Of course, you know much more than an entire appeals board, right? Oh, and it's better if you don't mention the government is behind it because when the government tries to stifle speech then it is a no no. And we have plenty of examples where it meddled in stuff like logos and car id tags and it was considered speech by MULTIPLE courts.
It's no use. Quite a lot of ppl who are 15+ already hold plenty of contempt against copyright and are generally ok with dowloading stuff. Kids will generally go with their parents. Still, it adds to the laughingstock the MAFIAA is and will survive for ages. You wouldn't download a car, would you?
Re: Re: Re: Congratulations for finding another horrid anomaly -- by which the primacy of common decency and common law is proven.
I don't think "The most laughed at person" can be considered a prize for non comedians. Then again he/she/it could be a comedian in which case he/she/it is brilliant!
I wonder, if ill-intent can be proven (and it seems quite obvious to me), will Ajit Pai be properly punished for it (ie: lose his position or be fined)?
Totalitarian assholes don't like free speech. Just check who are the ones attacking free speech right now and you'll see who are the wannabe dictators/tyrants. Sadly the US has one at their top position right now as well.
I not naive so I don't expect it to reach Trump and even then I expect him to veto. No, as the article notes, the real usefulness of this is to get the telco puppets on record.
And I do sincerely hope Democrats don't screw up too much (like they did with that surveillance powers) until the midterms and Republicans suffer a very major loss.
Also, in a not really on topic comment, we need things like midterms here. Current legislative AND executive are beyond horrible but you have to stick with both till the end of the presidential term.
I'm no fan of China but there is plenty in the backstage to justify such arbitrary actions. Back when the developed world was deep into the financial crisis they produced themselves the BRICs started forming an alliance to be more autonomous. One of the results of this was an international bank that was born to be an alternative to the world bank and the IMF. Europe and the US got incredibly nervous about the initiative because at the time the BRICs were in quite good shape and there was a real risk they'd lose the control of the world order that was established post 1945. The attacks against the alliance came from all sorts of places including the traditional media but if you go to the alternative journalism you will find a much better picture even if there are plenty of problems to solve in the bank to use that initiative as an example. Sadly the current Brazilian govt is but a puppet of the economic powers and started attacking the alliance as well.
In any case, I do think we need to be very cautious about China and Russia given some of their actions. But then again wouldn't it be true to the US and Europe as well? I just wanted to throw some middle ground in the discussion.
They didn't expect so much backlash and resistance and when it was clear this was going to happen they chose the head-in-sand approach hoping it would go away. The shitstorm is coming, Pai.
It's hard to acknowledge you screwed up. Easiest way out is to yell "LOOK OVER THERE" in hopes everybody ignore they are behind Papier-mâché security that's putting over a billion people at risk of fraud. Future damages be damned.
lol seriously... Even if you ignore malice, these people have to be bed sheets pissing terrified of Terrorism (tm) to maintain such powers in the hands of a man with clear psychiatric and bigotry issues...
Came for Prenda and popcorn comments, was not disappointed!
However... Nobody has noticed but I've seen right through the scheme. Darren M. Griffin, Daniel Macek, Daniel Susac, Tobias Fieser, Michael Patzer and Arheidt are all... *ominous drums* ALAN COOPER!!
Re: Deliberately choosing to be a sharecropper is a bad move
I'd say diversify. I don't think it's that easy to maintain your own infra structure. Specially if you are not very familiar with coding. Keeping the stuff you use on your server updated, the code you use on your site updated, produce code without leaving all sorts of trash and possible security issues behind... It's not an easy task. But you can use more than one platform to have places to fall back to.
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As for Apple, more of the same? Good thing public backlash works on them.
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Re: BOGUS
*bows to Mr Cressman, the smartass*
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Re: Re: Re: Congratulations for finding another horrid anomaly -- by which the primacy of common decency and common law is proven.
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And I do sincerely hope Democrats don't screw up too much (like they did with that surveillance powers) until the midterms and Republicans suffer a very major loss.
Also, in a not really on topic comment, we need things like midterms here. Current legislative AND executive are beyond horrible but you have to stick with both till the end of the presidential term.
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Re: Re: Aaron Swartz
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Dear Ai, you are not prepared.
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In any case, I do think we need to be very cautious about China and Russia given some of their actions. But then again wouldn't it be true to the US and Europe as well? I just wanted to throw some middle ground in the discussion.
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Obligatory.
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However... Nobody has noticed but I've seen right through the scheme. Darren M. Griffin, Daniel Macek, Daniel Susac, Tobias Fieser, Michael Patzer and Arheidt are all... *ominous drums* ALAN COOPER!!
Clever tactics, Prenda, clever tactics.
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That was pretty hard to write without hitting the space bar.
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