Except Humans have been around for much less than 30% of the earth's existence are are HIGHLY dependant on the current state of the earth's climate.
We need the climates in farming regions to remain stable or else no food. Even if a different region becomes farmable there wouldn't be the physical infrastructure to take care of it let alone the socal infrastructure.
Shifting growing regions means shifting populations and power and that means conflicts and wars.
The North West passage in the last three centuries was a fabled myth that many explores risked their lives and often died trying to find, all in vain.
This century it is almost a yearly occurrence.
The difference? The ice.
Global Climate Change due to manmade influences on nature is occuring, and seeing as how we depend on climates remaining stable throughout nearly all parts of the world it is a big deal.
Climate changes in good growing region means no food for cities supplied for that region. Yes another region may pop up with better climate but without the access roads and modern technology infrastructure to use and harvest it.
So even if Climate Change/Global warming is a zero sum over all, it is still a major issue to be dealt with and not just some "liberal" conspiracy.
However while DMCA does handle one side of the equation it does not handle the wrongful use of DMCA notices taking down stuff that is legal. There are no anti-DMCA notices.
There needs to be a system to report on and have abuses checked and punished.
Well they may have been right, but only in the short term.
It takes some time for the bugs and exploits to be found. Even the best OS's will have them. And if not fixed the safest OS one year will be the wide open security hole the next.
That said I seriously doubt they did any real checking to see if what they were saying was true.
The best way to make a computer safe from hackers is to remove the power cord. The second best is to remove all network connections. But both of those are only if you are measuring purely from a safety from hackers and malicious use, as both also remove most all other use of the computer as well.
If someone is born gay then they are gay by birth and it isn't really a choice and you have no right to punish them or infringe upon their rights and freedoms for it for it.
If a person is not born gay then it is a choice and guess what it is their choice to make and you have no right to punish them or infringe upon their rights and freedoms for it for it.
In any case this is probably a case of Amazon trying to silence one loud and outraged part of their clientelle without another part noticing. The other part noticed and was louder. The fact that the other part also had justice on their side is incidental. Amazon can be bigoted to a certain extent if they wish at least until they lose business for it.
The lawyer is likely working 9 to 5 with little or no personal liability in his job other than accountability for an arbitrary measure for his job performance(such as sending and filing said C&D letters). So I don't think the lawyer writing/sending them out thinks much at all about it.
Yeah but try being the one who is scared proving that you were scared into signing it. Often the threat is the cost of hiring a legal defence. In order to prove that you were coerced and scared into signing a contract you have to hire the same or greater legal defence and come back to the same real reason you were threatened in the first place.
but "fixing twitter" like that would require twitter to take more than 140 characters as you are now asking twitter to also handle the unseen characters in html(thing between the 's).
That's the real reason. People like to think they are on the "High Speed" and love the "Unlimited" keyword in a plan.
Companies don't want to put down real hard limits in writing because "Unlimited" and "High Speed" are both relative terms that are hard to compare making it difficult for customers to shop around or demand more. While one cable company might have the monopoly on cable broad band in a market there are probably also satellite and DSL even regular tel-modem services that could be used.
Putting down real numbers means that customers will have more information and competitors can undercut them, also real numbers means that customers can demand a minimum of service and will be more likely to notice if they are not getting those numbers.
Because most of the time it isn't more effective to let them blog in obscurity.
I'd be willing to bet that most people blowing whistles or posting such sites have not crossed every "t" and dotted every "i" and do have some legal leverage that companies can use to shut them down and in many cases wipe them out. Most fold quietly and are never heard from or else are destroyed by legal fees. These bussinesses would not pursue these practices if they were not effective in most cases.
Sending a scary legal-looking letter especially to a young or low-wage person is more than enough to get them to shut down and shut up what ever they are doing that you don't like. Often you can get the person to sign something to have them give up more rights while they are scared and thus have even more power over them once and if they ever come to their senses.
"put the lawyers against" requires money, and a lot of it. If you are a non-wealthy tier citizen it is not something you can afford and therefore any rights requiring lawyers or legal assistance is something which non-wealthy citizens(aka middle class and lower) are not entitled to, where wealthy citizens are.
This is how the US government works. The wealthy class are taught the language of money and law, and given the ability, clout and means to use it(all three are known by the rest of us as capital or simply money). The non-wealthy classes may aspire to become wealthy, but until they do must not know their place and must be kept in the dark as to how the legal system works. This is simple as the language of the legal and financial system is kept so abstruse and threatening that no one without a constant immersion and direct means to use it would ever be willing to try and navigate it. There are of course colleges that teach these things but the cost is kept at a high enough rate that only the cream who are willing to keep the status safely quo are allowed to pass through the rest are generally given such crushing financial debts that they are never able to wield these instruments against their makers.
We have a wonderful financial system. It has replaced the government without the people ever realizing it. No matter how much is blustered about reform and regulation just look who is in office under those elected. Sure you could have voted for the other guy, because the system is so perfect that he'd be in the same pocket just on the other side of the button. All blame is shifted to abstractions-today called "Red" and "Blue"-and the system works right on around all the outrage and indignaty of the unwealthy undeserving majority, the loser classes, while the winners reap all the benefits.
The RIAA is a good scape goat and fine working piece of this machinery slowly but surely shutting down all of the loser ability to speak out in any meaningful way. In concert with efforts to control content on the internet it will soon be that dissent will be funneled through the tightest of information capillaries where the mere effort to squeak it out will be so much that the individual will be seen as stupid and undeserving of being listened to simply for wasting their valuable time.
MP4 vs MP3...how many people have good enough ears + speakers + sound cards to notice the difference? Also the quality of the encoding and source itself can have much greater impact on sound quality.
Emusic wins on price.
Also I'd like to note that the selections are different. There are tracks available on Itunes that are not on Emusic, and there are tracks available on Emusic that are not available on Itunes.
Can you download from Itunes w/o using the Itunes software? IE can you take firefox, granted with Java and Flash enabled, and use Itunes? You can do that with Emusic. Is Itunes available for linux(Seriously I've not checked in a couple of months)?
Since you have been deemed insightful by the moderators please elaborate on your insight about the reason why I should elaborate on my insight because I have been deemed insightful.
There is nothing wrong for profiting off of public domain works. Just as long as you don't try to take it as private domain(which would be fraud ultimately).
After all a person selling downloads of public domain songs on MP3 format is still providing the service of hosting, advertising, and probably conversion as well as editing and clean-up of the sound file, all of which are reasonable things to demand payment for.
The problem with economic "laws" is that unlike scientific laws they don't change even when a perponderance of evidence is put forth against them.
The "Law" of Supply and Demand is still used as a foundation of many economic theories even though great evidence can be put forth that it is inadequate and poorly suited for explaining most economic climates.
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Except Humans have been around for much less than 30% of the earth's existence are are HIGHLY dependant on the current state of the earth's climate.
We need the climates in farming regions to remain stable or else no food. Even if a different region becomes farmable there wouldn't be the physical infrastructure to take care of it let alone the socal infrastructure.
Shifting growing regions means shifting populations and power and that means conflicts and wars.
The North West passage in the last three centuries was a fabled myth that many explores risked their lives and often died trying to find, all in vain.
This century it is almost a yearly occurrence.
The difference? The ice.
Global Climate Change due to manmade influences on nature is occuring, and seeing as how we depend on climates remaining stable throughout nearly all parts of the world it is a big deal.
Climate changes in good growing region means no food for cities supplied for that region. Yes another region may pop up with better climate but without the access roads and modern technology infrastructure to use and harvest it.
So even if Climate Change/Global warming is a zero sum over all, it is still a major issue to be dealt with and not just some "liberal" conspiracy.
Depends on your definition. I did take Political Philosophy in College and there it was indeed a form of government.
I have yet to hear of the Socialist Software Licence or read its terms.
France is a Massive Failure?
England is a Massive Failure?
Canada is a Massive Failure?
MOST OF THE FIRST WORLD NATIONS are massive failures?
I don't think Massive Failure means what you think it means.
No but in your example the person buying the gun also is the one loading aiming it.
TPB is selling the gun loaded and already aimed at a specific illegal act.
Hey those anger-fests are for people of all ages and academic levels!
However while DMCA does handle one side of the equation it does not handle the wrongful use of DMCA notices taking down stuff that is legal. There are no anti-DMCA notices.
There needs to be a system to report on and have abuses checked and punished.
Oh I know you! Does this mean you're NOT gonna be wanting those up-sized gumbo pots now?
Socialism is a form of government not a software license.
Well they may have been right, but only in the short term.
It takes some time for the bugs and exploits to be found. Even the best OS's will have them. And if not fixed the safest OS one year will be the wide open security hole the next.
That said I seriously doubt they did any real checking to see if what they were saying was true.
The best way to make a computer safe from hackers is to remove the power cord. The second best is to remove all network connections. But both of those are only if you are measuring purely from a safety from hackers and malicious use, as both also remove most all other use of the computer as well.
The thing is that it doesn't matter.
If someone is born gay then they are gay by birth and it isn't really a choice and you have no right to punish them or infringe upon their rights and freedoms for it for it.
If a person is not born gay then it is a choice and guess what it is their choice to make and you have no right to punish them or infringe upon their rights and freedoms for it for it.
In any case this is probably a case of Amazon trying to silence one loud and outraged part of their clientelle without another part noticing. The other part noticed and was louder. The fact that the other part also had justice on their side is incidental. Amazon can be bigoted to a certain extent if they wish at least until they lose business for it.
The lawyer is likely working 9 to 5 with little or no personal liability in his job other than accountability for an arbitrary measure for his job performance(such as sending and filing said C&D letters). So I don't think the lawyer writing/sending them out thinks much at all about it.
Yeah but try being the one who is scared proving that you were scared into signing it. Often the threat is the cost of hiring a legal defence. In order to prove that you were coerced and scared into signing a contract you have to hire the same or greater legal defence and come back to the same real reason you were threatened in the first place.
but "fixing twitter" like that would require twitter to take more than 140 characters as you are now asking twitter to also handle the unseen characters in html(thing between the 's).
That's the real reason. People like to think they are on the "High Speed" and love the "Unlimited" keyword in a plan.
Companies don't want to put down real hard limits in writing because "Unlimited" and "High Speed" are both relative terms that are hard to compare making it difficult for customers to shop around or demand more. While one cable company might have the monopoly on cable broad band in a market there are probably also satellite and DSL even regular tel-modem services that could be used.
Putting down real numbers means that customers will have more information and competitors can undercut them, also real numbers means that customers can demand a minimum of service and will be more likely to notice if they are not getting those numbers.
Because most of the time it isn't more effective to let them blog in obscurity.
I'd be willing to bet that most people blowing whistles or posting such sites have not crossed every "t" and dotted every "i" and do have some legal leverage that companies can use to shut them down and in many cases wipe them out. Most fold quietly and are never heard from or else are destroyed by legal fees. These bussinesses would not pursue these practices if they were not effective in most cases.
Sending a scary legal-looking letter especially to a young or low-wage person is more than enough to get them to shut down and shut up what ever they are doing that you don't like. Often you can get the person to sign something to have them give up more rights while they are scared and thus have even more power over them once and if they ever come to their senses.
"Students in places like MIT, Harvard..."
And just how are they in those places?
And who pray tell will be paying for this?
"put the lawyers against" requires money, and a lot of it. If you are a non-wealthy tier citizen it is not something you can afford and therefore any rights requiring lawyers or legal assistance is something which non-wealthy citizens(aka middle class and lower) are not entitled to, where wealthy citizens are.
This is how the US government works. The wealthy class are taught the language of money and law, and given the ability, clout and means to use it(all three are known by the rest of us as capital or simply money). The non-wealthy classes may aspire to become wealthy, but until they do must not know their place and must be kept in the dark as to how the legal system works. This is simple as the language of the legal and financial system is kept so abstruse and threatening that no one without a constant immersion and direct means to use it would ever be willing to try and navigate it. There are of course colleges that teach these things but the cost is kept at a high enough rate that only the cream who are willing to keep the status safely quo are allowed to pass through the rest are generally given such crushing financial debts that they are never able to wield these instruments against their makers.
We have a wonderful financial system. It has replaced the government without the people ever realizing it. No matter how much is blustered about reform and regulation just look who is in office under those elected. Sure you could have voted for the other guy, because the system is so perfect that he'd be in the same pocket just on the other side of the button. All blame is shifted to abstractions-today called "Red" and "Blue"-and the system works right on around all the outrage and indignaty of the unwealthy undeserving majority, the loser classes, while the winners reap all the benefits.
The RIAA is a good scape goat and fine working piece of this machinery slowly but surely shutting down all of the loser ability to speak out in any meaningful way. In concert with efforts to control content on the internet it will soon be that dissent will be funneled through the tightest of information capillaries where the mere effort to squeak it out will be so much that the individual will be seen as stupid and undeserving of being listened to simply for wasting their valuable time.
For you perhaps.
MP4 vs MP3...how many people have good enough ears + speakers + sound cards to notice the difference? Also the quality of the encoding and source itself can have much greater impact on sound quality.
Emusic wins on price.
Also I'd like to note that the selections are different. There are tracks available on Itunes that are not on Emusic, and there are tracks available on Emusic that are not available on Itunes.
Can you download from Itunes w/o using the Itunes software? IE can you take firefox, granted with Java and Flash enabled, and use Itunes? You can do that with Emusic. Is Itunes available for linux(Seriously I've not checked in a couple of months)?
Indeed. Oops a typo.
Never mind that experts also have quite a bit of data and research to back up their claims.
Since you have been deemed insightful by the moderators please elaborate on your insight about the reason why I should elaborate on my insight because I have been deemed insightful.
There is nothing wrong for profiting off of public domain works. Just as long as you don't try to take it as private domain(which would be fraud ultimately).
After all a person selling downloads of public domain songs on MP3 format is still providing the service of hosting, advertising, and probably conversion as well as editing and clean-up of the sound file, all of which are reasonable things to demand payment for.
Indeed they take a governmental role but are not beholden to the people.
ASCAP and agencies like it are often cited as fraudulent in their representations of their legal rights and abilities.
They can be freely because no-one other than another large socially legal-parasitic entity would be able to stand up to them in court.
The problem with economic "laws" is that unlike scientific laws they don't change even when a perponderance of evidence is put forth against them.
The "Law" of Supply and Demand is still used as a foundation of many economic theories even though great evidence can be put forth that it is inadequate and poorly suited for explaining most economic climates.