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Parts of SOPA Hiding Inside a Boring Case About Invisible Braces
derekmead writes: The most controversial parts of SOPA, an anti-piracy bill defeated in 2012 after a massive public outcry, may end up becoming de facto law after all, depending on the outcome in an obscure case that is working its way through the legal system without anyone noticing.
Next week, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit will hear oral arguments in ClearCorrect Operating, LLC v. International Trade Commission, a case that could give an obscure federal agency the power to force ISPs to block websites. In January, The Verge reported that this very legal strategy is already being considered by the Motion Picture Association of America, as evidenced by a leaked document from the WikiLeaks Sony dump.
Next week, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit will hear oral arguments in ClearCorrect Operating, LLC v. International Trade Commission, a case that could give an obscure federal agency the power to force ISPs to block websites. In January, The Verge reported that this very legal strategy is already being considered by the Motion Picture Association of America, as evidenced by a leaked document from the WikiLeaks Sony dump.
Copyright has no clothes is how the saying goes.
Perpetual copyright - and make no mistake it is that by extension after extension - robs our culture of rich works that never were. If copyright was a sane term like 20 years then after those 20 years new authors could tell new stories in those universes and receive their own 20 year copyright on their flavors. But, no, better to let the tapestry rot away for a few pennies more a year.
Get a free book on the issues here: The Public Domain.
Shh.
Big Money *always* wins. Always. There's nothing that can be done.
Lawyers gonna weasel.
I hereby invoke the "he needed killkin' " laws Texas is alleged to have, and suggest it is both moral and correct in the defense of our rights to shoot every asshole associated with the copyright cartel.
You're welcome.
Now get on with it.
(No, I'm not actually advocating murder)
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
"Laws and ammendments introduced by stealth are invalid."
this, the TPP, pipa, DMCA, you name it and it all shows up buried in some obscure bill about dentures or highway reflector color. In america we could pass legislation on the width of an ear of corn and by the end of the vote it would have legalized nazi bingo parlour strippers and privatized nuclear cheesecake warfare.
our biggest, and most famous shit sandwich is the agriculture/farm bill. Its around 950 billion dollars and laced with nothing short of paint-thinner dreams like creating a national christmas tree board and a reality tv show to promote cotton in india. and this all happens because american politicians are the equivalent of a pre-paid chipotle gift card. Whatever you want, so long as you've paid.
Good people go to bed earlier.
This kind of potentially critical situation (the gov't being able to filter the internet at the behest of corporate interests) shouldn't require us all rising up and complaining. We elect people that should have our fiduciary interests at heart, and dome of our Congressmen do still care (the "boy scouts"). I know my rep personally and have spoken with him at length about various issues, and he does his best. Too many of them, however, are powerless at the feet of their own political parties and the money that elected them.
I find myself hoping and praying that somehow, some way, the right decision(s) will get made - but I find myself expecting being more and more cynical about the whole thing. The fundamentals of the system are broken to the point that the Supreme Court is the only truly effective governing body... To channel Jack Nicolson's Joker, "This government needs an enema."
First strong-arming European countries and down under (this is hidden in news articles as "under enormous pressure", those in the know need no more than that) to adopt web-blocking laws (I think Portugal is the latest with a 6-week end-to-end process?), then later pointing at the "international standards" to get this in the US and Canada as well. Disgusting, how the Copyright Lobby (a/k/a MAFIAA) works.
When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.
... "is working its way through the legal system without anyone noticing", how did You hear about it?
... hard enough yet.
So far the MPAA has been losing everywhere for years. I don't see this going anywhere.
Lets say they get ISPs to do one thing or another. So what? Worst case you run your dirty traffic through a VPN.
This gets nutty enough and large portions of the web will go from the conventional internet to the dark web.
They need to offer their content on the streaming services and they need to do it at a competitive rate.
If they can't make money like that then cut production costs. That's all they can do.
Stopping the piracy isn't going to happen because the communications network is inherently uncontrolled and uncontrollable. The Iranians and the Chinese can't control their network... why would the stupid studios think they could control the US network? Ignorance.
You can control the system if you control everything. Run the internet like the north koreans and you can lock it down.
But that won't happen so the whole thing is pointless.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
You have slept for too long. 150 year have passed. Those parties are not what they used to be.
Linux is for people who don't mind RTFM.
You are implying that getting an abortion isn't life changing ... and also that it isn't a bad decision.
I hope too many people don't actually agree with that...
because along with the fiscal right, small government people, the big tent also includes the religious right... who frown on that.
Parts of SOPA Hiding Inside a Boring Case About Invisible Braces
You could have at least explained the bit in the headline about braces (the teeth kind) in the summary:
At first glance, ClearCorrect v. ITC looks pretty banal. It’s a case about a 3D printing model file for invisible braces. ClearCorrect, an Invisalign competitor, had a subsidiary in Pakistan create 3D models of braces, which it then sent from Pakistan to the US over the internet. ClearCorrect then 3D-printed the braces in its Texas offices, a move that might infringe Invisalign patents. (The validity of the patents is being disputed in both court and at the US Patent & Trademark Office.)
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
...who also then want to punish the mothers and children in question rather than treating these impoverished people in the manner that Jesus would.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
yes. it was written by the two major 'content' industry associations, and the legislators were paid to pass it.
And both democrats and republicans were paid to have it passed.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
That's dopey. You've got to get information from places other than pro-life websites.
But even if you use the numbers cited by the pro-life websites (and cited NO WHERE ELSE), you'll see that live births outnumber abortions by at least 6-1. If you use census data for births, you'll see that it's more like 10-1. And that's if you accept the total number of black abortions the pro-life websites have pulled right outta their ass.
You are welcome on my lawn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The total number of abortions (including in the black community) has been dropping every year since 1980. EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR.
https://www.guttmacher.org/med...
You are welcome on my lawn.
Unfortunately, the number of single mothers has been going up every year, so we have a different problem.
People under 30 are still not using contraception... they are just addressing the inevitable results differently.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
The number of single moms has gone up per capita. They aren't using the contraception. There just aren't that many "accidents" with the known efficacy of birth control. I'm anti-abortion but pro birth control. I'd rather people not hump like bunnies, but I feel that government is not to be used to impose morality. Likewise, I don't think people who refuse to keep their natural urges in check shouldn't be allowed to use the government to maintain their decrepit lifestyle.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Punish? How's that? Please explain.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
That's misleading. The number of abortions compared to pregnancies have been increasing yearly.
Additionally, there are now home treatments that are not calculated (besides the coat hanger before you go there) that do not count towards these figures.
i think the religious right and and the fiscal right actually intersect on this issue.
they both believe that charity is not the purview of government.
And despite that, black women are aborting their babies almost 3 times as often as white women.
This has resulted in the black population growing at a very slow rate, costing blacks political power, influence, and economic success.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
Don't pretend you aren't being subsidized by the rich as well. Your tax dollars don't even begin to cover the things you use or are used on your behalf. For example you may not use many of the interstate system driving yourself, but the trucks that bring things you buy do. Then there are farm subsidies and I don't know how many others.
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3. to handle severely or roughly, as in a fight
Um, you know black birth rates are still higher than white birth rates, right?
http://www.childtrends.org/?in...
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/n...
You are welcome on my lawn.
You mean people who haven't been taught how to keep their natural urges in check.
Please provide a citation that isn't from one of the anti-abortion websites (who for some reason, never seem to include any citations for the numbers they give, you will notice).
It just isn't so.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Dead people stop taking actions that harm you or otherwise interfere with what you want to do.
The problem is that there is a multitude of ways to determine what people deserve.
The DMCA was a badly flawed law, passed for some pretty good reasons by technologically challenged legislators.
Where "pretty good reasons" = "briefcases full of cash"
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
The Civil Rights act was passed with votes from both parties, but it was also championed by a Democratic President. They took ownership of it - and, rather than fight them over that, the trend in the Republican party was instead to court the southern/white/conservative vote that was alienated by that ownership. You can see it in so many things, starting with Nixon's Southern Strategy.
Sounds like the strategy of the Democrats after the Confederacy lost the civil war. Does the myth that the two main American parties are better defined by being against each other than by their ideological affiliations have some ground in the reality?
Linux is for people who don't mind RTFM.
I've heard of another case were the MPAA was getting an order against "all third parties" to block a website they didn't like. This looks a lot more limited: Align Technologies says ClearCorrect is performing a patented process in Pakistan to evade Align's US Patent, and the ITC is ordering ClearCorrect (not third parties) to stop receiving the models which are supposedly the results of this process. Whether this is or is not within the ITCs jurisdiction, it doesn't look like wide-ranging SOPA-like powers.
Too bad it wasn't on the email server...
Getting an abortion isn't life changing... having an unwanted child is...
Having an abortion is often a good decision.
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
I've seen a few prominent figures on the religious right argue that welfare is an attack on the position of churches, because it undermines their god-appointed duty of caring for the poor. If government is keeping people from poverty, then how are christians supposed to fill their obligation to minister to them?
Provide citations on how the rich are subsidizing the country please. I don't think this has ever been done before, not sure why. Please also define what "the rich" are. Thanks in advance.
Only I can judge you.
If it only was so. That's why lawyers exist, so people may even pester you after you got rid of them.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
And that means what? That white birth rates are even lower?
Didn't raise black birth rates one bit, did it?
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
No, but you did say that black women aborting their pregnancies has resulted in very slow black population growth when in fact it is higher than the majority growth. Words like "very slow" have to have a reference and are not absolutes. In population analysis of humans in north America the reference is Caucasian in all but a few local areas.
You should not assume that black people believe the only way to gain political power is through the sheer force of population numbers. There's only two Koch brothers, but they gained political power through the sheer force of numbers of dollars in their bank account.
There's more than one way to gain political power, especially in a nation where elections are won by such a small percentage of the population.
You are welcome on my lawn.
It does seem that black population growth is growing faster than white, but the. Census Bureau is publishing data that indicates Hispanic birth rates are higher than other non-white races.
But if black women cut their abortion rate, this would be impacted. Noticeably from the looks of the data.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
That's dopey. You've got to get information from places other than pro-life websites.
But even if you use the numbers cited by the pro-life websites (and cited NO WHERE ELSE), you'll see that live births outnumber abortions by at least 6-1. If you use census data for births, you'll see that it's more like 10-1. And that's if you accept the total number of black abortions the pro-life websites have pulled right outta their ass.
Okay, here are some figures.
National Vital Statistics Report. Table 1, page 15. In the year 2000, among black women aged 15-44, birth rate was 70 per 1000 women.
From Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Mar; 202(3): 214–220., "in 2000 Black women had a[n abortion] rate of 49 per 1000 women."
So in 2000 there were more black babies being born than aborted, but the ratio was 7:5, and certainly not 10:1. Two (Bush) recessions later, and I would not be surprised to see the ratio flipped the other way.
Summary of Vital Statistics 2012 The City of New York, Pregnancy Outcomes, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of Vital Statistics
Table 1: the total number of live births, spontaneous terminations (miscarriages), and induced terminations (abortions) for women in different age brackets between 15 and 49 years of age. The table also breaks that data down by race â" Hispanic, Asian and Pacific Islander, Non-Hispanic White, Non-Hispanic Black â" and also by borough of residence: Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island.
The numbers show that in 2012, there were 31,328 induced terminations (abortions) among non-Hispanic black women in New York City. That same year, there were 24,758 live births for non-Hispanic black women in New York City. There were 6,570 more abortions than live births of black children.
Fact are stubborn things. You're wrong. Admit it.
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well you can understand the impulse, if government is taking my money to force me to provide for those less fortunate, i can't do it voluntarily even if i want to... because, you know, no money.
So the "religious right" is beating up women and kids in some alley somewhere? I don't get it.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
They verbally abuse them, and stand in the way of them getting help.
Alas, I am out of points to mod you up!
I couldn't have said it better myself. Unfortunately, this fucktard is likely one of those damn quiver-full assholes with 20 fucking kids.
I would say no. They are better described in terms of football practice (or team sports practice in general).
When you scrimmage during practice you have two groups opposing each other. One group takes the side of offense and the other takes the side of defense. They even put on different colored jerseys so that they can be differentiated from one another. Each play they work against each other, but they are both furthering progress on the same goal, to improve their collective power.
It isn't as obvious among politicians because there isn't an obvious coach telling both sides what to do and what they are doing wrong, but that doesn't mean that they are not there.
Generally they do it using the police.
"pro-life/anti-abortion but, at the same time, I am pro-choice" most people don't seem to realize that is an option at least from a governmental standpoint.
... but require that people that have them pay for it, this makes it so my taxes aren't paying for something I believe is immoral. And if you can't then you carry the child to term and then put the child up for adoption.
Basically don't make abortion illegal