First Degree Murder (pre-mediated murder, or a murder committed while in the process of committing another felony) - pretty much garuntees life in prison, or death.
anything else is (generally) between ten and twenty years
Plus, during a home invasion, you have a higher chance of you or a family member getting shot in cross-fire, or due to an assailant obtaining one of the many weapons from its storage location or an overpowered family member.
I know making shit up is like a passtime on/. - but seriously, try harder.
It's not the artists that are suffering, it's not the executives, it's the hundreds of thousands of people employed in the industry that make a living out of it. Y'know, the ones who'll be out of a job when the industry collapses?
The normalization is going further and further up the scale, so that someone who had a 100 IQ based on a test 20 years ago might only have a 95 or so IQ if they tested today.
It was in question, and brought up before a court - now the court decision explicitly makes Cacheing legal. When someone uses language like the gp did in reference to the American legal system, they're generally referring to a court ruling, not a law.
No such court decision exists for Torrent files, to the best of my knowledge.
Anyone else realize he's just madlibbing violence (and violence-related adjectives) to existing legislation defining pornography and restricting its sale to minors?
I think the goal here for this guy is to get violent Video games cordoned off to an "Adults only" section of gaming stores. It makes a certain amount of sense - I mean, how many people here have pointed out the hypocrisy of allowing graphic decapitation in Games, but absolutely no nudity?
Most people probably wanted to mean that to get rid of censoring nudity, but good Ole' Jack has taken that thinking to his own logical conclusion.
Collusion laws are usually worded so they apply to any group working togather without the consumer's knowledge to manipulate the market for their gain. It often takes the form of keeping prices artificially high, but doesn't necessarily have to.
1. You're way off base on voice transmission; working with (incredibly outdated) military Comm equipment, I can push 70+ Digital voice channels through a 4 Mb\s line - I'm certain commercial VoIP is even more efficient than that.
It's all because Phones don't need mp3 quality.
2. ISPs are already getting paid to provide bandwidth. On a two-tiered internet model, implemented immediately, the second-tier will have noticibly poorer performance, leading to a loss of customers and revenue for organizations unable or unwilling to pay for "premium" service. This is, essentially, extortion.
3. I agree with you on the written content bit not being affected, as blogs are still perfectly surfable at 56K (which is where I see the 2nd tier internet being comparable to) - and the whole "Freedom of Speech" issue is irrelevant anyways - Private corporations aren't bound by the Constitution, Congress is.
The only angle I can see here is, by raising the cost for new players to enter the internet market, a Tiered internet might be encouraging monopolies or something - but that's a whole different discussion.
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First Degree Murder (pre-mediated murder, or a murder committed while in the process of committing another felony) - pretty much garuntees life in prison, or death.
anything else is (generally) between ten and twenty years
RTFA
People are currently confusing the two.
Not a lawyer, but from TFA, it seems they, legally, utube a pretty damn good case.
They've got dibs on the name, and the choice of name is indeed leading to confusion between customers which is costing utube money.
Plus, during a home invasion, you have a higher chance of you or a family member getting shot in cross-fire, or due to an assailant obtaining one of the many weapons from its storage location or an overpowered family member.
/. - but seriously, try harder.
I know making shit up is like a passtime on
Eh?
Rocket Surgeons are the new Slashdot memes, like welcomming overlords, and Beowulf clusters.
Pah, this is linguistics. It's not like we're rocket surgeons or something.
alright, I was gonna do a *WHOOSH* - but I guess that was pretty subtle, even by /. standards.
the phrase "Unnecessarily redundant" is intentionally redundant, to provide irony.
the combination of "Either way" and "anyway" are unnecessarily redundant.
Pretty easy to do actually.
It's not like it's Rocket Surgery.
Air Force Comm guy here - and I've got to say, Communications Security procedures are pretty much the most rigidly enforced part of our job.
If only I had mod points right now..
And they had "+1 Pwned" as a category.
I suppose it would fall under equal parts insightful, informative, and funny, with a dash of troll mixed in for flavor.
the actual article specifies prison - He also got three years of supervised release.
*Sigh*
You don't get it, do you?
It's not the artists that are suffering, it's not the executives, it's the hundreds of thousands of people employed in the industry that make a living out of it. Y'know, the ones who'll be out of a job when the industry collapses?
I absolutely love how you can understand corporate embezzlement leads to workers at a plant losing their jobs when the plant closes..
And yet, your only focus is at the top when it comes to the music industry. Get a clue.
The normalization is going further and further up the scale, so that someone who had a 100 IQ based on a test 20 years ago might only have a 95 or so IQ if they tested today.
I've always thought it would be a wonderful plot for something along the lines of The Twilight Zone or The outer Limits.
They say that a lot, but really, you'll only get in trouble if you're doing something blatantly illegal under orders.
If it's just, say, something stupid, "I was just following orders" is a perfectly valid excuse.
Not Quite there ...Yet
I thought it prudent to point out here that I am in fact moderating slashdot, while drunk, and listening to an iPod
Plus, it is US students, so beer is still illegal until 21.
*Snickers*
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/26/google_cache_ is_lega.html
It was in question, and brought up before a court - now the court decision explicitly makes Cacheing legal. When someone uses language like the gp did in reference to the American legal system, they're generally referring to a court ruling, not a law.
No such court decision exists for Torrent files, to the best of my knowledge.
Anyone else realize he's just madlibbing violence (and violence-related adjectives) to existing legislation defining pornography and restricting its sale to minors?
I think the goal here for this guy is to get violent Video games cordoned off to an "Adults only" section of gaming stores. It makes a certain amount of sense - I mean, how many people here have pointed out the hypocrisy of allowing graphic decapitation in Games, but absolutely no nudity?
Most people probably wanted to mean that to get rid of censoring nudity, but good Ole' Jack has taken that thinking to his own logical conclusion.
Collusion laws are usually worded so they apply to any group working togather without the consumer's knowledge to manipulate the market for their gain. It often takes the form of keeping prices artificially high, but doesn't necessarily have to.
1. You're way off base on voice transmission; working with (incredibly outdated) military Comm equipment, I can push 70+ Digital voice channels through a 4 Mb\s line - I'm certain commercial VoIP is even more efficient than that.
It's all because Phones don't need mp3 quality.
2. ISPs are already getting paid to provide bandwidth. On a two-tiered internet model, implemented immediately, the second-tier will have noticibly poorer performance, leading to a loss of customers and revenue for organizations unable or unwilling to pay for "premium" service. This is, essentially, extortion.
3. I agree with you on the written content bit not being affected, as blogs are still perfectly surfable at 56K (which is where I see the 2nd tier internet being comparable to) - and the whole "Freedom of Speech" issue is irrelevant anyways - Private corporations aren't bound by the Constitution, Congress is.
The only angle I can see here is, by raising the cost for new players to enter the internet market, a Tiered internet might be encouraging monopolies or something - but that's a whole different discussion.
are you just madlibbing a bunch of stock advertisement phrases every time you post, or what?
I mean, seriously, defending your product is one thing, but posting the same advertisement to everyone in a thread is just crossing the line.