And you are comparing the total theoretical cost of all piracy everywhere to the actual damage of a single burglary. Compare millions of dollars in theoretical lost revenue to the damage of every burglary everywhere and you have a more accurate comparison.
I was actually aiming for "+5 funny" with a snarky comment implying men who go into CS feel no sympathy toward the women who never gave their number to guys like them in high-school. But it seems some people take this a little too seriously.
"It would do my heart good if she moved to another state so we can get back to business as usual around here...."
1) Why would you wish something so evil upon your neighbors? 2) Feinstein is business as usual for California, you keep electing her despite years of uninterrupted hypocrisy and disdain for the common citizen from her
If you think that's hypocrisy you should probably know about how she has a concealed carry permit despite being the most vocal anti-gun politician in the US.
"But I'm not sure that is banning "speech" as it is about banning "speaking"."
There are probably think-tanks that would pay to have someone with your ability to contort logic into previously unthinkable directions. Also have you considered becoming a corporate attorney?
The FCC's job here is to create rules to promote safety. If it's an annoyance issue then the airlines should be the ones making rules about it. We don't need the FCC legislating cell phone use in movie theaters and cell phone use in planes can be dealt with the same way - anyone who won't stop talking on their phone in the theater/plane will be made to leave.
"No, the real question is, has politics stooped so low that political staff (and possibly politicians) feel entitled to act like petulant little children and expect to get away with it?"
I hear there was a Chicago Alderman who was removed from office because he decided to get back at his ex-wife by defunding snow removal to her neighborhood...
"And, if so, why is society prepared to live with their politicians and staff acting like such douchebags?"
Because if we don't vote for our petulant douchebag, the wrong petulant douchebag might win.
I wonder how long before there will be DRM on musical instruments to prevent people from playing copyrighted music on them. Technologically we're basically there...
Bin Laden's real reason was to be the big scary bugbear that would justify massive military spending after the Soviets were no longer a sufficient threat while simultaneously justifying the US military directly engaging the enemies of the Saudi Royal Family. Mission fucking accomplished.
Wouldn't even need to deploy smart bombs, the FBI could yank them right out of class. "If you fund terrorism then your family gets kicked out of university, and gets deported."
I should rephrase that. Saudi support for terrorism is only one of a long list of reasons why the US and global community should push for regime change in Saudi Arabia.
No, you seemed to miss my intention. I don't mean we should merely slowly wean ourselves off Saudi oil. The US leadership should inform the Saudi government that they need to stop supporting terrorism and start arresting people who do provide money to terrorists or they will no longer be allies and instead be targets. "Some nice buildings in Riyadh, shame if something happened to them. You fund Al Qaeda to bomb people, the USAF will bomb you."
Prince Bandar bin Sultan has admitted to being in control of the Chechen terrorists. Yet he remains at the head of the National Security Council of Saudi Arabia.
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And you are comparing the total theoretical cost of all piracy everywhere to the actual damage of a single burglary. Compare millions of dollars in theoretical lost revenue to the damage of every burglary everywhere and you have a more accurate comparison.
It really says a lot about our priorities as a nation when burglaries barely interest the local cops but piracy requires the FBI.
I was actually aiming for "+5 funny" with a snarky comment implying men who go into CS feel no sympathy toward the women who never gave their number to guys like them in high-school. But it seems some people take this a little too seriously.
"It would do my heart good if she moved to another state so we can get back to business as usual around here...."
1) Why would you wish something so evil upon your neighbors?
2) Feinstein is business as usual for California, you keep electing her despite years of uninterrupted hypocrisy and disdain for the common citizen from her
Nerds are only openly hostile toward the world at large because it was openly hostile to us first.
Take them out on the wing and let them air out?
"If you complain to a flight attendant about a passenger that smells, they'll usually deal with it."
One has to ask... how? Do they hose the offending passenger down with Febreze?
"That simply means he didn't realize she still had more connections than he did."
Or someone in her neighborhood did.
Unlikely at the altitude they're likely to be at. An HERF gun would probably do the trick though.
If you think that's hypocrisy you should probably know about how she has a concealed carry permit despite being the most vocal anti-gun politician in the US.
One law for us, a different law for them.
"But I'm not sure that is banning "speech" as it is about banning "speaking"."
There are probably think-tanks that would pay to have someone with your ability to contort logic into previously unthinkable directions. Also have you considered becoming a corporate attorney?
" (data usage okay, but no cell usage)."
The FCC's job here is to create rules to promote safety. If it's an annoyance issue then the airlines should be the ones making rules about it. We don't need the FCC legislating cell phone use in movie theaters and cell phone use in planes can be dealt with the same way - anyone who won't stop talking on their phone in the theater/plane will be made to leave.
google is a corporation and their main products are services...
Correction: their main products are users. Services are just part of the manufacturing process for producing users to sell to their customers.
Besides, thermite would be more fun.
"And, if so, why is society prepared to live with their politicians and staff acting like such douchebags?"
Because if they didn't vote for a lizard the wrong lizard might get in.
"No, the real question is, has politics stooped so low that political staff (and possibly politicians) feel entitled to act like petulant little children and expect to get away with it?"
I hear there was a Chicago Alderman who was removed from office because he decided to get back at his ex-wife by defunding snow removal to her neighborhood...
"And, if so, why is society prepared to live with their politicians and staff acting like such douchebags?"
Because if we don't vote for our petulant douchebag, the wrong petulant douchebag might win.
Poor 3dfx, "hypersonic GLIDE vehicle" would have been a much better name than Voodoo 3.
I wonder how long before there will be DRM on musical instruments to prevent people from playing copyrighted music on them. Technologically we're basically there...
"but who will decide what, of the billions and billions of created materials will be beautiful? ... again, a person."
You mean a music critic?
Well what if we had robotic music critics write reviews and select what's beautiful for us thereby saving us the bother?
As far as I can tell this is already how modern pop music is promoted.
This is Slashdot. It's ok to recommend linux here.
Bin Laden's real reason was to be the big scary bugbear that would justify massive military spending after the Soviets were no longer a sufficient threat while simultaneously justifying the US military directly engaging the enemies of the Saudi Royal Family. Mission fucking accomplished.
Oh yes, because in a just society people must be punished even when they break unjust laws.
Wouldn't even need to deploy smart bombs, the FBI could yank them right out of class. "If you fund terrorism then your family gets kicked out of university, and gets deported."
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304830704577492450467667154
I should rephrase that. Saudi support for terrorism is only one of a long list of reasons why the US and global community should push for regime change in Saudi Arabia.
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/30-09-2013/125766-usa_saudi_arabia-0/
No, you seemed to miss my intention. I don't mean we should merely slowly wean ourselves off Saudi oil. The US leadership should inform the Saudi government that they need to stop supporting terrorism and start arresting people who do provide money to terrorists or they will no longer be allies and instead be targets. "Some nice buildings in Riyadh, shame if something happened to them. You fund Al Qaeda to bomb people, the USAF will bomb you."
Prince Bandar bin Sultan has admitted to being in control of the Chechen terrorists. Yet he remains at the head of the National Security Council of Saudi Arabia.