I just did a little browsing through the web site of the U.S . Green Party, and thought I would share some of my findings with you.
Their position on 'economic justice' calls for a guaranteed base income for everyone, a guaranteed right to a job, a 30-hour work week with no cut in pay, a hike in the minimum wage to $12.50/hr, free health care for all, free child care for all, federal revenue sharing to equalize funding of public schools, free schooling for all from K through graduate school, expanded federal housing assistance, and government ownership of residential properties.
I was both saddened and amused to find this bumpersticker, which has an eerily accurate and appropriate slogan, in their online store.
Is it just me, or do these people scare the bejeezus out of you too? Are most Nader voters aware of the Green Party's platform, which stops just short of all-out communism? If they knew, would they still be voting for Nader?
Pro: He's schizo. We'll never know which Gore we're getting. It'll be a surprise.
Con: He's schizo. Free Lithium for all.
Pro: He pushes an anti-smoking campaign. Why smoke when drinking Vodka is much more glamorous?
Con: He pushes an anti-smoking campaign. He used to defend tobacco farmers and accept contributions from tobacco companies.
Pro: He invented the Internet. And brought this Web site to you.
Con: He invented the Internet. And he'd gladly ban "hate speech" on it.
Pro: He wants to expand anti-drug policies. But you're safe if you're related to him and attend Harvard.
Con: He wants to expand anti-drug policies. In his youth, he put Cheech and Chong to shame, which means he's even more rabid about his anti-drug stance.
Pro: He feels that Latino values are the best values. Henceforth, all women will shop at Rave, Bang Bang and Le Chateau.
Con: He feels that Latino values are the best values. Henceforth, all men must drench women in beer and water, and shamelessly group-grope them.
Pro: He wants to give stay-at-home mothers five years' worth of Social Security credits. Good. Give them an incentive to quit the workforce and spare us the details of their lochia.
Con: He wants to give stay-at-home mothers five years' worth of Social Security credits. Bad. Why the hell should they reap rewards for sitting on their fat asses for five years, while the rest of us are worker bees?
Pro: He claims to be pro-women. Abortion will remain legal.
Con: He claims to be pro-women. He kept having children until he got his boy.
Pro: He wants to provide $500 billion in tax cuts to families. Those Expedition payments are just becoming too much.
Con: He wants to provide $500 billion in tax cuts to families. Hint: If you don't have kids, you're not part of a family.
Pro: He believes that universal Internet connection should be a national priority. Everyone deserves a chance to read my site.
Con: He believes that universal Internet connection should be a national priority. Come on, he thinks it should be a national priority.
Quotes: " We are not seeking censorship but better citizenship. We are appealing to the industry's conscience,
to recognize that you are part of the national community that is endangered by the virus of youth
violence, and to work with us to do whatever we can to prevent another Littleton."
-- Source: Senate testimony, "Marketing of Violence to Children" May 4, 1999
Lieberman was one of 10 Senators who sent a letter to seven video-game retailers. "We are seriously
concerned about the accumulated impact that media violence is having on our children," the senators wrote. "We are
particularly concerned by what is happening in the video game marketplace. Most games contain little if any violence
and are rated as perfectly appropriate for players of all ages. But there is a significant core of increasingly graphic,
gruesome, and perverse games that despite being rated for adults are commonly played by children."
The Senators noted that a prime reason kids have such easy access to ultraviolent games is that
few leading retailers have policies restricting the sale of "M"-rated games to minors. They praised
Sears and Wards for deciding not to carry "M"-rated games and asked the other companies to at
least adopt standard policies to prevent children from buying potentially harmful games.
No single policy, governmental or corporate, will eliminate the serious threat of violence or prevent another Columbine from happening," the senators wrote. "But we have an obligation to do whatever we can to reduce the risks, and we believe that shielding our children from cultural messages and images that glorify and legitimize violence will do just that."
-- Source: Press Release, "Ultraviolent video games" Jun 16, 2000
On Lieberman's Web site, he's proud to announce that he has:
Co-authored the V-chip law to give parents new tools to shield their children from offensive and harmful programs on television
Pushed the video game industry to create a rating system to help parents make informed choices for their children
Spurred new efforts to make the Internet safer for kids
Republican Party:
George W. Bush.:
Pro: He laughed about convicted murderer Karla Faye Tucker's execution. He's a sick bastard.
Con: He laughed about convicted murderer Karla Faye Tucker's execution. I'm not seeing a con here.
Pro: He supports the pro-life stance. A Republican can't get elected without throwing a bone to the fringe elements.
Con: He supports the pro-life stance. A Republican can't get elected without throwing a bone to the fringe elements.
Pro: He would defend Taiwan if China attacks Taiwan. Well, that's one way to cut down on overpopulation.
Con: He would defend Taiwan if China attacks Taiwan. Chinese is a really difficult language to learn.
Pro: He would allow the Ten Commandments to be posted in schools. The kids can't read them, anyway.
Con: He would allow the Ten Commandments to be posted in schools. 16-year-old Wiccans will create protest Web sites.
Pro: He supports stronger penalties for first time cocaine possession. Unless one's last name is "Bush." I'm applying to change my name.
Con: He supports stronger penalties for first time cocaine possession. What about all of the hot young actors who won't be able to cut a deal just in time to star in the latest teen comedy?
Pro: He wants to help failing students pass. An educated populace makes for a successful nation.
Con: He wants to help failing students pass. Who will fill up the prisons by getting arrested for selling coke?
Pro: He wants to get rid of the Superfund program. Battery acid seeping into the water supply adds to the character of a neighborhood.
Con: He wants to get rid of the Superfund program. New Jersey will surpass Staten Island in being the world's largest garbage dump.
Pro: He wants to pursue stronger ties to Israel. Because they'd, uh, like, defend us and stuff, like, if we were attacked. **cough**
Con: He wants to pursue stronger ties to Israel. Israel sinks another American ship, anyway.
Pro: He's stupid. Think of the soundbites.
Con: He's stupid. Think of how the rest of the world will perceive the soundbites.
Dick Cheney:
Pro: He supports F-16 sales to Taiwan. They fall apart after playing with them for three days.
Con: He supports F-16 sales to Taiwan. It won't narrow the trade gap.
Pro: He supported a bill that would reward snitching on drug dealers. That's one way to supplement my income.
Con: He supported a bill that would reward snitching on drug dealers. The reward was a handshake from General Barry McCaffrey.
Pro: He voted against the Clean Water Act. Has Poland Springs gone public?
Con: He voted against the Clean Water Act. I guess he doesn't care about the children.
Green Party:
Ralph Nader::
Pro: He wants universal health care. Millions of Americans will wait months or years to receive needed medical care. Could cut down on the population.
Con: He wants universal health care. Reduction in population not worth the enormous cost.
Pro: He wants to provide additional child-care options to America's parents. 20 percent of SIDS cases occur at daycare.
Con: He wants to provide additional child-care options to America's parents. We'll probably foot the bill for Mama Sow to spend a year at home with her pint-sized cretin.
Pro: He wants to tax meat and anything we "don't like." Great. I can't wait for the taxes on breeding.
Con: He wants to tax meat and anything we "don't like." I think he means all of the things I like.
Pro: He wants a 100 percent tax for the rich. Sour grapes never looked so good.
Con: He wants a 100 percent tax for the rich. Yes, let's punish people for working hard, and give it to idiots who can't even put together the right order at Taco Bell.
Pro: He wants gun control. It's about time someone promoted gun features that steady the shooter's aim.
Con: He wants gun control. I doubt he'll pay for each of us to have a bodyguard, instead.
Pro: He wants to teach "democratic principles" in school. His democratic principles include affirmative action.
Con: He wants to teach "democratic principles" in school. Lovely. We'll go from the Pledge of Allegiance to the Pledge of Tolerance:
I will take every opportunity that presents itself to educate the ignorant in a passive/non-violent manner. I will not accept stereotyping, prejudice or hate in any form. I will make known my disgust of hate-based "jokes," while not losing my sense of true humor.
Pro: He wants to set up the domain ".sucks." All right! www.ralphnader.sucks!
Con: He wants to set up the domain ".sucks." He already owns the rights to it.
Pro: He said that TV ads are "electronic child molesting." At least he'll let pedophiles get off in some way.
Con: He said that TV ads are "electronic child molesting." Someone should tell him that rampant consumerism is what keeps the economy going.
Pro: He supports the decision against Microsoft. Nobody needs to be that rich.
Con: He supports the decision against Microsoft. He's obviously never tried to mount his own hard drive.
Pro: He wants to substantially increase the minimum wage. McDonald's isn't looking so bad now.
Con: He wants to substantially increase the minimum wage. If everyone earns a highly livable wage, where's the incentive to do well and work harder?
And really, would you want that pansy in charge of the military?
Winona LaDuke:
Pro: She's a Native American. When the Northeast experiences another drought, maybe she'll do a raindance.
Con: She's a Native American. Breeders will stop naming their kids after boroughs of New York City, and start giving their kids bastardized Native American names such as "Squatting Twat." Public school textbooks will be revised to show the inherent superiority of Native Americans, and school buses will have ads for Foxwoods.
Pro: She's a woman. Maybe she'll show us her tits.
Con: She's a feminist. She'll only show us her tits if there's an infant latched on to one.
Pro: She lives on a reservation. Hey, she couldn't be against the tobacco industry.
Con: She lives on a reservation. We'll never hear the end of Wounded Knee.
Libertarian Party:
Harry Browne:
Pro: He wants to end the War on Drugs. "Yes, I'll have a pack of gum and a sheet of acid."
Con: He wants to end the War on Drugs. Watch the price of weed shoot up when CVS and Eckerd's stock it.
Pro: He wants to keep abortion legal. I hate when condoms break.
Con: He wants to keep abortion legal. Four more years of pro-life activists.
Pro: He supports cutting back on defending two-bit nations. Rwanda didn't have any fancy art museums to plunder.
Con: He supports cutting back on defending two-bit nations. Taiwan won't send any more tchotchkes.
Pro: He intends to scale back the powers of the federal government, and in turn, eliminate the need for income/estate/etc. taxes. Jesus, have you seen how much those bastards take out of our paychecks?
Con: He intends to scale back the powers of the federal government, and in turn, eliminate the need for income/estate/etc. taxes. But who will tend to the highway infrastructure?
Pro: He thinks that since there are already 20,000 gun laws on the books, there is no need for more. Hello, clocktower!
Con: He thinks that since there are already 20,000 gun laws on the books, there is no need for more. Hello, clocktower!
Pro: He wants to get the federal government out of the education business. What, a 25 percent illiteracy rate isn't pure success?
Con: He wants to get the federal government out of the education business. What will John Stoessel bitch about?
Pro: He wants to get the federal government out of the health insurance business. Pay for what you need.
Con: He wants to get the federal government out of the health insurance business. And make infertile women pay for their own treatments? For shame!
Pro: He doesn't want to tighten immigration restrictions. University math programs and computer companies breathe a sigh of relief.
Con: He doesn't want to tighten immigration restrictions. University students and computer users brush up on deciphering heavy Asian accents.
Pro: He views Social Security as a pyramid scheme. And we don't even get a cheap pendant and a year's subscription to Reader's Digest.
Con: He views Social Security as a pyramid scheme. Grandmothers across the land grip their chests in terror at the thought of losing a benefit they didn't earn.
Art Olivier:
See above.
So, who am I voting for? As usual, I'm voting Libertarian. A wasted vote, you say? Probably. But so is voting for Deadwood or Shrub. Harry Browne is the closest a misanthrope can come to a perfect candidate.
And don't think a vote for a third party candidate is a wasted vote. A candidate who receives at least 5 percent of the vote can qualify for matching federal funds in the next election, and money makes a campaign go 'round. But if you can't bring yourself to vote for a third party candidate, go with Bush.
And you would suggest abandoning it, because it doesn't fit in with your socialist ways?
If 'wealth sharing', and 'resource leveling' were really viable, why arent' there any examples of it prospering?
Why are all the canadian radio journalists talking about the 'health care crisis', and the problems of many physicians fleeing the country because they didn't like being enslaved (monetarily) to the masses?
The founders of this country were fed up with popularly elected and supposedly divinely selected leaders arbitrarly trodding upon the rights of the citizens. They sought to form a country where individual rights were the primary concern. They crafted the constitution in effort to prevent future leaders from subverting their original intentions.
Up until the beginning of the 20th century, it was doing a pretty good job of it. Sadly, a number of popular(at the moment), but fundamentally 'unconstitutional' laws and programs have been enacted, mostly because of the current population's ignorance of the principles of the constitution.
Isnt the government supposed to simply be a body that acts on your best interest to administer and run the shared resources of the country?
The United States is not a democracy, but rather a consitutional republic.
Have you ever read the consitution of the United States? I encourage you to do so, as it's not really that long.
The constitution is a document that very specifically states what the federal government may do. Not guidelines, but a difinitive and restrictive list.
If it's not on the list, the government may not do it. End of story.
Sadly, there are many programs in existence that are in flagrant violation of it.
The government is not our mother. It is not responsible for our welfare. It's role is to protect the rights of it's citizens, to allow them to work and prosper without the coersion of violence.
Bear in mind that there is no such thing as a 'right a goods or services', but rather a right to earn them in trade.
why dont you consider that possible well-run social programs, funded by everyone is a good thing(TM). Dont you see how selfish your opinion sounds?
Consume people?
Consume the planet?
Punish altrusm?
(i feel like a hippie;)
You sound like a hippie.
Nader is a proponent of the current generation of eco-terrorists. Mistakenly assuming that there is some magical precious thing about the random way that life happens to be scattered about on the earth which must be preserved at all costs.
There is no 'balance', just circumstance.
They're not 'wetlands', they're swamps.
Look over the last 200 million years of earths history. 90% of the animals that have ever existed are extinct. New breeds appear. Old ones that aren't effective competitors die out. That's not criminal, it's natural selection.
Man is one of the animals.
If he decides to clearcut a forest to plant crops, good for him.
For an honest analysis of environmental concerns, see Peter Huber's book 'Hard Green'
People strive according to their motivation. They are not 'slaves' of some imaginary system. I'm a software developer, working from my home, often more than 60 hours per week. No one's forcing me to do it. The pleasure of doing productive work is what fuels my motivation.
I could have gotten a state job, say in the department of walking slowly, and live the slack life, with plenty of time for Wheel of fortune.
I still spend a lot of time with my wife and two kids. It probably has something to do with not having a television set.
Yes, there are many corrupt facets of our current government. (e.g. civil forfeiture laws that allow everything you own to be siezed, on 'suspicion' of being a drug dealer, without even being charged, let alone convicted of any crime - all in the name of the War on Drugs)
Harry Browne is much more likely to rid us of them than Ralph 'I know what's best for you' Nader
"Theft" is when someone does it agains your wishes"
Any charitable act loses all it's virtue, when it's made compulsory.
Charity, by definition, is a voluntary act. Clearly, taxes 'siezed' by the government don't qualify as charity, even if given to enormous, wasteful, inefficient government welfare programs.
I challenge you do show evidence of any of these monsrosities that even distribute more money than they consume in 'management overhead'.
If by by 'dealing with modern society', you mean 'providing for yourself and your family', then I don't doubt that someone who declares himself incapable would be a fervent supporter of such government dole programs.
How about taking a little responsibility for yourself.
The War on Drugs is a total failure, and there is hardly a soul in America who doesn't know it. Government can't keep drugs out of the country; it can't even keep drugs out of its own prisons. And yet the Democrats and Republicans go right on spending your money, building more prisons, authorizing more wire-taps and inspections of your private affairs -- just as though the Drug War was one of America's greatest successes.
I want to end the War on Drugs -- which will take the criminal profit out of the drug trade and bring peace to our cities once again. I also want to end the tyranny that's been imposed in the name of a "drug free" America -- something that has never been and never will be.
Socialism is a belief that the government should try to make sure that everyone has a fair chance at the neccesities such as health care and education
'have a fair chance at' is a bad euphemism for 'be given by the government, free of charge'.
The problem is, the government doesn't own these things. Citizens work hard to produce these goods and services. The government then takes them by force (yes, men with guns will come to your house if you stop paying taxes), and gives them to those it designates as 'needy'.
Our constitution guarantees our right to pursue happiness, not to have it provided for us.
Whenever anyone considers a good or service to be 'a basic right to which they're entitled', what they're really doing is asking the government to enslave whomever is providing it - either directly, or through blanket taxation, indirectly.
You're correct. Felons can't vote - but fequently their friends and family can. Imagine how many mothers there are that could cast a vote to free their sons from jail.
"If elected, on my first day in office, I will pardon every inmate convicted of a non-violent drug offence."
Do the math.
10% of our population in jail.
70% for nonviolent drug possesion (mostly marijuana - according to recent 20/20 special).
24% turnout of eligable voters last election
Every potentially released inmate probably has 1-5 friends/relatives who might not otherwise even vote.
If I were Browne, I'd be direct mailing every inmate in the US.
Remember the slashdot article about they guy making dvd players with sdi output ($10,000+) sent directly to a big plasma display?
It was supposed to look good because the video never went through an analog stage. I've been wondering if DVD on a laptop has the same advantage? Does the video go through an analog stage before getting to the LCD display?
What about an LCD display on a desktop monitor with digital input? Anyone watched a DVD on one of those?
What about these dedicated handheld and larger, DVD players? All digital?
Does anyone make a Plasma, rather than LCD display for computers? I've seen the 'used to be $10,000 now around $3,000' consumer video versions, but never in a desktop monitor. One of the things I don't like about LCD dispays is the speed at which pixels can be turned on and off. Plasmas seem to do that much faster, and consequently have snappier, cleaner, video during scenes with lots of motion.
Kind of says a lot about the candidates, their unwillingness to admit that they hadn't heard of the 'proposed legislation'. Makes you wonder what other issues they are 'pretending to be up on'.
Actually, I think a Bush whitehouse would behave similarly. They both get enormous, corrupting, amounts of money from all those who stand to profit from ever increasingly draconian 'use' laws.
What's next, legislativly mandated DIVX style pay per listen of music?
I was really hoping ventura would have made a run. Failing that, Browne seems the candidate least likely to continue eroding my personal freedoms.
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The war on drugs may be over soon.
On my first day in office I will pardon everyone who has been convicted of a non-violent federal drug offense - Harry Browne - Libertarian presidential candidate
We lost this battle a long time ago, when it was delcared illegal to watch satellite TV with your own decoder. The defendants said "If you don't want me watching it, keep it (the signal) out of my back yard - what I do with signals that enter my property is my business".
Not surprisingly, the politicians, who recieve campaign contributions from the satellite signal content producing companies, passed laws against it.
Same story over and over. It was wrong then. It's wrong now (DeCSS, Napster, etc). It's big business using a corrupt political system to pass laws dictating our behavior, so that they can maximize their profits.
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Jam Cue:Cat!
Install the crappy win32 software, and start scanning everything! Food, magazines, CDs, whatever. When you scan one that isn't in their database (which is pretty small at this point), you get to fill out the description and URL! (Penis birds, goat sex, natalie with hot grits, etc. You might even mirror the real product site, and make subtle but funny changes)
Because the public key encryption algorithm is much slower than
conventional single-key encryption, encryption is better accomplished
by using a high-quality fast conventional single-key encryption
algorithm to encipher the message. This original unenciphered
message is called "plaintext". In a process invisible to the user, a
temporary random key, created just for this one "session", is used to
conventionally encipher the plaintext file. Then the recipient's
public key is used to encipher this temporary random conventional
key. This public-key-enciphered conventional "session" key is sent
along with the enciphered text (called "ciphertext") to the
recipient. The recipient uses her own secret key to recover this
temporary session key, and then uses that key to run the fast
conventional single-key algorithm to decipher the large ciphertext
message.
actually, the reason a market for these random generating dongles exist, is that it' pretty difficult to get a very random signal from any normal PC hardware. I believe most of these devices use a zener diode, pushed just over it's breakdown voltage to produce somethink akin to interstation FM hiss. Maybe a white noise generator from the FM synth section of a soundcard... anybody feel like doing some randomness comparisons?
On my first day in office I will pardon everyone who has been convicted of a non-violent federal drug offense - Harry Browne - Libertarian presidential candidate
A friend of a friend, who claims to be ex NSA, when asked about PGP, after a few beers, smiled, laughed and said something about the session keys not being as random as people might imagine.
This is a similar weakness to and early netscape implementation of SSL that accidentally randomized a very small portion of the intended keyspace, making it trivial to brute force.
The answer is probably in a random geneating dongle. I've seen several for around $100, targeted mostly at research lab types who need very random streams to make their research meaningful. It would be nice if someone wrote a driver for good old 2.62 classic that could take bits from one of these things.
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The war on drugs may be over soon.
On my first day in office I will pardon everyone who has been convicted of a non-violent federal drug offense - Harry Browne - Libertarian presidential candidate
Normally, I'd unsult you with "read the fucking story before commenting", but it was a pretty long and pretty technical article.
The problem is, that the implementation of the additional key in the new format for storing keys (which is to say the physical layout of the key or 'certificate' file), isn't in a signed portion. That's the whole problem. You can change it (inserting your own key) and it doesn't change the fingerprint.
The thing I can't decide is whethere it was pure incompetence in the design of the new certificate layout, or if it was an intentional for this very purpose. I think NAI had better come up with some pretty satisfying explanations or no right-minded person will ever trust their 'security products' again.
Makes me glad I still have my old 2.62 code and keyrings laying around... now.. to get the revocations of all my newer keys pushed out to the key servers....
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The war on drugs may be over soon.
On my first day in office I will pardon everyone who has been convicted of a non-violent federal drug offense - Harry Browne - Libertarian presidential candidate
Problem is there are 9 machines around the house, and some may have the incoming port set to something nonstandard. I was hoping to learn some clever way to block it, whatever the port.
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The war on drugs may be over soon.
On my first day in office I will pardon everyone who has been convicted
of a non-violent federal drug offense - Harry Browne -
Libertarian presidential candidate
Not a dumbass question. I've seen similar machines used as dedicated routers supplied by point to point business cablemodem providers.
It would be interesting to see some simple benchmarks that would validiate such use.
As far as the OS goes, slashdot's 'what we run' article cited them as using FreeBSD (or was it OpenBSD... NetBSD?) because of ipfilter - supposedly better and simpler to configure than ipchains. I'm using a linux box and IP_MASQ for my home network, but have been thinking of switching to xxxBSD and ipfilter, maybe using an old 486 laptop.
Does anyone have ipchains rules for blocking incoming napster requests? One way cable modems (33.6 upstream) bog down with even 1 or 2 napster users pulling stuff off my machines, and my wife keeps inadvertantly turning on file sharing. I don't want to ban napster, just prevent users from sharing files.
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The war on drugs may be over soon.
On my first day in office I will pardon everyone who has been convicted of a non-violent federal drug offense - Harry Browne - Libertarian presidential candidate
I thought VPN's, were a way of extending a net. I have VPN access to my office's inernal NT domain via a VPN.
I don't think that's the same thing as me sharing my cable modem among my 8 computers in my house, using Linux IP Masquerading.
I can understand how they might get greedy and want extra money for additional machines. I think many of us also violate various TOS agreements by actually doing work over the link, but not paying their 'business customer' rates.
I just hope they never get around to traffic quantity based charges. Imagine how pissed we'll be about spam then.
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The war on drugs may be over soon.
On my first day in office I will pardon everyone who has been convicted of a non-violent federal drug offense - Harry Browne - Libertarian presidential candidate
This is my very first chain letter. Please send it to every one you know, who uses Napster.
The music industry organization, RIAA, is suing Napster.
RIAA has been awarded a preliminary injunction forcing the Napster network to be shut down, friday, July 28th, at midnight - for the duration of the trial, if not permanently.
If you want to show RIAA your disapproval of their heavy handed legal tactics...
Do not purchase any of their members' products for the duration of the trial. The dominant members of RIAA areSony Music, EMI Recorded Music, Bertelsmann's BMG Entertainment, Time Warner's Warner Music and Seagram's Universal Music Group - which pretty much includes all music CDs, except those from obscure independent labels.
Don't accept RIAA's (or Metallica's) labeling you as a 'criminal' for sharing or downloading MP3s. Napster's attorney cited a recent federal court case that decided some noncommercial copying of music is protected by law. That extends even to making a song available for thousands of random Net users to download.
Slashdot Mirror
I used it to send them my letter explaining that I will no longer be purchasing their products.
Their position on 'economic justice' calls for a guaranteed base income for everyone, a guaranteed right to a job, a 30-hour work week with no cut in pay, a hike in the minimum wage to $12.50/hr, free health care for all, free child care for all, federal revenue sharing to equalize funding of public schools, free schooling for all from K through graduate school, expanded federal housing assistance, and government ownership of residential properties.
I was both saddened and amused to find this bumpersticker, which has an eerily accurate and appropriate slogan, in their online store.
Is it just me, or do these people scare the bejeezus out of you too? Are most Nader voters aware of the Green Party's platform, which stops just short of all-out communism? If they knew, would they still be voting for Nader?
I'm voting for Harry 'Leave the Internet Alone' Browne.
Democratic Party:
Al Gore:
Pro: He's schizo. We'll never know which Gore we're getting. It'll be a surprise.
Con: He's schizo. Free Lithium for all.
Pro: He pushes an anti-smoking campaign. Why smoke when drinking Vodka is much more glamorous?
Con: He pushes an anti-smoking campaign. He used to defend tobacco farmers and accept contributions from tobacco companies.
Pro: He invented the Internet. And brought this Web site to you.
Con: He invented the Internet. And he'd gladly ban "hate speech" on it.
Pro: He wants to expand anti-drug policies. But you're safe if you're related to him and attend Harvard.
Con: He wants to expand anti-drug policies. In his youth, he put Cheech and Chong to shame, which means he's even more rabid about his anti-drug stance.
Pro: He feels that Latino values are the best values. Henceforth, all women will shop at Rave, Bang Bang and Le Chateau.
Con: He feels that Latino values are the best values. Henceforth, all men must drench women in beer and water, and shamelessly group-grope them.
Pro: He wants to give stay-at-home mothers five years' worth of Social Security credits. Good. Give them an incentive to quit the workforce and spare us the details of their lochia.
Con: He wants to give stay-at-home mothers five years' worth of Social Security credits. Bad. Why the hell should they reap rewards for sitting on their fat asses for five years, while the rest of us are worker bees?
Pro: He claims to be pro-women. Abortion will remain legal.
Con: He claims to be pro-women. He kept having children until he got his boy.
Pro: He wants to provide $500 billion in tax cuts to families. Those Expedition payments are just becoming too much.
Con: He wants to provide $500 billion in tax cuts to families. Hint: If you don't have kids, you're not part of a family.
Pro: He believes that universal Internet connection should be a national priority. Everyone deserves a chance to read my site.
Con: He believes that universal Internet connection should be a national priority. Come on, he thinks it should be a national priority.
Joseph Lieberman:
All you need to know is that this guy is hellbent on getting rid of violence in the media.
Quotes: " We are not seeking censorship but better citizenship. We are appealing to the industry's conscience, to recognize that you are part of the national community that is endangered by the virus of youth violence, and to work with us to do whatever we can to prevent another Littleton."
-- Source: Senate testimony, "Marketing of Violence to Children" May 4, 1999
Lieberman was one of 10 Senators who sent a letter to seven video-game retailers. "We are seriously concerned about the accumulated impact that media violence is having on our children," the senators wrote. "We are particularly concerned by what is happening in the video game marketplace. Most games contain little if any violence and are rated as perfectly appropriate for players of all ages. But there is a significant core of increasingly graphic, gruesome, and perverse games that despite being rated for adults are commonly played by children."
The Senators noted that a prime reason kids have such easy access to ultraviolent games is that few leading retailers have policies restricting the sale of "M"-rated games to minors. They praised Sears and Wards for deciding not to carry "M"-rated games and asked the other companies to at least adopt standard policies to prevent children from buying potentially harmful games.
No single policy, governmental or corporate, will eliminate the serious threat of violence or prevent another Columbine from happening," the senators wrote. "But we have an obligation to do whatever we can to reduce the risks, and we believe that shielding our children from cultural messages and images that glorify and legitimize violence will do just that."
-- Source: Press Release, "Ultraviolent video games" Jun 16, 2000
On Lieberman's Web site, he's proud to announce that he has:
Republican Party:
George W. Bush.:
Pro: He laughed about convicted murderer Karla Faye Tucker's execution. He's a sick bastard.
Con: He laughed about convicted murderer Karla Faye Tucker's execution. I'm not seeing a con here.
Pro: He supports the pro-life stance. A Republican can't get elected without throwing a bone to the fringe elements.
Con: He supports the pro-life stance. A Republican can't get elected without throwing a bone to the fringe elements.
Pro: He would defend Taiwan if China attacks Taiwan. Well, that's one way to cut down on overpopulation.
Con: He would defend Taiwan if China attacks Taiwan. Chinese is a really difficult language to learn.
Pro: He would allow the Ten Commandments to be posted in schools. The kids can't read them, anyway.
Con: He would allow the Ten Commandments to be posted in schools. 16-year-old Wiccans will create protest Web sites.
Pro: He supports stronger penalties for first time cocaine possession. Unless one's last name is "Bush." I'm applying to change my name.
Con: He supports stronger penalties for first time cocaine possession. What about all of the hot young actors who won't be able to cut a deal just in time to star in the latest teen comedy?
Pro: He wants to help failing students pass. An educated populace makes for a successful nation.
Con: He wants to help failing students pass. Who will fill up the prisons by getting arrested for selling coke?
Pro: He wants to get rid of the Superfund program. Battery acid seeping into the water supply adds to the character of a neighborhood.
Con: He wants to get rid of the Superfund program. New Jersey will surpass Staten Island in being the world's largest garbage dump.
Pro: He wants to pursue stronger ties to Israel. Because they'd, uh, like, defend us and stuff, like, if we were attacked. **cough**
Con: He wants to pursue stronger ties to Israel. Israel sinks another American ship, anyway.
Pro: He's stupid. Think of the soundbites.
Con: He's stupid. Think of how the rest of the world will perceive the soundbites.
Dick Cheney:
Pro: He supports F-16 sales to Taiwan. They fall apart after playing with them for three days.
Con: He supports F-16 sales to Taiwan. It won't narrow the trade gap.
Pro: He supported a bill that would reward snitching on drug dealers. That's one way to supplement my income.
Con: He supported a bill that would reward snitching on drug dealers. The reward was a handshake from General Barry McCaffrey.
Pro: He voted against the Clean Water Act. Has Poland Springs gone public?
Con: He voted against the Clean Water Act. I guess he doesn't care about the children.
Green Party:
Ralph Nader::
Pro: He wants universal health care. Millions of Americans will wait months or years to receive needed medical care. Could cut down on the population.
Con: He wants universal health care. Reduction in population not worth the enormous cost.
Pro: He wants to provide additional child-care options to America's parents. 20 percent of SIDS cases occur at daycare.
Con: He wants to provide additional child-care options to America's parents. We'll probably foot the bill for Mama Sow to spend a year at home with her pint-sized cretin.
Pro: He wants to tax meat and anything we "don't like." Great. I can't wait for the taxes on breeding.
Con: He wants to tax meat and anything we "don't like." I think he means all of the things I like.
Pro: He wants a 100 percent tax for the rich. Sour grapes never looked so good.
Con: He wants a 100 percent tax for the rich. Yes, let's punish people for working hard, and give it to idiots who can't even put together the right order at Taco Bell.
Pro: He wants gun control. It's about time someone promoted gun features that steady the shooter's aim.
Con: He wants gun control. I doubt he'll pay for each of us to have a bodyguard, instead.
Pro: He wants to teach "democratic principles" in school. His democratic principles include affirmative action.
Con: He wants to teach "democratic principles" in school. Lovely. We'll go from the Pledge of Allegiance to the Pledge of Tolerance:
I will take every opportunity that presents itself to educate the ignorant in a passive/non-violent manner. I will not accept stereotyping, prejudice or hate in any form. I will make known my disgust of hate-based "jokes," while not losing my sense of true humor.
Pro: He wants to set up the domain ".sucks." All right! www.ralphnader.sucks!
Con: He wants to set up the domain ".sucks." He already owns the rights to it.
Pro: He said that TV ads are "electronic child molesting." At least he'll let pedophiles get off in some way.
Con: He said that TV ads are "electronic child molesting." Someone should tell him that rampant consumerism is what keeps the economy going.
Pro: He supports the decision against Microsoft. Nobody needs to be that rich.
Con: He supports the decision against Microsoft. He's obviously never tried to mount his own hard drive.
Pro: He wants to substantially increase the minimum wage. McDonald's isn't looking so bad now.
Con: He wants to substantially increase the minimum wage. If everyone earns a highly livable wage, where's the incentive to do well and work harder?
And really, would you want that pansy in charge of the military?
Winona LaDuke:
Pro: She's a Native American. When the Northeast experiences another drought, maybe she'll do a raindance.
Con: She's a Native American. Breeders will stop naming their kids after boroughs of New York City, and start giving their kids bastardized Native American names such as "Squatting Twat." Public school textbooks will be revised to show the inherent superiority of Native Americans, and school buses will have ads for Foxwoods.
Pro: She's a woman. Maybe she'll show us her tits.
Con: She's a feminist. She'll only show us her tits if there's an infant latched on to one.
Pro: She lives on a reservation. Hey, she couldn't be against the tobacco industry.
Con: She lives on a reservation. We'll never hear the end of Wounded Knee.
Libertarian Party:
Harry Browne:
Pro: He wants to end the War on Drugs. "Yes, I'll have a pack of gum and a sheet of acid."
Con: He wants to end the War on Drugs. Watch the price of weed shoot up when CVS and Eckerd's stock it.
Pro: He wants to keep abortion legal. I hate when condoms break.
Con: He wants to keep abortion legal. Four more years of pro-life activists.
Pro: He supports cutting back on defending two-bit nations. Rwanda didn't have any fancy art museums to plunder.
Con: He supports cutting back on defending two-bit nations. Taiwan won't send any more tchotchkes.
Pro: He intends to scale back the powers of the federal government, and in turn, eliminate the need for income/estate/etc. taxes. Jesus, have you seen how much those bastards take out of our paychecks?
Con: He intends to scale back the powers of the federal government, and in turn, eliminate the need for income/estate/etc. taxes. But who will tend to the highway infrastructure?
Pro: He thinks that since there are already 20,000 gun laws on the books, there is no need for more. Hello, clocktower!
Con: He thinks that since there are already 20,000 gun laws on the books, there is no need for more. Hello, clocktower!
Pro: He wants to get the federal government out of the education business. What, a 25 percent illiteracy rate isn't pure success?
Con: He wants to get the federal government out of the education business. What will John Stoessel bitch about?
Pro: He wants to get the federal government out of the health insurance business. Pay for what you need.
Con: He wants to get the federal government out of the health insurance business. And make infertile women pay for their own treatments? For shame!
Pro: He doesn't want to tighten immigration restrictions. University math programs and computer companies breathe a sigh of relief.
Con: He doesn't want to tighten immigration restrictions. University students and computer users brush up on deciphering heavy Asian accents.
Pro: He views Social Security as a pyramid scheme. And we don't even get a cheap pendant and a year's subscription to Reader's Digest.
Con: He views Social Security as a pyramid scheme. Grandmothers across the land grip their chests in terror at the thought of losing a benefit they didn't earn.
Art Olivier:
See above. So, who am I voting for? As usual, I'm voting Libertarian. A wasted vote, you say? Probably. But so is voting for Deadwood or Shrub. Harry Browne is the closest a misanthrope can come to a perfect candidate.
And don't think a vote for a third party candidate is a wasted vote. A candidate who receives at least 5 percent of the vote can qualify for matching federal funds in the next election, and money makes a campaign go 'round. But if you can't bring yourself to vote for a third party candidate, go with Bush.
If 'wealth sharing', and 'resource leveling' were really viable, why arent' there any examples of it prospering?
Why are all the canadian radio journalists talking about the 'health care crisis', and the problems of many physicians fleeing the country because they didn't like being enslaved (monetarily) to the masses?
The founders of this country were fed up with popularly elected and supposedly divinely selected leaders arbitrarly trodding upon the rights of the citizens. They sought to form a country where individual rights were the primary concern. They crafted the constitution in effort to prevent future leaders from subverting their original intentions.
Up until the beginning of the 20th century, it was doing a pretty good job of it. Sadly, a number of popular(at the moment), but fundamentally 'unconstitutional' laws and programs have been enacted, mostly because of the current population's ignorance of the principles of the constitution.
The United States is not a democracy, but rather a consitutional republic.
Have you ever read the consitution of the United States? I encourage you to do so, as it's not really that long.
The constitution is a document that very specifically states what the federal government may do. Not guidelines, but a difinitive and restrictive list.
If it's not on the list, the government may not do it. End of story.
Sadly, there are many programs in existence that are in flagrant violation of it.
The government is not our mother. It is not responsible for our welfare. It's role is to protect the rights of it's citizens, to allow them to work and prosper without the coersion of violence.
Bear in mind that there is no such thing as a 'right a goods or services', but rather a right to earn them in trade.
Yes.
why dont you consider that possible well-run social programs, funded by everyone is a good thing(TM). Dont you see how selfish your opinion sounds?
Consume people?
Consume the planet?
Punish altrusm?
(i feel like a hippie ;)
You sound like a hippie.
Nader is a proponent of the current generation of eco-terrorists. Mistakenly assuming that there is some magical precious thing about the random way that life happens to be scattered about on the earth which must be preserved at all costs.
There is no 'balance', just circumstance.
They're not 'wetlands', they're swamps. Look over the last 200 million years of earths history. 90% of the animals that have ever existed are extinct. New breeds appear. Old ones that aren't effective competitors die out. That's not criminal, it's natural selection.
Man is one of the animals.
If he decides to clearcut a forest to plant crops, good for him.
For an honest analysis of environmental concerns, see Peter Huber's book 'Hard Green'
People strive according to their motivation. They are not 'slaves' of some imaginary system. I'm a software developer, working from my home, often more than 60 hours per week. No one's forcing me to do it. The pleasure of doing productive work is what fuels my motivation.
I could have gotten a state job, say in the department of walking slowly, and live the slack life, with plenty of time for Wheel of fortune.
I still spend a lot of time with my wife and two kids. It probably has something to do with not having a television set.
Yes, there are many corrupt facets of our current government. (e.g. civil forfeiture laws that allow everything you own to be siezed, on 'suspicion' of being a drug dealer, without even being charged, let alone convicted of any crime - all in the name of the War on Drugs)
Harry Browne is much more likely to rid us of them than Ralph 'I know what's best for you' Nader
To quote Chris Rock, "By the time I get my check, the government has already taken some of it! That's not 'paying taxes', that's check-jacking!"
I'm flattered to be called selfish
"Sharing" is when you choose to do it.
"Theft" is when someone does it agains your wishes"
Any charitable act loses all it's virtue, when it's made compulsory.
Charity, by definition, is a voluntary act. Clearly, taxes 'siezed' by the government don't qualify as charity, even if given to enormous, wasteful, inefficient government welfare programs.
I challenge you do show evidence of any of these monsrosities that even distribute more money than they consume in 'management overhead'.
If by by 'dealing with modern society', you mean 'providing for yourself and your family', then I don't doubt that someone who declares himself incapable would be a fervent supporter of such government dole programs.
How about taking a little responsibility for yourself.
The War on Drugs is a total failure, and there is hardly a soul in America who doesn't know it. Government can't keep drugs out of the country; it can't even keep drugs out of its own prisons. And yet the Democrats and Republicans go right on spending your money, building more prisons, authorizing more wire-taps and inspections of your private affairs -- just as though the Drug War was one of America's greatest successes.
I want to end the War on Drugs -- which will take the criminal profit out of the drug trade and bring peace to our cities once again. I also want to end the tyranny that's been imposed in the name of a "drug free" America -- something that has never been and never will be.
'have a fair chance at' is a bad euphemism for 'be given by the government, free of charge'.
The problem is, the government doesn't own these things. Citizens work hard to produce these goods and services. The government then takes them by force (yes, men with guns will come to your house if you stop paying taxes), and gives them to those it designates as 'needy'.
Our constitution guarantees our right to pursue happiness, not to have it provided for us.
Whenever anyone considers a good or service to be 'a basic right to which they're entitled', what they're really doing is asking the government to enslave whomever is providing it - either directly, or through blanket taxation, indirectly.
You're correct. Felons can't vote - but fequently their friends and family can. Imagine how many mothers there are that could cast a vote to free their sons from jail.
Browne also has a stealth weapon.
"If elected, on my first day in office, I will pardon every inmate convicted of a non-violent drug offence."
Do the math.
10% of our population in jail.
70% for nonviolent drug possesion (mostly marijuana - according to recent 20/20 special).
24% turnout of eligable voters last election
Every potentially released inmate probably has 1-5 friends/relatives who might not otherwise even vote.
If I were Browne, I'd be direct mailing every inmate in the US.
It was supposed to look good because the video never went through an analog stage. I've been wondering if DVD on a laptop has the same advantage? Does the video go through an analog stage before getting to the LCD display?
What about an LCD display on a desktop monitor with digital input? Anyone watched a DVD on one of those?
What about these dedicated handheld and larger, DVD players? All digital?
Does anyone make a Plasma, rather than LCD display for computers? I've seen the 'used to be $10,000 now around $3,000' consumer video versions, but never in a desktop monitor. One of the things I don't like about LCD dispays is the speed at which pixels can be turned on and off. Plasmas seem to do that much faster, and consequently have snappier, cleaner, video during scenes with lots of motion.
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PBS Documentary on the 30 year War on Drugs tonight! 2 part special, tonight and tomorrow night.
Seems like this affects as many geek's lives as, say, LEGO robots, or Start Wars trailers....
I wonder if they'll mention that one of the candidates for president wants to end it.
Couple of video clips here and here.
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PBS Documentary on the 30 year War on Drugs tonight! 2 part special, tonight and tomorrow night.
Seems like this affects as many geek's lives as, say, LEGO robots, or Start Wars trailers....
I wonder if they'll mention that one of the candidates for president wants to end it.
Couple of video clips here and here.
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PBS Documentary on the 30 year War on Drugs tonight! 2 part special, tonight and tomorrow night.
Seems like this affects as many geek's lives as, say, LEGO robots, or Start Wars trailers....
I wonder if they'll mention that one of the candidates for president wants to end it.
Couple of video clips here and here.nd it.
What's next, legislativly mandated DIVX style pay per listen of music?
I was really hoping ventura would have made a run. Failing that, Browne seems the candidate least likely to continue eroding my personal freedoms.
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The war on drugs may be over soon.
On my first day in office I will pardon everyone who has been convicted of a non-violent federal drug offense - Harry Browne - Libertarian presidential candidate
Not surprisingly, the politicians, who recieve campaign contributions from the satellite signal content producing companies, passed laws against it.
Same story over and over. It was wrong then. It's wrong now (DeCSS, Napster, etc). It's big business using a corrupt political system to pass laws dictating our behavior, so that they can maximize their profits.
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Jam Cue:Cat!
Install the crappy win32 software, and start scanning everything! Food, magazines, CDs, whatever. When you scan one that isn't in their database (which is pretty small at this point), you get to fill out the description and URL! (Penis birds, goat sex, natalie with hot grits, etc. You might even mirror the real product site, and make subtle but funny changes)
Because the public key encryption algorithm is much slower than conventional single-key encryption, encryption is better accomplished by using a high-quality fast conventional single-key encryption algorithm to encipher the message. This original unenciphered message is called "plaintext". In a process invisible to the user, a temporary random key, created just for this one "session", is used to conventionally encipher the plaintext file. Then the recipient's public key is used to encipher this temporary random conventional key. This public-key-enciphered conventional "session" key is sent along with the enciphered text (called "ciphertext") to the recipient. The recipient uses her own secret key to recover this temporary session key, and then uses that key to run the fast conventional single-key algorithm to decipher the large ciphertext message.
Don't you just hate being publicly humiliated?
actually, the reason a market for these random generating dongles exist, is that it' pretty difficult to get a very random signal from any normal PC hardware. I believe most of these devices use a zener diode, pushed just over it's breakdown voltage to produce somethink akin to interstation FM hiss. Maybe a white noise generator from the FM synth section of a soundcard... anybody feel like doing some randomness comparisons?
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The war on drugs may be over soon.
On my first day in office I will pardon everyone who has been convicted of a non-violent federal drug offense - Harry Browne - Libertarian presidential candidate
This is a similar weakness to and early netscape implementation of SSL that accidentally randomized a very small portion of the intended keyspace, making it trivial to brute force.
The answer is probably in a random geneating dongle. I've seen several for around $100, targeted mostly at research lab types who need very random streams to make their research meaningful. It would be nice if someone wrote a driver for good old 2.62 classic that could take bits from one of these things.
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The war on drugs may be over soon.
On my first day in office I will pardon everyone who has been convicted of a non-violent federal drug offense - Harry Browne - Libertarian presidential candidate
The problem is, that the implementation of the additional key in the new format for storing keys (which is to say the physical layout of the key or 'certificate' file), isn't in a signed portion. That's the whole problem. You can change it (inserting your own key) and it doesn't change the fingerprint.
The thing I can't decide is whethere it was pure incompetence in the design of the new certificate layout, or if it was an intentional for this very purpose. I think NAI had better come up with some pretty satisfying explanations or no right-minded person will ever trust their 'security products' again.
Makes me glad I still have my old 2.62 code and keyrings laying around... now.. to get the revocations of all my newer keys pushed out to the key servers....
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The war on drugs may be over soon.
On my first day in office I will pardon everyone who has been convicted of a non-violent federal drug offense - Harry Browne - Libertarian presidential candidate
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The war on drugs may be over soon.
On my first day in office I will pardon everyone who has been convicted of a non-violent federal drug offense - Harry Browne - Libertarian presidential candidate
It would be interesting to see some simple benchmarks that would validiate such use.
As far as the OS goes, slashdot's 'what we run' article cited them as using FreeBSD (or was it OpenBSD... NetBSD?) because of ipfilter - supposedly better and simpler to configure than ipchains. I'm using a linux box and IP_MASQ for my home network, but have been thinking of switching to xxxBSD and ipfilter, maybe using an old 486 laptop.
Does anyone have ipchains rules for blocking incoming napster requests? One way cable modems (33.6 upstream) bog down with even 1 or 2 napster users pulling stuff off my machines, and my wife keeps inadvertantly turning on file sharing. I don't want to ban napster, just prevent users from sharing files.
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The war on drugs may be over soon.
On my first day in office I will pardon everyone who has been convicted of a non-violent federal drug offense - Harry Browne - Libertarian presidential candidate
I don't think that's the same thing as me sharing my cable modem among my 8 computers in my house, using Linux IP Masquerading.
I can understand how they might get greedy and want extra money for additional machines. I think many of us also violate various TOS agreements by actually doing work over the link, but not paying their 'business customer' rates.
I just hope they never get around to traffic quantity based charges. Imagine how pissed we'll be about spam then.
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The war on drugs may be over soon.
On my first day in office I will pardon everyone who has been convicted of a non-violent federal drug offense - Harry Browne - Libertarian presidential candidate
This is my very first chain letter. Please send it to every one you know, who uses Napster.
The music industry organization, RIAA, is suing Napster.
RIAA has been awarded a preliminary injunction forcing the Napster network to be shut down, friday, July 28th, at midnight - for the duration of the trial, if not permanently.
Many accounts have indicated music purchasing has increased because of Napster, possibly because it has generally spurred interest in music.
If you want to show RIAA your disapproval of their heavy handed legal tactics...
Do not purchase any of their members' products for the duration of the trial. The dominant members of RIAA areSony Music, EMI Recorded Music, Bertelsmann's BMG Entertainment, Time Warner's Warner Music and Seagram's Universal Music Group - which pretty much includes all music CDs, except those from obscure independent labels.
Don't accept RIAA's (or Metallica's) labeling you as a 'criminal' for sharing or downloading MP3s. Napster's attorney cited a recent federal court case that decided some noncommercial copying of music is protected by law. That extends even to making a song available for thousands of random Net users to download.
You're not doing anything wrong.
Nothing gets a large corporation's attention faster than a sharp drop in sales.