RIAA, why New Zealand? Last Soft Target Maybe?

Point the finger at the accused and they shall be vanquished! Well, we have come a long way from the day that foolishness ruled the general publics behavior. Not really. The RIAA finds it has lost the search and destroy battle in the US of A. So switching to another front that is beyond the messy "confront your accuser in a court of law" that US law requires is a win-win for them. Nibble away at laws in other WIPO members home country and maybe Capital Hill will accept the copyright law of those countries. Of course the courts will be jammed with cases fighting back. But if the RIAA is slow and applies steady force they will win. Money from Hollywood is the grease that silences the squeaky politician.

Let us not forget who RIAA's puppet is:

"... Section 92 has no punishment for false accuser, leaving this law ripe for abuse. RIANZ the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand) are pushing for this to be done in the name of protecting creativity and the arts, but we don't believe this fairly represents artist's values"

http://creativefreedom.org.nz/s92.html

Sad. I am embarrassed by this interference in another country's lawmaking by the RIAA. If I do not stop writing now I may write something that Homeland Security can declare a "terrifying act". Don't think that cannot happen.

Friday Fights! DRM vs History! And the winner is? None.

This is not a rant on the chilling effect of DRM & its muscle boy DMCA. I am just too tired to shout at a rock I did not see as I walked through the forest of video upload limitations. So there it is, 1 long day of slow H.264 compressing, recompenses, upload click-thru legal stiff and wait for the gate to open on the video site. RIGHT!

Finally here is the Test Video that is far from good. Hay, got too find the rocks before cracking a toe on one.

STS-119 JAXA News Conf with Mission Specialist Koichi Wakata (will be in native language) - JSC (Public and Media Channels) video courtesy: NASA-TV (www.NASA.gov)

More later after the R&R plus ball game. Yes, cable --- maybe I should record it and sleep. Nope, no digital recording allowed, and very little analog signal-out is on new equipment (analog hole closed says MPA/RIAA). But that is another fight.

-dutch AKA fairuse

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Odd Flair-up of Safety at the Grocery Store

My first clue something changed was the disappearance of 8 pound sacks of cat food. Wait one minute I told the conspiracy ranting side brain. It is backordered. But, that popular size has never sold out and was always right there, middle shelf. I began to look around; feeling childish.

The results of looking low then high are; big heavy sack bottom shelf, as they should be. The small sacks where 10 feet up on the top shelf. Of course there was no staircase style ladder in sight, nor stock person. Right, the conspiracy ranting side brain muttered. The image of insurance underwriters designing dry goods displays was equal to gasoline on a fire. "Asinine", I said out loud. I fetched the bag by standing on a 30 pound bucket of litter and wedging the shopping cart to the bottom shelf, then used the cane to knock a very lightweight sack into the cart. "F* idiots" mumble slipped out as I headed to paper goods. Guess where my usual brand of paper towels sit.

Must ask wife if the guy who designs parking lots is learning a new trade.

Just some Maint/Admin

Added flickr stuff to bottom of page. Still have odd firefox3 layout funnies on iBook.

Render me funny on iBook w/ FF3

Why is this layout look messy on laptop but fine on iMac? Guess I'll have to fix that.
Dutch

Welcome Home Endeavour

Hi, landing replay joined in progress. TV-2 is cool. So, bad weather at FL equals good landing at Edwards AB in CA.
Dutch



(Thank You NASA-TV for video )

Time to stop messing with this, I see dead pixels.

i knew better, the outcome could be predicted. After fussing with this all afternoon it is getting committed before I get the same treatment. This is how the journal will look.

My Blondness is front and center (in the sidebar that is) and it will show whatever I send to U-tube. Posts will have video if there is a reason, otherwise it is a waste of bandwidth to have it loaded twice. Maybe later Yahoo and Google video players will be added. The use of all 3 of them covers the max size, max play time and quality. As much as I prefer Sorenson 3 I am using H.264 MP4 for blog posts, video.goggle uploads and YouTube. My G1 will also like that; M4V files from iTunes gives it a headache.

Feel free to change the radio station from Chillout to what you like. Photos to be added as soon as I look over the stack of prints and photo disks.

As it is said, "Cut! That's a rap!".
Dutch

STS-126 HD video clip sent down from ISS

The upload did not get trashed. Wow. -f

Dragged by the collar, kicking, yowling and biting I finished the layout.

Hello interested party,

As the title hinted, in part, I finally did the layout of this blog. It can be said in some circles that I joined the current century. Maybe. Being one who believes in short speeches there is only one thing I need to say, "This is a journal, don't expect any content to be prize winning, just different."

From my 2007 record the Realplayer window collection.

It was a false alarm,really.

Have a fun day,
Dutch