it has become glaringly obvious and apparent to me that the only solution that might overcome [or significantly halt] the despotic social, philosophical, political, mental, psychological and emotional climate this world, and in particular this country [A-m-e-r-i-k-a], is headed [notable mention goes to the tyrannical gains, particularly in the last 5-10 years, sugarcoated underneath a facade of democracy], is to simply start over and try again.
A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics. Do you know your online rights? Have you received a letter asking you to remove information from a Web site or to stop engaging in an activity? Are you concerned about liability for information that someone else posted to your online forum? If so, this site is for you. Chilling Effects aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online activities. We are excited about the new opportunities the Internet offers individuals to express their views, parody politicians, celebrate their favorite movie stars, or criticize businesses. But we’ve noticed that not everyone feels the same way. Anecdotal evidence suggests that some individuals and corporations are using intellectual property and other laws to silence other online users. Chilling Effects encourages respect for intellectual property law, while frowning on its misuse to “chill” legitimate activity.
http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq.cgi
Disturbing Number of Legal Flaws in so-called “DMCA Notices” Jennifer M. Urban of the USC Gould School of Law and Laura Quilter of the University of California-Berkeley (Boalt Hall) have found a disturbing number of legal flaws in so-called “DMCA notices”–which result in online materials being pulled from the Internet, generally without notice to the target. Urban and Quilter studied a sample of nearly 900 notices collected by the Chilling Effects project, and discovered that a third of them demanded removal when the target had a clear legal defense. The researchers released a summary report; the full research paper will appear in the March, 2006 edition of the Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal. HTML Full report can be found by clicking here
http://lawweb.usc.edu/news/releases/2005/legalFlaws.html
http://mylaw.usc.edu/documents/512Rep/
And for your amusement……… Legal threats against The Pirate Bay [a bit torrent site] and their hilarious responses that pOWNZ all the aggressors:
http://thepiratebay.org/legal.php
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in other news………
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I don’t know about you, but I hate calling tech support & customer service hotlines, and the worst of it is the wait. Paul English felt the same way and has put together a list of shortcuts on how to get to a human quickly. If enough people bypass these phone systems, maybe the big companies will finally get a clue and start providing real customer service again……
http://paulenglish.com/ivr/
I CAN SPIN, MIX AND JUGGLE REKKIDZ NAKED!
…………does the contingent possibility exist that will allow me to get paid for such haphazard endeavors?
The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles
Chemical burns, ruined clothes, 11 years, half a million dollars—it’s not easy to improve the world’s most popular toy. Yet the success of one inventor’s quest to dye a simple soap bubble may change the way the world uses color
…………That being said, this is EXCELLENT!!! Imagine the possibilities……….like clothing that changes color depending on the soap you wash it with. [if any one of ya says anything about bleach.....I'LL.......i'll......*poot*]
i
lost all of my custodial rights to my son [with absolutely no justifiable
reason or cause for doing so besides his proclamation of 'you live 45 minutes away'] AND my job
within less than 24 hours of each other.
however, i won $1000s of dollars in extortion fees to be awarded to an
alienating cunt who consciously and willfully acknowledged that she was
doing so maliciously, right in front of the judge, though it didn’t seem to matter much to him.
shrouding the cold hard reality of the phrase ’sole custody’, with the
suggestive theme of awarding me [please don't make me fucking puke]
so-called ‘visitation’ [parenting time, anyone?] does not change the
fact that you are illegally attempting to strip my legal right to joint
LEGAL custody [not physical custody, but legal......look it up] of my son you judicial activist[s]/law dodging assholes.
appeal it is, i guess.
*UPDATE*
…more l8r on this whole subject, bc right now I HAVE TO FIND A JOB.
stay tuned <@> audiomind
If anyone can prove me wrong……please do!
http://www.answers.com/topic/peonage
Labor in a condition of servitude to extinguish a debt (the holding of any person to service or labor under the system known as peonage is abolished and forever prohibited – U.S. Code)
Let me elaborate…..
Courts rule that Child Support is not a debt.
Courts rule that Child Support is an obligation.
Courts rule that Child Support is not enforced by contract.
Courts rule that failure to pay Child Support is enforced by “Contempt of Court.”
Those found in contempt of court, in effect, temporarily give up their US citizenship, and do not have ANY constitutional rights. Contempt of Court negates ALL constitutional rights, immunities and protections. In most cases, due process and a right to legal representation and a host of other rights do not apply.
How can one enforce a contract under these conditions?
If C$ is, indeed, a gift, then there would be neither an obligation to pay, nor recriminations for not paying.
Actually, if you look at it, the requirement that you report where you live, where you work, and how much you make, could be considered peonage. Requiring that I pay my ex for doing a job, amounts to her being in my employ. If she’s not doing the job to my specifications, I have the right to fire her.
If I do not have the right to fire her, as every other employer would have(not to mention the tax breaks), then it can’t be a voluntary situation.
In essence C$ is being forced, since not paying can land you in jail, loss of license, etc… And paying her regardless of what kind of job she’s doing, would mean that I’m being forced to pay her. This also amounts to forced labor, which is the very definition of peonage.
……and to beat it all……>>>
US Constitution [including state constitution and/or laws that specifically states similar 'rules']:
http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html
Rules regarding the ‘Imprisonment for Debts’
Amendment V“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, …………., nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
AND
Imprisonment for debt.“There shall be no imprisonment for debt in this State, except in cases of fraud.”
Why is it that everytime I turn on the radio nowadays, what ‘they’ call hip-hop should actually be referred to as (c)RAP?
Anyways, here is a little something devoted to their pathetic excuse for a sub-genre of music……..
I got so much cream they call me butter churner.
I got girls in the oven and girls on the back burner.
I get so much props that I got my own soundstage.
I get so much press that I got my own front page.
When I drink, it’s always Cris by the mag-uh-num
When I talk to librarians, you know I’m thinkin’ about bangin’ em,
The wife beater’s white like Snow White on dwarf
Your shit as big as mine? Yo, check the Schwartz!
[CHORUS]
How you livin, D? With bitches and money!
How you livin, D? With the flyest of honeys!
How you livin, D? Large like a fat man!
How you livin, D? In a cape like Batman!
All these other rappers got to act overzealous
But I got so much flow I make menstrual cycles jealous
Some haters bite my rhymes and insanely dislike me
You thought I sold you a Bomb Pop last week, but yo, that’s my brother.
(…he look just like me)
I got threads as Fly as my man Jeff Goldblum,
Pickin’ up the honies in Gym and Homeroom,
Waxin’ on the track like my pimp Miyagi,
Daniel-san! Daniel-san! Check the wasabi!
[CHORUS]
How you livin, D? With bitches and money!
How you livin, D? With the flyest of honeys!
How you livin, D? Large like a fat man!
How you livin, D? In a cape like Batman!
Some chicks say that I act with disrespect
But bitches who say that get slapped on the neck,
And smacked in the ass, and kicked in the throat,
And hit in the stomach, and stomped on the floor,
And punched in the eye, and thrown out a window.
Alright, so that last verse got a little outta hand,
But before I’m done here, you GOT to understand,
I’m the best you’ve ever seen, I turn dollar bills green
I have sex for weeks at a time, if you know what I mean.
….And I’m OUT.
This article [by Tony Long] gets the notable nod, and the proverbial <> ‘we knew that’……
What is “SUCCESS”?
If I asked you to give me a detailed explanation of EXACTLY how your life would be if you had ULTIMATE SUCCESS, could you do it?
I’ve found that people usually make TWO major mistakes when it comes to defining SUCCESS:
1) Most people haven’t really thought through what success means to them in detail.
2) Most people base their personal idea of success on what OTHERS want, and not what THEY want for themselves.
The more a person looks at what OTHERS are doing and focusing on that, the less satisfied they are with what THEY are doing themselves.
SO WHAT’S THE ANSWER?
1) REALLY THINK ABOUT WHAT SUCCESS MEANS TO YOU IN DETAIL AND WRITE IT DOWN.
Take the time (even if it takes days or weeks… or longer) and think through what you want for yourself.
Do a little “self examination” (no, not down there), and be honest with yourself.
See if you can figure out where your idea of “what success is” came from.
Did it come from watching movies?
Did it come from others you know?
Where did you get your model of what “success” is?
Once you’ve figured out where some of your ideas came from, then think about what you want.
Think about your life and your lifestyle.
Instead of thinking what would make you immediately gratified, try thinking about what would make you HAPPY on an ongoing basis.
Take some time to write down the things you like and emjoy in life and also write down what you DON’T like.
Get a clear picture in your mind of how you’d like your life to be, and what kind of success would make your life more enjoyable, thinking through what success means to you, what you want, what you don’t want, and how you’d like your life to look ideally.
And above all, don’t be like me and procrastinate.
