I get to work every day via informal carpooling, or as it is called in DC, slugging. They are expanding the carpool lanes and putting in a congestion based dynamic toll system, we are told will still remain free for carpools of 3 or more. Today, we aren't costing anybody revenue by hitchiking to the Pentagon each day, and slugging is not only tolerated it is outright supported. I wonder if that will change when every car loaded with three passengers is viewed as three potential toll payers?
Actually, I think Dooce predates the Kardashian's by a few years. Her blog was hilarious back in the day - really some of the best humor writing available online. But I think she peaked about 5 years ago, coincidentally about the time she started making a real living with the blog.
The 4th amendment will not protect the hundreds of not thousands of people that are wrongly convicted of crimes in the next few years before this proposed law eventually gets reviewed by SCOTUS. And given the current makeup of SCOTUS, I'm not real confident they'll see it as in conflict with any existing constitutional protections.
I don't think we'll asset seizures going away anytime soon. It's basically a budget item for a police departments now. They count on that income every year. If we take money away from law enforcement the terrorists win.
The only message Congress cares about is the one being sent by their corporate masters. And that message is that they need to "fix" this damn Internet problem yesterday.
Until we as US voters are willing to vote out 50% or more of the incumbents in one swoop, this isn't going to change. Congress fears the cash flow from the masters drying up far, far more than they fear the voters.
I've been using the Common Sense ratings, as well as ratings from Kids-N-Mind for years to decide what movies my kids could see. There is a lot of stuff rated R by MPAA that I felt was perfectly fine for a 14/15 year old, so I used the private ratings as a double check on my memories of the movies before the kids rented them.
it's illegal to require someone to break a contract as a condition of employment. The FB agreement clearly states that you can not share your login info. So requiring you to hand over your password to even be considered for the job, the employer is themselves breaking the law.
Think of all the cars parked in garages and office building parking lots all day in major cities, and all the people without cars in that city that need one occasionally for 3 hours. I think parked commuter cars at work are the untapped market here. These guys might not be the ones to figure out how to overcome all the obstacles, but somebody will. That kind of excess driving capacity is just begging to be used.
If it's so easy to fix the search results the way MPAA wants, why don't they just launch their own search engine? Google is ripe for some competition, and who better than the music and movie industries, who have decades of experience with poor user interfaces, competing standards, and crappy customer service.
If the MPAA thinks Google controls the Internet, then maybe Google should sit down with the MPAA, negotiate something reasonable, extract an ironclad, contractual agreement from the MPAA that as long as Google does X, they will not sue, litigate, or otherwise harass anybody about anything that is happening on the Internet. The MPAA will think they've won, and Google will have done the world a huge favor.
And the rest of us can safely ignore what Google agreed to, because they in fact don't control the Internet.
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A world without the Streisand Effect would be not be as much fun.
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Forbes...
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When you are a hammer...
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Yes, but...
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Also- Mike didn't write the post.
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Until we as US voters are willing to vote out 50% or more of the incumbents in one swoop, this isn't going to change. Congress fears the cash flow from the masters drying up far, far more than they fear the voters.
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2. ????
3. Profit.
We now know what goes in #2 - get arrested.
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Nice headline subby ;)
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Is that you Jar Jar?
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They are breaking the law
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You know what else would never work?
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An opportunity...
And the rest of us can safely ignore what Google agreed to, because they in fact don't control the Internet.
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