Mashiki
Balking The Enemy's Plans
join:2002-02-04
Woodstock, ON |  Just what we always wanted...
Complete and total goverment control over everything we watch, hear and want to publish. What a bloody mess, especially the base fact that if you publish your own music you would have to pay to make it playable on your own hardware...ugh. |
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Count Hogula$
Notorious Dog
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join:2002-06-19
Corona, CA | Great
You would think the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations would have more important things to do. |
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banditws6
Shrinking Time and Distance
join:2001-08-18
Naples, FL
 ·Comcast
| Some lawmakers need to get lives
Gack. This kind of legislation brings digital multimedia ever closer to becoming another entry in the long list of Very Good Things that have been ruined by money. Everybody wants their cut.
If this keeps up, we'll have to consider the New Dark Age option. 
(Deus Ex reference.)
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phxmark
What Country Are We Living In?
join:2000-12-27
Glendale, AZ | reply to Mashiki
Re: Just what we always wanted...
One year: 1984 |
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P3TER
join:2002-05-15
STOCKHOLM | reply to banditws6
Re: Some lawmakers need to get lives
How did I manage to read this as "Senator Bin Laden leads the Way" ??!?!?!!
Must be some form of paranoid dyslexia..
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phxmark
What Country Are We Living In?
join:2000-12-27
Glendale, AZ
| I don't know, but lookng at some pitcures of them, they sure have a striking resemblence. Put a black beard and turban on Biden, and wa la. Similarily, take the beard and turban off of Bin Laden and again...
Coincidence? I think not.
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Where am I?
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Pz_
join:2001-03-31
Brownsburg, IN
clubs: | reply to banditws6
I'm assuming you opted for the new dark age option then? See, I took a more positive approach to it.
Man, who knew that the description to Deus Ex would read like todays headlines. Sorta depressing.
www.deusex.com |
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bobdabldr
join:2000-08-06
Evansville, IN
| In further news....
The weary public demands that all political contributions also be watermarked in order to follow it right back to the "very special interest group" that put this schmuck up to this. And banks will be ordered to sieze and destroy any such funds accidently falling into this jokers personal account.
Frankly, If I happen to have the ability to alter (any way I want) a piece of equipment that I overpaid for with my very own money then I shall!
Or maybe I'll simply NEVER buy such a device! |
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CatholicJedi
join:2001-09-28
Mesa, AZ | reply to phxmark
Re: Just what we always wanted...
Amen to that.
People think 1984 can never happen, and that's why it can.
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hanavi1
join:2001-02-14
Kenmore, WA
| This comes as no big surprise....
Big Moneys gets what Big Money wants.
You may end up having no other recourse than that little clause in the Constitution that states we may overthrow the government if it becomes tyrannical, oh wait, thats against "national security" interests. |
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Brendan
Warr Guitar is here
join:2000-07-14
Littleton, CO | You mean, "Big Money gets what Big Monkeys want." |
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BrianDamage
We Are The Hounds From Hell
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join:2001-08-14
Rowlett, TX
clubs:
| Unfrikkin' believable
Why don't we just put the Hollywood moguls in that big white house in DC?
If this bill passes then innovation is stifled.
Just like before, the RIAA/MPAA seeks "COPYRIGHT PROTECTIONS" (MONOPOLY) and seeks to obtain it by forcing PC manufacturers, software manufacturers, artists, and consumers to pay for it.
Then, consumers can't even play them unless they have a "endorsed" machine that will play the media.
It's BS. Total BS.
Write your senators.
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n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
·Optimum Online
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(snip)It's BS. Total BS.
Write your senators.
Why? My Senator's are Schumer and Hillary. You gotta believe they will listen to Hollywood. After all, people don't vote, the big companies do  |
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rgoulet
join:2000-10-27
Pittsburgh, PA
| One Solution
How many of you paid money to see Austin Powers this weekend? Judging by ticket sales a lot of us have. Well stop it. Stop buying their products. Stop giving them your hard earned money. They can't pay their lawyers and corrupt politicians to pervert our republic if we stop giving them our money.
Stop buying their crap, I want my republic back! |
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alex4life
Alex4life
Premium
join:2001-06-22
Delta, BC | hmm
These are disturbing times we live in...
Where has all our freedom gone? |
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ravital
Just Another Pesky Independent Nh Voter
Premium
join:2001-07-19
Merrimack, NH
| Look who's running the asylum
Add to all this Microsoft's Palladium, mentioned in the article, and it's the end of computing as we know it. Did anyone here get a letter from Bill Gates about it? I did, a long, long email explainig "trusted computing" which can be summarized as:
Don't use open source.
Don't use non-Microsoft Products.
Don't use anything we don't approve.
Besides, why should anyone be surprised, Senator BinLaden has long been one of the most successful prostitutes on the Hill.
You know folks, there really is an easy and painless solution to all this: No need to stop buying CDs if you like them, or DVDs or going to movies, etc. Just one little thing you have to do, and all you need to be able to do it is to be born in America: VOTE.
It amazes me that people stood in line 6 hours to give blood on Sep. 12 (my eternal admiration and gratitude to them), only to be turned away because the Red Cross already had too much blood, but they won't stand in line 20 minutes to vote.
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johnwayne
join:2001-03-09
Bountiful, UT
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Re: This comes as no big surprise....
You may end up having no other recourse than that little clause in the Constitution that states we may overthrow the government if it becomes tyrannical, oh wait, thats against "national security" interests.
amen to that..... but oops you can't say that or your a terrorist,, they can kiss my white luvin A!!. its about time somebody had a damn brain,,,, |
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cybermud
join:2000-08-25
Chicago, IL | reply to ravital
Re: Look who's running the asylum
I wish I had to stand in line to vote...unfortunately I don't. |
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johnwayne
join:2001-03-09
Bountiful, UT
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Re: One Solution
How many of you paid money to see Austin Powers this weekend? Judging by ticket sales a lot of us have. Well stop it. Stop buying their products. Stop giving them your hard earned money. They can't pay their lawyers and corrupt politicians to pervert our republic if we stop giving them our money.
in reply to "pervert our republic" we are not in a republic anymore since Abe Lincoln was assasinated. he presided over a republic until he created marshall law when the southern states tryed to leave the republic .. which put us in a democracy... then he was killed before he could resend his executive order.. and his v.p. was impeached so he couldn't do it either.... so thats why we have priveledges not rights...... sorry for the rampaige... |
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shadow520
join:2002-04-03
Warren, MI
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Re: Some lawmakers need to get lives
said by P3TER:
How did I manage to read this as "Senator Bin Laden leads the Way" ??!?!?!!
Must be some form of paranoid dyslexia..
I did the same thing.
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