It should be about motivation. If someone announces that they're going out to beat the shit out of a nigger, a honkie, a chink, a queer and maybe even a lawyer. Then beats a random whichever to death after seeking them out, it's a hate crime because the motivation is hate. There was a case around here not long ago where a known homophobe went and hung around a gay bar until someone tried to pick him up. Then he beat the guy to death. It was ruled a hate crime because the guy went out of his way to find a queer to seriously harm.
Better example is tired people. I know some of the times I've been the biggest danger on the road is when over-tired. Worst is the mental state includes being blind to how tired you are.
Lots of old movies weren't correctly registered or didn't correctly renew back in the days when they had to do paper work and lost their copyright. The most famous example is It's a Wonderful Life which was a dud until due to lack of copyright due to a clerical error, it started getting lots of air time due to TV stations being able (or believing) to freely broadcast it. Sadly once it became a hit it was forced back into copyright due to it being a derivative work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_Wonderful_Life#Release
Blank CDs are expensive (extra 22 cents IIRC) due to the right to make personal copies of music money. Blank DVDs and Blu Ray have no extra charges besides what the distributors think they can get away with. (When the Cdn$ went from 70% to par with the US$ their profits went up and they've all decided better to keep them then to pass on the savings)
I think in Microsoft's defense, they know there are a metric shitton of pirated copies of Windows.
It's one thing to say some of the people who pirate wouldn't if another method was available. It's another to say that when 90% of Windows in China are pirated. At least SOME of those 90% would have paid for it if pirating weren't an alternative.
Microsoft has been on record as saying that they'd rather you pirate their software then purchase the competitors. The real issue is stopping competition. The *AAs don't want you paying indie media producers. Microsoft doesn't want you downloading a free operating system or office suit. This technology can just as easily target legitimate uses of bit-torrent, even if it only by stopping its use for anything.
In the end it won't matter. Someone will figure out how they are doing there and modify the swarms so it becomes ineffective. The true way to combat piracy is to look at why people are pirating and modify your business strategy so that pirates become paying customers by their own choice. Yes, there are "die hard" pirates who will pirate regardless, but there a lot that wouldn't if they could get it legitimately.
Though I partly agree, and think Spotify did this for music for many, this is also a dangerous argument in some ways, laying the blame of crimes on the victims. "The true way to combat robberies is to look at why people are robbing your home".
One of the ways to combat robbery is to look at why people are becoming robbers. While some are just hard-core criminals, you'll find the leading cause is the war on drugs, with other causes such as lack of good work (good in the sense of paying a livable wage) and real wages dropping for the longest time. Fix those issues, along with the mentally ill, and the number of robberies will drop.
Most out of copyright works have a MSRP of $5, sometimes with up to a dozen movies, though the cases are usually pretty crappy. Then there are lots of old movies that go between $5 and $10, once again usually with a couple of actual movies and no ads. This is in Canada so they should be cheaper in the States.
Up here, the government can even ask the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of a law before it is given royal assent so they can't plead stupidity. While previous governments did do this, the current one wouldn't dream of it as they seem hell bent on removing the rights of common citizens and giving rights to non-people. Of course there are the borderline cases, notable ones are often decided quite differently by the Canadian Supreme Court from the American one. An example is searching computers, smart phones and such. Here the Supreme Court decided that as they such private things, a separate (separate from eg the warrant to search your house) search warrant needs to be issued before they can actually search your computer or iPhone whereas in the States it seems it's open season on your private papers, er I mean private electronic storage.
You don't think it is progressive going from killing someone as slowly as possible to killing them quick? Next you'll probably say that it is not progressive using a computer. You Americans have a weird version of English.
You don't think it is progressive going from killing someone as slowly as possible to killing them quick? Next you'll probably say that it is not progressive using a computer. You Americans have a weird dialog of English.
Actually I was thinking more of the progress from drawing and quartering, to hanging a person low (strangling vs breaking their neck) to guillotining. I'm not American so progressive just means making progress, a good direction as far as I can see and I notice all of us here are doing progressive things such as using computers.
Which is better, getting paid 60 grand a year with 50% taxes and the freedom to do things like go to work without paying to use the road to get there, or making 18 grand a year with way more expenses like the toll on the road to get to work, higher food prices as they also have to pay and higher everything else as the rentseekers need to make a bigger profit. Seems like so many people would rather make 1/3rd what they do now as long as they can give it to private industry instead doing socialist things like having public roads, a public police force to protect their property and so on.
Zero taxes aren't good enough for these companies. Subsidies aren't good enough. They want the right to shit anywhere they want and they want slaves. No actually worse then slaves, slaves could actually expect to be looked after if sick or injured, they want peons that they have no responsibility for besides charging them more to live then their wages. America has the strongest military in history, perhaps they should be using it to put these anti-social arseholes in their place. As we're progressive, a bullet in the back of the head will show these people who has the power.
Harper is smart, even after getting the majority, he is smart enough to implement his agenda slow enough and keep the marketing up, to not get really rejected by the Canadian population. This is the problem with representative democracy, the best lying marketer wins.
Conservative has always meant keeping past values, namely large government to intervene in your (and others) life which means a large police state. The only thing that has changed in my 50 years is what they say they stand for but their actions have been pretty consistent. This government claims to be for fiscal responsibility while squandering the surplus to put us back into debt, cutting the parts of government that were there to protect citizens and replacing it with parts of government to remove our rights, throw us in jail and buy lots of (useless in Canada) military equipment without even a bidding process and lie about the cost. A good example of Conservative is our Public Safety Minister, who wants to spy on everyone. He freaked when it was publicized (it was public record due to his divorce) how he had an 8 year affair with the babysitter until she was old enough to marry him. Then he got a divorce. (note I'm not sure of the babysitters age actually besides the fact she was a lot younger then him and for 8 years he lied to his wife. Good old family values).
My take is that Canada has suffered a silent coup and by the time Elections Canada & the RCMP get to the bottom of the current scandals another election will have passed and the list of criminal activities will keep 2 RCMPs busy for a decade
Elections Canada is getting defunded and the RCMP just got bribed, er I mean a pay raise.
A third of the population abuses alcohol, and most everyone has used it. If heroin and cocaine enjoyed the same level of use... let's just say population control wouldn't be an issue. The danger of a drug isn't based on how many people die from using it, but how many people per capita
A hundred+ years ago Cocaine and Opiates (mostly morphine) were very popular, with quite likely 1/3rd of the population using one or the other. Coca wine was very popular amongst the upper class and morphine was used by many. You could go into any drug store and purchase them for cheap or if you were the Queen you used the expensive stuff. People did not die just like most people don't die of alcohol abuse but if you hang out in the right places it seems to be a killer. I've known a lot of people who have died from alcohol abuse and none who have died from any other drug. Most of the problems with both heroin and cocaine are caused by prohibition. Especially with heroin, you don't know what you're getting and if used to weak formulations a strong formulation can easily kill and cocaine has been concentrated to the point of being dangerous. Cocaine use amongst doctors used to be very common before the procurement procedures were tightened up and doctors would be prescribing morphine or heroin much more if not for the legal implications. Shit, my Aunt was given Heroin by a doctor in a hospital when she was in labour which would have been in the late '60's. It's the puritans that have pushed all the prohibition bs and have this attitude that if you need a crutch to get by then you're a failure. Personally I need a few crutches, the most addicting being my glasses.
Perhaps the recipes are different in Canada but I have a hard time believing that Pepsi would be overwhelmingly preferred over Coke. I find Pepsi way too sweet as do most people I know. Coke is mostly sugar and not enjoyable and unless you're really addicted to sugar, Pepsi tastes like sugar with a bit of water added.
There are a lot of Canadians who like the CBC. I listen CBC 1 on the radio all the time as it is the only quality radio available even though I'm in the third biggest market in Canada and the only TV available for myself and many others is also the CBC. (Used to have quite a few over the air TV channels and generally the CBC was still the best. Now the governments have ordered them to move away from the good frequencies so big media and telco can make more money and the only analog station left is the CBC.)
Was the original second amendment part of the bill of rights? Limiting when a politician can give himself a raise seems more like on par with an amendment changing the voting day then an amendment outlining a freedom.
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It should be about motivation. If someone announces that they're going out to beat the shit out of a nigger, a honkie, a chink, a queer and maybe even a lawyer. Then beats a random whichever to death after seeking them out, it's a hate crime because the motivation is hate.
There was a case around here not long ago where a known homophobe went and hung around a gay bar until someone tried to pick him up. Then he beat the guy to death. It was ruled a hate crime because the guy went out of his way to find a queer to seriously harm.
And the law was pushed to protect a failed business model, by a media company even.
Better example is tired people. I know some of the times I've been the biggest danger on the road is when over-tired. Worst is the mental state includes being blind to how tired you are.
Lots of old movies weren't correctly registered or didn't correctly renew back in the days when they had to do paper work and lost their copyright. The most famous example is It's a Wonderful Life which was a dud until due to lack of copyright due to a clerical error, it started getting lots of air time due to TV stations being able (or believing) to freely broadcast it. Sadly once it became a hit it was forced back into copyright due to it being a derivative work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_Wonderful_Life#Release
Blank CDs are expensive (extra 22 cents IIRC) due to the right to make personal copies of music money. Blank DVDs and Blu Ray have no extra charges besides what the distributors think they can get away with. (When the Cdn$ went from 70% to par with the US$ their profits went up and they've all decided better to keep them then to pass on the savings)
It'll lose money, just like most Hollywood films, and it will be blamed on piracy instead of shady accounting practices.
the evidence is lacking.
I think in Microsoft's defense, they know there are a metric shitton of pirated copies of Windows.
It's one thing to say some of the people who pirate wouldn't if another method was available. It's another to say that when 90% of Windows in China are pirated. At least SOME of those 90% would have paid for it if pirating weren't an alternative.
Microsoft has been on record as saying that they'd rather you pirate their software then purchase the competitors.
The real issue is stopping competition. The *AAs don't want you paying indie media producers. Microsoft doesn't want you downloading a free operating system or office suit.
This technology can just as easily target legitimate uses of bit-torrent, even if it only by stopping its use for anything.
In the end it won't matter. Someone will figure out how they are doing there and modify the swarms so it becomes ineffective. The true way to combat piracy is to look at why people are pirating and modify your business strategy so that pirates become paying customers by their own choice. Yes, there are "die hard" pirates who will pirate regardless, but there a lot that wouldn't if they could get it legitimately.
Though I partly agree, and think Spotify did this for music for many, this is also a dangerous argument in some ways, laying the blame of crimes on the victims. "The true way to combat robberies is to look at why people are robbing your home".
One of the ways to combat robbery is to look at why people are becoming robbers. While some are just hard-core criminals, you'll find the leading cause is the war on drugs, with other causes such as lack of good work (good in the sense of paying a livable wage) and real wages dropping for the longest time. Fix those issues, along with the mentally ill, and the number of robberies will drop.
Most out of copyright works have a MSRP of $5, sometimes with up to a dozen movies, though the cases are usually pretty crappy. Then there are lots of old movies that go between $5 and $10, once again usually with a couple of actual movies and no ads.
This is in Canada so they should be cheaper in the States.
Up here, the government can even ask the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of a law before it is given royal assent so they can't plead stupidity. While previous governments did do this, the current one wouldn't dream of it as they seem hell bent on removing the rights of common citizens and giving rights to non-people.
Of course there are the borderline cases, notable ones are often decided quite differently by the Canadian Supreme Court from the American one. An example is searching computers, smart phones and such. Here the Supreme Court decided that as they such private things, a separate (separate from eg the warrant to search your house) search warrant needs to be issued before they can actually search your computer or iPhone whereas in the States it seems it's open season on your private papers, er I mean private electronic storage.
Slashdot never told me I succeeded in posting, instead letting me re-edit
Sorry for the multi-posts
You don't think it is progressive going from killing someone as slowly as possible to killing them quick? Next you'll probably say that it is not progressive using a computer.
You Americans have a weird version of English.
You don't think it is progressive going from killing someone as slowly as possible to killing them quick? Next you'll probably say that it is not progressive using a computer.
You Americans have a weird dialog of English.
Actually I was thinking more of the progress from drawing and quartering, to hanging a person low (strangling vs breaking their neck) to guillotining. I'm not American so progressive just means making progress, a good direction as far as I can see and I notice all of us here are doing progressive things such as using computers.
Which is better, getting paid 60 grand a year with 50% taxes and the freedom to do things like go to work without paying to use the road to get there, or making 18 grand a year with way more expenses like the toll on the road to get to work, higher food prices as they also have to pay and higher everything else as the rentseekers need to make a bigger profit.
Seems like so many people would rather make 1/3rd what they do now as long as they can give it to private industry instead doing socialist things like having public roads, a public police force to protect their property and so on.
Zero taxes aren't good enough for these companies. Subsidies aren't good enough. They want the right to shit anywhere they want and they want slaves. No actually worse then slaves, slaves could actually expect to be looked after if sick or injured, they want peons that they have no responsibility for besides charging them more to live then their wages.
America has the strongest military in history, perhaps they should be using it to put these anti-social arseholes in their place. As we're progressive, a bullet in the back of the head will show these people who has the power.
Harper is smart, even after getting the majority, he is smart enough to implement his agenda slow enough and keep the marketing up, to not get really rejected by the Canadian population.
This is the problem with representative democracy, the best lying marketer wins.
Conservative has always meant keeping past values, namely large government to intervene in your (and others) life which means a large police state. The only thing that has changed in my 50 years is what they say they stand for but their actions have been pretty consistent.
This government claims to be for fiscal responsibility while squandering the surplus to put us back into debt, cutting the parts of government that were there to protect citizens and replacing it with parts of government to remove our rights, throw us in jail and buy lots of (useless in Canada) military equipment without even a bidding process and lie about the cost.
A good example of Conservative is our Public Safety Minister, who wants to spy on everyone. He freaked when it was publicized (it was public record due to his divorce) how he had an 8 year affair with the babysitter until she was old enough to marry him. Then he got a divorce.
(note I'm not sure of the babysitters age actually besides the fact she was a lot younger then him and for 8 years he lied to his wife. Good old family values).
My take is that Canada has suffered a silent coup and by the time Elections Canada & the RCMP get to the bottom of the current scandals another election will have passed and the list of criminal activities will keep 2 RCMPs busy for a decade
Elections Canada is getting defunded and the RCMP just got bribed, er I mean a pay raise.
You said you went to a State funded collage. That means you paid perhaps 1/6th of your tuition and the taxpayers paid the other 5/6ths.
A third of the population abuses alcohol, and most everyone has used it. If heroin and cocaine enjoyed the same level of use... let's just say population control wouldn't be an issue. The danger of a drug isn't based on how many people die from using it, but how many people per capita
A hundred+ years ago Cocaine and Opiates (mostly morphine) were very popular, with quite likely 1/3rd of the population using one or the other. Coca wine was very popular amongst the upper class and morphine was used by many. You could go into any drug store and purchase them for cheap or if you were the Queen you used the expensive stuff. People did not die just like most people don't die of alcohol abuse but if you hang out in the right places it seems to be a killer. I've known a lot of people who have died from alcohol abuse and none who have died from any other drug.
Most of the problems with both heroin and cocaine are caused by prohibition. Especially with heroin, you don't know what you're getting and if used to weak formulations a strong formulation can easily kill and cocaine has been concentrated to the point of being dangerous.
Cocaine use amongst doctors used to be very common before the procurement procedures were tightened up and doctors would be prescribing morphine or heroin much more if not for the legal implications. Shit, my Aunt was given Heroin by a doctor in a hospital when she was in labour which would have been in the late '60's.
It's the puritans that have pushed all the prohibition bs and have this attitude that if you need a crutch to get by then you're a failure. Personally I need a few crutches, the most addicting being my glasses.
Perhaps the recipes are different in Canada but I have a hard time believing that Pepsi would be overwhelmingly preferred over Coke. I find Pepsi way too sweet as do most people I know. Coke is mostly sugar and not enjoyable and unless you're really addicted to sugar, Pepsi tastes like sugar with a bit of water added.
Does Canada block those online music sites at the border?
They're blocked at the border, but not by Canada, rather the States block a lot of content as they are only licensed in the States.
There are a lot of Canadians who like the CBC. I listen CBC 1 on the radio all the time as it is the only quality radio available even though I'm in the third biggest market in Canada and the only TV available for myself and many others is also the CBC. (Used to have quite a few over the air TV channels and generally the CBC was still the best. Now the governments have ordered them to move away from the good frequencies so big media and telco can make more money and the only analog station left is the CBC.)
Was the original second amendment part of the bill of rights? Limiting when a politician can give himself a raise seems more like on par with an amendment changing the voting day then an amendment outlining a freedom.