In the UK (and possibly elsewhere) a bigger bar to getting a job can be incorrect information in the Police Criminal Records Database (errors in up to 10% of records they say) as personel departments trust this kind of information more than a search on Google.
This is not a problem local to the UK. Inaccuracies of police and government records are a much much more serious problem then anything your prospective employer can potentially find about you online (unless you're really fucked up). David Burnham's Rise of the Computer State goes into great detail on this topic for those who are curious.
8 tracks? Lucky bastard! Back in my day we had to take the horse & carriage to the concert hall and hear the musicians live if we wanted to hum along with music while we studied!
Can't fault them though, they *do* live in america. Can't really expect them to know what's going on in the rest of the world, or their own country now can we?
If it is just the case that one believes copyright should remain as it is, and one pirate, then definitely it's true, but what about the inclusion of the belief that the person you're pirating from is an immoral pedophile sinner-type, who do not deserve for the law to support them? Would it be moral to pirate the work of a pedophile? What about a neo-nazi? Or a liberal?
"At some point, it just becomes so convienient that you're doing it anyway, even though you feel it's wrong. However, most people don't cope with that kind of internal inconsistancy very long, and over time you just ignore or explain away those thoughts to make your life "right" again"
What about the youngins? Those brought up with pirate parents? They don't have to make reasons for themselves; They were brought up with free access to stuff they didn't pay for and to them it seems the normal thing to do; especially when you look at what kind of respect you'd think a youngin would have for a government who routinely abuses their kind; while I only had video cameras pointed at me from every direction at all times during my highschool years(and only the word of my teachers in elementary school that everything would go on my permanent record, an empty threat at the time but very true today), my little sister has to do blood and/or urine tests to attend a routine school function (in case she's doing drugs that shouldn't be illegal in the first place), at all times have no camera on her person that can't have it's memory erased, and has all sorts of weird somewhat fascist seeming rules on her activity in regards to school; some of her peers get frisked or go through metal detectors just to get into school. How many young computer users have been sent to prison to "set an example" for the rest of us? How many young drug users have had their entire lives ruined for possession? Tranquility bay? Tough Love policies? Anti-skateboarding laws? Rave crackdowns? If the government is corrupt, its laws tools used against you by a class of people who will probably exclude your membership if you aren't subservient to them, and you've been pirating content since you can remember, things seem different. Piracy in those conditions might be seen as a trivial non-compliance with a law that is wholly setup against you, and that you cannot fight against.
However, she is quite real if you trust her history on bookcrossing (although currently out at the farm and thus unable to post); she's of their top posters--I just don't have the time to sockpuppet to that extent. As to whether or not we are coupled, you could ask one of her livejournal friends.
I don't think that/. account is her, though(I would have friended her account by now if she had one)
Now that you mention it, I should get her to sign my GPG key:D
why not just fine sony (number of employees)*(mean salary)*(hours of community service expected) and then tax everyone else less, providing the same social services?
You sir seem to have missed the past 20 years of trade agreements; American laws, especially those concerning business with the US, are certainly valid here.
Not that I think this is right, mind you, but we did elect the "let's bridge the imaginary gap between Canada and the US that 9-11 caused" conservatives, and minority government or not there will be nothing but red tape to protect RIM at this point.
"Take consolation in that CS guys are those that couldn't hack in EE/CE.;-)"
Up until about my third semester or so I didn't know that CS wasn't EE/CE. I would certainly have gone into it had I found out about it before then; by that point it was just too late. Besides I kind of like CS.
I had to argue in mid-2004 with someone who honest to god still believed the earth was flat, and had no conception of the solar system. A humanities student, he was from a poor part of the UK, and happened to come from an absurdly religious family. Smart guy (though he didn't know all too much, but knew to a good extent where his knowledge ended, which is more than a lot of people can say), watched a lot of TV, and didn't get out much, and was a self-proclaimed fundamentalist. We had some interesting discussions we did.
It scares me that people like him are going to graduate and find successful careers while freaks like me get to sink to the bottom of society like rocks.
Assuming that he said something really embarrasing to them they could simply put him on the terrorist list, making sure that
1) No one who does any work for the government, or any non-profit organization can hire him
And making sure that there's a nasty mark on his permanent such that he's labeled a 'dissident' or 'terrorist' or 'communist'(ok mabye not communist), so no one else will hire him
cause problems with the security net (whatever his country has) allowing him to fall through to the deepest depths of poverty
All of it seems his fault; "Why couldn't you just get a job you worthless communist hippie? You didn't have to starve to death"
Granted I'm not sure how much of that power the neocons currently have, but there *is* a terrorist list with a LOT of people on it, including people who work at the ACLU, democrat party, and green party, and there was a law at least suggested that would allow 1) and 2) to take place(not sure if it passed or not), and 3 is just the logical extention of 1 and 2.
but isn't this for just a special class of user (ie not you, nor anyone who chooses not to agree to this) who opts in for ad-based paid membership?
Does this actually affect us paying members?*
*I'm in from a gift membership; I'll pay LJ when I can have friends in blogspot, and independant servers on my LJ friends list, among other things.
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In the UK (and possibly elsewhere) a bigger bar to getting a job can be incorrect information in the Police Criminal Records Database (errors in up to 10% of records they say) as personel departments trust this kind of information more than a search on Google.
This is not a problem local to the UK. Inaccuracies of police and government records are a much much more serious problem then anything your prospective employer can potentially find about you online (unless you're really fucked up). David Burnham's Rise of the Computer State goes into great detail on this topic for those who are curious.
...and godwin's law takes winkydink in for the win.
lameness filter, how I loathe you.
"it's a fact that none of the legislators take them seriously any more"
I beg to differ
8 tracks? Lucky bastard! Back in my day we had to take the horse & carriage to the concert hall and hear the musicians live if we wanted to hum along with music while we studied!
After DRM/trusted computing is done, there will be no libraries.
Can't fault them though, they *do* live in america. Can't really expect them to know what's going on in the rest of the world, or their own country now can we?
If it is just the case that one believes copyright should remain as it is, and one pirate, then definitely it's true, but what about the inclusion of the belief that the person you're pirating from is an immoral pedophile sinner-type, who do not deserve for the law to support them? Would it be moral to pirate the work of a pedophile? What about a neo-nazi? Or a liberal?
"At some point, it just becomes so convienient that you're doing it anyway, even though you feel it's wrong. However, most people don't cope with that kind of internal inconsistancy very long, and over time you just ignore or explain away those thoughts to make your life "right" again"
What about the youngins? Those brought up with pirate parents? They don't have to make reasons for themselves; They were brought up with free access to stuff they didn't pay for and to them it seems the normal thing to do; especially when you look at what kind of respect you'd think a youngin would have for a government who routinely abuses their kind; while I only had video cameras pointed at me from every direction at all times during my highschool years(and only the word of my teachers in elementary school that everything would go on my permanent record, an empty threat at the time but very true today), my little sister has to do blood and/or urine tests to attend a routine school function (in case she's doing drugs that shouldn't be illegal in the first place), at all times have no camera on her person that can't have it's memory erased, and has all sorts of weird somewhat fascist seeming rules on her activity in regards to school; some of her peers get frisked or go through metal detectors just to get into school. How many young computer users have been sent to prison to "set an example" for the rest of us? How many young drug users have had their entire lives ruined for possession? Tranquility bay? Tough Love policies? Anti-skateboarding laws? Rave crackdowns? If the government is corrupt, its laws tools used against you by a class of people who will probably exclude your membership if you aren't subservient to them, and you've been pirating content since you can remember, things seem different. Piracy in those conditions might be seen as a trivial non-compliance with a law that is wholly setup against you, and that you cannot fight against.
Where and for what price can it be purchased?
However, she is quite real if you trust her history on bookcrossing (although currently out at the farm and thus unable to post); she's of their top posters--I just don't have the time to sockpuppet to that extent. As to whether or not we are coupled, you could ask one of her livejournal friends.
/. account is her, though(I would have friended her account by now if she had one)
:D
I don't think that
Now that you mention it, I should get her to sign my GPG key
why not just fine sony (number of employees)*(mean salary)*(hours of community service expected) and then tax everyone else less, providing the same social services?
Time to start building encrypted darknet transmission systems, kids. The dark times are starting.
Actually that time was 4-6 years ago. You're too late, although mabye if you find someone who's already started you can join onto them.
Or source code?
You sir seem to have missed the past 20 years of trade agreements; American laws, especially those concerning business with the US, are certainly valid here.
Not that I think this is right, mind you, but we did elect the "let's bridge the imaginary gap between Canada and the US that 9-11 caused" conservatives, and minority government or not there will be nothing but red tape to protect RIM at this point.
"Take consolation in that CS guys are those that couldn't hack in EE/CE. ;-)"
Up until about my third semester or so I didn't know that CS wasn't EE/CE. I would certainly have gone into it had I found out about it before then; by that point it was just too late. Besides I kind of like CS.
what exactly was it that Nixon did, and of that what has Bush not done?
Mr. Stevenson, it's Satan. Your contract is running out; do you want to sign on for another 3 months? It'll only cost you your virgin daughter's soul.
when this "WebOS" has drivers for my sound, video and crypto cards.
or one that sounds exactly like it. Any pointers?
I had to argue in mid-2004 with someone who honest to god still believed the earth was flat, and had no conception of the solar system. A humanities student, he was from a poor part of the UK, and happened to come from an absurdly religious family. Smart guy (though he didn't know all too much, but knew to a good extent where his knowledge ended, which is more than a lot of people can say), watched a lot of TV, and didn't get out much, and was a self-proclaimed fundamentalist. We had some interesting discussions we did.
It scares me that people like him are going to graduate and find successful careers while freaks like me get to sink to the bottom of society like rocks.
- 1) No one who does any work for the government, or any non-profit organization can hire him
- And making sure that there's a nasty mark on his permanent such that he's labeled a 'dissident' or 'terrorist' or 'communist'(ok mabye not communist), so no one else will hire him
- cause problems with the security net (whatever his country has) allowing him to fall through to the deepest depths of poverty
All of it seems his fault; "Why couldn't you just get a job you worthless communist hippie? You didn't have to starve to death"Granted I'm not sure how much of that power the neocons currently have, but there *is* a terrorist list with a LOT of people on it, including people who work at the ACLU, democrat party, and green party, and there was a law at least suggested that would allow 1) and 2) to take place(not sure if it passed or not), and 3 is just the logical extention of 1 and 2.
please explain to me how ROI and TCO got into this list?
what, like Moodgrapher? I don't understand what's so new?
but isn't this for just a special class of user (ie not you, nor anyone who chooses not to agree to this) who opts in for ad-based paid membership? Does this actually affect us paying members?*
*I'm in from a gift membership; I'll pay LJ when I can have friends in blogspot, and independant servers on my LJ friends list, among other things.