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The wheels on a bus go 'round & 'round... I'll take identical posts re-worded for 1,000 times, Alex. By the way, I have no concrete opinion on this issue--just following along for the hell of it. I am familiar with the fair use doctrine. I LOVE law. I also get really pissed when I believe my rights are violated. And addtionally, I believe in protecting one's (fair & legal) livelihood, shit, property, ideas, work, personal art, etc.

It's "ad nauseam", California roller. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

Awwww. Are you quoting yourself? That's cute. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

Allow me to mediate, if I may. Dorbie, please give a personal example in which you believe DRM has violated the fair use doctrine w/in copyright law. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

I say we put our head's together on this. It will take a lot of time, money & hard work but I'm confident we can reinvent the jimmy for the new millennia! We will be rich! Unless it's easy to replicate. Still, the time, money & effort we spent will all have been worth it to see all the smiling faces.

I think he's saying it can be excercised, just not easily. No you can't. Yes, I can. No, you can't. Yes, I can! Yes I caaaaaannnn! The air we breathe is free. The air between the walls of a condo is not. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

JTVal told me.

Nah, as long as I have a vagina I can have as many dicks as I want. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

We wear undershirts & Febreeze it, remember? Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

Drinks, I give you. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

That didn't even occur to me. It appears, at second glance, I have this option as well. I pay cable & energy online---might as well pay this online, too... Still, no-one has an answer to the $1.75??? Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

I think Banana is doing well-enough b/c a lot less people have sewing machines than do "bits" and "CDieces". I like you. But, I don't think I agree with you here on this subject I know nothing about. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

Mmmm, I don't think to the extent that Banana wouldn't still be loosing quite a bit of profit and their quality would still eventually suffer. Sadly, if quality suffers a little, business suffers a lot. At least for me. I'm of the buy less & buy higher quality frame-of-mind. I only shop in bulk at Costco. And even then it's quality product in bulk. You can't beat pomegranate for $6 instead of $10.

OK, so this might not really be b/c I'm a girl... But first it was the whole benefits thing and I saw I'm paying $150/month or whatever (it's been a while since I first got benefits out of college, I don't remember exactly) more than a male my age b/c I'm of child-bearing age. I asked if I could sign an affidavit stating I would not bear a child or benefits would be revoked, but they wouldn't accept it. Now, it's the freaking tax collector! Billy and I have B-days exactly 10 years and one week apart. We got our bills for our new car tags in the mail. MINE has a $1.75 charge for "mail-in" fee. His does not. Can anyone explain this??? And being that I pay all the bills, and pay them ahead of time & in full and Billy, left to his own devices--God love him--would be the one standing in line at the tax collector's office on the day it's due...isn't this even more of a pisser? Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

I pick neither. What do I win? Telling people not to do that wouldn't work. People are selfish. Sometimes that's a good thing. It seems to me if the code were so important, I shouldn't loose it. But, if I did, like one can forget a password, I should have a secret question. I don't have sister and the shirt isn't for her anyways. And it seems if we're talking about buying a special washing machine that only works on gas, we're talking about Apple again, aren't we?

Recently I bought three colors of the same collared linen shirt from Banana Republic outlet. They're just for me. The friends borrowing clothes thing ended in early college. If I could have copied the first one I bought, I wouldn't have needed to buy the other two, thus Banana's profit would suffer. If everyone else was copying the first shirt, too, then Banana's profit would REALLY suffer. Soon the quality of Banana's products would surely suffer. And then I wouldn't buy shirts from Banana anymore. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

Yea, definitely what WatchYourStep said. I should have elaborated. But, I think I said enough. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

I say Mayweather. I don't know why, but I used to like going to watch fight night with Billy. Never been before him--but get a few beers in me, some sweaty guys in shorts bouncing around, and I'm all in--yelling and all! Fun as shit. I like boxing, too. I like the lighter weights better though--more punching and grappling. The heavy weights get boring until one of them gets a good, solid jab in and knocks the shit out of the other guy. I love when I'm awake to see that.

Um, I think I agree with you. What is funny & sad to me is for some reason I have NO idea what I'm reading about in this thread and yet, though I don't read most threads in their entirety, I started following this one early on and am fully enthralled. I haven't bothered researching what the hell ya'll are talking about. That would take away my fun. But for the record, I'm pretty sure I'm the only person I know who still buys CDs, and I don't buy them often. More often I listen to satellite radio or the music channels on TV. I LOVE music, though. But the only "burned" CD I have is an Aerosmith mix some guy made me, even though he knew I had a boyfriend. Gotta love the mix CD. From a guy, that spells love. Or, "I'll go to extra lengths to fuck you". But alas, I said thank you, gave him a hug and haven't spoken to him since--it's one of my favorite CDs, though, even though I have every Aerosmith CD there is. His really does have all my favorite songs in one convenient compilation. That's cool. But, I'd never spend the time to do that myself. I'd rather be outside, in the ocean. Salt = bad news for electronics.

The other day on the news they were talking about Prince Harry going to Iraq. I don't know why, but I thought to myself, "Prince Harry. Prince Charles. Prince William...What the hell is their last name? 'of Wales?'" I seriously didn't know. I asked Billy, "Hey, what the hell is Prince Harry's last name?" He didn't know. I e-mailed my friend who loves that show called "Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader?" and thinks she's the shiz and she didn't know... So last resort is always to look it up. And the answer is: They don't have one. But when one is used it's "Mountbatten-Windsor". Somehow, I'd have been more satisfied if it were "Smith" or something. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

"Must have more." I like to fold it up, then roll it up and twist the shit out of it. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

I admit, I shouted pretty loudly at the recording, too, last time the machine called. There are three different #s I've noticed, all with the same recording, but different guy's name/voice. Same shpiel. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

I'd hate to hear what ya'll would say or do to the kid selling newspapers. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

It's been ages since I've had a land line but when we did, I was always nice to telemarketers. Recently, I've started getting these recording calls on my cell phone--now THAT pisses me off. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.