[The authors group said that the court] failed to comprehend the very real potential harm to authors resulting from its decision
If I run a shoe store and somebody opens a competing shoe store next to me, that will reduce my profits and possibly even put me out of business, but that person hasn't "harmed" me. If I sell copies of data and somebody else starts offering competing copies of data, that may well reduce my profits or put me out of business, but they haven't "harmed" me. They are just competing. (Of course, under the legal system, what they are doing may be considered "harm," and it may be illegal.)
One of the most educational movies I ever watched was John Candy in Only the Lonely with Maureen O'Hara. O'Hara plays Candy's controlling mother who is disrespectful beyond belief to nearly everyone in her life. She justifies herself by saying she "tells it like it is" and "says what needs to be said." Of course the truth is a jerk and she ruins lives, or at least makes them much less happier than they could otherwise have been.
Even if you don't learn anything from it, at least the disrespect is entertaining. I'll say one thing for disrespectful insults - at least they are entertaining!:) But spoken out loud or in the wrong context they are nuclear weapons.
Government is what our ancestors decided to call the sociopaths fighting for control that were at least minimally tolerable vs open warfare.
Right, no reason to improve on that, then.
In case it wasn't willful, I'll add emphasis for your old cataracted eyes
I love it. It's funny because it's true! Or close. I'm blind as a bat.
Your side lost, BJ David.
I see what you did there.
Your side lost, BJ David. Non lords get to vote. Non landowners get to vote. Even poor white men got the vote. Blacks get to vote. Women get to vote, even gay black women get to vote. Get over it.
I think you are slightly confused about what side I'm on. I oppose lords voting. I oppose lords, period. I was playing a song to my kids yesterday with the lyric "Until all tyrants perish our work shall not be done."
If you want to overthrow the lawfully elected government
I don't want to overthrow anything. I want you to keep your government, if you want it. I just want everybody else to have the right to alter or abolish it for themselves, while you keep yours, instituting their own new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. I realize that's radical, but a lot of people would like to stop paying for killing brown people around the world and stuff like that and just focus on protecting their own life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
Actually, tax avoidance is completely morally right. I hope eventually to live in a time of 100% tax avoidance. I don't believe we benefit from the parasitical government-governed relationship, but I'd be very happy to see that tested in an environment of completely freedom by letting each individual decide if they want to maintain it or not.
Ah, there we go, I googled for it and saw a thumbnail immediately. Obviously most people are not going to waste time viewing this on the official site when they can see it much quicker elsewhere.
I clicked on it and something animated is happening on my screen, but it definitely isn't a painting. What gives? Microsoft and all these brilliant computer experts can duplicate Rembrandt, but they can't distribute a digital image in a standard, easy to download format?
Why SHOULD someone who's decided to skip the line and avoid the legal requirements of proper immigration get empathy from those they're cheating?
For the same reason that a black woman who decided to sit at the front of the bus or a black man who ignored the "no coloreds" sign at the sandwich shop should get empathy.
Sounds like competition to me. You give me a discount on service under some circumstances. This is somehow racist, if I'm reading the summary correctly.
Another problem I still have: I still have to wait several minutes between each comment I post. I have another tab up with comment #2 that says it's only been 4 minutes and I can't post my comment yet. This will be comment #3. It's going to take most of the night to post my comments if I want to do more than 3 comments.
Hopefully my comments are somewhat relevant and helpful to people and I'm not flagged as just a spammer.
So I got comment #2 posted, and while waiting for enough time to go by to post comment #3 (this comment), I've already written a comment #4. I have to stop - I'm supposed to get up and go into the next room. Here I am waiting, though.
Hey, maybe this is a scheme to get me to post more comments!:D
As an IT'er, i've always followed that encryption etc... is good and shouldn't be made easier to break for the government... That it's an all or nothing story etc...
But i like to make parallels to other things. And i'm now wondering... how is this any different than gun control?
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[The authors group said that the court] failed to comprehend the very real potential harm to authors resulting from its decision
If I run a shoe store and somebody opens a competing shoe store next to me, that will reduce my profits and possibly even put me out of business, but that person hasn't "harmed" me. If I sell copies of data and somebody else starts offering competing copies of data, that may well reduce my profits or put me out of business, but they haven't "harmed" me. They are just competing. (Of course, under the legal system, what they are doing may be considered "harm," and it may be illegal.)
One of the most educational movies I ever watched was John Candy in Only the Lonely with Maureen O'Hara. O'Hara plays Candy's controlling mother who is disrespectful beyond belief to nearly everyone in her life. She justifies herself by saying she "tells it like it is" and "says what needs to be said." Of course the truth is a jerk and she ruins lives, or at least makes them much less happier than they could otherwise have been.
Even if you don't learn anything from it, at least the disrespect is entertaining. I'll say one thing for disrespectful insults - at least they are entertaining! :) But spoken out loud or in the wrong context they are nuclear weapons.
I'm a convert to that belief.
Government is what our ancestors decided to call the sociopaths fighting for control that were at least minimally tolerable vs open warfare.
Right, no reason to improve on that, then.
In case it wasn't willful, I'll add emphasis for your old cataracted eyes
I love it. It's funny because it's true! Or close. I'm blind as a bat.
Your side lost, BJ David.
I see what you did there.
Your side lost, BJ David. Non lords get to vote. Non landowners get to vote. Even poor white men got the vote. Blacks get to vote. Women get to vote, even gay black women get to vote. Get over it.
I think you are slightly confused about what side I'm on. I oppose lords voting. I oppose lords, period. I was playing a song to my kids yesterday with the lyric "Until all tyrants perish our work shall not be done."
If you want to overthrow the lawfully elected government
I don't want to overthrow anything. I want you to keep your government, if you want it. I just want everybody else to have the right to alter or abolish it for themselves, while you keep yours, instituting their own new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. I realize that's radical, but a lot of people would like to stop paying for killing brown people around the world and stuff like that and just focus on protecting their own life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
Government is what our ancestors decided to call the sociopaths fighting for control
Right, no reason to improve on that.
Actually, tax avoidance is completely morally right. I hope eventually to live in a time of 100% tax avoidance. I don't believe we benefit from the parasitical government-governed relationship, but I'd be very happy to see that tested in an environment of completely freedom by letting each individual decide if they want to maintain it or not.
Ah, there we go, I googled for it and saw a thumbnail immediately. Obviously most people are not going to waste time viewing this on the official site when they can see it much quicker elsewhere.
I clicked on it and something animated is happening on my screen, but it definitely isn't a painting. What gives? Microsoft and all these brilliant computer experts can duplicate Rembrandt, but they can't distribute a digital image in a standard, easy to download format?
If I look at it upside down it looks sort of like it is flipping me off...
Except that in this case there's no justice in lining them up at all. They could just come in and are being arbitrarily prohibited from doing so.
I think we can all agree that consumption of that intellectual property without consent is theft
No, I don't agree with that.
Usually, it's because they're too craven to come out and say what they really want: open borders and a generous welfare state for anyone who shows up.
No, I'm very pro-immigration and very anti-welfare. And I'm not craven about it at all; I speak up about it pretty frequently.
Why SHOULD someone who's decided to skip the line and avoid the legal requirements of proper immigration get empathy from those they're cheating?
For the same reason that a black woman who decided to sit at the front of the bus or a black man who ignored the "no coloreds" sign at the sandwich shop should get empathy.
Eating nutritious food which hasn't been processed to death is now expensive.
It has always been expensive. That is why life has previously been so nasty, brutish, and short.
How often do you get laid?
I point out typos to help educate
A lot of people consider unsolicited education to be disrespectful.
Governments should stop granting local monopolies and stop enforcing the laws that make them possible.
Sounds like competition to me. You give me a discount on service under some circumstances. This is somehow racist, if I'm reading the summary correctly.
Ah, I see. So under oligarchy, man oppresses man, but under democracy, it's the other way around! :D
I am an anarchist. I do not believe in democracy. Democracy is just some privileged people telling other people what to do.
I lost them a year or two back with adblock filtering.
Looking great, whipslash!
Another problem I still have: I still have to wait several minutes between each comment I post. I have another tab up with comment #2 that says it's only been 4 minutes and I can't post my comment yet. This will be comment #3. It's going to take most of the night to post my comments if I want to do more than 3 comments.
Hopefully my comments are somewhat relevant and helpful to people and I'm not flagged as just a spammer.
So I got comment #2 posted, and while waiting for enough time to go by to post comment #3 (this comment), I've already written a comment #4. I have to stop - I'm supposed to get up and go into the next room. Here I am waiting, though.
Hey, maybe this is a scheme to get me to post more comments! :D
I always go to example.com. I got tired of my browser totally mis-caching legal agreement pages in the place of real URLs that I like to visit.
As an IT'er, i've always followed that encryption etc... is good and shouldn't be made easier to break for the government... That it's an all or nothing story etc... But i like to make parallels to other things. And i'm now wondering... how is this any different than gun control?
It's not different at all.