Hi Samuel!
02 Jan 2003, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> But again ... Americans don't seem to care.
SH> The reason why industrial plants in Japan have modern anti-pollution
SH> technology is that they were built with money given to them by the
SH> US so that they could rebuild their economy after WWII. In the US we
SH> still have many factories and power plants in full production and
SH> operating under pre-1940 technology.
This is not the reasoning of W.
He says that the only important thing is economy, the rest does not matter.
PS: Naturally laws only affect *NEWLY* built factories/plants ... but there is
no initiative from the US government.
PPS: IMNSHO transferring some money from the ridicolously overfinanced military
and giving it to climate measurements and social ensurance would be a good
idea.
But this is only my oppinion.
Fact is that half of the CO2 emission comes from the USA.
This is the reason why kyoto without USA is not much worth, and this is also
the cause why so many people "do not like" W for this.
>> s> Republicans are always saying that support of free enterprise
>> sure they do ... they support sony, time warner, microsoft ....
SH> Why would they support Micro$oft?
Easy $$$
M$ brings america many bucks out of taxes.
And if they manag to pass the new TPCA laws these $$$ willl be even more.
SH> Maybe he likes the Democrats because the prosecutors went very easy
SH> with him and let him get away with a lot of stuff.
The same is true for republican administration.
At the end it seems that no US government wants to stop the $$$ source.
>> on the paper it does not stifle competition, because everybody can
>> (theoretically) develop TCPA compliant software or hardware.
SH> If someone develops "open source" TCPA compliant software and hardware
SH> then anyone can remove the TCPA parts and recompile it or re-design it
SH> to suit their own needs.
it is illegal to recompile the OS without immediately beginning TCPA testing.
So the TCPA is in theory compatible with the open source movement, but not with
exsiting licenses (at least not with the GPL)
>> >> SH> It is my opinion that the law, if passed, would soon be
>> >> SH> repealed due to popular protest.
>> >> Where is the american protest ??
>> s> The only reason you don't find many Americans protesting is that
>> s> most of them don't even know about the DMCA and TPCA.
>> But whos fault is this ??
SH> It is the fault of the American News Media for neglecting to publicize
SH> it. On most controversial issues the news channels hold debates and
SH> panel discussions so that the public will hear both sides of the
SH> issues. I haven't heard EITHER side of this issue from the news media.
SH> I didn't even know of the existence of this issue until just recently.
And this is what is IMHO a *HUGE CATASTROPHY* for a civilised country.
How can this happen ??
Either journalists are so apathetical, that they don't care, or the big news
companies censor such stories.
I don't see any other possibility, and this is VERY, VERY, VERY sad.
>> s> DMCA and TPCA technology will not be an
>> s> effective preventative for copyright theft.
>> yes they will.
>> EVERYTHING will be encrypted.
>> there will be TCPA chips in the monitor, the speakers etc.
>> So the only possibility would be to film the monitor, or put a
>> microphone infront of the speakers.
SH> That really sux. What if you want to hook up some super quality
SH> speakers and earphones to your audio equipment instead of using just
SH> the cheaply built hardware provided by some PC-manufacturer?
as long as you bought the speaker after the TCPA law introduction, there will
be no problem, because they contain a TCPA chip ... if not, than ??? who knows
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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