You make acouple very good points but I do think that Canada still does have fairly good values. At least with the people that I hang with.
I would definitely be in for that discussion. As soon as I get my computer at home working I'll check out pp.fishpool.fi.
Thanks, I'm always open for intellectual talks. So few of my friends are into it anymore.
As a last off topic post if you could reply if you are going to do this that would be great. Hopefully others will be interested and join as well.
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Now, I'm thinking that I wasn't very clear with my original posting. I'm not here to discuss if "sharing" mp3's is legal or not. I'm triing to get across some other more important points.
1) It always happens that the small company will get trampled by the big corp. In the end this will hurt the end comsumer(user fees in this case).
2) People seem to more and more just going with the fold and not questioning if what they are following makes any sense! (ie hungarian notation)
3) Corporations are gaining *way* too much power in the US legal system. There it doesn't matter if you are innocent or not. Victory goes to the one with the most money(better lawer) and/or the one with the most politicians under their thumbs.
4) With all of this society seems to be falling apart. People aren't helping eachother anymore and are turning a blind eye to to many things, all in the name of greed.
This is what I think about society in general and that land of the "free". If you want to discuss this further I'd apreciate a more civil tone. Remember that with these email and slashdot there is a backspace key. Something that too many people forget to use before they press send.
If you wish to discuss this privatly then just say so and I'll send you a mail.
Yes, my spelling sucks, please don't comment on that (not that you would, I've had it happen before). ---------
...I was told to share and share I did. Now it seems if people want to share they have to do it in the underground.
What happened to society? People used to care for eachother and now that only happens in small towns if that! And now corps. are starting to slap our hands for sharing.
This disturbs me. It distrubs me very much because the trends seems going that way. And gaining way too much momentum!
For example that International Treaty that will make legal hacking illegal. That is the field I want to get into and once I get a job doing it I don't want my hands to be tied.
Canada probably won't sign it...but it still scares me. At least for my future colleages.
These things may not seem to be linked on the surface but the underlying principles are the same.
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You make acouple very good points but I do think that Canada still does have fairly good values. At least with the people that I hang with.
I would definitely be in for that discussion. As soon as I get my computer at home working I'll check out pp.fishpool.fi.
Thanks, I'm always open for intellectual talks. So few of my friends are into it anymore.
As a last off topic post if you could reply if you are going to do this that would be great. Hopefully others will be interested and join as well.
later
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Now, I'm thinking that I wasn't very clear with my original posting. I'm not here to discuss if "sharing" mp3's is legal or not. I'm triing to get across some other more important points.
1) It always happens that the small company will get trampled by the big corp. In the end this will hurt the end comsumer(user fees in this case).
2) People seem to more and more just going with the fold and not questioning if what they are following makes any sense! (ie hungarian notation)
3) Corporations are gaining *way* too much power in the US legal system. There it doesn't matter if you are innocent or not. Victory goes to the one with the most money(better lawer) and/or the one with the most politicians under their thumbs.
4) With all of this society seems to be falling apart. People aren't helping eachother anymore and are turning a blind eye to to many things, all in the name of greed.
This is what I think about society in general and that land of the "free". If you want to discuss this further I'd apreciate a more civil tone. Remember that with these email and slashdot there is a backspace key. Something that too many people forget to use before they press send.
If you wish to discuss this privatly then just say so and I'll send you a mail.
Yes, my spelling sucks, please don't comment on that (not that you would, I've had it happen before).
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...I was told to share and share I did. Now it seems if people want to share they have to do it in the underground.
What happened to society? People used to care for eachother and now that only happens in small towns if that! And now corps. are starting to slap our hands for sharing.
This disturbs me. It distrubs me very much because the trends seems going that way. And gaining way too much momentum!
For example that International Treaty that will make legal hacking illegal. That is the field I want to get into and once I get a job doing it I don't want my hands to be tied.
Canada probably won't sign it...but it still scares me. At least for my future colleages.
These things may not seem to be linked on the surface but the underlying principles are the same.
---------
If you truly love the memory, you must set it free()!
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