I wish I could agree with that, but there are plenty of people in my age demographic (25-35) who get all of their talking-points from Fox News. I'm not sure why we eased up on the laws allowing Rupert Murdoch to own media in the U.S., but we pay for it every day in the form of continuing ignorance and whack-job propaganda/conspiracy theories.
I'm not saying that "gravity" is actually a series of elves pulling us down so we don't float out of the atmosphere, but there is a non-zero chance of it. I don't treat those who believe in that particular notion as crackpots.
The statute does exist, it is never enforced but some legislative twit managed to get it passed. The fact is, it's just another tool that can be used to bludgeon you legally if you piss off the right people.
A few years ago I moved from Texas back to the West Coast. I had already paid sales tax on the goods that I had bought in Texas. I was told by a lawyer-y friend over some beers that technically I had to pay taxes on all of the stuff I brought in from out-of-state. We may be "tax dodgers" but the tax code is hardly fair.
I believe the point was whether or not the living room has changed fundamentally because of the iPad/AppleTV combination. You may love it, and it may be the best thing ever, but the fact is the living room is much the same as before. I know a staggering number of people with iDevices, you could make the claim that Apple did revolutionize that particular space, but even with the huge geeky crowd that I roll with, nobody has an AppleTV system. Although, many of us do have XBMC setups.
And precisely what place does the TSA have? Would their theoretical presence have stopped 9/11 - no. Have they managed to stop any of the would-be terrorists from getting on planes - no. They are security theater at best, and a bunch of thugs at worst. You claim to work for rational thought, but resort to ad hominem attacks at the first possible moment.
People like you, who want to pussy-foot around and hide behind the law are as much of a problem as people like me. I may be proactive, but I do get results.
I'm not going to dignify the rest of your grammatically nightmarish prattle with any more of a response.
Wrong... If the only job you can get involves you screaming at the top of your lungs through my neighborhood that you're a pretty princess, that doesn't change the fact that you are an annoyance and need to stop. The feeble-minded twits that joined with the TSA need to know by any means necessary that they are perceived as bullies and their organization is an affront to everything that America ostensibly stands for.
When your job is to annoy me, you've crossed a line. I don't care what sob story you have, I make it a point to chew out every vendor cold-call and telemarketer that has the misfortune of dialing my number.
I have a theory about people like you... You use the word "Socialism" in the same way that a 4 year old uses "Shit". You really have no idea what it really means, you just know that it gets a rise out of people. The Fox News talking heads are even more guilty of this, labeling President Obama a Socialist because he is slightly less of a Capitalist than they themselves. If you want to see examples of Socialism, look to a history book. What you are seeing is a government subsidized means of distributing music. If you are a citizen of the United States, I may remind you that we are rather Socialist as well. Unless you want the free-market to determine what roads we drive on, whose houses burn down, and which kids get a decent education please go shove your divisive partisan drivel into the nearest Fox News comment section, I'm sure they'd appreciate it.
If you truly cannot see the difference between home-surgery and selling identical copies of the same book, then arguing is futile. I bow before the power of your distortion field.
So you are arguing that, as a free citizen, it is OK for you to purchased illegal copies of a book? Or are you arguing that no written material should be able to have copyright protections?
Also, what does the size of the publishing company have to do with publishing/copying rights?
Is it his responsibility to know that it is illegal? And more to the point, by which basis are they illegal? I buy Book A from the campus bookstore, and I buy Book B from an overseas distributor for a fraction of the cost. A is identical to B. I understand that it is illegal, but purchasing books in this way is in no way unethical and to my (admittedly unlawyer-like mind) is far more important.
It's sadly true. Most of my fellow citizens have got some sick sense of manifest destiny foisted upon them by fringe folks like Limbaugh and anybody on Fox News. Many of us inwardly cringe whenever we hear somebody say " 'Merica is the greatest country, and if you don't like it go to socialist Europe." Centrists like myself are just praying that the pendulum soon swings back in the other direction and we can stop meddling in the affairs of the rest of the world.
I still don't trust Microsoft in the mobile world. They've shown too many times that they're willing to shut down projects (Kin anybody?). Like Apple in the datacenter, I question how much effort they're willing to expend to stay in an already saturated market.
So, you're saying that 60 years of (somewhat) socially responsible programs has cost the tax-payer more than 9 years of foreign war? The term "apples and oranges" doesn't really seem strong enough to even use here. Maybe if we stopped fighting "wars" against nouns (drugs, terror, etc.) and went back to being fiscally conservative we'd see our economy pick up. But it's obvious where your loyalties lie...quick, Fox News is on! Get a pencil and paper so you don't miss any of the mind-blowing commentary!
He was a Republican in his time. The parties have warped so much in the intervening centuries that I truly believe Lincoln would be considered a fringe-Liberal today and unelectable (the dude was ugly).
Science is not a reliogion. It is the difference between trusting and believing - as in some people believe what is written in a 1600 year old book, but doesn't trust their contemporaries distilling the truth of our physical realm. Really, a sad state.
I hate to disagree, but from what I've seen people treat science like a religion too. I'm referring to the average man on the street. How many people outside of/. know how their computer works on a fundamental level? How many know the intricacies of quantum theory, but have read a Brian Greene book? The fact of the matter is, the vast majority of non-scientific people have to take science on faith. It's similar in the IT realm, I honestly believe that if I started cutting the heads off of live chickens every time I did work in the datacenter, but made a decent enough Star Trek-esque technobabble explanation, my department head would simply shrug and requisition more poultry.
You guys do know there are other countries, right? Stuff happens in them all the time that could arguably be called "news" and doesn't involve America at all.
Oh noes! Now reading without permission is stealing! By the way, if you're reading this, then you have agreed to my terms of $0.01 per glance. I think you'll agree, with insightful comments such as mine you're getting one heck of a deal!
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I wish I could agree with that, but there are plenty of people in my age demographic (25-35) who get all of their talking-points from Fox News. I'm not sure why we eased up on the laws allowing Rupert Murdoch to own media in the U.S., but we pay for it every day in the form of continuing ignorance and whack-job propaganda/conspiracy theories.
I'm not saying that "gravity" is actually a series of elves pulling us down so we don't float out of the atmosphere, but there is a non-zero chance of it. I don't treat those who believe in that particular notion as crackpots.
I don't know if you actually are Lewis Black, but his voice is what was going through my head when I read your post. Kudos.
And thus completes the circle of life...cue Elton John!
The statute does exist, it is never enforced but some legislative twit managed to get it passed. The fact is, it's just another tool that can be used to bludgeon you legally if you piss off the right people.
A few years ago I moved from Texas back to the West Coast. I had already paid sales tax on the goods that I had bought in Texas. I was told by a lawyer-y friend over some beers that technically I had to pay taxes on all of the stuff I brought in from out-of-state. We may be "tax dodgers" but the tax code is hardly fair.
I believe the point was whether or not the living room has changed fundamentally because of the iPad/AppleTV combination. You may love it, and it may be the best thing ever, but the fact is the living room is much the same as before. I know a staggering number of people with iDevices, you could make the claim that Apple did revolutionize that particular space, but even with the huge geeky crowd that I roll with, nobody has an AppleTV system. Although, many of us do have XBMC setups.
And precisely what place does the TSA have? Would their theoretical presence have stopped 9/11 - no. Have they managed to stop any of the would-be terrorists from getting on planes - no. They are security theater at best, and a bunch of thugs at worst. You claim to work for rational thought, but resort to ad hominem attacks at the first possible moment. People like you, who want to pussy-foot around and hide behind the law are as much of a problem as people like me. I may be proactive, but I do get results. I'm not going to dignify the rest of your grammatically nightmarish prattle with any more of a response.
Wrong... If the only job you can get involves you screaming at the top of your lungs through my neighborhood that you're a pretty princess, that doesn't change the fact that you are an annoyance and need to stop. The feeble-minded twits that joined with the TSA need to know by any means necessary that they are perceived as bullies and their organization is an affront to everything that America ostensibly stands for.
When your job is to annoy me, you've crossed a line. I don't care what sob story you have, I make it a point to chew out every vendor cold-call and telemarketer that has the misfortune of dialing my number.
I have a theory about people like you... You use the word "Socialism" in the same way that a 4 year old uses "Shit". You really have no idea what it really means, you just know that it gets a rise out of people. The Fox News talking heads are even more guilty of this, labeling President Obama a Socialist because he is slightly less of a Capitalist than they themselves. If you want to see examples of Socialism, look to a history book. What you are seeing is a government subsidized means of distributing music. If you are a citizen of the United States, I may remind you that we are rather Socialist as well. Unless you want the free-market to determine what roads we drive on, whose houses burn down, and which kids get a decent education please go shove your divisive partisan drivel into the nearest Fox News comment section, I'm sure they'd appreciate it.
If you truly cannot see the difference between home-surgery and selling identical copies of the same book, then arguing is futile. I bow before the power of your distortion field.
So you are arguing that, as a free citizen, it is OK for you to purchased illegal copies of a book? Or are you arguing that no written material should be able to have copyright protections?
Also, what does the size of the publishing company have to do with publishing/copying rights?
Is it his responsibility to know that it is illegal? And more to the point, by which basis are they illegal? I buy Book A from the campus bookstore, and I buy Book B from an overseas distributor for a fraction of the cost. A is identical to B. I understand that it is illegal, but purchasing books in this way is in no way unethical and to my (admittedly unlawyer-like mind) is far more important.
It's sadly true. Most of my fellow citizens have got some sick sense of manifest destiny foisted upon them by fringe folks like Limbaugh and anybody on Fox News. Many of us inwardly cringe whenever we hear somebody say " 'Merica is the greatest country, and if you don't like it go to socialist Europe." Centrists like myself are just praying that the pendulum soon swings back in the other direction and we can stop meddling in the affairs of the rest of the world.
Shhh, we don't talk about Fight Club.
I thought that was Usenet...
I still don't trust Microsoft in the mobile world. They've shown too many times that they're willing to shut down projects (Kin anybody?). Like Apple in the datacenter, I question how much effort they're willing to expend to stay in an already saturated market.
So, you're saying that 60 years of (somewhat) socially responsible programs has cost the tax-payer more than 9 years of foreign war? The term "apples and oranges" doesn't really seem strong enough to even use here. Maybe if we stopped fighting "wars" against nouns (drugs, terror, etc.) and went back to being fiscally conservative we'd see our economy pick up. But it's obvious where your loyalties lie...quick, Fox News is on! Get a pencil and paper so you don't miss any of the mind-blowing commentary!
If I had a nickle for every moron who didn't understand that Democrat controlled congresses have run up most of the debt, I'd be fucking rich.
Riiiiiight...and G. Dub getting us involved in a pair of completely unnecessary and ridiculously expensive wars was what then...?
He was a Republican in his time. The parties have warped so much in the intervening centuries that I truly believe Lincoln would be considered a fringe-Liberal today and unelectable (the dude was ugly).
Science is not a reliogion. It is the difference between trusting and believing - as in some people believe what is written in a 1600 year old book, but doesn't trust their contemporaries distilling the truth of our physical realm. Really, a sad state.
I hate to disagree, but from what I've seen people treat science like a religion too. I'm referring to the average man on the street. How many people outside of /. know how their computer works on a fundamental level? How many know the intricacies of quantum theory, but have read a Brian Greene book? The fact of the matter is, the vast majority of non-scientific people have to take science on faith. It's similar in the IT realm, I honestly believe that if I started cutting the heads off of live chickens every time I did work in the datacenter, but made a decent enough Star Trek-esque technobabble explanation, my department head would simply shrug and requisition more poultry.
Worthy case for small claims, actually.
Unless of course you've given up your rights for legal action in exchange for arbitration...
You guys do know there are other countries, right? Stuff happens in them all the time that could arguably be called "news" and doesn't involve America at all.
Citation please...not from the NYT obviously
Oh noes! Now reading without permission is stealing! By the way, if you're reading this, then you have agreed to my terms of $0.01 per glance. I think you'll agree, with insightful comments such as mine you're getting one heck of a deal!
I think I see where you're going with this... You, my friend, are a job creator!