Does this remind you of 'Space Merchants' ? For a while I thought it was a parody...

Wow, great article!

I especially like their Heinlein quote:

There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years , the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped ,or turned back, for their private benefit.
- "Life-Line"

HA, that was really funny. What a deuchnozzle.

Are you sure that isn't satire. Maybe Kellner is trying to get some free publicity. When will we be signing these contracts when we buy tv's. Or maybe we will have to lease them like the old phones for bell.

Yeah, contracts? I didn't sign a contract. Did you?

Soon radios will be made that won't allow to change fequencies during a commercial? Ha. I'd like to seem them implement that into the Radio Shack kit.

He's just another greedy socialist cunt promoting unjust laws for his own benefit. Ironic.

He's just another greedy socialist cunt promoting unjust laws for his own benefit

I think you have that a bit backwards..

Socially aware, driven by personal freedoms: Socialist
Economically aware, driven by corporate freedoms: Capitalist

I'd say he falls into the latter (although I don't take that particular article seriously).

Rob

Yes, he's trying to capitalize off of a socialist-type law. That's what I think many socialists (at least the powerful ones) are trying to do. Capitalizing through free-trade is fair game. This guy is just making up rules as he goes along.

I used to believe in stuff when I was your age too.

No.. wait.. I'd given up by then.

How's your car stereo?

Rob

Yeah, I'm at that stage where I still think that my life is actually gonna amount to something.

But the empeg's still strong. Besides an occasional IDE-unmasking failure, it's holding up good.

Yeah, you think your life is gonna amount to something but then you end up a software manager with SONICblue.

Rob

PS If my boss is reading, just kidding!

Wait until you wake up and find you did amount to something after all but that doesn't mean squat in the final analysis. That being said, if you die having owned an empeg, you have a definate leg up on the competition.

I thought the latest when I wrote my first "Hello world" programm with BASIC...uhhhmmmm....20 years ago in my ZX81 :-)

Mario

Haha. I just wrote my first "HelloWorldApp" in java a couple weeks ago. I didn't realize "HelloWorld" was the standard.

You're a man among capatalist children...
Keep up the good fight.

Good Lord.

Wait, no, I don't believe in him...

Alex

Ok, I just can't keep quiet. How can you claim to believe in "personal freedoms", but are perfectly willing to support heavy taxation (read: taking away my personal freedom to keep the fruit of my labors) in order to further social goals with which I might not agree?

That's the real crux of the issue for me. It's not like I love corporations or don't believe in doing good things for society, it's just that I'd like to have the freedom to support those causes that I believe in and withold my support from those I don't.

Alex

Who is that question aimed at?

Not me, hopefully, as I haven't expressed any personal views in this thread. I just tried to clarify a definition.

Rob