The entertainment industry paid good money for extended copyrights and some features of the DMCA that implement the WIPO treaty (the anti-circumvention parts). They don't like the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA.
Repeal the DMCA and hosting companies won't dare host user-supplied content for fear of copyright prosecution. What the DMCA does here is make it possible for a site to host content without being sued, provided it follows the takedown procedure. As long as ordinary copyright law was in effect, sites would be legally liable for infringing content they hosted.
The basic issue is that people load infringing material onto places like YouTube all the time. For copyright to be meaningful, the copyright holders need to have some way of dealing with it. The DMCA safe harbor provisions are mostly reasonable, in that they put the burden of identifying infringement on the copyright holders, allow hosting sites to function safely, and still allow the copyright holders to get infringing material removed. The MAFIAA wants to gut these provisions. The big problem that I see is that there is no downside to issuing bogus takedown requests repeatedly en masse.
Ah yes, leaked records. Are you sure they're accurate? Is there any context? Could this be a (possibly bad) joke, like one might make in a setting one presumes will remain private?
What shows she's corrupt? The Russian uranium deal didn't turn out well, but it wasn't a case of her being corrupt. Her husband was doubtless able to get really big speaker fees because she was Secretary of State, but until I see indications that the people paying her husband got special State Department attention I won't count that as corruption. The Clinton Foundation appears to be an excellent charitable organization. Can you give me a few pointers?
I haven't been following the literature, so I can't really comment on this. It looks to me like AGW is sufficient to explain temperature increases, and I don't know of other explanations that actually turned out to work, so it may well be that human activity has caused all the temperature change. I really don't know. I do know that human activity is responsible for big changes.
Sounds like something that would be easy to break up with a little law enforcement intervention, and would be generally likely to run into felony-level problems. If the police and precinct workers are turning a blind eye, there's bigger problems than voter ID would solve.
I'm not necessarily against voter ID. I'm against every implementation of voter ID I've seen in the US, which usually comes with ways to prevent people from voting, either built into the proposal (the Minnesota proposed constitutional amendment would have made absentee ballots very difficult to do legally) or in other actions (like shutting down places to get licenses in areas that might vote Democrat).
Looking at the market, it appears that most people don't care about easily replaceable batteries.
So you've spent $60 on two battery replacements in two years? What kind of batteries are you using that only last a year? My iPhone batteries have consistently lasted three, with pretty heavy use, and it's only $80 to replace, whereas apparently you'd spend $90 on batteries every three years. I'm not impressed.
What Apple defect affected 100% of their devices? Hint: it wasn't the antenna issue on the iPhone 4, which wasn't a problem on mine. (Well, if I licked my finger to make it more conductive, and deliberately put my wet finger in the right spot, I got minor degradation.)
The temperature has gone up, so there's more wildfires. You seem on board with that.
Then we need to ask about why the temperature has gone up. We find that man-made CO2 emissions are large enough to matter considerably, that the amount of CO2 has indeed gone up considerably because of human activity, and the temperature has gone up. Scientists have been saying since the late Nineteenth Century that an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere would probably warm things up. Currently, a theory to account for the warming that didn't explain it in terms of human action would have to say why not, and nobody's found either a good explanation other than human activity or reasons why our CO2 output wouldn't matter.
When was global warming responsible for a lack of snow in winter, and who said that? Was it someone who might know what they're talking about, or was it just someone spouting off?
Yeah, a kilogram of gold weighs as much as a kilogram of feathers, but that's not true of a pound of gold vs. a pound of feathers*. Another reason to go metric.
*Feathers use the normal pound, gold at least traditionally used the somewhat lighter troy pound.
The ISS is above the atmosphere, so its only protection for the hemisphere away from Earth is the magnetic field, and we keep some people there for a year. They aren't in good shape then, but I haven't seen complaints about radiation.
Is there something I'm missing here, or is the ISS a good approximation to an interplanetary spaceship to within a factor of 2?
I don't see why that doesn't apply to email hosting companies. I'm using Fastmail right now. I'm not planning to switch any time soon, and if and when I do it won't take long to set up my domain on a different service.
The attacks have a Russian connection, and they're similar in several ways to other Russian state-sponsored hacks. The evidence isn't conclusive, but it's there.
Also, there's absolutely nothing desperate about Clinton's position right now. Trump has been doing an excellent job of that. Team Clinton isn't about to perform an act of desperation when they've got the election pretty well locked up. The emails aren't all that shocking, and don't have much new in them. Why would Team Clinton do anything desperate about them?
The problem is that the Republicans have been attacking the Clintons consistently, usually with claims that are unsupported, exaggerated, or actually proven false. At this point, I'm slow to believe any Republican saying anything bad about them, because it's almost always scurrilous, and I'm sure I'm not alone.
The media has never been the upholder of freedom and finder of corruption some people think. Clinton hasn't corrupted it any more than lots of others in the past. I do know my history, and don't believe in the good old days when incorruptible journalists roamed the land.
I also notice that you don't list Fox News, which I believe is the single largest news source in the US, among the Clinton propagandists. Fox is part of the media.
You also seem to be classifying media as corrupt insofar as they favor Clinton, which is circular reasoning at its finest.
Clinton tried to kill him with drones? Why's he still alive then? Why haven't I heard of any drone attack? Are you saying Clinton's a lousy pilot or something?
If anyone thinks that bullets don't kill, here's your challenge. Load a handgun, hold it to your temple, and pull the trigger. If bullets don't kill, you can't possibly kill yourself, so the experiment is safe.
If Trump made money, why isn't he paying taxes? If Clinton is so much more of a liar than Trump, why is she showing up in fact checkers as pretty honest for a politician and Trump is constantly caught in flagrant lies to the point that it's not news anymore?
Lots of prominent Republicans have publicly severed relations with Trump and claimed they were going to vote for Clinton in response to the tape. I don't really care what you think about their motivations; the tape clearly caused the public announcements. Assuming the public announcements changed minds, the tape changed minds.
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The entertainment industry paid good money for extended copyrights and some features of the DMCA that implement the WIPO treaty (the anti-circumvention parts). They don't like the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA.
Repeal the DMCA and hosting companies won't dare host user-supplied content for fear of copyright prosecution. What the DMCA does here is make it possible for a site to host content without being sued, provided it follows the takedown procedure. As long as ordinary copyright law was in effect, sites would be legally liable for infringing content they hosted.
The basic issue is that people load infringing material onto places like YouTube all the time. For copyright to be meaningful, the copyright holders need to have some way of dealing with it. The DMCA safe harbor provisions are mostly reasonable, in that they put the burden of identifying infringement on the copyright holders, allow hosting sites to function safely, and still allow the copyright holders to get infringing material removed. The MAFIAA wants to gut these provisions. The big problem that I see is that there is no downside to issuing bogus takedown requests repeatedly en masse.
It may have been primarily a good excuse for prominent Republicans to say what they really think, but I'm sure the announcements changed minds.
Okay. Bullets and guns aren't harmful. It takes people with bad intentions. So, if you're so sure of that, and you don't have bad intentions....
Ah yes, leaked records. Are you sure they're accurate? Is there any context? Could this be a (possibly bad) joke, like one might make in a setting one presumes will remain private?
What shows she's corrupt? The Russian uranium deal didn't turn out well, but it wasn't a case of her being corrupt. Her husband was doubtless able to get really big speaker fees because she was Secretary of State, but until I see indications that the people paying her husband got special State Department attention I won't count that as corruption. The Clinton Foundation appears to be an excellent charitable organization. Can you give me a few pointers?
I haven't been following the literature, so I can't really comment on this. It looks to me like AGW is sufficient to explain temperature increases, and I don't know of other explanations that actually turned out to work, so it may well be that human activity has caused all the temperature change. I really don't know. I do know that human activity is responsible for big changes.
Sounds like something that would be easy to break up with a little law enforcement intervention, and would be generally likely to run into felony-level problems. If the police and precinct workers are turning a blind eye, there's bigger problems than voter ID would solve.
I'm not necessarily against voter ID. I'm against every implementation of voter ID I've seen in the US, which usually comes with ways to prevent people from voting, either built into the proposal (the Minnesota proposed constitutional amendment would have made absentee ballots very difficult to do legally) or in other actions (like shutting down places to get licenses in areas that might vote Democrat).
Looking at the market, it appears that most people don't care about easily replaceable batteries.
So you've spent $60 on two battery replacements in two years? What kind of batteries are you using that only last a year? My iPhone batteries have consistently lasted three, with pretty heavy use, and it's only $80 to replace, whereas apparently you'd spend $90 on batteries every three years. I'm not impressed.
What Apple defect affected 100% of their devices? Hint: it wasn't the antenna issue on the iPhone 4, which wasn't a problem on mine. (Well, if I licked my finger to make it more conductive, and deliberately put my wet finger in the right spot, I got minor degradation.)
The temperature has gone up, so there's more wildfires. You seem on board with that.
Then we need to ask about why the temperature has gone up. We find that man-made CO2 emissions are large enough to matter considerably, that the amount of CO2 has indeed gone up considerably because of human activity, and the temperature has gone up. Scientists have been saying since the late Nineteenth Century that an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere would probably warm things up. Currently, a theory to account for the warming that didn't explain it in terms of human action would have to say why not, and nobody's found either a good explanation other than human activity or reasons why our CO2 output wouldn't matter.
When was global warming responsible for a lack of snow in winter, and who said that? Was it someone who might know what they're talking about, or was it just someone spouting off?
I can defend someone's right to say things and exercise my right to make fun of them. There's no inconsistency here.
Yeah, a kilogram of gold weighs as much as a kilogram of feathers, but that's not true of a pound of gold vs. a pound of feathers*. Another reason to go metric.
*Feathers use the normal pound, gold at least traditionally used the somewhat lighter troy pound.
The ISS is above the atmosphere, so its only protection for the hemisphere away from Earth is the magnetic field, and we keep some people there for a year. They aren't in good shape then, but I haven't seen complaints about radiation.
Is there something I'm missing here, or is the ISS a good approximation to an interplanetary spaceship to within a factor of 2?
I don't see why that doesn't apply to email hosting companies. I'm using Fastmail right now. I'm not planning to switch any time soon, and if and when I do it won't take long to set up my domain on a different service.
The attacks have a Russian connection, and they're similar in several ways to other Russian state-sponsored hacks. The evidence isn't conclusive, but it's there.
Also, there's absolutely nothing desperate about Clinton's position right now. Trump has been doing an excellent job of that. Team Clinton isn't about to perform an act of desperation when they've got the election pretty well locked up. The emails aren't all that shocking, and don't have much new in them. Why would Team Clinton do anything desperate about them?
The problem is that the Republicans have been attacking the Clintons consistently, usually with claims that are unsupported, exaggerated, or actually proven false. At this point, I'm slow to believe any Republican saying anything bad about them, because it's almost always scurrilous, and I'm sure I'm not alone.
The media has never been the upholder of freedom and finder of corruption some people think. Clinton hasn't corrupted it any more than lots of others in the past. I do know my history, and don't believe in the good old days when incorruptible journalists roamed the land.
I also notice that you don't list Fox News, which I believe is the single largest news source in the US, among the Clinton propagandists. Fox is part of the media.
You also seem to be classifying media as corrupt insofar as they favor Clinton, which is circular reasoning at its finest.
Clinton tried to kill him with drones? Why's he still alive then? Why haven't I heard of any drone attack? Are you saying Clinton's a lousy pilot or something?
If anyone thinks that bullets don't kill, here's your challenge. Load a handgun, hold it to your temple, and pull the trigger. If bullets don't kill, you can't possibly kill yourself, so the experiment is safe.
Can I trouble you for a miniscule loan then?
If Trump made money, why isn't he paying taxes? If Clinton is so much more of a liar than Trump, why is she showing up in fact checkers as pretty honest for a politician and Trump is constantly caught in flagrant lies to the point that it's not news anymore?
Lots of prominent Republicans have publicly severed relations with Trump and claimed they were going to vote for Clinton in response to the tape. I don't really care what you think about their motivations; the tape clearly caused the public announcements. Assuming the public announcements changed minds, the tape changed minds.
What you are attempting to claim GP is attempting to claim is absolute nonsense. GP never said that.