No offense, Alan, of course this was between the lines of your question :) Sigh, in this age of remixing/freemixing... change a few words, add a break beat, and voilà! What do you think about some sort of hyper-intelligent copy-paste code which acts like big brother for this issue? My hardest censorship lesson was to leave ads in place when I had the option to filter them out for a largish private party... well the bandwidth was provided by an EFF founder, I got the smack-down and learned an important lesson! =O "You might just get what you ask for, but you may have to ask for it." -B. Barrett, 2009 (oddly, when I google that to make sure no-one else had the same words, I get an Eric Raymond doc, lol)
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Allen Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I figured I could track it down with google. But I would > never quote something like that without giving attribution. > Everybody should be giving credit when "borrowing" somebody's > lines. This is not the responsibility of the reader. > Think copyright. > -- > Allen Brown abrown at peak.org > http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/<http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/%7Eabrown/> > If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, > I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. --- Bill Watterson > > > [OT oops :] > > Google it, http://webspace.webring.com/people/gj/jlinwood/quaterma.htm > > only one hit on the quoted quote... you'll get lucky. ;) > > > > Does this pertain to Avatar??? (the new movie) > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Harald Sundt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 12/21/09 5:06 PM, Allen Brown wrote: > >> > >>> Now hold on there a second. You can't drop a quote like that into > >>> your sig without saying who the quote comes from! > >>> > >>> > >> > >> quote: Dr. Bernard Quatermass of the The British Experimental Rocket > >> Group > >> The BBC TV serial miniseries version of "Quatermass and the Pit" 1957. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> “the ancient destructive urges in, us, that grow more deadly as our > >> populations approach in size and complexity those of ancient Mars. Every > >> war > >> crisis, witch-hunt, race riot and purge…is a reminder and warning. We > >> are > >> the Martians. If we cannot control the inheritance within us…this will > >> be > >> their second dead planet!” > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> EUGLUG mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > EUGLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >
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