Anybody see the movie? Talk about hitting the nail on the head in an artistic fashion. Maybe what we all need is a nice happy pill that removes any individual thought or freedom. Only -then- will we truly be free from terrorists./sarcasm off
While I completely agree that the energy crisis is very pressing, I don't think that the solution the republicans are proposing has much chance of successfully resolving the crisis. It does, however, have a very good chance of 'looking' like they're doing something.
Yay politics. I vote with you, sir, for the third party.
Not only a cover-up, but in my personal opinion, should be able to be used in court as proof of corruption of the politicans attempting to grant it. As a citizen of this country, I -expect- everyone to follow the letter of the law, politicans and huge mega-corps included. I sincerely doubt that I would be given retro-active unconditinal immunity if I get a speeding ticket, and then a few days later they change the speed limit high enough to where I wouldn't have been speeding. Why should a mega-corporation be any different? Because they can influence the government more than the individual can, which is a red flag for corruption in my book.
Then again, I'm just a registered voter, my opinion doesn't matter in a crooked system like the US electorial system.
I'm glad to see you posted anon, for starters.
Ted Stevens is one of the worst corrupt political figures in this country. Quite honestly, with the number of Federal laws he's broken in the past few years, he deserves to sit and rot in prison for the remainder of his life. Won't happen, of course, but it would if you, or I would have done the same thing.
He may be your mascot against, "The Will of the People", but unless ya'll are not part of the United States any more, then he, and you, are still required to follow Federal laws. I would be VERY happy if the same investigations were started on every single politician in the US Government of any public office. Democrat or Republican. Ted Stevens is corrupt, and corrupt government officals should get jail time. I'm sorry that you think that you, and the rest of Alaksa, is better than the rest of the country, but I think I speak for the rest of us when I say F Off.
What about the DMCA then, that says that if an ISP or other content provider blocks any traffic then they aren't protected as a provider and can be held accountable for any content that is transferred across their network?
I guess if the ISPs can enforce one law and ignore another, why can't the FCC?
If I bought a cd, would it 'magically' not be able to be played in Canada? I think not. Just another form of out of control restrictions on digital media, and it will undoubtably be the end of the iTunes store.
I know that I will never buy a CD by an artist who is in league with the RIAA. I hope many people take this approach, they are causing havok where they shouldn't be. I used to buy CD's as well as download MP3's. I don't buy CD's anymore, guess why.
Anybody know if they fixed the huge problems redhat 9 was having on the Dell Inspiron 8500 line of notebooks? (Couldn't boot into installer, VERY slow install once you finally made it (like, 9 hour install) and then no working wireless network drivers)
Plus, the poorly written bill sets up an unnecessarily wide dragnet, Schultz said. It criminalizes the placement of any copyright work on a computer network.
"If you have a file stored on your computer and your computer is connected to a publicly available network, you may not even know that you are committing a felony, but this law could put you in jail," he said.
So, even if you don't know you are connected to kazaa (computer in a library, for instance) you could still get jail time for it, positivly amazing. I'm sorry I live in Michigan, where someone from my state wrote this pos up.
Not to mention the deprivation of a salary to these foreign employees, while not comparable in US terms, that beats any possible salary they can earn in their country with NO external influence.
So you would rather see salaries paid to 'foreign employees' rather than jobs here in the US for those same salaries?
God I hate my email button my my keyboard at work, I always seem to manage to push it at precisely the wrong moments. Handy? 10% of the time. 90% Annoying.
. In a more rational commercial environment, Corbis could simply have sent Amazon a bill. If Amazon refused to pay, then legal action would start. And Amazon would have the option of paying, then passing the bill back to the people posting copyright material on its site.
This isn't how it works currently though, Amazon is protected under the DMCA for the IP violations of it's marketplace users, they would've been well within their bounds to not pay any bill Corbis could have sent them.
Does anyone think that there should be a greater reason to post stories here than as an opportunity for 300 comments dissing MS? Sigh, let the bitching begin...
No, I don't think there needs to be any greater reason than this current one, it is a big deal that the army spends a TON Of money like this on microsoft software, and I think it's a poor decision on their part.
There have even been suicides over previous games like Everquest, and the Techs/Game Masters routinely get death threats, etc by the players. This was all brought out in his training...
Aye, I remember the everquest suicide, where the kids mom attempted to sue sony over it. Honestly, if you have this much of an addiction to it, you need to find something or someone else to do, it's not healthy.
Newsbreak! You don't have the right to download free music!
Newsbreak, idiot, if it's free, then you can download it. It's if it's COPYRIGHTED that you can't. By definition, free is free.
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Anybody see the movie? Talk about hitting the nail on the head in an artistic fashion. Maybe what we all need is a nice happy pill that removes any individual thought or freedom. Only -then- will we truly be free from terrorists. /sarcasm off
Kingdoms of the Lost, best one I'd played. www.kotl.org
While I completely agree that the energy crisis is very pressing, I don't think that the solution the republicans are proposing has much chance of successfully resolving the crisis. It does, however, have a very good chance of 'looking' like they're doing something. Yay politics. I vote with you, sir, for the third party.
Not only a cover-up, but in my personal opinion, should be able to be used in court as proof of corruption of the politicans attempting to grant it. As a citizen of this country, I -expect- everyone to follow the letter of the law, politicans and huge mega-corps included. I sincerely doubt that I would be given retro-active unconditinal immunity if I get a speeding ticket, and then a few days later they change the speed limit high enough to where I wouldn't have been speeding. Why should a mega-corporation be any different? Because they can influence the government more than the individual can, which is a red flag for corruption in my book.
Then again, I'm just a registered voter, my opinion doesn't matter in a crooked system like the US electorial system.
I'm glad to see you posted anon, for starters. Ted Stevens is one of the worst corrupt political figures in this country. Quite honestly, with the number of Federal laws he's broken in the past few years, he deserves to sit and rot in prison for the remainder of his life. Won't happen, of course, but it would if you, or I would have done the same thing. He may be your mascot against, "The Will of the People", but unless ya'll are not part of the United States any more, then he, and you, are still required to follow Federal laws. I would be VERY happy if the same investigations were started on every single politician in the US Government of any public office. Democrat or Republican. Ted Stevens is corrupt, and corrupt government officals should get jail time. I'm sorry that you think that you, and the rest of Alaksa, is better than the rest of the country, but I think I speak for the rest of us when I say F Off.
What about the DMCA then, that says that if an ISP or other content provider blocks any traffic then they aren't protected as a provider and can be held accountable for any content that is transferred across their network? I guess if the ISPs can enforce one law and ignore another, why can't the FCC?
If I bought a cd, would it 'magically' not be able to be played in Canada? I think not. Just another form of out of control restrictions on digital media, and it will undoubtably be the end of the iTunes store.
I know that I will never buy a CD by an artist who is in league with the RIAA. I hope many people take this approach, they are causing havok where they shouldn't be. I used to buy CD's as well as download MP3's. I don't buy CD's anymore, guess why.
Anybody know if they fixed the huge problems redhat 9 was having on the Dell Inspiron 8500 line of notebooks? (Couldn't boot into installer, VERY slow install once you finally made it (like, 9 hour install) and then no working wireless network drivers)
Plus, the poorly written bill sets up an unnecessarily wide dragnet, Schultz said. It criminalizes the placement of any copyright work on a computer network.
"If you have a file stored on your computer and your computer is connected to a publicly available network, you may not even know that you are committing a felony, but this law could put you in jail," he said.
So, even if you don't know you are connected to kazaa (computer in a library, for instance) you could still get jail time for it, positivly amazing. I'm sorry I live in Michigan, where someone from my state wrote this pos up.
Not to mention the deprivation of a salary to these foreign employees, while not comparable in US terms, that beats any possible salary they can earn in their country with NO external influence.
So you would rather see salaries paid to 'foreign employees' rather than jobs here in the US for those same salaries?
Instead of just white and black, can I nominate Slashdot-Green?
Because I do use it sometimes, notice the 10%
God I hate my email button my my keyboard at work, I always seem to manage to push it at precisely the wrong moments. Handy? 10% of the time. 90% Annoying.
. In a more rational commercial environment, Corbis could simply have sent Amazon a bill. If Amazon refused to pay, then legal action would start. And Amazon would have the option of paying, then passing the bill back to the people posting copyright material on its site.
This isn't how it works currently though, Amazon is protected under the DMCA for the IP violations of it's marketplace users, they would've been well within their bounds to not pay any bill Corbis could have sent them.
Having the article /.'d I didn't get a chance to read it, however, I will say this is one movie I'm going to see just to support linux/open source
Get 'em hooked early, then they'll never be able to stop using it.
Sounds like the Catholic Churches policy!
Absolutely not, none of those names sound like one a self-respecting black person would have!
How about, "African American".
however they don't mention the 'competitors' they tested against by name.
I just love biased reporting. Why couldn't they just include the full story, instead of "revising" it into something it's not?
Interesting that the DMCA covers people living in Australia. Could you site a source for us on that one?
Yes, forgetting to preview sucks... so does forgetting a /
However, coward, claiming I don't know how to use basic HTML tags was pretty poor yourself.
Does this include anything like the lovely mess they introduced with SP1 for windows XP? If it does, I won't bother installin it on my work computer.
Does anyone think that there should be a greater reason to post stories here than as an opportunity for 300 comments dissing MS? Sigh, let the bitching begin...
No, I don't think there needs to be any greater reason than this current one, it is a big deal that the army spends a TON Of money like this on microsoft software, and I think it's a poor decision on their part.
There have even been suicides over previous games like Everquest, and the Techs/Game Masters routinely get death threats, etc by the players. This was all brought out in his training...
Aye, I remember the everquest suicide, where the kids mom attempted to sue sony over it. Honestly, if you have this much of an addiction to it, you need to find something or someone else to do, it's not healthy.
Newsbreak! You don't have the right to download free music! Newsbreak, idiot, if it's free, then you can download it. It's if it's COPYRIGHTED that you can't. By definition, free is free.