IMHO This seems to me to be one of those 'I need to do something to make it look like I do something' type of moves. You see this here alot on the local level. When it comes close to election time politicians will start scrambling to attach themselves to an issue and pass a law that generally means nothing and changes even less. This way when questioned about what they did they can spin it. This one can be spinned as "He pioneered a law that gave parents the tools to prevent violent entertainment from getting into the hands of their children" While opponents can spin it as "He opposed a law that limited free expression in the entertainment industry"
All in all politicians in general care more about how much spin mileage that they can get out of a law at election time then what the effect it will have on the constituents.
Although I think what Lori did was irresponsible and appalling. Charging her with a 'hacking' crime for what she did would be like charging a parent with neglect because they took no interest in their 13 year old's life to know that they where on the verge of suicide or abuse because they knew she was and didn't find her the help that she needed.
On one is innocent in this case except for the poor girl who thought her only choice was to take her own life.
I can see this being more useful in Europe then in North America where people generally are more spread out and therefore have to drive further to get anywhere. Until an alternate energy vehicle can use it's non-petroleum motor for speeds over 65mph, for over 100 miles it's of very limited use most people in my area (SW, Pennsylvania) where the a lot of residents travel up to 60 highway miles one way just to get to work. With the amount of steep hills in this area I'd be driving on the gas engine almost exclusively anyhow. This is why Hybrids are having such a hard time entering the market in this area. If I'm only using the electric/air/whatever motor to pull out of my driveway and get me to the main stretch it's not really doing me any good.
So who is up next in this game of Techno-Monopoly that we are playing today? Apple to buy Red Hat? Microsoft purchases Mozilla? And who is the race car?
...That the idiot at the checkout line at Walmart checks my ID (an ovbious 30+er) to buy a T or M rated title, where a bartender does not to serve me a drink.
Now that's screwed up.
In a related note...
I'm planning to start charging Bell South for every packet of cell phone traffic that passes over my house. After all I work hard keeping those troublesome flocks of birds that could degrade their service out of the airspace, and don't even get me started on what aluminum foil hats are running me a month to keep those nasty green little aliens away. And if they don't pay I'm going to erect large CB aerials on my roof designed to block all radio waves flying overhead.
After all Wi-Fi is tomorrow's dry cleaning service, and I should reap as much of the profit as anyone, and if you don't believe all of this then the terrorists have already won.
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if anything holds true, Facebook too will jump the shark one day.
It already has, it's just the rest of the nation hasn't noticed yet.
personally I'm waiting for the model with rocket boosters in the heals and allows me the ability to shoot plasma bolts from my hands.
IMHO This seems to me to be one of those 'I need to do something to make it look like I do something' type of moves. You see this here alot on the local level. When it comes close to election time politicians will start scrambling to attach themselves to an issue and pass a law that generally means nothing and changes even less. This way when questioned about what they did they can spin it. This one can be spinned as "He pioneered a law that gave parents the tools to prevent violent entertainment from getting into the hands of their children" While opponents can spin it as "He opposed a law that limited free expression in the entertainment industry"
All in all politicians in general care more about how much spin mileage that they can get out of a law at election time then what the effect it will have on the constituents.
Although I think what Lori did was irresponsible and appalling. Charging her with a 'hacking' crime for what she did would be like charging a parent with neglect because they took no interest in their 13 year old's life to know that they where on the verge of suicide or abuse because they knew she was and didn't find her the help that she needed. On one is innocent in this case except for the poor girl who thought her only choice was to take her own life.
I can see this being more useful in Europe then in North America where people generally are more spread out and therefore have to drive further to get anywhere. Until an alternate energy vehicle can use it's non-petroleum motor for speeds over 65mph, for over 100 miles it's of very limited use most people in my area (SW, Pennsylvania) where the a lot of residents travel up to 60 highway miles one way just to get to work. With the amount of steep hills in this area I'd be driving on the gas engine almost exclusively anyhow. This is why Hybrids are having such a hard time entering the market in this area. If I'm only using the electric/air/whatever motor to pull out of my driveway and get me to the main stretch it's not really doing me any good.
Now if they could export the 'puppet show' out to a bvh file that would be awesome.
So who is up next in this game of Techno-Monopoly that we are playing today? Apple to buy Red Hat? Microsoft purchases Mozilla? And who is the race car?
...That the idiot at the checkout line at Walmart checks my ID (an ovbious 30+er) to buy a T or M rated title, where a bartender does not to serve me a drink. Now that's screwed up.
In a related note... I'm planning to start charging Bell South for every packet of cell phone traffic that passes over my house. After all I work hard keeping those troublesome flocks of birds that could degrade their service out of the airspace, and don't even get me started on what aluminum foil hats are running me a month to keep those nasty green little aliens away. And if they don't pay I'm going to erect large CB aerials on my roof designed to block all radio waves flying overhead. After all Wi-Fi is tomorrow's dry cleaning service, and I should reap as much of the profit as anyone, and if you don't believe all of this then the terrorists have already won.