>>>the foundation of TFA is that it's possible to change what the customer wants
I'd like to live just long enough to see Comcast suffer a massive collapse into bankruptcy, and the CEO's head placed on a pike. Do you think you can arrange that for me Mr. Morden?
Yes and I've been stopped by them in Texas and my brother in New Hampshire. My brother happily complied (fool), but I refused to let the Texas dipshits search my trunk. They made me stand-around for an hour before finally letting me go. I wasn't crossing an international border, so the stop and attempted-search was unjustified.
>>>he's definitely a paranoid freak to think that those cops would have subjected him to something worse had he admitted that the money was collections from a Republican candidate's rally. >>>
Oh really? Two weeks before this event, Missouri had announced they would start treating libertarians and constitutionalists as potential terrorists worthy of further investigation.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
>>>they base the network capacity on the usage demand, and try to provision only as much as they absolutely have to. This is why ISPs hate Net Neutrality >>>
Net neutrality has nothing to do with underestimate of user demand. Net neutrality is about ensuring all websites are treated equally (i.e. no extra fees to access youtube, or no discounts to watch att.com). As for estimating demand, I would build 1000 times current capacity, figuring that demand has grown from 50k to 50 meg during the last ten years, and will probably keep growing at that rate upto 2020 at least.
Aside -
Wow. Arab TV doesn't censor much! I'm watching some news program (al-Alam), and they just showed a dead guy's swollen decaying body laying on the mortician's slab. Wow. We'd never see that stuff here on U.S. news
That's what this does: "S.139 would grant an exemption for data that 'was rendered indecipherable through the use of best practices or methods, such as redaction, access controls, or other such mechanisms." It's akin to the Audit the Fed bill was rendered harmless by allowing the federal reserve to black-out names of persons/organizations that received money. It's meaningless.
I honestly don't understand Congresscritters who sell-out like this. Is keeping their job so important that they'd bend to the will of their corporate donaters and ignore their basic "don't be evil" morals?
No I did a "back of the envelope" calculation and figured about 90% of the world's humans have access to music (via phoneline internet, radio, et cetera). Even somebody who lives in a desolate place like Afghanistan, if they have a phone, could listen to western music like this stuff - http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=367385 Or they could use solar powered radio. Or tapes. Or records.
>>>**AA...just want ALL file sharers to know "we will destroy you". Think about it, if your a normal middle class American, and get stuck with a million dollar fine, how long would it take for you to realistically even pay off a fraction of it? >>>
I'd declare bankruptcy to wipe out the fine. If the courts decided I'm not allowed to wipe the debt, then I'd turn into Jeffrey Dalmer and go track down the CEOs of RIAA, MPAA, et cetera. If I'm already sentenced to a lifelong punishment, what more can they do to me? Nothing.
Access to credit =/= wealth. This is a common misconception. The *appearance* of wealth is not the same as real wealth, as my bankrupt neighbor can attest (he has a mini-mansion but he never owned it - he was putting on a show).
Real wealth is measured by possessions, whether those possessions are paper dollars, bars of gold, or a house. In that sense 22 and younger students are the poorest amongst us. They have very little wealth (not even a home), and many are actually in a negative wealth situation since they owe money to the college or the bank.
In contrast the wealthiest amongst us are typically the elderly who, even if they squandered their savings, typically have $200-300,000 worth of land they are sitting upon, plus a monthly ~$1000 check being drawn from their retirement savings (SSI). College students have virtually nothing, or even less than nothing.
Thanks for reminding us all of this basic fact. Copyright (actually a monopoly privilege granted by government) was intended to protect the owners of printing presses, not for the benefit of authors like Paine or Milton or Shakespeare
>>>So listen up: don't proclaim the 1790 act was "sane"
Last time I checked I'm neither a slave nor a serf, which means my mouth is not your property. And I'm not obligated to follow your orders, creamwobbly. I can say whatever I want, thank you very much, and in MY opinion the original 28 year span was a reasonable length of time. Furthermore...
None of us engineers, programmers, or other laborers get a multi-decade monopoly over our creations.... we get paid an hourly rate, then we get laidoff, and that's it. No more money. I'm not entitled to a lifetime of free cash for a schematic I created at age 25, so why should an artist be entitled to a lifelong cash payment either? Fair treatment dictates they should get an hourly wage same as us engineers/laborers, and that's it. The 28 year monopoly is just a generous extra, and not required.
>>>>>So, in your expert opinion, everyone involved is wrong? >> >>Why not?
Wait. You mean the world is not black-and-white like Glenn Beck and Rachel Maddow have led me to believe??? (Smokes comes out of ears.) BOTH the copyright trolls and the guy selling the songs was wrong? Does not compute. Norman coordinate. Norman coordinate. (thunk)
>>>1 - Not every person on Earth benefits from public domain music.
Strawman argument. I didn't say "every person". I said 6 billion, but the actual population is much higher than that, so I did not include "every" person in my first statement.
>>>1 - Not every person on Earth benefits from public domain music.
This isn't the 1950s. In today's world even isolated tribes have access to solar-powered radios (give by UNESCO and other charitable organizations) so they can access the world's music or news via AM shortwave. Some, like the Amish, may voluntarily choose not to participate in this global culture, but the access is still there if they want it.
>>>2 - The Beatle's copyrights do not funnel every penny made off of sale of their music to the surviving band members.
Thank you for supporting my viewpoint that copyright has been hijacked. It's meant to benefit the originators of the idea, not suits that were not even born when the songs were first created.
>>>You'd be a greater help to the cause of copyright reform that would make that happen by sticking to reality
And you'd be helpful if you stopping this pointless in-fighting. All you are doing is nitpicking my original statement, like a shrew
The $2 million dollar fines that RIAA has imposed upon several college students == a life sentence. That's how long it would take to earn the money to pay it off. So no, the previous poster was neither generalizing or exaggerating.
If we had sane copyright laws (like the original 1790 act with a 28 year limit), the Beatles catalog would be in public domain for the enrichment of all 6,000,000,000 humans, rather than just the 2(?) remaining band members.
This is why I drive a car almost everywhere I go. I haven't flown in an airplane since 9/11 - it was a hassle before and now it's even more so.
I recall when I had to make a business trip from Oklahoma City to Minneapolis. My coworkers thought I was nuts when I said I was taking my car, so we had a kind of race. We both left the office early in the morning, and arrived in Minneapolis at about 7 p.m. that night. There was only half an hour difference. Plus I got $700 reimbursement for "car wear-and-tear" whereas they got nothing. Plus I didn't have to deal with airport stress.
I've driven my car everywhere from Alaska to California to Florida to Nova Scotia.
I just noticed this: "Your subject has negative warrants for arrest and negative prior history. He does have a valid oil land(?) that expires 2014." What the frak? They have a central computer to track all our history, even in foreign states that are 1000 miles away from where we live? Dang.
Other annoyances:
- "Why do you have this money?" - "What's your occupation?" - "It's not a matter of the law." - The Constitution is the law. It specifically forbids this type of detainment unless a judge okays it. - "You're acting like a child." - No he's acting like a liberated person. Slavery ended 150 years ago. Liberated people have no masters and have the right to remain silent. - "I don't have to let you travel." - The U.S. government official is violating the inalienable right to travel freely across the Union of states. (See SCOTUS cases.) - "We'll have to take him down to the station and let the DEA and FBI question him..... we'll find out if you stole this money." - Wow. He's carrying lots of money, so suddenly he's an expected drug dealer or user? We have to involve the DEA??? I guess it's not safe to go on vacation anymore. "What's Campaign for Liberty?" - that's something that doesn't exist anymore
Like I said before rather than play games with these goose-stepping thugs, I'd simply exercise my Miranda rights and shut up. That's what I did when I was detained in Texas. They wanted to search the trunk of my car. I refused. They held me in the cold night air for an hour asking questions and demanding the trunk be opened, and I refused to talk. Finally let me go. It's bullshit that officers think they can detain a guy on vacation and search his trunk without a warrant. (SCOTUS has confirmed they can not.)
Like this guy. By the way, it's not illegal to cash $4700 in cash, nor do you have to answer nosy bastards questions about it, unless they obtain a warrant (signed by an impartial judge), or you are crossing an international border. This poor fellow just wanted to travel from St. Louis to Arlington Virgnia.
I think I would have told these St. Louis police to read me my Miranda Rights, and then exercised my right to remain silent, rather than talk. Bunch of thugs. "It occurs to me that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them." - Indiana Jones father, aka Sean Connery
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>>>the foundation of TFA is that it's possible to change what the customer wants
I'd like to live just long enough to see Comcast suffer a massive collapse into bankruptcy, and the CEO's head placed on a pike. Do you think you can arrange that for me Mr. Morden?
I saw Transformer 2 illegally (downloaded).
It stunk.
Do I still owe $20 to the creator? (MPAA yells out "yes" - I say no. I'm glad I try before I buy.)
>>>"Why would a married man cheat?" It's a valid question, and I bet there are interesting scientific studies that try to address the question.
>>>
How about: "Why do little girls not have breasts?" Or the corollary: "Why do humans have breasts?"
But the Old Testament was nullified by the New Testament - similar to how European nations' sovereignty has been nullified by the Treaty of Lisbon.
(ducks spitball)
BTW why is this posting window only 20 characters wde? This is worse than typing on my Commodore.
They weren't really naked. They were college girls celebrating Spring Break and holding their boobs. (Definitely not virgins but who cares?)
Yes and I've been stopped by them in Texas and my brother in New Hampshire. My brother happily complied (fool), but I refused to let the Texas dipshits search my trunk. They made me stand-around for an hour before finally letting me go. I wasn't crossing an international border, so the stop and attempted-search was unjustified.
>>>he's definitely a paranoid freak to think that those cops would have subjected him to something worse had he admitted that the money was collections from a Republican candidate's rally.
>>>
Oh really? Two weeks before this event, Missouri had announced they would start treating libertarians and constitutionalists as potential terrorists worthy of further investigation.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited
Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective
Writings and Discoveries;"
>>>they base the network capacity on the usage demand, and try to provision only as much as they absolutely have to. This is why ISPs hate Net Neutrality
>>>
Net neutrality has nothing to do with underestimate of user demand. Net neutrality is about ensuring all websites are treated equally (i.e. no extra fees to access youtube, or no discounts to watch att.com). As for estimating demand, I would build 1000 times current capacity, figuring that demand has grown from 50k to 50 meg during the last ten years, and will probably keep growing at that rate upto 2020 at least.
Aside -
Wow. Arab TV doesn't censor much! I'm watching some news program (al-Alam), and they just showed a dead guy's swollen decaying body laying on the mortician's slab. Wow. We'd never see that stuff here on U.S. news
That's what this does: "S.139 would grant an exemption for data that 'was rendered indecipherable through the use of best practices or methods, such as redaction, access controls, or other such mechanisms." It's akin to the Audit the Fed bill was rendered harmless by allowing the federal reserve to black-out names of persons/organizations that received money. It's meaningless.
I honestly don't understand Congresscritters who sell-out like this. Is keeping their job so important that they'd bend to the will of their corporate donaters and ignore their basic "don't be evil" morals?
No I did a "back of the envelope" calculation and figured about 90% of the world's humans have access to music (via phoneline internet, radio, et cetera). Even somebody who lives in a desolate place like Afghanistan, if they have a phone, could listen to western music like this stuff - http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=367385 Or they could use solar powered radio. Or tapes. Or records.
>>>**AA...just want ALL file sharers to know "we will destroy you". Think about it, if your a normal middle class American, and get stuck with a million dollar fine, how long would it take for you to realistically even pay off a fraction of it?
>>>
I'd declare bankruptcy to wipe out the fine. If the courts decided I'm not allowed to wipe the debt, then I'd turn into Jeffrey Dalmer and go track down the CEOs of RIAA, MPAA, et cetera. If I'm already sentenced to a lifelong punishment, what more can they do to me? Nothing.
Access to credit =/= wealth. This is a common misconception. The *appearance* of wealth is not the same as real wealth, as my bankrupt neighbor can attest (he has a mini-mansion but he never owned it - he was putting on a show).
Real wealth is measured by possessions, whether those possessions are paper dollars, bars of gold, or a house. In that sense 22 and younger students are the poorest amongst us. They have very little wealth (not even a home), and many are actually in a negative wealth situation since they owe money to the college or the bank.
In contrast the wealthiest amongst us are typically the elderly who, even if they squandered their savings, typically have $200-300,000 worth of land they are sitting upon, plus a monthly ~$1000 check being drawn from their retirement savings (SSI). College students have virtually nothing, or even less than nothing.
+ 1 .
Thanks for reminding us all of this basic fact. Copyright (actually a monopoly privilege granted by government) was intended to protect the owners of printing presses, not for the benefit of authors like Paine or Milton or Shakespeare
>>>So listen up: don't proclaim the 1790 act was "sane"
Last time I checked I'm neither a slave nor a serf, which means my mouth is not your property. And I'm not obligated to follow your orders, creamwobbly. I can say whatever I want, thank you very much, and in MY opinion the original 28 year span was a reasonable length of time. Furthermore...
None of us engineers, programmers, or other laborers get a multi-decade monopoly over our creations.... we get paid an hourly rate, then we get laidoff, and that's it. No more money. I'm not entitled to a lifetime of free cash for a schematic I created at age 25, so why should an artist be entitled to a lifelong cash payment either? Fair treatment dictates they should get an hourly wage same as us engineers/laborers, and that's it. The 28 year monopoly is just a generous extra, and not required.
>>>>>So, in your expert opinion, everyone involved is wrong?
>>
>>Why not?
Wait. You mean the world is not black-and-white like Glenn Beck and Rachel Maddow have led me to believe??? (Smokes comes out of ears.) BOTH the copyright trolls and the guy selling the songs was wrong? Does not compute. Norman coordinate. Norman coordinate. (thunk)
So if I compress the Beatles music into a 20 kbit/s HE-AAC file, then that should be okay since I'm only preserving ~2% of the original song.
That's fair use? (shrug). Or not. If I did create a radio station or catalog along those lines, it might sound like this: http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=979360
P.S.
>>>1 - Not every person on Earth benefits from public domain music.
Strawman argument. I didn't say "every person". I said 6 billion, but the actual population is much higher than that, so I did not include "every" person in my first statement.
>>>1 - Not every person on Earth benefits from public domain music.
This isn't the 1950s. In today's world even isolated tribes have access to solar-powered radios (give by UNESCO and other charitable organizations) so they can access the world's music or news via AM shortwave. Some, like the Amish, may voluntarily choose not to participate in this global culture, but the access is still there if they want it.
>>>2 - The Beatle's copyrights do not funnel every penny made off of sale of their music to the surviving band members.
Thank you for supporting my viewpoint that copyright has been hijacked. It's meant to benefit the originators of the idea, not suits that were not even born when the songs were first created.
>>>You'd be a greater help to the cause of copyright reform that would make that happen by sticking to reality
And you'd be helpful if you stopping this pointless in-fighting.
All you are doing is nitpicking my original statement,
like a shrew
The $2 million dollar fines that RIAA has imposed upon several college students == a life sentence. That's how long it would take to earn the money to pay it off. So no, the previous poster was neither generalizing or exaggerating.
If we had sane copyright laws (like the original 1790 act with a 28 year limit), the Beatles catalog would be in public domain for the enrichment of all 6,000,000,000 humans, rather than just the 2(?) remaining band members.
This is why I drive a car almost everywhere I go. I haven't flown in an airplane since 9/11 - it was a hassle before and now it's even more so.
I recall when I had to make a business trip from Oklahoma City to Minneapolis. My coworkers thought I was nuts when I said I was taking my car, so we had a kind of race. We both left the office early in the morning, and arrived in Minneapolis at about 7 p.m. that night. There was only half an hour difference. Plus I got $700 reimbursement for "car wear-and-tear" whereas they got nothing. Plus I didn't have to deal with airport stress.
I've driven my car everywhere from Alaska to California to Florida to Nova Scotia.
I just noticed this: "Your subject has negative warrants for arrest and negative prior history. He does have a valid oil land(?) that expires 2014." What the frak? They have a central computer to track all our history, even in foreign states that are 1000 miles away from where we live? Dang.
Other annoyances:
- "Why do you have this money?"
- "What's your occupation?"
- "It's not a matter of the law." - The Constitution is the law. It specifically forbids this type of detainment unless a judge okays it.
- "You're acting like a child." - No he's acting like a liberated person. Slavery ended 150 years ago. Liberated people have no masters and have the right to remain silent.
- "I don't have to let you travel." - The U.S. government official is violating the inalienable right to travel freely across the Union of states. (See SCOTUS cases.)
- "We'll have to take him down to the station and let the DEA and FBI question him..... we'll find out if you stole this money." - Wow. He's carrying lots of money, so suddenly he's an expected drug dealer or user? We have to involve the DEA??? I guess it's not safe to go on vacation anymore.
"What's Campaign for Liberty?" - that's something that doesn't exist anymore
Like I said before rather than play games with these goose-stepping thugs, I'd simply exercise my Miranda rights and shut up. That's what I did when I was detained in Texas. They wanted to search the trunk of my car. I refused. They held me in the cold night air for an hour asking questions and demanding the trunk be opened, and I refused to talk. Finally let me go. It's bullshit that officers think they can detain a guy on vacation and search his trunk without a warrant. (SCOTUS has confirmed they can not.)
Like this guy. By the way, it's not illegal to cash $4700 in cash, nor do you have to answer nosy bastards questions about it, unless they obtain a warrant (signed by an impartial judge), or you are crossing an international border. This poor fellow just wanted to travel from St. Louis to Arlington Virgnia.
edited version- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMB6L487LHM
full recording- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEJpzVPmih0
I think I would have told these St. Louis police to read me my Miranda Rights, and then exercised my right to remain silent, rather than talk. Bunch of thugs. "It occurs to me that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them." - Indiana Jones father, aka Sean Connery
Like this comic: http://alexandersarchive.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/72-virgins-family-guy.jpg Or this photo: http://www.redout.org/members/uploads/72virgins.jpg
Actually I don't care if they've slept with 20,000 men if they all look like this (young and cute) http://www.truthordarepics.com/sexstoryarchive/nakedgirls/images/nakedgirls4.jpg