The sad thing is that if a judge tells you to change it, you have to, even if you can FIND your birth certificate later to prove who you really are^H^H^Hwere, the fact that you didn't present it as evidence means that res judicata says no dice on proving your case after the fact.
Finally, someone who understands the truth about politics.
Hell, you can't even defend yourself in court these days. The subprime mortgage foreclosure railroad was an express line even with rampant perjury that judges got paid off to wink at.
Minimum wage is only a job killer because companies are too cheap-assed to pay for good workers on their payroll.
It's at least as much "Lower my payroll expenses or I'm gonna take my ball to china" as it is "dude I can't afford that, shrink my payroll or I'll go bankrupt".
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It's interesting.
In both cases, the citizens are being ass-raped by the government.
It sure is.
The question is what you, a joe blow without an army of lawyers, plan to do about it.
If they're going to throw their money away anyhow, better into my pockets than someone else's.
Actually if the data centers contracted do shoddy work can't they be pursued for breach or a false claims act?
Just because it's the feds doesn't mean its magically ok to screw them.
How many of the people that were fed actually could have bought fish and bread in the first place had they not been miracle fed?
That's because alcohol as an established market is too politically entrenched to get rid of.
Pot, on the other hand, has been illegal and black market since a long ass time so there's not much demand to be had for it.
We whine because their good deed brought a skeleton out of their closet we didn't want to see.
You are, however, complicit in the act.
Without you doing the downloading, they wouldn't have uploaded it to you.
And that's exactly how much a lot of it is actually worth.
Some of it isn't even worth pirating.
They do if DRM tells them to...
The sad thing is that if a judge tells you to change it, you have to, even if you can FIND your birth certificate later to prove who you really are^H^H^Hwere, the fact that you didn't present it as evidence means that res judicata says no dice on proving your case after the fact.
I got dibs on those large eyes of hers.
The MBA's position is "I'm an 800 pound gorilla. I'm going to stomp you, so you might as well enjoy it."
The fact that you can't even sue until they try to enforce it speaks volumes, what with the legal system already biased in favor of the elite.
Until the candidates threaten to sic certain regulatory agencies on them if they don't reinstate...
You seem to forget where the balance of power really lies here.
"Pissing off the people in power" is usually pretty much "illegal" no matter what government system you run.
I find it alarmingly convenient that one of the companies against SOPA is strangely under the microscope.
I think Google pissed off the wrong politician.
They SHOULD require evidence.
One mandatory such piece of evidence should be an affidavit accusing you of actually infringing.
And that affidavit should be notarized, and signed under penalty of perjury.
And most importantly, actually prosecute and sentence the fuckers when they get caught fibbing.
Considering they already tried to do it to Youtube and apparently even PLANTED fake evidence to bolster their case I wouldn't be surprised.
UMG v. Mega Upload is another case of someone making a false accusation.
"The dollars win every time."
Finally, someone who understands the truth about politics.
Hell, you can't even defend yourself in court these days. The subprime mortgage foreclosure railroad was an express line even with rampant perjury that judges got paid off to wink at.
Even justice is for sale.
Which iis hard when the bribes go towards making other people poor.
One of the side effects is that their bribes don't have much competition.
Minimum wage is only a job killer because companies are too cheap-assed to pay for good workers on their payroll.
It's at least as much "Lower my payroll expenses or I'm gonna take my ball to china" as it is "dude I can't afford that, shrink my payroll or I'll go bankrupt".
And then the vaccuum will be filled by sites that favored SOPA.
Houses and tectonic plates are different.
For one thing houses don't have magma currents under them that ADD stress.
I wonder if Google's anti censorship stance is what got them under the antitrust microscope in the first place?
Far easier to pass a bad law when you have your opponent by the balls.