A seriously heavy-handed comparison, but I can't resist posting this quote from Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. Ever wonder why Andy was allowed to keep posters in his cell given how religious the Warden was?
The prison administration knows about the black market, in case you were wondering. Sure they do. They probably know as much about my business as I do myself. They live with it because they know that a prison is like a big pressure cooker, and there have to be vents somewhere to let off steam. They make the occasional bust, and I've done time in solitary a time or three over the years, but when it's something like posters, they wink. Live and let live. And when a big Rita Hayworth went up in some fishie's cell, the assumption was that it came in the mail from a friend or a relative. Of course all the care-packages from friends and relatives are opened and the contents inventoried, but who goes back and re-checks the inventory sheets for something as harmless as a Rita Hayworth or an Ava Gardner pin-up? When you're in a pressure-cooker you learn to live and let live or somebody will carve you a brand-new mouth just above the Adam's apple. You learn to make allowances.
Same goes here. Bad employee morale is definitely bad for business, because it's across the board. The guy who spends all day browing google video will eventually get discovered when his productivity tanks. It's not worth it to make everyone else in the company unhappy.
But only customers? What about all these mega-companies that banks hire to do their clerical work? Technically, we're not their customers, so they'll obviously try to claim that.
Sorry, Mario, but our legal solution is in another castle!
Dagnabbit, don't you see! If we let the young'ins get away with this, the next thing we know they'll have hover-majigs and whatchama-copter and we'll never get them off the damn lawn!
At the risk of being redundant (for both your comment and the many stories about this trend), your arguement can be concised to "Correlation does not imply causality."
In other words, it's equally as valid to say that there is another explanation that causes both playing violent video games AND committing violent actions as the idea that one causes the other.
And your manager was okay with you turning down sales for him?
Just saying, I mean... Everyone I know who works in a store knows it's a better deal to sell cigarettes and porn to minors, since they'll easily make more money than the occasional fine. Having a moral conscience really isn't good for business.
When I was a kid, I went to my dad's office and he had some sort of digital media drive where you put the CD in a bulky plastic cartidge, and slide the whole cartidge into the PC. Those things stayed in better shape than most of my 3 1/2 floppys.
I would want a minidisc over a cd because it's far mre durable.
But isn't that only true because it's shorter? I guess the physics principle is torque, but of course a CD is more prone to bending/cracking because forces leveraged further from the center put more stress on the middle of the disc.
Well, it's been going on since at least the 1800s, so probably not soon. Eli Whitney actually lost money inventing the cotton gin because he had to bring so many people to court for violating his patent. An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.
Because there are enough people that Don't Like Porn that somewhere in the judicial process you'll get assigned Judge Michael Holywater and that'll be the end of your case.
More realistically, most porn webmasters are probably sensible people and not the mindless horde running the music/movie corporations. They may realize that a large part of the population can't/won't buy pornography and that it doesn't hurt their business model in the slighest for these people to get the product for free.
.why should anyone wait for a few hours for a download when it's just as quick to get the actual DVD?
Exactly. Even with cable internet on a popular torrent, you're still looking to at least an hour for a 1.4GB compressed copy, even longer if this service uses full 4.6GB uncompressed. I can go outside, wait for and take the bus, buy a hard copy, and get home all before this is done. Or just pick it up on the way home from work.
Amazing! Not only can they transfer movies automagically over copper wires directly into my home, but the cables apparently create an inverse tachyon beam that brings movies in from the future!
Doesn't it work that way with pretty much every other animal on the planet? Let 'em all fight for the prize, and the winner must obviously have the best genes to pass on.
Voting -- A toddler won't much care about politics. An 8-year old can make a reasonably informed decision, assuming the parent isn't standing behind them telling which lever to push (which is already illegal)
Driving -- Can't physically accomplish this.
Using drugs -- Kids don't like needles or coughing. This won't be a huge issue, and you can always charge the parents with neglect if for some crazy reason they get the kids addicted for shits and giggles.
Buying Property (such as houses and cars) - They lack the ability to do this
Shooting guns - Children can already do this. Go google the video of the car shoots out in the midwest
Suing - They don't have the comprehension to fill out a legal form
working - Why not? They have paper routes. If you mean "working in coal mines", we already have laws to address this.
Entering Into Contracts - Already covered by fraud laws if the contract is unjust
Living By Themselves - Without a job, they are incapable of this
Getting Married - girls have cooties
Yes, there are extreme examples, but come on. Kids don't even want to read the paper, much less vote or sue.
Come on, surely you must see that we must, *must* treat children differently in every way than adults. Socially, legally, morally, any way you can name. We must do this because they really are fundamentally different from adults, and to treat them the same is bad in so many ways - stupid, unethical, impractical... Maybe you're trolling. I have a hard time beleiving you actually think children should be treated the same as adults.
I really don't think it's that outrageous of a position. I'll give an example you're probably thinking of -- "Can a six-year old be charged with murder as an adult." See, the legal system has already anticipated this. You're not guilty of a crime unless you a) committed it (actus reus) and b) meant to (mens rea). In this case, a very young child would probably not connect their action with causing the result it did.
I'd be interested if you could provide a scenario where I'd have to admit that my position is unsound, though.
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A seriously heavy-handed comparison, but I can't resist posting this quote from Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. Ever wonder why Andy was allowed to keep posters in his cell given how religious the Warden was?
The prison administration knows about the black market, in case you were wondering. Sure they do. They probably know as much about my business as I do myself. They live with it because they know that a prison is like a big pressure cooker, and there have to be vents somewhere to let off steam. They make the occasional bust, and I've done time in solitary a time or three over the years, but when it's something like posters, they wink. Live and let live. And when a big Rita Hayworth went up in some fishie's cell, the assumption was that it came in the mail from a friend or a relative. Of course all the care-packages from friends and relatives are opened and the contents inventoried, but who goes back and re-checks the inventory sheets for something as harmless as a Rita Hayworth or an Ava Gardner pin-up? When you're in a pressure-cooker you learn to live and let live or somebody will carve you a brand-new mouth just above the Adam's apple. You learn to make allowances.
Same goes here. Bad employee morale is definitely bad for business, because it's across the board. The guy who spends all day browing google video will eventually get discovered when his productivity tanks. It's not worth it to make everyone else in the company unhappy.
But only customers? What about all these mega-companies that banks hire to do their clerical work? Technically, we're not their customers, so they'll obviously try to claim that.
Sorry, Mario, but our legal solution is in another castle!
Dagnabbit, don't you see! If we let the young'ins get away with this, the next thing we know they'll have hover-majigs and whatchama-copter and we'll never get them off the damn lawn!
At the risk of being redundant (for both your comment and the many stories about this trend), your arguement can be concised to "Correlation does not imply causality."
In other words, it's equally as valid to say that there is another explanation that causes both playing violent video games AND committing violent actions as the idea that one causes the other.
And your manager was okay with you turning down sales for him?
Just saying, I mean... Everyone I know who works in a store knows it's a better deal to sell cigarettes and porn to minors, since they'll easily make more money than the occasional fine. Having a moral conscience really isn't good for business.
Here's to more "activist judges" like this guy.
Though it's a shame when a judge pointing out that that the government has just passed an illegal law is declared a "victory."
Why aren't regular CDs and DVDs like this again?
When I was a kid, I went to my dad's office and he had some sort of digital media drive where you put the CD in a bulky plastic cartidge, and slide the whole cartidge into the PC. Those things stayed in better shape than most of my 3 1/2 floppys.
I would want a minidisc over a cd because it's far mre durable.
But isn't that only true because it's shorter? I guess the physics principle is torque, but of course a CD is more prone to bending/cracking because forces leveraged further from the center put more stress on the middle of the disc.
Because it is full of internets: (http://studentpages.scad.edu/~tfarre20/email_cart oon.mpg)
Hell, is it even useful to generate 10,000 different leads?
1) Sift through email
2) Collect "criminals" (any that apply, not just ter'ists)
3) Profit
Major League Baseball disagrees with your assessment of law.
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(see: http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/141728
When will this end?
Well, it's been going on since at least the 1800s, so probably not soon. Eli Whitney actually lost money inventing the cotton gin because he had to bring so many people to court for violating his patent. An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.
+1 (Truthful)
War on drugs, war on terror, war on downloading -- it's just a boot, stomping on the face of humanity. Forever.
so why not the porno copyright holders?
Because there are enough people that Don't Like Porn that somewhere in the judicial process you'll get assigned Judge Michael Holywater and that'll be the end of your case.
More realistically, most porn webmasters are probably sensible people and not the mindless horde running the music/movie corporations. They may realize that a large part of the population can't/won't buy pornography and that it doesn't hurt their business model in the slighest for these people to get the product for free.
If by "gets re-elected" you mean "dissolves the senate permanently," then yes. The last remnants of the old republic have been swept away.
If you're not with the Christian Death Squads, you're with the enemy.
Libraries can reproduce (copy) at most one instance of a copyrighted book
Yeah, that one-copy thing worked real well for the archivists at the Library of Alexandria.
if they were let out of the DRM jail...
That'd be awesome. If it was like manhunt and you could just run into Wal-Mart and tag all the DVDs to set them free...
.why should anyone wait for a few hours for a download when it's just as quick to get the actual DVD?
Exactly. Even with cable internet on a popular torrent, you're still looking to at least an hour for a 1.4GB compressed copy, even longer if this service uses full 4.6GB uncompressed. I can go outside, wait for and take the bus, buy a hard copy, and get home all before this is done. Or just pick it up on the way home from work.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Amazing! Not only can they transfer movies automagically over copper wires directly into my home, but the cables apparently create an inverse tachyon beam that brings movies in from the future!
Mean mods :(
Heck, this was the only funny one!
Doesn't it work that way with pretty much every other animal on the planet? Let 'em all fight for the prize, and the winner must obviously have the best genes to pass on.
Voting -- A toddler won't much care about politics. An 8-year old can make a reasonably informed decision, assuming the parent isn't standing behind them telling which lever to push (which is already illegal)
Driving -- Can't physically accomplish this. Using drugs -- Kids don't like needles or coughing. This won't be a huge issue, and you can always charge the parents with neglect if for some crazy reason they get the kids addicted for shits and giggles.
Buying Property (such as houses and cars) - They lack the ability to do this
Shooting guns - Children can already do this. Go google the video of the car shoots out in the midwest
Suing - They don't have the comprehension to fill out a legal form
working - Why not? They have paper routes. If you mean "working in coal mines", we already have laws to address this.
Entering Into Contracts - Already covered by fraud laws if the contract is unjust
Living By Themselves - Without a job, they are incapable of this
Getting Married - girls have cooties
Yes, there are extreme examples, but come on. Kids don't even want to read the paper, much less vote or sue.
Come on, surely you must see that we must, *must* treat children differently in every way than adults. Socially, legally, morally, any way you can name. We must do this because they really are fundamentally different from adults, and to treat them the same is bad in so many ways - stupid, unethical, impractical... Maybe you're trolling. I have a hard time beleiving you actually think children should be treated the same as adults.
I really don't think it's that outrageous of a position. I'll give an example you're probably thinking of -- "Can a six-year old be charged with murder as an adult." See, the legal system has already anticipated this. You're not guilty of a crime unless you a) committed it (actus reus) and b) meant to (mens rea). In this case, a very young child would probably not connect their action with causing the result it did.
I'd be interested if you could provide a scenario where I'd have to admit that my position is unsound, though.
Actively preventing X is not the same as refusing to help X
However, that hasn't stopped anyone from calling for Moussaoui's head