>>>When a young-looking woman poses as an underage girl online and 40-year old men get arrested for trying to have sex with her, it's catching predators. But when the FBI pretends to be terrorists selling explosives, Stinger missiles or other such things, it's wrong. >>>
Huge difference. The prowler was already in the underage chat room, looking for teens to exploit. What the FBI did in the case of the fake terror plot is equivalent to (1) setting-up the chat website (2) walking-around looking for people (3) giving them a laptop whose homepage is set to the chat room (4) handing them a bag of condoms and saying, "Go for it. We'll tag team her together."
(5) Then announcing on TV, "Hey we caught someone visiting the underage chat. Look here's the bag of condoms to prove it." The FBI is running the WHOLE show from start to finish.
Funny you bring that up. It's suspected that Breitbart's sudden death was planned. On the other hand it could be just coincidence & he died a young man (it happens).
But now the L.A. police are saying his coroner was poisoned. Hmmm. Spells like cover up. The coroner knows too much about what he found in Breitbart's corpse (i.e. not natural causes), and now he's been silenced too.
>>>This would be a scandal if the FBI was making up its own attacks, recruiting people to join them.....
That's exactly what the FBI is doing. They hatch the plot in their D.C. offices. Then they use undercover agents to recruit some unhappy person to help them execute the plot. It's FBI-run from start to finish.
In case you haven't heard one of Obama's admins was selling guns to drug dealers in Mexico, and then when those U.S. guns turned-up in southern border states, justified passage of anti-gun laws to limit them. It's the new trick of false-flagging a U.S. operation to achieve the desired ends.
BTW I think drugs should be decriminalized. Per the 10th amendment Congress has zero authority to ban them... no more authority than they have to ban alcohol. The power is reserved to the People and the people's legislatures. (Same goes for Congress attempt to outlaw natural milk.)
Strike the clause "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
Alternate amendment 28: Strike the clause "securing for limited Times" and replace with "securing for one generation". Strike the clause "exclusive right" and replace with "limited & revocable monopoly".
Not his involving Americans in two new wars (Yemen and Libya) without permission of the People in Congress? Not his insistence that Congress add 2 lines to the NDAA to let him imprison americans without a trial? Not his assassination of 3 american citizens (including a 16 year old child) w/o giving them a constitutional a right to trial? Not his raising the national debt at twice the rate of George "duh" Bush? I would be HAPPY if Obama's only flaw was signing ACTA/supporting SOPA.
>>>performing a cover of a pop song for free at a concert is not an issue here either.
Yeah actually it is. Public performance of copyrighted works, even legal recordings, is forbidden in the U.S. and the RIAA expects other countries to have similar laws.
>>>There's at least a slight chance Obama could take on AT&T/Verizon/Comcast if he wins re-election.
You mean the guy who signed ACTA and supported SOPA (and will probably sign CISPA). He's the guy you're counting on to save internet video from NBC/comcast??? Ha. Unlikely. (And to the guy below: I think both Obama and Romney suck. They are really no different than George "duh" Bush.)
Stupidest comment of the week. There's a lot of science fiction set in the present, or even some in the past (such as explaining how Jack the Ripper was actually an alien doing a brief Earth visit/experiment).
The thing that separates *science* fiction from *fantasy* fiction is that the first can happen in the real world, while the second can not. This is self-evident in the very naming of each genre.
That just means the terrorists will attack a different building (like Empire State or the Sears Tower). It's pointless reinforcing for a building that will never be touched again. Kinda like how the TSA groping/scanning is pointless.
I'd rather pay $7 with corporations running ads & funding the cost, rather than pay $70 without the ads. (And no that's not an outrageous claim: The adfree BBC charges $300 per british home in fees. Corporate-sponsored PBS only costs us about 2 dollars.)
It isn't the corporation violating the contract via nonpayment..... it's the People of this country, and they didn't sign anything. They never made a promise that you will get paid "residuals" every time a show is watched. They are not bound by your silly piece of paper.
You got paid a salary. The end. Welcome to the world the other 99.9% of us experience. Residual payments on repeat viewings are as obsolete as horsewhips and tinkers, tailors, and candlestick makers.
The DRM is cracked on DVD/bluray, so it's really not an issue. You can copy both easily into whatever format you desire. PLUS if you have the physical disc you don't have to worry about it self-erasing (as happens with DVD-Rs).
Well then maybe he had the wrong antenna. Using a UHF antenna to tune VHF stations won't work (or vice-versa). A lot of people made that mistake after the analog cutoff.
Plus even if he had a skyscraper in the way, the power levels ~3 miles from the broadcast station are so high the TV waves will just bend around the building. I suspect he used the wrong antenna, used an amplifier when it wasn't necessary, had a bad DTV box, or some other problem that could have been fixed.
BTW my parents use rabbit ears (indoor antenna). They get stations upto 25 miles away. Again, being just 3 miles away you should have zero problems, unless there's an equipment failure.
>>>That's why it's time to declare internet service a utility once and for all, and regulate the fuck out of these industries
We don't regulate electric, natural gas, or sewer companies because they are utilities. We regulate them because they are natural monopolies and would price-rape their customers if the State did not price fix them.
Internet is not a natural monopoly. You can squeeze 100 fibers into the space of one sewer pipe. There is no reason why we should be limited to just one company, when we could have a choice of 100 companies (one per fiber).
I propose we turn-over this fiber bundle to government ownership, like we do with roads, and then let the customers choose whatever company they want to use, just as customers decide what car to drive. You can have Ford or Honda or GM or Toyota or..... and at home you can have Comcast or Time-warner or Verizon or ATT or Sprint or AppleTV or.....
Great now I gotta go through 50 gig of downloaded video to make sure it's clean. How tiresome.
Or I could just invite the DHS to look at it. Surely they wouldn't put me into indefinite detainment for a having Al-Queda porn/documents? Nah. That's conspiracy talk.
That's okay because I'm used to advertising. My Free TV has about 20 minutes per hour where hulu only has 5 per hour, so hulu is actually an improvement.
>>>(I'm too stoopid to figure out Torrents, and my DSL is only 1400kbps down
Heh... my DSL is only 700k and I download tons of TV shows/movies. Torrents are easy. You download the *.tor file from isohunt.com, and then load the file into your web browser or http://www.utorrent.com/ Easy.
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>>>When a young-looking woman poses as an underage girl online and 40-year old men get arrested for trying to have sex with her, it's catching predators. But when the FBI pretends to be terrorists selling explosives, Stinger missiles or other such things, it's wrong.
>>>
Huge difference. The prowler was already in the underage chat room, looking for teens to exploit. What the FBI did in the case of the fake terror plot is equivalent to (1) setting-up the chat website (2) walking-around looking for people (3) giving them a laptop whose homepage is set to the chat room (4) handing them a bag of condoms and saying, "Go for it. We'll tag team her together."
(5) Then announcing on TV, "Hey we caught someone visiting the underage chat. Look here's the bag of condoms to prove it." The FBI is running the WHOLE show from start to finish.
Funny you bring that up. It's suspected that Breitbart's sudden death was planned. On the other hand it could be just coincidence & he died a young man (it happens).
But now the L.A. police are saying his coroner was poisoned. Hmmm. Spells like cover up. The coroner knows too much about what he found in Breitbart's corpse (i.e. not natural causes), and now he's been silenced too.
>>>This would be a scandal if the FBI was making up its own attacks, recruiting people to join them.....
That's exactly what the FBI is doing. They hatch the plot in their D.C. offices. Then they use undercover agents to recruit some unhappy person to help them execute the plot. It's FBI-run from start to finish.
Used to?
In case you haven't heard one of Obama's admins was selling guns to drug dealers in Mexico, and then when those U.S. guns turned-up in southern border states, justified passage of anti-gun laws to limit them. It's the new trick of false-flagging a U.S. operation to achieve the desired ends.
BTW I think drugs should be decriminalized. Per the 10th amendment Congress has zero authority to ban them... no more authority than they have to ban alcohol. The power is reserved to the People and the people's legislatures. (Same goes for Congress attempt to outlaw natural milk.)
I'd like to try them sometime.
>>> shut down the academic "free exchange" culture once and for all. This is serious, guys.
Nuke the CEO til he glows, and
then shoot him in the dark.
Strike the clause "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
Alternate amendment 28:
Strike the clause "securing for limited Times" and replace with "securing for one generation". Strike the clause "exclusive right" and replace with "limited & revocable monopoly".
Just one?
Not his involving Americans in two new wars (Yemen and Libya) without permission of the People in Congress? Not his insistence that Congress add 2 lines to the NDAA to let him imprison americans without a trial? Not his assassination of 3 american citizens (including a 16 year old child) w/o giving them a constitutional a right to trial? Not his raising the national debt at twice the rate of George "duh" Bush? I would be HAPPY if Obama's only flaw was signing ACTA/supporting SOPA.
>>>performing a cover of a pop song for free at a concert is not an issue here either.
Yeah actually it is.
Public performance of copyrighted works, even legal recordings, is forbidden in the U.S. and the RIAA expects other countries to have similar laws.
>>>There's at least a slight chance Obama could take on AT&T/Verizon/Comcast if he wins re-election.
You mean the guy who signed ACTA and supported SOPA (and will probably sign CISPA). He's the guy you're counting on to save internet video from NBC/comcast??? Ha. Unlikely. (And to the guy below: I think both Obama and Romney suck. They are really no different than George "duh" Bush.)
>>>The point of sci-fi is that it's in the future
Stupidest comment of the week. There's a lot of science fiction set in the present, or even some in the past (such as explaining how Jack the Ripper was actually an alien doing a brief Earth visit/experiment).
The thing that separates *science* fiction from *fantasy* fiction is that the first can happen in the real world, while the second can not. This is self-evident in the very naming of each genre.
That just means the terrorists will attack a different building (like Empire State or the Sears Tower). It's pointless reinforcing for a building that will never be touched again. Kinda like how the TSA groping/scanning is pointless.
I'd rather pay $7 with corporations running ads & funding the cost, rather than pay $70 without the ads. (And no that's not an outrageous claim: The adfree BBC charges $300 per british home in fees. Corporate-sponsored PBS only costs us about 2 dollars.)
It isn't the corporation violating the contract via nonpayment..... it's the People of this country, and they didn't sign anything. They never made a promise that you will get paid "residuals" every time a show is watched. They are not bound by your silly piece of paper.
You got paid a salary. The end. Welcome to the world the other 99.9% of us experience. Residual payments on repeat viewings are as obsolete as horsewhips and tinkers, tailors, and candlestick makers.
>>>And get sports and political talk shows where?
Sports over the antenna.
If I miss a game, I look for the score online.
And talk shows are all over the internet for free. Or via AM Radio
The DRM is cracked on DVD/bluray, so it's really not an issue. You can copy both easily into whatever format you desire. PLUS if you have the physical disc you don't have to worry about it self-erasing (as happens with DVD-Rs).
Well then maybe he had the wrong antenna. Using a UHF antenna to tune VHF stations won't work (or vice-versa). A lot of people made that mistake after the analog cutoff.
Plus even if he had a skyscraper in the way, the power levels ~3 miles from the broadcast station are so high the TV waves will just bend around the building. I suspect he used the wrong antenna, used an amplifier when it wasn't necessary, had a bad DTV box, or some other problem that could have been fixed.
BTW my parents use rabbit ears (indoor antenna). They get stations upto 25 miles away. Again, being just 3 miles away you should have zero problems, unless there's an equipment failure.
>>>child-porn sickos
Careful there. The Supreme Court has ruled that child porn is illegal. Child nudity is not (else nudist beaches/clubs/websites would be banned).
>>>That's why it's time to declare internet service a utility once and for all, and regulate the fuck out of these industries
We don't regulate electric, natural gas, or sewer companies because they are utilities. We regulate them because they are natural monopolies and would price-rape their customers if the State did not price fix them.
Internet is not a natural monopoly. You can squeeze 100 fibers into the space of one sewer pipe. There is no reason why we should be limited to just one company, when we could have a choice of 100 companies (one per fiber).
I propose we turn-over this fiber bundle to government ownership, like we do with roads, and then let the customers choose whatever company they want to use, just as customers decide what car to drive. You can have Ford or Honda or GM or Toyota or..... and at home you can have Comcast or Time-warner or Verizon or ATT or Sprint or AppleTV or.....
Great now I gotta go through 50 gig of downloaded
video to make sure it's clean.
How tiresome.
Or I could just invite the DHS to look at it. Surely they wouldn't put me into indefinite detainment for a having Al-Queda porn/documents? Nah. That's conspiracy talk.
That's okay because I'm used to advertising. My Free TV has about 20 minutes per hour where hulu only has 5 per hour, so hulu is actually an improvement.
>>>(I'm too stoopid to figure out Torrents, and my DSL is only 1400kbps down
Heh... my DSL is only 700k and I download tons of TV shows/movies. Torrents are easy. You download the *.tor file from isohunt.com, and then load the file into your web browser or http://www.utorrent.com/ Easy.
His antenna was too small. This is the monster that I use: It pulls-in stations as far away as 55 miles: http://www.solidsignal.com/pview.asp?mc=03&p=4228-HD
Shitty soap operas? Okay charmed kinda sucks, but what's wrong with Angel the Vampire and Supernatural? Or Law&Order?
>>>GROW A PAIR forfucksake
F U right back.
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