Yea, but the Euro has also weakened from what it once was.  It used to be a buck forty to the euro, now its more like a buck twenty.  Atleast it was the last time I checked.

Well, on the upside, atleast our economy is better, atleast for today.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/04/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm?cnn=yes

"Dow hits fresh 6-year high"

Yea, I know cnn is evil, but their website is easier for me to browse on dialup.

I be to po fo hih sped

You have a point there.  Gotta love a Government that can't keep the books.  The other kinda scary part is that I, along with many others, don't trust China and who knows what kind of money we may have to spend to keep them in check.  Not to mention what we have left in spending for the conflict we're in right now.

http://www.shoutwire.com/viewstory/11177/Piracy_is_Worse_than_Child_Pornography

Piracy worse than child pornography

Society's new perspectives

By Nick Farrell: Wednesday 26 April 2006, 06:44
THE NEW look Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) seems to be giving the world an unusual moral code.

Details of the upgraded act, which has the blessing of the music and film industry and the Bush administration, are now coming to light. It appears that the DMCA will have a maximum sentence of ten years inside for the crime of software and music piracy. It will also give the FBI the powers to wiretap suspected pirates.

Although sentencing varies in the US, the new law does send a very strange message as to what the government considers 'bad' in the 21st century.

For example assaulting a police officer will get you five years, downloading child porn will get you seven years, assaulting without a weapon will get you ten years and aggravated assault six years.

So in other words if you copy a Disney CD and sell it you will be in the same league as a paedophile who is distributing pictures of sexual attacks on children.

If you copy Craig David's CD you get ten years, but if you punch him in the face and pummel him into a seven day coma you will only get six. You are more likely to get the respect of the prison population with your six year sentence as well.

More here - http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/001452new_bill_toughens_copyright_penalties_...



Okay, people...any comments on this?

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I recently found out that calling a cop a shithead is a crime.

People can't take jokes these days.

{grins} ^^ Thats what I was wondering after his comment about being drunk.

Yea you can't spit on a cop either. Thats assualting an officer and it could net you life!

Ok i dont know about life, but a looongggg time...