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Senate Majority Leader Takes On File Sharing
An anonymous reader writes "Colleges are up in arms — and the entertainment industry is ecstatic — over Sen. Harry Reid's plan to crack down on file sharing by students. Floor votes could be imminent." A commenter on the post said, "Unfortunately we are likely to see neither sense nor principle from the Democrats on this issue, as Hollywood is their biggest cash machine."
No. This is the normal form in a corrupt system. Public Officials taking money used to be called "bribery", now it's called "lobbying".
These days, they run the country in the way that they think best lines their pockets. This has nothing to do with the interests of the common person.The final problem/answer is in the form of a quote:
In France the government is afraid of the people,
In the US the people are afraid of the government.
-- French Doctor in "Sicko"
If you think imaginary property and real property are the same, when does your house become public domain?
we shouldn't have computer programmers writing computer code. because, you see, the vast majority of computer programmers are CS majors or have software development backgrounds. and they end of writing code based on that background. do you see the insidious influence going on here yet? they run the software writing racket with complete disregard for end users. end users should write computer code, not computer programmers
dear great genius: anyone interested in law is going to tend to study legal systems, and therefore be a lawyer. apparently, you want a government where people who are not interested in law, writing the laws
how is that going to work eintein?
lawyers suck. i hate lawyers. but if i'm going to sue someone for breaking my leg, i tend to want to get someone who knows the damn law. likewise, i also understand that those who study the damn law are mostly likely to be the people who are interested in the damn law, and therefore are going to be the ones most likely to be interested in creating new damn laws. like running for senate/ congress. in other words, unlike yourself, i understand the concept of "necessary evil"
put it this way: if someone who is not a lawyer is a congressman/ senator, which there are plenty, by the way... if they are going to successfully pass new legislation, legislation that YOU like, for example, then they are going to have to have an understanding of the current legal system in order to do that. get it yet? in other words, drum roll please, they are going to have learn the law! as much as a lawyer does!
(smacks forehead)
oooh, let us continue pontificating in perfect ignorance about the vast conspiracy of lawyers out to control us all thourhg this insidious things called "laws"
some people are seriously ignorant
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
You sir need to wake up and smell the shit on capitol hill. The democrats aren't "voting to get us out" are you insane? They are pandering to a whiney war weary populace while soaking up the spoils of a political victory (hooray for lobbyists). They won't do a God damned thing for a few reasons.
They voted for it, the records show it, and if they get to loud they will be crucified by the Republicans and never see another election win.
If they do anything then they could possibly take the blame (legitimate or scapegoated) on why this mess failed, again threatening future elections.
Suppose they get Bush out...congratulations non executive VP Cheney becomes non executive President Cheney...yup...sure hope that goes well.
In the meantime, while totally fucking our economy with various nonsense like DMCA, Patents, and our wonderful overseas business, they will hike your taxes up through the rough so worthless sacks of shit can leech welfare. (Note. not all welfare recipients are worthless sacks of shit, but all the ones that I have met that stayed on welfare for any significant amount of time are because it is there to get you on your feet, not take care of you forever). Then we have both of the parties destroying our education system with "thoughtcrime" bullshit whether its "oooh that offended me" or "No god for you!", and then crap like this driving up the cost of education. Perpetuating horrible circular logic trends "The bible is 100% true because it was inspired by God, I know it was inspired by God because the bible said so and it is 100% true!" Damn am I proud to have Fundies smart enough to coin Intelligent Design to try to make a run around that separation of church and state business.
Listen...this pissing contest in the Middle East is jack shit compared to the rather bleak future these clowns on both sides are building for us. Incidentally you can cry about Republicans voting in torture and the like...but why don't you go talk to your fellow citizens who mostly support it. Remember now...no loading the questions...almost all of them support torturing the terrorist...thats what the government sold...they just refuse to be clear on what "terrorist" means...with good reason...else the would have a hard time cutting out large dissenting chucks of American society as possible terrorists and eligible for secret prison torture park stays. The war doesn't mean shit...and if you think for a split second that these psychotic asshole Democrats won't take the powers that the psychotic asshole Republicans voted in and run with them you are insane. Why won't the Dems stop the war...because they need an unbeatable enemy to do the exact same thing the Reps did with passing all these laws "its for your safety!".
The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.
"pay no attention to the little man behind the curtain, i am the all and powerful oz"
why fight parnaoid schizophrenia? just play along with it
see, friend, the reason i write the words i do is because i am merely a servant of the ruling classes, paid to come here to cast aspersions on the brave defenders of truth like yourself
(snicker)
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
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intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Yeah, so I suppose that this is somehow going to end up being blamed on George Bush.
Sure, he's the dumb ass that thought you could wiretap the whole internet. Federal wiretapping has cost all of us lots of money and makes possible further dumb ass dreams like "protecting" music from Universities. The federal government is stupid from the top down. GWB is going to sign this bill with glee, as long as it does not give too much money to education, because it provides some flimsy justification for his other unAmerican policies.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
is a simple, fundamental component of human nature
a kindergartener can understand why. hell, kindertgarteners demonstrate acts of altruism and selishness
i will not stoop to engaging in the sort of intellectual charity needed to explain the blindingly obvious to you. if you can't understand what a kindergartener understands about altruism, you're really blind or stupid or simply propagandized in some strange retarded way
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Oh, give me a break... Like the poor aren't responsible for their own financial choices. The big, bad financial company couldn't see it in its heart to let Johnny default on his payment because he was too stupid to budget for something he wanted?
Where the heck did personal responsibility run away to? The old bankruptcy laws were a slap in the face of people who actually pay for what they buy.