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Ray Beckerman Sued By the RIAA
An anonymous reader writes "Ray Beckerman, known for questioning the RIAAs legal tactics (also for frequent Slashdot contributions), was sued by the RIAA over his blog Recording Industry vs. People. In question is the 'vexatious' claims that the RIAAs legal tactics is a 'sham.' Beckerman is quoted as saying that the litigation against him is 'frivolous and irresponsible.'"
How was that flamebait? If the AC were to move to spain, do you think they'd bend and cater to his every demand that everything be made available in English? Fuck no.
Don't throw away mod points modding down opinions you disagree with. Sheesh. Now, if AC were to drop the word "spic" and talk about how they're "lazy" (which is generally untrue of course) then fine, the post is racist and should be modded down. However, in this case you're using your mod points to bias a discussion because you're so steeped in frigging political correctness that you can't see your own closed-mindedness through your PC filters.
Modding the whole thread as off topic? Fine. I'd agree with that, but you picked the wrong category for moderation here.
What a nitpick. OK, so technically those are "Southern Mexicans", sheesh.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
Do you own any bonds?
No
Do any of your investments own bonds?.
No
AIG also backs close to half a trillion dollars in collateralized debt obligations, and more than 10% of that has sub-prime influence. The holders of the CDOs are not just in the US, but also scattered across Europe and Asia as well. If AIG goes under, its backing becomes worthless, and all of those CDOs become almost impossible to move, and the bonds get shaky, and the entire world's financial industry takes a massive hit.
Oh well, thats just a tough break if they 'take a hit'. Maybe, the AIG bigwigs should have though about the consequences of lending out money irresponsibly? They made their bed, they can fucking sleep in it. It's not my responsibility as a taxypayer to fund the bail out of private for profit industries. Let them declare bankruptcy like most other failed PRIVATE business ventures, then watch as their vultureesque competitors pick the meat of their corporate corpse.
if i was a fanatic nationalist, i would say that i was one of the undesirables who had been removing and ruling greeks for around 700 years. and also would say that the ENTIRE population of greece (10,706,290) cant even match ONE of my cities, istanbul, with 15 million. and if 1/7 of us spitted their way, they would drown a sea of spit. or, the size of my army makes 10% of greece's population.
but i wont, because that would reduce me to your level - of being a piece of shit.
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The ones I meet are actually mexicans, as in questionable right to even be here
I don't know about you, but I live in California, a land which we basically stole from the Mexicans.
In addition, they took better care of the land than ever we did. (Not as good as the Natives that lived out here though. And I don't want to hear idiot, ignorant rebuttals of the "myth of the noble savage" either. If you knew how the Pomo lived in Lake county, for example, you'd shut your pie hole on that one. And by "you" I mean the global you, not FoE.)
I have nothing against mexicans as an ethnic group, but some parts of the culture suck, and there are 10 million of them in this country who don't have a right to be here.
A right to be here? What gives you a right to be here?
Do you have any idea how much produce would cost if white people were picking it?
The point is moot: we conquered them and took their land, so it's now our land.
This kind of bullshit thinking is what gets us into wars.
The simple truth is that if you deported every illegal Mexican tomorrow the economy would probably collapse simply because the vast majority of Americans would be unable to afford to eat. Actually, the problem is more serious than that because we actually would be unable to get food on tables, let alone afford it.
We need illegal mexicans to keep our system going, and the system is designed to permit a certain number of them through the border to provide a workforce which can be used, abused, and deported.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"