I know of a head shop that was busted near me in the late 1980s for selling "coke kits" that contained a razor, spoon, and mirror. They could sell all of the items separately, but not bundled together. It was, and I am guessing still is, definitely illegal in my state. No head shops sell anything of the sort anymore around here after that incident. The local cops made a big deal out of it and it was all over the local news.
But only if they can prove they were used for illegal purposes. Having a clean unused syringe is not a crime. Having a syringe with heroin residue all over it is. Having a new unused pipe is not illegal. Having a pipe with marijuana resin all over it is. Having a clean razor blade or mirror or straw is not illegal. Selling a "kit" containing a mirror, razor blade, and straw together is illegal because it is obvious what the intended use is.
Exactly. "Waste of money" gets the attention of all the idiots who don't see large scale invasions of personal privacy as a problem. But tell them the their own money is paying for it and suddenly they are interested.
"I like this particular waste of our money, so suck it up" doesn't really make for a very appealing argument.
I wasn't making any sort of argument, I was merely stating my personal opinion at that point. The arguments I was making were in the first two sentences of my post.
I don't have children, yet I still pay for schools in my taxes. I don't drive a car, but I do buy gasoline for my lawnmower and snowblower, so I am paying road taxes as well even though I don't drive on them. Sorry, but people that have kids and send them to private schools don't get my sympathy if they pay for public schools out of their taxes too. I don't have a problem with some of my taxes going towards public schools as I think investing money in education is a good idea. But your argument holds no water with me at all.
Lots of people using PCs and iTunes own Apple iPods. It would be fairly trivial to spread from an iPod connected to a PC to the PC itself. This is not an accident.
The problem is, if I ask someone with a conservative bias, they will say exactly the opposite of what you said. That the left is far more radical than the right. It turns out liberals think conservatives are farther from the center, and conservatives think liberals are farther from the center. The only ones who know all of this already are the ones actually closer to the center.
The funny thing is the liberals I have this discussion with will generally acknowledge some bias, then go ahead and make a biased statement where as the conservatives will generally not admit bias. I don't know which is worse to be honest.
In the US songs are covered under US Copyright laws already - they are basically considered written poetry. But those rights can be transferred and as such many of the people who originally wrote the words do not "own" them anymore. In this particular case Springsteen did own the rights to the song so had final say how it can be used.
He is responsible for creating easy access to the internet, not for the content that has since filled it. Without Al, you wouldn't be able to bitch about the internet while easily accessing the internet as you are doing now.
Indeed. And to get a context for what a singer is all about, looking at more than one of their songs, you would probably want to look at lyrics, you know, the plural of lyric? If I were a politician wanting to endorse a particular artist, I would want to look at more than just the words to a single song.
It is a common trap for people in both parties to think "the other side" is farther from the center than their own party is. The reality is there are nuts (and they are) on both sides who are far from the center, but they are the exception and there are thankfully not that many of them. Not having an affiliation to either major party it is a lot easier to cut out the hyperbole and rhetoric from both sides - I don't have a vested interest in either side being "right" or "wrong" on issues. I hardly see any major differences between the two parties anyway. Minor style differences, but the train is on rails and always goes to the same station eventually, no matter who the conductor is.
Someone probably should have explained this to Reagan as he wanted to use it for his campaign song in 1984. Maybe someone should have looked at the lyrics, and not just the title? Needless to say Springsteen did not allow his song to be used by Reagan.
It may on your monitor, but for all the years it was on television the General Lee has always been orange, and never yellow. Vermillion I have no idea as it isn't a real color. (If it doesn't come in the 16 pack of Crayolas, it isn't a "real" color.)
Why? Before "the internet" was prevalent there were still BBS, Usenet, Compuserve, etc. that had areas you could post messages to. I have plenty of old posts going back farther than 1988 - luckily I have always been smart enough to not use my real name online.
Also saving the box means you don't have to pay UPS or the post office ~$20 to buy a new box to pack your computer, DVR, whatever.
Sure you do, otherwise you risk getting a scratch on your precious original packaging. Everyone knows an iDevice with a slight scratch on the original packaging brings the price way down!
Correct, but if those laws are in place government employees should not be using devices that do not comply with said laws. Especially for any official government business - otherwise the transparency that is supposed to exist at that level does not.
You mean sort of like "Overrated" for "morons" and "Underrated" or "Insightful" for "knowledgeable people who use their practical skills to attempt an idea that seems insane to uninformed bystanders"?
I work in IT and do technical support. Unfortunately, no the dumb users will never learn. I have someone who has gotten their laptop infected more times than I can count - becasue this idiot refuses to use the regular user account and continuously logs in as an admin "because things work easier that way." Also this pain would affect more than just the stupid users - say you have a problem with your connection and you can't get through becasue your ISP technical support is busy dealing with the deluge of calls due to DNS redirection. Suddenly it isn't just the dummies that are feeling the pain anymore. Stupid users can be stupid all they want as long as it only impacts themselves. But this has the possibility to impact others who did nothing stupid.
Clearly no ISP in the history of the world has ever had a technical support phone number designed to handle the volume of calls this would generate.
Yes I am sure every ISP wants their help lines flooded with thousands of calls every hour they couldn't possibly answer. Of course none of their customers will mind the extra $100 surcharge for having to hire all the extra phone support folks due to handling the incident the way you suggest. Sounds like a brilliant solution.
Yes the cop should. Trying a door to see if it is unlocked is not illegal. Breaking and entering is illegal - so yes the cop would be right to wait until a person entered and then there would be an arrestable offense. The very most the cop would be able to do prior to entry would be to stop and search, if there was reasonable suspicion to think the person was a burglar, for burglary tools , which are illegal to carry. But if the person didn't have anything illegal on them, and the cop stopped them before they entered a house, there would be no actual crime.
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I think he meant that he wouldn't be able to download it for free and use it himself for fun.
Until the torrent of the software comes out a day after it is released commercially.
I know of a head shop that was busted near me in the late 1980s for selling "coke kits" that contained a razor, spoon, and mirror. They could sell all of the items separately, but not bundled together. It was, and I am guessing still is, definitely illegal in my state. No head shops sell anything of the sort anymore around here after that incident. The local cops made a big deal out of it and it was all over the local news.
But only if they can prove they were used for illegal purposes. Having a clean unused syringe is not a crime. Having a syringe with heroin residue all over it is. Having a new unused pipe is not illegal. Having a pipe with marijuana resin all over it is. Having a clean razor blade or mirror or straw is not illegal. Selling a "kit" containing a mirror, razor blade, and straw together is illegal because it is obvious what the intended use is.
Exactly. "Waste of money" gets the attention of all the idiots who don't see large scale invasions of personal privacy as a problem. But tell them the their own money is paying for it and suddenly they are interested.
"I like this particular waste of our money, so suck it up" doesn't really make for a very appealing argument.
I wasn't making any sort of argument, I was merely stating my personal opinion at that point. The arguments I was making were in the first two sentences of my post.
Is that similar to the form you are supposed to fill out and voluntarily pay tax on items you buy on the internet?
I don't have children, yet I still pay for schools in my taxes. I don't drive a car, but I do buy gasoline for my lawnmower and snowblower, so I am paying road taxes as well even though I don't drive on them. Sorry, but people that have kids and send them to private schools don't get my sympathy if they pay for public schools out of their taxes too. I don't have a problem with some of my taxes going towards public schools as I think investing money in education is a good idea. But your argument holds no water with me at all.
Because I don't let my OS choice decide which movies I get to watch?
Lots of people using PCs and iTunes own Apple iPods. It would be fairly trivial to spread from an iPod connected to a PC to the PC itself. This is not an accident.
The problem is, if I ask someone with a conservative bias, they will say exactly the opposite of what you said. That the left is far more radical than the right. It turns out liberals think conservatives are farther from the center, and conservatives think liberals are farther from the center. The only ones who know all of this already are the ones actually closer to the center.
The funny thing is the liberals I have this discussion with will generally acknowledge some bias, then go ahead and make a biased statement where as the conservatives will generally not admit bias. I don't know which is worse to be honest.
In the US songs are covered under US Copyright laws already - they are basically considered written poetry. But those rights can be transferred and as such many of the people who originally wrote the words do not "own" them anymore. In this particular case Springsteen did own the rights to the song so had final say how it can be used.
He is responsible for creating easy access to the internet, not for the content that has since filled it. Without Al, you wouldn't be able to bitch about the internet while easily accessing the internet as you are doing now.
Indeed. And to get a context for what a singer is all about, looking at more than one of their songs, you would probably want to look at lyrics, you know, the plural of lyric? If I were a politician wanting to endorse a particular artist, I would want to look at more than just the words to a single song.
It is a common trap for people in both parties to think "the other side" is farther from the center than their own party is. The reality is there are nuts (and they are) on both sides who are far from the center, but they are the exception and there are thankfully not that many of them. Not having an affiliation to either major party it is a lot easier to cut out the hyperbole and rhetoric from both sides - I don't have a vested interest in either side being "right" or "wrong" on issues. I hardly see any major differences between the two parties anyway. Minor style differences, but the train is on rails and always goes to the same station eventually, no matter who the conductor is.
Someone probably should have explained this to Reagan as he wanted to use it for his campaign song in 1984. Maybe someone should have looked at the lyrics, and not just the title? Needless to say Springsteen did not allow his song to be used by Reagan.
It may on your monitor, but for all the years it was on television the General Lee has always been orange, and never yellow. Vermillion I have no idea as it isn't a real color. (If it doesn't come in the 16 pack of Crayolas, it isn't a "real" color.)
Why? Before "the internet" was prevalent there were still BBS, Usenet, Compuserve, etc. that had areas you could post messages to. I have plenty of old posts going back farther than 1988 - luckily I have always been smart enough to not use my real name online.
Also saving the box means you don't have to pay UPS or the post office ~$20 to buy a new box to pack your computer, DVR, whatever.
Sure you do, otherwise you risk getting a scratch on your precious original packaging. Everyone knows an iDevice with a slight scratch on the original packaging brings the price way down!
Correct, but if those laws are in place government employees should not be using devices that do not comply with said laws. Especially for any official government business - otherwise the transparency that is supposed to exist at that level does not.
Indeed, the mind is a terrible thing to taste.
You mean sort of like "Overrated" for "morons" and "Underrated" or "Insightful" for "knowledgeable people who use their practical skills to attempt an idea that seems insane to uninformed bystanders"?
I work in IT and do technical support. Unfortunately, no the dumb users will never learn. I have someone who has gotten their laptop infected more times than I can count - becasue this idiot refuses to use the regular user account and continuously logs in as an admin "because things work easier that way." Also this pain would affect more than just the stupid users - say you have a problem with your connection and you can't get through becasue your ISP technical support is busy dealing with the deluge of calls due to DNS redirection. Suddenly it isn't just the dummies that are feeling the pain anymore. Stupid users can be stupid all they want as long as it only impacts themselves. But this has the possibility to impact others who did nothing stupid.
Clearly no ISP in the history of the world has ever had a technical support phone number designed to handle the volume of calls this would generate.
Yes I am sure every ISP wants their help lines flooded with thousands of calls every hour they couldn't possibly answer. Of course none of their customers will mind the extra $100 surcharge for having to hire all the extra phone support folks due to handling the incident the way you suggest. Sounds like a brilliant solution.
Yes the cop should. Trying a door to see if it is unlocked is not illegal. Breaking and entering is illegal - so yes the cop would be right to wait until a person entered and then there would be an arrestable offense. The very most the cop would be able to do prior to entry would be to stop and search, if there was reasonable suspicion to think the person was a burglar, for burglary tools , which are illegal to carry. But if the person didn't have anything illegal on them, and the cop stopped them before they entered a house, there would be no actual crime.