Amazon is only useful if I can purchase from the dotcom version.
The Canadian version never has what I want or the price is unacceptable. It's already bad enough that many sellers are unwilling to ship to Canada (though Alaska/Hawaii is okay?).
If I am forced to use .ca I will stop using Amazon altogether.
Any action by government that doesn't require a warrant should be permissible to the public at large.
The warrant is the special step that government takes to get a seal of approval on an otherwise unacceptable action. If no warrant is needed, that is because the government is not doing something that would otherwise break the law.
If it is illegal for me to get the emails-older-than-180-days of your everyday politician, then government officials should need to get a warrant to read my emails. Ditto for warrantless wiretapping warrantless tracking devices.
The silver lining is that now you have a legitimate reason to opt-out of the filter...that is, you don't have to broadcast to the world that you want to look at porn.
If US prosecutors are going to blame suicide on cyberbullies like Lori Drew I think it's only fair to blame judicial bullies like Carmen Ortiz for Swartz' suicide.
It uploads the video online the second you hit "stop."
Start recording. When the police officer walks over to you, hit the stop button and then lock the phone with the power button. They take the phone but you can access it at the Qik website, making as many copies as you please.
"A followup post at the Journal News mentions that it has received threats along with the normal complaints, but that's something it clearly should have expected when it published a map that singled out gun owners for legal activity."
I think a large piece is being missed here...
Gun owners make threats, breaking the law, to an organization that did not break the law. Does that not solidify the original point that there are people who should not be owning guns who do? And the fact that you say it "should be expected," that we should expect threats from some subset of gun owners, only further makes that point.
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The Canadian version never has what I want or the price is unacceptable. It's already bad enough that many sellers are unwilling to ship to Canada (though Alaska/Hawaii is okay?).
If I am forced to use .ca I will stop using Amazon altogether.
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The warrant is the special step that government takes to get a seal of approval on an otherwise unacceptable action. If no warrant is needed, that is because the government is not doing something that would otherwise break the law.
If it is illegal for me to get the emails-older-than-180-days of your everyday politician, then government officials should need to get a warrant to read my emails. Ditto for warrantless wiretapping warrantless tracking devices.
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Re: Totally can get AIDS from Cyber stuff
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Re: Dolan's tweets
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On the post: US Government Ups Felony Count In JSTOR/Aaron Swartz Case From Four To Thirteen
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The classroom is a microcosm of society. You can't fix bullying in classrooms until you fix it in adult society.
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I'd say you already lost if you have to frame it as a conflict of people versus their elected government.
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Re: Prison time
It uploads the video online the second you hit "stop."
Start recording. When the police officer walks over to you, hit the stop button and then lock the phone with the power button. They take the phone but you can access it at the Qik website, making as many copies as you please.
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People don't care about privacy unless it obviously impacts them.
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I think a large piece is being missed here...
Gun owners make threats, breaking the law, to an organization that did not break the law. Does that not solidify the original point that there are people who should not be owning guns who do? And the fact that you say it "should be expected," that we should expect threats from some subset of gun owners, only further makes that point.
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Re: Let's get this clear
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Re: I'm unable to see cause for concern here.
Nonetheless...who says Techdirt doesn't care about privacy from corporations? At least with corporations you have the choice to not do business.
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If they don't have the distribution rights, then they are breaking the law, just as much if not more than many sites taken down by ICE.
If I put all my stuff on my front lawn and with a sign that says, "Help Yourself," do I get to charge you with stealing after the fact?
I don't get how downloading off a honeypot is illegal.
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Any right can be violated but that doesn't mean they don't (or shouldn't) exist.
I'm not a supporter of copyright. Just logic.
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- long time pirate
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