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ukb007
16th June 2004, 02:14
Hi.

A news item in doom9's newssheet had informed us, on 6/12, that there's a thought in some people's minds to make PCs illegal (http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000571.html). Well, let's not call the thing they have, minds, okay? 'Cause I have one, and I feel insulted. It's instructive to see that such people do exist. Well, let's not call them people either, okay? People might object, and rightly so. Perhaps morons is the right word, huh?

Well, now, on 15/6, there's the silver lining: a novel idea to tax blank discs to pay artists (http://www.mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=67720). Shows there are still people who actually have the capacity to think, and think constructively.

And my hats off to doom9. He does roam and cull, he does. Everybody in love with moving pictures should make it a point to read his newssheet every morning. It does make my day.

Regards.

bill_baroud
16th June 2004, 03:36
? i already pay a tax on my blank cds (or dvd.. or vhs etc ...) that i use to back up my programs, to pay for artists loss due to "piracy".

(and for the way i talk, you can tell i'm not english nor american ;))

dani82
16th June 2004, 06:58
why not?

i already pay a tax on everything else (sales tax & income tax :sly: )

what's a couple of buck every 3-4 months

Dox
18th June 2004, 06:46
Actually that would make Thought and thinking ILLEGAL, since you are decoding and decrypting the letters and words to make them understandable to us humans.