By the by - I checked out your P:5Y lemming movie. I get where you're going with this and although I respect it and your right to believe what you may, short of Jesus H. Christ coming down from heaven in a sparkly cloud of gumdrops, there's no freakin' way I'm ever going to hand over my.303 and run right off to a voting booth hoping to effect miraculous, invisible "change" topped with whipped cream and a cherry.
But good luck with that and I hope you can prove all of us cynical bastards wrong! We certainly haven't heard that song and dance before!
The GP was advocating revolution in the US, which is a bad idea. My point was that if you have enough power to start a revolution, you will have enough power to elect a president.
I'm no longer sure that "revolution in the US" is such a bad idea; if those that stay in power will not release it to the people, what choice do we have? Peacefully asking "please" a billion times? Ya. Not so sure that would work. Pretty sure those at the front of that crowd with the long hair and flowers will get jack-booted right in the face. Additionally: WHO SAYS WE NEED A PRESIDENT? How about a three party commitee? A Mother Superior? Or a Chief Big Wumpum? ANYTHING other than an EXECUTIVE in charge of The United States of America, Inc.(TM) would be nice.
That's good, you know history, so you should know why a non-bloody change of government would be much better than a bloody one.
No, honestly, I don't. Again with American History. Careful - that link is a pretty long historically accurate list of YOUR (and my) government spreading "peace" throughout the world.
So you're a conspiracy theorist. Now I have to ask you.....who is they? Can you pleeeease say, "The truth is out there" with a straight face? Cool, thanks. Who is it? Is it the illuminati? The Jewish Cabal? Who is your preferred conspiracy group? Who is this 'they' that is trying to keep people from getting together in large numbers?
I am no "conspiracy theorist", but I am very concerned about the lack of transparency in my own government and the open abuse of the power I have only one real choice (at this juncture in "history") to endow it with: by "voting my conscience". I really don't like the fog of "terrorist" paranoia my country is living under right now; it's much worse than I can remember when there was a so-called "communist threat"; not much of which, it turns out, was in any way real, hurt multitudes of innocent, good people and only served to strengthen and prop up the abuses of power that came after (Nixon, Iran Contra, Nicaragua, Saddam Hussein, etc).
A lot of people have the problem that they haven't really studied history, so they don't know what a revolution looks like
Well, I have studied history. I know what a revolution looks like; it's ugly. People get killed. Good, innocent, just-minding-their-own business people. It's only the ones who stay informed and choose a side who have any chance of effecting a worthwhile change and even then, only because they've made a conscious decision to stand up, fight and often die for what is right. And most of those, unless you've taken a long walk through Arlington, you'll never even hear about.
I love this country. I love the Ideal of this country. My father, uncles, brothers, cousins, friends have fought and died for you to have the right to nitpick someone on this board's ability to intelligently add to the conversation. And if the time ever comes that as a civilian I have to stand up and fight and die for your right to continue to do that because AMERICA NEEDS TO REBOOT then I'll do that. I think that's what it means - as a Student of History - to be an American.
The bottom line is that national security has become such an all-consuming goal for our government precisely because these intangible social factors point to this country being in a period of extreme suseptibility to losing control of its population, hence the aggressive need for suppression of free speech, excessive demands for secrecy, and the sudden and rapid reduction of civil liberties. They're trying to keep people from getting together in any large numbers and getting the idea in their head that now is the time for change and something spontanious develops and rips the guts out of the institution.
Forgive me, but that was so brilliant it just needed repeating.
Boxed Ubuntu sets on the shelves at Walmart by this summer? OEMs-a-plenty? Hey, at least someone is finally making excellent games we can finally buy! I mean, how much longer are we going to have to word-of-mouth this OS before it finally has a life (as in: IRL) of it's own?
Seems as though Riddick Geo III hasn't had the greatest luck in court. Despite his voriferous abilities to bully, harass and cajole, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia replied in it's March 21, 2003 decision of Xoom v. Imageline that, "The district court found that Imageline had no basis for litigating claims of infringement with respect to the individual images because, as registered, the copyright claims were only in the works as a whole and not in the individual images".
This being a referential case, there's no reason the websites under attack by him shouldn't just take him to task and toss this little gem in his face; he'd be hard put to claim "thousands of copyrights" on every digital image in his collection - and most likely provenance could be shown otherwise under closer examination. Additionally, he's only adding fuel to the flames brewing over the copyright bruhahau (of course, we're all anti-private-property-lovin'-commies here at/.)
A. Not a party crasher. And my point was: what you do out in the open is FAIR GAME for me (or anyone else) to point at. I wouldn't think of barging into a Private Gathering; I'm not Social Barbarian.
B. Ran a Wildcat BBS in 1986 and shunted email packets: been on the 'net a while, Jr., so I get the rules whether I've "membered-up" at/. or not.
C. Don't badmouth my Granny, she's been dead a while and was a fine, Christian lady.
That may well be true. Truer still is the fact that just because there is a law against something does not protect you from it happening. For instance, just because there are laws against you getting mugged, raped, murdered or burglarized will not protect you from them happening. They may or may not afford you some justice after the fact. Hell, they may even deter some people from committing them in the first place. Nevertheless, they won't stop bad stuff from happening.
Again: if you want something you own protected - PROTECT IT. If you leave something out in the open, expect somebody to notice it and at the very least, point at it.
Pointing, last time I checked anyway, hadn't been legislated into the dark ages.
Basically: if it's there and it's out in the open it amounts to the same thing as you dropping trou in the middle of a busy sidewalk and someone pointing a finger at your bare ass.
And you got NO ONE to blame for that but yourself, buddy.
If you want to own it, protect it; if you don't want to share it, don't make it accessible. Linking, hypertext has been around since DAY EFFIN' ONE of the internet and is built INTO it. The judge in this case was no better than a luddite, backwoods dipwad with no concept or understanding of that and bullied the defendant into submission.
We nerds don't take kindly to bullies around here...
Heh...good one...
Oh, by the way, M$ was Mr. Sparkles 3rd largest campaign contributer. Put that in your bubble pipe and smoke it while you watch the next 4 years pan out.
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By the by - I checked out your P:5Y lemming movie. I get where you're going with this and although I respect it and your right to believe what you may, short of Jesus H. Christ coming down from heaven in a sparkly cloud of gumdrops, there's no freakin' way I'm ever going to hand over my .303 and run right off to a voting booth hoping to effect miraculous, invisible "change" topped with whipped cream and a cherry.
But good luck with that and I hope you can prove all of us cynical bastards wrong! We certainly haven't heard that song and dance before!
The GP was advocating revolution in the US, which is a bad idea. My point was that if you have enough power to start a revolution, you will have enough power to elect a president.
I'm no longer sure that "revolution in the US" is such a bad idea; if those that stay in power will not release it to the people, what choice do we have? Peacefully asking "please" a billion times? Ya. Not so sure that would work. Pretty sure those at the front of that crowd with the long hair and flowers will get jack-booted right in the face. Additionally: WHO SAYS WE NEED A PRESIDENT? How about a three party commitee? A Mother Superior? Or a Chief Big Wumpum? ANYTHING other than an EXECUTIVE in charge of The United States of America, Inc.(TM) would be nice.
That's good, you know history, so you should know why a non-bloody change of government would be much better than a bloody one.
No, honestly, I don't. Again with American History. Careful - that link is a pretty long historically accurate list of YOUR (and my) government spreading "peace" throughout the world.
So you're a conspiracy theorist. Now I have to ask you.....who is they? Can you pleeeease say, "The truth is out there" with a straight face? Cool, thanks. Who is it? Is it the illuminati? The Jewish Cabal? Who is your preferred conspiracy group? Who is this 'they' that is trying to keep people from getting together in large numbers?
I am no "conspiracy theorist", but I am very concerned about the lack of transparency in my own government and the open abuse of the power I have only one real choice (at this juncture in "history") to endow it with: by "voting my conscience". I really don't like the fog of "terrorist" paranoia my country is living under right now; it's much worse than I can remember when there was a so-called "communist threat"; not much of which, it turns out, was in any way real, hurt multitudes of innocent, good people and only served to strengthen and prop up the abuses of power that came after (Nixon, Iran Contra, Nicaragua, Saddam Hussein, etc).
A lot of people have the problem that they haven't really studied history, so they don't know what a revolution looks like
Well, I have studied history. I know what a revolution looks like; it's ugly. People get killed. Good, innocent, just-minding-their-own business people. It's only the ones who stay informed and choose a side who have any chance of effecting a worthwhile change and even then, only because they've made a conscious decision to stand up, fight and often die for what is right. And most of those, unless you've taken a long walk through Arlington, you'll never even hear about.
I love this country. I love the Ideal of this country. My father, uncles, brothers, cousins, friends have fought and died for you to have the right to nitpick someone on this board's ability to intelligently add to the conversation. And if the time ever comes that as a civilian I have to stand up and fight and die for your right to continue to do that because AMERICA NEEDS TO REBOOT then I'll do that. I think that's what it means - as a Student of History - to be an American.
The bottom line is that national security has become such an all-consuming goal for our government precisely because these intangible social factors point to this country being in a period of extreme suseptibility to losing control of its population, hence the aggressive need for suppression of free speech, excessive demands for secrecy, and the sudden and rapid reduction of civil liberties. They're trying to keep people from getting together in any large numbers and getting the idea in their head that now is the time for change and something spontanious develops and rips the guts out of the institution.
Forgive me, but that was so brilliant it just needed repeating.
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Heathen. Oh wait, I use Folgers in my french press...
Y'know, I looked ALL OVER the M$ website and couldn't find one copy of IE that worked with linux! Whatever am I to do now???
Boxed Ubuntu sets on the shelves at Walmart by this summer? OEMs-a-plenty? Hey, at least someone is finally making excellent games we can finally buy! I mean, how much longer are we going to have to word-of-mouth this OS before it finally has a life (as in: IRL) of it's own?
Ah! As it turns out, Riddick Geo III has infringed upon the copyrights of other people! The Sydney Opera House for one. Further down this blog there's a pic of Geo III himself so you'll know the demonic aspect that is the Riddick if you happen to see it coming at you through the dark and dangerous tubes in your neck of the big, bad ©'ed and ®'ed world.
Seems as though Riddick Geo III hasn't had the greatest luck in court. Despite his voriferous abilities to bully, harass and cajole, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia replied in it's March 21, 2003 decision of Xoom v. Imageline that, "The district court found that Imageline had no basis for litigating claims of infringement with respect to the individual images because, as registered, the copyright claims were only in the works as a whole and not in the individual images".
/.)
This being a referential case, there's no reason the websites under attack by him shouldn't just take him to task and toss this little gem in his face; he'd be hard put to claim "thousands of copyrights" on every digital image in his collection - and most likely provenance could be shown otherwise under closer examination. Additionally, he's only adding fuel to the flames brewing over the copyright bruhahau (of course, we're all anti-private-property-lovin'-commies here at
"We mean business. We hate digital pirates. We hate hypocrites even more. We never walk away from a case until a resolution in agreed to, or forced through curt order, in writing. We never will." Curt Order, indeed: clean your own house, Georgie, before you decide to bitchslap someone else in their own.
Yep. It takes one to know one...
A. Not a party crasher. And my point was: what you do out in the open is FAIR GAME for me (or anyone else) to point at. I wouldn't think of barging into a Private Gathering ; I'm not Social Barbarian.
/. or not.
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B. Ran a Wildcat BBS in 1986 and shunted email packets: been on the 'net a while, Jr., so I get the rules whether I've "membered-up" at
C. Don't badmouth my Granny, she's been dead a while and was a fine, Christian lady.
D. I'll Link to whatever the hell I want to.
E. That was pretty lame troll baiting for a
That may well be true. Truer still is the fact that just because there is a law against something does not protect you from it happening. For instance, just because there are laws against you getting mugged, raped, murdered or burglarized will not protect you from them happening. They may or may not afford you some justice after the fact. Hell, they may even deter some people from committing them in the first place. Nevertheless, they won't stop bad stuff from happening.
Again: if you want something you own protected - PROTECT IT. If you leave something out in the open, expect somebody to notice it and at the very least, point at it.
Pointing, last time I checked anyway, hadn't been legislated into the dark ages.
Basically: if it's there and it's out in the open it amounts to the same thing as you dropping trou in the middle of a busy sidewalk and someone pointing a finger at your bare ass. And you got NO ONE to blame for that but yourself, buddy. If you want to own it, protect it; if you don't want to share it, don't make it accessible. Linking, hypertext has been around since DAY EFFIN' ONE of the internet and is built INTO it. The judge in this case was no better than a luddite, backwoods dipwad with no concept or understanding of that and bullied the defendant into submission. We nerds don't take kindly to bullies around here...
Yep, picking up the FUD campaign again. Maybe due to this?: M$ New PR Guy.
Heh...good one... Oh, by the way, M$ was Mr. Sparkles 3rd largest campaign contributer. Put that in your bubble pipe and smoke it while you watch the next 4 years pan out.