THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2002
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I'm about to flip a coin to see if I should go to class. Is that bad?
BROADCASTING
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I like Vicky, and she likes me back. And she showed me her boobies, and I liked them too.
(sung) England's back in Ireland, do-dah,
do-dah. IRA's re-arm soon, oh-de-
dah-day. Gonna bomb all night, gonna
bomb all day. Gonna blow the whole
country up, oh-de-dah-day.
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This is to Audrey Snyder. You know what's stealing? Selling a CD that cost 50 cents to make for 20 bucks and giving the artist a tiny fraction of the profit. That's stealing. If you don't like downloading, then don't download.
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You'd figure that with the tuition increase the campus has, they'd be able to buy two-ply toilet paper, (toilet flushing)
KU Parking is the best because I just got a ticket for parking where I was supposed to park.
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You know, friends may leave, and people may die, but think God The Simpsons are still on TV.
Does anybody know a cure for procrastination? I've got a big anthropology project due, and I'm sitting here calling the Free for All.
I'm out here delivering pizza, and I just want to know, why do sorority girls bother with diet soda if they're going to eat something as fettling as cream cheese pizza with extra ranch sauce? That just doesn't make any sense to me.
This is Muleza from The Lion King, and I want to know why my brother, Scar, killed me.
This is to my roommate. Do not have sex while I'm in the room. It's disgusting.
I'm coming back from Kansas City, and I have the cruise control set at 80 miles per hour I got passed by a woman who was driving her age
Gosh darnit, I have an erection
I'm on the enrollment website, and there's a class called SturdhAirAmHist. Am I an idiot?
We just found that scandalous skunk in front of Strong Hall. We scared its stellar skunk self back to skunk town.
In regards to having Jesus Christ's autograph, my friend once sold a Bible on e-bay with JC's autograph on there, and it was worth about 36 cents, which covered shipping and that's it.
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Whoever made the comment about the extra-terrestrials, just thought you might wanna know that Title 14 of the US code of regulations does not have a section 1211. In fact, Title 14 deals with the Coast Guard.
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I'm really quite proud of the media today.
She's been on those commercials since I was in grade school, and hey, that's quite a long time.
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On second thought, I really don't have anything of interest or value to say.
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My roommate has failed college algebra five times. He's a fourth-year college freshman. What does that mean?
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Nothing sucks in quite the same vav as having your crush on a straight guy.
I have two Jesus Christ rookie cards signed, and they're worth about two million a piece.
Hey Eric Borja, I have a solution. Let's barbecue and eat you.
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Animals in circuses perform because trainers use force, intimidation and violence, not because they have some love to entertain people and travel, so give yourself a break, Eric Bora. Learn the facts before you write columns glorifying your ignorance.
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To whoever quoted the pie heaven, they're ripping that off of Jack Handy, and that's weak. And the other person that said Jesus Christ's autograph would go for so much because he created the world, I'm not a Christian, but I thought that was God.
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Today is October 22nd. Let's see what the day is when this gets printed.
I'm a vegetarian, but seriously. I wouldn't mind having a big slab of Eric Borja on my plate.
KU, yeah. More like PCU.
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Is throwing candy.com at a rabbit
considered abuse?
It half the professors on this campus had to live out in the real world, they'd all be street people.
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This is for Eric, Mr. Big and Greasy. You're right, people should have no problem with any type of animal testing at all, especially when it comes to the essentials of life, like mascara and moisturizing cream. We shouldn't think twice about drinking milk, regardless of the fact that dairy farms are known for severely polluting our water aquifers. Yeah, why don't you get informed before you put down people who already are? Oh, and if it weren't for tree huggers like Teddy Roosevelt, you wouldn't have the enjoyment of many of the national parks that you do.
Ode to the Free for All. Westing time, I laugh out loud. Got a good one, my friends allowed. What's the number? It's on the wall. Grab the phone and make the call. If this is published, my friends will cry. Broke their record without a try.
Without flies, frogs wouldn't have a long tongue.
The snowflakes taste like fishsticks!
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What do crickets eat?
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ON THE KANSAN ON-LINE
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Go to kansan com and click on the opinion section to check out the weekly online poll. Click on forums to post to the discussion.
Opinion Forum
What is your opinion about file sharing and downloading music online?
Opinion Poll
Should credit cards solicitors be banned on campus?
Yes, solicitors are taking advantage of the financial vulnerability of college students and we shouldn't have to deal with the temptation.
No, we are college students and we are responsible enough to know whether to sign up for a credit card or not.
Last Week's Poll
Out of 402 votes, 83 percent thought it was important to respect all living things, 15 percent thought there are other things far more important to be worrying about than animal rights, and 2 percent don't what what they think about the issue.
I don't know if they should be banned.
PERSPECTIVES
Americans don't have duty to cast their vote in elections
The right to vote is an established right vital to democracy in the United States.
Those citizens who are over the age of 18 are generally eligible to vote.
Those who are institutionalized and men who do not register for Selective Service are not eligible.
We have the right to participate in choosing our leaders and the actions they take on issues that affect us.
However, the majority of eligible U.S. citizens (approximately two-thirds) do not vote in off-year or congressional, nonpresidential elections. A little more than half of eligible voters take the initiative to vote in presidential elections.
This does not mean that they are not good citizens. People who don't vote aren't bad people, and they shouldn't feel bad about their decisions.
Some may not identify with either of the majority parties and think that voting for a third party is simply throwing your vote away.
COMMENTARY
There are many reasons people do not vote.
They may not be interested in politics, or they may not think they know enough about the candidates and the issues to make an informed decision.
Others, probably including many college students, think their votes don't
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Audrey Snyder
opinion@whatsan.com
really count, especially in Kansas, where Republicans are elected to most offices.
Or it is simply too much trouble to stand in line to vote or to request an advance ballot through the mail.
Universal suffrage was not always taken for granted in our country.
African-Americans, women and non property-owning people fought for suffrage.
Projects aimed at encouraging people to vote, educating them about the issues and helping them register to vote are good.
However, some who encourage others to vote go too far. It is probably because of these fights that some argue that voting is not only a right but also a responsibility—or even a duty.
Voting as a duty is totally inconsistent with the values of this country.
The idea that a right is a duty, particularly the right to vote, is absurd.
Ayn Rand, a novelist and philosopher, wrote that a duty was "the moral necessity to perform certain actions for no reason other than obedience to some higher authority."
Thus the concept of the right to vote as a duty would be consistent with the ideology of a tyrant who forces his citizens to vote.
The idea of voting as a duty is inconsistent with the moral and political values of the United States.
One has the right to vote; subsequently, one also has the right not to vote.
If you are interested in voting, by all means, do so.
If you know about some of the basic issues and have an opinion on them, vote if you want.
If you don't care about voting, if you don't know anything about the candidates and the issues, then don't vote you might end up hurting a candidate with whom you agree.
If you vote in this election, you have no reason to congratulate yourself on fulfilling your duty as a citizen.
If you do not vote in this election you have no reason to feel guilty.
Snyder is a Shawnee senior in political science.
Copyright battle about corporate control, not record sales
In response to concerns of massive movie trading, Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America, declared that emerging technologies are "to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone."
Of course when he made the statement in front of Congress, it was 1982 and in reference to the emerging technology of the time: VCRs.
Not surprisingly, many agreed with Valenti's bold declaration.
Valenti's actions then were an early sign that the battle over copyrights has nothing to do with record sales and everything to do with control.
A number of bills are pending before Congress. For instance, the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act would require copyright protections on all devices that touch digital content including computers, MP3 players and CD burners.
again lobbying Congress to "protect" their copyrights from the "terrorizing" influence of the newest emerging technology file sharing.
Now Valentl and company are at it
Greg Holmquist opinion@kansan.com
Intel has opposed such bills along with others in the technology industry.
GUEST COMMENTARY
The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes circumventing restrictions, even for constitutionally granted "fair uses," criminal.
Or consider that, according to rules like
out in the U.S. Code, CD Rs are currently taxed for royalty payments, irrespective of whether they are used for pirated music.
But according to the content industry and their apologists one shouldn't worry.
Andrey Snyder wrote in an Oct. 15 column in *The University Daily Kansan* ("Downloading music moral equivalent of*
The content cartel doesn't want to just end piracy. It wants to create a new business model, with the help of legislation purchased by massive lobbying dollars.
Federal Judge Marilyn Patel, who ultimately ruled against Napster, expressed her reservations asserting that "even a naif must realize that in forming and operating a joint venture (the record companies) must necessarily meet and discuss pricing and licensing, raising the specter of possible antitrust violation."
shoplisting") "there are legitimate ways to download music," and "many record companies ... have established their own sites for downloadable music." Of course forgetting the draconian terms and limits of such sites.
They work together, as a cartel would, not simply to protect their profits but to create new ones.
There's a delusion that this is an issue of, as Snyder moralized, "stealing from the (record companies) and giving to the (college students)." This misses the point.
Without understanding this crucial distinction we can never confront the real issue and the real threat.
This is the fairy tale that the content industry has sold, hook, line and sinker. The ethics of sharing aside, what's at risk isn't the ability to trade music. This war isn't about downloading music.
Holmquist is a Topeka junior in business and psycology.
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