That portion of the Latham act is pure bullshit and definitely violates the Constitution.
Freedom of speech means that anything you want to right or say can be written or said.
Trademarks are protective marks on unique "statements" or "phrases", which, you guessed it, are based on "speech" or "written word", which means they are protected by the 1st amendment.
Sorry Congress, but your law is invalid as it violates the tenet "Congress may pass no law..." portion of the bill of rights.
There's no "People have the right not to be offended" anywhere in the bill of rights.
That means that the Constitution and Bill of Rights trumps this garbage act.
Time to kick the collective SCotUS in the balls or vag's until they stand up and actually do their jobs correctly and rule based on the law and not some illegal political correctness stance just to fill their pockets with cash.
Dish receives the broadcast as intended from the content provider. Dish adds whatever ads they've contracted to add. Dish broadcasts the complete content, advertisements included. Dish subscriber records the entire content, advertisements included.
Dish DVR asks the customers if they'd like to skip over the commercials.
Dish DVR customer determines whether they want to or not, and the DVR does what the customer wants with their private personal recordings of the content.
How is this in any way, shape or form violating anything.
It's the same as people have done for decades with VCRs and other PVR technology, albeit, slightly better.
We had to press "skip ahead" or "Fast-forward" to flash through the advertisements, which we laboriously did.
Now, here's Dish with something that makes our lives better and easier, automating that manual process, but still, completely under our control.
WTF CBS? WTF ABC? WTF FOX?
Get over yourselves - your product ain't that great to start with, then you f with our controls on what we do with it once we've recorded it?
I'm glad Dish stood up to Fox regarding Fox's attempt to steal more money from dish customers for their crappy news product. I don't miss Fox News at all, and hope it never comes back.
Let's get these fixed, use 3rd party accounting firms that make bonuses derived from 10% of any hidden / redirected profits they uncover.
MPAA - let's get this disbanded by filing Rico act violations against all the members and have their puling lawyers arrested for all of the illegal antics they've committed.
DMCA takedown notices - let's put some teeth into a law purposely written to prevent false takedown notices from being submitted. Penalty? All copyrights and patents owned by the person or persons or corporation that files the takedown notice. Any person acting as an agent for an entity will make that entity the target of the penalty. The first time Sony or an agent thereof, files a DMCA takedown for something that isn't there's, all of Sony's Copyrights and patents become public domain, instantly, with absolutely no recourse for removal from public domain.
We just need to enforce the Constitution the way it was meant to be enforced.
Any attempts by ANYONE to abridge those rights is tantamount to treason (as in treason against the citizens of the United States because of the harm it does to the citizens) and as such those making these attempts should be arrested, tried, convicted and executed for their follies.
If the government won't do it, then we the citizens have to.
Gee - sorry folks, but your cries will have to go unanswered.
You see, we have this thing called the Constitution which prevents Congress from passing any law that attempts to circumvent the Constitutional right to privacy.
Any attempts by outsiders to push Congress to perform this illegal act is an action of treason to the citizens of the United States and will be dealt with accordingly.
So go ahead, yell at the top of your lungs. We'll be taking down your names, arresting you and trying you for the treason you are committing in attempting to circumvent the constitution.
Congress-critters beware, don't fall for these criminal delusions or your names will be added to the list of people to be arrested, tried and convicted of treason against the citizens of the United States.
Note that 90% of you are already on that list for your treasonous Patriot-Act which violates the constitution, and 95% of the Executive branch is there as well for their own illegal, treasonous acts against the citizenry of this country.
Ummm - We already knew that they were terrorist organizations. They are right up there with ISIS/ISIL - extremists in their own right, breaking the law left and right and not being held accountable.
Those groups in the US are constitutional terrorists wielding weapons of constitutional destruction and should be arrested, tried for treason and executed.
This hits home as just one of my medications that I "have" to take to stay alive costs approximately $7k USD a month.
Penalty to a drug company that prices a life-saving medication so high that people cannot afford it and therefor die... every last dime they've ever made or ever will make.
Sounds about right to me.
Let's start suing pharmaceutical companies who's drugs are so expensive that people have to choose between Food and other essentials and medications and end up dying because the person starved if they chose medication, or died because they chose food instead of the medication.
Let's sue the pharmaceutical companies for pain, suffering and mental anguish due to the high prices causing our standard of living to drop below the poverty level.
I might end up liking this game where we can blame the pharmaceutical companies for middle-class submersion to lower-class citizens without any of the government handouts that go with that status.
While slightly off topic to the current story, thought I'd still post that to this one as it carves away the same argument they make for using stingray devices, as well as the need to purge data not specific to the warrant.
The problem with this argument is that once the Government has replaced the "third party's" equipment with their own, they fall upon their own petard.
ie - Government equipment isn't 3rd party and fails the 3rd party test. Government equipment isn't public, though paid for by public funds, and full constitutional protection is enabled.
Any data collected by the stingray device without a warrant specific to the person and reasoning for the data is illegal and unconstitutional.
Add to that that any congress critter that speaks out against Google has just signed their campaign death warrant as it will prove they were bought and paid for.
Now, no congress critter can speak out against Google, ever, or they will be accused of criminally accepting bribes, slander, perjury, corruption, etc...
Looks like Google just received at a minimum, 2 years worth of free protection from Government accusation about anything.
More proof that European legislators are idiots...
Google doesn't monopolize the search industry. It doesn't control the search industry. It doesn't steal anything from anyone.
Google links to information on people's sites. For google news, it includes small snippets that whet the appetites of readers making them want to visit the news sites.
Readers / Users pick Google search and Google news because they've come to know and trust Google's results.
All of these idiotic European legislators that are believing greedy corporations over their own constituents wants (remember, it's their constituents that use Google) just shows who's really in charge in Europe (America isn't any different with our corporate overlords ruling Congress and the White House).
Anyone who resigns or is fired from law enforcement under suspicious circumstances should be blacklisted from ever serving in law enforcement anywhere, ever again. They cannot be trusted to hold that kind of power over people, period.
The criminal cops will be forced out, they will resort to their criminal nature and hurt someone else without their badges and be removed from the streets, hopefully permanently.
This is why I strongly believe that anyone working for any kind of law enforcement agency should have any and all punishments for any laws broken be quadrupled. 1 year becomes 4 years, $10,000 fine becomes a $40,000 fine, etc...
I'm more concerned with when the cops start showing up and the people defend themselves pre-emptively by shooting the criminals as they enter the house.
But your honor, they came in guns drawn, swat style, when we called in because our child was having breathing problems. It caused my child to panic, stop breathing - so in self defense I shot the asshole, and my child started breathing again.
Yeah, I know, total bullshit logic, but I can see events that aren't such bullshit happening - escalation from both sides if the side that is supposed to always do the right thing doesn't do always do the right thing.
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On the post: DOJ Steps Into Redskins Trademark Lawsuit, Saying It Doesn't Violate First Amendment To Deny 'Disparaging' Trademark
Freedom of speech means that anything you want to right or say can be written or said.
Trademarks are protective marks on unique "statements" or "phrases", which, you guessed it, are based on "speech" or "written word", which means they are protected by the 1st amendment.
Sorry Congress, but your law is invalid as it violates the tenet "Congress may pass no law..." portion of the bill of rights.
There's no "People have the right not to be offended" anywhere in the bill of rights.
That means that the Constitution and Bill of Rights trumps this garbage act.
Time to kick the collective SCotUS in the balls or vag's until they stand up and actually do their jobs correctly and rule based on the law and not some illegal political correctness stance just to fill their pockets with cash.
On the post: Broadcasters Working Hard To Cripple Dish's Consumer Friendly Sling TV
Dish doesn't violate copyright at all.
Dish adds whatever ads they've contracted to add.
Dish broadcasts the complete content, advertisements included.
Dish subscriber records the entire content, advertisements included.
Dish DVR asks the customers if they'd like to skip over the commercials.
Dish DVR customer determines whether they want to or not, and the DVR does what the customer wants with their private personal recordings of the content.
How is this in any way, shape or form violating anything.
It's the same as people have done for decades with VCRs and other PVR technology, albeit, slightly better.
We had to press "skip ahead" or "Fast-forward" to flash through the advertisements, which we laboriously did.
Now, here's Dish with something that makes our lives better and easier, automating that manual process, but still, completely under our control.
WTF CBS? WTF ABC? WTF FOX?
Get over yourselves - your product ain't that great to start with, then you f with our controls on what we do with it once we've recorded it?
I'm glad Dish stood up to Fox regarding Fox's attempt to steal more money from dish customers for their crappy news product. I don't miss Fox News at all, and hope it never comes back.
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Let's fix a few other thngs first.
Let's get these fixed, use 3rd party accounting firms that make bonuses derived from 10% of any hidden / redirected profits they uncover.
MPAA - let's get this disbanded by filing Rico act violations against all the members and have their puling lawyers arrested for all of the illegal antics they've committed.
DMCA takedown notices - let's put some teeth into a law purposely written to prevent false takedown notices from being submitted. Penalty? All copyrights and patents owned by the person or persons or corporation that files the takedown notice. Any person acting as an agent for an entity will make that entity the target of the penalty.
The first time Sony or an agent thereof, files a DMCA takedown for something that isn't there's, all of Sony's Copyrights and patents become public domain, instantly, with absolutely no recourse for removal from public domain.
On the post: New York's Top Prosecutor Says We Need New Laws To Fight iPhone/Android Encryption
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Any attempts by ANYONE to abridge those rights is tantamount to treason (as in treason against the citizens of the United States because of the harm it does to the citizens) and as such those making these attempts should be arrested, tried, convicted and executed for their follies.
If the government won't do it, then we the citizens have to.
On the post: New York's Top Prosecutor Says We Need New Laws To Fight iPhone/Android Encryption
No new law needed, older law prevails...
Gee - sorry folks, but your cries will have to go unanswered.
You see, we have this thing called the Constitution which prevents Congress from passing any law that attempts to circumvent the Constitutional right to privacy.
Any attempts by outsiders to push Congress to perform this illegal act is an action of treason to the citizens of the United States and will be dealt with accordingly.
So go ahead, yell at the top of your lungs. We'll be taking down your names, arresting you and trying you for the treason you are committing in attempting to circumvent the constitution.
Congress-critters beware, don't fall for these criminal delusions or your names will be added to the list of people to be arrested, tried and convicted of treason against the citizens of the United States.
Note that 90% of you are already on that list for your treasonous Patriot-Act which violates the constitution, and 95% of the Executive branch is there as well for their own illegal, treasonous acts against the citizenry of this country.
On the post: Spanish Judge Says Use Of 'Extreme Security Measures' For Email Is Evidence Of Terrorism
Re: Re:
They are right up there with ISIS/ISIL - extremists in their own right, breaking the law left and right and not being held accountable.
Those groups in the US are constitutional terrorists wielding weapons of constitutional destruction and should be arrested, tried for treason and executed.
On the post: The Nasty Patent Games Drug Companies Play To Stop You From Getting Cheaper Drugs
Reverse the "worth" matrix a bit...
"Cost" of a life - priceless.
"Cost" of medication - outrageous.
This hits home as just one of my medications that I "have" to take to stay alive costs approximately $7k USD a month.
Penalty to a drug company that prices a life-saving medication so high that people cannot afford it and therefor die... every last dime they've ever made or ever will make.
Sounds about right to me.
Let's start suing pharmaceutical companies who's drugs are so expensive that people have to choose between Food and other essentials and medications and end up dying because the person starved if they chose medication, or died because they chose food instead of the medication.
Let's sue the pharmaceutical companies for pain, suffering and mental anguish due to the high prices causing our standard of living to drop below the poverty level.
I might end up liking this game where we can blame the pharmaceutical companies for middle-class submersion to lower-class citizens without any of the government handouts that go with that status.
On the post: Court Asked Why There's No Expectation Of Privacy In Cell Location Data, But An Expectation Of Privacy In The Cellphone Itself
Re: Government != Third Party
On the post: Court Asked Why There's No Expectation Of Privacy In Cell Location Data, But An Expectation Of Privacy In The Cellphone Itself
Government != Third Party
ie - Government equipment isn't 3rd party and fails the 3rd party test. Government equipment isn't public, though paid for by public funds, and full constitutional protection is enabled.
Any data collected by the stingray device without a warrant specific to the person and reasoning for the data is illegal and unconstitutional.
On the post: UK Party Leader Attacks Satirical Mobile Game Made By Teenagers Interested In Politics
This slides, yet another ill-timed comedian is imprisoned...
So what does the U.K. do? Arrest the person because he has a sick sense of humor.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/12/23/glasgow-crash-tweet_n_6371428.html
While here, they let things slide.
Interesting choices indeed.
Nice to know the U.K. is consistent in it's... erk - wait, no it isn't. If one slides, the other certainly should as well.
Time for someone to kick the U.K. leadership in their collective arses, since it appears that's where they've stowed what they use for brains.
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Re: Re: Death of iPhone in Iowa...
Using 2 different google accounts to login, the 2nd account restricted to 2 or 3 applications, with their own profile and data.
On the post: Iowa Dept. Of Transportation Announces Plan To Give Police Officers, Security Personnel Full Access To Your Smartphone
Re: Re: What about TSA & smartphone airline tix ?
:)
On the post: Iowa Dept. Of Transportation Announces Plan To Give Police Officers, Security Personnel Full Access To Your Smartphone
Death of iPhone in Iowa...
Unlock the driver's license side, with nothing else on it, leaving the other side locked.
Or do what I intend to do, never get the app.
On the post: Leaked Emails Reveal MPAA Plans To Pay Elected Officials To Attack Google
Re: Re: Re: Enlighten me
If the shoe fits....
In this case, your statements calling all Americans corrupt is pure bigotry.
So, if you don't like being called a bigot, stop acting like one.
On the post: Leaked Emails Reveal MPAA Plans To Pay Elected Officials To Attack Google
More Rico Act violations for the MPAA Rico Gang
Now, no congress critter can speak out against Google, ever, or they will be accused of criminally accepting bribes, slander, perjury, corruption, etc...
Looks like Google just received at a minimum, 2 years worth of free protection from Government accusation about anything.
On the post: Google Pulls Out The Nuclear Option: Shuts Down Google News In Spain Over Ridiculous Copyright Law
More proof that European legislators are idiots...
Google links to information on people's sites. For google news, it includes small snippets that whet the appetites of readers making them want to visit the news sites.
Readers / Users pick Google search and Google news because they've come to know and trust Google's results.
All of these idiotic European legislators that are believing greedy corporations over their own constituents wants (remember, it's their constituents that use Google) just shows who's really in charge in Europe (America isn't any different with our corporate overlords ruling Congress and the White House).
On the post: Illinois Legislature Passes Recording Ban To Protect Public Servants - Not The Public
Re: Why would ... 1 Strike you're out law...
The criminal cops will be forced out, they will resort to their criminal nature and hurt someone else without their badges and be removed from the streets, hopefully permanently.
This is why I strongly believe that anyone working for any kind of law enforcement agency should have any and all punishments for any laws broken be quadrupled.
1 year becomes 4 years, $10,000 fine becomes a $40,000 fine, etc...
On the post: Illinois Legislature Passes Recording Ban To Protect Public Servants - Not The Public
Re: To some degree, this is moot...
But your honor, they came in guns drawn, swat style, when we called in because our child was having breathing problems. It caused my child to panic, stop breathing - so in self defense I shot the asshole, and my child started breathing again.
Yeah, I know, total bullshit logic, but I can see events that aren't such bullshit happening - escalation from both sides if the side that is supposed to always do the right thing doesn't do always do the right thing.
On the post: Illinois Legislature Passes Recording Ban To Protect Public Servants - Not The Public
Re: Re: Future ghost state..
People will leave, sheeple will stay.
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