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  1. Re:Rape legalized, thank you Conservatism! on Canadian Music Group Proposes 'Copyright Tax' On Internet Use (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Actions speak louder then words. Has the Republican Congress tried to fix the civil forfeiture thing? How about the President through executive power?

  2. Re:Rape legalized, thank you Conservatism! on Canadian Music Group Proposes 'Copyright Tax' On Internet Use (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Was facts and due process used for Hillary or was she just judged in the court of public opinion? It's not like there were numerous investigations into her, yet the new Supreme Court Justice was screaming about the Clinton crime family.
    43% of Republicans support censoring the news and many are in favour of forcing private companies to post stuff they don't agree with.
    https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Repu...

  3. Making copies of records for them was illegal, you should have just let them make the copy to meet the licensing that the copyright levy created. As long as they pressed the record button, perfectly legal thanks to the levy.

  4. It was a license to copy non-commercially as ruled by the courts.

  5. Re:blank CDRs on Canadian Music Group Proposes 'Copyright Tax' On Internet Use (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In Canada, we just switched to DVD-R's, plus the courts ruled that due to the levy, we were free to copy music for personal use.
    Perhaps if this idea goes through, it'll mean being free to download movies.

  6. Re:Signed on to US Copyright on Canadian Music Group Proposes 'Copyright Tax' On Internet Use (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I was a semi liberal supporter until reading this. Fucking cunt working that out and Justin sucking Trump's cock. We should have just turned the hydro and water off to the eastern states and closed down the rail system that handles Alaskan coal through our territory. Meanwhile in BC we have government and SOME of the indigenous groups holding up a oil pipeline to the coast that could be used to ship stuff off to China.
    We NEED to develop / put in place more refineries here so we can process our own resources and say fuck your Cheezie Poof haired prick.

    Do you really think the Conservatives would have handled the NAFTA stuff better? Any which way we were fucked, and have been ever since the PC's negotiated the first Canada US free trade deal that saw all our manufacturing go south to the States and we had to adjust in such a way that we were even more dependent on the States for trade. As long as Trump acted like they didn't have a trade surplus with us and we aren't a brutal dictatorship that he could love, we were fucked.
    The pipeline is just another way to ship bitumen to Texas so they can refine it and ship it back as expensive gasoline. There's no way they're going to use half full small tankers to ship the Bitumen to China or anywhere across the Pacific.
    I personally feel we should have played more hardball, besides the points you make, we could have ramped up pharmaceutical manufacturing, ignoring American IP amongst other things but the truth is that it is hard to win in a fight with someone 10 times bigger.
    Refineries would be nice but for some reason, no one wants to invest the money when we basically give away the raw resources for a quick profit.

  7. Re: Europeans saving the world with superior genes on Humans Having Sex With Neanderthals Gave Us Protection Against Ancient Epidemics (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 0

    Matters if the children survive to breed as well, which means having parents, family or at least the tribe being able to raise the children.

  8. Re:This is complete bullshit on Wide-Scale US Wind Power Could Cause Significant Warming, Study Says (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, basically what I thought, but was unsure of.

  9. Re:This is complete bullshit on Wide-Scale US Wind Power Could Cause Significant Warming, Study Says (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    What about if the local area that was warmed up was a glacier? It would melt faster, changing the regions albedo and causing the surface to absorb more solar heat. If the area that cooled down didn't change its albedo, water, sand or such, that may create more warming.

    Global warming means that heat from outside the planet is being added to it faster than it is being emitted back into space.

    It is also possible to have global warming from other causes. If we ever perfect fusion, we'd be adding heat from the planet rather then outside the planet.
    Not sure about fission, do we speed up the heat released or just concentrate it?

  10. Re:You not liking this doesn't make it FUD on Wide-Scale US Wind Power Could Cause Significant Warming, Study Says (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Different parts of the Earth do vary in how much heat radiates into space. Deserts for example radiate more heat due to lack of water vapor and turn cold as soon as the Sun goes down.

  11. Re:Karma Whore or Just Stupid ? on Wide-Scale US Wind Power Could Cause Significant Warming, Study Says (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Well one example of convective perhaps affecting temperature is hot air blowing into a desert at night and then radiating (due to lack of water vapor) into space. The opposite could also happen, hot air convecting to an ocean and the heat getting more trapped by the water vapor.
    Whether it actually happens, I don't know as I'm not a climate scientist.

  12. I thought it started a long time ago. Shit last election there were accusations of one of the candidates running a pedo ring from a pizza parlor.

  13. Hey, a Hillary supporter. Guess you're pretty pissed off at all the accusations that were made at her, especially considering how often she got investigated and nothing was found.

  14. Re:Classic confusion between force and suggestion on Vice President Mike Pence Says Google Should Halt Dragonfly App Development (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The Republicans are quite happy having laws making it a Federal crime to take substances into your body and are once again busy trying to force it to being international law.
    The party of criminalizing health issues is not for personal freedom, or rather is for the personal freedom of some to remove freedom from others.

  15. Insurance companies discovered a long time ago that it is cheaper to have government doing the work.

  16. Re:Isn't this what people wanted? on Amazon Is Eliminating Bonuses, Stock Awards to Help Pay for Raises (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They're Amazon warehouse workers, Amazon already has them working as hard as possible (or fired) without time for a piss break. How are they going to be more productive? The bonuses were probably based on how the whole shift or warehouse performed rather then how individuals performed unless it was who could go the longest without a piss or collapsing in the warehouse without air conditioning.

  17. Re:Love the misrepresentation... on Cities Will Sue FCC To Stop $2 Billion Giveaway To Wireless Carriers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you really think the carriers are going to put a cell tower at the end of every driveway in rural America, even if access to the poles was free?
    5G has a range of not much more then a thousand feet, at least at the frequencies (24-86 Ghz) needed to do much better then 4G.

  18. Re:All theories were fringe theories at one point on DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess it is this one, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and it is not well established whether it has dark matter or not.

  19. Re:All theories were fringe theories at one point on DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    How about explaining the couple of galaxies that don't seem to contain any dark matter and rotate the expected way, using relativity.

  20. Re:Isn't this how science works? on DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, once the equipment got good enough to measure the ether and didn't find it, it went away. Sure there was a period of measuring and remeasuring when it was observed the speed of light was the same in all directions, which was unexpected, but once it was established, ether went away.

  21. Re:Hello universal bandwidth caps on Netflix Eats Up 15% of All Internet Downstream Traffic Worldwide, Study Finds (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it'll lead to data quotas. If you want to stream 4k video all day, it'll cost more. Perhaps it'll be like electricity, where you pay by the GB or perhaps it'll be more like buy 100GBs at a time. It's one fair way to make people pay for resource usage. The problem is that ISP's want to lie and make claims that they can't meet.

  22. Re:Guess what? Internet is more expensive than sol on Netflix Eats Up 15% of All Internet Downstream Traffic Worldwide, Study Finds (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Around here, the water company is putting meters on the water and making people pay for what they use. The odd person has had a nasty surprise due to their leaky pipes.
    ISP's could do the same if they're really worried about people using too much, but really it seems they want to censor.

  23. Re:Guess what? Internet is more expensive than sol on Netflix Eats Up 15% of All Internet Downstream Traffic Worldwide, Study Finds (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    So the ISP just has to do what the water company does, charge per unit. $X for 100 GBs or such and the people using the most bandwidth can pay their fair share.
    The problem is they want to sell you what they don't have, unlimited data.

  24. Re:Guess what? Internet is more expensive than sol on Netflix Eats Up 15% of All Internet Downstream Traffic Worldwide, Study Finds (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    All this means is that you and your ISP have a disagreement about the service that is being bought/sold.

    The water company tells you that you should be getting pressure X and flow-rate Y. Well, what if everyone just leaves their faucets and showers running non-stop? You ain't gonna get X and Y.

    Was the water company lying? No. They didn't build infrastructure for that scenario.

    That's why the water company is putting meters on peoples water connections and charging them per liter (or gallon).
    Same thing would work with the internet but ISP's want to claim unlimited data that they can't deliver.

  25. If you're using a fake ID to commit fraud, even minor fraud such as getting a coffee, it is still fraud.