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...able to manipulate it at will, extending life indefinitely. With humans on the cusp of technology-induced functional immortality, I feel ripped off. I am part of the last few of the millions of generations that will not taste the almost infinite fruits of our long evolutionary assent. It is time to cheat fate...
...license agreements wouldn't be limited only to books. Purchasing and using a DVD player already involves assent to a license agreement, and DVDs already contain "country codes" to prevent you from listening to a cheaper foreign DVD on an American player. Similarly, the recording industry is furiously pursuing the "Secure Digital Music Initiative," which would enable them to control the conditions under which music is transferred after the first sale. Such moves make perfect sense to the industries: they make more money from books you need a license to read, movies you need a license to watch, or music...
...Garland and several other former and current student officers say the 1997 agreement itself left many issues unresolved--and that students were pressured to give their assent...
UCITA validates holding back the terms of a deal until after a customer has paid, making clicking through legal terms while installing software or accessing content a legally airtight form of assent. Furthermore, it allows software, access and content companies to write their own intellectual property law, using "licenses" rather than sales to, for example, eliminate rights to transfer a copy or to develop products that work with other products...
...Pound sound 37. Court-game finale? 39. Clinton will not sell four __ destroyers to Taiwan 40. Libidinous god 42. Bandleader Shaw 43. They're occasionally stripped 45. Fig-leaf wearer, stereotypically 46. Succotash morsel 48. Publican's offerings 49. Called on account of rain 50. Monsieur's assent 52. Like the Log Cabin Republicans...