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I have attained (Score:-1, Offtopic)
by SumDeusExMachina on Sunday November 18, @12:24PM
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Big deal... (Score:0, Flamebait)
by seldolivaw
(me@se[ ]com ['ldo.' in gap]) on
Sunday November 18, @12:26PM (#2581280)
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| The Onion
[theonion.com] has been using obviously machine-generated
"parody" for years now. Nothing else can explain the lack of
originality... |
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Re:Big deal... (Score:0, Offtopic)
by Petrol on Sunday November 18, @12:30PM (#2581289)
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| No, The Onion has a staff of very clever writers. |
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Re:Big deal... (Score:-1, Offtopic)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @12:58PM
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| You must be British to know what parody really is. |
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Re:Big deal... (Score:0)
by
Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @12:59PM (#2581357)
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| Um, read your parent post again. |
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Re:Big deal... (Score:1)
by
garcia on Sunday November 18, @12:46PM (#2581332)
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umm, this isn't "machine" in the sense that a program
actually does it. The people @ the Onion are just a group of
really fucking funny people.
I honestly don't think
that what this program does is all that funny, nor do I care
about what happens as a result of this...
It's one
thing to do a parody of a site on your own as a joke or
whatever but to make a fucking program so that other people
can have the almost exact same thing so that they can be
annoying and put up stupid, unoriginal, web-sites? Goto any
mom-pop ISP and load up someone's web page. There are plenty
of sites out there that are almost identical w/a few changes
that are almost funny...
"Welcome to my HOMEPAGE! --
This site is under construction" |
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On a serious note, though, (Score:4,
Interesting)
by SumDeusExMachina on Sunday November
18, @12:27PM (#2581282)
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| Won't this just encourage corporations to sue over
copyright infringement even more? I mean, Apple was able to
sue over "look and feel", so what would bar these people from
doing the same? Also, how in the world is software going to be
able to tell copyrighted material from non-copyrighted
material? This all seems to be rather ill-planned to me.
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Re:On a serious note, though,
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by imrdkl on Sunday November 18, @01:15PM
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| This all seems to be rather ill-planned to me
Since when has the net been anything more (or less)?
Fighting fire with fire makes the whole world warm. (and
cozy) |
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Only (Score:1, Funny)
by modraken
(modraken@v1DOTshacknetDOTnu) on
Sunday November 18, @01:17PM (#2581384)
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Apple was able to sue over "look and feel",
Only a whore charges for a look and a feel.
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Re:On a serious note, though,
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by ChuyMatt
(klatch123.spamsux.1_i5_1337@hotmail.com) on
Sunday November 18, @01:27PM (#2581408)
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| Well, apple seemed to have reason too. It did look the
same and the target market was exactly the same. This
is just stupid. Throwing their weight arround, bully crap. Now
they are in an interesting spot... |
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Re:On a serious note, though,
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by DotComVictim on Sunday November 18,
@02:06PM (#2581492)
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| It may very well encourage companies to sue - this is
usually the default knee jerk reaction management will take.
The designers of this software were very clever to make it
parody - there is legal precedent protecting parodies of a
work, as it constitutes free speech. This means they can
justifiably have siginificant non-infringing use of trademarks
and copyrighted material. |
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Re:On a serious note, though,
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by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November
18, @02:34PM (#2581553)
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| Parody and impersonation is not forbidden by trademark and
copyright law! Just check out those little peeing Calvin
stickers! Do you actually think that Waterson approved that?
No, of course not, but he can't sue either because its not
actually Calvin, it just LOOKS LIKE Calvin. Most of these
'look and feel' suits will likely be overturned upon appeal.
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Re:On a serious note, though,
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by haruharaharu on Sunday November 18,
@04:40PM (#2581879)
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Parody and impersonation is not forbidden by trademark
and copyright law! Just check out those little peeing Calvin
stickers!
Actually, those are probably illegal, or at least
infringing. It's just that they're damn near impossible to get
rid of. |
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Re:On a serious note, though,
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by Digitalia on Sunday November 18,
@02:41PM (#2581574)
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| Little known fact: Anyone can sue for anything. So asking
what would bar someone from suing for this is a rather moot
question as there is nothing barring anyone from suing for
anything. The real question is, what would bar these people
from winning such a lawsuit? The answer: jurisprudence. We're
safe for a little while, but I hear the Supreme Court is going
IPO... |
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Re:On a serious note, though,
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by aka-ed (aka-ed.att@net) on Sunday November 18,
@04:42PM (#2581883)
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No, the real question is, does any IP holder have
enough time to sue everybody who creates a parody site
using this sort of automation, assuming a few people cared
enough to put a concerted effort behind creating
parody-clones?.
The message sent by the creation of this software is that,
if IP holders choose to engage in legal harassment, there are
ways that the few people who care can make an even bigger
nuisance, without recourse to lawyers.
Even if the product of the software is not funny, the
concept is both funny (in its ironic justice of web harassment
traded for legal harassment) and relevant to the politics of
the web.
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IF I EVER... (Score:-1, Flamebait)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @12:28PM
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IF I EVER MEET YOU, I WILL KICK YOUR ASS
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H2S (Score:0)
by Anonymous
Coward on Sunday November 18, @12:31PM (#2581290)
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| Gatt and yes men? Sounds like How to succeed in business
without really trying. Except the guy's name was gatch. |
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Support the DDA! (Score:4,
Informative)
by Styx on Sunday November 18,
@12:32PM (#2581296)
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| The Domain Defense
Advocate [ajax.org] is a grass-roots organisation trying
to combat unwarranted domain confiscations. IMHO, a very
worthwhile thing to support. |
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Re:Support the DDA! (Score:1,
Insightful)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November
18, @02:00PM (#2581473)
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How is this unwarranted? You have a group that's
using
a well-known term in a deliberate attempt
to confuse
people. Free speech and parody are
one thing, fraud is
something else. When you're
trying hard and succeeding in
fooling people
about your identity and motives, that
crosses
the line into fraud. |
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Links don't work (Score:0, Offtopic)
by Man of
E (i.have@no.email.com) on
Sunday November 18, @12:35PM (#2581303)
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| Hmm, the links aren't working anymore. Is it /.ed already?
Does anyone have a link to a (non-distorted) mirror?
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What does this have to do with My
Rights?? (Score:1, Interesting)
by
Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @12:36PM (#2581307)
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| So a corporation wants someone to take down trademarked
material. What does this have to do with anything else? It
looks like it's just a dispute between 2 parties.
I know slashdot editors think everything done by
corporations somehow tramples on my rights, but I just don't
see the connection here. |
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Re:What does this have to do with My
Rights?? (Score:3, Informative)
by hearingaid
(loki@citadel.twwol.dyndns.org) on
Sunday November 18, @12:46PM (#2581331)
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The World Trade Organization is not an ordinary
corporation; it's an international UN organization.
Imagine if the Red Cross wanted people to take down
websites complaining about people who were infected by HIV via
blood transfusions. Get it? |
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Re:What does this have to do with My
Rights?? (Score:1, Troll)
by Zeinfeld on
Sunday November 18, @02:12PM (#2581507)
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| The World Trade Organization is not an ordinary
corporation; it's an international UN organization.
That does not significantly change the remedies available
to the WTO. It appears to me that the WTO would have a good
case to make.
The gatt.org site is not a 'parody' site, it is
deliberately passing itself off as the official WTO site. It
is intentionally deceiving the readers. As a result the WTO
would appear to have many remedies available, the copyright on
its logos, 'passing off' and libel.
These guys deserve everything that is comming to them.
Deceit and lies are not legitimate means of protest. I don't
see why we should be leaping to protect these idiots. Its like
getting excited when people who go to demonstrations to get
arrested get arrested and go to jail. Don't do the crime if
you can't do the time.
Amongst the statements on the site are:
Much has been made lately of IBM's participation in the
Holocaust. Indeed, IBM proactively and creatively helped the
Nazis identify all of Germany's Jews, which in turn made
possible the biggest slaughter of all time.
Freedom of speech is not the freedom to impersonate others.
The gatt.org site is a censorship site, not a freedom of
speech site, its explicit intention is to deny the WTO the
right to speak for themselves by putting words into their
mouth. |
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Re:What does this have to do with My
Rights?? (Score:1)
by deaddrunk on Sunday
November 18, @02:40PM (#2581572)
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Deceit and lies are not legitimate means of protest.
And I suppose the people that founded the USA never told a
lie (the cherry tree legend not withstanding). Why is lying
not a legitimate form of protest? It seems to be a legitimate
form of political organisations like the WTO. |
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Re:What does this have to do with My
Rights?? (Score:1, Offtopic)
by Zeinfeld on
Sunday November 18, @03:43PM (#2581741)
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| And I suppose the people that founded the USA never
told a lie (the cherry tree legend not withstanding). Why is
lying not a legitimate form of protest? It seems to be a
legitimate form of political organisations like the WTO.
Why should anyone believe someone who is obviously telling
lies? How do you know the truth from the lies?
One of the reasons I have no time for the anti-WTO
protestors is that they appear to have no idea what they are
protesting about. They completely fail to set out a coherent
set of political goals or a strategy to achieve them.
For example amongst the protestors are people complaining
that the third world is paid too little for the goods they
export to the US and others who are complaining about the loss
of US jobs. Denying access to the US markets is not going to
help the developing world.
I don't see many of the anti-WTO protestors at the
conferences trying to do something positive for the third
world. Equally it is a bit odd being lectured on the evils of
global capitalism by some teenager wearing a $150 pair of Nike
trainers. |
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Re:What does this have to do with My
Rights?? (Score:2)
by Kupek (scschnei@vt.edu) on Sunday November 18,
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| What's also not going to help the developing world is
allowing U.S. corporations to exploit third world workers for
cheap labor that is prevented by their own poverty and lack of
political influence in their own country from unionizing.
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Re:What does this have to do with My
Rights?? (Score:5, Insightful)
by Alan Cox (Guess
8)) on Sunday November 18, @12:56PM (#2581352)
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Well let me see
1. Its not trademarked
2. Its
satire which has a special place in copyright law
3. Its
political speech. The WTO are trying to censor legitimate
protest at their attempts to screw the planet. |
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The offence is NOT about freedom of
expression (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on
Sunday November 18, @01:26PM (#2581404)
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See that weird
red, blue and green globe symbol [gatt.org]?
That's trademarked. You can see it on
the WTO website [wto.org], and they have a nice
(specific) notice [wto.org] clearly indicating it is
theirs.
I'm all for parody. But there is no
need for parody to make use of actual trademark symbols,
or even trademarked phrases. It is much more funny, and more
clever besides. Here's
one example [suck.com], in case you don't already know
what I mean.
It's quite clear to me that the Yes
Men are more interested in pissing off the WTO than in parody
itself. This is not itself a crime, but replicating trademarks
like that tends to
fool people [nytimes.com] rather than to get the point
across. The WTO has a legitimate complaint here.Trademark law
is meant to protect consumers, not businesses, and (for once)
the WTO seems to be using it completely legitimately. If the
Yes Men aren't deliberately trying to fool the very people
they are self-righteously trying to protect from the
corporations, they should have no problem with getting off
their duffs and altering the trademarked symbols on their
website. |
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Re:What does this have to do with My
Rights?? (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on
Sunday November 18, @01:40PM (#2581427)
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Well let me see
1. Its not trademarked
WRONG. |
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Re:What does this have to do with My
Rights?? (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on
Sunday November 18, @01:53PM (#2581449)
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| IT's funny that you're saying this. Parody is an accepted
part of the "fair use" defense in the US but not in England.
Sure, we may have the DMCA now but in England this kind of
parody would never have been legal. |
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Parody from Alan Cox (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @03:53PM
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The WTO are trying to censor legitimate protest at
their attempts to screw the planet.
That statement itself is a silly parody of the WTO that
has nothing to do with its real aims.
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Re:What does this have to do with My
Rights?? (Score:3, Insightful)
by Mike Schiraldi (mgs21@columbia.edu) on Sunday November 18,
@04:11PM (#2581823)
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That's ridiculous. First, as others have pointed out, they
are using the WTO's trademarked logo. Second, it's not
clearly satire. Look at the site -- it looks just like the
real thing.
If i post a bunch of messages, claiming to
be you, and then say, "Well, it's satire -- people should have
been able to understand that the real Alan Cox wouldn't have
said such crazy stuff," that's no defense, and it's fraud.
If the site was obviously a parody, i'd support them.
But it's not, and i don't. |
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Re:What does this have to do with My
Rights?? (Score:1)
by _xeno_ on Sunday
November 18, @04:20PM (#2581840)
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| Three posts in one day from Alan Cox? Are you really
that bored or has someone hijacked your account? Or
maybe you're moving to karma whoring? :P
(Actually, it would seem that Alan is starting to take an
active position on Internet / Digital rights - and that he's
becoming more of an obsessive /. reader than I am!) |
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Re:What does this have to do with My
Rights?? (Score:0, Insightful)
by Anonymous
Coward on Sunday November 18, @01:12PM (#2581377)
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| "First they came for the Jews. I was silent. I was not a
Jew. Then they came for the Communists. I was silent. I was
not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists. I was
silent. I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and
there was no one left to speak for me." - Martin Niemoeler
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Re:What does this have to do with My
Rights?? (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on
Sunday November 18, @04:02PM (#2581802)
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| +1 in The
Unfounded Accusations of Evil Game [voicesofunreason.com]!
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Re:What does this have to do with My
Rights?? (Score:2, Funny)
by Mojojojo
Monkey Inc. on Sunday November 18, @01:38PM (#2581423)
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| If a corporation wants to take down trademarked material,
they simply submit the site to slashdot, and it's gone 5
minutes later. |
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/.ed (Score:1)
by affenmann
on Sunday November 18, @12:37PM (#2581310)
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> The site appears intact for now
Great, now
it's /.ed. |
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Re:/.ed (Score:1)
by
meatplow on Sunday November 18, @01:58PM (#2581465)
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| Grab the files from here.
yesiwill-1.0.tar.gz
[meatplow.com]
yesiwill-1.0.zip
[meatplow.com] Long Live Sarcasm
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MIRROR (Score:2, Informative)
by JediTrainer on Sunday November 18, @12:37PM (#2581311)
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I've managed to grab copies of the software just as their
site got /.d.
Please be nice, because I'm only on
cable. Grab the files here [websoup.net].
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Here are mirrors: (Score:3,
Informative)
by Saint Aardvark on Sunday November
18, @12:38PM (#2581313)
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| http://yesiwill.plagiarist.org/
[plagiarist.org]
http://detritus.net/projects/yesiwill
[detritus.net]
Let's see how well they survive a slashdotting. |
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Re:Here are mirrors: (Score:2)
by Saint Aardvark on Sunday November 18, @12:45PM
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| And you can download the files here, too:
http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/yesiwill/index.html
[saintaardv...rpeted.com] |
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Google whoring (Score:2)
by
hearingaid
(loki@citadel.twwol.dyndns.org) on
Sunday November 18, @12:52PM (#2581343)
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| Go
here. [google.com]
I can feel not-guilty about posting this, karmacap boy that
I am. :) |
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Slashdot is (Score:4, Funny)
by lavaforge on Sunday November 18, @12:40PM (#2581317)
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| The WTO's greatest defense. No one will ever see the
offending pages at this rate... |
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Distorted mirrors (Score:1)
by Man of
E (i.have@no.email.com) on
Sunday November 18, @12:44PM (#2581327)
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| Learn more about funhouse mirrors and how they work right
here: The
Science of Light [learner.org].
Think before you mod: is it really offtopic..? |
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beyond the golden parachute (Score:3,
Funny)
by apwingo
(apwingo arroba eos.ncsu.edu) on
Sunday November 18, @12:57PM (#2581354)
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these guys and gals, the yes men, do some seriously,
seriously cool stuff. in the november issue of harper's [harpers.org], they
print a transcript of a talk that these folks were invited to
give at a textiles conference in Tampere, Finland, from folks
that thought that they really were the WTO. A few snippets:
... How do we at the WTO fit in? Well, that's
easy: We want to help you acieve those dollar results. We
want to help make sure that nothing - protectionism, worry,
even violence against physical property - stands in the way
of your dollar results. and some more:
... CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR:
PROTECTIONISM
[Slide: Freedom]
Why did
people fight and die and lose money? It comes down to one
word: FREEDOM.
[Slide: Southern Happiness]
By the 1860s, the South was utterly flush with cash. It
had recently benefited from the cotton gin, an invention
that took the seeds out of cotton and the South out of its
preindustrial past. Hundreds of thousands of workers,
previously unemployed in their countries of origin, were
given useful jobs in textiles. Into this rosy picture of
freedom and boom stepped ... you guessed it: the NORTH.
it goes on, about how the market would have
stopped slavery ("Involuntarily Imported Workforce") given
time, moving production to the third world where things are
cheaper, then it gets wack:
Now, we all known that not even the best
workplace design can help even the most astute manage keep
track odf hstaff. But our solution inables a lot more
rapport with remote workers.
Mike, would you
please?
[Unruh steps out from behind the podium to a
drum roll. An assistant grabs him by the tie and belt and
rips off his suit to reveal a golden spandex unitard
underneath.]
Ah! That's better! This is the
Management Leisure suit. This is the WTO's answer
to the problems of maintaining rapport with distant workers
and maintaining one's own mental health as a manager with
the proper amount of leisure. How does the MLS work, besides
being comfortable? Allow me to describe the suit's core
features.
[Unruh unzips the from of the suit, then
pulls on a rip cord that inflates a three-foot-long golden
phallus. The audience claps.] And it goes
on.
The presentation, which Harper's describes as
"well-received", was subsequently praised by the MC on three
seperate occasions that day.
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Lack of primary source (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @01:03PM
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I would be more interested if the Yes Men provided the
text of Verio's complaint. I would find the story more
credible if Slashdot bothered to verify that Verio did
actually complain.
As far as I can tell from this
article, we have been offered absolutely no evidence that the
WTO has in fact complained, using the DMCA or any other tool.
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Reminds me of the Dialectizer...
(Score:3, Informative)
by Zergwyn on Sunday
November 18, @01:06PM (#2581367)
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| It seems sort of like a bigger versioin of the Dialectizer
[rinkworks.com], a site that allows you to insert a url and
then have all the text on the page translated into a number of
amusing "languages," such as redneck, jive, elmer fudd, etc.
/. readers may especially appreciate the hacker dialect. ^_^
Try this
version of slashdot! [rinkworks.com](hit the dialectize
button). CmdrTaco's gone l33+! |
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Re:Reminds me of the Dialectizer...
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by Anonymous Coward on Sunday
November 18, @01:48PM (#2581440)
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| Try this
version of slashdot! [rinkworks.com]
And this is different from normal SlashDot HOW???
woof. |
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Re:Reminds me of the Dialectizer...
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by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November
18, @02:08PM (#2581498)
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> Try this version of slashdot! [rinkworks.com]
> And this is different from normal SlashDot HOW???
It actually makes more sense.
;-) |
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Re:Reminds me of the Dialectizer...
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by reo_kingu
(s[ ]dotted@axe.org ['lash' in
gap]) on Sunday November 18, @01:48PM (#2581441)
(User #536791 Info |
http://www.axe.org/)
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Wahahaha, good stuff. Gotta love the good old dialectizer.
UR RIGHTS ONLNE: BMG BAX0RS DOWN OVER
CPOY-PROETCTED CD
hehehe, couldn't have done
it better myself. |
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Re:Reminds me of the Dialectizer...
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by trilucid
(philip@paradis.trilucid@com) on
Sunday November 18, @01:57PM (#2581462)
(User #515316 Info |
http://www.trilucid.com/)
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Wow :), maybe we should re-write our site to say
everything is 31337 H4x0r-5p34kz... I actually like the
effect.
Back to my k-r4d perl h4x1ng...
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Re:Reminds me of the Dialectizer...
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by rsborg on Sunday November 18, @04:38PM
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I like how it translated "Gamecube" to "waR3Zcube"... LOL
Now, that's an idea! :-) |
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Jesus Jermaine Christ! I Killed
Whitey! (Score:-1, Troll)
by Anonymous
Coward on Sunday November 18, @01:11PM (#2581373)
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Jesus was not white. He was a big, bad Negro.
Praise be to the negro Jesus.
KILL W H I T E Y
I'm a mothafuckin'
negro. |
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DOWN WIF THE WHITE DEVIL (Score:-1,
Troll)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18,
@01:15PM (#2581380)
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If you aint the solution, you's the
MOTHAFUCKIN' PROBLEM.
Bown Down.
Praise be to the negro Jesus.
KILL W H I T E
Y
I'm a mothafuckin' negro. |
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He he he (Score:2)
by trilucid
(philip@paradis.trilucid@com) on
Sunday November 18, @01:28PM (#2581412)
(User #515316 Info |
http://www.trilucid.com/)
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"The site appears intact for now, but read
on to learn about the interesting software the complaint has
spawned -- perhaps this isn't what the WTO had in mind."
The WTO has nothing to fear... the /. effect will take
care of that in short order. ;)
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Roll-your-own "Parody" site here...
(Score:3, Funny)
by Robber Baron on Sunday November
18, @01:32PM (#2581416)
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| I like this one
[pornolize.com] better! |
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Re:Roll-your-own "Parody" site here...
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by trilucid
(philip@paradis.trilucid@com) on
Sunday November 18, @03:44PM (#2581743)
(User #515316 Info |
http://www.trilucid.com/)
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From the Pornolized version of
Slashdot:
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the_code_poet asks: "I'm a
lead developer for a software development company, and one of
my responsibilities has been writing an installer for our
product (of which Linux is one of the titty fucking enters).
In keeping with UNIX tradition, the cuntlapping installer is
written in shell (thrusts /bin/sh), but as many of you know
there is no Bourne shell for Linux - only bash. This has
caused inconsistencies (mostly barfs in bash) when writing a
generic UNIX sh script that works fine on commerical *NIX's."
For a semi-complete list of gamahuches between bash and sh,
you will want to check out section C1 of the fingerfucking
Bourne "Cock Sucker" Again Shell FAQ. To be honest, I have yet
to run into much trouble with a muff sniffing script
cuntlapping with #!/bin/sh with /bin/bash, and I've been using
the latter for fingerfucks. If any of you have had problems
ballbusted to this, please tell us what the cocksucking
problem was and how you solved it. Also: would anyone out
there be interested in writing a real Bourne "Plugin" Shell
for Linux?
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That is freaking beautiful
:). This has got to be one of the funniest "tools" I've seen
in a LONG time, and executed supremely well. My hat is off to
those guys/gals that did this...
Now, how long until
the trolls start posting nasty versions of stuff in
jest?
There's always the Pornolized
Christian Coalition site [pornolize.com] for extra
giggles. ;)
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Re:Roll-your-own "Parody" site here...
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by Smoking on Sunday November 18,
@04:09PM (#2581820)
(User #24594 Info | http://www.home.ch/~spaw1653/quentin)
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You really gotta try "pornolizing" the microsoft
site... [pornolize.com]
The Windows XP product
page made me spew my coffee!!
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Re:Roll-your-own "Parody" site here...
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by trilucid
(philip@paradis.trilucid@com) on
Sunday November 18, @04:53PM (#2581928)
(User #515316 Info |
http://www.trilucid.com/)
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Ohmigosh, you've gotta see the Lab Report page: Here
It Be [pornolize.com].
Long live parody site
generation engines! :)
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Microsoft (Score:0, Troll)
by t_allardyce on Sunday November 18, @01:41PM (#2581430)
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| Now Microsoft can now move in to start closing-up web
pages into encrypted executables so no-one can edit them
(without re-starting from scratch), or 'steal ideas'. Also, so
no-one can use the internet without running windows |
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Re:Microsoft (Score:0)
by
Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @02:27PM (#2581537)
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| excellent post. someone please mod it up '+5, Funny'
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Re:Microsoft (Score:1)
by
t_allardyce on Sunday November 18, @03:56PM (#2581783)
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what? they can't do that? how?
with most users*
running their software, and some anon. donations to
judges/politicians... thats the reason why windows is closed -
because the code to do this and change the underlaying
protocals are all dorment, hidden in every version of windows
that regularly net-updates. When they decide, overnight the
internet will change - servers will refuse connections from
non-windows machines. entire websites will automatically be
'updated' to use the new executable package technology, MSN
will become the defualt dial-up connection and all other dun
profiles will be deleted. Linus Torvalds will be turned to for
a press conference for his views.. but wait, where is
Torvalds????!! he has gone, been taken care of. (outstanding
favour from the government to billy g for anon. donations).
People turn to demonstrations but wait! slashdot is not
working, no one can communicate: email??? gone irc??? gone. Be
afraid... be very afraid
This conspiracy theory is
purely fiction and in no way factual. Any resemblence to real
life situations is purely coincidence. Microsoft(tm) is a
registered trade mark of Capitalist Pigs corp. Any spelling
mistakes in this post are the result of not giving a shit
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by Popocatepetl
(dkm_holdings@hNoOtSmPaAiMl.com) on
Sunday November 18, @02:22PM (#2581520)
(User #267000
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| Time to get web stripper out and download the whole thing
before it goes poof. |
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SlashPorn! (Score:1)
by
dimer0 on Sunday November 18, @02:22PM (#2581524)
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| Slashporn
[pornolize.com]. 'nuff said. |
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Sample of installation; mirror
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by gbnewby (gbnewby@despammed.com) on Sunday November
18, @03:27PM (#2581701)
(User #74175 Info | http://petascale.org/)
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| I went ahead and installed this to show my systems
administration class on Monday (INLS183 [unc.edu]). If
you're trying to install the software, I included steps in the
sample directory at this
location [unc.edu]. The installation steps I used are in
parody-steps.txt.
I made a parody, visit here
[unc.edu] to see (it probably won't be up too long...).
Finally, you can also get the code in the directory mentioned
above, if you are having trouble finding a mirror. Retrieve
yesiwill-1.0.tar.gz
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Two-Timed by Slashdot (Score:1)
by box2321 on Sunday November 18, @03:33PM (#2581722)
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When I submitted this story, I got this...
"2001-11-15 16:39:40 WTO Tells ISP: Remove Satire Web
Site (articles,news) (rejected)"
... but now it
appears under another's name. All the good lovin' I gave you,
Slashdot, and how you are in another's arms!
For the
satire impared, let me say it's not such a big deal. A tiny
deal, not a big deal. |
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Re:Two-Timed by Slashdot (Score:1)
by Jailbrekr
(cha, right.) on Sunday November
18, @03:40PM (#2581736)
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http://www.digitaladdiction.net/)
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| And this is why I stopped submitting stories. I rather
enjoyed researching and authoring a nice paragraph for
submission, but after being rejected a number of times, and
seeing similar stories pop up by other submittors, I can no
longer be bothered. This place is a sellout :( |
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haven't you ever thought? (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @04:51PM
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| that great minds think alike. you have to be first, or you
have to have said it a lot better than the first. |
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this is very scary.... (Score:3,
Insightful)
by tcc (teeceecee@nospam.hotmail.com) on Sunday
November 18, @03:48PM (#2581764)
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I am on gatt.org....
I'm reading the website...
and now I am wondering is it defaced or it's the real thing? I
mean I never really bothered with all that WTO stuff but when
I read (on the front page):
>Brazilian AIDS drugs a
sure path to economic sickness
>Today, however,
another Holocaust is taking place: it goes by the name of
"distrust of big business," and it is every bit as terrible as
the last.
>Qatar saves the day Responding to the
selfish and dangerous actions of special-interest forces at
recent free-trade summits, the kingdom of Qatar has generously
offered to host the next WTO Ministerial. In Qatar, the sort
of lobbying seen in Seattle, Quebec, Davos, Prague, Barcelona,
and elsewhere is strictly illegal and heavily punished, ...
I mean... what the hell?? is that all real? I mean I'm
used to lying politician, backstabbing authority figures, and
all that stuff, but I mean, putting such things on a front
page has really shocked me, I can't beleive people can be that
openly materialistic and use historic stuff and lie without
raising a LOT of opposition...
Especially the last
part "we don't value your opinion, saying you dislike what we
are working on is illegal so we will host our "democratic"
process in a place you'll get shot in the head if you
disagree"... wow... now I see why people are so upset...while
I don't think people fighting police to disrupt the meeting is
a viable option (policemen are people like you and me, just
doing what they are told to, hitting them won't make things
better), I do think it's bad to not let people express their
opposition, afterall, these are the people these leaders are
supposed to work for, they should give numbers and
sensibilization if having a world-class economy system is such
a good thing, not shutting the door off and smashing
opponents, this shows only that these opponents might be right
somewhere...
I can't beleive it, everyone should go
take a look at that site, that gatt.org thing, anyone with a
minimal sense of humanity and a bit of education will probably
feel like I am right now, there's some stuff that is still
true there, BUT it's stuff usually classified as "silent
truth", you know it's right but you don't say it openly
because it could backfire heavily (like the AIDS thing for
example, of course if you copy a patented thing that took
years and billion in research, it's stealing, but then again,
selling it to make 100 of billions in profits (I did mention
PROFITS not only recovering the cost of R&D and salaries)
so that rich people can afford it and poor people can't, is it
a more noble goal?
Anyways, I leave you with that
quote:
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Protesters rich, study shows
A new
study shows that the special-interest lobbyists attending the
Seattle, Prague, Nice, Davos, and other demonstrations come
from population sectors that have freedom and money to travel,
putting them in a different class from those sectors of the
developing world they pretend to defend.
--
Well
if that system we all know is to make rich people richer, if
people that are opposing it are already rich, I read this and
I think "maybe there's really something wrong in there" and
with everything else I just read on their website, I'm really
beginning to think that there is.
Funny thing is when
this happened in Quebec (where I live) I thought that these
protestors were just a bunch of kids with too much hormones
needing to hit at something just like a big heavy metal
concert... like a big party... I'm scared now because while
this might still apply to a bunch of the people that were
there, now I realize that 10,000s of people can't all be
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Re:this is very scary.... (Score:2)
by m0nkyman
(thom@idar.com) on Sunday November
18, @04:06PM (#2581811)
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| Your post gave me hope. Thank You. |
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Re:this is very scary.... (Score:2)
by haruharaharu on Sunday November 18, @04:50PM (#2581914)
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if people that are opposing it are already rich
It isn't that the people who oppose this are rich. It's
just that only those who are rich can afford to protest
regularly all over the world. I'm sure alot of the people who
oppose this would love to make hemselves heard, but they have
to work at a job most of the time so they can eat.
I especially like the part you quoted where someone on gatt
said that, basically, you can't defend people in third world
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This could lead to more violence
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by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November
18, @04:00PM (#2581796)
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We've already had lies from Ralph Nader and others on the
lunatic left opposed to expanded freedom inciting orgies of
anti-free-trade violence at Seattle and Genoa. Now we have
something that looks like it is official GATT spewing more
lies similar to those already put together by these Stalinist
rabble rousers.
It's really not much different from similar sites by
indymedia and others; all are nothing but lies.
Just what we need; more violent thugs fired up by
misinformation beating up people, destroying businesses, and
trying to "shut down" meetings that they do not like (so much
for rights of free speech and assembly: if you don't like
someone's meeting; organize a protest to "shut it down".)
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Michael Moore is one busy guy
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by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November
18, @04:04PM (#2581807)
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| This site does shed some light on Michael Moore, who is
quite busy directing GATT, and also has time to stick it to
Roger Smith of GM and put out those hilarious "TV Nation"
shows. |
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TROLL!!! (Score:0)
by
Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @04:51PM (#2581919)
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| That message above was a TROLL. Nader won the last
election with 88% of the vote. The IWW has had control of the
US Congress for the last 75 years. The US tax rate has topped
93% and there are mass demonistrations to increase taxes.
Every time the WTO meets, there are tens of millions of
protesters on the site and all commerce shuts down worldwide.
It just isn't possible that anyone at all could object to the
well reasoned progressive views of the anti-GATT protesters,
which are held by the vast majority of all people. |
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Of course the easy out is: (Score:1)
by GISboy on Sunday November 18, @04:35PM (#2581871)
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the parody is produced by code, in code.
Seeing as
code is free speech (for the time being) it is as simple as
saying the program "produces html code which is free speech,
and is a parody...which is protected as free speech as well".
Yeah, that is kind of a weasle-y way of thinking, but
"eagles my fly, but weasles don't get sucked into jet
engines", seems to apply.
Or, as one poster pointed
out "Fight fire with fire".
stray thought for the day:
DMCA: Digital Masturbating Conusmers of America. ( if you
ran it thru the pornalize would it accomplish anything?)
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