The RIAA says that the FBI has seized the domain of file-sharing service ShareBeast, shutting down what it said was responsible for the leaks of thousands of songs.
Yeah, how about arresting the RIAA employees and band reps who leak these songs out onto sharing sites to drum up interest in new groups or new albums from old bands?
Well thank goodness! At least in America we can sleep safe knowing that after law enforcement and prosecutors destroy our lives and careers, newspapers will be able to talk about it and someone might eventually apologize! Enjoy those freedoms people!
That's ridiculous, because the FBI already has the power to enter your home without your knowledge through "sneak & peek" warrants. Or, failing even that tenuous legality, they could arrest him at work and search his house at their leisure later.
SWAT teams converging on a house that's been under surveillance without any imminent or ongoing life threatening situation only serve one purpose, intimidation of the suspect.
No, the story is that the intelligence agencies in America are big lumbering giants swatting at everything that moves rather than actually knowing and targeting what they're looking for, at the expense of our freedoms as citizens.
It's because he was selling the movies for profit, of course... the studios can respect some good honest capitalist theft, I mean c'mon, most of the studios have at least a couple of outright thefts of their own.
No no, the REAL threats to the system are those damn pinko socialist commies just GIVING AWAY the studio's "property". We can't let that stand, no sir!
Yep.. because 10 year olds "intuitively" would know to manually adjust the memory heaps for their programs.. or to use a rom manager to enable 32-bit addressing instead of 24-bit at boot.. yep.. or not spend 20 minutes looking for the damn on button that seemed to be moved to a creatively new and harder to find location with each new Mac.. and command-key click is sooo much more intuitive than right-clicking on menu items!
The US also has what, 1000X the land mass of Norway? It's not really something you can compare. There are whole states with barely 500,000 people in them.
New York City, JUST the city, has a bigger population than New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Montana, Delaware, South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska, DC, Vermont, AND Wyoming COMBINED.
Verizon & AT&T will have the best average coverage throughout the US, especially the more rural areas. T-Mobile, Sprint and the various budget providers who piggyback on T-Mo & Sprint's networks work best in more urban areas, although there are always dead zones here and there too..
Compared to Europe, the US is still pretty empty, population wise, so a lot of rural areas just aren't worth investing in the network spectrum to cover unfortunately.
But but.. how can I prove I'm a computer ninja if I don't have to remember vast lists of obscure command names, program switches and system calls??????
Wrong wrong wrong. Because we've already been through this stuff, multiple times, if you bothered to look it up. First thing, the company's lawyers fight that the laws don't even cover whatever it is the plaintiffs blame them of. Then they fight to prevent any lawsuit from being a class action, so that every plaintiff has to go through the financial burdens of the lawsuit on their own, pay for their own discovery, etc. THEN while all that's going on, the company starts PR campaigns to get any prospective jury pool on their side before a trial can even happen, if they can't defend their product then they tear down the plaintiff. By the time a case ever gets before a jury, the odds are the plaintiff has already died, if not then the case is so tainted it's a miracle that it continues and even more miraculous if the plaintiff wins.
It took more than 50 years and hundreds of attempts to nail the tobacco companies, and they're still in business. Tell me more fairy tales about how lawsuits are better than regulation.
Uhuh... and how do businesses get a state granted monopoly? By paying off the government to remove it's regulations for them, so they can exercise their greed freely! Which you seem to think is bad, yet you're arguing for less regulations on businesses! You people, your minds twist like worm trails.
Yet you know with certainty that the doctors prescribed a real medication with actual effects and not just colored water that the doctor makes in the back of his office. You know, with certainty that the bottle Wal-Mart sells you (and really, if you have money wtf are you shopping at Wal-Mart?) will be the actual medicine and that they haven't been mixing water in to increase their profits, or buying counterfeit drugs to again increase their profits.
The reason you know these things is because the government enforces regulations protecting you from such dishonest practices. The government enforces regulations that save your life and your children's lives from corporate greed every day, and because you don't see that you get to pretend like they aren't necessary, but you are simply deluded.
Also, you may have money but you certainly aren't very bright if you think googling WebMD is a valid replacement for a medical degree.
You seem to be implying somehow that free markets don't really work without government assistance balancing out the unchecked greed, and that's just socialist talk.
No government is blameless for the things it does for it's citizens, but governments have checks and balances. As much as we would not sit quietly while the government decided to, for instance, disband the Supreme Court, nor should we stand by while corporations try to remove the things that balance their interests against the public's.
As for your ridiculous statement that the judicial branch saves us from bad companies and not the lawmakers, ummm you do realize that the courts can't do a damn thing if a law or regulation doesn't exist to be broken in the first place right? Or are you telling me that judges should make up laws as they like? Don't conservatives have a name for that.. oh right Activist Judges!
Corporations can regulate themselves! We can totally trust them not to put greed ahead of public safety! Really, they've learned their lessons and besides, we have all the regulation the market needs with civil lawsuits! Just let us reform a few tort laws and cut a few useless regulations holding back all the awesome good things we want to bring to people and we'll all be living in a utopia!
I've always wondered, if you hate Social Justice Warriors, does that make you a Social Injustice Warrior? I mean, that's a weird thing to stand proudly behind, social injustice.
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Well, according to every MRA member who has ever defended why there are more men in STEM fields, it's because boy's are more interested in them.
Weird how that gets tossed out the window in the hysteria over women dominating other fields, isn't it.
But don't worry! Men may be a minority in biological sciences, yet they still manage to dominate the field.
The RIAA says that the FBI has seized the domain of file-sharing service ShareBeast, shutting down what it said was responsible for the leaks of thousands of songs.
Yeah, how about arresting the RIAA employees and band reps who leak these songs out onto sharing sites to drum up interest in new groups or new albums from old bands?
Well thank goodness! At least in America we can sleep safe knowing that after law enforcement and prosecutors destroy our lives and careers, newspapers will be able to talk about it and someone might eventually apologize! Enjoy those freedoms people!
That's ridiculous, because the FBI already has the power to enter your home without your knowledge through "sneak & peek" warrants. Or, failing even that tenuous legality, they could arrest him at work and search his house at their leisure later.
SWAT teams converging on a house that's been under surveillance without any imminent or ongoing life threatening situation only serve one purpose, intimidation of the suspect.
No, the story is that the intelligence agencies in America are big lumbering giants swatting at everything that moves rather than actually knowing and targeting what they're looking for, at the expense of our freedoms as citizens.
Just remember everyone, the problem isn't our intelligence services, it's America's "deep cynicism" over our intelligence services!
It's because he was selling the movies for profit, of course... the studios can respect some good honest capitalist theft, I mean c'mon, most of the studios have at least a couple of outright thefts of their own.
No no, the REAL threats to the system are those damn pinko socialist commies just GIVING AWAY the studio's "property". We can't let that stand, no sir!
Never move to a city, you apparently wouldn't be able to handle being around more people than cows.
Yep.. because 10 year olds "intuitively" would know to manually adjust the memory heaps for their programs.. or to use a rom manager to enable 32-bit addressing instead of 24-bit at boot.. yep.. or not spend 20 minutes looking for the damn on button that seemed to be moved to a creatively new and harder to find location with each new Mac.. and command-key click is sooo much more intuitive than right-clicking on menu items!
The US also has what, 1000X the land mass of Norway? It's not really something you can compare. There are whole states with barely 500,000 people in them.
New York City, JUST the city, has a bigger population than New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Montana, Delaware, South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska, DC, Vermont, AND Wyoming COMBINED.
The US is still ridiculously underpopulated.
Verizon & AT&T will have the best average coverage throughout the US, especially the more rural areas. T-Mobile, Sprint and the various budget providers who piggyback on T-Mo & Sprint's networks work best in more urban areas, although there are always dead zones here and there too..
Compared to Europe, the US is still pretty empty, population wise, so a lot of rural areas just aren't worth investing in the network spectrum to cover unfortunately.
If su was part of your kernel, you were doing it wrong.
But but.. how can I prove I'm a computer ninja if I don't have to remember vast lists of obscure command names, program switches and system calls??????
Wrong wrong wrong. Because we've already been through this stuff, multiple times, if you bothered to look it up. First thing, the company's lawyers fight that the laws don't even cover whatever it is the plaintiffs blame them of. Then they fight to prevent any lawsuit from being a class action, so that every plaintiff has to go through the financial burdens of the lawsuit on their own, pay for their own discovery, etc. THEN while all that's going on, the company starts PR campaigns to get any prospective jury pool on their side before a trial can even happen, if they can't defend their product then they tear down the plaintiff. By the time a case ever gets before a jury, the odds are the plaintiff has already died, if not then the case is so tainted it's a miracle that it continues and even more miraculous if the plaintiff wins.
It took more than 50 years and hundreds of attempts to nail the tobacco companies, and they're still in business. Tell me more fairy tales about how lawsuits are better than regulation.
Uhuh... and how do businesses get a state granted monopoly? By paying off the government to remove it's regulations for them, so they can exercise their greed freely! Which you seem to think is bad, yet you're arguing for less regulations on businesses! You people, your minds twist like worm trails.
Yet you know with certainty that the doctors prescribed a real medication with actual effects and not just colored water that the doctor makes in the back of his office. You know, with certainty that the bottle Wal-Mart sells you (and really, if you have money wtf are you shopping at Wal-Mart?) will be the actual medicine and that they haven't been mixing water in to increase their profits, or buying counterfeit drugs to again increase their profits.
The reason you know these things is because the government enforces regulations protecting you from such dishonest practices. The government enforces regulations that save your life and your children's lives from corporate greed every day, and because you don't see that you get to pretend like they aren't necessary, but you are simply deluded.
Also, you may have money but you certainly aren't very bright if you think googling WebMD is a valid replacement for a medical degree.
You seem to be implying somehow that free markets don't really work without government assistance balancing out the unchecked greed, and that's just socialist talk.
No government is blameless for the things it does for it's citizens, but governments have checks and balances. As much as we would not sit quietly while the government decided to, for instance, disband the Supreme Court, nor should we stand by while corporations try to remove the things that balance their interests against the public's.
As for your ridiculous statement that the judicial branch saves us from bad companies and not the lawmakers, ummm you do realize that the courts can't do a damn thing if a law or regulation doesn't exist to be broken in the first place right? Or are you telling me that judges should make up laws as they like? Don't conservatives have a name for that.. oh right Activist Judges!
Corporations can regulate themselves! We can totally trust them not to put greed ahead of public safety! Really, they've learned their lessons and besides, we have all the regulation the market needs with civil lawsuits! Just let us reform a few tort laws and cut a few useless regulations holding back all the awesome good things we want to bring to people and we'll all be living in a utopia!
So when did you stop molesting your kid?
Do you feel better about yourself proclaiming your superiority over the internet?
I've always wondered, if you hate Social Justice Warriors, does that make you a Social Injustice Warrior? I mean, that's a weird thing to stand proudly behind, social injustice.
Well, your mom does give me that toothless blowjob that's just hard to let go.
No, I live in a coal state. My description was completely accurate.