More than a year ago live polio virus was
constructed from component DNA. This is
not a "artificial" virus but a working copy
of phi X bacteriophage. Note that this is
an infringement of God's copyrights and
patents and trade secrets!
(from NY times, July 2002: Scientists construct virus from scratch for first time, synthesizing live polio virus from chemicals and publicly available genetic information; work was conducted by scientists at State University of New York at Stony Brook and financed by Defense Department as part of program to develop biowarfare) countermeasures... )
> Remember, they want people to get hooked on > their series
that's merely instrumental -- what they
want is your *money*; if they could get
people to just send a check every month
they would instantly stop making tv shows.
I want artists who get paid to do some work,
produce a show, or whatever and not expect
that they can milk the public for it forever
more...
there is no over-riding public benefit to
the syndication of television shows, the
production of which has long since been paid
for.
search the msn.com (american) site and
get all of 419 hits for linux (compared to
millions for google)
hit number 4 is
Alternatives to Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP
As I understand it the current law makes it
legal to *copy* (or to have copies) of music
files for personal use. It does not make it
legal to distribute such copies if the work
is copyright. So I think being a kazaa freeloader
is probably legal in Canada (until the law
is "fixed" of course).
the scumbag from SCO neglects to mention
exhibit D, the amendment to
the contract with IBM that makes the
license irrevocable (of course SCO can
still sue for various damages...)
Don't forget "Exhibit D",
an amendment to the contract Stowell mentions:
Exhibit D is an agreement between IBM and SCO, signed on 2/5/[19]98.
1. No Additional Royalty. Upon payment to SCO of the consideration in the
section entitled "Consideration", IBM will have the irrevocable, fully
paid-up, perpetual right to exercise all of its rights under the Related
Agreements beginning January 1, 1996 at no additional royalty fee. However,
if IBM requests delivery of additional copies of source code of the Software
Product, IBM will pay the fees listed under Section 1(b) of Soft-00015
[exhibit A] Supplement No. 170. Notwithstanding the above, the irrevocable
nature of the above rights will in no way be construed to limit Novell's or
SCO's rights to enjoin or otherwise prohibit IBM from violating any and all
of Novell's or SCO's rights under this Admendment No. X, the Related
Agreements, or under general patent, copyright, or trademark law.
So IBM have an irrevocable license, but SCO can stop IBM from infringing
SCO's patents, copyright or trademarks.
Someone should tell Stowell to tell the "whole truth and nothing
but the truth" -- and maybe -- soon -- someone will!
(btw, found the above info at
http://steve-parker.org/articles/sco/)
I don't think that is quite right. In Canada
it is illegal to distribute copyrighted
material. So *sharing* files via some p2p
system is illegal. But copying them for
your own personal use seems to be ok (by
the Act you mention).
this is murky however since the law did
not envisage napster or kazaa. It will
likely be "fixed" soon.
Because diplomacy and military action didn't work. We took the Marines out of Lebanon after the bombing. Diplomacy was not functioning. And Reagan wanted action. And Casey [cia director] went off the books on his own, and worked it out with the Saudis to pay two million dollars to get...people to build this car bomb that killed eighty innocent people in Beirut [in 1985] and not Sheik Fadlallah.
Some leash -- didn't seem to stop the cia
from setting up the terrorist car bombing
(assassination attempt) in Beirut in 1985
that killed more than 80 innocent civilian
bystanders.
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we need to store it only for at most a couple of hundred - the technology available then will make disposal trivial
Or is your argument based upon our civilization crashing and burning in the next 100 years?
think about this: "buy nothing day" is logically equivalent to "earn nothing day"
(just putting off buying something by a day doesn't count!)
More than a year ago live polio virus was constructed from component DNA. This is not a "artificial" virus but a working copy of phi X bacteriophage. Note that this is an infringement of God's copyrights and patents and trade secrets!
... )
(from NY times, July 2002: Scientists construct virus from scratch for first time, synthesizing live polio virus from chemicals and publicly available genetic information; work was conducted by scientists at State University of New York at Stony Brook and financed by Defense Department as part of program to develop biowarfare) countermeasures
> Remember, they want people to get hooked on
...
... tops
> their series
that's merely instrumental -- what they want is your *money*; if they could get people to just send a check every month they would instantly stop making tv shows.
I want artists who get paid to do some work, produce a show, or whatever and not expect that they can milk the public for it forever more
there is no over-riding public benefit to the syndication of television shows, the production of which has long since been paid for.
copyright should last for five years
That's not funny
search the msn.com (american) site and get all of 419 hits for linux (compared to millions for google) hit number 4 is
Alternatives to Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP
As I understand it the current law makes it legal to *copy* (or to have copies) of music files for personal use. It does not make it legal to distribute such copies if the work is copyright. So I think being a kazaa freeloader is probably legal in Canada (until the law is "fixed" of course).
the scumbag from SCO neglects to mention exhibit D, the amendment to the contract with IBM that makes the license irrevocable (of course SCO can still sue for various damages ...)
Don't forget "Exhibit D", an amendment to the contract Stowell mentions:
Exhibit D is an agreement between IBM and SCO, signed on 2/5/[19]98.
1. No Additional Royalty. Upon payment to SCO of the consideration in the section entitled "Consideration", IBM will have the irrevocable, fully paid-up, perpetual right to exercise all of its rights under the Related Agreements beginning January 1, 1996 at no additional royalty fee. However, if IBM requests delivery of additional copies of source code of the Software Product, IBM will pay the fees listed under Section 1(b) of Soft-00015 [exhibit A] Supplement No. 170. Notwithstanding the above, the irrevocable nature of the above rights will in no way be construed to limit Novell's or SCO's rights to enjoin or otherwise prohibit IBM from violating any and all of Novell's or SCO's rights under this Admendment No. X, the Related Agreements, or under general patent, copyright, or trademark law.
So IBM have an irrevocable license, but SCO can stop IBM from infringing SCO's patents, copyright or trademarks.
Someone should tell Stowell to tell the "whole truth and nothing but the truth" -- and maybe -- soon -- someone will!
(btw, found the above info at http://steve-parker.org/articles/sco/)
I don't think that is quite right. In Canada it is illegal to distribute copyrighted material. So *sharing* files via some p2p system is illegal. But copying them for your own personal use seems to be ok (by the Act you mention). this is murky however since the law did not envisage napster or kazaa. It will likely be "fixed" soon.
nice quote from Bob Woodward:
Because diplomacy and military action didn't work. We took the Marines out of Lebanon after the bombing. Diplomacy was not functioning. And Reagan wanted action. And Casey [cia director] went off the books on his own, and worked it out with the Saudis to pay two million dollars to get...people to build this car bomb that killed eighty innocent people in Beirut [in 1985] and not Sheik Fadlallah.
See Woodward's book Veil
Some leash -- didn't seem to stop the cia from setting up the terrorist car bombing (assassination attempt) in Beirut in 1985 that killed more than 80 innocent civilian bystanders.
on my old laptop, running two instances of gears is so slow they run backwards !!