Okay, so moby's starting to go down the shitter. Play was indeed a good album, as was pearl jams "10". I have heard a couple of songs from "18" and they don't seem nearly as good as some of the ones on "play" and thus I will not purchase "10" because the music isn't the level of quality that I would invest my $20something dollars into (RAAAAAPPPPEEEE!).
But pearl jam started fighting ticketmaster for being bastardly, maybe moby should try something similar? I mean, its not enough that he is (was?) number 15 on a major selling spree, it's not enough to have that, perhaps he wants number one handed to him on a silver platter? Don't give me that shit. I saw MTV's cribs right after "Play" was released, and the guy is loaded, probably even moreso now. Go cry me a fucking river, you're probably in the top 98th percentile for income, and it means nothing to you. It's very sad, the human universal is not love. It is stupidity and greed.
Our government is becoming a fucking tool to the corporate conglomerates.
Especially in the wake of September 11th, there has been a rush of stupidity. Not only are the American people willing to drop $30 on a novelty sized flag stitched by the hands of a tiny Korean girl in the annals of a sweatshop, but they also seem to encourage their officials that they elected in office to lose their heads, and to vote YES on anything with words such as "Patriot" or "America" in the title.
And don't even bother bringing up the TERRORIST FRIENDLY system of checks and balances our forefathers actually thought about before making a permanent part of government legislation.
The legal possibilities for this legislation are so far reaching and preposterous that they can ban half the things in my room - all LEGAL things, including my 35MM, digital and video cameras, VCR's, non-neutered (read: Normal) PC's and Mac, blank CD's, disks, tapes and magnetic-optical media, and non-blank media with open source works on them. Books (what? First amendment? That doesnt cover code!), Networking/LAN equipment (which could be used for the transmittal and redistribution of the copyrighted works), as well as my collection of classic and antique computer and video game equipment, none of which has watermarking technology implanted in it (Thank god).
This is not the time to stand back and watch the grass grow, or the legislation pass. Not only do I encourage you to take action by mailing and generally annoying your elected officials right now, but harassing and annoying more the people and industries that support this fucking bullshit - Jack valenti, Hilary Rosen, RIAA, MPAA, Major music labels - they should all be forced to stop. Vote with your wallet. Don't vote a major party you don't agree with over a smaller party you do agree with based upon the smaller party "not having a chance." And please, PLEASE don't vote for any of the people supporting this bill.
I really, really wish I had the programming skills to create a constantly mutating virus that blows away spyware, redistributes itself and then deletes itself, leaving the computer it infects better than what it started as uninfected. And hell, while it's at it, how about it blows some static or DOS attacks the servers of the evil entity of choice (RIAA, MPAA, Doubleclick, Brilliant, bonzi buddy, you get the idea...)
::Prepares to get modded down to negative infinity::
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I'm telling you, that's where it's to be found if you're looking for a good cheap laptop.
My dad, always on the prowl for computer hardware for me, had a guy at his office who needed to pay off his CC bill. So he then gave my dad specs on the laptop I'm typing this up on - Toshiba PIII-800, DVD, Good battery, case, cables and some other various accessories. He wanted $650 for it, so I waited a week and sure enough he told my dad that he would accept $600 for it, and when my dad went in the next day he offered $550 and the dude accepted the offer. So I got a damn nice laptop, and for hella cheap too (It was only $150 more than what I got for my last laptop when I got the new one - A dell PII-266)
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Jesus man, I need to work on my drunken skills....while me or any of my friends are drunk (illegally, of course), absolutely nothing gets done.
Well...all we need to do is wait until the one day that an RIAA script kiddi3 happens to delete charlton hesstons pr0n collection when making an attempt to delete pirate MP3's. Problem solved.
We are talking about content created by a student, specifically targetting the school population as an audience. The principle might attempt to 'punish' the publishers of the content you mention, but he is not going to have much luck:)
Okay, lets try another lawsuit. You sue the KKK/Stormfront/Landover baptist/whatever for being hatemongers. They aren't specifically targeting people who go to this school, but anyone they can get to join in their hatemongering (even if that includes people at this particular school). Now say this shows up on one of the schools computers. Does this mean you should sue the hatemongers?
How about some quotes to drive my point home?
Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of excercising real discretion. - Henry Steele Commager
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. - Thomas Jefferson
So what if they bitch on their own time? You think that as students we care?
If the kids hate this vice principal because they are a jerk, chances are they think that the vice principal is a jerk for a reason, generally speaking (in my experience anyway, as a student) they hate kids. Don't you dare try and think that this is one sided.
And thinking that censoring something will make it better only shows that the mindset is twice as bad as the original crime.
So napster stays open, and I have to pay five buckaroos a month for it.
So what if I am a musician without a contract or label, and I put my music into MP3 format, and share it on napster, somebody might download it.
That would mean that, GASP, the RIAA is getting paid so the people can get their music for free. The reason they are getting paid is that their logic is that nobody with any talent might, say, go under an indie label (or no label at all), so any artists with talent should be sold under RIAA CD's. Which means that if I were an unsigned artist, I'd be getting screwed by two companies at once. And to think that some people have this silly beleif that napster is the only one screwing people out of money!
You sir, are one of the brightest people I have ever met.
You are so right that children are not miniature adults. In fact, they have to get up in the morning and go to school, sometimes longer than the hours their parents work. Then they have homework, which means that even if they might like to go smoke some pot and be one of those "lawless hippie-children" you speak of, chances are they wouldn't have the time.
I may be one of those Lawless hippie-children that you speak of. I should go shower. I feel soooo dirty because of it. I don't need some fucking strong discipline. I don't do drugs, I'm nice to my parents, I'm not sleeping around, or doing any of that other stuff that you seem to think that every "child" in american society is doing. It disgusts me that people like YOU are keeping the responsible among us from doing everything we could. It's people like you who think that we should burn auschwitz because you'd rather lay the blame on somebody else, someone who can't defend themself, than make people think about what is causing the evil, and what has happened as a result in the past. It is people like you who are forcing ratings on everything and the CDA to make mandatory censorware in schools that the "children" go to so that they can't be exposed to another opinion.
So they end up close minded and hateful, just like you. I hope it makes you happy. I hope, that if you have children, when they go shoot up the school, that you realize the wrongs of your ways. Or maybe you won't. Maybe you'll do as others have done before and say that it's nothing but a child, and because you voted to keep their rights away, you are forced to take the responsibility for their actions. Will you realize then? Or would you rather let your children get shot up because freedom of speech didn't cover telling somebody about the hit list that little eric or little dylan happened to have? I'm finished. If this hasn't opened your mind up then nothing will.
By seven I was driving tractors and lawnmowers. My parents trusted me to do so, and I didn't run down anybody, I didn't blow anything up, and I didn't damage the lawnmower. I made a good deal of money last summer mowing lawns, in addition to other odd jobs ( I was 14 ), because I couldn't work (legally). Now, would you rather that I stay some abused "brat", labeled so (by trevor goodchild) because I exist? Or would you rather I stay living with my parents till I am forty, sucking money off your paychecks for my welfare?
I spent much of this January playing dopewars. It saved my sanity during a very slow trade show
I have it on my Palm V which I bring to school every day for putting homework on and doing other stuff like that. Problem is, my friends "borrow" it to play dopewars, and now I NO LONGER HAVE ANY OF THE HIGH SCORES! DAMNIT!
Those Pocket PC's Running scheduling programs on CE (when they should be running pocketlinux, or better yet, running on palms) are the whole problem here. They BSOD and lose all of the data, and because the whole "microsoft conspiracy" (boogie boogie BOO!) is controlling the mass media, it's being blamed on people's memory. So blame microsoft, blame people's memory, because I'll blame anything that moves!
I assume that would be because in about 99% of scsi adapter cards, there is a bios function to low-level format the drives. Assuming that the key is actually on the drive itself (not a disk on chip of sorts), it would be easily formatted at the lowest level and removed. However should a technology like this be implemented, the hard drive would probably sprout legs and run down to the local police station to bust your ass for hard disk abuse.
Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's law. I have learned a great deal from you, and I try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind him that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination..... End of debate !
I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some specific laws and how to best follow them as a true believer.
When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord (Lev. 1:9). The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. How should I deal with this?
I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as it suggests in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (Lev. 15:19-24). The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
Lev. 25:44 states that I may buy slaves from the nations that are around us. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans but not Canadians. Can you clarify?
I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination (Lev. 10:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this?
Lev. 20:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear prescription glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?
I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident that you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.
And I leave you with the note that if I felt that the bible was offensive (which I don't, but easily could), the right that allows you to tell us what should be censored could easily be used against you.
There is no way to change the system. Conforming to normality is only the stupid persons way out.
I understand completely what you are trying to say, but to be exclusive is basic human nature. Many of us have found this out the painful way.
You seem to think that conforming to the norm will make you popular, will make everything alright. Please get a clue. I could stop wearing all black and start wearing A&F. It wouldn't make my IQ any lower. It wouldn't change my religeous beleifs. It wouldn't make me more accepted by my peers because I will probably never be. As to your suggestion of a society where people act and feel normal, will only encourage more loss of conscience than has already happened in this country. There are people who are fully feel that killing people is acting normal. We've seen it before.
Yes, boys and girls, there is an easy way to filter out the worst filth on the internet, a way to rid yourself of all the "steve case ate my balls" homepages and 99% of all the sick, gay, goat and kiddie porn out there.
Are you ready for it?
Ban everything under geocities. Duh. Any stupid troll could have figured that one out.
Now OBVIOUSLY the internet was not the cause of columbine. The internet is, after all, a means to information. These children, fucked up as they were, didn't need the internet to tell them that they could use a gun to blow away someone else, who happened to be at their highschool. In fact, to build those bombs, they could have learned perfectly well from science class. They didn't buy the guns or the bomb making material off the internet. The corrolation here is nonexistent, but because so many people listen to the idiots in the media, the corrolation was there. But of course, the internet can and is used to give the kids power. To give them freedom, because we all know that as soon as you step out of the virtual world, there's somebody who wants to take the power you had away.
Educate the children.
Piss off the adults
Question authority
And you'll end up in jail.
Don't waste your vote this year. Remember pastor Martin Neimoller? There isn't going to be any ultrageek to save us if bush gets elected. And should he, pastor Neimoller's proverb will be updated. To this:
When they took the fourth amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
When they took the sixth amendment, I was quiet because I was innocent.
When they took the second amendment, I was quiet because I didn't own a gun.
Now they've taken the first amendment, and I can say nothing about it.
(Modifier unknown)
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What Hillary Rosen said:
Napster BAD! Beer GOOD!
What her PR agent said:
Paul Somerson's recent column, "Enough with Hollywood's monopoly," makes a persuasive attack on an argument no one ever made. We aren't against online music; we're leading the way. We oppose theft -- and theft is the biggest enemy of online music.
Our concern is with those who consistently and intentionally fail to recognize that theft is theft simply because the method is new and their immediate benefit is great -- and then argue that stealing from a successful industry somehow justifies their actions.
Again, let's not forget the underlying issue. This is not a matter profits and losses or of one industry attempting to stifle another, but rather one of defending the creative community's right to do with their craft and their property how they wish. And what they wish -- I assure you -- is to meet consumer demand and bring music to the Internet.
Beginning of a new age
The process has already begun. The recording industry understands the benefits to record companies, artists and consumers alike and have for some time embraced the idea of combining both new technology and the creative process.
Across the Internet, new sites and business models are proliferating that make music accessible online while respecting the copyright protection at the heart of the creative process. Artists, labels and entrepreneurs are offering music online on the basis of subscription models, Webcasting and pay-per-download arrangements. Others who own copyrighted material are choosing to make it available at no cost.
As exciting as these innovations are, the most thrilling ones are those we cannot even imagine yet. As they have for decades, new technologies and business models will continue to transform how music is distributed, and the recording industry -- whose business is finding new ways to make music available to more people -- will continue to embrace them.
Clearly ignoring the intent of current copyright law and questioning the legal definition of "fair use," Mr. Somerson wrongly claims that if the entertainment industry had its way, people would "never again own anything outright." The fact is, if Mr. Somerson had his way, artists would never again own their own music, and there wouldn't be any further incentive to make it.
Mr. Somerson fully understands the illegality of stealing copyrighted material. He acknowledges the wrongdoing with the paper-thin defense of "most of us break the speed limit at times," and "some people fudge their expense reports." Finally, he asks, as though his hand was just caught in the cookie jar, "Are you so snow-white perfect?"
An advancement in technology isn't wrong. Swapping CDs with your friends isn't wrong. What is wrong is profiting from others' hard work and knowingly stealing another individual's copyrighted works. That is what will ultimately hurt the evolution of online music-- a lesson Mr. Somerson should learn.
I have a patent on the copyright of the acronym OSDN - The open source dipshittery network, which you seem to be affiliated with through linux VA. You are hereby required to pay me $800 Billion dollars, a rocket car and a golden house if you or linux VA wish to have any more affiliation with them.
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Okay, so moby's starting to go down the shitter. Play was indeed a good album, as was pearl jams "10". I have heard a couple of songs from "18" and they don't seem nearly as good as some of the ones on "play" and thus I will not purchase "10" because the music isn't the level of quality that I would invest my $20something dollars into (RAAAAAPPPPEEEE!).
But pearl jam started fighting ticketmaster for being bastardly, maybe moby should try something similar? I mean, its not enough that he is (was?) number 15 on a major selling spree, it's not enough to have that, perhaps he wants number one handed to him on a silver platter? Don't give me that shit. I saw MTV's cribs right after "Play" was released, and the guy is loaded, probably even moreso now. Go cry me a fucking river, you're probably in the top 98th percentile for income, and it means nothing to you. It's very sad, the human universal is not love. It is stupidity and greed.
Our government is becoming a fucking tool to the corporate conglomerates.
Especially in the wake of September 11th, there has been a rush of stupidity. Not only are the American people willing to drop $30 on a novelty sized flag stitched by the hands of a tiny Korean girl in the annals of a sweatshop, but they also seem to encourage their officials that they elected in office to lose their heads, and to vote YES on anything with words such as "Patriot" or "America" in the title.
And don't even bother bringing up the TERRORIST FRIENDLY system of checks and balances our forefathers actually thought about before making a permanent part of government legislation.
The legal possibilities for this legislation are so far reaching and preposterous that they can ban half the things in my room - all LEGAL things, including my 35MM, digital and video cameras, VCR's, non-neutered (read: Normal) PC's and Mac, blank CD's, disks, tapes and magnetic-optical media, and non-blank media with open source works on them. Books (what? First amendment? That doesnt cover code!), Networking/LAN equipment (which could be used for the transmittal and redistribution of the copyrighted works), as well as my collection of classic and antique computer and video game equipment, none of which has watermarking technology implanted in it (Thank god).
This is not the time to stand back and watch the grass grow, or the legislation pass. Not only do I encourage you to take action by mailing and generally annoying your elected officials right now, but harassing and annoying more the people and industries that support this fucking bullshit - Jack valenti, Hilary Rosen, RIAA, MPAA, Major music labels - they should all be forced to stop. Vote with your wallet. Don't vote a major party you don't agree with over a smaller party you do agree with based upon the smaller party "not having a chance." And please, PLEASE don't vote for any of the people supporting this bill.
I really, really wish I had the programming skills to create a constantly mutating virus that blows away spyware, redistributes itself and then deletes itself, leaving the computer it infects better than what it started as uninfected. And hell, while it's at it, how about it blows some static or DOS attacks the servers of the evil entity of choice (RIAA, MPAA, Doubleclick, Brilliant, bonzi buddy, you get the idea...)
Taco does have the ass, I have to admit...
::Prepares to get modded down to negative infinity::
I'm telling you, that's where it's to be found if you're looking for a good cheap laptop.
My dad, always on the prowl for computer hardware for me, had a guy at his office who needed to pay off his CC bill. So he then gave my dad specs on the laptop I'm typing this up on - Toshiba PIII-800, DVD, Good battery, case, cables and some other various accessories. He wanted $650 for it, so I waited a week and sure enough he told my dad that he would accept $600 for it, and when my dad went in the next day he offered $550 and the dude accepted the offer. So I got a damn nice laptop, and for hella cheap too (It was only $150 more than what I got for my last laptop when I got the new one - A dell PII-266)
Jesus man, I need to work on my drunken skills....while me or any of my friends are drunk (illegally, of course), absolutely nothing gets done.
well, besides botched attempts to hit on girls...
Well...all we need to do is wait until the one day that an RIAA script kiddi3 happens to delete charlton hesstons pr0n collection when making an attempt to delete pirate MP3's. Problem solved.
We are talking about content created by a student, specifically targetting the school population as an audience. The principle might attempt to 'punish' the publishers of the content you mention, but he is not going to have much luck :)
Okay, lets try another lawsuit. You sue the KKK/Stormfront/Landover baptist/whatever for being hatemongers. They aren't specifically targeting people who go to this school, but anyone they can get to join in their hatemongering (even if that includes people at this particular school). Now say this shows up on one of the schools computers. Does this mean you should sue the hatemongers?
How about some quotes to drive my point home?
Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of excercising real discretion. - Henry Steele Commager
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. - Thomas Jefferson
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net
So what if they bitch on their own time? You think that as students we care?
If the kids hate this vice principal because they are a jerk, chances are they think that the vice principal is a jerk for a reason, generally speaking (in my experience anyway, as a student) they hate kids. Don't you dare try and think that this is one sided.
And thinking that censoring something will make it better only shows that the mindset is twice as bad as the original crime.
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net
So napster stays open, and I have to pay five buckaroos a month for it.
So what if I am a musician without a contract or label, and I put my music into MP3 format, and share it on napster, somebody might download it.
That would mean that, GASP, the RIAA is getting paid so the people can get their music for free. The reason they are getting paid is that their logic is that nobody with any talent might, say, go under an indie label (or no label at all), so any artists with talent should be sold under RIAA CD's. Which means that if I were an unsigned artist, I'd be getting screwed by two companies at once. And to think that some people have this silly beleif that napster is the only one screwing people out of money!
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net
You sir, are one of the brightest people I have ever met.
You are so right that children are not miniature adults. In fact, they have to get up in the morning and go to school, sometimes longer than the hours their parents work. Then they have homework, which means that even if they might like to go smoke some pot and be one of those "lawless hippie-children" you speak of, chances are they wouldn't have the time.
I may be one of those Lawless hippie-children that you speak of. I should go shower. I feel soooo dirty because of it. I don't need some fucking strong discipline. I don't do drugs, I'm nice to my parents, I'm not sleeping around, or doing any of that other stuff that you seem to think that every "child" in american society is doing. It disgusts me that people like YOU are keeping the responsible among us from doing everything we could. It's people like you who think that we should burn auschwitz because you'd rather lay the blame on somebody else, someone who can't defend themself, than make people think about what is causing the evil, and what has happened as a result in the past. It is people like you who are forcing ratings on everything and the CDA to make mandatory censorware in schools that the "children" go to so that they can't be exposed to another opinion.
So they end up close minded and hateful, just like you. I hope it makes you happy. I hope, that if you have children, when they go shoot up the school, that you realize the wrongs of your ways. Or maybe you won't. Maybe you'll do as others have done before and say that it's nothing but a child, and because you voted to keep their rights away, you are forced to take the responsibility for their actions. Will you realize then? Or would you rather let your children get shot up because freedom of speech didn't cover telling somebody about the hit list that little eric or little dylan happened to have? I'm finished. If this hasn't opened your mind up then nothing will.
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net
By seven I was driving tractors and lawnmowers. My parents trusted me to do so, and I didn't run down anybody, I didn't blow anything up, and I didn't damage the lawnmower. I made a good deal of money last summer mowing lawns, in addition to other odd jobs ( I was 14 ), because I couldn't work (legally). Now, would you rather that I stay some abused "brat", labeled so (by trevor goodchild) because I exist? Or would you rather I stay living with my parents till I am forty, sucking money off your paychecks for my welfare?
Funny, I thought so.
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net
I spent much of this January playing dopewars. It saved my sanity during a very slow trade show
I have it on my Palm V which I bring to school every day for putting homework on and doing other stuff like that. Problem is, my friends "borrow" it to play dopewars, and now I NO LONGER HAVE ANY OF THE HIGH SCORES! DAMNIT!
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net
Those Pocket PC's Running scheduling programs on CE (when they should be running pocketlinux, or better yet, running on palms) are the whole problem here. They BSOD and lose all of the data, and because the whole "microsoft conspiracy" (boogie boogie BOO!) is controlling the mass media, it's being blamed on people's memory. So blame microsoft, blame people's memory, because I'll blame anything that moves!
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net
If only they would offer this at caribou. I much prefer their coffee.
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net
I assume that would be because in about 99% of scsi adapter cards, there is a bios function to low-level format the drives. Assuming that the key is actually on the drive itself (not a disk on chip of sorts), it would be easily formatted at the lowest level and removed. However should a technology like this be implemented, the hard drive would probably sprout legs and run down to the local police station to bust your ass for hard disk abuse.
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net
Dear Anonymous coward,
Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's law. I have learned a great deal from you, and I try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind him that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination..... End of debate !
I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some specific laws and how to best follow them as a true believer.
When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord (Lev. 1:9). The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. How should I deal with this?
I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as it suggests in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (Lev. 15:19-24). The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
Lev. 25:44 states that I may buy slaves from the nations that are around us. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans but not Canadians. Can you clarify?
I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination (Lev. 10:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this?
Lev. 20:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear prescription glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?
I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident that you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.
And I leave you with the note that if I felt that the bible was offensive (which I don't, but easily could), the right that allows you to tell us what should be censored could easily be used against you.
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net
There is no way to change the system. Conforming to normality is only the stupid persons way out.
I understand completely what you are trying to say, but to be exclusive is basic human nature. Many of us have found this out the painful way.
You seem to think that conforming to the norm will make you popular, will make everything alright. Please get a clue. I could stop wearing all black and start wearing A&F. It wouldn't make my IQ any lower. It wouldn't change my religeous beleifs. It wouldn't make me more accepted by my peers because I will probably never be. As to your suggestion of a society where people act and feel normal, will only encourage more loss of conscience than has already happened in this country. There are people who are fully feel that killing people is acting normal. We've seen it before.
It started the original hellmouth.
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net
Yes, boys and girls, there is an easy way to filter out the worst filth on the internet, a way to rid yourself of all the "steve case ate my balls" homepages and 99% of all the sick, gay, goat and kiddie porn out there.
Are you ready for it?
Ban everything under geocities. Duh. Any stupid troll could have figured that one out.
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net
Instead of putting this under a news heading (which it isn't)
Create a new, improved topic called "mindless drivel that noone in their right mind cares about"...
And the logo should be a picture of George W bush.
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net
Now OBVIOUSLY the internet was not the cause of columbine. The internet is, after all, a means to information. These children, fucked up as they were, didn't need the internet to tell them that they could use a gun to blow away someone else, who happened to be at their highschool. In fact, to build those bombs, they could have learned perfectly well from science class. They didn't buy the guns or the bomb making material off the internet. The corrolation here is nonexistent, but because so many people listen to the idiots in the media, the corrolation was there. But of course, the internet can and is used to give the kids power. To give them freedom, because we all know that as soon as you step out of the virtual world, there's somebody who wants to take the power you had away.
Educate the children.
Piss off the adults
Question authority
And you'll end up in jail.
Don't waste your vote this year. Remember pastor Martin Neimoller? There isn't going to be any ultrageek to save us if bush gets elected. And should he, pastor Neimoller's proverb will be updated. To this:
When they took the fourth amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
When they took the sixth amendment, I was quiet because I was innocent.
When they took the second amendment, I was quiet because I didn't own a gun.
Now they've taken the first amendment, and I can say nothing about it.
(Modifier unknown)
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net
The chorus from the song Amnesia by chumbawumba:
Do you suffer from long term memory loss?
I don't remember...
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net
What Hillary Rosen said:
/*Cough*
Napster BAD! Beer GOOD!
What her PR agent said:
Paul Somerson's recent column, "Enough with Hollywood's monopoly," makes a persuasive attack on an argument no one ever made. We aren't against online music; we're leading the way. We oppose theft -- and theft is the biggest enemy of online music.
Our concern is with those who consistently and intentionally fail to recognize that theft is theft simply because the method is new and their immediate benefit is great -- and then argue that stealing from a successful industry somehow justifies their actions.
Again, let's not forget the underlying issue. This is not a matter profits and losses or of one industry attempting to stifle another, but rather one of defending the creative community's right to do with their craft and their property how they wish. And what they wish -- I assure you -- is to meet consumer demand and bring music to the Internet.
Beginning of a new age The process has already begun. The recording industry understands the benefits to record companies, artists and consumers alike and have for some time embraced the idea of combining both new technology and the creative process.
Across the Internet, new sites and business models are proliferating that make music accessible online while respecting the copyright protection at the heart of the creative process. Artists, labels and entrepreneurs are offering music online on the basis of subscription models, Webcasting and pay-per-download arrangements. Others who own copyrighted material are choosing to make it available at no cost.
As exciting as these innovations are, the most thrilling ones are those we cannot even imagine yet. As they have for decades, new technologies and business models will continue to transform how music is distributed, and the recording industry -- whose business is finding new ways to make music available to more people -- will continue to embrace them.
Clearly ignoring the intent of current copyright law and questioning the legal definition of "fair use," Mr. Somerson wrongly claims that if the entertainment industry had its way, people would "never again own anything outright." The fact is, if Mr. Somerson had his way, artists would never again own their own music, and there wouldn't be any further incentive to make it.
Mr. Somerson fully understands the illegality of stealing copyrighted material. He acknowledges the wrongdoing with the paper-thin defense of "most of us break the speed limit at times," and "some people fudge their expense reports." Finally, he asks, as though his hand was just caught in the cookie jar, "Are you so snow-white perfect?"
An advancement in technology isn't wrong. Swapping CDs with your friends isn't wrong. What is wrong is profiting from others' hard work and knowingly stealing another individual's copyrighted works. That is what will ultimately hurt the evolution of online music-- a lesson Mr. Somerson should learn.
*Cough*
Bitch
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net
I think that al gore should be # 1 for inventing the internet, and TUX should be #2 for making it that much better.
[NOT]
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net
Dear Mr. Malda:
I have a patent on the copyright of the acronym OSDN - The open source dipshittery network, which you seem to be affiliated with through linux VA. You are hereby required to pay me $800 Billion dollars, a rocket car and a golden house if you or linux VA wish to have any more affiliation with them.
Sincerely,
Hugh Jass.
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net