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Comment Not out of the woods.... (Score 3, Insightful) 341

I am inclined to believe that if TPB wins this round we are all still in jeopardy. Legislative bodies seem inclined to write and pass laws in favor of preserving their status quo through legal monopolies, and prosecutors willing to sacrifice the permanent at the altar of the immediate put us all in jeopardy. This is not about downloading music or videos - it never has been. The only reason governments of the world are interested in these corporation's complaints is they hear them scream about all the revenue they have lost and then they start running the tax implications in their head. Not out of the woods yet, indeed.

Comment Move Along.... (Score 2, Insightful) 873

Is Time Warner really one of her largest donors? Nothing to see here.... FTFA: US Senator Dianne Feinstein hopes to update President Barack Obama's $838bn economic stimulus package so that American ISPs can deter child pornography, copyright infringement, and other unlawful activity by way of "reasonable network management." SOURCE: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?CID=N00007364

Comment failed to show growth... (Score 2, Informative) 299

Failed to show growth my ass. Ubuntu was by far the easiest distribution to get Eve up and running. Hell, I even got Eve to run on my netbook. It wasn't lack of interest. Tell the fucking truth: CCP couldn't get it right and they never released a native linux client. Their support was terrible. That's why they failed.

Comment I'm sure it's just me, but... (Score 1) 758

For my PC, I like operating systems with 'X' in them...XP...Xubuntu...OSX.... Don't ask me which version I want. Don't ask me if I want 32- or 64-bit.... Just install the fucking operating system! If I need a feature then I will look for it. If not, then I won't and if, by chance, I don't need a particular feature you did not short your stockholders by installing it on my PC.

Comment Smoke and Mirrors (Score 1) 361

In January 1970 the DOW average was about 770 points. Trend that to late 1999, 2000 and it is about 11,000 points with a high point at almost 14,000 points. Consider that trend with the consumer debt in this country. American Express was started in 1958. Visa and MasterCard changed their names and gained prominence in the late 1970s. Non-mortgage debt at the end of 2007 was about 2.5 trillion dollars. In October 2008, we had almost 1 billion in revolving debt. This is only possible with our current fractional-reserve lending practices. Would we have the big-box stores or mega malls without consumers spending money they don't have to buy shit they don't need? Our entire financial system is a house of cards and it isn't 'if' but rather 'when' it is going to fall.

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