But the population doesn't do anything about it. Boycott air travel and stop voting for congressmen that support things like the Patriot act. I am doing both.
1. Elbonia isnt real. 2. There were more damning things than "muddy boots". Its not on the level of the pentagon papers, but its still some stuff that isnt good. The government is supposed to represent the people of the US to other nations, but they don't as proven by many of the leaks. 3. My point is the US government is a bloated corrupt plutocracy. Not that the Wikileaks is doing an awesome job of sticking it to the man.
Im not suggesting that. It be more effective to get people involved in a boycott of Visa and Mastercard. Some people can survive only on cash in their wallet for a few months (by that I mean they take it out of the bank when they need it rather than use a Visa or Mastercard).
I'm left to ask: Why Wikileaks? Why not fight for the stack of equally as good social causes and try to stop the mountain of injustice we have? Oh, yeah, cuz this is the hot topic du jour.
The US government is perpetrating quite a lot of the social injustices these days IMHO.
I don't know about that. I think certain people in the government are just waiting for something like this to happen to help convince the 80 percent of the US that are morons its time to "stop the cyber-terrorists". Then its unique ID's on the internet, centralized and monitored network hubs, ect. Maybe Im being a tin-foil hat nut but I don't have alot of faith in the US population that allows themselves to be duped into the Patriot act and TSA gropings.
.... and this guy wouldn't need to sue Rockstar because he would own various illegal businesses and have a slew of properties and vehicles. He would simply go blow up Rockstar's HQ out of principal.
Ahh! But SOME people who work in their garage are master carpenters or craftsmen. Its just too ambiguous and is based on opinion. Its better to err on the side of caution in regard to constitutional rights, IMO, and protect the right of people to disseminate information. Granted, this is all a moot point because Assange isn't protected by our government to this right since he is not a US citizen. I applaud Wikileaks exposing of corruption when they actually publish stuff from banks/corrupt officials/insurance, but some things they do seem to color their agenda as more anti-US than actually beneficial to global society.
I have a job, it pays crap. Way less than poverty for a single person. Im a Research assistant for a computational bioscience lab at a tier-one research university. This being the case, my tuition is paid for. I have to pay for my own books as well as university fees. I cannot survive without government loans, especially since they made me sign a form stating it is grounds for termination if I get a second job. Ive had one anyway at times, but its hard to get a job when you don't have 4 years of experience in this economy. Believe me, Ive looked for tutoring jobs, to programming, to IT (basically the stuff I can do). I have a 3.7 GPA, a bachelors degree, and a modest apartment. Yeah, I could have done the Military, however I disagree with all the wars being fought, so its against my principals. Its not as easy as you make it sound.
Yeah, I realize there is a difference in terminology. However, at one point it was extremely controversial to use such an assumption without proof. There is some discussion of ways to prove it using a different set of axioms and whether or not it can be proven or disproven or neither. How could one prove the Axiom of Choice?
In my opinion, the US doesn't have a whole lot to offer these days for lower level academics or grad level research. I love my home country and all, but as far as science goes, its all supporting the military and DHS. Additionally, you get paid crappy for doing it unless your an administrator or professor of some kind. To top it off, you get over-priced or crappy health care and you get indebted to the government for most of your life if you choose to go to college and happen to be one of the people that don't have family money.
I can't tell if he meant the theory that "no finite and complete set of axioms exists" or he just made something up. Either way I guess, the former case has been proven. Goedels Incompleteness Theorem.
A journalist collects and disseminates information about current events, people, trends, and issues. So you are not a journalist if you blog about your personal life or write a diary, but you are if you disseminate information on issues to the public through a webpage, magazines or newspaper.
Do some research on the shuttle program and then post again. NASA never received the requested budget for the shuttle program, hence the reason it sucked so bad. One fallout of lack of funding was that they used segmented booster rockets to save money, but that ended up being part of the reason for the Challenger disaster. I don't disagree that there may be waste in bureaucracies, but the DoD, and DHS are absolute textbook definitions of wasteful bureaucracies and they collectively get about 40 times the budget of NASA.
Typically, the record industry companies do keep rights to the musicians music. The contract may state the musician gets to perform it at any time, and that they get a percentage of each sale, but overall the record industry gets to decide when and where to release the music, and who gets to use it at what price. As an artist gets more popularity, like Elton John or Ray Charles, they can demand that their music copyrights are theirs just because a record company would be stupid not to cater to them. As far as new bands are concerned, its not uncommon for them to get ripped off.
Even so, you should only be liable for the damages you actually caused. I.e. how many people directly downloaded it from you times the cost of the work maybe with an additional small multiplier for penalizing the person and of course the court fees. An example would be 99 cents per song X 50 people that downloaded it X 2 penalty + Court costs. Getting hit with million dollar penalties is ridiculous. Its not right to illegally acquire media, but its also not right to hold onto copyrights for hundreds of years. It ends up generally screwing the artist over more than anyone else since these copyrights are usually held by big business. The state of the industry uses its employees (artists) and muscles its own consumers around. Its just god awful business practices, but its essentially an oligopoly so theres not much we can do about it short of listen to crappy indie music.
I wouldn't call conspiracy theories out of control on the internet. Mostly you have a bunch of fringe whack jobs making poorly designed webpages with their old ass computers and frontpage.
Im not saying its not possible they will kill him, its just stupid if they do it. I bet there are already people in government debating your side of it and debating my side of it. My side, I firmly believe, is more rational. Just discredit the dude and be done with it. Frame him, dig up dirt on his personal life, whatever. Killing him would give people like me one more reason to become disenfranchised, and I already have too many. People will only take so much before there is a full on revolution and anything that looks like assassination will just take things closer to that. People may be cowards but eventually enough people get pissed off and do something about it. Right now we have a disparity in wealth, lack of employment, and a police state. Once people can't afford food and get tired of being arrested for questioning their government, there will be home born "terrorists". Perhaps after 10 years Assange will be a blip on the map, but they can't continue pulling all the shit they have been over the last 5 years and get away with it indefinitely.
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But the population doesn't do anything about it. Boycott air travel and stop voting for congressmen that support things like the Patriot act. I am doing both.
1. Elbonia isnt real. 2. There were more damning things than "muddy boots". Its not on the level of the pentagon papers, but its still some stuff that isnt good. The government is supposed to represent the people of the US to other nations, but they don't as proven by many of the leaks. 3. My point is the US government is a bloated corrupt plutocracy. Not that the Wikileaks is doing an awesome job of sticking it to the man.
Im not suggesting that. It be more effective to get people involved in a boycott of Visa and Mastercard. Some people can survive only on cash in their wallet for a few months (by that I mean they take it out of the bank when they need it rather than use a Visa or Mastercard).
I'm left to ask: Why Wikileaks? Why not fight for the stack of equally as good social causes and try to stop the mountain of injustice we have? Oh, yeah, cuz this is the hot topic du jour.
The US government is perpetrating quite a lot of the social injustices these days IMHO.
I don't know about that. I think certain people in the government are just waiting for something like this to happen to help convince the 80 percent of the US that are morons its time to "stop the cyber-terrorists". Then its unique ID's on the internet, centralized and monitored network hubs, ect. Maybe Im being a tin-foil hat nut but I don't have alot of faith in the US population that allows themselves to be duped into the Patriot act and TSA gropings.
The US government now has another excuse for an internet-wide crackdown. Thanks assholes.
.... and this guy wouldn't need to sue Rockstar because he would own various illegal businesses and have a slew of properties and vehicles. He would simply go blow up Rockstar's HQ out of principal.
Ahh! But SOME people who work in their garage are master carpenters or craftsmen. Its just too ambiguous and is based on opinion. Its better to err on the side of caution in regard to constitutional rights, IMO, and protect the right of people to disseminate information. Granted, this is all a moot point because Assange isn't protected by our government to this right since he is not a US citizen. I applaud Wikileaks exposing of corruption when they actually publish stuff from banks/corrupt officials/insurance, but some things they do seem to color their agenda as more anti-US than actually beneficial to global society.
And drive-by's, theft, theft of automobiles, conspiracy, illegal weapon possession, random mass pedestrian hit-and-runs......
So if you do woodworking in your garage you aren't a woodworker, but if you do it on a factory floor you are?
I have a job, it pays crap. Way less than poverty for a single person. Im a Research assistant for a computational bioscience lab at a tier-one research university. This being the case, my tuition is paid for. I have to pay for my own books as well as university fees. I cannot survive without government loans, especially since they made me sign a form stating it is grounds for termination if I get a second job. Ive had one anyway at times, but its hard to get a job when you don't have 4 years of experience in this economy. Believe me, Ive looked for tutoring jobs, to programming, to IT (basically the stuff I can do). I have a 3.7 GPA, a bachelors degree, and a modest apartment. Yeah, I could have done the Military, however I disagree with all the wars being fought, so its against my principals. Its not as easy as you make it sound.
Yeah, I realize there is a difference in terminology. However, at one point it was extremely controversial to use such an assumption without proof. There is some discussion of ways to prove it using a different set of axioms and whether or not it can be proven or disproven or neither. How could one prove the Axiom of Choice?
Just label Assange a terrorist and then we can go bomb Australia.
Hitler would have allied with the US if the US wanted it.
In my opinion, the US doesn't have a whole lot to offer these days for lower level academics or grad level research. I love my home country and all, but as far as science goes, its all supporting the military and DHS. Additionally, you get paid crappy for doing it unless your an administrator or professor of some kind. To top it off, you get over-priced or crappy health care and you get indebted to the government for most of your life if you choose to go to college and happen to be one of the people that don't have family money.
I can't tell if he meant the theory that "no finite and complete set of axioms exists" or he just made something up. Either way I guess, the former case has been proven. Goedels Incompleteness Theorem.
Axiom of Choice?
A journalist collects and disseminates information about current events, people, trends, and issues. So you are not a journalist if you blog about your personal life or write a diary, but you are if you disseminate information on issues to the public through a webpage, magazines or newspaper.
Its rather ironic to hold an international "Freedom day" when you are actively trying to find ways to silence and incarcerate journalists.
Do some research on the shuttle program and then post again. NASA never received the requested budget for the shuttle program, hence the reason it sucked so bad. One fallout of lack of funding was that they used segmented booster rockets to save money, but that ended up being part of the reason for the Challenger disaster. I don't disagree that there may be waste in bureaucracies, but the DoD, and DHS are absolute textbook definitions of wasteful bureaucracies and they collectively get about 40 times the budget of NASA.
Typically, the record industry companies do keep rights to the musicians music. The contract may state the musician gets to perform it at any time, and that they get a percentage of each sale, but overall the record industry gets to decide when and where to release the music, and who gets to use it at what price. As an artist gets more popularity, like Elton John or Ray Charles, they can demand that their music copyrights are theirs just because a record company would be stupid not to cater to them. As far as new bands are concerned, its not uncommon for them to get ripped off.
Even so, you should only be liable for the damages you actually caused. I.e. how many people directly downloaded it from you times the cost of the work maybe with an additional small multiplier for penalizing the person and of course the court fees. An example would be 99 cents per song X 50 people that downloaded it X 2 penalty + Court costs. Getting hit with million dollar penalties is ridiculous. Its not right to illegally acquire media, but its also not right to hold onto copyrights for hundreds of years. It ends up generally screwing the artist over more than anyone else since these copyrights are usually held by big business. The state of the industry uses its employees (artists) and muscles its own consumers around. Its just god awful business practices, but its essentially an oligopoly so theres not much we can do about it short of listen to crappy indie music.
I wouldn't call conspiracy theories out of control on the internet. Mostly you have a bunch of fringe whack jobs making poorly designed webpages with their old ass computers and frontpage.
Agreed. Or just invest in bomb sniffing dogs and facial recognition research.
Im not saying its not possible they will kill him, its just stupid if they do it. I bet there are already people in government debating your side of it and debating my side of it. My side, I firmly believe, is more rational. Just discredit the dude and be done with it. Frame him, dig up dirt on his personal life, whatever. Killing him would give people like me one more reason to become disenfranchised, and I already have too many. People will only take so much before there is a full on revolution and anything that looks like assassination will just take things closer to that. People may be cowards but eventually enough people get pissed off and do something about it. Right now we have a disparity in wealth, lack of employment, and a police state. Once people can't afford food and get tired of being arrested for questioning their government, there will be home born "terrorists". Perhaps after 10 years Assange will be a blip on the map, but they can't continue pulling all the shit they have been over the last 5 years and get away with it indefinitely.