Please create an account to participate in the Slashdot moderation system

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:I have no fear of death. (Score 1) 813

What? Your 22K+ atheists donated $369 each while Just under 10K Christians donated $498 each. This of course ignores the problems with people self-identifying themselves into your neat little categories. Also ignores decades/centuries old established channels of charitable giving through Christian churches, and only gathers statistics through a relatively new web charity.

Comment Re:DMCA should be used for real art (Score 1) 667

What exactly are the criteria for being a "real artist"? Is there some sort of accreditation board? Is it a one time thing or would I have to re-new every year?

We have a principle in the US embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment of the US constitution, "no state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Neither you or I or the courts get to determine who is a real artist for purposes of applying the DMCA nor should we ever want that to happen. When we start granting the power to decide to whom the law applies or not it would be the end of everything this nation stands for.

Slashdot Top Deals

UNIX is hot. It's more than hot. It's steaming. It's quicksilver lightning with a laserbeam kicker. -- Michael Jay Tucker

Working...