous scum.
Before you mod this "Flamebait", go read that page and tell me whether it's reasonable to completely detest that loser and everything she stands for. John Kerry seriously needs to distance himself as far as possible.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
It's all in the meaning and persprective.
"understand what communism was" meant as "if we could stop having conflicts and actually work for the good of society instead of individual gain (i.e., stop being human)" that's maybe not such a bad thing, when referring to idealistic communism, which doesn't work in the real world because people don't work that way. But you can (try to) stretch it to "improve humanity so we become better as a race" which is a nice goal. Capt Picard keeps pretending that has happened in ST:TNG. (Yet he likes having the biggest guns...)
"someday become communists" as "accept that humans are flawed and this crazy system will never work, but we should do it anyway"... well, I'd hope no one would honestly support such a position. But humans being human... God-given right to be stupid, and all that.
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Bush Style? This man is ruthless when it comes to campaigning. Of course he uses henchmen to spread the hate speech so the stink does not get on him but everybody knows who is in charge.
Just recently his administration reffered to the teachers union as a terrorist organization.
Not his style my ass.
The best way to support the US war effort is to continue buying American products.
Fonda was the one that funded kerrys book, and kerry has a problem about taking both sides of an issue. VOTE BUSH!!!
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? -- A. Hope
The forgery, which was immediately discovered, is not important except as one more example about how you need to check sources (and snopes).
But the fact is that Jane Fonda and John Kerry did work together. Jane Fonda was the major funder and organizer of the bogus "Winter Soldier Investigation" that Kerry attended and later used as the source of his false allegations smearing all American troops in Vietnam and mischaracterizing the entire war.
Jane Fonda was a significant funder of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, of which Kerry was a high ranking officer.
The reason the two are associated is because the two were associated.
The association of Jane Fonda isn't necessary to establish Kerry's guilt. The hateful lies he told about his country and his former comrades in arms is sufficient. His hypocritical throwing away his medals (but really throwing away someone else's), and now proudly displaying those same medals show the character of this man. The book he published, which his campaign had pulled from most stores before he first ran successfully for congress, has a cover that mocks the Iwo Jima monument and US soldiers in general.
"I served in Vietnam Kerry" has shown that he is unfit to defend his country.
The only good weather is bad weather.
You're right - Republicans/conservatives know well enough to hide their money and amoral behavior in corporations.
You, however, are using entirely wrong words: "To, Too, and Two" are different words with different meanings. So are "There, Their, and They're", as well as "Your and You're".
Likewise, you dont even know what is and isnt a word, as we see in your statement-
"Cant" IS a word, but I assumed you would use the context clues to determine that I mean can't, rather than cant.Im still not going to use punctuation, if for no better reason than to piss you off. But, your (not you're) bullshit excuse of 'posting in a hurry' is completely nonsense. You are just some semi-literate slob who doesnt know the correct way to use words. But dont let that get in my way of posting your ignorance on slashdot- around here, you just fit right in.
I wonder if you supported Dean before
No, I supported Senator Kerry right from the start.
Notice I can spell prenuptial correctly, which you spelled as "prenupual"
Wow, so you can spell prenuptial, but somehow the correct spellings of "they're" and "you're" escape you. Congraduations! (1)
IMO, dropping capitalization and punctuation is a far lesser offense than actaully getting a word WRONG. Given that I had no other misspellings, its pretty obvious that "prenupual" was a hurried mistake. Your (not you're) writing (not righting) is rife with mistakes. Im sure your (not you're) post caused much time to be spent next to a dictionary.
For a long time I ran a dual-boot Windows/Linux machine so I could evaluate them both, before eventually moving to Linux.
Who gives a shit? What does this have to do with the price of tea in China?
My guess is you've only ever run MS products, and refuse to try anything else, and likely are even hostile toward them. Why make an informed decision when you can just pick a popular one and attack anyone who suggests possible alternatives, right?
Hmm, another uninformed troll. No, I have used plenty of other OS's besides MS, because when I started using computers, MS was just another company making BASIC.
My hostility is saved for stupid people making comments rooted in ignorance, much like yourself.
Fools like yourself need to use an alternative OS as some way of defining yourself as a person: if that werent what you were trying to do, than why bring up your Linux usage in a political discussion? Face it, you are just some rube who needs to point out the fact that you are using Linux to anybody who will listen. Your grasp of politics is vapid at best, and you sound to be an ignorant slob who barely made it out of high school. BUT, you use Linux, so you are morally superior than everyone else!
(1) yes, I know how to spell congratulations (as well as a great many other words). I was making a joke based on irony.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.