User: jamesarcher

Orrin Hatch -- Stud

On: Compulsory Licensing for Online Music?

I think it's pretty obvious that this will never fly. Copyright is such a fundamental part of American society that it such a notion can hardly be regarded as anything but ridiculous.

On the other hand, it is a profound political statement on behalf of "the other view" of copyright; that information wants to be free, and all that.

I hereby nominate Orrin Hatch as /. Stud of the Week.

According to the Bible (for what it's worth)

On: Is Computer Sex Adultery?

I quote this not as scripture (I know that many or most people here don't accept it as such), but just as one possible viewpoint and answer to the question:

Matthew, Chapter 5:
27: Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
28: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Just a thought.

Earth: Now With Flavor Crystals(tm)!

On: World's Largest Crystals

Some possible uses for giant gypsum crystals:

• Break them off and swordfight with them, like you would with icicles.
• Use them as a cheap, plentiful substitute for dilithium crystals.
• Make a big do-it-yourself radio.
• Make really, really big new age stuff.
• Get some naked people down there and reserve CrystalPorn.com, CrystalSex.com, and SexWithCrystals.com.
• Open-source the crystals.
• Criticize the crystals for patenting things.
• Imagine Quake III would run on a Beowulf cluster of crystals.
• etc., etc.,