We know what will happen if we wait until November 2010 to act. We can choose that destiny, or try for something else. That's voting.
What are our other options? If you're into the "box" thing, we tried the soapbox but theirs was bigger. We tried the ballot box but they owned all the candidates. We tried the jury box but were excluded from the jury. There ain't any boxes left. And the EFF threw in the towel years ago, with 2600 v. MPAA.
I'm not going to have any self-loathing for losing to a juggernaut.
When the cops arrest drivers who are at 0.08 BAC and showing no outward signs of impairment, they're assisting the neo-prohibition movement, by enforcing laws that the neo-prohibition movement got passed.
Would you call arresting drunk drivers part of the neo-prohibition movement?
Yes. The anti-drunk-driving crusaders had a germ of a good purpose to them, but they've gone way beyond what's good, both in overzealousness towards the original purpose, and in going off onto other purposes which aren't good, like neo-prohibitionism. The most obvious move towards neo-prohibitionism is the continuous effort by anti-drunk-driving organizations to get legal blood alcohol levels reduced (ultimately to 0), despite the fact that it is drunks with levels considerably higher than 0.10 who cause the vast majority of the problems.
That's a strawman. You didn't say anything about "as bad as the Holocaust". You said it wasn't morally equivalent to putting ONE PERSON on the train to Auschwitz. Sending a single person to a death camp, bad as it is, isn't as bad as the Holocaust either.
Some skills can be learned by some people, others cannot. The sort of schmoozing and networking that salespeople and executives engage in as a matter of course is as foreign to me as coding is to them. It's bullshit to suggest that everyone can do it.
No. The laws are so outrageous that anyone pointing out the honest truth about them looks like they're spewing hyperbole.
I mean, consider that if I claimed you could be found liable for damages of $675,000 for copying 10 songs? Ridiculous, right? But undeniably true. Same goes for the DMCA. Yes, circumventing a technological copy protection measure can result up to 5 years in prison for each violation. Yes, jurors are required to state that they will obey the judge's instructions no matter what their personal feelings on the law. Yes, expressing disagreement with the law is reason to be excluded for cause during voir dire. And yes, prosecutors take advantage of long maximum sentences to force defendants to give up their right to a trial and plead guilty.
I hate DMCA, but when I was in the booth, for all seats in Congress in all the time since DMCA became law, I voted exclusively for Democrat and Republican candidates. No one else was running, in my state.
It's rather silly to blame yourself for not voting against the DMCA when you literally did not have the option.
A bunch of lobbyists suggest their changes to legislators. Money appears in the legislator's re-election campaign fund, while the legislator finds himself able to take free vacations to exotic locales. Legislators pass legislation into law.
I'm curious if the Pirate Party will start getting enough traction in the U.S. to matter.
Cases like this only really piss-off young, highly technical persons. But if you factor in the RIAA's and MPAA's actions over the last 5 years, it makes me wonder.
The RIAAs actions just bring it up from.01% of people caring to maybe.5%. And the RIAA and MPAA member companies pretty much control the media (literally, no conspiracy theories required), so it matters even less than that.
There are limits to that. You can own and modify a coat hangar all you like until you create a tool to unlock car doors with it, at which point it becomes illegal to posses, with good reason.
I've unlocked car doors with an _unmodified_ car antenna. And no, there's no good reason for car unlocking tools to be illegal.
Facilitating copyright infringement is against the law.
Only because of the DMCA, which is a steaming pile of bullshit which should never have been passed in the first place. So-called nybble and bit copiers were legal.
He could have been arrested for jay walking with a 10 year maximum prison sentence and arresting him would still not be morally equivalent to putting someone on a train Auschwitz.
Really? There's a reason it's called "pound me in the ass Federal Prison". I suppose you could argue that sending someone off to be tortured and raped for no good reason is not morally equivalent to sending them off to be killed for no good reason, but there isn't _much_ moral difference.
He will have a fair trial, likely with a jury of his peers if he chooses to fight it, and, if it really is "some kid tinkering with his console" either get acquitted or, at worst, some probation, a fine, or community service. If only the Jews in Poland had received that much "moral wrongness"...
No. Most likely, he'll be offered some sort of plea deal, which he'll almost have to take because the stakes are just so high. If he gets a trial, it'll be a trial by a jury of those who agree with the law and who have agreed in advance to convict even if they feel it is unjust. Silliness about probation, a fine, and community service is just wishful thinking; violation of the DMCA is a felony.
Getting your dream job is a matter of persistence, being willing to apply to companies, building contacts
Stop right there. Means if you're not a schmoozer (like many of us in the software and IT fields are not), you're screwed. Yeah, we non-schmoozers already knew the path to success lay that way; the path is barred to us by our nature, and telling us to take it is just telling us to give up.
So, I'm 50% wrong, and out of the box we can only charge 90 million cars. Or I'm 75% wrong and it's 45 million. Or I'm 90% wrong, and we can only immediately put 22 million EVs on the road.
It wouldn't be a big deal if it weren't for the environmentalist full-court press. Supposing EVs really were the best thing since sliced bread... we could build more power plants to support them, and more infrastructure; we know how to do that, no breakthroughs required. But nuclear causes waste, hydro kills fish, solar thermal ruins the desert, wind is ugly and chops up birds, and most everything else results in CO2 emissions. Also electric lines are ugly. At some point one tends to throw up one's hands and say the problem is over-constrained and admits to no solution.
Can you give up on progress and go back to whittling wooden crucifixes where you don't have access to a computer?
No, I'm not so good at whittling; maybe you'd like a nice sort-of-pointy stick? An abstract wood sculpture? Anyway, first you have to show the electric car is progress and not a dead end.
I was reading the Wall Street Journal (free subscription, not paying for that crap) and apparently the CEO of JC Penney has to use a Segway because his walking ability is limited. I hope people don't shout at him when he uses it, but unfortunately people are cruel and I bet they do.
I'm sure the CEO of JC Penney cries all the way to the bank.
I've never heard anyone mention any "sock parties." Oh wait, I forgot: they're all part of the conspiracy.
I think the OP may have meant "blanket party". You know, where the recruit who won't get with the program and keeps getting his unit assigned punishment duty has a blanket thrown over him and is then beaten to within an inch of his life to make him conform. The best part about it is the military hierarchy doesn't actually have to do it and can even strictly warn against it (in case the recruits don't get the idea on their own) -- it's done by fellow recruits.
If the security cameras in Vegas where not the best in World, the cons would have cleaned out the casinos years ago and the customers would not feel safe walking in to and out of the casinos with large amounts of cash.
If the customers are walking out with large amounts of cash, someone's head will roll.
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What are our other options? If you're into the "box" thing, we tried the soapbox but theirs was bigger. We tried the ballot box but they owned all the candidates. We tried the jury box but were excluded from the jury. There ain't any boxes left. And the EFF threw in the towel years ago, with 2600 v. MPAA.
I'm not going to have any self-loathing for losing to a juggernaut.
Nonsense. The Ancient Mariner theory is a much better explanation of the decline in albatrosses.
I'm sure there are general orders to cover those situations.
When the cops arrest drivers who are at 0.08 BAC and showing no outward signs of impairment, they're assisting the neo-prohibition movement, by enforcing laws that the neo-prohibition movement got passed.
The DSM IV doesn't draw a distinction between psychopaths and sociopaths; both have "Antisocial Personality Disorder".
They're only allowed to shoot people on command.
Yes. The anti-drunk-driving crusaders had a germ of a good purpose to them, but they've gone way beyond what's good, both in overzealousness towards the original purpose, and in going off onto other purposes which aren't good, like neo-prohibitionism. The most obvious move towards neo-prohibitionism is the continuous effort by anti-drunk-driving organizations to get legal blood alcohol levels reduced (ultimately to 0), despite the fact that it is drunks with levels considerably higher than 0.10 who cause the vast majority of the problems.
That's a strawman. You didn't say anything about "as bad as the Holocaust". You said it wasn't morally equivalent to putting ONE PERSON on the train to Auschwitz. Sending a single person to a death camp, bad as it is, isn't as bad as the Holocaust either.
Some skills can be learned by some people, others cannot. The sort of schmoozing and networking that salespeople and executives engage in as a matter of course is as foreign to me as coding is to them. It's bullshit to suggest that everyone can do it.
No. The laws are so outrageous that anyone pointing out the honest truth about them looks like they're spewing hyperbole.
I mean, consider that if I claimed you could be found liable for damages of $675,000 for copying 10 songs? Ridiculous, right? But undeniably true. Same goes for the DMCA. Yes, circumventing a technological copy protection measure can result up to 5 years in prison for each violation. Yes, jurors are required to state that they will obey the judge's instructions no matter what their personal feelings on the law. Yes, expressing disagreement with the law is reason to be excluded for cause during voir dire. And yes, prosecutors take advantage of long maximum sentences to force defendants to give up their right to a trial and plead guilty.
It's rather silly to blame yourself for not voting against the DMCA when you literally did not have the option.
A bunch of lobbyists suggest their changes to legislators. Money appears in the legislator's re-election campaign fund, while the legislator finds himself able to take free vacations to exotic locales. Legislators pass legislation into law.
The RIAAs actions just bring it up from .01% of people caring to maybe .5%. And the RIAA and MPAA member companies pretty much control the media (literally, no conspiracy theories required), so it matters even less than that.
I've unlocked car doors with an _unmodified_ car antenna. And no, there's no good reason for car unlocking tools to be illegal.
Nope, check again. It's illegal either way; it's just that modifying for profit makes it more likely you'll come to the attention of law enforcement.
Both should be legal.
Only because of the DMCA, which is a steaming pile of bullshit which should never have been passed in the first place. So-called nybble and bit copiers were legal.
Really? There's a reason it's called "pound me in the ass Federal Prison". I suppose you could argue that sending someone off to be tortured and raped for no good reason is not morally equivalent to sending them off to be killed for no good reason, but there isn't _much_ moral difference.
No. Most likely, he'll be offered some sort of plea deal, which he'll almost have to take because the stakes are just so high. If he gets a trial, it'll be a trial by a jury of those who agree with the law and who have agreed in advance to convict even if they feel it is unjust. Silliness about probation, a fine, and community service is just wishful thinking; violation of the DMCA is a felony.
Stop right there. Means if you're not a schmoozer (like many of us in the software and IT fields are not), you're screwed. Yeah, we non-schmoozers already knew the path to success lay that way; the path is barred to us by our nature, and telling us to take it is just telling us to give up.
It wouldn't be a big deal if it weren't for the environmentalist full-court press. Supposing EVs really were the best thing since sliced bread... we could build more power plants to support them, and more infrastructure; we know how to do that, no breakthroughs required. But nuclear causes waste, hydro kills fish, solar thermal ruins the desert, wind is ugly and chops up birds, and most everything else results in CO2 emissions. Also electric lines are ugly. At some point one tends to throw up one's hands and say the problem is over-constrained and admits to no solution.
No, I'm not so good at whittling; maybe you'd like a nice sort-of-pointy stick? An abstract wood sculpture? Anyway, first you have to show the electric car is progress and not a dead end.
I'm sure the CEO of JC Penney cries all the way to the bank.
They didn't try to gag her. They tried to bribe her into shutting up. (yeah, I know, it's a subtle distinction).
I think the OP may have meant "blanket party". You know, where the recruit who won't get with the program and keeps getting his unit assigned punishment duty has a blanket thrown over him and is then beaten to within an inch of his life to make him conform. The best part about it is the military hierarchy doesn't actually have to do it and can even strictly warn against it (in case the recruits don't get the idea on their own) -- it's done by fellow recruits.
Don't think so. She's from a country music family. They've got a whole different style of self destruction.
If the customers are walking out with large amounts of cash, someone's head will roll.