Civil cases don't involve jail time. In every FBA 'antipiracy' statement on every DVD I own, I'm threatened with 5 years in prison and an outrageous fine if I 'violate' their copyright. Said violations include ripping the content to my hard drive (aka 'format shifting'). It's already criminalized. Hell, ownership of a DVD is damned near a criminal act as it 'facilitates piracy' by mere possession. You have access, you too may be one of those eeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil pirates.
Dunno why, but I was never able to get into Being Human. Lost Girl rocks hard, though. Figures they'd buy it from a Canadian network. Keep up the good work up there, guys!!
I just delete the channel listings from my tv when I set it up. End of problem. Yeah, it takes a couple minutes, but so what? At least you never see 'objectionable stuff' when you channel surf. And for me, 'objectionable stuff' is the shopping & religious channels. Dasvedanya, losers, I don't see you anymore!!
Personally, I'd love the opportunity to watch Canadian tv on my American cable network. CBC/Showcase/Space/etc won't sell here below the line, and I've gotten hooked on a couple Canadian shows. I want my fix, dammit!!!
I haven't seen a la carte in either Cleveland or Arizona, places where I've spent years. I'm paying 30/month for 'extended basic cable' because I'm 40 miles from Cleveland and OTA broadcast reception totally bites. I get my 'local stations' & some half decent channels as well, all with tons of commercials. Since my analog tv hasn't died yet, I don't have 'digital service' and am blocked from getting premium channels. No biggie, there's only 3 or 4 shows on premium that I'd watch anyways.
A la carte sounds like a good idea until you take in consideration that your cable company will then try to buy only the shows that have X amount of subscribers. So, if everybody pretty much hates SyFy, you won't get offered it. So, yeah, I put up with the 30 zillion shopping channels, & the 90 zillion religious channels. I just knock 'em out of the channel lineup when I set my tv up.
Wallyworld. Everybody bitches about it, but you really can't beat the prices there. On the other tentacle, their wireless routers are mainly plastic. I got my router from TigerDirect. Not a wireless job, but I could have had one for the same 20 bucks I paid for my cat-5 router. I just don't want my neighbors hacking into my stream.
It's not even possible to steal (in the literal sense of the word) potential profit, anyway.
The Clinton Administration once wanted to tax people on potential income until somebody pointed out to Hillary that she'd have to pay a shitpile of money due to her law degree even though she was masquarading as 'a simple housewife'.
I'd like to correct myself. The music industry offered a few things to artists (not just exposure) in exchange for a hefty cut of all sales:
Exposure (as mentioned before) Recording facilities/expenses Distribution
Sure they supplied those services. Then they turned around and made the artists pay for every penny of it. 'XYZ Records', for instance, signs a contract to 'XYZ Recording Studio' to record the album, 'XYZ Distribution' to distribute the album, another contract with 'XYZ Advertising' to advertise it, and 'XYZ Publishing', who 'bought the rights' to the song. What they don't tell the artists is, XYZ Publishing, XYZ Advertising, XYZ Studios and XYZ Distribution are wholely owned by XYZ Records, and do business with nobody else. So, they launder their profits through wholey owned subsidaries, and the artists are clueless. 'Just the cost of doing business'...
Oh, she has a brain alright. Problem is, she's done so much drugs that it's taken a couple years for her to sober up after she stopped taking them. Some time during that process, her brain actually rebooted.
Doesn't stop the ads 'cunningly disguised' as stories.
Besides, Plantronics stuff is way overpriced. You can scam up cheaper gear that's just as effective at your friendly office supply chain store.
Steve Jobs' problem was, he had absolute contempt for 'Western medicine' and tried treating his cancer with 'alternative medicines'. If anything, that should help get some of that stuff outlawed as 'medical procedures' until it's actually verified in a fucking lab someplace Science as wishful thinking just doesn't work.
But putting turbines in the middle of lakes is a lot more money and the Ontario government didn't want to do that.
Keep in mind that anything sticking up out of the water is a navigational hazard. The big lake freighters might have radar, but your average pleasure boat? Not likely. Now do the math on the kinetic force of hitting something at a speed of 70 kph in a fiberglass hull. Kiss the hull goodbye, and probably your life as well.
Wait, there's life in Lake Erie again???? When'd that happen? Last time I thought about it was when Perk the Jerk's hair caught on fire at the Cuyahoga River.
The planet has been been through a lot worse than us; earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, reversal of the poles, hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages... and we think sticking a pinwheel in a lake is gonna make a difference? The planet will be fine, it's not going anywhere.
My initial reaction was that we still have not figured out the full impact of dihydrogen monoxide on people - yet we still use the stuff daily.
Yeah, that dihydrogen monoxide is some nasty shit. Most abundant corrosive solvent in every house today. That shit's downright dangerous. They oughta ban it!!!!
Unless that sound is like 120 db, the sound of the wind will be masking it. And unless those turbines are in Wyoming or parts of northwest Arizona, the winds aren't blowing 24/7 at speeds exceeding 5-25 mpg.
Just like anything else, proper maintanance will keep turbines going and decrease the chances of a catastrophic failure. They're reasonably safe, safer than the average car is. What I'm seeing in the article is a bunch of Canadians saying 'Not In My Back Yard'. It's like Americans when they say they support more prisons being built, just 'NIMBY'. Build them someplace else so they can get the benefits without any percieved downside, just like factories. Don't like pollution and don't want to deal with tons of federal antipollution regulations? Build the factory overseas someplace where the local government doesn't care about pollution.
I think we could get much more sanity if some judges started using their weight to beat the lawyers and prosecutors into submission.
Confiscated because of child porn, no evidence of child porn found, ok mr prosecutor you are now held in contempt of court.
Great idea. Not gonna happen, though. Among other problems is the definition of kiddie porn. The laws are so elastic they can use a picture of my 2 year old granddaughter hugging the family dog as 'kiddie porn' if they can find somebody aroused at the sight of a toddler.
They couldn't get away with confiscating the customers' property without due process, though. Sure, the shop might remain closed, but all you as a customer would have to do to get your property back would be turn up at the investigation HQ, provide proof of ID and ownership of the contents of a particular box, and fill in forms to demand its return. Either they'd have it within the week, or you wouldn't be able to move for the circling vultures^Rcivil rights lawyers.
Not if it's 'evidence in an ongoing investigation'.
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Ack!! make that FBI antipiracy statement. I need more caffeine
Civil cases don't involve jail time. In every FBA 'antipiracy' statement on every DVD I own, I'm threatened with 5 years in prison and an outrageous fine if I 'violate' their copyright. Said violations include ripping the content to my hard drive (aka 'format shifting'). It's already criminalized. Hell, ownership of a DVD is damned near a criminal act as it 'facilitates piracy' by mere possession. You have access, you too may be one of those eeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil pirates.
... and the double jeopardy when they can't get a conviction in criminal court.
'Roadkill Cooking Channel', anyone?
... except Lost Girl and Sanctuary.
Dunno why, but I was never able to get into Being Human. Lost Girl rocks hard, though. Figures they'd buy it from a Canadian network. Keep up the good work up there, guys!!
I just delete the channel listings from my tv when I set it up. End of problem. Yeah, it takes a couple minutes, but so what? At least you never see 'objectionable stuff' when you channel surf. And for me, 'objectionable stuff' is the shopping & religious channels. Dasvedanya, losers, I don't see you anymore!!
Personally, I'd love the opportunity to watch Canadian tv on my American cable network. CBC/Showcase/Space/etc won't sell here below the line, and I've gotten hooked on a couple Canadian shows. I want my fix, dammit!!!
I haven't seen a la carte in either Cleveland or Arizona, places where I've spent years. I'm paying 30/month for 'extended basic cable' because I'm 40 miles from Cleveland and OTA broadcast reception totally bites. I get my 'local stations' & some half decent channels as well, all with tons of commercials. Since my analog tv hasn't died yet, I don't have 'digital service' and am blocked from getting premium channels. No biggie, there's only 3 or 4 shows on premium that I'd watch anyways.
A la carte sounds like a good idea until you take in consideration that your cable company will then try to buy only the shows that have X amount of subscribers. So, if everybody pretty much hates SyFy, you won't get offered it. So, yeah, I put up with the 30 zillion shopping channels, & the 90 zillion religious channels. I just knock 'em out of the channel lineup when I set my tv up.
Wallyworld. Everybody bitches about it, but you really can't beat the prices there. On the other tentacle, their wireless routers are mainly plastic. I got my router from TigerDirect. Not a wireless job, but I could have had one for the same 20 bucks I paid for my cat-5 router. I just don't want my neighbors hacking into my stream.
The Clinton Administration once wanted to tax people on potential income until somebody pointed out to Hillary that she'd have to pay a shitpile of money due to her law degree even though she was masquarading as 'a simple housewife'.
Sure they supplied those services. Then they turned around and made the artists pay for every penny of it. 'XYZ Records', for instance, signs a contract to 'XYZ Recording Studio' to record the album, 'XYZ Distribution' to distribute the album, another contract with 'XYZ Advertising' to advertise it, and 'XYZ Publishing', who 'bought the rights' to the song. What they don't tell the artists is, XYZ Publishing, XYZ Advertising, XYZ Studios and XYZ Distribution are wholely owned by XYZ Records, and do business with nobody else. So, they launder their profits through wholey owned subsidaries, and the artists are clueless. 'Just the cost of doing business'...
Oh, she has a brain alright. Problem is, she's done so much drugs that it's taken a couple years for her to sober up after she stopped taking them. Some time during that process, her brain actually rebooted.
Doesn't stop the ads 'cunningly disguised' as stories. Besides, Plantronics stuff is way overpriced. You can scam up cheaper gear that's just as effective at your friendly office supply chain store.
Steve Jobs' problem was, he had absolute contempt for 'Western medicine' and tried treating his cancer with 'alternative medicines'. If anything, that should help get some of that stuff outlawed as 'medical procedures' until it's actually verified in a fucking lab someplace Science as wishful thinking just doesn't work.
Keep in mind that anything sticking up out of the water is a navigational hazard. The big lake freighters might have radar, but your average pleasure boat? Not likely. Now do the math on the kinetic force of hitting something at a speed of 70 kph in a fiberglass hull. Kiss the hull goodbye, and probably your life as well.
Wait, there's life in Lake Erie again???? When'd that happen? Last time I thought about it was when Perk the Jerk's hair caught on fire at the Cuyahoga River.
Finish the quote:
'WE ARE!! So pack your shit!'
More likely, lower echelon upperclass. They tend to be more politically active than middleclassers. Middleclassers are too busy tryin to stay alive.
A lot of the newer generating plants are powered by oil, natural gas, or propane. Propane is mainly derived from peotroleum.
Never heard of background radiation?
How about all the people living downstream of a hydroelectric dam? That sucker breaks, a lotta those people are gonna die.
Yeah, that dihydrogen monoxide is some nasty shit. Most abundant corrosive solvent in every house today. That shit's downright dangerous. They oughta ban it!!!!
Oh, wait, they already tried banning that... http://www.dhmo.org/environment.html and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide
Unless that sound is like 120 db, the sound of the wind will be masking it. And unless those turbines are in Wyoming or parts of northwest Arizona, the winds aren't blowing 24/7 at speeds exceeding 5-25 mpg.
Just like anything else, proper maintanance will keep turbines going and decrease the chances of a catastrophic failure. They're reasonably safe, safer than the average car is. What I'm seeing in the article is a bunch of Canadians saying 'Not In My Back Yard'. It's like Americans when they say they support more prisons being built, just 'NIMBY'. Build them someplace else so they can get the benefits without any percieved downside, just like factories. Don't like pollution and don't want to deal with tons of federal antipollution regulations? Build the factory overseas someplace where the local government doesn't care about pollution.
Great idea. Not gonna happen, though. Among other problems is the definition of kiddie porn. The laws are so elastic they can use a picture of my 2 year old granddaughter hugging the family dog as 'kiddie porn' if they can find somebody aroused at the sight of a toddler.
Not if it's 'evidence in an ongoing investigation'.