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UK dragged screaming and kicking into the 21st century. Probably not, they're bound to screw it up.


And we thought Russia was the backwards country of Europe.
Y'all really followed with 300 year old copyright laws?
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Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

UK dragged screaming and kicking into the 21st century. Probably not, they're bound to screw it up.


And we thought Russia was the backwards country of Europe.
Y'all really followed with 300 year old copyright laws?
Hell no, that was journalistic make-it-up-as-you-go-alongism - we invented copyright 300 years ago, it's been revised loads of times, the last was 1988.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

UK dragged screaming and kicking into the 21st century. Probably not, they're bound to screw it up.

Even people in Somalia were already copying their own discs like 15 years ago... Confused
That's because Somalia has no copyright laws
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

UK dragged screaming and kicking into the 21st century. Probably not, they're bound to screw it up.


And we thought Russia was the backwards country of Europe.
Y'all really followed with 300 year old copyright laws?
Hell no, that was journalistic make-it-up-as-you-go-alongism - we invented copyright 300 years ago, it's been revised loads of times, the last was 1988.


Ai, damn journalists!
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

UK dragged screaming and kicking into the 21st century. Probably not, they're bound to screw it up.

Even people in Somalia were already copying their own discs like 15 years ago... Confused
That's because Somalia has no copyright laws

Well good point. But the existence or not of a law doesn't mean that an action is or isn't performed. And I said "people in Somalia were already copying their own discs like 15 years ago" Wink

Of course I assume British people have also been law-breakers since the invention of copy burners... Tongue 
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I don't know if you guys watch The Daily Show, but last night's episode, Jon Stewart went on a 'rant' about the British laws (since he parodied the House of Commons a few weeks back, but it was censored on British TV), I thought it was pretty well done; he made a lot of good points.

I didn't know you couldn't move your music from a CD to you iPod. LOL Their censorship laws are so silly.
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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

UK dragged screaming and kicking into the 21st century. Probably not, they're bound to screw it up.

Even people in Somalia were already copying their own discs like 15 years ago... Confused
That's because Somalia has no copyright laws

Well good point. But the existence or not of a law doesn't mean that an action is or isn't performed. And I said "people in Somalia were already copying their own discs like 15 years ago" Wink

Of course I assume British people have also been law-breakers since the invention of copy burners... Tongue 
Says you... It's a well know fact that if you ask any Brit he will tell you it was like that when he found it officer.
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Originally posted by darkshade darkshade wrote:

I don't know if you guys watch The Daily Show, but last night's episode, Jon Stewart went on a 'rant' about the British laws (since he parodied the House of Commons a few weeks back, but it was censored on British TV), I thought it was pretty well done; he made a lot of good points.
It's not censorship it's a monopoly - you can't make it funnier than it already is.
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I didn't know you couldn't move your music from a CD to you iPod. LOL Their censorship laws are so silly.
Not quite - we didn't have a law specifically allowing it, which isn't the same thing.
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Originally posted by darkshade darkshade wrote:

I don't know if you guys watch The Daily Show, but last night's episode, Jon Stewart went on a 'rant' about the British laws (since he parodied the House of Commons a few weeks back, but it was censored on British TV), I thought it was pretty well done; he made a lot of good points.



i saw it, it was brilliant, I watch the Daily Show and Colbert Report everyday, two of my favourtie hybreed talkshow news programs, only Craig Ferguson is funnier, I really like to think that  the Daily Shows cast is very influenced by  Monty Python i feel some of the python humour is very much alive and pressant in the corespondances and Jon himself, iike their dead panned faced interviews and how they ask really absurd quiestions with striaght faces, and are getting reall honust answers... really cool detail wich few realy thinks on tomuch....
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On Pineview Terrace, an officer saw a woman "with a beer can in her hand, nude from the waist down, performing a sexual act on a City of Atlanta fire hydrant."

It gets worse. Much worse. Apparently, the woman was fornicating with the fire hydrant across the street from her 80-year-old mother's home. And Mom was looking out the window and saw the whole thing.

The officer approached the woman and her fire hydrant. "Upon seeing me, she threw the beer can down and started to walk away, but was hindered by her pants being around her ankles," the officer wrote. "I placed her in custody and helped her pull her pants up, and get them fastened around her waist with her belt." Surprise! The woman appeared to be very drunk. The mother said her daughter has a problem with crack cocaine and always gets high, and then comes and causes problems outside her home. (The elderly mother has custody of the woman's four kids, ages 8 to 18, who were home at the time.) Also, the mother said her daughter gives false names to police, and that's why she spends such short periods of time in jail after being arrested.

The woman, 44, went to jail on charges of public indecency, public drunkenness and littering (the beer can).
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Rack' and ruin: Stripper goes on 'crime spree' with brothers
Dougherty Gang' on run after Florida shooting, Georgia robbery

Shooting Gallery America, Ohio: "The small community of Copley Township is in shock after a gunman went on shooting spree Sunday, killing seven people before he was shot and killed by police."

In an unrelated story (maybe):
Right Wing Media Site Headline: "Newsweek Puts Picture of Michele Bachmann on Cover That Makes Her Look Crazy." Uh, Maybe Because That is Because She Is. She Posed for the Photo and That is Her Look. LOL


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This is interesting. Apple briefly passes Exxon as ,most valuable  company.


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Apple-briefly-becomes-largest-rb-1540652810.html?x=0
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Slarti there was a fantastic episode on Mondays Dailyshow all the segments were reallt funny, but the first one made me spit out water,
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Nothing like being an Monday morning Quarterback.

http://www.kirotv.com/politics/28805995/detail.html
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/10/us-military-fastest-plane-falcon

This is really progressive! A faster way to bomb each other!

I read in a Norwagian paper that they have lost contact with the vehicle. Personally, I think there are better ways to go from London to Sydney.
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That's absolutely stunning technology. It's a shame it'll be used to bomb rather than to improve life. 
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

That's absolutely stunning technology. It's a shame it'll be used to bomb rather than to improve life. 


Well, improving bombs IS improving life.
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Huh?
"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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