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New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame
An anonymous reader writes "Representative Lamar Smith is sponsoring the Intellectual Property Protection Act. The new bill is designed to give the Justice Department 'tools to combat IP crime' which which are used to 'quite frankly, fund terrorism activities,' according to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Among the provisions is lowering the standards for 'willful copyright violation' and increasing the corresponding prison term to 10 years." More information is also available at publicknowledge.org.
The second amendment is useless and completely ignored. Also, different segments of society write other segments of society off, speaking as one who has been written off.
The mental health profession in the USA is mainly to keep people who have been written off preoccupied. Once I refused to let them keep me preoccupied, they refused to have anything to do with me.
The whole Season is greeting you my friend.
My name is Khalid Osama Obasha, I am the sone of sultan Ibrahmei II, of the mokassar sultanate. Last year he was murdered in a coup by maoist rebels, which threw our country in a bloody civil war. I believe our problems can be help you secure a better position if you choose to help solve our problems.
Just send a small navy cruiser to our coast, and we will make sure it is moderately attacke by the insurgents. This will give you the excuse to attack the headquarers of the insurgenst, conveniently located in the Al-ibrahmei Akhbar mosque. This will generate enough media coverage off all these ant-american terrorist sentiments in the world. If you wish we can also use our police forces to uncover some terrorist counterfeiting rings or whatever your media requires.
In return, we ask you to supply us with better arms to crush our opposition.
If you still have some doubts, may we remind you that we produce 2% of the worlds oilproducts, so any dissidents in your country can easily blame it on the oil while you guy secure your power.
This space is intentionally staring blankly at you
Mod Up, very informative.
Mr. Universe: "They can't stop the signal, Mal. They can never stop the signal."
Too many Terrorists sit around all day smoking joints and listening to the King Tuby records they downloaded.
If the Bush administration is right , the only way to stop terrorism is to hide all the Mucnhies
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
Dont worry dude
When rapture comes and oil is at $500/barrel and gold at $10000/ounce. The rich and powerfull will suffer.
Mass rioting and burning of mansions and govt houses. Jail will be the safest place then.
Ever watch Mike Moores 911? Bottom line is , the comclusion I got is that a lot of americans including the ones
making decisions are real really truly clinically insane, and just are real power trip control phreaks.
Too much drugs in the 60s and none today? Or just never had any?
Just let chaos reign, let nature do its randomness, no one person or govt can control society, it will break down and shit all over you if you try. And then you will be dead and so will the whole familty line like the Tzars.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
Fact: The United States of America has never spent more money on education that it is now spending.