On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> Ah, now I see. Before, I was thinking that he was talking about the passage
> where Onan pulls out and spills his seed on the ground, which, somehow, became a
> prescription against masturbation, although reading it, especially in context,
> is clearly
On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 09:08 PM, Declan McCullagh wrote:
I suspect would be silly to stage an anti-DMCA protest against an
invited
speaker to that Stanford class. Lessig, Gilmore, Barlow, Farber, and
Stallman have been speakers (and I'm scheduled to be in the spring
lineup).
At the v
I suspect would be silly to stage an anti-DMCA protest against an invited
speaker to that Stanford class. Lessig, Gilmore, Barlow, Farber, and
Stallman have been speakers (and I'm scheduled to be in the spring lineup).
At the very least, it makes sense to find out more about the program
and have a
At 09:54 AM 01/20/2003 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
It dwindles because the rate at which the copyright period is increasing
averages more than 1 year/year. Quite a number of works which had
been in the public domain fell out of it when the 20 year extension went
into effect.
The public domain *did*
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> From: Steve Schear[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 1:28 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Supremes and thieves.
>
> At 09:54 AM 1/20/2003 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
> > > How can it "dwindle?" The public domain can only increas
At 09:54 AM 1/20/2003 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
> How can it "dwindle?" The public domain can only increase or hold
> steady. All this ruling does is damp the rate of increase.
>
> Marc de Piolenc
>
It dwindles because the rate at which the copyright period is increasing
averages more than 1 year/
>It's hard to tell from the US media reports what's really going on.
I stumbled about an alternative viewpoint of the affair at
http://www.muslimedia.com/archives/world02/venez-us.htm
>It's hard to tell from the US media reports what's really going on.
Sorry!!! The previous link was for the coup. The correct URL is
http://www.muslimedia.com/archives/world02/venez-uscoup.htm
My memory is shot.
Don't drink and google.
Here's a couple of articles that seem a bit more balanced:
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/01/1561494.php
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41444-2003Jan11.html
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On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 10:01:35AM -0600, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote:
> Baloney. The terrorists have made it pretty clear what their gripe with
> the U.S. Government is, and it has nothing to do with trade, the
> American lifestyle, or the elusive freedoms that Americans supposedly
> enjoy. It ha
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On 20 Jan 2003 at 7:20, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> It's hard to tell from the US media reports what's really
> going on. Is the "nation-wide strike" a strike of the workers
> or just a lockout of the workers by the companies opposed to
> Chaves? Given his popularity with the lower class, it's
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:34:09 +0800, you wrote:
>
> None of this is relevant to individuals copying works for scholarship or
> research. "Fair Use" still applies.
>
> Matthew X wrote:
>
> > We learned as much on Wednesday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
> > Congress can repeatedly extend copy
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:32:30AM -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
> --
> On 20 Jan 2003 at 7:20, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> > It's hard to tell from the US media reports what's really
> > going on. Is the "nation-wide strike" a strike of the workers
> > or just a lockout of the workers by the comp
> Marc de Piolenc[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Matthew X wrote:
> > We learned as much on Wednesday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
> > Congress can repeatedly extend copyright terms, as it did most recently
> in
> > 1998 when it added 20 years to the terms for new and existing works.
>
> >
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:10:52PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote:
> A recent news article described the nationwide strike in Venezuela, in
> protest against the nascent dictatorship of Hugo Chavez, as seeming "like
> something from fiction." Well, yes, it seems very similar to one work of
> fiction
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None of this is relevant to individuals copying works for scholarship or
research. "Fair Use" still applies.
Matthew X wrote:
> We learned as much on Wednesday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
> Congress can repeatedly extend copyright terms, as it did most recently in
> 1998 when it added
Gore would have appointed folks to federal agencies who were
considerably more regulatory, not even thought about a serious tax
cut, and would have embraced more and more federal regulations.
Bush is marginally better on that score.
As for civil liberties, we wouldn't have had Poindexter but we co
At 12:11 AM 01/20/2003 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 07:45:56AM -0500, Jay h wrote:
> The obsession with Starbucks really puzzles me. Starbucks is one of
> the few mass retailers that actually offers medical coverage to even
> part timers, it allows people to move from pl
A recent news article described the nationwide strike in Venezuela, in
protest against the nascent dictatorship of Hugo Chavez, as seeming "like
something from fiction." Well, yes, it seems very similar to one work of
fiction in particular: Ayn Rand's prophetic 1957 novel, "Atlas Shrugged."
The
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 07:45:56AM -0500, Jay h wrote:
> The obsession with Starbucks really puzzles me. Starbucks is one of
> the few mass retailers that actually offers medical coverage to even
> part timers, it allows people to move from place to place and pick
It was kind of amusing to see DC
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