Well said, Drew. Far more important than her hypocrisy, amusing as it is, is the ridiculousness of the "three strikes" laws that she purportedly supports. When even the law's supporters are accidentally falling afoul of its rules, how can anybody reasonably expect to impose this on the general public?
Nobody needs any more "bailing out." It's time for industries with outdated business models to die. It's a sad reflection on the power of lobbying in our government when failing companies' first reaction is to run to Washington rather than sit down and evaluate their business strategy.
John, the problem is when they deliberately make things worse in order to get more revenue from tickets.
You can argue for putting in red light cameras to enforce the rules, but it becomes unacceptable when they deliberately make the yellow lights shorter, so people have a harder time stopping and end up "accidently" running the light. That makes things more dangerous for everybody involved, including pedestrians.
I don't think anyone should download music from an artist who does not authorize it.
I'm not sure what I think of that. It seems to fall dangerously near the idea that even if a business model doesn't work, I am obligated to support it. I don't think there should be any "moral guilt" associated with downloading music at all. There is, in fact, a large untapped market of music lovers, and it is the job of the artists, not the customers, to reach it.
I love how the people most insulting to Mike are the Anonymous Cowards. Such a fitting default name.
The AP has been ridiculously shortsighted, childish, and determined to drive itself to irrelevancy as fast as possible. They deserve to be called out as many times and in as many ways as possible, before their misinformation campaign gets enough traction for Anonymous Cowards like yourself to start claiming AP does have some kind of copyright on facts.
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You can argue for putting in red light cameras to enforce the rules, but it becomes unacceptable when they deliberately make the yellow lights shorter, so people have a harder time stopping and end up "accidently" running the light. That makes things more dangerous for everybody involved, including pedestrians.
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