The Iranian government must have sent the money to the Cubans, considering that the people in charge in Iran are the ones who generally seek to block access to outside news sources to their citizenry.
So I wouldn't call it 'Cubans vs. Iranians.' Just another example of Cuba exporting repression.
If I sing a song I uniquely composed and wrote once in public, I have copyright on that song and that performance.
I get to decide if it's ever performed again.
Sorry, your publishing company isn't allowed to decide when and where it's published. There's no dictatorship of the majority where it concerns my creations.
Why do you think that copyrights necessarily are reducable to commercial value.
I could write a song to a lover, and want only that lover to ever hear it. If evile corporation N comes along and wants to make it into a commercial success, do they have the right to take it away from me? I think not.
By this, I assume your refering to the ones that don't exist.
That is such bullshit that it's not really worth arguing about.
Recently, people like you were willing to send in UN teams and search for the weapons for another decade if need be. Now you're pretending they don't exist. Where's your Baath party membership card, dude?
Even in his best mental condtion, this is not a man who traded on his intellect or insight.
If by the above, you mean that Reagan was never an 'intellectual' I don't think you'll find anybody who'll argue with you. For recreation he liked to split wood and ride horses.
I suspect IBM uses the right tool for each application.
They're a Business Machine company for gods sake. They used to make time clocks. Punched cards were originally used in big sorters, the card deck itself was the database, and no computers were involved at all.
Piles of money from the US and Europe actually does serious damage to the peoples' livelihood in the third world.
When a US Aid ship drops in 50 tons of rice, it totally destroys the local economy. What motivation is there for local rice farmers to work in their paddies if there's a chance that 10 times the amount of rice he can grow in a year will suddenly show up in trucks for free? Dumping resources in the third world destroys their economies, and makes them further dependent on outsiders for help.
US and European interference in local economies is a practice of imperialism. The 'poor Africans' do benefit from our help in many ways, but not by indiscriminate dumping of money and resources on them.
Please, oh please, keep referring to the smart people who oppose you as imbeciles.
Dubya loves it when you underestimate him.
But really, isn't hating Reagan kind of an eighties thing? I know people who'll pee their britches at the chance to rant about how terrible Reagan was. Thank goodness I know them mostly in the past tense.
That would suck, because I like going up into Canada to buy cheap socks and other items of clothing (strong American dollar). And if Canada had to be crushed and occupied and made into several new states, they'd use the US Dollar, and the exchange rate advantage would disappear.
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It's one of those Eurostyle fashion things...
Car trucks are pretty effective Faraday cages.
A little bit of sheet metal is a pretty effective GPS jammer.
As always, one of the most liberal states is hard at work coming up with new uses of technology to track and tax.
And it's disappointing that Lessig, and even Slashdot, are doing this kind of shilling for something so partisan.
It certainly takes something away from the credibility of this site.
Here's your cookie for posting the obligatory anti-Micro$oft comment on an unrelated topic.
The Iranian government must have sent the money to the Cubans, considering that the people in charge in Iran are the ones who generally seek to block access to outside news sources to their citizenry.
So I wouldn't call it 'Cubans vs. Iranians.' Just another example of Cuba exporting repression.
At least Clinton took full responsibilities for his actions.
Bullshit.
If you're going to have an effective rant, you shouldn't stick in zingers like that one.
You forgot DUMFUCKIDEALIST which turns you into a Human Shield.
It says right up at the top that they're going to sell CDs and DVDs.
Where are you getting the 'innovator' impression from, and why do you propose they start selling movies when it sounds like they're already going to?
They're not selling 'tracks' nor are they moving into the P2P market.
eventually they'll have to move it into Internet downloads like Apple's iTMS.
Why?
Moral rights are bullshit?
Golly.
If I sing a song I uniquely composed and wrote once in public, I have copyright on that song and that performance.
I get to decide if it's ever performed again.
Sorry, your publishing company isn't allowed to decide when and where it's published. There's no dictatorship of the majority where it concerns my creations.
Why do you think that copyrights necessarily are reducable to commercial value.
I could write a song to a lover, and want only that lover to ever hear it. If evile corporation N comes along and wants to make it into a commercial success, do they have the right to take it away from me? I think not.
I meant it as a compliment. Lordy, I hope you didn't think I was putting Mr. Reagan down with that comment.
Ummm, I can't think of anybody who doesn't credit 'Winnie the Pooh' to A.A. Milne, Pooh's creator.
So your arguement can be condensed down to 'Reagan Sucks.'
Why don't you just put that in your tagline so we can ignore your fancy variations on that sentiment.
So you're advocating the US save money by implementing a first-use nuclear weapon policy?? Against opponents who don't have a nuclear force?
By this, I assume your refering to the ones that don't exist.
That is such bullshit that it's not really worth arguing about.
Recently, people like you were willing to send in UN teams and search for the weapons for another decade if need be. Now you're pretending they don't exist. Where's your Baath party membership card, dude?
In the 20?? conquest, they'll definitely come in through Belgium. Brussels, to be precise.
Thank goodness Wellstone is gone.
I think you mean 'Another Baby Milk Factory Destroying Machine'.
Even in his best mental condtion, this is not a man who traded on his intellect or insight.
If by the above, you mean that Reagan was never an 'intellectual' I don't think you'll find anybody who'll argue with you. For recreation he liked to split wood and ride horses.
What you believe is not always exactly the truth.
I suspect IBM uses the right tool for each application.
They're a Business Machine company for gods sake. They used to make time clocks. Punched cards were originally used in big sorters, the card deck itself was the database, and no computers were involved at all.
Piles of money from the US and Europe actually does serious damage to the peoples' livelihood in the third world.
When a US Aid ship drops in 50 tons of rice, it totally destroys the local economy. What motivation is there for local rice farmers to work in their paddies if there's a chance that 10 times the amount of rice he can grow in a year will suddenly show up in trucks for free? Dumping resources in the third world destroys their economies, and makes them further dependent on outsiders for help.
US and European interference in local economies is a practice of imperialism. The 'poor Africans' do benefit from our help in many ways, but not by indiscriminate dumping of money and resources on them.
Please, oh please, keep referring to the smart people who oppose you as imbeciles.
Dubya loves it when you underestimate him.
But really, isn't hating Reagan kind of an eighties thing? I know people who'll pee their britches at the chance to rant about how terrible Reagan was. Thank goodness I know them mostly in the past tense.
That would suck, because I like going up into Canada to buy cheap socks and other items of clothing (strong American dollar). And if Canada had to be crushed and occupied and made into several new states, they'd use the US Dollar, and the exchange rate advantage would disappear.