In a message dated 99-10-21 18:13:05 EDT, you write:
<<
See the reason I won't sign a bill like this, despite the fact I'm underage
is that this bill could be twisted. I read something scary in the
government curriculum about "all who stand in the way of teaching
homosexuality must be eliminated">
Now I'm no homophobe or bigot but that scares me. People have a right to
voice their opinions even if they are crude or evil.
Plus, if this means somebody who kills a gay will be treated harder than
somebody who kills a straight? Some would say yes. I mean, some of the gay
rights bills actually show preference to gays over straights and I have a
problem with that, that's a form of prejudice
Not that I'm condoning any of this gay bashing--it's obviously evil
I'm just saying that some of these bills could be misused
No offense to anybody I'm no bigot I'm just pointing this out
>>
This guy reminds me of Mary Bono, Sonny's widow turned congress pin-up girl.
She was on the news questioning some guy about anti-hate crime laws
and she kept saying....
'well...what about the jocks? I mean, those two kids at Columbine were
targeting jocks and anyone who believed in God....what about them? do we
have laws protecting jocks now?
'well, do we?'
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:43:11 +0100
From: "T.R.Bradley" <T.R.Bradley@durham.ac.uk>
Subject: (mobility) Re: mobility-digest V2 #171
> No, feet are much more cool than hands.
I like feet
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:50:53 +0100
From: "T.R.Bradley" <T.R.Bradley@durham.ac.uk>
Subject: (mobility) Re: sorry about the last message
> 4) The WDMHFSB Video
> Is it just me, or didn't Mute have the slightest idea what they were doing?> It's a really GREAT clip which goes very well with the song, that's not it,> but> the format it is presented in on the CD! BLEHHH!!
> I have nothing against MAC computers, but why the hell use a clip in .mov> format? (they are known for being crappy) But that on the side, that's not> the worst thing. Microsoft MediaPlayer (the latest upgrade) doesn't> recognise> the compression codec of this .mov file, so I'm forced to install Quicktime> which is also supplied on the CD. Did you know that the best way to fuck up> a Windows computers registry is to install Quicktime? Well, and excited I> was> about seeing the clip I totally forgot to backup my old registry settings> before
> installing Quicktime... BIG MISTAKE. Oh, well enough about that, let's
> pretend> you don't mind your registry being fucked up, you click on the .mov file,> mmm> 70 Megabytes for a 3:45 minute song, should be in pretty good quality! NOT!> You'll get a tiny little screen with an incredibly crappy quality clip, how> can they
> fill 70 megs with this??? For those who haven't got the slightest idea what
> I'm
> rambling about here: a 40 Mb Mpeg encoded clip for a 3:45 song gives you a
> full-screen high-quality video!
>
> Oh, and another thing: don't try to run the clip on a 4-speed CDrom (or
> slower)
> I had to copy the file to my harddisk in order to get it to run 'properly'.
> (Mpeg encoded video's run perfectly on 4-speed CDroms...)
> ** Rating content of clip: 9 out of 10 **
> ** Rating presentation of clip: 2 out of 10 **
>
> I'm done now...
>
> (<>,,<>)
> np: Moby - Flying Foxes
>
> ------------------------------
> Now, what I think is that the few video's etc I've got from albums by other artists all need you to install Quicktime. Anyway, Mute did the video to try to increase sales even more because this is the best chgance Moby had in the UK top 40, the song is still played on the radio so much, so many records have been sold. The outlet of Our Price ran out of CD1 for goodness sake! Shops ( apart from the evil chart fixers Woolworths) had Moby displays. ( don't think Woolworths sold it, well, Mute didn't give them money) Moby came to number 16, that is so fucking cool, so many CDs must have been sold ;)
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 07:07:09 -0500
From: "Davies, Andrew" <ADavies@glhec.org>
Subject: (mobility) Thanks 2 cover submissions
>hi,
>could someone tell where has this "Ade's Thanks 2 tribute cover voting
>page" from moby.org dissappeared?
>anyway i'd need information about the form (jpg?), and e-mailaddress of
>Ade, or who ever is now running this coverthing, etc.
>(i hope the deadline at the end of november still valid =)
>thanks,
>h
heheheheh sadly enough, that deadline was for LAST november!!!! hopefully
this project will get done sometime!!! I am curious as to whether we ever
voted (i am guessing "no" because i don't remember doing it....) and if Ade
has been talking with Greg about the whole cover ideas. I would be
interested in hearing about it from either/both Greg and Ade.
Andy
gingerbread man
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 07:20:01 -0500
From: "Brad Caviness" <bigwig@arkansas.net>
Subject: Re: (mobility) Gay Rights!
- ----- Original Message -----
From: jj fish
> See the reason I won't sign a bill like this, despite the fact I'm
underage
> is that this bill could be twisted. I read something scary in the
> government curriculum about "all who stand in the way of teaching
> homosexuality must be eliminated">
>
> Now I'm no homophobe or bigot but that scares me. People have a right to
> voice their opinions even if they are crude or evil.
>
You actually READ the "scary government curriculum"? Seriously, no such
thing exists. And even if it did, it certainly would not contain such a
Goebel-esque phrase sanctioning the elimination of political opponents. As a
person who is both gay and works in education, I can tell you that national
teacher education accreditation standards do expend a lot of energy
preparing teachers to teach students respect for qualities in others that
make them different for each other. The point is to AVOID another Columbine.
Not cause one.
>
> Plus, if this means somebody who kills a gay will be treated harder than
> somebody who kills a straight? Some would say yes. I mean, some of the
gay
> rights bills actually show preference to gays over straights and I have a
> problem with that, that's a form of prejudice.
>
Hmm. Yes. Gay rights bills aim to set us in a more advantageous position
than straights. Oh wait a minute! I forgot! you guys can already marry the
people you love, get tax and insurance benefits for being together, and
don't have to worry about losing your job or where you live because of who
you're attracted to. Plain and simple -- Gays and lesbians ARE discriminated
against. That is wrong. Laws need to be enacted to protect those civil
rights.
All of this to say, that, even as a gay man, I still oppose "hate crime"
legislation. We already have laws protecting people from violent crimes and,
in most cases, discrimination. To make the a crime more severely punishable
because you don't like someone sets a dangerous legal precendent. It creates
a situation where you have to prove hate in order to convict (at least for
the stronger hate crime punishments). I doubt very seriously that hate crime
legislation would've saved Matthew Shepard's life. Nor would it probably
provide for a stricter punishment for his assailants since 1) the one
convicted already has received a very harsh sentence in lieu Colorado's lack
of hate crime laws, and 2) a good defense attorney could argue the
assailant's motivation was robbery, not hate, since the two stole his wallet
and shoes.
These bills could be misused, yes. But let's not fall in to far right-wing
propaganda and say that gays don't need civil protection. After all, even I
would like to marry the person I love one day.
BSC
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:02:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Adam Covati <acovati@WPI.EDU>
Subject: (mobility) registry settings
> > installing Quicktime... BIG MISTAKE. Oh, well enough about that, let's
> > pretend> you don't mind your registry being fucked up, you click on the .mov file,> mmm> 70 Megabytes for a 3:45 minute song, should be in pretty good quality! NOT!> You'll get a tiny little screen with an incredibly crappy quality clip, how> can they
> > fill 70 megs with this??? For those who haven't got the slightest idea what
win 95 or win 98, I know that win 98 has regrestore, you can type it at
the dos prompt. It automatically saves reg settings from previous
reboots, and you can roll back to those settings, try it out.
covatz
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:48:22 PDT
From: "R23 Irionik" <a23_@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: (mobility) moby t-shirts
> > >if you're into front 242 i can hook you up with a catalogue, > >they've
>got like 40-50 shirts in their catalogue...if anyone > >knows who they are
>here, kinda hard to find ppl who know them.
>Yeah, didn't they do that whole God thing that Lords of Acid coped >off?
>That "you don't have to be poor any more, Jesus is here!" >thing? They're
>cool.
>They have 40 - 50 MOBY shirts or just F242 shirts? Hum.
no, they don't have moby shirts. i think moby shirts can be found if you
write moby c/o mute records, they'll probably send you a catalogue.
