Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on Nov 23rd, 2011 @ 12:28pm
At&t is nothing if not pragmatic. If businesses are knocked off the internet, they won't be able to make money off them through internet services. So sopa threatens them albeit indirectly. Don't mess with the money...
Re: Re: Re: Re: Great Article, but P2P can also be fully legitimate
Cocaine was made illegal for essentially the same reasons. In addition to of course being made illegally in an effort to criminalize African Americans who used it.
No... The hard ban was created by Nixon as a control mechanism. He was hard pressed to go after the hippies in 1973 because of the social movement that was going on to "Tune in, turn on, drop out." This is a massive overgeneralization on my part, but the fact remains that the racial factor wasn't the major factor in his campaign against the legal use of drugs.
I'll grant you that drugs passing around was something that he wanted banned. Nixon was crazy like that. I'll even say that there's a chance some medical groups got a hold of him. And judging from the disproportionate amount of African Americans that are in jail, the plan succeeded, similar to how immigration disproportionately locks up Latino Americans.
Let's be nice. If the ac is not satisfied with the stories of hypocrisy, censorship, unneeded barriers to entry, copyright abuse, patent abuse, trademark fraud, impediments to the First and Fourth Amendment, plutocracy of US democracy, and the occasional story about food
There's a lot of good articles about these problems. First, I looked at ZDNet in regards to this incident. They have a video of Chancellor Katehi's LONG. SILENT. Walk to her car. I would recommend everyone look at that video and see what she has to face. A sea of students that just feel betrayed. She stood up for someone that could have done things for a better outcome of all. And yet, she didn't get one boo, one jeer. She's humiliated at the school because she released thugs on students.
Some websites I frequent, they actually believe this was the right thing to do. That in using pepper spray, it was the least violent (aka "non legal") tactic to produce an outcome favorable to police.
At some point, you look at this rubbish and you wonder how people try to swallow it. The officer could have talked to them. The officer seems to treat them like roaches, callously showing off the bug spray in his hand, then allegedly bragged about this. If there's anything wrong with this, too many people don't understand that we've militarized the police as Ostertag has seen, as well as others such as Heather Parton.
I for one am glad for all of the individual reports of the police. They should be kept honest in what they do. You are giving them a responsibility to uphold the Constitution, which most of them seem to have forgotten what it means. They shirk their duties, instead trying to arrest everyone with no indication of what was done wrong. They arrest people for no ID and bully the public. Why do you think that people don't trust the police? They've given us nothing to believe in while they go about their echo chamber, supporting a war on the Constitution mired in procedures.
They protect something I made. or if something I made is required for an entire market to function I at least get paid for my research and innovation.
Please show evidence of this. Over the past few years, I've seen little that corresponds to this actually happening.
Agreed Microsoft works to protect their business model rather then their patents, but if they do own them and they are infringed upon they are due any compensation they deem it worth
Just because Microsoft, Intellectual Ventures or the myriad of shell companies own a piece of paper vaguely describing a screw, it does not mean they own the market for screws. That's the problem with patents that has not been fixed by the "Patent Reform Bill". It's a useless piece of paper trying to say they can control the market and keep people locked up to their gadgets which aren't even as good.
If someone thinks the costs too much, then don't infringe, innovate your own way
Amazing. The entire problem with this thinking is it misses out on the smaller innovations of people taking a certain innovation and building on it, making the product better. No one can innovate because it's assumed that 100 engineers have to start from scratch everytime they work on something new. How does that make any sense instead of making edits to coding, finding flaws through peer review, and taking resources and making them better with shared knowledge?
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Re: oh Cisco the White Knight coming to save the day, BS
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Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on Nov 23rd, 2011 @ 12:28pm
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Because you have a weird definition of "the public"
On the post: Why The Public Is Willing To Rally Against SOPA/PIPA, But Not For It
Re: Because you have a weird definition of "the public"
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Re: I will restate what I have said in the past
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Great Article, but P2P can also be fully legitimate
No... The hard ban was created by Nixon as a control mechanism. He was hard pressed to go after the hippies in 1973 because of the social movement that was going on to "Tune in, turn on, drop out." This is a massive overgeneralization on my part, but the fact remains that the racial factor wasn't the major factor in his campaign against the legal use of drugs.
I'll grant you that drugs passing around was something that he wanted banned. Nixon was crazy like that. I'll even say that there's a chance some medical groups got a hold of him. And judging from the disproportionate amount of African Americans that are in jail, the plan succeeded, similar to how immigration disproportionately locks up Latino Americans.
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On the post: The RIAA Was For Freedom Of Speech Before It Was Against It
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On the post: Extra Kudos To Senators Willing To Stand On Principle Against PROTECT IP
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No, it's not.
Exceptions to copyright lead to more growth than copyright does.
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Mini-rant
Some websites I frequent, they actually believe this was the right thing to do. That in using pepper spray, it was the least violent (aka "non legal") tactic to produce an outcome favorable to police.
At some point, you look at this rubbish and you wonder how people try to swallow it. The officer could have talked to them. The officer seems to treat them like roaches, callously showing off the bug spray in his hand, then allegedly bragged about this. If there's anything wrong with this, too many people don't understand that we've militarized the police as Ostertag has seen, as well as others such as Heather Parton.
I for one am glad for all of the individual reports of the police. They should be kept honest in what they do. You are giving them a responsibility to uphold the Constitution, which most of them seem to have forgotten what it means. They shirk their duties, instead trying to arrest everyone with no indication of what was done wrong. They arrest people for no ID and bully the public. Why do you think that people don't trust the police? They've given us nothing to believe in while they go about their echo chamber, supporting a war on the Constitution mired in procedures.
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Then we ignore the fact that the bad guy could be the one they see in the mirror.
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Please show evidence of this. Over the past few years, I've seen little that corresponds to this actually happening.
Agreed Microsoft works to protect their business model rather then their patents, but if they do own them and they are infringed upon they are due any compensation they deem it worth
Just because Microsoft, Intellectual Ventures or the myriad of shell companies own a piece of paper vaguely describing a screw, it does not mean they own the market for screws. That's the problem with patents that has not been fixed by the "Patent Reform Bill". It's a useless piece of paper trying to say they can control the market and keep people locked up to their gadgets which aren't even as good.
If someone thinks the costs too much, then don't infringe, innovate your own way
Amazing. The entire problem with this thinking is it misses out on the smaller innovations of people taking a certain innovation and building on it, making the product better. No one can innovate because it's assumed that 100 engineers have to start from scratch everytime they work on something new. How does that make any sense instead of making edits to coding, finding flaws through peer review, and taking resources and making them better with shared knowledge?
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