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• On the post: Can Handing Out 'Txting Kills' Thumb Bands Stop People From Texting While Driving?

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2010 @ 09:18am

  What's really sad is that some people can't be convinced to change their ways until they're either involved in an accident, or someone close to them is.

• On the post: Transportation Secretary Expects To Use Technology To Block All Mobile Phone Usage In Cars [Updated]

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2010 @ 09:07am

  I'm against this because I think it's unfair to ban passengers from using their phones. Target the driver, but leave the passengers alone.

• On the post: More & Bigger Mistakes Discovered In Homeland Security's Domain Seizures

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2010 @ 08:57am

  Re: Re:

  Because the recording industry has bought off the politicians and judges.

• On the post: Copyright Used To Silence 10-Year-Old Girl Raising Money For Charity

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2010 @ 03:52pm

  Chaplin would be appalled

  I'm certain Mr. Chaplin wouldn't have minded a kid using his song for a charitable work. When he wrote that song, he probably figured it would come into the public domain in just a few years.

• On the post: Copyright Used To Silence 10-Year-Old Girl Raising Money For Charity

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2010 @ 03:51pm

  Re: The Kid

  If the copyright laws hadn't been extended again and again over the decades, that song would have been in the public domain long ago.

• On the post: Copyright Used To Silence 10-Year-Old Girl Raising Money For Charity

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2010 @ 03:47pm

  Re: The Kid

  If copyright hadn't been extended again and again over the years, that song would have been in the public domain decades ago.

• On the post: DOJ Doesn't Believe $80,000 Per Song Unconstitutional Or Oppressive

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2009 @ 03:15pm

  Re: The fall of the Roman empire

  There are times I really wonder. They have the money. They have the clout. What do regular people have but one vote every two to four years?

• On the post: Texting Is Wrecking Your Teenager's Mind, Destroying Their Thumbs, Killing Puppies, Etc.

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 29 May, 2009 @ 10:21am

  Old as the hills

  Ranting and raving over new technology and trends is nothing new. In the early 1900s, phonographs and movies were the target, in the 40s, it was comic books, since the 50s TV has been a favorite target and since the 1990s, the Internet and so on.
  
  Every 20 or so years, a new technology will be embrace by young people and eschewed and reviled by their elders. Even Plato ranted and raved about corrupt youth in ancient Athens.
  
  It's as old as the hills!

• On the post: Today, It's Good Manners Being Killed By Texting

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 29 May, 2009 @ 10:17am

  Old as the hills

  Ranting and raving over new technology and trends is nothing new. In the early 1900s, phonographs and movies were the target, in the 40s, it was comic books, since the 50s TV has been a favorite target and since the 1990s, the Internet and so on.
  
  Every 20 or so years, a new technology will be embrace by young people and eschewed and reviled by their elders. Even Plato ranted and raved about corrupt youth in ancient Athens.
  
  It's as old as the hills!

• On the post: Copyright Has Stretched So Far That It Has Broken

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2008 @ 10:22am

  Copyright must die

  Copyright must die because it's just a form of censorship and control. So what if I use a few lines of someone else's work in something I write? Does that make it any less valid? If it's a blatant ripoff, call me out on it. But don't try to knock me offline just because I borrowed from someone else!
  
  People have always borrowed from their predecessors! Ancient Greek plays were based on Ancient Egyptian mystery plays. Shakespeare then borrowed from the Ancient Greek plays for his stories. If copyright had been around back then, we wouldn't have King Lear or Romeo and Juliet!

• On the post: Do We Need An Internet Zoning Law?

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2008 @ 03:30pm

  Do We Need An Internet Zoning Law?

  What right to be free of unwanted speech? I don't recall seeing that anywhere in the Bill of Rights!
  
  Professor Cheryl B. Preston, take your commie censorship ideas and stuff 'em!

• On the post: Time For Flight Mode On Your Mobile Phone

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2008 @ 04:25pm

  Re: Re: Mythbusters investigate

  I'd like to see the rule modified to where we can have phones on, but they must be in vibrate and only silent use (texting, IMing, Web surfing, etc.) is allowed. No one wants to be trapped in a cabin full of people airing their dirty laundry.