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Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 691

I agree, with the record setting profits these companies have raked in over the past decade, they could afford a 60 day break to ensure the safety of our country.

This is the biggest non-nuclear man made disaster ever, and it gets worse every day. They are poisoning the water supply from which a large percentage of our oxygen is generated. Accidents like these destroys ecosystems, and directly threaten the ability of the planet to support human life. These wells deserve some scrutiny to preserve the species.

I'm tired of these activist judges that use their positions to advance the goals of the capitalist terrorist organizations that are directly threatening the security of my country.

Comment Re:Fundamental flaw: it is not *APPLE*'s phone (Score 1) 483

I think most store owners get to decide the conditions upon which product placement on their shelves is determined.
If you don't like apples store, don't shop there, and don't complain about how they stock their shelves.
Do you really want the government to tell stores what they must carry and how much they shall sell it for ?

Comment Role Models (Score 4, Funny) 262

Frequently I like to embrace the role models in our government and
use word placement to make a point. Arnold did this, and it was
clear what his intentions were. I applaud our government for
keeping their promises on this critical piece of legislation.

Year after year tax payer money gets thrown away on
one stupid idea after another. Unless we can educated the
uneducated, these movie stars will continue to rule.

America needs leadership that can dedicate a week to getting
results. A week just to stop swearing at each other, that is
not even a good start. We need a week away from faith in
our markets to fix everything. We need a week of using
logic to solve problems. We need to vote third party, the
democrats and republics are colluding, but they call it compromise.

Comment Re:Is anyone surprised? (Score 1) 784

I'm not saying people should start collecting information so mob justice can find its way to their homes, but there is quite a bit in the press that could be used for such purposes. Take for example what I can piece together from news reports.

1) Jackpot Jimmy James Haas -- lives in Fairfield, Connecticut and shares a block with a Mrs Jean Wieson. Mr. Haas has a home with three chimneys and he has views of Southport Harbor and distant views of Long Island Sound

2) Douglas L. Poling Douglas received $6.4M in bonus payments which he said he will return. Doug's father was the chief executive of Ford Motor in the early-mid 90s. Doug owns a home on a street with no outlet in Fairfield CN.

The Connecticut Working Families party is planning a bus tour Saturday of A.I.G. executives's homes. This would could be a great way for people interested in the harvest of executive names and addresses to get some data.

The Internet

Submission + - What is Fair Use in the Digital Age?

Hugh Pickens writes: "Rick Cotton, general counsel of NBC, and Tim Wu, professor at Columbia Law school, continue their debate about copyright issues and technology on Saul Hansell's blog at the New York Times discussing Fair Use of commercial music and video as the raw materials for new creations. Cotton says that content protection on the broadband internet is really not a debate about fair use The fact that users can "take three or four movies and splice together their favorite action scenes and post them online does not mean that these uses are fair. There needs to be something more — something that truly injects some degree of original contribution from the maker other than just the assembly of unchanged copies of different copyrighted works." Wu's position is that "it is time to recognize a simpler principle for fair use: work that adds to the value of the original, as opposed to substituting for the original, is fair use. This simple concept would bring much clarity to the problems of secondary authorship on the web." This is a continuation of the previous discussion on copy protection."

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