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I agree strongly with one point in particular: prison is not acceptable for this.

Prison should be: does this person need physical restraint from harming society again? YES/NO.

In this case, forbid him Internet access for 4 years, with 2 years under strict supervision. Fuck. It hurts me just to write that... Ugh...

I am annoyed that he profited from this, so I think the financial punishment should be 2x what he earned (why 2x? because 1x is comensation, 2x is punishment... he deserves to be punished for profiting from other people's work).

But then...

Sorry you godless faggots just want the money. Maybe if you learned what fiat money actually is you will begin to slap yourself every day.

I know, but I use that godless fiat money to buy breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I know I am sinning, but society requires me to. :( So I go out and earn some so I can buy food... otherwise, I starve...

Obviously the summary was written to generate sympathy: 2 years prison, 2 years probation is NOT a 4-year sentence, in common parlance.
I don't give a shit about how you feel about piracy (it's not actually piracy, it's copyright infringement) but he did something he knew was illegal, and profited massively from it.

So 2 years in a minimum security jail? Sure, I think that's reasonable.

You are a total dick. You bother to mince words between 2 and 4 years in jail? For a 29 year old guy in Ireland sharing music?

Here is how lawyers think vs reality.

Lawyers: It's a rule we have to obey the rule. Why? We literally get paid a retarded amount of money to bicker over rules that we make up. Lawyers obey money.

Reality: https://www.google.com/#q=metallica+ride+the+lightning+release+date

(July 27, 1984) You could buy it on cassette tape. I bought it several times because it wore out, got loaned and never returned, and got lost. Each of those ways. It would have been illegal to copy it and give somebody a blank tape with a dub. Sure, dual cassette decks were sold that made it very easy to copy cassette tapes. Electronics retailers made money and hired lawyers so hey, pspspspss that's cool. Buy it, just say "don't copy tapes".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhT0g9jULpw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2ydUOZYmbY

You won't understand my point though because you are obviously a tool. Piracy is already a misnomer. It was a made up word initially, it is a lie. Nobody on any fucking ship sails the high seas to capture Metallica tapes. Sure it's reasonable to hope for compensation for your music or Hollywood propaganda. It's also nice to get paid 100's of millions of dollars to build homes and buildings or run farms or make clothing. Crying because unauthorized people listened to you twang on guitar strings and hear you go yayaya without paying you.. send them to prison? If you live next door to an amphitheater should you be taxed? You should move to North Korea. I hope you do pussy.

Sorry you godless faggots just want the money. Maybe if you learned what fiat money actually is you will begin to slap yourself every day.
http://ftmdaily.com/preparing-for-the-collapse-of-the-petrodollar-system/
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiatmoney.asp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu_VqX6J93k
http://www.bis.org/statistics/derstats.htm

The comment below you http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7977165&cid=50483469 got it right.

Here have a first hit: http://www.iciclesoftware.com/LawJokes/IcicleLawJokes.html
Call it BSD License.

Capitalism is reactionary, which is the 'natural' way things are done. It operates like any other natural lifeform, and just flows like a river. Any planning involved is pretty near the same as storing nuts for the winter. And the whole socialism thing being stereotyped here is simply state run capitalism in a very closed exclusive market. They have to make deals with the people they can't conquer also. Where capitalist countries practice their slave trade outside their borders, the Soviet/Chinese style 'socialists' maintain the same thing domestically. Ultimately, everything is capitalist. Read the contract. The relevant part says, *Payment due...* Even the most godless commies discuss little else. And I never said central planning was successful. Desires of the flesh preclude the possibility at this point in our evolution.

Well capitalism is all about short term gain (although technically adding up to long term gains).

The next day, all the workers are going to show up at the last hour unless they think work is its own reward.

But Jesus is all about the afterlife and preparing for it. So he doesn't give two shits about money and capitalism one way or the other.

With Jesus, your mileage will vary depending on your views about the afterlife.

Matthew 20:1-16

“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’

“The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’

“But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. ... are you envious because I am generous?’

And then some workers pouted, and stamped their feet, and said, "my value is my pay, and you have taken away that margin that distinguishes me from the low", some said "only my pay reflects my performance, and if you pay me decently, I might not have an incentive to perform, or the pressure to perform will be too high" contradicting themselves at every turn, and they left in a huff. Or a minute-and-a-huff. And they complained that the man who owned the vineyard was a socialist, and was not out to screw as much money out of his vineyard workers as possible, and was therefore a weak man, and not fit to rule them.

as a college grad with more debt than a south american country, I can tell you I was worried about this bug. I came up with a handy countermeasure to avoid nefarious car hackers:

I work two jobs and drive a 2001 Ford crown victoria i bought for six hundred bucks at a police auction. It burns oil, and smells like parking citations and regret. On a hot day it stinks like hamburgers; I do not know why. The jiggle required to get the spare key to engage the ignition is nothing short of a shao-lin kung fu scene. This car still has a throttle cable, and practically came off the line with the check-engine light on. The upholstery is permanently stained with the detritus of an entire cities overweight, underpaid cops.

Hacking my brakes wont work, the pedal goes to the floor to try and stop this 2 and a quarter ton house on wheels so if anything it might be an improvement. randomly triggering the accellerator, assuming one can do this in a vehicle with a throttle cable, will result in a godless heavy metal grunt from the engine as this 210 horsepower v8 struggles to maintain basic lane positioning. The AC hasnt worked since the clinton era, and mysteriously burps up pieces of foam. The door locks are mysterious and random enough already, and functionless for the rear passenger.

I use gmail for professionnal/private stuff.

I look at all sort of things on youtube and enter into heated and touchy discussions, considering the number of bigots in the world, I don't want a potential employer finding out that I disagree with them on some policy and get canned as 'socialist commie, gay loving, godless atheist' out of a fine job for things they have NO business to know.

Evidently I use a different anonymous account on those site...then Google forced me to link them on my gmail account and g+ crap.. CONTINUOUSLY I even created a 'IDONTWANTYOUFUCKINGGPLUSCRAP@gmail.com' then they wonder ...

Why do we want to fight ISIS though. I know the media has brainwashed conservative USAians to hate conservative religious fundamentalist who believe in family values and the right to bear arms. These guys are also known as Muslims, but why should the USA and ISIS be enemies. On a strict policy line, ISIS is much more in common with the USAian founding fathers than the current governing body does. I am just curious, because I am old school. I remember a time when the USA supported the Mujahedeen against the Godless commies. However just like the stance on homosexuals, the media has managed to turn public opinion 180 degrees around. No longer are the Mujahedeen our friends. Now they are our enemies, and homosexuals are our friends. 10 years from now who will we hate, and who will the media convince the public to like. Historically the USA has sided with the Sunni. Apparently that is changing. 5 years from now we might sucking Irans's dick and bombing Saudi. The tide of enemies and friends change over time in the USA. One thing is for certain is that the change of public opinion will not be organic. Instead it will be created by our media manipulators who will not tell us their real motives for changing the story. There can be no freedom when you dearest beliefs and convictions are the product of media propaganda.

Well, I am going to watch sports center now because I am thinking too much, and I am pretty sure that is illegal in the USA.

I have a friend from South Carolina who moved to Florida and was gone from his home town for five years or so. He felt a strong calling to get back together with his high school sweetheart and after letters and phone calls sent her a package. Instead of the Post Office delivering the package the police came to her home with the package. The police were concerned that the package came from Florida. You know, Florida! The land of perverts, junkies and people who are not baptists. The cops wanted to protect her in case something shocking or perverse was inside this package from the godless land called Florida. So they opened the package in front of her to reveal the treats that girls tend to like such as candy, perfume and other fluff. She then informed them that packages from her boy friend should be allowed to be delivered to her home. This all happened well before 9/11. Apparently small towns in the deep south look at other US states about like we look at Syria or Yemen.

Heretic. There are ONLY two choices. You're either With us or you're Against us. You must side with the party that eats their own babies of the party that eats other people's babies. Everything is exactly opposite and anyone who would dare to suggest otherwise is obviously Not One of Us. Hail the 21st Century!

China is run by the Chinese Communist Party. You are a member of the Party before you can even begin to be a member of the government. When the Cold War was at its height, we weren't told that the Russians weren't really Commies, so that was all right. We were told the Godless Commies were going to come and conquer us and take away our Freedom, fluoridate our water, confiscate our guns and Bibles, re-educate our kids and make us undergo intense scrutiny every time we went to the airport or applied for a job.

And the Chinese Commies were different than the Russian Commies, but they were still Commies and against everything we stood for.

Except, apparently, if if got you Always the Low Price at Wal-Mart.

Just because the Chinese Communist government has exploited Capitalist business concepts doesn't mean that they've forever abandoned the precepts that they once held paramount. The Cultural Revolution came and went, but the Party remained. So, too it may be with their latest experiments. There's been no talk I've ever heard that they intend to so much as remove the name "Communist" from their ruling party, much less rewrite their basic beliefs.

It's true, that no communist part of any scale has truly been "communist" any more than America is the "democracy" we used to proudly proclaim we were until the Republicans got nervous that calling ourselves a "democracy" sounded too much like an endorsement of the Democrat (sic) Party and started insisting on saying "democratic REPUBLIC". But that's quibbling over words.

China is a country that for millenia has been based on the concept of central control. The Communist Party just provided a way to define it in modern terms. Call it what you will - they'll continue to do what they like regardless.

And just FYI, I get trolled by at least one fucktard AC all the time. I call him Bingo... Bingo the clowno.

And he can be relied upon to respond to every thread I create with something along the lines of "you're stupid" or "you're a bad person"... he uses harsher language than that but that is the general message.

If you do anything other than stop being a fucking hypocrite OR log in... Then you can go fuck yourself with a rake sideways.

Why not quote him directly? It's not like you aren't using profanity immediately before and after your faux quote. Or are you pretending to take the high ground? "I'm not a godless asshole like he is, I don't use profanity or personal insults!"

He never offers any reason for what he says.

I picked him up when I criticized a post about psychology and said that it wasn't really a true science and we had to take conclusions from it with a grain of salt.

Since then, I've had bingo... he's been following me for months.

So for you to sit there and presume superiority over me when I have to deal with bingo and you don't have to deal with shit... is a little stupid. What is more, you don't get to comment on my record because you've gone out of your way not to have one.

Actually, AC's do get to comment. You can pretend to be a big tough guy on the internet, but your dominance games don't actually work. I expect most people just ignore you rather than see your deranged posts. Also, why do you think there's "one" AC following you? It is more likely that your irrational behavior inspires the same reaction from many people.

When ever someone ask the question, "What would Jesus do", they are usually less interested in what Jesus would do and more interested in persuading someone else to do something they would not otherwise do.

The historical figure "Jesus" set a pretty clear example of how an individual should coexists with others. An example that by and large is but a footnote in most American evangelical offshoots of Christianity. Rather, self serving power structures construct a hodge-podge mix of old and new testament hegemony that 90% of the time ain't got jack shit to do with the near Buddhist examples of Christ himself. Godly inspired racism, sexism, discrimination, intolerance of another's beliefs, and war upon your fellow man are all "classic" examples.

In the 150 years after Christ got hammered, Just about every permutation of future church leadership was tried out. There's at least some evidence of a blood line based church leadership and the sect that buried the dead sea scrolls. The only one that survived used a form of elections to pick successors, and by implication, who spoke for god.

In Islam, following the death of Mohammed, the same thing played out again with the Sunni and the Shiites. And once again in America with the LDS church after the martyrdom of Joseph Smith. In every case that I know of, bloodline ascensions (or similar predisposition), almost always become the weaker of the two splinters. Where as the sects that hold elections and decide whose going to play the role of god's spokesperson, thrive.

It will be the same with Linus. There'll be red faced rants quoting mailing lists from the "holy years" of Linus. "Linus would never allow....", "It would be an abomination to Linus if....".

Same shit, different day, different Jihad. Meanwhile, FreeBSD and the like, being godless and democratic, will continue to move forward with nary a speed bump.

on max resolution it's only a corrupted mess with hardware acceleration on, with hardware acceleration off it's a green block.

Firefox 38.0, whatever godless version of Flash is running, Kernel 4.0.3, nvidia driver 349.16.

You mean something like lynx ?

I hope that's tongue in cheek. There are many things you could want to gather information about without it being tied to you for everyone to see. Looking up health related things is what I use it most for. If a friend or family has something I would like more info on, I don't want that ailment being attached to my name...

Maybe the folks who coded the "delete browser history on exit" option should be jailed?

Not necessarily illegal... sometimes it's to hide from your spouse or other snoopy people in your house

Using incognito shows you have the intent to do something illegal. Otherwise, you would have nothing to hide.

Please get in the van, sir.

Or we could build a browser that doesn't keep a history, cookies, or useless plugins like java and flash.