That's it, a serious and very insightful campaign. I just can say one thing:
WTF ?
I mean, wtf guys? Can you imagine? It can totally KILL a hot night.
There you are, you finally got the date with that super-hot chocolate chick of your dreams... she strips for you, you feel you are melting... she wants action, your weapon is ready, she takes the rubber, places it on your missile and pulls... and:
"Oh darling, it's a real problem whit the ice bears, I agree that we have to do soemthing about it, you know. I've read that the populations are shrinking at an alarming 2,5% per year and that... "
SRSLY, that can totality ruin it.
No way I'm going to buy them.
Im very proud of Warner Brothersdecision to finally take action and sending somebody to Somalia to fight the pirates!!!
Kudos WB, we all support you!
Give them hell!
I recommend putting a condom on the monitor.
Another safe way to avoid STDs is not using Facebook at all and go directly to the pr0n sites!!!
(recommended by the pr0n webmaster association)
Yeah, the crop circles.
I have found this video recently taken by the NASA that demonstrate the true Trancendental origin of the crop circles
This completely confirms the theory that the crop circles where build by the Justified Ancients of Mu.
And there are even some meaningful quartets in the Profecies of Nostradamus that seems to be related to this:
"They're Justified, and they're Ancient,
And they drive an ice cream van.
(just roll it from the top)
They're Justified and they're Ancient,
With still no master plan. "
Impressing. These are my fave Nostradamus cuartets besides the ones later used by Snoop Dog to write his famouse P.I.M.P.
Awful book, specially if you arent specially against child abuse or having women where rags on her heads... or prone to clean your butt with bare hands (true!).
I dont know whats so special about satanism: Those books, the talmud, the new testament and the coran have more gore, mass murders, genocide, rape, torture and mutilations and child buse than those silly satanist could ever bring toghether. I havent heard about a satanist blowing his balls up for the cause or setting a whole farm in flames...
AFAIK, Stonehenge has nothing to do with druids, as it is a neolithic site and the druids belongs to the late bronce and iron age. They where also part of the celtic culture, whereas the Stonehenge civilization wasnt celtic at all, they wherenr even celts in Britain at this time.
No, just plain sadistic.
You have a Linux box, you havve a Win box with NTFS, you are compiling the kernel and find this FUSE module, with a warning that says "Dangerous"... hmmm, what would you do?
Leave it in peace?
No way!
Just thinking about the possibility of inflicting hours of pain and torture to the behated Win box, at least a fraction of the suffring it has caused you, will decide you that you definitely want this module, with the read and write option, all the deug option and of course; everything that has the label "Dangerous" and "Experimental" and warningas about potential damage, bwahahahaa }:E
Seriously: Darn good work, I use it in SUSE and haven't had a problem till now.
That's exactly the feature I expected
This has always been a great concern for me, as I have no available Linux box at work.
But now I am finally empowered to completely fuck up my NFTS partition and ruin gygabytes fo data and months of work from both, work and home.
I love it! The perfect complement to NTFS' own native goodness!
The matter is not about access, it's just about domain names and DNS root servers.
A split internet would have two ICANN-alikes an EUrian one and an USian one. As far as standards are open and known this wouldn't be a problem at all.
And after all there's the IPV6 protocol, so there wouldn't be a problem with available address space. The internet is after all just a protocol, all the standards are available to anyone and the only problem could consist in changing a few config files.
We could even create our own EU.com,.gov and.mil domains if we want to, as they refer to a different DNS system there would be no problem and AFAIK neither of these character combinations are registered trademarks. It's the same as in an intranet: I can call stuff how I want.
I'm quite sure nobody except the pros and we geeks would notice the change.
And grizzly bears, bisons, elks and mustangs aren't megafauna?
As from the point of view of an European North America is third after Africa and India in what respects large animals... India has water buffalos and elefants but there in North America you have lot's of powerful and impressing beasts such as the largest bears, the Kodiak subspecies of the Ursus arctos and the Grizzly (Ursus arctos horribilis), the preciuos mountain lion, the bison or american buffalo, the elks; the one which we call elk and you moose, an animal higher as a most of african antelop, and the elk (a big deer) which is as large as a horse.
You have alligators, sea cows and sea otters, whales, dolphins and bald eagles, humming birds and monarch butterflys...
Why do you need to introduce other animals?
And well, keeping large exotic mammals in closed places with breeding and show purposes is something very innovative: Those 'scientists' invented the Zoo!!!
Only Copyright.
First because patent royalties does not affect the final user (at last in a direct way) and second because there is nothing that can be put into a digital media and which is protected by patents. Under the current UE law software and algorithms are not patentable, and if things developes as we await, things will get even thougher for software and business-method patents.
Short form for "under Intelectual Property right", "Copyrighted","Patented"...
Your right, "Intellectual Property" is not only confusing but contradictory.
I was just trying to write as fast as I could and used the first which came to my mind.
Nop. The ECDL has nothing to do in this case. ECDL is also available in Spain.
What this guy means is a driving licence in the sense of a means of identification, something in the sense of the new US driving license with retina scan and ID number.
Anything related to computer knowledges falls completly out of the scope of Mr. Farré's "internet driving licence".
The absolute zenit of dumbness is that we Spaniards already have an ID card with fingerprints, an ID number which are held in our ISP's databases for billing porposes.
The judges are perfectly capable of chasing a criminal down and taping phones. But this only applies to crimes as such, not to mere civil faults (this means enything below 400€).
You have to know this guy, Farré, he's like one of the clasic slashdot-trolls but even dumber.
"Ombudsman"
IMHO this is related to the new EU-Comission's Directive on data retention. Perhaps all this noise is a way to make see there is a certain level of concernment within the Spanish society so that they have a reason to agree to the Directive and the provisions for data retention.
I'm quite sure that there are also a lot of this kind of noise in the rest of the UE.
As of Germany, there are also a good bunch of wacky lobbying like govenrment access to medical data, even dental-care records so that (in words of privacy defnders)'they can detect a terrorist by he's caries'...
Kewl! good old Europe is getting nutz!
In the rest of the world the authors are not forced to be member of an organization to be able to get paid.
In the rest of the world authors and music industry are not members of the same institution
In the rest of the world such a private company would not be albe to tax consumers, neither they would be legally considered a non-profit organization.
Think about the MPAA doing all it's lobbying and bullying, plus having the status of an obligatory trade union for musicians, plus being vice-presided by the CEO of AOL/Time-Warner, plus getting money as a governmental institution, appart from it's IP-holding business. This is the crazy part about it: It's a all-in-one !
Partly: Those guys are IP-right holders. They represent authors and editors and act as intermediary in transactions between customers such as online stores and the music industry.
They get a fee from the authors as their legal representants and also get fees from the customer who would like to use these rights. Finally they get a percentage of the IP earnings (of record sales and repertoire use in broadcasts and live shows). A big byte of the IP income belongs to 'unknown authors': this means that as long as the author is not there to be paid for his/her IP it's the SGAE which cashes this money. I can remember that the percentage was near 3-10% of the total amount, which is a lot of money anyway, tens of thausands of Euro-bucks which go into no-one-knows who's pockets. So that every foreign artist which sells music in Spain or is being braodcast in the Spanish media will not see a cent if her record company doesn't has an agreement with the SGAE. This counts for almost any smaller indy or single artist as we are normally talking about bulk agreements with big US companies. There have already been two cases of the German record industry against the SGAE (the weirdness has no end, sorry for your brains). To keep it simple: They get money from all and every IP transaction related to music, theater and other media which occurs inside the Spanish territory. And they also has subsidiaries in South America and the USA...
The blank-media 'tax' is indeed a fee for permitting the private copy of IPed stuff, the result is divided among the SGAE itself and the companies with which they have an agreement. As it is indeed a tax on IP, there are also evading payment of all those whose IP is being used and are 'unknown' to the SGAE. This not only involves musicians, but also the software industry in all its forms, from Free Software, where users have to pay for the media to burn an ISO of her favorite distro, to propietary software as they are also charging for the media used to store backup copies and data.
It's very very difficult to try to explain to a stranger how this madhouse really works and why those guys are doing their will instead of being in jail.
If you are wondering why we Spaniards aren't storming the streets armed to the teeth right now and shooting those bastard politicians and lobbysts back to hell, the only thing I can tell you is "me too"...
Hey, but there's even more weirdness in the Spanish Comedy Theater:
Last month the Ministery of Culture revamped a law called LSSI-CE (internet services and e-commerce law) which the Socialist Party fought against as they was in the opposition.
This law reform was made at a request from the SGAE and is said to "Fight Piracy" and consider sharing files as a crime...
The freak part of it is that the law actually didn't change a single comma from the previous version in which file sharing was not only ilegal but protected.
Even funnier is that in the 3 years the previous version of the law existed there where not a single action related to it.
The only reason I can thing for this weirdness is either Fnord or the Spanish government having been taken over by radical kibologists.
> I just don't get it
Neither we Spaniards do.
Under Spanish law P2P networks and downloading files from them are perfectly legal and even protected by law under the definition of "private copy" which is considered fair use as long as there is no monetary transaction involved.
As a counterpart Spanish authors are rewarded a percentage of a 'Private Copy' fee wich taxes recordable media. The fact is that this 'tax' is completely ilegal since it applies even to the Spanish administration itself and is cashed by a weird kind of semi-private organization called SGAE instead of the Culture Ministery or the Autonom Governments (kinda states).
So the fact is that those guys are not specially popular. Now they came to the totally braindead idea of starting a campaing (paid by the taxpayers, of course) which states "Downloading ilegal stuff from the internet is ilegal, now the law works" (sic) at the same time as they try to expand the meme that P2P networks are ilegal.
The fun fact is that the SGAE depends on P2P networks as an excuse to cash from the private-copy tax, so that if P2P networks become really ilegal they wouln't be able to state that they are loosing sales because of the widespread piracy...
Uuuuh. Now I really need an aspirine or two.
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That's it, a serious and very insightful campaign. I just can say one thing: WTF ? I mean, wtf guys? Can you imagine? It can totally KILL a hot night. There you are, you finally got the date with that super-hot chocolate chick of your dreams... she strips for you, you feel you are melting... she wants action, your weapon is ready, she takes the rubber, places it on your missile and pulls... and: "Oh darling, it's a real problem whit the ice bears, I agree that we have to do soemthing about it, you know. I've read that the populations are shrinking at an alarming 2,5% per year and that... " SRSLY, that can totality ruin it. No way I'm going to buy them.
Well, yes, specially if they put condoms on their thingies!
Im very proud of Warner Brothersdecision to finally take action and sending somebody to Somalia to fight the pirates!!! Kudos WB, we all support you! Give them hell!
I recommend putting a condom on the monitor. Another safe way to avoid STDs is not using Facebook at all and go directly to the pr0n sites!!! (recommended by the pr0n webmaster association)
This completely confirms the theory that the crop circles where build by the Justified Ancients of Mu.
And there are even some meaningful quartets in the Profecies of Nostradamus that seems to be related to this:
Awful book, specially if you arent specially against child abuse or having women where rags on her heads... or prone to clean your butt with bare hands (true!).
I dont know whats so special about satanism: Those books, the talmud, the new testament and the coran have more gore, mass murders, genocide, rape, torture and mutilations and child buse than those silly satanist could ever bring toghether. I havent heard about a satanist blowing his balls
up for the cause or setting a whole farm in flames...
During your Stonehenge visit? Whao! This place must be awful! Now I finally know what those cloacked fellas do there...
AFAIK, Stonehenge has nothing to do with druids, as it is a neolithic site and the druids belongs to the late bronce and iron age. They where also part of the celtic culture, whereas the Stonehenge civilization wasnt celtic at all, they wherenr even celts in Britain at this time.
No, just plain sadistic. You have a Linux box, you havve a Win box with NTFS, you are compiling the kernel and find this FUSE module, with a warning that says "Dangerous"... hmmm, what would you do? Leave it in peace? No way! Just thinking about the possibility of inflicting hours of pain and torture to the behated Win box, at least a fraction of the suffring it has caused you, will decide you that you definitely want this module, with the read and write option, all the deug option and of course; everything that has the label "Dangerous" and "Experimental" and warningas about potential damage, bwahahahaa }:E Seriously: Darn good work, I use it in SUSE and haven't had a problem till now.
That's exactly the feature I expected This has always been a great concern for me, as I have no available Linux box at work. But now I am finally empowered to completely fuck up my NFTS partition and ruin gygabytes fo data and months of work from both, work and home. I love it! The perfect complement to NTFS' own native goodness!
Never underestimate the pawah of ASCII art!
As said: pr0n, pr0n, pr0n
And what the heck do you think was the content of this military and university communications... ??? Of course: por, porn, porn...
Does it contain a new release of the rootkit?
Hmmm... Australia, New Zealand?
I wasn't aware that there was such a rivalry among Canadian provinces.
Which of them is where they talk French?
The matter is not about access, it's just about domain names and DNS root servers.
.com, .gov and .mil domains if we want to, as they refer to a different DNS system there would be no problem and AFAIK neither of these character combinations are registered trademarks. It's the same as in an intranet: I can call stuff how I want.
A split internet would have two ICANN-alikes an EUrian one and an USian one. As far as standards are open and known this wouldn't be a problem at all.
And after all there's the IPV6 protocol, so there wouldn't be a problem with available address space.
The internet is after all just a protocol, all the standards are available to anyone and the only problem could consist in changing a few config files.
We could even create our own EU
I'm quite sure nobody except the pros and we geeks would notice the change.
And grizzly bears, bisons, elks and mustangs aren't megafauna?
As from the point of view of an European North America is third after Africa and India in what respects large animals... India has water buffalos and elefants but there in North America you have lot's of powerful and impressing beasts such as the largest bears, the Kodiak subspecies of the Ursus arctos and the Grizzly (Ursus arctos horribilis), the preciuos mountain lion, the bison
or american buffalo, the elks; the one which we call elk and you moose, an animal higher as a most of african antelop, and the elk (a big deer) which is as large as a horse.
You have alligators, sea cows and sea otters, whales, dolphins and bald eagles, humming birds and monarch butterflys...
Why do you need to introduce other animals?
And well, keeping large exotic mammals in closed places with breeding and show purposes is something very innovative: Those 'scientists' invented the Zoo!!!
Only Copyright. First because patent royalties does not affect the final user (at last in a direct way) and second because there is nothing that can be put into a digital media and which is protected by patents. Under the current UE law software and algorithms are not patentable, and if things developes as we await, things will get even thougher for software and business-method patents.
Short form for "under Intelectual Property right", "Copyrighted","Patented"... Your right, "Intellectual Property" is not only confusing but contradictory. I was just trying to write as fast as I could and used the first which came to my mind.
Nop. The ECDL has nothing to do in this case. ECDL is also available in Spain. What this guy means is a driving licence in the sense of a means of identification, something in the sense of the new US driving license with retina scan and ID number. Anything related to computer knowledges falls completly out of the scope of Mr. Farré's "internet driving licence". The absolute zenit of dumbness is that we Spaniards already have an ID card with fingerprints, an ID number which are held in our ISP's databases for billing porposes. The judges are perfectly capable of chasing a criminal down and taping phones. But this only applies to crimes as such, not to mere civil faults (this means enything below 400€). You have to know this guy, Farré, he's like one of the clasic slashdot-trolls but even dumber.
"Ombudsman" IMHO this is related to the new EU-Comission's Directive on data retention. Perhaps all this noise is a way to make see there is a certain level of concernment within the Spanish society so that they have a reason to agree to the Directive and the provisions for data retention. I'm quite sure that there are also a lot of this kind of noise in the rest of the UE. As of Germany, there are also a good bunch of wacky lobbying like govenrment access to medical data, even dental-care records so that (in words of privacy defnders)'they can detect a terrorist by he's caries'... Kewl! good old Europe is getting nutz!
No it isn't.
In the rest of the world the authors are not forced to be member of an organization to be able to get paid.
In the rest of the world authors and music industry are not members of the same institution
In the rest of the world such a private company would not be albe to tax consumers, neither they would be legally considered a non-profit organization.
Think about the MPAA doing all it's lobbying and bullying, plus having the status of an obligatory trade union for musicians, plus being vice-presided by the CEO of AOL/Time-Warner, plus getting money as a governmental institution, appart from it's IP-holding business. This is the crazy part about it: It's a all-in-one !
Partly: Those guys are IP-right holders. They represent authors and editors and act as intermediary in transactions between customers such as online stores and the music industry.
They get a fee from the authors as their legal representants and also get fees from the customer who would like to use these rights. Finally they get a percentage of the IP earnings (of record sales and repertoire use in broadcasts and live shows). A big byte of the IP income belongs to 'unknown authors': this means that as long as the author is not there to be paid for his/her IP it's the SGAE which cashes this money. I can remember that the percentage was near 3-10% of the total amount, which is a lot of money anyway, tens of thausands of Euro-bucks which go into no-one-knows who's pockets. So that every foreign artist which sells music in Spain or is being braodcast in the Spanish media will not see a cent if her record company doesn't has an agreement with the SGAE. This counts for almost any smaller indy or single artist as we are normally talking about bulk agreements with big US companies. There have already been two cases of the German record industry against the SGAE (the weirdness has no end, sorry for your brains). To keep it simple: They get money from all and every IP transaction related to music, theater and other media which occurs inside the Spanish territory. And they also has subsidiaries in South America and the USA...
The blank-media 'tax' is indeed a fee for permitting the private copy of IPed stuff, the result is divided among the SGAE itself and the companies with which they have an agreement. As it is indeed a tax on IP, there are also evading payment of all those whose IP is being used and are 'unknown' to the SGAE. This not only involves musicians, but also the software industry in all its forms, from Free Software, where users have to pay for the media to burn an ISO of her favorite distro, to propietary software as they are also charging for the media used to store backup copies and data.
It's very very difficult to try to explain to a stranger how this madhouse really works and why those guys are doing their will instead of being in jail.
If you are wondering why we Spaniards aren't storming the streets armed to the teeth right now and shooting those bastard politicians and lobbysts back to hell, the only thing I can tell you is "me too"...
And Internet Driving Licence?
Nop, I wasn't joking at all, here's the link: Spanish: P. Farré demands the end of intenet anonymity
This guys is the second-in-charge in the SGAE, a really smart guy, as you can imagine, who seems to think the internet only exists in Spain.
Hey, but there's even more weirdness in the Spanish Comedy Theater:
Last month the Ministery of Culture revamped a law called LSSI-CE (internet services and e-commerce law) which the Socialist Party fought against as they was in the opposition.
This law reform was made at a request from the SGAE and is said to "Fight Piracy" and consider sharing files as a crime...
The freak part of it is that the law actually didn't change a single comma from the previous version in which file sharing was not only ilegal but protected.
Even funnier is that in the 3 years the previous version of the law existed there where not a single action related to it.
The only reason I can thing for this weirdness is either Fnord or the Spanish government having been taken over by radical kibologists.
> I just don't get it Neither we Spaniards do. Under Spanish law P2P networks and downloading files from them are perfectly legal and even protected by law under the definition of "private copy" which is considered fair use as long as there is no monetary transaction involved. As a counterpart Spanish authors are rewarded a percentage of a 'Private Copy' fee wich taxes recordable media. The fact is that this 'tax' is completely ilegal since it applies even to the Spanish administration itself and is cashed by a weird kind of semi-private organization called SGAE instead of the Culture Ministery or the Autonom Governments (kinda states). So the fact is that those guys are not specially popular. Now they came to the totally braindead idea of starting a campaing (paid by the taxpayers, of course) which states "Downloading ilegal stuff from the internet is ilegal, now the law works" (sic) at the same time as they try to expand the meme that P2P networks are ilegal. The fun fact is that the SGAE depends on P2P networks as an excuse to cash from the private-copy tax, so that if P2P networks become really ilegal they wouln't be able to state that they are loosing sales because of the widespread piracy... Uuuuh. Now I really need an aspirine or two.
And not only this:
There are some of them which even use programming languages from that period, like Modula-2 (with an 8 bit MS-DOS compiler, I swear it!).