Is Drudge or whoever wrote the article an acclaimed scientist?
Who cares if it was a typing Corgi FFS!? Is what was reported accurate and factual?
If a report is accurate and factual, then attempting to claim otherwise based solely on the identity of the source is simply the intellectually lazy person's means of dismissing inconvenient facts & arguments without requiring refutation, nothing more.
Clearly the FBI has been watching too much CSI and Criminal Minds. How did these guys do their job before technology kept track of everyone?
Poorly
And that is intentional and by design.
Laws are created, worded, and punished according to how possible it is to enforce and how often on average someone committing a particular crime will be caught. Speeding tickets are on average in the US several hundred dollars because most people are not caught. It would cause riots if there was perfect enforcement and were fined that amount for any and every single instance, even momentary, that someone exceeded the speed limit.
What the FBI is engaging in here is attempting to set the precedent for issuing general warrants, which are forbidden under the US Constitution.
There is a cost to having a free and open society. One cannot have an ordered, "safe" society where nearly every criminal is apprehended and broad personal liberty. They are mutually exclusive.
It's not constitutional there either. Or at least it wouldn't be if the judges weren't developmentally delayed morons that couldn't grasp the consequences of any of their decisions.
Some are corrupt, some stupid, and many quietly taken aside when a key case/decision/precedent is in play for a meeting. Remember the "interview scene" from The Matrix when Agent Smith and Neo first meet?
Do you remember that huge binder of data Smith dropped on the desk, opened, and began to tell Neo all about the minute details of his life like the "neighbor lady" he takes the trash out for? Thanks to the US TLAs there are virtual 'binders' on everyone including judges and their family, friends, and associates. They might note that his kid/grandkid/spouse/loved-one/etc might be dabbling in something technically illegal and it would be tragic if police received an 'anonymous tip'. "Now wouldn't it, your Honor? I know you'll do the right thing. For your family's sake."
That's one of the great dangers of having an intelligence agency with data on everyone...it makes them the de facto leaders, not those elected by the people to lead, as those in charge of the intelligence agencies have the ability to destroy anyone (and/or their loved ones) they wish at any time for whatever reason they like.
Always treat government like fire. History teaches us that you are more likely by far to be unjustly killed or imprisoned at the hands of your own government than from the actions of any foreign nation or terrorist group, foreign or domestic.
Likely from running their test vaping rig at extremes of coil temperature, wattage, and draw-times that no normal person would normally experience. I suspect that most of these types of studies look at the specs for a given device such as "coil wattage 30 to 65 watts, maximum recommended draw time 5 seconds" (which nobody would do as it would be horrible) and set their test rig for 65 watts at 5 seconds.
Vaping is not good for anyone. I wouldn't advise anyone take it up that is not a tobacco smoker. However if you are a tobacco smoker I highly recommend switching to vaping as it helped me become tobacco free and I feel so much better that there aren't sufficient words. I thought my doctor was going to do cartwheels as well over the improvements to my overall health that switching brought.
The biggest problem with vaping is that it hurts the cash flow of Big Tobacco, government, medical equipment, makers/sellers, the healthcare system, and medical insurance companies and all the political lobbyists that all of them employ.
Follow the money. If the study is/was associated with or funded by anyone in that list above, the conclusions it makes are suspect before reading the first sentence
You're mixing definitions when you include Marx's socialism (which predates the modern term) and others.
No, I'm not. Those pushing for various forms of Marxism are attempting to muddy the waters.
Fascism isn't Marxist in any manner, it's virulently anti-marxist. Collectivist and authoritarian, yes, Marxist, no.
Lenin congratulated Mussolini when he turned Italy fascist because they were both Marxists. The main differences between fascism and socialism are that fascists control the means of production but don't own them outright as in socialism, and that socialism is "workers of the *world* unite", whereas fascism is nationalistic and populist in nature (populist at least in the beginning before the death squads and 'disappearings' become intolerable).
The rest of your post is basically defending a Post-Modern worldview which is totally destructive to Western style logic, science, and reason from the Enlightenment.
The human race has enough problems, let's not engage in de-evolution from Enlightenment back to the dark days of Post-Modernism and all it's human suffering & slaughter.
Democratic socialism exists when the governing party is socialist, and is democratically elected. There is nothing about socialism, inherently, that disallows free elections... including the ability to elect a party in the next election that does not have a socialist agenda (at which point the term 'socialist' cannot apply).
Yes, voter-turnout was always excellent in the USSR and East Germany and the Party always won, often by more than 100%, so the gulags and such must have been the will of the people. Nothings says 'love' like a good gulag and some secret police. [eyeroll]
Go read some history books before you're left standing there watching death & destruction occurring all around you to everything & everyone you cared about, and wondering how it could have happened.
Protip: What they have in Norway and other Nordic nations is not in any way what the US Alt-Left is pushing for, calling it 'Democratic Socialism'.
As Karl Marx himself said, Socialism is just the step in between Capitalism and Communism.
All forms of Marxist Collectivism (Socialism, Communism, Fascism) are authoritarian They are authoritarian by their by their very nature and share many principles in common as they are all based on Marxism.
This includes "Democratic Socialism" which is an oxymoron in itself as it tries to put lipstick on that same old, tired, Marxist pig. Socialism and Communism are responsible for killing far, far more of their own people in peacetime than the Nazis did altogether in WW2.
They're making games. I could care less if they had unicorns chained up to poke holes in the Discs.
Now let me know when they start manufacturing Chemical warfare agents.
Did it ever occur to you that the precedents set regarding their actions & behaviors towards their customers do not apply solely to, nor are restricted to being employed solely by, the game industry? Look at DRM. If they can get away with shit, others will see that and say "Hey! Let's do that too!".
Why? It's not illegal to collect data of people walking around in public spaces.
Try taking pictures/video of police stations or Federal buildings from public property, or try photographing police/government officials in public to collect their biometric/facial-ID data.
It would be a good idea to retain a lawyer and arrange your affairs for a long absence first, however.
TPTB over the decades have worked to chip away at our educational systems, our mental health systems, our criminal justice system, and our common shared beliefs using propaganda involving the pushing of identity politics
What utter bullshit: the problem is entirely people like you. The criminal justice system has many deep problems relating to the lack of funding for public defenders, zero reprecussions for criminal actions by prosecuters (see how many convistions for witholding evidence there have been), a system stacke towards the prosecution, and the entire plea bargaining system.
Yet morons like you whitter on about "identity politics" when the foundations of your country are on fire. And while the politicians realise they can get your vote by demonising the other tribe rather than fixing the actual problems nothing will ever get fixed.
The problems you mentioned are all, every one, simply results and follow-on consequences of the issues I listed.
All you're discussing is re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. But yeah, sure, *I'm* the moron, here.
Stop being part of the problem.
Right back at you. Those problems you mention will never be fixed until the cultural and societal problems I talked about are effectively addressed. Until that happens there simply will not be enough informed & educated people who care enough pushing to correct those problems to force a change.
And please, if you don't have any respect for me, at least have enough respect for yourself to refrain from infantile name-calling. It doesn't help your arguments.
I don't typically reply to AC trolls, but this is just too good to pass up!:D
Now, in thoughtful & considered reply to Mr. AC's oh-so-eloquent and intriguing post;
Let's see...Hmmm...An oh-so-tolerant liberal-progressive Democrat and/or Maxine Waters supporter would never use such a bigoted slur against a protected class. That would make you a two-faced, lying, hypocritical dirt-bag without any ethical principles whatsoever, wouldn't it? Only another member of the same protected class may be allowed to use such an identity-based slur.
So by process of elimination, you're either a faggot or a bigot.
Care to clear up the big mystery and provide a clue as to which one you are? The suspense here is enormous, I assure you.
If you're looking for where to calibrate the meter, the answer is King City: http://www.mesothelioma-attorn... [mesothelio...torney.com]
Although you probably shouldn't put a whole lot of stock in that website's characterization of things. The article states that Union Carbide held the opinion that asbestos was harmless in 1974, and it turns out my father was a Union Carbide employee at that time. His job was to go to their asbestos customers, educated them on the proper handling and risks, inspect their operation, and cut off any customers that were behaving recklessly.
Thanks for the reply. Born in the late '50s myself. Many, many people with political/ideological agendas and/or narrow world-views attempt to paint the past far differently than it actually was. There were just as many caring and conscientious people then as now, probably fewer now, actually.
What has changed is that the population no longer shares the same values and culture to the same extent now that it did then thanks to group-identity politics, the "cultural diversity" meme which leads to islands of homogeneous mini-culture/religion/racial enclaves, and intersectionality and 'victim'-status as the measure of the power and relevance of your speech/message.
This all culminating to stress a bloated, corrupt, and largely broken government, including the fair and impartial operation of it's services & functions, to the breaking point at every level, and a titanic government bureaucracy that seeks foremost to increase it's own size, power, and scope.
it's a METAL BLANK that is where the serial number would go on the "legal" firearm you described. It omits that serial #.
It's perfectly legal to make yourself a firearm and there is no legal requirement for a serial number to be applied nor registered. As long as the firearm you manufacture would be legal for you to posses otherwise (not a restricted type like fully-automatic/select-fire, sawed-off shotgun under 18 inches in barrel length,, etc) you are free to make one for personal use without serial numbers or registration of any kind, only rules about who may legally possess apply as long as you don't sell/trade it to another party.
TPTB over the decades have worked to chip away at our educational systems, our mental health systems, our criminal justice system, and our common shared beliefs using propaganda involving the pushing of identity politics and intersectionality that has it's roots in Post-Modernism. This has naturally eventually resulted in a dumbed-down, fractured/divided., frustrated, and angry population. Then TPTB step in to "solve" the problem *they created* by removing liberty and personal freedom.
Don't be their willing tool of your own enslavement.
Lately Google has been actively courting regimes who are heavy on censorship.
"Foreign authoritarian regimes"?
Maybe, at least partially.
Have you heard what the US FBI, for instance, has been saying lately about things like the widespread use of strong encryption? I don't think it would be a stretch to assume US TLAs would frown upon this type of anonymizing tool for the same sort of reasons they currently object to the widespread use of strong encryption.
When you start talking about authoritarian regimes, don't leave out the US government which is one of the largest and most intrusive.
Big Brother insists you not obstruct your Telescreen, Comrade!
One example I've trotted out myself several times on Slashdot is Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music over "My Sweet Lord". That case was over at least eight notes: one three-and-a-half-note motif repeated several times followed by one five-note motif repeated several times.
Which case was over only three notes?
I took liberties in my post for brevity and impact by only mentioning part of the particulars, I admit, but that is the case I was thinking of and mentioned off the op of my head without referencing.
I, too, would like better reliable data but it's not easily available in my experience (possibly not even tracked as recorded data points intentionally) and probably by design.
What cause of action under copyright or any other law would a label have against an entity performing a sound recording or musical work whose copyright does not belong to that label?
What might these "numerous" causes of action be?
Filing (or having someone file) false DMCA take-down requests as we've seen occur far too often with little or no real consequences imposed for doing so. Claims against independent works on the platform for plagiarism/copying, which the courts have ruled can be only three notes in one famous case. The music industry has a lot of money, & power, not to mention politicians, bureaucrats, and judges in their pockets. They buy sleazeball lawyers by the trainload. They are capable of playing really dirty and with the leg-up of a government that all too often turns a blind eye or even helps.
After all the dirty tricks, sleazy lawyering, and outright corruption & crime that's already been exposed concerning the music industry's behaviors and actions undertaken to protect their monopoly on distribution and role as gatekeepers, expecting them to play the game by Marquess of Queensberry Rules is a fool's dream. They are amoral corporate cut-throats to the extreme. I know, being a pro musician myself.
For a good read on how the music industry deals with musicians, Google "Steve Albini: The Problem With Music". Although the piece is dated, not much has changed except for the technology as far as them screwing the bands & musicians over, and determination to maintain their distribution monopoly and gatekeeper position for as long as they possibly can.
Audius might succeed, but it won't be without a metric shit-ton of money, lawyers, and legal cases as the music industry fights to retain their wealth and power.
I'm fairly liberal, but if you believe even a tenth of the shit on infowars you are a retard and shouldn't be allowed into the grown-up conversations.
I largely agree AJ is a loon, but the best way to combat this sort of kookiness is to let it be heard and seen so it can be taken apart and mocked. Laughter is the most potent weapon against extremist loons. Taking it seriously only gives it weight in the minds of those without strong critical thinking skills.
Trying to silence such loons only feeds into their paranoid fantasies and vindicates their rants to their audiences, as they must be right if TPTB are trying to silence their voices.
There are always unpredictable unknown consequences and dangers even with every precaution taken because one cannot know fully which/what precautions to take in advance regarding unpredicted and unexpected results. This is especially true if the nation's leadership in which the work is done prioritizes results over an abundance of caution. Think of N. Korea's Un, Russia's Putin, or China's Xi with an army of genetically-enhanced super-soldiers.
This is very scary territory we are trying to navigate, here. I don't pretend to have the answers, but I do urge extreme caution.
Assuming Audius is obtaining permission from the owner of copyright in each recording and underlying musical work performed through its service, what grounds would the incumbent labels have to sue Audius and not have the suit discharged with prejudice as frivolous in summary judgment?
They could find a "friendly" jurisdiction with a sympathetic judge just as patent trolls do. There are also numerous other ways to harass them using the legal system other than copyright law. That's not even touching on using "their" politicians and government bureaucrats to endlessly investigate, raid, seize property, and audit them.
You make content that tells people to harass or outright kill a certain religion.
That's illegal. If Jones had done that law enforcement would have arrested him.
Of course, if you're a Democratic Party politician like Maxine Waters, you can tell your constituents to harass political opponents at their work, homes, and anywhere in public and that's fine.
Of the people that I know that still use Facebook at all, at least 90% of them admit to just using the Messenger App. The ones that still go to the webpage tell me they just go to creep other peoples pictures and never post anything themselves.
Well, FB,YouTube, Apple, MS, LinkedIn, etc etc may not be the giants they are now for very much longer.
The Alex Jones de-platforming brouhaha has frightened a lot of content creators. Many are fleeing to alternate platforms, or at least mirroring their content on them as insurance, because they realize that it only takes a shift in the politically-correct winds and suddenly *they* can be de-platformed and de-monetized as well. Of course, many of their fans have and will follow them to these alternate distribution channels. The alternate platforms have experienced a massive surge in users just in the short time since the AJ kerfluffle hit.
Google, Apple, et al have a perfect right to kick anyone off for any reason they like. It's theirs, after all. The internet will simply treat their censorship as damage and route around them.
Time to give Google the corporate death penalty. Destroy all companies that help support dictatorships.
Nah, it's all good.
Just have Hillary give the Chinese a 'reset button'.
Problem solved!
(Can't wait to see how bad the translation of the label on *this* 'reset button' is, it's sure to be even more hilarious than the Russian version, LOL!)
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Is Drudge or whoever wrote the article an acclaimed scientist?
Who cares if it was a typing Corgi FFS!? Is what was reported accurate and factual?
If a report is accurate and factual, then attempting to claim otherwise based solely on the identity of the source is simply the intellectually lazy person's means of dismissing inconvenient facts & arguments without requiring refutation, nothing more.
Don't be that guy.
Strat
And that is intentional and by design.
Laws are created, worded, and punished according to how possible it is to enforce and how often on average someone committing a particular crime will be caught. Speeding tickets are on average in the US several hundred dollars because most people are not caught. It would cause riots if there was perfect enforcement and were fined that amount for any and every single instance, even momentary, that someone exceeded the speed limit.
What the FBI is engaging in here is attempting to set the precedent for issuing general warrants, which are forbidden under the US Constitution.
There is a cost to having a free and open society. One cannot have an ordered, "safe" society where nearly every criminal is apprehended and broad personal liberty. They are mutually exclusive.
Safety | Liberty
Choose one.
Strat
It's not constitutional there either. Or at least it wouldn't be if the judges weren't developmentally delayed morons that couldn't grasp the consequences of any of their decisions.
Some are corrupt, some stupid, and many quietly taken aside when a key case/decision/precedent is in play for a meeting. Remember the "interview scene" from The Matrix when Agent Smith and Neo first meet?
Do you remember that huge binder of data Smith dropped on the desk, opened, and began to tell Neo all about the minute details of his life like the "neighbor lady" he takes the trash out for? Thanks to the US TLAs there are virtual 'binders' on everyone including judges and their family, friends, and associates. They might note that his kid/grandkid/spouse/loved-one/etc might be dabbling in something technically illegal and it would be tragic if police received an 'anonymous tip'. "Now wouldn't it, your Honor? I know you'll do the right thing. For your family's sake."
That's one of the great dangers of having an intelligence agency with data on everyone...it makes them the de facto leaders, not those elected by the people to lead, as those in charge of the intelligence agencies have the ability to destroy anyone (and/or their loved ones) they wish at any time for whatever reason they like.
Always treat government like fire. History teaches us that you are more likely by far to be unjustly killed or imprisoned at the hands of your own government than from the actions of any foreign nation or terrorist group, foreign or domestic.
Strat
so is this the fault of PG in the liquid?
Likely from running their test vaping rig at extremes of coil temperature, wattage, and draw-times that no normal person would normally experience. I suspect that most of these types of studies look at the specs for a given device such as "coil wattage 30 to 65 watts, maximum recommended draw time 5 seconds" (which nobody would do as it would be horrible) and set their test rig for 65 watts at 5 seconds.
Vaping is not good for anyone. I wouldn't advise anyone take it up that is not a tobacco smoker. However if you are a tobacco smoker I highly recommend switching to vaping as it helped me become tobacco free and I feel so much better that there aren't sufficient words. I thought my doctor was going to do cartwheels as well over the improvements to my overall health that switching brought.
The biggest problem with vaping is that it hurts the cash flow of Big Tobacco, government, medical equipment, makers/sellers, the healthcare system, and medical insurance companies and all the political lobbyists that all of them employ.
Follow the money. If the study is/was associated with or funded by anyone in that list above, the conclusions it makes are suspect before reading the first sentence
Strat
You're mixing definitions when you include Marx's socialism (which predates the modern term) and others.
No, I'm not. Those pushing for various forms of Marxism are attempting to muddy the waters.
Fascism isn't Marxist in any manner, it's virulently anti-marxist. Collectivist and authoritarian, yes, Marxist, no.
Lenin congratulated Mussolini when he turned Italy fascist because they were both Marxists. The main differences between fascism and socialism are that fascists control the means of production but don't own them outright as in socialism, and that socialism is "workers of the *world* unite", whereas fascism is nationalistic and populist in nature (populist at least in the beginning before the death squads and 'disappearings' become intolerable).
The rest of your post is basically defending a Post-Modern worldview which is totally destructive to Western style logic, science, and reason from the Enlightenment.
The human race has enough problems, let's not engage in de-evolution from Enlightenment back to the dark days of Post-Modernism and all it's human suffering & slaughter.
Strat
Democratic socialism exists when the governing party is socialist, and is democratically elected. There is nothing about socialism, inherently, that disallows free elections... including the ability to elect a party in the next election that does not have a socialist agenda (at which point the term 'socialist' cannot apply).
Yes, voter-turnout was always excellent in the USSR and East Germany and the Party always won, often by more than 100%, so the gulags and such must have been the will of the people. Nothings says 'love' like a good gulag and some secret police. [eyeroll]
Go read some history books before you're left standing there watching death & destruction occurring all around you to everything & everyone you cared about, and wondering how it could have happened.
Protip: What they have in Norway and other Nordic nations is not in any way what the US Alt-Left is pushing for, calling it 'Democratic Socialism'.
Strat
this again. Socialism =/= Communism.
As Karl Marx himself said, Socialism is just the step in between Capitalism and Communism.
All forms of Marxist Collectivism (Socialism, Communism, Fascism) are authoritarian They are authoritarian by their by their very nature and share many principles in common as they are all based on Marxism.
This includes "Democratic Socialism" which is an oxymoron in itself as it tries to put lipstick on that same old, tired, Marxist pig. Socialism and Communism are responsible for killing far, far more of their own people in peacetime than the Nazis did altogether in WW2.
"Warning! Warning! Danger, Will Robinson!".
Strat
Whom do you think is one of, if not the largest by far, buyers of Google's collected data? And FB? Apple? MS? VZW/Sprint/etc, etc?
It all goes to feed The Beast. Some may take a circuitous route, but the ultimate destination remains the same.
Strat
They're making games. I could care less if they had unicorns chained up to poke holes in the Discs.
Now let me know when they start manufacturing Chemical warfare agents.
Did it ever occur to you that the precedents set regarding their actions & behaviors towards their customers do not apply solely to, nor are restricted to being employed solely by, the game industry? Look at DRM. If they can get away with shit, others will see that and say "Hey! Let's do that too!".
For the love of Dog! Think, man, think!
Strat
Kinda... But what about customers they drive away? I do not support shady companies.
If you've not already dropped Bethesda for all their previous actions and behaviors, the chances that *this* is finally the last straw are...slim.
Of course, the same could be said about a disturbingly-large percentage of all the other major game development companies as well, sadly.
Strat
Why? It's not illegal to collect data of people walking around in public spaces.
Try taking pictures/video of police stations or Federal buildings from public property, or try photographing police/government officials in public to collect their biometric/facial-ID data.
It would be a good idea to retain a lawyer and arrange your affairs for a long absence first, however.
Some animals are more equal than others.
Strat
The problems you mentioned are all, every one, simply results and follow-on consequences of the issues I listed.
All you're discussing is re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. But yeah, sure, *I'm* the moron, here.
Stop being part of the problem.
Right back at you. Those problems you mention will never be fixed until the cultural and societal problems I talked about are effectively addressed. Until that happens there simply will not be enough informed & educated people who care enough pushing to correct those problems to force a change.
And please, if you don't have any respect for me, at least have enough respect for yourself to refrain from infantile name-calling. It doesn't help your arguments.
Strat
Shut the fuck up, faggot
I don't typically reply to AC trolls, but this is just too good to pass up! :D
Now, in thoughtful & considered reply to Mr. AC's oh-so-eloquent and intriguing post;
Let's see...Hmmm...An oh-so-tolerant liberal-progressive Democrat and/or Maxine Waters supporter would never use such a bigoted slur against a protected class. That would make you a two-faced, lying, hypocritical dirt-bag without any ethical principles whatsoever, wouldn't it? Only another member of the same protected class may be allowed to use such an identity-based slur.
So by process of elimination, you're either a faggot or a bigot.
Care to clear up the big mystery and provide a clue as to which one you are? The suspense here is enormous, I assure you.
Strat
If you're looking for where to calibrate the meter, the answer is King City: http://www.mesothelioma-attorn... [mesothelio...torney.com]
Although you probably shouldn't put a whole lot of stock in that website's characterization of things. The article states that Union Carbide held the opinion that asbestos was harmless in 1974, and it turns out my father was a Union Carbide employee at that time. His job was to go to their asbestos customers, educated them on the proper handling and risks, inspect their operation, and cut off any customers that were behaving recklessly.
Thanks for the reply. Born in the late '50s myself. Many, many people with political/ideological agendas and/or narrow world-views attempt to paint the past far differently than it actually was. There were just as many caring and conscientious people then as now, probably fewer now, actually.
What has changed is that the population no longer shares the same values and culture to the same extent now that it did then thanks to group-identity politics, the "cultural diversity" meme which leads to islands of homogeneous mini-culture/religion/racial enclaves, and intersectionality and 'victim'-status as the measure of the power and relevance of your speech/message.
This all culminating to stress a bloated, corrupt, and largely broken government, including the fair and impartial operation of it's services & functions, to the breaking point at every level, and a titanic government bureaucracy that seeks foremost to increase it's own size, power, and scope.
Strat
it's a METAL BLANK that is where the serial number would go on the "legal" firearm you described. It omits that serial #.
It's perfectly legal to make yourself a firearm and there is no legal requirement for a serial number to be applied nor registered. As long as the firearm you manufacture would be legal for you to posses otherwise (not a restricted type like fully-automatic/select-fire, sawed-off shotgun under 18 inches in barrel length,, etc) you are free to make one for personal use without serial numbers or registration of any kind, only rules about who may legally possess apply as long as you don't sell/trade it to another party.
TPTB over the decades have worked to chip away at our educational systems, our mental health systems, our criminal justice system, and our common shared beliefs using propaganda involving the pushing of identity politics and intersectionality that has it's roots in Post-Modernism. This has naturally eventually resulted in a dumbed-down, fractured/divided., frustrated, and angry population. Then TPTB step in to "solve" the problem *they created* by removing liberty and personal freedom.
Don't be their willing tool of your own enslavement.
Strat
Lately Google has been actively courting regimes who are heavy on censorship.
"Foreign authoritarian regimes"?
Maybe, at least partially.
Have you heard what the US FBI, for instance, has been saying lately about things like the widespread use of strong encryption? I don't think it would be a stretch to assume US TLAs would frown upon this type of anonymizing tool for the same sort of reasons they currently object to the widespread use of strong encryption.
When you start talking about authoritarian regimes, don't leave out the US government which is one of the largest and most intrusive.
Big Brother insists you not obstruct your Telescreen, Comrade!
Strat
Even the mountains that are very high in asbestos content in California
"Warning! California Is Known To The State Of California To Cause Cancer."
Damn! Now I have to go buy a new Irony Meter! :/
Strat
One example I've trotted out myself several times on Slashdot is Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music over "My Sweet Lord". That case was over at least eight notes: one three-and-a-half-note motif repeated several times followed by one five-note motif repeated several times.
Which case was over only three notes?
I took liberties in my post for brevity and impact by only mentioning part of the particulars, I admit, but that is the case I was thinking of and mentioned off the op of my head without referencing.
I, too, would like better reliable data but it's not easily available in my experience (possibly not even tracked as recorded data points intentionally) and probably by design.
Strat
What cause of action under copyright or any other law would a label have against an entity performing a sound recording or musical work whose copyright does not belong to that label?
What might these "numerous" causes of action be?
Filing (or having someone file) false DMCA take-down requests as we've seen occur far too often with little or no real consequences imposed for doing so. Claims against independent works on the platform for plagiarism/copying, which the courts have ruled can be only three notes in one famous case. The music industry has a lot of money, & power, not to mention politicians, bureaucrats, and judges in their pockets. They buy sleazeball lawyers by the trainload. They are capable of playing really dirty and with the leg-up of a government that all too often turns a blind eye or even helps.
After all the dirty tricks, sleazy lawyering, and outright corruption & crime that's already been exposed concerning the music industry's behaviors and actions undertaken to protect their monopoly on distribution and role as gatekeepers, expecting them to play the game by Marquess of Queensberry Rules is a fool's dream. They are amoral corporate cut-throats to the extreme. I know, being a pro musician myself.
For a good read on how the music industry deals with musicians, Google "Steve Albini: The Problem With Music". Although the piece is dated, not much has changed except for the technology as far as them screwing the bands & musicians over, and determination to maintain their distribution monopoly and gatekeeper position for as long as they possibly can.
Audius might succeed, but it won't be without a metric shit-ton of money, lawyers, and legal cases as the music industry fights to retain their wealth and power.
Strat
I'm fairly liberal, but if you believe even a tenth of the shit on infowars you are a retard and shouldn't be allowed into the grown-up conversations.
I largely agree AJ is a loon, but the best way to combat this sort of kookiness is to let it be heard and seen so it can be taken apart and mocked. Laughter is the most potent weapon against extremist loons. Taking it seriously only gives it weight in the minds of those without strong critical thinking skills.
Trying to silence such loons only feeds into their paranoid fantasies and vindicates their rants to their audiences, as they must be right if TPTB are trying to silence their voices.
Remember the 'Streisand Effect'?
Strat
And what's bad in this type of research?
Think "Revers" from Firefly.
Or think of the Clans from Battletech.
There are always unpredictable unknown consequences and dangers even with every precaution taken because one cannot know fully which/what precautions to take in advance regarding unpredicted and unexpected results. This is especially true if the nation's leadership in which the work is done prioritizes results over an abundance of caution. Think of N. Korea's Un, Russia's Putin, or China's Xi with an army of genetically-enhanced super-soldiers.
This is very scary territory we are trying to navigate, here. I don't pretend to have the answers, but I do urge extreme caution.
Strat
Assuming Audius is obtaining permission from the owner of copyright in each recording and underlying musical work performed through its service, what grounds would the incumbent labels have to sue Audius and not have the suit discharged with prejudice as frivolous in summary judgment?
They could find a "friendly" jurisdiction with a sympathetic judge just as patent trolls do. There are also numerous other ways to harass them using the legal system other than copyright law. That's not even touching on using "their" politicians and government bureaucrats to endlessly investigate, raid, seize property, and audit them.
Strat
You make content that tells people to harass or outright kill a certain religion.
That's illegal. If Jones had done that law enforcement would have arrested him.
Of course, if you're a Democratic Party politician like Maxine Waters, you can tell your constituents to harass political opponents at their work, homes, and anywhere in public and that's fine.
Some animals are more equal than others.
Strat
Of the people that I know that still use Facebook at all, at least 90% of them admit to just using the Messenger App. The ones that still go to the webpage tell me they just go to creep other peoples pictures and never post anything themselves.
Well, FB,YouTube, Apple, MS, LinkedIn, etc etc may not be the giants they are now for very much longer.
The Alex Jones de-platforming brouhaha has frightened a lot of content creators. Many are fleeing to alternate platforms, or at least mirroring their content on them as insurance, because they realize that it only takes a shift in the politically-correct winds and suddenly *they* can be de-platformed and de-monetized as well. Of course, many of their fans have and will follow them to these alternate distribution channels. The alternate platforms have experienced a massive surge in users just in the short time since the AJ kerfluffle hit.
Google, Apple, et al have a perfect right to kick anyone off for any reason they like. It's theirs, after all. The internet will simply treat their censorship as damage and route around them.
"They can't stop the signal, Mal."
Strat
Time to give Google the corporate death penalty. Destroy all companies that help support dictatorships.
Nah, it's all good.
Just have Hillary give the Chinese a 'reset button'.
Problem solved!
(Can't wait to see how bad the translation of the label on *this* 'reset button' is, it's sure to be even more hilarious than the Russian version, LOL!)
Strat