You've bought into their lies. What if you were a popular author who wanted to set out to prove that people wouldn't pay for books if they could get them online for free and promised that he would put his next book online, chapter by chapter, until people stopped paying.
Here's what happened: people didn't stop paying. However, the author stioo stopped writing the book. Who is wrong here? I was most amazed that people who had actually paid the asshat defended his actions. If I'd paid for some of those chapters I'd have demanded my money back.
No well known creative person ever went bankrupt or had to go into a different line of work because his or her works were copied or dissiminated. Many had to stop creating for lack of publicity, however.
If "free music" hurts artists, why do they allow it to be played on the radio?
They are an organization that represents the music recording companies, all od which are multinational corporations like Sony with offices all over the world. I'm sure all the record companies have offices in the UK.
Anyone know anything more about who is doing RIAA's dirty work? Aren't we doing it? We're parrotting their *evil ways* around, keeping them in the media.
Whoever said "money doesn't grow on trees" never owned an orchard. Whoever said "there's no such thing as a free lunch" never had a grandma. Whoever said "the way to a man's heart is through his stomach" was obviously a virgin woman.
Whoever said "there's no such thing as bad publicity" never owned a restaraunt that was in the newspaper because their samonella-poisoned food killed children.
The RIAA is just plain evil and people need to know the evil they do. They will not gain from negative publicity. Would you have kept Sony's rootkit secret so they didn't get the free publicity?
Upkeep on the Governor's mansion the Governor refuses to live in despite the Illinois Constitution
Department of Homeland Security
PATRIOT act and its enforcement
DMCA and its enforcement
ATF
And so on. I note with amusement that the ever-changing quote at the bottom of the page here says "The state law of Pennsylvania prohibits singing in the bathtub". Your tax dollars at work. Or as a couple of slashdotters' sigs note, "oh look, my tax dollars at work coming to arrest me!"
I would like to know what the FBI considers "illegal".
If it's against the law in any US jurisdiction they consider it illegal, and if it involves the mail, telephones, the internet, or crossing state lines they deem it their business. What is illegal? Drugs, gambling, prostitution, owning a firearm in Chicago or Washington DC...
Ok, this may be barely on topic (and I've had more on-topic posts than this one modded "offtopic") but the summary describes David Litchfield as a "super-genius". Neither the dictionary nor Wikipedia has entries on "super-genius". Well actually wikipedia does have it listed (linked) but it describes "a flash cartoon flash game flash animation web portal channel and studio" and a rock and roll band.
The wikipedia entry on IQ does not contain the word "genius", let alone "super-genius".
So if someone (preferably the super-genius who wrote the summary) can tell me what a "super-genius" is, I'd appreciate it. Actually I'd appreciate it more if submitters and editors wouldn't use jargon that I'm unfamiliar with and can find neither in the dictionary nor wikipedia.
I don't for one minute think that the NSA can't crack any encryption you or I can get our hands on. They have some REALLY BIG computers, and armies of math PhDs, codebreakers, and the like.
Imagine what J. Edgar Hoover would have done with this ability. How about Richard Nixon; breaking into the DNC to gather information got him in trouble - if he could have accomplished the same thing with a wiretap or two do you think he'd have hesitated?
King had a mutually antagonistic relationship with the FBI, especially its director, J. Edgar Hoover. Under written directives from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (at Hoover's initiation), the FBI began tracking King and the SCLC in 1961. Its investigations were largely superficial until 1962, when it learned that one of King's most trusted advisers was New York City lawyer Stanley Levison. The FBI found that Levison had been involved with the Communist Party USA. Another key King lieutenant, Hunter Pitts O'Dell, was also linked to the Communist Party by sworn testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). The Bureau placed wiretaps on Levison's and King's home and office phones, and bugged King's rooms in hotels as he traveled across the country. The Bureau also informed Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy, both of whom unsuccessfully tried to persuade King to dissociate himself from Levison. For his part, King adamantly denied having any connections to Communism, stating in a 1965 Playboy interview[47] that "there are as many Communists in this freedom movement as there are Eskimos in Florida"; to which Hoover responded by calling King "the most notorious liar in the country."
There is more in the linked article.
Be afraid. The terrorists have won, and they occupy the white house, the courts, every police agency, and both houses of Congress.
You should see the flak I get for daring to suggest that the US is a police state (hint: if you have a "secret police" it's a police state whether you call them "plainclothesmen", "undercover agents", "Gestapo", "SS", or "a rose by any other name") or that you lost your Constitutional rights long ago.
Maybe not so ironically a lot of the flak I get is slashdot comments by police officers who vainly try to defend their bosses' illegal orders to trash my rights, and their blindly following thoise illegal orders. Nobody polices the police.
a) Democracy: anyone can suggest a law, and there must be a majority vote of the people to pass that law. b) Republican Democracy (or democratic republic): You vote for the people who pass the laws C) Plutocracy: The laws are sold to the highest bidder.
Guess which one the US is? Hint: It ain't a or b, and Microsoft beat the rap.
EXACTLY. Let them read my nonsensical jibba-jabba.. there are damn near unbeatable encryption algorithms that exist today.
My attitude is, if you're not smart enough to encrypt your sensitive data, then you've got it coming. It seems that the US bounces back and forth between a nanny-state and the big-brother state. People, you have to take care of your own, you simply can't trust ISP's, routers, google, the girl that swipes your visa at the corner station, etc etc etc.
Well, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans care about your rights and liberties, and the corporate media are going to continue to brainwash the public into thinking a vote for a Green or Libertarian is wasted, even though my opinion is that a vote for a Republican or Democrat is a vote for someone who wants me in jail, which is worse than a wasted vote.
When I vote, I'm aware that I tilt at windmills, but if I don't I can't see where I have much of a right to bicth about it.
As long as the corporates rule, plutocracy will reign and "freedom" will be meaningless.
No need to kill you, after a little waterboarding or strapping you to a gurney with your head bolted down, or holding a metal probe supercooled with liquid nitrogen to your eyeball (I've experienced both of these as described in the linked journal) you'll tell them any damned thing they want to know.
And I'm sure there are worse things they can do to you. A lot worse than killing you; you're going to die some day anyway, but they won't get or need your encryption key after you're dead.
You talk like a brave man. But my money says they wouldn't even need a waterboard to get you to cough up anything they wanted.
You care about voting machines? So front the cash to your local election commission
I do. every time I buy something I pay state and local sales tax. Every time I earn a paycheck I pay income tax. Every time I buy beer I pay an excise tax.
I'm paying for the ATMs, too. The bank gets its money from me when it charges me fees and invests my checking account money for their profit.
I expect my elected officials to do their damned jobs without my nagging. It's their responsibility under the state constitution to ensure a secure vote.
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I'm a formar art student. One of my professors was fond of saying "I don't know what I like, but I know what art is".
Just because you don't understand calculus doen't mean that calculus isn't math.
It's been said "be silent and be though a fool, or speak and remove all doubt".
This is art, in the way that photography is art.
Photography IS art. Your photography is NOT art.
"Nanomicroscopic" is redundant. "Nano" means "nanometer", one BILLIONTH of a meter. If it's nano it's microscopic.
So mod TFA down!
You've bought into their lies. What if you were a popular author who wanted to set out to prove that people wouldn't pay for books if they could get them online for free and promised that he would put his next book online, chapter by chapter, until people stopped paying.
Here's what happened: people didn't stop paying. However, the author stioo stopped writing the book. Who is wrong here? I was most amazed that people who had actually paid the asshat defended his actions. If I'd paid for some of those chapters I'd have demanded my money back.
No well known creative person ever went bankrupt or had to go into a different line of work because his or her works were copied or dissiminated. Many had to stop creating for lack of publicity, however.
If "free music" hurts artists, why do they allow it to be played on the radio?
Pat Robertson runs the RIAA? Well that would explain a lot of things, you may be right.
If they were a UK company
They are an organization that represents the music recording companies, all od which are multinational corporations like Sony with offices all over the world. I'm sure all the record companies have offices in the UK.
Anyone know anything more about who is doing RIAA's dirty work?
Aren't we doing it? We're parrotting their *evil ways* around, keeping them in the media.
Whoever said "money doesn't grow on trees" never owned an orchard. Whoever said "there's no such thing as a free lunch" never had a grandma. Whoever said "the way to a man's heart is through his stomach" was obviously a virgin woman.
Whoever said "there's no such thing as bad publicity" never owned a restaraunt that was in the newspaper because their samonella-poisoned food killed children.
The RIAA is just plain evil and people need to know the evil they do. They will not gain from negative publicity. Would you have kept Sony's rootkit secret so they didn't get the free publicity?
a little bit of exaggeration to add some spice
Exaggeration and spice belong in entertainment, not news. News should be factual and concise.
to what would otherwise be a fairly boring news piece.
If it's too boring to read it's too boring to post. However, the submitter (IINM) commented with a link.
violent pedophile sex offender puppy killer watch list
Oh look, a picture!
But I CAN do without them. Things I can do without:
- marijuana laws and their enforcement
- prostitution laws and their enforcement
- gambling laws and their enforcement
- airport "security"
- courtroom metal detectors
- metal detectors where I have to go for license plates
- "no smoking in bars and casinos" laws and their enforcement
- Airplanes to fly Milorad Blagojevich from Chicago to Springfield and back
- Upkeep on the Governor's mansion the Governor refuses to live in despite the Illinois Constitution
- Department of Homeland Security
- PATRIOT act and its enforcement
- DMCA and its enforcement
- ATF
And so on. I note with amusement that the ever-changing quote at the bottom of the page here says "The state law of Pennsylvania prohibits singing in the bathtub". Your tax dollars at work. Or as a couple of slashdotters' sigs note, "oh look, my tax dollars at work coming to arrest me!"I would like to know what the FBI considers "illegal".
If it's against the law in any US jurisdiction they consider it illegal, and if it involves the mail, telephones, the internet, or crossing state lines they deem it their business. What is illegal? Drugs, gambling, prostitution, owning a firearm in Chicago or Washington DC...
Ok, this may be barely on topic (and I've had more on-topic posts than this one modded "offtopic") but the summary describes David Litchfield as a "super-genius". Neither the dictionary nor Wikipedia has entries on "super-genius". Well actually wikipedia does have it listed (linked) but it describes "a flash cartoon flash game flash animation web portal channel and studio" and a rock and roll band.
The wikipedia entry on IQ does not contain the word "genius", let alone "super-genius".
So if someone (preferably the super-genius who wrote the summary) can tell me what a "super-genius" is, I'd appreciate it. Actually I'd appreciate it more if submitters and editors wouldn't use jargon that I'm unfamiliar with and can find neither in the dictionary nor wikipedia.
I don't for one minute think that the NSA can't crack any encryption you or I can get our hands on. They have some REALLY BIG computers, and armies of math PhDs, codebreakers, and the like.
I should have hit "preview", sorry. Here's the link to the wikipedia article.
There is more in the linked article.
Be afraid. The terrorists have won, and they occupy the white house, the courts, every police agency, and both houses of Congress.
Thank you for the excelent comment. My hat is off to you.
You should see the flak I get for daring to suggest that the US is a police state (hint: if you have a "secret police" it's a police state whether you call them "plainclothesmen", "undercover agents", "Gestapo", "SS", or "a rose by any other name") or that you lost your Constitutional rights long ago.
Maybe not so ironically a lot of the flak I get is slashdot comments by police officers who vainly try to defend their bosses' illegal orders to trash my rights, and their blindly following thoise illegal orders. Nobody polices the police.
OK, I know the neocons are going to mod this to hell but the "gaping asshole" is just too much of a temptation...
Are there really any child pornography sites on the internet where people can pay to download child porn? (please no links)
I don't think the goatse guy is a minor, and I've never seen anybody actuallly try to charge money.
We're in deep shit, aren't we?
Oh shit, I said "shit". Now the DEA is after us, too!
If _this_ is democracy, I'd rather not have it.
a) Democracy: anyone can suggest a law, and there must be a majority vote of the people to pass that law.
b) Republican Democracy (or democratic republic): You vote for the people who pass the laws
C) Plutocracy: The laws are sold to the highest bidder.
Guess which one the US is? Hint: It ain't a or b, and Microsoft beat the rap.
Man, I bet they've got petabytes of freaky porn by now.
You're just jealous.
Get the word out and vote
Well, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans care about your rights and liberties, and the corporate media are going to continue to brainwash the public into thinking a vote for a Green or Libertarian is wasted, even though my opinion is that a vote for a Republican or Democrat is a vote for someone who wants me in jail, which is worse than a wasted vote.
When I vote, I'm aware that I tilt at windmills, but if I don't I can't see where I have much of a right to bicth about it.
As long as the corporates rule, plutocracy will reign and "freedom" will be meaningless.
No need to kill you, after a little waterboarding or strapping you to a gurney with your head bolted down, or holding a metal probe supercooled with liquid nitrogen to your eyeball (I've experienced both of these as described in the linked journal) you'll tell them any damned thing they want to know.
And I'm sure there are worse things they can do to you. A lot worse than killing you; you're going to die some day anyway, but they won't get or need your encryption key after you're dead.
You talk like a brave man. But my money says they wouldn't even need a waterboard to get you to cough up anything they wanted.
You care about voting machines? So front the cash to your local election commission
I do. every time I buy something I pay state and local sales tax. Every time I earn a paycheck I pay income tax. Every time I buy beer I pay an excise tax.
I'm paying for the ATMs, too. The bank gets its money from me when it charges me fees and invests my checking account money for their profit.
I expect my elected officials to do their damned jobs without my nagging. It's their responsibility under the state constitution to ensure a secure vote.