I'm starting to think that one of the major checks we have against the military (the main commander is a civilian) is necessary for police. I know some places have an elected "Sheriff" which is basically this, but we probably need it at a lower level.
Sounds like we need some sort of metamoderation for judges... are there no checks or balances against judges who pull shit like rubber stamping warrants and not actually finding out if they're legal or precise enough?
I've been very vocal about gun rights lately, but I'd add two to the count on Constitutional stuff. SCOTUS ruled that it is an individual right to own a gun in your home and that that right applies to the states (and override their abilities to revoke it). We're halfway there on that one; now we just need to get to the bear part of the 2nd amendment.
It's not a criminal act to "tamper with it". They left their property underneath your car. Refer to Finders, Keepers et. al. v. Losers, Weepers et. al.
But seriously, how can they make it a crime to tamper with a covert bug? That seems pretty weird. If I found a microphone, camera, etc. in my house I'd remove it and put it in a faraday cage.
The Pauls are pretty much strict constitutionalists.
I don't know how or why this escapes people's attention, but we don't have a right to social security, welfare, food stamps, FAFSA, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. (I could go on). If the constitution doesn't specifically allow it, the Pauls want it gone. If it's important enough, then the government can have a go at amending the constitution.
So, given the prevailing legal opinion on the matter, and giving the fact that most congressmen and senators are either lawyers or judges or other parts of the legal system, I doubt this will come to pass.
You are making the mistake of assuming that because most of congress and the senate is made up of lawyers that they have any problem whatsoever doing something vastly illegal.
The politicians have broken laws and even the fundamental founding principles of our nation in some fashion nearly every year since this country began. (The earliest I can think of is the suspension of habeas corpus in the Civil War.)
[Tim O'Reilly] points out that he and a lot of other content creators have been happily coexisting with piracy all this time, and I’m certainly one of them. Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan. The big content companies are TERRIBLE at doing both of these things, so it’s no wonder they’re not doing so well in the current environment. And right now everyone’s fighting to control distribution channels, which is why I can’t watch Star Wars on Netflix or iTunes. It’s fine if you want to have that fight, but don’t yell and scream about how you’re losing business to piracy when your stuff isn’t even available in the box I have on top of my TV. A lot of us have figured out how to do this.
I wanted to also point out that uploaded.to pretty much completely blocked the United States. Just my luck, I find out a half-hour after I submit the story.
The reaction of non-Americans (on Reddit, at least) seems to be "Ha, now you have to deal with the same shit we deal with from the BBC, Netflix, etc.".
Man, wouldn't it be just awesome if loads of websites in other countries blocked us? -.-
Everyone knows it was about old world mass media regaining control of what information the public gets, about shutting down every influential blog, forum and web portal not owned or controlled by mass media. Basically to shut down means by which Obama and quite a few Democrats got elected.
Hey, so... I just thought of us, but do we have a Plan B?
Let's assume the worst - the United States does some heinous shit and fucks over the entire Internet - either for their country or maybe for the whole world.
After some initial chaos Europe and other countries will probably get a handle on things, but what do us Americans do?
I imagine a bunch of us geeks could probably figure things out on our own - alternate DNS, Tor, whatever. But what about the regular folk? What about the geeks that would love to be able to do something but can't because they don't have that knowledge?
We need to make something like this, except title it "Let's Say America Fucked Up The Internet" along with a host of possible options to try, and then we need to distribute the shit out of that motherfucker.
I'm pretty tired of American corporations who like to pretend American law applies to the whole world..
As an American, I'd like you to know that most of us are tired of this, too. The same goes for our government.
Unfortunately far too few of us have yet to make the connection that we put those assholes there in the first place and maybe we should do something about it. But we're working on it, really. A lot of us are trying very hard.
Could you show me any similar situation where the Christians *don't* have the lion's share of asshole behavior?
There's lots of good ones (as with any demographic), but the vocal ones fuck it up for everyone else. Something Atheists like myself and Christians have in common, unsurprisingly.
Just curious how that works, the US DOJ closing down a company registered in Hong Kong.
Their logic was that the company had assets in the US (servers) and therefore that gave them jurisdiction over the whole operation. It remains to be seen whether or not this will hold up in court.
Megaupload was targeted because they did the absolute minimum they could to comply with the DMCA and other US legislation.
Doing the "bare minimum" translates to "in full compliance". Why go above and beyond to meet requirements that are going to cost you money and nothing else?
only removing the one specific link to a file, not removing all the copies, when a takedown notice was sent.
Does the DMCA state that you have to remove the one linked file or all copies?
It just seems like the powers that be were more pissed that MU found a way to follow the system (to the letter) and still basically infringe and turn a ridiculous profit. They didn't want to invest the resources in holding up their end of the DMCA (sending out takedown notices) so they just decided to pay off the government.
You haven't had to look for a job for a while, huh?
A ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...
Companies all over the place are violating labor laws left and right. Even if you could afford to bring suit against them (which most people who are impacted by this stuff can't), you're disposable.
If they do find it, I wonder why they can't just contain and remove it somehow. Fill the pit with concrete, let it harden, then cut it out, remove it, and store it elsewhere.
Oh man, I can just see the setup for a movie now. The core leaks out into the ocean which creates a giant radioactive whale that gets it revenge on Japan by curbstomping sushi restaurants.
Right, because none of us know what ACTA is! That approach sure worked well.
Maybe it'll be sent over super-secret diplomatic cables that never get out!
The politicians are rapidly losing the power to do anything in secret without breaking a huge amount of laws. We have a HUGE advantage on our side and we really have to be careful not to waste it.
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I'm starting to think that one of the major checks we have against the military (the main commander is a civilian) is necessary for police. I know some places have an elected "Sheriff" which is basically this, but we probably need it at a lower level.
The proper legal term is nuh uhnus girlfriendium.
but also the Check of the States upon the central power (tenth amendment).
That would be because the vast majority of the Checks of the States have been eroded or schemed away.
The fed was never supposed to be this powerful.
Sounds like we need some sort of metamoderation for judges... are there no checks or balances against judges who pull shit like rubber stamping warrants and not actually finding out if they're legal or precise enough?
I've been very vocal about gun rights lately, but I'd add two to the count on Constitutional stuff. SCOTUS ruled that it is an individual right to own a gun in your home and that that right applies to the states (and override their abilities to revoke it). We're halfway there on that one; now we just need to get to the bear part of the 2nd amendment.
It's not a criminal act to "tamper with it". They left their property underneath your car. Refer to Finders, Keepers et. al. v. Losers, Weepers et. al.
But seriously, how can they make it a crime to tamper with a covert bug? That seems pretty weird. If I found a microphone, camera, etc. in my house I'd remove it and put it in a faraday cage.
The Pauls are pretty much strict constitutionalists.
I don't know how or why this escapes people's attention, but we don't have a right to social security, welfare, food stamps, FAFSA, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. (I could go on). If the constitution doesn't specifically allow it, the Pauls want it gone. If it's important enough, then the government can have a go at amending the constitution.
Chargeback?
If you don't live in the UK you can't view a lot of the BBC's content, such as pretty much all of their non-news videos.
So, given the prevailing legal opinion on the matter, and giving the fact that most congressmen and senators are either lawyers or judges or other parts of the legal system, I doubt this will come to pass.
You are making the mistake of assuming that because most of congress and the senate is made up of lawyers that they have any problem whatsoever doing something vastly illegal.
The politicians have broken laws and even the fundamental founding principles of our nation in some fashion nearly every year since this country began. (The earliest I can think of is the suspension of habeas corpus in the Civil War.)
From your link:
[Tim O'Reilly] points out that he and a lot of other content creators have been happily coexisting with piracy all this time, and I’m certainly one of them. Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan. The big content companies are TERRIBLE at doing both of these things, so it’s no wonder they’re not doing so well in the current environment. And right now everyone’s fighting to control distribution channels, which is why I can’t watch Star Wars on Netflix or iTunes. It’s fine if you want to have that fight, but don’t yell and scream about how you’re losing business to piracy when your stuff isn’t even available in the box I have on top of my TV. A lot of us have figured out how to do this.
(Emphasis mine.)
Always knew he was a good guy.
I wanted to also point out that uploaded.to pretty much completely blocked the United States. Just my luck, I find out a half-hour after I submit the story.
The reaction of non-Americans (on Reddit, at least) seems to be "Ha, now you have to deal with the same shit we deal with from the BBC, Netflix, etc.".
Man, wouldn't it be just awesome if loads of websites in other countries blocked us? -.-
We possess the means to liberate ourselves. All that is left is to decide which ones we use. The court? The public square? Voting? The rifle?
Everyone knows it was about old world mass media regaining control of what information the public gets, about shutting down every influential blog, forum and web portal not owned or controlled by mass media. Basically to shut down means by which Obama and quite a few Democrats got elected.
Hey, so... I just thought of us, but do we have a Plan B?
Let's assume the worst - the United States does some heinous shit and fucks over the entire Internet - either for their country or maybe for the whole world.
After some initial chaos Europe and other countries will probably get a handle on things, but what do us Americans do?
I imagine a bunch of us geeks could probably figure things out on our own - alternate DNS, Tor, whatever. But what about the regular folk? What about the geeks that would love to be able to do something but can't because they don't have that knowledge?
We need to make something like this, except title it "Let's Say America Fucked Up The Internet" along with a host of possible options to try, and then we need to distribute the shit out of that motherfucker.
I'm pretty tired of American corporations who like to pretend American law applies to the whole world..
As an American, I'd like you to know that most of us are tired of this, too. The same goes for our government.
Unfortunately far too few of us have yet to make the connection that we put those assholes there in the first place and maybe we should do something about it. But we're working on it, really. A lot of us are trying very hard.
Could you show me any similar situation where the Christians *don't* have the lion's share of asshole behavior?
There's lots of good ones (as with any demographic), but the vocal ones fuck it up for everyone else. Something Atheists like myself and Christians have in common, unsurprisingly.
"If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people." -House M.D.
The difference between that young lady's story and what happened in Indonesia is this: people were just talking, online, about how much they hate her.
Yeah, but when that talking involves death threats, it's a different story.
Just curious how that works, the US DOJ closing down a company registered in Hong Kong.
Their logic was that the company had assets in the US (servers) and therefore that gave them jurisdiction over the whole operation. It remains to be seen whether or not this will hold up in court.
Megaupload was targeted because they did the absolute minimum they could to comply with the DMCA and other US legislation.
Doing the "bare minimum" translates to "in full compliance". Why go above and beyond to meet requirements that are going to cost you money and nothing else?
only removing the one specific link to a file, not removing all the copies, when a takedown notice was sent.
Does the DMCA state that you have to remove the one linked file or all copies?
It just seems like the powers that be were more pissed that MU found a way to follow the system (to the letter) and still basically infringe and turn a ridiculous profit. They didn't want to invest the resources in holding up their end of the DMCA (sending out takedown notices) so they just decided to pay off the government.
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Time-and-a-half.
hahahahahahahaha...
You haven't had to look for a job for a while, huh?
A ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...
Companies all over the place are violating labor laws left and right. Even if you could afford to bring suit against them (which most people who are impacted by this stuff can't), you're disposable.
Why the Hell does a pacemaker need a WIFI connection?!
If they do find it, I wonder why they can't just contain and remove it somehow. Fill the pit with concrete, let it harden, then cut it out, remove it, and store it elsewhere.
Oh man, I can just see the setup for a movie now. The core leaks out into the ocean which creates a giant radioactive whale that gets it revenge on Japan by curbstomping sushi restaurants.
Youtube doesnt provide me with the option to download this "new" edited version of it
Friend, this is the digital age. It doesn't matter if YouTube doesn't offer the option. Many other places already do.
www.keepvid.com
Right, because none of us know what ACTA is! That approach sure worked well.
Maybe it'll be sent over super-secret diplomatic cables that never get out!
The politicians are rapidly losing the power to do anything in secret without breaking a huge amount of laws. We have a HUGE advantage on our side and we really have to be careful not to waste it.