I don't wish to be associated with such practices. Governments are quite good at handling such things, and people (the sheep) won't tolerate open violence unless they are being personally targeted by the government witch hunts. Having copyright associated with terrorism and violence is -exactly- the sort of thing the RIAA wants.
In practice there is no possible way to catch all copyright infringement online. I expect they will (instead) just log all p2p (bit torrent) activity. Remember that the ISP isn't getting paid for this, so cutting corners is the only practical solution.
The -only- limiting factor on electric cars (besides legal) is the batteries. We've got every single other issue solved. But few people can afford to buy $40,000 batteries for a car that otherwise only costs $10,000.
Get paid like the ceo of exon -and- get to frame right wing politicians? Life would be good. I guess that answers the question on when the law is getting passed.
Each -individual- song is copyrighted. There is a copyright infringement suite for each copyright broken. As for the law, doesn't the riaa just buy what they want?
I think corporations should be treated as people. If they break the law they (the board of directors/ceo) should go to jail. Where an employee does something bad (truck driver fell asleep and killed family) Due diligence should be the only defense.
Sell them at a profit (cost plus 10%) in the -first- world, use profit to subsidize (cost minus 25%) sales in the -third- world market. We're perfectly willing to help you out financially, just not buy 2 get one.
The drake equation calculates the number of life bearing planets in the galaxy. Even if you make very conservative choices on the drake equation you've still got a lot of planets that should have intelligent life. So the question is why haven't they contacted us yet? And the usual answer is their tech is incompatible with ours, that they don't use primitive radio waves anymore. Or they are stuck in a pre-hi-tech civ (human cultures run in cycles, most pre-western civs hit a plateau around ancient greece or ancient rome and stopped advancing. Or their president cancelled manned spaceflight for budgetary reasons. Or they heard us and got scared listening to war of the worlds so they shut up before we heard them. The bottom line is we'll never know till we send out interstellar probes to look.
On the internet being invisible is like having no road access. It's alright for a vacation cabin on the lake but it sucks for a business. Oh well, they were going broke anyway. This will just speed things up a bit.
Necessity is the mother of invention = occasional environmental disruptions are the driver to complex life and intelligence. I think we have ice ages and meteorites to thank for intelligent life on earth. Without the need, why evolve past single cells?
An ISP is clearly a telecommunications service provider. VOIP, Email, text messaging --> telephone, teletype, fax. As Obama appointed the FCC guy solely for change, and as he's clearly shown he wants network neutrality, it's obvious he's going to reclassify ISP's as telco's.
As for retaking government, the first step is how to get elected without money. Once you figure that part out you've got it made. I would suggest outlawing all privately paid for advertising. Every politician would have a specific amount of advertising (tv, radio, internet) and it wouldn't cost them any money. Once politicians don't need money to get elected, they will quickly realize that most lobyists don't actually represent votes but just money, whereas listening to the voters will actually effect elections so you'd better do that instead.
Fibre optic cable is cheap, it's the right of way that gets you. If the mayor of your town had solid public support it would be simple to set up a town wide network paid for by taxes, then buy bandwidth as required for national connections. Of course that would never happen as the lobyists would kill it off to prevent competition. The tragedy of democracy is that those who want to loot the system are more motivated to action than you are.
You can be arrested for your political beliefs. Try registering as a communist. And there are americans in gitmo who have never been charged with any crime. And apparently that free assembly thing is limited to "protest" zones. However, in general your point is correct. I guess americans just don't care about injustice and dictatorships when the football/baseball/hockey/roman coliseum is on tv. I would advise against armed rebellion, they have a very poor success rate. A better plan would be to get together and form a political party. You don't actually have to control the whole country, if you get a few swing states you can demand payoff legislation from the big two in exchange for your electoral congress votes. PS, the democrats are a right wing political party.
The USA looks like a bus heading towards a cliff. And the guy driving just stomped on the gas. The sad part is all the rest of the world is following his tail lights. Hopefully we're far enough behind to hit the breaks when we see you go over.
No. There are two sets of rules: those for -people- and those for companies. Clearly you are ignorant of the difference, but these three strikes laws only apply to people. For instance, if your boat dumps half a tank of diesel fuel into the ocean you get charged, if Exon dumps a tanker full, it's just business.
Just because you use encrypted bit-torrent (or whatever) doesn't make you safe. Linux ISO's -are- copywrited, so technically they can cut you off for downloading copywrited material. Lack of -criminal- behavior is no defense against RIAA kickbacks based on performance.
After the second world war the rest of the world was in ruins, so they naturally fell behind on science and stuff. Since that time Europe and Asia have rebuilt their economies and science infrastructure. Over the same time frame the usa has sold off its factories and offshored the science. They even exported the headquarters to tax havens overseas. Yes, third world refugees go there, but that could just be due to excellent propaganda instead of there actually being something worth going to. Canada has historically had trouble with our best and brightest moving to the usa for work, but now it appears most of them come home (only wanted a green card, not a new life).
Collective security means you spread the cost. Instead of all western countries having enough soldiers to defend themselves against everyone you only need enough to hold your enemies off till help arrives. Of course it -does- mean trusting your friends. The logical place for such things is a world government, though few in the USA would agree.
What does "not free" codec mean? As USA patent law expressly forbids patenting math algorithms, shouldn't you just need to write your own code to implement the codec?
Might i suggest a.disney domain? Where only wholesome kid friendly fare can be found. As the domain would be run by puritans there would be no risk of anything bad ever showing up there. You can have all "kids" computers locked to only access content from that domain. It will satisfy the extremists and negate the "need" for Australia style filtering completely.
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I don't wish to be associated with such practices. Governments are quite good at handling such things, and people (the sheep) won't tolerate open violence unless they are being personally targeted by the government witch hunts. Having copyright associated with terrorism and violence is -exactly- the sort of thing the RIAA wants.
In practice there is no possible way to catch all copyright infringement online. I expect they will (instead) just log all p2p (bit torrent) activity. Remember that the ISP isn't getting paid for this, so cutting corners is the only practical solution.
The -only- limiting factor on electric cars (besides legal) is the batteries. We've got every single other issue solved. But few people can afford to buy $40,000 batteries for a car that otherwise only costs $10,000.
Or you could have recall legislation. If they break enough promises then they get thrown out of office.
Get paid like the ceo of exon -and- get to frame right wing politicians? Life would be good. I guess that answers the question on when the law is getting passed.
Even cartoon cp is outlawed. So clearly the goal isn't to stop abuse of kids, it's to buy votes from the american christian right.
How do you tell? A 19 year old japanese girl looks like she's 12.
Each -individual- song is copyrighted. There is a copyright infringement suite for each copyright broken. As for the law, doesn't the riaa just buy what they want?
I think corporations should be treated as people. If they break the law they (the board of directors/ceo) should go to jail. Where an employee does something bad (truck driver fell asleep and killed family) Due diligence should be the only defense.
Sell them at a profit (cost plus 10%) in the -first- world, use profit to subsidize (cost minus 25%) sales in the -third- world market. We're perfectly willing to help you out financially, just not buy 2 get one.
The drake equation calculates the number of life bearing planets in the galaxy. Even if you make very conservative choices on the drake equation you've still got a lot of planets that should have intelligent life. So the question is why haven't they contacted us yet? And the usual answer is their tech is incompatible with ours, that they don't use primitive radio waves anymore. Or they are stuck in a pre-hi-tech civ (human cultures run in cycles, most pre-western civs hit a plateau around ancient greece or ancient rome and stopped advancing. Or their president cancelled manned spaceflight for budgetary reasons. Or they heard us and got scared listening to war of the worlds so they shut up before we heard them. The bottom line is we'll never know till we send out interstellar probes to look.
On the internet being invisible is like having no road access. It's alright for a vacation cabin on the lake but it sucks for a business. Oh well, they were going broke anyway. This will just speed things up a bit.
Necessity is the mother of invention = occasional environmental disruptions are the driver to complex life and intelligence. I think we have ice ages and meteorites to thank for intelligent life on earth. Without the need, why evolve past single cells?
An ISP is clearly a telecommunications service provider. VOIP, Email, text messaging --> telephone, teletype, fax. As Obama appointed the FCC guy solely for change, and as he's clearly shown he wants network neutrality, it's obvious he's going to reclassify ISP's as telco's. As for retaking government, the first step is how to get elected without money. Once you figure that part out you've got it made. I would suggest outlawing all privately paid for advertising. Every politician would have a specific amount of advertising (tv, radio, internet) and it wouldn't cost them any money. Once politicians don't need money to get elected, they will quickly realize that most lobyists don't actually represent votes but just money, whereas listening to the voters will actually effect elections so you'd better do that instead.
Fibre optic cable is cheap, it's the right of way that gets you. If the mayor of your town had solid public support it would be simple to set up a town wide network paid for by taxes, then buy bandwidth as required for national connections. Of course that would never happen as the lobyists would kill it off to prevent competition. The tragedy of democracy is that those who want to loot the system are more motivated to action than you are.
You can be arrested for your political beliefs. Try registering as a communist. And there are americans in gitmo who have never been charged with any crime. And apparently that free assembly thing is limited to "protest" zones. However, in general your point is correct. I guess americans just don't care about injustice and dictatorships when the football/baseball/hockey/roman coliseum is on tv. I would advise against armed rebellion, they have a very poor success rate. A better plan would be to get together and form a political party. You don't actually have to control the whole country, if you get a few swing states you can demand payoff legislation from the big two in exchange for your electoral congress votes. PS, the democrats are a right wing political party.
The USA looks like a bus heading towards a cliff. And the guy driving just stomped on the gas. The sad part is all the rest of the world is following his tail lights. Hopefully we're far enough behind to hit the breaks when we see you go over.
No. There are two sets of rules: those for -people- and those for companies. Clearly you are ignorant of the difference, but these three strikes laws only apply to people. For instance, if your boat dumps half a tank of diesel fuel into the ocean you get charged, if Exon dumps a tanker full, it's just business.
General rule: when people do strange things just follow the money to know why. Odds are the Riaa/Mpaa are payrolling the -experiment-.
Just because you use encrypted bit-torrent (or whatever) doesn't make you safe. Linux ISO's -are- copywrited, so technically they can cut you off for downloading copywrited material. Lack of -criminal- behavior is no defense against RIAA kickbacks based on performance.
After the second world war the rest of the world was in ruins, so they naturally fell behind on science and stuff. Since that time Europe and Asia have rebuilt their economies and science infrastructure. Over the same time frame the usa has sold off its factories and offshored the science. They even exported the headquarters to tax havens overseas. Yes, third world refugees go there, but that could just be due to excellent propaganda instead of there actually being something worth going to. Canada has historically had trouble with our best and brightest moving to the usa for work, but now it appears most of them come home (only wanted a green card, not a new life).
Spray the well head/pipe with liquid nitrogen and freeze the oil. It's not a permanent solution, but it'll buy you time.
Collective security means you spread the cost. Instead of all western countries having enough soldiers to defend themselves against everyone you only need enough to hold your enemies off till help arrives. Of course it -does- mean trusting your friends. The logical place for such things is a world government, though few in the USA would agree.
What does "not free" codec mean? As USA patent law expressly forbids patenting math algorithms, shouldn't you just need to write your own code to implement the codec?
Might i suggest a .disney domain? Where only wholesome kid friendly fare can be found. As the domain would be run by puritans there would be no risk of anything bad ever showing up there. You can have all "kids" computers locked to only access content from that domain. It will satisfy the extremists and negate the "need" for Australia style filtering completely.