OT: Next Time you sing happy birthday

[JoeHill]

Walter Dnes left a post-it on the fridge:

> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:04:12AM -0700, Tyler Aviss wrote
> > OK, so now my question would be: If a company - such as for example
> > Swiss Chalet - which has American offices, sings a US copyrighted song
> > that isn't such in Canada... could they still be sued?
> > 
> > One might want to remember the fate of the neteller execs when they
> > had a connecting flight through the US:
> > 
> > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/19/0035220
> > 
> > From what I remember of this case, the gentlemen in question were
> > actually not even decision-makers, but rather shareholders, and I've
> > even heard that they'd left that role before the new US law went into
> > effect.
> > 
> > You might think "it won't happen to me", but I suppose that those
> > execs, or others such as Mr Arar though the same. Heck, if you're into
> > online gambling, or have Cuban Cigars in your luggage, I'd be careful
> > that your non-US flight doesn't have to have some form of diversion or
> > emergency landing in US soil... it's just scary.  
> 
>   As a lifelong small-c conservative, I never thought I'd ever say this,
> but the collapse of the USSR has been a bad thing for the rest of the
> world.  The US is the only bully left in the schoolyard, and it can do
> what it damn well pleases.  Who ya going to turn to to help you against
> them?

Actually, the US clearly did not learn the lessons of the USSR after its
experiences in Afghanistan. Soon the American empire will find itself just
about as relevant as that of the former Soviet Union, ie. not at all.

Empires do not require an enemy to become pretty much ignored and ineffective.
They do it to themselves every time. Beautiful thing to watch.

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