Many artists understand now that the RIAA are the real pirates. "I made you a star. YOU owe ME!" has been repeated like a mantra by recording company leeches. Fans, not the leeches, make artists stars. Boycott the recording industry. Don't buy CDs.
One study says "cut out fat." Another says, "cut out carbs." The real problem is that "diet" food is making Americans fat. That stuff is doped up to keep people using it!
There is no law against a citezen giving a campaign donation. You may donate up to a certain limit, I think it's $1000, but he can take limitless money under the table from corporations. The "gifts" corporations give our legislators are bribery, pure and simple.
Copy protected CDs will make material uncopyable even after it reverts to the public domain, as the DMCA absolutely bans circumvention, even if material lapses into the public domain. Copy protection steals the fair use rights of everyone, and this can not be tolerated. I am wary of libertarians who only want to protect the liberties of business robber barons at the expense of the people. Wasn't the Libertarian Party in the U.S. founded by Lyndon LaRouche, the facist nutcase?
Video games rot your brain, and bleaching hair causes brain damage. Since today's kids love both of these, they may be so out of it by age forty that they need to be put in nursing homes!
It is great that fair use, the public domain, and consumers have a friend in Congress. Rick Boucher is a great public servant who deserves our support. It's a shame that we need a new law to secure what should be protected already by the First Amendment, though. An idea, once expressed, belongs to the public domain, and is only loaned to copyright holders to promote creativity and innovation. Fair use is a natural right. It is part of free speech.
I especially liked how he would have royalties sent directly to the artists, and not to the robber barons who are ripping them off. The RIAA will really hate that! p.s. check out www.dontbuycds.org
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Chicken-Feather Chips
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Thanks to a recent court ruling, they are now able to just call it chicken again. And it's not just at KFC anymore.
"I made you a star, and I can take it away!" This has been repeated by record company leeches to artists like a mantra. Peer to peer file sharing made it possible for artists to see that fans alone decide who is and isn't a star. This terrifies the recording industry. While Napster, Audiogalaxy, and the like were in their heyday, new artists were able to find their audiences without selling their souls. This pointed out how unneccesary the leeches really were. Read more at www.dontbuycds.org be sure to check out the article, What is piracy?
Forget the Snopes story that says Chick'n isn't real. We investigated it at The Uncoveror, and found that it is real. Here is the original Chick'N story, and it's follow-up.
If a trebuchet made of lego will throw a marble fifty feet, imagine how far one several stories high could throw an object! NASA is betting they could use one to launch satellites into space. It will be called the X-4000 Launch Aparatus.
This action by overpeer, at the behest of the RIAA and the labels is harassment of music fans. What do they hope to gain by angering us? They stand to lose a great deal more. I call on everyone to Boycott the recording industry. Don't buy CDs, except used ones, which they get nothing from. If we put the corporate robber barons who hold the recording industry hostage out of business, then people who do it for the love of music can take the industry back.
Curiously enough, Sony is a member of the RIAA. They don't have a problem with developing this unit, because it is part of their pay-for-play radio scheme.
I'm glad the IEEE dropped it's absurd cheerleading for a law that contradicts the first amendment. It's a shame that the Edward Felten case was dropped. It could have been the test case that drove the DMCA all the way to the Supreme Court, where it would have been ruled unconstitutional. The Dmitry Skylarov case, if it goes that far, isn't such a blatantly obvious abridgement of free speech, so the courts might not understand how much a danger the DMCA is to the first amendment. I sure hope that they are paying attention to current events. This whole thing reminds me of an old chinese curse, May you live in interesting times.
A new chinese version of the walknig catfish? That's no where near the trouble caused when El Chupacabra bred with a dog in California, creating a new monster, The Chupa Pup!
Read all about the havoc it has wreaked.
http://www.uncoveror.com/chupa.htm
Neither a centrally planned economy, not pure unrestrained capitalism works. Regulated markets are the best we can do. Greed is evil, and self-destructive, but with nothing in it for me, I won't get off my ass. We must forever struggle to find a balance.
I applaud the court for this decision. If the date of publication changed everytime somone new viewed a web page, then the statute of limitations would be rendered meaningless. Defamation suits are usually just slapp suits anyway. The fewer of them we have wasting the courts' time, the better.
That article did not mention the "any" key, and many people still get confused looking for it. If you are one of them, here it is. The "any" key is unmarked due to a dispute with its inventor Milton Crane, formerly CEO of Typewriters International of Toledo.
It's a shame Palm won't do anything with BeOs. It was easy to use, and fast, even on slow machines. Linux is too complicated for casual users, and slow as a slug if you don't have a buttload of ram.
BeOs was also stable and reliabe, unlike windows. It did not crash. It was created from scratch. No legacy code to drag around like a ball and chain. To date, there are no BeOs viruses. Not one.
Linux may rule on servers, but in the desktop environment, it is still a pain. Windows just sucks in any environment. I miss Beos.
It would be better to re-nationalize the internet backbone, then to bail out those bastards at Worldcom. It was government controlled when only the military and universities could use the internet. I hope Milnet, formerly Arpanet, the part of it that is still there to keep our defense network up and running in the case of an enemy attack, is not part of what Worldcom could pull the plug on.
Instead, the industry has focused on lawsuits against for-profit piracy outfits.
Just who are these outfits? They certainly don't mean the booths at flea markets. Those are there week after week. Not all of them sell pirates, but you can always spot some who do. The RIAA doesn't even consider them competion. P2P is really a treat to their power over artists. The old system gave the the ability to arrrogantly tell artists, "I made you a star, and I can break you, so you better do it my way!" P2P has made it abundantly clear that fans decide who is a star, and this scares the recording racket's power brokers. To read more about that, check out an article entitled What Is Piracy?
The real problem is that fair use is a gray area. It does not have an ironclad legal definition. There have been cases where one thing or another has been ruled fair use, but whether file trading is fair use will have to be decided by the courts. Many of us firmly believe that file trading is fair use, and hope the courts will agree. An idea, once expressed, naturally belongs to the public domain, but is loaned to copyright and patent holders to encourage innovation and creativity. To read more on this subject, I suggest following the linkslisted on dontbuycds.org
Hollywood made more money the Memorial Day weekend of 2002 than at any other previous time. Piracy is no threat to them. People who watch pirated movies on their computer are just sneak previewing, and will go to a theater. People who buy pirate DVDs at the flea market for fewer than ten dollars won't pay full retail for legit ones. People who do pay full retail for legit ones wouldn't be caught dead in a flea market or with DVDs from one. When you boil it all down, piracy is a non-issue. Shutting it down would not get Hollywood or the recording industry any richer. They are wasting their resources fighting it, and would waste our resources if Congress gives them tax money to combat piracy. This is all true of the recording industry as well. They are not interested in anything but protecting their power over artists.
Re:Forget bigger numbers, how about smaller words?
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More on Riemann Hypothesis
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Another great challenge would be to express the value of Pi absolutely using a mixed number, rather than a decimal. For a simpler challenge, check this out.
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Many artists understand now that the RIAA are the real pirates. "I made you a star. YOU owe ME!" has been repeated like a mantra by recording company leeches. Fans, not the leeches, make artists stars. Boycott the recording industry. Don't buy CDs.
One study says "cut out fat." Another says, "cut out carbs." The real problem is that "diet" food is making Americans fat. That stuff is doped up to keep people using it!
There is no law against a citezen giving a campaign donation. You may donate up to a certain limit, I think it's $1000, but he can take limitless money under the table from corporations. The "gifts" corporations give our legislators are bribery, pure and simple.
Copy protected CDs will make material uncopyable even after it reverts to the public domain, as the DMCA absolutely bans circumvention, even if material lapses into the public domain. Copy protection steals the fair use rights of everyone, and this can not be tolerated. I am wary of libertarians who only want to protect the liberties of business robber barons at the expense of the people. Wasn't the Libertarian Party in the U.S. founded by Lyndon LaRouche, the facist nutcase?
They will go to ILLEGAL ends to make a buck! Check out Enron, Worldcom, The Erpenbeck Company, Etc.
Video games rot your brain, and bleaching hair causes brain damage. Since today's kids love both of these, they may be so out of it by age forty that they need to be put in nursing homes!
It is great that fair use, the public domain, and consumers have a friend in Congress. Rick Boucher is a great public servant who deserves our support. It's a shame that we need a new law to secure what should be protected already by the First Amendment, though. An idea, once expressed, belongs to the public domain, and is only loaned to copyright holders to promote creativity and innovation. Fair use is a natural right. It is part of free speech.
I especially liked how he would have royalties sent directly to the artists, and not to the robber barons who are ripping them off. The RIAA will really hate that! p.s. check out www.dontbuycds.org
Thanks to a recent court ruling, they are now able to just call it chicken again. And it's not just at KFC anymore.
"I made you a star, and I can take it away!" This has been repeated by record company leeches to artists like a mantra. Peer to peer file sharing made it possible for artists to see that fans alone decide who is and isn't a star. This terrifies the recording industry. While Napster, Audiogalaxy, and the like were in their heyday, new artists were able to find their audiences without selling their souls. This pointed out how unneccesary the leeches really were. Read more at www.dontbuycds.org
be sure to check out the article, What is piracy?
Forget the Snopes story that says Chick'n isn't real. We investigated it at The Uncoveror, and found that it is real. Here is the original Chick'N story, and it's follow-up.
If a trebuchet made of lego will throw a marble fifty feet, imagine how far one several stories high could throw an object! NASA is betting they could use one to launch satellites into space. It will be called the X-4000 Launch Aparatus.
This action by overpeer, at the behest of the RIAA and the labels is harassment of music fans. What do they hope to gain by angering us? They stand to lose a great deal more. I call on everyone to Boycott the recording industry. Don't buy CDs, except used ones, which they get nothing from. If we put the corporate robber barons who hold the recording industry hostage out of business, then people who do it for the love of music can take the industry back.
Curiously enough, Sony is a member of the RIAA. They don't have a problem with developing this unit, because it is part of their pay-for-play radio scheme.
I'm glad the IEEE dropped it's absurd cheerleading for a law that contradicts the first amendment. It's a shame that the Edward Felten case was dropped. It could have been the test case that drove the DMCA all the way to the Supreme Court, where it would have been ruled unconstitutional. The Dmitry Skylarov case, if it goes that far, isn't such a blatantly obvious abridgement of free speech, so the courts might not understand how much a danger the DMCA is to the first amendment. I sure hope that they are paying attention to current events. This whole thing reminds me of an old chinese curse, May you live in interesting times.
http://www.uncoveror.com/chupa2.htm
http://www.uncoveror.com/chupa3.htm
http://www.uncoveror.com/chupa4.htm
Surveillance? You are already being bugged if you have a ceiling fan, a TV with a V-Chip, or a webcam!
Neither a centrally planned economy, not pure unrestrained capitalism works. Regulated markets are the best we can do. Greed is evil, and self-destructive, but with nothing in it for me, I won't get off my ass. We must forever struggle to find a balance.
I applaud the court for this decision. If the date of publication changed everytime somone new viewed a web page, then the statute of limitations would be rendered meaningless. Defamation suits are usually just slapp suits anyway. The fewer of them we have wasting the courts' time, the better.
That article did not mention the "any" key, and many people still get confused looking for it. If you are one of them, here it is. The "any" key is unmarked due to a dispute with its inventor Milton Crane, formerly CEO of Typewriters International of Toledo.
It's a shame Palm won't do anything with BeOs. It was easy to use, and fast, even on slow machines. Linux is too complicated for casual users, and slow as a slug if you don't have a buttload of ram. BeOs was also stable and reliabe, unlike windows. It did not crash. It was created from scratch. No legacy code to drag around like a ball and chain. To date, there are no BeOs viruses. Not one. Linux may rule on servers, but in the desktop environment, it is still a pain. Windows just sucks in any environment. I miss Beos.
It would be better to re-nationalize the internet backbone, then to bail out those bastards at Worldcom. It was government controlled when only the military and universities could use the internet. I hope Milnet, formerly Arpanet, the part of it that is still there to keep our defense network up and running in the case of an enemy attack, is not part of what Worldcom could pull the plug on.
Instead, the industry has focused on lawsuits against for-profit piracy outfits. Just who are these outfits? They certainly don't mean the booths at flea markets. Those are there week after week. Not all of them sell pirates, but you can always spot some who do. The RIAA doesn't even consider them competion. P2P is really a treat to their power over artists. The old system gave the the ability to arrrogantly tell artists, "I made you a star, and I can break you, so you better do it my way!" P2P has made it abundantly clear that fans decide who is a star, and this scares the recording racket's power brokers. To read more about that, check out an article entitled What Is Piracy?
The real problem is that fair use is a gray area. It does not have an ironclad legal definition. There have been cases where one thing or another has been ruled fair use, but whether file trading is fair use will have to be decided by the courts. Many of us firmly believe that file trading is fair use, and hope the courts will agree. An idea, once expressed, naturally belongs to the public domain, but is loaned to copyright and patent holders to encourage innovation and creativity. To read more on this subject, I suggest following the linkslisted on dontbuycds.org
Hollywood made more money the Memorial Day weekend of 2002 than at any other previous time. Piracy is no threat to them. People who watch pirated movies on their computer are just sneak previewing, and will go to a theater. People who buy pirate DVDs at the flea market for fewer than ten dollars won't pay full retail for legit ones. People who do pay full retail for legit ones wouldn't be caught dead in a flea market or with DVDs from one. When you boil it all down, piracy is a non-issue. Shutting it down would not get Hollywood or the recording industry any richer. They are wasting their resources fighting it, and would waste our resources if Congress gives them tax money to combat piracy. This is all true of the recording industry as well. They are not interested in anything but protecting their power over artists.
Another great challenge would be to express the value of Pi absolutely using a mixed number, rather than a decimal. For a simpler challenge, check this out.