"Us nasty liberals have our faults, but failing to support free speech and civil liberties is, by and large, not one of them"
So that's why your 2 candidates both blame corporate america for the ills of the country rather than the lazy, worthless parents that don't know what their kids are getting into. Their solution: more government. My solution: liberalize the copyright laws as a punishment for marketing violent content to kids. Hmmmm "little johnny, did you pay for that R rated movie?" "No mommy, uncle sam said I can have it for free if I download it!"
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or are less and less people reading/posting to Katz articles now
How absurd, I doubt that judge has even held a real gun. I've shot plenty of rifles and handguns I will be the first to say that if you aren't either lucky or have damn good reflexes already, you won't have a clue how to shoot properly if all you've played is a video game. Games like Quake and even arcade shooters don't give realistic kick and that means that some schmuck who's been "training" by Quake is going to have a nasty surprise when he fires that real shotgun or 9mm. Frankly the only weapon that these games remotely teach you how to use is something like a hatchet in Quake.
Lieberman and Gore have gone out of their way to attack the media as well. I'm sick of/. being turned into a pro-democrat peachbasket. And no, for the record I am NOT a republican (I'm a conservative-leaning libertarian). I despise the republicans, but let's be fair, rip both wings of the republicratic dictatorship apart when they have virtually the same stand on issues. Stop ignoring the facts people, your civil liberties are screwed whichever way the cointoss turns up (like there's any real difference between bush and gore!)
In order to be ex post facto, the law has to be passed after the "offense" has been committed. So it isn't an ex post facto law, the MPAA's argument just then has no basis in law until the 28th.
And the gov wonders why more people are beginning to arm themselves. We are stuck between a rock (the criminal element) and a very hard place (the cops that want this kind of power). Frankly I have barely any more trust for the cops than I do for the crooks these days.
"A friendly reminder that ratified treaties supercede the constitution"
All laws passed by our government must be constitutional and treaties are not exempt from this. The US Constitution is essentially the federal charter and without the Constitution there is no United States of America. So even treaties must be constitutional.
Another thing to keep in mind is that without the US Constitution, our national leaders have no power. The states would retake all power lost by the federal government and the United States would collapse and we'd be where we were in 1781, a bunch of little sovereign states.
There is no guarantee that what we would be given would be the "real" carnivore code anyway. For all we know, the FBI could have planned for this and created a dumby carnivore which would look as harmful to our civil rights as a knock on the door from the police wanting to ask a few questions, but the "real" carnivore code is worse than anything from 1984.
The only solution to this is to NOT ALLOW this thing to be used, period! I've already written my Congressman about this and ya'll should too. For those/.'ers that might be in the 6th district of VA like me you can go to house.gov/goodlatte to find the email link.
Let's face it people, there's really no way for shareware developers trying to support their families and make a decent living will be able to survive under a GPL-dominated world. What worries me is that OSS will take one of two anti-prosperity routes: populism-gone-awry (come on, as if many of the OSS advocates are little more than software demagogues....) or corporate domination.
The closed source model allows small time vendors like Opera to kick big-time vendors like Microsoft and Netscape in the face and get away with it. Under an OSS world, Opera's developers wouldn't make any money off their product because who needs tech support, etc for a web browser? Sure they might occassionally get a few dollars from helping a guy fix a registry setting that is messing up Opera, but the point is that their main revenue stream would be destroyed.
Open source the foundation, ie the OS and development tools so all companies and people have a level playing field. However anything beyond that will only make it unprofitable for people to write software because there is no way you can provide tech support for most software.
Philly protestor: "Me go protest evil capitalism. Me see cop. Cop enforcer for evil bourgeoisie capitalists. Bourgeoisie capitalists bad. Cop bad. Me go bash cop."
The author seems to forget the philanthropy is a gift. It is not an entitlement. She is a typical liberal, she thinks that those who are productive have a responsibility to give away large amounts of their money after taxes to charity because that is their "social responsibility." However there is no such thing as social responsibility. The rich don't owe anything to the rest of society and vice versa. For the record I come from a middle class family ($50,000 a year before taxes)
Here in the US we don't really redistribute the wealth at all which means that the working class pretty much lives on whatever it earns. There is no government help beyond a few $1000 a year in earned income credit. $.45 a gallon is a disgusting tax on the poor and working class. You say it isn't a tax on the poor? The middle and upper class grumble about it, but we (I'm middle class) can easily pay for it! The poor and working class can't!!
"i take it a whole bunch of deluded bush supporters trying to restrict rob's editorial freedom is fine? actually that type of double standard pretty much sums up republicans for me"
And I suppose the democrats are any better..... both parties are wildly messed up and need to have their clocks cleaned by the 3rd parties. When I turn 18 this coming summer, I'm going to either register independent or LP. Either way I'll vote mostly libertarian.
Gore WILL either raise taxes or not allow them to be lowered at all unless the republicans control 3/4 of Congress so that even their moderate members can't stop them from repassing bills to lower taxes. Gore also cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate a while back that raised the gas tax, the most disgusting tax on the poor in this country's history. The gas tax is approximately $.45 a gallon!!!! And he has the nerve to call himself the candidate for the little guy. Bullshit. He'll just use taxes like that to put every working class family on welfare.
Not to mention the fact that Gore will push for eventual gun confiscation. The government will then have a monopoly on the usage of force. Many will die as criminal america has a field day raping and pillaging. Gore's response: add more cops. The result? More cops to lock you up with if you disagree with government policy. So with Gore you get no 1st amendment, no 2nd amendment and more taxes as a minimum.
Surprise, surprise people, all of the important acts of government which have pissed off the/. community have occurred while BC had the power to veto them or stop them. Let's take a look shall we:
-export regs on encryption. BC thinks they're a good idea and wants them, the republicans think they should be abolished
-CDA, bipartisan legislation; signed by BC
-COPA and COPPA: signed by BC
-Carnivore, supported by our attorney general and president
-Gore wants to begin allowing net taxes soon, GW wants to wait and see before even discussing allowing them
-DMCA, signed by BC. (yes I know it is orrin hatch's baby, but it had wide bipartisan support)
So CmdrTaco, you really think that GW is going to be the worse candidate? Considering that Gore has backed BC all the way, everytime? That shows you what kind of person Gore is.
This rubbish about sun always complaining reminds me of a little kid running to his big brother to go kick the shit out of someone not playing nicely. If sun ain't good enough to compete then go file bankrupcy or sell out to another company is my solution for sun
What she conveniently left out.....
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is that reagan administration didn't really give much money to the tech industry when it was in its early days. Reagan just refused to allow them to be heavily taxed/regulated and that allowed the upstarts to keep their capital and make advances.
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I have been lucky because my situation/family/background/financial situation enabled me to have the opportunity to use computers. Some people aren't so lucky. Some people may have been able to afford a computer but without having any guidance or inspiration, they have been shown what their potential could have achieved using computers. I originally trained to be an engineer but switched to computer science after I realised that this is what I truly liked. Some people can't afford to do this. My two cousins live with their mother who is an elementary school teacher yet their mother wanted a REAL computer (for back then at least) and bought a top of the line PII 300 with 64mb of ram, 6gb hard disk and a decent video/sound setup. She paid top dollar for it. It is all about priorities, she saved up her money for a while cuz she knew what they wanted and she went out and bought it. Excusing those making >$20,000 from being able to own a decent computer (look at how much lower prices are now compared to what they used to be for a kick ass computer) is like excusing them from having decent medical care. They may have to sacrifice some luxuries like your cable tv with every premium channel, but when you have the basics like healthcare, utilities, house/car payments done.... then save for the bloody computer!!
Otherwise there will be no incentive for people to begin trying to play music, write books and stuff like that. If there was no IP protection, how many of you think that small industries like the comic book industry would survive?
I have no problem with strong IP laws if they successfully remove the publisher/record label from the picture and the creator is the one reaping the rewards.
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"Us nasty liberals have our faults, but failing to support free speech and civil liberties is, by and large, not one of them" So that's why your 2 candidates both blame corporate america for the ills of the country rather than the lazy, worthless parents that don't know what their kids are getting into. Their solution: more government. My solution: liberalize the copyright laws as a punishment for marketing violent content to kids. Hmmmm "little johnny, did you pay for that R rated movie?" "No mommy, uncle sam said I can have it for free if I download it!"
or are less and less people reading/posting to Katz articles now
How absurd, I doubt that judge has even held a real gun. I've shot plenty of rifles and handguns I will be the first to say that if you aren't either lucky or have damn good reflexes already, you won't have a clue how to shoot properly if all you've played is a video game. Games like Quake and even arcade shooters don't give realistic kick and that means that some schmuck who's been "training" by Quake is going to have a nasty surprise when he fires that real shotgun or 9mm. Frankly the only weapon that these games remotely teach you how to use is something like a hatchet in Quake.
Lieberman and Gore have gone out of their way to attack the media as well. I'm sick of /. being turned into a pro-democrat peachbasket. And no, for the record I am NOT a republican (I'm a conservative-leaning libertarian). I despise the republicans, but let's be fair, rip both wings of the republicratic dictatorship apart when they have virtually the same stand on issues. Stop ignoring the facts people, your civil liberties are screwed whichever way the cointoss turns up (like there's any real difference between bush and gore!)
In order to be ex post facto, the law has to be passed after the "offense" has been committed. So it isn't an ex post facto law, the MPAA's argument just then has no basis in law until the 28th.
didn't ENIAC and Colossus take up a VERY substantial amount of energy?
And the gov wonders why more people are beginning to arm themselves. We are stuck between a rock (the criminal element) and a very hard place (the cops that want this kind of power). Frankly I have barely any more trust for the cops than I do for the crooks these days.
"A friendly reminder that ratified treaties supercede the constitution" All laws passed by our government must be constitutional and treaties are not exempt from this. The US Constitution is essentially the federal charter and without the Constitution there is no United States of America. So even treaties must be constitutional. Another thing to keep in mind is that without the US Constitution, our national leaders have no power. The states would retake all power lost by the federal government and the United States would collapse and we'd be where we were in 1781, a bunch of little sovereign states.
There is no guarantee that what we would be given would be the "real" carnivore code anyway. For all we know, the FBI could have planned for this and created a dumby carnivore which would look as harmful to our civil rights as a knock on the door from the police wanting to ask a few questions, but the "real" carnivore code is worse than anything from 1984.
/.'ers that might be in the 6th district of VA like me you can go to house.gov/goodlatte to find the email link.
The only solution to this is to NOT ALLOW this thing to be used, period! I've already written my Congressman about this and ya'll should too. For those
Let's face it people, there's really no way for shareware developers trying to support their families and make a decent living will be able to survive under a GPL-dominated world. What worries me is that OSS will take one of two anti-prosperity routes: populism-gone-awry (come on, as if many of the OSS advocates are little more than software demagogues....) or corporate domination.
The closed source model allows small time vendors like Opera to kick big-time vendors like Microsoft and Netscape in the face and get away with it. Under an OSS world, Opera's developers wouldn't make any money off their product because who needs tech support, etc for a web browser? Sure they might occassionally get a few dollars from helping a guy fix a registry setting that is messing up Opera, but the point is that their main revenue stream would be destroyed.
Open source the foundation, ie the OS and development tools so all companies and people have a level playing field. However anything beyond that will only make it unprofitable for people to write software because there is no way you can provide tech support for most software.
that're slowly making me into a moderate marxist I believe.
That makes you wonder just how long it will be before people start to say that they run GNOME instead of XYZVendor's distro
Force Adobe to GPL Photoshop 5.5 once Photoshop 6 comes out!
Philly protestor: "Me go protest evil capitalism. Me see cop. Cop enforcer for evil bourgeoisie capitalists. Bourgeoisie capitalists bad. Cop bad. Me go bash cop."
The author seems to forget the philanthropy is a gift. It is not an entitlement. She is a typical liberal, she thinks that those who are productive have a responsibility to give away large amounts of their money after taxes to charity because that is their "social responsibility." However there is no such thing as social responsibility. The rich don't owe anything to the rest of society and vice versa. For the record I come from a middle class family ($50,000 a year before taxes)
Here in the US we don't really redistribute the wealth at all which means that the working class pretty much lives on whatever it earns. There is no government help beyond a few $1000 a year in earned income credit. $.45 a gallon is a disgusting tax on the poor and working class. You say it isn't a tax on the poor? The middle and upper class grumble about it, but we (I'm middle class) can easily pay for it! The poor and working class can't!!
"i take it a whole bunch of deluded bush supporters trying to restrict rob's editorial freedom is fine? actually that type of double standard pretty much sums up republicans for me" And I suppose the democrats are any better..... both parties are wildly messed up and need to have their clocks cleaned by the 3rd parties. When I turn 18 this coming summer, I'm going to either register independent or LP. Either way I'll vote mostly libertarian.
Gore WILL either raise taxes or not allow them to be lowered at all unless the republicans control 3/4 of Congress so that even their moderate members can't stop them from repassing bills to lower taxes. Gore also cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate a while back that raised the gas tax, the most disgusting tax on the poor in this country's history. The gas tax is approximately $.45 a gallon!!!! And he has the nerve to call himself the candidate for the little guy. Bullshit. He'll just use taxes like that to put every working class family on welfare.
Not to mention the fact that Gore will push for eventual gun confiscation. The government will then have a monopoly on the usage of force. Many will die as criminal america has a field day raping and pillaging. Gore's response: add more cops. The result? More cops to lock you up with if you disagree with government policy. So with Gore you get no 1st amendment, no 2nd amendment and more taxes as a minimum.
Surprise, surprise people, all of the important acts of government which have pissed off the /. community have occurred while BC had the power to veto them or stop them. Let's take a look shall we:
-export regs on encryption. BC thinks they're a good idea and wants them, the republicans think they should be abolished
-CDA, bipartisan legislation; signed by BC
-COPA and COPPA: signed by BC
-Carnivore, supported by our attorney general and president
-Gore wants to begin allowing net taxes soon, GW wants to wait and see before even discussing allowing them
-DMCA, signed by BC. (yes I know it is orrin hatch's baby, but it had wide bipartisan support)
So CmdrTaco, you really think that GW is going to be the worse candidate? Considering that Gore has backed BC all the way, everytime? That shows you what kind of person Gore is.
Lookout records (Citizen Fish, Operation Ivy and other punk bands) wasn't on the list when I checked it.
This rubbish about sun always complaining reminds me of a little kid running to his big brother to go kick the shit out of someone not playing nicely. If sun ain't good enough to compete then go file bankrupcy or sell out to another company is my solution for sun
is that reagan administration didn't really give much money to the tech industry when it was in its early days. Reagan just refused to allow them to be heavily taxed/regulated and that allowed the upstarts to keep their capital and make advances.
I have been lucky because my situation/family/background/financial situation enabled me to have the opportunity to use computers. Some people aren't so lucky. Some people may have been able to afford a computer but without having any guidance or inspiration, they have been shown what their potential could have achieved using computers. I originally trained to be an engineer but switched to computer science after I realised that this is what I truly liked. Some people can't afford to do this. My two cousins live with their mother who is an elementary school teacher yet their mother wanted a REAL computer (for back then at least) and bought a top of the line PII 300 with 64mb of ram, 6gb hard disk and a decent video/sound setup. She paid top dollar for it. It is all about priorities, she saved up her money for a while cuz she knew what they wanted and she went out and bought it. Excusing those making >$20,000 from being able to own a decent computer (look at how much lower prices are now compared to what they used to be for a kick ass computer) is like excusing them from having decent medical care. They may have to sacrifice some luxuries like your cable tv with every premium channel, but when you have the basics like healthcare, utilities, house/car payments done.... then save for the bloody computer!!
Why not just grab gecko and make a real browser around it and send the mods to gecko back to the mozilla team?
Otherwise there will be no incentive for people to begin trying to play music, write books and stuff like that. If there was no IP protection, how many of you think that small industries like the comic book industry would survive?
I have no problem with strong IP laws if they successfully remove the publisher/record label from the picture and the creator is the one reaping the rewards.