Metabolizing oil is probably no better that burning it as far as CO2 released into the air, and global warming seems to be the issue on the minds of most environmentalists, thus it would be far from an environmentalists dream for all the oil reserves of the world to be eaten, uselessly, without the product benefit of the energy stored in the oil.
I'm voting Nader for a lot of reasons but it all sort of boils down to this.
We have a political system that guarantees all our politicians are corrupt liars, because only those politicians that can be methodical about collecting campaign funds for corporations and putting together their special interest portfolios can even compete.
Corporations completely dominate our political system. Gore and Bush are liars.
Nader has proven himself over the last thirty years. He is excruciatingly honest. He has dedicated himself to making this country more safe, just, and good. He has shown himself to be someone involved in public service because he cares, not so he can be a big shot. He is the only candidate worth voting for.
but I haven't heard anybody address the fundamental problem with it: its vulnerability to attack. The best example is advertisers responding to every query with html garbage. But it seems to me that anyone who dislikes the service will do the same.
I hope the banning of napster diminishes. The truth is copyrighting music isn't helping very many of the millions of musicians who play music becuase they have a passion for music. Music copyrights help primarily a small handfull of already rich music industry investors and executives, and a tiny pool of over-hyped, extremely lucky, often mediocre musicians. I firmly believe that musical creativity will surge as a result of the ability to freely trade songs, just as the open source movements explosive growth has been made possible by the internet and its effects on the difficulty of trading code. Unfortunately those with the resources to effect new legistlation to make it legal and simple to trade music are those who have the most to loose. The music industry has many millions of dollars to spend on lobying and increasing the lenghts of copyrights, where as are brilliant societal visionaries like myself tend to have very limited resources. The continued use of napster on campuses will make is much more difficult for the music industry to shut it down. The more widespread, popular and accepted napster is, the more people will understand its incredible benefits. If universities are having banwidth problems its becuase they don't have enough bandwith. As more and more high bandwith applications become important fixtures of our day to day life, bandwith will have to increase. Napster is one of those applications.
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Metabolizing oil is probably no better that burning it as far as CO2 released into the air, and global warming seems to be the issue on the minds of most environmentalists, thus it would be far from an environmentalists dream for all the oil reserves of the world to be eaten, uselessly, without the product benefit of the energy stored in the oil.
I'm voting Nader for a lot of reasons but it all sort of boils down to this. We have a political system that guarantees all our politicians are corrupt liars, because only those politicians that can be methodical about collecting campaign funds for corporations and putting together their special interest portfolios can even compete. Corporations completely dominate our political system. Gore and Bush are liars. Nader has proven himself over the last thirty years. He is excruciatingly honest. He has dedicated himself to making this country more safe, just, and good. He has shown himself to be someone involved in public service because he cares, not so he can be a big shot. He is the only candidate worth voting for.
but I haven't heard anybody address the fundamental problem with it: its vulnerability to attack. The best example is advertisers responding to every query with html garbage. But it seems to me that anyone who dislikes the service will do the same.
I hope the banning of napster diminishes. The truth is copyrighting music isn't helping very many of the millions of musicians who play music becuase they have a passion for music. Music copyrights help primarily a small handfull of already rich music industry investors and executives, and a tiny pool of over-hyped, extremely lucky, often mediocre musicians. I firmly believe that musical creativity will surge as a result of the ability to freely trade songs, just as the open source movements explosive growth has been made possible by the internet and its effects on the difficulty of trading code. Unfortunately those with the resources to effect new legistlation to make it legal and simple to trade music are those who have the most to loose. The music industry has many millions of dollars to spend on lobying and increasing the lenghts of copyrights, where as are brilliant societal visionaries like myself tend to have very limited resources. The continued use of napster on campuses will make is much more difficult for the music industry to shut it down. The more widespread, popular and accepted napster is, the more people will understand its incredible benefits. If universities are having banwidth problems its becuase they don't have enough bandwith. As more and more high bandwith applications become important fixtures of our day to day life, bandwith will have to increase. Napster is one of those applications.