That's where the private prison industry will take over. In case you haven't noticed, it's a booming enterprise, and a good investment for those without a conscience.
- Police:
Well, of course they're not messing with small time possession. The reasons are obvious.If you were driving your brand new Suburban, it might be a different story, what with RICO and all.
The present situation is the most profitable. Because of the lack of processing needed to use the drug, there would be no middlemen to rake in huge profits like there is with alcohol or tobacco, and would be with other drugs like herion, coke, meth, etc. There would be packagers and re-sellers for the lazy, but that would be a small market. Even without widespread enforcement, prohibition will remain on the books in order to give the authorities the ability to arrest or round up "undesirables". See above link.
HA! What you call a waste of jail space, your favorite corporation calls an "employee". You need to check out just how profitable prison can be for the "right" people.
Any law that puts people into prison for goddamn IP violations is an atrocity worthy of the worst dictatorships. PERIOD! This bullshit about editing DVDs was a nice distraction that got swallowed up even by the EFF apparently. There is no silver lining in a possible prison sentence. Score another one for the booming prison industry.
"There are none so blind, as those who would not see..." or something to that effect.
The only solutions are to reduce the power of the government...
Let's hope the people take that to heart when they vote. The politicians attempt to "bribe" the people with lower taxes and "better" services. The voters apparently fall for it. Who are the corrupt ones here? Don't expect any change as long as the average voter won't see past his/her own nose. Without a sense of community, how can things possibly be any different from what they are now?
is a way of quantifying the durability of these things, but they suffer the same limitations of compact flash cards or memory sticks being as that they're the same thing, no? How many times can we jam it in and rip it out before the connnecter gets all loose and starts shorting things out?
PS. Thank you for instigating my first ever religious flame/troll post in 14 years of BBS/Internet useage.
Wow! You mean to say he has telekinetic power over your fingers? Is this a Jedi mind trick? Cool! He blind-sided you so well that you didn't have a word to say on the subject at hand. Ahhh..the power of distraction. Ok...now...forget about all that. I think this stuff should be included into the spyware lists. How 'bout you?. Even if this company is up front, somebody else could conceivably install it surreptitiously. I want the anti-spyware program to catch it. I'm tired of digging through the registry every week.
... that manufacturers had to pay licensing fees to Sony to use it.
Yet another display of the folly(tragedy) of IP law. Again we got stuck with inferior tech due to it. Innovation my ass. Innovation is no damn good if nobody can use it. Hoarding and speculation is what it's all about.
There is a lot of alternative media out there but you have to know about it in the first place.
You simply have to ask. You have a telephone? post office? Western union? Well then, if you can't get information locally, then call or write an acquaintance or friend. Look, I'm not saying it's as easy as you think it should be, but the information is available. You might just have to look for it. Welcome to the world. If you want the mass media to feed it to you, then you just have to make more profitable for them to cooperate. In other words, quit buying their junk until they do cooperate. Money is the motivator. Take advantage of it, and use it against them. At this point, why should they care? Their are no morals here. Fine. Make morality profitable and they'll come running. Elect politicians that will put out true, helpful information instead of mere propaganda.
Where did the electorate get their hands on classified information?
That's not what I said. I said to they knew that information was withheld. I saw stories about it on CNN. They even made a (very)small stink about it being withheld until after the election. The fact is, nobdoy cared. Nobody demanded the info. At least not enough people to make a difference. We let the gov't keep too many secrets. If we don't demand it, it will stay secret.
The cause of your misfortunes still falls straight onto your lap. It's time for you to brush it off and take action. If you want the truth, then, under the present circumstances, you have to go out and get it yourself. Or pay someone to do it for you. But if they fail, don't keep feeding them money and complain that they're not doing their job. Either stop the money train, or quit yer bellyachin'.
Punishing copyright infringers works just fine with civil suits.
But it doesn't feed the prison industry. These are the people who really want these laws. And many others are looking forward to exploiting that cheap labor. It would save Walmart a bundle if they didn't have to pay shipping all the way from China. I don't think this is about copyright infringement or any other kind of infringement. It's becoming a method of creating a "new"(for the states) prison based economy. At money becomes less effective as a motivator, prison will become the only way to get you to do their bidding.
If the free press is not doing its job, then why do all of you keep feeding money to it? If you don't check up on them and call them on it, you're still failing to give me a reason why I should blame the press. The maistream press isn't being cowed into anything. They are just as much a part of the machine as every other big corp. You seem to be totally dependant on the big media companies for your info. We have the internet now. If you noticed, the politicos are trying to control that too, but with much less success than they have with traditional media. Try using the alternatives. You know, the ones that are labeled "whacko" by the big boys. You just might find what you're looking for.
This administration explicity witheld information concerning their knowledge of the 9/11 attacks until AFTER the election. Tell me how people were supposed to know that?
Sorry. The electorate was aware that the admin withheld that info. They were also aware that the war budget wouldn't be brought up before the election either. They still re-elected the man. Again, who's fault is that?
Yeah, I know a tiny bit of US history. I didn't see in there any requirement for the free press to be anybody's watchdog. It is a nice sentiment, though.
I'm not judging his character. The blurb called him clueless. I beg to differ with that assesment. His voters may be clueless, but he isn't. His character is a matter for the voters to take up. My calling him a corporate shill is hardly defending that. Dedending on who your constituents are, apparent cluelessness may be an asset.
Do NOT try to equate the struggle for racial equality with the battle over equality of sexual orientation.
Why not?? What's the difference between religious orientation and sexual orientation? According to your belief, neither has genetic origins. What makes religion so special? Or is discrimination based on religion ok to you also?
insist on calling these people "clueless". This guy is a six time congressman. He seems fairly popular. Tell me again. Who are the clueless ones? Apart from this, he may be doing some good for the people that elected him. And besides, how many of you "clueful" people have $1,360,093 usd in your pocket? Hmmm? The guy is a real corporate shill, but that doesn't seem to matter to the people responsible for putting him into office.
After reading some of the info, I did find a need to write my congressman to pass a new law that would require all web sites to label all links that open a pdf file to label them as such. Damn, I hate that!
Either we're very stupid or we are downright being lead by purely evil people who want the worse for us at all times.
No, they could care less about us. They only care about their own well being, and how we relate to that. Everthing else is just the result. However, if you live in a country where you can vote the evil people out of office, I would suggest that you and your neighbors do so.
...solve teen drinking and drug taking by putting people in jail.
Prisons are very profitable for the owner/operator/stockholder. You can expect much more of this. These prisons don't make money if they sit empty.
I'm comparing the Concorde to other much less complex aircraft, which crash quite regularly. Usually due to human error. But even with a mechanical problem, that would be due to human(the mechanic or designer) error also. You can bet that part of the Concorde's safety record was due to political pride also. They were super careful with it. Same goes for NASA. The whole world watches ever little move it makes. Nobody wants their name on the next accident.
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Could we then say that linux is a parkay clone? The code says "UNIX!"
...theres no excuse to use RFID.
Of course there is!
1)???
2)???
3)Profit!
Whoever makes these things wil be the next Halliburton...if they haven't invested in it already.
- Prisons:...
That's where the private prison industry will take over. In case you haven't noticed, it's a booming enterprise, and a good investment for those without a conscience.
- Police:
Well, of course they're not messing with small time possession. The reasons are obvious.If you were driving your brand new Suburban, it might be a different story, what with RICO and all.
The present situation is the most profitable. Because of the lack of processing needed to use the drug, there would be no middlemen to rake in huge profits like there is with alcohol or tobacco, and would be with other drugs like herion, coke, meth, etc. There would be packagers and re-sellers for the lazy, but that would be a small market. Even without widespread enforcement, prohibition will remain on the books in order to give the authorities the ability to arrest or round up "undesirables". See above link.
...a company called fake alibi is spreading its wings.
It's not like anybody will be demanding their records any time soon.
Think of the state the world would be in...
No thinking required. We're already living in it.
4 years in prison?
:-)
Yeah, anything over three is a bit excessive
Kinda a waste of jail space, I think.
HA! What you call a waste of jail space, your favorite corporation calls an "employee". You need to check out just how profitable prison can be for the "right" people.
It's probably the street vendors who instigated the complaints against BT. It's putting them out of business.
Any law that puts people into prison for goddamn IP violations is an atrocity worthy of the worst dictatorships. PERIOD! This bullshit about editing DVDs was a nice distraction that got swallowed up even by the EFF apparently. There is no silver lining in a possible prison sentence. Score another one for the booming prison industry.
"There are none so blind, as those who would not see..." or something to that effect.
We really need these kinds of guys in our government.
If that's what you all really want, then all it takes is your vote. Then watch who they appoint.
Current Dutch political climate is such that no Parliament member will vote against party policy.
It appears that not many Dutch voters vote against party policy either. Is the re-election rate there as bad as it is the US(around 95-98%)?
The only solutions are to reduce the power of the government...
Let's hope the people take that to heart when they vote. The politicians attempt to "bribe" the people with lower taxes and "better" services. The voters apparently fall for it. Who are the corrupt ones here? Don't expect any change as long as the average voter won't see past his/her own nose. Without a sense of community, how can things possibly be any different from what they are now?
is a way of quantifying the durability of these things, but they suffer the same limitations of compact flash cards or memory sticks being as that they're the same thing, no? How many times can we jam it in and rip it out before the connnecter gets all loose and starts shorting things out?
PS. Thank you for instigating my first ever religious flame/troll post in 14 years of BBS/Internet useage.
Wow! You mean to say he has telekinetic power over your fingers? Is this a Jedi mind trick? Cool! He blind-sided you so well that you didn't have a word to say on the subject at hand. Ahhh..the power of distraction. Ok...now...forget about all that. I think this stuff should be included into the spyware lists. How 'bout you?. Even if this company is up front, somebody else could conceivably install it surreptitiously. I want the anti-spyware program to catch it. I'm tired of digging through the registry every week.
... that manufacturers had to pay licensing fees to Sony to use it.
Yet another display of the folly(tragedy) of IP law. Again we got stuck with inferior tech due to it. Innovation my ass. Innovation is no damn good if nobody can use it. Hoarding and speculation is what it's all about.
There is a lot of alternative media out there but you have to know about it in the first place.
You simply have to ask. You have a telephone? post office? Western union? Well then, if you can't get information locally, then call or write an acquaintance or friend. Look, I'm not saying it's as easy as you think it should be, but the information is available. You might just have to look for it. Welcome to the world. If you want the mass media to feed it to you, then you just have to make more profitable for them to cooperate. In other words, quit buying their junk until they do cooperate. Money is the motivator. Take advantage of it, and use it against them. At this point, why should they care? Their are no morals here. Fine. Make morality profitable and they'll come running. Elect politicians that will put out true, helpful information instead of mere propaganda.
Where did the electorate get their hands on classified information?
That's not what I said. I said to they knew that information was withheld. I saw stories about it on CNN. They even made a (very)small stink about it being withheld until after the election. The fact is, nobdoy cared. Nobody demanded the info. At least not enough people to make a difference. We let the gov't keep too many secrets. If we don't demand it, it will stay secret.
The cause of your misfortunes still falls straight onto your lap. It's time for you to brush it off and take action. If you want the truth, then, under the present circumstances, you have to go out and get it yourself. Or pay someone to do it for you. But if they fail, don't keep feeding them money and complain that they're not doing their job. Either stop the money train, or quit yer bellyachin'.
Punishing copyright infringers works just fine with civil suits.
But it doesn't feed the prison industry. These are the people who really want these laws. And many others are looking forward to exploiting that cheap labor. It would save Walmart a bundle if they didn't have to pay shipping all the way from China. I don't think this is about copyright infringement or any other kind of infringement. It's becoming a method of creating a "new"(for the states) prison based economy. At money becomes less effective as a motivator, prison will become the only way to get you to do their bidding.
If the free press is not doing its job, then why do all of you keep feeding money to it? If you don't check up on them and call them on it, you're still failing to give me a reason why I should blame the press. The maistream press isn't being cowed into anything. They are just as much a part of the machine as every other big corp. You seem to be totally dependant on the big media companies for your info. We have the internet now. If you noticed, the politicos are trying to control that too, but with much less success than they have with traditional media. Try using the alternatives. You know, the ones that are labeled "whacko" by the big boys. You just might find what you're looking for.
This administration explicity witheld information concerning their knowledge of the 9/11 attacks until AFTER the election. Tell me how people were supposed to know that?
Sorry. The electorate was aware that the admin withheld that info. They were also aware that the war budget wouldn't be brought up before the election either. They still re-elected the man. Again, who's fault is that?
Yeah, I know a tiny bit of US history. I didn't see in there any requirement for the free press to be anybody's watchdog. It is a nice sentiment, though.
Read the ninth amendment. Tell me why sexual orientation should not be included also.
I'm not judging his character. The blurb called him clueless. I beg to differ with that assesment. His voters may be clueless, but he isn't. His character is a matter for the voters to take up. My calling him a corporate shill is hardly defending that. Dedending on who your constituents are, apparent cluelessness may be an asset.
Do NOT try to equate the struggle for racial equality with the battle over equality of sexual orientation.
Why not?? What's the difference between religious orientation and sexual orientation? According to your belief, neither has genetic origins. What makes religion so special? Or is discrimination based on religion ok to you also?
Just what exactly does Ken Hutcherson have on Bill anyway?
Pictures of him and Linus doin' the nasty "on the white house lawn"?
insist on calling these people "clueless". This guy is a six time congressman. He seems fairly popular. Tell me again. Who are the clueless ones? Apart from this, he may be doing some good for the people that elected him. And besides, how many of you "clueful" people have $1,360,093 usd in your pocket? Hmmm? The guy is a real corporate shill, but that doesn't seem to matter to the people responsible for putting him into office.
After reading some of the info, I did find a need to write my congressman to pass a new law that would require all web sites to label all links that open a pdf file to label them as such. Damn, I hate that!
Either we're very stupid or we are downright being lead by purely evil people who want the worse for us at all times.
...solve teen drinking and drug taking by putting people in jail.
No, they could care less about us. They only care about their own well being, and how we relate to that. Everthing else is just the result. However, if you live in a country where you can vote the evil people out of office, I would suggest that you and your neighbors do so.
Prisons are very profitable for the owner/operator/stockholder. You can expect much more of this. These prisons don't make money if they sit empty.
I'm comparing the Concorde to other much less complex aircraft, which crash quite regularly. Usually due to human error. But even with a mechanical problem, that would be due to human(the mechanic or designer) error also. You can bet that part of the Concorde's safety record was due to political pride also. They were super careful with it. Same goes for NASA. The whole world watches ever little move it makes. Nobody wants their name on the next accident.
Let me re-word that. The Concorde flew for over 30 years before it crashed.