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Message from the Chaos Lords, originally uploaded by bonedad.

Obey!

Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has fought back in court rather than write a check to avoid hefty legal fees, the industry is taking its argument against music sharing one step further: In legal documents in its federal case against Jeffrey Howell, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer.

The industry’s lawyer in the case, Ira Schwartz, argues in a brief filed earlier this month that the MP3 files Howell made on his computer from legally bought CDs are unauthorized copies of copyrighted recordings.

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Fuckwits.

I’ve never heard of nor seen this show. Possibly because I don’t watch very much CBC Television. ( aside from SCTV, Rick Mercer, Trailer Park Boys ) , but also probably because CBC is apparently driving the show away and onto the FOX Network in the USA ???

WTF? Doesn’t CBC want Canadian Content? Isn’t that it’s mandate?

i find it amusing that because of this move I may feel inclined to seek out the first two seasons that ran on CBC (might need to resort to torrent for those if a cheap dvd set isn’t available) and then check out the transition on Fox when season 3 comes out.

I have a friend in the Midwest who runs a small job placement service specializing in programmers. He has an engineering degree and is good at spotting talent. A few years ago the people he placed made about $70,000 a year, but no more. Last year he placed someone at a big firm. This person had 20 years of programming experience and was really good. The job paid $21,000. Then the employer laid this worker off during his first week on the job, bringing in an H1B replacement. That employer was MasterCard.

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This might be a particularily bad example, but oh boy is the outsourcing (overseas and on shore) seemingly a very bad thing for the USA. This sort of tale will only feed the protectionism fires and cause more support for ilk like Ron Paul who, AFAIK, are all for closing the borders and setting the US economy back by about a hundred years (going back to gold-backed currency).

How about companies realizing you get what you pay for, and the rapid churn caused by lowballing jobs like that is only going to hurt them in the end. Lack of business operations knowledge continuity because of lack of long term employees is a big one . . .

Let’s hope that big swirling sucking noise south of the 49th doesn’t pull us in too. Ha, fat chance that. If oil slips even a little . . .

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