Am I the only person who is amazed by the obvious stupidity of writing a law that makes some forms of payment illegal *for something which is illegal in the first place* (specifically selling stolen goods).
All you're doing is classifying people as criminals who are otherwise innocent of any obvious wrongdoing.
And SOMEHOW you think this will make hunting down *people who have done something wrong* easier/simpler/faster/cheaper.
I for one applaud the Government educating our children on the techniques and technologies required to circumvent finger-print scanners, I'm sure such skills will be much sought-after in the future.
OF course, don't you know this is actually a part of the deliberate manipulation of society by The FBI/CIA/DHS/DEA/(insert-other-acronym-here). If every child in the country ias to swipe an appendage against the same physical location *and then are unable to suitably clean their hands* I'm sure the next news will be the FBI "discovering" that terrorists are plotting to bio-infect school scanners to kill off our children. Or more likely it will be that an entire town has been infected with an unknown virulent pathogen and The President has authorised the use of nuclear weapons in the interest of National Security.
Insert DHS field-day here, Rights- what rights? You Have The Right To Remain Patriotic - what MORE could anyone want?
Just to be clear, *NOBODY* claims this behaviour is true of *ALL* P2P filesharers.
However all the studies (other thn marketing propaganda by The **AA) clearly show that *OVERWHELMINGLY* most filesharers end up actually *BUYING* significantly more music.
And by MORE I do mean
more than before they were filesharing
more than they "pirate"
collectively MORE is being purchased than pirated, ie there is SALES GROWTH AS A DIRECT RESULT OF FILESHARING
To take this further, the equipment on it should be done in the west ONLY. We need to know that it will not be taken down by China when they finally decide to attack.
You sir seem to have forgotten that this planet is spherical.
Everywhere is EAST of somewhere else, Everywhere is west of somewhere else.
Like the federal funding for those businesses considered "too big to fail" , it's not about HOW you SCREWUP but the SCALE that matters.
Killing scattered individuals by the many tens of thousands (annually) is insignificant compared to the ~3000 killed in the (single incident) 9/11 attack.
Seriously folks, if you cant to talk about "the bazillions killed annually" why not badger the government to do something about the destruction of society caused by smokers/cigarettes/tobacco.
History shows clearly that somehow we always manage to vote in a pack of incompetent,corrupt and/or morally bankrupt thugs who have their own private agenda and do not actually (collectively) care about managing the nation well.
Because if they (collectively) truly cared about it they how are they doing such an ASTOUNDINGLY bad job of it?
This retarded politician is attempting to treat the symptoms of a problem while ignoring the actual root cause.
Rather ask WHY is it more commercially viable for American companies to actually produce *almost everything* in {some random foreign country}.
THAT is the root cause of "american jobs disappearing".
The iPAD is just the current POP Culture ICON he has attached his rant to, he deserves to be taken out the back and summarily fired from his position, clearly he is totally incompetent and 100% self-serving.
If you do not use the worlds-most-villified-browser, and if you have also not explicitly installed a plugin (or otherwise) to enable MHTML support in our *much less sucky* browser, then you are golden.
but flawed risk models certainly were complicit because they added to the general overconfidence.
Que? From what I heard, the people who were running this scam (the bankers, etc) *knew* exactly how crap their debt was, and they *deliberately* "re-packaged" it so that it did not look like a turd. Oh Sure what they did was *very* carefully within the letter of the law, but THEY KNEW PERFECTLY WELL they were fucking the system hard against a wall.
They just honestly believed they would not get caught because they believed "things would not go pear-shaped".
If this was caused by "people mistakes" there's not much we can really do, nobody gets punished, and nobody is held accountable.
If this was caused by industry-wide systemic faults within the financial trading systems (programs etc) then *someone* somewhere would be held accountable, made to pay restitution, and actual changes would be implemented.
I for one am not even slightly surprised to hear this announcement today.
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Am I the only person who is amazed by the obvious stupidity of writing a law that makes some forms of payment illegal *for something which is illegal in the first place* (specifically selling stolen goods).
All you're doing is classifying people as criminals who are otherwise innocent of any obvious wrongdoing.
And SOMEHOW you think this will make hunting down *people who have done something wrong* easier/simpler/faster/cheaper.
Even worse, it implies that somewhere in Florida There Are Old People Having Sex!
Yes fellow dotslashers, Grandma gets more nookie than you ever will.
I for one applaud the Government educating our children on the techniques and technologies required to circumvent finger-print scanners, I'm sure such skills will be much sought-after in the future.
OF course, don't you know this is actually a part of the deliberate manipulation of society by The FBI/CIA/DHS/DEA/(insert-other-acronym-here). If every child in the country ias to swipe an appendage against the same physical location *and then are unable to suitably clean their hands* I'm sure the next news will be the FBI "discovering" that terrorists are plotting to bio-infect school scanners to kill off our children. Or more likely it will be that an entire town has been infected with an unknown virulent pathogen and The President has authorised the use of nuclear weapons in the interest of National Security.
Insert DHS field-day here, Rights- what rights? You Have The Right To Remain Patriotic - what MORE could anyone want?
The real questions needing to be answered are
mmmmm Mussels from Brussels. PhilP
Despite ALl the market-hype and brew-haha going on, the simple fact remains:
If ALL your computing power is in ONE SINGLE DATACENTRE then what you have is a DAMP SPOT not a CLOUD.
Just to be clear, *NOBODY* claims this behaviour is true of *ALL* P2P filesharers.
However all the studies (other thn marketing propaganda by The **AA) clearly show that *OVERWHELMINGLY* most filesharers end up actually *BUYING* significantly more music.
And by MORE I do mean
Why is it those who want to implement this kind of filtering never quite address these sort of concerns up-front?
Because NONE of this is EVER about achieving the worthwhile goals which are stated up-front.
These things are ALWAYS a behind-the-scenes attempt to deploy *government mandated censorship* of what is (currently) an uncontrolled medium.
To take this further, the equipment on it should be done in the west ONLY. We need to know that it will not be taken down by China when they finally decide to attack.
You sir seem to have forgotten that this planet is spherical.
Everywhere is EAST of somewhere else, Everywhere is west of somewhere else.
We're on the fast track to becoming a banana republic.
Absolute Rubbish!
When Australia needs to import bananas it's from SOUTH america.
USA *aspires* to become a banana republic.
News at Eleven!!!!
WHUT? You mean this is no surprise? Not even News?
Sorry folks but everyone with a clue already knew that DOT NET was a Microsoft attempt to completely screw (over) the developer community.
The fact that said community was too blind to see it does not make the above statement any less true.
Like the federal funding for those businesses considered "too big to fail" , it's not about HOW you SCREWUP but the SCALE that matters.
,corrupt and/or morally bankrupt thugs who have their own private agenda and do not actually (collectively) care about managing the nation well.
Killing scattered individuals by the many tens of thousands (annually) is insignificant compared to the ~3000 killed in the (single incident) 9/11 attack.
Seriously folks, if you cant to talk about "the bazillions killed annually" why not badger the government to do something about the destruction of society caused by smokers/cigarettes/tobacco.
History shows clearly that somehow we always manage to vote in a pack of incompetent
Because if they (collectively) truly cared about it they how are they doing such an ASTOUNDINGLY bad job of it?
Apparently Questioning the (claimed) continuing necessity of The Patriot Act has been declared UnPatriotic.
Lather/Rinse/Repeat.
BUMP!
This retarded politician is attempting to treat the symptoms of a problem while ignoring the actual root cause.
Rather ask WHY is it more commercially viable for American companies to actually produce *almost everything* in {some random foreign country}.
THAT is the root cause of "american jobs disappearing".
The iPAD is just the current POP Culture ICON he has attached his rant to, he deserves to be taken out the back and summarily fired from his position, clearly he is totally incompetent and 100% self-serving.
I'm sure some of you were splitting atoms after school
Nah, at my school we were violating security on the local University Mainframe.
Because the US of A unfairly ties these new copyright enforcement laws to negotiations on international trade.
They have done and continue to do this to Australia.
A direct impact of billions of dollars to your economy is a national emergency.
In many ways the crazy people in oil-soaked sandy countries are correct - America BULLIES other countries.
All Poiticians are evil ("by their deeds shall ye know them", if not by nature).
They have almost literally zero integrity.
They're almost always full of promises beforehand and full of broken promises afterwards.
I realize that is an inherent feature of the job (as opposed to a personal failing on their part), at least in our current/modern democratic society.
The system as it stands is badly broken, unfortunately I for one have no suggestions on how to fix it.
MSIE just shot itself in the foot.
MHTML is a microsoft-ism
If you do not use the worlds-most-villified-browser, and if you have also not explicitly installed a plugin (or otherwise) to enable MHTML support in our *much less sucky* browser, then you are golden.
but flawed risk models certainly were complicit because they added to the general overconfidence.
Que? From what I heard, the people who were running this scam (the bankers, etc) *knew* exactly how crap their debt was, and they *deliberately* "re-packaged" it so that it did not look like a turd. Oh Sure what they did was *very* carefully within the letter of the law, but THEY KNEW PERFECTLY WELL they were fucking the system hard against a wall.
They just honestly believed they would not get caught because they believed "things would not go pear-shaped".
If this was caused by "people mistakes" there's not much we can really do, nobody gets punished, and nobody is held accountable.
If this was caused by industry-wide systemic faults within the financial trading systems (programs etc) then *someone* somewhere would be held accountable, made to pay restitution, and actual changes would be implemented.
I for one am not even slightly surprised to hear this announcement today.
MAJOR Cutbacks on scientific research.
Bloody Know It Alls!
Your "science" can never know The Mind Of God.</sarcasm>
NO! While the government is behaving this way, people should be rioting in the streets!
Where are all the armed bears you are so proud of?
Only small children, fools, and village idiots believe that war has been won.