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  1. Re:Are drugs legal in Sealand on HavenCo Doing Well · · Score: 1

    What exactly could be profitable? Dealing drugs
    to the entire habitat of Sealand? All of 2.34 people?

  2. Re:Imagine this ... on HavenCo Doing Well · · Score: 1

    ... ....

    6. Profit.

    This time it works!

  3. Re:I want an apology on Janis Ian on the Internet Debacle · · Score: 2, Funny
    My CD collection vastly outweighs my mp3 collection

    I'm sure. How much does an mp3 weigh?

  4. He BOUGHT CDs??? on The AudioGalaxy Story · · Score: 1
    (A couple blocks from Waterloo Music; I wonder how many CDs I bought those years...I probably don't want to know.)

    Would that be zero?

  5. Re:It's an underrated approach on Is There Such a Thing as "Too User Friendly"? · · Score: 1
    Nobody is entitled to anything, not even your mother.

    Don't you think she earned it by bringing
    him up to be this smart (albeit arrogant)
    geek?

  6. Re:They used her picture on the back of the book.. on Bogus Harry Potter Book In China · · Score: 1
    A word of advice to people over fourteen...

    Fuck off, twit.

  7. Re:Let's get this out of the way right now on Managing and Using MySQL: Second Edition · · Score: 1
    I run a Fortune 100 company's entire enterprise infrastructure off of a 386 with 4 megs of RAM with Linux and MySQL,


    Hey, we still use tin cans and strings
    for our network's physical layer.

  8. Re:Read it and weep on ICANN's Time Is Up, According To John Gilmore · · Score: 1

    You realize this is a meaningless expression
    of a wish, kinda hard to implement as a policy.
    Who will decide what is the same organization?
    Can't a big organization ahve BigOrgUS.bla and
    BigOrgFiji.foo?

  9. Re:Vint Cerf's statement prefixing Gilmore's email on ICANN's Time Is Up, According To John Gilmore · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    On March 18, 1002...


    I was afflicted with a Y2K bug and don't
    remember much...

  10. Re:Read it and weep on ICANN's Time Is Up, According To John Gilmore · · Score: 1
    One person/company - one domain.


    Why company? Why can't an unofficial group
    register? It becomes problematic with this rule.
    Why can't my neighborhood philately club register, say? Why do we need to have a company set up for that? To boot, a company according
    to which laws? US? Swiss? Madagascar's?

  11. Re:you do have to try to avoid them though on Legal Pundits Pan Internet Exceptionalism · · Score: 1
    So I can assume that both children were killed? God, I don't know if I could live with that kind of guilt. Maybe have to kill my self and will everything to the parents.


    You can still do it, it's never too late...

  12. Re:Cars changed the law on Legal Pundits Pan Internet Exceptionalism · · Score: 1
    E.g., how many pyramid scheme letters did you get that were "legal" since they didn't use the mail.


    IANAl, but I thought that was exactly a technicality. That is, the pyramid schemes were not illicit per se, but because they violated some Post Office rules/laws. There is a difference.

  13. Re:Things change on Legal Pundits Pan Internet Exceptionalism · · Score: 1
    that webmasters are responsible for keeping their sites secure. A rather
    drastic form of personal responsibility, perhaps


    So why charge anyone with vandalism? Aren't brick-and-mortar store owners just as responsible for keeping their storefronts secure? They can post
    some guards 24/7 outside, surely.

  14. Yes and no on Legal Pundits Pan Internet Exceptionalism · · Score: 1
    'The steam engine ... probably transformed American law, but the "law of the steam engine" never existed.'


    Just because it has happened this way doesn't mean that this was the right way.


    To suggest a bad analogy, just because I have just drove home drunk for about 30 miles doesn't mean it's a good idea. So while drawing on the past is important in order to understand how to behave in the future, it does not at all mean that we should continue doing the same thing no matter what changes are going on around us.

  15. Re:Time wasted deleting emails on Spam King Living High in the Bayou · · Score: 1
    which means 133333333 _years_ are wasted off people's live each day


    When this time can be spent reading /.!



    Millions long for immortality who don't know
    what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
    afternoon ( I forget who...)

  16. Re:It doesn't by any chance on Spam King Living High in the Bayou · · Score: 1

    But it wasn't until he married and settled in a Slidell trailer park ...

  17. Re:US Jurisdiction on Moon Rock Winds Up In Court · · Score: 1
    If the US did own the entire planet there would no double be less starvation and war.


    Because then every war can be called "police
    shootout".

  18. Re:This Is Why We Are Angry on Pledge of Allegiance Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Mayan people are still around (e.g., Guatemala).

    I can link to any number of sources, but
    you will of course say they are all written
    by the victors. Why not look yourself,
    you know which sources you'll trust.

  19. Re:This Is Why We Are Angry on Pledge of Allegiance Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 1
    Perhaps, but we'll never know for sure, because after the 'christians' finished their plundering, torturing and murdering, they also got to write the history books.


    Look, I don't particularly like the whole
    christian missionary thing, but you are
    wrong here.


    Many of the mayan ruins have been excavated,
    and artefacts removed. Everything points to
    the sacrifices. In fact, they sort of liked
    christianity because of its one-time sacrifice
    thing - much more effective than having
    to fight wars all the time to get prisoners
    to sacrifice.


    Well, forget even the ruins. The Conquista
    did not happen that long ago for the christians
    to completely rewrite the history. Some
    were in contact with the indians and did
    just honestly record what they saw, even if
    biased necessarily by their completely
    different mentality.

  20. Re:This Is Why We Are Angry on Pledge of Allegiance Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    had ancestors who were Mayan, Incan, and Aztec before the missionaries "taught them" about Christianity through plunder, torture, and murder.


    Were those the same Mayans whose religion
    demanded regular human sacrifices?

  21. Re:It'd be fairly easy to change on Pledge of Allegiance Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is an element of coercion with children
    that is not the same for adult Congrescritters.

  22. Re:Yes so! on The Ideas Behind Longhorn · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the link. The thoughts are interesting, but does anybody truly believe this?

  23. Why not just let them... on Legalizing Attacks on P2P Networks · · Score: 1

    ...use tanks or something? Maybe
    military aviation?

    A gunship for RIAA, a gunship for MPAA. It's the least their money could buy.

  24. Re:Simple on Does Drawing on Experience Infringe on Other's IP? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Until then...... you haven't committed a crime.


    IF you broke a contract, you still haven't committed a crime. :)

  25. Re:applications vs. os on The Ideas Behind Longhorn · · Score: 1
    when all they are really doing is taking advantage of grandma's inability to install/uninstall software.


    Who's stopping you from giving grandma an
    open source option to do just that?