[Cialug] vote

[Chris Hilton]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in our wonderful system judges are to be
impartial and are not up for election by vote; they are appointed but do
you really think that Kerry would have revolutionized our whole judicial
system (since that would be impossible).
Worry about DMCA, fcc, and others; but blaiming the executive branch for
court decisions is just failing to hold the correct people accountable.

Sorry if that was political, I am attempting to stick to just what is
set out as our law and avoid current people involved.  Hopefully calm
some fears.  But politically, neither candidate seemed like they would
help or even knew how on all things P.C.

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 13:51 -0600, David Champion wrote:
> D. Joe Anderson wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:52:23AM -0600, Academician Kula wrote:
> > 
> >>On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:29:58AM -0600, admin@c0wzftp.com wrote:
> >>
> >>[general off-topic political comments ellided]
> > 
> > 
> >>Folks, I'd hate to see this list devolve to this. Could we cut it
> >>off here, please?
> > 
> > 
> > THANK YOU.
> > 
> > Freedom is really "on the march," at least on the computers of
> > most of the people on this mailing list.  That's something, at
> > least, I'm happy to read about and talk about on this mailing
> > list.
> > 
> 
> For now... but just because we enjoy a huge amount of Freedom in our 
> little corner of the world doesn't mean that will continue to be the 
> case. Complacency will lose you that freedom.
> 
> One of my biggest fears is that with the current administratioin's 
> policies towards things like the EPA, the FCC, the Patriot Act, the 
> DMCA, the Microsoft anti-trust case, ... , how confident do you feel 
> that lawsuits involving the defence of Open Source / Free Software will 
> get a fair shake? They've pretty much proven that they will ignore 
> science and public opinion in favor of corporate interests.
> 
> Fortunately the only big OSS related case pending is the SCO case, and 
> it would be tough for any judge to blow that one. But, you've got some 
> of the same parties involved in this case as the MS case, and look how 
> that turned out.
> 
> -dc
> 
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