Anyone up for a little Operation Fast and Furious?
I think we should demand a new agency with sweeping security powers to protect us from the agencies that continually endanger and sometimes even hurt and kill US citzens with their operations.
As I have read before on this very site by an AC, "If it saves even one life..."
That's a bummer, my wife joins in. May even be a bigger fan then me. She's not too geeky, but our opinions align perfectly where that show's concerned.
I'd give the guy a break, at least he is willing to admit who he works for.
For a good answer Jim, read the AC response. There is a new group of consumers who use the internet to access information and entertainment at such a volume that a traditional cable TV package no longer makes sense at any price.
My prediction is that this group will grow in size and in the long run make the current cable TV service, as it is, less and less profitable. Companies that find adaptations now will be able to mitigate the damage, or perhaps even find an offering for the new market.
Without scrutiny, those with greater powers are bound to abuse them without penalty, and I happen to just be cynical enough to be saddened when the police don't live up the examples set up for them. I don't think expecting honesty, responsibility, and an understanding of citizen rights and their duties as too much to demand.
For laws to be followed they have to make sense to people. If copyright laws are being increasingly flouted, maybe it's because they no longer make sense as they are.
As for suggesting being able to opt out of a law is silly. It may sound odd in the legal sense, but socially it has tremendous power, as a matter of fact, it's woven into the US cultural and political fabric.
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I heard about that on the radio. Folks are averaging 2 to 3 times the average penalty, is that right?
Did I also hear my radio right in that some of the larger sentences went to people who were said to have organized some of the mobs through Facebook? Which sentence aside, does sound kinda heinous.
But why should we accept the destruction of a perfectly good business model - the selling of copies?
Because that business model no longer makes sense in a market where a copy can be produced so cheaply it's practically free. For most forms of media, with a few mouse clicks anyone can produce an exact digital copy of that media for at the cost of the hard drive space, which nowadays is fractions of a penny per MB.
'Alternative Business Models' may be possible for Rock Musicians, but what about Novelists, poets, artists, protographers, journalists...?
Sorry, but you'll have to be more specific that that, because at TD, the "Sure it worked fine for X, but what about Y?" doesn't count as an argument, though it is good for a chuckle.
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Thats the day the 'social contract' will be tested, when those who feel they were not represented by the political process refuse to pay the debts for those that were represented.
And by my watch, I'm thinking that test will likely happen within 20 years, maybe less. It depends on how fast the Boomers die off.
Secrets are the greatest tool of tyrants. By its very intent it's impossible to know how much wrong has been done under in the name of "that's classified".
In the end, they want those magic words to convey an immunity that no free society should allow.
It's the bugbear of indeterminate sentencing, or even sentencing guidelines. Sometimes folks seem to get off light, while other folks look like they got a Hammurabi level smack-down.
I'm not saying that a great solution exists, but mandatory sentencing is no picnic either.
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Did I mention you also play 10 variations on the Inna-Gadda-Da-Vita drum solo? Because that's the part that pwns the most.
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I think we should demand a new agency with sweeping security powers to protect us from the agencies that continually endanger and sometimes even hurt and kill US citzens with their operations.
As I have read before on this very site by an AC, "If it saves even one life..."
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Acutally it's just good gardening.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
- Thomas Jefferson
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In general, speak what you like. Just don't be surprised if I call you a moron, debate you, or even pop you in nose*.
*Note that one's liberty to pop someone on the nose for saying something does not absolve them from the consquence of assault charges.
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That's a bummer, my wife joins in. May even be a bigger fan then me. She's not too geeky, but our opinions align perfectly where that show's concerned.
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For a good answer Jim, read the AC response. There is a new group of consumers who use the internet to access information and entertainment at such a volume that a traditional cable TV package no longer makes sense at any price.
My prediction is that this group will grow in size and in the long run make the current cable TV service, as it is, less and less profitable. Companies that find adaptations now will be able to mitigate the damage, or perhaps even find an offering for the new market.
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I know what you're trying to say, but a public servant carrying out duties in public ought to have nothing to hide, legally and ethically.
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As for suggesting being able to opt out of a law is silly. It may sound odd in the legal sense, but socially it has tremendous power, as a matter of fact, it's woven into the US cultural and political fabric.
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Did I also hear my radio right in that some of the larger sentences went to people who were said to have organized some of the mobs through Facebook? Which sentence aside, does sound kinda heinous.
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Because that business model no longer makes sense in a market where a copy can be produced so cheaply it's practically free. For most forms of media, with a few mouse clicks anyone can produce an exact digital copy of that media for at the cost of the hard drive space, which nowadays is fractions of a penny per MB.
'Alternative Business Models' may be possible for Rock Musicians, but what about Novelists, poets, artists, protographers, journalists...?
Sorry, but you'll have to be more specific that that, because at TD, the "Sure it worked fine for X, but what about Y?" doesn't count as an argument, though it is good for a chuckle.
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And by my watch, I'm thinking that test will likely happen within 20 years, maybe less. It depends on how fast the Boomers die off.
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In the end, they want those magic words to convey an immunity that no free society should allow.
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I'm not saying that a great solution exists, but mandatory sentencing is no picnic either.
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