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RIAA Hires Artists, Then Sends In the SWAT team
cancan writes "The NY times is carrying an article about how the RIAA is hiring hip hop artists to make mix tapes, and then
helping the police raid their studios. In the case of DJ Drama and DJ Don Cannon, they were raided by SWAT teams with their guns drawn. The local police chief said later that they were 'prepared for the worst.' Men in RIAA jackets helped cart away 'evidence'. Just the same, 'Record labels regularly hire mixtape D.J.'s to produce CDs featuring a specific artist. In many cases, these arrangements are conducted with a wink and a nod rather than with a contract; the label doesn't officially grant the D.J. the right to distribute the artist's songs or formally allow the artist to record work outside of his contract.' " This is more of the shenanigans that we've previously discussed on the site.
The giant flash and calibration lines on the road are usually some sort of giveaway as are the preceding signs.
That being said I'd still rather there were less of them and more traffic cops instead.
That's why they have those big signs warning about them, and that big flash when it takes a picture. Still people manage to speed past them though. I just don't get it.
But that's just a waste of public resources. By having those cameras, you create a situation where either people will either a) be honest through paranoia, or b) speed and get the fines. Surely you can't say that it's a negative thing to have something that attempts to deter speeding and punishes those who, and I emphasize this, break the law. Yes they're making money on it. It's part of their job to find ways to make sure that they can afford to continue doing the things we really need the police to do, like enforce various other laws.
Cynical Idealist
Umm... allowing the police to finance their activities through the collection of "fines" sounds like a) the mafiaa b) the beginnings of a police state.
Contrary to popular belief, there actually ARE mainstream titles that are not steaming piles of shit. I know you guys love to not like things that are popular, but you're being just as stupid as the people that won't watch your oh so awesome rare and underappreciated movies. Case in point, like the movie for what it is and not for how popular it is or is not, because that's the same idiotic bullshit that drives people to listen to only punk music and hate everything else. Your tastes are not automatically better because you like unpopular movies; sometimes the movies are unpopular for a reason. Not to say that's always the case, but it certainly can be.
"Those who would sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - BenF
And so by setting your rewards and punishments appropriately, you give complete control of your life over to others.
One step at a time.
No fire works.
No racing.
No new sports that don't have the legal immunities grandfathered to older sports.
And so on.
Until we are all really quite safe and able to do nothing.
It's like taking away the money from us and then only giving it back to us if we make driving faster than 55 illegal and make pot illegal and then make certain kinds of speech on campus illegal and so on.
I get your point- you prefer safety. And if you had to give up your transportation to get it, you probably would.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.