The mainstream press is finally reporting what sites like dontbuycds have been saying all this time. Maybe Congress will read the article, and stop listening when Hilary Rosen and Jack Valenti show up asking for corporate welfare. Manybe they will get it that piracy is a paper tiger.
This method would make CDs and DVDs cost more. IF they implement this, and CDs cost $30.00, DVDs $40.00, nobody will buy them, and they will still try to blame "piracy," and try to get Congress to give them corporate welfare. This is a stupid idea. The main reason people today don't buy CDs is because of the outrageously marked up prices.
Back in 1994 or 95, I got an e-mail from a candidate for County Sherriff, and voted for him, but that was before spam was an epidemic, and I had to sift through 50 pieces of it to find any real mail. Now one more piece of spam would probably just make me mad. Sending spam that appears to be from your opponent might become a new way to mudsling.
All the star dreck that has come out since Gene Roddenberry died has sucked. Anybody but UPN wouldn't have wasted airtime on Voyager or Enterprise, and DS9 was a ripoff of Babylon 5.
I have noticed that people who call each other "Immature" are children themselves. Issues this controversial will bring out an emotional response, and people who are angry say angry things. That is not immaturity, it is the nature of discourse. Your preachy comment has nothing to do with whether DMCA opponents are over-reacting or not. We are not. Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. If not enough people vote against the legislators who gave us the DMCA, and they keep their jobs this November, then we have under reacted. If so few people boycott the comanies and indusrties who lobbied for the DMCA, and they continue to make money hand over fist, then we have under reacted.
Privatize it? That's just brilliant! Let the likes of Enron, Worldcom, and US Airways run it! Corporate robbber barons care only about grabbing money. They would take every cent of the space agency's budget as their salaries and bonuses, then would lay everyone off, file bankruptcy, and laugh all the way to the bank. Greedy businessmen destroy everything they touch. Consider what could happen to your parents or grandparents if Social Security were privatized. The Social Security Corporation would piss it all away grabbing fat salaries, and speculating in stock like Enron, Worldcom, and Imclone. Some things are way too important to leave to greedy businessmen.
Mars observer failed because the Zhti Ti Kofft, or Martians as we call them, don't want any earthlings on their soil, living or deceased. They destroyed it. Ira's Ashes may have been pulled down to Mars by its gravity, though. Ira may have still gotten his wish.
This is yet another reason to boycott the recording industry. Since Microsoft is now doing their bidding, boycott their products as well. Consumers should never do business with companies that presume we are all theives and pirates. They all deserve to be out of business.
If we found the gene for understanding math, we could turn it on in everyone, then nobody would waste their money paying the tax on people who don't understand math, the lottery, which , by the way, is rigged. The various states and the Mafia would want to supress such a discovery, or find a way, such as through "vaccines" to turn the gene off in everyone, creating even more suckers that the ones born every minute.
It is a shame he was in tex-ass and not part of the civilized world, such as California. Now that bloodsucking corporate robber barons are claiming to own people's thoughts, it is time to re-examine the whole dubious notion of "intellectual property." Perhaps that notion belongs in the dustbin of history.
If Toho actually brings a lawsuit, will it be called Slappzilla? How do you say frivolous in Japanese? This is like Microsoft suing Andersen and Pella over use of the term "windows."
That catapult idea again.
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Mechanical climbers, powered by an electric motor, would scale the ribbon, hauling the cargo thousands of kilometres before catapulting the payload, which could include anything from satellites to human passengers, to its destination.
NASA must be obsessed with catapults. Every plan they come out with seems to make use of one in some way.
McCullagh says that our elected officials will not listen to us, so it is a waste to try lobbying them. He points out that the DMCA passed the Senate unanimously as evidence. If our current congress won't listen to us, we can vote against them in the next election. Don't vote for your current Senator. Vote for his or her challenger. Throw the bums out! That goes for the House, too , except for Rick Boucher of Virginia. Throw the bums out Don't vote for any incumbent. If we could start over with fresh new Congressmen and Senators, maybe they would listen to us.
Banning legalized bribery does not harm free speech in any way. If anything, it promotes free speech. When campaign finanace reform is passed, My letter to a congressman or senator will be equal to one from a massive corporation, because the corporation will no longer be able to speak louder through payola. If campaign donation is speech, then a billionaire can say slmost infinately more than I can. Free speech is a right each of us should have an equal amount of.
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Those Asian flying snakes are nothing compared to the Eastern Flying Snake at Red River Gorge here in the States. It, the "Devil's Constrictor," and the flesh eating termites make that a very dangerous place.
Now that Sony's computer division is on the same page as their music division, it is time to boycott all their products, not just their CDs. Don't buy anything from Sony.
Considering the current climate of corporate fraud, investing in stock is like throwing money into a fire. Some new investment strategies are needed. It's your money. Don't throw it away.
Microsoft gains some good PR, and avoids bringing the test case that could topple the DMCA in the Supreme Court, in case they do want to use the DMCA someday. They aren't stupid, like the RIAA.
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The mainstream press is finally reporting what sites like dontbuycds have been saying all this time. Maybe Congress will read the article, and stop listening when Hilary Rosen and Jack Valenti show up asking for corporate welfare. Manybe they will get it that piracy is a paper tiger.
This method would make CDs and DVDs cost more. IF they implement this, and CDs cost $30.00, DVDs $40.00, nobody will buy them, and they will still try to blame "piracy," and try to get Congress to give them corporate welfare. This is a stupid idea. The main reason people today don't buy CDs is because of the outrageously marked up prices.
Back in 1994 or 95, I got an e-mail from a candidate for County Sherriff, and voted for him, but that was before spam was an epidemic, and I had to sift through 50 pieces of it to find any real mail. Now one more piece of spam would probably just make me mad. Sending spam that appears to be from your opponent might become a new way to mudsling.
All the star dreck that has come out since Gene Roddenberry died has sucked. Anybody but UPN wouldn't have wasted airtime on Voyager or Enterprise, and DS9 was a ripoff of Babylon 5.
Who says that the RIAA will wait for the Berman law to pass? They probably already have hackers doing their dirty work clandestinely. The law would just allow them to do it openly. They already have overpeer flooding P2P networks with bogus files. I wouldn't put it past an indusrty that exists to rip off children, charging up to 20 dollars for something that cost them one to make.
I hope techies will reward this ISP for their decision by patronizing them. Boycott the recording industry and do business with Information Wave Technologies if they have a presence where you live.
They are only prolonging the inevitable. The ancient city of Venice will just have to be abandoned. If you try to fight nature, you will lose.
Here is the darn "any" key. Be confused no more!
I have noticed that people who call each other "Immature" are children themselves. Issues this controversial will bring out an emotional response, and people who are angry say angry things. That is not immaturity, it is the nature of discourse. Your preachy comment has nothing to do with whether DMCA opponents are over-reacting or not. We are not. Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. If not enough people vote against the legislators who gave us the DMCA, and they keep their jobs this November, then we have under reacted. If so few people boycott the comanies and indusrties who lobbied for the DMCA, and they continue to make money hand over fist, then we have under reacted.
Privatize it? That's just brilliant! Let the likes of Enron, Worldcom, and US Airways run it! Corporate robbber barons care only about grabbing money. They would take every cent of the space agency's budget as their salaries and bonuses, then would lay everyone off, file bankruptcy, and laugh all the way to the bank. Greedy businessmen destroy everything they touch. Consider what could happen to your parents or grandparents if Social Security were privatized. The Social Security Corporation would piss it all away grabbing fat salaries, and speculating in stock like Enron, Worldcom, and Imclone. Some things are way too important to leave to greedy businessmen.
Wow! You know about the base. I am glad the real news is finally getting out.
Mars observer failed because the Zhti Ti Kofft, or Martians as we call them, don't want any earthlings on their soil, living or deceased. They destroyed it. Ira's Ashes may have been pulled down to Mars by its gravity, though. Ira may have still gotten his wish.
This is yet another reason to boycott the recording industry. Since Microsoft is now doing their bidding, boycott their products as well. Consumers should never do business with companies that presume we are all theives and pirates. They all deserve to be out of business.
If we found the gene for understanding math, we could turn it on in everyone, then nobody would waste their money paying the tax on people who don't understand math, the lottery, which , by the way, is rigged. The various states and the Mafia would want to supress such a discovery, or find a way, such as through "vaccines" to turn the gene off in everyone, creating even more suckers that the ones born every minute.
It is a shame he was in tex-ass and not part of the civilized world, such as California. Now that bloodsucking corporate robber barons are claiming to own people's thoughts, it is time to re-examine the whole dubious notion of "intellectual property." Perhaps that notion belongs in the dustbin of history.
If Toho actually brings a lawsuit, will it be called Slappzilla? How do you say frivolous in Japanese? This is like Microsoft suing Andersen and Pella over use of the term "windows."
Mechanical climbers, powered by an electric motor, would scale the ribbon, hauling the cargo thousands of kilometres before catapulting the payload, which could include anything from satellites to human passengers, to its destination.
NASA must be obsessed with catapults. Every plan they come out with seems to make use of one in some way.
Cows with human genes are insignificant compared to Meat that grows on trees, which is now being shipped to stores.
McCullagh says that our elected officials will not listen to us, so it is a waste to try lobbying them. He points out that the DMCA passed the Senate unanimously as evidence. If our current congress won't listen to us, we can vote against them in the next election. Don't vote for your current Senator. Vote for his or her challenger. Throw the bums out! That goes for the House, too , except for Rick Boucher of Virginia. Throw the bums out Don't vote for any incumbent. If we could start over with fresh new Congressmen and Senators, maybe they would listen to us.
Banning legalized bribery does not harm free speech in any way. If anything, it promotes free speech. When campaign finanace reform is passed, My letter to a congressman or senator will be equal to one from a massive corporation, because the corporation will no longer be able to speak louder through payola. If campaign donation is speech, then a billionaire can say slmost infinately more than I can. Free speech is a right each of us should have an equal amount of.
Those Asian flying snakes are nothing compared to the Eastern Flying Snake at Red River Gorge here in the States. It, the "Devil's Constrictor," and the flesh eating termites make that a very dangerous place.
Now that Sony's computer division is on the same page as their music division, it is time to boycott all their products, not just their CDs. Don't buy anything from Sony.
Considering the current climate of corporate fraud, investing in stock is like throwing money into a fire. Some new investment strategies are needed. It's your money. Don't throw it away.
Microsoft gains some good PR, and avoids bringing the test case that could topple the DMCA in the Supreme Court, in case they do want to use the DMCA someday. They aren't stupid, like the RIAA.
Instead of robots, they could use Remote Control Human Drones. Those are cheaper, and possibly capable of creative thought.