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  • On the post: Would Congress Withhold Financial Aid From Colleges That Don't Offer A Subscription To Napster?

    norman619 ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2007 @ 09:27am

    WTF?

    This is yet another instance of them over stepping their bounds. Fire them all. They do this way too often.

  • On the post: Congress: P2P Promotes Identity Theft! We Need New Laws!

    norman619 ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2007 @ 11:40am

    Re: re: Barrenwaste

    Rendition... Shhhhhh...

  • On the post: Congress: P2P Promotes Identity Theft! We Need New Laws!

    norman619 ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2007 @ 09:23am

    WTF?

    Congress promotes terminal stupidity! We need new congressmen.

  • On the post: Paul Allen Telescope Starts Looking For Aliens

    norman619 ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2007 @ 07:11am

    This is silly

    We will encounter an alien civ before these guys ever pick up a varifiable alien signal. Since we can't rule out unknown natural radio sources as the source of appearant artificial signals so it's silly. People mistook the regular radio signals from pulsars as artificial. What other natural radio sources look like artificial signals?

  • On the post: We'll Sue You If You Don't Takedown Your Opinion Of Our Game!

    norman619 ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2007 @ 11:30am

    Re:

    Today's religions are tomorrow's mythology. The Romans and the Greeks were just as sure their gods were real.

  • On the post: We'll Sue You If You Don't Takedown Your Opinion Of Our Game!

    norman619 ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2007 @ 11:11am

    Re: Faith-based advantage

    This isn't about faith. It's about poor game sales. They are trying to blame the bloggers and not their own game design team for the quality of their game.

  • On the post: We'll Sue You If You Don't Takedown Your Opinion Of Our Game!

    norman619 ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2007 @ 10:59am

    Re:

    Care to tell us what they calim and how it differes from what really goes on in the game? I'm curious now. I hear the game is really bad so I can't get myself to buy a copy. If you can't tell us I'd be more than happy to turn to torrents. :-)

  • On the post: RIAA Wins Case, Gloats

    norman619 ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2007 @ 05:27pm

    The Fine Is A crime

    It would have been a miracle had she not been found guilty given the evidence. She Admitted to installing Kazaa and the profile on Kazaa matched one of her known email addresses. Since the 24 files in question were shared on Kazaa under the profile it wouldn't have been hard for any sane honest person to see it was very probable she did this. Her lawyer had toknow they were gonna loose which is why the RIAA took it to trial.
    The fine on the other hand is insane. The cost of a nice house for 24 files which may or may not have been downloaded is crazy. they might as well shoot the poor lady now since this pretty much destroys her financially. In my opinion this fits the definition of cruel and unusual punishment. Sad thing is this lady has a collection of hundreds of CD's. Besy Buy showed the recipts for the purchases. So the RIAA is slamming a very good customer of theirs. More reason not to buy.

    HOIST THE PIRATE FLAG MATIES!!!

    On a side note: I didn't know people still use Kazaa.

  • On the post: First RIAA Lawsuit To Face A Jury

    norman619 ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2007 @ 08:32am

    Re: Neither Side Looking Forward

    You are funny. How many people lie to get booted from jury selection becasue they really don't want to be there? How many people woudl be willing to lie to be selected for this trial? I sure as hell would.

  • On the post: First RIAA Lawsuit To Face A Jury

    norman619 ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2007 @ 08:26am

    Re: Re: politicians

    The only way to stop it is to not allow contributions at all. There is no way to tell the difference between a legit contribution and a bribe. That is the problem the Supreme COurt had to deal with. So you either ban all contributions or you don't. I'm in favor of banning them all.

  • On the post: Would A $100 Billion Fine Get The US To Pay Attention To Antigua's WTO Win?

    norman619 ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2007 @ 12:57pm

    Re: Re: Re: Nah

    If you bothered to read up on the dispute between the US and Antigua you'd already know. Many of the other people here seem to understand.

  • On the post: Would A $100 Billion Fine Get The US To Pay Attention To Antigua's WTO Win?

    norman619 ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2007 @ 12:06pm

    Re:

    Nice way of avoiding the issue at hand. The US agreed to follow WTO rules as part of membership. All this other BS has noting to do with the fact that the US simply does not want to follow the rules it agreed to. You are gonna teach your kids it's ok to go back on your word if you helped the person you gave your word to in the past? How old are you? 12?

  • On the post: Would A $100 Billion Fine Get The US To Pay Attention To Antigua's WTO Win?

    norman619 ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2007 @ 12:00pm

    Re: Re: Nah

    You have no clue what you are talking about. MANY more lives would have been lost had we not nuked Japan. And please let's not for get what got us into the war in the first place.

  • On the post: Would A $100 Billion Fine Get The US To Pay Attention To Antigua's WTO Win?

    norman619 ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2007 @ 11:58am

    Re: Nah

    LOL!!! you are priceless. Helping them at various points in the past has nothing to do with the matter at hand. The US expects others to abide by the WTO rules but when the US is expected to do the same the US chooses to ignore the rules? I sure hope you don't have any kids. I hope Antigua opts to become the new haven for content pirates. It's understandable why many nations dislike the US. We like to enforce the rules but we sure don't like to follow them.

  • On the post: Comcast Fined For Airing Fake News Without Revealing It Was Fake

    norman619 ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2007 @ 11:19am

    Re:

    Nope. Just like you can't yell "FIRE!" in a crowded room you should not be able to knwoingly present a 100% bogus new release w/o letting peopel knwo it's not real news. A better example of a reason this rule exists is the old Orson Wells War Of The Worlds radio broadcast. People unaware it's staged went bonkers and there was mass panic.

  • On the post: Another Day, Another Smackdown By A Judge Against The RIAA

    norman619 ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2007 @ 11:36am

    Re:

    Yeah kinda like Whack A Mole but much more fun.

  • On the post: No Evidence That Online Gambling Creates More Problem Gamblers

    norman619 ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2007 @ 09:04am

    The Nanny State

    When will we let people be resp for their own actions? It's rediculous that the gov tries to protect people from their own weaknesses at our expence. Gambling isn't the problem. The problem is the people who are too weak to control themselves. If they gamble away their life savings that is their problem. Maybe that is what they need to happen before tehy wake up.

  • On the post: Why The Rest Of Tech Industry May Not Be Happy About The EU/Microsoft Decision

    norman619 ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2007 @ 12:27pm

    Re: Why The Rest Of Tech Industry May Not Be Happy

    With an extra serving.

  • On the post: Why The Rest Of Tech Industry May Not Be Happy About The EU/Microsoft Decision

    norman619 ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2007 @ 12:25pm

    Re: Is this Anti-American, Gee I Wonder Why.

    Are you so blind to the level of ignorance you just displayed? The EU is viewed by many nations as the next USSR. Specially by people whe recently were set free from the USSR. The EU is anti-competition plain and simple.

  • On the post: EU Smacks Down Microsoft's Antitrust Appeal

    norman619 ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2007 @ 01:12pm

    Re: Fair Competition

    The EU is the next USSR. They are doing all they can to eliminate free market competition. If they don't like MS they should just go ahead and ban it since that seems to be what they want to do anyway.

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