Powerpoint is a tool of the business world based on the premise that if you can't dazzle with brilliance you should baffle with bulls*it. It has little if any value in an educational setting.
Perhaps they should load the cargo bay with pallets of $100 bills. Dropping those on the enemy might be cheaper and more destructive than dropping bombs. Of course the defense industry would complain that the dept. of engraving and printing was getting a no bid contract on munitions.
I'm not saying we shouldn't fight this, I'm saying that this will be a long drawn out fight and we should expect to end up on the ' right' side rather than on the ' winning' side.
Even with the uproar about bills, ACTA will become the law of the land still.
If you sit on your duff and do nothing about it? Sure. Or you could make some phone calls like we did against SOPA and maybe we can chalk up another win for the good guys.
The media companies are tenacious. They will get some of what they want added to the Babies and Puppies Protection Act of 2012. The will get some of it added to the God Bless War Vets Act of 2013. Before you know it they will have everything they wanted in SOPA and more. Get ready for tax increases necessary for all the new prisons needed to house copyright infringers in.
Not really irony. They simply know where the slippery slope leads. Americans have forgotten why tyranny is bad.
I remember when the Iron Curtain fell. I remember Regan talking about the evils of the East German secret police and hour such things could never happen in America. Look how far we've fallen in less than 30 years.
The US federal debt is going to ensure that this never happens. Not this side of 2050. Not even if the Chinese start making concrete plans to do the same.
I think his proposal called for Mitt Romney paying for it.
The use of terms like "MAFIAA" is as juvenile and distracting as the "Micro$oft" terminology of years past. It dilutes a solid argument and isn't needed.
Not to mention that it is insulting to the mafia to lump them in with the music and movie industries. By comparison extortionists, murderers, drug traffickers and pimps are much more respectable than the MPAA/RIAA.
Which means that the $100M spent on Android lawsuits accounts for just over 0.1% of their current cash (equivalent) reserves. Barely a blip on the quarterly report.
He's got a nice cushy job as an MPAA lobbyist waiting for him when he leaves office so don't feel too bad for him if he gets kicked out of office out looses the next election.
"Yes the picture did gross $784 Million, but after production, distribution, marketing, promotional activities, etc, etc, etc, we lost money on the picture, which is why you are not getting a 5% of Net, because there is none. By the way, are you available for the Sequel?'.
Any Hollywood contract would have contractually obligated you to the sequel.
Murdoch* et al. will point at it as, "See! This kind of thing is killing American business!"
The other side will say, "Doh. You used what legal muscle you already had, which is already abusive."
* If you didn't see him squirm on Twitter yesterday, you're missing out.
I first saw this on fox news (link from google news, I wouldn't normally go there.) The article had so much pro-SOPA spin on it I got dizzy just reading it.
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Powerpoint is a tool of the business world based on the premise that if you can't dazzle with brilliance you should baffle with bulls*it. It has little if any value in an educational setting.
Perhaps they should load the cargo bay with pallets of $100 bills. Dropping those on the enemy might be cheaper and more destructive than dropping bombs. Of course the defense industry would complain that the dept. of engraving and printing was getting a no bid contract on munitions.
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws.
Loss of sale = piracy. (of you are a MPAA/RIAA member)
I'm not saying we shouldn't fight this, I'm saying that this will be a long drawn out fight and we should expect to end up on the ' right' side rather than on the ' winning' side.
Even with the uproar about bills, ACTA will become the law of the land still.
If you sit on your duff and do nothing about it? Sure. Or you could make some phone calls like we did against SOPA and maybe we can chalk up another win for the good guys.
The media companies are tenacious. They will get some of what they want added to the Babies and Puppies Protection Act of 2012. The will get some of it added to the God Bless War Vets Act of 2013. Before you know it they will have everything they wanted in SOPA and more. Get ready for tax increases necessary for all the new prisons needed to house copyright infringers in.
"A laser is coherent light? So it talks?"
More intelligently than many of the threads on Slashdot.
Not really irony. They simply know where the slippery slope leads. Americans have forgotten why tyranny is bad.
I remember when the Iron Curtain fell. I remember Regan talking about the evils of the East German secret police and hour such things could never happen in America. Look how far we've fallen in less than 30 years.
Yes, we should put private enterprise in charge of our roads and highways. Won't travel be more fun when every road is a toll road.
The US federal debt is going to ensure that this never happens. Not this side of 2050. Not even if the Chinese start making concrete plans to do the same.
I think his proposal called for Mitt Romney paying for it.
I guess I'm going to jail for doing my phone do I could remove the $diety damned facebook app.
This is HP we're talking about. The US version of shoot-yourself-in-the-foot RIM.
And HP CEOs trend to be as incompetent as both RIM CEOs put together.
The use of terms like "MAFIAA" is as juvenile and distracting as the "Micro$oft" terminology of years past. It dilutes a solid argument and isn't needed.
Not to mention that it is insulting to the mafia to lump them in with the music and movie industries. By comparison extortionists, murderers, drug traffickers and pimps are much more respectable than the MPAA/RIAA.
All they need to do now is make it fly.
Apple now has $96 billion in cash/equivalents.
Which means that the $100M spent on Android lawsuits accounts for just over 0.1% of their current cash (equivalent) reserves. Barely a blip on the quarterly report.
When he leaves office?
Pay attention much?
The way things are going it's only a matter of time before one can legally be both.
Exactly! Doing something once and getting paid a hundred million times for it is a loophole in our system and it desperately needs to be fixed.
Why?
It's called "The Golden Rule". He who has the gold makes the rules.
He's got a nice cushy job as an MPAA lobbyist waiting for him when he leaves office so don't feel too bad for him if he gets kicked out of office out looses the next election.
Early reviewers say that the result is worse than the original, but much better than the Special Edition.
So, Han and Greedo shoot at the same time?
So, will some TSA "agent" lose their job or is Rand Paul not big enough fish to throw that kind of weight around?
Even if he isn't, his dad probably is.
Yes they do, but only for serious crimes. If abused too often, the US will lose its credibility.
Is there any crime more serious in the eyes of out government's big media overlords than copyright infringement?
"Yes the picture did gross $784 Million, but after production, distribution, marketing, promotional activities, etc, etc, etc, we lost money on the picture, which is why you are not getting a 5% of Net, because there is none. By the way, are you available for the Sequel?'.
Any Hollywood contract would have contractually obligated you to the sequel.
It'll all be in the spin.
Murdoch* et al. will point at it as, "See! This kind of thing is killing American business!"
The other side will say, "Doh. You used what legal muscle you already had, which is already abusive."
* If you didn't see him squirm on Twitter yesterday, you're missing out.
I first saw this on fox news (link from google news, I wouldn't normally go there.) The article had so much pro-SOPA spin on it I got dizzy just reading it.
They will still get deals where required books are overpriced and rereleased.
And DRMed so they self-destruct at the end of the semester.
How is this modded funny? It should be "sad but true"