If we do get to the point where we rewrite the Constitution, we need to put some teeth in that sucker. For instance, establish a points-based system for unconstitutional laws. If a law is overturned as being unconstitutional, every member of congress (both the House and the Senate) gets one "point". Get to 10 points, and you are automatically barred from reelection or holding any kind of elective office, ever again. Get to 15 points and you're kicked out of office before the expiration of your current term. As it is now, Congress can pass all the fucked up laws they want with no danger of being called to account for it.
Um, they already are. They eat the cost of criminal transactions rather than force their customers to absorb all of those losses. Given that, it makes sense for them to block people from making payments to criminal enterprises (since their "customers" could easily turn around and say "I didn't buy those downloaded CDs, I'm not paying that money.")
How about the fact that he MPAA and RIAA have significant clout with retailers? If they tell retailers "Drop MasterCard or we'll drop you", quite a few retailers would no longer accept MasterCards. There goes those profits!
For you people claiming to live in areas that have no competition, and you have to use Comcast or just not be on the Internets, I suggest you go here, sign up, and start your DSL-providing ISP. Because it sounds like there's tons of opportunity in your area.
For 99% of customers the choice is between a huge bloated government granted and regulated monopoly telco and the almost as bloated government grated and regulated cable company.
Name one telco company in the US that is a monopoly and gets a charter from the government. Just one. I'll wait.
His competitors, in this instance, are all-internet news sources, not daily papers.
Unfortunately, the biggest players in the sphere (Gawker, TMZ, Radar Online) are all private corporations so no financial data is available. But in ten years, which group do you think will still be around: the ones making their content easily and readily available, or the ones trying to lock in their customers?
Um, yes it does, because if it doesn't bring something that other formats don't then no one will sign up for it. Which means Murdoch and company won't make any more money.
The only military video I've seen on Wikileaks was not misrepresented, at all. It is clear from the video and the conversations in it that the people firing the guns on the helicopter simply did not care if their targets were valid or not. They were excited at the prospect of killing people and didn't care about anything else.
I agree with you about all three of those shows. But come on, none of them are movie classics (even if they are American). Why does a network supposedly dedicated to showing classic moves 24/7 need original programming?
I had just moved to a new city half way across the county to be a Police Officer in a pretty rough area. I kind of related to the whole being away from family/ friends and not knowing if you were going to see them again.
Dear FSM, I hope that's a typo. Otherwise, you've got to be the most emo cop out there, what with being upset about not seeing your family when they're at most an hour's drive away.
You don't even have to ascribe evil intent here. All companies eventually die (except for banks that are "too big to fail", that is). Why trust your computing resources to an entity that might last as long as you?
It's being built in the Mojave Desert. Anything capable of causing sufficiently cloudy days for long enough to prevent solar collection is going to be a bigger problem by itself that not being able to pump out heat from the now-cooled salt. An eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera, comet impact, nuclear attack, something on that order is what we're talking about.
You're a whatnow? Which country is that from? The United States of Mexico is my first guess, though the United States of Brazil could fit, as well (in which case you really need to let that one go since it's been about 40 years since it was the official name of Brazil).
While I appreciate your point, the number of armed Americans didn't stop the Patriot Act, the TSA and their junk-touching mission, Obamacare, and every other abomination that's come down the pipe in the last 10 years (or more).
Or have big banners at the top saying "This page made possible by a grant from the Soandso Foundation and Fnord Motor Company". Like you said, not an ad per se, but still extending those companies influence by showing they care about sharing knowledge.
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If we do get to the point where we rewrite the Constitution, we need to put some teeth in that sucker. For instance, establish a points-based system for unconstitutional laws. If a law is overturned as being unconstitutional, every member of congress (both the House and the Senate) gets one "point". Get to 10 points, and you are automatically barred from reelection or holding any kind of elective office, ever again. Get to 15 points and you're kicked out of office before the expiration of your current term. As it is now, Congress can pass all the fucked up laws they want with no danger of being called to account for it.
Um, they already are. They eat the cost of criminal transactions rather than force their customers to absorb all of those losses. Given that, it makes sense for them to block people from making payments to criminal enterprises (since their "customers" could easily turn around and say "I didn't buy those downloaded CDs, I'm not paying that money.")
How about the fact that he MPAA and RIAA have significant clout with retailers? If they tell retailers "Drop MasterCard or we'll drop you", quite a few retailers would no longer accept MasterCards. There goes those profits!
For you people claiming to live in areas that have no competition, and you have to use Comcast or just not be on the Internets, I suggest you go here, sign up, and start your DSL-providing ISP. Because it sounds like there's tons of opportunity in your area.
For 99% of customers the choice is between a huge bloated government granted and regulated monopoly telco and the almost as bloated government grated and regulated cable company.
Name one telco company in the US that is a monopoly and gets a charter from the government. Just one. I'll wait.
Have you checked Covad? They provide DSL service pretty much everywhere.
His competitors, in this instance, are all-internet news sources, not daily papers.
Unfortunately, the biggest players in the sphere (Gawker, TMZ, Radar Online) are all private corporations so no financial data is available. But in ten years, which group do you think will still be around: the ones making their content easily and readily available, or the ones trying to lock in their customers?
He can go looking for that evidence all day long. Meanwhile, his competitors will keep making money left, right, and center.
Um, yes it does, because if it doesn't bring something that other formats don't then no one will sign up for it. Which means Murdoch and company won't make any more money.
Is there no steel left in the American soul?
No.
Yo dawg, I hurd you like intelligence, so I put an intelligence in your intelligence so you can spy when you spy.
What are you talking about? ICNOASP is a cool acronym. See, it means "I see no asp". 'Cause there are no snakes in Antarctica. Get it?
So you've never heard of "voting with your wallet"? Though come to think of it, we kind of do that with politicians, too.
The only military video I've seen on Wikileaks was not misrepresented, at all. It is clear from the video and the conversations in it that the people firing the guns on the helicopter simply did not care if their targets were valid or not. They were excited at the prospect of killing people and didn't care about anything else.
Wait, I'm confused. Did you like it or not?
I agree with you about all three of those shows. But come on, none of them are movie classics (even if they are American). Why does a network supposedly dedicated to showing classic moves 24/7 need original programming?
I had just moved to a new city half way across the county to be a Police Officer in a pretty rough area. I kind of related to the whole being away from family/ friends and not knowing if you were going to see them again.
Dear FSM, I hope that's a typo. Otherwise, you've got to be the most emo cop out there, what with being upset about not seeing your family when they're at most an hour's drive away.
they don't all have boob jobs and tramp stamps.
Are you implying that only porn stars have those things? If that's the case, then my wife and most of her friends are all porn stars.
You don't even have to ascribe evil intent here. All companies eventually die (except for banks that are "too big to fail", that is). Why trust your computing resources to an entity that might last as long as you?
It's being built in the Mojave Desert. Anything capable of causing sufficiently cloudy days for long enough to prevent solar collection is going to be a bigger problem by itself that not being able to pump out heat from the now-cooled salt. An eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera, comet impact, nuclear attack, something on that order is what we're talking about.
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You're a whatnow? Which country is that from? The United States of Mexico is my first guess, though the United States of Brazil could fit, as well (in which case you really need to let that one go since it's been about 40 years since it was the official name of Brazil).
While I appreciate your point, the number of armed Americans didn't stop the Patriot Act, the TSA and their junk-touching mission, Obamacare, and every other abomination that's come down the pipe in the last 10 years (or more).
He's on that list, genius, and is given as the second example of the First Rule of French Warfare (France only wins when not led by a Frenchman).
They're French, what did you expect? It takes a while to organize a protest when your people are only working 30 hours a week.
Or have big banners at the top saying "This page made possible by a grant from the Soandso Foundation and Fnord Motor Company". Like you said, not an ad per se, but still extending those companies influence by showing they care about sharing knowledge.