Excuse me, but the reason that most people resort to such intrusive methods is that the government neuters their otherwise peaceful message by plugging their ears through free-speech zones.
The tree that falls down with nobody to hear it may as well not make a thud.
Remove all violent protests, and soon the peaceful ones will be dead, in jail, or brainwashed.
According to everyone who has the power, whether something is "unconstitutional" or not depends SOLELY on how SCOTUS rules.
If scotus should rule that it is illegal to speak against the president on penalty of death, one of two things would likely happen
1. We would all become cowed and unable to speak 2. There would be a massive rebellion
Bottom line, humans do whatever they damn well please unless a BIGGER human stops them.
And without SCOTUS's rulings, nothing would work.
Simply having a law is nothing. It must be enforced.
Unfortunately, the "It's that way cause I SEZ SO and if ya wanna argue I got me a gun to back it up" is the only way a law will get enforced, so to speak.
A little piece of paper won't stop anyone. Only people can. And those people are no more inherently trustworthy than the criminals they are supposed to stop.
The real blame should lie upon the delinquent debtor who stiffed the bank.
And should then be transferred right BACK to the bank that was greedy enough to shaft the debtor int he first place by, in concert with the credit card industry, use things like universal default, ARM rate hikes, and the like to squeeze every last penny out.
Blame the banks, yes, but we need to realize exactly WHAT they are doing wrong.
If anyone uploads to MS *believing* it to be a member of the general public, it counts as circumstantial evidence that you probably WOULD do it to a real public member.
Of course, the little part about MS being unlicensed may bring in "unclean hands".
This "entitlement mentality" is exactly why we're in a fix.
Companies back then bought up millions of acres of worthless desert, then they nuked the faultline by booming the net so now they're sitting on prime realestate.
Costa del lex, Marina del lex, Otisburg.
Given the high demand, do you really think they'll just GIVE them away?
No, companies are too profit minded for such charity.
The IANA needs to step in and confiscate the unused address space for the good of the internet.
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already posted a loong time ago
I was speaking about the world in general.
And also, the patriots who broke us away from briton ages ago.
I appreciate the candid moderation, but perhaps a quick check on context.
It's theft in the sense of unjust enrichment. You are treating yourself to the music without paying the price.
Just because someone else doesn't get hurt doesn't mean it isn't theft.
And I am talking about theft in the moral sense. Legally, it's copyright infringement.
Selling near cost is a GOOD thing... ...isn't it?
Overpaid and understaffed are not the same thing.
This judge may still be overburdened through having to eat a fat case load.
Time is finite.
Excuse me, but the reason that most people resort to such intrusive methods is that the government neuters their otherwise peaceful message by plugging their ears through free-speech zones.
The tree that falls down with nobody to hear it may as well not make a thud.
Remove all violent protests, and soon the peaceful ones will be dead, in jail, or brainwashed.
If you believe it is true, then you are NOT lying.
We call that "mistaken belief"
You can be honest and wrong at the same time.
But microsoft patented page up and page down!
Can you say "slippery slope"?
According to everyone who has the power, whether something is "unconstitutional" or not depends SOLELY on how SCOTUS rules.
If scotus should rule that it is illegal to speak against the president on penalty of death, one of two things would likely happen
1. We would all become cowed and unable to speak
2. There would be a massive rebellion
Bottom line, humans do whatever they damn well please unless a BIGGER human stops them.
And without SCOTUS's rulings, nothing would work.
Simply having a law is nothing. It must be enforced.
Unfortunately, the "It's that way cause I SEZ SO and if ya wanna argue I got me a gun to back it up" is the only way a law will get enforced, so to speak.
A little piece of paper won't stop anyone. Only people can. And those people are no more inherently trustworthy than the criminals they are supposed to stop.
I have a funny feeling they may be paying you just to go away.
I've heard plenty of cases where natural remedies are bribed OFF the market by big pharma. Perhaps this is similiar.
At any rate, a big company asking you to sign a non-compete on your OWN code that you wrote independently sends up a bazillion red flags.
Indeed.
Value isn't always measured in dollars.
And that is exactly the problem with comcast.
Without a competitor, haggling is usually an exercise in futility.
The real blame should lie upon the delinquent debtor who stiffed the bank.
And should then be transferred right BACK to the bank that was greedy enough to shaft the debtor int he first place by, in concert with the credit card industry, use things like universal default, ARM rate hikes, and the like to squeeze every last penny out.
Blame the banks, yes, but we need to realize exactly WHAT they are doing wrong.
How about we just stop ripping up wetlands and let nature's sponge do its job?
A pity it's too much like curing the disease by killing the patient.
Next think you know we'll be fighting hostage taking robots and have to blow up the main reactors to get rid of them.
Sounds alot like Shinra
Piracy does cause DRM.
However, it's just that piracy is the excuse game pubs need to "justify" DRM.
Piracy is a cause, but only as an excuse.
If anyone uploads to MS *believing* it to be a member of the general public, it counts as circumstantial evidence that you probably WOULD do it to a real public member.
Of course, the little part about MS being unlicensed may bring in "unclean hands".
Arr! Everyone of ye scurvy dogs walk the plank!
Stupidity does not excuse hostility.
Kindly avoid dragging people into a tit-for-tat style death spiral of infinite loop insults.
I guess you got a point.
What I tried to say was that, since there WAS a body that he knew where was, karma has good aim.
Karma tends to cause lots of things to work better than they should in an imperfect world.
Personally, I despise the legal system. My emotion when it gets things right is not happiness, but relief.
Hans led them right to the body.
For circumstantial, it's pretty slam dunk.
This "entitlement mentality" is exactly why we're in a fix.
Companies back then bought up millions of acres of worthless desert, then they nuked the faultline by booming the net so now they're sitting on prime realestate.
Costa del lex, Marina del lex, Otisburg.
Given the high demand, do you really think they'll just GIVE them away?
No, companies are too profit minded for such charity.
The IANA needs to step in and confiscate the unused address space for the good of the internet.
Yes, open source water is a good thing.
I'm glad MS didn't get a patent on good old H2O.