There were two cops in the car, their word against mine. I got an ACD, which basically is just like "being let off with a warning." Charges were dropped.
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It's also why without the Sonny Bono (Mickey Mouse) Copyright Extension law of 1998, Ub Iwerks would never have been inspired to create Mickey Mouse for Walt Disney 70 years earlier. And who can blame him?
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I dunno. In the late 80s people sued because a few seconds of their songs were being samples and reused... and they won. It was ruled copyright violation because apparently if you hear a song with a three-second chunk of "Abbey Road" in it, the Beatle's market is ruined, you now have no reason to buy their product.
Sortof the same way you'll now never buy "The Sun Also Rises" because this comment of mine contains some of the same words.
I write music... well, modest little piano pieces. I haven't uploaded any videos of me playing to youtube (yet), but I would be THRILLED to find that my stuff had been reworked into something like this.
Then again, I have considered issuing my tunes as open source (there's some places to do that online.)
Sorta like the arrest report I have that I've saved for over 20 years.
Reality: I'm sitting quietly on some church steps with a girl, a cop car pulls up on the lawn, I look up to see the cop's mouth move but can't tell what he said, so I ask "would you like us to leave officer?" (it was not unusual for cops to shoo teens along around that neighborhood.) He grins, says no, he wants ID, I have none, he arrests me.
His police report: says I was making a disturbance, refused repeated requests that I leave until finally he was forced to arrest me.
I'm lucky that's all it was, he threatened to add resisting arrest (which I of course didn't do.)
In the car on the way to the station I find out why I had just been arrested for sitting on church steps. Turns out I had made some wisecracking unflattering comments about the town's cops' weight and age in the presence of an undercover cop (who was busy checking someone else out at the time...) and the arresting cop says to me "how about we let you meet with him alone in a room and talk about just how fat and old you think we cops are?"
I was guilty of being a cynical 19 year old wiseass, is all.
Not to mention the fact that they insinuate that 65tb of files are illegal files, when they could be just about anything. I seem to remember hearing about a case of some guy busted for child porn or something like that and they announced on the news that they had confiscated "hundreds of video cassettes," and showed them on a table in the press conference. It later turned out that they were all like rental videos and crap, and the cops knew it, but were using that as a cudgel to poison public opinion and get the guy to cop a plea.
Oh, I been checked out. Some of the "some" who said it were those checking me out. Others were less certain. It IS certain that I have PTSD. Whether or not that explains everything or I am bipolar, or my head injury causes some problems... well, it's all a bit of a jumble and since I'm not going on meds, it sort if doesn't matter which causes what, treatments the same anyway.
Past the Straits of Gibraltar is a continent, in the centre along the longest side, high in the mountains by the sea is a rectangular level plain...this is the Bolivian Altiplano. http://www.atlantisbolivia.org/atlantisboliviapart1.htm
I'm all for the legalization of marijuana, but at some point you have to put down the bong and get a grip.
(Atlantis Also? Is that like a second location Atlantis that opened up because Atlantis was such s success, sort of like how businesses open up the oh-so-cleverly named "Chuck's Diner Too?")
A huge volume of easy data with zero content. Unless of course you're deeply concerned about tracking all of your friends' and relatives' bowel movements.
"So you were robbed because a thief stole your stuff, and not because you left the door open? The blame goes both ways."
Uh, no. The blame only goes to the robber. I should be able to leave my fucking door open.
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Russia is ALWAYS announcing things like this - Klipr, manned Mars missions, etc. I've lost track of how many times they've "announced" they're going to Mars, or some other huge project.
The reason why this keeps happening is because in part we in the west are misunderstanding the way the Russian space program works.
They don't announce plans in the way for example NASA would. In Russia, they continually plan these things, then float out the ideas to see if they can get support and funding - and in the last 20 years or so, international investment. If they DON'T get funders to sign on, it goes nowhere, and in a year or so they trot out another proposal.
This is NOT an announcement of a plan, it's a marketing pitch. They're saying "we could do this, anyone out there wanna pay for it?"
If I was a policy maker and knew of a communications network that was this easy to setup and this hard to disrupt and shutdown, I'd want to ensure it stayed around, especially when times are less stable.
You're making the unfounded assumption that policy makers WANT communications networks that are hard easy to set up and hard to disrupt (control) or shutdown.
They want to control what you see and hear while preserving the appearance of freedom and choice. Will it be profitable for the elite if we invade a helpless country? Our "free press" will ensure that while flipping channels you'll get both sides of the story. 1: "they are a major and immediate threat and we need to invade immediately with massive force and occupy them permanently," or 2. "they aren't quite that big of a threat, we need to invade more cautiously with a smaller force and only occupy them for a few years."
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There were two cops in the car, their word against mine. I got an ACD, which basically is just like "being let off with a warning." Charges were dropped.
It's also why without the Sonny Bono (Mickey Mouse) Copyright Extension law of 1998, Ub Iwerks would never have been inspired to create Mickey Mouse for Walt Disney 70 years earlier. And who can blame him?
I dunno. In the late 80s people sued because a few seconds of their songs were being samples and reused... and they won. It was ruled copyright violation because apparently if you hear a song with a three-second chunk of "Abbey Road" in it, the Beatle's market is ruined, you now have no reason to buy their product.
Sortof the same way you'll now never buy "The Sun Also Rises" because this comment of mine contains some of the same words.
I write music... well, modest little piano pieces. I haven't uploaded any videos of me playing to youtube (yet), but I would be THRILLED to find that my stuff had been reworked into something like this.
Then again, I have considered issuing my tunes as open source (there's some places to do that online.)
Actually, when he said that, I DID just say "ok." Not out of bravado though, I was just playing dumb.
Sorta like the arrest report I have that I've saved for over 20 years.
Reality: I'm sitting quietly on some church steps with a girl, a cop car pulls up on the lawn, I look up to see the cop's mouth move but can't tell what he said, so I ask "would you like us to leave officer?" (it was not unusual for cops to shoo teens along around that neighborhood.) He grins, says no, he wants ID, I have none, he arrests me.
His police report: says I was making a disturbance, refused repeated requests that I leave until finally he was forced to arrest me.
I'm lucky that's all it was, he threatened to add resisting arrest (which I of course didn't do.)
In the car on the way to the station I find out why I had just been arrested for sitting on church steps. Turns out I had made some wisecracking unflattering comments about the town's cops' weight and age in the presence of an undercover cop (who was busy checking someone else out at the time...) and the arresting cop says to me "how about we let you meet with him alone in a room and talk about just how fat and old you think we cops are?"
I was guilty of being a cynical 19 year old wiseass, is all.
COPS LIE. ROUTINELY.
If you think that there are countries where the average people by and large are NOT good people, you've been exposed to too much propaganda.
"and you offer no actual evidence it isn't"
I didn't think that's how these things were supposed to work.
Not to mention the fact that they insinuate that 65tb of files are illegal files, when they could be just about anything. I seem to remember hearing about a case of some guy busted for child porn or something like that and they announced on the news that they had confiscated "hundreds of video cassettes," and showed them on a table in the press conference. It later turned out that they were all like rental videos and crap, and the cops knew it, but were using that as a cudgel to poison public opinion and get the guy to cop a plea.
hmmm. Now you have me thinking. I have a couple of TRS-80s in the attic... I wonder if anyone has ever gotten linux running on them.
What I learned is, talk to the cops, but be smarter than them. And one way to be smarter than them is to convince them that you're dumber than them.
Oh, I been checked out. Some of the "some" who said it were those checking me out. Others were less certain. It IS certain that I have PTSD. Whether or not that explains everything or I am bipolar, or my head injury causes some problems... well, it's all a bit of a jumble and since I'm not going on meds, it sort if doesn't matter which causes what, treatments the same anyway.
Because of discoveries on Mars a few years ago, I registered the domain name martiansprings.com.
I get these late night brilliant ideas that go nowhere. I was picturing bottled water sold as a souvenir gimmick in science museum gift shops.
Some say I'm bipolar.
Past the Straits of Gibraltar is a continent, in the centre along the longest side, high in the mountains by the sea is a rectangular level plain...this is the Bolivian Altiplano. http://www.atlantisbolivia.org/atlantisboliviapart1.htm
I'm all for the legalization of marijuana, but at some point you have to put down the bong and get a grip.
(Atlantis Also? Is that like a second location Atlantis that opened up because Atlantis was such s success, sort of like how businesses open up the oh-so-cleverly named "Chuck's Diner Too?")
Cops are not allowed to enter a home without a warrant or probable cause (they heard a scream inside). Anything they find will be expunged.
I have mod points, how do I mod this "naive?"
A huge volume of easy data with zero content. Unless of course you're deeply concerned about tracking all of your friends' and relatives' bowel movements.
Remember those exploding Ford Pintos from the 1970s? Obviously we needed a new highway system.
"So you were robbed because a thief stole your stuff, and not because you left the door open?
The blame goes both ways."
Uh, no. The blame only goes to the robber. I should be able to leave my fucking door open.
Russia is ALWAYS announcing things like this - Klipr, manned Mars missions, etc. I've lost track of how many times they've "announced" they're going to Mars, or some other huge project.
The reason why this keeps happening is because in part we in the west are misunderstanding the way the Russian space program works.
They don't announce plans in the way for example NASA would. In Russia, they continually plan these things, then float out the ideas to see if they can get support and funding - and in the last 20 years or so, international investment.
If they DON'T get funders to sign on, it goes nowhere, and in a year or so they trot out another proposal.
This is NOT an announcement of a plan, it's a marketing pitch. They're saying "we could do this, anyone out there wanna pay for it?"
If I was a policy maker and knew of a communications network that was this easy to setup and this hard to disrupt and shutdown, I'd want to ensure it stayed around, especially when times are less stable.
You're making the unfounded assumption that policy makers WANT communications networks that are hard easy to set up and hard to disrupt (control) or shutdown.
They want to control what you see and hear while preserving the appearance of freedom and choice. Will it be profitable for the elite if we invade a helpless country? Our "free press" will ensure that while flipping channels you'll get both sides of the story. 1: "they are a major and immediate threat and we need to invade immediately with massive force and occupy them permanently," or 2. "they aren't quite that big of a threat, we need to invade more cautiously with a smaller force and only occupy them for a few years."
Are crowbars illegal?
But some large company probably has a patent for "designing a deck using a computer."
Hey, don't knock it until you've had your rectum licked.
I have my own, "The RIAA is a Bunch of Rectum Licking Whores"
You shouldn't make them sound so positive. The real RIAA never does anything that pleasing.
Thanks for this post. I've never seen that explained that clearly before.