What we need here is Matlock in that courtroom, taking everyone up to the roof with a feather pillow and a fan for a fun object lesson in information dispersal.
Don't treat the economy like it's a fragile little flower that needs cared for. Content can and will survive monetary disinterest. And I would hardly dare to argue that the current environment reflects *True* monetary disinterest anyway.
Just watch. The second global entertainment income drops a *TICK*, you'll see an upsurge in investment from consumers. People will only care as much as they have to. Trying to force it is both pointless and unnecessary. The system rights itself.
What countries like China fail to realize, is that actions like this actually make it *more* difficult for them to monitor its citizens. By flagging specific keywords, you prompt those who create the keywords to invent new euphemisms you haven't thought of. You effectively direct them under your own radar.
Consider, for example, how difficult it is to prosecute drug lords and leaders of organized crime. Since law enforcement has been so careful to flag any mention of illegal activity through suspected communications, criminals simply avoid those terms entirely. Catching someone red-handed in this manner is typically a monumental task.
In contrast, look at how the U.S. at least feigns tolerance to anti-government groups within the country. Very little if any of their communications involve complex, obtuse euphemisms that make it impossible to take action. Often, these groups end up logging reams of publicly available incriminating evidence...were they to ever *actually* do anything stupid. But if they ever began to suspect their communications were being constantly flagged, you bet your fake eyelashes that those communications would start looking reeeal boring to the average viewer.
I would not be surprised if China's conduct over the years has spawned an entire underground pseudolanguage of unflaggable, unmonitorable communications.
That's actually the beauty of encryption. It's easy, it's cheap, and (until someone invents a quantum computer) consistently effective.
If anything, the slight bump in expenses in order to implement encryption would be felt *more* by a small provider like Banhof. For a large scale ISP, this would be like batting an eyelash.
Yeah, I don't think you're going to see 2 week-long outages due to Comcast's gross incompetence on this graph. Netflix can't see date if people aren't even able connect in the first place. :P
Whenever you sign your posts, it looks like you're actually saying "hm", but since it's in caps, I read it as a loud "hm" mean to identify the fact that you're making a point. But it always seems to fit perfectly.
There needs to be some kind of second-tier "LOL" icon for the especially hilarious posts. I almost feel like clicking the "funny" is a practice in futility after it's already labeled...yet I do it anyway
That sounds like a really good alternative! But...is ".crime" compatible on older systems? I'm a little behind the curve and I don't want to end up with a format I can't use.
I could've swore the chase happened during summer vacation. My family went to Disney World that year, and we watched it from the condo's TV.
Definitely remember seeing the trial results in school though. That was either geology or physics class, I can't remember. I DO remember not giving a rat's ass what happened, and hoping that there would be a power outage right before the Judge declared his ruling.
WE NEED TO GET RID OF THESE DANG MP4 FILES NEXT! THEY'RE RUINING THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY! ALSO! JPEGS! PHOTOGRAPHERS' LIVES ARE BEING DESTROYED GOOGLE! WAKE UP!
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Just watch. The second global entertainment income drops a *TICK*, you'll see an upsurge in investment from consumers. People will only care as much as they have to. Trying to force it is both pointless and unnecessary. The system rights itself.
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Consider, for example, how difficult it is to prosecute drug lords and leaders of organized crime. Since law enforcement has been so careful to flag any mention of illegal activity through suspected communications, criminals simply avoid those terms entirely. Catching someone red-handed in this manner is typically a monumental task.
In contrast, look at how the U.S. at least feigns tolerance to anti-government groups within the country. Very little if any of their communications involve complex, obtuse euphemisms that make it impossible to take action. Often, these groups end up logging reams of publicly available incriminating evidence...were they to ever *actually* do anything stupid. But if they ever began to suspect their communications were being constantly flagged, you bet your fake eyelashes that those communications would start looking reeeal boring to the average viewer.
I would not be surprised if China's conduct over the years has spawned an entire underground pseudolanguage of unflaggable, unmonitorable communications.
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If anything, the slight bump in expenses in order to implement encryption would be felt *more* by a small provider like Banhof. For a large scale ISP, this would be like batting an eyelash.
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Definitely remember seeing the trial results in school though. That was either geology or physics class, I can't remember. I DO remember not giving a rat's ass what happened, and hoping that there would be a power outage right before the Judge declared his ruling.
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