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To quote Tom Lehrer:
Once all the Germans were war-like and mean, but that could never happen again. We taught them a lesson in 1918, and they've hardly bothered us since then! -From the Song "MLF Lullabye"
The reality is, this only screws up P2P in its use to violate copyrights
You know, I still take issue that sharing music on the net would be considered violating copyright. I thought that the law required you recieve something of value in exchange for the work. That is what covered making a mix tape and giving it to your friends. Since I still buy music, I don't see what is illegal about sharing some of it with my community (Gnutella) free of charge, at my cost.
Forget a cheap T-shirt. Let's all chip in and get her an IPOD filled with MP3s of bands who have released their music in MP3 form. We can include major label talent like Wilco and unsigned acts like Phantom Stranger and HEX. Fill it up with your favorites from MP3.com or any other site that you like. Just make sure that they are all legal MP3s.
In fact, let's get two: One for Hillary and one for whoever replaces her. Then they can no longer claim ignorance of all the music out there that is legal to share.
In particular there is a scene at Prof. Chronotis' where the Prof., Romana and the Doctor are talking about Galifreyan stuff, and it just rocks. I think some of it is ad-libbed.
You will find that a lot of Prof. Chronotis made it into the first Dirk Gentley book. I had read the book long before seeing the special edition of Shada and it gave me the strangest sense of de ja vu.
She also eliminated a technical committee that would have enforced the settlement terms. In its place, a corporate committee - consisting of board members who aren't Microsoft employees - will make sure the company lives up to the deal. The judge also gave herself more oversight authority.
Kollar-Kotelly also modified the oversight of Microsoft's compliance with the settlement. Originally, the proposal included a technical committee and an internal compliance officer, both potentially influenced by Microsoft. In Friday's ruling, the judge combined the two into a compliance committee made up of Microsoft board members. In turn, the committee must hire a compliance officer, to report to the committee and to Microsoft's CEO. As corporate officers and non-Microsoft employees, the compliance committee in theory would be more likely to appropriately enforce the settlement in this era of renewed corporate responsibility.
It seems to make some sense since the board members (including Mr. Gates) can be held personally and financialy responsable for conduct that violates the settlement.
It ain't the best, but it's still better than ICANN.
100% of RIAA member companies don't give a damn what consumers think about crippled CDs as long as they keep shelling out $18.99 a crack for Britney et al.
Don't laugh. My old house was in Des Plaines Illinois. If you wanted to have a garage sale, it was a $15 permit and only good for three consecutive days. Only two permits allowed per address, per year. And the local cops did check.
Try getting their status straight and then realize that we are treating them properly. They are not under arrest, they are combatant detainees. We can hold them as long as hostilities persist.
While I agree with your message, I must point out that they are ILLEGAL Combatant detainees which would technically put them at risk for execution. So far, they have ben granted a higher standard of living than they had received in Afghanistan.
But, maybe we should be above this kind of detention. The prisoners are Arabs, correct? Let's send them to some nice Arab country where they can have all their rights respected and protected during their torture and execution. Egypt or Qatar should do the trick. Maybe even Saudi.
Foley agreed to allow Webb to look through the items at his home and when they arrived at his Lakeville Circle townhouse the investigator saw "tons of 'Star Wars' items," Webb said in the affidavit. Foley turned over numerous items, including 25 CDs with images of the film, three videotapes of "Episode I" voice-over tests, 115 storyboard image strips and a hard disk drive with downloaded photo images.
Someone send a copy of this story to the RIAA and MPAA. THIS is stealing. Someone has been deprived of property! Throw the book at this clown.
Gotta run and see if maybe he put some of these sound effects on GNUtella before he got busted. I need a clean light-sabre.WAV file.
Please list three substantitive things that could have been done to get your (friends) money back
1. Release full information of the seller including address, phone and full name of person on the credit card (with billing address) who opened the account.
2. Put a hold on the credit card and turn information over to a collection agency who can perform a skip-trace.
3. Notify local and federal authorities of the possibilty of a case of Felony Fraud. Also provide information to bidders on who to contact specifically to follow up on the case.
None of these will get the money back right away (or maybe at all), but it will put the crook is some serious hot water.
Should eBay eat that and give you money they never had?
Umm, yes? Don't they (claim) to have an insurance policy that covers things like this? Sure, there is a $250 limit, but it is something. You also need to submit the claim in writing within 90 days.
The Gimp works fine for the simple stuff they do. On the high end, I liked Photogenics from Idruna. At $699, it's a bit expensive but if you need it, it's worth it.
"They would also like gasoline for less than $1 dollar a gallon. But we don't confiscate people's property and pass it out because people want it for free."
Maybe this only stikes me as funny because I'm from Chicago, but I seem to think that this has become the main function of government.
And what about the CDR tax in Canada and the blank tape tax here in the US? Record companies wanted more money so they lobbied the government to confiscate ours and pass it out to them. I don't see the difference.
I was just looking at the Gentoo Linux page when this thought hit me:
What about AOL sending out a bootable CD that runs a basic Linux distro and AOL on top. It might be a bit slow and have trouble recognizing all the different modems, but it be cool when it worked.
Tell that the the Artists whos items cant be sold @ Walmart because the content is deemed inappropriate. Censorship can be done by any powerfull body.
This is NOT censorship. The artists are free to produce and distribute whatever they want. But no one has the right to tell someone that they have to help. Walmart has the right to decide what they will sell and what they won't. You are still free to sell your music at Best Buy or Kmart. You have not been censored.
Granted. But what if you want to sell that book later? Is it still the same book you bought?
Used college textbooks sell for 1/2 to 2/3 of the price of new texts, even if they're the same edition and only a single semester old, for this reason: by applying your edits to the book, you're decreasing its value to anyone but yourself.
You seem to be opening a whole new can of worms. If you sell a book that you have torn pages from or written in, should that be illegal? You say it is of less value? What if Jim Morrison wrote poetry in the margins? Isn't that more valuable?
And what about the used book sellers? They are buying used books and reselling them at a profit and the author never sees a dime. How many times can you resell Darwin's The Origin of Man before it's worn out? Should the publisher be paid for each resale?
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To quote Tom Lehrer:
Once all the Germans were war-like and mean,
but that could never happen again.
We taught them a lesson in 1918,
and they've hardly bothered us since then!
-From the Song "MLF Lullabye"
Yes, the Swiss had a public referendum on joining the UN. It won in a squeaker: 12 cantons (like US states) for, 11 cantons against.
Yeah, but that last canton had a huge number of disputed votes mistakenly cast for Pat Buchanan!
The reality is, this only screws up P2P in its use to violate copyrights
You know, I still take issue that sharing music on the net would be considered violating copyright. I thought that the law required you recieve something of value in exchange for the work. That is what covered making a mix tape and giving it to your friends. Since I still buy music, I don't see what is illegal about sharing some of it with my community (Gnutella) free of charge, at my cost.
Remember, the music industry is loosely associated with the war industry [gortbusters.org].
So if we manage to get rid of the music industry, we can also eliminate war? I guess I'll trade Britney Spears music career for peace.
Forget a cheap T-shirt. Let's all chip in and get her an IPOD filled with MP3s of bands who have released their music in MP3 form. We can include major label talent like Wilco and unsigned acts like Phantom Stranger and HEX. Fill it up with your favorites from MP3.com or any other site that you like. Just make sure that they are all legal MP3s.
In fact, let's get two: One for Hillary and one for whoever replaces her. Then they can no longer claim ignorance of all the music out there that is legal to share.
Great. We can watch him on live TV trying to remember which password he used for his email...
My two year old learned how to reboot when she was only 14 months. Guess that means she has mastered Windows....
In particular there is a scene at Prof. Chronotis' where the Prof., Romana and the Doctor are talking about Galifreyan stuff, and it just rocks. I think some of it is ad-libbed.
You will find that a lot of Prof. Chronotis made it into the first Dirk Gentley book. I had read the book long before seeing the special edition of Shada and it gave me the strangest sense of de ja vu.
I think you are missing the full quotes.
From the AP:
She also eliminated a technical committee that would have enforced the settlement terms. In its place, a corporate committee - consisting of board members who aren't Microsoft employees - will make sure the company lives up to the deal. The judge also gave herself more oversight authority.
From NEWS.COM:
Kollar-Kotelly also modified the oversight of Microsoft's compliance with the settlement. Originally, the proposal included a technical committee and an internal compliance officer, both potentially influenced by Microsoft. In Friday's ruling, the judge combined the two into a compliance committee made up of Microsoft board members. In turn, the committee must hire a compliance officer, to report to the committee and to Microsoft's CEO. As corporate officers and non-Microsoft employees, the compliance committee in theory would be more likely to appropriately enforce the settlement in this era of renewed corporate responsibility.
It seems to make some sense since the board members (including Mr. Gates) can be held personally and financialy responsable for conduct that violates the settlement.
It ain't the best, but it's still better than ICANN.
100% of RIAA member companies don't give a damn what consumers think about crippled CDs as long as they keep shelling out $18.99 a crack for Britney et al.
Don't laugh. My old house was in Des Plaines Illinois. If you wanted to have a garage sale, it was a $15 permit and only good for three consecutive days. Only two permits allowed per address, per year. And the local cops did check.
My fave is still an error from the TRSDOS days:
Error: Unprintable Error
Come on! You can tell me.
Sorry to break your heart, but I'm not her and I'm already married. I just wanted some modifier on combatant to designate that they are not POWs.
Keep swinging. Love your work.
Try getting their status straight and then realize that we are treating them properly. They are not under arrest, they are combatant detainees. We can hold them as long as hostilities persist.
While I agree with your message, I must point out that they are ILLEGAL Combatant detainees which would technically put them at risk for execution. So far, they have ben granted a higher standard of living than they had received in Afghanistan.
But, maybe we should be above this kind of detention. The prisoners are Arabs, correct? Let's send them to some nice Arab country where they can have all their rights respected and protected during their torture and execution. Egypt or Qatar should do the trick. Maybe even Saudi.
From the Marin Newspaper:
.WAV file.
Foley agreed to allow Webb to look through the items at his home and when they arrived at his Lakeville Circle townhouse the investigator saw "tons of 'Star Wars' items," Webb said in the affidavit. Foley turned over numerous items, including 25 CDs with images of the film, three videotapes of "Episode I" voice-over tests, 115 storyboard image strips and a hard disk drive with downloaded photo images.
Someone send a copy of this story to the RIAA and MPAA. THIS is stealing. Someone has been deprived of property! Throw the book at this clown.
Gotta run and see if maybe he put some of these sound effects on GNUtella before he got busted. I need a clean light-sabre
Please list three substantitive things that could have been done to get your (friends) money back
1. Release full information of the seller including address, phone and full name of person on the credit card (with billing address) who opened the account.
2. Put a hold on the credit card and turn information over to a collection agency who can perform a skip-trace.
3. Notify local and federal authorities of the possibilty of a case of Felony Fraud. Also provide information to bidders on who to contact specifically to follow up on the case.
None of these will get the money back right away (or maybe at all), but it will put the crook is some serious hot water.
Should eBay eat that and give you money they never had?
Umm, yes? Don't they (claim) to have an insurance policy that covers things like this? Sure, there is a $250 limit, but it is something. You also need to submit the claim in writing within 90 days.
>I hate that weather-balloon that keeps ubducting
>Aunt Laura and poking her in the brain
Her brain?
Aren't they taking kind of the long way around to get to it?
Obviously, you don't know Aunt Laura.....
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of those!
Sorry. I couldn't control myself.
The Gimp works fine for the simple stuff they do. On the high end, I liked Photogenics from Idruna. At $699, it's a bit expensive but if you need it, it's worth it.
"They would also like gasoline for less than $1 dollar a gallon. But we don't confiscate people's property and pass it out because people want it for free."
Maybe this only stikes me as funny because I'm from Chicago, but I seem to think that this has become the main function of government.
And what about the CDR tax in Canada and the blank tape tax here in the US? Record companies wanted more money so they lobbied the government to confiscate ours and pass it out to them. I don't see the difference.
I was just looking at the Gentoo Linux page when this thought hit me:
What about AOL sending out a bootable CD that runs a basic Linux distro and AOL on top. It might be a bit slow and have trouble recognizing all the different modems, but it be cool when it worked.
If AOL goes stable on Linux, I can get their P-233s off Win98 and save myself a lot of support headaches.
I know. It was a Monday morning. Glad someone noticed..
Tell that the the Artists whos items cant be sold @ Walmart because the content is deemed inappropriate. Censorship can be done by any powerfull body.
This is NOT censorship. The artists are free to produce and distribute whatever they want. But no one has the right to tell someone that they have to help. Walmart has the right to decide what they will sell and what they won't. You are still free to sell your music at Best Buy or Kmart. You have not been censored.
Granted. But what if you want to sell that book later? Is it still the same book you bought?
Used college textbooks sell for 1/2 to 2/3 of the price of new texts, even if they're the same edition and only a single semester old, for this reason: by applying your edits to the book, you're decreasing its value to anyone but yourself.
You seem to be opening a whole new can of worms. If you sell a book that you have torn pages from or written in, should that be illegal? You say it is of less value? What if Jim Morrison wrote poetry in the margins? Isn't that more valuable?
And what about the used book sellers? They are buying used books and reselling them at a profit and the author never sees a dime. How many times can you resell Darwin's The Origin of Man before it's worn out? Should the publisher be paid for each resale?