November 10, 2006

October 22, 2006

  • Gray Area Websites

    DailyEpisodes.com
    - Possibly the best place to get any television show you want for free.
    This site has links to everything from The Simpsons to Family Guy,
    Southpark to The Office. I love almost every show that DailyEpisdoes
    has. The best part about it is the videos play directly in your
    browser, just like YouTube. This site is definitely something to
    bookmark if you love comedy television.

    TorrentSpy.com
    - I decided I would throw in my favorite torrent site just for the hell
    of it. I’m sure by now everyone knows about a great torrent site that
    they use and are loyal to, but this site is just excellent. Great
    graphical layout, easy to use search, and something like 500,000
    torrents! You can get any little thing you want, and it’s so easy to
    use.

    allofmp3.com
    - By now you all must have heard something about this Russian-based
    website. Does it get any better than an iTunes music store that sells
    full CD’s for a little more than $3 dollars? This is a fully operating
    business, not some bootlegger posting music from his mommy’s basement.
    They have been all over the news lately due to the continuing pressure
    the United States is putting on the Russian government to ban
    copyright-violating websites such as this. Recently, Visa and
    Mastercard have denied allofmp3 users their service, which has cost
    them loads of money. They have taken legal action against these credit
    card companies for their recent service denial. The site doesn’t look
    like it’s going anywhere soon though. If you are sick of paying $12
    bucks for a CD on iTunes, this is the site to check out.

    dailymotion.com
    - Dailymotion is the evil step brother of YouTube. It doesn’t have all
    the features, or even close to the number of users that YouTube brings
    in. All that aside, dailymotion has some really great content like
    X-Files and King of the Hill (two of my favorite shows). Although this
    site is not actually illegal, much of the content uploaded by its’
    users is. That just means more good stuff for us.

    http://astalavista.box.sk/

    Source Here

October 18, 2006

  • More Gore...

    Eight Reasons Why ‘Global Warming’ Is a Scam


    Written By: Joseph L. Bast
    Published In: Heartlander
    Publication Date: February 1, 2003
    Publisher: The Heartland Institute


    When Al Gore lost his bid to become the country’s first “Environment
    President,” many of us thought the “global warming” scare would finally
    come to a well-deserved end. That hasn’t happened, despite eight good
    reasons this scam should finally be put to rest.

    It’s B-a-a-ck!

    Similar scares orchestrated by radical environmentalists in the
    past--such as Alar, global cooling, the “population bomb,” and
    electromagnetic fields--were eventually debunked by scientists and no
    longer appear in the speeches or platforms of public officials. The New York Times
    recently endorsed more widespread use of DDT to combat malaria, proving
    Rachel Carson’s anti-pesticide gospel is no longer sacrosanct even with
    the liberal elite.

    The scientific case against catastrophic global warming is at least
    as strong as the case for DDT, but the global warming scare hasn’t gone
    away. President Bush is waffling on the issue, rightly opposing the
    Kyoto Protocol and focusing on research and voluntary projects, but
    wrongly allowing his administration to support calls for creating
    “transferrable emission credits” for greenhouse gas reductions. Such
    credits would build political and economic support for a Kyoto-like cap
    on greenhouse gas emissions.

    At the state level, some 23 states have already adopted caps on
    greenhouse gas emissions or goals for replacing fossil fuels with
    alternative energy sources. These efforts are doomed to be costly
    failures, as a new Heartland Policy Study by Dr. Jay Lehr and
    James Taylor documents. Instead of concentrating on balancing state
    budgets, some legislators will be working to pass their own
    “mini-Kyotos.”

    Eight Reasons to End the Scam

    Concern over “global warming” is overblown and misdirected. What
    follows are eight reasons why we should pull the plug on this scam
    before it destroys billions of dollars of wealth and millions of jobs.

    1. Most scientists do not believe human activities threaten to disrupt the Earth’s climate.
    More than 17,000 scientists have signed a petition circulated by the
    Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine saying, in part, “there is no
    convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide,
    methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the
    foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s
    atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.” (Go to www.oism.org for the complete petition and names of signers.) Surveys of climatologists show similar skepticism.

    Petition Here.

    2. Our most reliable sources of temperature data show no global warming trend. Satellite
    readings of temperatures in the lower troposphere (an area scientists
    predict would immediately reflect any global warming) show no warming
    since readings began 23 years ago. These readings are accurate to
    within 0.01ºC, and are consistent with data from weather balloons. Only
    land-based temperature stations show a warming trend, and these
    stations do not cover the entire globe, are often contaminated by heat
    generated by nearby urban development, and are subject to human error.

    3. Global climate computer models are too crude to predict future climate changes.
    All predictions of global warming are based on computer models, not
    historical data. In order to get their models to produce predictions
    that are close to their designers’ expectations, modelers resort to
    “flux adjustments” that can be 25 times larger than the effect of
    doubling carbon dioxide concentrations, the supposed trigger for global
    warming. Richard A. Kerr, a writer for Science, says “climate modelers have been ‘cheating’ for so long it’s almost become respectable.”

    4. The IPCC did not prove that human activities are causing global warming.
    Alarmists frequently quote the executive summaries of reports from the
    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations
    organization, to support their predictions. But here is what the IPCC’s
    latest report, Climate Change 2001, actually says about
    predicting the future climate: “The Earth’s atmosphere-ocean dynamics
    is chaotic: its evolution is sensitive to small perturbations in
    initial conditions. This sensitivity limits our ability to predict the
    detailed evolution of weather; inevitable errors and uncertainties in
    the starting conditions of a weather forecast amplify through the
    forecast. As well as uncertainty in initial conditions, such
    predictions are also degraded by errors and uncertainties in our
    ability to represent accurately the significant climate processes.”

    5. A modest amount of global warming, should it occur, would be beneficial to the natural world and to human civilization.
    Temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period (roughly 800 to 1200 AD),
    which allowed the Vikings to settle presently inhospitable Greenland,
    were higher than even the worst-case scenario reported by the IPCC. The
    period from about 5000-3000 BC, known as the “climatic optimum,” was
    even warmer and marked “a time when mankind began to build its first
    civilizations,” observe James Plummer and Frances B. Smith in a study
    for Consumer Alert. “There is good reason to believe that a warmer
    climate would have a similar effect on the health and welfare of our
    own far more advanced and adaptable civilization today.”

    6. Efforts to quickly reduce human greenhouse gas emissions would be costly and would not stop Earth’s climate from changing. Reducing
    U.S. carbon dioxide emissions to 7 percent below 1990’s levels by the
    year 2012--the target set by the Kyoto Protocol--would require higher
    energy taxes and regulations causing the nation to lose 2.4 million
    jobs and $300 billion in annual economic output. Average household
    income nationwide would fall by $2,700, and state tax revenues would
    decline by $93.1 billion due to less taxable earned income and sales,
    and lower property values. Full implementation of the Kyoto Protocol by
    all participating nations would reduce global temperature in the year
    2100 by a mere 0.14 degrees Celsius.

    7. Efforts by state governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are even more expensive and threaten to bust state budgets.
    After raising their spending with reckless abandon during the 1990s,
    states now face a cumulative projected deficit of more than $90
    billion. Incredibly, most states nevertheless persist in backing
    unnecessary and expensive greenhouse gas reduction programs. New
    Jersey, for example, collects $358 million a year in utility taxes to
    fund greenhouse gas reduction programs. Such programs will have no
    impact on global greenhouse gas emissions. All they do is destroy jobs
    and waste money.

    8. The best strategy to pursue is “no regrets.” The
    alternative to demands for immediate action to “stop global warming” is
    not to do nothing. The best strategy is to invest in atmospheric
    research now and in reducing emissions sometime in the future if the
    science becomes more compelling. In the meantime, investments should be
    made to reduce emissions only when such investments make economic sense
    in their own right.

    This strategy is called “no regrets,” and it is roughly what the
    Bush administration has been doing. The U.S. spends more on global
    warming research each year than the entire rest of the world combined,
    and American businesses are leading the way in demonstrating new
    technologies for reducing and sequestering greenhouse gas emissions.

    Time for Common Sense

    The global warming scare has enabled environmental advocacy groups
    to raise billions of dollars in contributions and government grants. It
    has given politicians (from Al Gore down) opportunities to pose as
    prophets of doom and slayers of evil corporations. And it has given
    bureaucrats at all levels of government, from the United Nations to
    city councils, powers that threaten our jobs and individual liberty.

    It is time for common sense to return to the debate over protecting
    the environment. An excellent first step would be to end the “global
    warming” scam.


    Joseph L. Bast is president of The Heartland Institute.

    Source Here.

    Smoking, Not So Bad For You!!!!!

    Junk Science

    How harmful is smoking
    to smokers? Public health advocates who claim one out of every three,
    or even one out of every two, smokers will die from a smoking-related
    illness are grossly exaggerating the real threat. The actual odds of a
    smoker dying from smoking before the age of 75 are about 1 in 12. In
    other words, 11 out of 12 life-long smokers don’t die before the age of
    75 from a smoking-related disease.

    In a 1998 article titled “Lies, Damned Lies, and 400,000 Smoking-related Deaths,”
    Levy and Marimont showed how removing diseases for which a link between
    smoking and mortality has been alleged but not proven cuts the
    hypothetical number of smoking-related fatalities in half. Replacing an
    unrealistically low death rate for never-smokers with the real fatality
    rate cuts the number by a third.

    Controlling for “confounding factors”—such as the fact that smokers
    tend to exercise less, drink more, and accept high-risk jobs—reduces
    the estimated number of deaths by about half again. Instead of 400,000
    smoking-related deaths a year, Levy and Marimont estimate the number to
    be around 100,000.

    This would place the lifetime odds of dying from smoking at 6 to 1
    (45 million smokers divided by 100,000 deaths per year x 75 years),
    rather than 3 to 1. However, about half (45 percent) of all
    smoking-related deaths occur at age 75 or higher. Calling these deaths
    “premature” is stretching common usage of the word. The odds of a
    life-long smoker dying prematurely of a smoking-related disease, then, are about 12 to 1.

    Source Here.

October 12, 2006

September 30, 2006

  • The Killer

    9-28-06

    On Tuesday afternoon Jerry Lee Lewis sat down at a red baby grand piano at F.Y.E. Records in Rockefeller Center and proceeded to rock and roll. His left hand pumped boogie-woogie chords, his right splashed and jabbed, and his voice easily leaped up to the high notes of “Great Balls of Fire.â€

    He didn’t kick over the piano bench. But in “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On†a commanding glance and a few imperious gestures established the air of joyful menace summed up in his nickname: the Killer. Afterward fans swarmed him, holding up collectors’ item copies of his 1950’s Sun Records singles in hopes of an autograph.

    “I’m not quite as young as I used to be,†Mr. Lewis had said a little earlier. “But I can still play pretty good.â€

    Mr. Lewis, who turns 71 tomorrow, is in New York this week promoting “Last Man Standing†(Artist First), his first studio album in more than a decade. The album is packed with rock-star guests — three Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton — and Mr. Lewis easily dominates them all. Today and tomorrow Mr. Lewis is recording a PBS special with guests including Don Henley and Kid Rock. On Saturday he will be one of the stars at the Farm Aid concert in Camden, N.J.

    People who know Mr. Lewis well are unanimous about him. “He’s a force of nature,†said Jimmy Rip, who produced the album. Mr. Lewis’s daughter Phoebe, who is now his manager, said, “He’s got his way of doing things, and that’s all there is to that.†Hutch Hutchinson, who first joined Mr. Lewis’s band in 1961, said: “Jerry Lee won’t be tamed. He doesn’t answer to anybody, never has. He’ll pull no punches on you. He’ll just tell you what he thinks. And he don’t care if you’ve got 900 trillion dollars or you ain’t got 10 cents.â€

    Even in a white bathrobe and pajamas, walking slowly to sit for an interview in his hotel room before the performance, Mr. Lewis still had the wavy hair and familiar profile of the piano pounder who turned up at Sun Studios in Memphis in 1956 to whoop, snarl and yodel through songs that became cornerstones of rock ’n’ roll. He went on to a career as a country hit maker in the 1960’s and 1970’s but eventually grew disenchanted with a record business that wanted to keep him in the country category.

    Mr. Lewis has been through scandal and sorrow. He married his 13-year-old second cousin, Myra, in 1957 — a choice that derailed his career for a decade — and has had two wives die young, shot a band member in the chest and lost two children in accidents. He has wrecked cars, drunk hard and showed up at the gates of Graceland waving a gun. Last year he divorced his sixth wife. Now he lives in Nesbit, Miss., eight miles from Memphis, sharing a house with Phoebe, and they have dinner regularly with Myra, Phoebe’s mother. He calls other people “Killer†when he’s feeling jovial.

    Genial but guarded at first, Mr. Lewis warmed when he spoke about growing up in Ferriday, La., and hearing the music that he would meld into rock ’n’ roll. He took a few piano lessons. But he got his education by sneaking into Haney’s Big House, a club owned by his uncle, Lee Calhoun.

    In the era of segregation it was an African-American club for blues and rhythm-and-blues, where musicians like B. B. King would perform. “They never knew I slipped in there and set under the table and listened to them play,†Mr. Lewis said. “Haney would catch me in there, take me by the nape of the neck and put me out. He said, ‘Boy, your mama would kill me and your uncle would sure kill me if he found out you were here.’ He said ‘Don’t come back now, Jerry Lee.’ And I would be back there in 30 minutes. I felt like I was crossing a line, I shouldn’t be going there, but nothing could stop me from going unless it would be God.â€

    “My mama wondered, ‘Where you learning them songs at?’ †he added. “ ‘Where’d you learn that song, boy?’ I can hear her now.â€

    He was sent to study at the Southwestern Bible Institute in Waxahachie, Tex., where his music stirred up its first ruckus. “I didn’t graduate,†he said. “I was kind of quit-uated. I was asked to leave for playing ‘My God Is Real’ boogie-woogie style, rock ’n’ roll style. I figured that’s the way it needed to be played.

    “The boy that wanted to sing it, poor old boy, he wanted to sing it real slow and draggy,†Mr. Lewis continued. “I said: ‘Son, you want this song to go over? Or do you want it to be real draggy and drug out?’ He wanted it to go over, and I said, ‘Well, do it this way.’ Doomba, doomba, doomba, doomba, and it went, man. It went over. They didn’t kick him out of Bible school, but they wanted to kick me out. But every kid in the Bible school said, ‘If you kick Jerry Lee Lewis out of this school, then I’m going too.’ The dean came over and said, ‘You see that? You have ruined a great school.’ I said, ‘I haven’t ruined anything.’ I said, ‘Look, let me just take a couple of weeks off, to cool things off, and I’ll be back.’ And he said, ‘That’s a good idea.’ I didn’t go back.â€

    At Sun, he would meld his boogie-woogie piano with a voice steeped in country yodeling and gospel flamboyance to make songs like “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,†which many radio stations initially banned. “It was just another song to me,†he said. “I never noticed that it had an effect on anybody that bad. The girls went a little berserk, but that’s girls for you.â€

    Fifty years after his first Sun singles, Mr. Lewis sounds more weathered but no less scrappy on “Last Man Standing.†He was persuaded to make it by the album’s producers, Mr. Rip and by Steve Bing, the film producer and owner of Shangri-La Entertainment, who financed the recording. Lifelong fans of Mr. Lewis’s music, they coaxed him back into the recording studio, first to record songs for an unreleased movie, “Why Men Shouldn’t Marry,†and then to make “Last Man Standing.â€

    The album includes rowdy rock ’n’ roll, piano-stoked country songs and blues. “We tried to pick songs that could almost be chapters out of Jerry Lee’s life,†Mr. Rip said.

    The album has Mr. Lewis and the country patriarch George Jones cackling through an old Western swing song, “Don’t Be Ashamed of Your Age,†and Eric Clapton wailing a bluesy solo on the blues standard “Trouble in Mind.†Songs like the Hank Williams hit “Lost Highway,†Kris Kristofferson’s “Pilgrim†and the Band’s “Twilight†contemplate age and regret, and in “That Kind of Fool,†Mr. Lewis and Keith Richards sing about a settled life they never had. Meanwhile Bruce Springsteen’s “Pink Cadillac†and Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll†insist that Mr. Lewis doesn’t plan to go quietly. His piano playing roars and crashes through the songs; his voice is knowing and cantankerous.

    In the studio Mr. Rip said: “There were times when he would come in and he barely looked like he could make it to the piano. But the second he did, the piano jumped about two feet from the ground and he was Jerry Lee.â€

    Mr. Rip didn’t set out to make a duets album, he said. But once he had done a few duets, he found it hard to turn down the offers; the album has 21 songs and two dozen guests. Mr. Lewis has completed another album with no guests — though Mr. Rip said he’d make room for Bob Dylan if he became available — and is planning a gospel collection.

    Before his record-store appearance, Mr. Lewis made one more stop: to the offices of Rolling Stone magazine. He was greeted by the magazine’s founder, Jann Wenner, who looked as awestruck as a fan. Mr. Lewis sat at a conference table surrounded by bright-eyed staffers too shy to ask questions. So Mr. Wenner did, asking Mr. Lewis if he was proud his music had such influence.

    Mr. Lewis took in the question, and smiled. “I didn’t know it was going to stir up such a stink,†he said.

September 20, 2006

  • Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

    They can uh... set a headset on you, and download into your neurotronic syntaxes... uhhh various different... uh very complicated historical, uh and scientific equations and things of this nature... "

    More Here and Here.

September 14, 2006

  • US Gov't - No Parameters.


    Duane "Dog" Chapman

    Our gov't has hit another all-time low... it has absolutely no morals, no parameters giving up one of our own to a lawless f'n gov't and country in disarray.

    HONOLULU -- Federal assholes arrested bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman and two relatives early Thursday morning at his home on Oahu.

    The arrest involves Chapman's capture of Max Factor heir Andrew Luster three years ago in Mexico. Luster was wanted in connection with a series of rapes. In other words, some rich asshole paid off some federal marshall somewhere.

    Mexican authorities arrested Chapman, his son Leland and brother Timothy on kidnapping charges. Bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico.

    The high-profile case launched Chapman into celebrity. Chapman now has his own reality TV series on the A&E cable channel.

    Chapman's publicist, Mona Wood, released a statement to the media on Thursday morning.
    "This is obviously a very upsetting time for the Chapman family. Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman is a true modern-day hero. He arrests the bad guys -- he is definitely not one of them. He shall be vindicated," Wood said in the statement.

    Mexican immigration authorities issued an alert for Chapman and two relatives after they failed to show up in court. The judge released them on bail on the condition they show up every Monday to check in with the court, according to Mexican authorities shortly after Chapman left the country.

August 17, 2006

  • the real problem with islam...

    If Western prejudice represents the core problem facing Islamic communities, then why do the two million (or more) Muslims in the United States count as the wealthiest, most successful believers anywhere on earth? Why do the one million Arab citizens of Israel enjoy by far the best standard of living and the highest levels of education (according to UN figures) of any Arabs in the Middle East? Logical analysis suggests that more devout Muslims who wear traditional robes and head coverings fare worse than their assimilated counterparts not because they provoke more prejudice from their neighbors, but because they have isolated themselves more fully in a deeply dysfunctional, even demented, medieval culture.


    The core problem involves the Koran’s teaching that Mohammed represents the last prophet, that his revelations amount to the ultimate “seal of knowledge,” and that a just, well-ordered world will place his faithful followers in positions of greater power, prosperity and peacefulness than their infidel neighbors. For anyone who takes Islamic teaching seriously, the current state of the world offers a glaring, painful example of cognitive dissonance: the backwardness, poverty, and endemic misery of Muslim societies—particularly compared to the privilege and prosperity of the West—either undermines the validity of the Holy Koran, or proves that evil infidel conspirators have upset the natural, proper, and Godly order of things. In the 1930’s, the passion behind Nazism arose from a burning sense that the German people had been gypped, that the infamous “stab in the back” of the Versailles Treaty had deprived the nation of its rightful position of world leadership. Islamo-Nazis feel an even more galling sense of injustice, oppression and unfairness, since hostile forces have, in the view of the devout, denied them the chance to live out their divine endowment of world dominance.


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August 16, 2006

  • Argggggggh.

    pirate walks into a bar,


    bartender says " is that a steering wheel in your pants?"



    Pirate says " Arrrrrrrrrrr its drivin me nuts!"

    I just hate the fact people act like these corporations are honest and they care
    about their customers.
    These corporations are bigger pirates than those who
    download music off p2p.
    Look at our US.  They milk us every week out of our
    check and we can't say shit about it.

    My list
    The True Pirate with licenses:
    1. IRS
    2.MPAA
    3.RIAA

    on May 31, Swedish police finally arrived with a search warrant and
    carted off enough servers to fill three rental trucks, the
    entertainment industry was quick to proclaim victory. The Motion
    Picture Association of America issued a press release announcing a
    milestone. "The actions today taken in Sweden serve as a reminder to
    pirates all over the world that there are no safe harbors for internet
    copyright thieves," trumpeted MPAA chairman Dan Glickman.

    But the three stewards of the site -- 27-year-old Peter; Fredrik
    Neij, 28; and Gottfrid Svartholm, 21 -- were already preparing their
    response.

    Coordinating with volunteers around the world in an IRC chat room,
    the trio scrambled to relaunch the Bay at a new location. Peter -- a
    slim, dark haired, dark eyed geek -- didn't sleep in those first few
    days, fielding a stream of phone calls from the press while confronting
    the technical challenge of resurrecting a high-traffic site with a
    partial database and all-new hardware. "They stole most of our backups
    as well," he says. "I managed to get some backups out of the servers
    while the police were in the building." (Peter wasn't arrested with the
    others, and remains anonymous.)

    They took the reconstructed data to temporary hosting in the
    Netherlands, and three days after the raid, the Pirate Bay reappeared
    on the internet.

    So fast was the Bay's rebound that some news articles reporting the
    site's demise went to print after it was back up, recalls Peter. The
    resuscitated site had a few glitches, but the resurrection was
    remarkable in that it had never really happened before; when the major
    American rights holders take a website down, it stays down. The pirates
    delivered a victory message to the MPAA, and the Swedish equivalent,
    APB, through the site's reverse-DNS, which now read:
    hey.mpaa.and.apb.bite.my.shiny.metal.ass.thepiratebay.org.

    Thanks to the press generated by the raid, the Pirate Bay instantly
    became more popular than ever. The Bay's T-shirt vendor alone now has
    four people working full time to fill orders for apparel sporting the
    site's pirate ship logo, and a skull-and-crossbones with a cassette
    tape as the skull. "They are behind something like 2,000," says Neij.
    "They are working day and night."

    The pirates have since moved the Bay's hosting back to Sweden, where
    they've built technological bulwarks against another takedown,
    law-hardening the Bay's network architecture with a system of redundant
    servers that spans three nations. Shutting down the site in any single
    country will only cripple the Pirate Bay for as long as it takes for
    its fail-over scripts to execute, a gap measurable in minutes.

    The various servers' locations are obscured behind a load balancer
    configured to lie, the crew says. Once the failsafe is triggered, a
    determined adversary with an international team of litigators might be
    able to track down the servers, but by that time -- according to the
    plan -- the pirates will have deployed mirrors in even more countries.
    In theory, the corporate lawyers will eventually tire of this game of
    international copyright Whack-A-Mole.

    With all that in place, crew member Fredrik Neij says he welcomes
    the possibility of another raid. "I really want the pleasure of it
    being down three minutes, then up again."

    Source Here.

    Source Here.

    Suppose the company comes to your house and watches you use the toaster
    you bought at walmart. And when you put a bagel in it they sue you for
    using the toaster to toast a bagel, because the agreement on the side
    of the box (which you didn't sign or read) says that the toaster is
    only licensed by the manufacturer to toast white bread.

    Then they sue you for $5000 dollars, claiming that they need to be
    compensated not just for the bagel you toasted, but for the bagels you
    probably toasted when they weren't there to watch you. Do you consider
    this fair? You are violating the terms of toaster use, therefore using
    your criteria you are acting in an immoral way.

    What if Sealy sued people for sleeping on couches? Can Ford sue you if
    you squeeze 8 people in a car that only seats 6? (instead of buying
    another car)

    If you take a picture of the Eiffel tower from the street, can France
    sue you for selling copies of that picture? Sue you for giving copies
    of the picture to friends?

    What if I hear a song on the radio, and then I get out my guitar and
    play that song into a microphone and listen to it from time to time. If
    I don't distribute copies of my recording, can the record company sue
    me? Is keeping a copy of me singing a song ok?

    What if I hear a song on the radio and record it onto a tape. Is that illegal? Should I be jailed or fined for this?

    What if I'm really really smart, and I hear a song, and I type 1's and
    0's into a computer, purely from memory, and those 1's and 0's combine
    to make a file which can be played and sounds exactly like the song I
    heard, but isn't a recording since I recreated it from scratch? Could I
    give away copies of this file that I typed in in binary based on
    nothing but memory?

    What if I just borrow a friends CD and listen to it until I'm sick of it and give it back? Is that moral?

    What if I borrow a friends CD and make a copy, listen to the copy until
    I'm sick of it, then break the copy in half and return the original
    disk?

    What if I borrow the cd and make a copy, then return the original a few minutes before I break the copy in half?

    What If instead of breaking the copy in half, I return the copy and break the original?

    Suppose I never break the copy, but I never listen to it again?

    Suppose I only listen to the copy when I know for a fact my friend
    isn't listening to the original, so that I save gas by not driving over
    to his house to borrow the CD?

    What if we both listen to the cd so that we both are listening for 1 overlapping second? Is this now immoral?

    Suppose a friend and I make a copy of his CD, and agree that we will
    only listen to the same song at the same time while we are in the same
    room, but using separate headphones so we don't disturb anyone?

    What if we get out of sync and we end up accidently listening to totally different songs?

    What if I just make a copy of the CD and listen to it how I feel like
    and people who buy in to big corporate bullshit about owning sounds or
    data kiss my ass?

    **************************************************
    I think the reality here is that "law" is of two kinds. There is
    natural law, i.e. don't murder, steal, etc. which nearly all of us
    respect. And there is political law i.e. anything the lawmakers' and
    their owners want to be a law.

    There are people in jail today for not filing income tax returns who
    claimed that the constitution protects them from testifying against
    themselves. Sounds logical to me.

    Well, the judges have dispensed with that logic and will do so in this
    case as well. Point being, don't apply logic to political law, because
    it's completely irrelevent.

    Source Here

August 2, 2006

  • Mugshot Mel is alright in my book.

    So, what is it the Mel did that was so bad?

    He drank a little, and said the Jews start lotsa wars.

    Lotsa people drink, and lets face it, the Jews have been involved
    in a war or two since the establishment of Israel.

    So, what's the problem?