That's just the cost of doing business. Even if one state actually believes they can fine a company in a completely different part of the world, this will not make a dent. It's a token, at most, and not a very good one.
when a law is struck down as unconstitutional, fine all the reps and senators that voted for it
This would only cause a parliamentary standstill, as nobody would vote for anything for fear of later reprisals.
I do, however, think that immediately after a law is passed, it should instantly go to judicial review where it is open to challenges from anyone. If a single case can show that the law is unconstitutional, it must be struck down. The problem is one of meta-modelling though, according to which other laws is this law made unconstitutional? What happens if this is an amendment to the constitution?
You could however make a law stating guaranteeing the freedoms ACTA takes away.
"... the right to circumvent any physical or digital provision designed to restrict access to media or data owned by the individual."
Indeed, but what's to prevent yet another law being passed that takes those freedoms away again? Laws are never final (nor should they be).
The system is both flawed and wonderful for the same reason. Thus, the only solution is to ensure that you are ruled by/vote for people with similar ethics and morals as yourself (or that you want to have governing you).
>There is no provision for forbidding anything to ever become a law
It's called the constitution.
Even the constitution can be amended. For a prime example of fixing your previous fuck-ups in the constitution, see amendments 18 (making booze illegal) and 21 (making it legal again).
The problem with legislation is that, even if you defeat one, it can simply be reintroduced again and again until it is passed. There is no provision for forbidding anything to ever become a law (for a reason, otherwise we'd never be able to undo bad decisions). I hate ACTA as much as the next guy, and I really don't want to see it in use, but if the politicians have decided that some form of law like this will be in place, there's no stemming the tide simply by expressing our displeasure for it. Do you honestly think that politicians listen to the people who elect them? That's not how it works. We listen to the politicians, and elect the one we believe best represents our interests. It's (almost) always a one-way street.
So they are examples of attempted censorship, not necessarily successful. It's still troublesome.
There will always be people unhappy about something. It's their right to be. I don't think we have to be worried about people complaining about this until it's actually acted upon. It's not like we can prevent people from asking others to censor stuff. That would be censorship in itself.
The article lists the most *challenged* books. Challenging a book doesn't result in it being censored. The title of the article is incredibly misleading.
So, what, he expects to load gigabytes of resources like sounds and textues and video in realtime from the internet? If he doesn't, and he expects that to reside on disk in some HTML5 based storage, how is that not installation? What a fucking idiot...
I like how "increasing our debt" is a perfectly viable solution to "fixing our debt". Isn't this just going to compound the problem? If you can't pay back 100 dollars, what makes you think that you can pay back 150? Are those extra 50 that you are borrowing magically going to turn your economy around so that you can pack back the first 100? If so, why didn't you take better care of the first 100?
I forsee failure. As much as I'd like this movie to get made, considering the fact that it's "gone forward" and then gotten dumped again several times makes me think that things will fall apart this time too. As long as it's better than Johnny Mnemonic, I'm happy =)
He's basically saying "Hire entrepreneurs", not "Hire developers". Someone might be a great hacker, and still not have any public projects available.
While I agree that hiring someone with proven experience might be better than hiring someone without, people do start out somewhere.
If these are the criteria, we will never be detected by others: "where a star's lifetime is artificially extended to maintain the habitable zone of its planetary system; or debris created from asteroid mining."
This sounds exactly like what I want. The question, though, is "can they pull it off?". Will people like it so much that they forgo the classic design of MMORPGs (read flock away from wow), or will they just be a footnote in history. I, for one, will at least have a try. Unless diablo 3 or torchlight mmo comes out first. Then all bets are off...
Nowhere does it say anything about screen resolution. Why is it that people seem to think that the physical size (in inches) of the screen is the only thing that matters?
I've wanted something like this for a long time. I want to be able to post questions to my computer, such as "when was such-and-such a film made?", or "when was such-and-such a person born?". Questions that you could fairly easily look up yourself, but if you're, say, in teh kitchen, and the computer is in the other room, you want to be able to throw the question out there and get a response. I tried to write something like this myself, but unless you specify a grammar (which is difficult if you want to include freeform words like people's names and the names of movies and books etc), then the speech recognition is simply terrible. I tried two libraries (or was it three?) and they all had similarly horrible results. With a pre-defined grammar they did great. Without one, the results were atrocious.
tl;dr: I want it, but I can't seem to get it to work.
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That's just the cost of doing business. Even if one state actually believes they can fine a company in a completely different part of the world, this will not make a dent. It's a token, at most, and not a very good one.
There's nothing stopping anyone from passing a law to overturn that.
when a law is struck down as unconstitutional, fine all the reps and senators that voted for it
This would only cause a parliamentary standstill, as nobody would vote for anything for fear of later reprisals. I do, however, think that immediately after a law is passed, it should instantly go to judicial review where it is open to challenges from anyone. If a single case can show that the law is unconstitutional, it must be struck down. The problem is one of meta-modelling though, according to which other laws is this law made unconstitutional? What happens if this is an amendment to the constitution?
You could however make a law stating guaranteeing the freedoms ACTA takes away.
"... the right to circumvent any physical or digital provision designed to restrict access to media or data owned by the individual."
Indeed, but what's to prevent yet another law being passed that takes those freedoms away again? Laws are never final (nor should they be). The system is both flawed and wonderful for the same reason. Thus, the only solution is to ensure that you are ruled by/vote for people with similar ethics and morals as yourself (or that you want to have governing you).
>There is no provision for forbidding anything to ever become a law
It's called the constitution.
Even the constitution can be amended. For a prime example of fixing your previous fuck-ups in the constitution, see amendments 18 (making booze illegal) and 21 (making it legal again).
The problem with legislation is that, even if you defeat one, it can simply be reintroduced again and again until it is passed. There is no provision for forbidding anything to ever become a law (for a reason, otherwise we'd never be able to undo bad decisions). I hate ACTA as much as the next guy, and I really don't want to see it in use, but if the politicians have decided that some form of law like this will be in place, there's no stemming the tide simply by expressing our displeasure for it. Do you honestly think that politicians listen to the people who elect them? That's not how it works. We listen to the politicians, and elect the one we believe best represents our interests. It's (almost) always a one-way street.
This is what this makes me think about.
Hahaha, that's awesome and incredibly accurate! =)
All I see is "wahh, waah, we want to be a monopoly!" I hear that doesn't get people attention from the government at all.
Wasn't the enforcement of this law put on hold due to some irregularities with the company collecting the data to base these things on?
Do you have any numbers to support this claim?
Touché =)
So they are examples of attempted censorship, not necessarily successful. It's still troublesome.
There will always be people unhappy about something. It's their right to be. I don't think we have to be worried about people complaining about this until it's actually acted upon. It's not like we can prevent people from asking others to censor stuff. That would be censorship in itself.
The article lists the most *challenged* books. Challenging a book doesn't result in it being censored. The title of the article is incredibly misleading.
So, what, he expects to load gigabytes of resources like sounds and textues and video in realtime from the internet? If he doesn't, and he expects that to reside on disk in some HTML5 based storage, how is that not installation? What a fucking idiot...
"I refuse to believe that this entire industry is built on piracy" Then you, sir, are naïve.
I like how "increasing our debt" is a perfectly viable solution to "fixing our debt". Isn't this just going to compound the problem? If you can't pay back 100 dollars, what makes you think that you can pay back 150? Are those extra 50 that you are borrowing magically going to turn your economy around so that you can pack back the first 100? If so, why didn't you take better care of the first 100?
I didn't read the article, but I did play the game, and it absolutely sucks!
I forsee failure. As much as I'd like this movie to get made, considering the fact that it's "gone forward" and then gotten dumped again several times makes me think that things will fall apart this time too. As long as it's better than Johnny Mnemonic, I'm happy =)
He's basically saying "Hire entrepreneurs", not "Hire developers". Someone might be a great hacker, and still not have any public projects available. While I agree that hiring someone with proven experience might be better than hiring someone without, people do start out somewhere.
Why would there be a "Linux version" of code that runs on multiple platforms? The "Windows version" IS the "Linux version."
If these are the criteria, we will never be detected by others: "where a star's lifetime is artificially extended to maintain the habitable zone of its planetary system; or debris created from asteroid mining."
This sounds exactly like what I want. The question, though, is "can they pull it off?". Will people like it so much that they forgo the classic design of MMORPGs (read flock away from wow), or will they just be a footnote in history. I, for one, will at least have a try. Unless diablo 3 or torchlight mmo comes out first. Then all bets are off...
I of course mean that *I* stand corrected. Not the anonymous coward posting from my phone... =)
Nowhere does it say anything about screen resolution. Why is it that people seem to think that the physical size (in inches) of the screen is the only thing that matters?
I've wanted something like this for a long time. I want to be able to post questions to my computer, such as "when was such-and-such a film made?", or "when was such-and-such a person born?". Questions that you could fairly easily look up yourself, but if you're, say, in teh kitchen, and the computer is in the other room, you want to be able to throw the question out there and get a response. I tried to write something like this myself, but unless you specify a grammar (which is difficult if you want to include freeform words like people's names and the names of movies and books etc), then the speech recognition is simply terrible. I tried two libraries (or was it three?) and they all had similarly horrible results. With a pre-defined grammar they did great. Without one, the results were atrocious.
tl;dr: I want it, but I can't seem to get it to work.