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Joe Joachim, who says he wants to be the Walt Disney of the funeral business I can't imagine the story of my life as told by animated fairy tale characters with a grafted-on pop-culture attitude.
No, wait, I know, he wants to patent the lives of the deceased and hold all rights to them until such time as he figures out to raise them as an army of the Undead.
1. Patent the display of video on a tombstone 2. Write up sales agreements where all video submitted to you for display becomes your property 3. Copyright the home movies of the deceased 4. Hold rights until have army of undead 5. Conquer the world so that money no longer has meaning or value 6. ? 7. Profit!
get computers out of schools completely. I disagree, I found the computers to be quite useful in my education. It was through daily use of the school computers that I learned all the stepping stones to the trade I practice today. I learned the lay of the keyboard on an Apple II in grade 5. When I was going to be held back because of my poor penmanship (my hands shook), my dad showed me how to use WordStar to type up my homework. It remains my favorite memory of something we did together and profoundly influenced my career. Thank you, Dad. When there were no manual labor jobs for people my age, I walked into the temp agency and discovered that years of banging away at LOGO and Frigate had qualified me for data entry work at 12,000 keystrokes per hour. Without that work I wouldn't have made it to college. The availability of Internet technology at the university I chose not only allowed me to hone practical job skills but also allowed me to round out my education by exposing me to errors in the history books I had to read in high school. As a sysadmin I make twice as much as my wife... a high school teacher with a Masters degree.
Most of the great educators in my life coped by finding the few kids who really wanted to learn their subject and mentoring them personally after class, opening their homes to them. The other kids got the bare minimum which was exactly what they wanted anyway. Stop demanding success from people who want to fail anyway and invest all you have in the ones who care. You might save their lives.
I'm off to write to my MP. Yeah, good luck with that.
These media cartels have stolen our public domain and culture, and are renting it back to us in perpetuity. Your culture is the Beatles? THAT should infuriate you. I bet you get ticked off when someone roots through your garbage cans too.
Consider the recent Torah article. The rabbis don't lie awake at night worrying that someone will run the scroll through a photocopier and start selling copies on the street at $5 apiece. As a touchstone of culture, the Torah stands on its own. It doesn't need copyright to prop it up. Copyright creates a false scarcity in order to inflate the value of items of small worth. Why mess around with items of small worth?
Consider the Happy Birthday song (do they have that song over there?) Have you ever sung it without paying the royalty? I seriously doubt a bobbie conked you over the head and drug you off to prison. Here in the U.S. we like to sing this Happy Birthday song in the pubs, but lawyers have started going around telling us we can't. So the pubs make up new birthday songs, it's hardly a big deal. The birthday person doesn't care that its not the song they grew up with, because that's not what's important. The song doesn't matter; that a song is sung for someone by people who care about them matters. That is what lasts, that is the true culture, no law can steal it.
I'm GLAD copyright is holding back McCartney from saturating the planet further. Imagine hearing Love Me Do everywhere you go. Imagine hearing it in the men's room. No thanks.
I was playing my favorite online thriller when all of a sudden I saw something I had never seen before. At once about half the players decided they needed to leave their mark on it first. We all made a mad rush, bringing the server to its knees. When the dust had cleared I found I had achieved frist psot and the rest had to settle for throwaway remarks regarding hot grits. As you can tell, it utterly failed to change my life, but was still deeply satisfying.
You might be surprised to discover that there is already support for a boycott against RIAA and MPAA among "inside-the-box thinkers". Many of the fundamentalist Christians I grew up with refused to have a television in their home. The movie theatres had to close early on Sunday because there wasn't enough business to keep them open. Ever see the Simpsons episode where Ned Flanders blanked out every TV channel except the weather channel? I know people who do that today.
Believe it or not, Focus on the Family's position (favoring in-movie censor control) is actually a watered-down moderate one in an attempt to foster unity. Most of the fundamentalists I know judge it to be a personal rather than political matter, and go much farther in cutting ties with secular media. How far? To some of us, any Bible that is not the 1611 King James Bible is considered secular media propaganda. Think about that for a while.
The real fundamentalists aren't running the nation, we wouldn't even want to. No, hypocrites are running the nation.
Some Muscovites who buy pirated CDs consider themselves fundamentally Christian. Some Americans who pirate CDs consider themselves fundamentally Christian.
fundamentalism:
1. A usually religious movement or point of view characterized by a return to fundamental principles, by rigid adherence to those principles, and often by intolerance of other views and opposition to secularism.
2.
a. [often Fundamentalism] An organized, militant Evangelical movement originating in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century in opposition to Protestant Liberalism and secularism, insisting on the inerrancy of Scripture.
b. Adherence to the theology of this movement.
3. [according to hb253 and some moderators] someone who ignores the prominent principles of a religion but twists minor principles to support something they personally desire to do, eventually laying aside conscience, allegiance to truth, and the rights of others.
Since no one else has said it, I would like to apologize to you for the harassment you went through. It enrages me that this is still happening and sometimes I fear we will never be rid of it. When you refer to it as "discrimination", a word with an ambivalent connotation, it makes me very sad as it seems akin to Stockholm syndrome. Racism by any name is morally perverse. As it grows it is transforming America into a hypocritical self-mockery. It has gotten so bad that friends I grew up with hold fast to their racist ideals, knowing full well there is no support for them, in order to honor the memory of their racist parents!
I believe that history has shown true reform must first come from the grass-roots and afterward be supported by leaders and government. Well I don't know how to pull that off yet, but please understand that doesn't mean I don't care. Every time I hear about this I cast about for ways to end it. There are a lot of people of all nationalities who feel the way I do, so on their behalf please accept this humble apology.
Jane needs to yank the phone cable out of the back of her computer. Her typing is so bad that I just can't tell anymore if that email from her is a worm-generated virus or an annoying forward about Neimann Marcus cookies. Either way, if she wants to send people purity tests and hypothetical glurge about angels, then she needs to use snail mail to do it. Someone tell me why not one of my friends would even consider forwarding me a chain letter by snail mail, but as soon as they connect to the Internet, they turn into complete spam-forwarding morons.
Here's a brief cost-benefit analysis: US letter stamps($0.37), 8-1/2 x 11 envelopes($0.50), paper doilies clip-art angels etc.($0.99@ at Dollar Tree), and all her friends call her to tell her how touched they were by the lovely keepsakes she sent
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AOL account costs $24.99/month and everyone in the whole wired world hates her
Jane isn't a straw man so much as a semi-evolved simian whose mother threw out her Smurf sticker collection before she was ready and she has never recovered.
I'm American born and schooled (where's Europea? just kidding)
I went to a fundamentalist Christian school from kindergarten (5-6 years old) until university. In America, fundamentalist Christians love to salute the flag. But my school stopped pledging the flag daily 23 years ago, and the local public schools stopped at about the same time. They only did it at special assemblies, such as to honor Veteran's Day (a national holiday but the schools remain open.) No federal agents ever came to the school and rousted the headmaster or threatened the teachers, such an idea is laughable.
Nationalism and organized religion are still big deals here in the continental United States. But my wife has taught at several primary and secondary schools and can't remember leading the pledge even once. IMHO this is American politics and religious flag-waving: nothing but a whole lot of posturing. Please kindly look the other way while we embarrass ourselves.
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The story about unsolicited email facing government opposition is currently the most popular story on Yahoo. It has been emailed 326 times-- all of them unsolicited. Got irony?
...the Bureau website, with its editorials against human rights violations, its copy of the Freedom of Information Act, and all its press releases about sticking it to fascist regimes, hasn't a single thing on China.
that it was a near certainty that by the time I was old enough to ask a girl out on a date, the question "would you like a ride in my spaceship" would be greeted not with derision, but with awe. Of course the sad reality is that none of this has come to pass.
The culprit released a statement to the associated press today which read "I freely admit to having downloaded influences for my work in the past. However, I should not be held responsible for the 600 mp3 downloads in question, as they were 600 copies of the Bob Dole Viagara commercial, spammed to my email address which had been farmed from the spyware version of Kazaa. Sincerely, P. Diddy."
I've already gotten a call like this and, yes, they fed me the starving children line. When I declined the caller actually insinuated that (like the Hitler I am) I didn't _want_ to help starving children. "But sir, don't you want to help the children of blah blah blah?" I can't remember what org it was, I get so many of these calls.
CO2 conversion isn't their beef, it's the destruction of plant and animal habitats. It is a matter of scientific record that old-growth forests support life which younger forests generally cannot. As you might expect this is controversial; scientific (and pseudoscientific) studies have been done to support and call into question all aspects of the matter. But to say it is just ideology is to oversimplify in an attempt to dodge the issue. At the World Forestry Center in Portland, Oregon, you can find plenty of facts and views of those facts with which to develop an informed opinion.
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Joe Joachim, who says he wants to be the Walt Disney of the funeral business
I can't imagine the story of my life as told by animated fairy tale characters with a grafted-on pop-culture attitude.
No, wait, I know, he wants to patent the lives of the deceased and hold all rights to them until such time as he figures out to raise them as an army of the Undead.
1. Patent the display of video on a tombstone
2. Write up sales agreements where all video submitted to you for display becomes your property
3. Copyright the home movies of the deceased
4. Hold rights until have army of undead
5. Conquer the world so that money no longer has meaning or value
6. ?
7. Profit!
get computers out of schools completely.
I disagree, I found the computers to be quite useful in my education. It was through daily use of the school computers that I learned all the stepping stones to the trade I practice today. I learned the lay of the keyboard on an Apple II in grade 5. When I was going to be held back because of my poor penmanship (my hands shook), my dad showed me how to use WordStar to type up my homework. It remains my favorite memory of something we did together and profoundly influenced my career. Thank you, Dad. When there were no manual labor jobs for people my age, I walked into the temp agency and discovered that years of banging away at LOGO and Frigate had qualified me for data entry work at 12,000 keystrokes per hour. Without that work I wouldn't have made it to college. The availability of Internet technology at the university I chose not only allowed me to hone practical job skills but also allowed me to round out my education by exposing me to errors in the history books I had to read in high school. As a sysadmin I make twice as much as my wife... a high school teacher with a Masters degree.
Most of the great educators in my life coped by finding the few kids who really wanted to learn their subject and mentoring them personally after class, opening their homes to them. The other kids got the bare minimum which was exactly what they wanted anyway. Stop demanding success from people who want to fail anyway and invest all you have in the ones who care. You might save their lives.
I'm off to write to my MP.
Yeah, good luck with that.
These media cartels have stolen our public domain and culture, and are renting it back to us in perpetuity.
Your culture is the Beatles? THAT should infuriate you. I bet you get ticked off when someone roots through your garbage cans too.
Consider the recent Torah article. The rabbis don't lie awake at night worrying that someone will run the scroll through a photocopier and start selling copies on the street at $5 apiece. As a touchstone of culture, the Torah stands on its own. It doesn't need copyright to prop it up. Copyright creates a false scarcity in order to inflate the value of items of small worth. Why mess around with items of small worth?
Consider the Happy Birthday song (do they have that song over there?) Have you ever sung it without paying the royalty? I seriously doubt a bobbie conked you over the head and drug you off to prison. Here in the U.S. we like to sing this Happy Birthday song in the pubs, but lawyers have started going around telling us we can't. So the pubs make up new birthday songs, it's hardly a big deal. The birthday person doesn't care that its not the song they grew up with, because that's not what's important. The song doesn't matter; that a song is sung for someone by people who care about them matters. That is what lasts, that is the true culture, no law can steal it.
I'm GLAD copyright is holding back McCartney from saturating the planet further. Imagine hearing Love Me Do everywhere you go. Imagine hearing it in the men's room. No thanks.
I was playing my favorite online thriller when all of a sudden I saw something I had never seen before. At once about half the players decided they needed to leave their mark on it first. We all made a mad rush, bringing the server to its knees. When the dust had cleared I found I had achieved frist psot and the rest had to settle for throwaway remarks regarding hot grits. As you can tell, it utterly failed to change my life, but was still deeply satisfying.
You might be surprised to discover that there is already support for a boycott against RIAA and MPAA among "inside-the-box thinkers". Many of the fundamentalist Christians I grew up with refused to have a television in their home. The movie theatres had to close early on Sunday because there wasn't enough business to keep them open. Ever see the Simpsons episode where Ned Flanders blanked out every TV channel except the weather channel? I know people who do that today.
Believe it or not, Focus on the Family's position (favoring in-movie censor control) is actually a watered-down moderate one in an attempt to foster unity. Most of the fundamentalists I know judge it to be a personal rather than political matter, and go much farther in cutting ties with secular media. How far? To some of us, any Bible that is not the 1611 King James Bible is considered secular media propaganda. Think about that for a while.
The real fundamentalists aren't running the nation, we wouldn't even want to. No, hypocrites are running the nation.
Thank you for risking your life for our country. I thought of you and your comrades often on November 11th and wish you success now that you are home.
Some Muscovites who buy pirated CDs consider themselves fundamentally Christian. Some Americans who pirate CDs consider themselves fundamentally Christian.
fundamentalism:
1. A usually religious movement or point of view characterized by a return to fundamental principles, by rigid adherence to those principles, and often by intolerance of other views and opposition to secularism.
2.
a. [often Fundamentalism] An organized, militant Evangelical movement originating in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century in opposition to Protestant Liberalism and secularism, insisting on the inerrancy of Scripture.
b. Adherence to the theology of this movement.
3. [according to hb253 and some moderators] someone who ignores the prominent principles of a religion but twists minor principles to support something they personally desire to do, eventually laying aside conscience, allegiance to truth, and the rights of others.
Since no one else has said it, I would like to apologize to you for the harassment you went through. It enrages me that this is still happening and sometimes I fear we will never be rid of it. When you refer to it as "discrimination", a word with an ambivalent connotation, it makes me very sad as it seems akin to Stockholm syndrome. Racism by any name is morally perverse. As it grows it is transforming America into a hypocritical self-mockery. It has gotten so bad that friends I grew up with hold fast to their racist ideals, knowing full well there is no support for them, in order to honor the memory of their racist parents!
I believe that history has shown true reform must first come from the grass-roots and afterward be supported by leaders and government. Well I don't know how to pull that off yet, but please understand that doesn't mean I don't care. Every time I hear about this I cast about for ways to end it. There are a lot of people of all nationalities who feel the way I do, so on their behalf please accept this humble apology.
Jane needs to yank the phone cable out of the back of her computer. Her typing is so bad that I just can't tell anymore if that email from her is a worm-generated virus or an annoying forward about Neimann Marcus cookies. Either way, if she wants to send people purity tests and hypothetical glurge about angels, then she needs to use snail mail to do it. Someone tell me why not one of my friends would even consider forwarding me a chain letter by snail mail, but as soon as they connect to the Internet, they turn into complete spam-forwarding morons.
Here's a brief cost-benefit analysis:
US letter stamps($0.37), 8-1/2 x 11 envelopes($0.50), paper doilies clip-art angels etc.($0.99@ at Dollar Tree), and all her friends call her to tell her how touched they were by the lovely keepsakes she sent
vs
AOL account costs $24.99/month and everyone in the whole wired world hates her
Jane isn't a straw man so much as a semi-evolved simian whose mother threw out her Smurf sticker collection before she was ready and she has never recovered.
after closer inspection revealed it to be a digital cubic zirconia.
I'm American born and schooled (where's Europea? just kidding)
I went to a fundamentalist Christian school from kindergarten (5-6 years old) until university. In America, fundamentalist Christians love to salute the flag. But my school stopped pledging the flag daily 23 years ago, and the local public schools stopped at about the same time. They only did it at special assemblies, such as to honor Veteran's Day (a national holiday but the schools remain open.) No federal agents ever came to the school and rousted the headmaster or threatened the teachers, such an idea is laughable.
Nationalism and organized religion are still big deals here in the continental United States. But my wife has taught at several primary and secondary schools and can't remember leading the pledge even once. IMHO this is American politics and religious flag-waving: nothing but a whole lot of posturing. Please kindly look the other way while we embarrass ourselves.
The story about unsolicited email facing government opposition is currently the most popular story on Yahoo. It has been emailed 326 times-- all of them unsolicited. Got irony?
joe_6pak: who r u voting 4?
L33T_1: only l00zers vote
L33T_1: got the results a month early off Kazaa
joe_6pak: who 1?
L33T_1: R2D2
I couldn't belive it, but Agent Smith is Neos FATHER!
Then they kill him and some furballs dance around. It Rocked!
Name your own price for songs. I wonder which tunes would command the highest prices?
New Scientist also has the latest.
...the Bureau website, with its editorials against human rights violations, its copy of the Freedom of Information Act, and all its press releases about sticking it to fascist regimes, hasn't a single thing on China.
It's like an executive summary of all the above links.
that it was a near certainty that by the time I was old enough to ask a girl out on a date, the question "would you like a ride in my spaceship" would be greeted not with derision, but with awe. Of course the sad reality is that none of this has come to pass.
Girls, dates, what was I smoking back then?
With all the pr0n I surf, most of my blood goes straight to my nose and nether regions.
The culprit released a statement to the associated press today which read "I freely admit to having downloaded influences for my work in the past. However, I should not be held responsible for the 600 mp3 downloads in question, as they were 600 copies of the Bob Dole Viagara commercial, spammed to my email address which had been farmed from the spyware version of Kazaa. Sincerely, P. Diddy."
I've already gotten a call like this and, yes, they fed me the starving children line. When I declined the caller actually insinuated that (like the Hitler I am) I didn't _want_ to help starving children. "But sir, don't you want to help the children of blah blah blah?" I can't remember what org it was, I get so many of these calls.
CO2 conversion isn't their beef, it's the destruction of plant and animal habitats. It is a matter of scientific record that old-growth forests support life which younger forests generally cannot. As you might expect this is controversial; scientific (and pseudoscientific) studies have been done to support and call into question all aspects of the matter. But to say it is just ideology is to oversimplify in an attempt to dodge the issue. At the World Forestry Center in Portland, Oregon, you can find plenty of facts and views of those facts with which to develop an informed opinion.
Where's my goatse link? I was promised goatse.cx!
Can you put it on Gnutella?