In other news, Microsoft Sues the RIAA for patent infringement over patent number 1.52^e101 - "Method for lobbying Government to attack competitors". Also, British Telecom's spokesman had this to say "...We welcome this victory for our friends in the RIAA - although other networks may suffer problems implementing the new policy, we are not worried, as we have been virtually stopping our customers from communicating for years..."
Correct... it should only be used to share "academic" material such as Hackers, Traffic, pr0n, Anything with zombies/by Kubrik, And of course the ultimate road-trip movie (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)...
Simple option for your friends - (assuming us law is similar to uk law in this respect, IANAL but have read quite a few law books) get them to gift all their possessions (bar the actual hd/cd's with the pirate stuff on) to their parent/sibling/other... Then fight. Fight to the highest court in the land, and get the laywer (at the highest court) to ask of the judge/another lawyer (preferably the prosecution's barrister) the following "What is the purpose of the law? To defend the majority from the minority, or to defend the minority from the majority?" - A or B. Answer: a - Well, 8 million people download music in the UK alone, yet we are dealing with a group of perhaps 20 or 30 huge record labels - the minority is the prosecution, so just uphold the law (you win), Answer B: Here is one individual being destroyed by a huge number of individual artists - uphold the law and protect him/her (you win), if that fails, get as much anti *AA propaga^H^H^H^H^Hpublicity and wait to lose - then declair yourself bankrupt - they still have to pay their lawyers, plus they don't get their $$$ettlement... so they look bad, and get no money (you win, although you can't become a company director ever again... which sux...) If enough people did this, they'd soon stop suing, as it would be *costing* them money... Just a thought, i'll state again IANAL...
The 6yro would be easily explained - "Glitch, it's the software contractors fault" goes the gov't, "DoD contract, we can't be held liable - gov't's fault" goes the Software house, Poor person gets screwed as per usual...
Not really - a) The west is not that much better if your poor, keep your head down & don't cause trouble & b) What if the unidentified civilian's brother worked for the S. Korean DoD & he'd pinched a bunch of "interesting" files? In all probability it wasn't, but the chance is still there... Which is scary enough for governments to want to do something about it...
Hey, look on the bright side - M$ already control most of the world's machines - this would just be their method of ensuring you adhere to the EULA... (And I really want to play with the security holes - First I'll crack myself into an army, then I'll dDos the other side... Victory is Mine!)
Hmm... The reason IMHO that North Korea still exists and hasn't been flattened by the US is the same reason Taiwan hasn't been flattened by China - it's the protectorate of another superpower (more or less) - USA isn't going to risk war with China, any more than China is going to risk war with the states...
Thanks for the history lesson - Yea, english schools suck as bad as american ones (although, in our defence, we're not exactly proud of losing the war of independance - so it's not exactly as important a date for us to remember as say the battle of Waterloo, or the defeat of the spanish armada). I don't honestly believe any "democracy" is about mob rule... And England certainly isnt a democracy (Think you americans have farcical elections? The government leaving power over here only had the votes of around 16% of the population (40% turnout * 40% of the vote) yet had a 160-ish seat majority... wtf?) Although, in defence of the 90% argument - "...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..." - therefore, if the 90% don't like it, they should be able to change it - "...it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish [the gov't], and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness..." - i think this predates the Bill of Rights? And is held in no small amount of regard by Joe 6-pack? Just a thought.
It's rather unfair to compare genocide with music piracy in that manner... Also, I hate to tell you this, but democracy is 4 (or however many years you work on in whichever democracy you happen to be lucky enough to be in) year mob rule - if that 90% were still adamant about nuking Toronto, the "Lets Nuke Toronto Party" would win the next election hands down (on a simple platform of "We'll drop the bomb then call elections"). Also, Congrats for siding with the gov't over the population - as an English Citizen, can I have 300 years back taxes (as the government should have stopped the Sorry to flame so much but the comparison of music piracy to mass slaughter slightly irritated me... I'm not necissarily saying the mass of the population is always right (e.g. prohibition, Fascist Europe, e.t.c.) but your argument was way too severe. A much better argument would be that the figure of 90% was too high - drop it below 50% and majority law applies...
I doubt America would set up an all out trade blockade with Europe - the risk that China would come down on the side of Europe, crippling the US economy would be too great. Also, worst case scenario -> imagine that trade blockade expands to the level of a cold war - how long would the US last with the EU and china blocking middle eastern oil? And in answer to the fifty million joes - I thought they made their opinion on the rest of the world pretty clear when they re-elected a guy who defied the UN?
Alternatively, try the easy to remember (and very unlikely to brute force - most start with a then aa, then ab and so on if they're doing a raw character search) option: `1234567890-=qwertyuiop[]asdfghjkl;'#\zxcvbnm,./ (or, for those of you still going huh, every key on the keyboard from top left to bottom right - in this case, an IBM R40 Thinkpad.) Of course, this method requires you to always use the same keyboard...
What would be slightly more interesting would be if China closed it's trade with the US overnight. Probable outcome would be world-wide economic collapse (US economy nosedives, dragging the rest of us with it) - after all, just think how much cheap junk is stamped with "Made in China" - can you see McDonalds with no happy meal toys? RPW's (Random Plastic Widgets) not being available to build into computers, cars, e.t.c? There's only one other group that could cause so much hassle by just stopping trade, and thats OPEC.
It's ok, everyone - we don't have to worry about M$ launching mirage wings against *nix servers... They'll get halfway down the runway then the plane'll turn blue (not to mention stopping) and they'll have to restart...
It's not really that hypocritical - GPL violaters generally are not going to be giving/enabling people to get something for free. It's perfectly logical if you come from the standpoint that free stuff is good.
Similar reason means my Lappy's now running Debian - when install time came around, the ability to do everything over wifi (automatically detected I might add) stomped all over the last distro I used (Mandrake 9) with it's 3 CD's of gumpf.
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In other news, Microsoft Sues the RIAA for patent infringement over patent number 1.52^e101 - "Method for lobbying Government to attack competitors".
Also, British Telecom's spokesman had this to say "...We welcome this victory for our friends in the RIAA - although other networks may suffer problems implementing the new policy, we are not worried, as we have been virtually stopping our customers from communicating for years..."
Correct... it should only be used to share "academic" material such as Hackers, Traffic, pr0n, Anything with zombies/by Kubrik, And of course the ultimate road-trip movie (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)...
Simple option for your friends - (assuming us law is similar to uk law in this respect, IANAL but have read quite a few law books) get them to gift all their possessions (bar the actual hd/cd's with the pirate stuff on) to their parent/sibling/other... Then fight. Fight to the highest court in the land, and get the laywer (at the highest court) to ask of the judge/another lawyer (preferably the prosecution's barrister) the following "What is the purpose of the law? To defend the majority from the minority, or to defend the minority from the majority?" - A or B. Answer: a - Well, 8 million people download music in the UK alone, yet we are dealing with a group of perhaps 20 or 30 huge record labels - the minority is the prosecution, so just uphold the law (you win), Answer B: Here is one individual being destroyed by a huge number of individual artists - uphold the law and protect him/her (you win), if that fails, get as much anti *AA propaga^H^H^H^H^Hpublicity and wait to lose - then declair yourself bankrupt - they still have to pay their lawyers, plus they don't get their $$$ettlement... so they look bad, and get no money (you win, although you can't become a company director ever again... which sux...) If enough people did this, they'd soon stop suing, as it would be *costing* them money... Just a thought, i'll state again IANAL...
Especially given the old suitcase nukes the russians "lost" - how many got bought by the NSA for "safe keeping"?
Bad soundbite - the first letters aren't the same.... Maybe AMD Accellerated? AMD Active? AMDazingly Awesome? would be more likely...
Know what you mean - we (Brits) have had that for years... It doesn't get much better... :(
The 6yro would be easily explained - "Glitch, it's the software contractors fault" goes the gov't, "DoD contract, we can't be held liable - gov't's fault" goes the Software house, Poor person gets screwed as per usual...
Not really - a) The west is not that much better if your poor, keep your head down & don't cause trouble & b) What if the unidentified civilian's brother worked for the S. Korean DoD & he'd pinched a bunch of "interesting" files? In all probability it wasn't, but the chance is still there... Which is scary enough for governments to want to do something about it...
Hey, look on the bright side - M$ already control most of the world's machines - this would just be their method of ensuring you adhere to the EULA... (And I really want to play with the security holes - First I'll crack myself into an army, then I'll dDos the other side... Victory is Mine!)
Ahh... that would be the church of the new epo^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H North Koreans and their electric whips then?
Such as the one created by a Nuclear Airburst perhaps? Good think the N. Koreans aren't working on nucl... oh wait...
Hmm... The reason IMHO that North Korea still exists and hasn't been flattened by the US is the same reason Taiwan hasn't been flattened by China - it's the protectorate of another superpower (more or less) - USA isn't going to risk war with China, any more than China is going to risk war with the states...
Which is why noone ever asks the question - which key breaks first on a keyboard...
You s/****/$expletive/ I'd just about forgotten about Dune2... *wanders off to find a copy*
Even better - persuade all music ever released to carry a little black and white warning label saying "Parental Advisory - Listening prohibited" :)
Thanks for the history lesson - Yea, english schools suck as bad as american ones (although, in our defence, we're not exactly proud of losing the war of independance - so it's not exactly as important a date for us to remember as say the battle of Waterloo, or the defeat of the spanish armada).
I don't honestly believe any "democracy" is about mob rule... And England certainly isnt a democracy (Think you americans have farcical elections? The government leaving power over here only had the votes of around 16% of the population (40% turnout * 40% of the vote) yet had a 160-ish seat majority... wtf?)
Although, in defence of the 90% argument - "...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..." - therefore, if the 90% don't like it, they should be able to change it - "...it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish [the gov't], and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness..." - i think this predates the Bill of Rights? And is held in no small amount of regard by Joe 6-pack? Just a thought.
It's rather unfair to compare genocide with music piracy in that manner... Also, I hate to tell you this, but democracy is 4 (or however many years you work on in whichever democracy you happen to be lucky enough to be in) year mob rule - if that 90% were still adamant about nuking Toronto, the "Lets Nuke Toronto Party" would win the next election hands down (on a simple platform of "We'll drop the bomb then call elections"). Also, Congrats for siding with the gov't over the population - as an English Citizen, can I have 300 years back taxes (as the government should have stopped the Sorry to flame so much but the comparison of music piracy to mass slaughter slightly irritated me... I'm not necissarily saying the mass of the population is always right (e.g. prohibition, Fascist Europe, e.t.c.) but your argument was way too severe. A much better argument would be that the figure of 90% was too high - drop it below 50% and majority law applies...
I doubt America would set up an all out trade blockade with Europe - the risk that China would come down on the side of Europe, crippling the US economy would be too great. Also, worst case scenario -> imagine that trade blockade expands to the level of a cold war - how long would the US last with the EU and china blocking middle eastern oil? And in answer to the fifty million joes - I thought they made their opinion on the rest of the world pretty clear when they re-elected a guy who defied the UN?
Alternatively, try the easy to remember (and very unlikely to brute force - most start with a then aa, then ab and so on if they're doing a raw character search) option: `1234567890-=qwertyuiop[]asdfghjkl;'#\zxcvbnm,./ (or, for those of you still going huh, every key on the keyboard from top left to bottom right - in this case, an IBM R40 Thinkpad.) Of course, this method requires you to always use the same keyboard...
What would be slightly more interesting would be if China closed it's trade with the US overnight. Probable outcome would be world-wide economic collapse (US economy nosedives, dragging the rest of us with it) - after all, just think how much cheap junk is stamped with "Made in China" - can you see McDonalds with no happy meal toys? RPW's (Random Plastic Widgets) not being available to build into computers, cars, e.t.c? There's only one other group that could cause so much hassle by just stopping trade, and thats OPEC.
It's ok, everyone - we don't have to worry about M$ launching mirage wings against *nix servers... They'll get halfway down the runway then the plane'll turn blue (not to mention stopping) and they'll have to restart...
I'd rather like one of these the battery life is increadable... or woo shiny - IT MUST BE MINE, either way, i want one.
It's not really that hypocritical - GPL violaters generally are not going to be giving/enabling people to get something for free. It's perfectly logical if you come from the standpoint that free stuff is good.
Well, check me sig...
Then of course there's Knuth's "The Art of Programming" - not "The Science of Programming"...
Similar reason means my Lappy's now running Debian - when install time came around, the ability to do everything over wifi (automatically detected I might add) stomped all over the last distro I used (Mandrake 9) with it's 3 CD's of gumpf.