... but it sure does paint a picture of how lazy these clowns are that they try and use U.S. copyright law to Canadian ISP customers.
That is fairly stunningly incompetent, to not even bother to sanity check what you're sending out to capitalize on a new feature of the law, in another country. "Er, who are these guys?!?"
Or did they think Canada was just another state in the empire between DC and Alaska and Guam and Japan?
Yes, you do still have that loose cannon rolling around below decks, smashing into anything it finds in its way as the ship of state lists from side to side and bow to stern reacting to the waves. Good to know.
Shouldn't attempting to collect money by citing obvious falsehoods be fraud?
But good luck getting a DA to prosecute most of it...
This being Canuckistan, we have Crown Prosecutors here I believe, and a judiciary which is quite likely to tell the gov't to go piss up a rope when the latter are acting like asses. Cf. medical marijuana growers.
I suspect the various law societies will be interested in weighing in here too. Bad enough that the US legal system looks like it does. We won't let !@#$ like that fly in Canada.
Essentially the UK intelligence community is as on the ball as Sir Bedevere the Wise in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Thought it was a BBC documentary? They're (MP) good, but they're not that good. The production values (aka money invested) of Now, For Something Completely Different vs. BBC nature shows don't compare.
They all seem to be playing "Don't let a good crisis go to waste" rather than focusing on the absolutely shitty security Sony used.
This is The Hollywoodification of Network Security, after all. Most regular users haven't a clue what really happened at SPE or what actually happened in the hack. They're fed salacious email gossip and nationalistic sabre rattling instead.
However, as the massively overflowing jails can attest to, they are very interested in prosecuting and jailing normal citizens ...
You've got to admire the prescience of the people who managed to get The Drug War up and running. Just look at how effective that's been, and for so long now. From the start back in the 19th century, through to now, it's had *such* an effective run ballooning spending, incarceration, regulatory capture, and military spin-offs, just to mention a few. Truly right up there with The Inquisition and Nazi Germany.
This's a great read: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs'
*Every* grown up terrorist who ever lived was once a toddler! Think about that. Honestly, how can you expect us to protect you when you question everything we try to do ... for you?
Just wait, in ten years time, every single person in the country will be on a terrorist watch list so we won't need to fart around with warrants or rights or any of that poofter crap anymore, and you'll all finally be safe forever! Now get back to work and stop bugging, er, bothering us.
PS. Tim, April Fools is almost three months away, damnit!
Sheesh. Try to do the right thing and look what you get.
Good one Mike. Thanks for your letting us use it all these years, and for coming up with it in the first place. You Yanquis are so inventive at times.
I should warn you though, you might want to hold off on *spending* the money until your bank really clears the cheque. Sorry, it's just the way we do things here.
... Fox News, MSNBC and CNN not wanting to show the images that got the French journalists killed in the recent attacks because they are "offensive" ...
Well, in their defense, one of them was a pretty slobbery homosexual kiss. I'm sure that wouldn't have gone over very well with their viewers, nor their advertisers.
Pathetic. Those cartoonists were channeling Voltaire! The "cheeze eating surrender monkeys" are looking a lot more courageous than the USA these days. I never thought I'd say this, but bravo Huffington Post! They posted them.
... seriously, what's happening to the "land of the free"? Because it's starting to look much less so.
Starting?!? Where've you been for the past fourteen years?
... the leading Tibetan activist, and certainly the most Net-savvy.
That's sad (that she's the most savvy), and we appear to have wildly different interpretations of that phrase. First, net-savvy people don't do Facebook, or if they do they have a healthy skepticism about it. Second, she's apparently ignorant of FB's raison d'etre: make money from selling its users' eyeballs to advertisers. Third, she's not noticed that FB is just itching to get at China's 3+ billion suck ... er, users? That's not even web-savvy.
She should request an interview with the Dalai Lama. Last I heard, he was pretty much on top of this sort of stuff.
Failing that, next time put the thing on a website (or a few websites, and torrent sites, and anonymous ftp sites) then use every means possible (Twitter, email, news media, maybe even FB) to publicize its availability. That way, Zuckerberg and his minions likely will never even hear of what she's done, and won't be able to interfere even if they do.
When the feces hit the rotational air movement device, there were quite a few people, usually of the Austrian School of Economics persuasion, who were rooting for option 1. Their argument was that it would be the quickest and most effective way to implement your hybrid of 2 and 3. They'd collapse, their assets would be sold off for whatever could be got for them, and perhaps their shareholders might learn an important lesson from the debacle. It might even have led to some of the most egregious offenders getting a nice orange jumpsuit and free room and board for a few years.
Instead, the taxpayers paid for their greed, the world's economies were shot in the head, some of the bums failed upward into cushy gov't positions, and the rest went back to doing pretty much what they'd been doing prior to the bailout.
Thanks for ruining my day, Rudyard. No, I wouldn't put it past many of the useful idiots out there to try to push this through. As if we haven't seen enough crap pushed at us recently that's just boneheaded stupid, implausible, and a few other characterizations that escape me at the moment.
So, I'll just say come and take me away. Guilty as charged. I proudly admit I'm "anti-feminist." I'm sure they'll care not one whit that I'm strongly pro-women's equal rights. I'm also convinced the LGBTs are sick, or twisted, though harmless and I have no trouble dealing with them in most ways.
I'm also anti-religious, so I'm oppressing Xtians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, & etc, though I similarly have no trouble dealing with most of them in any way. I'm anti-nationalist, so that makes me anti-Zionist and anti-Israel just to start.
I could go on admitting my many facets of intolerance, but I'm sure this is enough to lock me away forever.
The state was established during feudalism as the one that holds the monopoly on force ...
Good answer. That in itself justifies the state. If only we could get that part to actually work! Instead, we still end up with belligerent states run by greedy and arrogant politicians using that military power for political ends instead of defense or merely upholding sane laws.
Meat inspection, restrictions against lead pipes, regulations on advertising and so on all come from the power of the state.
One of the things I was hoping for from the Internet was a massive improvement in communications and citizen reporting. If the Streisand Effect can do all the wonderful things we've seen it do, then surely masses reporting on-line (Yelp?) that so and so is selling bad meat, yada yada, would negate the necessity for expensive and often ineffectual regulatory bodies (cf. FCC).
I'm hoping that one of these days, we'll start to get education for the masses right, and people will start to see the need to take their rightful place in seeing how !@#$ gets done, not just continue letting things happen to them because they can't do anything about it anyway.
So their reduction of seating space and increasing of fees are accidental, then?
Incidental (tangential, orthogonal), perhaps. Businesses are supposed to minimize cost and maximize profit. It would be nice if they'd factor in making the experience enjoyable for their customers in order to make them want to come back, but budget airlines assume you won't care about that as much as getting inexpensive service. Vote with your feet if that's not you.
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That is fairly stunningly incompetent, to not even bother to sanity check what you're sending out to capitalize on a new feature of the law, in another country. "Er, who are these guys?!?"
Or did they think Canada was just another state in the empire between DC and Alaska and Guam and Japan?
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So, to answer the question, ...
Turn out your lights and hide in the cellar.
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This being Canuckistan, we have Crown Prosecutors here I believe, and a judiciary which is quite likely to tell the gov't to go piss up a rope when the latter are acting like asses. Cf. medical marijuana growers.
I suspect the various law societies will be interested in weighing in here too. Bad enough that the US legal system looks like it does. We won't let !@#$ like that fly in Canada.
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Re: Re: It's the old witch's test
Thought it was a BBC documentary? They're (MP) good, but they're not that good. The production values (aka money invested) of Now, For Something Completely Different vs. BBC nature shows don't compare.
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This is The Hollywoodification of Network Security, after all. Most regular users haven't a clue what really happened at SPE or what actually happened in the hack. They're fed salacious email gossip and nationalistic sabre rattling instead.
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You've got to admire the prescience of the people who managed to get The Drug War up and running. Just look at how effective that's been, and for so long now. From the start back in the 19th century, through to now, it's had *such* an effective run ballooning spending, incarceration, regulatory capture, and military spin-offs, just to mention a few. Truly right up there with The Inquisition and Nazi Germany.
This's a great read: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs'
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You people have completely missed the point!
Just wait, in ten years time, every single person in the country will be on a terrorist watch list so we won't need to fart around with warrants or rights or any of that poofter crap anymore, and you'll all finally be safe forever! Now get back to work and stop bugging, er, bothering us.
PS. Tim, April Fools is almost three months away, damnit!
Sheesh. Try to do the right thing and look what you get.
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It's a fair cop. Our cheque's in the mail.
I should warn you though, you might want to hold off on *spending* the money until your bank really clears the cheque. Sorry, it's just the way we do things here.
Signed, The Guild of Nigerian Spammers.
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Well, in their defense, one of them was a pretty slobbery homosexual kiss. I'm sure that wouldn't have gone over very well with their viewers, nor their advertisers.
Pathetic. Those cartoonists were channeling Voltaire! The "cheeze eating surrender monkeys" are looking a lot more courageous than the USA these days. I never thought I'd say this, but bravo Huffington Post! They posted them.
Starting?!? Where've you been for the past fourteen years?
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That's sad (that she's the most savvy), and we appear to have wildly different interpretations of that phrase. First, net-savvy people don't do Facebook, or if they do they have a healthy skepticism about it. Second, she's apparently ignorant of FB's raison d'etre: make money from selling its users' eyeballs to advertisers. Third, she's not noticed that FB is just itching to get at China's 3+ billion suck ... er, users? That's not even web-savvy.
She should request an interview with the Dalai Lama. Last I heard, he was pretty much on top of this sort of stuff.
Failing that, next time put the thing on a website (or a few websites, and torrent sites, and anonymous ftp sites) then use every means possible (Twitter, email, news media, maybe even FB) to publicize its availability. That way, Zuckerberg and his minions likely will never even hear of what she's done, and won't be able to interfere even if they do.
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Instead, the taxpayers paid for their greed, the world's economies were shot in the head, some of the bums failed upward into cushy gov't positions, and the rest went back to doing pretty much what they'd been doing prior to the bailout.
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So, I'll just say come and take me away. Guilty as charged. I proudly admit I'm "anti-feminist." I'm sure they'll care not one whit that I'm strongly pro-women's equal rights. I'm also convinced the LGBTs are sick, or twisted, though harmless and I have no trouble dealing with them in most ways.
I'm also anti-religious, so I'm oppressing Xtians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, & etc, though I similarly have no trouble dealing with most of them in any way. I'm anti-nationalist, so that makes me anti-Zionist and anti-Israel just to start.
I could go on admitting my many facets of intolerance, but I'm sure this is enough to lock me away forever.
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They're also exposing governments to litigious assholes, a la Eli Lily, just for doing their job (regulating pharma patenting, etc).
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I was expecting to see it the morning of Apr. 1.
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Re: The necessity of the state
Good answer. That in itself justifies the state. If only we could get that part to actually work! Instead, we still end up with belligerent states run by greedy and arrogant politicians using that military power for political ends instead of defense or merely upholding sane laws.
One of the things I was hoping for from the Internet was a massive improvement in communications and citizen reporting. If the Streisand Effect can do all the wonderful things we've seen it do, then surely masses reporting on-line (Yelp?) that so and so is selling bad meat, yada yada, would negate the necessity for expensive and often ineffectual regulatory bodies (cf. FCC).
I'm hoping that one of these days, we'll start to get education for the masses right, and people will start to see the need to take their rightful place in seeing how !@#$ gets done, not just continue letting things happen to them because they can't do anything about it anyway.
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Incidental (tangential, orthogonal), perhaps. Businesses are supposed to minimize cost and maximize profit. It would be nice if they'd factor in making the experience enjoyable for their customers in order to make them want to come back, but budget airlines assume you won't care about that as much as getting inexpensive service. Vote with your feet if that's not you.
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Captive market!
Oh, *sweet*, considering those are confiscated as potential WMDs prior to boarding.
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