This sanctimonious misdirection about private property gets a "Insightful" mod?
This has been demonstrated to be a bullshit, strawman argument. This is just the "zero sum" thinking of cancerous, middle-man industries which produce nothing of value themselves, while claiming "sacred property rights" over the art of others. This is corporate-leech-lawyer logic. And you are guilty of the lowest, pseudo-moral posturing, in rushing to enforce their deception.
The fact is, "file sharers" are the VERY BEST customers of film and music industries.
The situation we have today is the mis-application of an exploitative economic model, poorly adapting to change, when confrofronted by the essentially non-tangible value of their wares.
Give enough support like yours, Sony BMI and GE will be able to soon charge us for access to the Gettysburg Address, Shakespere's First Folio and the very music of J.S. Bach.
"Hollywood" is a metaphor. I don't believe that anyone referring to "Hollywood" in the context of this story or comments is referring to the confines of a dreary municipality, south of Burbank...
Triopenin. Triopenin is gentle, non-habit-forming, aids in soothing muscles and liberating stiff, painful joints. Soon, you're handling life again, feeling better, and getting a firm grasp on the situation.
Triopenin -- get your hands working again. Now with the new childproof safety cap.
Tiberius couldn't have been much concerned with squeals for the death of a Roman Republic. I doubt that a serious move to Contitutional reform would be met with any less grace and tolerance, in this day.
Your new cancer and lack of presumed innocence are a small price to pay, in order to defeat statistically non-existant terrorists.
Police Commissioner Kelly said the scanner would only be used in reasonably suspicious circumstances and could cut down on the number of stop-and-frisks on the street.
But the New York Civil Liberties Union is raising a red flag. "It's worrisome. It implicates privacy, the right to walk down the street without being subjected to a virtual pat-down by the Police Department when you're doing nothing wrong," the NYCLU's Donna Lieberman said.
After years of rebuffing health concerns over airport scanners, the Transportation Security Administration plans to conduct new tests on the potential radiation exposure from the machines at more than 100 airports nationwide.
But the TSA does not plan to retest the machines or passengers. Instead, the agency plans to test its airport security officers to see if they are being exposed to dangerous levels of radiation while working with the scanners.
"Society will pay a huge price in cancer because of this," John Sedat, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California at San Francisco, told CNET. Sedat has raised concerns about the health risks of X-ray scanners, and the European Commission in November prohibited their use in European airports.
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack By Peggy McIntosh
This article is now considered a `classic' by anti-racist educators. It has been used in workshops and classes throughout the United States and Canada for many years. While people of color have described for years how whites benefit from unearned privileges, this is one of the first articles written by a white person on the topics.
It is suggested that participants read the article and discuss it. Participants can then write a list of additional ways in which whites are privileged in their own school and community setting. Or participants can be asked to keep a diary for the following week of white privilege that they notice (and in some cases challenge) in their daily lives. These can be shared and discussed the following week. Through work to bring materials from Women's Studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men's unwillingness to grant that they are over privileged, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged. They may say they will work to improve women's status, in the society, the university, or the curriculum, but they can't or won't support the idea of lessening men's. Denials, which amount to taboos, surround the subject of advantages, which men gain from women's disadvantages. These denials protect male privilege from being fully acknowledged, lessened or ended. Thinking through unacknowledged male privilege as a phenomenon, I realized that since hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there was most likely a phenomenon of white privilege, which was similarly denied and protected. As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something which puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege which puts me at an advantage.
I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. So I have begun in an untutored way to ask what it is like to have white privilege. I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was `meant' to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools and blank checks.
Describing white privilege makes one newly accountable. As we in Women's Studies work to reveal male privilege and ask men to give up some of their power, so one who writes about having white privilege must ask, " Having described it what will I do to lessen or end it?"
After I realized the extent to which men work from a base of unacknowledged privilege, I understood that much of their oppressiveness was unconscious. Then I remembered the frequent charges from women of color that white women whom they encounter are oppressive. I began to understand why we are justly seen as oppressive, even when we don't see ourselves that way. I began to count the ways in which I enjoy unearned skin privilege and have been conditioned into oblivion about its existence.
My schooling gave me no training in seeing myself as an oppressor, as an unfairly advantaged person or as a participant in a damaged culture. I was taught to see myself as an individual whose moral state depended on her individual moral will. My schooling followed the pattern my colleague Elizabeth Minnich has pointed out: whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work which will allow "them" to be more like "us." I decided to try to work on myself at least by identifying some of the daily effects of white privilege on my life. I have chosen those conditions which I think in my case attach somewhat more to skin-color privilege than to class, religion, ethnic status, or geographical loca
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This sanctimonious misdirection about private property gets a "Insightful" mod?
This has been demonstrated to be a bullshit, strawman argument. This is just the "zero sum" thinking of cancerous, middle-man industries which produce nothing of value themselves, while claiming "sacred property rights" over the art of others. This is corporate-leech-lawyer logic. And you are guilty of the lowest, pseudo-moral posturing, in rushing to enforce their deception.
The fact is, "file sharers" are the VERY BEST customers of film and music industries.
Media Cos.' Best Customers: Those Who Steal Their Content
File-sharers are content industry's "largest customers"
The situation we have today is the mis-application of an exploitative economic model, poorly adapting to change, when confrofronted by the essentially non-tangible value of their wares.
Give enough support like yours, Sony BMI and GE will be able to soon charge us for access to the Gettysburg Address, Shakespere's First Folio and the very music of J.S. Bach.
You believe all the distortions, half truths and misrepresentations sold to you by the CNNBCFox?
It is impossible to retort to those who play in imaginary sandboxes. I'm glad that - at least - you didn't pay for that brainwashing.
I'm afraid that Law operates on precedent. The preceent now established? Might makes right.
Ironic commentary, not naive rumination.
Do you remember when laws used to be enforced? That seemed to work OK. I wonder why they stopped?
I thought you were obliquely referring to the "accounting practice" of the motion picture industry. ;-)
Troll or satire? Ahhh. The miraculous ambiguity of Slashdot commentary!
Hi. We're the US Airforce.
We run a secret intelligence agency, and have an acknowledged PsyOp division, aimed at the general US population.
Please believe us. We are not lying to you, about this. Really.
And I DEMAND that once bought, you STAY bought!
By the way, the law is for you "little people".
"Hollywood" is a metaphor. I don't believe that anyone referring to "Hollywood" in the context of this story or comments is referring to the confines of a dreary municipality, south of Burbank...
Let's ALL kill Hollywood. They can't arrest all of us!
Triopenin.
Triopenin is gentle, non-habit-forming, aids in soothing muscles and liberating stiff, painful joints. Soon, you're handling life again, feeling better, and getting a firm grasp on the situation.
Triopenin -- get your hands working again. Now with the new childproof safety cap.
Thought Crime
It's just too late for that, innit?
Tiberius couldn't have been much concerned with squeals for the death of a Roman Republic. I doubt that a serious move to Contitutional reform would be met with any less grace and tolerance, in this day.
You are easily angered. Funny how the tone of a comment gives more rise to your ire, than the supression of your rights.
GOLDFINGER!
Ass-first, out the window!
If you're getting frisked, we're no longer talking about "law abiding citizens".
Right. Because police accusation means you abandon presumption of innocence.
Taken to it's logical extension, you advocate suspicion==conviction. You may be a "psychologist", but your also a Nazi. Godwin be damned to hell!
Your new cancer and lack of presumed innocence are a small price to pay, in order to defeat statistically non-existant terrorists.
Police Commissioner Kelly said the scanner would only be used in reasonably suspicious circumstances and could cut down on the number of stop-and-frisks on the street.
But the New York Civil Liberties Union is raising a red flag.
"It's worrisome. It implicates privacy, the right to walk down the street without being subjected to a virtual pat-down by the Police Department when you're doing nothing wrong," the NYCLU's Donna Lieberman said.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/01/17/nypd-testing-gun-scanning-technology/
After years of rebuffing health concerns over airport scanners, the Transportation Security Administration plans to conduct new tests on the potential radiation exposure from the machines at more than 100 airports nationwide.
But the TSA does not plan to retest the machines or passengers. Instead, the agency plans to test its airport security officers to see if they are being exposed to dangerous levels of radiation while working with the scanners.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-travel-briefcase-20120116,0,7082529.story
"Society will pay a huge price in cancer because of this," John Sedat, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California at San Francisco, told CNET. Sedat has raised concerns about the health risks of X-ray scanners, and the European Commission in November prohibited their use in European airports.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57358146-281/dhs-x-ray-scanners-could-be-cancer-risk-to-border-crossers/
SOPA PIPA, the "return" of public-domain artefacts to the status of "intellectual property", "secure" boot.
My .sig is no joke. If the elite in the US and Europe were told "make the choice between keeping Corporate Capitalism or Republican Government?
I think you know that the last vestiges of the old republic would be swept away... in a twinkling.
GET THIS STRAIGHT! Democracy is MORE IMPORTANT than mere COMMERCE!
But it's too late, isn't it? Now, it's all over - except the shouting.
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
By Peggy McIntosh
This article is now considered a `classic' by anti-racist educators. It has been used in workshops and
classes throughout the United States and Canada for many years. While people of color have described
for years how whites benefit from unearned privileges, this is one of the first articles written by a white
person on the topics.
It is suggested that participants read the article and discuss it. Participants can then write a list
of additional ways in which whites are privileged in their own school and community setting. Or
participants can be asked to keep a diary for the following week of white privilege that they notice (and in
some cases challenge) in their daily lives. These can be shared and discussed the following week.
Through work to bring materials from Women's Studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have
often noticed men's unwillingness to grant that they are over privileged, even though they may grant that
women are disadvantaged. They may say they will work to improve women's status, in the society, the
university, or the curriculum, but they can't or won't support the idea of lessening men's. Denials, which
amount to taboos, surround the subject of advantages, which men gain from women's disadvantages.
These denials protect male privilege from being fully acknowledged, lessened or ended.
Thinking through unacknowledged male privilege as a phenomenon, I realized that since
hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there was most likely a phenomenon of white privilege,
which was similarly denied and protected. As a white person, I realized I had been taught about
racism as something which puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its
corollary aspects, white privilege which puts me at an advantage.
I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to
recognize male privilege. So I have begun in an untutored way to ask what it is like to have white
privilege. I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets which I can
count on cashing in each day, but about which I was `meant' to remain oblivious. White privilege is
like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes,
tools and blank checks.
Describing white privilege makes one newly accountable. As we in Women's Studies work to
reveal male privilege and ask men to give up some of their power, so one who writes about having white
privilege must ask, " Having described it what will I do to lessen or end it?"
After I realized the extent to which men work from a base of unacknowledged privilege, I
understood that much of their oppressiveness was unconscious. Then I remembered the frequent charges
from women of color that white women whom they encounter are oppressive. I began to understand why
we are justly seen as oppressive, even when we don't see ourselves that way. I began to count the ways
in which I enjoy unearned skin privilege and have been conditioned into oblivion about its existence.
My schooling gave me no training in seeing myself as an oppressor, as an unfairly advantaged
person or as a participant in a damaged culture. I was taught to see myself as an individual whose moral
state depended on her individual moral will. My schooling followed the pattern my colleague Elizabeth
Minnich has pointed out: whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and
average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work which will allow
"them" to be more like "us."
I decided to try to work on myself at least by identifying some of the daily effects of white
privilege on my life. I have chosen those conditions which I think in my case attach somewhat more to
skin-color privilege than to class, religion, ethnic status, or geographical loca
GO GO GO!
Occilate, occilate,
Diminutive variable-luminosity celestial object
How I speculate
From where I gravitate...
The TSA will surely snag your "flight safe" Victorinox!
They took a 3-inch plastic toy doll's rifle from a child - because it was a "replica firearm".
Someday, they will face the gates of Hell. Today? They are your middle-school hall-monitors, with an authorization from the American STASI.
Existential war with Facebook.
Does George Berkeley Exist to Hear It?