RANT: DRM never!

Saturday, September 27, 2008

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/26/walmart-shutting-dow.html

Boing Boing – A directory of wonderful things

Wal*Mart shutting down DRM server, nuking your music collection — only people who pay for music risk losing it to DRM shenanigans

Posted by Cory Doctorow, September 26, 2008 8:34 PM

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Hey suckers! Did you buy DRM music from Wal*Mart instead of downloading MP3s for free from the P2P networks? Well, they’re repaying your honesty by taking away your music. Unless you go through a bunch of hoops (that you may never find out about, if you’ve changed email addresses or if you’re not a very technical person), your music will no longer be playable after October 9th.

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That’s why I’d never buy anything with a DRM in it. I learned this lesson early and had it reinforced by Yahoo buying Real who bought whatever it was that I liked.

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RANT: SNY network leaves RU game to TALK about the Mets!

Saturday, September 27, 2008

What a joke.

RU was playing Morgan State. Not a big game by any means. But, SNY left live coverage of that for the Mets “post game” show, where they couldn’t show any of the game highlights. So they spent the better part of a hour TALKING about it. Talked it to death! How dumb!

Sorry RU, you deserved better!

They rejoined it with 2:57 left in the SECOND quarter with the score 35 zip. Game was over.

Why bother?

Just shows you the level of respect SNY has for its viewers.

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POLITICS: Debate reaction. Who cares what big gooferment wants!

Saturday, September 27, 2008

I too listened to the debate. Who cares! Both are big gooferment interventionists. Neither understand that the ‘crisis’ is created by the gooferment — both sides have their hands int he mess up to their elbows. The D’s created Fannie and Freddie; they tax and spend. The R’s are not much better — they promised smaller and delivered bigger; they borrow and spend. Neither of them nderstand the problem starts with gooferment and ends there. The gooferment creates the problem and then rescues us from it. A plague on both their houses.

Only freedom and liberty can prevail in the long run. Force begets force. If I can’t convince you that something is a good idea, then maybe it isn’t. I have to be humble enough to accept that.

I won’t, can’t, force you to do what you don’t wnat to do. I’d like you to do the same for me. So take your government off my neck, please!

I don’t want to buy 80% of AIG. I’d like my tax money that was stolen back. I don’t want to pay for all the things you think are “good for me”. Let me keep my money and spend it on what I think is good for me. If I make mistakes, so be it. They are MY mistakes. Please don’t inflict YOUR mistakes on me.

Take a look at the little flash movie at http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf becasue it says it better than I can.

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LIBERTY: Stop the bailout!

Saturday, September 27, 2008

http://tinyurl.com/4brspa

Download “Stop the Bailout!” 26-09-2008 (2.97 MB)
Duration: 8:05 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 51.28820816953 KBPS – Frequency: 44100 HZ
Lew Rockwell on the Michael Reagan Show

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Well worth a less than ten minute listen.

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WRITING: TEOTWAWKI fiction – Chapter Ninety Three – Twenty Five Years

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Chapter Ninety Three – Twenty Five Years

October 19, 1987

It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
http://www.itstartedinchurch.com

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