Yep. I would vote for the Socialist Party candidate before I'd vote for the Rep or Dem. I just can't in good conscience vote for the status quo which is what both of those turds will give us.
I'm a (small L) libertarian, and the party was way off base with that nutjob. Apparently we're supposed to believe that in just a year or two, Barr went from his staunch anti-drug ways to a viable Libertarian candidate for president?
I voted for Harry Browne in past elections but wrote in Ron Paul in 2008. I don't care if he's kind of a wackjob or not, at least Paul is an honest wackjob. I'd take him before Obama or McCain any day.
Won't happen. You can't convince anybody of anything. This country will have to fail completely before it can be fixed. On the upside, we're probably not far from complete failure.
Depends on the state. Some states have open primaries. Often that leads to Democrats voting for the worst Republican and Republicans voting for the worst Democrat to try to sink the other side. Luckily for the rest of us that means we get to choose between the two worst candidates.
Bullshit. A modern American "liberal" is anything but liberal. They're just a different kind of authoritarian who wants to force everyone to live according to their choices, rather than live according to the choices made by "conversatives." If you truly believe that American "liberals" believe in freedom, you've been drinking far too much of the Democrat koolaid.
Also keep in mind that behind every obnoxious law is a politician who will use the law to smite their enemies, give themselves more power, and make somebody richer. Government would work if it wasn't for all the people.
Flamebait? Seriously? I guess I must have pissed off a couple of those "liberals" who are intent on implementing their fucked up brand of "liberalism" whether the rest of us fucking peons want it or not.
That was my experience as well. I was in the union when I worked at UPS one summer at the Maple Grove, MN facility. Wow, $8/hr. The union really scored a win there, didn't they?
The only other union I belonged to was a food workers union when I worked in a nursing home kitchen during high school. I managed to avoid it for a year or so, but they finally caught up with me, forced me to join, and then shortly thereafter demanded back dues. That whole time I was making about $1 over minimum wage. I quit that job before they could take a dime out of my check.
I'm sure there are good unions, but experiences like that don't exactly endear me to the concept.
Utterly false. Without government interference, copyright (the value of which is a different argument) wouldn't exist and this whole discussion would be moot. I could make a million copies of AutoCAD and nobody could stop me. So the government has already interfered by creating the concept of copyright, and a true free market no longer exists.
So if government is going to step on the free market (again, the merits of which are for a different debate) then it also must provide a counterbalance so that the party on the other side of the transaction benefits as well.
It's disingenuous to claim this has nothing to do with copyrights. This isn't an issue with physical property because nobody in their right mind would say you don't have the right to sell an object that you own (legality of the particular object aside) so it absolutely has to do with copyright. The fact is that even if copyright were a reasonable length, this ruling would mean that even after the copyright expired you still couldn't sell the software because you never owned it to begin with.
Least of all our representatives. You'd think there would at least be a literacy test for them, but no. Any idiot can be voted into office where they can then make brilliant statements like "We have to pass this bill to find out what's in it."
Robber barons exist because of government. Where do you think they get their power? Individuals have very little power against large groups of other individuals. It's when there is a centralized power with a monopoly on violence that a properly connected individual can call upon to do their dirty work that an individual gains massive power over others.
Are you sure? My wife started a business this year and when she searched GoDaddy.com to see if the domain was available prior to registering her business with the state. The domain (which was kind of a play on words, with a intentional misspelled version of a real word, so not something that would be randomly registered) was squatted on within a couple days. GoDaddy is shady and I'll never do business with them again. Even if they don't themselves register domains, the must sell the searches to 3rd parties, otherwise my wife wouldn't have had to choose a slightly worse domain that doesn't sync with her business name.
The US government could neuter him by not being so secretive. If the only things that were kept a secret were those things that were truly important he'd have no power.
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Yep. I would vote for the Socialist Party candidate before I'd vote for the Rep or Dem. I just can't in good conscience vote for the status quo which is what both of those turds will give us.
I'm a (small L) libertarian, and the party was way off base with that nutjob. Apparently we're supposed to believe that in just a year or two, Barr went from his staunch anti-drug ways to a viable Libertarian candidate for president?
I voted for Harry Browne in past elections but wrote in Ron Paul in 2008. I don't care if he's kind of a wackjob or not, at least Paul is an honest wackjob. I'd take him before Obama or McCain any day.
Do you really believe that Biden is that much better to have a "heartbeat away" from the presidency than Palin? How does that koolaid taste?
Won't happen. You can't convince anybody of anything. This country will have to fail completely before it can be fixed. On the upside, we're probably not far from complete failure.
Depends on the state. Some states have open primaries. Often that leads to Democrats voting for the worst Republican and Republicans voting for the worst Democrat to try to sink the other side. Luckily for the rest of us that means we get to choose between the two worst candidates.
It is illegal for private companies to deliver to mail boxes. UPS and FedEx can deliver to the door, but not the box.
Bullshit. A modern American "liberal" is anything but liberal. They're just a different kind of authoritarian who wants to force everyone to live according to their choices, rather than live according to the choices made by "conversatives." If you truly believe that American "liberals" believe in freedom, you've been drinking far too much of the Democrat koolaid.
Also keep in mind that behind every obnoxious law is a politician who will use the law to smite their enemies, give themselves more power, and make somebody richer. Government would work if it wasn't for all the people.
So as long as they print on the box "Only for use by adults 18+" then they can put anything they want in them?
"Liberals" call those loopholes, and complain about them constantly.
Flamebait? Seriously? I guess I must have pissed off a couple of those "liberals" who are intent on implementing their fucked up brand of "liberalism" whether the rest of us fucking peons want it or not.
That was my experience as well. I was in the union when I worked at UPS one summer at the Maple Grove, MN facility. Wow, $8/hr. The union really scored a win there, didn't they?
The only other union I belonged to was a food workers union when I worked in a nursing home kitchen during high school. I managed to avoid it for a year or so, but they finally caught up with me, forced me to join, and then shortly thereafter demanded back dues. That whole time I was making about $1 over minimum wage. I quit that job before they could take a dime out of my check.
I'm sure there are good unions, but experiences like that don't exactly endear me to the concept.
Shouldn't those top earning actors have 95% of their wages seized and distributed evenly amongst the poorer actors?
Oh wait, those "liberals" are for wealth redistribution for everybody else, not them.
Very few US "liberals" are liberal. They hijacked the word, and now here in the US it refers to an authoritarian leftist.
No, you're thinking of magnets.
Posting AC so you can mod yourself and me, halfwit?
Not yet...
The US 9th Circuit court apparently disagrees with you.
Utterly false. Without government interference, copyright (the value of which is a different argument) wouldn't exist and this whole discussion would be moot. I could make a million copies of AutoCAD and nobody could stop me. So the government has already interfered by creating the concept of copyright, and a true free market no longer exists.
So if government is going to step on the free market (again, the merits of which are for a different debate) then it also must provide a counterbalance so that the party on the other side of the transaction benefits as well.
It's disingenuous to claim this has nothing to do with copyrights. This isn't an issue with physical property because nobody in their right mind would say you don't have the right to sell an object that you own (legality of the particular object aside) so it absolutely has to do with copyright. The fact is that even if copyright were a reasonable length, this ruling would mean that even after the copyright expired you still couldn't sell the software because you never owned it to begin with.
I'm really struggling with trying to figure out how my paraphrase is any more damning that what she actually said.
You start with an ad hominem, proceed to a strawman, and end with two more ad hominems. Is that really the best you've got?
Go back to your government circle jerk, you clearly have nothing of value to add here.
Least of all our representatives. You'd think there would at least be a literacy test for them, but no. Any idiot can be voted into office where they can then make brilliant statements like "We have to pass this bill to find out what's in it."
Robber barons exist because of government. Where do you think they get their power? Individuals have very little power against large groups of other individuals. It's when there is a centralized power with a monopoly on violence that a properly connected individual can call upon to do their dirty work that an individual gains massive power over others.
Are you sure? My wife started a business this year and when she searched GoDaddy.com to see if the domain was available prior to registering her business with the state. The domain (which was kind of a play on words, with a intentional misspelled version of a real word, so not something that would be randomly registered) was squatted on within a couple days. GoDaddy is shady and I'll never do business with them again. Even if they don't themselves register domains, the must sell the searches to 3rd parties, otherwise my wife wouldn't have had to choose a slightly worse domain that doesn't sync with her business name.
The US government could neuter him by not being so secretive. If the only things that were kept a secret were those things that were truly important he'd have no power.