Are you saying that people involved in political campaigns should be immune from investigating unrelated activities? The FBI had good reason to want to spy on the guy, and Nunes couldn't deny it, no matter how hard he tried.
This is about the FISA warrants used to get information about someone who happened to be a member of the Trump campaign. Nunes really tried to say the evidence for the warrants was insufficient, but apparently couldn't come right out and say that, so he made statements that don't actually mean anything and tried to make them work.
I've seen no good evidence of recently publicized abuses. I've seen people strongly implying that there were such abuses, but not actually supplying any support for such a claim.
Read the Nunes memo again very carefully. Note exactly what it claims and what it doesn't claim. It says that the Steele report in question was sent to FISA without complete attribution, not that it was presented as an unbiased source. It mentions one specific article that was not corroboration for the Steele report, and doesn't actually claim that there was no corroboration. Nunes appears to have been very careful to not actually say something false, and carefully constructed a network of facts that sure looks like it was designed to obscure the truth.
Fake news is pretty old. What's new is the fake news websites. The difference between fake news and the New York Times is that the Times works for accuracy and retracts inaccuracies. Fake news works more like propaganda as described in Mein Kampf.
If a fact is reported in the NYT, it's very likely accurate. That doesn't apply to fake news, which will make up all sorts of things.
They're separate, but the President has a good deal of influence over Congress, and the President appoints judges with Senate consent (pretty much a rubber stamp currently,. changing from flat refusals when Obama nominated someone). Most of the short-term stuff coming out of the government is from the Executive Branch.
Heck, my son got his job because of Trump. Trump scared Infosys into hiring lots of people already legal to work in the US. There's something Trump did that I definitely like. (Finding another is going to be more difficult.)
As far as your first paragraph, yes. That's why I think the British and French should have made a serious effort to get an alliance with the Soviet Union. (Of course, the Germans accomplished the monumental feat of making Stalin look good to Soviet citizens.)
The phony war came after Poland was defeated. The French did launch an offensive against the Moselle Triangle at the start of the war. It was unimpressive, largely because the French Army was still mobilizing, and didn't yet have what it needed for an offensive operational. Had Poland been able to hold out longer, the West might have gotten an actual threat going.
The Soviets did in fact enter Poland later than the Germans, pretty much after Poland had lost.
If the judge is corrupt, you appeal. In this case, the judge was enforcing the law as written. Judges don't go around with weapons delivering instant criminal justice, outside the movies and comic books. They sit in courtrooms and interpret the law as handed down to them. It appears that you don't like the law. In that case, you can attempt to get it changed. Your efforts won't make much difference by themselves, but if enough people complain something might get done.
Large-scale commercial copyright infringement is a criminal offense, which I think is reasonable. Last I looked, infringing by uploading to the Net for public access is also criminal, which I find far less reasonable.
In the US, if you have a legal copy of software, you can make all necessary copies to run it. I agree that copyright is meant to work on a human scale, and making copies that aren't themselves perceived shouldn't be copying.
Actually, yes. From the FSF's point of view, not only are you distributing their software (which they want), but you're making money for doing a good deed. The points of the licenses are very different.
The point of GPLs is to encourage other people to contribute their changes. If the violator stops the violation, then the violator is doing what the GPL wants. The point of the proprietary license is to make money off copies. If a violator stops the violation, then the violator isn't doing what the license was intended for without paying money.
Copyright infringement is normally a civil offense. If you start a large-scale commercial infringing business, it becomes criminal. I don't see a problem with that.
No, he was putting copies on computers without paying Microsoft for each one, like Dell does. Dell has a license agreement with Microsoft, and this guy didn't.
Ever built your own PC and wanted to legally install MS Windows on it? That costs money. For OEM licenses, the Windows cost is bundled with the computer, but it isn't free. I paid an extra $100 to get Windows 10 Pro rather than Windows 10 Home. The software market value is significant.
If Snowden had only released classified information about what the TLAs were doing in the US, I'd have a much more favorable opinion of him. The NSA is supposed to spy on other countries. It's expected, and everybody knows it happens. Revealing how we do it is exactly the sort of thing that laws on classified materials were intended to stop.
Jury nullification is also a way to make sure that the government doesn't justly punish people. Currently, it's often used to let police get away with murder.
Who cares about what people think about TV shows with old values? I can find you lots and lots of literature that's racist, sexist, and homophobic. I haven't seem any clamor for banning Lovecraft's work, and the guy was a racist to the bone.
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Are you saying that people involved in political campaigns should be immune from investigating unrelated activities? The FBI had good reason to want to spy on the guy, and Nunes couldn't deny it, no matter how hard he tried.
This is about the FISA warrants used to get information about someone who happened to be a member of the Trump campaign. Nunes really tried to say the evidence for the warrants was insufficient, but apparently couldn't come right out and say that, so he made statements that don't actually mean anything and tried to make them work.
I've seen no good evidence of recently publicized abuses. I've seen people strongly implying that there were such abuses, but not actually supplying any support for such a claim.
Read the Nunes memo again very carefully. Note exactly what it claims and what it doesn't claim. It says that the Steele report in question was sent to FISA without complete attribution, not that it was presented as an unbiased source. It mentions one specific article that was not corroboration for the Steele report, and doesn't actually claim that there was no corroboration. Nunes appears to have been very careful to not actually say something false, and carefully constructed a network of facts that sure looks like it was designed to obscure the truth.
Fake news is pretty old. What's new is the fake news websites. The difference between fake news and the New York Times is that the Times works for accuracy and retracts inaccuracies. Fake news works more like propaganda as described in Mein Kampf.
If a fact is reported in the NYT, it's very likely accurate. That doesn't apply to fake news, which will make up all sorts of things.
They're separate, but the President has a good deal of influence over Congress, and the President appoints judges with Senate consent (pretty much a rubber stamp currently,. changing from flat refusals when Obama nominated someone). Most of the short-term stuff coming out of the government is from the Executive Branch.
You don't? Insulting at least half the population worked for Trump.
That's the way to bet, but it doesn't always turn out that way.
Heck, my son got his job because of Trump. Trump scared Infosys into hiring lots of people already legal to work in the US. There's something Trump did that I definitely like. (Finding another is going to be more difficult.)
Our Blu-Ray player managed to update itself, despite not knowing the WiFi password.
As far as your first paragraph, yes. That's why I think the British and French should have made a serious effort to get an alliance with the Soviet Union. (Of course, the Germans accomplished the monumental feat of making Stalin look good to Soviet citizens.)
The phony war came after Poland was defeated. The French did launch an offensive against the Moselle Triangle at the start of the war. It was unimpressive, largely because the French Army was still mobilizing, and didn't yet have what it needed for an offensive operational. Had Poland been able to hold out longer, the West might have gotten an actual threat going.
The Soviets did in fact enter Poland later than the Germans, pretty much after Poland had lost.
If the judge is corrupt, you appeal. In this case, the judge was enforcing the law as written. Judges don't go around with weapons delivering instant criminal justice, outside the movies and comic books. They sit in courtrooms and interpret the law as handed down to them. It appears that you don't like the law. In that case, you can attempt to get it changed. Your efforts won't make much difference by themselves, but if enough people complain something might get done.
Large-scale commercial copyright infringement is a criminal offense, which I think is reasonable. Last I looked, infringing by uploading to the Net for public access is also criminal, which I find far less reasonable.
In the US, if you have a legal copy of software, you can make all necessary copies to run it. I agree that copyright is meant to work on a human scale, and making copies that aren't themselves perceived shouldn't be copying.
Depends. Distributing XP or 7 should be a civil offense only, but any distribution of 8 or 10 should be a criminal act.
Actually, yes. From the FSF's point of view, not only are you distributing their software (which they want), but you're making money for doing a good deed. The points of the licenses are very different.
The software in question was less than 28 years old, so even by the reasonable copyright laws of my youth this would be infringement.
The point of GPLs is to encourage other people to contribute their changes. If the violator stops the violation, then the violator is doing what the GPL wants. The point of the proprietary license is to make money off copies. If a violator stops the violation, then the violator isn't doing what the license was intended for without paying money.
Copyright infringement is normally a civil offense. If you start a large-scale commercial infringing business, it becomes criminal. I don't see a problem with that.
No, he was putting copies on computers without paying Microsoft for each one, like Dell does. Dell has a license agreement with Microsoft, and this guy didn't.
Ever built your own PC and wanted to legally install MS Windows on it? That costs money. For OEM licenses, the Windows cost is bundled with the computer, but it isn't free. I paid an extra $100 to get Windows 10 Pro rather than Windows 10 Home. The software market value is significant.
If Snowden had only released classified information about what the TLAs were doing in the US, I'd have a much more favorable opinion of him. The NSA is supposed to spy on other countries. It's expected, and everybody knows it happens. Revealing how we do it is exactly the sort of thing that laws on classified materials were intended to stop.
Jury nullification is also a way to make sure that the government doesn't justly punish people. Currently, it's often used to let police get away with murder.
It's not a matter of movies being approximately eternal, since that's true of literature.
Who cares about what people think about TV shows with old values? I can find you lots and lots of literature that's racist, sexist, and homophobic. I haven't seem any clamor for banning Lovecraft's work, and the guy was a racist to the bone.