Please note that on anyone Else's scale, the democrats are usually barely even managing 'center right'. The entire US spectrum of politics is just massively right-shifted. (it's also almost entirely above the zero line of authoritarianism-liberalism, with authoritarianism being positive numbers)
I'm ignoring the fringe groups who never get anywhere, who i naturally therefore have not heard of.
if the democrats are communist, then you really need entirely new Words for the rest of the world.
well, ok, their supporters and members may be different stories, but the party as a whole in the way it is recorded as acting is like that.
seriously, go have a look at the political compass sometime.
bets that somewhere in the redacted section is something about those particular 100+ clips?
anyone?
payment in Internets :P
(oddly, google's spell check only cares that i didn't capitalize 'internets' originally. let me say that again. Google's spell check believes there is more than one internet *grins*. but only if you're willing to capitalize it. just to confuse everyone. this is also totally off topic. move along. )
never mind the number of democratically elected leaders of various nations assassinated by US agents and replaced with dictators who were more inclined to go along with US schemes...
the list of US actions screwing up other countries/peopels is no less extensive than anyone else's in this regard, really. (possibly more so if you take an average over time :p)
i seem to remember an article on techdirt that said something of that nature was not only unenforceable, but rendered the entire rest of the original contract void as well.
i was just actually reading the linked article, and found this:
"Official papers obtained by the Star-Times show that, despite government claims that it was done for domestic reasons, the new New Zealand spying capabilities are part of a push by United States agencies to have standardised surveillance capabilities available for their use from governments worldwide."
another classic. *sigh* i don't even get why they keep TRYING to keep the USA happy. it's not like we actually Gain anything significant from it, that i ever noticed.
and later:
"FBI Director Robert Mueller III told a senate committee in March last year that the FBI needs "global reach" to fight cyber-crime and terrorism and that co-operation with "law enforcement partners" gives it "the means to leverage the collective resources of many countries"."
hold on a second here.
forgive me if I'm wrong.
but...
isn't the FBI supposed to be, you know, Internal?!
*sigh*
there are many reasons why i don't pay as much attention to NZ politics as i should. the shear headache inducing stupidity of it all is one.
can't even say our politicians are corrupt, or mouthpieces for lobbyists. they're not even stupid, Mostly... or all that ignorant, usually...
they just seem to have this total disconnect between cause and effect when the cause is (usually)ideology driven actions on their part and the effect hits anywhere other than their chances of getting reelected.
database is a compound word, and both of it's parts are still nouns, so there's no 'datumbase'. not to mention the singular 'datum' is almost non-existent in common usage, where data is treated more like a mass noun, if memory serves. we do tend to talk about having 300 megabytes of data, after all. (finally, 'data center' is probably an abbreviation, at least in meaning, of 'data processing center', which works completely differently)
also, 'multi' pluralizes 'medium' anyway, so i think there's just some natural agreement going on there.
of course, i may just be feeding trolls here, but this kind of thing interests me :)
more on topic: yes, those data centers do look pretty shiny.
As you yourself just pointed out, it Is possible for people to tell the difference. non-issue. might be worth stopping to think about Why someone would want to do that though, no?
As in, if memory served, Paradox ended up having to charge more than they needed to on Gamers Gate (technically different companies, i believe, but very closely tied and i think owned by the same person/people?) because if they didn't the physical shops in many places wouldn't take their games.
Not that that's due to Law, but still.
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Please note that the above is slightly sarcastic. The fact is that i consider the whole thing is very silly.
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I'm ignoring the fringe groups who never get anywhere, who i naturally therefore have not heard of.
if the democrats are communist, then you really need entirely new Words for the rest of the world.
well, ok, their supporters and members may be different stories, but the party as a whole in the way it is recorded as acting is like that.
seriously, go have a look at the political compass sometime.
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(that said, i barely even use our land line phone, let alone a cell... yay internet.)
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anyone?
payment in Internets :P
(oddly, google's spell check only cares that i didn't capitalize 'internets' originally. let me say that again. Google's spell check believes there is more than one internet *grins*. but only if you're willing to capitalize it. just to confuse everyone. this is also totally off topic. move along. )
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the list of US actions screwing up other countries/peopels is no less extensive than anyone else's in this regard, really. (possibly more so if you take an average over time :p)
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but who knows what that means in reality...
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how bloody predicatable...
"Official papers obtained by the Star-Times show that, despite government claims that it was done for domestic reasons, the new New Zealand spying capabilities are part of a push by United States agencies to have standardised surveillance capabilities available for their use from governments worldwide."
another classic. *sigh* i don't even get why they keep TRYING to keep the USA happy. it's not like we actually Gain anything significant from it, that i ever noticed.
and later:
"FBI Director Robert Mueller III told a senate committee in March last year that the FBI needs "global reach" to fight cyber-crime and terrorism and that co-operation with "law enforcement partners" gives it "the means to leverage the collective resources of many countries"."
hold on a second here.
forgive me if I'm wrong.
but...
isn't the FBI supposed to be, you know, Internal?!
*sigh*
there are many reasons why i don't pay as much attention to NZ politics as i should. the shear headache inducing stupidity of it all is one.
can't even say our politicians are corrupt, or mouthpieces for lobbyists. they're not even stupid, Mostly... or all that ignorant, usually...
they just seem to have this total disconnect between cause and effect when the cause is (usually)ideology driven actions on their part and the effect hits anywhere other than their chances of getting reelected.
yay cross-spectrum incompetence. woo!
representative-democracy in action, folks.
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New Zealand's.
and possibly some of Antarctica's. (not sure about that bit)
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also, 'multi' pluralizes 'medium' anyway, so i think there's just some natural agreement going on there.
of course, i may just be feeding trolls here, but this kind of thing interests me :)
more on topic: yes, those data centers do look pretty shiny.
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it's also easy to tell which ones are not written by the real Anti-Mike...
they're either funny or make sense
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aka: the music industry are morons and/or wish to continue fueling piracy so they can point at it as a reason why they're loosing money.
(the real reason for that loss, when/if it even exists, of course, being that they suck)
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if you see a statement that ridiculous that doesn't come from a corporation, it's probably sarcastic.
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The video game companies already do. globally.
As in, if memory served, Paradox ended up having to charge more than they needed to on Gamers Gate (technically different companies, i believe, but very closely tied and i think owned by the same person/people?) because if they didn't the physical shops in many places wouldn't take their games.
Not that that's due to Law, but still.
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Please note that the above is slightly sarcastic. The fact is that i consider the whole thing is very silly.
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the answer to your 'why' question is 'because they keep extending the copyrights'.
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What?
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that's like, built in lost money for no gain, right there.
doesn't that, essentially, defeat the point in the whole exercise? :S
morons
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