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MPAA Requests Immunity to Commit Cyber-Crimes
The news has been buzzing around for the last couple of days that Representative Berman, whose palm has been crossed with silver by the entertainment industry, would introduce a bill permitting copyright holders to hack or DoS people allegedly distributing their works without permission. Well, the bill has been introduced - read it and weep. Although the bill wouldn't allow copyright owners to alter or delete files on your machine, they would be allowed to DoS you in essentially any other way. Let me restate that: the MPAA and RIAA are asking that they be allowed to perform what would otherwise be federal and state criminal acts and civil torts, and you will have essentially no remedy against them under any laws of the United States.
wouldnt this make a better poll option?
Will you be going to your local meetup tonight?
Yes
No
Only if CBN picks my ass up in his rusty el camino!
Not interested in getting into a theological discussion with you, but any religion has "Punishments, or consequences" for wrong doings.
The death penalty is to remove a threat from society. Prison alone cannot do this, as we see breaks regularly.
Also you say Christianity has a commandment. Actually thats just an Old Testament Commandment. In theroy Jew, Muslims, & Christians, along with Mormons, Jehivah's Witnesses, and many others claim this commandment. Yet there are other commandments to further this one that say, "If you do THIS, you are to be put to death". Stop taking one line of text out of text and look at the principles they relate to.
Don't be shocked when you post things without actually looking at or thinking about them. You are obviously either unlearned, or repeating things without thinking them through.
Razzious Domini
I could be a GREAT KARMA WHORE if I could just shed the few morals I have left.
Not to be hyper-sensitive, but Mormons are Christians. They use the same Bible, OT and NT, that the rest of the Christian world uses, believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, believe that He died on the cross and was resurrected, believe that He will return to the Earth, and, incidentally, the proper name of the church is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I'm sure there was no ill will in your separating us (yes, of course I'm a Mormon) from Christianity, but it's a common mis-conception to either categorize us with JW's, with whom we have almost nothing in common, or outright confuse us with them.
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I agree completely. It's also illegal to kidnap and hold someone against their will. Unless you're the government that is! That's all a prison is: a place where people are kidnapped (by police) and then held against their will (by prison guards). How hypocritical! We can't do it, but they can???
(Yes, I am indeed mocking him)
"Prejudice is wrong; you should hate everyone the same."
The beliefs of Mormons are sufficiently different from orthodox Christianity to be considered a different religion. For example, the belief that the Father was an human(or human- like) being is radically non-Christian. Not to mention the belief that Jesus and Lucifer are "spirit brothers." There are many, many problems with declaring LDS as Christian.
In fact, if you consider Christian beliefs to be vague enough that the LDS would fit, you would probably also have to consider Islam to be a form of Christianity, due to their beliefs about Christ.
This is not meant as an insult, just an observation. The two belief systems(Christianity and Mormonism) simply do not match.
All that is necessary for the triumph of good is that evil men do nothing.