Lawyers are collectively running a protection racket.
They make stupid laws that appeal to mankind's base instincts to fuck each other over, and then turn around and offer us their services as warriors in the same minefield they themselves lay down.
You know what's interesting is that the Bill of Rights is in the constitution as a pack of 10 amendments, whereas the laws that even define the concepts of state secrets and classified information are established at a federal statute level.
Given the supremacy clause, shouldn't my civil rights trump concerns about national security?
The law that says I am entitled to due process outranks the law that says I have to let the government play keep-away with information.
There's two cases where caveat emptor isn't a silver bullet:
1. When the company is a monopoly and our only other choice is to go without 2. When the company engages in fraud and actively deceives an otherwise informed consumer
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The press release's timing is strongly suggestive of it.
I stand corrected.
What are the criteria for deciding that btw?
The adversarial system benefits lawyers.
Lawyers become politicians.
Therefore, nothing will change.
The judge probably wanted to but since we don't have loser pays his hands were tied.
Justice by economic intimidation sadly is the norm.
No they don't.
They want you to back off and save the pie for them to pilfer.
Besides, you don't GET to be rich and powerful without their cooperation in the first place.
By the time you get invited to join the old boy's club you've already been indoctrinated.
I think that veoh was screwed either way so they took goliath down with them.
Why not just flat out arrest them for contempt of court?
If this is getting into criminal territory I expect to hear some handcuffs clicking shut.
Lawyers are collectively running a protection racket.
They make stupid laws that appeal to mankind's base instincts to fuck each other over, and then turn around and offer us their services as warriors in the same minefield they themselves lay down.
Isn't the 14th Amendmen to the *Constitution* supreme to any law that would give the feds the right to do this crap?
They call it the "supremacy" clause for a reason.
You know what's interesting is that the Bill of Rights is in the constitution as a pack of 10 amendments, whereas the laws that even define the concepts of state secrets and classified information are established at a federal statute level.
Given the supremacy clause, shouldn't my civil rights trump concerns about national security?
The law that says I am entitled to due process outranks the law that says I have to let the government play keep-away with information.
And therein lies the rub that prevents most selfish people from putting their own asses on the line.
They went into our congresscritter's pockets.
Just take it out of your ass where you left it.
Considering that Amazon is a retailer and needs its own margin to make a profit, I'd say that it could go either way.
Plus it's not just about who needs who more, but also who can inflict the most hurt.
EA could desperately need amazon, and still be in a stronger position if Amazon has more to lose than EA does.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bargaining_power
There's two cases where caveat emptor isn't a silver bullet:
1. When the company is a monopoly and our only other choice is to go without
2. When the company engages in fraud and actively deceives an otherwise informed consumer
Convinced or threatened?
It's entirely possible that game quality genuinely declined during the server rush.
That's another thing.
Since they're not crunching all those numbers in the cloud like they said they were...how the hell are their servers overloaded?!
I mean seriously, how much power does it take to log in, log out, handle saves, and bounce numbers between cities?
Indeed, who needs ad revenue when Uncle Sam's paying for it with taxes?
Copyright holders hate resale because they're greedy bastards that want everyone to buy only from them.
It's not even illegal and they'll still sue over it.
Be well!
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Don't be blind.
This isn't a fuck up. The feds know damn well what they are doing.
True, but the laws are on different sides of the seesaw.
All Congress has to do is let the 3 years expire again and we're back to the status quo.