The problem is that someone is pulling strings in the swedish prosecutor's office to blow this way out of proportion when the two women who have after the fact rage have their hurt feelings exploited by special interests from abroad.
The problem is there is no incentive to pass constitutional laws.
You pass a law, and then you enforce it.
You have to wait for a lawsuit to stop it before it can get overturned. And suing to stop a law before it goes into effect is a high hurdle with how the elite have monopolized the legal system and hogged it for themselves.
Which means many will take it up the ass just to avoid the hassle of a legal fight.
I think we'll see real change once the following start happening 1. loser pays to protect confident litigants from being bled to death with legal bills 2. when a law is struck down as unconstitutional, fine all the reps and senators that voted for it
ACTA's secrecy is the biggest reason to vote against it.
Why? Because it's something that the powers that be are afraid we would oppose if we knew what was going on.
Oh wait, we're just citizen peons. We don't get to vote on it.
Only the government does.
And with no way to recall someone from congress after we've elected them, what incentive do they have to vote how we wanted them to when we elected them?
If it's lucrative enough someone can easily sacrifice their political career for a handsome payoff in the private sector.
Or assume rightly in most cases that if they pull a fast one early enough the electorate will have long forgotten by the time campaign time comes around again.
How addicting is it relative to modern pharmaceuticals that probably do less and hurt more?
Face it.
The only addiction going on is Big Pharma's addiction to obscene monopoly profits they get to keep by excluding natural remedies by way of FDA regulations made by commissioners in their own pockets.
So putting postings at recruiting sites are just bait to honeypot disgruntled workers you want to shed off the payroll by catching them accessing the internet on company time?
And yet I find the lack of outrage very disturbing.
Companies don't even BOTHER pretending to comply. This was a case of them lying through their teeth and nobody having the guts to call them on it and demand blood.
The problem with "voting with your dollars" is not getting OUT voted by organizations whose interests run counter to your own.
You can shout with every decibel of your wealth, but it does no good if the 800 pound gorilla can drown you out just by whispering briefcases full of cash.
Especially when you have to deal with other nation-states that may well have a vested interest in playing nice just to get an opportunity to stab you in the back.
The problem with the CA market is that the hierarchial nature stifles competition. The guy at the top of the chain has pretty much omnipotent power and is effectively an oligopolist or worse a monopoly. His ability to say to his inferiors "see that X is dropped or *I* will drop *you*" is a very large club that can and will be used, and even if it isn't, it being possible is enough of a threat that often those lower in the chain dare not even think of defying their will. So the market of CAs is really the market of root CAs, which is much smaller.
I even saw a live news story of a farmer dumping tankfuls of milk into manure, just out of spite, in protest of some sort. I don't remember what ticked him off but for some reason he was prepared to get nothing in the ultimatum game rather than deal with whatever he didn't like about selling it for profit.
Btw, ultimatum game is game theory stuff where the first player proposes a split, and the second player has the right to veto it and have both of them get nothing.
On a strictly theoretical basis, it's better to take something than nothing.
In practice, the leverage of being able to deprive the first player of everything can motivate him to be fair.
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The Roman Catholic Church is nothing but politics that makes use of the bible instead of the constitution.
Maybe if Righthaven acted as their agent.
The problem is that someone is pulling strings in the swedish prosecutor's office to blow this way out of proportion when the two women who have after the fact rage have their hurt feelings exploited by special interests from abroad.
Wikileaks has pissed off some powerful people.
This is not a coincidence.
It does touch into philosophy a bit.
I hypothesize that such a creator, assuming he exists, would respect our free will enough not to use hard fact to force us to believe in him.
Put simply, schroedinger's cat knows we're watching him.
Truth cannot be established by mere concensus in the status quo either.
Otherwise I could prove something's a good idea just by having Congress vote on it.
On a scientific basis you are already fallaciously assuming that God was created.
What if he's a special case of something that always existed?
You are assuming that nothingness is the initial state.
What if it wasn't?
This is slashdot.
I'm entitled to presume a basic level of understanding about the constitution.
I think unity is one of the exceptions where the users who are whining about it are right for once.
I said ratified, not signed.
You know, that thing in the constitution about treaties requiring a 2/3rs majority?
The problem is there is no incentive to pass constitutional laws.
You pass a law, and then you enforce it.
You have to wait for a lawsuit to stop it before it can get overturned. And suing to stop a law before it goes into effect is a high hurdle with how the elite have monopolized the legal system and hogged it for themselves.
Which means many will take it up the ass just to avoid the hassle of a legal fight.
I think we'll see real change once the following start happening
1. loser pays to protect confident litigants from being bled to death with legal bills
2. when a law is struck down as unconstitutional, fine all the reps and senators that voted for it
ACTA's secrecy is the biggest reason to vote against it.
Why? Because it's something that the powers that be are afraid we would oppose if we knew what was going on.
Oh wait, we're just citizen peons. We don't get to vote on it.
Only the government does.
And with no way to recall someone from congress after we've elected them, what incentive do they have to vote how we wanted them to when we elected them?
If it's lucrative enough someone can easily sacrifice their political career for a handsome payoff in the private sector.
Or assume rightly in most cases that if they pull a fast one early enough the electorate will have long forgotten by the time campaign time comes around again.
Has ACTA been ratified yet?
Sadly no it doesn't
The system is rigged to favor the elite, and often you will have different people in the same position come out differently.
One very big and obvious difference right off the bat is endurance in surviving long enough to get to trial.
The elite often win because the underprivileged don't survive long enough to get to court.
Maybe that's another welcome side effect of keeping the legal system clogged. The elite get to hog the legal system all for themselves.
So what?
Who cares if marijuana is addicting?
How addicting is it relative to modern pharmaceuticals that probably do less and hurt more?
Face it.
The only addiction going on is Big Pharma's addiction to obscene monopoly profits they get to keep by excluding natural remedies by way of FDA regulations made by commissioners in their own pockets.
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Sounds like humanity's just desserts for polluting the food web in the first place.
I call it environmental karma.
So putting postings at recruiting sites are just bait to honeypot disgruntled workers you want to shed off the payroll by catching them accessing the internet on company time?
If they DO understand recursion why would you want to weed them OUT?
And yet I find the lack of outrage very disturbing.
Companies don't even BOTHER pretending to comply. This was a case of them lying through their teeth and nobody having the guts to call them on it and demand blood.
The problem with "voting with your dollars" is not getting OUT voted by organizations whose interests run counter to your own.
You can shout with every decibel of your wealth, but it does no good if the 800 pound gorilla can drown you out just by whispering briefcases full of cash.
Especially when you have to deal with other nation-states that may well have a vested interest in playing nice just to get an opportunity to stab you in the back.
The problem with the CA market is that the hierarchial nature stifles competition. The guy at the top of the chain has pretty much omnipotent power and is effectively an oligopolist or worse a monopoly. His ability to say to his inferiors "see that X is dropped or *I* will drop *you*" is a very large club that can and will be used, and even if it isn't, it being possible is enough of a threat that often those lower in the chain dare not even think of defying their will. So the market of CAs is really the market of root CAs, which is much smaller.
And that's what killed them.
The big bad government had to step in.
Business will ALWAYS misbehave unless it is watched.
In america you save your own face.
In japan you save someone else's.
We have plenty of food for everyone.
We just have "problems" with distribution.
I even saw a live news story of a farmer dumping tankfuls of milk into manure, just out of spite, in protest of some sort. I don't remember what ticked him off but for some reason he was prepared to get nothing in the ultimatum game rather than deal with whatever he didn't like about selling it for profit.
Btw, ultimatum game is game theory stuff where the first player proposes a split, and the second player has the right to veto it and have both of them get nothing.
On a strictly theoretical basis, it's better to take something than nothing.
In practice, the leverage of being able to deprive the first player of everything can motivate him to be fair.