Oh, speaking of Mein Kampf...you *do* know that in the Middle East, it's quite the bestseller?
What does it take to become a "bestseller?
According to a September 8, 1999, Agence France Presse report, Mein Kampf ranked sixth on the bestseller list compiled by Dar el-Shuruq bookshop in Ramallah, with sales of about 10 copies a week.
Ramallah has a population of about 25,000 and is the de facto capital of the PNA. In an argument like this, I really prefer to see hard numbers and not decade-old anecdotes.
How dare they attempt to flagrantly abuse the creative works created by an author 80 years ago, when the great-grandchildren of said author deserve a life of luxury for all of their blood, sweat and tears!
1 The literary estate of an author is often the only thing he has to give to his children --- and that is an incentive to be productive.
2 The ur-Geek began buying into the LOTR fantasy along about 1957-1965, and "buying," I think, is the right word here.
3 There has been plenty of borrowing as well. In Infocom's prime the adventure game --- and by extension --- the RPG could draw on any form of genre fiction, pulp fiction, and see some commercial success. It wasn't all elves and orcs, D&D.
A world of strong copyright is biased in favor of originality, diversity. You are expected to plow your own road. .
According to Wikipedia (it's always correct), he used to work for Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman. A firm that represented the Communication Workers of America. Not surprisingly, the CWA regularly deals with AT&T.
I would like to meet the man or woman with a senior position in law, finance, tech or government who at one time or another hasn't been friend or foe and often both to AT&T.
Hereabouts, you'll find them mighty thin on the ground.
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, downtown Dallas, Texas. AT&T is the largest provider both of mobile telephony and of fixed telephony in the United States, and also provides broadband subscription television services. As of 2010, AT&T is the seventh largest company in the United States by total revenue, and the fourth largest non-oil company (behind Walmart, General Electric, and Bank of America). It is the third-largest company in Texas (the largest non-oil company, behind only ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, and also the largest Dallas company). As of 2011, AT&T is the 14th largest company in the world by market value, and the 9th largest non-oil company. It is also the 20th largest mobile telecom operator in the world, with over 100.7 million mobile customers.
Prosecutors, these days seem to be having increasing difficulty distinguishing the letter of the law versus the spirit of the law.
The prosecutor has some discretion.
But there are limits.
He needs convincing and he tends to become cynical.
He has heard it all before.
The "spirit of the law" has to amount to something more --- much more, I afraid --- then the geek's self-serving plea that one of his own kind doesn't deserve to go to jail.
____
The geek is the quintessential outsider.
He ought to have learned by now not to rely on the kindness of strangers.
If someone praises a product within seconds of a new story being posted they are either the world's fastest typist or they are copy and pasting something.
or they might be a paid subscriber
or they might have taken a drink from the Firehouse.
like the Electronic Frontier Foundation worry that should that charge succeed it will become easy to criminalize many online activities, including work by well-intentioned activists looking for leaks of private information or other online security holes.
The road to hell and all that.
It's time for the geek to grow up and discover that life hasn't dealt him a Get Out Of Jail Free card,
The news is the Microsoft astroturfing trolls that have so flooded slashdot are not just on slashdot, they are everywhere. Anyone that watches Oprah will believe anything, even that Microsoft products are worth buying.
Microsoft tends to spend its time and money in places where the grown-ups hang out.
The shortest answer is ''It's a digital notebook,'' but that just leads to the question, ''And why would I want a digital notebook?'' The better answer is that it's a powerful, versatile tool for organizing just about anything. It's the application you turn to for jotting down to-do lists, capturing notes during a presentation, or recording the random ideas that run through your head so you can refer to them later after your brain has erased all traces of the original thought. You can store, organize, and search text, audio, video, photos, and handwriting.
OneNote has been one of my favorite applications since Microsoft began bundling it with Microsoft Office. I like that it syncs my data through SkyDrive so my notes and information are available from just about anywhere. Microsoft has also developed native apps for the iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, and Android devices--making OneNote one of the most accessible, cross-platform tools Microsoft has.
My single favorite feature of the new OneNote, though, is unique to OneNote MX--the Metro-ized app version of OneNote designed for Windows 8. Tapping the radial menu button opens a circle containing different formatting options. On some options an arrow is available that lets you dive deeper and access more options. At any point, you can click the back arrow in the center of the radial menu to go back to the previous menu.
The radial menu is brilliant. It is an innovative approach to working with information on a touchscreen mobile device, and I hope the radial menu is also a staple of the Office apps that come with Windows 8 RT, and/or that Microsoft extends the radial menu concept to the rest of the Office suite soon.
Drivers, installed base, drivers, familiar windows interface, drivers, most users can barely power their machine on much less install Linux...
In other words, what is needed is the OEM system bundle.
The balanced and tested bundle of hardware of hardware and software backed by a warranty and sold under a recognizable brand name through familiar and trusted retail outlets.
The retail shopper doesn't give a damn about FOSS.
He will give a damn if he can't install Skype, play his favorite Internet radio stations, flash based games or instant Netflix videos.
He will give a damn if he discovers --- far too late --- has to jump through hoops before he is allowed to install a high-performance proprietary driver. He will give a damn if he is looking for a compatible multi-function printer and no one in store can tell him if they have one he can buy off the shelf.
That might be a good reason to live in a decent country instead of fleeing to some hell hole to cook drugs and nail jailbait.
I don't want to pre-judge this. But it is hard not to think of Hans Reiser.
You might wonder why someone with so much money would live so far from town down such a difficult road. Rounding a sandy curve it quickly became obvious: the staggering beauty of the Belize Barrier Reef coast.
McAfee's view is worth a fortune. An endless stretch of blue sky overhangs an ocean of pastel greens and blues framed by coconut palms. Next to a long wooden dock with chairs at its end sits a fast-looking boat with twin outboards.
The day before, I met "Tiffany" here. She claimed to be one of McAfee's girlfriends, one of seven. They all live together, sharing McAfee's houses and fantasies. He's 67. Tiffany says she's 23 and they have been lovers for three years. The girl beside her gives no name and only says she's 19.
Tiffany says she's not seen or heard from McAfee in nearly a week -- not since the neighbor, Greg Faull, was discovered dead and McAfee went into hiding.
Now a day later the 23-year-old had vanished too.
Half a dozen dogs lie sorry-looking or listless in the yard -- thin, hungry and thirsty. They're lucky to be alive.
Dogs just might be the key to this mystery.
Officials say their barking and aggressive behavior was a frequent source of friction between McAfee and Faull, a 52-year-old contractor who retired to Belize from Florida and lived next door.
On November 9, McAfee told police someone poisoned four of his dogs. Tiffany said to put them out of their misery he shot each one in the head and buried them.
Then two days later someone shot Faull in the head in his own living room. A 9mm shell was found on the second step on the first floor, and Faull was found dead on the second floor.
And McAfee had vanished.
This almost daily "catch me if you can" game is wearing thin on investigators. The longer it all goes on, the more suspicious police become.
So five days ago they dug up his dogs. I found the partially exposed graves next to a trash pit in the back behind his priceless ocean view. The flies led me there. I asked a caretaker if he was here when the police came for them. "Yes" he said, then added another tick up the strange-o-meter by revealing, "They cut off their heads."
Since only the heads had bullets, the investigators put the rest of the remains back in the holes, then hurriedly and poorly recovered them.
A source close to the investigation said authorities probably want to see if the slugs in the dogs match the one in Faull.
That's why the US has the fifth amendment (and why a right against self-incrimination is a good idea in general).
In US law, the privilege against self-incrimination is ultimately rooted as a barrier against the use of isolation, intimidation and torture to extract confessions.
There is much you cannot be forced to say.
But very few barriers to the physical evidence you may be compelled to surrender.
I am not convinced that, under US law the barrier to launching an investigation against a particular person is anywhere near as high as that needed to support a search and seizure.
It is interesting to see the different attitudes toward volunteering information to the government. If NYC asked something like this, it would be an outrage and participation would be roughly 1% if it moved forward at all.
Have you any evidence to support that assertion or do you simply think that these are the words the geek wants to hear?
Silicon Valley imagines itself as the un-Chick-fil-A. But its hyper-tolerant facade often masks deeply conservative, outdated norms that digital culture discreetly imposes on billions of technology users worldwide.
Silicon Valley is tech. It enables. But it is not in control. There is no such thing as a unified "digital culture."
Online communities --- like any other --- form around people who share the same interests and values. The geek is not always going to like what he finds out there.
Star Trek is fictional. Roddenberry made a shit ton of money off his intellectual property, which he fiercely guarded.
There are times when the geek himself seems the ultimate pop-cultural artifact --- without an idea in his head that can't be traced back to the IP of the coprprate mass market product he claims to despise.
How the geek makes it to gainful employment without a basic understanding of intangible property rights, I can't begin to guess. The one thing I am sure of, is that I don't want to see such an ignoramus come within ten parsecs of the systems and software that manage my electronic medical records, 401(K) and so on.
There is NO SUCH THING as "intellectual property". It's a farce. I, for one, am looking forward to a left-leaning "creative commons" Star Trek like world where profit means little, and the freedy people (Ferengi) are forbidden interlopers.
What Star Trek series was ever set outside the insular world of the elite professional soldier? Whose every wish and whim is fulfilled by the state?
I share little in common Heinlein but an affection for characters who must live by their wits --- and tech that is good, sometimes very, very good, but never the genii in the bottle.
Seeds. Canned goods. Fresh fruits and vegetables. Corporate agriculture and agricultural co-ops began branding products no later than the 1880s.
Think about it for five minutes and you'll remember dozens of slogans, jingles and characters, some of them older than your great-grandparents. Branding works. IP has market value. .
The College Republicans regret the controversy surrounding our planned lecture featuring Ann Coulter. The size and severity of opposition to this event have caught us by surprise, and caused us to question our decision to welcome her to Rose Hill. Looking at the concerns raised about Ms. Coulter, many of them reasonable, we have determined that some of her comments do not represent the ideals of the College Republicans and are inconsistent with both our organization's mission, and the University's. We regret that we failed to thoroughly research her before announcing, that is our error and we do not excuse ourselves for it. Consistent with our strong disagreement with certain comments by Ms. Coulter we have chosen to cancel the event and rescind Ms. Coulterâ(TM)s invitation to speak at Fordham. We made this choice freely, before Father McShaneâ(TM)s email was sent out and we became aware of his feelings --- had the President simply reached out to us before releasing his statement he would have learned that the event was being cancelled. We hope the University community will forgive the College Republicans for our error, and continue to allow us to serve as its main voice of the sensible, compassionate, and conservative political movement that we strive to be. We fell short of that standard this time, and we offer our sincere apologies.
Click here to host an event with Ann on your campus!
Fun times:
The incident followed a Monday night lecture at the University of Western Ontario, where Coulter told a Muslim student to "take a camel" as an alternative to flying.
Coulter made the comment as she responded to a question from student Fatima Al-Dhaher, who asked about previous comments in which Coulter said Muslims shouldn't be allowed on airplanes and should take "flying carpets" instead. Al-Dhaher noted she did not own a flying carpet and asked what she should take as an alternative transportation.
Coulter did not deny making the flying carpet comment and replied to the university student, "What mode of transportation? Take a camel," to jeers and cheers. It was a decidedly pro-Coulter audience. One man, who identified himself as a U.S. citizen, described U.S. President Barack Obama as a "Marxist."
She is well-known for her vehement views against Muslims. In a post-September 11 column, she wrote that the U.S. should invade Muslim countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.
Coulter, who often comments on Fox News, once said Canada is "lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent" after the Canadian government did not join the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Universities have adopted corporate tactics to become and stay "more competitive in the marketplace" and that means shielding themselves from lawsuits and making themselves more appealing to donors.
going totally against the spirit and literally wording of the Constitution of the USA?
The Founders were profoundly wary of embedding policy decisions into the Constitution. They thought in terms of structure and function, checks and balances. It's for the Congress to decide how patents and copyrights can best serve the national interest,
However, from an ideological perspective, the GOP is more closely aligned with the ethos that could back copyright reform than the Democratic party
The party of Fox News?
The party that divides the world between the makers and the takers?
The party that looks at the geek and sees Kim Dotcom?
The party that is slowly being extinguished in all but the deep South and Great Plains states --- where notions of property rights are anchored in bedrock?
This is the party you see leading the charge for copyright reform?
People who live in districts such as Ohio's 4th would do well to send letters of support to those who crafted the original brief.
Ohio's 4th has been Republican since 1938.
It's 93% white, 40% rural, with a median income of $40,000. Ohio's 4th congressional district The only city in the district you are likely to recognize is Marion, population 35,000, and the home town of Warren G. Harding, Marion, Ohio
Jordan called for fiscal responsibility and noted his strong beliefs in traditional family values. Slone [Democrat] pointed to his labor and union background while calling on Washington to help create jobs. Kalla [Libertarian] cited a number of government reforms that would reduce federal regulations while bolstering freedom in the country.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, speaking of Mein Kampf...you *do* know that in the Middle East, it's quite the bestseller?
What does it take to become a "bestseller?
According to a September 8, 1999, Agence France Presse report, Mein Kampf ranked sixth on the bestseller list compiled by Dar el-Shuruq bookshop in Ramallah, with sales of about 10 copies a week.
Mein Kampf in the Arabic language
Ramallah has a population of about 25,000 and is the de facto capital of the PNA. In an argument like this, I really prefer to see hard numbers and not decade-old anecdotes.
How dare they attempt to flagrantly abuse the creative works created by an author 80 years ago, when the great-grandchildren of said author deserve a life of luxury for all of their blood, sweat and tears!
1 The literary estate of an author is often the only thing he has to give to his children --- and that is an incentive to be productive.
2 The ur-Geek began buying into the LOTR fantasy along about 1957-1965, and "buying," I think, is the right word here.
3 There has been plenty of borrowing as well. In Infocom's prime the adventure game --- and by extension --- the RPG could draw on any form of genre fiction, pulp fiction, and see some commercial success. It wasn't all elves and orcs, D&D.
A world of strong copyright is biased in favor of originality, diversity. You are expected to plow your own road. .
According to Wikipedia (it's always correct), he used to work for Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman. A firm that represented the Communication Workers of America. Not surprisingly, the CWA regularly deals with AT&T.
I would like to meet the man or woman with a senior position in law, finance, tech or government who at one time or another hasn't been friend or foe and often both to AT&T.
Hereabouts, you'll find them mighty thin on the ground.
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, downtown Dallas, Texas. AT&T is the largest provider both of mobile telephony and of fixed telephony in the United States, and also provides broadband subscription television services. As of 2010, AT&T is the seventh largest company in the United States by total revenue, and the fourth largest non-oil company (behind Walmart, General Electric, and Bank of America). It is the third-largest company in Texas (the largest non-oil company, behind only ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, and also the largest Dallas company). As of 2011, AT&T is the 14th largest company in the world by market value, and the 9th largest non-oil company. It is also the 20th largest mobile telecom operator in the world, with over 100.7 million mobile customers.
AT&T
Prosecutors, these days seem to be having increasing difficulty distinguishing the letter of the law versus the spirit of the law.
The prosecutor has some discretion.
But there are limits.
He needs convincing and he tends to become cynical.
He has heard it all before.
The "spirit of the law" has to amount to something more --- much more, I afraid --- then the geek's self-serving plea that one of his own kind doesn't deserve to go to jail.
____
The geek is the quintessential outsider.
He ought to have learned by now not to rely on the kindness of strangers.
If someone praises a product within seconds of a new story being posted they are either the world's fastest typist or they are copy and pasting something.
or they might be a paid subscriber
or they might have taken a drink from the Firehouse.
like the Electronic Frontier Foundation worry that should that charge succeed it will become easy to criminalize many online activities, including work by well-intentioned activists looking for leaks of private information or other online security holes.
The road to hell and all that.
It's time for the geek to grow up and discover that life hasn't dealt him a Get Out Of Jail Free card,
The news is the Microsoft astroturfing trolls that have so flooded slashdot are not just on slashdot, they are everywhere.
Anyone that watches Oprah will believe anything, even that Microsoft products are worth buying.
Microsoft tends to spend its time and money in places where the grown-ups hang out.
The shortest answer is ''It's a digital notebook,'' but that just leads to the question, ''And why would I want a digital notebook?'' The better answer is that it's a powerful, versatile tool for organizing just about anything. It's the application you turn to for jotting down to-do lists, capturing notes during a presentation, or recording the random ideas that run through your head so you can refer to them later after your brain has erased all traces of the original thought. You can store, organize, and search text, audio, video, photos, and handwriting.
OneNote has been one of my favorite applications since Microsoft began bundling it with Microsoft Office. I like that it syncs my data through SkyDrive so my notes and information are available from just about anywhere. Microsoft has also developed native apps for the iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, and Android devices--making OneNote one of the most accessible, cross-platform tools Microsoft has.
My single favorite feature of the new OneNote, though, is unique to OneNote MX--the Metro-ized app version of OneNote designed for Windows 8. Tapping the radial menu button opens a circle containing different formatting options. On some options an arrow is available that lets you dive deeper and access more options. At any point, you can click the back arrow in the center of the radial menu to go back to the previous menu.
The radial menu is brilliant. It is an innovative approach to working with information on a touchscreen mobile device, and I hope the radial menu is also a staple of the Office apps that come with Windows 8 RT, and/or that Microsoft extends the radial menu concept to the rest of the Office suite soon.
Microsoft OneNote MX Has a Secret Weapon
Are Radial Menus The Future Of Office?
Definition of SECRETARY
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Fox News For Nerds
Drivers, installed base, drivers, familiar windows interface, drivers, most users can barely power their machine on much less install Linux...
In other words, what is needed is the OEM system bundle.
The balanced and tested bundle of hardware of hardware and software backed by a warranty and sold under a recognizable brand name through familiar and trusted retail outlets.
The retail shopper doesn't give a damn about FOSS.
He will give a damn if he can't install Skype, play his favorite Internet radio stations, flash based games or instant Netflix videos.
He will give a damn if he discovers --- far too late --- has to jump through hoops before he is allowed to install a high-performance proprietary driver. He will give a damn if he is looking for a compatible multi-function printer and no one in store can tell him if they have one he can buy off the shelf.
That might be a good reason to live in a decent country instead of fleeing to some hell hole to cook drugs and nail jailbait.
I don't want to pre-judge this. But it is hard not to think of Hans Reiser.
You might wonder why someone with so much money would live so far from town down such a difficult road. Rounding a sandy curve it quickly became obvious: the staggering beauty of the Belize Barrier Reef coast.
McAfee's view is worth a fortune. An endless stretch of blue sky overhangs an ocean of pastel greens and blues framed by coconut palms. Next to a long wooden dock with chairs at its end sits a fast-looking boat with twin outboards.
The day before, I met "Tiffany" here. She claimed to be one of McAfee's girlfriends, one of seven. They all live together, sharing McAfee's houses and fantasies. He's 67. Tiffany says she's 23 and they have been lovers for three years. The girl beside her gives no name and only says she's 19.
Tiffany says she's not seen or heard from McAfee in nearly a week -- not since the neighbor, Greg Faull, was discovered dead and McAfee went into hiding.
Now a day later the 23-year-old had vanished too.
Half a dozen dogs lie sorry-looking or listless in the yard -- thin, hungry and thirsty. They're lucky to be alive.
Dogs just might be the key to this mystery.
Officials say their barking and aggressive behavior was a frequent source of friction between McAfee and Faull, a 52-year-old contractor who retired to Belize from Florida and lived next door.
On November 9, McAfee told police someone poisoned four of his dogs. Tiffany said to put them out of their misery he shot each one in the head and buried them.
Then two days later someone shot Faull in the head in his own living room. A 9mm shell was found on the second step on the first floor, and Faull was found dead on the second floor.
And McAfee had vanished.
This almost daily "catch me if you can" game is wearing thin on investigators. The longer it all goes on, the more suspicious police become.
So five days ago they dug up his dogs. I found the partially exposed graves next to a trash pit in the back behind his priceless ocean view. The flies led me there. I asked a caretaker if he was here when the police came for them. "Yes" he said, then added another tick up the strange-o-meter by revealing, "They cut off their heads."
Since only the heads had bullets, the investigators put the rest of the remains back in the holes, then hurriedly and poorly recovered them.
A source close to the investigation said authorities probably want to see if the slugs in the dogs match the one in Faull.
A bizarre visit to John McAfee's pleasure palace in Belize
More details need to come out, this isn't "solved" in my mind unless they have DNA evidence from the rape itself that matches.
I have a very real problem here if you are claiming that DNA evidence "from the rape" is only evidence that would support a conviction for rape.
That's why the US has the fifth amendment (and why a right against self-incrimination is a good idea in general).
In US law, the privilege against self-incrimination is ultimately rooted as a barrier against the use of isolation, intimidation and torture to extract confessions.
There is much you cannot be forced to say.
But very few barriers to the physical evidence you may be compelled to surrender.
I am not convinced that, under US law the barrier to launching an investigation against a particular person is anywhere near as high as that needed to support a search and seizure.
It is interesting to see the different attitudes toward volunteering information to the government. If NYC asked something like this, it would be an outrage and participation would be roughly 1% if it moved forward at all.
Have you any evidence to support that assertion or do you simply think that these are the words the geek wants to hear?
Silicon Valley imagines itself as the un-Chick-fil-A. But its hyper-tolerant facade often masks deeply conservative, outdated norms that digital culture discreetly imposes on billions of technology users worldwide.
Silicon Valley is tech. It enables. But it is not in control. There is no such thing as a unified "digital culture."
Online communities --- like any other --- form around people who share the same interests and values. The geek is not always going to like what he finds out there.
Star Trek is fictional. Roddenberry made a shit ton of money off his intellectual property, which he fiercely guarded.
There are times when the geek himself seems the ultimate pop-cultural artifact --- without an idea in his head that can't be traced back to the IP of the coprprate mass market product he claims to despise.
How the geek makes it to gainful employment without a basic understanding of intangible property rights, I can't begin to guess. The one thing I am sure of, is that I don't want to see such an ignoramus come within ten parsecs of the systems and software that manage my electronic medical records, 401(K) and so on.
There is NO SUCH THING as "intellectual property". It's a farce. I, for one, am looking forward to a left-leaning "creative commons" Star Trek like world where profit means little, and the freedy people (Ferengi) are forbidden interlopers.
What Star Trek series was ever set outside the insular world of the elite professional soldier? Whose every wish and whim is fulfilled by the state?
I share little in common Heinlein but an affection for characters who must live by their wits --- and tech that is good, sometimes very, very good, but never the genii in the bottle.
Seeds. Canned goods. Fresh fruits and vegetables. Corporate agriculture and agricultural co-ops began branding products no later than the 1880s.
Think about it for five minutes and you'll remember dozens of slogans, jingles and characters, some of them older than your great-grandparents. Branding works. IP has market value.
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The College Republicans regret the controversy surrounding our planned lecture featuring Ann Coulter. The size and severity of opposition to this event have caught us by surprise, and caused us to question our decision to welcome her to Rose Hill. Looking at the concerns raised about Ms. Coulter, many of them reasonable, we have determined that some of her comments do not represent the ideals of the College Republicans and are inconsistent with both our organization's mission, and the University's. We regret that we failed to thoroughly research her before announcing, that is our error and we do not excuse ourselves for it. Consistent with our strong disagreement with certain comments by Ms. Coulter we have chosen to cancel the event and rescind Ms. Coulterâ(TM)s invitation to speak at Fordham. We made this choice freely, before Father McShaneâ(TM)s email was sent out and we became aware of his feelings --- had the President simply reached out to us before releasing his statement he would have learned that the event was being cancelled. We hope the University community will forgive the College Republicans for our error, and continue to allow us to serve as its main voice of the sensible, compassionate, and conservative political movement that we strive to be. We fell short of that standard this time, and we offer our sincere apologies.
Ted Conrad, President
UPDATED: McShane Responds to College Republicans' Cancellation of Ann Coulter Event
The Republican Club tried to get the Student Association to spring for George Will, but was capped at $10,000. Fordham College Republicans withdraw Coulter invite
The Speaker's Bureau:
Campus Speaker & Board of Advisors Member - Ann Coulter
Click here to host an event with Ann on your campus!
Fun times:
The incident followed a Monday night lecture at the University of Western Ontario, where Coulter told a Muslim student to "take a camel" as an alternative to flying.
Coulter made the comment as she responded to a question from student Fatima Al-Dhaher, who asked about previous comments in which Coulter said Muslims shouldn't be allowed on airplanes and should take "flying carpets" instead. Al-Dhaher noted she did not own a flying carpet and asked what she should take as an alternative transportation. Coulter did not deny making the flying carpet comment and replied to the university student, "What mode of transportation? Take a camel," to jeers and cheers. It was a decidedly pro-Coulter audience. One man, who identified himself as a U.S. citizen, described U.S. President Barack Obama as a "Marxist."
She is well-known for her vehement views against Muslims. In a post-September 11 column, she wrote that the U.S. should invade Muslim countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.
Coulter, who often comments on Fox News, once said Canada is "lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent" after the Canadian government did not join the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Coulter speech cancelled over fears of violence
The conservative media doesn't report the news anymore. They take statements out of context and generate their own version of news.
Not so very different from Slashdot.
Universities have adopted corporate tactics to become and stay "more competitive in the marketplace" and that means shielding themselves from lawsuits and making themselves more appealing to donors.
So, nothing new under the sun.
going totally against the spirit and literally wording of the Constitution of the USA?
The Founders were profoundly wary of embedding policy decisions into the Constitution. They thought in terms of structure and function, checks and balances. It's for the Congress to decide how patents and copyrights can best serve the national interest,
However, from an ideological perspective, the GOP is more closely aligned with the ethos that could back copyright reform than the Democratic party
The party of Fox News?
The party that divides the world between the makers and the takers?
The party that looks at the geek and sees Kim Dotcom?
The party that is slowly being extinguished in all but the deep South and Great Plains states --- where notions of property rights are anchored in bedrock?
This is the party you see leading the charge for copyright reform?
At least this report is out there. Its now up to us to contact Republican congresspeople and let them know that we want them to pursue this.
Take a look at where the big electoral votes are.
Then ask yourself where most media content --- in all languages --- is produced and financed.
The states where IP is a major driver of the economy.
The answers you will get are New York, California, Florida, Washington, and so on.
Winning over the Republican Congressman from Nowhere, Nebraska, isn't going to help you,
(I'm confused as to whether the dollar signs indicate bribery or that $facts and $viewpoints are variables in a Perl/PHP script. :P )
Hereabouts, the $ sign always stands for bribery.
It's the geeks all-purpose explanation for his failures in law, politics and government.
People who live in districts such as Ohio's 4th would do well to send letters of support to those who crafted the original brief.
Ohio's 4th has been Republican since 1938.
It's 93% white, 40% rural, with a median income of $40,000. Ohio's 4th congressional district The only city in the district you are likely to recognize is Marion, population 35,000, and the home town of Warren G. Harding, Marion, Ohio
Jordan called for fiscal responsibility and noted his strong beliefs in traditional family values. Slone [Democrat] pointed to his labor and union background while calling on Washington to help create jobs. Kalla [Libertarian] cited a number of government reforms that would reduce federal regulations while bolstering freedom in the country.
Jordan, Slone, Kalla vie for Ohio 4th congressional district
The Libertarian candidate drew 5% of the vote, which is as good as it gets for his party in Ohio,
In a district that is old industrial and agricultural, talk of copyright reform excites no one. There are much bigger issues on the table.