Unless the RIAA has figured out a way to successfully amend the U.S. Constitution through the courts(hint: they cannot), then there is not a damned thing that is going to change. I believe that corporations should be limited to receiving the real losses for IP theft. If a person is caught stealing one song, then the RIAA would get $0.99 USD, and if someone steals a movie, then the MPAA would get the cost of a movie ticket or DVD/Blu-ray disc, depending on which version is stolen. It is only fair, as these assholes do not deserve to turn a higher profit on each violation because the hire the right lawyer.
Now, any fines the state places on the violator is a different story, but that is up to the people, not the MPAA, or RIAA, etc.
This is a waste of money. NASA needs to do what they exist to do, not track junk science. This is as stupid as having the CIA track "Global Warming". Oh wait, it is called "Climate Change"...oh, whatever it is called.
They are purchasing them. You need to stop acting like an industry fanboy and screw your head on straight. I hate it that development companies are targets of theft, but so are other industries.
Hell, money is stolen every damned day, but you do not see the Federal Reserve require U.S. citizen to connect to the internet to validate their bills. I do not have to get on the internet or call Hostess and ask permission to eat a Twinkie because some assholes have stolen them in the past.
This is asinine and I will not support a company that does this. While I have access to real broadband internet sometimes, I do not always. Some of the week, I have to use Verizon Wireless broadband, and I am limited to 5GB. That will go quickly will this crap.
What piracy? Assassin's Creed 2 has sold 6 million copies as of January 2010 and it has not even been released for PC yet. Ubisoft has taken in quite a bit of money, so they have nothing to complain about. You know Ubisoft will end up making a killing when they finally release the game for PC.
Sadly, if there is a Assassin's Creed 3, then I will not give Ubisoft my money. I know the company is planning DLC for Assassin's Creed 2, but I will not purchase that either. It is unfortunate because the game is rather good. Let's hope that IW and company does not latch on to this stupid idea, or the gaming market will be in serious jeopardy.
Wrong, wrong, and wrong. Warming of an internal combustion engine prolongs the life of the engine. If you crank an engine and immediately put the engine under strain, from locomotion, then it tends to place the engine under more stress towards the start of travel. An engine already experiences great stress from a cold start and it is only worse when the engine is putting weight into motion.
Imagine a human heart. When a heart is placed under sudden periods of increased movement from rest(such as the reaction from physiological and/or psychological stress), the heart tends to see a reduction in longevity. The same rule exist for mechanical and does for bio-mechanical, though the materials in engines tend to be of less quality than hearts.
I suggest that you, newdsfornerds and mother_reincarnated, research your comments before you post them. While you are certainly free to voice your opinion, do not attempt to present those opinions as facts, which you were aiming for.
Let us look at the failure that is your logic. Perhaps you will see the flaws in your wish for the world to be the utopia that it will never be.
Patent Reform? Aside from some small amounts of stupidity, it is better than stripping the rights of legitimate patent holders. Patent extension is one big area that is a problem and what can be patented is another. Change will come if people will push for it.
Environmental protect? Goddamn it. You people really need to get over the "save the world" bullshit. Yeah, you might be able to force people into shitty electric cars and into using "alternate" energy sources, but you will never stop other countries from continuing to do the same thing they have been doing since the inception of the current age. Aside from needless destruction of forest(which I am against, since I love the outdoors and nature), I have no problem with the continued use of coal plants, and other activities that are deemed "dangerous" and "destructive" by the idiots that attended the Copenhagen conference.
Humans attribute to less than five-fucking-percent of the carbon dioxide output over the entire planet. That includes normal excretions and production from industrial activities(power generation, equipment use, etc), but people want to limit the product of the gas that supports plant life. Could these people be anymore insane? If we doubled the amount of natural air, do you think that humans would start dying? No, and the same goes for CO2.
Taxation? The rich people in the United States all pay a majority of revenue the governments(federal, state, and local) generates through taxation. The top 5% of wage earners pay well over 50% of the tax bill, with 10% paying well over 60% of the tax bill. When you look at the top 50%, or 1/2, of earners in the United States, they pay a little over 96% of the tax bill in the United States. Why in the hell should they pay more? Just because someone is successful, they should not be open to oppression by the government, or slackers, such as yourself. They work hard and they deserve to enjoy the fruits of their labor.
You also need to remember that the people you want to see taxed more are the people that open businesses, create jobs, and stimulate the economy the greatest.
Stopping the war? As long as there are people on the Earth, there will always be war. It is who we are and it is high time that you deal with it. Humans have been at war since there were more than two of us, so wishing away war will get you no further than being laughed at for watching too many fantasy movies. How about you talk to people who are from other countries, especially "middle-eastern" countries or just talk to some of the older, reasonable people alive in the United States today.
Stopping the MPAA/RIAA from walking all over American citizens? From what? Protecting their interest? What if you created something and I decided to walk in and steal it? You would be utterly pissed. I do believe that the MPAA/RIAA are only due the true losses, not the imaginary damages that the courts have been handing out. If I download a song and I am caught, then I should have to pay for the real retail price for each song. If I have stolen thousands of songs, then the amount to be paid back will be high. I believe that the compensation that the MPAA/RIAA have been receiving is illegal, but I doubt anything will change in the near future.
If people do not want to pay the price for theft, then they need to quit stealing. It is simple as that. Hopefully, even you will realize that. Of course, it is very obvious that you are a staunch support of the "dream candidate" and "savior" that so many believe Obama was, but certainly was not. Let us hope that 2012 will see Obama evicted from the White House.
The people who run treehugger.com are total nut jobs. Usually, a decent nut job outfit will make you click a page or two to discover that, but treehugger.com lets it be know right from the start. Take away the name of the site itself and the asshatery and d-bagginess of the site shines through quite well.
Ok, back to clubbing baby seals and dropped nuclear weapons on forest-covered areas.
My comment either never successfully was attached, or it was removed. Regardless, I will post it again:
Your "study" of constitutional law probably went no further than a high school classroom, as your comment is completely and utterly false. The Bill of Rights are applicable to the states through the 14th amendment, and you would know what if you had actually studied constitutional law. You can even find evidence of this when you read the constitutions of every state in the United States.
Regardless of any of this, private parties(citizen and/or corporation) have no legal right to violate another person's or corporation's privacy. There are stiff penalties and there will be harsh reactions to such actions. Though, the problem is that if a private organization is working to enforce the law, they are, by definition, acting as an arm of the government. Still, the U.S. Constitution, as well as the Bill of Rights attached to it, protects people from governmental and private invasion.
Also, D.C. v Heller was already decided. The only major, pending court decision is in McDonald v Chicago. Get your damned facts straight.
The Bill of Rights are also applicable to the states, by way of the 14th amendment. If you had actually "studied" constitutional law, then you would know this. There is a highly likely chance that a federal court will soon find that the second amendment is also applicable to the states, even though some try their hardest to believe otherwise. An internet education does not replace a real educatoin.
Also, D.C. vs Heller was already decided, for your information.
This was covered in "Live Free or Die Hard". Hello!!! What if Timothy Olyphant were to go crazy one day and believe he is still on the set of Live Free or Die hard? We might actually be taken over by cyberpunk terrorist. God help us....
I read their website, and it looks like they offer a program for users to install. Is this what the article is referring to, or are webmaster running a script to allow Tynt Insight to track what I copy and paste, irrespective of whether or not I install Tynt's program? If it is the former, then do not install the damned program. This is just like the whole social-networking sites and people bitching about privacy.
If it is the latter, then install No-Script(which everyone should have) and block the shit out of Tyrant....err, Tynt. I have No-Script running because I was tired of Google tracking my every move, along with the other tracking site.
So, the U.S. Government wants us to stop progress because it might leave out a certain group of people? Please. A certain group might not be on the "bleeding edge", but progress brings about innovation. Perhaps people getting engrossed in using these devices will discover ways for disabled portions of society to use these device effectively.
This is the problem with government, regardless of who is running it. They want power and they want to tell you what you can and cannot do. They can wrap what they say in the silkiest sounding verbiage, but silk covered shit is still shit.
Shifting binary code requires electrical impulses to tell the solid object holding the light particles(i.e. the fucking electricity) what to do. Hmm..electricity...oh yeah, electricity if a form of fucking energy. What do you think electricity is? It is not just the thing that makes your mother's vibrator work.
E-ink? Are you kidding me? How do you think that "e-ink" is going to work in low and no light situation? Will itself into your brain? Even OLEDs will have what, idiots like yourself, will label as "wasted energy". The fact is, if a function is being preformed and the function is preformed successfully, then the energy used is not wasted. It is only wasted when the attempted function is failed(like when you came in 36th in a 35 kid race at school because the first place runner lapped you after finishing).
Can things be made more efficient? Sure. I believe they can, but the efficiency has a bell curve. At some point, the closer you get to zero, you fail to save energy and still product at the same rate. It is like if you were to try and lose weight: You will shed pounds quickly at first, then slowly tapper until you reach the point that no more weight can be lost. You can try to be a stubborn asshole, but you cannot beat Physics, Chemistry, or Biology.
What the hell does it matter? Work requires energy, it is simple science that a 2 year old could understand. No one will ever be able to create an electronics-based device that will ever be able to no energy, hence the damned name. Of course, even if someone were able to do such a feat, then these "green" assholes would never allow such a device to exist. That is if they are not able to get some licensing fee for such a product.
Some of you people believe that "green" is a worthwhile view, but it is total horseshit. If there was no money to be made, then 90% of the people involved in this "green" movement would not be involved. These people would simply move on to the next big money maker. Just look at Al Gore if you are in need of an example.
Do not get me wrong, I am all for saving money and protecting beautiful areas of the world from being demolished and paved over. I enjoy spending time in some of the many beautiful and forest-covered areas in the U.S., but I am not for punishing the working class on the whims of a bunch of rich assholes. If they want to push this ideological shit, then they can subsidize this at 100% for everyone else.
This will end up a complete and utter failure, in comparison to the current line of Spider-Man films. Essentially, it will end up like Superman Returns, only it will be even more shitty. God, this is like the whole NBC-Leno-O'Brien crap, but without the funny punchlines directed at the studio.
If you were posting your comment towards me, then you can kindly kiss my ass. My disability is a severely painful and non-working left leg I receiving in law enforcement. I was serving the people of my state and a not sitting on my ass posting nonsense, such as yourself.
Allergies are like autism, in they are both becoming the most over-diagnosed "medical conditions" today. People feel a little discomfort and they immediately believe they have an allergy. Perhaps if people would spend more time with their heads in the real world and not up their own asses, this world would be a better place.
This can all start with you, here today. Feel free to self-extract and enter the room with the rest of us.
Yeah, I have never understood why people choose to stupidly post everything they are doing or thinking on these "social networking sites". If people would adopt the stance that no one can be trusted to keep a secret, then people would not run into situations where they lose their jobs, or bomb on an interview due to running naked down a street and posting the video on Facebook or PedoSpace.
Yeah, it may seem humorous at the time, but posting stupid shit on the internet will always bite you in the end. It is similar to picking the wrong spot to bury a dead hooker. We have all been there at least once or twice...except for me...just saying...
An allergy is not a disability. As long as someone who has extreme reactions to a certain food or other product, then they can live full and unrestricted lives. I have a disability, a real disability, and saying someone with an allergy has a disability deminishes those with real disabilities. There is nothing someone with a real disability, such as myself, can do to avoid pain or the inability to function "normally". Cancer is a disability, epilepsy is a disability, non-functioning appendages qualifies a person as disabled; a peanut allergy is not a disability.
Is it just me, or did the government claim in Raich that consuming your own marijuana affects the interstate marijuana trade and that causes your marijuana or personal consumption to become interstate commerce? Is the government really trying to say that if I use marijuana I grow myself that I am hurting people who are importing marijuana? I know I must have read that wrong.
The Commerce Clause, while overused, is very clear. It does not talking about the possible effects on current interstate trade, but actual trade. Just because to build or grow something for myself, the courts cannot hold onto the possibility of adjustments to interstate trade. A person must be able to avoid taxation and control, if they wish, by making or growing a product for themselves. It is the foundation of the United States Constitution.
I am a strong conservative, but the Supreme Court violated the Constitution in Raich and Stewart.
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Unless the RIAA has figured out a way to successfully amend the U.S. Constitution through the courts(hint: they cannot), then there is not a damned thing that is going to change. I believe that corporations should be limited to receiving the real losses for IP theft. If a person is caught stealing one song, then the RIAA would get $0.99 USD, and if someone steals a movie, then the MPAA would get the cost of a movie ticket or DVD/Blu-ray disc, depending on which version is stolen. It is only fair, as these assholes do not deserve to turn a higher profit on each violation because the hire the right lawyer.
Now, any fines the state places on the violator is a different story, but that is up to the people, not the MPAA, or RIAA, etc.
This is a waste of money. NASA needs to do what they exist to do, not track junk science. This is as stupid as having the CIA track "Global Warming". Oh wait, it is called "Climate Change"...oh, whatever it is called.
They are purchasing them. You need to stop acting like an industry fanboy and screw your head on straight. I hate it that development companies are targets of theft, but so are other industries.
Hell, money is stolen every damned day, but you do not see the Federal Reserve require U.S. citizen to connect to the internet to validate their bills. I do not have to get on the internet or call Hostess and ask permission to eat a Twinkie because some assholes have stolen them in the past.
This is asinine and I will not support a company that does this. While I have access to real broadband internet sometimes, I do not always. Some of the week, I have to use Verizon Wireless broadband, and I am limited to 5GB. That will go quickly will this crap.
What piracy? Assassin's Creed 2 has sold 6 million copies as of January 2010 and it has not even been released for PC yet. Ubisoft has taken in quite a bit of money, so they have nothing to complain about. You know Ubisoft will end up making a killing when they finally release the game for PC.
Sadly, if there is a Assassin's Creed 3, then I will not give Ubisoft my money. I know the company is planning DLC for Assassin's Creed 2, but I will not purchase that either. It is unfortunate because the game is rather good. Let's hope that IW and company does not latch on to this stupid idea, or the gaming market will be in serious jeopardy.
My fucking reply is not flamebait JUST because I disagree with the previous poster. Fuck whoever modded my comment.
Wrong, wrong, and wrong. Warming of an internal combustion engine prolongs the life of the engine. If you crank an engine and immediately put the engine under strain, from locomotion, then it tends to place the engine under more stress towards the start of travel. An engine already experiences great stress from a cold start and it is only worse when the engine is putting weight into motion.
Imagine a human heart. When a heart is placed under sudden periods of increased movement from rest(such as the reaction from physiological and/or psychological stress), the heart tends to see a reduction in longevity. The same rule exist for mechanical and does for bio-mechanical, though the materials in engines tend to be of less quality than hearts.
I suggest that you, newdsfornerds and mother_reincarnated, research your comments before you post them. While you are certainly free to voice your opinion, do not attempt to present those opinions as facts, which you were aiming for.
You are incorrect. There are a large number of remote starters for manual-shifting automobiles.
Let us look at the failure that is your logic. Perhaps you will see the flaws in your wish for the world to be the utopia that it will never be.
Patent Reform? Aside from some small amounts of stupidity, it is better than stripping the rights of legitimate patent holders. Patent extension is one big area that is a problem and what can be patented is another. Change will come if people will push for it.
Environmental protect? Goddamn it. You people really need to get over the "save the world" bullshit. Yeah, you might be able to force people into shitty electric cars and into using "alternate" energy sources, but you will never stop other countries from continuing to do the same thing they have been doing since the inception of the current age. Aside from needless destruction of forest(which I am against, since I love the outdoors and nature), I have no problem with the continued use of coal plants, and other activities that are deemed "dangerous" and "destructive" by the idiots that attended the Copenhagen conference.
Humans attribute to less than five-fucking-percent of the carbon dioxide output over the entire planet. That includes normal excretions and production from industrial activities(power generation, equipment use, etc), but people want to limit the product of the gas that supports plant life. Could these people be anymore insane? If we doubled the amount of natural air, do you think that humans would start dying? No, and the same goes for CO2.
Taxation? The rich people in the United States all pay a majority of revenue the governments(federal, state, and local) generates through taxation. The top 5% of wage earners pay well over 50% of the tax bill, with 10% paying well over 60% of the tax bill. When you look at the top 50%, or 1/2, of earners in the United States, they pay a little over 96% of the tax bill in the United States. Why in the hell should they pay more? Just because someone is successful, they should not be open to oppression by the government, or slackers, such as yourself. They work hard and they deserve to enjoy the fruits of their labor.
You also need to remember that the people you want to see taxed more are the people that open businesses, create jobs, and stimulate the economy the greatest.
Stopping the war? As long as there are people on the Earth, there will always be war. It is who we are and it is high time that you deal with it. Humans have been at war since there were more than two of us, so wishing away war will get you no further than being laughed at for watching too many fantasy movies. How about you talk to people who are from other countries, especially "middle-eastern" countries or just talk to some of the older, reasonable people alive in the United States today.
Stopping the MPAA/RIAA from walking all over American citizens? From what? Protecting their interest? What if you created something and I decided to walk in and steal it? You would be utterly pissed. I do believe that the MPAA/RIAA are only due the true losses, not the imaginary damages that the courts have been handing out. If I download a song and I am caught, then I should have to pay for the real retail price for each song. If I have stolen thousands of songs, then the amount to be paid back will be high. I believe that the compensation that the MPAA/RIAA have been receiving is illegal, but I doubt anything will change in the near future.
If people do not want to pay the price for theft, then they need to quit stealing. It is simple as that. Hopefully, even you will realize that. Of course, it is very obvious that you are a staunch support of the "dream candidate" and "savior" that so many believe Obama was, but certainly was not. Let us hope that 2012 will see Obama evicted from the White House.
The people who run treehugger.com are total nut jobs. Usually, a decent nut job outfit will make you click a page or two to discover that, but treehugger.com lets it be know right from the start. Take away the name of the site itself and the asshatery and d-bagginess of the site shines through quite well.
Ok, back to clubbing baby seals and dropped nuclear weapons on forest-covered areas.
My comment either never successfully was attached, or it was removed. Regardless, I will post it again:
Your "study" of constitutional law probably went no further than a high school classroom, as your comment is completely and utterly false. The Bill of Rights are applicable to the states through the 14th amendment, and you would know what if you had actually studied constitutional law. You can even find evidence of this when you read the constitutions of every state in the United States.
Regardless of any of this, private parties(citizen and/or corporation) have no legal right to violate another person's or corporation's privacy. There are stiff penalties and there will be harsh reactions to such actions. Though, the problem is that if a private organization is working to enforce the law, they are, by definition, acting as an arm of the government. Still, the U.S. Constitution, as well as the Bill of Rights attached to it, protects people from governmental and private invasion.
Also, D.C. v Heller was already decided. The only major, pending court decision is in McDonald v Chicago. Get your damned facts straight.
The Bill of Rights are also applicable to the states, by way of the 14th amendment. If you had actually "studied" constitutional law, then you would know this. There is a highly likely chance that a federal court will soon find that the second amendment is also applicable to the states, even though some try their hardest to believe otherwise. An internet education does not replace a real educatoin.
Also, D.C. vs Heller was already decided, for your information.
This was covered in "Live Free or Die Hard". Hello!!! What if Timothy Olyphant were to go crazy one day and believe he is still on the set of Live Free or Die hard? We might actually be taken over by cyberpunk terrorist. God help us....
I read their website, and it looks like they offer a program for users to install. Is this what the article is referring to, or are webmaster running a script to allow Tynt Insight to track what I copy and paste, irrespective of whether or not I install Tynt's program? If it is the former, then do not install the damned program. This is just like the whole social-networking sites and people bitching about privacy.
If it is the latter, then install No-Script(which everyone should have) and block the shit out of Tyrant....err, Tynt. I have No-Script running because I was tired of Google tracking my every move, along with the other tracking site.
So, he would have the same problems as Hugh Hefner. Wait, I fail to see the problem here.
So, the U.S. Government wants us to stop progress because it might leave out a certain group of people? Please. A certain group might not be on the "bleeding edge", but progress brings about innovation. Perhaps people getting engrossed in using these devices will discover ways for disabled portions of society to use these device effectively.
This is the problem with government, regardless of who is running it. They want power and they want to tell you what you can and cannot do. They can wrap what they say in the silkiest sounding verbiage, but silk covered shit is still shit.
That caught my eye as well. Oh, the humor found in such places.
Shifting binary code requires electrical impulses to tell the solid object holding the light particles(i.e. the fucking electricity) what to do. Hmm..electricity...oh yeah, electricity if a form of fucking energy. What do you think electricity is? It is not just the thing that makes your mother's vibrator work.
E-ink? Are you kidding me? How do you think that "e-ink" is going to work in low and no light situation? Will itself into your brain? Even OLEDs will have what, idiots like yourself, will label as "wasted energy". The fact is, if a function is being preformed and the function is preformed successfully, then the energy used is not wasted. It is only wasted when the attempted function is failed(like when you came in 36th in a 35 kid race at school because the first place runner lapped you after finishing).
Can things be made more efficient? Sure. I believe they can, but the efficiency has a bell curve. At some point, the closer you get to zero, you fail to save energy and still product at the same rate. It is like if you were to try and lose weight: You will shed pounds quickly at first, then slowly tapper until you reach the point that no more weight can be lost. You can try to be a stubborn asshole, but you cannot beat Physics, Chemistry, or Biology.
What the hell does it matter? Work requires energy, it is simple science that a 2 year old could understand. No one will ever be able to create an electronics-based device that will ever be able to no energy, hence the damned name. Of course, even if someone were able to do such a feat, then these "green" assholes would never allow such a device to exist. That is if they are not able to get some licensing fee for such a product.
Some of you people believe that "green" is a worthwhile view, but it is total horseshit. If there was no money to be made, then 90% of the people involved in this "green" movement would not be involved. These people would simply move on to the next big money maker. Just look at Al Gore if you are in need of an example.
Do not get me wrong, I am all for saving money and protecting beautiful areas of the world from being demolished and paved over. I enjoy spending time in some of the many beautiful and forest-covered areas in the U.S., but I am not for punishing the working class on the whims of a bunch of rich assholes. If they want to push this ideological shit, then they can subsidize this at 100% for everyone else.
This will end up a complete and utter failure, in comparison to the current line of Spider-Man films. Essentially, it will end up like Superman Returns, only it will be even more shitty. God, this is like the whole NBC-Leno-O'Brien crap, but without the funny punchlines directed at the studio.
If you were posting your comment towards me, then you can kindly kiss my ass. My disability is a severely painful and non-working left leg I receiving in law enforcement. I was serving the people of my state and a not sitting on my ass posting nonsense, such as yourself.
Allergies are like autism, in they are both becoming the most over-diagnosed "medical conditions" today. People feel a little discomfort and they immediately believe they have an allergy. Perhaps if people would spend more time with their heads in the real world and not up their own asses, this world would be a better place.
This can all start with you, here today. Feel free to self-extract and enter the room with the rest of us.
Yeah, I have never understood why people choose to stupidly post everything they are doing or thinking on these "social networking sites". If people would adopt the stance that no one can be trusted to keep a secret, then people would not run into situations where they lose their jobs, or bomb on an interview due to running naked down a street and posting the video on Facebook or PedoSpace.
Yeah, it may seem humorous at the time, but posting stupid shit on the internet will always bite you in the end. It is similar to picking the wrong spot to bury a dead hooker. We have all been there at least once or twice...except for me...just saying...
An allergy is not a disability. As long as someone who has extreme reactions to a certain food or other product, then they can live full and unrestricted lives. I have a disability, a real disability, and saying someone with an allergy has a disability deminishes those with real disabilities. There is nothing someone with a real disability, such as myself, can do to avoid pain or the inability to function "normally". Cancer is a disability, epilepsy is a disability, non-functioning appendages qualifies a person as disabled; a peanut allergy is not a disability.
An irritation, maybe, but a disability? No.
Nothing like that has been proven.
Is it just me, or did the government claim in Raich that consuming your own marijuana affects the interstate marijuana trade and that causes your marijuana or personal consumption to become interstate commerce? Is the government really trying to say that if I use marijuana I grow myself that I am hurting people who are importing marijuana? I know I must have read that wrong.
The Commerce Clause, while overused, is very clear. It does not talking about the possible effects on current interstate trade, but actual trade. Just because to build or grow something for myself, the courts cannot hold onto the possibility of adjustments to interstate trade. A person must be able to avoid taxation and control, if they wish, by making or growing a product for themselves. It is the foundation of the United States Constitution.
I am a strong conservative, but the Supreme Court violated the Constitution in Raich and Stewart.
Here is a link to get you started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause
While I hate using Wikipedia links for discussions, I doubt you could afford to access scholarly material on the matter.