Use sid. First install sqeeeze, then add the sid (unstable ) repositories, # apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. Have fun. Don't bother whining to sid developers if you break your system. You could also try Sidux, based largely on Sid with such testing as is necessary. Don't use anything but apt-get to install packages or dist-upgrade; Sidux doesn't support any other package management system. Oh and you should be in init 3 to dist-upgrade. Works well. Sis is sid though, and sometimes things break... just like in *buntu.
I suspect it will go in whatever manner the RIAA instructs their puppet congresscritters to make it go.
Oh do you mean making copyright eternal; destruction of the existing public domain by nullifying it and giving what has been in it to the RIAA, MPAA, and publishing houses? You are probably right. Bye bye Byron, Caesar, Shakespeare, et al.
Do the authorities care so little for the average citizen?
If they despise us so much, why don't they just allow phishing scams? Embezzlement? Ponzi scams?
The authorities "care" for the average citizen is roughly 0.000. Who says the don't allow scams, embezzlement and Ponzi schemes. Isn't all that what blew up the economy a couple of years ago?
Fuck e-books; fuck e-book readers, including, but not limited to the Kindle, the iFad, & all the others I've not heard of. May they all go belly up, bankrupt and take the crooked publishers with 'em. Why anyone would want a crippled computer to read crippled books which can be stolen back by the "publisher" on any whim, "Just because we felt like it... Buzz off, Sucker!" completely escapes me. Preposterous.
Funny that you think that a services-only economy is progress. Really? Suppose China refuses to export anything to the US? The shelves at Wal-Mart are gonna get real bare, real fast.
Fine. It should be destroyed, and replaced by a concrete block explaining why the memorial is gone and who to blame it on: the sculptor and his lawyer. Maybe Mr. Gaylord and his lawyer should should consider moving his sorry ass to North Korea. Of course they'd never want to live there. But they cheerfully spit on the veterans the memorial was supposed to honor.
Lawyers make obscenities like this possible--commonplace, it seems. If it is his goddamned piece of "art" he needs to fetch the crap up and get it off the public land--or to start paying rent on the public property where his "sacred IP" is being displayed now for free. If he can't come get it or pay the rent, then it should be destroyed at his expense. The greedy bastard should also be forced to disgorge the fee he was paid with interest. Fuck all these wannabe "artistes" who want to be worshiped forever for one third-rate "work." Fuck the laywers, too. Is it time to stop funding law schools?
It is being done as an executive trade agreement of some kind here in the US, or more accurately the CSA [Corporate States of America]. This has been going on since Bush II. Congressional approval not needed. Any attempt to amend it is expected to be greeted with an "It's all or nothing!" claim. Good luck fixing this fascist wet-dream. What the corporate sultans fail to realize is that it can eventually be used against them, but that is another story.
It may be civil now, but the proposed ACTA guidelines call for criminal enforcement with prison terms. think about it prison terms for downloading some crappy song. And if that's not bad/absurd enough, it takes all the burden off the media cartel and puts the cost squarely on our backs.
Alternatively, the media kartels could just quit producing digital content. Why should the rest of the world be denied use of the net, when they could stop this by keeping THEIR movies on film and THEIR music on vinyl. Then the rest of us could produce our own digital images, movies, and music and the kartels could pirate us. However, they want to have their cake and eat it, too... and your cake... and my cake...
You seriously want to put people in jail for copyright infringement? So, someone downloads a 0.99$USD song illegally and you make a government waste thousands of dollars for this person?
Not him, but ACTA will do this. Interesting thing about ACTA is that the Kopyright Kartel Kompanies blame the secrecy on govermnents, and they blame one another. When kids start drawing prison terms for downloading 99-cent songs, the Kartel will claim they didn't want it and governments will claim they didn't want it, either. So kids will go to jail for 99-cent downloads... because nobody wants it. From Michael Geist's summary of the October 2008 negotiations here
Day one focuses on criminal enforcement. The U.S. and Japan supply draft text of the criminal enforcement provisions. The proposal would extend criminal enforcement to both (1) cases of a commercial nature; and (2) cases involving significant willful copyright and trademark infringement even where there is no direct or indirect motivation of financial gain. The treaty would require each country to establish a laundry list of penalties - including imprisonment - sufficient to deter future acts of infringement (specific language is "include sentences of imprisonment as well as monetary fines..."
Ain't that grand? Nobody wants it, but it's coming. But its all a secret because nobody wants it to be secret either. Liars.
Interesting. How do you suppose that will work out for people who can't figure out how to change their homepage? (But do click on e-mail links entitled, "Naked Pictures of... Whoever")
Casual perusal of the linked pages and the links there suggests that the civil aspects of require judges to take action based on unsubstantiated allegations by the "rights holders," oddly(?) I saw nothing to suggest that "rights holders have to prove that they have any rights. However, its the criminal enforcement aspects of what is being proposed that are really scary:
The proposal would extend criminal enforcement to both (1) cases of a commercial nature; and (2) cases involving significant willful copyright and trademark infringement even where there is no direct or indirect motivation of financial gain. The treaty would require each country to establish a laundry list of penalties - including imprisonment - sufficient to deter future acts of infringement (specific language is "include sentences of imprisonment as well as monetary fines, from the first link:
Item (2) would include Jammie Thomas, what are we talking about here? Prison time for downloading songs? Looks like it. Lets see, she had what 3 +/- 1 hours worth of listening time... extending the financial damages ratios to the criminal case suggests.... Nah too complicated: one year in prison per song is simpler. Ta-da: 20 years for Jammie. Ought to make Big Media happy. Wow! You know, if some 19 year old girl gets 50 (or 500) years in prison for downloading songs and her father or husband takes a potshot at some media mogul or Bono with a high powered rifle, they won't understand why. In-fucking-credible.
People seem to think that this stuff needs Congressional approval. I'm not so sure, as it been pointed out by others that this is being negotiated by the Executive Branch as a trade agreement rather than a treaty per se so that at least some parts could be established by Presidential proclamation in the U.S. Assuming that some Congressional action is needed, who here really thinks that the U.S. Congress gives a shit about individual rights? The same Congress where Orrin Hatch proposed making it legal for media companies to blow up the computers of accused infringers by remote control? Good luck. If Congress gets hold of it, we'll be lucky if downloading paid-for songs from Amazon or iTunes does't make you subject to the death penalty. The courts, maybe, yeah like the Supreme Court, which just essentially negated the laws regarding political bribery. Good luck, there, too.
There was no proof of distribution. Downloading songs without permission is copyright infringement and that is illegal. The fines assessed on Tenenbaum are are disproportionate and therefore unconstitutional. In what moral calculus do two wrongs make a right?
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Someone who believes, "What's mine is mine, and what yours is mine, too!" In other words, control-freaks like Gates, Ballmer, and Jobs. YMMV.
+1 insightful ... if i had mod points
To drive up the price and profit margins. Silly goose.
very good. for non-speakers of French, merde means crap.
Use sid. First install sqeeeze, then add the sid (unstable ) repositories, # apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. Have fun. Don't bother whining to sid developers if you break your system. You could also try Sidux, based largely on Sid with such testing as is necessary. Don't use anything but apt-get to install packages or dist-upgrade; Sidux doesn't support any other package management system. Oh and you should be in init 3 to dist-upgrade. Works well. Sis is sid though, and sometimes things break ... just like in *buntu.
Sic semper tyrannis ... and pathological liars. (With apologies to both Cato and Brutus for using their noble words to refer to pond scum. :-/)
how does that shake out?
I suspect it will go in whatever manner the RIAA instructs their puppet congresscritters to make it go.
Oh do you mean making copyright eternal; destruction of the existing public domain by nullifying it and giving what has been in it to the RIAA, MPAA, and publishing houses? You are probably right. Bye bye Byron, Caesar, Shakespeare, et al.
Do the authorities care so little for the average citizen? If they despise us so much, why don't they just allow phishing scams? Embezzlement? Ponzi scams?
The authorities "care" for the average citizen is roughly 0.000. Who says the don't allow scams, embezzlement and Ponzi schemes. Isn't all that what blew up the economy a couple of years ago?
Most of our customers don't even know what bricks and doorstops are. Why should they care if we turn their boxes into them?
Fuck e-books; fuck e-book readers, including, but not limited to the Kindle, the iFad, & all the others I've not heard of. May they all go belly up, bankrupt and take the crooked publishers with 'em. Why anyone would want a crippled computer to read crippled books which can be stolen back by the "publisher" on any whim, "Just because we felt like it ... Buzz off, Sucker!" completely escapes me. Preposterous.
Funny that you think that a services-only economy is progress. Really? Suppose China refuses to export anything to the US? The shelves at Wal-Mart are gonna get real bare, real fast.
Only "artistes" and corporations have rights.
Fine. It should be destroyed, and replaced by a concrete block explaining why the memorial is gone and who to blame it on: the sculptor and his lawyer. Maybe Mr. Gaylord and his lawyer should should consider moving his sorry ass to North Korea. Of course they'd never want to live there. But they cheerfully spit on the veterans the memorial was supposed to honor.
Lawyers make obscenities like this possible--commonplace, it seems. If it is his goddamned piece of "art" he needs to fetch the crap up and get it off the public land--or to start paying rent on the public property where his "sacred IP" is being displayed now for free. If he can't come get it or pay the rent, then it should be destroyed at his expense. The greedy bastard should also be forced to disgorge the fee he was paid with interest . Fuck all these wannabe "artistes" who want to be worshiped forever for one third-rate "work." Fuck the laywers, too. Is it time to stop funding law schools?
It is being done as an executive trade agreement of some kind here in the US, or more accurately the CSA [Corporate States of America]. This has been going on since Bush II. Congressional approval not needed. Any attempt to amend it is expected to be greeted with an "It's all or nothing!" claim. Good luck fixing this fascist wet-dream. What the corporate sultans fail to realize is that it can eventually be used against them, but that is another story.
It may be civil now, but the proposed ACTA guidelines call for criminal enforcement with prison terms. think about it prison terms for downloading some crappy song. And if that's not bad/absurd enough, it takes all the burden off the media cartel and puts the cost squarely on our backs.
Alternatively, the media kartels could just quit producing digital content. Why should the rest of the world be denied use of the net, when they could stop this by keeping THEIR movies on film and THEIR music on vinyl. Then the rest of us could produce our own digital images, movies, and music and the kartels could pirate us. However, they want to have their cake and eat it, too ... and your cake ... and my cake ...
Not him, but ACTA will do this. Interesting thing about ACTA is that the Kopyright Kartel Kompanies blame the secrecy on govermnents, and they blame one another. When kids start drawing prison terms for downloading 99-cent songs, the Kartel will claim they didn't want it and governments will claim they didn't want it, either. So kids will go to jail for 99-cent downloads ... because nobody wants it. From Michael Geist's summary of the October 2008 negotiations here
Ain't that grand? Nobody wants it, but it's coming. But its all a secret because nobody wants it to be secret either. Liars.
Follow the money.... who gets what from who?
Interesting. How do you suppose that will work out for people who can't figure out how to change their homepage? (But do click on e-mail links entitled, "Naked Pictures of ... Whoever")
Brilliant! Love it.
Item (2) would include Jammie Thomas, what are we talking about here? Prison time for downloading songs? Looks like it. Lets see, she had what 3 +/- 1 hours worth of listening time ... extending the financial damages ratios to the criminal case suggests .... Nah too complicated: one year in prison per song is simpler. Ta-da: 20 years for Jammie. Ought to make Big Media happy. Wow! You know, if some 19 year old girl gets 50 (or 500) years in prison for downloading songs and her father or husband takes a potshot at some media mogul or Bono with a high powered rifle, they won't understand why. In-fucking-credible.
People seem to think that this stuff needs Congressional approval. I'm not so sure, as it been pointed out by others that this is being negotiated by the Executive Branch as a trade agreement rather than a treaty per se so that at least some parts could be established by Presidential proclamation in the U.S. Assuming that some Congressional action is needed, who here really thinks that the U.S. Congress gives a shit about individual rights? The same Congress where Orrin Hatch proposed making it legal for media companies to blow up the computers of accused infringers by remote control? Good luck. If Congress gets hold of it, we'll be lucky if downloading paid-for songs from Amazon or iTunes does't make you subject to the death penalty. The courts, maybe, yeah like the Supreme Court, which just essentially negated the laws regarding political bribery. Good luck, there, too.
+ 4 Informative.
There was no proof of distribution. Downloading songs without permission is copyright infringement and that is illegal. The fines assessed on Tenenbaum are are disproportionate and therefore unconstitutional. In what moral calculus do two wrongs make a right?
Well said... dead on.