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Me like seizure robots. Eyes hurt. Stinging. STINGING PAIN IN HEAD!!!!!! MAKE THEM STOP!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<><><>~~~~~~~~~<><><>~~~~~~~~~~~<><><>~~~~~~
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226. Tom 7 (user-112027u.dsl.mindspring.com) –
19 May 2002 21:42:59
[ Commerce Week 2002 ]
K: That's the idea!
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Nice of you to buy a ping pong table in preparation for my visit...so I can whoop yo ass.
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224. Jason Scheirer (itservwks37.shared.rico.lcl) –
15 May 2002 20:00:15
[ Commerce Week 2002 ]
I think the main source of research that comes out of universities is from the lecture doodle. Assemble a large enough collection of notebooks full of drawings, I hypothesize, and all the mysteries of the universe will be solved (in between pictures of llamas). |
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No IDE raid, you need floppy raid! Floppy raid smokes all other hd configs! You need it, you need it... |
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I'm glad that you are standing up for yourself, Tom. I despise bullies. Those people make me want to vomit. I can't believe I live in the same country as them.
I truly hope there really is a Heaven and Hell; I'm convinced that people like that will BURN for what they are doing to normal people. There is absolutely no way that God isn't taking notice...
I've been a senior developer in the printing and publishing industry for the last 15 years, now, and I carry some clout in my organization. One thing is for sure, we won't be buying anything from their organization, not if I have anything to say about it. They are effectively blacklisted here. |
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220. Marc (sar67.resnet.usf.edu) –
12 May 2002 18:20:23
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I downputted the new Wilco album a few days ago, I can scp 2 u too. But I'm not so sure I'd recommend listening to it, hmmm, maybe I still ought to listen to it more...
I think the new Mirah album is much better, 'tis what excites me up the most lately, just got it a few days ago. You want that too? Did you like the first album? This one's very different, though. Megabomb though, definitely megabombom. |
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Oh, I didn't think of that, scanning... Okay, I went accross the street & scanned it 4 u & scp it 2 u. |
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218. Tom 7 (user-112025l.dsl.mindspring.com) –
11 May 2002 19:53:23
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Three Qs for clar/disc!
I'll be around for your visit, so make sure to give me a call.
I haven't heard Wilco yet, but, GBV tomorrow at rosebud! I'm slowly getting back into music... |
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217. M (202.3.148.71) –
11 May 2002 13:09:11
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its really gr8 ... |
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Mils: well, I guess I did enjoy Mallrats after all, I'm just saying that it has its downsides. I agree that the Batman movies were definitely better, but I thought X-Men was better, too. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood?
I've heard other good things about 'y tu mama tambien', marc, I guess I should check it out...
(PS. I watch so many movies because I can watch bad movies while doing work.) |
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Goddam you watch a lot of movies, Tom. Well, I watch far fewer (I think only one so far this year), but I did see a really good one last weekend, so perhaps I ought to recommend it. It's called "Y Tu Mama También." Okay, there you have it, my recommendation. Oh, if you do watch, give it a bit of a chance because you might (like I did) think that's it's not going to be too good after seeing the first 20 or 30 minutes of it. |
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ok, so im reading this, and im following you up until i get to mallrats - now, admittedly it wasnt smith's best movie, but blame for that can be attributed to the pressure put on him by the studios to top clerks, a tall order indeed... the dialogue was a bit over the top on purpose, i believe, to add a bit of juxtaposition between the "mallrats" and the "normals"... and spiderman? i was weaned at the teat of the marvel, with the assorted x-titles and spidey as my numero uno flavors... and this was quite a faithful rendition of the comic books... much much better than any previous comic book movie, with the exception of tim burton's batman flicks, which were more burton movies than batman ones... the melodrama, flashbacks, et al that you rag on as retarded are staples of comic books, and raimi bringing said attributes to the movie is a credit to his directing style. ok, im all ranted out... cheerio, and have fun with agfa and monotype ;-) |
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First of all, let me say this... I have been aware of your fonts for several years! Tom's New Roman and Tombats are some of my most favorite toys and tools.
As for the bully font foundries... who overcharge for their products to start with... I must say this much... I have yet to find a single one of their fonts that necessitates a purchase. There are 1000's of quality freeware fonts which are at least as good as ITC, Monotype, Agfa fonts and often times better.
I certainly won't be rewarding their infantile tactics with my hard earned money.
Go get 'em Tom!!! |
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212. Karthik (ip18.eliresearch.com) –
08 May 2002 08:52:58
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hey dude,
looks like Gary Schark taught you a thing or two ;)
Amy and I just bought our tickets, we'll be in da burgh from June 20-23. A Paul's visit will be in order, as well as trips to India Garden, Dave & Andy's, Eat n' Park, and possibly Sandacstle.
Did you get/download the new Wilco yet?
K |
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211. za3oolah (213.42.0.244) –
08 May 2002 08:24:16
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flaming text is really coo00000000oooooooool BUT when i copy and paste it in my websit e it doesn't work and that makes me really annoyed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Dear Mr. Murphy:
Keep up the good work, I hope that chillingeffects.org can help you resist this disgraceful attempt to use the DMCA to give corporations a veto over software development. I suggest that you countersue the legal firm involved for malicious and vexatious prosecution, as their suit is utterly without merit.
I will paraphrase a comment I made in an e-mail I sent to some of my friends, today:
These (font) companies are saying, in effect, "if you write a program that's meant to do 'X', and somebody uses it to do 'Y', you're guilty of violating this law"... exactly the same logic as in, "if you build a car that's meant to be driven legally, and a crook uses it to speed down a highway, then we come after you rather than the crook".
So much for the Magna Carta.
What if I have come across a font that can't be embedded due to having its copyright bits set, and I undertake an exhaustive search to find its creator to pay him / her for the right to use it or embed it, but the originator of the font can't be found?
A strict reading of the legal harassment you have been subjected to would seem to suggest that a person's only recourse under such conditions would be simply to give up and, in effect, say "I mustn't use that font because somebody, somewhere, MIGHT want me to pay for the privilege of doing so... even though my using the font could not possibly cause that person a monetary loss, given that there is no way for me to pay for the privilege in any event."
If carried to its logical conclusion this line of reasoning could be used to prevent the use of any kind of digitally reproduceable content under any circumstances. (The background pattern that I use on my Web pages MIGHT be patented or copyrighted by someone. I guess I can't use any background pattern, then. But who knows, maybe someone has copyrighted the idea of coloured backgrounds of any type, even "red" or "green". Do you see where this is heading?)
Notice, furthermore, given that (just to name two), the "Arial" and "Times New Roman" TrueType fonts are close copies of Mergentaler's "Helvetica" and "Times" typefaces (which would have had to have been created by reverse-engineering the latter, something that is clearly illegal under the DMCA), why shouldn't the DMCA be used to prosecute Apple and Microsoft for patent and copyright infringement?
Oh, I forgot. They're big corporations, with legions of lawyers, and they have more rights than ordinary citizens.
Best of Luck To You
An Anonymous Security Analyst |
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Congratulations on standing up to bullying lawyers!
FWIW there was a similar problem with Apple trying to stop someone having a page of 'deep links' to their ftp site.
Because his ISP got scared, and demanded he take down the page, he simply got someone in the Netherlands to host his page of links.
If you get problems with whoever actually hosts your site, just invite people to mirror it. I'll happily offer space in the UK, where 'DMCA' is just four meaningless letters.
All strength to you
Stuart Bell
(stuarts macs at dsl dot pipex dot com) |
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you go Tom, that was a very gratifying read. glad you got the legal understanding to push back on those dolts. at least their earning their retainer looking up your citations. keep us posted! adelante! |
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www.seizurerobots.com is down ;( |
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Good luck, and thanks for posting your travails. |
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Sleep tight, they don't have jack against you.
How I hate this DMCA stuff, it hasn't do anything good besides being used by the big guys to bully the small guys. |
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Yes I did say "storng" and not "strong". It's a catchy little technique I picked up somewhere to demonstrate how much attention to detail I give to what I write, or sign. |
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