And if you think it's so easy to crack, then why do you care?
Because it gives the cops probable cause to bust down your door, shoot the dog, and steal your equipment under the mere suspicion there's something illegal going on. Then you are declared an unfit parent for child endangerment because the kids were there during the bust and could have been gravely injured, so the DFS comes and takes them away, and puts them into a foster home...
I think it's time to look past the 'big players'. Make them not so big. First by reducing their political influence on technical standards *cough* Microsoft. We don't need 'standards' that cripple our machines. DRM killed the minidisc, which was otherwise a very good standard of the time. It may as well do the same to HTML5. All these things do is raise the bar of entry, protecting the 'big players'. So, fuck 'em. Let's make it easy for the small players to produce and distribute their work. The more the merrier.
"Uh, yes, I would like a sickly, blind, deaf, mentally disabled child, so I can collect its disability benefits... make it twins, conjoined twins, triplets if you can pull it off."
...content owners of the content you're willing to pay for will never publish on HTML5 unless they have some sort of DRM
Who cares? Fuck 'em. There are plenty of people who will publish without all that crap, and we can just stick with them. Besides, DRM is easy to crack, a snake oil sold by scammers. I have no sympathy for those stupid enough to buy it.
The most fundamental problem is a basic failure to overcome conditioned reflex. It may not be possible, but we can't know until we try. This whole thing about 'campaign funding' is bullshit. And besides, if you can vote people in and out to correct that, then you've already solved the problem, and further discussion is unnecessary.
The problem with elections is that the government always wins...
That's a reflection on us, not the government. Elections reveal how much we truly approve, nothing else, And I would say the present 98% is a pretty good number. You people will never learn how much power you have until you make the feeblest of effort to use it.
Pssst, hey, buddy.. Wanna buy a court order? I gotta million of 'em, right here in my pocket.. Waddya need? I got your restraining orders, discovery, wiretap, asset forfeiture, arrest warrants, you name it...
Well, nothing is going to change if you don't take the chance and vote for it, and vote them out if they fail. There is only one power that makes your (collectively, okay?) herd mentality work so well and dependably. It's "something you always have with you". Every damn complaint I hear is nothing but a bad reflection on the idea of majority rule. The fiddle and the player are reversed. Our votes reward corruption and punishes honesty. What do you expect from these people?? They are doing exactly what is expected of them.
Too young to remember Nixon, eh? If you took a little glance at history, you would see that this has been going on for 215 years. Are you people ever going to stop obsessing over Bush? Who the fuck cares? He was a mistake, our mistake. A mistake that was repeated with Obama. Don't blame other people for your failure to learn from those mistakes, which will be repeated for all the foreseeable future.
Ah, but I do take responsibility for my vote. I encourage others to be careful also. I don't just follow the herd like those who reelect crooks because they look good on camera and make promises they have no intention of keeping.. It is WE the voters who are responsible. You cannot claim you are against something and then vote to keep it in place. Your post makes no sense.
Bullshit. Peoples willful ignorance is what keeps an honest person off the ballot. They follow the bling wherever it goes. Turn off the TV and go to opensecrets, or votesmart, or better yet, congressitself. Yay! They're still up!
Republicans are hired "red noses" to drive just enough people to the democrats (who play "rope-a-dope") to barely win or lose an election. It presents a nice moving target to prevent fixing blame on one or the other, and the illusion of opposition. Gene Okerlund and Ronny Piper (They Live is a documentary!!) should be calling the play-by-play. We reward this behavior with our votes. They drive the markets up and down a tiny bit with these little "crises", and their friends make billions overnight. What incentive is there for them to do anything different? What a great scam!
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May I assume than it can be downloaded from somewhere and installed on a jail broken phone? Or is Apple's DRM that good?
... they now have a touch screen pad on the table.
Just make sure to wash your hands after using the damn thing. Yuck!
And if you think it's so easy to crack, then why do you care?
Because it gives the cops probable cause to bust down your door, shoot the dog, and steal your equipment under the mere suspicion there's something illegal going on. Then you are declared an unfit parent for child endangerment because the kids were there during the bust and could have been gravely injured, so the DFS comes and takes them away, and puts them into a foster home...
That's why I care...
And you?
I think it's time to look past the 'big players'. Make them not so big. First by reducing their political influence on technical standards *cough* Microsoft. We don't need 'standards' that cripple our machines. DRM killed the minidisc, which was otherwise a very good standard of the time. It may as well do the same to HTML5. All these things do is raise the bar of entry, protecting the 'big players'. So, fuck 'em. Let's make it easy for the small players to produce and distribute their work. The more the merrier.
"Uh, yes, I would like a sickly, blind, deaf, mentally disabled child, so I can collect its disability benefits... make it twins, conjoined twins, triplets if you can pull it off."
...content owners of the content you're willing to pay for will never publish on HTML5 unless they have some sort of DRM
Who cares? Fuck 'em. There are plenty of people who will publish without all that crap, and we can just stick with them. Besides, DRM is easy to crack, a snake oil sold by scammers. I have no sympathy for those stupid enough to buy it.
The most fundamental problem is a basic failure to overcome conditioned reflex. It may not be possible, but we can't know until we try. This whole thing about 'campaign funding' is bullshit. And besides, if you can vote people in and out to correct that, then you've already solved the problem, and further discussion is unnecessary.
Soon we can't even take a shit without logging to Failbook first.
For now, we have ratemypoo... Say I'm not number 2!
The problem with elections is that the government always wins...
That's a reflection on us, not the government. Elections reveal how much we truly approve, nothing else, And I would say the present 98% is a pretty good number. You people will never learn how much power you have until you make the feeblest of effort to use it.
Is the situation really different anywhere else?
Of course not. Therefore we have to do this.
Pssst, hey, buddy.. Wanna buy a court order? I gotta million of 'em, right here in my pocket.. Waddya need? I got your restraining orders, discovery, wiretap, asset forfeiture, arrest warrants, you name it...
1) Because they say it is.
2) Rubber stamp.. Hey! It's business, okay?
3) Yes
You already ARE revolting!
Speaking of Tesla, You can char them with fire also... oh, chaaarrrge...
Well, nothing is going to change if you don't take the chance and vote for it, and vote them out if they fail. There is only one power that makes your (collectively, okay?) herd mentality work so well and dependably. It's "something you always have with you". Every damn complaint I hear is nothing but a bad reflection on the idea of majority rule. The fiddle and the player are reversed. Our votes reward corruption and punishes honesty. What do you expect from these people?? They are doing exactly what is expected of them.
How the hell do they have the resources to fight the "war on drugs" when they can't even keep the national parks open?!?!
It's an "essential" service to keep the market from becoming saturated and driving down prices.
...under Bush...
Too young to remember Nixon, eh? If you took a little glance at history, you would see that this has been going on for 215 years. Are you people ever going to stop obsessing over Bush? Who the fuck cares? He was a mistake, our mistake. A mistake that was repeated with Obama. Don't blame other people for your failure to learn from those mistakes, which will be repeated for all the foreseeable future.
Oh please! Just stop...
Ah, but I do take responsibility for my vote. I encourage others to be careful also. I don't just follow the herd like those who reelect crooks because they look good on camera and make promises they have no intention of keeping.. It is WE the voters who are responsible. You cannot claim you are against something and then vote to keep it in place. Your post makes no sense.
And political cronies made billions from it. Now you see what these "crises" are about?
Bullshit. Peoples willful ignorance is what keeps an honest person off the ballot. They follow the bling wherever it goes. Turn off the TV and go to opensecrets, or votesmart, or better yet, congress itself. Yay! They're still up!
There is no excuse...
...ignorance is the cause, not malice.
Yeah, on the part of the voters. They are the key, no one else. The 'chains' they find themselves in are self made.
Republicans are hired "red noses" to drive just enough people to the democrats (who play "rope-a-dope") to barely win or lose an election. It presents a nice moving target to prevent fixing blame on one or the other, and the illusion of opposition. Gene Okerlund and Ronny Piper (They Live is a documentary!!) should be calling the play-by-play. We reward this behavior with our votes. They drive the markets up and down a tiny bit with these little "crises", and their friends make billions overnight. What incentive is there for them to do anything different? What a great scam!
People vote like they are told.
What, and you blame the media for that? I hope you're not one of those people who say video games have no effect on children...
Real change must be made from the outside.
Outside of what? The government? The human race? The universe? Where is this "outside"?
For instance? And why? Let the FDA handle all consumables.