Anglo-saxonity has nothing to do with race (it's all in the head) so you have no point at all in calling me "racist". You can, however, call me a "stuff-in-the-headcist".
in some code countries, like France, people are being prosecuted criminally for p2p file sharing, in order to enrich the coffers of the big record companies. 3 of the 4 big record companies are based in code countries, where they apparently have quite a lot of influence over the "code".
The "code" has ***NOTHING*** to do with criminal prosecutions. This is why it is called "civil code" because it is not, well, the "criminal (or penal) code". Whether there is a civil code or not, if file sharing is criminalized, well, (duh?), there **WILL BE** criminal proceedings!!!!
And I write this from a country with a civil code where file sharing has actually been determined to be legal.
Typical anglo-saxon cluelessness. The very basis of anglo-saxon culture revolves around the core idea that "the state is bad, evil, perverted, corrupted". Only the anglo-saxon believe that, hence their convoluted institutions that insure that the State will be stuck in an inefficiency rut.
Other cultures than anglo-saxons (read: the rest of Mankind) do not harbour such a distrust of the State and, you know what? their States are efficient and work towards the benefit of their nations.
I do not expect you to understand this, as anglo-saxons have an inherent incapability to understand other cultures.
It seems like 9/10 of rulings in America are based on the ideal of precedent; it's worked a certain way in the past, so we see no reason to go against the grain.
This is the main problem with anglo-saxon "justice" systems. It's a fairly primitive law-system (similar to those used to stone-age cultures) since it is dictated by custom. It essentially means that whatever misguided decisions must be perpetuated ad vitam æternam, and whenever a new decision has been made (such like when new, never before seen, technology, such as the Internet, is involved), the prevailing party is the one with the deepest pockets, who is able to afford the best legal team to shoehorn the case into various precedent cases, no matter how unrelated or convoluted, and make it stick to the court.
Fortunately, other, more civilized countries use a civil code system where most situations are formally codified, which essentially prevents rich people from making their own custom-made laws and shove them down the throats of, We, the People, against our will.
Anyway, to draw my rambling response to your reply to my cheap joke (thanks, btw, for taking it in the spirit it was intended) to a close, we need a Pirate party in Canada and I think the US as well.
The blank media fee simply legitimizes private copy. Distribution is still illegal. However, courts have ruled that since P2P protocols compel you to upload (distribute) so you can download, then uploading is legal.
Foreign media companies are lobbying hard to have a "new" copyright law passed, but since the governments we have had for the last 3 years are minority governments, that law is not exactly a very high priority of politicians who are more inclined to do what people want...
And since the RCMP has admitted pulling piracy figures out of it's arse, the government is likely to be very sceptical about figured losses by any content industry, ever since it was foolish enough to railroad a law punishing camcording movies...
The idea of a society is to have standards of behaviour, codified by laws. Eventually, it came to be accepted that the only one allowed to make laws that everyone was required to follow were duly elected assemblies, this is in order to avoid the possibility of unjust laws being forced upon the people.
Civil rights came to be codified into law to make sure people would not be subject to unjust duress, such as being arrested for refusing to comply with an illegal request (the cop asking for a driver's licence when one was not driving) after one complained being illegally detained by store personnel.
If there is a jackass, it's Konath who apparently is a tool as he advocates caving-in to the "surrender your civil rights for cheap merchandise" crowd. Civil rights were hard-won by our ancestors and are far more important than big-box stores anti-shrinkage policies.
Businesses, by the way, tend not to pirate on the scale of the private user. Piracy is a big risk to business because businesses have very deep pockets.
And business generates user-piracy, where employees pirate the software to use it at home. This increases their proficiency with the software, and they are more likely to suggest using it if they change jobs (or to other companies they deal with).
The real theft is the advertisers who take ***MY*** bandwidth, i.e. the one I pay for myself with my ***OWN*** money to deliver advertisements I do not watch in any case.
/I would love to ride a bike to work instead of a car, but that option vetoed by someone else.
You can safely wear the spandex, because if YOUR decision was vetoed by someone else and you let it go, there is obviously no balls to show through the tight bike shorts.
The last machine Man ever needs to design is a machine that can replicate (or make) absolutely anything, without restriction (yes, that can replicate itself).
So what? This is just fucking bullshit, because Spamhaus is based in Great Britain, where the United States courts do not reach. It's just amazing that the judge even wasted neurons in handing-down judgment in that case.
You can expect Spamhaus to keep listing Lindtard's e360 spam-sewer ad vitam æternam.
What does the robot do when Ivan goes to the toilet? Does it hang out in the mens room? Actually, I've had meetings in there. They're short and don't involve a lot of paperwork. And no bloody Powerpoint.
This is awesome, the possibilities that could open up for telecommuters is incredible. I can see a feasible market for this where telecommuters are assigned a robot as their virtual presence at work so that they feel more a part of the company than an outsourced employee.
Yes, and this would also maximize the synergy attainable by duplicating the essence of the human-to-human interaction that is achieved through the actual presence of the employees on the company premises, thus optimizing the efficiency factor derived by the actual presence of employees under the watchful eye of their supervisors thus justifying the increased status of the supervisor, thus increasing their self-perceived worth.
In Canada, a driver's license is an official piece of ID however, you are only required to show it if you are driving.
I don't drive, and I don't have a driver's license. I was once hassle by cops suspecting I was a terrorist because I was taking pictures of the old city buses that were still in service at that time. A very pissed coppette (120 pounds of hot pure bitch) asked me for ID, and I handed her the birth certificate I carry around.
-- That's all you have? she asked.
-- That's all you'll get, I answered and she looked even more pissed-off because she could not ask for anything else and she knew it.
They never asked to pat him down. The stores line is they would like to take a look inside their bag. They don't want to check your pockets, they don't want to search you, they only want to look inside a company bag. Please don't create a slippery slope here.
You're the one who's creating the slippery slope. First the store wants to look at your receipt, then the bag, then your baggage, then your pockets, and before long it's your rectum.
I kind of feel bad for the Circuit City manager. He was put in a damned if you do, damned if you don't predicament.
You must feel bad for nazis, too; they were put in a damned if you do, damned if you don't predicament just for just "doing their job" and merely "following orders". When your boss asks you to do something illegal, you have the duty not to comply.
As for the writer, he's an all around jerk. He doesn't get off here.
How is standing-up for the rights our ancestors struggled to gain makes one an "all-around jerk"???
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Anglo-saxonity has nothing to do with race (it's all in the head) so you have no point at all in calling me "racist". You can, however, call me a "stuff-in-the-headcist".
And I write this from a country with a civil code where file sharing has actually been determined to be legal.
Other cultures than anglo-saxons (read: the rest of Mankind) do not harbour such a distrust of the State and, you know what? their States are efficient and work towards the benefit of their nations.
I do not expect you to understand this, as anglo-saxons have an inherent incapability to understand other cultures.
Fortunately, other, more civilized countries use a civil code system where most situations are formally codified, which essentially prevents rich people from making their own custom-made laws and shove them down the throats of, We, the People, against our will.
Let's keep calling it "piracy". Eventually the meaning will be so diluted that when the *IAA says it, it has no meaningful meaning whatsoever.
Think of it of how the original meaning of "hacker" eventually got distorted by the media to mean "cracker".
Foreign media companies are lobbying hard to have a "new" copyright law passed, but since the governments we have had for the last 3 years are minority governments, that law is not exactly a very high priority of politicians who are more inclined to do what people want...
And since the RCMP has admitted pulling piracy figures out of it's arse, the government is likely to be very sceptical about figured losses by any content industry, ever since it was foolish enough to railroad a law punishing camcording movies...
Civil rights came to be codified into law to make sure people would not be subject to unjust duress, such as being arrested for refusing to comply with an illegal request (the cop asking for a driver's licence when one was not driving) after one complained being illegally detained by store personnel.
If there is a jackass, it's Konath who apparently is a tool as he advocates caving-in to the "surrender your civil rights for cheap merchandise" crowd. Civil rights were hard-won by our ancestors and are far more important than big-box stores anti-shrinkage policies.
Photoshop.
"Law is the ultimate science" -- Padishah Emperor Saddam Corrino IV
The real theft is the advertisers who take ***MY*** bandwidth, i.e. the one I pay for myself with my ***OWN*** money to deliver advertisements I do not watch in any case.
What? Scones? Not grits????
The last machine Man ever needs to design is a machine that can replicate (or make) absolutely anything, without restriction (yes, that can replicate itself).
You can expect Spamhaus to keep listing Lindtard's e360 spam-sewer ad vitam æternam.
Your kind of "pragmatism" is the one that leads to social regression and status-quo. You will never lead a nation to the Moon, or win a war.
-- That's all you have? she asked.
-- That's all you'll get, I answered and she looked even more pissed-off because she could not ask for anything else and she knew it.