Who cares if you can eat the mushrooms in question, if you break down the plastics, what you end up with when the mushroom life cycle is complete is soil that has been fertilized. That's a win!
Within the next dozen or so years, a commission of copyright maximalists will determine what websites you may view. This will be done in relative secrecy, much like the MPAA, under the guise of "protecting our children." Websites that do not receive a pass from this commission will be branded as unfit, and automatically filtered by Comcast, the one internet provider in the USA.
>Will he get punished for the abuses? No? Then expect this to keep happening.
This bugs me about our reporters. It seems to me they should be employing socratic irony when writing about a story like this.
There should be a stream of questions from all reporters making it unavoidable: "What punishment will the AG receive for abusing their power in this manner?"
The Paramount Decree made it illegal for movie production companies to also own theaters because they were giving undue preference to their own films, and other companies couldn't get theirs shown.
When movie theaters were still booming, this was a big deal.
I think we can all agree that's no longer the case. Movie theaters struggle to survive, having had their breakfast repeatedly consumed by disruptive technologies. (remember when television was disruptive to more than dinner?)
I'd actually like to see this change. I think it's high time we allow production companies to own theaters again, even if they plan to exclusively show their own movies. They no longer have anything even close to a monopoly. Instead, they have to produce lowest-common-denominator films in order to assure they get their film shown at all.
I like to think that a production company with it's own theater today could guarantee that their films would get *some* screen time, even if they weren't meant to appeal to your average reality tv viewer.
It would also mean Netflix wouldn't have to be vulnerable to a boycott like the one above.
Of course not. The punishment should fit the crime committed. How much damage was done. How much a person's reputation suffered. How wide the accusation spread. Etc.
It shouldn't have another poorly conceived mandatory sentencing rule.
Hundreds of years from now, this century will be known as a "dark age" due to the enormous wealth of information about it that has been lost. I doubt any but the most diligent of historians will have any clue as to why.
"Here's how Gideon at A Public Defender sums up this incident: It’s one thing for officers to get their way by removing civilians from the scene who object to their searches and seizures, but it takes quite another level of totalitarianism and disregard for the law to arrest and make absent an officer of the court. "
No, they're not so different. In both cases, it's police abusing their power to get what they're after. The subject is irrelevant.
Can you imagine how awkward it would have been if the Boston Massacre had occurred in New Jersey?
>Nobody who lives in Boston actually wants the city to win its bid for the 2024 Olympic games.
Truer words have never been spoken. Keep those damnable Olympics out of my city. Build a permanent site in Greece to be used every time and stop bankrupting communities.
What goes through the heads of shareholders when they listen to the CEO of the company they invested their money in say insane stuff, as if he/she was living in another world where soup is a valid form of hat?
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And politicians will work to weaken them if they endanger a pet project from which they get their funding.
Seriously, have we not figured out how to oust corrupt politicians yet?
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Mushrooms are the great decomposition experts
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Prediction
Betcha $1.
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Spot on
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Sure, you've never used email
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Re: Re: Simple answer
Of course, I could be wrong. The law as it stands *is* nonsensical.
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Simple answer
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In the immortal words of Ashe
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Re:
This bugs me about our reporters. It seems to me they should be employing socratic irony when writing about a story like this.
There should be a stream of questions from all reporters making it unavoidable: "What punishment will the AG receive for abusing their power in this manner?"
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Question
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Looking back to 1948
The Paramount Decree made it illegal for movie production companies to also own theaters because they were giving undue preference to their own films, and other companies couldn't get theirs shown.
When movie theaters were still booming, this was a big deal.
I think we can all agree that's no longer the case. Movie theaters struggle to survive, having had their breakfast repeatedly consumed by disruptive technologies. (remember when television was disruptive to more than dinner?)
I'd actually like to see this change. I think it's high time we allow production companies to own theaters again, even if they plan to exclusively show their own movies. They no longer have anything even close to a monopoly. Instead, they have to produce lowest-common-denominator films in order to assure they get their film shown at all.
I like to think that a production company with it's own theater today could guarantee that their films would get *some* screen time, even if they weren't meant to appeal to your average reality tv viewer.
It would also mean Netflix wouldn't have to be vulnerable to a boycott like the one above.
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It shouldn't have another poorly conceived mandatory sentencing rule.
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In any case, the DOJ should not be allowed to undermine the internet. They can't be trusted with that kind of power.
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It’s one thing for officers to get their way by removing civilians from the scene who object to their searches and seizures, but it takes quite another level of totalitarianism and disregard for the law to arrest and make absent an officer of the court. "
No, they're not so different. In both cases, it's police abusing their power to get what they're after. The subject is irrelevant.
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Only one answer
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Well then
Can you imagine how awkward it would have been if the Boston Massacre had occurred in New Jersey?
>Nobody who lives in Boston actually wants the city to win its bid for the 2024 Olympic games.
Truer words have never been spoken. Keep those damnable Olympics out of my city. Build a permanent site in Greece to be used every time and stop bankrupting communities.
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I wonder
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