for open source and free software for all the obvious reasons. If Microsoft were to actually succeed in stamping out the unauthorized distribution of their software, it will just bring more people over to a growing number of alternatives. Well protected software can only work in niche markets, and it's really the only place you see it. The average guy won't tolerate it, as history has shown. If the general public can't use it conveniently, under their own conditions, they will go elseware(heh). This is a good thing. Here's to good copy protection. This is a good case of IP actually promoting innovation. Just not for who most people expect it to be.
A car will never be safe while there's a human at the controls. And the Lithium car just moves the expense of gasoline to the batteries. We really need to learn how to capture the methane escaping from the planet. Since the oceans can barely turn it into breathable air anymore, we ought to take a crack at it. I know, burning it won't do that, but the stuff is still coming up. We should do something with it. This will provide us needed energy for a very long time. The infrastructure doesn't need to be so polluting as that of crude oil or battery manufacture. And the oil companies can keep pretty tight control of it, unlike solar or wind or small hydros, so they have an incentive to invest. I think methane could be very profitable. And there's lot's of it. Then we could build some cool, clean burning Stirling hybrid cars.
Attorney General Gonzales was appointed by W. Bush...
And Bush was appointed by the Supreme Court. Maybe it might be appropriate to attack them. Personally, I think it's more appropriate to attack the people that voted for him. Not "attack" really, more like discouraging them from ever doing it ever again.
So then the arguement could go that any music that was covered by these RIAA companies copryrights at the time of these attempted criminal efforts becomes null or is handed over to the DoJ for auction.
Absolutely not. The material should into public domain, from which it was stolen. This is the only suitable type of punishment for corporate crimes (besides revocation of their charter). Fines and jail time are stupid, and do little more than raise the price of the product.
The investigation will result in a few token gesture penalities and business will continue as usual.
It's called a settlement. Something the cartels do all the time. "Without admitting any wrongdoing". And then we, the customers, tell them, "Very well then. Carry on." And continue to buy their crap.
Do you really think politicians are going to allow major donors to face serious punishment?
Only if they themselves thought that they might get caught in the scheme. Then they would throw them (the "donors") to the wolves. Which will make the politician look like a hero to their constituents. They'll destroy one cartel to help another.
It is apparent that many of the 'lawmakers' do not have any tint of the sense of 'proportionality'.
Of course they do. They just don't apply it here. Right now they are looking into the insterests of the growing private prison industry, where much of your new "affordable" labor will come from. This way they can say that they are bringing jobs back to America. As you can see, China will be setting the new world standard on civil rights, not the U.S. They long since abdicated their role as the standard bearers of freedom. Bush's reaction to the heckler of the Chinese president shows that he's embarrassed, ashamed of public displays of free expression and dissent. Most Americans probably are, also. Lou Dobbs had it right when he said, "And remember, there's a reason President Hu met with business leaders in Seattle first. He obviously knows who's really in charge of this country."
...but you can justify stronger IP laws without resorting to blaming it (and everything) for terrorism.
But that's just it. They can't. As more people understand the madness of IP, terrorism becomes the only way to defend it. So now when someone criticizes IP law, they are supporting terrorism. No different than those who would dare to criticize American policy. Anything that would normally be considered indefensible now has "terrorism" to protect it. For now, it's a great ploy. Let's hope it backfires real soon.
then probably yes. In reality, piracy is the cartels' best freind. It acquires and maintains mindshare of the product being pushed at the moment. And I do mean 'pushed'. Piracy is free advertisement. And also, the gov't gets to look like law enforcement heroes when they bust the pirates. So it's win-win-win for the gov't, the cartels, and the sheep.
So now you need specific credentials to acquire First Amendament protections. Silly me. That's what I get for believing that the law and especially the Constitiution applied to everbody. Funny that I don't see journalists specifically mentioned in the amendment. How did it get to be that only they deserve that protection? Is this something like only well regulated militias are permitted to keep and bear arms, as opposed to the right of the people? Well, if Apple wins, it's just another nail in the coffin for the Bill of Rights. Not that it really means anything anywore. Too bad nobody is standing up for the Bill of Rights as much as they are for immigrants rights(not that they're wrong for doing that).
being controlled by TicketMaster, Clear Channel, et al, maybe we should take a closer look at them. If prices are too high, it might be because they use the same business practices that other monoplistists employ. The solution here is more alternatives. It's important to remove TicketMaster's stranglehold on the business. It also seems that most of the high prices are for these old geezers whose fans don't know when to let go. It's the price they pay to have a little nostalgia. Nothing wrong with that.
This is prior restraint, and this is one of the reasons the First Amendment was passed.
We have 9/11. This is one of the reasons the First Amendment, along with the Fourth, is being repealed. Such hypocrisy from the gov't(what else could we expect?), lecturing China about freedom of speech while trying to pull this off.
Heh, I was thinking the same thing. So, now we need dual core to use our computers because so damn many services are running? That's a little like multi-engine aircraft needing all of the engines just to keep flying.
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With all the DRM and other crippling measures, nothing would please me more than to see both formats die and rot in hell.
for open source and free software for all the obvious reasons. If Microsoft were to actually succeed in stamping out the unauthorized distribution of their software, it will just bring more people over to a growing number of alternatives. Well protected software can only work in niche markets, and it's really the only place you see it. The average guy won't tolerate it, as history has shown. If the general public can't use it conveniently, under their own conditions, they will go elseware(heh). This is a good thing. Here's to good copy protection. This is a good case of IP actually promoting innovation. Just not for who most people expect it to be.
A car will never be safe while there's a human at the controls. And the Lithium car just moves the expense of gasoline to the batteries. We really need to learn how to capture the methane escaping from the planet. Since the oceans can barely turn it into breathable air anymore, we ought to take a crack at it. I know, burning it won't do that, but the stuff is still coming up. We should do something with it. This will provide us needed energy for a very long time. The infrastructure doesn't need to be so polluting as that of crude oil or battery manufacture. And the oil companies can keep pretty tight control of it, unlike solar or wind or small hydros, so they have an incentive to invest. I think methane could be very profitable. And there's lot's of it. Then we could build some cool, clean burning Stirling hybrid cars.
10^24, 10^24, 10^24
We'll be able to go from New York to Tokyo in less than three hours?
30% Overrated
You're right. I should've been more subtle. How 'bout "crafty polyglot"?
The penalty for this type of wrongdoing is to elminate the copyright on the works used in the scheme.
:-)
an' dat too - CB
Attorney General Gonzales was appointed by W. Bush...
And Bush was appointed by the Supreme Court. Maybe it might be appropriate to attack them. Personally, I think it's more appropriate to attack the people that voted for him. Not "attack" really, more like discouraging them from ever doing it ever again.
he's a real cunning linguist.
So then the arguement could go that any music that was covered by these RIAA companies copryrights at the time of these attempted criminal efforts becomes null or is handed over to the DoJ for auction.
Absolutely not. The material should into public domain, from which it was stolen. This is the only suitable type of punishment for corporate crimes (besides revocation of their charter). Fines and jail time are stupid, and do little more than raise the price of the product.
The investigation will result in a few token gesture penalities and business will continue as usual.
It's called a settlement. Something the cartels do all the time. "Without admitting any wrongdoing". And then we, the customers, tell them, "Very well then. Carry on." And continue to buy their crap.
Do you really think politicians are going to allow major donors to face serious punishment?
Only if they themselves thought that they might get caught in the scheme. Then they would throw them (the "donors") to the wolves. Which will make the politician look like a hero to their constituents. They'll destroy one cartel to help another.
It is apparent that many of the 'lawmakers' do not have any tint of the sense of 'proportionality'.
Of course they do. They just don't apply it here. Right now they are looking into the insterests of the growing private prison industry, where much of your new "affordable" labor will come from. This way they can say that they are bringing jobs back to America. As you can see, China will be setting the new world standard on civil rights, not the U.S. They long since abdicated their role as the standard bearers of freedom. Bush's reaction to the heckler of the Chinese president shows that he's embarrassed, ashamed of public displays of free expression and dissent. Most Americans probably are, also. Lou Dobbs had it right when he said, "And remember, there's a reason President Hu met with business leaders in Seattle first. He obviously knows who's really in charge of this country."
...but you can justify stronger IP laws without resorting to blaming it (and everything) for terrorism.
But that's just it. They can't. As more people understand the madness of IP, terrorism becomes the only way to defend it. So now when someone criticizes IP law, they are supporting terrorism. No different than those who would dare to criticize American policy. Anything that would normally be considered indefensible now has "terrorism" to protect it. For now, it's a great ploy. Let's hope it backfires real soon.
I always thought it was the name of a fish.
Rather different from Iraq, which had attacked Iran and Kuwait without provocation.
Oh, really? The war began when Iraq invaded Iran on 22 September 1980 following a long history of border disputes, the calling of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime and secret encouragement by the US administration (Jimmy Carter, conveyed through Saudi Arabia) who was embroiled in a dispute with the new regime in Iran. There was nothing unprovoked about it. Stop it already.
...then he might very well still be torturing his people to death in large numbers today.
And I'm sure he'd do it with our full support. Just like the good old days.
then probably yes. In reality, piracy is the cartels' best freind. It acquires and maintains mindshare of the product being pushed at the moment. And I do mean 'pushed'. Piracy is free advertisement. And also, the gov't gets to look like law enforcement heroes when they bust the pirates. So it's win-win-win for the gov't, the cartels, and the sheep.
(Score:0, Overrated)
Yeah, really. The First Amendment is overrated...Don't get too upset when they come after you.
So now you need specific credentials to acquire First Amendament protections. Silly me. That's what I get for believing that the law and especially the Constitiution applied to everbody. Funny that I don't see journalists specifically mentioned in the amendment. How did it get to be that only they deserve that protection? Is this something like only well regulated militias are permitted to keep and bear arms, as opposed to the right of the people? Well, if Apple wins, it's just another nail in the coffin for the Bill of Rights. Not that it really means anything anywore. Too bad nobody is standing up for the Bill of Rights as much as they are for immigrants rights(not that they're wrong for doing that).
being controlled by TicketMaster, Clear Channel, et al, maybe we should take a closer look at them. If prices are too high, it might be because they use the same business practices that other monoplistists employ. The solution here is more alternatives. It's important to remove TicketMaster's stranglehold on the business. It also seems that most of the high prices are for these old geezers whose fans don't know when to let go. It's the price they pay to have a little nostalgia. Nothing wrong with that.
American Idol? Talented singers...
!? Not in my world... Ed Sullivan had talented singers. Hee Haw had talented singers.
But what of sites that feature sexually explicit photographs of Teletubbies and Barbie? It is deceptive in that case?
Probably not.
Is this what we want, a paternalistic government and a paranoid society?
We'll find out in November.
This is prior restraint, and this is one of the reasons the First Amendment was passed.
We have 9/11. This is one of the reasons the First Amendment, along with the Fourth, is being repealed. Such hypocrisy from the gov't(what else could we expect?), lecturing China about freedom of speech while trying to pull this off.
Heh, I was thinking the same thing. So, now we need dual core to use our computers because so damn many services are running? That's a little like multi-engine aircraft needing all of the engines just to keep flying.