ASL is Destroying Indian Sign Language

Native American Indians used their versions of sign language well before Europeans or Spaniards ever touched their land (ie “pre-settlement era") what is now called the “United States” and "Canada." In fact, many ... or can not understand speech at all. Pre-settlement population figures north of Mexico ranged from 8 [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 22:01:41
Blog: Kokonut Pundit...

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RIAA Targets 23 NEW Schools in Latest Campus Piracy Crackdown

Wants to spread around the litigation "love" to previously untouched colleges still teeming with pesky file-sharing music pirates ... by sending out some 408 pre-litigation settlement letters to 23 universities nationwide who had previously not received any at all. This latest and greatest round of pre-litigation settlement [more...]

Date: 2007-07-20 16:24:47
Blog: P2P File Sharing Progra...

RIAA Ohio University spin session

p2pnet news | RIAA News:- Ohio University isn’t exactly a shining example of how well a teaching institution can serve and protect its students, ... music, the university’s The Post says, also observing more than 100 OU students have received pre-litigation settlement letters threatening lawsuits unless the recipients pay the RIAA $3,500 ‘Pre [more...]

Date: 2007-10-31 14:20:34
Blog: p2pnet.net - the origin...

Limits, again

Am reminded today, for some unfathomable reason, of a thing I used to feel when younger - not so much these days - a kind of pre-emptive nostalgia, ... settlement and was suddenly hit with a wave of sadness - that ‘you-can-never-go-down-to-the-same-river-twice ... of that Someone Who fixes in advance omnipotent laws, Sets up a secret and unwavering [more...]

Date: 2007-10-10 14:27:39
Blog: the vital thing.....

Back to School for Reading, Writing, and RIAA Lawsuits?

EFF Releases Comprehensive Report on Recording Industry's Litigation Campaign San Francisco - As college students across the country head back to ... , Rensselaer Polytechnic, and Michigan Tech to the current spate of "pre-litigation settlement" letters ... comprehensive look at the four-year litigation campaign waged by the RIAA against music fans. The [more...]

Date: 2007-08-29 08:01:49
Blog: EFF: ...

Erie PA News and Events for Saturday October 20, 2007

Someone needs to fill the Sheriff Andy Taylor role if Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio is going to play Barney Fife and shoot himself in the ... nearly monthly 411 pre-litigation settlement letters to universities nationwide as part of the ongoing ... infringement. Allegheny College in Meadville was included in the August letters. Each pre-litigation [more...]

Date: 2007-10-20 13:07:15
Blog: Welcome to ErieBlogs.co...

Are you paying attention, RIAA?

p2pnet news | RIAA News:- Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA is going blind trying to terrorize American students into becoming good little consumers, offering spurious ’settlement’ deals designed to get them ... , right? Not really. Few artists so far have seen a cent from the RIAA’s pre-litigation settlements [more...]

Date: 2007-08-31 13:40:28
Blog: p2pnet.net - the origin...

Tax Attorney Help

For a Tax Attorney, Sean Neill wrote: Depends on what the attorney’s role is - planning or litigation? If litigation, ask for references from local accountants. Based on my experience as a Canadian ... had some experience in the past and/or who’ve had some reasonable success in court or pre-settlement [more...]

Date: 2007-06-08 00:55:14
Blog: Chris Pirillo...

Selling Annuity

A lot of you must be wondering why Selling annuity has grown to become this popular nowadays ... . Specializing in pre-settlement funding, SSQ is designed to help you obtain a lump-sum of money for your Structured Settlement, and Annuity Payments. Got any more questions? Feel free to contact SSQ [more...]

Date: 2007-08-15 12:32:12
Blog: ::Unknown::...

RIAA Begins 9th Round of Campus Piracy Crackdown

Gives students another reason to live off campus. Still savoring its win in the courtroom against Jammie Thomas in the first ever file-sharing lawsuit to go to trial, the RIAA announced yesterday that it had begun a 9th round of pre-litigation settlement letters targeting college campus piracy across the country. This latest round [more...]

Date: 2007-10-19 17:26:05
Blog: Zeropaid.com - File Sha...

On the whiplash trail

Might become a rich source of material for this site: Attorney Jonathan G. Stein of Elk Grove, Calif ... in damage to her car. Client had $2,200 in treatment. Settlement pre-lit: $8,500. That is almost four ... . has launched a blog on "Litigating MIST Cases," MIST in this case standing for "Minimum Injury [more...]

Date: 2007-09-24 04:24:36
Blog: Overlawyered...

RIAA Sues 16 C.U. Students

Feature Photo Abstract Content Links Photo Caption News Deckhead Photographer News Body On May 16, ... , which would most likely be greater than the settlement initially proposed in the pre-litigation ... who had allegedly committed acts of copyright infringement. In April, the RIAA began sending pre-litigation [more...]

Date: 2007-08-23 04:00:00
Blog: The Cornell Daily Sun ...

what endures

what endures Sunday, November 11, 2007 ... markers. The idea is once you’ve established your little plot of land in European pre-settlement times, you have to find a way to indicate where the boundaries of your property are, or where the town [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 05:18:07
Blog: abada abada › ten years...

RIAA Targets New Colleges, Still Avoids Harvard

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Billboard reports that the RIAA has filed its eighth round of 'early settlement' letters to twenty-two colleges ... Arizona State University (35 pre-litigation settlement letters), Carnegie Mellon University (13 [more...]

Date: 2007-09-22 19:27:00
Blog: Article33 - Gadgets & R...

Why men fear marriage - We all lose out!

Stable relationships are hugely beneficial to society. Tax benefits provide little incentive in comparison to swinging divorce settlements ... binding Prenups to protect pre-existing assets and define child support and access rights ... of us admire Billie Piper who took nothing in her divorce settlement. Do you like this idea? [more...]

Date: 2007-09-11 13:10:34
Blog: My Telegraph...

RIAA Begins Round 7 of its Fight Against Campus Piracy

503 "lucky" new students get to start the Fall Semester even deeper in debt. The RIAA has announced that it has targeted 503 new students in its latest "deterrence program ... of targeted students to 2,926 and counting thus far. The pre-litigation "settlement" letters [more...]

Date: 2007-08-20 10:34:57
Blog: P2P File Sharing Progra...

Adult humor jokes-Clarification

An elderly couple after long dating period decided to get married. For pre-wedding settlement on finances, cost contribution, memories of prior spouses etc. they went to candle light dinner in a fine restaurant. Topic now was on their physical relationship. 'How [more...]

Date: 2007-10-26 04:29:41
Blog: LiFe disguised in HuMoR...

Palestinians seek pre-conference settlement freeze (Reuters)

[ Members of the Palestinian security forces take part in a march to mark the 19th anniversary of the Palestinians' Declaration of Independence in ... freeze in Jewish settlement building ahead of a conference on statehood, a top Palestinian official said [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 13:28:39
Blog: Dubai Visitor Guide ...

Family Pilgrimage to Papay

Last weekend our family took a ferry out from the island of Westray to the tiny monastic island of Papa Westray. [ ... A little church building called St Boniface Kirk still stands. Its one of the few remaining pre ... the road there is another monastic settlement known as St Tredwell's Chapel. It was a nunnery [more...]

Date: 2007-09-17 15:48:07
Blog: Tall Skinny Kiwi...

Students are fans: RIAA’s Duckworth

p2pnet news | RIAA News:- “College students are some of the music industry’s best fans, ... address – which is unique to each computer, also saying so-called pre-litigation letters, “include settlement offers of $3,000, with the second wave increasing [more...]

Date: 2007-09-07 16:55:43
Blog: p2pnet.net - the origin...

RIAA assaults another 19 US universities

p2pnet news | RIAA News:- Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s morally destitute RIAA is sending a heavy dose of ‘tough love‘ to 19 ... to: Drexel University (17 pre-litigation settlement letters), Indiana University (23), Northern [more...]

Date: 2007-10-19 15:16:57
Blog: p2pnet.net - the origin...

Outdoor Youth Camps

Here’s a view of the other large prominent rock on the Rockbrook Camp property: Dunn’s Rock ... settlement that pre-dates the incorporation of Brevard, and it served as a sheltered place (under [more...]

Date: 2007-10-08 14:42:05
Blog: Rockbrook Girls Summer ...

Pay us $8M, Santangelos tell AOL, Kazaa

p2pnet news | RIAA News:- Michelle Santangelo and her brother Robert, victims of Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA, ... into paying upwards of $3,000 in so-called ‘pre-settlement’ fees, with many of the universities [more...]

Date: 2007-09-13 15:48:01
Blog: p2pnet.net - the origin...

They Said What? - Charles Barkley

Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley “I’ll bet you if Juanita gets married again, she’ll sign a pre-nup” - Charles Barkely, responding after he found out Michael Jordan was ordered to pay his ex-wife Juanita more than $150 million in a divorce settlement because he didn’t have a pre-nup. Source. Photo Source. Charles [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 22:45:26
Blog: Smarter Sports Blog - B...

New wave of RIAA extortion letters

p2pnet news | RIAA News:- We’ve instructed our RIAA to harass another 403 students in 22 universities nationwide, say Warner Music, EMI, ... State University (35 pre-litigation settlement letters), Carnegie Mellon University (13), Cornell [more...]

Date: 2007-09-21 18:10:43
Blog: p2pnet.net - the origin...

From the E-Mailbag...

From the E-Mailbag... Kyle Foreman writes, "I've got a two-part question for you about the probable WGA strike ... . But when the strike comes, what happens if there's no settlement when the pre-strike material runs out? Reruns [more...]

Date: 2007-10-07 19:38:09
Blog: news from me...

Syncretic Nigerians?

epiScope points us to this curious story: ...Across West Africa, churches or mosques can be found in virtually every settlement: ... , which tallies with pre-Christian practices where men took on many spouses to ensure survival [more...]

Date: 2007-10-12 05:23:23
Blog: Father Jake Stops the W...

RIAA v The People - four years on

p2pnet news | RIAA News:- “As college students across the country head back to class this fall, ... spate of ‘pre-litigation settlement’ letters being sent to universities nationwide”. “The crackdown [more...]

Date: 2007-08-29 19:20:31
Blog: p2pnet.net - the origin...

Ohio University pays RIAA ‘expert’

p2pnet news | RIAA News:- My earlier story on the Ohio University / RIAA fiasco didn’t go far enough ... for its monthly waves of about 400 pre-litigation settlement letters, which allege that computers on college [more...]

Date: 2007-10-31 15:49:53
Blog: p2pnet.net - the origin...

Connect the Dots

The Durham City Council is scheduled to meet today to consider the proposed civil suit settlement--reportedly $30 million, ... pre-primary campaign of slanderous remarks. No one from the Police Department ever corrected even [more...]

Date: 2007-10-04 04:42:35
Blog: Durham-in-Wonderland...

RIAA Nastygrams 13 New Schools

You could be forgiven for thinking Digg is the only thing happening in copyright today, ... University (15 pre-litigation settlement letters), Duke University (35), Iowa State University (15 [more...]

Date: 2007-05-03 00:16:17
Blog: The Underwire - Wired B...

More on the RIAA front from my hometown

The Tacoma News Tribune is reporting that the University of Washington will be passing on pre-settlement letters from the RIAA to its students, using server and DHCP logs to identify anonymous [more...]

Date: 2007-06-27 02:52:04
Blog: | Education IT | ZDNet...

RIAA Targets 22 Colleges; Continues to Avoid Confrontation with Harvard

p2pnet reports that the RIAA has filed its eighth round of "early settlement" letters to twenty-two colleges. ( ... of the 403 new letters include Arizona State University (35 pre-litigation settlement letters [more...]

Date: 2007-09-21 19:28:12
Blog: Recording Industry vs. ...

Palestinians seek pre-conference settlement freeze

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinians have told the United States they will accept nothing less than a total freeze in Jewish settlement building ahead of a conference on statehood, a top [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 06:28:26
Blog: www.ipfreaks.com » Drea...

Palestinians seek pre-conference settlement freeze

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinians have told the United States they will accept nothing less than a total freeze in Jewish settlement building ahead of a conference on statehood, a top [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 13:28:26
Blog: Reuters News...

Round 10: RIAA Targets Another 417 College Students

Campus file-sharers get a pre-litigation "settlement" letter just in time for finals, and this time the Ivy League feels its wrath as well. The RIAA continues to intimidate the people it once [more...]

Date: 2007-11-20 15:26:10
Blog: P2P File Sharing Progra...

Election 2007: Kentucky Governor (Updated)

It looks like there will be a new Governor in Kentucky and a change of party ... Beshear held a significant lead in pre-election polling, probably due in part to Fletcher’s indictment ... settlement with prosecutors.” It looks like the GOP needs some ethics lessons. Update 1: The AP [more...]

Date: 2007-11-07 01:35:11
Blog: Patterico’s Pontificat...

Olmert’s instruction to prepare for a nuclear-armed Iran was leaked to Reuters hours before the nuclear watchdog’s ElBaradei released his report

From the DEBKAfile: The agency indicates that the Israeli prime minister ordered cabinet officials in a secret memorandum to present proposals for ... have reached a dead end, and the only option left to the US or Israel is a pre-emptive military strike ... with the issue of an Israel- Palestinians settlement in consequence of the Annapolis meeting? It [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 19:48:42
Blog: NoisyRoom.net: Courage...

RIAA questioned on student attacks

p2pnet news | RIAA News:- There’s no two ways about it: Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG and their RIAA ( ... the university failed to forward a pre-litigation letter to the student or because the record industry’s initial settlement offer of a discounted settlement was ignored’,” p2pnet reported. The quote [more...]

Date: 2007-08-14 17:51:41
Blog: p2pnet.net - the origin...

STRIKE COUNTDOWN: WGAW's Verrone Forsees 'Rumors, Lies, Even Threats' And 'Low-Ball 11th Hour Offer' By AMPTP

Tonight, WGA West President Patric Verrone issued to members this pre-strike email obtained by me ... negotiations.  As always, the contract settlement must come from the parties. Second ... . It paints an ugly picture of what lies ahead for the next three days until the guild's contract [more...]

Date: 2007-10-29 05:19:01
Blog: Deadline Hollywood Dail...

#14: We Believe in Meetings

...we seek after meetings, if there is any meeting, something that resembles a meeting, or reports goodly of a meeting to come, ... AM: Presidency Meeting 6:30 PM: YM/YW/Bishopric/misc. Meeting Thursday: 6:00 PM: Tithing Settlement 7:00 PM ... up with one. Saturday: 6:00 AM: Pre-Stake Temple Day Babysitting Meeting 8:00 AM: Chapel Session Meeting, Mesa [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 03:31:26
Blog: The Burch Tree...

Kansas University says No! to RIAA

p2pnet news | RIAA News:- Another American University is refusing to act as an unpaid messenger for Warner Music, EMI, ... on: But, “The University is refusing to forward pre-litigation letters from the recording industry ... into signing self-incrimination ’settlement’ letters, and also charging them $3,000 [more...]

Date: 2007-08-13 16:19:31
Blog: p2pnet.net - the origin...

WE WILL MARCH FORWARD-Defence Spokesman SL.

*we will march forward. There is no turning back from liberating the Tamils from the clutches of terrorists ... to bring the terrorists down on their knees, we need to have a lasting settlement via a political ... that serious security lapses led to the pre-dawn terrorist attack at the Air Force Training Base [more...]

Date: 2007-10-28 07:49:22
Blog: ENB - English...

City may be hidden beneath Alexandria

Alexander the Great founded Alexandria to immortalize his name on his way to conquer the world, ... . A Smithsonian team has now uncovered first underwater evidence pointing to an urban settlement dating back ... World. But little was known about the site in pre-Alexander times, other than that a fishing village [more...]

Date: 2007-07-17 12:17:25
Blog: Spluch...

ACLU Sues Middle School Over Birth Control Pills

(2007-10-18) — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) ... and one particular sexual preference.” An unnamed school spokesman said an out-of-court settlement ... is just one of many options available to young teens and pre-teens, and directing them to visit [more...]

Date: 2007-10-18 11:55:29
Blog: ScrappleFace — News Fai...

By Kanye’s Standard, Kobe’s a Punk.

By Kanye’s Standard, Kobe’s a Punk. Posted by Signal to Noise on August 4th, ... there was no pre-nuptial agreement, Vanessa’s entitled to half the marital assets … Besides, Kobe ... of the settlement. However, at this point in Kobe’s career the best may yet to come. I’m not sure [more...]

Date: 2007-08-04 23:10:33
Blog: Signal to Noise...

Our failing immigration system

Our failing immigration system October 4th, 2007 Every year, ... funded day care centres, where she wipes noses, prepares snacks, and recites Dr. Seuss to pre ... works to disqualify the qualified while it passes along the cost of their settlement and location [more...]

Date: 2007-10-04 10:00:45
Blog: The Bruce Report ...

A millennium of British farming

Finally a chance to collect my thoughts about the fascinating Farming in the First Millennium AD: ... that the boundaries pre-date the road. There’s archaeology of course - the odd surviving plough, and records of settlement patterns and storage facilities, plus the palaeoecological approach [more...]

Date: 2007-07-01 11:17:13
Blog: Philobiblon - Green pol...

Tampa Bay dumps WR David Boston

Tampa, Fla. -- Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver David Boston has been released during his second comeback attempt with the NFL team. Story: The Bucs reached an injury settlement with Boston, who suffered ligament damage to his right foot last Sunday during pre-game warm-ups before the regular-season opener at Seattle [more...]

Date: 2007-09-14 07:00:43
Blog: The Money Times - Money...

Full-Scale War Imminent on the Northern Front

by D.B.S. Jeyaraj If anyone thought that military operations were intended to pressurise the LTTE into coming to the negotiating table, ... settlement. It is now a case of destroying or diminishing the LTTE as a pre-requisite for a political [more...]

Date: 2007-09-22 21:01:39
Blog: http://transcurrents.co...

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