Re: Software Warning?

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> jesh thx fo the info on this.
> ill get on my soap box, and at the risk of sounding like some paranoid
> militia member begin ranting. :)
> these kinds of laws are geting passed more and more nowadays, and the
> actions pepole take to prevent them are unnerving. more and more i 
hear
> pepole buying the bs that they (the government) send us that its for 
our own
> good, or i also hear "it dont aply to me." (so i dont care) well more 
and
> more i see the big brother of 1984 happening nowadays, it seems the

I think this is inaccurate.  The government is to indecisive and 
fickle to be a real threat at this point.  The problem is huge 
corporations pushing their agenda into law.  I think someone on 
Slashdot has refered to this as "corporatism". When you have an 
uninterested and poorly educated populace (both which we certainly 
have) this is all too easy.  Mention copyright law to 19 out of twenty 
people on the street and I'll wager they just glaze over.  But 
intellectual property laws are intimimately related to human rights 
and a free society.  Fortuneatly we have the court system, which in 
opinion are what make America great.  But as evidenced in the DVD 
case, one has to know how to use it.

> governement is slowly trying to stip us of our rights as suposedly 
protected
> by the bill of rights and the constitution, well i think thats the 
problem
> is we are taught that the checks and balances will protect us of our 
rights.

Actually I think the check-and-balance system was created to keep the 
government from spinning out of control in EITHER direction, as the 
authors believed that democracy was inherently unstable.

> but the truth is that we must protect our own rights and any excuses 
are not
> acceptable. it dont aply to me is bs because sooner or later it will.
> any how this is my 2 cents and ill get off my soap box and let the 
discution
> continue :)

I'm not using a soap box, I'm standing on a Milk crate.