The point of a Congress or a Parliament is that they hold their sessions in PUBLIC. Same as a court is supposed to. You know..something about for justice to be done it must be SEEN to be done.
You'd rather, it seems, prefer an autocracy.
One nice thing about a constitutional monarchy, like the UK or Canada is this lovely provision in Magna Charta that says the King cannot have an army. No grey areas there. None at all.
Seems that not only does this bill seek to ignore/overturn the US Bill of Rights it also seeks to overturn Magna Charta by placing the military back in the hands of the executive rather than the legislature.
There is something odd, sad and alarming that what appears to be happening, bit by bit, in the United States is the gradual overturning of what are widely considered the two founding documents of the democratic process in the English speaking world whether congressional or parliamentary today and the source documents of most of our freedoms and liberties.
We'll really be in trouble when someone decides to craft a bill, in secret of course, that cedes the legislature's right to set and control the budget to the executive.
Of course, then they can all go home, land jobs in Hollywood at obscene salaries and congratulate themselves on a job well done.
To borrow a phrase and apologize up front for any offense to copyright -- "we have met the enemy and he is us".
I'd add a warning that those who have stomachs that are easily churned take the story into the reading room (aka bathroom) before reading. That way it won't be too far to go when the last two days meals come up.
That said, it ought to be required reading. Not that it would make one iota of difference to Congress or the bureaucrats. Of course the U.S. Constitution should be too but it seems none of them have read that either or the Declaration of Independence.
Given that some 80% of proposed new series never make it to air anywhere in the English speaking world investment in a tv series is a colossal risk. Two thirds of those that do are cancelled in 4-6 weeks these days. Mostly because they're colossally bad.
Taken together I suspect the profits and revenues are negative once the rare hit is removed from them. One reason why the producers tend to be silent on the whole issue.
All in all bad reality shows are the best bet which is why so few of your union's membership is working these days because reality tv is incredibly cheap to make, demands only first year film making course quality and can be shot on a $300 handy cam.
Not a pirate there at all. Except those Hollywood casts as such. Like the pirate sites they whinge on about.
Congratulations on your 1000, or 1,500 comments. A nice solid slap on the back.
By the way, did you have AP's approval to copy that newsflashy sort of sentence? I'll have you know that AP doesn't believe in or acknowledge things like fair use so consider yourself whacked across the head with a blunt object, courtesy of Associated Press.
PIRATE!! Thief of copyright! Horrible person! Immoral, unethical bag of water and carbon!!! May you rot in hell!!!! Or at least your own delusions!
And so what that box office receipts are down? That's supposed to prove something other than a continuing bad economy or that the overwhelming bulk of Christmas releases are, for lack of a better word, crap?
Again, thanks for all your posts, blue. We wouldn't be the same without you.
Let me see now. I have a pacemaker, metal heart valves. The two of them make me audibly go tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-toc.
Does all of this screening mean I have to strip off in the middle of an airport just to prove that I'm not a bomb?
Hmmm, stuff your private room, how about right here, right now? Let's get to it!
(Same crap happens in Canada, and I threatened a screener with that and he decided to take the medical evidence that such things were actually inside me along with his little picture of my insides and outsides rather than have to suffer through that. I did have to talk to a very nice RCMP officer in the lounge as I waited for the plane to get going who thought it was the funniest thing she'd heard in years. I'm probably on Air Canada's no fly list now but I don't care as I don't fly on them, made that mistake once and never will again.)
SOPA and PROTECT IP make taking an extra intraweb out of petty cash because Beta may, perhaps may, possibly, while of of his mind or otherwise impared link to some entity on his intraweb or the other intraweb that possibly, perhaps, just might, be could be or ought to be infringing a hollywood copyright, as any links to terrorism must because they've made more than enough movies and tv shows about terrorism that simply being one, these days, would be infringing.
I know it all leads in circles but that's the whole point. Get people so dizzy they can't tell the difference.
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Precisely what "all else that's going on"?
Just curious about the knot you tied yourself in to get there and please don't say copyright infringement and the damage it's doing to movie studios and record companies and all the rest of them, they're doing fine, thank you very much.
Oddly enough so is human creativity. It must be to get to that post.
And mark me down as one of your most loyal fanboi's . I can't live properly without seeing one of your posts and suffer severe withdrawl trauma if I don't.
Dunno about you, blue but I won't think that something as foundational as "due process" needs to be codified.
One observation here, not accusing anyone of anything. Where constitutions have had to codify things like "due process" it has been largely or entirely to avoid them while allowing the governments in question to stomp all over their own citizens and any any neighbouring countries they wish to stomp all over. Case in point -- Zimbabwe.
The arguments about EBay, YouTube and others don't go away. The censorious parts of the act are still there just not the mucking about with DNS.
Lemme see now. American content. Snow White, a European folk tale, heavily sanitized, beautifully animated (at least I'll admit that part) and almost completely changed from the original tale though Disney now claims ownership not only of their film but has been known to claim ownership of the original folk tale. There are a whack of other examples of such things but time, space and the need to pay the price for renting coffee will prevent me from listing them all.
American jobs. The entertainment industry employs less than 1/10th of 1 percent of Americans and contributes not much more to the GDP. The tech industry which has far more to lose from copyright infringement employs several hundreds of magnitudes more Americans and several thousands of magnitudes more to the US economy but is opposed to the bill(s).
Something is wrong there. Something makes no sense there. Something smells there, other than the usual scent of bought members of the House of Representatives and Senators,
Rotting flesh, perhaps or the death of the ideals of the American Revolution.
If it's aiming at piracy you have to be quite dense to see that it's gonna miss. Incredibly dense. Unbelievably dense.
Kinda like prohibition went after alcohol. It missed. So will this.
One was horrible law and the world is living with the consequences of that. One will be horrible law and, sorry, bub, this time those of us in the rest of the world want you to keep the consequences at home and to yourself.
Maybe the Great Firewall of America will do the rest of us some good by keeping such babble in the United States away from the rest of us.
When failing at you own argument reach for another as a distraction no matter how ridiculous.
You can't defend the Great Firewall of America on it's merit so you bundle up kiddie porn into your cannon load and fire.
How very Mythbusterish of you. Let loose your cannon ball and watch as it bounces around hither and you all while declaring "it's for the children, can't you see THAT"???
It's been said you're a lawyer. The past time of most legislators. With that remark I clearly see you running for office come November.
Jackass.
At least they apologized for their misfire and are paying for the damages. I doubt you're all that willing to or much less see any damages.
A court would likely see it that way too as it's what is on the page not on any 'intent" that rulings are made. Though in this case the intent being to censor all three are valid. Some smart-ass lawyer or some judge who once worked as a lawyer in Hollwood would read it that way.
Speaking of religious mantra, of course it did. I'm not a complete fool. (Bit snarky at the moment though.)
You gotta do both if you want to balance a budget and get out of a debt hole such as the United States is in, for example.
Congress, it seems, wants to do neither. Mostly the Republicans, or a fair whack of them who quote the no new taxes mantra, want to do neither. Cut spending? Sure everywhere. whoops, don't touch the military or out other pet programs. Can't go to any of those though those budgetary items are wildly out of control. Nope, not that, not there. In fact we need to increase our spending on toys for the boys. Never mind that by several orders of magnitude we have the most powerful military on earth!
In their own way the Democrats are no better. At least they don't totally rule out the other side of the equation. That's where the political religion comes into play.
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You'd rather, it seems, prefer an autocracy.
One nice thing about a constitutional monarchy, like the UK or Canada is this lovely provision in Magna Charta that says the King cannot have an army. No grey areas there. None at all.
Seems that not only does this bill seek to ignore/overturn the US Bill of Rights it also seeks to overturn Magna Charta by placing the military back in the hands of the executive rather than the legislature.
There is something odd, sad and alarming that what appears to be happening, bit by bit, in the United States is the gradual overturning of what are widely considered the two founding documents of the democratic process in the English speaking world whether congressional or parliamentary today and the source documents of most of our freedoms and liberties.
We'll really be in trouble when someone decides to craft a bill, in secret of course, that cedes the legislature's right to set and control the budget to the executive.
Of course, then they can all go home, land jobs in Hollywood at obscene salaries and congratulate themselves on a job well done.
To borrow a phrase and apologize up front for any offense to copyright -- "we have met the enemy and he is us".
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That said, it ought to be required reading. Not that it would make one iota of difference to Congress or the bureaucrats. Of course the U.S. Constitution should be too but it seems none of them have read that either or the Declaration of Independence.
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How about the ownership deed to Montana?
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Taken together I suspect the profits and revenues are negative once the rare hit is removed from them. One reason why the producers tend to be silent on the whole issue.
All in all bad reality shows are the best bet which is why so few of your union's membership is working these days because reality tv is incredibly cheap to make, demands only first year film making course quality and can be shot on a $300 handy cam.
Not a pirate there at all. Except those Hollywood casts as such. Like the pirate sites they whinge on about.
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Just curious.
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Re: Well, the AP says otherwise. Who knows?
By the way, did you have AP's approval to copy that newsflashy sort of sentence? I'll have you know that AP doesn't believe in or acknowledge things like fair use so consider yourself whacked across the head with a blunt object, courtesy of Associated Press.
PIRATE!! Thief of copyright! Horrible person! Immoral, unethical bag of water and carbon!!! May you rot in hell!!!! Or at least your own delusions!
And so what that box office receipts are down? That's supposed to prove something other than a continuing bad economy or that the overwhelming bulk of Christmas releases are, for lack of a better word, crap?
Again, thanks for all your posts, blue. We wouldn't be the same without you.
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Piracy has killed the movie industry? Tell that to the CEOs that make more money than most of their employees, COMBINED
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Does all of this screening mean I have to strip off in the middle of an airport just to prove that I'm not a bomb?
Hmmm, stuff your private room, how about right here, right now? Let's get to it!
(Same crap happens in Canada, and I threatened a screener with that and he decided to take the medical evidence that such things were actually inside me along with his little picture of my insides and outsides rather than have to suffer through that. I did have to talk to a very nice RCMP officer in the lounge as I waited for the plane to get going who thought it was the funniest thing she'd heard in years. I'm probably on Air Canada's no fly list now but I don't care as I don't fly on them, made that mistake once and never will again.)
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I know it all leads in circles but that's the whole point. Get people so dizzy they can't tell the difference.
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Re: Well, "Abe" better put his photos on a DVD! Maybe even on paper!
Just curious about the knot you tied yourself in to get there and please don't say copyright infringement and the damage it's doing to movie studios and record companies and all the rest of them, they're doing fine, thank you very much.
Oddly enough so is human creativity. It must be to get to that post.
And mark me down as one of your most loyal fanboi's . I can't live properly without seeing one of your posts and suffer severe withdrawl trauma if I don't.
You're just soooooooooo important!
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One observation here, not accusing anyone of anything. Where constitutions have had to codify things like "due process" it has been largely or entirely to avoid them while allowing the governments in question to stomp all over their own citizens and any any neighbouring countries they wish to stomp all over. Case in point -- Zimbabwe.
Sleep tight, blue.
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Lemme see now. American content. Snow White, a European folk tale, heavily sanitized, beautifully animated (at least I'll admit that part) and almost completely changed from the original tale though Disney now claims ownership not only of their film but has been known to claim ownership of the original folk tale. There are a whack of other examples of such things but time, space and the need to pay the price for renting coffee will prevent me from listing them all.
American jobs. The entertainment industry employs less than 1/10th of 1 percent of Americans and contributes not much more to the GDP. The tech industry which has far more to lose from copyright infringement employs several hundreds of magnitudes more Americans and several thousands of magnitudes more to the US economy but is opposed to the bill(s).
Something is wrong there. Something makes no sense there. Something smells there, other than the usual scent of bought members of the House of Representatives and Senators,
Rotting flesh, perhaps or the death of the ideals of the American Revolution.
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Kinda like prohibition went after alcohol. It missed. So will this.
One was horrible law and the world is living with the consequences of that. One will be horrible law and, sorry, bub, this time those of us in the rest of the world want you to keep the consequences at home and to yourself.
Maybe the Great Firewall of America will do the rest of us some good by keeping such babble in the United States away from the rest of us.
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When failing at you own argument reach for another as a distraction no matter how ridiculous.
You can't defend the Great Firewall of America on it's merit so you bundle up kiddie porn into your cannon load and fire.
How very Mythbusterish of you. Let loose your cannon ball and watch as it bounces around hither and you all while declaring "it's for the children, can't you see THAT"???
It's been said you're a lawyer. The past time of most legislators. With that remark I clearly see you running for office come November.
Jackass.
At least they apologized for their misfire and are paying for the damages. I doubt you're all that willing to or much less see any damages.
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Let the dance begin!
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You gotta do both if you want to balance a budget and get out of a debt hole such as the United States is in, for example.
Congress, it seems, wants to do neither. Mostly the Republicans, or a fair whack of them who quote the no new taxes mantra, want to do neither. Cut spending? Sure everywhere. whoops, don't touch the military or out other pet programs. Can't go to any of those though those budgetary items are wildly out of control. Nope, not that, not there. In fact we need to increase our spending on toys for the boys. Never mind that by several orders of magnitude we have the most powerful military on earth!
In their own way the Democrats are no better. At least they don't totally rule out the other side of the equation. That's where the political religion comes into play.
John Doe? Amonyomous Coward. Sheesh.
Thanks, though.
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