No, he is not within his rights. If you keep doing stuff like this, the court can call you a vexatious litigant and then you will need permission from the court to file any suits, if you had not been disbarred by then.
You're not supposed to bring suit if you have no standing and know it. He likely knows it. It's improper and unethical. The fact that it is rarely punished does not change that.
Wasn't there a rather famous lawyer who became disbarred and fined for bringing bogus lawsuits against the gaming publishers? Yeah, we discussed him here.
>Oh, you're recompressing it? Enjoy the additional quality loss.
Who cares? Honestly, only OCDers care about whether pirated media is 100 percent identical. It only really has to be "good enough" for the vast majority of people. Look at how popular aXXo one-cd movies still are in the trackers.
>In early 2011, the operation became controversial when it was revealed that Operation Fast and Furious and other probes under Project Gunrunner had allowed guns to "walk" into the hands of Mexican drug cartels since as early as 2006.[2][3]
I guess you caught me then. I must confess, I have a secret army that searches Slashdot high and low and mods me up for everything and mods you down, specifically, on every post that they find. Even when you are anonymous, because I wrote a kit that gets your posting IP address from the Slashdot server farm. It's a personal vendetta.
Both FreeBSD and Linux are free in all senses of the word. Licensing and costs are not barriers to using either one or swapping one for the other. One does not spend over a hundred million dollars on a system and chuck any old OS on it. One wants to squeeze the highest amount of performance (number crunching and data flinging over the interconnects) as one can. All things being equal, one selects for speed. One could argue that if Windows had an edge, it would have more of a toehold in the Top500 than it does now because of extra deep pockets or Microsoft giving a deep discount on licenses for bragging rights.
Over 90 percent of the Top500 is Linux based. You would think that if FreeBSD had an edge, however slight, over Linux, you'd see the Top500 dominated by FreeBSD, or any BSD for that matter. Indeed, Microsoft has 6 times as many supercomputers running their OS than BSD. Before the Windows people get up to brag, the number of BSD systems is 1.
Linux has been dominating and pushing out the standard Unices like BSD for years and for good reason.
BSD is dying. The bad news rolls in like a river of tears.
I say John Birch because of the the people running for President with an R next to their names are sucking up to the Koch brothers. Herman Cain infamously so recently. "A brother from another mother" he put it.
I'll give you three good guesses what society Fred C. Koch (their dad) helped found.
It's not hyperbole. The Tea Party is the Birchers in drag.
>When I go to the store and I buy, say, a table I get a table. Wouldn't it be cheaper to just not make a table and give me a rock instead? Yes, it would... until people sued them for not selling the right item and no one bought their crap ever again.
But that requires laws and regulations for that to happen. Someone has to be legally wronged in order to have standing to bring a lawsuit. No regulations, no standing and "get the fuck out of my courtroom" to put it bluntly.
Then address my other message, the one you ignored, the one where I ask what will happen with "it's not illegal anymore, so it must be OK?"
It was illegal to dump toxic waste into the Cuyahoga river. It caught fire. It was said to ooze rather than flow. Here the local joke was the Providence River. Instead of "save the bay" it was "pave the bay"
So what happens when we take away enforcement? What happens when environmental issues are just another line item to cut from company budgets? "They wouldn't dare" you might say. Oh, yes, they would, because if it's not illegal, it's another place to wring some more profit.
What fairy tale world do you live in where companies are altruistic in any sense of the word? What fairy land do you come from where the companies think beyond the end of the quarter?
And it can change right back. That's what's wrong with your assumption that people won't go the "cheap way"
> as we realized that safety _is_ more important than a couple cents.
You're kidding, right? What about all these "free marketers" (there is no such thing) saying that companies are obligated to maximize profit/at the expense of everything else/? If it's no longer illegal, it must be OK, right?
"Nobody ever goes out there, go dump it out in those trees over there"
The only people who deny this are the ones who don't remember what it was like and still don't realize that it's the thin line of environmental regs that keeps people from doing things like that.
This was one of the triggers of the EPA legislation, signed by a Republican President - Nixon.
Today's Republicans want to "padlock the EPA." What do you expect to happen if this actually does happen?
What part of this do you not understand, exactly?
The fine Senator from Arizona, Barry Goldwater would be hounded out of today's GOP as a RINO. Look at Mr. "I trust science" Huntsman. He's pulling a whole 1 percent of the vote because the GOP leadership and the GOP at large want him gone. Look at who is running along side him: God botherers and Birchers.
>There's no nice way of putting this: You are retarded and whoever modded this nonsense "insightful" should be denied mod points indefinitely.
There is no nice way of putting this but you, yourself, are delusional if you think the Republicans and the John Birch Society in drag (tea party) want anything less than burning rivers and brain addled lead paint chewing children, which got us the regulation in the first place.
If you are a slavering Dominionst (which Dominionism is rampant in the Republican party these days, wot, with their prayer breakfasts and whatnot) you believe the end of the world is nigh, raping the planet is nothing compared to the raining blood and plagues which are to come shortly. If you believe the end of the world is coming, the least of your worries is preserving it.
The only reasonable candidate that isn't a Dominionist or Bircher is Huntsman, and he's toast. This is what you get when you chase all the reasonable people out of your party.
That's the truth, and to deny it is to deny reality. QED.
So much whining about Gnome3 and Unity. There is more than that in the repos.
I've got FVWM and KDE installed. FVWM for when I'm abusing multiple virtual machines (because really, they have their own environments anyway), and KDE for my regular desktop.
Linux is about choice. Don't like it? Install something else.
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Software publishers and drug pushers call their customers "users" for a reason.
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No, he is not within his rights. If you keep doing stuff like this, the court can call you a vexatious litigant and then you will need permission from the court to file any suits, if you had not been disbarred by then.
You're not supposed to bring suit if you have no standing and know it. He likely knows it. It's improper and unethical. The fact that it is rarely punished does not change that.
Wasn't there a rather famous lawyer who became disbarred and fined for bringing bogus lawsuits against the gaming publishers? Yeah, we discussed him here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist)
As a lawyer, you swear an oath to be ethical and proper as an agent of the court. http://www.michbar.org/generalinfo/lawyersoath.cfm (for example). You basically promise not to be a schmuck.
Jack Thompson calls himself an activist, but he's still a schmuck. This guy is also a schmuck.
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>Oh, you're recompressing it? Enjoy the additional quality loss.
Who cares? Honestly, only OCDers care about whether pirated media is 100 percent identical. It only really has to be "good enough" for the vast majority of people. Look at how popular aXXo one-cd movies still are in the trackers.
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>In early 2011, the operation became controversial when it was revealed that Operation Fast and Furious and other probes under Project Gunrunner had allowed guns to "walk" into the hands of Mexican drug cartels since as early as 2006.[2][3]
Emphasis mine.
So Obama was President in 2006?
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>but here in India, there are around 30-40 porn sites blocked,
That's not very many.
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Revisiting this because I think you're hilarious.
So name one of my alternate logins.
You claim to have proof. So prove it.
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I guess you caught me then. I must confess, I have a secret army that searches Slashdot high and low and mods me up for everything and mods you down, specifically, on every post that they find. Even when you are anonymous, because I wrote a kit that gets your posting IP address from the Slashdot server farm. It's a personal vendetta.
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You claim that I have alternate logins.
So, name one of them.
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He owns a CitroÃn. That in itself should be illegal.
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>He knows where to buy the good tin foil.
Only the best, and shiny side out, always.
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Because I have a secret army that goes around and mods me up. I swear it's true.
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Oh look, it's the Just World Fallacy.
"They're doing something to you so obviously you did something wrong"
Next time you get called for jury duty, tell them you believe in a just world and that only bad people get arrested.
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>What does a citizen have to do to get this kind of personalized attention from the government?
Nothing.
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Let's take a look at the Top500.
Both FreeBSD and Linux are free in all senses of the word. Licensing and costs are not barriers to using either one or swapping one for the other. One does not spend over a hundred million dollars on a system and chuck any old OS on it. One wants to squeeze the highest amount of performance (number crunching and data flinging over the interconnects) as one can. All things being equal, one selects for speed. One could argue that if Windows had an edge, it would have more of a toehold in the Top500 than it does now because of extra deep pockets or Microsoft giving a deep discount on licenses for bragging rights.
Over 90 percent of the Top500 is Linux based. You would think that if FreeBSD had an edge, however slight, over Linux, you'd see the Top500 dominated by FreeBSD, or any BSD for that matter. Indeed, Microsoft has 6 times as many supercomputers running their OS than BSD. Before the Windows people get up to brag, the number of BSD systems is 1.
Linux has been dominating and pushing out the standard Unices like BSD for years and for good reason.
BSD is dying. The bad news rolls in like a river of tears.
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That's your rebuttal? "George Soros"?
Fine. Talk to the hand.
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>You say John Birch,
I say John Birch because of the the people running for President with an R next to their names are sucking up to the Koch brothers. Herman Cain infamously so recently. "A brother from another mother" he put it.
I'll give you three good guesses what society Fred C. Koch (their dad) helped found.
It's not hyperbole. The Tea Party is the Birchers in drag.
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>Please don't try to put the legal system bluntly when you don't know the first thing about it.
That's because you're a Wikipedia lawyer, right?
I said "laws and regulations"
That covers tort /and/ criminal law and administrative law. Everything, actually.
But whatever.
I'm done.
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>When I go to the store and I buy, say, a table I get a table. Wouldn't it be cheaper to just not make a table and give me a rock instead? Yes, it would... until people sued them for not selling the right item and no one bought their crap ever again.
But that requires laws and regulations for that to happen. Someone has to be legally wronged in order to have standing to bring a lawsuit. No regulations, no standing and "get the fuck out of my courtroom" to put it bluntly.
Good day sir.
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Then address my other message, the one you ignored, the one where I ask what will happen with "it's not illegal anymore, so it must be OK?"
It was illegal to dump toxic waste into the Cuyahoga river. It caught fire. It was said to ooze rather than flow. Here the local joke was the Providence River. Instead of "save the bay" it was "pave the bay"
So what happens when we take away enforcement? What happens when environmental issues are just another line item to cut from company budgets? "They wouldn't dare" you might say. Oh, yes, they would, because if it's not illegal, it's another place to wring some more profit.
What fairy tale world do you live in where companies are altruistic in any sense of the word? What fairy land do you come from where the companies think beyond the end of the quarter?
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>Culture had changed,
And it can change right back. That's what's wrong with your assumption that people won't go the "cheap way"
> as we realized that safety _is_ more important than a couple cents.
You're kidding, right? What about all these "free marketers" (there is no such thing) saying that companies are obligated to maximize profit /at the expense of everything else/? If it's no longer illegal, it must be OK, right?
"Nobody ever goes out there, go dump it out in those trees over there"
The only people who deny this are the ones who don't remember what it was like and still don't realize that it's the thin line of environmental regs that keeps people from doing things like that.
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We set a river on fire 40 years ago.
This was one of the triggers of the EPA legislation, signed by a Republican President - Nixon.
Today's Republicans want to "padlock the EPA." What do you expect to happen if this actually does happen?
What part of this do you not understand, exactly?
The fine Senator from Arizona, Barry Goldwater would be hounded out of today's GOP as a RINO. Look at Mr. "I trust science" Huntsman. He's pulling a whole 1 percent of the vote because the GOP leadership and the GOP at large want him gone. Look at who is running along side him: God botherers and Birchers.
Yeah, I'm way off base.
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>There's no nice way of putting this: You are retarded and whoever modded this nonsense "insightful" should be denied mod points indefinitely.
There is no nice way of putting this but you, yourself, are delusional if you think the Republicans and the John Birch Society in drag (tea party) want anything less than burning rivers and brain addled lead paint chewing children, which got us the regulation in the first place.
If you are a slavering Dominionst (which Dominionism is rampant in the Republican party these days, wot, with their prayer breakfasts and whatnot) you believe the end of the world is nigh, raping the planet is nothing compared to the raining blood and plagues which are to come shortly. If you believe the end of the world is coming, the least of your worries is preserving it.
The only reasonable candidate that isn't a Dominionist or Bircher is Huntsman, and he's toast. This is what you get when you chase all the reasonable people out of your party.
That's the truth, and to deny it is to deny reality. QED.
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So much this.
So much whining about Gnome3 and Unity. There is more than that in the repos.
I've got FVWM and KDE installed. FVWM for when I'm abusing multiple virtual machines (because really, they have their own environments anyway), and KDE for my regular desktop.
Linux is about choice. Don't like it? Install something else.
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Funny, I haven't had mod points in 2 weeks.
Oh look, it's apk projecting again.
You got modded down because you're a fucking spammer.
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Come at me, bro.
After you take your fucking meds.
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