>>people's) private interest. It kills me with things like the corn lobby has done.
If you played at the big table, you'd understand.
Corn is a *major* source of money in our economy. So is copyright. It's be nice to say let Corn and Mickey go F themselves. In reality, it *could* cause a MAJOR crash in our system.
Please study the economic upheaval that occurred under Thatcher in the UK WRT socialism. Sure, they came out on top. However, it could have gone *very* bad.
Take the power of Impeachment from the Legislative and give it to The People. Allow The People to collect signatures on a petition. If they get X signatures, then they can force a National Referendum on Impeachment.
At that point, a specific number of The People must vote for Impeachment.
If the vote passes, then the government would basically shut down until the hearings had ended. It would not be necessary to have broken a law. No evidence would be needed. The People have voted No Confidence. Congress must decide how to proceed.
If your local rep did not vote how you wanted, then you could also impeach at that level.
Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
If you do the same bad thing over and over, all you get is a bad habit. If you record, analyze, correct, and repeat all your actions, you will get better.
I fly RC helis and airplanes. When doing pattern flying, I equip my birds with a GPS (garmin forerunner). After a practice session, I import the data into Google Earth and try and find out why my loops aren't round or why my vertical lines are not straight.
Lots of golfers record themselves at the driving range. After, they can overlay their swing with that of the Club Pro or another golfer and see exactly what they are doing wrong.
I think copyright should be based on the money earned from the item. For instance, my diary earns nothing. Therefore, copyright should cost nothing. A Disney movie earns $50,000,000 in the first year after release, they should have to pay 1% to keep the copyright for the next year.
Every year, the percentage should increase until it is more cost effective to turn the work over to public domain.
Of course, Disney could still maintain trademarks on characters and sets. It's not like you could just copy the movie verbatim and re-release. But you could at least shoot your own version of Steamboat Willie for a college project without fear.
This is a good place to employ a whitelist. Allow a very limited number of sites. Everything else is blocked. Blocked sites can be unblocked on request.
Of course, the first blocks should go on lines servicing Government agencies. After all, they shouldn't be surfing pr0n at work.
I figure a week of virtually no internet would turn the heads of the lawmakers.
Your site refuses to work without a cookie. The page won't even display unless I allow a cookie.
The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
* This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
cookies. Now, I'm not a huge cookie conspiracy theorist, but I refuse to allow cookies until *I* decide that a site needs one.
Tell your webmaster to fix the site and maybe then I'll check out your game.
The guy probably wasn't involved in any of the CP "scenes". If he was getting stuff from the internet (freenet, 4chan, 7chan, 12chan, etc...), they he probably would have been clued into the use of cryptography.
Since he wasn't getting it from the internet, it was probably pictures of people he had access to. His kids. Neighbors' kids. Relatives.
Pretty hard to claim it was planted when you have nudie pics of your daughter sitting on your lap...
Most of the people in my company that have BB are in the upper echelons. They get paid *very* well to be online 24*7*365.
In my department, I am the 24*7 point of contact for problems. It's my department and I like to know what is going on. The people that work for me are on a standby schedule. They all pull 20 hours of standby each week. When something happens, I get called. I get the problem info and then I call whoever is on standby. The standby tech comes in and works the issue. He then gets 1.5 hours off for every hour he worked the problem. Seems to work okay.
Right now, I can start a campaign for a candidate. I can then dump millions of dollars into that campaign. All of this without ever *giving* the candidate a single dollar.
In short, your plan sounds good but it just won't work.
They don't want to RAPE. They want to show others who is in charge. They want to feel powerful. If they can't get access to women, then they *may* turn to some other MO.
Once someone commits a violent crime, it is perfectly reasonable to expect that they will commit another violent crime in the future. Just look at the percentage of people that are released from prison and are the reincarcerated.
My understanding is that rape is not about sexual attraction. It's about control and power over another person. It's perfectly reasonable to think that a rapist *might* change his MO.
Here's another way to look at it. School bully beats up other kids. Bully starts torturing animals. Bully commits petty crimes. Bully commits petty crimes with a weapon. Bully commits violent crimes with weapon. Bully begins murdering.
This path from troubled childhood to murderer is fairly well documented.
I wonder if there is a similar milestone path for rapists and/or child sex offenders?
1. Neighborhood Watch. Get with all the local residents and come up with a 24*7 schedule of 2-hour shifts. Someone watches for suspicious things at all times. If the see the kids painting, they video it and call the police. They also call everyone else in the chain so that they can record for many different angles.
You could skip the police and just beat the crap out of the kids. YMMV
2. Security cameras. Get together and set up hidden cameras in high-probability areas. Not as good as a real NW, but you might get lucky.
It isn't unusual to wipe hard drives of employees that leave. We do that all the time. This ensures that the "next guy" can't claim the files on his drive came from his predecessor.
Any "work product" should be kept on the servers. Within about a month, if no one asks for "missing report B", we do a thorough wipe and re-image.
This could have been a case of "while you guys are waiting for this wipe, can you look at something else".
In many cases, an unclassified Government job can interact with a classified project. In that case, the employee *must* complete a background check document. They want to know where you grew up, every place you lived, where you went to school, every place you worked. They also need, I think, three references from each of those places.
Once the FBI clears the background check, the employee is "read in" to the project and signs a NDA.
So, these guys were working on Mars for the last 10 years. They did lots of probes and made good scientific headway. Now, NASA gets serious about manned missions. At this point, they discus things like "who will go" and "what do we do if things go wrong". How they determine these things is probably classified.
Oh, I don't think they can ask about sexual preference. They can, however, ask if you engage in any fetish sex. Anal and oral are still considered fetishes.
I agree that the witness should have to testify, under oath, about the act. However, the BSA shouldn't be held accountable for frivolous suits. They took the witness at his word.
If the Judge required a third party to investigate, that might work better. They can look for the infringement that the witness testified about. If it's there, a full audit.
When it comes to the audits, it's really hard to pass these. Really hard. You have to have original boxes *with* UPC still intact. You have to have the original store receipt. You have to have the original discs too. Site licenses make it a bit easier, but they still scan the PCs for hints of shareware being mis-used.
People generally have a bit of trust in other people. If someone has committed a crime, then they have given people a reason to stop trusting them.
It sucks, but it's all about keeping yourself safe. Don't want to be a pariah? Then don't be a criminal.
Of course, the level of mistrust is based on the crime. I wouldn't let a convicted rapist date my daughter. I wouldn't let a convicted child molester babysit. I wouldn't let hire a CFO after he was convicted of embezzlement.
Does it matter to me that "they did the crime and the time"? Do they now get a free pass to interact with me as if nothing has happened?
I find it interesting that your post is about how a law is limiting a company's right to shit on its employees and then your sig is advertising for a guy who wants to get rid of all that.
Big government is big because people saw a need for government intervention.
So, which is it, do you want to be an adult and have RP as prez. Or do you want to be protected from big bad companies by your government?
Here's a good idea: RockStar should hire Jack's son as a games evangelist. Pay they kid's way through pre-law (or whatever he wants to do) and have the kid come out every now and then to talk about how cool the newest game is...
You could, however, sue the agency that reported you to the CRA. If someone takes your name and opens a Sears card without paying, then Sears reports that *you* didn't pay your bill. That's clearly false.
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>>people's) private interest. It kills me with things like the corn lobby has done.
If you played at the big table, you'd understand.
Corn is a *major* source of money in our economy. So is copyright. It's be nice to say let Corn and Mickey go F themselves. In reality, it *could* cause a MAJOR crash in our system.
Please study the economic upheaval that occurred under Thatcher in the UK WRT socialism. Sure, they came out on top. However, it could have gone *very* bad.
Take the power of Impeachment from the Legislative and give it to The People. Allow The People to collect signatures on a petition. If they get X signatures, then they can force a National Referendum on Impeachment.
At that point, a specific number of The People must vote for Impeachment.
If the vote passes, then the government would basically shut down until the hearings had ended. It would not be necessary to have broken a law. No evidence would be needed. The People have voted No Confidence. Congress must decide how to proceed.
If your local rep did not vote how you wanted, then you could also impeach at that level.
Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
If you do the same bad thing over and over, all you get is a bad habit. If you record, analyze, correct, and repeat all your actions, you will get better.
I fly RC helis and airplanes. When doing pattern flying, I equip my birds with a GPS (garmin forerunner). After a practice session, I import the data into Google Earth and try and find out why my loops aren't round or why my vertical lines are not straight.
Lots of golfers record themselves at the driving range. After, they can overlay their swing with that of the Club Pro or another golfer and see exactly what they are doing wrong.
I think copyright should be based on the money earned from the item. For instance, my diary earns nothing. Therefore, copyright should cost nothing. A Disney movie earns $50,000,000 in the first year after release, they should have to pay 1% to keep the copyright for the next year.
Every year, the percentage should increase until it is more cost effective to turn the work over to public domain.
Of course, Disney could still maintain trademarks on characters and sets. It's not like you could just copy the movie verbatim and re-release. But you could at least shoot your own version of Steamboat Willie for a college project without fear.
This is a good place to employ a whitelist. Allow a very limited number of sites. Everything else is blocked. Blocked sites can be unblocked on request.
Of course, the first blocks should go on lines servicing Government agencies. After all, they shouldn't be surfing pr0n at work.
I figure a week of virtually no internet would turn the heads of the lawmakers.
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
* This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
cookies. Now, I'm not a huge cookie conspiracy theorist, but I refuse to allow cookies until *I* decide that a site needs one.
Tell your webmaster to fix the site and maybe then I'll check out your game.
I'm just guessing here:
The guy probably wasn't involved in any of the CP "scenes". If he was getting stuff from the internet (freenet, 4chan, 7chan, 12chan, etc...), they he probably would have been clued into the use of cryptography.
Since he wasn't getting it from the internet, it was probably pictures of people he had access to. His kids. Neighbors' kids. Relatives.
Pretty hard to claim it was planted when you have nudie pics of your daughter sitting on your lap...
This is a good reason to implement obfuscated C for things like the program name and author.
Most of the people in my company that have BB are in the upper echelons. They get paid *very* well to be online 24*7*365.
In my department, I am the 24*7 point of contact for problems. It's my department and I like to know what is going on. The people that work for me are on a standby schedule. They all pull 20 hours of standby each week. When something happens, I get called. I get the problem info and then I call whoever is on standby. The standby tech comes in and works the issue. He then gets 1.5 hours off for every hour he worked the problem. Seems to work okay.
Right now, I can start a campaign for a candidate. I can then dump millions of dollars into that campaign. All of this without ever *giving* the candidate a single dollar.
In short, your plan sounds good but it just won't work.
They don't want to RAPE. They want to show others who is in charge. They want to feel powerful. If they can't get access to women, then they *may* turn to some other MO.
Once someone commits a violent crime, it is perfectly reasonable to expect that they will commit another violent crime in the future. Just look at the percentage of people that are released from prison and are the reincarcerated.
My understanding is that rape is not about sexual attraction. It's about control and power over another person. It's perfectly reasonable to think that a rapist *might* change his MO.
Here's another way to look at it. School bully beats up other kids. Bully starts torturing animals. Bully commits petty crimes. Bully commits petty crimes with a weapon. Bully commits violent crimes with weapon. Bully begins murdering.
This path from troubled childhood to murderer is fairly well documented.
I wonder if there is a similar milestone path for rapists and/or child sex offenders?
Maybe I'm pointing out the obvious here:
1. Neighborhood Watch. Get with all the local residents and come up with a 24*7 schedule of 2-hour shifts. Someone watches for suspicious things at all times. If the see the kids painting, they video it and call the police. They also call everyone else in the chain so that they can record for many different angles.
You could skip the police and just beat the crap out of the kids. YMMV
2. Security cameras. Get together and set up hidden cameras in high-probability areas. Not as good as a real NW, but you might get lucky.
It isn't unusual to wipe hard drives of employees that leave. We do that all the time. This ensures that the "next guy" can't claim the files on his drive came from his predecessor.
Any "work product" should be kept on the servers. Within about a month, if no one asks for "missing report B", we do a thorough wipe and re-image.
This could have been a case of "while you guys are waiting for this wipe, can you look at something else".
That's exactly what's going on here: These people did not need clearance before. Now, they need it. They are making a big stink out of it.
What I don't understand is why aren't retailers pushing up the price? Demand out paces supply. Suppliers raise prices to reduce demand.
In many cases, an unclassified Government job can interact with a classified project. In that case, the employee *must* complete a background check document. They want to know where you grew up, every place you lived, where you went to school, every place you worked. They also need, I think, three references from each of those places.
Once the FBI clears the background check, the employee is "read in" to the project and signs a NDA.
So, these guys were working on Mars for the last 10 years. They did lots of probes and made good scientific headway. Now, NASA gets serious about manned missions. At this point, they discus things like "who will go" and "what do we do if things go wrong". How they determine these things is probably classified.
Oh, I don't think they can ask about sexual preference. They can, however, ask if you engage in any fetish sex. Anal and oral are still considered fetishes.
I agree that the witness should have to testify, under oath, about the act. However, the BSA shouldn't be held accountable for frivolous suits. They took the witness at his word.
If the Judge required a third party to investigate, that might work better. They can look for the infringement that the witness testified about. If it's there, a full audit.
When it comes to the audits, it's really hard to pass these. Really hard. You have to have original boxes *with* UPC still intact. You have to have the original store receipt. You have to have the original discs too. Site licenses make it a bit easier, but they still scan the PCs for hints of shareware being mis-used.
People generally have a bit of trust in other people. If someone has committed a crime, then they have given people a reason to stop trusting them.
It sucks, but it's all about keeping yourself safe. Don't want to be a pariah? Then don't be a criminal.
Of course, the level of mistrust is based on the crime. I wouldn't let a convicted rapist date my daughter. I wouldn't let a convicted child molester babysit. I wouldn't let hire a CFO after he was convicted of embezzlement.
Does it matter to me that "they did the crime and the time"? Do they now get a free pass to interact with me as if nothing has happened?
Try and buy a dildo or porn in Bama. It's mostly illegal.
Also, sodomy (anal and oral sex) is illegal.
Furthermore, in the Bible Belt, a lot of places would be intolerable for non-christians.
Just what we need; States like Alabama *need* the Federal Government to limit their power.
Like most politicians, I doubt RP would be able to change anything at all. He might get rid of "government cheese", but not much else.
I find it interesting that your post is about how a law is limiting a company's right to shit on its employees and then your sig is advertising for a guy who wants to get rid of all that.
Big government is big because people saw a need for government intervention.
So, which is it, do you want to be an adult and have RP as prez. Or do you want to be protected from big bad companies by your government?
Why not send the same email with a disclaimer that their reading the email grants you consent automatically.
Then, add a delivery receipt and a read receipt to the email.
Fire off the email and wait 30 days. If they receive and read, but fail to respond, then you have their consent.
Here's a good idea: RockStar should hire Jack's son as a games evangelist. Pay they kid's way through pre-law (or whatever he wants to do) and have the kid come out every now and then to talk about how cool the newest game is...
You could, however, sue the agency that reported you to the CRA. If someone takes your name and opens a Sears card without paying, then Sears reports that *you* didn't pay your bill. That's clearly false.