look. the CFAA is not 'meant to target hackers'. it is meant to target dissent. the last high profile CFAA case was Thomas Drake, a --whistleblower--.
then there is Bradley Manning, a dozen or so counts under CFAA... for stuff like the collateral murder video and the Reyjkavic 13 email. innocuous information about government abuse,,,, now a felony to even tell a reporter about.
congrats sheep. you get the dictatorship you so richly deserve.
the hypocrisy is here is just overwhelming. look at the video games you have played in your life, now try to apply the logic you are using against this game to any of those other games.
the Enlightenment came from europe. the idea that the government 'serves the people', which is what US free speech law is based on, comes from europe. The whole point of the US constitution is that 'slandering the king' and 'libeling the state' are nonsensical in a democracy where the government 'serves the people'.
"Sure, you can use the slippery slope fallacy, but history shows that it hasn't realized here any more than it has in the USA (despite the "free speech" law)."
Read even just the summary again of the Iraq War; think carefully about just how much time and trouble Tony Blair invested in what he did. This was not a casual hobby for him. This is a stern warning intended to dissuade him from escalating and help him spend some time reflecting on his choices.
there is a wikileaks cable about how Canada had a 'withholding tax' that prevented US banks from creating CDOs out of Canadian assets.
their argument? This awful tax 'reduced liquidity' in Canada.
it also saved Canada from an economic meltdown. 'liquidity' is another word for 'garbage laden toxic assets that have been AAA rated through fraud and corruption'.
when will 'economic theorists' understand that your theories mean absolute shit? the crisis of 2008 destroyed practically every lie of the corrupted, conflicted pseudo-science academic economists. 'liquidity uber alles' being one of the main ones.
its like you are screaming that Mercury follows a kepler orbit. no, it doesnt, and saying that it does is ignorant and wrong.
next up 'lets remake kings quest as a first person shooter'
EA represents everything that is soulless and wrong.
every creative, visionary company of the 90s that came within 10 feet of EA corporate has withered and died, like they were infected by some kind of black plague of the soul.
when I read the story about the guy who ripped off the JSTOR archives by sitting in an MIT wiring closet, and got sued for it, i screamed "How is this different from what google does with google books? they didnt get copyright permission from all their authors..."
guess.. uhm.. oops. guess it wasnt THAT different.
in the 2000s hedge funds increasingly became run out of people's basements... take connecticut for example. hedge fund capital of the world... dudes sitting in their mcmansions trading bonds in their man-caves.
now with electronic trading of stocks, and commodities futures... the 'open outcry' pits where traders go to work and yell at each other, have almost disappeared... all that has happened mostly in the last 10 years.
are payed off by the mafia rings that run these shows.
think about Mexican drug cartels. they are known to have infiltrated the media, as well as the federal police force, and even the offices of the government. reporters have been killed.
1. you cant copyright basic facts. this goes back to Feist v Rural Telephone.
2. breaking 'terms and conditions' is not a violation of the CFAA, its probably a violation of copyright law. but EULAs are not always enforcable in the US.
3. if Oracle's business model is based on copyrighting their user manual, (rather than say, building good products, having good customer service, and a good marketing department) then they should have disclosed that to their investors in their SEC filings, otherwise the Oracle executives who signed off on those SEC filings should be prosecuted for Securities Fraud.
Slashdot Mirror
Sun - no
Netscape - no
Palm - no
more examples?
oh wait.. Karzai's government is practically run by corrupt drug lords who assassinate each other all the time.
but hey. whats the difference? nobody you know will be sent to fight.
CFAA has been used to go after everyone from whistleblowers to people sending hateful messages over facebook.
take 5 minutes and read the wikipedia article
look. the CFAA is not 'meant to target hackers'. it is meant to target dissent. the last high profile CFAA case was Thomas Drake, a --whistleblower--.
then there is Bradley Manning, a dozen or so counts under CFAA... for stuff like the collateral murder video and the Reyjkavic 13 email. innocuous information about government abuse,,,, now a felony to even tell a reporter about.
congrats sheep. you get the dictatorship you so richly deserve.
no go back to reading news about the new iPad
this thread is the ultimate proof that playing video games makes people unable to apply logic and reason to an argument.
the hypocrisy is here is just overwhelming. look at the video games you have played in your life, now try to apply the logic you are using against this game to any of those other games.
well, thats just a laudy, noteworthy accomplishment in the further development of the art form that is the computer game.
i love it... an internet with no criticism, debate, or dissent.
the Enlightenment came from europe. the idea that the government 'serves the people', which is what US free speech law is based on, comes from europe. The whole point of the US constitution is that 'slandering the king' and 'libeling the state' are nonsensical in a democracy where the government 'serves the people'.
"Sure, you can use the slippery slope fallacy, but history shows that it hasn't realized here any more than it has in the USA (despite the "free speech" law)."
Reichstag Fire Decree?
Read even just the summary again of the Iraq War; think carefully about just how much time and trouble Tony Blair invested in what he did. This was not a casual hobby for him. This is a stern warning intended to dissuade him from escalating and help him spend some time reflecting on his choices.
'this is how you are supposed to behave towards employees'
there is a wikileaks cable about how Canada had a 'withholding tax' that prevented US banks from creating CDOs out of Canadian assets.
their argument? This awful tax 'reduced liquidity' in Canada.
it also saved Canada from an economic meltdown. 'liquidity' is another word for 'garbage laden toxic assets that have been AAA rated through fraud and corruption'.
when will 'economic theorists' understand that your theories mean absolute shit? the crisis of 2008 destroyed practically every lie of the corrupted, conflicted pseudo-science academic economists. 'liquidity uber alles' being one of the main ones.
its like you are screaming that Mercury follows a kepler orbit. no, it doesnt, and saying that it does is ignorant and wrong.
Diary of a Very Bad Year, by Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager
The Asylum, by Leah McGrath Goodman
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
-- interviews with real people who know how real hedge funds actually work in the real world, not the fantasy land of milton friedman and ayn rand.
on the face of the computer industry.
next up 'lets remake kings quest as a first person shooter'
EA represents everything that is soulless and wrong.
every creative, visionary company of the 90s that came within 10 feet of EA corporate has withered and died, like they were infected by some kind of black plague of the soul.
all it has to do is ring up the Attorney General on the gigantic 3 foot tall "competition and free market" phone in the whitehouse.
when I read the story about the guy who ripped off the JSTOR archives by sitting in an MIT wiring closet, and got sued for it, i screamed "How is this different from what google does with google books? they didnt get copyright permission from all their authors..."
guess.. uhm.. oops. guess it wasnt THAT different.
why dont you have a seat right there. now
why dont you tell us why you came here today?
in the 2000s hedge funds increasingly became run out of people's basements... take connecticut for example. hedge fund capital of the world... dudes sitting in their mcmansions trading bonds in their man-caves.
now with electronic trading of stocks, and commodities futures... the 'open outcry' pits where traders go to work and yell at each other, have almost disappeared... all that has happened mostly in the last 10 years.
you get a super cheap dorm, so that FoxConn can be assured that you are not out dilly dallying instead of doing your 80 hours a week
should we have had a "war against Christianism"?
layouts... its pretty well known he made some guys redesign a motherboard because it wasnt pretty enough.
who did you want to invade and kill?
are payed off by the mafia rings that run these shows.
think about Mexican drug cartels. they are known to have infiltrated the media, as well as the federal police force, and even the offices of the government. reporters have been killed.
lets not even talk about Pakistan, Russia, etc.
1. you cant copyright basic facts. this goes back to Feist v Rural Telephone.
2. breaking 'terms and conditions' is not a violation of the CFAA, its probably a violation of copyright law. but EULAs are not always enforcable in the US.
3. if Oracle's business model is based on copyrighting their user manual, (rather than say, building good products, having good customer service, and a good marketing department) then they should have disclosed that to their investors in their SEC filings, otherwise the Oracle executives who signed off on those SEC filings should be prosecuted for Securities Fraud.
to support alot of it.