Hey, good for you for NRTFA!! "on the list of politically toxic subjects that you don't in your right mind run during an election campaign" What "education" is happening among politicians there? They are showing that the only reason they don't push this forward is because PEOPLE DON'T WANT IT; why else would you keep it on the down-low during an election season? Once their positions are secure, then they'll move right back to their old way of thinking. Oh, sorry, you were just trolling? Okay, carry on.

A civil rights organization, most likley.

I salute you for having enourmoous balls for posting this while not being an AC. *salute*

Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm. Lisa: That's spacious reasoning, Dad. Homer: Thank you, dear. Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away. Homer: Oh, how does it work? Lisa: It doesn't work. Homer: Uh-huh. Lisa: It's just a stupid rock. Homer: Uh-huh. Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you? [Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money] Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock. Taking more precautions, good. Security theater, racial profiling, etc, bad.

A sociopath with little survival instinct. If someone is killing people, the ones that don't want to be killed are going to do what they can to put a stop to the sociopath. Sometimes with death.

The thing is that there wouldn't be anything preventing Tolkien's kin from keeping things "official". Anyone could write and add on to the story, but you can't falsely advertise that you're Tolkien himself when writing those stories. It would be pretty much commercialized fanfiction.

You may want to check out http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/83. There are other people pushing for what you propose.

Sorry, I don't think that's quite right. If you're a US citizen and you break a US law outside the country, I think the government can still go after you.

Any idea when the latest copyright law/extensions were voted in and who voted for what? I would like to see if anyone I can make a vote for/against was part of them.

I think you missed the point, at least with what you replied with. DRM didn't exist all those years ago. Great art was made without DRM. The music industry is finally waking up and realizing that DRM isn't the way to go (though I think there's still a little ways for them to go). Hopefully the publishing and video industries realize this as well.

I've used Gmail for years; hearing this, I think it's about time to switch. Does anyone have any good suggestions for a web email service comparable with Gmail, but maybe not quite so evil?

Funny, I don't remember too many drug offenders violating the constitution.

If there was any realistic way to be a competitor, sure. But it's a pretty locked market.

wtf? since when was america the global police? thats the attitude that frustrates me!

> Only the used portion of a library is paged in from disk.

That very much depends on the exact dynamic library format and such, actually...