A beautiful and raw original idea kicks the ass of a flawlessly executed banality.
Who cares if the music industry deflates? The "Rock Stars" are a study in decadence and greed and the "Music Industry" is a study in ruthlessness and greed.
Cubase, ProTools, Ableton . ... The kids of today are going to lead us away from "computer music" into very new territory. Just imagine what Mozart could create if he had a decent music workstation!
The music industry (as it has been) would have us listening to stuff that was fresh forty years ago.
Sooner or later the kids are going to learn how to market themselves, just like they're mastering the new music creation tools.
I'll give up production values for originality any day.
We have courts so that disputes can be resolved in a non Hatfield-McCoy manner. If you don't have reliable courts, you have one sort of tyranny or another.You can't have a court without witnesses. You obviously want as much reliable witness evidence as you can possibly get.
You're only going to limit the kinds of evidence used in your courts if that evidence is unreliable (not at issue here) or if the people decide that they want to be shielded from giving evidence (like the 5th Amendment does). You can't give these privileges away wholesale because if you do you will undermine the integrity of your courts' fact finding process.
And you also have to make your witness process compulsory--or you will undermine your fact finding process.
The OP talks about criminal cases, but this applies to civil cases as well. Imagine a divorce trial where one spouse couldn't get any of his/her witnesses to testify because of a privilege, but the other spouse could. You are not going to get just results in such a situation.
The Right Against Self-Incrimination is valuable in spite of the fact that it fucks with the fact finding process. We are only going to go so far when we go after the bad guys--and we're not going to go one step farther. We're not going to compel people to be witnesses against themselves.
Testifying as a witness is a fundamental duty of a citizen. That duty is necessary to the existence of an organized civil state. If your statements (either as a witness, a suspect, or a defendant) place you in hazard of incrimination, you can take the Fifth.
In other words, we MAKE you be a witness, but we DON'T MAKE you be a witness against yourself (criminally).
If the NSA is probing into an American's smartphone without a judicially authorized warrant, then the NSA is acting criminally. If this is true, there is no fucking way that Snowden should be prosecuted.
This is HUGE, because isn't metadata transmitted over the public airwaves; this is data stored inside a person's private device--where the person has a legitimate expectation of privacy.
There is no possibility of a NSA figleaf providing a half-assed justification for this kind of an intrusion. This kind of stuff is CRIMINAL and the persons doing it are CRIMINALS.
Nah, don't be stupid. The deskbound "warfighters" are riding the Metro in camo because it's easier to maintain than dressier uniforms.
The easiest way is ALWAYS the way the soldier will try to take. To beat your opponent you have to be a little harder and a little more willing to put up with nasty shit.
It's been said before, and it's damn right. We're spending obscene amounts of money to fight a bunch of boys (who don't have girlfriends) who enjoy strapping bombs to their bellies.
The man isn't being prosecuted for teaching somebody to beat the lie detector test. The man is being prosecuted for ENCOURAGING a person to lie to the person giving the government job lie detector test.
Lying in an application for employment with the government is a crime. Encouraging that lying makes the person doing the encouraging an accomplice.
If you want to stay on the right side of the law, teach people the theory and practice of beating the lie detector test, but throw them right out of your office the very second they start to talk about any particular lie detector test. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Domino's Pizza was killing people with their 30 minute pizza guarantees. The lawsuits eventually got them to stop.
The Company needs to be responsible for "Performance metrics" that encourage dangerous behavior.
It's not like the pizza driver is going to be able to pay for the harm that the reckless or negligent driving causes. The Company shouldn't be able to insulate itself by paying "independent contractors" to drive recklessly.
If you know the guy's driving and you purposefully distract him and accident is caused as a result . . . you ought to have to share the burden of paying for the harm you caused along with the driver.
Microsoft's great strength (after MS-DOS), was buying cool stuff and leveraging that cool stuff with its operating system predominance.
It's moronic to think that Microsoft should ever deviate from that basic strategy because it remains so profitable.
But on the other hand, our Wall Street Overlords demand constant stock performance growth, while spurning even the idea of dividends (the middlemen needs their $$$!).
Wouldn't it be nice if governments that adopted LibreOffice could devote a small amount of employee resources to giving back to the community. It would be a win-win, I think.
Secrets depend on inducing terror in the people charged with keeping those secrets. That means the explicit tangible threat of massive prison sentences.
We are keeping too many things secret that shouldn't be secret.
Is it fair to have such massive prison sentences covering things that shouldn't be secrets in the first place?
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News flash! Kid cries when his teddy bear is lost. Severance of emotional attachment is traumatic. News at 11.
Just being silly. It's a song by The Jam: "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight," by Paul Weller. Very great song!
The tube cleaners are refusing to go down in the tub station at midnight (because it's so dangerous).
Just when you think that school boards can't get any more stupid and administrator-heavy, somebody comes up with a real whopper.
Give Apple, Inc. and the commercial world a database of all our fingerprints!
What could go wrong?
Dude!! I wanted to keep the idea BASIC!!!
A beautiful and raw original idea kicks the ass of a flawlessly executed banality.
Who cares if the music industry deflates? The "Rock Stars" are a study in decadence and greed and the "Music Industry" is a study in ruthlessness and greed.
Cubase, ProTools, Ableton . . .. The kids of today are going to lead us away from "computer music" into very new territory. Just imagine what Mozart could create if he had a decent music workstation!
The music industry (as it has been) would have us listening to stuff that was fresh forty years ago.
Sooner or later the kids are going to learn how to market themselves, just like they're mastering the new music creation tools.
I'll give up production values for originality any day.
The "Free Market" in Action
(1) Free Market
(2) Monopolies
(3) Consolidation
(4) Business Oligarchy
(5) Political Oligarchy
(6) Collapse
GOTO (1)
We have courts so that disputes can be resolved in a non Hatfield-McCoy manner. If you don't have reliable courts, you have one sort of tyranny or another.You can't have a court without witnesses. You obviously want as much reliable witness evidence as you can possibly get.
You're only going to limit the kinds of evidence used in your courts if that evidence is unreliable (not at issue here) or if the people decide that they want to be shielded from giving evidence (like the 5th Amendment does). You can't give these privileges away wholesale because if you do you will undermine the integrity of your courts' fact finding process.
And you also have to make your witness process compulsory--or you will undermine your fact finding process.
The OP talks about criminal cases, but this applies to civil cases as well. Imagine a divorce trial where one spouse couldn't get any of his/her witnesses to testify because of a privilege, but the other spouse could. You are not going to get just results in such a situation.
The Right Against Self-Incrimination is valuable in spite of the fact that it fucks with the fact finding process. We are only going to go so far when we go after the bad guys--and we're not going to go one step farther. We're not going to compel people to be witnesses against themselves.
Testifying as a witness is a fundamental duty of a citizen. That duty is necessary to the existence of an organized civil state. If your statements (either as a witness, a suspect, or a defendant) place you in hazard of incrimination, you can take the Fifth.
In other words, we MAKE you be a witness, but we DON'T MAKE you be a witness against yourself (criminally).
If the NSA is probing into an American's smartphone without a judicially authorized warrant, then the NSA is acting criminally. If this is true, there is no fucking way that Snowden should be prosecuted.
This is HUGE, because isn't metadata transmitted over the public airwaves; this is data stored inside a person's private device--where the person has a legitimate expectation of privacy.
There is no possibility of a NSA figleaf providing a half-assed justification for this kind of an intrusion. This kind of stuff is CRIMINAL and the persons doing it are CRIMINALS.
This is maximum bad.
All Rupert Murdoch newspapers are warmongering tools.
Nah, don't be stupid. The deskbound "warfighters" are riding the Metro in camo because it's easier to maintain than dressier uniforms.
The easiest way is ALWAYS the way the soldier will try to take. To beat your opponent you have to be a little harder and a little more willing to put up with nasty shit.
Maybe it goes deeper than looks! That would really be cool.
It's been said before, and it's damn right. We're spending obscene amounts of money to fight a bunch of boys (who don't have girlfriends) who enjoy strapping bombs to their bellies.
Jeez.
The man isn't being prosecuted for teaching somebody to beat the lie detector test. The man is being prosecuted for ENCOURAGING a person to lie to the person giving the government job lie detector test.
Lying in an application for employment with the government is a crime. Encouraging that lying makes the person doing the encouraging an accomplice.
If you want to stay on the right side of the law, teach people the theory and practice of beating the lie detector test, but throw them right out of your office the very second they start to talk about any particular lie detector test. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Learn from the hydroponic gardening stores!
Domino's Pizza was killing people with their 30 minute pizza guarantees. The lawsuits eventually got them to stop.
The Company needs to be responsible for "Performance metrics" that encourage dangerous behavior.
It's not like the pizza driver is going to be able to pay for the harm that the reckless or negligent driving causes. The Company shouldn't be able to insulate itself by paying "independent contractors" to drive recklessly.
Think UPS driver (driving massively large truck), receiving distracting signals from his boss . . . then you might start to get the drift. . . .
If you know the guy's driving and you purposefully distract him and accident is caused as a result . . . you ought to have to share the burden of paying for the harm you caused along with the driver.
Read the article closely. It's a load of bullshit.
He's trying to spin the language "as such" to mean something, but he doesn't say what he thinks it means or doesn't mean.
Seems to me, NZ is saying that a software--device combination might still be patentable, but a software-only patent is not patentable.
The guy does look to be a shill.
It doesn't sound very good when a "Lord," proposes further restricting individual rights.
Don't think I'll be swearing fealty to that guy anytime soon.
Microsoft's great strength (after MS-DOS), was buying cool stuff and leveraging that cool stuff with its operating system predominance.
It's moronic to think that Microsoft should ever deviate from that basic strategy because it remains so profitable.
But on the other hand, our Wall Street Overlords demand constant stock performance growth, while spurning even the idea of dividends (the middlemen needs their $$$!).
Kind of a screwy world.
It's not hard to figure out the "true name" of the human behind the pseudonym.
Wouldn't it be nice if governments that adopted LibreOffice could devote a small amount of employee resources to giving back to the community. It would be a win-win, I think.
Utter bullshit. Many mandatory sentences are not "massive prison sentences".
Secrets depend on inducing terror in the people charged with keeping those secrets. That means the explicit tangible threat of massive prison sentences.
We are keeping too many things secret that shouldn't be secret.
Is it fair to have such massive prison sentences covering things that shouldn't be secrets in the first place?