It isn't so much the career politicians that worry me as much as the slimy asshat lobbyists/aides (same people because of the revolving door between government work and highly-paid corporate positions) that tell them what to do and say all day long.
Yeah, but the call quality is shit. I don't care if it is 100% up time, if the people I talk to to sound like they are making guttural sounds through a straw.
When you violate US copyright law, the feds really just kinda laugh and say "ok, sure, whatever."
The Feds seized 82 domains related to trafficking in counterfeit goods, one of those being a torrent site. They are trying to pass ACTA, a copyright treaty that would circumvent a nation's own laws. They are trying to pass COICA which is in the Congress right now. The DMCA, ever hear of it? The RIAA and the MPAA are trying to make the DoJ their own legal enforcement department. Yeah, the Feds just don't care about copyright law.
You know, I pay cash for my gas, the gov gets their bit, and I get the fuel for my car, without anyone else knowing what I specifically spent my money on. I don't like this new idea one bit.
Exactly. Someone is making money on this. Navin, the rep for BitTorrent (the company, not the protocol) said they were very excited about this, this being Comcast video running with the BitTorrent protocol assigned by BitTorrent Inc on the Comcast internal network. That's where the profit is, and that is why there is a deal. And as stated in other posts, it could have been planned like this all along. BiTorrent protocol gets throttled, BitTorrent, Inc. makes a deal with Comcast and now has a legitimate reason to change the original protocol for profit. And since it would be internal only, they can still throttle the original protocol. Comcast and BT both clean up their image, and Mr. and Mrs. Common Denominator think everything is hunky-dory agina in the land of broadband. IDK, maybe a little conspiratorial, but worse things have happened.
Actually, as far as coverage went, the old AMPS and TDMA networks beat the crap out of GSM (not necessarily beating CDMA though). The reason as far as I can tell is the radial throw of the signal from the analog was much farther than digital networks. That is why people in the rural areas still have these old phones, it is the only that works where they are.
True, if it is their network they can do what they want. But let us not forget that our state and federal governments has all ready paid out $200,000,000,000 in subsidies to these companies so they could build out "their" networks to support broadband. In many cases, that money did not pay for what it was intended to pay for. If tax-payer money was given to the telcos for broadband build-outs, how much of the network is really theirs? This is just one example of the fleecing of Americans by the telcos. If we can't trust them to do right with our money (while enjoying record profits and revenues), how can we trust them to operate networks fairly, nuetrally and without discrimination?
That would depend on the state in which the recording takes place. IANAL, and this is just an example, but I believe in California, you must have the authority of all parties involved, while in Alaska, you only need the consent of one of the parties. Of course this is more for personal recordings of your own conversations. See this guide for more info: http://www.rcfp.org/taping/
Ha, when I was in the military we used that to screw with the new data guys, we would go and tell them to install that USB printer on that Windows NT machine over there... and then watch about 80% of them try for about 30 minutes to get it to work.
Off topic, but it reminds me of when I worked for facilities at an MLB stadium. We used to tell the newbies to go find the key to the batter's box. About 80% spent an hour or more trying to find it. Hilarious.
All these silly semantic games, just to rationalize why it's not stealing when you download bootleg copies of "Transformers: The Movie."
Who would waste their time downloading that piece of crap? I mean c'mon, they killed off most of the characters, including Optimus Prime. I remember all the hype surrounding that movie when it came out in 1986, and boy, was I disappointed.
Oh wait, did you mean "Transformers", not "Transformers: The Movie"? Well ok then.
Let us not forget that these suicide bombers firmly believe that when they die, they will be sent to paradise and be surrounded by 40 virgins. They want to die. That is the sole reason that we cannot win a war against terrorism or terrorists. How do you defeat an enemy that wants to die, and wants to take as many people with them as they can? Yes, they are family people, and some of their families are paid handsomely for the terrorist's act. Make my family wealthy AND send me to paradise with 40 virgins? You can't beat that!
I'm kind of comforted knowing that Comcast uses the same "gouging for a service that costs them almost nothing" tactic against people who want to spy on me
But they aren't using it on the people who want to spy on us. Sure the FBI pays for the service, but who pays for the FBI? We do, the tax-paying citizens of this country. So we are in fact paying Comcast to spy on us. That is egregious. They should not be allowed to charge for this.
I agree. You only have to listen to the rhetoric spouted by Bush and Congress to know what they are doing is illegal. First, they tell us that nothing the phone companies have done is illegal and they have acted in "good faith". Then, they tell us because the phone companies, and this includes Comcast, have been so helpful, that they should be granted immunity from their actions retroactive back to 2001. It doesn't take Einstein to figure out that if they had done nothing wrong, then there would be no reason to grant immunity. The fact that they are asking for it means they know they acted irresponsibly with their customer's info, and illegally.
The fact that Comcast also makes money off of these wiretaps is outrageous. That's incentive for them to keep violating the Fourth Amendment whenever asked by the government, regardless of legal grounds to do so.
But they're not. From TFA, the first two priorities are terrorism and counter-intelligence. So organized crime, murders, corporate crime, rape all fall behind the first three. As of 9/11, the FBI's main focus is terrorism and counter-intelligence, which is the problem. Don't get me wrong. If a terrorist comes here (or was born here) and plans on committing some violent action on American soil, I want the FBI to stop it. But I don't think that should mean that they should stop investigating most other crimes. If the FBI commits almost all of their resources and funding to the first two priorities, how can we expect them to be able to investigate anything else with any validity.
Or the swastika which is a very religious symbol in Buddhist religions, and meant good luck for 3,000 years, until the Third Reich used it as their symbol. And it is exactly said state security org I was referring to. I think the actions of that particular body will prove to be very nasty in time, and will bestow on the word Homeland what Fatherland is now in reference to Nazis and fascism. Most Americans I think did not use the word Homeland to describe their country. I know I never heard it used before 2001. Weird word to choose, and so Fatherland sounding, how could you not be weirded out by it.
I was being a little sarcastic, but you are correct. The media in this country loves "shock and awe" so whenever ANYTHING happens ANYWHERE that involves violence, we are subjected to it in all forms, be it TV, print, internet. But only for a limited time, then they move on to some other new violence, and we "forget" all about the other incidents. It is a sad state of affairs that a small group of people own almost all of the media outlets in this country and are operating for profit. If some news item is deemed as affecting the bottom line, or goes against the core beliefs of the "man" in charge, we may never see it. For example, WTF ever happened to the miners trapped in Utah. Another, how come it took a year before real coverage of Jena Six started popping up. Just my.02.
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I think that "rapist" could also be considered when formulating the amount of "rape" utterances in that comment, therefore there are three "rapes".
It isn't so much the career politicians that worry me as much as the slimy asshat lobbyists/aides (same people because of the revolving door between government work and highly-paid corporate positions) that tell them what to do and say all day long.
You mean...the FerengIAA
Yeah, but the call quality is shit. I don't care if it is 100% up time, if the people I talk to to sound like they are making guttural sounds through a straw.
When you violate US copyright law, the feds really just kinda laugh and say "ok, sure, whatever."
The Feds seized 82 domains related to trafficking in counterfeit goods, one of those being a torrent site. They are trying to pass ACTA, a copyright treaty that would circumvent a nation's own laws. They are trying to pass COICA which is in the Congress right now. The DMCA, ever hear of it? The RIAA and the MPAA are trying to make the DoJ their own legal enforcement department. Yeah, the Feds just don't care about copyright law.
He may have been a bad president, but he made a great puppet!
I think that Raytheon, the company behind the product might want to have their name first, rather than the Android name.
You know, I pay cash for my gas, the gov gets their bit, and I get the fuel for my car, without anyone else knowing what I specifically spent my money on. I don't like this new idea one bit.
Which you never see coming because of the beard.
Rose Parks broke the law, too.
I think you meant Rosa Parks, unless of course you were actually referring to the Outkast song, and in that case my mistake.
I thought filesharing=communism.
There's even a poster.
Exactly. Someone is making money on this. Navin, the rep for BitTorrent (the company, not the protocol) said they were very excited about this, this being Comcast video running with the BitTorrent protocol assigned by BitTorrent Inc on the Comcast internal network. That's where the profit is, and that is why there is a deal. And as stated in other posts, it could have been planned like this all along. BiTorrent protocol gets throttled, BitTorrent, Inc. makes a deal with Comcast and now has a legitimate reason to change the original protocol for profit. And since it would be internal only, they can still throttle the original protocol. Comcast and BT both clean up their image, and Mr. and Mrs. Common Denominator think everything is hunky-dory agina in the land of broadband. IDK, maybe a little conspiratorial, but worse things have happened.
Actually, as far as coverage went, the old AMPS and TDMA networks beat the crap out of GSM (not necessarily beating CDMA though). The reason as far as I can tell is the radial throw of the signal from the analog was much farther than digital networks. That is why people in the rural areas still have these old phones, it is the only that works where they are.
True, if it is their network they can do what they want. But let us not forget that our state and federal governments has all ready paid out $200,000,000,000 in subsidies to these companies so they could build out "their" networks to support broadband. In many cases, that money did not pay for what it was intended to pay for. If tax-payer money was given to the telcos for broadband build-outs, how much of the network is really theirs? This is just one example of the fleecing of Americans by the telcos. If we can't trust them to do right with our money (while enjoying record profits and revenues), how can we trust them to operate networks fairly, nuetrally and without discrimination?
That would depend on the state in which the recording takes place. IANAL, and this is just an example, but I believe in California, you must have the authority of all parties involved, while in Alaska, you only need the consent of one of the parties. Of course this is more for personal recordings of your own conversations. See this guide for more info:
http://www.rcfp.org/taping/
There are no juries in small claims court. All decisions are made by a judge.
Off topic, but it reminds me of when I worked for facilities at an MLB stadium. We used to tell the newbies to go find the key to the batter's box. About 80% spent an hour or more trying to find it. Hilarious.
Who would waste their time downloading that piece of crap? I mean c'mon, they killed off most of the characters, including Optimus Prime. I remember all the hype surrounding that movie when it came out in 1986, and boy, was I disappointed.
Oh wait, did you mean "Transformers", not "Transformers: The Movie"? Well ok then.
Let us not forget that these suicide bombers firmly believe that when they die, they will be sent to paradise and be surrounded by 40 virgins. They want to die. That is the sole reason that we cannot win a war against terrorism or terrorists. How do you defeat an enemy that wants to die, and wants to take as many people with them as they can? Yes, they are family people, and some of their families are paid handsomely for the terrorist's act. Make my family wealthy AND send me to paradise with 40 virgins? You can't beat that!
But they aren't using it on the people who want to spy on us. Sure the FBI pays for the service, but who pays for the FBI? We do, the tax-paying citizens of this country. So we are in fact paying Comcast to spy on us. That is egregious. They should not be allowed to charge for this.
I agree. You only have to listen to the rhetoric spouted by Bush and Congress to know what they are doing is illegal. First, they tell us that nothing the phone companies have done is illegal and they have acted in "good faith". Then, they tell us because the phone companies, and this includes Comcast, have been so helpful, that they should be granted immunity from their actions retroactive back to 2001. It doesn't take Einstein to figure out that if they had done nothing wrong, then there would be no reason to grant immunity. The fact that they are asking for it means they know they acted irresponsibly with their customer's info, and illegally.
The fact that Comcast also makes money off of these wiretaps is outrageous. That's incentive for them to keep violating the Fourth Amendment whenever asked by the government, regardless of legal grounds to do so.
1. Overbook flights. 2. Charge fees to actually get the luggage you checked back after the flight. 3. Take away all amenities. 4. ? 5. PROFIT
But they're not. From TFA, the first two priorities are terrorism and counter-intelligence. So organized crime, murders, corporate crime, rape all fall behind the first three. As of 9/11, the FBI's main focus is terrorism and counter-intelligence, which is the problem. Don't get me wrong. If a terrorist comes here (or was born here) and plans on committing some violent action on American soil, I want the FBI to stop it. But I don't think that should mean that they should stop investigating most other crimes. If the FBI commits almost all of their resources and funding to the first two priorities, how can we expect them to be able to investigate anything else with any validity.
Or the swastika which is a very religious symbol in Buddhist religions, and meant good luck for 3,000 years, until the Third Reich used it as their symbol. And it is exactly said state security org I was referring to. I think the actions of that particular body will prove to be very nasty in time, and will bestow on the word Homeland what Fatherland is now in reference to Nazis and fascism. Most Americans I think did not use the word Homeland to describe their country. I know I never heard it used before 2001. Weird word to choose, and so Fatherland sounding, how could you not be weirded out by it.
I was being a little sarcastic, but you are correct. The media in this country loves "shock and awe" so whenever ANYTHING happens ANYWHERE that involves violence, we are subjected to it in all forms, be it TV, print, internet. But only for a limited time, then they move on to some other new violence, and we "forget" all about the other incidents. It is a sad state of affairs that a small group of people own almost all of the media outlets in this country and are operating for profit. If some news item is deemed as affecting the bottom line, or goes against the core beliefs of the "man" in charge, we may never see it. For example, WTF ever happened to the miners trapped in Utah. Another, how come it took a year before real coverage of Jena Six started popping up. Just my .02.