In short, 30 million tax payer dollars are going into this effort. I can think of a lot of better things that 30 million dollars could go into instead of a few individuals' bank accounts. As a tax payer, I insist that the Music Companies pay a reward to the hard working people who made it possible for them to do this.

Yes all 2 of the current Linux users might download it and you'll have a mighty botnet!

I see... The US doesn't own the New York property. So based upon your reasoning, The NATO bases aren't owned by the the European Nations that they are hosted upon...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Building

So the land where the UN building is at and the upkeep for the building (built by US with US materials by US construction workers), isn't an issue here?

The more that they control the sooner that Joe Sixpack becomes aware that he can't watch what he wants to. When the sales of entertainment drop below a sustainable figure and the MPAA/RIAA flogs their congress-critters to pass even more draconian laws, only then will the populace wake up from their Pop-culture stupor and vote the congress-critters out of office.

Heck, maybe they'll even grab up the CEOs of the various "entertainment" community and put them up against the wall. Followed shortly by the ambulance chasers with an apperegio of a few financial institutions' COOs as well.

You spelled "you're" wrong.

I agree. I simply can't believe that it's gone this far. Is the current generation so hung up on entertainment that they can't band together and lobby (harass) their respective representatives? I see the next generation flaunting the "rules" whenever and wherever they can, but it's not in the spirit of Jefferson who commented that "a little rebellion now and then is a good thing" to Madison in regards to Shay's Rebellion.

No longer do I see earnest learning with the spirit of improving oneself, instead I see profiteers.

The very institutions of learning; Universities and Colleges are _giving_ out sheepskins for dollars. Some still value their grade points and will refuse to pass, but others...

I realize that "Joe Six-Pack" is alive and well, that issues with a technical bent are beyond a certain group of technophobes, but I just can't understand when it equates to a loss of the very freedoms and liberties that our forefathers held dear being tossed by the very individuals that are elected to protect them for mere piddling material gains.

I'm sickened.

Truly.

Want to know who the next President of the USA/USR/EU is? Just ask the corporations, they'll tell you with their special vote: Monetary Units of whatever currency the candidate prefers.

What will happen when China weighs in with their marker? The future isn't looking very bright...

Yeah, joke about overlords. Pass off the Draconian measures to an antiquated business system. Explain that the new sharing isn't theft but a system of "Nottingham redistribution of wealth". I don't think those that have and will continue to consume the power base will permit it for much longer.

The bottom line is money.

It sucks to have to face the reality that in an almost infinite universe, a spiral galaxy's arm (one of many) of which an insignificant blue planet, (third from the sun), spins that there are such small minded individuals that are incapable of seeing future generations and simply not caring for the inhabitants that they're borrowing resources from. All to get a few material possessions or to feel that they have importance. Yes, they even think that digital watches are still pretty neat.

To the future generations we leave a legacy of distrust, distaste and disgust. They in turn will do the same for the next, until the life-form known as Homo Sapiens will be no more.
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“Believing in Father Christmas is important,” says Pratchett. “It trains our imaginations on the little lies so we can believe the big lies like justice [and] truth.” - UK Times.

'Nuff said. (Don't go Dirk Gently into that night)...

"That was easy!"

I agree. There hasn't been any sort of posting concerning the Japanese Linux Symposium yet and the event is nearly over. I also note that the "Torvolds thumbs up" hasn't been posted either.

You left out "I opened that viral e-mail attachment just like you told me not to".

Sic Semper Tyrannis? Are you certain?

Ah sweet sweet welfare! Where the poorest and laziest of humanity can drive Cadillacs and dine on steak whereas everybody else is sweating there collective lives away, barely making ends meet, working for the "man".

It's copyright, not "copy right" or are you attempting to differentiate between legal rights and ill-gotten gains?