Full Moon - Friday the 13th Subject: Re: New Apple II SuperSite Online From: "**** ****" <***@***.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 References: <8s3mco$plf$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <971475640.39e78ab8dbc98@webmail.cotse.com> Lines: 101 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Message-ID: <2WRF5.32841$oA2.5655661@typhoon.southeast.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.30.242.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mediaone.net Yeh, he even copied that roman alphabet and left to right, top to bottom sequence thing. Someone should slowly torture him to death with rusty hacksaws, turpentine and belt sanders over a period of weeks. Mike, do you have any idea how many malnourished children of down and out web designers nearly starved to death because of your crimes against IP? Why, if there is a hell, then God should send you there twice just to make up for all that you've done. It wouldn't suprise me if you were a demon from that very place, sent up to thwart the good deeds and intentions of pious intellectual property owners and advocates. It is a mortal sin to even have something vaguely similar to someone else's idea, or idea of an idea, or idea of an idea of an idea. Don't you know this? What are they teaching our children in school nowdays, that they don't know that stealing ideas, or ideas about ideas, or ideas about ideas about ideas is a mortal sin, that could put their very immortal soul in jeopardy of going to hell not twice, but twice twice! After highschool, they should send children to 24 years of intellectual property awareness school, because it's at least twice as important as reading and writing and all that other crap. Besides, likely, someone owns the trademarks to reading and writing, or at the very least, its a trade secret (a very important but not as well known form of intellectual property), and if so, then by learning those skills, you are commiting idea/concept piracy, trademark infringement and mortal sin. It doesn't matter that they may be dead, even long dead, because trademark doesn't expire, and if so, then that intellectual property belongs to their estate, and would go through probate, so that rightful heirs could lay claim to the trademarks of Reading and Writing®. We all know, or should know, that it doesn't matter whether they realize we're reading or writing, or care to try and make a profit on reading and writing, or even whether they would give permission to read and write for free if asked, because no one here has even bothered to try and track down the person that owns the trademarks of reading and writing to bother to ask! I mean, really, how much trouble can it be to track down the person that invented treading and writing (or their rightful heirs) and ask if you can read and write! So much trouble that you would risk commiting capitol felonies, mortal sin, and bathing in the fires of hell for not two eternities, but four?!?! C'mon people. And by the way, if you do gain permission to release reading and writing to the public domain, please include the email headers so that we can verify the validity. Also, wouldn't be a bad idea to get it in writing, inked in the blood of a newborn baby, by a team of one thousand and one corporate attourneys, those noble defenders of righteousness and goodness, notarized by President George Washington. Mike, is any of this sinking in? What you did was wrong, and if you happen to be attacked tonight, by infernal beasts that smell of brimstone and cackle as if their twisted tormented souls have forgotten greater suffering than you could concieve of, you'll know why. When I was in school, we were taught the Ten Commandments®, but maybe you weren't so fortunate. I'll give you a little reminder. 1. Thou shalt not Use the Name of The Lord in Vain, Without his express written permission stating the use, context, and your agreement to pay royalties no less than $100, but up to and including 1.5% profits derived from such usage plus a base fee of $1500. 2. Thou shalt not infringe trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, publicity rights, or any other intellectual property, imagined or unimagined, in any way shape or form, including but not limited to fair use, satire, parody, and critiques, nor shall thou use any discovered or "public domain" intellectual property, unless thou can prove before God himself that said public domain IP is indeed public domain. 3.Thou shalt not defend those vile demons, known as heathens, the fallen, or alternatively as intellectual property infringer apologists, and thou must go out of thy way to ostracize and torment them until they day that they die, when Satan will take over at this duty. 4. Thou shalt not question the wisdom of God's annointed and chosen, the Corporation, or his spokesmen, the corporate attourney, not even if they want to sell your 11 year old daughter into prostitution, and carve your wife into people steaks for a business luncheon. 5. Thou shalt not think any thought that thou can reasonably be certain that someone else has ever thought, in all the history of the universe, because a copyright need not be registered to be valid. 6. Thou shalt not use Napster. 7. Thou shalt not reverse engineer. All merchandise are closed black boxes, no user serviceable parts within. 8. Thou shalt not remember in clarity or detail, those licensed entertainments that thou hast paid fees to enjoy, nor shall you repeat them to others, not even the highlights. 9. Thou shalt sing the praise and preach the advantages of a pay-per-use society. 10. Thou shalt be Happy About it. There. Mike, don't keep a copy of this on your hard drive, it's copyrighted. Carve these into your forearm with sharp stick, and we might find it in our hearts to forgive you. (Remember to paraphrase, the exact wordings are intellectual property). Then again, maybe not, but it's a start. You'll still go to hell, but maybe it is possible that Our Lord God® might find it in His Infinite mercy to relent and make you suffer only 1 eternity in hell. Copyright infringement threatens to destroy the entire purpose of the universe, if left unchecked. Do your part to rescue humanity, the universe, and poor malnourished starving children of unemployed web designers, and stomp a Turlette. "Because banks have locks." Quantum_Cat