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  1. Re:one million dollars on How Much is Your Right to Vote Worth? · · Score: 1

    The right wingers already have the system rigged by continuous attempts to strike fear into anyone about anything that isn't right wing. e.g. Don't elect liberals they won't fight the war on terror/ drugs/crime/Anything where the answer is lock them up and throw away the key or even better just kill them. etc....

  2. one million dollars on How Much is Your Right to Vote Worth? · · Score: 1

    I think you could do a hell of a lot more with one million dollars than you could do with your right to vote in your lifetime.

    Especially if you have my (liberal) political views, since there never going to get into power of any kind.

  3. lets call it on MS, Mozilla Clashing Over JavaScript Update · · Score: 1

    Lets call it C# or linq instead of java and xsl2 just so we can force our own standard upon everyone.

  4. Re:String theory in haiku on String Theory in Two Minutes · · Score: 1

    we are apes, and apes ancestors came from something else, possibly a monkey.

  5. Re:String theory in haiku on String Theory in Two Minutes · · Score: 1

    So your a terrorist are you?

    I know someone who grew up in a muslim community and they believe that black people came from moneys and white? people came from the mud. Personally I'd rather have come from a monkey.

  6. Quality Control on Microsoft Forces Desktop Search On Windows Update · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gees, we have better quality control where I work. and we don't have any.

  7. Re:Does this not screw Novell? on Investment Firm Bids to Buy SCOs UNIX Operations · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If SCO owes Novell loads of money, more money than SCO is worth then why can't Novell just take over SCO?

  8. Re:String theory in haiku on String Theory in Two Minutes · · Score: 1

    surly that's god needed six days to describe the universe, man needed two minutes to describe god.

  9. Re:String theory in haiku on String Theory in Two Minutes · · Score: 0

    no I'm God, I mean Jesus, I mean God and Jesus both at the same time, oh and the holy spirit too. Come to think of it isn't Adam the original son of God?

  10. Re:What is the use on Brain Regions Responsible for Optimism Located · · Score: 1

    no it's going to end because we run our of fossil fules. Thinking that global warming is the greatest of our worries is a little optimistic.

  11. Re:In other news on Italy Wants to Restrict Blogs · · Score: 1

    I cannot imagine a world without speech because without speech it wouldn't be a world.
    and when I say speech I include sign language, writing etc....

  12. Re:Transcriptions on Project Gutenberg Volunteers Partial IMSLP Hosting · · Score: 1

    That would run into the utility doctrine.

    It is novel and nonobvious, all phones before used dials, this is my artistic design for which I hold the copyright too, any other phones with keypads instead of dials must be derived works.

    Why do I need a patent if I'm already covered by copyright law which lasts for much longer.

  13. Re:In other news on Italy Wants to Restrict Blogs · · Score: 1

    there's another example of a system without money, everything is exchanged equally amongst the tribes people so the only exchange is to an equal distribution.

    It's been working for hundreds of years without any problems.

  14. Re:Hmm? on US-Made Censorware Used To Oppress Burma · · Score: 1

    that was my point exactly.

  15. Re:In other news on Italy Wants to Restrict Blogs · · Score: 1

    that's why I can imagine a world without money, there are currently systems called LETS that operate without money and aren't always subject to taxation etc....

  16. Re:In other news on Italy Wants to Restrict Blogs · · Score: 1

    So what your saying is that what this guy did .
    Linking to some sites that had bomb making info in them. Is equivalent to donating money directly to terrorist organizations.

  17. Re:Transcriptions on Project Gutenberg Volunteers Partial IMSLP Hosting · · Score: 1

    hmm... UK law may be different than US law, but I was speaking to a guy who said all those imitation fonts are possible because of the copying process I described. I've never herd anything saying that they are illegal in the states.

    How would anyone ever be able to produce anything that anyone else has ever done, if I put a keypad on my phone just like another company has a keypad on their phone am I suddenly breaking copyright law because our products have the sameish/copied features?

  18. Re:In other news on Italy Wants to Restrict Blogs · · Score: 1

    I can imagine a world without money,
    I cannot imagine a world without speech.

  19. Re:Transcriptions on Project Gutenberg Volunteers Partial IMSLP Hosting · · Score: 1

    it's ok so long as it's your interpretation and you don't actually copy any of the original work. (which in this case would be sheet music or tabliture)

    The BBC had a news article not so long ago where a picture wasn't allowed to be shown on TV because the owners refused to release copyright, so all the BBC done was to get someone to paint a picture of that picture and show the painting on TV.

  20. Transcriptions on Project Gutenberg Volunteers Partial IMSLP Hosting · · Score: 1

    Now all we need is someone to stand up to the music industry shutting down tabliture sites that contain peoples interpretations of music.

  21. Re:Hmm? on US-Made Censorware Used To Oppress Burma · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But isn't filtering software the worst kind of weapon, a weapon against the people.

  22. Re:Brazilian Pop Music Scene Thrives on Piracy on Brazilian Pop Music Scene Thrives on Piracy · · Score: 1

    that's funny, I thought being gay wasn't against the law any more.

  23. Re:Brazilian Pop Music Scene Thrives on Piracy on Brazilian Pop Music Scene Thrives on Piracy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    just because something is against the law doesn't mean that it's wrong.

  24. Re:T-shirts are communist? on Stallman Attacked by Ninjas · · Score: 1

    as a dirty commie hippie I take great disrespect in your shunning of dirty commie hippie wear. The real question is, did his cloths have any logos? that's the true sign of a dirty commie hippie.

  25. Re:Project Gutenberg... on Internet Archive Challenges Google · · Score: 1

    Yes, what's your problem?