anti-piracy nuts are an unbalanced lot

You would think Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee would be a smart person. Well, he might be smart in some sense, but he seems somewhat retarded in another. He is so fired up about the online file-sharing debate he is actually promoting the idea of destroying people's computers remotely.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6559-2003Jun17.html

Yeah, right. That will really help! Did you read about the nasty cease-and-desist letters threatening legal action that were erroneously sent out by the music industry recently to a whole lot of people who had nothing to do with filesharing? I can just see a future scenario where the music industry nutters set loose some vicious worm that destroys computers, only to find that it is running rampant, targetting the wrong people, and everybody is powerless to stop it.

Another scenario is where pirates so affected (whose activities are really largely benign) target the music industry systems in retaliation. If the music industry wants to start a war then I am sure that is just what they will get.
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It has been many years since I attempted to read the bible. I didn't make it all the way through. Many times later I'd gone back to read various parts. I've always been impressed by the utter insanity of the bible and that people can believe in it is a constant source of bewilderment to me. The Annotated Bible helps you to get a grip on the incredible depths of absurdity that it plunges to. It correlates contradictions and notes brutalities and injustices.

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The bible is a truly terrible piece of work. If someone tried to publish such a piece now they would be hounded by exactly those who call themselves "good christians". It is a book of contradiction, injustice, absurdities, cruelty, intolerance, often insulting to women and minority groups. It is full of sex and violence. In fact the way it portrays its god would be deeply insulting to a sane deity; it is written as being jealous, scheming, unjust, hateful, temperamental, and given to unprovoked viciousness.

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