Actually pricing in the 'black' market is controlled through selective enforcement of existing law. That is how it works with all contraband. When the authorities get hungry, the price of everything goes up until it depresses the market enough to affect their take, then they back off a tiny bit.
Then it may be possible to have a rational discussion.
Only up to, but not including the purpose of the law and who it serves. Supporters of copyright are wagging the dog. Copyright was specifically designed to impede the progress and use of new technology to spread knowledge, explicitly to protect established industries and authorities. It is the Red Flag Law of information and communications.
Yep, you are definitely working in a government's 'public relations' department. Censorship is always bad, regardless of the culture. Nobody has the right to decide what others can see and say. I am for anything that forces a government to respond to its citizens. And this kind of reporting makes them respond faster, which is a good thing. It helps people see through the facade, and it exposes who the government serves. This helps to motivate them to fix their government. We are on one planet. The pollution does not respect your borders. If it did, nobody would care if the Chinese suffocated themselves in their smog. The propaganda you post here is written by the bad guys and is nothing but a blatant appeal to authority. You can't hide that fact behind the AC moniker.
The voters are responsible for informing themselves and ensuring the politicians serve them. Without the demand there is no incentive. Do not blame the government for willful public apathy and ignorance. Just like a dog, it will crap on the carpet if nobody is watching.
Maybe you don't understand who the state serves. And it is happening with the full consent of the voters. It couldn't happen any other way, short overt tyranny.
You assume that the public institutions are less corruptible.
No, you mistakenly assume they are different from any other kind of institution. But we do have the ability, should we decide the use it, to make the government serve us with our votes. We don't have enough money to effect the economy.
The documentaries should instead let people know what the government is doing...
You are free to write one yourself. You have no right to tell other people they can't just because you don't like the content. Your posts appear to be very suspiciously like ones of a government 'employee', very likely in in their public relations department. There is no other logic behind them.
...these gloomy documentaries aren't helping the cause...
Yes they do... They motivate people to demand action to clean up, and to remind them we can have nice things and a clean planet. The 'dark shadow' over the government is well deserved when it doesn't respond. I find your response highly suspect.
Yeah, well, the prison thing is bullshit. It's an American fetish. As long as we have civil forfeiture on the books, let's use it for that. Fines don't work. Revocation of corporate charters would work. But that would bite the hand that feeds, so I don't expect that to happen until people stop reelecting the politicians.
And personally I prefer that the hour hand (analogue is the only way, baby) graphically represents the position of the sun at my present location. I kinda thought that is what the timepiece is supposed to indicate, location, in space as well as time.
You won't get competition when one company is responsible for leasing. Obviously their friends get first dibs. Without voter oversight you will never get anything better than what we already have. There is a reason Korea has a better service, though voter oversight over there doesn't exist either, and I doubt there is a free market in this business over there either, but the people have provided good incentive to provide good service. We could demand and get the same, distance be damned, the tech is there. I really don't care if there is competition is we have good service at a reasonable price. Competition is just one way of getting it. Another way is to shift some Pentagon/CIA/NSA/DEA money over and build with that. We can use the government to compete in the market. We have bad service because there is inadequate demand for anything better, just like the politicians people vote for.
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Form all the opinions you want. Your vote provides all the consent they need to do what they do, and it renders all conflicting opinion moot.
fucking douchebag Reagan...
Oh, c'mon... He didn't know what he was doing
The people that reelect the politicians certainly do welcome those things. Who are we to argue with success?
Longer sentences don't prevent shit, but the talk still wins elections, which is very revealing as far as public attitudes go.
Actually pricing in the 'black' market is controlled through selective enforcement of existing law. That is how it works with all contraband. When the authorities get hungry, the price of everything goes up until it depresses the market enough to affect their take, then they back off a tiny bit.
Let's not forget the fact that the assholes who write these laws still win elections.
Then it may be possible to have a rational discussion.
Only up to, but not including the purpose of the law and who it serves. Supporters of copyright are wagging the dog. Copyright was specifically designed to impede the progress and use of new technology to spread knowledge, explicitly to protect established industries and authorities. It is the Red Flag Law of information and communications.
Imply? No it is explicit.
Prison is a sexual thing. Some people are turned on by punishing others. They are perverts. Unfortunately they also win elections.
This is a distinction commonly lost to people here and leads to the impression, that the censorship is arbitrary. Well, it is not.
Arbitrary or not, censorship is evil. And when Chinese smog comes to California we all have damn good right to say something about it.
Yep, you are definitely working in a government's 'public relations' department. Censorship is always bad, regardless of the culture. Nobody has the right to decide what others can see and say. I am for anything that forces a government to respond to its citizens. And this kind of reporting makes them respond faster, which is a good thing. It helps people see through the facade, and it exposes who the government serves. This helps to motivate them to fix their government. We are on one planet. The pollution does not respect your borders. If it did, nobody would care if the Chinese suffocated themselves in their smog. The propaganda you post here is written by the bad guys and is nothing but a blatant appeal to authority. You can't hide that fact behind the AC moniker.
The voters are responsible for informing themselves and ensuring the politicians serve them. Without the demand there is no incentive. Do not blame the government for willful public apathy and ignorance. Just like a dog, it will crap on the carpet if nobody is watching.
Maybe you don't understand who the state serves. And it is happening with the full consent of the voters. It couldn't happen any other way, short overt tyranny.
:-) What we've got here is a failure to communicate...
You assume that the public institutions are less corruptible.
No, you mistakenly assume they are different from any other kind of institution. But we do have the ability, should we decide the use it, to make the government serve us with our votes. We don't have enough money to effect the economy.
The documentaries should instead let people know what the government is doing...
You are free to write one yourself. You have no right to tell other people they can't just because you don't like the content. Your posts appear to be very suspiciously like ones of a government 'employee', very likely in in their public relations department. There is no other logic behind them.
...these gloomy documentaries aren't helping the cause...
Yes they do... They motivate people to demand action to clean up, and to remind them we can have nice things and a clean planet. The 'dark shadow' over the government is well deserved when it doesn't respond. I find your response highly suspect.
Obviously you've never been to prison.
Yes, well, since we're making wild assumptions, if you go around assaulting people, prison might be the best option for you.
Hard to compute != hard to understand
Also, hard to express != hard to understand. The body can be a prison of sorts.
Yeah, well, the prison thing is bullshit. It's an American fetish. As long as we have civil forfeiture on the books, let's use it for that. Fines don't work. Revocation of corporate charters would work. But that would bite the hand that feeds, so I don't expect that to happen until people stop reelecting the politicians.
And personally I prefer that the hour hand (analogue is the only way, baby) graphically represents the position of the sun at my present location. I kinda thought that is what the timepiece is supposed to indicate, location, in space as well as time.
The rest of the world uses metric time?
You won't get competition when one company is responsible for leasing. Obviously their friends get first dibs. Without voter oversight you will never get anything better than what we already have. There is a reason Korea has a better service, though voter oversight over there doesn't exist either, and I doubt there is a free market in this business over there either, but the people have provided good incentive to provide good service. We could demand and get the same, distance be damned, the tech is there. I really don't care if there is competition is we have good service at a reasonable price. Competition is just one way of getting it. Another way is to shift some Pentagon/CIA/NSA/DEA money over and build with that. We can use the government to compete in the market. We have bad service because there is inadequate demand for anything better, just like the politicians people vote for.
Damn! It used to be 44 minutes back in the day. And 22 on the half hour chats.
Well, we won't make them that robust.