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Rememeber that England has suffered from a prolonged civil war (known as "our little problem with Northern Ireland") with frequent bomb attacks on civilians.
That would be one possible interpretation. A more accurate one, IMFFHAQBIO (in my far from humble and quite bombastic Irish opinion) would be to say that Ireland has suffered the imperial aggression, colonization and occupation of half the country for most of the duration of that abomination referred to as the British Empire, and that even to this day the struggle for freedom is still depicted as a religious quarrel in the American media...
But then, I'm nitpicking.:-)
26 + 6 == 1
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
While it is PRIVACY which triggers peoples reaction in cases like this, I submit there is another valid take on these activities. Thievery. They use this data, combined with that of thousands of others, to make really big money.
The approach used by Comet and Real is simply stealing from me something I produce, that belongs to me, and which has great value to them. Rather than using common courtesy and business practices to negotiate a fair exchange for the information they desire, they opt to engage in techno-subterfuge to steal what they want.
Those execs belong in jail, same as any common purse-snatch.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Chip makers produce generic devices. They cannot predict how engineers and designers may use them, and in conjunction with what other devices. It is a certainty that a chip which has timekeeping functionality but provides other functionality as well has been used in applications which do not care what time it is. And when the timekeeping function on the chip fails, the entire design could fail, even though no use is made of that particular functionality in that particular design.
I have personal knowledge of one such case - our local fire department had to have some retrofitting on a pumper truck. It seems that the 'brain' which controls the transmission of this truck, contained some chips which are likely to stop or exhibit undefined behavior in the event their "internal clock" goes out of whack.
The application, control of the automatic transmission, does not care about dates. Some of the parts the controller was built out of, however, apparently do.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
KY Jelly is not Y2K compliant. A new product will be launched for the millennium - Y2KY Jelly - which allows you four digits in your date instead of two.
THIS is FAR funnier than Fade2Black's lame letters!
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
I'm reminded of Arlo Guthries "Alices Restaurant", in which he discusses his military ambitions with an army selective service shrink.
"I wanna KILL!" he tells the shrink.
Looks like the "targets" of this profile will never actually confront anybody making the determination of their dangerousness. The teachers sit down with the list, and say "Oh, yeah, John X, and Billy Y..."
This is a very bizarre chapter in public education...
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
i'll second this one./. should refrain from generating its own news/rants whatever. the old/. would probably never have posted such shit...please keep news on the front page - not some silly essay on the demise of the net/pollution/info overload and other crap. and can we moderate stories ? i'd love to give this one -1, redundant.
Flamebait? FLAMEBAIT??? This, like its parent, is a perfectly reasonable contribution to the topic under discussion. There is no conceivable reason to label this as flamebait. Moderations like this are the reason I read at -1 and endure 45 second page load times.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
By going on, and on, and on, about it, you're amplifying the silly mistake that he made and the damage too. He's recanted, we all agree, and now shut up.
Troll? TROLL??? This hits the nail right on the head! Troll, my ass...
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
You have seen your web site grow from nothing to the behemoth that it is. You have been wooed and courted and showered with money and perks and set up with a lucrative career. You write, people pay attention. You have become the proof of your own importance. And so you attribute some significance to the events concerning Perens and his email message and your manufacturing "news" out of these events. And this is where you have gone wrong.
Things like this happen every day in countless thousands of publications world-wide. Somebody does something insignificant, and it is blown up into "news" by some editor. If it is not news, the public soon perceives this and issues a collective yawn.
Invariably, soon thereafter will follow an "editorial" piece, describing the situation as one which involved a struggle between social propriety (morals) and duty to the high calling of journalism. And regardless of the polarity of the decision (reporting something which maybe should not be, or failing to report something that maybe should be), the whole point is enroll the reader in the idea that journalism is a perilous path fraught with difficult decisions whose directions have unescapable consequences, and aren't we happy we have such dedicated people to take care of it all for us?
Well, spare us the editorial please. Spare us the lecture about the spotlight being a harsh mistess. It is not news. It is self-serving in a really loathesome way. It is an example of attributing significance where there is none. You are not Woodward and Bernstein. You are not Cronkite. Get back to doing what you started out to do - run a great web site. Spare us the self-importance.
I thank you, and the people of MeepZorp thank you.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
I think the whole thing is hilarious. And meaningless.
This whole idea that the human race is perched on the edge of a wonderous new cyberworld is itself hilarious. I call it the 'Jetsons Cartoon World View".
It is a meme in which the computing industry and the mass media are heavily invested. It is one in which the general populace is also heavily invested. I don't buy it for a moment.
It is an important platform upon which huge fortunes have already been built, and which, if it continues to be accepted, will allow for unfathomably huge further fortunes to be built. The only basic flaw in it is: nothing works.
How is it possible that a machine which requires constant interaction, eats far more productivity than it enhances, and costs way too much money compared to what it offers, how is it possible that millions of such machines have been sold to business and industry over the past 15 years since the IBM PC? It is only because the general public had a pre-conceived notion that we had finally arrived in Jetson-time, and so we had better have computers.
The arrival of the internet as a media star has only made things worse. There is literally no wonderful thing that will not be wrought by this technological miracle! We must have internet everywhere! On the desk of every file clerk and office temp everywhere! Think of the efficiency and productivity we will gain!
E-commerce is also hilarious. Sell some stuff online? Certainly! Commit the entire world economy to HTTP over TCP/IP accessed via AOL? I think not.
I realize this may be read as a troll or flamebait - but I am serious - I think major portions of the population are seriously deluded - they want to live in the world of the Jetsons so badly they are pretending they already do. Others, like this mall owner, beleive it so seriously they find it a threat. I find it all a joke.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
It begins with a phony premise: Studies show us getting wired to the Internet, working from home, shopping through computer lines, communicating through e-mail, going out less and living far more of our lives through a computer screen.
It ends in a bogus conclusion: I conclude that much of this technology is trying to solve a problem that doesn't really exist.
Clunk. No sale.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Hi people. Speaking of dropping...I just dropped a bowl of hot grits down my pants !!!
Unless you acquired said grits at a drive-up window while wearing spandex and the temperature of said grits exceeded 179 degrees F., I don't think you have an actionable cause.
(Score: -5 Offtopic)
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Slashdot should just allow all users the ability to check who moderated any post. Essentially moderators get to act as anonymous cowards in regards to their moderation. There's no accountability, so anyone who wishes to try and surpress a viewpoint through moderation, does so with no worries.
I think this is a great idea. Also, unlike other suggestions I've read re: moderation, this would be simple to implement.
Slash already keeps track of the moderation totals for a given message and displays this data when the CID format of the URL is used. Looks like it would be simple to include the moderators id in the form of a link to the moderators user page.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
1) lawyers smell blood, find glitch that could have caused up to (!) $1,000 per user x 1,000,000 users = $1e9 in damages
2) lawyers get some stooge to file the class action on behalf of all potential "victims"
3) big company settles for fear of bankruptcy
4) stooge gets $20k, 1e6 users get certificate new floppy disks, lawyers get 10% x 1e9 = $1e8
Amen! And now here we have M$, with a bug-filled unreliable product, with lots of documented harm caused in the form of outages and IT support costs, no need to find stooges, as a few days testimony by a few thousand IT admins and users will establish damages to anybody's satisfaction, and certainly no dearth of hungry lawyers.
So then Microsoft should be punished for the idiocy of the American public? Please. I would say that any Joe Moron could have gone to their locally run computer store, those that did not have a contract with MS, and had them build a computer for them. Problem solved.
The idiocy of the American computer-buying public is M$ most valuable asset. It is what has allowed them to foist a crippled bug-ridden product on millions while convincing those millions that any problems are the result of their own failure to grok the tech.
Those idiots "know" that a Dell box is superior to a no-name white box, because (the "logic" goes) if the white-boxen were so good, M$ would have contracts with the builders of them as well.
So, for example, Mr. Idiot #458,975,221 is faced with the "decision" to purchase "inferior" hardware without M$ OS, or "brand name" hardware with the M$ OS.
So, yes indeed, punish M$ for the carefully cultivated idiocy of the public. M$ feeds, fertilizes, maintains and relies upon that idiocy.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
I find it interesting that there have as yet been no suits based upon the quality of the product. This one seems focused around the $89 price.
For years now, I have been reading about unreliable servers, frequent rebooting, and people coming to all sorts of accomodations with their M$ products in order to keep them running - scheduled reboots, for example.
Over the years, this has got to have cost a lot of companies a lot of money. If Toshiba can bend over to the tune of 2 billion because of a bug in a floppy controller that has never caused a documented loss of data to anybody, where are all the lawsuits against M$ over service outages and lost time which occur daily and are widely acknowledged throughout the IT world?
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Maybe the stories and a bunch of high-moderated comments from the past week, plus some extra commentary from the/. gang (edited for grammar, of course ), I dunno, a guest column or two...a freshmeat disc on the front...
Yeah! And regular columns like "First Post" and "Beowulf's Lair".
And moderation, well, let me tellya... this web shit is cool and all, but there is no form of moderation more satisfying than physically shredding the offending post with one's bare hands - not to mention the deeply fulfilling tearing, rending, crinkling audio available only in meatspace moderation.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
That's a "Cell Tech independent distributor". That's something I forgot to mention. Cell tech is also a MLM scheme.
Dear Independent Cell Tech Distributor:
The legal department at B/G Algae has serious concerns about your use of our registered trademark in your domain name and meta tags. We hereby formally request that you immediately cease and desist operation of said web site and transfer control of the domain name to B/G Algae lest we find it necessary to pursue the matter further.
Yours truly,
Kickem, Innaballs, & Phukumover Attorneys At Law
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Why is this post moderated to 1? This post points to EXACTLY what the article is talking about! Get over yourselves, you stupid moderators.
All through? Click on the comment id link and you will discover that the post has not been moderated at all. It's right where it started. Get over yourself!:-)
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act says that ISPs must shutdown websites that have been accused of copyright offenses. After shutdown, the owner of the site (xenu) has ten days to declare their intent to defend themselves in court. The owner of the copyrighted materials (CoS) then has ten days to pursue litigation. If the copyright owner (CoS) does not pursue litigation, then the ISP puts the site back up. If litigation is pursued, then the site stays down until the matter is resolved.
If this is really the case, then its bass ackwards.
This is an assumption of guilt beginning with the accusation. Bass Ackwards. I know this is not a criminal case, but still.
This is very interesting. I never knew I had the power to shut down any web site hosted by an ISP. All I have to do is claim infringement and poof - its gone.
If what is said above about the act is true, it reveals a fundamental struggle occuring which has nothing to do with Scientology fruitcakes. The business/capitalist/media empire is quaking in its boots over the prospect of the true ultimate possibility of the internet - free information at everybodies fingertips. Extremely low-barrier-to-entry publishing available to virtually anybody. A way for the angry consumer to spout off about the abuses of the greedy money machine and reach millions. A way for the common citizen to escape mass-media control of ideas and information. Instead of the television-like marketing bazaar under their total control they are determined to make it. Thats what is going on in this country.
Excuse me while I puke.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Slashdot Mirror
Rememeber that England has suffered from a prolonged civil war (known as "our little problem with Northern Ireland") with frequent bomb attacks on civilians.
That would be one possible interpretation. A more accurate one, IMFFHAQBIO (in my far from humble and quite bombastic Irish opinion) would be to say that Ireland has suffered the imperial aggression, colonization and occupation of half the country for most of the duration of that abomination referred to as the British Empire, and that even to this day the struggle for freedom is still depicted as a religious quarrel in the American media...
But then, I'm nitpicking. :-)
26 + 6 == 1
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Could be double the trouble of Hubble...
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
The approach used by Comet and Real is simply stealing from me something I produce, that belongs to me, and which has great value to them. Rather than using common courtesy and business practices to negotiate a fair exchange for the information they desire, they opt to engage in techno-subterfuge to steal what they want.
Those execs belong in jail, same as any common purse-snatch.
======
"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
I have personal knowledge of one such case - our local fire department had to have some retrofitting on a pumper truck. It seems that the 'brain' which controls the transmission of this truck, contained some chips which are likely to stop or exhibit undefined behavior in the event their "internal clock" goes out of whack.
The application, control of the automatic transmission, does not care about dates. Some of the parts the controller was built out of, however, apparently do.
======
"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
KY Jelly is not Y2K compliant. A new product will be launched for the millennium - Y2KY Jelly - which allows you four digits in your date instead of two.
THIS is FAR funnier than Fade2Black's lame letters!
======
"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
I'm reminded of Arlo Guthries "Alices Restaurant", in which he discusses his military ambitions with an army selective service shrink.
"I wanna KILL!" he tells the shrink.
Looks like the "targets" of this profile will never actually confront anybody making the determination of their dangerousness. The teachers sit down with the list, and say "Oh, yeah, John X, and Billy Y..."
This is a very bizarre chapter in public education...
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
LOOK AT ME, I'M QUONSAR, WATCH ME WRITE A LONG POINTLESS POST IN A GAY ATTEMPT TO GET MORE KARMA SO I CAN WHACK OFF TO MY KARMA SCORE
Uh, there is goes, yea, up another 2 points, uh, oh, yes, yes, I'M CUMMING AHRHFHYEHRHRGFJSSJHRR....
ahhh...
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
i'll second this one.
Flamebait? FLAMEBAIT??? This, like its parent, is a perfectly reasonable contribution to the topic under discussion. There is no conceivable reason to label this as flamebait. Moderations like this are the reason I read at -1 and endure 45 second page load times.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
By going on, and on, and on, about it, you're amplifying the silly mistake that he made and the damage too. He's recanted, we all agree, and now shut up.
Troll? TROLL??? This hits the nail right on the head! Troll, my ass...
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Things like this happen every day in countless thousands of publications world-wide. Somebody does something insignificant, and it is blown up into "news" by some editor. If it is not news, the public soon perceives this and issues a collective yawn.
Invariably, soon thereafter will follow an "editorial" piece, describing the situation as one which involved a struggle between social propriety (morals) and duty to the high calling of journalism. And regardless of the polarity of the decision (reporting something which maybe should not be, or failing to report something that maybe should be), the whole point is enroll the reader in the idea that journalism is a perilous path fraught with difficult decisions whose directions have unescapable consequences, and aren't we happy we have such dedicated people to take care of it all for us?
Well, spare us the editorial please. Spare us the lecture about the spotlight being a harsh mistess. It is not news. It is self-serving in a really loathesome way. It is an example of attributing significance where there is none. You are not Woodward and Bernstein. You are not Cronkite. Get back to doing what you started out to do - run a great web site. Spare us the self-importance.
I thank you, and the people of MeepZorp thank you.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Ack! Makes my teeth hurt just thinking about it.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
I think the whole thing is hilarious. And meaningless.
This whole idea that the human race is perched on the edge of a wonderous new cyberworld is itself hilarious. I call it the 'Jetsons Cartoon World View".
It is a meme in which the computing industry and the mass media are heavily invested. It is one in which the general populace is also heavily invested. I don't buy it for a moment.
It is an important platform upon which huge fortunes have already been built, and which, if it continues to be accepted, will allow for unfathomably huge further fortunes to be built. The only basic flaw in it is: nothing works.
How is it possible that a machine which requires constant interaction, eats far more productivity than it enhances, and costs way too much money compared to what it offers, how is it possible that millions of such machines have been sold to business and industry over the past 15 years since the IBM PC? It is only because the general public had a pre-conceived notion that we had finally arrived in Jetson-time, and so we had better have computers.
The arrival of the internet as a media star has only made things worse. There is literally no wonderful thing that will not be wrought by this technological miracle! We must have internet everywhere! On the desk of every file clerk and office temp everywhere! Think of the efficiency and productivity we will gain!
E-commerce is also hilarious. Sell some stuff online? Certainly! Commit the entire world economy to HTTP over TCP/IP accessed via AOL? I think not.
I realize this may be read as a troll or flamebait - but I am serious - I think major portions of the population are seriously deluded - they want to live in the world of the Jetsons so badly they are pretending they already do. Others, like this mall owner, beleive it so seriously they find it a threat. I find it all a joke.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
So, if I understand the legal thinking behind this:
Masturbating on the White House Lawn is far more Bad{tm} than masturbating on your common, everyday suburban front yard lawn.
In order to make that point, a judge could sentence you to non-use of your penis for 3 years.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Sorry guys, but this was just pointless.
It begins with a phony premise:
Studies show us getting wired to the Internet, working from home, shopping through computer lines, communicating through e-mail, going out less and living far more of our lives through a computer screen.
It ends in a bogus conclusion:
I conclude that much of this technology is trying to solve a problem that doesn't really exist.
Clunk. No sale.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Hi people. Speaking of dropping...I just dropped a bowl of hot grits down my pants !!!
Unless you acquired said grits at a drive-up window while wearing spandex and the temperature of said grits exceeded 179 degrees F., I don't think you have an actionable cause.
(Score: -5 Offtopic)
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Slashdot should just allow all users the ability to check who moderated any post. Essentially moderators get to act as anonymous cowards in regards to their moderation. There's no accountability, so anyone who wishes to try and surpress a viewpoint through moderation, does so with no worries.
I think this is a great idea. Also, unlike other suggestions I've read re: moderation, this would be simple to implement.
Slash already keeps track of the moderation totals for a given message and displays this data when the CID format of the URL is used. Looks like it would be simple to include the moderators id in the form of a link to the moderators user page.
======
"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
1) lawyers smell blood, find glitch that could have caused up to (!) $1,000 per user x 1,000,000 users = $1e9 in damages
2) lawyers get some stooge to file the class action on behalf of all potential "victims"
3) big company settles for fear of bankruptcy
4) stooge gets $20k, 1e6 users get certificate new floppy disks, lawyers get 10% x 1e9 = $1e8
Amen! And now here we have M$, with a bug-filled unreliable product, with lots of documented harm caused in the form of outages and IT support costs, no need to find stooges, as a few days testimony by a few thousand IT admins and users will establish damages to anybody's satisfaction, and certainly no dearth of hungry lawyers.
So where are all the lawsuits?????
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
So then Microsoft should be punished for the idiocy of the American public? Please. I would say that any Joe Moron could have gone to their locally run computer store, those that did not have a contract with MS, and had them build a computer for them. Problem solved.
The idiocy of the American computer-buying public is M$ most valuable asset. It is what has allowed them to foist a crippled bug-ridden product on millions while convincing those millions that any problems are the result of their own failure to grok the tech.
Those idiots "know" that a Dell box is superior to a no-name white box, because (the "logic" goes) if the white-boxen were so good, M$ would have contracts with the builders of them as well.
So, for example, Mr. Idiot #458,975,221 is faced with the "decision" to purchase "inferior" hardware without M$ OS, or "brand name" hardware with the M$ OS.
So, yes indeed, punish M$ for the carefully cultivated idiocy of the public. M$ feeds, fertilizes, maintains and relies upon that idiocy.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
I find it interesting that there have as yet been no suits based upon the quality of the product. This one seems focused around the $89 price.
For years now, I have been reading about unreliable servers, frequent rebooting, and people coming to all sorts of accomodations with their M$ products in order to keep them running - scheduled reboots, for example.
Over the years, this has got to have cost a lot of companies a lot of money. If Toshiba can bend over to the tune of 2 billion because of a bug in a floppy controller that has never caused a documented loss of data to anybody, where are all the lawsuits against M$ over service outages and lost time which occur daily and are widely acknowledged throughout the IT world?
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Maybe the stories and a bunch of high-moderated comments from the past week, plus some extra commentary from the
Yeah! And regular columns like "First Post" and "Beowulf's Lair".
And moderation, well, let me tellya... this web shit is cool and all, but there is no form of moderation more satisfying than physically shredding the offending post with one's bare hands - not to mention the deeply fulfilling tearing, rending, crinkling audio available only in meatspace moderation.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
ROFL!! This is about the BEST y2k solution I have heard to date! Yknow, I hope NBC blows up on 01-01-00
Er, thats 01-01-2000.
SLAM! (another y2k bug squashed!)
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
How about bluegreenalgae.com.
That's a "Cell Tech independent distributor". That's something I forgot to mention. Cell tech is also a MLM scheme.
Dear Independent Cell Tech Distributor:
The legal department at B/G Algae has serious concerns about your use of our registered trademark in your domain name and meta tags. We hereby formally request that you immediately cease and desist operation of said web site and transfer control of the domain name to B/G Algae lest we find it necessary to pursue the matter further.
Yours truly,
Kickem, Innaballs, & Phukumover
Attorneys At Law
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Why is this post moderated to 1? This post points to EXACTLY what the article is talking about! Get over yourselves, you stupid moderators.
All through? Click on the comment id link and you will discover that the post has not been moderated at all. It's right where it started. Get over yourself! :-)
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Now the Gates was more subtil than any beast of the field which Unix had made
Muwahahahahaa! Reminds me of this!
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act says that ISPs must shutdown websites that have been accused of copyright offenses. After shutdown, the owner of the site (xenu) has ten days to declare their intent to defend themselves in court. The owner of the copyrighted materials (CoS) then has ten days to pursue litigation. If the copyright owner (CoS) does not pursue litigation, then the ISP puts the site back up. If litigation is pursued, then the site stays down until the matter is resolved.
If this is really the case, then its bass ackwards.
This is an assumption of guilt beginning with the accusation. Bass Ackwards. I know this is not a criminal case, but still.
This is very interesting. I never knew I had the power to shut down any web site hosted by an ISP. All I have to do is claim infringement and poof - its gone.
If what is said above about the act is true, it reveals a fundamental struggle occuring which has nothing to do with Scientology fruitcakes. The business/capitalist/media empire is quaking in its boots over the prospect of the true ultimate possibility of the internet - free information at everybodies fingertips. Extremely low-barrier-to-entry publishing available to virtually anybody. A way for the angry consumer to spout off about the abuses of the greedy money machine and reach millions. A way for the common citizen to escape mass-media control of ideas and information. Instead of the television-like marketing bazaar under their total control they are determined to make it. Thats what is going on in this country.
Excuse me while I puke.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16