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They don't tell you on the website, but the FreedomForum and the Newseum were founded by Gannett, the corporation that has done the most to destroy local newspaper ownership. There are many, much smarter than me, who belive a media that daily tells us our freedoms are not important does a lot to undermine democracy.
I agree that legislating interoperability would go a long way to fixing the problem. How does anyone propose to get legislation to this effect?
The Internet/Computing industry gave $16,138,743 in the 2002 election cycle. If there is one thing that these people understand, it's Return On Investment.
The AOL/Time Warner deal also showcased [Michael] Powell's nonchalant approach to personal conflicts of interest; he took part in the merger decision despite the fact that his father, Secretary of State Colin Powell, was one of AOL's directors, with lucrative stock options in the company.
Colin made $35M from his stock sales after the merger that his son approved. I wonder if the Powell's had a party when the "death" tax was repealed?
All the buildings either have or are going to get phone lines, so they have to come in somehow. Get dry pairs put in by BT for an "alarm system" and use them to do DSL. If he can get phone lines, you can get copper to the buildings.
SPAM is all about click-through, so they'll at least need a link. If the message is 100% inocuous, the link to http://www.biggerc0ckin30days.com will tip off the filter.
ATHENS--The US Patent Office awarded the country of Greece a patent for "government of a people via said people's involvement in the selection of said government." "Greece invented the concept of democracy over 2000 years ago. We have decided that it is time to enforce our intellectual property rights to this governmental model", Anthony Papatriantafilou, Greece's Ambassador to the United States said yesterday. "We're an ongoing enterprise, and we have to think about our future." Greece will send out letters demanding licensing fees from democratic governments around the globe, said Papatriantafilou. Failure to pay the fees or cease running as a democracy would "bring about legal action from the government of Greece, the only legitimate rights holders to government of, by and for the people."
I think the move toward corporate education at the university level is a good one. Perhaps now that the people being fed the lies are at a cognitive level where they can see through it, they'll fight back. The little ones have been handed this kind of crap for years.
The unsolicited contacting of innocent corporations by unscrupulous individuals attempting to establish a business relationship has to stop.
These insensitive individuals often email their resumes during the dinner hour or during Ally McBeal, when corporations are trying to relax from a difficult day and spend some time with their families.
It's nothing short of harassment and must stop immediately!
Photovoltaic cells produce DC, standard hardware runs on AC, but converts that immediately to DC. Use equipment with DC power supplies and save the nasty AC/DC mess you encounter with photovoltaics.
Gateway supplied DC PCs to a project building a computer lab in a village in Nicaragua--it removed a ton of complexity and cost. The computer lab and satellite dish equipment runs entirely on DC.
Do this in the rolling IT lab and it's a lot simpler and cheaper.
AOL, owner of CNN/Money, also lost out in its attempt to buy back AT&T's 25.5 percent stake in its Time Warner Entertainment unit, which includes Warner Brothers studios, HBO and its cable operations. That stake will become part of AT&T Comcast...
The largest cable company in the US owns 25% of the second largest cable company in the US.
Will Comcast seriously compete with Warner when it may be in their financial interest not to?
Choice in the market is good, unless they decide it's better for us to have no choice.
The problem with the Linux-MS debate is the same with any debate in the Western world--the media controls it. News flash--the media is large corporations. Turns out the large corporation side of the debate (MS) gets the favorable play. Funny how that works...
Linux won't win the debate until RHAT has $100 Billon market cap and builds the disgusting PR machine that can take on MS's disgusting PR machine.
Stories like these show that news is far too important to be gotten from news organizations and they people they employ. Even though we all know there was no script kiddie in Afghanistan dowloading movies on a Comodore, we'll always remember that story, right? Just like we'll all remember that XP is full of Al Queda code. This misinformation is out there for a reason--don't let the media mess with your head!
Howard Zinn describes the American system as a prison. There are the wardens who have all the control over the rules in the prison and keep all the prisoners locked up. There are the prisoners who have no say about their conditions and get what the warden gives them. And then there are the guards. The guards are hired by the wardens to keep the prisoners in line. They are the ones who keep the system of incarceration running, even if they don't get the benefits the wardens get.
In America, we are the wardens. I am talking about the comfortable white collar "middle-class" of which most people who read slashdot are members. Things are kept comfortable for us so we won't decide that the prison system is unfair.
Because things are so good for the middle-class, the middle-class doesn't get political. We don't propose legislation, we complain about changes to the system that has kept us so fat and happy.
Slashdotters probably think of themselves as rebels for hating the DMCA, heck, some probably even think they are the prisoners in the analogy laid out above. But it's all sound and fury--we want our Audis and Playstations and that's more important to us than the rights (or lives) of the prisoners.
Slashdot Mirror
Merry Christmas Uncle Bob, I've slashdotted your startup!
The Phone Butler takes over, delivers his legally-correct message in a very polite, British-butler's voice
It's good to see that Webley the email Butler got some work after he was laid off in favor of CommuniKate
Would you want your support staff inundated with calls from people confused by a new system? Probably not.
Clearly the author never upgraded a company from Win98 to XP.
Luckily we have a free press to keep an eye out for and condemn anti-democratic coups.
They don't tell you on the website, but the FreedomForum and the Newseum were founded by Gannett, the corporation that has done the most to destroy local newspaper ownership. There are many, much smarter than me, who belive a media that daily tells us our freedoms are not important does a lot to undermine democracy.
I agree that legislating interoperability would go a long way to fixing the problem. How does anyone propose to get legislation to this effect?
The Internet/Computing industry gave $16,138,743 in the 2002 election cycle. If there is one thing that these people understand, it's Return On Investment.
From FAIR.org:
Colin made $35M from his stock sales after the merger that his son approved. I wonder if the Powell's had a party when the "death" tax was repealed?
My friend Isaac would like to test out this service.
All the buildings either have or are going to get phone lines, so they have to come in somehow. Get dry pairs put in by BT for an "alarm system" and use them to do DSL. If he can get phone lines, you can get copper to the buildings.
If you can run your own copper DSL dry pair should be an option.
SPAM is all about click-through, so they'll at least need a link. If the message is 100% inocuous, the link to http://www.biggerc0ckin30days.com will tip off the filter.
ATHENS--The US Patent Office awarded the country of Greece a patent for "government of a people via said people's involvement in the selection of said government." "Greece invented the concept of democracy over 2000 years ago. We have decided that it is time to enforce our intellectual property rights to this governmental model", Anthony Papatriantafilou, Greece's Ambassador to the United States said yesterday. "We're an ongoing enterprise, and we have to think about our future." Greece will send out letters demanding licensing fees from democratic governments around the globe, said Papatriantafilou. Failure to pay the fees or cease running as a democracy would "bring about legal action from the government of Greece, the only legitimate rights holders to government of, by and for the people."
I think the move toward corporate education at the university level is a good one. Perhaps now that the people being fed the lies are at a cognitive level where they can see through it, they'll fight back. The little ones have been handed this kind of crap for years.
a reference to the famous "copy down" movement...
Should be called "Project Gokubi". Read the book Galapagos by Mr. Vonnegut.
Monkey gun!
Ever notice how the "free" market is "buyer beware" and "seller be protected by a raft of legislation"?
gokubi
Read The Divine Right of Capital by Marjorie Kelly
It looks like if you have a history of drinking, lying and cheating you won't be going into space anytime soon, no matter how much money you have.
That kills the potential CEO and politician markets...
The unsolicited contacting of innocent corporations by unscrupulous individuals attempting to establish a business relationship has to stop.
These insensitive individuals often email their resumes during the dinner hour or during Ally McBeal, when corporations are trying to relax from a difficult day and spend some time with their families.
It's nothing short of harassment and must stop immediately!
Photovoltaic cells produce DC, standard hardware runs on AC, but converts that immediately to DC. Use equipment with DC power supplies and save the nasty AC/DC mess you encounter with photovoltaics.
Gateway supplied DC PCs to a project building a computer lab in a village in Nicaragua--it removed a ton of complexity and cost. The computer lab and satellite dish equipment runs entirely on DC.
Do this in the rolling IT lab and it's a lot simpler and cheaper.
AOL, owner of CNN/Money, also lost out in its attempt to buy back AT&T's 25.5 percent stake in its Time Warner Entertainment unit, which includes Warner Brothers studios, HBO and its cable operations. That stake will become part of AT&T Comcast...
The largest cable company in the US owns 25% of the second largest cable company in the US.
Will Comcast seriously compete with Warner when it may be in their financial interest not to?
Choice in the market is good, unless they decide it's better for us to have no choice.
The problem with the Linux-MS debate is the same with any debate in the Western world--the media controls it. News flash--the media is large corporations. Turns out the large corporation side of the debate (MS) gets the favorable play. Funny how that works...
Linux won't win the debate until RHAT has $100 Billon market cap and builds the disgusting PR machine that can take on MS's disgusting PR machine.
Stories like these show that news is far too important to be gotten from news organizations and they people they employ. Even though we all know there was no script kiddie in Afghanistan dowloading movies on a Comodore, we'll always remember that story, right? Just like we'll all remember that XP is full of Al Queda code. This misinformation is out there for a reason--don't let the media mess with your head!
"Good Amy, reboot the computer...you get a bannana if the service pack fixed the problem...good Amy, good monkey!"
Howard Zinn describes the American system as a prison. There are the wardens who have all the control over the rules in the prison and keep all the prisoners locked up. There are the prisoners who have no say about their conditions and get what the warden gives them. And then there are the guards. The guards are hired by the wardens to keep the prisoners in line. They are the ones who keep the system of incarceration running, even if they don't get the benefits the wardens get.
In America, we are the wardens. I am talking about the comfortable white collar "middle-class" of which most people who read slashdot are members. Things are kept comfortable for us so we won't decide that the prison system is unfair.
Because things are so good for the middle-class, the middle-class doesn't get political. We don't propose legislation, we complain about changes to the system that has kept us so fat and happy.
Slashdotters probably think of themselves as rebels for hating the DMCA, heck, some probably even think they are the prisoners in the analogy laid out above. But it's all sound and fury--we want our Audis and Playstations and that's more important to us than the rights (or lives) of the prisoners.