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Obama DoJ Goes Against Film Companies
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "If one attempted to distill a single prevailing emotion or attitude about government on Slashdot, I think it is fairly arguable that the winner would be cynicism or skepticism. Well here's a story that could make us skeptical and/or cynical about our skepticism and/or cynicism. Chalk one up for those who like to point out that, occasionally, the system does work. You may recall that the US Supreme Court has been mulling over whether to grant the film industry's petition for certiorari seeking to overturn the important Cartoon Networks v. CSC Holdings decision from the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. This was the case which held that Cablevision's allowing its customers to make copies of shows and store them on Cablevision's servers for later viewing did not constitute a direct copyright infringement by Cablevision, there being no 'copy' made since the files were in RAM and buffered for only a 'transitory' duration. The Supreme Court asked the Obama DoJ to submit an amicus curiae brief, giving its opinion on whether or not the film companies' petition for review should be granted. The government did indeed file such a brief, but the content of the brief (PDF) is probably not what the film companies were expecting. They probably thought they had this one in the bag, since some of the very lawyers who have been representing them have been appointed to the highest echelons of the Obama DoJ. Instead, however, the brief eloquently argued against the film companies' position, dismembering with surgical accuracy each and every argument the film companies had advanced."
Ah I love the smell of panicking conservative dickhead in the morning. It smells like Victory.
I enjoy the rampant paranoia of posts like this.
Of course they really voted for Obama because they learned the lesson that Republicans are usueless in govt.
But keep trying to put your racial spin on it, i for one enjoy your paranoid delusions.
Who modded this informative? Really? You didn't know that we don't have hyper-intelligent, omniscient, perfectly altruistic robot overlords? Really?
Well, exactly half DO fall under the mean IQ, by definition. Whether that is also representative of mean intelligence is another issue.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. You just failed statistics 101. The mean is neither the median nor the mode. And I'll even give you an example: Consider the numbers 88,88,90,92,157. The mean is 103. The median is 90. The mode is 88.
Geology - it's not rocket science; it's rock science
It's astounding to me that someone would make the argument that a black man was elected *because of*, rather than in spite of, racism.
It is the neolibs that post those stupid posts and you just eat it up because it fits so perfectly with what the media have told you a conservative is.
Those posts are solely designed to taint the character of the people that do not support their ideology.
It is so blatant that I cannot believe so many slashdotters fall for it.
These posts do not contain any kind of conservative message, just racial hatred. (And to anticipate the response - racial hatred is not conservatism.)
Honestly, if these "redneck conservatives" are passionate enough to sit by their computers all day and post this garbage, why would they post anonymously? Do you really think someone filled with this much hatred would be afraid of someone seeing their made up username?
But "redneck," when used in an equally hateful way, is okay--and that's not really right.
Redneck isn't so bad. It means your neck is red from working out in the sun all day, like you should be doing. Honky? That's a stupid name. I'm not really felling anything here. If you want to piss off a white dude, don't use it. Cracker? That's a favorite of black comedians and so it's a bit trite. It's probably the closest that comes to being offensive. It comes from "whip crackin'" on the slaves. But there are about as many whip crackers alive today as there are former slaves--so it's anachronistic at best.
But I'll tell you what really can irritate a white dude more than names. It's that anger at white people. Until I moved to LA, I've never seen anything like it. I think it's anger at "the man." I feel it worst from bus drivers. But they really shouldn't exude that anger because if they were to stop and think about it for a minute, they'd realize that *THE MAN* DOESN'T RIDE THE BUS!
Just callin' it like I see it.