Thing is, though, that "celebrity" nudes have a short shelf life if they're just left alone to die a natural death.
You're right she could go after the distributors of the video and pictures if anyone is actually sending out DVD or CD copies. It just strikes me as a massive waste of time and her money given that they're very unlikely to pay any judgment against them. Then pop up on a server in the Seychelles, for example.
For now, though, this is a (probably) well intentioned move gone badly wrong as these sorts of things too often do.
Then again, it could be for the publicity as well.
It looks more like some security "consultants" need a couple more contracts to earn the living they'd love to become accustomed to rather than a whole lot to do with actual security of aircraft or much else.
The world is far too full of "consultants" as it is.
Sometimes cynicism is invited even if people are acting from the best of intentions.
Yes, she's the victim of a crime and, yes, if it were my daughter or partner I'd be furious but there does come a time where one needs to understand that once these things are out there on the Internet, they're out there.
The site in question's morality is also in serious question but that doesn't make it wise to send threatening letters or head off to court where it all gets washed over again in public.
Hence, the striesand effect.
There are so many "celebrity" nudes out there that no one really cares any more. I certainly didn't and won't waste my time googling for her just to see the silly things.
(I can create much better, sexier ones in programs like Poser, actually.)
It's really long past time she dropped it and waited for it to go on the scrap pile it belongs on.
There may, just may, be a case for this but if that's what the teacher wants then pass out paper at the start of the class, tell them to turn their laptops, smart phones and everything else off and start writing using pen and paper.
No advance warning, of course, because if the idea is to test what they kids have learned and their skills at critical thinking then to warn them blows that out of the water.
As for an essay written outside of a classroom a history essay does need sources, footnotes and all the rest of that ugly stuff that also tests critical thinking and ought to point out plagiarism right from the get go.
Remember, a historical paper has to back up it's analysis of the sources not just parrot them.
If we look at Canada is pretty much the same groups and on the let's keep it all secret end there's the RCMP and other security agents. The people they're trying to hide it from are the same or our version of them.
And no, it doesn't matter if the government of the day is left or right of centre. Governments just love secrecy as do the bureaucrats. After all, it means not having to answer embarrassing questions.
I remember (barely) all the reports and reports of arrests usually in land far far away like Vancouver. (I was born on Vancouver Island)
What I don't remember is any convictions.
For some reason, probably snarkiness at my instructor of 20th Century History, I decided to do a quick paper on this and dove headlong into the Law library at UBC. Guess what I found?
Almost all those arrests in Canada and the United States were on "suspicion" of adulterating the treats and I the only charges I found were against nuclear family members or one step away and even then just a slight scattering of convictions.
(Remember, in the 40s, 50s and 60s no one talked about this because the "Leave It To Beaver" household was worshiped and none of these things ever really happened unless the parent, sibling, aunt, uncle or grandparent was a serious nutbar. Perhaps not even then.)
I got a big fat F on that paper and when I appealed it the instructor hadn't checked my bibliography, footnotes and citations she just didn't believe me cause it HAD to be true. I got a 75% later cause of my horrendous spelling when I typed it up at 3:30am.
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Which does make things very interesting for OpenSolaris. Different license but the source is floating out there in the wild now and Oracle seems determined to hunt down anyone using so much as a line of it. :)
It would be looking dark for MySQL as well other than the fact that the licensing goes back to day one on that project though I'm sure Oracle will try something.
I can point you to any number of federal contracts here in Canada that were rigged from day 1, often for the lamest of reasons.
Here in British Columbia all I need so is point you towards the sale of BC Rail, rigged from the start to go to Canadian National and, guess what?, it did!
Government corruption in letting contracts is as old as the concept of government. What's different these days is the fiction of "open contract bids" which is just that.
Too look at the chart I can be forgiven for suspecting that we have a new industry here.
We'll call it the circular lawsuit industry. Follow enough of those lines around in the chart and you'll start to find that everyone is suing everyone else and being sued by everyone else.
In a deep recession this is a growth industry for all those surplus graduates from lower level law school so we need to support it.
Mind you very little of all this activity actually produces a real object that can enter the real economy to be bought and sold.
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But, hey, we got rid of Campbell today!!
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You're right she could go after the distributors of the video and pictures if anyone is actually sending out DVD or CD copies. It just strikes me as a massive waste of time and her money given that they're very unlikely to pay any judgment against them. Then pop up on a server in the Seychelles, for example.
For now, though, this is a (probably) well intentioned move gone badly wrong as these sorts of things too often do.
Then again, it could be for the publicity as well.
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Re: P P P PORN!!!!!!
Different breeds of tea copulating in oversized tea bags?
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Re: So modified genes should be patentable according to some...
Now THAT'S how to feed the world, right?!!
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Re: Missing the point...
It looks more like some security "consultants" need a couple more contracts to earn the living they'd love to become accustomed to rather than a whole lot to do with actual security of aircraft or much else.
The world is far too full of "consultants" as it is.
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Re: Re:
Yes, she's the victim of a crime and, yes, if it were my daughter or partner I'd be furious but there does come a time where one needs to understand that once these things are out there on the Internet, they're out there.
The site in question's morality is also in serious question but that doesn't make it wise to send threatening letters or head off to court where it all gets washed over again in public.
Hence, the striesand effect.
There are so many "celebrity" nudes out there that no one really cares any more. I certainly didn't and won't waste my time googling for her just to see the silly things.
(I can create much better, sexier ones in programs like Poser, actually.)
It's really long past time she dropped it and waited for it to go on the scrap pile it belongs on.
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Re: Re: It's valid
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Another charge! By far the most important of the bunch!
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Re: Re: Just because the site's called TechDirt
There may, just may, be a case for this but if that's what the teacher wants then pass out paper at the start of the class, tell them to turn their laptops, smart phones and everything else off and start writing using pen and paper.
No advance warning, of course, because if the idea is to test what they kids have learned and their skills at critical thinking then to warn them blows that out of the water.
As for an essay written outside of a classroom a history essay does need sources, footnotes and all the rest of that ugly stuff that also tests critical thinking and ought to point out plagiarism right from the get go.
Remember, a historical paper has to back up it's analysis of the sources not just parrot them.
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Re: Some of you hit this on the nail...
An in class essay. You have one hour to write it and your only allowable source(s) is your text book.
In either case, the historical analysis will be quite foul.
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I wonder......
Hmmmmmm....
Probably not ;-)
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Re: Where is Ron?
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Re: The Ultimate
They did have "thousands" of years to do it, you know!
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Re: Also ....
Exhibit #1 ACTA
I'll leave you to fill in the rest.
If we look at Canada is pretty much the same groups and on the let's keep it all secret end there's the RCMP and other security agents. The people they're trying to hide it from are the same or our version of them.
And no, it doesn't matter if the government of the day is left or right of centre. Governments just love secrecy as do the bureaucrats. After all, it means not having to answer embarrassing questions.
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What I don't remember is any convictions.
For some reason, probably snarkiness at my instructor of 20th Century History, I decided to do a quick paper on this and dove headlong into the Law library at UBC. Guess what I found?
Almost all those arrests in Canada and the United States were on "suspicion" of adulterating the treats and I the only charges I found were against nuclear family members or one step away and even then just a slight scattering of convictions.
(Remember, in the 40s, 50s and 60s no one talked about this because the "Leave It To Beaver" household was worshiped and none of these things ever really happened unless the parent, sibling, aunt, uncle or grandparent was a serious nutbar. Perhaps not even then.)
I got a big fat F on that paper and when I appealed it the instructor hadn't checked my bibliography, footnotes and citations she just didn't believe me cause it HAD to be true. I got a 75% later cause of my horrendous spelling when I typed it up at 3:30am.
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It would be looking dark for MySQL as well other than the fact that the licensing goes back to day one on that project though I'm sure Oracle will try something.
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Re: Wow
Everywhere.
I can point you to any number of federal contracts here in Canada that were rigged from day 1, often for the lamest of reasons.
Here in British Columbia all I need so is point you towards the sale of BC Rail, rigged from the start to go to Canadian National and, guess what?, it did!
Government corruption in letting contracts is as old as the concept of government. What's different these days is the fiction of "open contract bids" which is just that.
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Cultrual Lockdown
:(
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Re: Shut down a new industry?
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Shut down a new industry?
We'll call it the circular lawsuit industry. Follow enough of those lines around in the chart and you'll start to find that everyone is suing everyone else and being sued by everyone else.
In a deep recession this is a growth industry for all those surplus graduates from lower level law school so we need to support it.
Mind you very little of all this activity actually produces a real object that can enter the real economy to be bought and sold.
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