Viacom is already far, far more evil through what it has done than Google can ever be.
Constant excessive attempts to invoke the DMCA on content that is short enough to be covered by fair use, etc., etc., etc.
AND, lest we forget, Viacom is a cornerstone member of the MPAA. One of the most evil organizations in the world, with the possible exception of the RIAA.
So dear Viacom, please burn in the hell you deserve. I won't shed tear one.
In all likelihood is was a group of fscking MBAs. I've never met an MBA that wasn't turned into a complete a**hat by his stint in MBA school. It's like they teach negative morality there. 'Anything is ok that makes you money. If you don't think that way you are a chump, etc.'
That school of thought is a big part of the reason we just had a massive economic crash. I hope he tears these guys a new a**hole.
We just saw the era of lowest taxes on the rich and corporations since the introduction of the income tax and the highest level of corporate welfare ever as well... and the job generation rate during that time was one of the LOWEST EVER.
So please stop espousing the idiotic opinion that somehow giving the rich more money means the rest of us get more money. It doesn't work that way now if it ever did and the DATA doesn't lie.
If you are being loaned >$200M of taxpayer money, I don't give a rats a** about your privacy... and I doubt anyone in Iceland does either... and all of these loans were for more than this...
The EFF shouldn't drop this. Judges CAN call the Executive out on fraudulent claims of 'National Security' at least to the point of reading what it is that is supposedly classified for 'national security' reasons. When he reads it and finds out that it is just a draconian IP rights treaty, he can allow the trial to continue.
People pooh pooh this and pretend they can't shove the genie back into the bottle when it comes to the net, but it wouldn't be hard at all. Are YOU willing to go to jail to avoid having your net transfers searched? Are YOU willing to go to jail to prevent having your laptop searched at the US, European and other borders?
Most people aren't.
Sadly, I almost see the reasoning for doing this. At this point the US is no longer a manufacturing nation. Most of our GNP is from 'information' work. If we allow that to be devalued our GNP will be much lower than it could be, which means less fancy fighter jets, etc for the defense industrial complex... This is almost 100% certainly the reason this thing is 'classified'. And this will almost 100% be the reason our 'representatives' vote it into law over all our objections.
Radar guns, speed cameras and of course clearly BAC testers. Radar guns are routinely allowed to be out of calibration but the results still used. Speed cameras are a black box just like these BAC testers. Judges clearly don't care when the result is merely a fine to the defendant. Apparently in NJ they don't care when the result is a criminal conviction either since the court upheld the use of these breathalyzers even though they have only 8 discreet levels of BAC measurement!! No engineer or scientist would ever use these things for anything other than a gross reality check at best.
But clearly the US court system has nothing to do with 'justice', only law... and they are NOT the same.
Maybe so, but 0.08 can be gotten with just two beers which means to me that 0.08 is an idiotic limit to set the law it. What was wrong with 0.1 other than MADD wasn't able to push for even more temperance laws?
I want a nice gaming laptop for when I have to be away from my desk, and since they weren't much more expensive than everyone else, was thinking of Alienware, but now... no way in hell am I gonna buy from them.
Remember that the GOP controlled the Justice Department at this time. They did this on purpose to prevent Stevens from having to serve jail time. It's ingenious, especially since he was guilty as sin and they knew it.
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Spoken like someone who doesn't have a child and has no clue.
Congrats on your ignorance. Hopefully one day you will have a child a realize how imbecilic you sound.
What the heck does Seattle have to do with it?
Lots of players from Florida are women.
Lots of players from Arizona are women.
Ad infinitum....
The Japanese are absolute STICKLERS for the rules.... Doesn't matter if the rule doesn't make any sense... if it is the rule, it should be followed.
That attitude is good and bad...
It's STILL only 720P max... WTF?
Hello!?!?!?! 1080P is the HD standard at this point. 720P is pathetic for 2010. PATHETIC!!!
Viacom is already far, far more evil through what it has done than Google can ever be.
Constant excessive attempts to invoke the DMCA on content that is short enough to be covered by fair use, etc., etc., etc.
AND, lest we forget, Viacom is a cornerstone member of the MPAA. One of the most evil organizations in the world, with the possible exception of the RIAA.
So dear Viacom, please burn in the hell you deserve. I won't shed tear one.
And how many of these do you think Russia will actually be able to afford to build?
If it's 60, I'd be shocked. We'd still outnumber them 2 to 1 in F-22 capable craft and that is without the F-35 which is no slouch either.
Sadly I work with far too many that haven't gotten over it....
In all likelihood is was a group of fscking MBAs. I've never met an MBA that wasn't turned into a complete a**hat by his stint in MBA school. It's like they teach negative morality there. 'Anything is ok that makes you money. If you don't think that way you are a chump, etc.'
That school of thought is a big part of the reason we just had a massive economic crash. I hope he tears these guys a new a**hole.
What crap. Trickle down is a failure.
We just saw the era of lowest taxes on the rich and corporations since the introduction of the income tax and the highest level of corporate welfare ever as well... and the job generation rate during that time was one of the LOWEST EVER.
So please stop espousing the idiotic opinion that somehow giving the rich more money means the rest of us get more money. It doesn't work that way now if it ever did and the DATA doesn't lie.
If you are being loaned >$200M of taxpayer money, I don't give a rats a** about your privacy... and I doubt anyone in Iceland does either... and all of these loans were for more than this...
The super rich stole from all of us and then used their government connections to force us all to pay for their prolifigate spending.
He's full of shit. TMI released at LEAST 13 Million curies into the air and probably 5 times that amount was really released.
Wikipedia FTW
Read the 3 Mile Island wikipedia article... Can you say molten fuel rods?
We got a lot luckier than Chernobyl, but it could still happen here.
I prefer to quote Samuel L. Jackson.
"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."
That said, I am probably an agnostic atheist. :)
Real men and women (and little fuzzy creatures from Alpha Centauri) use household fuel cells! :)
The EFF shouldn't drop this. Judges CAN call the Executive out on fraudulent claims of 'National Security' at least to the point of reading what it is that is supposedly classified for 'national security' reasons. When he reads it and finds out that it is just a draconian IP rights treaty, he can allow the trial to continue.
People pooh pooh this and pretend they can't shove the genie back into the bottle when it comes to the net, but it wouldn't be hard at all. Are YOU willing to go to jail to avoid having your net transfers searched? Are YOU willing to go to jail to prevent having your laptop searched at the US, European and other borders?
Most people aren't.
Sadly, I almost see the reasoning for doing this. At this point the US is no longer a manufacturing nation. Most of our GNP is from 'information' work. If we allow that to be devalued our GNP will be much lower than it could be, which means less fancy fighter jets, etc for the defense industrial complex... This is almost 100% certainly the reason this thing is 'classified'. And this will almost 100% be the reason our 'representatives' vote it into law over all our objections.
And they sold it to Exxon Mobil, who buried it and laughed all the way back to their oilfields.
I've met ones who have.... Not every illegal immigrant is from Mexico and/or poor...
Radar guns, speed cameras and of course clearly BAC testers. Radar guns are routinely allowed to be out of calibration but the results still used. Speed cameras are a black box just like these BAC testers. Judges clearly don't care when the result is merely a fine to the defendant. Apparently in NJ they don't care when the result is a criminal conviction either since the court upheld the use of these breathalyzers even though they have only 8 discreet levels of BAC measurement!! No engineer or scientist would ever use these things for anything other than a gross reality check at best.
But clearly the US court system has nothing to do with 'justice', only law... and they are NOT the same.
The hilariously sad part is that NJ decided to still allow the results because some retired ex-judge decided it still 'mostly worked'.
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/22/2280.asp
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!! Nice one...
Not even close.
Maybe so, but 0.08 can be gotten with just two beers which means to me that 0.08 is an idiotic limit to set the law it. What was wrong with 0.1 other than MADD wasn't able to push for even more temperance laws?
I live in an 'at-will' state, and yeah, it's pretty much like that :)
I want a nice gaming laptop for when I have to be away from my desk, and since they weren't much more expensive than everyone else, was thinking of Alienware, but now... no way in hell am I gonna buy from them.
Remember that the GOP controlled the Justice Department at this time. They did this on purpose to prevent Stevens from having to serve jail time. It's ingenious, especially since he was guilty as sin and they knew it.