Look on the bright side, though, plenty of the current British cabinet consist of people previously monitored by the intelligence services for their activities, including Jack Straw, the previous Home Secretary and current Foreign Secretary.
>>Don't forget the thousands of civilians who died in Iraq.
>Which thousands? The hundreds of thousands under Saddam, or the thousands while we were removing him?
How about the whole lot of them; the hundreds of thousands who died at the behest of a cruel dictator, put there and materially supported by the West and the thousands killed whilst removing the man they aided and abetted?
I'll take your point, but add that I live in the UK, and there's not much sign of "democracy" here either.
I'm sure your country, like mine is far from perfect; that still doesn't excuse the US undermining "democracies" [however loosely the term is used] across the world - whilst telling the ignorant masses how they're championing freedom and democracy, all the while.
" Look at Chile for a past example. Venezuela today too, although hard to say for certain."
Well considering the failed coup in Venezuela was US engineered/backed, and that nothing has come to light to suggest the US admin has changed its attitude and ways at all, it seems pretty easy to suggest that they're involved in trying to topple and undermine the democracy there now (and in the future).
Install Adobe Reader 6:)
From the Start->Run windows menu, open the "x:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader" folder, [where x is the right drive letter.]
Find the plug_ins folder and rename it plug_ins_disabled
Create a new folder named plug_ins
Copy the following files from "plug_ins_disabled" to "plug_ins": EWH32.api, printme.api, and search.api
"One of Google's mayor strenghts is its simple interface. When compared to other search engines including Yahoo, Google's interface seems very clean and simple, and also the way the whole site is put together."
Yahoo's search page is also pretty simple, but probably not what people generally think of using when searching with Yahoo.
Maybe that's just a question of priorities - which set of features gets on the 'front' page. So long as Google keeps its front page the simple one, that probably won't be an issue.
Saying it's "a form of theft" is no more valid than saying it's "theft". Copyright infringement is not a FORM of theft. Calling it theft "therefore" is not even vaguely valid.
Since your premise is faulty your house of cards falls down. Repeating your statement in capital letters does not make your point any more valid than talking slowly does.
Copyright infringement is closer to an "infringement of a prohibition" [against copying and distribution] than it is to theft, stealing, larceny, pilfering or light-fingered-ness.
It's closer to the breaking of an exclusivity contract [and one in which you have no right to negotiate].
Using politically motivated, inflamatory language ["theft"; "piracy"] does not make it any worse an act in reality.
"They don't have you in the jury box in order to decide policy, they have you in the jury box to decide whether the accused is guilty of a crime (law says a, accused did a = guilty a,b!=guilty)."
And here was me thinking that "I was just following orders" wasn't a valid defence./sarcasm
You somehow relate the fact that Nestle baby formula isn't as good as breast milk to Microsoft donating computer software. Congratulations on the wackiest stretch of an analogy I've ever witnessed.
It's not whacky at all. The principle aim of Nestle's baby-formula scam was that they'd donate just enough formula for the mother's own milk to dry up, after which... lock-in: unable to produce her own milk, she would be dependent on the formula if she didn't want her baby to starve (pretty likely scenario.)
... US distros would still not be able to distribute it because of the DMCA...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but CSS doesn't prevent CSS-encoded content from being copied, it only restricts playback to a licensed player (theoretically) and as such isn't a copy-control mechanism that has the protection of the DMCA or EUCD.
I can do a straight copy-and paste of the files from a DVD onto my hard-drive, and yet Windows copy&paste function doesn't have css, or need css to copy the files, therefore CSS is not a copy protection measure.
As one of the stories on this news item says, this does indeed apply to trademarked goods, and happened in a similar situation where Levis prevented parallel importing of its jeans, under the trademark law, but it hasn't been determined that this applies to copyright material yet.
If Amazon has the balls to fight this in court, we may find out.
"Absolutely. People discuss these issues in moral terms, but from my point of view there is no morality about it. The record companies are as much in the wrong as the "file swappers" are."
You contradict yourself in saying that no morality is involved, and then define the issue in moral terms.
Moving on; I find myself asking if you consider people who share their record collections with their friends, 'in the wrong'?
Is copying music allowed within families, even? (Each copy even here is a potential lost sale, and a definite 'copyright violation'.
Mix CDs for your significant other... wrong too?
And this is the reason an overly simplistic view on copyright infringement is a pointless waste of time; even these innocuous, friendly acts are actually illegal.
I use p2p systems, and breach copyrights. But I buy plenty of CDs as a direct result, but the record companies here are punishing me for actually following through and buying the CD of the mp3 I sampled and liked.
As a general rule, you can import anything under the value of eighteen GB pounds, and be exempt from both VAT and import duty.
The thing that got me, when importing some CDs from Tower Records in the US, before I realised I would get slapped with an import tax bill, is that they add the duty to the price of the items, and then add the VAT to the items + duty price. A tax on the duty tax! Incredible.
" Well, for those that understand the law, and rights, it's simple. When you are on someone elses property, wether it be their house, or their server.. you have no right to free anything. I can't walk into a store and start marching around with abortion protest signs. I will first be asked to leave, and then arrested for trespass. That's the way America works, for better or for worse."
In America (as it says in one of the articles, actually) you, lawfully, have the right to freedom of speech in privately owned malls, in some states.
(I shall refrain from suggesting that you might not understamd the law as well as you think you do.)
I suppose that this is because the malls are seen as so crucial to the community, being such a large part of the comunity's life, that their private-space-status is over-ridden by the community's needs, though that's just a guess.
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Look on the bright side, though, plenty of the current British cabinet consist of people previously monitored by the intelligence services for their activities, including Jack Straw, the previous Home Secretary and current Foreign Secretary.
You're right, Coca-Cola mostly deals with the CIA.
>Which thousands? The hundreds of thousands under Saddam, or the thousands while we were removing him?
How about the whole lot of them; the hundreds of thousands who died at the behest of a cruel dictator, put there and materially supported by the West and the thousands killed whilst removing the man they aided and abetted?
I imagine Frauhofer have an eye [or maybe that should be ear] on SACD and DVD-Audio ripping, for which this would be useful.
I'm sure your country, like mine is far from perfect; that still doesn't excuse the US undermining "democracies" [however loosely the term is used] across the world - whilst telling the ignorant masses how they're championing freedom and democracy, all the while.
Fire up Diana Ross's "I'm Coming Out" on your stereo, and tell them how you like a man in uniform.
Sometimes, prejudice can be good.
Well considering the failed coup in Venezuela was US engineered/backed, and that nothing has come to light to suggest the US admin has changed its attitude and ways at all, it seems pretty easy to suggest that they're involved in trying to topple and undermine the democracy there now (and in the future).
'Freedom and Democracy' my arse, as they say.
The hole in the middle of the CD.
Goatse man.
Oh the horrorr.
The ad wouldn't load for me at all. Don't know why.
I was grateful someone posted the story here.
Yahoo's search page is also pretty simple, but probably not what people generally think of using when searching with Yahoo.
Maybe that's just a question of priorities - which set of features gets on the 'front' page. So long as Google keeps its front page the simple one, that probably won't be an issue.
Copyright infringement is not a FORM of theft.
Calling it theft "therefore" is not even vaguely valid.
Since your premise is faulty your house of cards falls down. Repeating your statement in capital letters does not make your point any more valid than talking slowly does.
Copyright infringement is closer to an "infringement of a prohibition" [against copying and distribution] than it is to theft, stealing, larceny, pilfering or light-fingered-ness.
It's closer to the breaking of an exclusivity contract [and one in which you have no right to negotiate].
Using politically motivated, inflamatory language ["theft"; "piracy"] does not make it any worse an act in reality.
"They don't have you in the jury box in order to decide policy, they have you in the jury box to decide whether the accused is guilty of a crime (law says a, accused did a = guilty a,b!=guilty)." And here was me thinking that "I was just following orders" wasn't a valid defence. /sarcasm
Products of their environment; do not judge them. Heh.
You should come to England, where "it is legal for a male to urinate in public, as long it is on the rear wheel of his motor vehicle and his right hand is on the vehicle."
Is that wrong?
It's not whacky at all. The principle aim of Nestle's baby-formula scam was that they'd donate just enough formula for the mother's own milk to dry up, after which ... lock-in: unable to produce her own milk, she would be dependent on the formula if she didn't want her baby to starve (pretty likely scenario.)
Fairly appropriate analogy, really.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but CSS doesn't prevent CSS-encoded content from being copied, it only restricts playback to a licensed player (theoretically) and as such isn't a copy-control mechanism that has the protection of the DMCA or EUCD.
I can do a straight copy-and paste of the files from a DVD onto my hard-drive, and yet Windows copy&paste function doesn't have css, or need css to copy the files, therefore CSS is not a copy protection measure.
Correct?
Right you are. Thanks. :)
If Amazon has the balls to fight this in court, we may find out.
You contradict yourself in saying that no morality is involved, and then define the issue in moral terms.
Moving on; I find myself asking if you consider people who share their record collections with their friends, 'in the wrong'? ... wrong too?
Is copying music allowed within families, even? (Each copy even here is a potential lost sale, and a definite 'copyright violation'.
Mix CDs for your significant other
And this is the reason an overly simplistic view on copyright infringement is a pointless waste of time; even these innocuous, friendly acts are actually illegal.
I use p2p systems, and breach copyrights. But I buy plenty of CDs as a direct result, but the record companies here are punishing me for actually following through and buying the CD of the mp3 I sampled and liked.
My contempt for them increases.
The thing that got me, when importing some CDs from Tower Records in the US, before I realised I would get slapped with an import tax bill, is that they add the duty to the price of the items, and then add the VAT to the items + duty price. A tax on the duty tax! Incredible.
Osama Bin Laden: How the U.S. Helped Midwife a Terrorist.
Since it was the CIA that helped train and fund most of the basic infrastructure of al-Qaeda, maybe he should try blowbackunit@cia.gov.
In America (as it says in one of the articles, actually) you, lawfully, have the right to freedom of speech in privately owned malls, in some states.
(I shall refrain from suggesting that you might not understamd the law as well as you think you do.)
I suppose that this is because the malls are seen as so crucial to the community, being such a large part of the comunity's life, that their private-space-status is over-ridden by the community's needs, though that's just a guess.