“It’s not organized crime families, as in ‘the mob,’” admits Bradley Buckles, head of the RIAA’s anti-piracy unit and former director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. “But large groups engaged in organized criminal activity are involved.”
Basically 1 guy sells the bootlegs, and 1 guy makes them. Really organized there.
Wired News: [...]
I hate Cameron Diaz
Every time she opens her gaping mouth, she spews more self-righteous bullshit all over the place. One of my favorite lines is when she says “it’s kind of gotten out of hand how much of a convenience we think we need.” Diaz, who makes around $20 million per picture and drives a [...]
Mark Chamberlain
So DC wants the gallery to not show this-sent some letter. Batman’s gay-so what? News flash batman isnt a real person, comic companies suck.
Im not Gay but Batman is!. . . .& Robin too!
BBC news Gallery Article about this
Came across this blog entry yesterday while reading through the discussion at Slashdot on the PC snitch:
DUI Blog: “The DUI Exception to the Constitution”
Seems the slashdotter was right in that the U.S. does make Constitutional rights conditional based on the crime committed. But at the same time I think that the slashdotter seems to [...]
A Gateway PC tech finds kiddie pr0n on some n00b’s PC and alerts the police. There are so many things wrong with that situation. First, you have this PC tech who’s rummaging through this user’s files — a blatant invasion of privacy. So much, in fact, the EFF took notice:
EFF: Breaking News
Second [...]
Gov. Taft’s father and grandfather both served in the U.S. Senate and his great-grandfather, William Howard Taft, was the 27th U.S. president, as well as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
So…he might get a slap on the wrist.
Ohio gov. charged with criminal misdemeanors
Typical shady gov’t official antics.
Wired News: Apple, Microsoft in Patent Pickle
Pompous O pilfers wired-news-Will’s Post!
In the blue corner we have:
Welcome to the new WalmartWatch.com
In the red corner:
Wal-Mart Facts
Maybe I’m just pessimistic and too lazy to read through either of these sites, but I don’t think a company can be as large and profitable as Wal-Mart without being grossly unethical.
…people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line.
Wired News: Laptops, Cheap: Come and Get ‘em
Apparently it was a really really good deal.
BBC – Action Network – How to get celebrity and high profile support
now all i need to find is some endangered swamp moth.
