Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Tuesday 26 September 2006 05:54 \__
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 25 September 2006 23:41 \__
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>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> British Library calls for digital copyright action
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| In a manifesto released on Monday at the Labor Party Conference
>>>>>| in Manchester, the United Kingdom's national library warned that the
>>>>>| country's traditional copyright law needs to be extended to fully
>>>>>| recognize digital content.
>>>>>|
>>>>>| "Unless there is a serious updating of copyright law to recognize
>>>>>| the changing technological environment, the law becomes an ass,"
>>>>>| Lynne Brindley, chief executive of the British Library, told ZDNet
>>>>>| UK.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6119043.html
>>>>>
>>>>> It's /not/ the first time that British libraries warm about the dangers
>>>>> of DRM (encryption). Perhaps DRM will reach its demise before Vista is
>>>>> even released.
>>>>
>>>> For our US readers, an ass is a donkey, not an arse. Although you can
>>>> sit on both an arse and an ass at the same time. Read Shakespeare's A
>>>> Midsummer Night's Dream for more... or better still, go to see it.
>>>
>>> That Labor Conference is keeping me away from the gym for a week (it shut
>>> the hotel). Well, this gives me 15 more hours on the Net. *smile*
>>
>> Ah, yes, I saw some of Gordon Brown's speech. He's used the
>> "anti-american" phrase again, so I'm totally put off. I'm used to yanks
>> professing not to know the difference between being anti-US government
>> policy and disliking yanks or not, but for a potential British Prime
>> Minister to be unable to recognise that these two are not the same is
>> unforgivable.
>
> Yes, I love American but despise the current government. I might as well
> point out that I know what every American whom I know (family included)
> thinks of the current government, so blaming them for anything is an
> impossibility.
Dont be so bloody spineless.
Anti-American is perfectly clear to all but the most PC tree huggers. It
reflects on foreign policy.
Anyway, in the case of Americans : their horrendous nasally voices and
conviction that America is the land of the free also adds to it ....
Don't even get me started on Mel bloody Gibson and his movie "The Patriot".
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Roy
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