I can’t seem to get your link to ABB in pdf to work…?

Be careful introducing new chickens into an existing flock, they do have a pecking order and I have seen normally sweet chickens gang up and kill new birds, Jack told a story once where they culled their flock on occasion, usually this is done to start over will all new hens so they won’t fight as much.

Jack,

At 01:55:45 you give the answer concerning the online version of the Australian book about making your own alcohol. You expressed valid concerns about when an author’s copyright has been violated, and you elaborated on the ethics of copyright violation. As you elaborated on it all, I believe the answer you gave wasn’t complete, and was missing possible legal details of the sort capable of getting some people in trouble.

Basically, you spoke about some people choosing to buy the actual legitimate hardcover book, but then also those same people assuming that since that legitimately bought the hardcopy, then they now have a “right” to have a bootleg electronic copy on a memory stick (but NOT on their hard drive), and you spoke about such people tucking that memory stick away somewhere in case of SHTF. But I think it’s pertinent that people understand that said memory stick is technically illegal.

If I could explain further, it’s actually illegal to make photocopies of a book that you already own. And while I don’t know off hand of any cases where someone was successfully prosecuted for such photocopies, the real point here is that the exclusive right of a copyright holder to make a “copy” of his creative work is the very thing which is protected by US copyright law. And electronic copies are the same thing. A copy is a copy is a copy.

As far as how much real life application this all has, my real fear is when persecution might befall someone. If a federal authority wanted to inflict someone with a truly difficult legal nightmare, tossing in the whole US copyright violation thing would be a deeply frightening route for that fed to go down. US copyright law is enforced by US marshals. And a warrant can be issued whereby all “infringing materials” which are (supposedly) violating the author’s copyright can be seized by a team of US marshals who can come onto your property and start seizing. They can seize computers and memory sticks and anything at all which can be deemed “infringing” to the copyright.

These kinds of gestapo-style raids on behalf of copyright violations are rare, but they do happen. I can give you the name of a Hollywood entertainment lawyer who gleefully gave an account about how he walked at the front of a pack of US marshals into a small film production company in Los Angeles, waiving the warrant on behalf of his client, and he stood back in delight and watched those marshals seize every computer, every photocopier, every floppy disk, every video cassette, every DVD. All the “infringing materials” were seized in a matter of hours, and then that production company had nothing left.

I am a cop’s daughter. We learned a healthy respect for guns. Have to teach that respect young and kids won’t pick up guns. We grew up watching the same cartoons, and they didn’t cause us to pick up guns. Agree w/Jack, need to discuss early. I never owned guns when kids were little, but they also respect firearms thanks to frank discussions and their grandfather!

Hey Jack,
Just a some quick info on Zimmerman. Florida doesn’t have voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. They have manslaughter, which is an unjustified killing and aggravated manslaughter which is an unjustified killing of a class of people (children, police etc). It doesn’t make any big difference though.

I appreciate your view on the case.

Great show. Great insight into the callers concern about “exposing” his daughter to guns. I am with jack. I regularly take the kids out back, and shoot balloons with the Crosman pumpmaster. But safety is always enforced and demanded. My son is scared of loud noises, but I am about to take him shooting the 22 at a local range. More than safety I’ve had to convince him the noise isn’t bad and the recoil isn’t bad. I could get my 4 year old daughter out with the 22 tomorrow but she hasn’t learned the safety principles well enough… yet. I have a scope on my Glenfield 22 but think a iron sight 22 maybe worth the investment to teach the kids.

Anyway I wanted to post about the caller w/ a 3 year old hen not laying. Up to you. I am more into eating the chickens e raise over eating their eggs but if you can… give them a month or two. we’ve had older chickens come back after a “hiatus” and give us lots of eggs. I know time needed to get new layers so o think it might be worthwhile to let them be and see if they come around. Just a thought.

I have had terriers for over 10 years now. An older dog would be hard to introduce chickens to. That is why I do not have chickens.

On the other hand, a puppy could easily be raised to be around small livestock, chickens included. Most terriers were bred to be farm/hunting/rodent killing animals and can do them all equally well.

I chose not to try introducing chickens to my cairns, but I would not hesitate to bring a new puppy into the home (or farm) that I could train and raise up around livestock.

Joe n TN

..but Zimmerman isn’t even white. He’s hispanic I believe. How did this become a white vs black thing?

Jack, c’mon. When there are protests about something in all our major cities, and the President of the United States has to weigh in to try and calm the situation, I think it’s safe to say the thing has already “blown up,” whether or not you, Jack Spirko, have yet heard about it yourself.

And is it possible that when you did tune in you got your info from Fox News? And that they told you the real story here was NBC doctoring a 911 tape? Cause you know how they are, and that they have an agenda. Any chance Fox gets to spin a regular news story—”X happened”—as “‘Some say’ President Obama is exploiting the fact that X happened for nefarious ends Y…”, or “President Obama could have prevented X happening but chose not to…” or “You may be hearing from the ‘mainstream media’ that X happened. Turns out, there’s more to the story…” they’re going to take it. Day in day out. This is their role in our discourse as well as their business model, and there’s an argument to be made that they’re making a healthy contribution. But you absolutely cannot trust Fox to play it straight. They’re successful because they stay on message: “the Democrats and the media are intentionally destroying America.” You don’t have to be a Democrat—and I’m not—to know that isn’t true.

Anyway. Thanks for replying. What I said about the show being better than ever was not smoke-blowing. Ep. 1166 gave me chills.

Best,

Damon