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Sotomayor's Position On Copyright Damages
Too Lazy to Login writes "Wired reports that, based on her previous decisions, Sonia Sotomayor will likely affirm high damages (read: RIAA excessive) in cases where copyright claims are at issue. Good thing I'm not a betting man, because I'd have guessed the exact opposite." We discussed the nominee's cyberlaw record in general last week.
THIS.
+1
However, people have traded freedom for security, and will take what they get. Fortunately, by the time the country goes down the socialist crapper, I will be dead.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
No doubt about it... Obama is a traitor to the people. He has mortgaged my daughters, children children future and it just a butt boy to the Mafia, I mean RIAA/MPAA.
My karma is not a Chameleon.
For me, the change is working out great.
for one, the man is a 180 degree opposite of the mumbling cowboy that Bush was. so the rest of the world looks at us in a better light.
As far as I'm concerned, he's already fulfilled half of his mandate just by being elected.
And if the health care change happens, he will have fulfilled all of it.
So yes, change is working out well for some of us.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
Ok, fine, so you spent a few years in law school, graduated, passed the bar and practice law.
How exactly does that qualify you to talk on this matter? Did you go to journalism school? Do you work for wired?
Feh.
Someone needs to read up on the moderator guidelines. Last time I looked, statements of fact don't fall under the category of "troll".
Socialized health care saves money. Sure, the government pays for health care, but that money doesn't have to then come out of your pocket or your company's pocket. Since socialized health care is more efficient than today's system, we save money overall.
*cough* Cheney *cough* Halliburton *cough*
Ah, the old "I've got mine, go screw yourself" mentality. It requires raising taxes because the increase in taxes represents your new health insurance premium; but you save money because you don't have to pay your own premium to a private insurer. What's so hard to understand about that concept?
In High School, I had to sign an anti-drug "contract". That didn't mean anything, and neither would you "waiver": medical care bankrupts people now, and it'd bankrupt people even harder under your "plan".
We're the richest nation in the world. Of course we should guarantee the health of our citizens. It's inhumane for some people to drive around Hummers while others with severe mental illnesses live on the street. The people in Hummers aren't more deserving: they're just luckier genetically or socially.
In Canada, doctors are private businesspeople. Government-funded health care is not the same as government-run health care.
There's no empirical evidence that socialized services lead to the Soviet-style government your suggest. By all accounts, Western Europe is a pretty damn nice place to live.
You know, this country used to have a "can do!" attitude. What ever happened to that? Now it's all about "no, no, no".
You'll be eating your words in a year when the economy turns around and your world view is proven old and outdated. Until then, you can sit, bitterly dreaming of America's failure. I'll be over here with the patriots cheering her on.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
How stupid are you? Das Kapital was written a little bit before the great depression. How could it "quality"? No, I'm talking research using actual historical records about the depression.
The great depression, by any measure, ended shortly after FDR's policies took effect. GDP started growing again, that is the definition of the end of a depression. GDP grew incredibly quickly, more than it had before the downturn, until things were back where they were before the depression happened, in 1937. Then Republicans convinced FDR to stop his 'socialist' policies and a mini recession happened. He reimplemented them, and by the time WWII came around, it was as if the depression had never happened. In fact, if you'd just left money in the market through it, by Pearl Harbor you would have received a better average rate of return than has ever been seen under a Republican president.
The historical record doesn't lie. These facts and figures are easily available to everyone. Socialism has been proven to work, over and over again, and it will work here.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton