Only question 1 relevant, unless by "majority" you meant "most money". Even the Pope has spoken out against this kind of thing, as on effort to oppress poorer people.
Than being said, the solution is to label this kind of actions for what it is, stand with the Pope ( I'm NOT Catholic ), get other religious leaders to understand and see is as an effort to oppress and control people. This discussion needs to be taken to religious groups, because that's where the majority of people begin to think about and discuss moral issues.
There no use trying to convince the intellectuals, they already understand the dangers and have been speaking out against them. They have also been largely ignored for decades.
I know this goes against the general slashdot-geek philosophy but this is class warfare and war makes strange bedfellows.
Fox new brings (_Topic_of_your_choice_) Debate to a new Low.
Summary: Fox News collected information from various experts and opinionists on the (_Topic_of_your_choice_) then choses to only air the information about (_Topic_of_your_choice_) from the opinionists who opinions on (_Topic_of_your_choice_) that closely match Fox News running narrative. Surprisingly all other research, studies and statistics were curtly summed up and presented as "... unsurprising theres are some studies 'out there' which can be contrived to present a different viewpoint...". This is apparently done to maintain the "Fair and Balanced" integrity of Fox News.
So and up stream ISP took some action to take these server off the internet.
So did they
A. Cut the tubes leading to zeus
B. clog the tube with something
C. install a calve on the tube
Cause if they didn't (A) cut the tube, won't zeus be able to pump stuff into the internet again by (B) having their internet tube cleaned or (C) have someone walk out to the curb and turn the valve back on?
-GW
P.S. could we flush a tube-bursting bomb down zeus's tube and reall shut them down for good
America needs to wake up and realize the damage these PIRATES are doing to the economy. If they cannot pay the fines then they should be imprisoned for the equivalent number of years it would take for them to have earned the amount of money required for their fine.
In this case it is a simple calculation: Average Hourly wage in US: $18.46 (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm) Fine: $80,000 per song * 24 = $1.92 million Jail time: ($80,000 * 24 songs) / $18.46 per hour
4334 days or 11.87 years in prison
Obviously America does not understand the vast natural resource and source of wealth music represents.
Lets take a look quick look at just on source of music distribution, the iTunes store.
As of February 2008 Apple has sold over 4 billion songs ( http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/02/26itunes.html) we know that the legal value of each digital copy those songs to be worth $80,000. That is 320 trillion dollars worth of goods people, since just April of 2003 !!!! Now consider that a song is copyright protected for the lifespan of the artist plus 150 years (let round that to 180 years). Now lets look at the math again. Yearly value: $320 trillion / 5 years = $64 trillion per year Value of the music that existed on February 2008 over the life of the copyright: $64 trillion * 180 years = $11.52 quadrillion dollars
An that would be if no new songs were recorded over the next 180 years.
How important is that number? Well in 2008 the GDP of the world was a paltry $69.49 trillion. (CIA fact book, all amounts are in USD) Which means that one can safely say that the value of music that existed Feburary 2008 is worth more than the sum of the GDP of the WORLD over the last 200+ years. Not that the RIAA needs to brag, but evidently the music industry was responsible for the lion's share of the Worlds GDP in 2008.
Now you can understand just how much of a threat piracy is.
1913 President Woodrow Wilson Instituted the Federal Reserve (A Large PRIVATE central bank). Giving basically a regulated Private bank to control economic policy, and the creation of money.
The title should read: "Congress debating way to increase the crime rate".
We are course not just talking about illegal/undocumented laborers here. That is important to remember. I realize that this is of course an important tool in the "War on terrorism", but it is VERY dangerous thing.
Consider the following one-sided dialog: Sorry Mr. Smith you appear to be on the no work list. You say there's been a some kind of mistake? Not to worry Mr. Smith if indeed there was a mistake just submit these forms to Homeland Security. Once the FBI has completed an in depth background check, you will be able to interview with an agent of Homeland and that person can submit your name to be removed from the "do-not" work list. How long? the FBI background check generally takes 3-4 months, and again pending the results, the removal from the official list happens in 3-4 weeks. The law prohibits anyone from using the DNW list that is more than 3 months old, so you shouldn't have any more trouble at all 7-8 months. Pay your bills? Feed your family? I'm sorry Mr Smith but I can't help you with that. Next Please. I suppose you could get loans from your friends and family, Financial institutions of course won't touch you. And you should be aware that your Credit Cards will probably be suspended. Next PLEASE. Your children? Mr. Smith you should have thought of that before you got yourself on the list. I don't know what got you on the list, that information is classified otherwise it would make it easier for the criminals and terrorists to avoid. Now Mr. Smith there is nothing more I can do. You can print out the forms you need at the terminal by the waiting area. Please Mr. Smith you really don't need me to call security now do you? Next Please.
Yes, this is FUD. Yes, there will be Mr.Smiths. No, Statistically speaking it is highly unlikely to be you. BTW statistically speaking it's unlikely that some terrorist gives a damn about trying to kill or ruin you. Statistically speaking it is probably even less likely that any given person (picked at random) on this planet is a terrorist.
When it comes to the war on terrorism perhaps the best way to win is to not take part all. I cannot believe that there is an infinite supply of people so full of dispair to become suicide bombers (unless we help create people of hopelessness) There will always be criminals. But we can reduce those numbers by attacking poverty, and providing education. It probably would hurt if our "Justice" system was more about Justice than revenge and political gain.
We are losing the War on terrorism because we are expanding it every day. Because we are gearing up to make it a perpetual war, is our "new reality". Because we are trying to increase our fear by looking for more enemies and treating new encounters as encounters with a potential enemy. Because we are creating the means of being able to quickly and legally classify anyone as a criminal. Because we are quietly moving to the faulty inductive reasoning that because all terrorists are criminals and/or political dissidents then all criminal suspects and political dissidents are potential terrorists. The true war on terrorism is ultimately a war of ideas and ideals. As we surrender our ideals (by ignoring the constitution, ignoring Geneva conventions, giving a grim nod to torture, and in this case committing to a trial without jury where you are guilty until proven innocent.). We are losing precious ground to terrorism. And when finally, we are as afraid of our own government as we are of theft, rape, murder, or bombs. Then we have truly lost.
Not a full blown ERP but nolapro is a nice lamp based accounting software. There is inventory tracking POS integration, even a web-store. It handles employee pay, and order tracking. Some parts are not intuitive. (But I'm not a lover of accounting) Speed has been good, it has search as you type (an important feature to me), and other stuff too.
Best of all there is a free demo avialable, plus a 30 or 60 day trial. It is a subscription model (kind of a downside) but just $20/month hosted or host your own.
It is obvious that many people around the world do not understand the Internet.
Let me sum it up for you. The USofA OWNS the internet. Al Gore invented it. The US controls the registars. The US has graciously agreed to allow all you cyber colonies to have your own little TLDs. (please refrain from trying to polute.com,.org,.gov, or.net..us is of cource implicetly implied to any domain the US didn't assign you.)
When you are on the internet your are on US cyber soil.
If you don't like that, then try to do something about it..........please...
Actually I pray to my Heavenly Father. Who BTW would like nothing more than to have me (and you, all of us actually) become like him and inherit ALL that he has in both power and knowledge.
I know that there is a general negativity hear towards Christian beliefs. (more of a negativity towards organized religion in general without general bias against Christians, but I digress) There is also a general knowledge of biblical stories and prophecies. This immediately strikes a cord with me from Revelations: (13:17) "And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
10 years ago this was hard for me to imagine how we could ever get to such a place in history. Now given the methods employed or tenuous holds on on freedoms and "self-evident truths" it is easy to see the path. Lists of bad guys are not all that effective, bad guys (terrorists) o not submit themselves to mis-identification nor do they willfully register themselves. There is no automation (for Joe CashRegister) to check the list and worse business are left with the difficult (and dangerous) task of validating a customers claim in cases of identification. The biggest danger of course is racial prejudice. We must make America free (I mean safe) for all Americans. The best solution of course is a national-id card. Anyone wishing to do commerce will simply need an inexpensive card reader and a phone/cell line or a connection to the internet. We'll make it easy to tie your bank/credit card accounts to to you ID card so those less secure/safe (and potentially illegal) methods of monetary transfers need not be used. Even yard-sales can be secured. We will of course need to be wary of anyone handling large amounts of cash. Fore those individuals are either fragrantly disregarding their civic duty to protect and uphold the laws of this country or they are simply an out and out criminal and/or terrorist.
Yea, I know what you mean. I had to reload a PC from scratch for a gut who accidently kicked the power on his PC during a SP2 update.
WTF! Ubuntu is not perfect. No argument here.
If you want to screw up your computer (HPUX, AIX, MacOSX, Windows*,Linux, Palm, your Cell phone) kill the power when its updating itself. No a guarenteed foobar, but still a dumb idea.
I wonder when it will be implemented here in the good ole US of A ? I mean we certainly can't let the world think that China takes better care of it's citizens than we do.
The US Constitution firmly guarantees many freedoms and rights. It does so in plain indisputable language that any teenager of average intelligence could understand. It has provisions for change, where necessary so that it never would be need outlandish interpretations, and always be relevant to the times.
I agree he was certainlly not simply jailed with impunity. I agree that he was not jailed unlawfully. I could possibly be persuaded that he was not jailed unjustly.
However, He is being HELD an awfully long time, without trial, without being charged, and without bail. (doesn't seem to be a flight risk). 6-18 months is not an inconvience, it is not a wake up call, it is no a cooling off period to think, it is not a legal means of persuasion. It is IMPRISIONMENT, is is PUNISHMENT. Imprisionment and punishment by our gonvernment requires that a process of law be followed.
Yes, he should have at least shown up for the subpenoa. (Sounds like he did. "I was escorted into custody from the courtroom the day I was ruled in contempt.") Yes, he was found in civil contempt. Yes, The Feds grabbed this case, on a very week arguement in order to by-pass California state shield laws. Yes, he should either released or formally charged.
It should at least mildly disturb you, that we seem to be becoming a nanny nation on the fast track to a police state.
I'm sick to death about hearing all the arguments about "Global Warming"
Quite frankly I think that the enviromental movement are IDIOTS for putting all their efforts SOLELY on the "Global Warming" argument. It is absurd to argument for reall immediate chnage on what your models show will PROBABLLY" happen over the next 50 to 150+ years. NOBODY really cares.
You want humanity, politicians, and corporations to take notice? to make change? A. shut up about "global warming" and future doom. B. talk about tha major cities around the globe where it is unhealthy to breathe the air. Show the lost productivity ($), the lost joy (sickness, pain), the loss of life (cancer, resiportory failure) that comes from sucking down all that carbon in the air.
Most U.S. cities list that air quality index with the weather, and quip healpful advice like "90% chance of rain today, take your umbrella; It's going to be cold out so bundle up; The polution index is high so you migh want to wear a mask or avoid exercising outside;-)" People percieve the weather as someting to endure, not something to change. Pollution need not be endured and is still procieved as something that could be changed. WHY ARE WE ARGUING ABOUT THE WEATHER (Global warming) when we should be crying for breathable air. A scientist can create good charts, Al Gore can make a movie, we can show number from ice core samples and then argue that CO2 is causing weather change. A one hour trip out of or to a major city and any 8 year old will be able to understand that pollution is making the smell, taste and look bad.
Good grief, its like arguing cigerates will weaken the enamal on you teath and lead to tooth decay and eventual starvation. BTW it also will most likely cause cancer and heart disease. On the average you will die 20+ years earlier. Oui, that tooth decay, that's what to worry about.
Tobacco Company responce: "Our scientists show that sweets cause tooth decay. We believe that smokers advanced metabolism allows them to eat more sweets without gaining weight, thus inadvertntly leading to more tooth decay in smokers."
I'm not a big music fan, but the song was lively and enjoyable. The song was avialable in DRM-free mp3 (alas no ogg) so I bought it. It is undoubtedly worth ~$1 to speed along the distruction of the existing media cartels.
Some of Koopa's other song samples didn't fit with my tastes, so thy might be a one hit wonder for me. That's ok so long as that homerun hit breaks the RIAA's windshield parked in the back lot.;-)
There is of course two sure ways to identify hackers.
They are tried and tested methods that cannot be refuted by the accused.
Tie the accused to a stake set atop a pyre of wood and then ignite the wood with several torches.
Rationalization: A real Hacker will will not allow themselves to be burned and by means of some hidden technological device not readily available to the general public, will summon computerized assistance to escape the flames.
Limitus Test: Escapes unharmed = Hacker. Burned to a crisp != Hacker
Tie the accused to a large stone with a short rope. Drop said stone into a river or lake of sufficient depth to submerse the accused.
Rationalization: A real Hacker will will not allow themselves to be drowned and by using some hidden technological device not readily available to the general public, will summon computerized assistance to escape from the water.
Limitus Test: Escapes unharmed = Hacker. Soggy corpse != Hacker
No amount of progress can overcome the "wisdom" of those with brute power unencumbered by frivolous dreams or imagination.
Obviously you sir are not a WindowsXP user.
Suspicious sites are as easily identified as "Dangerous" system drivers. Any driver not signed by M$ is dangerous. Like wise any site not registerd with MSN is suspicious. Hope that cleared things up for you.
BTW: Micro$oft would love to be able to allow anyone to register their website with MSN, but the economic reality is that the manpower required to verify your site is not free or even cheap. M$ has a responsibility to it's shareholders to make a modest profit on it's endeavors even if it doesn't actually pay dividends to those same shareholders.
Is this the same EU that's been pushing so hard for software patents?
Isn't it the purpose of software patents to create/enforce monopolies?
Wouldn't it make more sense to heavly restrict software patents, or simplt strip M$ of and patents pertaining to the protocols in question. There are already companies that have figured many MS protocols out, but they still have to pay M$ licensing.
A judgement restricting or assigning MicroSoft's protocol specific patents to public domain would probablly do more to open or level the playing field. Especially if thos restrictions / assignments applied to patents files for the next 5 years.
my $0.02
2.4 Mil/day seems steep so I'm assuming the kind of arrogance and lying that M$ applied to the US courts did not impress the EU judges at all.
Good Luck.
As a swaggerin', cowboy hat wearin' American I would have never believed that one day Europe would be my last best hope for free thought. -sigh-
I long for those days of yester-year when America stood for freedom and hope. A time when every birth was a noble birth and aristocracy didn't mean near as much work and grit. When winning meant conquering the challenges before you, not utterly destroying the competition.
Maybe those days never existed. (Ask the native Americans, independent broadcasters, independent truckers, land owning farmers, ?small retailers?, single income middle class). At least believing they existed once gives me some hope for tomorrow
Again,
Good luck and Godspeed
If your really curious, start with http:\\lds.org or http:\\mormon.org.
I guess there always has to be opposition in all things. It's important to remember standing AGAINST something is not the same as standing FOR something.
Slashdot Mirror
It wouldn't hurt to go to his web-site and thank him.
Only question 1 relevant, unless by "majority" you meant "most money".
Even the Pope has spoken out against this kind of thing, as on effort to oppress poorer people.
Than being said, the solution is to label this kind of actions for what it is, stand with the Pope ( I'm NOT Catholic ), get other religious leaders to understand and see is as an effort to oppress and control people. This discussion needs to be taken to religious groups, because that's where the majority of people begin to think about and discuss moral issues.
There no use trying to convince the intellectuals, they already understand the dangers and have been speaking out against them. They have also been largely ignored for decades.
I know this goes against the general slashdot-geek philosophy but this is class warfare and war makes strange bedfellows.
Fox new brings (_Topic_of_your_choice_) Debate to a new Low.
Summary: Fox News collected information from various experts and opinionists on the (_Topic_of_your_choice_) then choses to only air the information about (_Topic_of_your_choice_) from the opinionists who opinions on (_Topic_of_your_choice_) that closely match Fox News running narrative. Surprisingly all other research, studies and statistics were curtly summed up and presented as "... unsurprising theres are some studies 'out there' which can be contrived to present a different viewpoint ...". This is apparently done to maintain the "Fair and Balanced" integrity of Fox News.
So and up stream ISP took some action to take these server off the internet.
So did they
A. Cut the tubes leading to zeus
B. clog the tube with something
C. install a calve on the tube
Cause if they didn't (A) cut the tube, won't zeus be able to pump stuff into the internet again by (B) having their internet tube cleaned or (C) have someone walk out to the curb and turn the valve back on?
-GW
P.S. could we flush a tube-bursting bomb down zeus's tube and reall shut them down for good
First off I do not work for the RIAA.
America needs to wake up and realize the damage these PIRATES are doing to the economy. If they cannot pay the fines then they should be imprisoned for the equivalent number of years it would take for them to have earned the amount of money required for their fine.
In this case it is a simple calculation: Average Hourly wage in US: $18.46 (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm)
Fine: $80,000 per song * 24 = $1.92 million
Jail time: ($80,000 * 24 songs) / $18.46 per hour
4334 days or 11.87 years in prison
Obviously America does not understand the vast natural resource and source of wealth music represents.
Lets take a look quick look at just on source of music distribution, the iTunes store.
As of February 2008 Apple has sold over 4 billion songs ( http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/02/26itunes.html) we know that the legal value of each digital copy those songs to be worth $80,000.
That is 320 trillion dollars worth of goods people, since just April of 2003 !!!!
Now consider that a song is copyright protected for the lifespan of the artist plus 150 years (let round that to 180 years). Now lets look at the math again.
Yearly value: $320 trillion / 5 years = $64 trillion per year
Value of the music that existed on February 2008 over the life of the copyright:
$64 trillion * 180 years = $11.52 quadrillion dollars
An that would be if no new songs were recorded over the next 180 years.
How important is that number?
Well in 2008 the GDP of the world was a paltry $69.49 trillion. (CIA fact book, all amounts are in USD) Which means that one can safely say that the value of music that existed Feburary 2008 is worth more than the sum of the GDP of the WORLD over the last 200+ years.
Not that the RIAA needs to brag, but evidently the music industry was responsible for the lion's share of the Worlds GDP in 2008.
Now you can understand just how much of a threat piracy is.
1913
President Woodrow Wilson
Instituted the Federal Reserve (A Large PRIVATE central bank). Giving basically a regulated Private bank to control economic policy, and the creation of money.
Nice educational video, google "money as debt"
The title should read: "Congress debating way to increase the crime rate".
We are course not just talking about illegal/undocumented laborers here. That is important to remember. I realize that this is of course an important tool in the "War on terrorism", but it is VERY dangerous thing.
Consider the following one-sided dialog: Sorry Mr. Smith you appear to be on the no work list. You say there's been a some kind of mistake? Not to worry Mr. Smith if indeed there was a mistake just submit these forms to Homeland Security. Once the FBI has completed an in depth background check, you will be able to interview with an agent of Homeland and that person can submit your name to be removed from the "do-not" work list. How long? the FBI background check generally takes 3-4 months, and again pending the results, the removal from the official list happens in 3-4 weeks. The law prohibits anyone from using the DNW list that is more than 3 months old, so you shouldn't have any more trouble at all 7-8 months. Pay your bills? Feed your family? I'm sorry Mr Smith but I can't help you with that. Next Please. I suppose you could get loans from your friends and family, Financial institutions of course won't touch you. And you should be aware that your Credit Cards will probably be suspended. Next PLEASE. Your children? Mr. Smith you should have thought of that before you got yourself on the list. I don't know what got you on the list, that information is classified otherwise it would make it easier for the criminals and terrorists to avoid. Now Mr. Smith there is nothing more I can do. You can print out the forms you need at the terminal by the waiting area. Please Mr. Smith you really don't need me to call security now do you? Next Please.
Yes, this is FUD. Yes, there will be Mr.Smiths. No, Statistically speaking it is highly unlikely to be you. BTW statistically speaking it's unlikely that some terrorist gives a damn about trying to kill or ruin you. Statistically speaking it is probably even less likely that any given person (picked at random) on this planet is a terrorist.
When it comes to the war on terrorism perhaps the best way to win is to not take part all. I cannot believe that there is an infinite supply of people so full of dispair to become suicide bombers (unless we help create people of hopelessness) There will always be criminals. But we can reduce those numbers by attacking poverty, and providing education. It probably would hurt if our "Justice" system was more about Justice than revenge and political gain.
We are losing the War on terrorism because we are expanding it every day. Because we are gearing up to make it a perpetual war, is our "new reality". Because we are trying to increase our fear by looking for more enemies and treating new encounters as encounters with a potential enemy. Because we are creating the means of being able to quickly and legally classify anyone as a criminal. Because we are quietly moving to the faulty inductive reasoning that because all terrorists are criminals and/or political dissidents then all criminal suspects and political dissidents are potential terrorists. The true war on terrorism is ultimately a war of ideas and ideals. As we surrender our ideals (by ignoring the constitution, ignoring Geneva conventions, giving a grim nod to torture, and in this case committing to a trial without jury where you are guilty until proven innocent.). We are losing precious ground to terrorism. And when finally, we are as afraid of our own government as we are of theft, rape, murder, or bombs. Then we have truly lost.
A more basic timesheet application I like is timesheet.php (http://www.advancen.com/products/timesheet.html) Take a few minutes to try the demo.
Not a full blown ERP but nolapro is a nice lamp based accounting software. There is inventory tracking POS integration, even a web-store. It handles employee pay, and order tracking. Some parts are not intuitive. (But I'm not a lover of accounting) Speed has been good, it has search as you type (an important feature to me), and other stuff too. Best of all there is a free demo avialable, plus a 30 or 60 day trial. It is a subscription model (kind of a downside) but just $20/month hosted or host your own.
It is obvious that many people around the world do not understand the Internet.
.com, .org, .gov, or .net. .us is of cource implicetly implied to any domain the US didn't assign you.)
.........please...
Let me sum it up for you. The USofA OWNS the internet.
Al Gore invented it.
The US controls the registars.
The US has graciously agreed to allow all you cyber colonies to have your own little TLDs. (please refrain from trying to polute
When you are on the internet your are on US cyber soil.
If you don't like that, then try to do something about it.
NOTE: satire
Actually I pray to my Heavenly Father. Who BTW would like nothing more than to have me (and you, all of us actually) become like him and inherit ALL that he has in both power and knowledge.
I know that there is a general negativity hear towards Christian beliefs. (more of a negativity towards organized religion in general without general bias against Christians, but I digress) There is also a general knowledge of biblical stories and prophecies. This immediately strikes a cord with me from Revelations: (13:17) "And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
10 years ago this was hard for me to imagine how we could ever get to such a place in history. Now given the methods employed or tenuous holds on on freedoms and "self-evident truths" it is easy to see the path. Lists of bad guys are not all that effective, bad guys (terrorists) o not submit themselves to mis-identification nor do they willfully register themselves. There is no automation (for Joe CashRegister) to check the list and worse business are left with the difficult (and dangerous) task of validating a customers claim in cases of identification. The biggest danger of course is racial prejudice. We must make America free (I mean safe) for all Americans. The best solution of course is a national-id card. Anyone wishing to do commerce will simply need an inexpensive card reader and a phone/cell line or a connection to the internet. We'll make it easy to tie your bank/credit card accounts to to you ID card so those less secure/safe (and potentially illegal) methods of monetary transfers need not be used. Even yard-sales can be secured. We will of course need to be wary of anyone handling large amounts of cash. Fore those individuals are either fragrantly disregarding their civic duty to protect and uphold the laws of this country or they are simply an out and out criminal and/or terrorist.
Yea, I know what you mean. I had to reload a PC from scratch for a gut who accidently kicked the power on his PC during a SP2 update.
WTF!
Ubuntu is not perfect. No argument here.
If you want to screw up your computer (HPUX, AIX, MacOSX, Windows*,Linux, Palm, your Cell phone) kill the power when its updating itself. No a guarenteed foobar, but still a dumb idea.
This woman is clearly some kind of information NAZI.
(Godwin's Law invoked. )
Truly scary.
I wonder when it will be implemented here in the good ole US of A ?
I mean we certainly can't let the world think that China takes better care of it's citizens than we do.
-sigh-
Hey!
The US Constitution firmly guarantees many freedoms and rights. It does so in plain indisputable language that any teenager of average intelligence could understand. It has provisions for change, where necessary so that it never would be need outlandish interpretations, and always be relevant to the times.
-sigh-
I agree he was certainlly not simply jailed with impunity.
I agree that he was not jailed unlawfully.
I could possibly be persuaded that he was not jailed unjustly.
However,
He is being HELD an awfully long time, without trial, without being charged, and without bail. (doesn't seem to be a flight risk).
6-18 months is not an inconvience, it is not a wake up call, it is no a cooling off period to think, it is not a legal means of persuasion. It is IMPRISIONMENT, is is PUNISHMENT. Imprisionment and punishment by our gonvernment requires that a process of law be followed.
Yes, he should have at least shown up for the subpenoa. (Sounds like he did. "I was escorted into custody from the courtroom the day I was ruled in contempt.")
Yes, he was found in civil contempt.
Yes, The Feds grabbed this case, on a very week arguement in order to by-pass California state shield laws.
Yes, he should either released or formally charged.
It should at least mildly disturb you, that we seem to be becoming a nanny nation on the fast track to a police state.
I'm sick to death about hearing all the arguments about "Global Warming"
Quite frankly I think that the enviromental movement are IDIOTS for putting all their efforts SOLELY on the "Global Warming" argument. It is absurd to argument for reall immediate chnage on what your models show will PROBABLLY" happen over the next 50 to 150+ years. NOBODY really cares.
You want humanity, politicians, and corporations to take notice? to make change?
A. shut up about "global warming" and future doom.
B. talk about tha major cities around the globe where it is unhealthy to breathe the air. Show the lost productivity ($), the lost joy (sickness, pain), the loss of life (cancer, resiportory failure) that comes from sucking down all that carbon in the air.
Most U.S. cities list that air quality index with the weather, and quip healpful advice like "90% chance of rain today, take your umbrella; It's going to be cold out so bundle up; The polution index is high so you migh want to wear a mask or avoid exercising outside;-)"
People percieve the weather as someting to endure, not something to change.
Pollution need not be endured and is still procieved as something that could be changed.
WHY ARE WE ARGUING ABOUT THE WEATHER (Global warming) when we should be crying for breathable air.
A scientist can create good charts, Al Gore can make a movie, we can show number from ice core samples and then argue that CO2 is causing weather change. A one hour trip out of or to a major city and any 8 year old will be able to understand that pollution is making the smell, taste and look bad.
Good grief, its like arguing cigerates will weaken the enamal on you teath and lead to tooth decay and eventual starvation. BTW it also will most likely cause cancer and heart disease. On the average you will die 20+ years earlier. Oui, that tooth decay, that's what to worry about.
Tobacco Company responce: "Our scientists show that sweets cause tooth decay. We believe that smokers advanced metabolism allows them to eat more sweets without gaining weight, thus inadvertntly leading to more tooth decay in smokers."
Rant complete
I hope so.
;-)
I'm not a big music fan, but the song was lively and enjoyable. The song was avialable in DRM-free mp3 (alas no ogg) so I bought it. It is undoubtedly worth ~$1 to speed along the distruction of the existing media cartels.
Some of Koopa's other song samples didn't fit with my tastes, so thy might be a one hit wonder for me. That's ok so long as that homerun hit breaks the RIAA's windshield parked in the back lot.
There is of course two sure ways to identify hackers. They are tried and tested methods that cannot be refuted by the accused. Tie the accused to a stake set atop a pyre of wood and then ignite the wood with several torches. Rationalization: A real Hacker will will not allow themselves to be burned and by means of some hidden technological device not readily available to the general public, will summon computerized assistance to escape the flames. Limitus Test: Escapes unharmed = Hacker. Burned to a crisp != Hacker Tie the accused to a large stone with a short rope. Drop said stone into a river or lake of sufficient depth to submerse the accused. Rationalization: A real Hacker will will not allow themselves to be drowned and by using some hidden technological device not readily available to the general public, will summon computerized assistance to escape from the water. Limitus Test: Escapes unharmed = Hacker. Soggy corpse != Hacker No amount of progress can overcome the "wisdom" of those with brute power unencumbered by frivolous dreams or imagination.
Obviously you sir are not a WindowsXP user.
Suspicious sites are as easily identified as "Dangerous" system drivers. Any driver not signed by M$ is dangerous. Like wise any site not registerd with MSN is suspicious. Hope that cleared things up for you.
BTW: Micro$oft would love to be able to allow anyone to register their website with MSN, but the economic reality is that the manpower required to verify your site is not free or even cheap. M$ has a responsibility to it's shareholders to make a modest profit on it's endeavors even if it doesn't actually pay dividends to those same shareholders.
SlashDOT 'em
Log this bucko
http://www.grokster.com/
Give'm hell boys!
Is this the same EU that's been pushing so hard for software patents? Isn't it the purpose of software patents to create/enforce monopolies? Wouldn't it make more sense to heavly restrict software patents, or simplt strip M$ of and patents pertaining to the protocols in question. There are already companies that have figured many MS protocols out, but they still have to pay M$ licensing. A judgement restricting or assigning MicroSoft's protocol specific patents to public domain would probablly do more to open or level the playing field. Especially if thos restrictions / assignments applied to patents files for the next 5 years. my $0.02 2.4 Mil/day seems steep so I'm assuming the kind of arrogance and lying that M$ applied to the US courts did not impress the EU judges at all.
Good Luck. As a swaggerin', cowboy hat wearin' American I would have never believed that one day Europe would be my last best hope for free thought. -sigh- I long for those days of yester-year when America stood for freedom and hope. A time when every birth was a noble birth and aristocracy didn't mean near as much work and grit. When winning meant conquering the challenges before you, not utterly destroying the competition. Maybe those days never existed. (Ask the native Americans, independent broadcasters, independent truckers, land owning farmers, ?small retailers?, single income middle class). At least believing they existed once gives me some hope for tomorrow Again, Good luck and Godspeed
If your really curious, start with http:\\lds.org or http:\\mormon.org.
I guess there always has to be opposition in all things. It's important to remember standing AGAINST something is not the same as standing FOR something.
i.e. I'm not anti-microsoft, I'm pro-*nix.