Talking to people about piracy is also a problem. Good gracious is it frustrating when people actually think messing with DNS servers will prevent or slow down piracy.
And thinking that Google is the devil because it has the top search engine.
Or when we have to rely on people SO INEPT at their obs, that everyone knows how to route around the law in order to watch a movie online.
I don't get it. What do we have to do in order to get a representative government?
... No. That has been the entire problem with this process from the beginning. We need to remove these people from Congress. Set up term limits. Reduce the amount if donations and change the voting system.
Once you have the tech industry lobbying, their message is corrupted. Period. This is not about effective laws if one side has the money to buy those that make them.
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Seriously, YT would be the first to fall? Has anybody read the legislation, not to mention that the DMCA remains alive and well? Apparently many have not.
Then why does the rest of the world, after having read both bills disagrees with your assertion?
Better yet, why was only Google the only company invited to the company and given the displeasure of representing all technologists, all engineers, all security experts, and all VC capitalists in a firing squad hearing?
He knows very well that the videos will be blocked outside of the US for the most part - why post them up? Why give Viacom promotion, traffic, and support?
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Smaller -
Less bureaucracy. Less overlap of duties which confuses exactly who is responsible for certain duties. FBI versus ICE in regards to DHS penalties is a certain example.
Removing departments.
This assists in having less governmental irresponsibility. We really don't need the EPA, nor the DHS if you ask me. The TSA could then become a private contractor not affiliated with governmental oversight.
I could go on, but the best thing is to stop and prevent the government from hiding behind bureaucracy.
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It's much simpler than that. Our republic is being usurped by bureaucracy. When that occurs, you have a government that is mired more in procedures than civil rights. To change the system, you have to make it smaller and more responsive. Only then can democratic principles, once again, reign supreme once more.
Look at the author, now back at your comment, back at the author, now back at your comment.
Sadly, the author is not Mike. But if you took the 5 seconds it took to make an intelligent argument like Zack you would have respected comments like Mike.
Look down, back up. What is that? It's a highly effective counter-troll. Look again, MY COMMENT IS NOW DIAMONDS.
Anything is possible when you think before you post.
The industry has shrunk due to Arab Springs taking over soap operas in Egypt. But the Egyptian movie industry thrived the most in the 1930s and 1940s. In recent years, most directors were more worried about short term gains, affecting the quality of the movies, causing the Egyptian box office to stagnate. What I predict is more documentaries will come around, regarding the Arab Springs movement, then a massive surge of Egyptian folkhero movies, then it could normalize. But even then, I doubt that the industry won't grow after the Springs movement changes their government.
... Stop. You are spreading FUD in regards to gun culture and a supposed American life.
You jail more people than the rest of the World combined.
Which is the result of a drug War that has failed along with a gun policy that is inconsistent depending on the state you are in.
So you murder your family, friends and neighbours at a rate greater than the deaths from all American Wars combined. Then death from terrorism is only a small smudge next to your annual gun deaths.
Bullshit. Yes, there is a 1 in 4 billion chance of a terrorist attack, but there is no correlation between terrorism and parricide.
We in the UK are quite lacking in guns and the gun culture.
No, you don't have a gun culture, but your ethnocentricity is unappreciated and biased. It centers around blaming some places having responsible gun laws such as Arizona (open carry) or Kansas with being responsible for criminals getting guns. I don't know where you get your information, but I found that at least 21,000+ people have been killed by guns in the UK. There are a variety of reasons that the US has a high homicide rate, and it's not necessarily because of guns being freely distributed. They are not. You should go to educate yourself on the mitigating factors of the United States before ignorantly complaining about the country in a rant that serves no purpose to assist your argument.
Here are valid arguments for high homicide rates: US War on Drugs
The Second Amendment and how it affects states in employing gun control
Yet another movie that is forgettable by Hollywood standards.
(Also, I recognize a few months ago that I misread a comment you made regarding the comments here on TD and a tweet you had sent out about it. I apologize for being rude to you)
Yes, they could. It shows their ineffective thoughts on the internet versus tv. They think if you take down the content, it will magically disappear, as if they have control of the content channels. With the internet, that route of censorship is ineffective. Now, MU can upload to their servers and bypass that censorship.
Does the blatant shilling ever end with you? Does the support of censorship ever end with you? Does the support of bad legislation that won't work ever end with you?
Don't answer all at once. We know your twirly mustache can get tangled in your keyboard.
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Frustrations
And thinking that Google is the devil because it has the top search engine.
Or when we have to rely on people SO INEPT at their obs, that everyone knows how to route around the law in order to watch a movie online.
I don't get it. What do we have to do in order to get a representative government?
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Once you have the tech industry lobbying, their message is corrupted. Period. This is not about effective laws if one side has the money to buy those that make them.
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Re: Watched a lot yesterday.
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Then why does the rest of the world, after having read both bills disagrees with your assertion?
Better yet, why was only Google the only company invited to the company and given the displeasure of representing all technologists, all engineers, all security experts, and all VC capitalists in a firing squad hearing?
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Removing rogue sites won't make much difference
Google is not a zero sum game
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Less bureaucracy. Less overlap of duties which confuses exactly who is responsible for certain duties. FBI versus ICE in regards to DHS penalties is a certain example.
Removing departments.
This assists in having less governmental irresponsibility. We really don't need the EPA, nor the DHS if you ask me. The TSA could then become a private contractor not affiliated with governmental oversight.
I could go on, but the best thing is to stop and prevent the government from hiding behind bureaucracy.
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Re: Welcome to reality, CD Projekt
Sadly, the author is not Mike. But if you took the 5 seconds it took to make an intelligent argument like Zack you would have respected comments like Mike.
Look down, back up. What is that? It's a highly effective counter-troll. Look again, MY COMMENT IS NOW DIAMONDS.
Anything is possible when you think before you post.
I'm on a PC.
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Re: Al Franken?
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You jail more people than the rest of the World combined.
Which is the result of a drug War that has failed along with a gun policy that is inconsistent depending on the state you are in.
So you murder your family, friends and neighbours at a rate greater than the deaths from all American Wars combined. Then death from terrorism is only a small smudge next to your annual gun deaths.
Bullshit. Yes, there is a 1 in 4 billion chance of a terrorist attack, but there is no correlation between terrorism and parricide.
We in the UK are quite lacking in guns and the gun culture.
No, you don't have a gun culture, but your ethnocentricity is unappreciated and biased. It centers around blaming some places having responsible gun laws such as Arizona (open carry) or Kansas with being responsible for criminals getting guns. I don't know where you get your information, but I found that at least 21,000+ people have been killed by guns in the UK. There are a variety of reasons that the US has a high homicide rate, and it's not necessarily because of guns being freely distributed. They are not. You should go to educate yourself on the mitigating factors of the United States before ignorantly complaining about the country in a rant that serves no purpose to assist your argument.
Here are valid arguments for high homicide rates: US War on Drugs
The Second Amendment and how it affects states in employing gun control
Actual research into the effectiveness of a federal ban.
These will do much better for your argument than bigoted statements.
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(Also, I recognize a few months ago that I misread a comment you made regarding the comments here on TD and a tweet you had sent out about it. I apologize for being rude to you)
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Re: And it's about control again
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Don't answer all at once. We know your twirly mustache can get tangled in your keyboard.
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