Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, there's a lot of places, that are less fucked up than the US right now.
The sad thing is I am a veteran, I helped fight for this country. And in the last 6 years, I have seen every constitutional amendment get trashed by this group of criminals in the whitehouse, I've watch them spew the corruption over into every fucking branch of government, and when that wasn't enough, the created NEW branches!
So fuck all that. There are places to go. My family, is quite a few generations, DAR, even a president is in my bloodline, and I joined the service for patriotic reasons, but I don't see a way out anymore, until these fucking electronic voting machines are squashed under a heavy fucking squasher. You can't count, what you can't see. "We the people" have been raped. It's only going to get worse. Take nafta, and gat, and the other new shit legislation. Yet you CAN NOT buy drugs from Canada? wtf? you should hit your fucking local rep's every day bitching about that. But then there are other things you should be bitching about too.
i use both linux and microsoft, they're not the only two, i use fbsd and many other os's including apple.
this will make everything more expensive.
in one way it's a war on everyone.
and in a strange way it's war profiteering.
in another way it's like throwing the native americans off their land, or inking a deal with them then coming back later and taking their land (using deadly force) and storing nuclear waste on it.
i don't care what the patents are, as long as a.) my bsd servers stay up and keep serving web pages b.) my xp can still produce videos (no linux you don't have that down yet) c.) my G4 can record music live in the field and edit video, and dump the xlr cameras and burn to a disk d.) my linux can ssh into all these boxes to patch and maintain them all, read and filter my email and test out the latest CVS.
vista is a miserable failure. ask anyone that works with audio. that is not our fault, it's microsoft's fault. so instead of making an os that has a purpose, they make an os that's only purpose is to profit, and since they can't profit off that, they want to destroy everything by hitting that red nuclear launch button. but first they have to stick a monkey wrench in the gears to create a reason. microsoft does not care about patents. they care about profit.
as far as congress and the courts go, you know they are all owned by this current administration and they don't care what us little people say, or vote for (you can't vote anyway if you have those new fangled electronic voting machines. )
it would be nice of my low icq number came back one day, iirc is was back in 1996 on a windows nt 3.51 box, then people started getting hacked, so by 1997 i wasn't using it, i used irc instead, then in 2006, i decided to try it again using linux, and i find that i can not logon anymore, so i try it in the mirables official client and find i can't logon anymore. i have lost my original email account finally in 2007 (spam ridden after 10 years of web presence, so i finally deleted it.) what's in a number? why should i care? because i did have some friends (contacts) that i made way back, and they are now lost forever.
i hate to ask, but how can a streaming video or audio be considered a "broadcast?" and if you tell people to "not think for themselves" and go out and tell congress to amend this this way, you would end up with the fcc (bush appointees) controlling webcasters, and i don't see how the fuck that can be a good thing (tm)
i ain't saying you ain't got the right idea. but if your gonna amend the fucking thing amend it right.
are you sure that soundexchange did this?
i know city leaders (sic) that have shut down the electronics in small coffee shops, because of safety, and noise issues. (or so they said) the truth is they don't want "all ages free entertainment downtown." not once have i ever seen riaa in a local fucking venue. i ain't defending them here, just saying. if you seen that you should take photo of them, or video of them, that's fucking news bud.
that still doesn't address the constitutionality of what sound exchange is doing or apparently doing to the individual musician, or band.
where is the RIAA mentioned? Where is RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange? im sorry i don't see it. i don't see where this makes any argument from the musician's point of view such as:
"Are you saying that if I don't pay the RIAA the royalty rate to broadcast MY OWN SONGS that is illegal? So I have to pay a fee to, say, air my views on Bush?
" As a fan of Internet radio, I was alarmed to learn that the Copyright Royalty Board has decided to raise music royalty rates by 300 to 1200 percent. For most webcasters the new royalties exceed their revenue and they simply will go bankrupt and stop webcasting.
The silencing of Internet radio would be a blow to listeners like me who enjoy the wide variety of choices only available via Internet radio. This will kill the great diversity of music that I hear over the Internet and all the independent artists who have a difficult time breaking through on other forms of radio.
I respectfully request that Congress look into this matter and take action to prevent it. Please understand that time is of the essence since the new royalty rates are retroactive to January 1, 2006 so they will cause immediate bankruptcies if they become effective for even one day. Please don't let the music die. "
then what's up with that date? 2006? it's already happened. the only thing i see this saying is that webstreamers are paying 300-1200% too much. i don't see a fucking thing about soundexchange or the riaa.
this is exactly what is wrong with these automated email systems. the language is so diluted that the senator writes diluted crap that doesn't ever address the whole issue, or the core issue (theft of non-label/riaa music) at all. i bet the senators don't even know what the fuck is wrong here.
you can do a lot better than "daily kos's version" of this infuriating topic.
do these people even read the text in these fucking email campaigns? i wouldn't sign that shit. i'd re-write the whole thing from scratch and look up my own representatives. but then there's a lot of lazy motherfuckers out there lately.
just look at the electronic voting machine situation. and the shitty bills and watered down fucking crap proposed. even the current holt bill 811 is fucked right now. does anyone give a shit about anything anymore, you people are going to be so fucked by this. some of us already are fucked by this. i guess in the big scheme it won't matter, because you won't matter.
you got to ask yourself what the fuck is wrong with the youth believing so called leaders that this shit is secure. you got to ask yourself how accurate is the poll they did. you got to ask yourself how are you going to validate an electronic "0" (low dc voltage) and an electronic "1" (high dc voltage) when humans can not physically see electricity in the first place. oh yeah, that's right cause i said so, so it must be. well fuck it, if this poll is true, which i doubt, then fuck you all, you do not deserve civil rights, or control of anything you fucking retards. you can have a nuclear holocaust after some psycho cracks your central tabulator, you can eat shit when your sick and you can go fuck yourself when your drafted into this bullshit oil war. but i wouldn't expect the uk to get it. the us don't get it because the media is corporate, so sell your fucking souls for the corporate bullshit and reap what you sow.
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Hex edit the bastard. Save file. Done.
I wonder if the bogon list space is considered?
"the drive costs about $18,000" to take a saying from David Letterman, "WHAT?!" "WHAT!?"
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, there's a lot of places, that are less fucked up than the US right now.
The sad thing is I am a veteran, I helped fight for this country. And in the last 6 years, I have seen every constitutional amendment get trashed by this group of criminals in the whitehouse, I've watch them spew the corruption over into every fucking branch of government, and when that wasn't enough, the created NEW branches!
So fuck all that. There are places to go.
My family, is quite a few generations, DAR, even a president is in my bloodline, and I joined the service for patriotic reasons, but I don't see a way out anymore, until these fucking electronic voting machines are squashed under a heavy fucking squasher. You can't count, what you can't see. "We the people" have been raped. It's only going to get worse. Take nafta, and gat, and the other new shit legislation. Yet you CAN NOT buy drugs from Canada? wtf? you should hit your fucking local rep's every day bitching about that. But then there are other things you should be bitching about too.
Bottom line is you HAVE LOST YOUR RIGHT to vote.
i use both linux and microsoft, they're not the only two, i use fbsd and many other os's including apple. this will make everything more expensive. in one way it's a war on everyone. and in a strange way it's war profiteering. in another way it's like throwing the native americans off their land, or inking a deal with them then coming back later and taking their land (using deadly force) and storing nuclear waste on it. i don't care what the patents are, as long as a.) my bsd servers stay up and keep serving web pages b.) my xp can still produce videos (no linux you don't have that down yet) c.) my G4 can record music live in the field and edit video, and dump the xlr cameras and burn to a disk d.) my linux can ssh into all these boxes to patch and maintain them all, read and filter my email and test out the latest CVS. vista is a miserable failure. ask anyone that works with audio. that is not our fault, it's microsoft's fault. so instead of making an os that has a purpose, they make an os that's only purpose is to profit, and since they can't profit off that, they want to destroy everything by hitting that red nuclear launch button. but first they have to stick a monkey wrench in the gears to create a reason. microsoft does not care about patents. they care about profit. as far as congress and the courts go, you know they are all owned by this current administration and they don't care what us little people say, or vote for (you can't vote anyway if you have those new fangled electronic voting machines. )
it would be nice of my low icq number came back one day, iirc is was back in 1996 on a windows nt 3.51 box, then people started getting hacked, so by 1997 i wasn't using it, i used irc instead, then in 2006, i decided to try it again using linux, and i find that i can not logon anymore, so i try it in the mirables official client and find i can't logon anymore. i have lost my original email account finally in 2007 (spam ridden after 10 years of web presence, so i finally deleted it.) what's in a number? why should i care? because i did have some friends (contacts) that i made way back, and they are now lost forever.
i hate to ask, but how can a streaming video or audio be considered a "broadcast?" and if you tell people to "not think for themselves" and go out and tell congress to amend this this way, you would end up with the fcc (bush appointees) controlling webcasters, and i don't see how the fuck that can be a good thing (tm) i ain't saying you ain't got the right idea. but if your gonna amend the fucking thing amend it right.
are you sure that soundexchange did this?
i know city leaders (sic) that have shut down the electronics in small coffee shops, because of safety, and noise issues. (or so they said) the truth is they don't want "all ages free entertainment downtown." not once have i ever seen riaa in a local fucking venue. i ain't defending them here, just saying. if you seen that you should take photo of them, or video of them, that's fucking news bud. that still doesn't address the constitutionality of what sound exchange is doing or apparently doing to the individual musician, or band.
where is the RIAA mentioned? Where is RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange?
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im sorry i don't see it. i don't see where this makes any argument from the musician's point of view such as:
"Are you saying that if I don't pay the RIAA the royalty rate to broadcast MY OWN SONGS that is illegal? So I have to pay a fee to, say, air my views on Bush?
How can this be Constitutional?"
look for yourself at the CapWiz "Contact your Congress" link
http://www3.capwiz.com/saveinternetradio/issues/a
" As a fan of Internet radio, I was alarmed to learn that the Copyright Royalty Board has decided to raise music royalty rates by 300 to 1200 percent. For most webcasters the new royalties exceed their revenue and they simply will go bankrupt and stop webcasting.
The silencing of Internet radio would be a blow to listeners like me who enjoy the wide variety of choices only available via Internet radio. This will kill the great diversity of music that I hear over the Internet and all the independent artists who have a difficult time breaking through on other forms of radio.
I respectfully request that Congress look into this matter and take action to prevent it. Please understand that time is of the essence since the new royalty rates are retroactive to January 1, 2006 so they will cause immediate bankruptcies if they become effective for even one day. Please don't let the music die. "
then what's up with that date? 2006? it's already happened.
the only thing i see this saying is that webstreamers are paying 300-1200% too much. i don't see a fucking thing about soundexchange or the riaa.
this is exactly what is wrong with these automated email systems. the language is so diluted that the senator writes diluted crap that doesn't ever address the whole issue, or the core issue (theft of non-label/riaa music) at all. i bet the senators don't even know what the fuck is wrong here.
you can do a lot better than "daily kos's version" of this infuriating topic.
do these people even read the text in these fucking email campaigns? i wouldn't sign that shit.
i'd re-write the whole thing from scratch and look up my own representatives. but then there's a lot of lazy motherfuckers out there lately.
just look at the electronic voting machine situation. and the shitty bills and watered down fucking crap proposed. even the current holt bill 811 is fucked right now. does anyone give a shit about anything anymore, you people are going to be so fucked by this. some of us already are fucked by this. i guess in the big scheme it won't matter, because you won't matter.
you got to ask yourself what the fuck is wrong with the youth believing so called leaders that this shit is secure. you got to ask yourself how accurate is the poll they did. you got to ask yourself how are you going to validate an electronic "0" (low dc voltage) and an electronic "1" (high dc voltage) when humans can not physically see electricity in the first place. oh yeah, that's right cause i said so, so it must be. well fuck it, if this poll is true, which i doubt, then fuck you all, you do not deserve civil rights, or control of anything you fucking retards. you can have a nuclear holocaust after some psycho cracks your central tabulator, you can eat shit when your sick and you can go fuck yourself when your drafted into this bullshit oil war. but i wouldn't expect the uk to get it. the us don't get it because the media is corporate, so sell your fucking souls for the corporate bullshit and reap what you sow.
see you fuckers in burning fucking hell.