- Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today joined Ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) in introducing the "Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation Act" (the "PIRATE Act") to allow the Department of Justice to exercise its existing enforcement powers through a civil, rather than criminal, enforcement proceeding.
Does anyone need more proof that the Republicans and Dems have become just two sides of the same coin? After this, I don't trust them to do much of anything right. *sigh*
I can't help but wonder how much legal suits like this will force spammers underground. Making spam illegal and going after spammers won't stop spam as long as there is money to be made off the drones.
this woman is missing in Minnesota, hell people go missing in my local area every day, why did she rate?
You actually raise a valid question; why is the dissapearance of some blond, cute white girl being made into such a big deal compared to the dissapearances of others? As a UND student (where Dru went to school) and resident of Grand Forks, one reason is perhaps that this shit does not happen around here often. Dru's dissapearance (and, likely, murder) scared the shit out of everyone around here; the local stores were sold out of mace and pepper spray in an instant, and UND had to revise it's policy concerning mace/pepper spray on campus. It was like a bomb dropping.
The fact that it was such a freak incident may have made it "newsworthy."
If people in your neighborhood get kidnapped and killed every day, people, including the news media, may (I say may) get desensitized to it, and not treat it as "news."
In my readings of what happened at Chernobyl, it seems as if the whole things was a microcosm of the whole Soviet system. You had a huge, complex institution (the government, or power plant), combined with inept people put there for political reasons (the politicians and the "engineers" at the plant). You had mishap after mishap, mind-blowing stupidity after mind-blowing stupidity, corruption up the wazoo.
In the end, it amounted to a catastrophic collapse in the end. A lot of people got hurt for no fucking reason.
It will happen again, just in a different place/time.
FFII says that without better defined safeguards the Directive will lead to a far more agressive, lawyer-driven legal environment for creative businesses.
I read "lawer-driven" as "company X has no viable business plan, and will sue the ass off anyone who crosses their line of sight."
What pisses me off the most is how it is business that has become it's own worst enemy. Do you really think the companies pushing this type of legislation care about an economy free of arbitrary government control. Fuck no! They want the government throwing it's weight around, only as long as the government is on "their side." Dammit!
Feels like I'm lookin' in the mirror
What would people say
If only they knew that I was
Part of some geneticist's plan (plan-plan-plan)
Born to be a carbon copy man (man-man-man)
There in a petri dish late one night
They took a donor's body cell and fertilized a human egg and so I say
I think I'm a clone now
There's always two of me just a-hangin' around
I think I'm a clone now
'Cause every chromosome is a hand-me-down
Look at the way
We go out walking close together
I guess you could say
I'm really beside myself
I still remember how it began (gan-gan-gan)
They produced a carbon copy man (man-man-man)
Born in a science lab late one night
Without a mother or a father, just a test tube and a womb with a view
I think I'm a clone now (a clone now)
There's always two of me just a-hangin' around
I think I'm a clone now (a clone now)
'Cause every chromosome is a hand-me-down
I think I'm a clone now (a clone now)
And I can stay at home while I'm out of town
I think I'm a clone now (a clone now)
'Cause every pair of genes is a hand-me-down
Signing autographs for my fans
Come and meet the carbon copy man
Livin' in stereo, it's all right
Well I can be my own best friend and I can send myself for pizza so I say
I think I'm a clone now
Another one of me's always hangin' around
I think I'm a clone now
'Cause every chromosome is a hand-me-down
I think I'm a clone now (a clone now)
I've been on Oprah Winfrey - I'm world renowned
I think I'm a clone now (a clone now)
And every pair of genes is a hand-me-down
I think I'm a clone now (a clone now)
That's my genetic twin always hangin' around
I think I'm a clone now (a clone now)
'Cause every chromosome is a hand-me-down
Could someone please tell me what the hell gets people so damn scared about the issue of cloning?
Opponents of cloning fear the development will lead to cloned babies.
What if it does? So what? Clone me anytime. All it means is that there will be another guy who looks just like me walking around. Will the clone think and act like me? Fuck no; the people who think cloned genes will equal a cloned mind are the types who worry about cloned little Hitlers running around. Don't place your faith in Hollywood movies to show you what cloning is all about.
Cloned people are not any less human than "naturally born" people. What makes a human is intellect, not just how one was born.
A California man on Thursday sued a slew of international companies, including a Greeley distributor, alleging the penis-enlargement products they market and distribute do not work.
And the judge replied: "Duh, fucknut. Get out of my courtroom."
Which is more controversial: a game like GTA, where a thug goes around blowing people away (nothing new here . ..), or a game like Final Fantasy X, where the characters end up questioning their belief in god, and finding that belief and the institutions built up around it have been all wrong?
At first I was thinking it was the big Siberian blast that they said was a comet at the turn of the last century.
That was the Tunguska blast, I believe. From what I know, the average frequency of occurance of these types of strikes is around one century (i.e. we are close to being due for one).
The current hassles associated with electroninc voting have stuck me as yet another exmple of well-intentioned people using a technology as a panacea, then having it blow up in their faces.
Electronic voting will not help if two candidates are neck and neck or the election becomes complicated in some other way. They also throw in a very significant variable: hackability.
3) read about Internet Security so he doesn't go around speading some damn garbage around to everyone else.
Numbers one and two likely describe your average user, number three is generally the type of person reading slashdot. I guess we need to get security "cool" now for people to take notice.
Gee, I wonder how all these horrible viruses, worms, etc. can spread so fast.
. . . most ordinary computer users have no idea about what security means. They don't practice secure computing because they don't understand what that means.
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Actually, this is an old pic of a legendary sound-off vehicle. Current sound-off cars are crazy like that almost as a norm :)
It's amazing how much you can geek out your car's sound system these days.
This is from Hatch's own site . . .
- Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today joined Ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) in introducing the "Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation Act" (the "PIRATE Act") to allow the Department of Justice to exercise its existing enforcement powers through a civil, rather than criminal, enforcement proceeding.Does anyone need more proof that the Republicans and Dems have become just two sides of the same coin? After this, I don't trust them to do much of anything right. *sigh*
Are these local teenagers the sons and daughters of local shopkeepers and farmers, or are they the children of the ruling class? Hmmmm.
People, they say, could use it to establish a link between two handheld devices in order to swap music . . .
This just in: Jack Valenti and Cary Sherman have been taken to the hospital, apparently suffering from heart attacks.
I can't help but wonder how much legal suits like this will force spammers underground. Making spam illegal and going after spammers won't stop spam as long as there is money to be made off the drones.
You actually raise a valid question; why is the dissapearance of some blond, cute white girl being made into such a big deal compared to the dissapearances of others? As a UND student (where Dru went to school) and resident of Grand Forks, one reason is perhaps that this shit does not happen around here often. Dru's dissapearance (and, likely, murder) scared the shit out of everyone around here; the local stores were sold out of mace and pepper spray in an instant, and UND had to revise it's policy concerning mace/pepper spray on campus. It was like a bomb dropping.
The fact that it was such a freak incident may have made it "newsworthy."
If people in your neighborhood get kidnapped and killed every day, people, including the news media, may (I say may) get desensitized to it, and not treat it as "news."
Not the best explaination, just my $.02.
In the end, it amounted to a catastrophic collapse in the end. A lot of people got hurt for no fucking reason.
It will happen again, just in a different place/time.
I read "lawer-driven" as "company X has no viable business plan, and will sue the ass off anyone who crosses their line of sight."
What pisses me off the most is how it is business that has become it's own worst enemy. Do you really think the companies pushing this type of legislation care about an economy free of arbitrary government control. Fuck no! They want the government throwing it's weight around, only as long as the government is on "their side." Dammit!
Feels like I'm lookin' in the mirror What would people say If only they knew that I was
Part of some geneticist's plan (plan-plan-plan) Born to be a carbon copy man (man-man-man) There in a petri dish late one night They took a donor's body cell and fertilized a human egg and so I say
I think I'm a clone now There's always two of me just a-hangin' around I think I'm a clone now 'Cause every chromosome is a hand-me-down
Look at the way We go out walking close together I guess you could say I'm really beside myself
I still remember how it began (gan-gan-gan) They produced a carbon copy man (man-man-man) Born in a science lab late one night Without a mother or a father, just a test tube and a womb with a view
I think I'm a clone now (a clone now) There's always two of me just a-hangin' around I think I'm a clone now (a clone now) 'Cause every chromosome is a hand-me-down
I think I'm a clone now (a clone now) And I can stay at home while I'm out of town I think I'm a clone now (a clone now) 'Cause every pair of genes is a hand-me-down
Signing autographs for my fans Come and meet the carbon copy man Livin' in stereo, it's all right Well I can be my own best friend and I can send myself for pizza so I say
I think I'm a clone now Another one of me's always hangin' around I think I'm a clone now 'Cause every chromosome is a hand-me-down
I think I'm a clone now (a clone now) I've been on Oprah Winfrey - I'm world renowned I think I'm a clone now (a clone now) And every pair of genes is a hand-me-down
I think I'm a clone now (a clone now) That's my genetic twin always hangin' around I think I'm a clone now (a clone now) 'Cause every chromosome is a hand-me-down
I think I'm a clone now (a clone now)
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Opponents of cloning fear the development will lead to cloned babies.
What if it does? So what? Clone me anytime. All it means is that there will be another guy who looks just like me walking around. Will the clone think and act like me? Fuck no; the people who think cloned genes will equal a cloned mind are the types who worry about cloned little Hitlers running around. Don't place your faith in Hollywood movies to show you what cloning is all about.
Cloned people are not any less human than "naturally born" people. What makes a human is intellect, not just how one was born.
Screw capture the flag, I'm gunnin' for Darl McBride!
Is fear of criticism widespread in academic circles?
A California man on Thursday sued a slew of international companies, including a Greeley distributor, alleging the penis-enlargement products they market and distribute do not work.
And the judge replied: "Duh, fucknut. Get out of my courtroom."
Which is more controversial: a game like GTA, where a thug goes around blowing people away (nothing new here . . .), or a game like Final Fantasy X, where the characters end up questioning their belief in god, and finding that belief and the institutions built up around it have been all wrong?
That was the Tunguska blast, I believe. From what I know, the average frequency of occurance of these types of strikes is around one century (i.e. we are close to being due for one).
Gee, all I have is my Maglite and a few bottles of Bawls . . :*(
What sort of censorship still goes on there, if any?
Markets are composed of and do serve people.
Markets are composed of people, and are not the mythical beings you want them to be.
Instead, what we have is the market being rigged to serve a priveledged few, at the expense of everyone else.
Go back to your cave, troll.
I cringe waiting for the inevitable "Off topic" mod . . .
Electronic voting will not help if two candidates are neck and neck or the election becomes complicated in some other way. They also throw in a very significant variable: hackability.
1) Watch TV (lord knows what . . .)
2) drink some booze and hang with the buddies
3) read about Internet Security so he doesn't go around speading some damn garbage around to everyone else.
Numbers one and two likely describe your average user, number three is generally the type of person reading slashdot. I guess we need to get security "cool" now for people to take notice.
Gee, I wonder how all these horrible viruses, worms, etc. can spread so fast.
. . . most ordinary computer users have no idea about what security means. They don't practice secure computing because they don't understand what that means.
Oh. *smacks head*
I suppose "control-alt-delete" was chosen as "work-you-fucking-program!" took to long to type in.
So . . . does this mean SCO will demand a shrubbery from Linux users now as well?
You misspelled . . . oh, wait . . . he he