Why are you posting an inflamitory offtopic sig linking to an anti-Semitic
website which openly supports terrorism?
And just to point out the bias here, Israel get's $2.5 billion (1.5
military, 1 civilian) a year in aid from the USA (the site you link to doesn't
even get the basic numbers correct), while Egypt gets $2 billion a year in
military aid. People are starving in the streets in Egypt, but the
country refuses to convert even $1.00 of that military aid to civilian aid.
And of course there's Jordan which averaged $284 million per year over
the past 5 years and will go up to $300 million next year, which put together
with what Egypt get's is almost identical to what Israel gets.
And of course there is indirect aid to the Saudis. Ten's of thousands
of American soldiers protect the biggest supporter of terrorism and bin-laden
in the world. If you want to bitch about something bitch about the
fact that the state department coddles and protects a government which directly
(if "secretly") supported and still supports the people responsible for the
Twin Towers bombing.
Disclaimer: I'm an American Israel Jew. I also happen to oppose US aid to Israel, but for real reasons, not bullshit anti-Semitic ones.
This all reminds me of the situation here in Israel a few years ago. Prior to '97 Bezeq, a government owned telco, had a monopoly on all communications. Calls to the USA cost $1.50 a minute and we were charged absurdly high local and inter-city call rates. Calling Tel-Aviv from Jerusalem was something like $0.40 per minute. Then the Netanyahu government introduced two new privately held companies in the international calling market. Over night prices for calling the USA dropped to $0.20 a minute. There was a period of about a month when it was cheaper to call the USA than to call inside the country! In addition we now have cheap local and inter-city calls throughout the county ($0.025 during the day and $0.005 at night), since Bezeq is scared shitless of having competition introduced in the local call market as well.
Just goes to show that a properly regulated free market is best! And of course that a poorly regulated free market, like in Panama and a lot of other places, is worse than a government owned monopoly.
12. Is Rhapsody available outside the U.S.?
Due to licensing restrictions, Rhapsody's on-demand music subscription service is available to U.S. residents only. However, anyone, regardless of his or her geographic location, can take advantage of our free radio stations, which feature professionally programmed stations. We are working on expanding our subscription service outside of the U.S. in the future.
Take for example someone trying to write an article pointing out some negative aspects of all the aid money we send to Israel. I'm not leaning one way or the other, but clearly, according to our media big dogs, Israel can do no wrong, so any article like that would be slapped as "anti-Semite" right away, and the newspaper labeled as some backwards commie tabloid. Just an example of what I see as the true limitation of our freedom of press here in the U.S...
That has got to be the most absurd thing I've ever heard. I get so sick of the, "the Jews control the media", bullshit. The vast majority of the big media is either slanted against Israel or almost outright anti-Israel. Take CNN for example. Ted Turner called Israelis terrorists equal to or worse than the suicide bombers, and CNN coverage of what goes on here in Israel is consistantly anti-Israel. And it's the same with AP stories. Just go and count how many times you see the phrase "Traditionally Arab East Jerusalem" in stories that mention Jerusalem. Geuss what? There's no such thing! It's an Arab propaganda myth! But you see it in the western media all the time as if it was some kind of historical fact. What about West Bank? Ever heard of Judea and Sameria? That's the proper name. West Bank was made up by King Hussien in the 50's or 60's, i.e. "that area has no importance, it's just the west bank of the Jordan river." Another example, Palestinian. What is that? It's a derogatory name that Arabs called Jews back before the Arab countries decided to appropriate it as part of their war against Israel and the Jews. I can go on and on, but the point is that the Arab states have been incredibly successful in their propaganda war against Israel, with the help of big international media corporations, who simply value the bussiness of 1 billion Muslims more than the bussiness of 14 million Jews.
Claiming media bias in favor of Israel is patently absurd.
By RYAN DEZEMBER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET
JOURNAL
WASHINGTON -- Several Supreme Court justices raised concerns about
whether overturning a 1998 copyright-extension law would make a mess of the
full body of copyright law.
The high court heard arguments in a case involving a law extending
copyrights by 20 years to 70 years after the author's death, and to a total
of 95 years for corporate works. At stake is how long the rights to such
valuable properties as Mickey Mouse and The Great Gatsby, will continue
to enrich their owners.
Archivists, libraries, book companies and others that rely on material
in the public domain are fighting to have the latest 20-year copyright
extension revoked and such future laws banned. Copyright holders, including
AOL Time Warner Inc., said they
need control of their intellectual property to fund future works.
Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford Law School professor who argued against
copyright extensions on behalf of Eric Eldred, an Internet publisher, and
others, said the 20-year extension violated the Constitution's limit on the
duration of copyright protection. Under questioning from the justices, Mr.
Lessig said if the court accepted his argument against the 1998 law, then
earlier copyright extensions, including the sweeping 1976 copyright law,
which extended protections beyond the life of authors, also could be
challenged.
That possibility seemed to worry Justice Stephen Breyer and some of his
colleagues. The chaos that would ensue would be horrendous, Justice
Breyer said.
Charles D. Ossola, counsel for the Intellectual Property Owners
Association, which favors the 1998 extension, agreed. Mr. Ossola said after
the oral argument that opening the door to challenges of earlier copyright
law would create almost unimaginable consequences for businesses already
intact.
Copyright law dates back to 1790 when Congress passed the first law
giving authors the exclusive rights to their work for 14 years. The
original constitutional intent of this law was to motivate creative works
by giving exclusive rights for a limited time.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist said the Constitution had little to say
on the matter as it is applied today. What the framers thought is not
applicable to many of today's commerce rules, he said.
(Eldred et al. v. Ashcroft)
Does anyone else here find it ironic that the artical is being run by the British Broadcasting Corporation, and not msnbc/reuters/yahoo etc???
I've seen alot of these, "why isn't the USA media reporting this" type comments, and all I can say is try reading a REAL newspaper, like the Wall Street Journal, which not only has the article but also list a RIAAvsVerizon FAQ
, a PDF of the
Recording Industry Association of America's July 24 motion, and a link to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's
court filings page for the case!
And by the way, if you want quality news coverage, typically you've got to pay for it.
Music Companies Try to Force
Verizon to Identify Subscriber
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Music companies tried to persuade a judge on Friday to let
them obtain names of Internet file-swappers without going to court first, a
move that could dictate how copyright holders deal with Internet piracy in
the future.
Internet service provider Verizon
Communications Inc. is resisting the music industry's subpoena,
saying that it could turn Internet providers into a turnstile for piracy
suits and put innocent customers at risk.
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, who heard the case, lamented
ambiguities in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was enacted to
uphold copyright laws on the Internet while shielding technology companies
from direct liability.
Congress "could have made this statute clearer," Judge Bates said. "This
statute is not organized as being consistent with the argument for either
side." Judge Bates said he would try to rule quickly, but lawyers for both
sides had no guess of when a decision might arrive.
The subpoena hearing, which is normally a tame affair, was contentious
because the music industry sees it as a test case. If it succeeds, it plans
to send reams of cease-and-desist letters to scare file-swappers into
taking their collections offline.
Until now, copyright holders have relied on requests sent to Internet
providers to take action on their own against suspected pirates. Almost all
Internet providers forbid sharing copyrighted material without permission.
But that can take a lot of time, and makes copyright holders reliant on
Internet providers to enforce the law. Internet providers don't always
respond as well or as quickly as music and movie publishers would prefer.
They think individual letters from the maker itself might work better.
"Wouldn't that be a lot easier way to let people know that they are in
fact not anonymous and there could be consequences?" asked Cary Sherman,
the Recording Industry Association of America's general counsel.
Verizon said that since the hundreds of songs up for trade by the
anonymous Verizon customer at the center of the case sit on the person's
computer rather than Verizon's network, it isn't required to automatically
give up the subscriber's name.
"Verizon was a passive conduit at most," said Eric Holder, a former
Justice Department prosecutor who represented Verizon. Mr. Holder said the
music industry's strategy could create a contentious relationship between
Verizon and its customers and put the Internet provider in the position of
handing over names to the music companies without a judicial determination
of piracy. "We also don't want to be the policeman in this process," he
said.
Lawyers for the recording industry rejected Verizon's arguments that it
had little obligations in the process. Industry lawyer Donald Verrilli said
no type of service provider is exempt from having to identify a potential
music pirate, no matter where the songs sit.
Mr. Verrilli also dismissed Verizon's position that its customers have a
right to privacy. "You don't have a First Amendment right to steal
copyright works," he said.
The judge disagreed with Mr. Verrilli's assumption that the works were
stolen. "Here, there's only an allegation of infringement," Judge Bates
said.
Judge Bates gave few hints as to how he might rule. He asked many
detailed questions of both sides. He called some Verizon positions vague,
but showed little patience with other arguments advanced by the music
industry and movie studios, which also argued on behalf of music
publishers.
Through programs like Kazaa, Morpheus and Gnutella, a person can find
virtually any song or movie -- sometimes even before it's released in
stores --- and download it for free. On a typical afternoon, about three
million people are connected on the Kazaa network and sharing more than 500
million files.
What it fails to mention, however, is that airport security has almost nothing to do with this project. It's ALL about building a huge, commercially-mineable information database filled entirely with people who aren't even a little bit of a threat.
Do you really believe that hi-jackers board planes using legit ID that leaves a paper trail right into their DMV records and credit reports? Absurd.
The only people that this system will "catch" are Joe Average and his family. Think of it as a great big grocery-store scan card system disguised as a security precaution.
I have to agree with you about the silliness of this system. Terrorists actively involved in the operational side of things almost never travel with real ID, unless they've got some kind of special situation set up, like the PLO for instance.
For example, after the war, Bosnia gave Bosnian passports to hundreds of mujahadeen that had come to fight for the Muslim side. All of these mujahadeen are islamic fundamentalists contected to the al-qaida and the midrass' in afganistan and pakistan, who were smuggled into the former yugoslavia with PLO help. Many have since went to fight in Chechniya and the rest are ripe for terroist attacks in western Europe and the US. How are they going to catch people with real Bosnian passports printed with fake identities using this system? Not allow anyone traveling on a Bosnain passport in?
Of course, it wasn't just the taxman's pinch that forced the Rolling Stones to focus on the bottom line. They also got screwed by record labels. "In the early days you got paid absolutely nothing," recalls Jagger. "The only people who earned money were the Beatles because they sold so many records."
By the mid-'60s the Stones had reportedly sold ten million singles, including "Satisfaction," and five million albums, but the band was still living hand to mouth. "I'll never forget the deals I did in the '60s, which were just terrible," says Jagger. "You say, 'Oh, I'm a creative person, I won't worry about this.' But that just doesn't work. Because everyone would just steal every penny you've got."
Lighters commemorating 9/11 attack seized en route to Gaza
(Communicated by the ISA (Shabak) )
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
In the context of the monitoring process carried out by security forces
in order to uncover the smuggling of arms and ammunition to the
Palestinian Authority, cigarette lighters depicting the attack on the
World Trade Center next to an image of Osama Bin Laden, were found. The
lighters were to be sold in Palestinian Authority areas.
In June 2002, the security forces carried out an inspection of crates
that had arrived in the port of Ashdod. The crates were destined for the
Palestinian Authority. In the course of the inspection of the containers
- that were supposed to have contained toys - weapons, including
pistols, were seized.
Also found were lighters depicting the terrorist attacks on the World
Trade Center of September 11, along with an image of Osama Bin Laden.
The lighters were intended for a Palestinian dealer in Khan Yunis, in
the Gaza Strip.
The planned distribution of these lighters in the Palestinian Authority
was designed to be yet another expression of support for the terrorist
attacks carried out by al-Qaeda organization, such as occurred in the
Palestinian Authority in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks.
Last year's expression of support included the distribution of sweets in
the streets of the Palestinian Authority after the attacks, as well as
mass celebrations in which shots were fired in the air as a mark of joy.
Adults and children were seen waving pictures of bin Laden in
Palestinian streets. In addition, leaflets were distributed in the
Palestinian Authority emphasizing the importance of Jihad and calling on
Muslims to stand up and take pride in their victory over the United
States.
Has anyone else noticed that while you can pick up a 2.8Ghz Pentium on pricewatch, the Athlon 2400 and 2600 are nowhere to be seen? Anyone know where they are actually selling these things?
Something that I've noticed is that while the rendering of Hebrew is great, printing is horrible! Try printing out a page from say www.maariv.co.il and see how screwed up the spacing comes out in comparison to how it's rendered on screen.
meanwhile in palestine the IDF moves tanks back into refuge settlements to 'supress undesirable elements' and no one blinks ?
You're so full of shit. I ride the number 32 bus that was blown up yesterday every morning. Go to Yahoo and look at the pictures of decapitated bodys and 10 year old school children turned into hamburger. Read about how pround the father of the suicide bomber is. That's why we send our army into arab towns. It's to defend our lives from insane Islamic Imperialists who want to murder Jews so badly that they're will to blow themselves up to do it. Get a clue about what's going on here and stop regurgitating Muslim propaganda.
I use either Netscape 4.x or Mozilla on all machines I'm responsible for. Apparently Klez doesn't build RFC compliant emails, such that the attachments don't show up in Mozilla. My girlfriend kept complaining that she was getting blank mails from all kinds of people. So I checked a few of the emails out via view source and what do you know? Klez! By the way, it's about 49k. No machine that I run has ever had a virus.
Study a little archeaology. You'll see that global warming is natural and has been going on for thousands of years. The ocean has been rising something like a foot every 100 years for the past 8000 years at least. This global warming is human induced stuff is worse than BS.
The solution has been staring everyone in the face since 9/11, and nobody wants to
do it because, geez, we'd have to add $10 to every airticket, and that's taxation, and
everyone hates taxes right? It's the air marshall system - put an armed guard on
every flight, well trained, no nonsense, plain clothed for what extra security that gives.
And while you're at it, train the crews.
As far as I know that's what Israel has been doing since the 70's. No bullshit , just reasonable searchs to make sure people don't have major weapons or bombs, anything else can be handled by the sky marshal and crew.
The guy writing the ZD-net article seems to be making the assumption that the only (or primary at least) factor affecting the performance (or even the physical speed) of a CPU is the manufacturing process. Doesn't he seem to be forgeting the architecture issue? I mean, intel is currently ahead in the physical speed dept, not because of the manufacturing process, but because of architecture.
Well, technically there ARE black Egyptian CITIZENS. Of course that's today, and they're not REAL egyptians, just citizens of a political entity that decided to call itself Egypt, even though culturally and ethnically it has absolutely no relation to the Egypt of 2000-5000 years ago that we all know and love;-)
Just to let you know, solar is in wide use in Israel. Almost every home in Israel has a solar water heater. Not quite the complete solar house, but deffinately a step in the right direction, and shows that we should think about economy of scale. If every home in Nevada, New Mexico and southern Cali got solar, how much would the prices drop?
Terrorism is the new trend, already "used" by Israely PM Sharon to excuse himself for attacking his political opponents (ie Palestinians).
So if their not terrorists, then how would you classify someone whose goal is to inspire terror by randomly murdering innocent people in the street? Do people who murder pregant school teachers and babies ON PURPOSE qualify as freedom fighters? If that's what you think then you're an enemy of mine and all civilized people and you need to be hunted down and killed.
The potential for abuse is unlimited. Such observation can easily be used to harrass. By posting the comment, "Israel is unjust for driving the Palestinians out of their land and keeping them as slaves in concentration camps that lack plumbing, sewerage, power, medical facilities, and schools. It is beyond my comprehension that a people who suffered such things at the hands of others two generations ago could behave this way.", do I become a suspected terroist?
No you just show how little you know about the middle east conflict between the Jews and Arabs. It's the Arab states that forced the Arab refugees into camps in 1948, and it's those same states that have forced them to stay in those camps for over 50 years. They are a political tool for use against Israel. Don't believe me? Here's a good example. In 1967 Israel captured Sinia, Judea, Samaria (West Bank for those whose only knowledge of Middle Eastern geography comes from CNN) and Gaza. There were no roads, no water, no sewage, no electricity in any of the Arab towns. Israel paved the roads, hooked them up to our power and water grids and installed modern (at the time) sewage systems. Out of our own pocket. We went to the people in the camps and said, let us build you normal permanent housing on the condition that your hovels in the camps be demolished after you move into your new homes. Arafat and his PLO threatened their lives. They said the only place a person in the camps can go is to a Jewish town inside Israel's pre 67 boarders to kill or expel Jews. And what about the camps in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. In the camps that were under Israeli control, the Arabs had rights, they got medical care, education and could work and leave the camps (if they could get past the threats of the PLO). In the camps in Lebanon for example, it's illegal for anyone to leave the camps, to work or get an education. The reason the people in the camps are so extreme is because the controling powers in the Arab world give them no options, their only hope to excape the living hell that's been pushed on them by their Arab brothers is to kill Jews and destroy Israel.
As a Jew and an Israeli I'm so sick of hearing people spout off this kind of totaly ignorant BS. And by the way, there are no camps currently under Israeli control, they were all handed over to the control of the PLO/Palestinian Authority, along with about 95% of Judea, Samaria and Gaza's Arab population.
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Why are you posting an inflamitory offtopic sig linking to an anti-Semitic website which openly supports terrorism?
And just to point out the bias here, Israel get's $2.5 billion (1.5 military, 1 civilian) a year in aid from the USA (the site you link to doesn't even get the basic numbers correct), while Egypt gets $2 billion a year in military aid. People are starving in the streets in Egypt, but the country refuses to convert even $1.00 of that military aid to civilian aid. And of course there's Jordan which averaged $284 million per year over the past 5 years and will go up to $300 million next year, which put together with what Egypt get's is almost identical to what Israel gets.
And of course there is indirect aid to the Saudis. Ten's of thousands of American soldiers protect the biggest supporter of terrorism and bin-laden in the world. If you want to bitch about something bitch about the fact that the state department coddles and protects a government which directly (if "secretly") supported and still supports the people responsible for the Twin Towers bombing.
Disclaimer: I'm an American Israel Jew. I also happen to oppose US aid to Israel, but for real reasons, not bullshit anti-Semitic ones.
Just goes to show that a properly regulated free market is best! And of course that a poorly regulated free market, like in Panama and a lot of other places, is worse than a government owned monopoly.
12. Is Rhapsody available outside the U.S.? Due to licensing restrictions, Rhapsody's on-demand music subscription service is available to U.S. residents only. However, anyone, regardless of his or her geographic location, can take advantage of our free radio stations, which feature professionally programmed stations. We are working on expanding our subscription service outside of the U.S. in the future.
That has got to be the most absurd thing I've ever heard. I get so sick of the, "the Jews control the media", bullshit. The vast majority of the big media is either slanted against Israel or almost outright anti-Israel. Take CNN for example. Ted Turner called Israelis terrorists equal to or worse than the suicide bombers, and CNN coverage of what goes on here in Israel is consistantly anti-Israel. And it's the same with AP stories. Just go and count how many times you see the phrase "Traditionally Arab East Jerusalem" in stories that mention Jerusalem. Geuss what? There's no such thing! It's an Arab propaganda myth! But you see it in the western media all the time as if it was some kind of historical fact. What about West Bank? Ever heard of Judea and Sameria? That's the proper name. West Bank was made up by King Hussien in the 50's or 60's, i.e. "that area has no importance, it's just the west bank of the Jordan river." Another example, Palestinian. What is that? It's a derogatory name that Arabs called Jews back before the Arab countries decided to appropriate it as part of their war against Israel and the Jews. I can go on and on, but the point is that the Arab states have been incredibly successful in their propaganda war against Israel, with the help of big international media corporations, who simply value the bussiness of 1 billion Muslims more than the bussiness of 14 million Jews.
Claiming media bias in favor of Israel is patently absurd.
# Amicus - Petitioner:
# Intel Corporation (Merits) [PDF]
Eric Eldred, et al. v. John D. Ashcroft, Attorney General
Several Justices Raise Fears
About Copyright Extensions
By RYAN DEZEMBER
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
WASHINGTON -- Several Supreme Court justices raised concerns about whether overturning a 1998 copyright-extension law would make a mess of the full body of copyright law.
The high court heard arguments in a case involving a law extending copyrights by 20 years to 70 years after the author's death, and to a total of 95 years for corporate works. At stake is how long the rights to such valuable properties as Mickey Mouse and The Great Gatsby, will continue to enrich their owners.
Supreme Court Agrees to a Review of Extension of Copyright Shield02/20/02
On the Docket: Key business cases before the Supreme Court this fall
Archivists, libraries, book companies and others that rely on material in the public domain are fighting to have the latest 20-year copyright extension revoked and such future laws banned. Copyright holders, including AOL Time Warner Inc., said they need control of their intellectual property to fund future works.
Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford Law School professor who argued against copyright extensions on behalf of Eric Eldred, an Internet publisher, and others, said the 20-year extension violated the Constitution's limit on the duration of copyright protection. Under questioning from the justices, Mr. Lessig said if the court accepted his argument against the 1998 law, then earlier copyright extensions, including the sweeping 1976 copyright law, which extended protections beyond the life of authors, also could be challenged.
That possibility seemed to worry Justice Stephen Breyer and some of his colleagues. The chaos that would ensue would be horrendous, Justice Breyer said.
Charles D. Ossola, counsel for the Intellectual Property Owners Association, which favors the 1998 extension, agreed. Mr. Ossola said after the oral argument that opening the door to challenges of earlier copyright law would create almost unimaginable consequences for businesses already intact.
Copyright law dates back to 1790 when Congress passed the first law giving authors the exclusive rights to their work for 14 years. The original constitutional intent of this law was to motivate creative works by giving exclusive rights for a limited time.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist said the Constitution had little to say on the matter as it is applied today. What the framers thought is not applicable to many of today's commerce rules, he said. (Eldred et al. v. Ashcroft)
Write to Ryan Dezember at ryan.dezember@dowjones.com
Updated October 10, 2002
I've seen alot of these, "why isn't the USA media reporting this" type comments, and all I can say is try reading a REAL newspaper, like the Wall Street Journal, which not only has the article but also list a RIAAvsVerizon FAQ , a PDF of the Recording Industry Association of America's July 24 motion, and a link to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's court filings page for the case!
The link for this article is here.
And by the way, if you want quality news coverage, typically you've got to pay for it.
Music Companies Try to Force
Verizon to Identify Subscriber
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Music companies tried to persuade a judge on Friday to let them obtain names of Internet file-swappers without going to court first, a move that could dictate how copyright holders deal with Internet piracy in the future.
Internet service provider Verizon Communications Inc. is resisting the music industry's subpoena, saying that it could turn Internet providers into a turnstile for piracy suits and put innocent customers at risk.
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, who heard the case, lamented ambiguities in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was enacted to uphold copyright laws on the Internet while shielding technology companies from direct liability.
Congress "could have made this statute clearer," Judge Bates said. "This statute is not organized as being consistent with the argument for either side." Judge Bates said he would try to rule quickly, but lawyers for both sides had no guess of when a decision might arrive.
The subpoena hearing, which is normally a tame affair, was contentious because the music industry sees it as a test case. If it succeeds, it plans to send reams of cease-and-desist letters to scare file-swappers into taking their collections offline.
Until now, copyright holders have relied on requests sent to Internet providers to take action on their own against suspected pirates. Almost all Internet providers forbid sharing copyrighted material without permission. But that can take a lot of time, and makes copyright holders reliant on Internet providers to enforce the law. Internet providers don't always respond as well or as quickly as music and movie publishers would prefer. They think individual letters from the maker itself might work better.
"Wouldn't that be a lot easier way to let people know that they are in fact not anonymous and there could be consequences?" asked Cary Sherman, the Recording Industry Association of America's general counsel.
Verizon said that since the hundreds of songs up for trade by the anonymous Verizon customer at the center of the case sit on the person's computer rather than Verizon's network, it isn't required to automatically give up the subscriber's name.
"Verizon was a passive conduit at most," said Eric Holder, a former Justice Department prosecutor who represented Verizon. Mr. Holder said the music industry's strategy could create a contentious relationship between Verizon and its customers and put the Internet provider in the position of handing over names to the music companies without a judicial determination of piracy. "We also don't want to be the policeman in this process," he said.
Lawyers for the recording industry rejected Verizon's arguments that it had little obligations in the process. Industry lawyer Donald Verrilli said no type of service provider is exempt from having to identify a potential music pirate, no matter where the songs sit.
Mr. Verrilli also dismissed Verizon's position that its customers have a right to privacy. "You don't have a First Amendment right to steal copyright works," he said.
The judge disagreed with Mr. Verrilli's assumption that the works were stolen. "Here, there's only an allegation of infringement," Judge Bates said.
Judge Bates gave few hints as to how he might rule. He asked many detailed questions of both sides. He called some Verizon positions vague, but showed little patience with other arguments advanced by the music industry and movie studios, which also argued on behalf of music publishers.
Through programs like Kazaa, Morpheus and Gnutella, a person can find virtually any song or movie -- sometimes even before it's released in stores --- and download it for free. On a typical afternoon, about three million people are connected on the Kazaa network and sharing more than 500 million files.
-- Copyright (c) 2002 Associated Press
Updated October 4, 2002 9:43 p.m. EDT
Do you really believe that hi-jackers board planes using legit ID that leaves a paper trail right into their DMV records and credit reports? Absurd. The only people that this system will "catch" are Joe Average and his family. Think of it as a great big grocery-store scan card system disguised as a security precaution.
I have to agree with you about the silliness of this system. Terrorists actively involved in the operational side of things almost never travel with real ID, unless they've got some kind of special situation set up, like the PLO for instance.
For example, after the war, Bosnia gave Bosnian passports to hundreds of mujahadeen that had come to fight for the Muslim side. All of these mujahadeen are islamic fundamentalists contected to the al-qaida and the midrass' in afganistan and pakistan, who were smuggled into the former yugoslavia with PLO help. Many have since went to fight in Chechniya and the rest are ripe for terroist attacks in western Europe and the US. How are they going to catch people with real Bosnian passports printed with fake identities using this system? Not allow anyone traveling on a Bosnain passport in?
Of course, it wasn't just the taxman's pinch that forced the Rolling Stones to focus on the bottom line. They also got screwed by record labels. "In the early days you got paid absolutely nothing," recalls Jagger. "The only people who earned money were the Beatles because they sold so many records."
By the mid-'60s the Stones had reportedly sold ten million singles, including "Satisfaction," and five million albums, but the band was still living hand to mouth. "I'll never forget the deals I did in the '60s, which were just terrible," says Jagger. "You say, 'Oh, I'm a creative person, I won't worry about this.' But that just doesn't work. Because everyone would just steal every penny you've got."
Lighters commemorating 9/11 attack seized en route to Gaza (Communicated by the ISA (Shabak) )
Tuesday, September 10, 2002 In the context of the monitoring process carried out by security forces in order to uncover the smuggling of arms and ammunition to the Palestinian Authority, cigarette lighters depicting the attack on the World Trade Center next to an image of Osama Bin Laden, were found. The lighters were to be sold in Palestinian Authority areas.
In June 2002, the security forces carried out an inspection of crates that had arrived in the port of Ashdod. The crates were destined for the Palestinian Authority. In the course of the inspection of the containers - that were supposed to have contained toys - weapons, including pistols, were seized.
Also found were lighters depicting the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center of September 11, along with an image of Osama Bin Laden. The lighters were intended for a Palestinian dealer in Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Strip.
The planned distribution of these lighters in the Palestinian Authority was designed to be yet another expression of support for the terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda organization, such as occurred in the Palestinian Authority in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. Last year's expression of support included the distribution of sweets in the streets of the Palestinian Authority after the attacks, as well as mass celebrations in which shots were fired in the air as a mark of joy. Adults and children were seen waving pictures of bin Laden in Palestinian streets. In addition, leaflets were distributed in the Palestinian Authority emphasizing the importance of Jihad and calling on Muslims to stand up and take pride in their victory over the United States.
Has anyone else noticed that while you can pick up a 2.8Ghz Pentium on pricewatch, the Athlon 2400 and 2600 are nowhere to be seen? Anyone know where they are actually selling these things?
Something that I've noticed is that while the rendering of Hebrew is great, printing is horrible! Try printing out a page from say www.maariv.co.il and see how screwed up the spacing comes out in comparison to how it's rendered on screen.
You're so full of shit. I ride the number 32 bus that was blown up yesterday every morning. Go to Yahoo and look at the pictures of decapitated bodys and 10 year old school children turned into hamburger. Read about how pround the father of the suicide bomber is. That's why we send our army into arab towns. It's to defend our lives from insane Islamic Imperialists who want to murder Jews so badly that they're will to blow themselves up to do it. Get a clue about what's going on here and stop regurgitating Muslim propaganda.
Simple rule: No Outlook, no Virii
What did people expect when MS bought Distributed Random -DOS?
Study a little archeaology. You'll see that global warming is natural and has been going on for thousands of years. The ocean has been rising something like a foot every 100 years for the past 8000 years at least. This global warming is human induced stuff is worse than BS.
As far as I know that's what Israel has been doing since the 70's. No bullshit , just reasonable searchs to make sure people don't have major weapons or bombs, anything else can be handled by the sky marshal and crew.
The guy writing the ZD-net article seems to be making the assumption that the only (or primary at least) factor affecting the performance (or even the physical speed) of a CPU is the manufacturing process. Doesn't he seem to be forgeting the architecture issue? I mean, intel is currently ahead in the physical speed dept, not because of the manufacturing process, but because of architecture.
Well, technically there ARE black Egyptian CITIZENS. Of course that's today, and they're not REAL egyptians, just citizens of a political entity that decided to call itself Egypt, even though culturally and ethnically it has absolutely no relation to the Egypt of 2000-5000 years ago that we all know and love ;-)
Just to let you know, solar is in wide use in Israel. Almost every home in Israel has a solar water heater. Not quite the complete solar house, but deffinately a step in the right direction, and shows that we should think about economy of scale. If every home in Nevada, New Mexico and southern Cali got solar, how much would the prices drop?
We used to be primarily VC++ with a little BC++B but now we're using a moded lcc with cygwined gnu make.
So if their not terrorists, then how would you classify someone whose goal is to inspire terror by randomly murdering innocent people in the street? Do people who murder pregant school teachers and babies ON PURPOSE qualify as freedom fighters? If that's what you think then you're an enemy of mine and all civilized people and you need to be hunted down and killed.
No you just show how little you know about the middle east conflict between the Jews and Arabs. It's the Arab states that forced the Arab refugees into camps in 1948, and it's those same states that have forced them to stay in those camps for over 50 years. They are a political tool for use against Israel. Don't believe me? Here's a good example. In 1967 Israel captured Sinia, Judea, Samaria (West Bank for those whose only knowledge of Middle Eastern geography comes from CNN) and Gaza. There were no roads, no water, no sewage, no electricity in any of the Arab towns. Israel paved the roads, hooked them up to our power and water grids and installed modern (at the time) sewage systems. Out of our own pocket. We went to the people in the camps and said, let us build you normal permanent housing on the condition that your hovels in the camps be demolished after you move into your new homes. Arafat and his PLO threatened their lives. They said the only place a person in the camps can go is to a Jewish town inside Israel's pre 67 boarders to kill or expel Jews. And what about the camps in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. In the camps that were under Israeli control, the Arabs had rights, they got medical care, education and could work and leave the camps (if they could get past the threats of the PLO). In the camps in Lebanon for example, it's illegal for anyone to leave the camps, to work or get an education. The reason the people in the camps are so extreme is because the controling powers in the Arab world give them no options, their only hope to excape the living hell that's been pushed on them by their Arab brothers is to kill Jews and destroy Israel.
As a Jew and an Israeli I'm so sick of hearing people spout off this kind of totaly ignorant BS. And by the way, there are no camps currently under Israeli control, they were all handed over to the control of the PLO/Palestinian Authority, along with about 95% of Judea, Samaria and Gaza's Arab population.
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