Yeah yeah, it mostly deals with Hamilton (there's a lot more about him if you keep going through the journal) and not much is all THAT exciting, but I thought it was interesting.
hah, just realized i was about the third person to post a direct link. sorry for the redundancy or whatever you/. people say. at least it was in response to someone that asked for it though and not an outright karma whore troll or whatever.
lol, Method of Exercising a cat by using a laser pointer.
link
i've been doing that for years now. but my stupid cat always gets bored after a couple of minutes, its not really a good way to exercise it.
I remember watching Silicon Summit (I think it was the third annual annual) on MSNBC about a month ago. I featured maybe 10 CEOs and other big wig tech-industry types. It seemed like a rather big event, there were maybe 10 thousand or so people in the audience. Anyways, one of the discussions was about digital copyright and IP law enforcement. Pretty much the general consenious was that there would need to be some kind of DRM solution in the near future, maybe not this year but within a couple of years. Ted Waitt, CEO of Gateway and the human in that commerical, was the only one to mention fair use at all or to have any significant disent. He's got my respect.
On another note, on that same show there was an Asian lady from the audience that asked a question specifically mentioning the SSSCA. Unfortunately I can't recall what their responses where, but I do remember Rob Glasser (I think, I may be wrong here) from RealNetworks claming that he had never heard of the bill.
If anybody else saw this please correct me if I'm wrong.
I wonder to what extent professional lobyists and PAC's do the same thing. It would be interesting to see how many hand written letters our senators and congressmen recieve from these people. After all, they devote their entire lives to getting their bills passed (or not passed). I'm sure they know all the tricks. Just a thought.
Boucher voted yea on the Tauzin-Dingell bill (deregulates broadband and can kill off many DSL providers) and nay on the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (Campaign Finance Reform).
I'm not quite sure that he is as big of an advocate for consumer rights as you think.
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On one of my many random livejournal adventures I stumbled across a classmate of Ellen's, named Lily. The cool thing is that Lily dated Hamilton (the other kid with the commercial, and the one who landed Ellen her ad) for quite some time. Apparently Ellen goes to The Cambridge School of Weston, a rather alternative high school Massachusetts. Here are some of the more relevant Livejournal threads:
Lily finds out about ellenfeiss.net
Lily finds out that her ex-boyfriend Hamilton is gonna be in a commercial
Lily comments on Hamilton's dad doing some stuff for the Oscar's and getting tons of loot. Apparently that family is hella-rich.
Lily just saw Hamilton make an appearance on the Oscars. (betcha didn't know he was already famous _before_ the switch ad)
Yeah yeah, it mostly deals with Hamilton (there's a lot more about him if you keep going through the journal) and not much is all THAT exciting, but I thought it was interesting.
hah, just realized i was about the third person to post a direct link. sorry for the redundancy or whatever you /. people say. at least it was in response to someone that asked for it though and not an outright karma whore troll or whatever.
yeah right click on THIS and do a save as. thats the largest version they got, 24 megs. its kinda slow, says I have 1:20 left
lol, Method of Exercising a cat by using a laser pointer. link i've been doing that for years now. but my stupid cat always gets bored after a couple of minutes, its not really a good way to exercise it.
I remember watching Silicon Summit (I think it was the third annual annual) on MSNBC about a month ago. I featured maybe 10 CEOs and other big wig tech-industry types. It seemed like a rather big event, there were maybe 10 thousand or so people in the audience. Anyways, one of the discussions was about digital copyright and IP law enforcement. Pretty much the general consenious was that there would need to be some kind of DRM solution in the near future, maybe not this year but within a couple of years. Ted Waitt, CEO of Gateway and the human in that commerical, was the only one to mention fair use at all or to have any significant disent. He's got my respect.
On another note, on that same show there was an Asian lady from the audience that asked a question specifically mentioning the SSSCA. Unfortunately I can't recall what their responses where, but I do remember Rob Glasser (I think, I may be wrong here) from RealNetworks claming that he had never heard of the bill.
If anybody else saw this please correct me if I'm wrong.
I wonder to what extent professional lobyists and PAC's do the same thing. It would be interesting to see how many hand written letters our senators and congressmen recieve from these people. After all, they devote their entire lives to getting their bills passed (or not passed). I'm sure they know all the tricks. Just a thought.
What are you refering to? The second amendment is the right to bear arms. Was that restricted somehow by the Campaign Reform Act?
Boucher voted yea on the Tauzin-Dingell bill (deregulates broadband and can kill off many DSL providers) and nay on the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (Campaign Finance Reform). I'm not quite sure that he is as big of an advocate for consumer rights as you think.
If you're quick, you can still pose questions for them to answer.