"However, the text only speaks of "a prior fair and impartial procedure" instead of a prior ruling by the judicial authorities, guaranteed by the original "amendment 138", and contains loopholes and ambiguities. The invalidation of freedom-killer measures such as "three strikes policies" will now depend on interpretation by the European Court of Justice and national courts. Moreover, the text only relates to measures taken by Member States and thereby fails to bar telecom operators and entertainment industries from knocking down the founding principle of Net neutrality."
This is similarly ineffective as going after drug dealers. This addresses the symptoms, but not the underlying causes.
Correct. But, like the war on drugs charade - it may start out with the "good intention" of stopping the undesirable thing, but before long cracking down and policing the controls will take on a life (and more importantly, budget) of its own. Then it does not matter if it is effective or not - as long as it seems to be effective to avoid massive outrage, and funding is continuously made available for those running the show to profit from it. With cracking down on P2P, one of the added extra benefit's for those in power to kick anyone they like off the net without due process - a powerful weapon in the censorship arsenal.
its a victimless crime to you, because you don't give a fuck about the hard work put in by the people who actually get off their asses and create stuff.
I guess you mean those "people" (i.e. Corporations) whose creative contributions are shining beacons of light onto our collective dark and gloomy cultural heritage. How did we ever survive, progress and create without string copyrights with healthy extension periods, strict HADOPI laws, intellectual property policing I will never know.
I disagree - I happen to work for a massive piece of this 'M-I Complex', and we're dying here. All the major aerospace and defense companies are going through a seriously hard time and shedding people or outsourcing like mad.
If it were as simple as this, I wouldn't be looking for work:)
Looks like you missed the parent posters point. You would most likely vote to keep your job in the Military Industrial Complex. Even if you say you would not, and claim to be one of the few that understands the big picture that the MIC is a very bad deal for everyone, it would be a hard stretch to imagine the majority of your suffering co-workers and all other dependent's in your state following your lead.
I doubt America will ever shake the shackles of the MIC - people are too motivated by self interest (as in, I want a Job, thanks), and things have only gone waaay downhill since Eisenhower warned how bad things could get, so its not like nobody didn't see it coming
"Unelected yet holding a raft of political positions, including that of cabinet minister, Mandelson is the TV executive who learned to play both the Labour party and the UK system.
Previously forced out of Blair's cabinet office twice, once for mortgage fraud and once for abusing his power to help chums get passports, Blair nevertheless then gifted Mandelson the job of Britain's European Commissioner for Trade in 2004 where he hob nobbed on yachts with Microsoft executives and Russian oligarths wanting favours, and then inexplicably returned to the UK in 2008 a very rich man.... Who says the public sector doesn't pay?!!
Even the UK citizenship of Mandelson's Brazilian boyfriend stinks of favourtism and misconduct. Reinaldo Avila da Silva came to Britain in 1996 aged 22 on a student visa and was picked up by the then 43 year old Mandelson pretty much on his first night out. Da Silva had no right to British citizenship in 2005, indeed it was apparent that he had overstayed his visa and as such was an illegal immigrant. No worries, a few phone calls from Mandelson and da Silva was safely clutching a shiny new British passport. "
At todays fear of terrorism levels, they are lucky its just job termination - if they had flown over some sensitive and/or military area they could have been shot down... or not?
Even easier with better impact, just give a simple security message that any wrong action on their part can open a security hole - then flash the g'tse image. Your users will not dare to violate your security rules after that, and probably not ever again for the rest of their lives.
What law do they have that says you can't _link_ to copyright material? The *IAA's are celebrating their victories lately... EU Amendment 138 : Killed. Pirate Bay: Offline. Three strikes Laws: Here we come EU, AU,.... Spokesperson for *IAA's overheard saying: "Try route around that damage, Ha!"
> "...labeling it as positive or negative, mixed or neutral." Positive or negative based on who's point of view? How would they rate something like this: "The last president sucked big time - and he's a stooge for oil barons!"
>The military industrial complex will have none of that.
>Not Haliburton, not Texas Instruments, not Lockheed and not the rest.
>These arms makers make too much money to stop making it now.
Your right there. Ex-presidents have warned about it, war heros written books about it but it wont change anytime soon, if ever. No need for assassination these days like you suggest. They only need to do some high profile job lay-off's at a few of the many MIC plants around America, but specifically in the state(s) where the politician(s) are causing problems for the business... voters will set them straight soon after, if they don't fall into line like good little lap-dogs sooner than that.
Yes, because requiring passports to entry countries stops all terrorism and crime.
Exactly. But then creating a fear based "papers please" society was never about stopping crime or terrorism to begin with, anyway. Thats just a convenient for voters to believe so various profitable charades can continue and profits continue to flow in...
lets not for get who is actually behind the MPAA - RIAA, these are the companies that need to be targeted and boycotted into changing their ways, purchase only 2nd hand media and do not purchase anything branded sony, why allow the fecktards to dictate Orwellian hardware DRM designed to take away rights not to stop piracy anymore.
Its not so simple... this is defiantly not just the *AAs that are behind the push to enforce Orwellian DRM, IP etc.. your also fighting the US Gov and associated traditional political power bases. See:The Political Economy of Intellectual Property For a little more on that, but the attitude was summed up by Alan Greenspan in his speech to congress back in 2004:
Going to have to boycott the two major political parties while your at it, it would seem... but there is no Pirate Party here and unlikely to ever be one.
Talking about black holes of information, where did the French secret service get the supposed "evidence" for this supposed list of EU terrorist targets - if there is any? Certainly not off napkin scrawls hidden under the guys bed. Perhaps it was by the normal channels: beating, starving, electrocuting, mauling with dogs then stringing to the roof some Afghan peasant/soldier in a one of the many private corporate run prisons they got set up down there and around the world until he muttered "Mohammad, list of targets, France... lllllhhhhhcccc*gasp*" ?
OR is this story just about yet another Orwellian military/police state shadow organization trying to justify they are not a *big* part of the "let all hate each other" problem?
Fscked if we will ever know, the story in all its lack of credibility is out there now and its purpose served. Slashdot only managed to scape it up, make it even worse on details or open to questions of credibility than it already was to begin with. Journalist bloggers wanting to be taken seriously, indeed.
The original creator will then shut them down (perhaps even instead of demanding royalties) and it seems like the public will dance around the flames of the demolished industry as we celebrate some kind of a victory for IP, all the while dying of cancer and killing one another over dwindling fossil fuels. Our cultural priorities seem truly and heinously misplaced whenever IP is involved.
It seems (to me at least) that a lot of the socially destructive behavior associated with Intellectual Property that your noting, has longer, deeper roots into human physique...
The usual suspects are already against it, regardless of whether the tech is viable or not... and in this case the said usual suspects only have to yell "Nuclear Threat!!" to an already scared population to keep this off your roadways, forever... whether its a valid fear or not
One possible reason: Makes services like Freenet illegal. For example donating disk space and bandwidth to encrypted files where the user-node does not actually know what they are helping to deliver sounds like it would violate being "'clear and conspicuous' about which files are being shared and getting user consent to share them".
"...Member States often use European Union to achieve what can be spelled as âoepolitical launderingâ. The âoeTelecoms Packageâ gives a perfect example of such a deceptive maneuver, aimed at legalizing an european-wide "graduated response" against citizens, and stretching it even deeper as usual. How does it work?..."
I'd love to see open source projects up-to-scratch in comparison with their licensed technology. Got a few OSS projects to launch on top of such a platform...
Valencia, Spain is now the heart of Europe's "Fertility Tourism". When you go there, the streets have a high proportion of couples with asian babies. Valencia has the foremost fertility clinics in Spain, and renowned in all of Europe for their top research facilities like the "Instituto Valenciano de Infertilidad" in Valencia Uni.
Valencian men have amongst the poorest quality sperm in all Spain, possibly Europe.
Valencia also happens to be the focal point of a massive basin where intense agricultural activity takes place, growing among other things, Oranges for Europe. All water tables lead to Valencia.
Now discounting environmental effects and just judging by sterility levels, what _possible_ beneficial effects could outweigh having your population being sterile? Perhaps you mean profits? Please don't say the industry line of "feeding the worlds poor" - rice does that, and pushing genetically modified rice that is "resistant" to disease and needs companies like Monsanto to sell pesticides just to keep it alive and seeds to reproduce is creating a fragile monoculture, destroying poor communities. The world renowned Dr Vandana Shiva can educate you better based on decades of experience.
The QuackWatch report merely confirms that the Certification process (in some countries) is flawed and open to political games. It does not however have anything to do with actual weight of scientific evidence confirming the harmful effects using pesticides on us and the environment. It could even be argued that the Certification political games (in some countries) are just the Pesticide Industries way of damage control against the tide of consumer sentiment turning against their chemically soaked and grown products.
Weight of evidence (WoE) is a phrase used to describe the type of consideration made in a situation where there is uncertainty, and which is used to ascertain whether the evidence or information supporting one side of a cause or argument is greater than that supporting the other side. We all frequently make personal WoE decisions in our daily lives, but more-formal WoE approaches are used in many different kinds of circumstance â" for example, in commercial, educational, health, legal and scientific contexts
The weight of scientific evidence against the use of pesticides is quite frankly, frighting. For a decent condensed summary of many scientific papers from many fields demonstrating the effects of pesticides, (especially on the endocrine system) check out the book/collection of scientific reports Our Stolen Future.
In 1995 worldwide pesticide sales were around 30 billion. Who knows what they are today?
Slashdot Mirror
"However, the text only speaks of "a prior fair and impartial procedure" instead of a prior ruling by the judicial authorities, guaranteed by the original "amendment 138", and contains loopholes and ambiguities. The invalidation of freedom-killer measures such as "three strikes policies" will now depend on interpretation by the European Court of Justice and national courts. Moreover, the text only relates to measures taken by Member States and thereby fails to bar telecom operators and entertainment industries from knocking down the founding principle of Net neutrality."
Hopefully, a Judge.
This is similarly ineffective as going after drug dealers. This addresses the symptoms, but not the underlying causes.
Correct. But, like the war on drugs charade - it may start out with the "good intention" of stopping the undesirable thing, but before long cracking down and policing the controls will take on a life (and more importantly, budget) of its own. Then it does not matter if it is effective or not - as long as it seems to be effective to avoid massive outrage, and funding is continuously made available for those running the show to profit from it. With cracking down on P2P, one of the added extra benefit's for those in power to kick anyone they like off the net without due process - a powerful weapon in the censorship arsenal.
its a victimless crime to you, because you don't give a fuck about the hard work put in by the people who actually get off their asses and create stuff.
I guess you mean those "people" (i.e. Corporations) whose creative contributions are shining beacons of light onto our collective dark and gloomy cultural heritage. How did we ever survive, progress and create without string copyrights with healthy extension periods, strict HADOPI laws, intellectual property policing I will never know.
Fucking pathtic
Indeed.
The M-I C actually was dramatically downsized during...
I don't know where you got that impression? The data looks anything but "dramatic".
Perhaps you mean GDP adjusted/as a percentage of the overall budget.
One would be hard pressed to call that downsizing though (unless your a politician, of course), especially given that much of the funds are just printed up to pay for it all out of our pockets.
I disagree - I happen to work for a massive piece of this 'M-I Complex', and we're dying here. All the major aerospace and defense companies are going through a seriously hard time and shedding people or outsourcing like mad.
If it were as simple as this, I wouldn't be looking for work :)
Looks like you missed the parent posters point. You would most likely vote to keep your job in the Military Industrial Complex. Even if you say you would not, and claim to be one of the few that understands the big picture that the MIC is a very bad deal for everyone, it would be a hard stretch to imagine the majority of your suffering co-workers and all other dependent's in your state following your lead.
I doubt America will ever shake the shackles of the MIC - people are too motivated by self interest (as in, I want a Job, thanks), and things have only gone waaay downhill since Eisenhower warned how bad things could get, so its not like nobody didn't see it coming
but wikipedia is missing some other controversy:
From Lord Mandelson: Whitehall's Emperor, or just a team player?
"Unelected yet holding a raft of political positions, including that of cabinet minister, Mandelson is the TV executive who learned to play both the Labour party and the UK system. Previously forced out of Blair's cabinet office twice, once for mortgage fraud and once for abusing his power to help chums get passports, Blair nevertheless then gifted Mandelson the job of Britain's European Commissioner for Trade in 2004 where he hob nobbed on yachts with Microsoft executives and Russian oligarths wanting favours, and then inexplicably returned to the UK in 2008 a very rich man.... Who says the public sector doesn't pay?!! Even the UK citizenship of Mandelson's Brazilian boyfriend stinks of favourtism and misconduct. Reinaldo Avila da Silva came to Britain in 1996 aged 22 on a student visa and was picked up by the then 43 year old Mandelson pretty much on his first night out. Da Silva had no right to British citizenship in 2005, indeed it was apparent that he had overstayed his visa and as such was an illegal immigrant. No worries, a few phone calls from Mandelson and da Silva was safely clutching a shiny new British passport. "
At todays fear of terrorism levels, they are lucky its just job termination - if they had flown over some sensitive and/or military area they could have been shot down... or not?
Even easier with better impact, just give a simple security message that any wrong action on their part can open a security hole - then flash the g'tse image.
Your users will not dare to violate your security rules after that, and probably not ever again for the rest of their lives.
What law do they have that says you can't _link_ to copyright material? The *IAA's are celebrating their victories lately... EU Amendment 138 : Killed. Pirate Bay: Offline. Three strikes Laws: Here we come EU, AU, .... Spokesperson for *IAA's overheard saying: "Try route around that damage, Ha!"
Swing to the right for Europe meant dropping 138 was just a matter of time: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/parliament/archive/elections2009/en/index_en.html
> "...labeling it as positive or negative, mixed or neutral." Positive or negative based on who's point of view? How would they rate something like this: "The last president sucked big time - and he's a stooge for oil barons!"
>The military industrial complex will have none of that.
>Not Haliburton, not Texas Instruments, not Lockheed and not the rest.
>These arms makers make too much money to stop making it now.
Your right there. Ex-presidents have warned about it, war heros written books about it but it wont change anytime soon, if ever. No need for assassination these days like you suggest. They only need to do some high profile job lay-off's at a few of the many MIC plants around America, but specifically in the state(s) where the politician(s) are causing problems for the business... voters will set them straight soon after, if they don't fall into line like good little lap-dogs sooner than that.
Yes, because requiring passports to entry countries stops all terrorism and crime.
Exactly. But then creating a fear based "papers please" society was never about stopping crime or terrorism to begin with, anyway. Thats just a convenient for voters to believe so various profitable charades can continue and profits continue to flow in...
lets not for get who is actually behind the MPAA - RIAA, these are the companies that need to be targeted and boycotted into changing their ways, purchase only 2nd hand media and do not purchase anything branded sony, why allow the fecktards to dictate Orwellian hardware DRM designed to take away rights not to stop piracy anymore.
Its not so simple... this is defiantly not just the *AAs that are behind the push to enforce Orwellian DRM, IP etc.. your also fighting the US Gov and associated traditional political power bases. See:The Political Economy of Intellectual Property For a little more on that, but the attitude was summed up by Alan Greenspan in his speech to congress back in 2004:
"Unlike physical property, which can be defended by armed enforcement, intellectual property can be stolen by an act 'as simple as broadcasting an idea without the permission of the originator.'" Alan Greenspan
You don't have to dig far to see that the US Gov considers IP to almost be a matter of National Security ("Safeguarding the Nation’s economic infrastructure") PTO is cognizant of its responsibility for providing effective management and stewardship of the Nation’s intellectual property resources by administering the laws related to patents and trademarks, and providing customers with the highest level of quality and services. In doing this, PTO emphasizes timeliness in processing applications and the quality of issued patents and registered trademarks. These high levels of quality and service can be provided only through enhancing our human resources, leveraging information technology, employing better processes and effectively managing resources
Going to have to boycott the two major political parties while your at it, it would seem... but there is no Pirate Party here and unlikely to ever be one.
Talking about black holes of information, where did the French secret service get the supposed "evidence" for this supposed list of EU terrorist targets - if there is any? Certainly not off napkin scrawls hidden under the guys bed. Perhaps it was by the normal channels: beating, starving, electrocuting, mauling with dogs then stringing to the roof some Afghan peasant/soldier in a one of the many private corporate run prisons they got set up down there and around the world until he muttered "Mohammad, list of targets, France... lllllhhhhhcccc*gasp*" ?
OR is this story just about yet another Orwellian military/police state shadow organization trying to justify they are not a *big* part of the "let all hate each other" problem?
Fscked if we will ever know, the story in all its lack of credibility is out there now and its purpose served. Slashdot only managed to scape it up, make it even worse on details or open to questions of credibility than it already was to begin with. Journalist bloggers wanting to be taken seriously, indeed.
The original creator will then shut them down (perhaps even instead of demanding royalties) and it seems like the public will dance around the flames of the demolished industry as we celebrate some kind of a victory for IP, all the while dying of cancer and killing one another over dwindling fossil fuels. Our cultural priorities seem truly and heinously misplaced whenever IP is involved.
It seems (to me at least) that a lot of the socially destructive behavior associated with Intellectual Property that your noting, has longer, deeper roots into human physique...
Envy - Resentment and Justice
Just add a dash of Entitlement and your all to see apparently rational people do very unhonorable things out of spite.
The usual suspects are already against it, regardless of whether the tech is viable or not... and in this case the said usual suspects only have to yell "Nuclear Threat!!" to an already scared population to keep this off your roadways, forever... whether its a valid fear or not
"Elections for the interim National Council of the Pirate Party Australia are now open.
It is a condition of voting that you agree to the Proposed Constitution v 2.1
A list of candidates can be found here"
One possible reason: Makes services like Freenet illegal. For example donating disk space and bandwidth to encrypted files where the user-node does not actually know what they are helping to deliver sounds like it would violate being "'clear and conspicuous' about which files are being shared and getting user consent to share them".
No "Common Carrier" status for P2P nodes here...
Essential Reading:
"...Member States often use European Union to achieve what can be spelled as âoepolitical launderingâ. The âoeTelecoms Packageâ gives a perfect example of such a deceptive maneuver, aimed at legalizing an european-wide "graduated response" against citizens, and stretching it even deeper as usual. How does it work?..."
How French Presidency Hides a Political Laundering Inside EU Telecoms Package
I'd love to see open source projects up-to-scratch in comparison with their licensed technology. Got a few OSS projects to launch on top of such a platform...
Valencia, Spain is now the heart of Europe's "Fertility Tourism". When you go there, the streets have a high proportion of couples with asian babies. Valencia has the foremost fertility clinics in Spain, and renowned in all of Europe for their top research facilities like the "Instituto Valenciano de Infertilidad" in Valencia Uni. Valencian men have amongst the poorest quality sperm in all Spain, possibly Europe. Valencia also happens to be the focal point of a massive basin where intense agricultural activity takes place, growing among other things, Oranges for Europe. All water tables lead to Valencia. Now discounting environmental effects and just judging by sterility levels, what _possible_ beneficial effects could outweigh having your population being sterile? Perhaps you mean profits? Please don't say the industry line of "feeding the worlds poor" - rice does that, and pushing genetically modified rice that is "resistant" to disease and needs companies like Monsanto to sell pesticides just to keep it alive and seeds to reproduce is creating a fragile monoculture, destroying poor communities. The world renowned Dr Vandana Shiva can educate you better based on decades of experience.
The QuackWatch report merely confirms that the Certification process (in some countries) is flawed and open to political games. It does not however have anything to do with actual weight of scientific evidence confirming the harmful effects using pesticides on us and the environment. It could even be argued that the Certification political games (in some countries) are just the Pesticide Industries way of damage control against the tide of consumer sentiment turning against their chemically soaked and grown products.
Weight of evidence (WoE) is a phrase used to describe the type of consideration made in a situation where there is uncertainty, and which is used to ascertain whether the evidence or information supporting one side of a cause or argument is greater than that supporting the other side. We all frequently make personal WoE decisions in our daily lives, but more-formal WoE approaches are used in many different kinds of circumstance â" for example, in commercial, educational, health, legal and scientific contexts
The weight of scientific evidence against the use of pesticides is quite frankly, frighting. For a decent condensed summary of many scientific papers from many fields demonstrating the effects of pesticides, (especially on the endocrine system) check out the book/collection of scientific reports Our Stolen Future. In 1995 worldwide pesticide sales were around 30 billion. Who knows what they are today?