Let the school allow the RIAA stooges to come in and preach their bullshit and I will pour every effort I can into nailing that school. My daughter goes to an Arts Infused Magnate school that is taught in part by "starving artists". I will get their funding pulled if they do. That pisses me off. Their corporate business model has no place in the school system! Man this fired me up!
I thought we were based on that whole "for the people, by the people" and "majority rules" democracy and stuff. I guess not. One man ruled in favor of 4 companies against 50 million citizens. Ummm... I think the people have spoken here. That must be the problem with the math they are teaching my daughter in school today. They taught me 1+4=5. But this judge thinks that 1+4>50,000,000. Man, I was a math whiz and I don't get that! Just another judge saying that a companies rights supercedes the individual citizens rights (actually 50 million individuals rights). This reminds me of the recent DeCSS case where the judge ruled that the companies' right to trade secret outweighed the individuals right to free speech. Look out ladies and gentleman! Wal Mart next quarterly is more important than the Bill of Rights.
>Do you want to tell that to the parents of soldiers still dying over there?
News Flash. Soldiers die. It is an unfortunate side effect of combat be it a full scale invasion like Persian Gulf I & II, Grenada, and Afghanistan or goody-goody "police actions" like Kosovo, Somalia, and Viet Nam. I am sure I don't have to point out the pattern of the reponsible administrations now do I? I am an Army veteran and I knew the entire time that I was on Active duty that at any minute I could be called up and semt off to die. It sucked but I knew that is what I was there for. Anyone that thinks otherwise is deluded. You go into the military for college money? Fine! But be ready to pay the piper if your time comes and you get the call. My mother and I went round and round about this my entire time in. Parents do not want their children to die. BUT their "children" are grown men and women that made a decision (for whatever reason) to join the military. There is implied risk with any occupation. Police officers are more at risk than the military. They face similar threats everyday. In the military we were lucky if we would see combat in the duration of an entire 20+ year career. (OK maybe not lucky if we saw combat but lucky if we didn't. Either way many in the military go their whole career without ever being close to combat.) Long story short. We have an all "voluntary" force. There are no draftees. Every man and woman on duty, was mentally fit enough to way their options and choose to join with all the risks known up front. All of their parents can bitch and moan if something happens to their child and they can blame the military and the president and who ever else makes them feel better. Their child gave more to this country and for this country than Joe Blow everyday citizen ever will. Their child sacrificed him or herself so that nut in the airport can sell his little flowers, so protesters can burn the flag that will cover their childs coffin, and so they can go on national TV broadcast live from Podunk and bash an administration utilizing their 7th grade educations. I am sure their childs sacrifice wasn't in vain!
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Let the school allow the RIAA stooges to come in and preach their bullshit and I will pour every effort I can into nailing that school. My daughter goes to an Arts Infused Magnate school that is taught in part by "starving artists". I will get their funding pulled if they do. That pisses me off. Their corporate business model has no place in the school system! Man this fired me up!
I thought we were based on that whole "for the people, by the people" and "majority rules" democracy and stuff. I guess not. One man ruled in favor of 4 companies against 50 million citizens. Ummm... I think the people have spoken here. That must be the problem with the math they are teaching my daughter in school today. They taught me 1+4=5. But this judge thinks that 1+4>50,000,000. Man, I was a math whiz and I don't get that! Just another judge saying that a companies rights supercedes the individual citizens rights (actually 50 million individuals rights). This reminds me of the recent DeCSS case where the judge ruled that the companies' right to trade secret outweighed the individuals right to free speech. Look out ladies and gentleman! Wal Mart next quarterly is more important than the Bill of Rights.
> Double whammy with that one. Infringe with the copying and the stretched version would be considered a derivitive work. Be careful. SCO might sue.
>Do you want to tell that to the parents of soldiers still dying over there?
News Flash. Soldiers die. It is an unfortunate side effect of combat be it a full scale invasion like Persian Gulf I & II, Grenada, and Afghanistan or goody-goody "police actions" like Kosovo, Somalia, and Viet Nam. I am sure I don't have to point out the pattern of the reponsible administrations now do I? I am an Army veteran and I knew the entire time that I was on Active duty that at any minute I could be called up and semt off to die. It sucked but I knew that is what I was there for. Anyone that thinks otherwise is deluded. You go into the military for college money? Fine! But be ready to pay the piper if your time comes and you get the call. My mother and I went round and round about this my entire time in. Parents do not want their children to die. BUT their "children" are grown men and women that made a decision (for whatever reason) to join the military. There is implied risk with any occupation. Police officers are more at risk than the military. They face similar threats everyday. In the military we were lucky if we would see combat in the duration of an entire 20+ year career. (OK maybe not lucky if we saw combat but lucky if we didn't. Either way many in the military go their whole career without ever being close to combat.) Long story short. We have an all "voluntary" force. There are no draftees. Every man and woman on duty, was mentally fit enough to way their options and choose to join with all the risks known up front. All of their parents can bitch and moan if something happens to their child and they can blame the military and the president and who ever else makes them feel better. Their child gave more to this country and for this country than Joe Blow everyday citizen ever will. Their child sacrificed him or herself so that nut in the airport can sell his little flowers, so protesters can burn the flag that will cover their childs coffin, and so they can go on national TV broadcast live from Podunk and bash an administration utilizing their 7th grade educations. I am sure their childs sacrifice wasn't in vain!
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