Having been in the military and know friends still in it, there is America and there is the Government. You serve the later versus foreign enemies, your serve the former at all times.
Most of the time, when the military is serving the government versus foreign enemies, they're not serving America at all.
'Legally speaking' the judge can hold you in civil contempt if they believe you know the password and refuse to disclose it.
Exactly. Judges have almost no oversight in their ability to use civil contempt. If he doesn't like you, he can throw you in jail for as long as he likes and you have no recourse.
This is a problem, whether we're talking about encryption or baggy pants in court. Jugdes have way too much power. Civil contempt is an end run around our constitutional protections and should be abolished.
Dists definitely need to have focus. Every dist should pick one desktop experience and core set of apps and stick with it through thick and thin.
Counterexample: Debian. It can be anything you want it to be, from a router, to a desktop, to an HTPC, to a supercomputer. and it's damn good at it too.
What's your point? That vinyl is a better medium than CD, or that mastering practices were better 30 years ago? You're arguing the latter, we're arguing the former.
Vinyl for home listening as it has superior sound quality
I suspect you've been blasted on this already, but this is absolutely false. Vinyl has a higher noise floor and the sampling rate of digital audio is above the limit of human perception. If you're perceiving a difference, it's because of the mastering of the recordings. That or the placebo effect.
Funny how my mac using artist girlfriend has no problems whatsoever with that "usability nightmare". Since she discovered it (on her own, no software evangelism in this household), she regularly comments on how awful the internet is when she has to use it without NoScript. THAT is the real usability nightmare.
Agreed regarding semi-totalitarian states like China or Iran.
There, but for Voltaire, go we. Freedom is not an end state. You can't just go "ok, we're free now, we dont' need freedom of speech anymore". If you can't exercise your free speech rights during good times, how can you expect to keep them when times are bad?
Nowadays the opposition in western and western-oriented countries usually doesn't get crushed about issues of free speech
Did you miss the Occupy protests this fall? They were crushed by the police. Did you miss the Gasland director being arrested for recording an open, public, session of Congress? Did you miss the US dropping 27 positions on the Free Press Index?
The price of freedom is eternal vigilence. We forgot this lesson in the US, and are in the process of losing our freedom. It will take another bloody revolution to get it back. Whatever country you're from, please stay vigilant.
Nowadays it's obvious that smoking is bad for you. 60 years ago, some doctors and scientists said it was good for you. It took a long time to change the official attitude to tobacco, and even longer to change the public attitude, because smokers and corporations resisted change at every step, insisting that smoking was a right and an essential freedom.
Smoking is a harmless personal choice. It doesn't harm anyone but the person smoking it. Everything we know about prohibition from the past tells us that it will increase the social harm that comes from tobacco.
Maybe it will side with the authorities for doing their best to protect people from making bad choices.
Look at our history. Can we name a single atrocity that occured because the authorities weren't authoritarian enough? It's impossible, because when people harm themselves it's not an atrocity. It's freedom.
I sympathise with your statement, but a government or a state has the duty to ensure the safety and freedom of all citizens and non-citizens who live in their area of control. Incitement to hatred or crime is such a danger and thus the government has to act and limit those actions of speech.
If you give the government the ability to define what sort of incitement to hatred is acceptable, they will accept hatred of the opposing political parties. This sort of interference in the democratic process is a much MUCH bigger danger than individuals.
I am aware of that, I just think that there are limits to what is tolerable to discuss in order to have a worthwhile discussion or discourse, based on historical experience and the western "unalienable rights".
Historical experience tells us that any attempt to shut down discussion will be abused. If we allow the government to set limits, they will set the limits in a way that benefits the government, and not the people. Therefore, there must be no limits.
I won't defend somebody who says "kill $foo" and there will be a better world.
So all those who called for the death of Osama Bin Laden should have gone to jail for that?
So to avoid to "build world" again like after WWII, we shut down the threat to freedom.
If we ever have another world war, it will be because of too much censorship, not too little.
Yes, piracy would still be possible and would still exist, much as counterfeit goods are available today.. but really, is it a problem when the real thing is available legally and cheaply?
"The real thing" would not be available legally and cheaply under a, e.g., 5 year copyright term. Because "the real thing" are the newly released items. That's where the demand is highest.
If I want to see the new series of Doctor Who, what am I going to do? Am I going to wait 5 years for it to be legal for me to download, or am I going to straight to The Pirate Bay?
That feeling has, thankfully, gone the way of the dinosaurs but we still have similar laws.
That's the problem. We need to look at our history, examine all the horrible injustices of the past, and figure out what the common theme is. Then we can look for that theme in our current society.
His point is that copying is communication. You cannot communicate information without copying it. And therefore, you cannot prohibit copying without damaging our ability to communicate.
Nader voters in Florida handed the 2000 election to Bush
By the same token, Gore voters in Florida handed the 2000 election to Bush.
Make no mistake: the coming election is a choice between Tea Party-style kakistocracy, and the center.
This is exactly the kind of good cop/bad cop rhetoric they rely on to keep you voting for one of their guys.
If you think voting Green in 2012 will accomplish anything other than to give the USA entirely to the Repugnicans for the next four years,
The Republicans have the country already. There's no difference between an Obama administration and a Romney administration. And you KNOW this is true because:
because Nixon's advice to Reagan still holds: "Run as hard to the right as you can, until you get the nomination. Then run as hard to the center as you can until the election.")
Shortening copyright to 10 years won't change anything about the economics of pirating. People will still desire newly released works. It will still be easier to get these works through piracy. Therefore, there will still be tremendous amounts of piracy.
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Having been in the military and know friends still in it, there is America and there is the Government. You serve the later versus foreign enemies, your serve the former at all times.
Most of the time, when the military is serving the government versus foreign enemies, they're not serving America at all.
Do you really think it costs that much to run a software repository? Come on.
on the other hand that you have to cooperate in searches - which this woman is refusing to do.
No, she is refusing to testify against herself.
'Legally speaking' the judge can hold you in civil contempt if they believe you know the password and refuse to disclose it.
Exactly. Judges have almost no oversight in their ability to use civil contempt. If he doesn't like you, he can throw you in jail for as long as he likes and you have no recourse.
This is a problem, whether we're talking about encryption or baggy pants in court. Jugdes have way too much power. Civil contempt is an end run around our constitutional protections and should be abolished.
Dists definitely need to have focus. Every dist should pick one desktop experience and core set of apps and stick with it through thick and thin.
Counterexample: Debian. It can be anything you want it to be, from a router, to a desktop, to an HTPC, to a supercomputer. and it's damn good at it too.
What's your point? That vinyl is a better medium than CD, or that mastering practices were better 30 years ago? You're arguing the latter, we're arguing the former.
If you can't ABX it, it does mean it doesn't have effects on your perception of the audible portion of the sound.
Yes, information is lost. But that information is beyond the limit of human hearing.
Vinyl for home listening as it has superior sound quality
I suspect you've been blasted on this already, but this is absolutely false. Vinyl has a higher noise floor and the sampling rate of digital audio is above the limit of human perception. If you're perceiving a difference, it's because of the mastering of the recordings. That or the placebo effect.
Funny how my mac using artist girlfriend has no problems whatsoever with that "usability nightmare". Since she discovered it (on her own, no software evangelism in this household), she regularly comments on how awful the internet is when she has to use it without NoScript. THAT is the real usability nightmare.
Agreed regarding semi-totalitarian states like China or Iran.
There, but for Voltaire, go we. Freedom is not an end state. You can't just go "ok, we're free now, we dont' need freedom of speech anymore". If you can't exercise your free speech rights during good times, how can you expect to keep them when times are bad?
Nowadays the opposition in western and western-oriented countries usually doesn't get crushed about issues of free speech
Did you miss the Occupy protests this fall? They were crushed by the police. Did you miss the Gasland director being arrested for recording an open, public, session of Congress? Did you miss the US dropping 27 positions on the Free Press Index?
The price of freedom is eternal vigilence. We forgot this lesson in the US, and are in the process of losing our freedom. It will take another bloody revolution to get it back. Whatever country you're from, please stay vigilant.
Nowadays it's obvious that smoking is bad for you. 60 years ago, some doctors and scientists said it was good for you. It took a long time to change the official attitude to tobacco, and even longer to change the public attitude, because smokers and corporations resisted change at every step, insisting that smoking was a right and an essential freedom.
Smoking is a harmless personal choice. It doesn't harm anyone but the person smoking it. Everything we know about prohibition from the past tells us that it will increase the social harm that comes from tobacco.
Maybe it will side with the authorities for doing their best to protect people from making bad choices.
Look at our history. Can we name a single atrocity that occured because the authorities weren't authoritarian enough? It's impossible, because when people harm themselves it's not an atrocity. It's freedom.
Why are you not using NoScript?
I sympathise with your statement, but a government or a state has the duty to ensure the safety and freedom of all citizens and non-citizens who live in their area of control. Incitement to hatred or crime is such a danger and thus the government has to act and limit those actions of speech.
If you give the government the ability to define what sort of incitement to hatred is acceptable, they will accept hatred of the opposing political parties. This sort of interference in the democratic process is a much MUCH bigger danger than individuals.
I am aware of that, I just think that there are limits to what is tolerable to discuss in order to have a worthwhile discussion or discourse, based on historical experience and the western "unalienable rights".
Historical experience tells us that any attempt to shut down discussion will be abused. If we allow the government to set limits, they will set the limits in a way that benefits the government, and not the people. Therefore, there must be no limits.
I won't defend somebody who says "kill $foo" and there will be a better world.
So all those who called for the death of Osama Bin Laden should have gone to jail for that?
So to avoid to "build world" again like after WWII, we shut down the threat to freedom.
If we ever have another world war, it will be because of too much censorship, not too little.
If you're on the MO side, it's not so bad. Especially if you like BBQ and Jazz.
Why was this modded down? AC is entirely correct.
Yes, piracy would still be possible and would still exist, much as counterfeit goods are available today.. but really, is it a problem when the real thing is available legally and cheaply?
"The real thing" would not be available legally and cheaply under a, e.g., 5 year copyright term. Because "the real thing" are the newly released items. That's where the demand is highest.
If I want to see the new series of Doctor Who, what am I going to do? Am I going to wait 5 years for it to be legal for me to download, or am I going to straight to The Pirate Bay?
This is for the profitability of the military industrial complex.
Why would you go to Australia when you're already in New Zealand?
That feeling has, thankfully, gone the way of the dinosaurs but we still have similar laws.
That's the problem. We need to look at our history, examine all the horrible injustices of the past, and figure out what the common theme is. Then we can look for that theme in our current society.
His point is that copying is communication. You cannot communicate information without copying it. And therefore, you cannot prohibit copying without damaging our ability to communicate.
Nader voters in Florida handed the 2000 election to Bush
By the same token, Gore voters in Florida handed the 2000 election to Bush.
Make no mistake: the coming election is a choice between Tea Party-style kakistocracy, and the center.
This is exactly the kind of good cop/bad cop rhetoric they rely on to keep you voting for one of their guys.
If you think voting Green in 2012 will accomplish anything other than to give the USA entirely to the Repugnicans for the next four years,
The Republicans have the country already. There's no difference between an Obama administration and a Romney administration. And you KNOW this is true because:
because Nixon's advice to Reagan still holds: "Run as hard to the right as you can, until you get the nomination. Then run as hard to the center as you can until the election.")
It's all posturing.
Shortening copyright to 10 years won't change anything about the economics of pirating. People will still desire newly released works. It will still be easier to get these works through piracy. Therefore, there will still be tremendous amounts of piracy.
No amount of reduction in copyright will cause piracy to cease either.