They have done that on the planes I've been on. The cockpit doors were pretty secure by december 2002. Hijacking is not the issue- the issue these days is being blown up. There is no need to buy new airplanes as there is no way into the cockpits on commercial jets any more.
I would say the way we are trying to prevent hijacking is expensive, a very big hassle, but effective. I say this since no planes have been blown up and we know they have tried a few times so far. If we were not trying to stop them, each of those attempts would have presumably suceeded.
Additionally, airline passengers are not hijackable any more (in fact they tend to pile on you and tie you up and throw in a few bonus punches at you. I mean, they figure they are going to die anyway and sitting passively in the chair won't save them like it used to. If I were on a plane and someone tried this, I would probably try to break at least a few of their fingers.
What's horrific is how poor the net to stop the bombs really is. Even students find holes in them- but to be fair, I think they either have special knowledge from working with the industry and/or they are pretty smart. I think the TSA has a lot of people of, at best, average intelligence.
Should someone go to jail for 5 to 10 years, be stripped of their right to vote, be stripped of their ability to work in federal jobs for the rest of their lives, etc for a $750 crime?
I think it is because the police *wouldn't* prove it was them. It just wasn't worth their time to enforce the law because there are so many other laws they have to balance that one against.
I'm really sorry about your problems with the little shits. In a prior age, they would have been afraid of you or their parents would have made them clean it up or you could have put some buckshot in their asses the next time they came on your property and the police would ignore the issue.
But making felons of them over that crime just ensures they have no place to go into society when they mature into adults.
I will grant that only Sony is explictly enforcing there licenses. However in my prior post above, the unnamed music executive said it was true for all music.
And in a deep-dive into the Sony end-user license agreement, the Electronic Frontier Foundation found some astonishing fine print. For example, if you lose the original CD or it's stolen, you lose the right to any digital copies you've made. You can't keep your music on computers at work. You must delete your songs if you move out of the country or if you file for bankruptcy. The list goes on and on.
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Opinion/Columnists/Mil lar_John/2005/12/02/1333437-sun.html According to an analysis conducted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit organization that describes itself as "working to protect your digital rights," the Sony fine print contains astonishing wording. An example is the requirement that if you lose the original CD or if the CD is stolen, you lose the right to any digital copies you may have made.
1. If your house gets burgled, you have to delete all your music from your laptop when you get home. That's because the EULA says that your rights to any copies terminate as soon as you no longer possess the original CD.
2. You can't keep your music on any computers at work. The EULA only gives you the right to put copies on a "personal home computer system owned by you."
3. If you move out of the country, you have to delete all your music. The EULA specifically forbids "export" outside the country where you reside.
4. You must install any and all updates, or else lose the music on your computer. The EULA immediately terminates if you fail to install any update. No more holding out on those hobble-ware downgrades masquerading as updates.
5. Sony-BMG can install and use backdoors in the copy protection software or media player to "enforce their rights" against you, at any time, without notice. And Sony-BMG disclaims any liability if this "self help" crashes your computer, exposes you to security risks, or any other harm.
6. The EULA says Sony-BMG will never be liable to you for more than $5.00. That's right, no matter what happens, you can't even get back what you paid for the CD.
7. If you file for bankruptcy, you have to delete all the music on your computer. Seriously.
8. You have no right to transfer the music on your computer, even along with the original CD.
9. Forget about using the music as a soundtrack for your latest family photo slideshow, or mash-ups, or sampling. The EULA forbids changing, altering, or make derivative works from the music on your computer.
They made one fantastic movie and then they made a one good series.
Fortunately they never made any sequels or spinoff series from those.
And it was always strange to me how Babylon 5 ended on Season 4, episode 21. No ending but i guess they couldn't think of a good ending so they just stopped it there.
Just because the US did some scummy things (and will do) is no reason to try to conflate two very different terms.
FYI: There is almost no government on the planet that hasn't done scummy things.
We do hold the prize on the nuclear thing. It was a very nasty choice between massive casualties or smaller massive casualties by an enemy sworn to fight to the death killing us. There was no good option and they were unaware of the radiation issues (hell we tested them on our own troops who dropped like flies as after-effects during the 50's and 60's).
We also laid waste to Dresden which included a lot of the categories above. It was pretty evil. At that point both sides were at total war with each other. They were killing our civilians and we were killing theirs. It's ugly and nasty. The islamic terrorists haven't yet convinced us that it is an islamic/non-islamic war. If they ever do, it is going to get really ugly. I hope they never push the west that far because at this time the worst they can do is kill ten or twenty million people before being eradicated.
I'd like to hear your easier cheaper methods. I imagine they include profiling (which I support to some extent because it's just smart). However, I also agree with their arguments that the day we stop randomly inspecting grandmothers is the day the terrorists start using them.
We (a lot of the west- not just the US) have a lot of concepts and laws to try to prevent us from stepping up to total war. They are artificial constraints. If pushed hard enough, the artificial constraints will be set aside. Many other cultures have even less of a barrier to cross than we do.
Here's a link that I could google easily but I remember a story here at slashdot about this as well. This link is not as cut and dried as the slash post that included stolen cd's as well.
http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2005/10/first-sal e-hard-copies-and-digital.html [blogspot.com]...A spokesperson for the Recording Industry Association of America, the group known for filing lawsuits to stop digital-music swapping, pointed me to a document from the Copyright Office to support the idea that you aren't allowed to keep a digital music file once you sell the physical CD... I e-mailed a top industry executive, whose assistant contacted me to say my rights to digital music would end when I sell the physical CD. But the executive was apparently wary of expressing that view in public, as his assistant suggested I refer to him as "an unnamed industry source.
Distributing is giving copies of the song to other people. Downloading is getting a copy of the song for yourself.
The way p2p is designed, when you get a copy, you also give all or part of the song to 20 to 50 other people. (Riaa then invalidly sues you for giving copes to everyone they give copies to also. However, that's double dipping- probably even 100tuble dipping).
Allofmp3 "performs" a unique copy of the song to you. They paid royalties to the russian copyright association. Those royalties are a pittance of what RIAA wants. It's currently legal however.
If it literally was legal then making it illegal later probably doesn't bind you to get rid of things you bought legally.
The problem is the penalty for passive resistance has been raised to extreme levels and you have a very fair chance of having your life ruined. We put all kinds of people away and make them unemployable for life for things that would not have even been crimes 75 years ago.
Showtime said, "spin it how you want- you are BREAKING THE LAW"
I've made this point here before. Feel free to break laws you feel are immoral- but do not fool yourself. Fooling yourself is the EASIEST way to getting caught. You start to believe your own bullshit and then you try to use it in court and they nail your ass to the wall.
Argue the semantics however you want but any kind of sharing outside of a fair use copy of your own music or that captured from a source like a radio is breaking the law. You ARE eligible for huge fines so BE CAREFUL- keep a low profile.
Allofmp3 is technically legal- I'm not sure how RIAA is going to try to enforce non-treaty law on a foreign company.
You are even *legally* obligated to delete your extra copies of songs if your original is stolen or breaks.
People really need to wake up and get pissed off about these laws.
Right now RIAA and others are being allowed ridiculous copyright terms (really anything over 17 years is probably immoral/unethical since that is the term for a patent; Likewise overvaluing their songs; likewise suing dead people, old people that never owned a computer, etc.).
So far they just keep throwing money and buying laws because no one votes against congressmen who vote for these thugs.
If a product doesn't support DRM then Vista may not allow it as a valid application (and can in fact remove the ability of applications to run *after* the fact when they are identified as a problem.)
Vista can revoke the rights to your editing software when they find out it allows ripping and the authors don't immediately close the hole.
Global warming: agree Global warming caused by man: do not agree.
Main reason: Global warming on other planets and moons in the solar system points to external cause.
Are we contributing to global warming? Probably a little. Is it worth the huge cost for the tiny portion we are causing? Not sure at all. Too many prior panics in the past.
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They have done that on the planes I've been on. The cockpit doors were pretty secure by december 2002. Hijacking is not the issue- the issue these days is being blown up. There is no need to buy new airplanes as there is no way into the cockpits on commercial jets any more.
I would say the way we are trying to prevent hijacking is expensive, a very big hassle, but effective. I say this since no planes have been blown up and we know they have tried a few times so far. If we were not trying to stop them, each of those attempts would have presumably suceeded.
Additionally, airline passengers are not hijackable any more (in fact they tend to pile on you and tie you up and throw in a few bonus punches at you. I mean, they figure they are going to die anyway and sitting passively in the chair won't save them like it used to. If I were on a plane and someone tried this, I would probably try to break at least a few of their fingers.
What's horrific is how poor the net to stop the bombs really is. Even students find holes in them- but to be fair, I think they either have special knowledge from working with the industry and/or they are pretty smart. I think the TSA has a lot of people of, at best, average intelligence.
Should someone go to jail for 5 to 10 years, be stripped of their right to vote, be stripped of their ability to work in federal jobs for the rest of their lives, etc for a $750 crime?
I think it is because the police *wouldn't* prove it was them. It just wasn't worth their time to enforce the law because there are so many other laws they have to balance that one against.
I'm really sorry about your problems with the little shits. In a prior age, they would have been afraid of you or their parents would have made them clean it up or you could have put some buckshot in their asses the next time they came on your property and the police would ignore the issue.
But making felons of them over that crime just ensures they have no place to go into society when they mature into adults.
Okay.
l lar_John/2005/12/02/1333437-sun.html
This is all legal under current copyright law.
I will grant that only Sony is explictly enforcing there licenses. However in my prior post above, the unnamed music executive said it was true for all music.
http://www.cnet.com/4520-6033_1-6376177.html
And in a deep-dive into the Sony end-user license agreement, the Electronic Frontier Foundation found some astonishing fine print. For example, if you lose the original CD or it's stolen, you lose the right to any digital copies you've made. You can't keep your music on computers at work. You must delete your songs if you move out of the country or if you file for bankruptcy. The list goes on and on.
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Opinion/Columnists/Mi
According to an analysis conducted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit organization that describes itself as "working to protect your digital rights," the Sony fine print contains astonishing wording. An example is the requirement that if you lose the original CD or if the CD is stolen, you lose the right to any digital copies you may have made.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php
1. If your house gets burgled, you have to delete all your music from your laptop when you get home. That's because the EULA says that your rights to any copies terminate as soon as you no longer possess the original CD.
2. You can't keep your music on any computers at work. The EULA only gives you the right to put copies on a "personal home computer system owned by you."
3. If you move out of the country, you have to delete all your music. The EULA specifically forbids "export" outside the country where you reside.
4. You must install any and all updates, or else lose the music on your computer. The EULA immediately terminates if you fail to install any update. No more holding out on those hobble-ware downgrades masquerading as updates.
5. Sony-BMG can install and use backdoors in the copy protection software or media player to "enforce their rights" against you, at any time, without notice. And Sony-BMG disclaims any liability if this "self help" crashes your computer, exposes you to security risks, or any other harm.
6. The EULA says Sony-BMG will never be liable to you for more than $5.00. That's right, no matter what happens, you can't even get back what you paid for the CD.
7. If you file for bankruptcy, you have to delete all the music on your computer. Seriously.
8. You have no right to transfer the music on your computer, even along with the original CD.
9. Forget about using the music as a soundtrack for your latest family photo slideshow, or mash-ups, or sampling. The EULA forbids changing, altering, or make derivative works from the music on your computer.
Highlander was great!
They made one fantastic movie and then they made a one good series.
Fortunately they never made any sequels or spinoff series from those.
And it was always strange to me how Babylon 5 ended on Season 4, episode 21. No ending but i guess they couldn't think of a good ending so they just stopped it there.
I'm really sorry they are going back to the well for this.
Just because the US did some scummy things (and will do) is no reason to try to conflate two very different terms.
FYI: There is almost no government on the planet that hasn't done scummy things.
We do hold the prize on the nuclear thing. It was a very nasty choice between massive casualties or smaller massive casualties by an enemy sworn to fight to the death killing us. There was no good option and they were unaware of the radiation issues (hell we tested them on our own troops who dropped like flies as after-effects during the 50's and 60's).
We also laid waste to Dresden which included a lot of the categories above. It was pretty evil. At that point both sides were at total war with each other. They were killing our civilians and we were killing theirs. It's ugly and nasty. The islamic terrorists haven't yet convinced us that it is an islamic/non-islamic war. If they ever do, it is going to get really ugly. I hope they never push the west that far because at this time the worst they can do is kill ten or twenty million people before being eradicated.
I'd like to hear your easier cheaper methods. I imagine they include profiling (which I support to some extent because it's just smart). However, I also agree with their arguments that the day we stop randomly inspecting grandmothers is the day the terrorists start using them.
We (a lot of the west- not just the US) have a lot of concepts and laws to try to prevent us from stepping up to total war. They are artificial constraints. If pushed hard enough, the artificial constraints will be set aside. Many other cultures have even less of a barrier to cross than we do.
No like felonies for vandalism and theft because the damage or amount was over $250 and some law hasn't been adjusted for inflation for 50 years.
When these laws were written $250 was half a year's earnings.
Now they are a week's worth of minimum wage.
Many laws are so stupid the police won't even enforce them unless you irritate them or make it impossible for them to ignore.
Sorry dude, but it is true.
l e-hard-copies-and-digital.html [blogspot.com] ...A spokesperson for the Recording Industry Association of America, the group known for filing lawsuits to stop digital-music swapping, pointed me to a document from the Copyright Office to support the idea that you aren't allowed to keep a digital music file once you sell the physical CD...
Here's a link that I could google easily but I remember a story here at slashdot about this as well. This link is not as cut and dried as the slash post that included stolen cd's as well.
http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2005/10/first-sa
I e-mailed a top industry executive, whose assistant contacted me to say my rights to digital music would end when I sell the physical CD. But the executive was apparently wary of expressing that view in public, as his assistant suggested I refer to him as "an unnamed industry source.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/eva luation/privacy/mcevistaprivacy.mspx ...A list of revoked software can be sent to your computer whenever you download a new Program Guide...
Seriously. It was reported here a few months ago.
l e-hard-copies-and-digital.html
Here's a link that I could find easily but I remember a story here at slashdot about this as well.
http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2005/10/first-sa
No.
Freedom fighters fight government military forces.
Terrorists kill 13 year olds, pregnant ladies, old people, and invalids with bombs to make people to scared to oppose them.
One man's freedom fighter is not another man's terrorist. Given a nuclear bomb or a contagion, terrorists would use them.
There is no imagined difference.
Distributing is giving copies of the song to other people.
Downloading is getting a copy of the song for yourself.
The way p2p is designed, when you get a copy, you also give all or part of the song to 20 to 50 other people. (Riaa then invalidly sues you for giving copes to everyone they give copies to also. However, that's double dipping- probably even 100tuble dipping).
Allofmp3 "performs" a unique copy of the song to you. They paid royalties to the russian copyright association. Those royalties are a pittance of what RIAA wants. It's currently legal however.
If it literally was legal then making it illegal later probably doesn't bind you to get rid of things you bought legally.
The problem is the penalty for passive resistance has been raised to extreme levels and you have a very fair chance of having your life ruined.
We put all kinds of people away and make them unemployable for life for things that would not have even been crimes 75 years ago.
There is some truth to that. Contracts really don't have the same force that they do here.
You regularly have things like selling several people exclusive rights to an area and broken contracts and folks just have to suck it up.
The government has not fostered a huge respect for the rule of law there.
Even in this case, allofmp3 is illegal the second that the government wants it to be.
No.
Showtime said, "spin it how you want- you are BREAKING THE LAW"
I've made this point here before. Feel free to break laws you feel are immoral- but do not fool yourself. Fooling yourself is the EASIEST way to getting caught. You start to believe your own bullshit and then you try to use it in court and they nail your ass to the wall.
Argue the semantics however you want but any kind of sharing outside of a fair use copy of your own music or that captured from a source like a radio is breaking the law. You ARE eligible for huge fines so BE CAREFUL- keep a low profile.
Allofmp3 is technically legal- I'm not sure how RIAA is going to try to enforce non-treaty law on a foreign company.
He's not trolling.
He's stating the current law.
You are even *legally* obligated to delete your extra copies of songs if your original is stolen or breaks.
People really need to wake up and get pissed off about these laws.
Right now RIAA and others are being allowed ridiculous copyright terms (really anything over 17 years is probably immoral/unethical since that is the term for a patent; Likewise overvaluing their songs; likewise suing dead people, old people that never owned a computer, etc.).
So far they just keep throwing money and buying laws because no one votes against congressmen who vote for these thugs.
I didn't say they were at war with me.
Business is war.
Ethical and legal barriers are obstacles to be overcome in killing other businesses.
The legal system is a tool to be used to hamper and destroy other businesses while strengthening your own.
I don't think you can see how harsh reality really is.
It doesn't matter if it works now.
They can revoke a program's right to run with Vista.
They may choose not to do so for a few years but the capability is now there.
First they hammer microsoft for almost a billions of dollars in fines.
Then they say it is is required to play the video.
Yes and no.
If a product doesn't support DRM then Vista may not allow it as a valid application (and can in fact remove the ability of applications to run *after* the fact when they are identified as a problem.)
Vista can revoke the rights to your editing software when they find out it allows ripping and the authors don't immediately close the hole.
Until SCO goes away, they may be helping with their pinky but they have millions of dollars spent trying to kill linux.
It really is a war and you are foolish to consider it 'just business.'
the mfg's won't understand of course.
combined with the extremely high incidence of human infection in both developing and developed countries
fits with old "hot blooded" stereo types.
Global warming: agree
Global warming caused by man: do not agree.
Main reason: Global warming on other planets and moons in the solar system points to external cause.
Are we contributing to global warming? Probably a little.
Is it worth the huge cost for the tiny portion we are causing? Not sure at all. Too many prior panics in the past.
Try it with grand marnier in place of triple sec.
If you are diabetic- melt xylotol in the lime juice and don't use sugar.