No, no, no. You got it wrong. Usually the followers are worse than the leader. Paraphrasing a quote I saw in Time magazine: I'm not worried about Rush Limbaugh. It's his listeners I'm scared of.
This is not the United States of America I learned about in school.
You got it. Here's a little story about Berg's parents blaming Bush et al(rightfully so) for what happened to their kid. I bring it up because of your quote and this quote: "Berg described the Patriot Act as a "coup d'etat." He added: 'It's not the same America I grew up in.'"
Why wasn't Kucinich the Dem nominee? He voted against it AND the Iraq thing. You had your chance and blew it. Thanks gang. Now we have Bush and Busher. Or Bush and Bush Lite.
Screw them. They shouldn't any more power than anybody else. This is part of our problem. We think that just because these are great big companies, we should give them what they want. To hell with that. The power belongs to US.(That's you and me, not the country) Nobody else. If you want to let them have power over you, great. I say, Stay outta my face!!! This ESPECIALLY applies to Wall St.
I've been fingerprinted, investigated and have pissed into more cups than I care to remember for corporate positions/contracts.
You know, zogger is right. You guys really need to organize. Worldwide if you can. Then you might not have to put up with that humiliation. Some people think that kind of treatment is necessary, but most of us know better, and we should in no way tolerate it. I walk away from anybody that asks anything more personal than my social security number and my address. It's easy for me because I don't drive an SUV and I always wore a rubber. We DO have the power. Let use it.
When people relize how easy it is make copies, they will drop the publishing middle men like a hot potato(e). They're only in high demand now due to copyright restrictions. Why buy copies when you make your own? The creators can get paid on consignment for their performance.(concerts, exhibits, etc.) I'll re-state for you: If someone wants to create something and then sit back and collect the rent with sales of copies(knockoffs), then, when I fix a car, I want to sit back and collect royalties for every mile they drive afterword.
You don't like one publishing company, find another--there are plenty!
You might not realize you've been robbed before you signed the exclusive contract. I shouldn't have to pay a lawyer to check if the publisher is a crook or not. That's just another industry I don't want to feed. A creator should just go out, do his/her work, get paid, and move on, just like everyone else. They should not get special privileges.
All IP is about control. Who can posess...who can distribute...It robs the public at large to protect the profits of a select few.
We've been over this before...Get a potter's wheel. Wrap a piece of paper in the shape of a cone around a straight pin. Hold the pin gently onto the record while it's spinning on the wheel. See? You don't even need electricity. Or you can look for an old victrola on ebay. If you think it's bad with vinyl, just wait until your CD player craps out. Those CD's will totally worthless when you can't find a compatable machine. Vinyl still works with 80 (90?) year old tech. We won't be so lucky with CD's or anything digital.
As members and friends of the Second Unitarian Church of Chicago, we feel compelled to speak out against the tragic, unnecessary death of Chris Sercye. This fifteen-year-old black youth lay for half an hour on the sidewalk adjoining Ravenswood Hospital, bleeding from a gunshot wound. Hospital officials refused to allow employees to carry Chris inside for treatment until it was too late.
and
This is health care for profit where people are packed into an under-staffed ER rather than moved to a room. This is the same system that turned away a young mother and her infant because the mother couldn't pay the $25 clinic visit. The child, who was being breast-fed, died of malnutrition. But it's the mother who is being blamed and accused of manslaughter, not the hospital who refused to examine the baby.
...retain intellectual property rights to that software.
That's where any tax should apply. If we can tax real property, why not tax imaginary property? They're making a profit with it. Or at least they're demanding their "right" to profit. So, I'm giong to demand our "right" to tax it. Not that I'm defending Illinios. They are one of the more corrupt states in the Union.
Because we all know that we would all be pulling ox carts screaming "Bring out your dead!" if we didn't have patents...right??? Sorry, man - It's because of patents that we are still traveling around in sub-sonic jalopies, running on KEROSENE no less.
The flying pinto came apart in mid-air, killing the designer(I think that's the way it went.) Also, I believe the pinto weighed over 3,000 pounds(!)(3,600?) The whole contraption probably weighed close to 5,000 wet. With only one engine of 210hp(if you noticed, it was basically the back half of a Cessna Skymaster), the thing could never achieve warp speed, nor could it could it out-climb a Monarch butterfly. Most light twins barely weigh that much. The thing was a dog. I'm hoping the Japanese will put some of their robot tech into a real doll some day. Those little Sony dogs just don't get me off for some reason.:-) You know that old joke about this couple making love when the husband says Oh, did I hurt you? No, why? You moved.
Without telepathy, how can anyone really prove intent? All you fancy lawyer types can spew all legal code you want. It still boils down to "what was in his head". The best way to find that out would be to feed him a litre of vodka, I suppose.
In between it's gonna get real fugly, but eventually, FOSS is gonna rule.
I sure hope so. My fear is the gov't will spin it into a terrorist or kiddie porn issue, and everybody will fall for it. "If you don't buy MS, you're obviously a criminal." They've already had some success doing that very thing with P2P. Man, people can be so unconscious(Huh?)
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Believe me, if we didn't have the press watching Bush, he would be acting just like the Nazis.
After they're done with the Muslims, they're pick up where they left off with the blacks. You know...being arrested for "driving while black".
No, no, no. You got it wrong. Usually the followers are worse than the leader. Paraphrasing a quote I saw in Time magazine: I'm not worried about Rush Limbaugh. It's his listeners I'm scared of.
This is not the United States of America I learned about in school.
You got it. Here's a little story about Berg's parents blaming Bush et al(rightfully so) for what happened to their kid. I bring it up because of your quote and this quote: "Berg described the Patriot Act as a "coup d'etat." He added: 'It's not the same America I grew up in.'"
Why wasn't Kucinich the Dem nominee? He voted against it AND the Iraq thing. You had your chance and blew it. Thanks gang. Now we have Bush and Busher. Or Bush and Bush Lite.
Screw them. They shouldn't any more power than anybody else. This is part of our problem. We think that just because these are great big companies, we should give them what they want. To hell with that. The power belongs to US.(That's you and me, not the country) Nobody else. If you want to let them have power over you, great. I say, Stay outta my face!!! This ESPECIALLY applies to Wall St.
To protect yourself:
:-)
Put on your eye shades
Put in your ear plugs
You know where to put the caulk...
To really protect ourselves, the only thing we can do is STFU
I see nothink...I hear nothink...I know nothink
I've been fingerprinted, investigated and have pissed into more cups than I care to remember for corporate positions/contracts.
You know, zogger is right. You guys really need to organize. Worldwide if you can. Then you might not have to put up with that humiliation. Some people think that kind of treatment is necessary, but most of us know better, and we should in no way tolerate it. I walk away from anybody that asks anything more personal than my social security number and my address. It's easy for me because I don't drive an SUV and I always wore a rubber. We DO have the power. Let use it.
When people relize how easy it is make copies, they will drop the publishing middle men like a hot potato(e). They're only in high demand now due to copyright restrictions. Why buy copies when you make your own? The creators can get paid on consignment for their performance.(concerts, exhibits, etc.) I'll re-state for you: If someone wants to create something and then sit back and collect the rent with sales of copies(knockoffs), then, when I fix a car, I want to sit back and collect royalties for every mile they drive afterword.
You don't like one publishing company, find another--there are plenty!
You might not realize you've been robbed before you signed the exclusive contract. I shouldn't have to pay a lawyer to check if the publisher is a crook or not. That's just another industry I don't want to feed. A creator should just go out, do his/her work, get paid, and move on, just like everyone else. They should not get special privileges.
All IP is about control. Who can posess...who can distribute...It robs the public at large to protect the profits of a select few.
Can I write a $0.01 check? It may be an old wives tale, but I'm not sure that the banks accept checks for less than a dollar.
We've been over this before...Get a potter's wheel. Wrap a piece of paper in the shape of a cone around a straight pin. Hold the pin gently onto the record while it's spinning on the wheel. See? You don't even need electricity. Or you can look for an old victrola on ebay. If you think it's bad with vinyl, just wait until your CD player craps out. Those CD's will totally worthless when you can't find a compatable machine. Vinyl still works with 80 (90?) year old tech. We won't be so lucky with CD's or anything digital.
Ravenswood Hospital is actually a mental health facility...
Oh, my...that explains why I was born there. My mom must have escaped before the papers were signed.
Oh? From the link:
As members and friends of the Second Unitarian Church of Chicago, we feel compelled to speak out against the tragic, unnecessary death of Chris Sercye. This fifteen-year-old black youth lay for half an hour on the sidewalk adjoining Ravenswood Hospital, bleeding from a gunshot wound. Hospital officials refused to allow employees to carry Chris inside for treatment until it was too late.
and
This is health care for profit where people are packed into an under-staffed ER rather than moved to a room. This is the same system that turned away a young mother and her infant because the mother couldn't pay the $25 clinic visit. The child, who was being breast-fed, died of malnutrition. But it's the mother who is being blamed and accused of manslaughter, not the hospital who refused to examine the baby.
...and who they have sex with (nobody).
I think "everything" could apply here also.
1) The law doesn't apply to gov't. (Re: OSHA)
2) Maybe not, but they could tell MS that if they want to continue their illegal monopoly, they(MS) will have to do it for them (gov't).
Ha! Maybe so, but after BIGCO turns all our computers into useless purchasing appliances, the only cool hobby left will be ham radio.
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...retain intellectual property rights to that software.
That's where any tax should apply. If we can tax real property, why not tax imaginary property? They're making a profit with it. Or at least they're demanding their "right" to profit. So, I'm giong to demand our "right" to tax it. Not that I'm defending Illinios. They are one of the more corrupt states in the Union.
Can the government fix the bugs in it, compile their own versions, and deploy it on government computers? Nope.
What's to stop them? Does Microsoft have nukes? The gov't can do and does what it pleases.
Because we all know that we would all be pulling ox carts screaming "Bring out your dead!" if we didn't have patents...right??? Sorry, man - It's because of patents that we are still traveling around in sub-sonic jalopies, running on KEROSENE no less.
The flying pinto came apart in mid-air, killing the designer(I think that's the way it went.) Also, I believe the pinto weighed over 3,000 pounds(!)(3,600?) The whole contraption probably weighed close to 5,000 wet. With only one engine of 210hp(if you noticed, it was basically the back half of a Cessna Skymaster), the thing could never achieve warp speed, nor could it could it out-climb a Monarch butterfly. Most light twins barely weigh that much. The thing was a dog. :-)
I'm hoping the Japanese will put some of their robot tech into a real doll some day. Those little Sony dogs just don't get me off for some reason.
You know that old joke about this couple making love when the husband says
Oh, did I hurt you?
No, why?
You moved.
You can fit a Spice Girl on a floppy.
Or, you can fit two floppies on a Spice Girl
"Sock it to me."
If there is no intent, there should be no crime.
Without telepathy, how can anyone really prove intent? All you fancy lawyer types can spew all legal code you want. It still boils down to "what was in his head". The best way to find that out would be to feed him a litre of vodka, I suppose.
Now, WHERE is my flying car...
...and my army of hotbabe amazon robots?
Right here Of course you know what will happen if you land too hard...
I'm sorry. This is the best I could do.
In between it's gonna get real fugly, but eventually, FOSS is gonna rule.
I sure hope so. My fear is the gov't will spin it into a terrorist or kiddie porn issue, and everybody will fall for it. "If you don't buy MS, you're obviously a criminal." They've already had some success doing that very thing with P2P. Man, people can be so unconscious(Huh?)
Does a bear have privacy in the woods?