One first step is to change our electoral systems to one of several that aren't first past the post to allow for more than just two parties.
Who would have the power to decide to make such a change? Congress. Never going to happen. That thought dies stillborn.
The states in the US will need to line up together opposite DC for anything to be done about this. That might be a way forward. Canadian provinces tend to do well playing that card (but we've only got (?) ten provinces, whereas the US is saddled with over fifty when you add in things like Guam and Puerto Rico).
The United States has the right to bear arms for some very serious reasons.
Reasons that are both massively out of date and arguably come at a very steep price.
You may think that, but I'm pretty sure the Apache nation still hates your guts and would love to see the back of you if you didn't have overwhelming firepower on your side.
Hate takes many forms, some of which can take centuries to be seen in the raw. I'm Canadian, but even our Natives/Aboriginals are still pretty peed at us invaders, and we were relatively nice about it all compared to how the US treated its Natives. If there's ever another Little Big Horn, I won't be on Custer's side. He was a supreme asshole in pretty much every way possible. Our forbears treated Natives little better than rodents. Black slaves had it good in comparison.
You definitely do need the right to bear arms in the US. Pockets of the US population are only barely under control.
And that line really tells you all you need to know about how they see copyright.
Yeah, and if you take the time to actually listen to the song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYEsFQ_gt7c), why the FSCK does it make any sense to lock it up for rightsholders to monetize it?!? It's an artist making a political statement! Why are those morans even invited to this party??!? This is my cultural heritage speaking to me.
Because politicians and rightsholders stealing from us.
But when Garfield was assassinated and Arthur took office he grew a conscience ...
Or, he was released from the necessity of caring about his (former?) employers' priorities, and thus felt himself free to speak his mind (to our benefit)?
In olden days, turncoats were considered unreliable (at the least) for good reason. Secrets were no longer secrets if they were in the hands of turncoats.
They're called Inuit these days, and lots of countries the world over think skiing is fun. Been there, done that, never again.
You sure you're a Real American?
North American, yes. US citizen, no. You think "American" only applies to residents of the USA ("United States ***OF*** America")? Millions of Canadians, Central Americans, and South Americans disagree. However, we've learned to accept the arrogant delusions of you "Americans."
I read somewhere, years back, that an entire regiment of Canajun Soldiers had to be rescued from the Labrador or Manitoba woods during a military exercise because of Black Flies.
Proves my point. It's hell to go outside if it's not -40. Somebody screwed up scheduling maneuvers during bug season. Someone quantified it as 600 bites per minute in downtown Winterpeg.
North in the Territories, I hear the mosquitos are six feet (ca. two metres) long and 200 lb. (200 * 0.4535923 == 90 kg.).
That may just be the Inuit trying to dissuade us from going there.
Despite the rapprochement of recent decades, France intends to remain the only NATO member outside the Nuclear Planning Group and, unlike the United States and the United Kingdom, will not commit its nuclear-armed submarines to the alliance.
Geez. Japanese and other Orientals have the reputation of being "inscrutable." They've got nothing on the French.
"Are you with us, or against us?!?"
"That depends ..."
Voltaire giggles from the grave. "Try to back me into a corner? I'll show you three other corners you've managed to forget exist."
Re: Re: by way of Mandated Arbitration Agreements snuck into TOSes and EULAs
Oh wait! Did you mean that our Standard Court System is no longer answering to the public, but now answers to private interests...
Yeah, I'm sure the SCOTUS are all entirely dispassionately and objectively just interpreting the law as written by Congress.
Chuckle. Yeah, and when one of them retires, there's a huge hullabaloo over who (as in, which party) gets to choose their sucessor. What's up with that? :-O
Re: I'm actally pretty sure the folks at the polling sites are honest.
I've mentioned before that were I writing a script for a moving featuring some kids engaging in partisan activity, they might first start by sabotaging the stationary cell-phone spoofing towers ...
Great idea, and yet another proof that guns are merely tools. You don't have to shoot people with them. Cell APs are just as vulnerable to bullets as are biologicals.
It helps that APs can generally be found on the tallest buildings in the area. No chance of friendly fire hurting people.
How about easy and cheap access to all other artists' works which you can then tranform and build upon to create new works. In other words, culture.
Or were you hoping to rest on your laurels and continue feeding off works you performed decades ago, verging on a century ago? Why the hell would we want that, of anybody? There's enough freeloaders out there already.
I don't understand why any copyright would not last until the actual death of the artist, at the very least.
I'd like a royalty from past employers for some of the brilliant IT work I've done for clients in the past. That includes four day sleepless perl hacks which worked flawlessly when rolled out. Some of that was arguably of far more value monetarily to those corps I worked for.
Why are you entitled to special consideration, by law, and I'm not? Some of my work screams artistry far louder than anything Celine Dion or Justin Bieber ever managed. Their stuff was ephemeral; listen to it once and you never want to hear it again. Mine's still out there working for a living, some of it constantly with no breaks on multiple servers in multiple countries around the world.
This !@#$ is ethically right down at the bottom of the barrel with nepotism and golden handshakes (or golden spoons).
We need a new word. Treason is generally defined as attacking a state. We need a word that describes attacking the public, and office holders of the regime should be subject to it.
In the case of the non U.S. ones like this, the govt usually doesn't want to put in any of this crap, they just do it at gunpoint from the U.S.
Not this time. Canada's been consistently spitting in the face of the USTR for years over the stupid 301 (?) report, but this time it appears the gov't of the day just outright gifted Music Canada for no reason. Well, no reason except there's an election coming up and bribes/donations from Music Canada (or anybody, really) are always welcome.
I wonder how they can think they're serving the public when they gut public domain.
Including Canada in Five Eyes is like a gang of thugs hanging out with a nerdy guy to improve their image.
Worse, I'm afraid. It's like Einstein hanging out with street gangs believing that doing so might get him more nooky than he was finding by himself. It's pathetic. Foolishly, Einstein hasn't twigged to the fact that they were only letting him hang with them because they know his wallet's full and his parents are rich so he'll happily hand over fistfuls to his new bros without worrying about it.
Why's Canada fighting ISIS when the Saudis, Turkey, and Israel are supporting them? Why's the US consulate in Syria accusing Assad of being on the side of ISIS? Nothing makes even a lick of sense in this mess.
Have you forgotten the lesson I knocked into your head last time about the difference between constructive tools and destructive weaponry?
Assumes facts not in evidence. A tool is not constructive or destructive. It's just a lump of inanimate matter. The person wielding the tool is what you should be concerned with.
It's becoming tedious listening to you play that same silly song over and over. I think we get it: you've a pathological disgust for guns and you're never going to allow yourself to question that assumption. Fine.
because i fi dint have violent video game to purge stress from i might just ya lose it with all this bullcrap going on...
And then ya just have to asplode!!! Uh, huh. Video gamer spends every waking moment shooting phantoms, then when that's not enough, decides to hunt real humans. Chyaa, right. Maye he was just a sick fuck and should have been killed years ago, but gaming helped him keep it together.
On the post: Google Was Gagged For Four Years From Talking About Fighting The Wikileaks Investigation
Re: "Voters don't care."
Who would have the power to decide to make such a change? Congress. Never going to happen. That thought dies stillborn.
The states in the US will need to line up together opposite DC for anything to be done about this. That might be a way forward. Canadian provinces tend to do well playing that card (but we've only got (?) ten provinces, whereas the US is saddled with over fifty when you add in things like Guam and Puerto Rico).
On the post: Authorities Can't Find Anything To Charge Alleged 'Extremist' With But Still Insist On 24-Hour Monitoring, Computer Restrictions
Re: Yanqui
On the post: Took Longer Than I Expected: Bill O'Reilly Yanks Video Games Into Charleston Massacre For No Reason At All
Re: Re: Banning guns
You may think that, but I'm pretty sure the Apache nation still hates your guts and would love to see the back of you if you didn't have overwhelming firepower on your side.
Hate takes many forms, some of which can take centuries to be seen in the raw. I'm Canadian, but even our Natives/Aboriginals are still pretty peed at us invaders, and we were relatively nice about it all compared to how the US treated its Natives. If there's ever another Little Big Horn, I won't be on Custer's side. He was a supreme asshole in pretty much every way possible. Our forbears treated Natives little better than rodents. Black slaves had it good in comparison.
You definitely do need the right to bear arms in the US. Pockets of the US population are only barely under control.
On the post: Authorities Can't Find Anything To Charge Alleged 'Extremist' With But Still Insist On 24-Hour Monitoring, Computer Restrictions
Re: Someone from the US
On the post: Canada Saves Public From Public Domain, Extends Copyright On Sound Recordings Another 20 Years
Re:
Yeah, and if you take the time to actually listen to the song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYEsFQ_gt7c), why the FSCK does it make any sense to lock it up for rightsholders to monetize it?!? It's an artist making a political statement! Why are those morans even invited to this party??!? This is my cultural heritage speaking to me.
Because politicians and rightsholders stealing from us.
On the post: Google Was Gagged For Four Years From Talking About Fighting The Wikileaks Investigation
Re: "Only two?"
Or, he was released from the necessity of caring about his (former?) employers' priorities, and thus felt himself free to speak his mind (to our benefit)?
In olden days, turncoats were considered unreliable (at the least) for good reason. Secrets were no longer secrets if they were in the hands of turncoats.
On the post: Authorities Can't Find Anything To Charge Alleged 'Extremist' With But Still Insist On 24-Hour Monitoring, Computer Restrictions
Re: Re: Re: Re:
They're called Inuit these days, and lots of countries the world over think skiing is fun. Been there, done that, never again.
North American, yes. US citizen, no. You think "American" only applies to residents of the USA ("United States ***OF*** America")? Millions of Canadians, Central Americans, and South Americans disagree. However, we've learned to accept the arrogant delusions of you "Americans."
Proves my point. It's hell to go outside if it's not -40. Somebody screwed up scheduling maneuvers during bug season. Someone quantified it as 600 bites per minute in downtown Winterpeg.
North in the Territories, I hear the mosquitos are six feet (ca. two metres) long and 200 lb. (200 * 0.4535923 == 90 kg.).
That may just be the Inuit trying to dissuade us from going there.
On the post: French Government Not Happy With Recent NSA Revelations; Vows To Do More Spying On Its Own Citizens
Re: Re: Re:
Geez. Japanese and other Orientals have the reputation of being "inscrutable." They've got nothing on the French.
"Are you with us, or against us?!?"
"That depends ..."
Voltaire giggles from the grave. "Try to back me into a corner? I'll show you three other corners you've managed to forget exist."
On the post: The Ridiculous Redactions The DOJ Required To Try To Hide The Details Of Its Google Gag Order
Re: Re: by way of Mandated Arbitration Agreements snuck into TOSes and EULAs
Yeah, I'm sure the SCOTUS are all entirely dispassionately and objectively just interpreting the law as written by Congress.
Chuckle. Yeah, and when one of them retires, there's a huge hullabaloo over who (as in, which party) gets to choose their sucessor. What's up with that? :-O
On the post: Google Was Gagged For Four Years From Talking About Fighting The Wikileaks Investigation
Re: I'm actally pretty sure the folks at the polling sites are honest.
Great idea, and yet another proof that guns are merely tools. You don't have to shoot people with them. Cell APs are just as vulnerable to bullets as are biologicals.
It helps that APs can generally be found on the tallest buildings in the area. No chance of friendly fire hurting people.
On the post: Canada Saves Public From Public Domain, Extends Copyright On Sound Recordings Another 20 Years
Re:
How about easy and cheap access to all other artists' works which you can then tranform and build upon to create new works. In other words, culture.
Or were you hoping to rest on your laurels and continue feeding off works you performed decades ago, verging on a century ago? Why the hell would we want that, of anybody? There's enough freeloaders out there already.
On the post: Canada Saves Public From Public Domain, Extends Copyright On Sound Recordings Another 20 Years
Re: Normally
I'd like a royalty from past employers for some of the brilliant IT work I've done for clients in the past. That includes four day sleepless perl hacks which worked flawlessly when rolled out. Some of that was arguably of far more value monetarily to those corps I worked for.
Why are you entitled to special consideration, by law, and I'm not? Some of my work screams artistry far louder than anything Celine Dion or Justin Bieber ever managed. Their stuff was ephemeral; listen to it once and you never want to hear it again. Mine's still out there working for a living, some of it constantly with no breaks on multiple servers in multiple countries around the world.
This !@#$ is ethically right down at the bottom of the barrel with nepotism and golden handshakes (or golden spoons).
On the post: Canada Saves Public From Public Domain, Extends Copyright On Sound Recordings Another 20 Years
Re: Re: Ex Post Facto
We need a new word. Treason is generally defined as attacking a state. We need a word that describes attacking the public, and office holders of the regime should be subject to it.
On the post: Canada Saves Public From Public Domain, Extends Copyright On Sound Recordings Another 20 Years
Re: Re: Re:
Not this time. Canada's been consistently spitting in the face of the USTR for years over the stupid 301 (?) report, but this time it appears the gov't of the day just outright gifted Music Canada for no reason. Well, no reason except there's an election coming up and bribes/donations from Music Canada (or anybody, really) are always welcome.
I wonder how they can think they're serving the public when they gut public domain.
On the post: French Government Not Happy With Recent NSA Revelations; Vows To Do More Spying On Its Own Citizens
Re:
Is France a member of NATO? I know DeGaulle was adamant about keeping France out of it. Has that changed?
On the post: French Government Not Happy With Recent NSA Revelations; Vows To Do More Spying On Its Own Citizens
Re: Re: Five Eyes
Worse, I'm afraid. It's like Einstein hanging out with street gangs believing that doing so might get him more nooky than he was finding by himself. It's pathetic. Foolishly, Einstein hasn't twigged to the fact that they were only letting him hang with them because they know his wallet's full and his parents are rich so he'll happily hand over fistfuls to his new bros without worrying about it.
Why's Canada fighting ISIS when the Saudis, Turkey, and Israel are supporting them? Why's the US consulate in Syria accusing Assad of being on the side of ISIS? Nothing makes even a lick of sense in this mess.
On the post: Took Longer Than I Expected: Bill O'Reilly Yanks Video Games Into Charleston Massacre For No Reason At All
Re: Re: motor vehicles
Assumes facts not in evidence. A tool is not constructive or destructive. It's just a lump of inanimate matter. The person wielding the tool is what you should be concerned with.
It's becoming tedious listening to you play that same silly song over and over. I think we get it: you've a pathological disgust for guns and you're never going to allow yourself to question that assumption. Fine.
On the post: Took Longer Than I Expected: Bill O'Reilly Yanks Video Games Into Charleston Massacre For No Reason At All
Re: Blaming even guns is a distraction to the real causes for rampage killings.
It's sort of irrelevant when mere traffic casualties can swamp whatever lethal weaponry can do.
On the post: Took Longer Than I Expected: Bill O'Reilly Yanks Video Games Into Charleston Massacre For No Reason At All
Re: its the oppisite of what they say
And then ya just have to asplode!!! Uh, huh. Video gamer spends every waking moment shooting phantoms, then when that's not enough, decides to hunt real humans. Chyaa, right. Maye he was just a sick fuck and should have been killed years ago, but gaming helped him keep it together.
On the post: Took Longer Than I Expected: Bill O'Reilly Yanks Video Games Into Charleston Massacre For No Reason At All
Re: Re:
Think before you type. Worthless things do little more than hurt. Pennies aren't even worth talking about how little they're worth.
Next >>