Oracle Software Corporation"is working on the Network Computer. This will be a marriage of your home TV with the worldwide web... In this setup, your TV will become the computer and your remote control will give you the means to work the system. Of course, you will not be able to gain access or get your TV to operate at all until you insert into the Network Computer's accessory device your personal Universal Biometrics I.D. Card."
"Oracle's founder, billionaire Larry Ellison, is the present darling of the Illuminati crowd. When President Clinton traveled to California last October, news reporters obsdrved Ellison climbing into the back seat of Clinton's presidential limo. 'I was explaining to him how the Network Computer will operate', said Ellison."
"Oracle was the company chosen two years ago by the National Security Agency, the CIA, and the U.S. State Department to develop a national I.D. card control system in Mexico. Every citizen of Mexico was issued a high tech I.D. Card, ostensibly for voter registration purposes. Actually, this was part of the Illuminati's campaign.... to require every man, woman, and child on Earth to soon be issued the Universal Biometrics I.D. Card."
Remember that one of the key points about the Masters of the Illuminati: they never implement anything on a global scale that they have not first tested out on a limited scale.
Many people have questioned as to whether the people involved in the New World Order Plan know that they are involved in fulfilling Biblical prophecy. In most cases, I say, "no" , I think they are just puppets dancing on the end of the string being manipulated by Satan. But, in the case of this company, the Oracle, I am not so sure that Larry Ellison is ignorant of the fact that he is helping fulfill Bible prophecy, on the side of Antichrist. When Ellison chose the name, "Oracle" for his company, surely he was aware that the meaning of the word signifies his knowledge of what he is doing. "Oracle" means, "something that is foretold by, or as if by supernatural means", or simply "prophecy"! Certainly, the developmental work which Oracle is performing does fulfill Biblical prophecy!
Wasn't there a part in that movie where a Soviet is in awe over how he can move to montana without asking for aproval or being tracked? I hope we don't become a Stallinized Republic.
Borodin: Do you think they will let me live in Montana?
Capt. Ramius: I would think they'll let you live wherever you want.
Borodin: Good. Then I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman, and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pick-up truck, or umm... possibly even...a recreational vehicle, and drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?
They who will not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Recent events raise ghosts of the past.
* January 30, 1933 Weimar Republic President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolph Hitler Chancellor.
* February 27, 1933 The German Parliament (Reichstag) burns down. A dazed Dutch Communist named Marinus van der Lubbe is found at the scene and charged with arson. [He is later found guilty and executed].
* February 28, 1933 President Hindenburg and Chancellor Hitler invoke Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, which permits the suspension of civil liberties in time of national emergency. This Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the People and State abrogates the following constitutional protections:
- Free expression of opinion
- Freedom of the press
- Right of assembly and association
- Right to privacy of postal and electronic communications
- Protection against unlawful searches and seizures
- Individual property rights
- States' right of self-government
* A supplemental decree creates the SA (Storm Troops) and SS (Special Security) Federal police agencies.
Mouse: Do you know what it really reminds me of? Tasty Wheat. Did you ever eat Tasty Wheat?
Switch: No, but technically neither did you.
Mouse: That's exactly my point. Exactly. Becuase you have to wonder now, now how do machines really know what Tasty Wheat tasted like. Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things...
As a rather novice Linux user, I've been curious as the differences between it and BSD. Can somebody point to a link that goes into some rather sophisticated detail between the two? (More than "Supports themes, is cool, etc.")
and written Congress about this? I wrote my rep and 2 senators today....act fast people. Congress reconvenes on the 21st and you can bet crypto will rear its head on the agenda pretty quick!
If you're looking for some good points to bring up in writing your elected officials about this, Bruce Schneier of Counterpane wrote a great piece in this week's Crypto-Gram:
11 September 2001
Both sides of the calendar debate were wrong; the new century began on 11 September 2001.
All day I fielded phone calls from reporters looking for the "computer security angle" to the story. I couldn't find one, although I expect several to come out of the aftermath.
Calls for increased security began immediately. Unfortunately, the quickest and easy way to satisfy those demands is by decreasing liberties. This is always short sighted; real security solutions exist that preserve the free society that we all hold dear, but they're harder to find and require reasoned debate. Strong police forces without Constitutional limitations might appeal to those wanting immediate safety, but the reality is the opposite. Laws that limit police power can increase security, by enforcing honesty, integrity, and fairness. It is our very liberties that make our society as safe as it is.
In times of crisis it's easy to disregard these liberties or, worse, to actively attack them and stigmatize those who support them. We've already seen government proposals for increased wiretapping capabilities and renewed rhetoric about encryption limitations. I fully expect more automatic surveillance of ordinary citizens, limits on information flow and digital-security technologies, and general xenophobia. I do not expect much debate about their actual effectiveness, or their effects on freedom and liberty. It's easier just to react. In 1996, TWA Flight 800 exploded and crashed in the Atlantic. Originally people thought it was a missile attack. The FBI demanded, and Congress passed, a law giving law enforcement greater abilities to expel aliens from the country. Eventually we learned the crash was caused by a mechanical malfunction, but the law still stands.
We live in a world where nation states are not the only institutions which wield power. International bodies, corporations, non-governmental organizations, pan-national ethnicities, and disparate political groups all have the ability to affect the world in an unprecedented manner. As we adjust to this new reality, it is important that we don't become the very forces we abhor. I consider the terrorist attacks on September 11th to be an attack against America's ideals. If our freedoms erode because of those attacks, then the terrorists have won.
The ideals we uphold during a crisis define who we are. Freedom and liberty have a price, and that price is constant vigilance so it not be taken from us in the name of security. Ben Franklin said something that was often repeated during the American Revolutionary War: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." It is no less true today.
They don't want to learn, they don't want to change, and therefore any effort expended towards converting those that don't wish to be converted is wasted energy.
What about all those companies out there that have been installing way more copies of Windows and Office than they have purchased who won't be able to get away with it in the future because of Windows/Office XP's tight licensing?
Whether I want to use Lotus Smart Suite, MS Office, KOffice, or StarOffice is really irrelevant if my employer says "This is what we use here, so deal with it!" Once a software package becomes a company standard, it becomes common in homes as people start using it to take work home from the office, etc. Then they start keeping their recipes on it and using it to write letters and let their kids do homework on.
You'd think alot of CFOs and CIOs are taking notice of the improving quality of Linux and its low/free cost office suites as really viable alternatives, especially since they are improving rapidly. I like KOffice, but my money is on StarOffice being the one who steals the show because it is available for Win32 as well, and alot of PHBs will trust something with Sun's sticker on it more than an open source project, regardless of quality or features.
Rich text format seems to be the preferred document format among open-source word processors, yet KWord still lacks this feature. Heck, even MS-Word can read and save RTF! Supporting a common document format--instead of just *.kwd and *.txt--is going to be important for interoperability with other OSS office suites and the MS-Office world. Same goes for spreadsheet and presentation graphics file formats.
2) KOffice needs to have provisions for English measurement parameters in KWord and its other products. Yes, the geeks out there can convert to mm, but if you wanna get users off MS-Office, simple features like this will be important.
"There are other current movements of which to take note, as yet
insubstantial but certain to gather concrete form. One is the retreat of
human rights lawyers from the forefront of public life. America in a war
mood will have no truck with tender concern for constitutional
safeguards of the liberty of its enemies. The other, which ordinary
Americans will have to learn to bear, is interference with their liberty
of instant electronic access to friends and services."
"The World Trade Centre outrage was co-ordinated on the internet,
without question. If Washington is serious in its determination to
eliminate terrorism, it will have to forbid internet providers to allow
the transmission of encrypted messages - now encoded by public key
ciphers that are unbreakable even by the National Security Agency's
computers - and close down any provider that refuses to comply."
"Uncompliant providers on foreign territory should expect their
buildings to be destroyed by cruise missiles. Once the internet is
implicated in the killing of Americans, its high-rolling days may be
reckoned to be over."
==========
The "Torygraph" is the most conservative of Britain's serious
newspapers, and is edited from (IIRC) the 30th floor of London's tallest
office tower, which overlooks London City Airport, from which STOL
planes take off pointing straight at the tower. I know, I've been there
myself, it scared me then. Their fear is excusable. Their
bloodthirstiness is understandable. Their stupidity is neither.
I know Dianne Feinstein won't listen. She loves the DMCA and now is one of the co-authors of this knee-jerk legislation to make law enforcement and angry citizens feel good that gov't. is "doing something." Ironically this most likely won't do anything to stop terrorists...good--real good--OSS crypto is already available overseas, largely due to previous U.S. crypto policy that drove coders to develop elsewhere. Does anyone honestly believe that terrorists are going to use crippled crypto that has a backdoor in it?
This is just like music, where 99.9% of the music out there is pushed by majors, paid off by song promoters, and bribed onto radio stations that play the same song over and over. You want Alejandro or the Vigilantes of Love? Too damn bad, right? No...you just have to look, listen, and use word of mouth to do an end-run around the business
And what better place to find the music you cant listen to on your local radio station? The Net of course...Audiogalaxy, Morpheus, Gnutella, or SHOUTcast, all of which are commercial sites. Hell, SHOUTcast is even owned by AOL-TW, but they let "stations" broadcast whatever type of audio content they choose.
Its just because all the mainstream average everday people from real life have started using the Internet....The stats are just skewed by the influx of lots of Joe Smiths.
I think tmh31 got to the heart of the matter with his/her post. When you look in history at the "typical" Net user and Internet content prior to the AOL hordes coming online in the mid 90's, of course it was largely technical/academic/scientific. The Web was barely in its infancy, and most content was via Usenet, Fidonet BBS's, and text-only email. Commericial access in your home via dial-up was hard to come by for folks outside academic and scientific circles.
Of course, things have changed. Most users consider themselves behind the power curve if they don't have Cable/DSL broadband in their homes, and just about any city in the U.S. has at least dial-up access. With access everywhere now and modern Web browsers and IM software and IP capable games - combined with years of hype over e-shopping, free stuff, pr0n, entertainment, news, and market speculation - how can any reasonable observer NOT conclude that millions of Joe Sixpacks from Peoria would be online doing mainstream, Wal-Mart stuff?
Sure, there's alot of packaged, cookie-cutter content out there now, because there are alot of mainstream Net users. That doesn't mean any of the eclectic content *isn't* there for those who want to view it or post it.
Whether you're ambivalent to or frustrated by the commercialization of the Net, think about what incentive your broadband provider would have had to roll out your broadband had the "critical masses" never come online....only a few would be in the right jobs/universities to have l33t high speed connections.
Did you read the article? It didn't say that there wasn't a whole lot of eclectic stuff on the web. It only said that, by and large, most web users don't look at it. The "typical" Internet user is now someone who logs on, gets what they need from a few well-known sites, and logs off.
You mean checks the NASCAR results and goes back to playing Redneck Rampage? This almost sounds like gamers being all up in arms that "Deer Hunter" was one of the top selling PC games in its time, but it's just another indicator that Joe Sixpack has a PC with a net connection now, and there are a helluva lot more Joe Sixpacks out there than/. types.
Slashdot Mirror
so i could get life in prison for spray painting graffiti on a federal building like, say, my local post office?
Oracle Software Corporation"is working on the Network Computer. This will be a marriage of your home TV with the worldwide web ... In this setup, your TV will become the computer and your remote control will give you the means to work the system. Of course, you will not be able to gain access or get your TV to operate at all until you insert into the Network Computer's accessory device your personal Universal Biometrics I.D. Card."
.... to require every man, woman, and child on Earth to soon be issued the Universal Biometrics I.D. Card."
"Oracle's founder, billionaire Larry Ellison, is the present darling of the Illuminati crowd. When President Clinton traveled to California last October, news reporters obsdrved Ellison climbing into the back seat of Clinton's presidential limo. 'I was explaining to him how the Network Computer will operate', said Ellison."
"Oracle was the company chosen two years ago by the National Security Agency, the CIA, and the U.S. State Department to develop a national I.D. card control system in Mexico. Every citizen of Mexico was issued a high tech I.D. Card, ostensibly for voter registration purposes. Actually, this was part of the Illuminati's campaign
Remember that one of the key points about the Masters of the Illuminati: they never implement anything on a global scale that they have not first tested out on a limited scale.
Many people have questioned as to whether the people involved in the New World Order Plan know that they are involved in fulfilling Biblical prophecy. In most cases, I say, "no" , I think they are just puppets dancing on the end of the string being manipulated by Satan. But, in the case of this company, the Oracle, I am not so sure that Larry Ellison is ignorant of the fact that he is helping fulfill Bible prophecy, on the side of Antichrist. When Ellison chose the name, "Oracle" for his company, surely he was aware that the meaning of the word signifies his knowledge of what he is doing. "Oracle" means, "something that is foretold by, or as if by supernatural means", or simply "prophecy"! Certainly, the developmental work which Oracle is performing does fulfill Biblical prophecy!
More at: http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1063.html
Oracle has 6 letters...Larry Has 5...Ellison has 7. Ad them up and you get 18, which is thrice times 6.
Beware!
Wasn't there a part in that movie where a Soviet is in awe over how he can move to montana without asking for aproval or being tracked? I hope we don't become a Stallinized Republic.
Borodin: Do you think they will let me live in Montana?
Capt. Ramius: I would think they'll let you live wherever you want.
Borodin: Good. Then I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman, and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pick-up truck, or umm... possibly even...a recreational vehicle, and drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?
Capt. Ramius: Oh yes.
Borodin: No papers?
Capt. Ramius: No papers. State-to-state.
Just to be sure, this afternoon I went down to the store and bought a copy of FrontPage 2002 myself.
:-)
Now that you know you *are* gonna take it back, right?
They who will not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Recent events raise ghosts of the past.
* January 30, 1933 Weimar Republic President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolph Hitler Chancellor.
* February 27, 1933 The German Parliament (Reichstag) burns down. A dazed Dutch Communist named Marinus van der Lubbe is found at the scene and charged with arson. [He is later found guilty and executed].
* February 28, 1933 President Hindenburg and Chancellor Hitler invoke Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, which permits the suspension of civil liberties in time of national emergency. This Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the People and State abrogates the following constitutional protections:
- Free expression of opinion
- Freedom of the press
- Right of assembly and association
- Right to privacy of postal and electronic communications
- Protection against unlawful searches and seizures
- Individual property rights
- States' right of self-government
* A supplemental decree creates the SA (Storm Troops) and SS (Special Security) Federal police agencies.
So did Thomas Jefferson:
"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither."
No guns. Most people view this as the freedom not to be shot. You might not.
;)
How the hell do you Limeys go grouse hunting, then?
Mouse: Do you know what it really reminds me of? Tasty Wheat. Did you ever eat Tasty Wheat?
Switch: No, but technically neither did you.
Mouse: That's exactly my point. Exactly. Becuase you have to wonder now, now how do machines really know what Tasty Wheat tasted like. Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things...
No bills are on the table yet.
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Last week after the attacks Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) made a speech to the Senate calling for backdoor access to encryption software.
If you want to read more, these links have details:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-7149229-0.ht
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46816,0
Note: Congress reconvenes on Friday, so if you give a shit about nipping this in the bud, write/email/call/fax your respective officials immediately!
Don't know how to contact them? Go to congress.org
Heh, that would make a good bumper sticker/T-Shirt!
As a rather novice Linux user, I've been curious as the differences between it and BSD. Can somebody point to a link that goes into some rather sophisticated detail between the two? (More than "Supports themes, is cool, etc.")
This article might be a good read for you:
http://www.daemonnews.org/199907/d-advocate.html
That op/ed piece in the "Tory-Graph" was written by British historian Johhn Keegan. What a fucking clueless idiot.
and written Congress about this? I wrote my rep and 2 senators today....act fast people. Congress reconvenes on the 21st and you can bet crypto will rear its head on the agenda pretty quick!
If you're looking for some good points to bring up in writing your elected officials about this, Bruce Schneier of Counterpane wrote a great piece in this week's Crypto-Gram:
11 September 2001
Both sides of the calendar debate were wrong; the new century began on 11 September 2001.
All day I fielded phone calls from reporters looking for the "computer security angle" to the story. I couldn't find one, although I expect several to come out of the aftermath.
Calls for increased security began immediately. Unfortunately, the quickest and easy way to satisfy those demands is by decreasing liberties. This is always short sighted; real security solutions exist that preserve the free society that we all hold dear, but they're harder to find and require reasoned debate. Strong police forces without Constitutional limitations might appeal to those wanting immediate safety, but the reality is the opposite. Laws that limit police power can increase security, by enforcing honesty, integrity, and fairness. It is our very liberties that make our society as safe as it is.
In times of crisis it's easy to disregard these liberties or, worse, to actively attack them and stigmatize those who support them. We've already seen government proposals for increased wiretapping capabilities and renewed rhetoric about encryption limitations. I fully expect more automatic surveillance of ordinary citizens, limits on information flow and digital-security technologies, and general xenophobia. I do not expect much debate about their actual effectiveness, or their effects on freedom and liberty. It's easier just to react. In 1996, TWA Flight 800 exploded and crashed in the Atlantic. Originally people thought it was a missile attack. The FBI demanded, and Congress passed, a law giving law enforcement greater abilities to expel aliens from the country. Eventually we learned the crash was caused by a mechanical malfunction, but the law still stands.
We live in a world where nation states are not the only institutions which wield power. International bodies, corporations, non-governmental organizations, pan-national ethnicities, and disparate political groups all have the ability to affect the world in an unprecedented manner. As we adjust to this new reality, it is important that we don't become the very forces we abhor. I consider the terrorist attacks on September 11th to be an attack against America's ideals. If our freedoms erode because of those attacks, then the terrorists have won.
The ideals we uphold during a crisis define who we are. Freedom and liberty have a price, and that price is constant vigilance so it not be taken from us in the name of security. Ben Franklin said something that was often repeated during the American Revolutionary War: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." It is no less true today.
They don't want to learn, they don't want to change, and therefore any effort expended towards converting those that don't wish to be converted is wasted energy.
What about all those companies out there that have been installing way more copies of Windows and Office than they have purchased who won't be able to get away with it in the future because of Windows/Office XP's tight licensing?
Whether I want to use Lotus Smart Suite, MS Office, KOffice, or StarOffice is really irrelevant if my employer says "This is what we use here, so deal with it!" Once a software package becomes a company standard, it becomes common in homes as people start using it to take work home from the office, etc. Then they start keeping their recipes on it and using it to write letters and let their kids do homework on.
You'd think alot of CFOs and CIOs are taking notice of the improving quality of Linux and its low/free cost office suites as really viable alternatives, especially since they are improving rapidly. I like KOffice, but my money is on StarOffice being the one who steals the show because it is available for Win32 as well, and alot of PHBs will trust something with Sun's sticker on it more than an open source project, regardless of quality or features.
ah, cool, thank you!
...KOffice/Kword to make a big hit with users:
1) Allow reading/saving of documents as *.rtf
Rich text format seems to be the preferred document format among open-source word processors, yet KWord still lacks this feature. Heck, even MS-Word can read and save RTF! Supporting a common document format--instead of just *.kwd and *.txt--is going to be important for interoperability with other OSS office suites and the MS-Office world. Same goes for spreadsheet and presentation graphics file formats.
2) KOffice needs to have provisions for English measurement parameters in KWord and its other products. Yes, the geeks out there can convert to mm, but if you wanna get users off MS-Office, simple features like this will be important.
This surfaced on Declan McCullagh's Politechbot list this evening:
2 32 037638&rtmo=pUsM4USe&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/01/9/14/do0 1.html
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02514.html
In an opinion column in the London Daily Telegraph, John Keegan calls
for a combined US/Russian/British invasion of Afghanistan:
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk:80/dt?ac=006026
He then goes on to say, and I quote:
==========
"There are other current movements of which to take note, as yet
insubstantial but certain to gather concrete form. One is the retreat of
human rights lawyers from the forefront of public life. America in a war
mood will have no truck with tender concern for constitutional
safeguards of the liberty of its enemies. The other, which ordinary
Americans will have to learn to bear, is interference with their liberty
of instant electronic access to friends and services."
"The World Trade Centre outrage was co-ordinated on the internet,
without question. If Washington is serious in its determination to
eliminate terrorism, it will have to forbid internet providers to allow
the transmission of encrypted messages - now encoded by public key
ciphers that are unbreakable even by the National Security Agency's
computers - and close down any provider that refuses to comply."
"Uncompliant providers on foreign territory should expect their
buildings to be destroyed by cruise missiles. Once the internet is
implicated in the killing of Americans, its high-rolling days may be
reckoned to be over."
==========
The "Torygraph" is the most conservative of Britain's serious
newspapers, and is edited from (IIRC) the 30th floor of London's tallest
office tower, which overlooks London City Airport, from which STOL
planes take off pointing straight at the tower. I know, I've been there
myself, it scared me then. Their fear is excusable. Their
bloodthirstiness is understandable. Their stupidity is neither.
Ken Brown
I know Dianne Feinstein won't listen. She loves the DMCA and now is one of the co-authors of this knee-jerk legislation to make law enforcement and angry citizens feel good that gov't. is "doing something." Ironically this most likely won't do anything to stop terrorists...good--real good--OSS crypto is already available overseas, largely due to previous U.S. crypto policy that drove coders to develop elsewhere. Does anyone honestly believe that terrorists are going to use crippled crypto that has a backdoor in it?
This is just like music, where 99.9% of the music out there is pushed by majors, paid off by song promoters, and bribed onto radio stations that play the same song over and over. You want Alejandro or the Vigilantes of Love? Too damn bad, right? No...you just have to look, listen, and use word of mouth to do an end-run around the business
And what better place to find the music you cant listen to on your local radio station? The Net of course...Audiogalaxy, Morpheus, Gnutella, or SHOUTcast, all of which are commercial sites. Hell, SHOUTcast is even owned by AOL-TW, but they let "stations" broadcast whatever type of audio content they choose.
Its just because all the mainstream average everday people from real life have started using the Internet....The stats are just skewed by the influx of lots of Joe Smiths.
I think tmh31 got to the heart of the matter with his/her post. When you look in history at the "typical" Net user and Internet content prior to the AOL hordes coming online in the mid 90's, of course it was largely technical/academic/scientific. The Web was barely in its infancy, and most content was via Usenet, Fidonet BBS's, and text-only email. Commericial access in your home via dial-up was hard to come by for folks outside academic and scientific circles.
Of course, things have changed. Most users consider themselves behind the power curve if they don't have Cable/DSL broadband in their homes, and just about any city in the U.S. has at least dial-up access. With access everywhere now and modern Web browsers and IM software and IP capable games - combined with years of hype over e-shopping, free stuff, pr0n, entertainment, news, and market speculation - how can any reasonable observer NOT conclude that millions of Joe Sixpacks from Peoria would be online doing mainstream, Wal-Mart stuff?
Sure, there's alot of packaged, cookie-cutter content out there now, because there are alot of mainstream Net users. That doesn't mean any of the eclectic content *isn't* there for those who want to view it or post it.
Whether you're ambivalent to or frustrated by the commercialization of the Net, think about what incentive your broadband provider would have had to roll out your broadband had the "critical masses" never come online....only a few would be in the right jobs/universities to have l33t high speed connections.
Did you read the article? It didn't say that there wasn't a whole lot of eclectic stuff on the web. It only said that, by and large, most web users don't look at it. The "typical" Internet user is now someone who logs on, gets what they need from a few well-known sites, and logs off.
/. types.
You mean checks the NASCAR results and goes back to playing Redneck Rampage? This almost sounds like gamers being all up in arms that "Deer Hunter" was one of the top selling PC games in its time, but it's just another indicator that Joe Sixpack has a PC with a net connection now, and there are a helluva lot more Joe Sixpacks out there than
The MPAA proposing a tax on VHS cassettes?
Publishers demanding taxes on copier paper from Office Depot?
The BSA wanting to tax hard drives?
"Budweiser would jump at that shit in 30 seconds" --George Carlin