There you are, wandering the back-country woods of the Grand Canyon. Within sight of you are 3 men wearing badges and armed with AK47s.
Later, on a cross-country bicycling trip on the dirt back-roads of the east coast; traveling from DC to Florida you find you're passing an AK47'd Gov Agent every few hundred feet.
Still later, while scuba diving off the Florida Keys, you're ready to explore an underwater cave--but the AK47'd Agent just won't move from the underwater cave mouth.
While traveling thru Texas to get home, you read a headline "Oil Pipeline found Clogged with TSA Agent and AK47!"...
I do not believe there are enough people (or AK47s for that matter) to post an agent every few hundred feet over every acre of ground the Empirical Regime of the United States has laid claim to.
And yet, it's still quite a debatable position that the US is a police state--or will be soon enough.
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Wage Slavery is, again, far more effective than slavery.
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Tactfully yours...
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Re: Holy Crap!!
As you stated, one false accusation nets the establishment a large fine--it doesn't matter if you're guilty or innocent.
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Re: Moar uses!
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Re: CDA 101
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OMG, you should patent that!
;-P
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Re: Shame on you Techdirt!
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Re: :-(
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Re: Well then
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Re: Re: Re: PopoSta
Imagine:
There you are, wandering the back-country woods of the Grand Canyon. Within sight of you are 3 men wearing badges and armed with AK47s.
Later, on a cross-country bicycling trip on the dirt back-roads of the east coast; traveling from DC to Florida you find you're passing an AK47'd Gov Agent every few hundred feet.
Still later, while scuba diving off the Florida Keys, you're ready to explore an underwater cave--but the AK47'd Agent just won't move from the underwater cave mouth.
While traveling thru Texas to get home, you read a headline "Oil Pipeline found Clogged with TSA Agent and AK47!"...
I do not believe there are enough people (or AK47s for that matter) to post an agent every few hundred feet over every acre of ground the Empirical Regime of the United States has laid claim to.
And yet, it's still quite a debatable position that the US is a police state--or will be soon enough.
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Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin
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Re: Re: Thomas Edison was an ass.
...ass.
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Thomas Edison was an ass.
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You want to tell them the facts? Good luck, it will cost you.
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Bogusity
3 provably false DMCA notices and the party responsible for sending said bogus DMCA notices loses the privilege of sending such notices for 1 year.
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Re: Pick me!
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Clap with one hand!
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to take this at the other face-value--the deaf just wanted it the most.
;-P
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