Patton was right. We should've gone in an kicked the crap out of the USSR while we had them down. MacArthur was removed from commanding the Korean conflict because he had a plan to not just conquer the North Koreans, but the Chinese and USSR as well.
When I say that, I mean do not underestimate the difficulties involved in invading Russia. Napoleon tried it and if he hadn't he might have taken over the world. Even with higher technology you still need some sort of supply line. Sorry, but containing them and letting them collapse under their own economic weight was a better strategy.
It might have been a good thing to save the Chinese from the Cultural Revolution, but with the history of US foreigh politics, I just wouldn't trust our government to do the right thing. I imagine invading China would have some of the same issues as invading Russia, and a much bigger population to contend with. Confronted with an outside enemy, they probably would have united behind their communist overloards, as bad as they are/were.
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But my point is, if you want to find corruption, look to the top of your party. Sandy Berger's recent behavior is only a small example of that.
There is definately corruption in the Democratic party, but there is just as much as in the Republican party. The Republican party has been taken over by neo-conservatives, the dixiecrats who joined the Republicans in opposition to the civil rights movements. Older Republicans are getting disgusted with what has happened to the Grand Old Party.
I don't see how anyone who calls themselves a conservative can support George W Bush. He is practically flushing trillions down the towlet.
Edwards struck me as slightly more honest than most politicians. This coming from someone that generally hates democrats more than he hates republicans. Kerry though, is the worst kind of candidate there is.
Of course, John Kerry is the Anti-Christ. Well, maybe not quite the worst. At least he isn't Al Gore.
Even though I'm planning to vote for Kerry (because he isn't Al Gore and I'm really sick of W) I'm thinking of telling everyone that I'm voting for Ralph Nader just to really piss off the liberals. If they argue with me then at some point in the conversation I'll say: "OK, you win. I'll vote Libertarian. After all, those votes really count for Kerry right?"
I can deduct most of my investments from the late 90's, since 90% of the companies from the dot.bomb era must have been nonprofits!
Actually, a lot of people will cut their losses on some of their investments, when other investments have done well, in order to cut down on their taxable income.
In other words, if you've made a lot of money, but have a bunch of stock that if you sold it you'd be selling it at a loss, you can minimize your losses by saving in taxes from the capital gains that actually made money.
The companies themselves not making a profit has nothing to do with nonprofit or even not-for-profit, but investors can still have an advantage in certain situations.
But then in this economy the speculative market has been hurting bad since second quarter 2000. Still, there are other investments beyond speculation.
I mean both Bush and Gore worked as hard as they could to keep unfavourable ballots from being counted.
I remember hearing that if the way the Gore people wanted the votes to be recounted (just a few counties) then Bush would have one, and that if they recounted the entire state (which is what the Bush people wanted) then Gore would have one.
But yet again, I would have to sign up for *another* site, give them my email address, etc for more spam to come through.
Use sneakemail and if they give your email address to spammers, you can turn it off, and you know who sold you out.
I was going to post a comment on low power FM, but searched to see if it would be redundant.
I think it is an idea who's time has come, and as an anarchist I won't be happy until everyone and their grandmother's dog has their own low power FM station.
I'd also like to jam the top 40 station with music like Skinny Puppy, but I doubt the chairman would be sympathetic to that desire.
The airwaves are supposed to belong to everyone so while there is bandwidth available there is no excuse not to permit it. (Other than big media not wanting competition.)
I might also say that we should just get over it as far as bad words go. Do you know why bad words are bad? I've heard that it goes back to either the Anglo or Norman invasion, and the peasant class still used the Saxon language. Bad words are seen as bad because they are Saxon words. In effect, the banning of these bad words amounts to anti-saxon racism!!!!
(Excuse the bangs, I guess I'm trying to be funny and serious at the same time.)
You forget that, really, any voting system is unfair and ends up ruining it for somebody. Well, that, and it would require a constitutional amendment to make it happen.
Elections are actually the responsibility of the State, and often county. Within a single state you can have Diebold machines, ballots with chads, ballots that use number 2 pencils, and putting a pebble into a bucket or something.
We don't have to depend on our federal congress critters to improve the laws. A lot of states allow for citizen ballot initiatives.
At the very least, we need to get rid of the stupid chads and upgrade to number 2 pencils until we get dependable, open source voting solutions.
Getting rid of the electoral college on the other hand, would require a constitutional amendment (I think).
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole reason for the whistle blowing law was to protect employees who want to come clean, not for them to make a profit.
Ssssshhhh!
That sounds like a good business plan.
Too bad it would involve moving to California. Do any other states have similar laws?
I could joke and say that security for elections is no big deal, but you need to take thing serious where money are concerned.
Or maybe there are people that actually think that way.
However, at least until the present, ATMs have seemed reliable. I'll admit I've seen an ATM with a BSOD before but not often. And while there are checks and balences in the ATM Network, you would think that we would have heard something by now if there was a problem.
So, how can a company that presumably makes good solid secure software for ATMs, be so phenomenally incompetent for other software?
Are there different programmers working on the voting machines than the ATMs?
Is there different management between the voting machines and the ATMs?
Do they just not take their voting machines as seriously as they do their ATMs?
Or is the entire company going downhill and I should call my bank tomorrow to see where they get their ATMs from?
I prefer Approval Voting. Thats where you vote for as many of the people available as you wish.
It is simpler for the average person to understand, and would be easier to implement, and does not have the flaws that the more complicated voting methods have. (At least as far as I know. I've been meaning to do a mathematical proof that it is best. Has anyone out there already done that?)
Also, voting methods are determined by the state. I don't even think it is part of the State Constitution but either laws or procedures. Because of this people in states that allow Ballot Initiatives can get the voting method changed themselves without, or in spite of, the actions of elected politicians.
You can also change the distribution of your state's electoral votes from winner take all to proportional. (At least one state in the union does this.)
I'm not sure but I think it would require a federal constitutional amendment to get rid of the electoral college altogether.
I hate to beg the question, but how do the Diebold machines report their results? I suppose I ought to look it up but does anyone know if they are supposed to report over the internet? And regardless, is there any sort of digital signature to verify that the reported results are real as well as unique? (Unique as in the same polling place or machine cannot report more than once.)
If it is done over modem then what is to prevent the numerious EV1l H@cKorZ out there from calling in fake results?
We need answers to this before November or we'll end up with Linus Torvalds as our next President!
Computer voting has the potential to become more reliable, but I don't think we are going to see it from Diebold.
There has always been some element of trust in the elections. We've all seen the T-Shirt "I'm from Chicago, Two ballots please." but at this point I still think that paper ballots are more reliable. If you put the paper ballots in a lock box, and the lock box is opened under the supervision of all sides involved in the election as well as the media, then it becomes a lot more difficult to defraud an election.
(Although changing voting locations at the last minute, putting up National Guard roadblocks, and disqualifing thousands of people who happen to have the same first and last name as convicted felons in other states are potential abuses in this scenario. But computer voting wouldn't fix those problems either.)
Even if we did have a verifiable open-source voting system I still think it would be a good idea to have paper ballots. What would be best is after you vote, the machine prints out a paper ballot that is both machine and human readable. The voter can then examine their ballot and confirm all their choices are correct, and place it in the lock box.
When the elections are over you tally both the electronic voting machines and the paper ballots, and if there is a significant difference you know at least one of the numbers is wrong. Since the methods involved in defrauding an election via paper balots and computers are different, I imagine it would be very difficult to make the results come out the same.
Now, ultimately, I think that an open-source voting solution that uses both encryption and digital signatures would be best. Peer review can confirm that the system is nih impossible to rig. The average person won't understand this, but then the average person is not involved in the old fashioned voting sytem anyway.
Oh, interesting story I heard a few years ago about paper ballots on talk radio. Someone was at the place where the machine reads the ballots. The caller said that he suggest they test the reliability of the machine by taking a stack of ballots, and running them through the machine twice and seeing if the results come out the same both times.
I forget if they actually did it and there were different results, and the voting people didn't like him, or if they just didn't like him without even trying. Some people just don't like you to question them, and it seems the bigger their responsibility, the less they like to be questioned.
Man I so agree. The numbers aren't that obvious. You download a movie, it's 600 megs. It messed up at 300 megs. You recontinued to P2P session, does that count as 2 files now?
Well, that all depends on who they are and what they want the results of their "statistics" to be.
If they are the RIAA it counts as 2 files, maybe 1. If they are the MPAA it counts as 900 megs.
Then again, it isn't as if the RIAA and MPAA are against each other, so they might find a comprimise.
and I'll be like an average slashdotter in this case and not read the article but ask this question anyway: Who is the "Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development" and do they have any connections with the RIAA, MPAA and related organizations?
For a good read on how much "research" out there more or less has the results before the test, try reading Trust Us, We're the Experts.
My first week at college in undergrad. All decked out in my preppy kahkis and docksiders, trying to fit in
There's more to life than looking like an ad for the Gap.
Too bad your first experience was with The Greatful Dead. Sorry, I just don't care for it. My first experience I was at my apartment and I decided what I really wanted to listen to was Miles Davis Kind of Blue. I did own some Pink Floyd records (I think it is legally required when going to college) but I had no desire to listen to them.
That night I came to the conclusion that Miles Davis is God. I might have been mistaken. At the time I couldn't tell the difference between a muted trumpet and a tenor saxophone (I just knew that it was good music) and I hadn't started listening to John Coltrane's solo records yet.
Performance Artist Laurie Anderson uses language as a recurring theme in her music. A lot of the music is more like spoken word over ambient music, especially the later stuff.
A good example is the song Language is a Virus from Outer Space. The term was actually cointed by William S. Burroughs, and possibly Brian Gysin, who did lots of experiments on language involving cut ups, and randomizing words. One experiment involved recording the words yes and no repeatedly on a casset tape. They would then ask yes or no questions and use the tape as an oracle, using rewind of fast forward to randomize the answer.
After her one hit wonder O Superman, she signed a contract with Warner Brothers. Her first 4 albums were live. One of the earlier songs relied on the multimedia durring the performance to really understand it. (And remember this is the late 70s or early 80s.)
She showed different pictures. One was the picture of the man and the woman that were etched on the Voyager probes.
In our country this is the way we say Hello. It is a diagram of movement between two points. It is a sweep on the dial. In our country this is also the way we say goodbye. Say Hello. In our country we send pictures of people using our sign language into outer space. Do you think that They will think his arm is permanently attached in this position? Or, do you think They will read our signs? Say Hello.
I heard rumors that MS ignored people who pirated their software, especially OS, for personal use because it made their software ubiquitous, and insured their dominance in the business world.
So, would it make sense for them to give it away "free as in beer" for personal use, while making money on business licenses, and office and other software?
Or at least sell it really cheaply here in the states?
It does make financial sense to sell it so cheaply overseas where people otherwise could never aford to buy it, and piracy is more the rule than the exception. The new lower price is a whole lot better than nothing.
This still won't affect Linux. Linux is competition for MS, but Linux only has to have people willing to work on it for it to survive. Many are willing to do that even without pay because they want better software.
excellent security down there - no terrorists smuggled in, most definitely. no small 2 pound sacks of anthrax smuggled within the tons of dope, enough to kill tens of thousands of people.
Also note that most of the chemical, biological, and other WMDs in the world are produced in the US. Wouldn't it be easlier to steal it from the source than to smuggle it in?
I heard that the authorities had pretty much found the guy who was mailing anthrax in 2001. It was a right wing nut who worked for one of our bio-weapons laboratories. Strangely enough the case was dropped at that point and the mainstream media stopped reporting on it.
I'm not implying that there is a conspiracy. If there actually was a conspiracy you would think they would do a better job of covering it up.
Burn CD 1 from master: 4 burns left on master, 4 burns left on copy. Burn CD 2 from master: 3 burns left on master, 3 burns left on copy. Burn CD 3 from master: 2 burns left on master, 2 burns left on copy. etc.
That is still only going to be (counting on fingers) 14 copies? As opposed to make one copy, make 2 copies, make 4 copies, make 8 copies etc. until you run out of computers to make copies on. In these terms limiting it to 14-25 copies is limiting it, and even limiting it in a reasonable fashion. I'm not shy about making copies of stuff for friends, but I doubt I would make more than 25 copies of the same CD.
It's really all moot, though, because the files are just going to show up on P2P networks and get downloaded and burnt anyway...
Which introduces the irony of people who legally purchased music going out on the p2p networks to download extra copies of something they already work because the DRM doesn't let them play their legally purchased CD in their car or whathaveyou.
Meanwhile, anyone that is going to be doing serious piracy (making thousands of copies of a CD and selling it for profit, rather than making a couple copies for friends.) is going to find a way around any DRM that they could possibly come up with.
As long as you can listen to it, there will always be a way to copy it.
I think that sooner or later spam will be used more to sabotage companies, rather than companies believing the illusion that spam will benifit their own business.
Well, I'm not neccessarily saying that releasing oil from the reserves would be a good thing. I sometimes think that oil prices are too low, but without a steady income I selfishly hope for lower prices.
No, no, no. President Bush came out and said this week that he will NOT release any oil from the reserves this year. But Bill Clinton did release some oil from the national reserves in 2000 to try to help out Gore's campaign.
I don't like the Democrats any better than the Republicans, so it won't suprise me if our current fearless leader goes back on his word in October. I agree that having an emergency supply is a good thing. I think I need another sentence or two here but it has become more political than I had intended.
Oh yea, I remember many years ago an article in Time magazine called Storing Up Trouble. I think I was in high school at the time. It might be interesting to look that article up again.
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Patton was right. We should've gone in an kicked the crap out of the USSR while we had them down. MacArthur was removed from commanding the Korean conflict because he had a plan to not just conquer the North Koreans, but the Chinese and USSR as well.
When I say that, I mean do not underestimate the difficulties involved in invading Russia. Napoleon tried it and if he hadn't he might have taken over the world. Even with higher technology you still need some sort of supply line. Sorry, but containing them and letting them collapse under their own economic weight was a better strategy.
It might have been a good thing to save the Chinese from the Cultural Revolution, but with the history of US foreigh politics, I just wouldn't trust our government to do the right thing. I imagine invading China would have some of the same issues as invading Russia, and a much bigger population to contend with. Confronted with an outside enemy, they probably would have united behind their communist overloards, as bad as they are/were.
But my point is, if you want to find corruption, look to the top of your party. Sandy Berger's recent behavior is only a small example of that.
There is definately corruption in the Democratic party, but there is just as much as in the Republican party. The Republican party has been taken over by neo-conservatives, the dixiecrats who joined the Republicans in opposition to the civil rights movements. Older Republicans are getting disgusted with what has happened to the Grand Old Party.
I don't see how anyone who calls themselves a conservative can support George W Bush. He is practically flushing trillions down the towlet.
Maybe it was the US Department of Won't somebody PLEASE think of the Children!
Edwards struck me as slightly more honest than most politicians. This coming from someone that generally hates democrats more than he hates republicans. Kerry though, is the worst kind of candidate there is.
Of course, John Kerry is the Anti-Christ.
Well, maybe not quite the worst.
At least he isn't Al Gore.
Even though I'm planning to vote for Kerry (because he isn't Al Gore and I'm really sick of W) I'm thinking of telling everyone that I'm voting for Ralph Nader just to really piss off the liberals. If they argue with me then at some point in the conversation I'll say: "OK, you win. I'll vote Libertarian. After all, those votes really count for Kerry right?"
I can deduct most of my investments from the late 90's, since 90% of the companies from the dot.bomb era must have been nonprofits!
Actually, a lot of people will cut their losses on some of their investments, when other investments have done well, in order to cut down on their taxable income.
In other words, if you've made a lot of money, but have a bunch of stock that if you sold it you'd be selling it at a loss, you can minimize your losses by saving in taxes from the capital gains that actually made money.
The companies themselves not making a profit has nothing to do with nonprofit or even not-for-profit, but investors can still have an advantage in certain situations.
But then in this economy the speculative market has been hurting bad since second quarter 2000. Still, there are other investments beyond speculation.
I mean both Bush and Gore worked as hard as they could to keep unfavourable ballots from being counted.
I remember hearing that if the way the Gore people wanted the votes to be recounted (just a few counties) then Bush would have one, and that if they recounted the entire state (which is what the Bush people wanted) then Gore would have one.
Don't you love irony?
But yet again, I would have to sign up for *another* site, give them my email address, etc for more spam to come through.
Use sneakemail and if they give your email address to spammers, you can turn it off, and you know who sold you out.
I was going to post a comment on low power FM, but searched to see if it would be redundant.
I think it is an idea who's time has come, and as an anarchist I won't be happy until everyone and their grandmother's dog has their own low power FM station.
I'd also like to jam the top 40 station with music like Skinny Puppy, but I doubt the chairman would be sympathetic to that desire.
The airwaves are supposed to belong to everyone so while there is bandwidth available there is no excuse not to permit it. (Other than big media not wanting competition.)
I might also say that we should just get over it as far as bad words go. Do you know why bad words are bad? I've heard that it goes back to either the Anglo or Norman invasion, and the peasant class still used the Saxon language. Bad words are seen as bad because they are Saxon words. In effect, the banning of these bad words amounts to anti-saxon racism!!!!
(Excuse the bangs, I guess I'm trying to be funny and serious at the same time.)
You forget that, really, any voting system is unfair and ends up ruining it for somebody. Well, that, and it would require a constitutional amendment to make it happen.
Elections are actually the responsibility of the State, and often county. Within a single state you can have Diebold machines, ballots with chads, ballots that use number 2 pencils, and putting a pebble into a bucket or something.
We don't have to depend on our federal congress critters to improve the laws. A lot of states allow for citizen ballot initiatives.
At the very least, we need to get rid of the stupid chads and upgrade to number 2 pencils until we get dependable, open source voting solutions.
Getting rid of the electoral college on the other hand, would require a constitutional amendment (I think).
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole reason for the whistle blowing law was to protect employees who want to come clean, not for them to make a profit.
Ssssshhhh!
That sounds like a good business plan.
Too bad it would involve moving to California.
Do any other states have similar laws?
I could joke and say that security for elections is no big deal, but you need to take thing serious where money are concerned.
Or maybe there are people that actually think that way.
However, at least until the present, ATMs have seemed reliable. I'll admit I've seen an ATM with a BSOD before but not often. And while there are checks and balences in the ATM Network, you would think that we would have heard something by now if there was a problem.
So, how can a company that presumably makes good solid secure software for ATMs, be so phenomenally incompetent for other software?
Are there different programmers working on the voting machines than the ATMs?
Is there different management between the voting machines and the ATMs?
Do they just not take their voting machines as seriously as they do their ATMs?
Or is the entire company going downhill and I should call my bank tomorrow to see where they get their ATMs from?
Let's see: ATM monopoly + US Voting Machine monopoly == a good thing?
Gives new meaning to the concept that Capitalism and Democracy don't mix.
They're running WinXP embedded, terminal services enabled, and a default password. Take a guess what the default password is.
m anagedbyinvertebrates?
god?
trustno1?
oursoftwarereallysucks?
weare
But the real question is, can you surf the internet with Mozilla, or do you have to use IE?
I prefer Approval Voting. Thats where you vote for as many of the people available as you wish.
It is simpler for the average person to understand, and would be easier to implement, and does not have the flaws that the more complicated voting methods have. (At least as far as I know. I've been meaning to do a mathematical proof that it is best. Has anyone out there already done that?)
Also, voting methods are determined by the state. I don't even think it is part of the State Constitution but either laws or procedures. Because of this people in states that allow Ballot Initiatives can get the voting method changed themselves without, or in spite of, the actions of elected politicians.
You can also change the distribution of your state's electoral votes from winner take all to proportional. (At least one state in the union does this.)
I'm not sure but I think it would require a federal constitutional amendment to get rid of the electoral college altogether.
I hate to beg the question, but how do the Diebold machines report their results? I suppose I ought to look it up but does anyone know if they are supposed to report over the internet? And regardless, is there any sort of digital signature to verify that the reported results are real as well as unique? (Unique as in the same polling place or machine cannot report more than once.)
If it is done over modem then what is to prevent the numerious EV1l H@cKorZ out there from calling in fake results?
We need answers to this before November or we'll end up with Linus Torvalds as our next President!
Computer voting has the potential to become more reliable, but I don't think we are going to see it from Diebold.
There has always been some element of trust in the elections. We've all seen the T-Shirt "I'm from Chicago, Two ballots please." but at this point I still think that paper ballots are more reliable. If you put the paper ballots in a lock box, and the lock box is opened under the supervision of all sides involved in the election as well as the media, then it becomes a lot more difficult to defraud an election.
(Although changing voting locations at the last minute, putting up National Guard roadblocks, and disqualifing thousands of people who happen to have the same first and last name as convicted felons in other states are potential abuses in this scenario. But computer voting wouldn't fix those problems either.)
Even if we did have a verifiable open-source voting system I still think it would be a good idea to have paper ballots. What would be best is after you vote, the machine prints out a paper ballot that is both machine and human readable. The voter can then examine their ballot and confirm all their choices are correct, and place it in the lock box.
When the elections are over you tally both the electronic voting machines and the paper ballots, and if there is a significant difference you know at least one of the numbers is wrong. Since the methods involved in defrauding an election via paper balots and computers are different, I imagine it would be very difficult to make the results come out the same.
Now, ultimately, I think that an open-source voting solution that uses both encryption and digital signatures would be best. Peer review can confirm that the system is nih impossible to rig. The average person won't understand this, but then the average person is not involved in the old fashioned voting sytem anyway.
Oh, interesting story I heard a few years ago about paper ballots on talk radio. Someone was at the place where the machine reads the ballots. The caller said that he suggest they test the reliability of the machine by taking a stack of ballots, and running them through the machine twice and seeing if the results come out the same both times.
I forget if they actually did it and there were different results, and the voting people didn't like him, or if they just didn't like him without even trying. Some people just don't like you to question them, and it seems the bigger their responsibility, the less they like to be questioned.
Man I so agree. The numbers aren't that obvious. You download a movie, it's 600 megs. It messed up at 300 megs. You recontinued to P2P session, does that count as 2 files now?
Well, that all depends on who they are and what they want the results of their "statistics" to be.
If they are the RIAA it counts as 2 files, maybe 1. If they are the MPAA it counts as 900 megs.
Then again, it isn't as if the RIAA and MPAA are against each other, so they might find a comprimise.
and I'll be like an average slashdotter in this case and not read the article but ask this question anyway: Who is the "Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development" and do they have any connections with the RIAA, MPAA and related organizations?
For a good read on how much "research" out there more or less has the results before the test, try reading Trust Us, We're the Experts.
My first week at college in undergrad. All decked out in my preppy kahkis and docksiders, trying to fit in
There's more to life than looking like an ad for the Gap.
Too bad your first experience was with The Greatful Dead. Sorry, I just don't care for it. My first experience I was at my apartment and I decided what I really wanted to listen to was Miles Davis Kind of Blue. I did own some Pink Floyd records (I think it is legally required when going to college) but I had no desire to listen to them.
That night I came to the conclusion that Miles Davis is God. I might have been mistaken. At the time I couldn't tell the difference between a muted trumpet and a tenor saxophone (I just knew that it was good music) and I hadn't started listening to John Coltrane's solo records yet.
A good example is the song Language is a Virus from Outer Space. The term was actually cointed by William S. Burroughs, and possibly Brian Gysin, who did lots of experiments on language involving cut ups, and randomizing words. One experiment involved recording the words yes and no repeatedly on a casset tape. They would then ask yes or no questions and use the tape as an oracle, using rewind of fast forward to randomize the answer.
After her one hit wonder O Superman, she signed a contract with Warner Brothers. Her first 4 albums were live. One of the earlier songs relied on the multimedia durring the performance to really understand it. (And remember this is the late 70s or early 80s.)
She showed different pictures. One was the picture of the man and the woman that were etched on the Voyager probes.
I heard rumors that MS ignored people who pirated their software, especially OS, for personal use because it made their software ubiquitous, and insured their dominance in the business world.
So, would it make sense for them to give it away "free as in beer" for personal use, while making money on business licenses, and office and other software?
Or at least sell it really cheaply here in the states?
It does make financial sense to sell it so cheaply overseas where people otherwise could never aford to buy it, and piracy is more the rule than the exception. The new lower price is a whole lot better than nothing.
This still won't affect Linux. Linux is competition for MS, but Linux only has to have people willing to work on it for it to survive. Many are willing to do that even without pay because they want better software.
excellent security down there - no terrorists smuggled in, most definitely. no small 2 pound sacks of anthrax smuggled within the tons of dope, enough to kill tens of thousands of people.
Also note that most of the chemical, biological, and other WMDs in the world are produced in the US. Wouldn't it be easlier to steal it from the source than to smuggle it in?
I heard that the authorities had pretty much found the guy who was mailing anthrax in 2001. It was a right wing nut who worked for one of our bio-weapons laboratories. Strangely enough the case was dropped at that point and the mainstream media stopped reporting on it.
I'm not implying that there is a conspiracy. If there actually was a conspiracy you would think they would do a better job of covering it up.
Burn CD 1 from master: 4 burns left on master, 4 burns left on copy.
Burn CD 2 from master: 3 burns left on master, 3 burns left on copy.
Burn CD 3 from master: 2 burns left on master, 2 burns left on copy.
etc.
That is still only going to be (counting on fingers) 14 copies? As opposed to make one copy, make 2 copies, make 4 copies, make 8 copies etc. until you run out of computers to make copies on. In these terms limiting it to 14-25 copies is limiting it, and even limiting it in a reasonable fashion. I'm not shy about making copies of stuff for friends, but I doubt I would make more than 25 copies of the same CD.
It's really all moot, though, because the files are just going to show up on P2P networks and get downloaded and burnt anyway...
Which introduces the irony of people who legally purchased music going out on the p2p networks to download extra copies of something they already work because the DRM doesn't let them play their legally purchased CD in their car or whathaveyou.
Meanwhile, anyone that is going to be doing serious piracy (making thousands of copies of a CD and selling it for profit, rather than making a couple copies for friends.) is going to find a way around any DRM that they could possibly come up with.
As long as you can listen to it, there will always be a way to copy it.
I'm sure it must be illegal for the chinese to look at viagra propaganda web sites.
Maybe we should start linking Viagra with Falun Gong?
Quick! Somebody call The Onion!
I think that sooner or later spam will be used more to sabotage companies, rather than companies believing the illusion that spam will benifit their own business.
I would so pay $50 to watch this on pay per view
Are they going to be debating in a steel cage?
Well, I'm not neccessarily saying that releasing oil from the reserves would be a good thing. I sometimes think that oil prices are too low, but without a steady income I selfishly hope for lower prices.
No, no, no. President Bush came out and said this week that he will NOT release any oil from the reserves this year. But Bill Clinton did release some oil from the national reserves in 2000 to try to help out Gore's campaign.
I don't like the Democrats any better than the Republicans, so it won't suprise me if our current fearless leader goes back on his word in October. I agree that having an emergency supply is a good thing. I think I need another sentence or two here but it has become more political than I had intended.
Oh yea, I remember many years ago an article in Time magazine called Storing Up Trouble. I think I was in high school at the time. It might be interesting to look that article up again.