So if I come home and someone is already parked in the space in front of my house, I can't park a few dozen feet away without having to move my car every three days-- which really becomes a problem if you travel frequently and have to worry that your car will be towed every time you have to be away and don't get that one spot right in front of your house.
What kills me is that some cities have now enacted Municipal Codes even outlawing "disabled" vehicles parked in driveways for longer than 72 hours. It used to be to control obvious "chop shops", where people would have vehicles in their driveways in various states of disrepair, but I left for Japan for two weeks only to come back and find that the city ticketed my vehicle (because it had a flat tire,) even though it was operable and only needed to have the tire inflated.
I was told that in the future, when I leave for extended periods of time, to move my cars behind a fence (wish I had a back yard to put them,) or in a garage to avoid being ticketed.
The 13th was not literally ignored; the 14th and 15th were. Please get those straight - they're very important.
All three amendments are important, and all three are ignored in places.
13th Amendment ended slavery, yet there are places and times when the 13th Amendment has been ignored since it was ratified. See Chain Gangs.
14th Amendment gave all people in the US, regardless to citizenship, equal protection under the law, yet there are places and times when the 14th Amendment has been ignored since it was ratified.
15th Amendment allowed all male citizens, regardless to race, to vote, but yet Jim Crow laws prevented certain people from voting as late as 1965.
I didn't accuse you of being a pirate. I said some of your text was pirate BS.
Lot's of ordinary people have swallowed the pirate BS as if it's fact. It's in fact BS.
I'd like for you to prove that it is BS. Anyone can say it is BS, but until you come with hard numbers and science, you will be spouting just as much BS as you claim others are. You won't, but prove me wrong.
I'm amazed how many times this pirate BS is put forward.
I am always amazed at how many times ACs here automatically accuse someone who says something that they think they don't agree with of being a pirate. I welcome you to prove that I am, but I doubt you will. I'd like for you to show where I have ever taken anything of yours (or anyone for that matter) without your permission, but I suspect you'll have a difficult time proving that as well.
We are collectively living in a state of cognitive dissonance, uncomfortably embracing two conflicting beliefs at the same time. Copying is illegal. Copying is not wrong.
You may blame the industry, but I blame my parents and the society they come from. "Sharing is caring." And if I didn't share with my brothers and sisters, it was taken away from me and given to my brothers and sisters. It is part of society and it is even written in the book that many of us profess to believe ("To who much has been given, much will be taken away.")
Plus the fact that like the parking meters being introduced long after cars, people have been sharing entertainment for many, many years before the Statue of Anne made it illegal.
Human being stopped being property in 1865. Alas, segregation persisted much longer.
Slavery and involuntary servitude...Slavery may have ended in 1865 (though that is arguable.) But involuntary servitude still exists, even in the US today. Just ask anyone who is familiar with trafficking in persons.
Not to nitpick but the 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865.
And Rosa Parks and the freedom riders were arrested for failing to give up their seats to white passengers in 1955. Thus showing that the government of Alabama did in fact have a massive blindspot to how slavery conflicts with basic human rights and it took nearly a century and two decades to fix that problem. Not sure what pointing out the 13th Amendment being ratified in 1865 was meant to prove, but there were a number of states that ignored the 13th Amendment until well into the 20th century.
Second, even if that wasn't true, how does any copyright exist? Government work financed by taxpayer money always goes into the public domain with no copyright.
It should, but that only counts in the case of someone who is working for the government. When I was a government contractor, many moons ago, we were paid by the government to do stuff, and we gave them what we produced on their dime, but then we turned around and sold the same product to others without a blink. We owned what we produced, and saw the government as an initial investor in our success.
And I hated the thought of it, and routinely argued against it, but that is the way it was. It is the same reason why universities funded with taxpayer money, or medical companies funded with taxpayer money, can turn around and sell their research for top dollar.
In an earlier comment, I mentioned how there were some shows that I thought were well done, but the product placement is so annoying that I can't watch them. Bones is the #1 example of this.
I'm still out on product placement. Overall, I agree with you, but I remember watching this fantastic movie once with Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton about an indestructible red Chevy truck. And it had a scientist saying "That's no moon, that's a space station." But that is all I really remember about that movie. I thought it was very good product placement at the time, but then I went out and bought a Dodge, so apparently it wasn't all that effective. (At the time, though, I did have a Chevy.)
But you're right, because I use the library to check some stuff out first, yeah, I guess I'm a "pirate."
In the eyes of the MAFIAA, you are a pirate because you exist and you are not them. Just listen to the shills here. We say over and over again that we buy their product and they still accuse us of torrenting (I torrent all the time, linux distros and other open source/legal and even some quasi-legal stuff) their stuff. I get the feeling that they would prefer a system where we get taxed part of our paycheck, which goes to them, whether or not they produce anything.
Many executives seem to believe that money buys credibility.
Was it that or more hookers and blow? They have expensive tastes, expensive wives, and expensive houses to maintain, and that leaves less for hookers and blow, so they need to make up the difference somehow.
As a matter of fact, personally and being Dutch, I think that indeed the rules governing conflicts of interest are very very weak in the Netherlands. This is especially damning for a country that wants to think of itself as adhering to high moral standards.
Don't be too upset. We have judges here in the US who were former representatives of MAFIAA who are ruling on copyright infringement cases too, so corruption and failure to honorably recuse yourself from a potential conflict of interest seems to be a universal problem (at least on Earth.) Even our politicians gladly scoop up millions while failing to report their campaign receipts and accepting funny money to cover up their mistresses.
you are forgetting to bring the 'Hollywood Accounting' into the frame.
It is so funny how whenever I see 'Hollywood Accounting', I read it as fraud and embezzlement. I wish the DoJ would start investigating that, instead of pulling down legal websites that the industry doesn't like and holding them hostage for a year before sheepishly returning them and hoping nobody notices.
I still say it needs to be $100, but the record labels only keep $30, the other $70 goes to the court for having wasted their time over $30 bucks.
But then that would leave an open pot of money for the President/Congress to raid. No thanks. We already have that problem here in California where our Governor has decided to raid open pots of money in the California judicial system. If the court would put it to good use, as in funding low cost defense of troll victims, it would work, but otherwise, it is just another tax.
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May I suggest the Cities and Knights expansion. Way more fun than the original IMO (and the original is great).
I'll have to look into getting that one too. I'd like to see how well my friends receive playing the original one first. They love a good board game... especially one like Monopoly/Risk where we have to work with/against each other, so I figure it will work out well, but we'll see.
Illegal? Maybe, but I don't see much of a problem.
When has Sony ever shied away from illegal? They certainly don't have problems with pushing out backdoors and using fraud to get their DRM installed on their customer's computers.
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My mommy taught me "Sharing is Caring!" ;-)
My mommy made me stand in a corner for 15 minutes when I wouldn't share my toys with my brothers and sisters.
Maybe we should just put RIAA/MPAA in the corner for a couple minutes until they learn how to be big boys and girls instead of babies.
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Which is amusing because, as infants, we're taught to share with others. Can't have it both ways. Either we watch each thing on its own merits (aka, NONE) or we share and generate a buzz, and possibly more money for you.
I just bought the Settler's of Cattan. The reason I bought it was because Wil Wheaton played with three friends on Geek & Sundry's Table Top, and shared the experience with everyone else. If they hadn't played that game and shared the experience with the world, I would never have plopped down $35 for a board game.
I also just bought a book that I never would have purchased had it not been for a friend of mine who showed it to me and allowed me to read a section of it.
I couldn't possibly care any less about any of the current movies out there now, but a friend of mine shared his experience watching the grey, and caught so much of my attention that I'm going to rent it to watch it myself.
RIAA/MPAA apparently aren't very good at marketing (which is surprising because they spend so much of their artists' money on it,) because they completely ignore word of mouth, which is by far one of the most important marketing efforts. It really is sad.
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What kills me is that some cities have now enacted Municipal Codes even outlawing "disabled" vehicles parked in driveways for longer than 72 hours. It used to be to control obvious "chop shops", where people would have vehicles in their driveways in various states of disrepair, but I left for Japan for two weeks only to come back and find that the city ticketed my vehicle (because it had a flat tire,) even though it was operable and only needed to have the tire inflated.
I was told that in the future, when I leave for extended periods of time, to move my cars behind a fence (wish I had a back yard to put them,) or in a garage to avoid being ticketed.
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All three amendments are important, and all three are ignored in places.
13th Amendment ended slavery, yet there are places and times when the 13th Amendment has been ignored since it was ratified. See Chain Gangs.
14th Amendment gave all people in the US, regardless to citizenship, equal protection under the law, yet there are places and times when the 14th Amendment has been ignored since it was ratified.
15th Amendment allowed all male citizens, regardless to race, to vote, but yet Jim Crow laws prevented certain people from voting as late as 1965.
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Lot's of ordinary people have swallowed the pirate BS as if it's fact. It's in fact BS.
I'd like for you to prove that it is BS. Anyone can say it is BS, but until you come with hard numbers and science, you will be spouting just as much BS as you claim others are. You won't, but prove me wrong.
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I am always amazed at how many times ACs here automatically accuse someone who says something that they think they don't agree with of being a pirate. I welcome you to prove that I am, but I doubt you will. I'd like for you to show where I have ever taken anything of yours (or anyone for that matter) without your permission, but I suspect you'll have a difficult time proving that as well.
Stay classy with the ad homs though...
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You may blame the industry, but I blame my parents and the society they come from. "Sharing is caring." And if I didn't share with my brothers and sisters, it was taken away from me and given to my brothers and sisters. It is part of society and it is even written in the book that many of us profess to believe ("To who much has been given, much will be taken away.")
Plus the fact that like the parking meters being introduced long after cars, people have been sharing entertainment for many, many years before the Statue of Anne made it illegal.
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Or making them work on chain-gangs either.
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Slavery and involuntary servitude...Slavery may have ended in 1865 (though that is arguable.) But involuntary servitude still exists, even in the US today. Just ask anyone who is familiar with trafficking in persons.
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And Rosa Parks and the freedom riders were arrested for failing to give up their seats to white passengers in 1955. Thus showing that the government of Alabama did in fact have a massive blindspot to how slavery conflicts with basic human rights and it took nearly a century and two decades to fix that problem. Not sure what pointing out the 13th Amendment being ratified in 1865 was meant to prove, but there were a number of states that ignored the 13th Amendment until well into the 20th century.
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It should, but that only counts in the case of someone who is working for the government. When I was a government contractor, many moons ago, we were paid by the government to do stuff, and we gave them what we produced on their dime, but then we turned around and sold the same product to others without a blink. We owned what we produced, and saw the government as an initial investor in our success.
And I hated the thought of it, and routinely argued against it, but that is the way it was. It is the same reason why universities funded with taxpayer money, or medical companies funded with taxpayer money, can turn around and sell their research for top dollar.
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I'm still out on product placement. Overall, I agree with you, but I remember watching this fantastic movie once with Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton about an indestructible red Chevy truck. And it had a scientist saying "That's no moon, that's a space station." But that is all I really remember about that movie. I thought it was very good product placement at the time, but then I went out and bought a Dodge, so apparently it wasn't all that effective. (At the time, though, I did have a Chevy.)
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In the eyes of the MAFIAA, you are a pirate because you exist and you are not them. Just listen to the shills here. We say over and over again that we buy their product and they still accuse us of torrenting (I torrent all the time, linux distros and other open source/legal and even some quasi-legal stuff) their stuff. I get the feeling that they would prefer a system where we get taxed part of our paycheck, which goes to them, whether or not they produce anything.
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Was it that or more hookers and blow? They have expensive tastes, expensive wives, and expensive houses to maintain, and that leaves less for hookers and blow, so they need to make up the difference somehow.
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Don't be too upset. We have judges here in the US who were former representatives of MAFIAA who are ruling on copyright infringement cases too, so corruption and failure to honorably recuse yourself from a potential conflict of interest seems to be a universal problem (at least on Earth.) Even our politicians gladly scoop up millions while failing to report their campaign receipts and accepting funny money to cover up their mistresses.
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It is so funny how whenever I see 'Hollywood Accounting', I read it as fraud and embezzlement. I wish the DoJ would start investigating that, instead of pulling down legal websites that the industry doesn't like and holding them hostage for a year before sheepishly returning them and hoping nobody notices.
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But then that would leave an open pot of money for the President/Congress to raid. No thanks. We already have that problem here in California where our Governor has decided to raid open pots of money in the California judicial system. If the court would put it to good use, as in funding low cost defense of troll victims, it would work, but otherwise, it is just another tax.
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I'll have to look into getting that one too. I'd like to see how well my friends receive playing the original one first. They love a good board game... especially one like Monopoly/Risk where we have to work with/against each other, so I figure it will work out well, but we'll see.
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When has Sony ever shied away from illegal? They certainly don't have problems with pushing out backdoors and using fraud to get their DRM installed on their customer's computers.
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It was pretty well covered in Revenge of the Nerds 3. However I do agree the he looks a lot like Gilbert Lowe.
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My mommy made me stand in a corner for 15 minutes when I wouldn't share my toys with my brothers and sisters.
Maybe we should just put RIAA/MPAA in the corner for a couple minutes until they learn how to be big boys and girls instead of babies.
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Re: Re: Re: it is imperative that the content not be siphoned off and distributed illegally by those seeking to profit from the work and creativity of others.
I just bought the Settler's of Cattan. The reason I bought it was because Wil Wheaton played with three friends on Geek & Sundry's Table Top, and shared the experience with everyone else. If they hadn't played that game and shared the experience with the world, I would never have plopped down $35 for a board game.
I also just bought a book that I never would have purchased had it not been for a friend of mine who showed it to me and allowed me to read a section of it.
I couldn't possibly care any less about any of the current movies out there now, but a friend of mine shared his experience watching the grey, and caught so much of my attention that I'm going to rent it to watch it myself.
RIAA/MPAA apparently aren't very good at marketing (which is surprising because they spend so much of their artists' money on it,) because they completely ignore word of mouth, which is by far one of the most important marketing efforts. It really is sad.
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