Would you like it if anyone could video tape you doing your job?
Bank tellers, money counters, and the like are regularly video taped by their employer. It's not anyone, but given they're in a profession where the potential for abuse (as well as personal danger) exists it could stand as a precedent.
On a related note, don't go to Disney World! Anyone can video tape you there, while you're on vacation, which I personally feel is alot more private than my job.
Why single out carbonated beverages, in terms of container deposits? The only states that mandate deposits on nearly all cans and bottles are California and Maine. Most, like New York, only do so for carbonated beverages. It's either a lack of understanding by lawmakers of the extent of the problem, or, at worst, the result of action by lobby groups (apparently the bottling industry in the US spends large amounts of money lobbying against container deposit legislation; see Wikipedia article).
For now it's good they're mandating recycling, and hopefully the problems with the legislation will be ironed out in time, but then again there's plenty of half-assed legislation out there designed to make the public think the problem is being dealt with when it isn't entirely in hand...
So in other words consumption is illegal because they're trying to target the producers. Well, since that tactic has worked so well with the War on Drugs, I guess it'll work here, too.
They do the same thing with the trafficking the body parts of endangered animals. Just as it's illegal to hunt elephants for their ivory tusks [producer end], it's also illegal to buy, sell, import, and export that ivory [consumer end], even if one is not a direct part of the production end. Arguments could be made either way as to the effectiveness of the ivory ban.
Yes, it is stupid of them to be killing the buzz around the album by sending these takedown notices
Unless the news about the takedowns sparks more interest in the album. Especially if they didn't quite get all the sites hosting the songs (and it wouldn't hurt if the band came out against the takedowns, too). You know what they say: there's no such thing as bad publicity.
Santa Claus and his crew really can deliver presents in one night because of their advanced knowledge of electromagnetic waves, the space/time continuum, nanotechnology, genetic engineering and computer science.
I can't help but think of the scene in Real Genius where as the semester goes on the students in the main character's classes are slowly replaced by tape recorders, until the whole class is a bunch of recorders recording a lecture from a giant tape player in the place of the professor.
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It's people! My gas tank is filled with people!
On a related note, don't go to Disney World! Anyone can video tape you there, while you're on vacation, which I personally feel is alot more private than my job.
For now it's good they're mandating recycling, and hopefully the problems with the legislation will be ironed out in time, but then again there's plenty of half-assed legislation out there designed to make the public think the problem is being dealt with when it isn't entirely in hand...
Oh, so the same as now, but with free batteries.
This... is... RUSSIA!!!
So I says, "Supercollider? I just met her!" And then they built the supercollider. Thank you, you've been a great audience.
What powerful pirate lobby? The ones that passed the DMCA? Or who are pushing the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007? Oh wait, wrong lobby.
What I want to know is what can America do as a nation to get us to pull our crappy movies from our own theaters?
I can't think of a better concealment method than hiding bugs on coins by painting a red poppy flower on them!
You know, aside from hiding a bomb with a mooninite LED sign...
Yes, it is stupid of them to be killing the buzz around the album by sending these takedown notices
Unless the news about the takedowns sparks more interest in the album. Especially if they didn't quite get all the sites hosting the songs (and it wouldn't hurt if the band came out against the takedowns, too). You know what they say: there's no such thing as bad publicity.
Not long ago certain former "leader of the free world" took away its citizens' habeas-corpus provision.
Abraham Lincoln?
It's the year 2000. But where are they flying cars? I was promised flying cars! I don't see any flying cars! Why? Why? Why?
A dead badger!!!
Oh, wait...
Shouldn't US have rebuilt New orleans and Missisippi devastated by Katrina before jumping into the Iraq War?
Yes, if you live in a crazy world where time runs backwards.
Well of course it is! It's just been slashdotted!
Santa Claus and his crew really can deliver presents in one night because of their advanced knowledge of electromagnetic waves, the space/time continuum, nanotechnology, genetic engineering and computer science.
Well then, I for one welcome our new jolly overlords.
We must not allow... a broadband gap!
I can't help but think of the scene in Real Genius where as the semester goes on the students in the main character's classes are slowly replaced by tape recorders, until the whole class is a bunch of recorders recording a lecture from a giant tape player in the place of the professor.
Had it been the Dutch in the 18th century rather than the Brits in the 20th...
Or Nazis, in an alternative history.
Somebody's been watching Honey, We're Killing the Kids" on TLC!
Yeah, right. Where in heaven is God going to find a lawyer?
I think you mean to say, "Where the hell is God going to find a lawyer?"
In today's news, Government pays lobbyist group.
In other news, man bites dog.
Details at 10.