How would he have known that? Generally, "characters" cannot be copyrighted (that characters can be copyrighted in some cases just speaks to how broken copyright law is), so what would make him think the batmobile would be an exception?
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"Only there I find people that don't see that "just push legislation" mean "write laws"."
It's not a hard distinction to make. Writing laws is actually writing bills. Pushing legislation is selling those bills to Congress so they become laws. A lot of US law was never written by elected officials, but directly by corporations who then pay a lot of money to get them made into law.
"That's same people that want democracy, but think that "Who voted for the politicians is irrelevant""
No contradiction. We want democracy, but don't have it.
""corporation leaders my bribe politicians, therefore let's not have corporations". Or is it "let's not have politicians""
What? I didn't assert either of those things, and I don't agree with either.
"That doesn't compute in my head. Whatever is "puny" is anything but "essential"."
Your body requires microscopic amounts of certain nutrients in order to live. Those nutrients are puny, but essential.
In other words, voting is important and essential, but is not powerful enough to solve anything all by itself. Not voting can derail efforts to fix our corrupt system, though. So, puny, but essential.
"The worst part emotionally for me, is that these idiots are proud of what they are doing."
You have to expect that. Very nearly everybody (especially people who are doing great evil) thinks that they are the good guy and are working for some sort of ultimate good. Politicians are no exception.
"Why is someone who has an ongoing investigation with the FBI allowed to be a presidential candidate?"
Because the Constitution doesn't prohibit it. There are only three required qualifications to be President: you have to be a natural born citizen, you have to be at least 35 years old, and you have to have been a resident of the US for at least 14 years.
To change or add to these requires a constitutional amendment.
"Not having comments on a page will still get those lurkers"
Not all of them. I lurk at most of the sites I regularly read, but if those sites stopped allowing comments, I'd stop going to them. The comments are almost always the most useful part.
Hmmm, every part of the judges analysis could be interpreted as apply to K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider as well. It isn't even hard to argue that there's a bat-like quality to it.
"I didn't want to get rid of the comments, but when you're a one person operation that has but a few hundred loyal readers, it's hard to justify keeping it when 90% of the comments were the generic "I love what you wrote" bullshit just trying to get a free link back to their spam sites, as opposed to a reader or listener making a legit comment."
There are some excellent plugins for wordpress to help with this. I'm one person running a couple of websites with more than a few hundred readers, and maybe two spam comments a month slip through and require my personal attention.
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"Politicians that _you_ vote for write them."
Much of the time, they don't. They just push legislation that was written by the major corporations. Who voted for the politicians is irrelevant.
"Yes, corruption is the real problem, although irrelevant to current discussion."
I can't think of anything more relevant to the current discussion.
"Get many annoyed people, and government is thrown out."
No, politicians can get thrown out. And they are replaced by other politicians who will behave the same way. The problem is that (with very rare exceptions) the only way a candidate is viable is by kowtowing to corporate america.
Our votes are puny. Voting is essential, but voting alone is woefully insufficient and will change nothing. Our political system developed strong immunity to the will of the voter a long time ago.
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"Corporation may refuse to sell me stuff, but it's me who vote."
Corporations write your laws, subvert your government, and affect your life in powerful ways even if you never buy their stuff. Their power exceeds that of your puny vote.
It depends on the nature of the site. I've run sites where 80%+ of my traffic came from search engine referrals, and I've run sites where almost none of it did.
I don't see how the EPA did anything wrong here. VW is the one who engaged in fraud.
Since VW defrauded you by misrepresenting the car's characteristics, I think you have an excellent case for a lawsuit against them to recover your damages. I'm not sure how the amount would be computed, but if it's a low enough amount ($3,000-$15,000, depending on your state) you could even do it in small claims court.
I see what you're saying. Yes, it is possible to design a cell phone network that can accomplish what you're saying. I'm just saying that's not the network that was built, and to change to a more secure infrastructure would be incredibly expensive and disruptive.
Also, the TOR analogy can be made to fit, but it's not as clean as you imply. On the internet, there is a distinction between the ISPs and the servers you visit, and TOR leverages that by hiding information the ISPs need from servers, and vice versa.
In the cell network, this distinction does not exist. The "ISP" (the tower operators) and the "servers" that carry phone calls are the same company. Hiding information for one from the other becomes less effective because they're both really the same entity.
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How would he have known that? Generally, "characters" cannot be copyrighted (that characters can be copyrighted in some cases just speaks to how broken copyright law is), so what would make him think the batmobile would be an exception?
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Re: Distirubution Rights -- IANAL
Monopolies are 100% allowed in the US. What is not allowed is abusing the power of a monopoly position.
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It's not a hard distinction to make. Writing laws is actually writing bills. Pushing legislation is selling those bills to Congress so they become laws. A lot of US law was never written by elected officials, but directly by corporations who then pay a lot of money to get them made into law.
"That's same people that want democracy, but think that "Who voted for the politicians is irrelevant""
No contradiction. We want democracy, but don't have it.
""corporation leaders my bribe politicians, therefore let's not have corporations". Or is it "let's not have politicians""
What? I didn't assert either of those things, and I don't agree with either.
"That doesn't compute in my head. Whatever is "puny" is anything but "essential"."
Your body requires microscopic amounts of certain nutrients in order to live. Those nutrients are puny, but essential.
In other words, voting is important and essential, but is not powerful enough to solve anything all by itself. Not voting can derail efforts to fix our corrupt system, though. So, puny, but essential.
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You have to expect that. Very nearly everybody (especially people who are doing great evil) thinks that they are the good guy and are working for some sort of ultimate good. Politicians are no exception.
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Re: So...
Because the Constitution doesn't prohibit it. There are only three required qualifications to be President: you have to be a natural born citizen, you have to be at least 35 years old, and you have to have been a resident of the US for at least 14 years.
To change or add to these requires a constitutional amendment.
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Not all of them. I lurk at most of the sites I regularly read, but if those sites stopped allowing comments, I'd stop going to them. The comments are almost always the most useful part.
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K.I.T.T.
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Re: Speaking For Myself....
There are some excellent plugins for wordpress to help with this. I'm one person running a couple of websites with more than a few hundred readers, and maybe two spam comments a month slip through and require my personal attention.
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Much of the time, they don't. They just push legislation that was written by the major corporations. Who voted for the politicians is irrelevant.
"Yes, corruption is the real problem, although irrelevant to current discussion."
I can't think of anything more relevant to the current discussion.
"Get many annoyed people, and government is thrown out."
No, politicians can get thrown out. And they are replaced by other politicians who will behave the same way. The problem is that (with very rare exceptions) the only way a candidate is viable is by kowtowing to corporate america.
Our votes are puny. Voting is essential, but voting alone is woefully insufficient and will change nothing. Our political system developed strong immunity to the will of the voter a long time ago.
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I don't think so. But I suspect that when you say "capitalism" what you're really meaning is the "free market".
Capitalism and free market economics are two different things.
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It's nationalism. Although not bigotry in the strictest sense, nationalism is a kissing cousin of it.
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Corporations write your laws, subvert your government, and affect your life in powerful ways even if you never buy their stuff. Their power exceeds that of your puny vote.
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Re: VW emissions cheating
Since VW defrauded you by misrepresenting the car's characteristics, I think you have an excellent case for a lawsuit against them to recover your damages. I'm not sure how the amount would be computed, but if it's a low enough amount ($3,000-$15,000, depending on your state) you could even do it in small claims court.
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Also, the TOR analogy can be made to fit, but it's not as clean as you imply. On the internet, there is a distinction between the ISPs and the servers you visit, and TOR leverages that by hiding information the ISPs need from servers, and vice versa.
In the cell network, this distinction does not exist. The "ISP" (the tower operators) and the "servers" that carry phone calls are the same company. Hiding information for one from the other becomes less effective because they're both really the same entity.
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