Craigslist hoax...

People are just sick.

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/25/man-loses-stuff-fake-craigslist
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004302237_webhoax24m.html

If you ever see a post to the effect of "I'm giving it all away", flag it. Don't let this happen to someone else.

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So is free speech dead?

Let me get this straight: if I want to create an anti-Christian web ring, that's perfectly acceptable. After all, free speech rules on the Internet.

If I want to accuse our government of being complicit in the 9/11 attacks, that's also allowed.

But if I speak out against Islam, I will have my web site shut down and be sued to suppress my views? To all those Iranians and Pakistanis who wrote to Network Solutions to complain about this site: If you're so insecure in your faith that you have to sue someone in order to prevent him from having his say, maybe you need to re-evaluate your own beliefs, because obviously you feel threatened.

Of course, with all the censorship in both Iran and Pakistan, the source of the complaints that shut down the Fitna web site, they probably wouldn't see this little note anyway.

Bye bye, forums.

My forum software got hacked. I wasn't using it for much anyway, so I took it down. Future discussion will be done by way of Google groups.

Everything that's wrong with the music industry....

In an article on the New York Post, we learn that the music industry really doesn't care about the people who create the music.

In short: the RIAA has been filing dozens of music piracy lawsuits, targeting guilty and innocent alike. Suing for hundreds of thousands of dollars, they literally ruin people's lives over sharing a couple of CD's worth of music.

So what do they do with all this money? They give it to the artists who were pirated, right? Wrong.

"What's more, these sources said that after the labels recouped their legal expenses, there wasn't much left to pass along to the artists.", the article says.

So, in this new world, does this mean that only the lawyers win?

Increasingly, record companies are becoming an anachronism in today's society, and it's becoming more and more apparent that the RIAA doesn't have the musician's best interests at heart. It's time to end the music business as we know it. Give the artists control over their own works and let them sell through places like iTunes and Amazon.

New wiki (CR users only)

I'm working on a new addition to the site. By using Google's Sites feature, I can create a kind of Wiki, this will allow me to quickly set up and edit my site.

the first page is a download page here:
http://sites.google.com/a/compiledreality.com/aviation/Home