The USPP has been using IRC for it's meetings for years. Worked well for us.
The method used here is actually the same one I used to help run on Startrek.com about 15 years ago, when there were 'actor Q+A sessions' Worked great then as well.
Oh yeah, and I'm the WORST customer for surveys since I must have gone to the machine 20 times int he hour we were there. and done half the combinations, mixing them in the cup...
I've been seeing them in Atlanta since they were first trialed (the Popeyes just around the corner from the Marietta Big Chicken was one of the first trial places)
Two of my local Wendies have had them for a year now, I was there Saturday when they were adding more plain coke (they can run out of plain coke, but NOT any of the coke flavours)
Some of the comments were mine ('ktetch1' - can't seem to access my original 'ktetch' account there)
And as I plugged i the comments, I'm even doing a panel on bittorrent and why it's lasted 10 years at Dragoncon in exactly 3 weeks time (I mean exactly, as in 1pm, Monday september 5th)
The fact they've altered the shading in a very minor way means that they have taken a copyrighted piece of art (the sign) and altered the shading ever so slightly, and then tried to claim copyright on it, when it's functionally identical. It's clear copyfraud.
Sony forged ahead with a boldly miscalculated attempt to corner a non-existent market with the MiniDisc. Like a CD, only smaller, more easily lost/damaged and handcuffed to Sony hardware, the MiniDisc never had a chance.
Where to start? Pretty much EVERYTHING in this paragraph is wrong.
Non-existent market? A portable robust easy-to-record format? Sounds like a digital replacement for cassette tape to me.
Not quite like a CD either, they're magneto-optical, not just optical. It actually has more in common with 8-track than CD.
The more easily lost/damaged - OH BOY. it's as 'easy to lose' as any cassette tape, or a CD and a SD card is FAR easier to lose. It's a LOT harder to damage them though. I've a bunch of minidiscs from the late 90s that have gone around the world with me, still play perfectly. I've a DVD of my wedding a friend burnt for me 8 years ago, it's starting to 'rot'. MDs are in mostly-sealed, very shock-resistant plastic cases, they are more robust than cassette tapes, certainly more so than CDs/DVDs and have a 2yo bite on an SD card and see what happens, nothing with an MD
Handcuffed to Sony hardware? Crap, someone better tell Sharp then that they didn't make the MD-701 portable recorder I bought in 1998. Same with the company that made the 3MD&3CD hifi I bought in 99 (aiwa I think)
And 'Never had a chance' - yes, because it never ended up having widespread acceptance in many industries, like radio
Normally, I like your articles but on this one, there was just no effort made to research the topic, or at least the major aspects of it. But when a whole section is so patently wrong, it does throw the validity of the rest into question...
I crunched the figures 18 months ago. About 3600 from 1994 to 2008, in every terrorist attack targeting the US around the world.
Between 1994-2008, over 8000 people died in weather-related incidents, and about 250,000 people were murdered. Oh, and over 500,000 killed on US roads over that time period as well.
Death from Terrorism, it's not even statistically significant.
Abuse of anti-terrorism 'power', VERY statistically significant.
Because that would require a factually based risk assessment. Unfortunately, a factually-based risk-assessment would show there is little-to-no risk at an airport, beyond the risks of the TSA itself. That would leak out, and so confidence in the fear-management that is the stock-in-trade of the TSA and DHS would erode, and another aspect of control would erode.
Or, put another way, Doing that would be bad for the TSA, show the 'war of Terror' for what it is, and throw away a decade of fearmongering.
I grew up with the IRA (and walked past one of the Warrington bombs in 93 moments before it went off) so I know ACTUAL terrorism of old. The only Terrorism in the US, is by the government.
I'm going to patent the process of ignoring common sense, being blissfully ignorant of human nature and applying the minimum amount of brain cells to deciding what is 'just'; in the the determination of legal decisions, and their briefs.
Then I'm going to sue the SCOTUS (and many other courts) to hell and back for patent infringement.
"even if you believe the "official 9/11 story", how many planes have been hijacked by terrorists since then?
more people die from drinking, smoking, and driving on highways, than hijacked planes."
ACtually, more people died on US roads in SEptember 2001 alone, than due to terrorism in the US between 1995-2010. You're even 80x more likely to be murdered than killed by a terrorist. Explains why we're cutting police funding, and spending what we DO have on 'anti-terrorism' crap.
Had you read the article, done some research, or even asked the Russian Pirate Party people, Mike, you'd have maybe come up with the reason.
It has something to do with declining parties and trying to find a reason to do so, to limit electoral competition. Nothing to do with the name itself, it's just an excuse.
Andrew Norton
Former chairman of both US Pirate Party & Pirate Parties International
Re: been using it fine
The USPP has been using IRC for it's meetings for years. Worked well for us.
The method used here is actually the same one I used to help run on Startrek.com about 15 years ago, when there were 'actor Q+A sessions' Worked great then as well.
Re: Re: I like the coke machine, tho
Oh yeah, and I'm the WORST customer for surveys since I must have gone to the machine 20 times int he hour we were there. and done half the combinations, mixing them in the cup...
Re: I like the coke machine, tho
I've been seeing them in Atlanta since they were first trialed (the Popeyes just around the corner from the Marietta Big Chicken was one of the first trial places)
Two of my local Wendies have had them for a year now, I was there Saturday when they were adding more plain coke (they can run out of plain coke, but NOT any of the coke flavours)
Here's a pick of the inside of the freestyle machine
http://db.tt/wzUtIwWB
Already did.
see Got responses too
http://www.piratepartyofgeorgia.org/2012/01/sopapipa-response-from-austin-scott.html - (georgia's 8th)
http://www.piratepartyofgeorgia.org/2012/01/sopapipa-response-from-johnny-isakson.html - one of Georgia's senators
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As a few others have pointed out THIS IS FAKE
Sorry Brady, this is why you check sources. It is not real. Was a paraody done about 2 years ago.
Re: Re: Re:
That's why the poppy harvest had been all but eradicated in 2001, and mysteriously grew back AFTER the US led invasion.
Taliban couldn't stand drugs. Fact checking = win!
talking about mine?
Some of the comments were mine ('ktetch1' - can't seem to access my original 'ktetch' account there)
And as I plugged i the comments, I'm even doing a panel on bittorrent and why it's lasted 10 years at Dragoncon in exactly 3 weeks time (I mean exactly, as in 1pm, Monday september 5th)
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You need to write about this case some more, track what happens etc.
How else can you remake the 'red shoe diaries'?
Re: false claism
Lenz v universal is the only one, I believe.
second one
The second is actually a UK roadsign. It's the sign for 'other danger'(can see it on page 51 here http://www2.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roads/tss/tsmanual/trafficsignsmanualchapter4.pdf)
The fact they've altered the shading in a very minor way means that they have taken a copyrighted piece of art (the sign) and altered the shading ever so slightly, and then tried to claim copyright on it, when it's functionally identical. It's clear copyfraud.
140chars?
Was Twitters change of venue filing less than 140 characters?
minidiscs say what???
Where to start? Pretty much EVERYTHING in this paragraph is wrong.
Non-existent market? A portable robust easy-to-record format? Sounds like a digital replacement for cassette tape to me.
Not quite like a CD either, they're magneto-optical, not just optical. It actually has more in common with 8-track than CD.
The more easily lost/damaged - OH BOY. it's as 'easy to lose' as any cassette tape, or a CD and a SD card is FAR easier to lose. It's a LOT harder to damage them though. I've a bunch of minidiscs from the late 90s that have gone around the world with me, still play perfectly. I've a DVD of my wedding a friend burnt for me 8 years ago, it's starting to 'rot'. MDs are in mostly-sealed, very shock-resistant plastic cases, they are more robust than cassette tapes, certainly more so than CDs/DVDs and have a 2yo bite on an SD card and see what happens, nothing with an MD
Handcuffed to Sony hardware? Crap, someone better tell Sharp then that they didn't make the MD-701 portable recorder I bought in 1998. Same with the company that made the 3MD&3CD hifi I bought in 99 (aiwa I think)
And 'Never had a chance' - yes, because it never ended up having widespread acceptance in many industries, like radio
Normally, I like your articles but on this one, there was just no effort made to research the topic, or at least the major aspects of it. But when a whole section is so patently wrong, it does throw the validity of the rest into question...
Re:
I crunched the figures 18 months ago. About 3600 from 1994 to 2008, in every terrorist attack targeting the US around the world.
Between 1994-2008, over 8000 people died in weather-related incidents, and about 250,000 people were murdered. Oh, and over 500,000 killed on US roads over that time period as well.
Death from Terrorism, it's not even statistically significant.
Abuse of anti-terrorism 'power', VERY statistically significant.
you know why
Because that would require a factually based risk assessment. Unfortunately, a factually-based risk-assessment would show there is little-to-no risk at an airport, beyond the risks of the TSA itself. That would leak out, and so confidence in the fear-management that is the stock-in-trade of the TSA and DHS would erode, and another aspect of control would erode.
Or, put another way, Doing that would be bad for the TSA, show the 'war of Terror' for what it is, and throw away a decade of fearmongering.
I grew up with the IRA (and walked past one of the Warrington bombs in 93 moments before it went off) so I know ACTUAL terrorism of old. The only Terrorism in the US, is by the government.
i've an idea for a patent
I'm going to patent the process of ignoring common sense, being blissfully ignorant of human nature and applying the minimum amount of brain cells to deciding what is 'just'; in the the determination of legal decisions, and their briefs.
Then I'm going to sue the SCOTUS (and many other courts) to hell and back for patent infringement.
Re: child molestation
"even if you believe the "official 9/11 story", how many planes have been hijacked by terrorists since then?
more people die from drinking, smoking, and driving on highways, than hijacked planes."
ACtually, more people died on US roads in SEptember 2001 alone, than due to terrorism in the US between 1995-2010. You're even 80x more likely to be murdered than killed by a terrorist. Explains why we're cutting police funding, and spending what we DO have on 'anti-terrorism' crap.
Re: Suggestions
Ok, that's the copyright reform part addressed.
What about patent and trademark reform? Privacy reform? Government Accountability?
well?
"WHY" the party got declined
Had you read the article, done some research, or even asked the Russian Pirate Party people, Mike, you'd have maybe come up with the reason.
It has something to do with declining parties and trying to find a reason to do so, to limit electoral competition. Nothing to do with the name itself, it's just an excuse.
Andrew Norton
Former chairman of both US Pirate Party & Pirate Parties International