yes, shame on us for believing that all people should have inalienable rights like speech, etc. i guess we are too stupid to realize how bad free speech is.
that was kinda rough. It was a joke (not a great one at that...), who cares?
to me, while i generally do like Oswalt's routines, i think he was being a dick. its just a freaking joke for crying out loud.
if you are that worried about, put it behind a paywall. ;)
an interesting take. It is possible, makes you kinda wish they would have thrown more red tape around the nuke, huh? I think we may have gotten a little too happy with that one. Thankfully, most people realized quite quickly that nukes aren't to be used (at all if possible).
But red tape can also just be Gov't trying to cut themselves in so they can tax innovations more.
I thank you for taking an opposite view as the article and not exploding into "this proves everything you have ever said is false!" like some other commenters on this site...
at first. if it gains share, then it will become hardware decoded too. i think even theora has one or two pieces of hardware in the wild that can decode it. of course, h.264 has many, many more.
i don't like my neighbors enough to do this at my apt. complex. besides, with comcast threating to drop people who go over 250GB, i would be hard pressed to offer free bandwidth to the grannies in my complex. you never know, i may have granny-pirates as neighbors.
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Frankly i blame the consumers for being idiots, but that is just me.
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to me, while i generally do like Oswalt's routines, i think he was being a dick. its just a freaking joke for crying out loud.
if you are that worried about, put it behind a paywall. ;)
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But red tape can also just be Gov't trying to cut themselves in so they can tax innovations more.
I thank you for taking an opposite view as the article and not exploding into "this proves everything you have ever said is false!" like some other commenters on this site...
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what is this "proof" you speak of?
is this a new way of saying "yes, we need more baseless lawsuits"?
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