You assume that they couldn't find an ethically bankrupt businessman willing to sell them things under the table. Think George Bluth Sr. from Arrested Development.
"...the ultimate exposure of thousands of individual's personal information - their IP addresses, their names, addresses, and the pornography they're accused of sharing."
Oh. Um, well, DAMMIT!
Interesting. If this whole mess if about the sharing of porn, why are only mainstream movies and music concerned in those sort of accusations, and why is the porn industry not taking the same stand as Hollywood and the recording industry? You'd almost think that pornographers have... ethical standards.
Ah, but the difference here is that the judicial system has an obligation of A) proving your guilt and B) giving you a trial. The recording industry do not bother themselves with either, rather they extort you for rather hefty sums, threatening to ruin you with the cost of defending yourself in court if you don't give into their blackmail.
Well, for one thing they never tested in the middle of a heavily populated area, if the stone should choose to fall in a city and not the ocean. A bigger concern would be if said explosion happened in a nation with a paranoid dictator who lets the nukes fly because he thinks he's under attack, cascading into everyone following suit.
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Never underestimate the power of 4chan. They will drown you under their flood of shemale anime porn.
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All electrically powered devices are meant to infringe copyright! Ban Electricity! But wait, electricity can also be used to execute infringers in the chair, oh what a conundrum...
I would say he sold his soul to the dark forces of evil in exchange of political clout except he clearly lacks such a gift, most likely because he never had a soul to begin with.
In case anybody might have forgotten, Senator Hatch was a strong supporter of computer built-in self-destruct mechanisms that the music industry could have activated remotely on a whim: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/930731/posts
Panasonic hasn't provided a launch date for any of the robots. An obstacle to their commercialization likes in the lack of safety standards and liability laws concerning robots that interact with humans. Clarification is needed on such issues before the robots could become products, but guidelines could be published in Japan as early as 2012.
Translation: The lawyers are hard at work on not being legally liable when the machines start ripping off heads and gouging eyes out?
The blonde paint job in the blog picture, if that's her, isn't making my social calendar. Geeks want someone who can relate, and who they can relate to. If you're a woman and I ask you how'd you'd like to be Little Sister to my Bioshock Big Daddy at Halloween time, try to a) know what I'm talking about, and b) not flake out when you know what I'm talking about. Especially when you see the big drill.
If I asked that and the girl giggled and went "Look mister bubbles, it's an ANGEL!" I'd fall in love on the spot.
And as a male geek, pandering to me doesn't get you off the hook.
We can usually spot a baited hook question from a mile away. Anyone who tries to start a conversation by asking "is Kirk better than Picard?" is not likely to know anything about Star Trek other than a few names glanced from wikipedia. Ask us something with more depth, however, and you have our undivided attention.
The copyright holders will start relatively 'slowly' with 10,000 IP-addresses a day, but within weeks this number is expected to go up to 150,000 IP-addresses per day according to official reports.
150,000 names per day for a whole year is nearly 55 million names. Will the entertainment industry just skip on the rigmarole and simply do a class-action suit against the totality of the french population?
Indeed. The labels and their RIAA and similar orgs are the real thieves and pirates. When one of them goes "think of the performers"- it really means "we f*ck the performers".
It kind of reminds me of Homer Simpson begging people for money because "poor little Bart here will be savagely beaten by his father when he gets home."
The agency that collects music royalties in Canada on behalf of record companies and performing artists wants to charge web-based music sites that stream to mobile devices the greater of two figures: 45 per cent of the site's gross revenues in Canada or 7.5-tenths of a cent for every song streamed. Meanwhile, record labels are blaming the lack of online music services in Canada on piracy: 'Why would you spend a lot of money trying to build a service in Canada when Canadians take so much without paying for it?
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No, mister Bond, I expect you to die!
"giving great odds on an impossible event"
It's a tax on stupidity, and the money keeps rolling in!
... that some bookies figured that by giving great odds on an impossible events, idiots would flock to give them money.
I always felt that there was a great joke opportunity missed when George tells Michael about the "light treason." It should have gone like this:
George: "You can't convict a husband and wife of the same crime."
Michael: "That's stupid, of course you can."
George: "Oh yeah? Says who, smart guy?"
Michael: "Says the Rosenbergs."
You assume that they couldn't find an ethically bankrupt businessman willing to sell them things under the table. Think George Bluth Sr. from Arrested Development.
"...the ultimate exposure of thousands of individual's personal information - their IP addresses, their names, addresses, and the pornography they're accused of sharing." Oh. Um, well, DAMMIT!
Interesting. If this whole mess if about the sharing of porn, why are only mainstream movies and music concerned in those sort of accusations, and why is the porn industry not taking the same stand as Hollywood and the recording industry? You'd almost think that pornographers have... ethical standards.
Ah, but the difference here is that the judicial system has an obligation of A) proving your guilt and B) giving you a trial. The recording industry do not bother themselves with either, rather they extort you for rather hefty sums, threatening to ruin you with the cost of defending yourself in court if you don't give into their blackmail.
Imagine now doing a search for "amateur pole vaulting"...
I'm pretty sure that is a fifty ton meteor hit north korea, Kim Jong Il would find a way to blame the americans for it.
Well, for one thing they never tested in the middle of a heavily populated area, if the stone should choose to fall in a city and not the ocean. A bigger concern would be if said explosion happened in a nation with a paranoid dictator who lets the nukes fly because he thinks he's under attack, cascading into everyone following suit.
Never underestimate the power of 4chan. They will drown you under their flood of shemale anime porn.
Begins with unwarranted boast as to the timeliness of submitting comment before prior posters, claiming victory for failing to achieve first place. Follows a more or less to-the-point observation aided by unrelated metaphore substanciated with a red herring logical fallacy. Additional straw man fallacy regarding possible critical replies. Conclusion with attempted witty signature line cleverly "borrowed" from another more obscure forum user's better post.
All electrically powered devices are meant to infringe copyright! Ban Electricity! But wait, electricity can also be used to execute infringers in the chair, oh what a conundrum...
I would say he sold his soul to the dark forces of evil in exchange of political clout except he clearly lacks such a gift, most likely because he never had a soul to begin with.
In case anybody might have forgotten, Senator Hatch was a strong supporter of computer built-in self-destruct mechanisms that the music industry could have activated remotely on a whim: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/930731/posts
Panasonic hasn't provided a launch date for any of the robots. An obstacle to their commercialization likes in the lack of safety standards and liability laws concerning robots that interact with humans. Clarification is needed on such issues before the robots could become products, but guidelines could be published in Japan as early as 2012.
Translation: The lawyers are hard at work on not being legally liable when the machines start ripping off heads and gouging eyes out?
The blonde paint job in the blog picture, if that's her, isn't making my social calendar. Geeks want someone who can relate, and who they can relate to. If you're a woman and I ask you how'd you'd like to be Little Sister to my Bioshock Big Daddy at Halloween time, try to a) know what I'm talking about, and b) not flake out when you know what I'm talking about. Especially when you see the big drill.
If I asked that and the girl giggled and went "Look mister bubbles, it's an ANGEL!" I'd fall in love on the spot.
And as a male geek, pandering to me doesn't get you off the hook.
We can usually spot a baited hook question from a mile away. Anyone who tries to start a conversation by asking "is Kirk better than Picard?" is not likely to know anything about Star Trek other than a few names glanced from wikipedia. Ask us something with more depth, however, and you have our undivided attention.
You're assuming he's going to survive jail that long.
Yet they managed to pull together this monstrosity of an anti-consumer law. So you tell me how fragmented they really are.
And an even more necessary condition here will be for humanity to not panic and try to shut it off, like Skynet, Colossus or the Geth.
The copyright holders will start relatively 'slowly' with 10,000 IP-addresses a day, but within weeks this number is expected to go up to 150,000 IP-addresses per day according to official reports.
150,000 names per day for a whole year is nearly 55 million names. Will the entertainment industry just skip on the rigmarole and simply do a class-action suit against the totality of the french population?
Indeed. The labels and their RIAA and similar orgs are the real thieves and pirates. When one of them goes "think of the performers"- it really means "we f*ck the performers".
It kind of reminds me of Homer Simpson begging people for money because "poor little Bart here will be savagely beaten by his father when he gets home."
From the Norm MacDonald Show, Laurie's concession speech:
"I'd like to congratulate the winners who got more votes than I did, write-in candidates Mickey Mouse and pornstar Wendy Whoopers."
The agency that collects music royalties in Canada on behalf of record companies and performing artists wants to charge web-based music sites that stream to mobile devices the greater of two figures: 45 per cent of the site's gross revenues in Canada or 7.5-tenths of a cent for every song streamed. Meanwhile, record labels are blaming the lack of online music services in Canada on piracy: 'Why would you spend a lot of money trying to build a service in Canada when Canadians take so much without paying for it?
Now we all know who the real music pirates are.