Who puts Saverin's house out when it is burning out of control? Who paves the roads and repairs the bridges that Saverin's luxury cars utilize every day? Who delivers the mail that Saverin relies on for his business and home operations? Who manages the pipes and treatment of the shit that Saverin dumps down his toilets every day? Who patrols the streets that Saverin lives and works on, protecting him from crime? Who watches and protects the nation of America when terrorists and other countries seek to destroy Saverin's way of life, property, and business interests?
I think the fear of this comes not from the fact that it's possible, but the fact that it seems much more difficult to investigate, and thus more appealing to a would-be killer, than other forms of murder. Harder to investigate translates to less likelihood of getting caught, which in turn translates into less apprehension about committing the crime.
It's a step in the right direction, though if you ask me only the full, outright abolition of this pathetic, unconstitutional joke of an agency qualifies as "enough." It'll be "fun" to see what kind of tantrum Chief Molester Pistole throws about being denied his latest batch of toys. Here's hoping Congress tells him to shut up and be thankful he got any money at all. Why they don't just strip all funding from TSA at this point is beyond me.
The Pirate Bay is still alive and kicking, but I'm wondering the same thing. My go-to sites were always BTJunkie and The Pirate Bay. I tried Monova once or twice but they always seemed lacking by comparison. Either they hadn't indexed what I wanted or it was never seeded - always some ancient torrent from years prior. Who else is still a major player?
I've usually seen it written as "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to eat for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote."
Which is effectively impossible given that so many stations are little more than a ticket booth and a platform. In rural areas, it's more like needing to BUILD a station in the first place than to rebuild or reconfigure existing structures.
I'm sure TSA is unhappy about this. They've long been talking about their intent to spread out into other modes of transportation. Since Amtrak's police have been throwing them out of train stations lately, they've no doubt been searching for any politically-convenient justification they can find to invade rail transit. Doubly so since Amtrak ridership is at an all-time high with people taking trains for the sole purpose of avoiding TSA.
For the politically-active among us, this is perhaps a good opportunity to write to U.S. congresspeople to alert them about TSA's misrepresentation of this report, as well as state congresspeople to encourage them to pass state-level legislation reining in TSA (Tenth Amendment Center has a pre-written Travel Freedom Act that works at the state level to criminalize invasive TSA screening procedures).
TSA isn't going to stop their reign of sexual assault and desecration of Constitutional rights until and unless the people stop it for them. Public opinion has been turning against TSA lately, especially with the three elderly travelers who were strip-searched late last year (about which TSA blatantly lied). Now is as good a time as ever to push your elected officials to stop TSA. The site in my sig is a good resource, as is Freedom To Travel USA. Please do anything and everything you can to help stop TSA.
That's okay, though, because we're (ostensibly) not out to satisfy either pirates or copyright cartels. 28-year copyright would serve to benefit the individual creators of the works in question and still create an incentive for either their successors, or they themselves later in their lives, to create additional work to continue to profit. Satisfying pirates is a non-starter - they can be written off because they can be assumed to disregard whatever copyright terms are in effect. To slightly twist a meme, "Pirates gonna pirate." Copyright cartels are trickier, as they have at least an air of legitimacy about them despite their rampant exploitation of copyright itself and the legal system that establishes it.
I think the focus should be on up-and-coming artists. Get them to eschew "Big Copyright" and maybe use the OWS rhetoric (1%/99%) to do so.
You don't get to be in that position by making an enemy of Big Media.
I've often wondered about this. What would happen if a president(ial candidate) won the election by having their campaign financed by Big Media and then, upon taking office, worked their ass off passing a bunch of pro-consumer, pro-private-citizen laws that effectively knife the Big Media sponsors in the back? Would they win a 2nd term if the people were happy enough? Would Congress act to override vetos on bend-consumers-over-the-barrel legislation? To put on my tinfoil conspiracy hat for a minute, would the media companies orchestrate an assassination?
I'm curious as to what it would take to keep up the "hollywood's best buddy" charade until the candidate takes office if they intended all along to fuck over the MAFIAA and actually stick up for private citizens.
I really don't mean to derail the discussion, but as a netadmin who generally doesn't code very much (beyond basic scripting for automation) I've always wondered about the "we own all your code" thing. Has it ever been tested in court whether an employer can lay claim to work done off company time on non-company resources, assuming the program has nothing to do with the company's operations (or even if it does)? Failing all else, can't the coder just release the program anonymously?
It's never worth the sacrifice in freedom. As soon as we start making exceptions to the regard of liberty as the paramount concern of a free society, we open the door to arguments in favor of anything as an exception to that regard.
"I know freedom is important, but these are CHILDREN we're talking about!"
"I know freedom is important, but the future of AMERICA is riding on this!"
"Freedom? We're talking about SAVING LIVES here!"
There are very few things in the world that should be considered absolute, but the pursuit of liberty is one of them. Practices in security (or, in TSA's case, security theater) can save a life, but without principles of liberty that life is not worth living in the first place.
Interesting that you should mention that. Did you know that there is a prevailing theory among Chiropractors that black holes are actually galactic subluxations of the endo-universal spinal cord? Probably not, seeing as how Big Pharma has fought hard to keep any such inconvenient views thoroughly suppressed. Hopefully this telescope will be the first of many enlightening steps toward correcting the health of the universe's nervous system. It is believed that if these subluxated singularities can be set right, we may finally correct the dangerous accumulation of waste heat that threatens to destroy us all in the future. I've even written to the careless, callous people at CERN to chide them for using their Large Hadron Subluxator to further damage the galaxy's spine (have you noticed the shape of the accelerator? A DISC!) but they haven't written back to me. Maybe Dr. Bob will have better luck.
Make sure, though, when looking through a telescope, to use proper posture to protect your own spinal health. If you think you've been bending over and craning your neck too much, make an appointment to see a Chiropractor to keep your nervous system in working condition.
Around the same time the cop-a-like uniforms and fake tin badges (that don't mean anything) were introduced. It's classic psychological manipulation - people subconsciously preface "officer" with "police" and it leads them to think TSA clerks have law-enforcement authority, which they do not. "Clerk" is the classification of their government role. TSA clerks are actually no more empowered than the guy who sells you stamps at the post office. The ONE AND ONLY power they have is to say "no, you can't go into the airport terminal, come back tomorrow." That's it.
The "reputable" pirate groups don't do that because the instant they do, they lose scene cred and basically become pariahs. If you're getting your releases from a well-known group, you can pretty well rest assured that you're getting a clean release because these groups do have a reputation to protect (in spite of being considered "disreputable" by the media companies whose stuff they're releasing).
It makes sense to be leery of hitherto-unknown ripping groups because they're not yet established and so you have no way of knowing if the releases are infected or not but a lot of the time they're groups who want to get big and so will know better than to sabotage their own chances of fame.
Only now, it's tit-for-tat at worst because the ad providers have demonstrated that they cannot be trusted to be honest and respect people's wishes for privacy. For those sites that users really want to support, there are targeted whitelist rules or simple old-fashioned donations.
For those people who tried to argue against Adblock and other tools to help users control how their information is used and how their browsing experience plays out, this should take the wind out of their sails at least a little. Browser developers and advertising companies came up with a standard for not tracking the users who don't want to be tracked and the ad companies promptly turned around and fucked those users over. Why should we respect the wishes of marketers who don't want us blocking ads now?
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Who puts Saverin's house out when it is burning out of control?
Who paves the roads and repairs the bridges that Saverin's luxury cars utilize every day?
Who delivers the mail that Saverin relies on for his business and home operations?
Who manages the pipes and treatment of the shit that Saverin dumps down his toilets every day?
Who patrols the streets that Saverin lives and works on, protecting him from crime?
Who watches and protects the nation of America when terrorists and other countries seek to destroy Saverin's way of life, property, and business interests?
We do, we do.
I think the fear of this comes not from the fact that it's possible, but the fact that it seems much more difficult to investigate, and thus more appealing to a would-be killer, than other forms of murder. Harder to investigate translates to less likelihood of getting caught, which in turn translates into less apprehension about committing the crime.
Perhaps we should call in a Connecticutioner?
Well then...so much for the three seashells.
It's a step in the right direction, though if you ask me only the full, outright abolition of this pathetic, unconstitutional joke of an agency qualifies as "enough." It'll be "fun" to see what kind of tantrum Chief Molester Pistole throws about being denied his latest batch of toys. Here's hoping Congress tells him to shut up and be thankful he got any money at all. Why they don't just strip all funding from TSA at this point is beyond me.
The Pirate Bay is still alive and kicking, but I'm wondering the same thing. My go-to sites were always BTJunkie and The Pirate Bay. I tried Monova once or twice but they always seemed lacking by comparison. Either they hadn't indexed what I wanted or it was never seeded - always some ancient torrent from years prior. Who else is still a major player?
I've usually seen it written as "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to eat for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote."
Jill Stein?
Which is effectively impossible given that so many stations are little more than a ticket booth and a platform. In rural areas, it's more like needing to BUILD a station in the first place than to rebuild or reconfigure existing structures.
I'm sure TSA is unhappy about this. They've long been talking about their intent to spread out into other modes of transportation. Since Amtrak's police have been throwing them out of train stations lately, they've no doubt been searching for any politically-convenient justification they can find to invade rail transit. Doubly so since Amtrak ridership is at an all-time high with people taking trains for the sole purpose of avoiding TSA.
For the politically-active among us, this is perhaps a good opportunity to write to U.S. congresspeople to alert them about TSA's misrepresentation of this report, as well as state congresspeople to encourage them to pass state-level legislation reining in TSA (Tenth Amendment Center has a pre-written Travel Freedom Act that works at the state level to criminalize invasive TSA screening procedures).
TSA isn't going to stop their reign of sexual assault and desecration of Constitutional rights until and unless the people stop it for them. Public opinion has been turning against TSA lately, especially with the three elderly travelers who were strip-searched late last year (about which TSA blatantly lied). Now is as good a time as ever to push your elected officials to stop TSA. The site in my sig is a good resource, as is Freedom To Travel USA. Please do anything and everything you can to help stop TSA.
Offline single-player Xbox 360 games?
That's okay, though, because we're (ostensibly) not out to satisfy either pirates or copyright cartels. 28-year copyright would serve to benefit the individual creators of the works in question and still create an incentive for either their successors, or they themselves later in their lives, to create additional work to continue to profit. Satisfying pirates is a non-starter - they can be written off because they can be assumed to disregard whatever copyright terms are in effect. To slightly twist a meme, "Pirates gonna pirate." Copyright cartels are trickier, as they have at least an air of legitimacy about them despite their rampant exploitation of copyright itself and the legal system that establishes it.
I think the focus should be on up-and-coming artists. Get them to eschew "Big Copyright" and maybe use the OWS rhetoric (1%/99%) to do so.
You don't get to be in that position by making an enemy of Big Media.
I've often wondered about this. What would happen if a president(ial candidate) won the election by having their campaign financed by Big Media and then, upon taking office, worked their ass off passing a bunch of pro-consumer, pro-private-citizen laws that effectively knife the Big Media sponsors in the back? Would they win a 2nd term if the people were happy enough? Would Congress act to override vetos on bend-consumers-over-the-barrel legislation? To put on my tinfoil conspiracy hat for a minute, would the media companies orchestrate an assassination?
I'm curious as to what it would take to keep up the "hollywood's best buddy" charade until the candidate takes office if they intended all along to fuck over the MAFIAA and actually stick up for private citizens.
I really don't mean to derail the discussion, but as a netadmin who generally doesn't code very much (beyond basic scripting for automation) I've always wondered about the "we own all your code" thing. Has it ever been tested in court whether an employer can lay claim to work done off company time on non-company resources, assuming the program has nothing to do with the company's operations (or even if it does)? Failing all else, can't the coder just release the program anonymously?
It's never worth the sacrifice in freedom. As soon as we start making exceptions to the regard of liberty as the paramount concern of a free society, we open the door to arguments in favor of anything as an exception to that regard.
"I know freedom is important, but these are CHILDREN we're talking about!"
"I know freedom is important, but the future of AMERICA is riding on this!"
"Freedom? We're talking about SAVING LIVES here!"
There are very few things in the world that should be considered absolute, but the pursuit of liberty is one of them. Practices in security (or, in TSA's case, security theater) can save a life, but without principles of liberty that life is not worth living in the first place.
You say that now, but I saw you running Lunix the other day! And you weren't using AOL to get online either!
Apparently I fail at parody.
Interesting that you should mention that. Did you know that there is a prevailing theory among Chiropractors that black holes are actually galactic subluxations of the endo-universal spinal cord? Probably not, seeing as how Big Pharma has fought hard to keep any such inconvenient views thoroughly suppressed. Hopefully this telescope will be the first of many enlightening steps toward correcting the health of the universe's nervous system. It is believed that if these subluxated singularities can be set right, we may finally correct the dangerous accumulation of waste heat that threatens to destroy us all in the future. I've even written to the careless, callous people at CERN to chide them for using their Large Hadron Subluxator to further damage the galaxy's spine (have you noticed the shape of the accelerator? A DISC!) but they haven't written back to me. Maybe Dr. Bob will have better luck.
Make sure, though, when looking through a telescope, to use proper posture to protect your own spinal health. If you think you've been bending over and craning your neck too much, make an appointment to see a Chiropractor to keep your nervous system in working condition.
Not to mention all the leg-humping dogs who would be up on sexual assault charges.
No dude - this is a PETA article, not a TSA article.
Mod parent up. This is one of the truest, most insightful things I've read on Slashdot in ages, to say nothing of it being in a gaming discussion.
Paramecium.
Around the same time the cop-a-like uniforms and fake tin badges (that don't mean anything) were introduced. It's classic psychological manipulation - people subconsciously preface "officer" with "police" and it leads them to think TSA clerks have law-enforcement authority, which they do not. "Clerk" is the classification of their government role. TSA clerks are actually no more empowered than the guy who sells you stamps at the post office. The ONE AND ONLY power they have is to say "no, you can't go into the airport terminal, come back tomorrow." That's it.
The "reputable" pirate groups don't do that because the instant they do, they lose scene cred and basically become pariahs. If you're getting your releases from a well-known group, you can pretty well rest assured that you're getting a clean release because these groups do have a reputation to protect (in spite of being considered "disreputable" by the media companies whose stuff they're releasing).
It makes sense to be leery of hitherto-unknown ripping groups because they're not yet established and so you have no way of knowing if the releases are infected or not but a lot of the time they're groups who want to get big and so will know better than to sabotage their own chances of fame.
Only now, it's tit-for-tat at worst because the ad providers have demonstrated that they cannot be trusted to be honest and respect people's wishes for privacy. For those sites that users really want to support, there are targeted whitelist rules or simple old-fashioned donations.
For those people who tried to argue against Adblock and other tools to help users control how their information is used and how their browsing experience plays out, this should take the wind out of their sails at least a little. Browser developers and advertising companies came up with a standard for not tracking the users who don't want to be tracked and the ad companies promptly turned around and fucked those users over. Why should we respect the wishes of marketers who don't want us blocking ads now?