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Lecture Notes Considered Infringement
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "According to a new lawsuit, taking notes in class is copyright infringement. Of course, it's not quite that simple. The professor is partnered with an E-book maker that wants to sell the material themselves, and the people taking notes pay students to take good ones, then sell copies to everyone else. But that just means that the case will hinge upon whether or not lecture notes are fair use. Either way, I wonder how long it will be before you will have to sign a EULA whenever you walk into class"
"You are free, to do as we tell you!" - Bill Hicks
Keep drinking your fluoride water and aspartame soft drinks Americans, you are so fucking lost. Red or blue, red or blue, which corporate whore do we want in this time?
You people are pathetic. You should've learned from Katrina and seen just how important you are when the TV goes off. When the flickering entertainment stops, when people start talking. When cops tell women stranded on rooftops to lift up their shirts to see their tits and maybe then they'll rescue them.
Maybe, just maybe, if you kept your televisions off long enough, you'd wake up and start talking again, living in real community, ending your drug war lie instead of keeping it alive so the gangsters can continue to throw kick backs to police or shadow governments and continue the funding of wars you don't agree with, and experience actual change instead of the lies you love to keep swallowing. During the birth pains of the Iraq war, good old ollie north was on Fox News while the American flag danced by the corporate logo, truly this was a turn for the surreal should you care to remember his history.
Watch everything by Bill Hicks until you wake up and learn to think for yourself, come to understand the meaning behind his mantra, "Squeegee your third eye", watch The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis, by Bill Moyers and understand there is still hope, we can come together as a nation, but it starts when we turn off the television forever and turn on our minds while tuning into each other.
Yeah, you're a real language engineer: "its" possessive has no apostrophe.
Nope, the essay is correct. The Democrats are much more in bed with Hollywood than the Republicans are. Just watch U.S. TV in a few months and you'll see actors and actresses lay praise on Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton and hurl epithets at John McCain. The DMCA was signed into law in 1998, which was during Bill Clinton's term.
Just "gittin-r-done," day after day.