ESR: Goodbye Fedora

[Res]

*yawn*

I had not realised this list had so many self appointed moderator 
wannabies, nobody holds a gun at your head making you read the thread.
so no, you fuck off and die!


On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, jdow wrote:

> From: "Mike McCarty" <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net>
>
>> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 09:29:47 +1000,
>>>   Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Alan wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, but again the US cant enforce its laws against other countries.
>>>> it is not the world govt/world police, and about time they woke up smelt 
>>>> the damned coffee and realised that.
>>>
>>>  Unfortunately for the rest of the world, it can because it has the 
>>> largest
>> 
>> Fortunately or unfortunately, as one's viewpoint is.
>> 
>> The Federal Govt of the USA has jurisdiction over the entire
>> face of the Earth except within the States, because the US Constitution
>> says so. That's how the US Govt arrested Manuel Noriega.
>> 
>> [snip]
>> 
>>> Most likely US corporate interests have influenced your country's laws.
>>> For example if you are in the EU, members are supposed to be enacting DMCA
>>> like laws. Software patents could still end up being forced upon EU 
>>> members
>>> as well.
>> 
>> We really need to repeal (at least portions of) the DMCA. It won't be
>> long, I trow. The RIAA fought tooth and nail to prevent radio stations
>> from playing music. When the RIAA and corresponding TV (forget the
>> acronym) and movie associations figure out how to make money from
>> easily available stuff, then we'll see the end of encryption, region
>> codes, etc. on their own.
>
> It's time to stop the political hate fest. But do watch this video first.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwAtNILh6uY&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyoutube%2Ecom%2F
>
> Then FOAD.
> {^_^} 
>

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Cheers
Res

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