Who the hell cares??!! You didn't read a word I said. You could've had Lieberman.. every bit the same, if not worse. You are arguing about a ventriloquist's dummy, a sockpuppet.
Pure shtick.. DRM is the response to liberating technology that frees the artist of the gatekeepers' toll booth. Consumer equipment is crippled in order extort the creators with exorbitantly priced "pro" gear. The "piracy" thing is to get public sympathy.
Nonetheless, I'll probably have to vote for him because the other side...
First off, get over this "other side" BS. There is no "other side". Do you think that the people who fix these elections are going to let some fool fuck things up for them? No, the government will keep on doing what it always does no matter who occupies the office. You don't have to vote for anybody. You're supposed to vote for the person you think is best for the job.
In cozy relationships like this, yes, it frequently is a problem. It is one of the main reasons so few companies control such a vast market and become "too big to fail". The regulations are designed by lobbyists to lock out the competition, creating artificial scarcity and high prices.
Then the idea makes even more sense. Could be the intention. So then make the tax somehow proportional to the price. That should let "free" off the hook. It's bullshit. The whole thing is just designed to featherbed another bureaucracy with... former Apple/Microsoft/Google/Oracle executives.
Regulatory capture is already a major problem in the agriculture, chemical, and energy, amongst many other industries. We don't need any more of it here.
Of course you are my bright little star, I've miles and miles of files Pretty files of your forefather's fruit and now to suit our great computer, You're magnetic ink.
That's the press talking. If he doesn't grant an interview, they get all pissed off and start making shit up to try to make him come out and deny, or whatever. Old trick.
?? How 'bout simply removing all power? Why should any group have it over any other? Your assumptions seem to project your preconceptions upon me. Most heinous!
It gives a "private organization" too much authority over the rest of us. Not always directly, but through the use of things like collusion and intimidation. And it let's them dictate to our legislators the regulations we all must live under. So now we have indefinite copyright, absurd obscenity law, ongoing prohibition, a smothering bureaucracy, war, etc etc etc...
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Fuck da po lice !!
Can't the rumor mill get anything right?
So this revolt, if successful, would create a leaderless state.
That's the best kind...
So, anyone else have ideas for something useful to put over there?
Idle videos.. Oh, useful? traffic and weather on the eights...
Just narrow your browser so you can get to your desktop a little easier
You wouldn't know it wading through the journal section...
Who the hell cares??!! You didn't read a word I said. You could've had Lieberman.. every bit the same, if not worse. You are arguing about a ventriloquist's dummy, a sockpuppet.
DRM was a response to piracy.
Pure shtick.. DRM is the response to liberating technology that frees the artist of the gatekeepers' toll booth. Consumer equipment is crippled in order extort the creators with exorbitantly priced "pro" gear. The "piracy" thing is to get public sympathy.
Nonetheless, I'll probably have to vote for him because the other side...
First off, get over this "other side" BS. There is no "other side". Do you think that the people who fix these elections are going to let some fool fuck things up for them? No, the government will keep on doing what it always does no matter who occupies the office. You don't have to vote for anybody. You're supposed to vote for the person you think is best for the job.
In cozy relationships like this, yes, it frequently is a problem. It is one of the main reasons so few companies control such a vast market and become "too big to fail". The regulations are designed by lobbyists to lock out the competition, creating artificial scarcity and high prices.
A tax like this could kill Free software.
Then the idea makes even more sense. Could be the intention. So then make the tax somehow proportional to the price. That should let "free" off the hook. It's bullshit. The whole thing is just designed to featherbed another bureaucracy with... former Apple/Microsoft/Google/Oracle executives.
Regulatory capture is already a major problem in the agriculture, chemical, and energy, amongst many other industries. We don't need any more of it here.
I shouldn't consider it as a "takeover" by either. They are a team. One is muscle for the other.
As private industry becomes the next government, more overtly as time goes on..
Let's try to stay on topic here, okay?
Now all I have to do is track all the "do not track" headers.
Everything is a meme, and everybody is an avatar.
Of course you are my bright little star,
I've miles and miles of files
Pretty files of your forefather's fruit
and now to suit
our great computer,
You're magnetic ink.
Engineering is the same as art, only without the aesthetics
"Facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
Why do so many people think he has a big ego?
That's the press talking. If he doesn't grant an interview, they get all pissed off and start making shit up to try to make him come out and deny, or whatever. Old trick.
his incredibly extensive depth of knowledge..thought-provoking thriller..
OMG! Who wrote this summary?? Had to come from the man himself..They should know that turning the hype up to 11 leaves no head room.
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the fucking plain
If you outlaw outlaws, only outlaws will be outlaws..
No really. If it's after the fact, no... Cease fire when they do.
?? How 'bout simply removing all power? Why should any group have it over any other? Your assumptions seem to project your preconceptions upon me. Most heinous!
It gives a "private organization" too much authority over the rest of us. Not always directly, but through the use of things like collusion and intimidation. And it let's them dictate to our legislators the regulations we all must live under. So now we have indefinite copyright, absurd obscenity law, ongoing prohibition, a smothering bureaucracy, war, etc etc etc...