Having just noted you have not deigned to respond to a question that was put forward in good faith at FB ...
"The plans for the hyperspatial bypass have been available for review by all in the planning office on Alpha Centuri, and since you've not bothered to avail yourselves of that we must conclude ..."
Not everyone cares to be on Facebook (myself included). Why fragment the discussion? Post it here (as an AC if preferred). Failing that I must conclude this is merely an attempt to dilute criticism of certain recent events.
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He wants to promote this site to similar minded freeloaders ...
I'm not a freeloader. I'm a boycotter! I avoid all of your copyrighted for eternity crap. I want you jerks to go out of business. I hate you all for trying to twist my world into something it never should have been. You're corrupting our elected politicians with bribes, you're perverting the judicial system and needlessly enriching ambulance chasers, you're a drain on the economy of the world, all for your own personal enrichment at our expense.
Keep it up. I'll cheer when I see the likes of you hanging from a lamp post!
I think that pretty much sums them up. They are intellectually incapable of believing that no, *not everyone is out to rob them*. Google has finally realized they've been bending themselves into a pretzel attempting to appease a tyrant which will never listen to reason.
Either that, or this is the bunch who've sold their enforcement services to clueless rights holders who mistakenly believe these jerks can fix this for them. They're making big bucks as long as they can keep the MafiAA believing that line. There's no way these jerks want that gravy train stopped.
I suspect these guys are scraping the bottom of their barrel, and the rights holders are starting to clue in, wondering why they're spending so much for these guys, yet they never seem to produce any results, other than making more people hate them for their efforts.
It seems to me that those who complain most about piracy and pirates are in the position of the kettle calling the pot black.
Irrelevant when they own the guns.
So, you've been so sucked in by the marketing, you can't do without? That's a bit pathetic, I think. The wiser solution to the problem is to wise up and boycott them. Find other stuff (there's lots out there) that's sold for a more reasonable price. The MafiAA's stuff is too expensive, and I'm not talking just about money. I'm talking about bribed and bought politicians, laws written to protect special interests, oppressive laws criminalizing copying, & etc.
No one arrests them or charges them or does anything aside from talk about it
I like to assume we're in the Analysis, or perhaps even Design, phase. Analyze the problem, then Design the solution based on what the analysis turns up. Implementation of the designed solution comes after those are done sufficiently. Implementation will fail if the others weren't done adequately.
Stir in Agile if you think it would help. I tend to consider that's little more than a marketroid's buzzword, but ymmv.
Its pretty much open knowledge that he tried to shake down Google for cash (for himself) and said he'd "go after them" if they didn't pony up.
Now he's getting what in his tiny racist piggy-eyed mind is 'revenge' for Google basically telling him to go fuck himself.
Now that righteous indignation has been repeated ad nauseum, perhaps someone would be so kind as to point out with clarity and specificity what illegal activity was advocated and/or pursued?
What about what AC1 wrote is unclear to you? I assume AGs have an oath of office where they swear to uphold the Constitution, so breaking his oath of office. I know bribery of an elected official and extortion is illegal, but perhaps campaign finance law is so fscked these days, this is just how it's done. Barratry perhaps, as in abuse of the judicial system, or malicious prosecution?
I'm sure any DA can easily come up with a hundred more. They did for Aaron Swartz.
Want to watch "Game Of Thrones" legally in Australia at the same time as it's on HBO?
Devil's advocate ... :-)
Yeah, that's pretty expensive and I couldn't justify the expense, but you can/would? If you couldn't slurp it down from TPB (et al), you'd pay that?
Well, reality bites. If GoT *now* is that important to you, that's the going price for it. You don't like that price, don't pay it and do without. It'll show up in a library in a few years, or you can watch it at a friend's place instead.
Otherwise, you're "stealing."
Yeah, it's a lousy deal and they ought to be able to do better, but they won't. Sucks to be you. Does any of that justify "pirating" it? I don't think so. You're the one who's so determined to watch it NOW. Well, this is what it costs. Pay their price, or wait for the library to get a copy. Or don't allow yourself to get sucked in by the marketing. Don't bother to watch it and save your money. GoT sucks, really. It's violent, mysoginistic, expensive crap.
Any chance Congress is going to grow tired of being used like a bunch of trained seals? Why are your elected reps putting up with this crap? I expect this from the Soviet Politburo, or a '50s-ish South American dictatorship, not the USA.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an "Iron Curtain" has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow.
It's just become a propaganda machine for liberals.
Already I need to tell a "conservative" what I just told another one yesterday.
You partisan hacks are moronic! Both sides are to blame. It's not liberals OR conservatives. It's liberals AND conservatives! They're two sides of the same coin.
Google needs to withdraw as planned and not accept any last-minute deals ...
That would be silly. Google's got Spain by the cojones because Spanish users and businesses don't want to lose Google's services. Lose that and Google loses what leverage they have.
However, "Get rid of AEDE, and we'll suspend the suspension" might be a good way to go. If that works, go after all the other extortionists, er ... "licensing authorities" in Germany, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, ...
Which ones are those? Are you suggesting websites and advertisers have no choice but to use Google adwords & etc? I think you're quite mistaken.
... its censorship in some cases (there's a valid point to be made in this situation that Google's closing down of news feeds in Spain over a silly copyright squabble resembles censorship in some form)
No, there isn't. How can that be blamed on Google? Censorship?!? That's ridiculous.
... and its overall capitalist elitism.
Uh huh. That's just stupid (sorry). It's a corporation. It's job (policed by the FTC) is to make money for shareholders, pay taxes, and provide employment. That's all. It's not an NGO nor a charity of any kind. Google is not what defines the rules in any of that.
History is written by the victors, and in this case, it's the US. Sure, the report will get attention, but Cheney, Bush, and all the CIA heads will never go down in history as monsters.
I beg to differ. History is not written by the players. It's written by the people; by historians who come from the people. The best the players can do is put some spin on the story, but the truth will out. Eisenhower's final speech in office was damned good, but that's the best they can hope for. These guys are nowhere near that good, they resurrected torture in 21st Century USA, and they'll not be well thought of by posterity for it.
Prior to European settlement of North America, the people living on the continent had the concept that nobody could own land; it just _was_.
That was the noble savage fairy tale, but I never bought it. Natives certainly did exert ownership over tribal lands. Any specific native may not have owned it, but it was considered owned by the tribe communally.
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"The plans for the hyperspatial bypass have been available for review by all in the planning office on Alpha Centuri, and since you've not bothered to avail yourselves of that we must conclude ..."
Not everyone cares to be on Facebook (myself included). Why fragment the discussion? Post it here (as an AC if preferred). Failing that I must conclude this is merely an attempt to dilute criticism of certain recent events.
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I'm not a freeloader. I'm a boycotter! I avoid all of your copyrighted for eternity crap. I want you jerks to go out of business. I hate you all for trying to twist my world into something it never should have been. You're corrupting our elected politicians with bribes, you're perverting the judicial system and needlessly enriching ambulance chasers, you're a drain on the economy of the world, all for your own personal enrichment at our expense.
Keep it up. I'll cheer when I see the likes of you hanging from a lamp post!
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I think that pretty much sums them up. They are intellectually incapable of believing that no, *not everyone is out to rob them*. Google has finally realized they've been bending themselves into a pretzel attempting to appease a tyrant which will never listen to reason.
Either that, or this is the bunch who've sold their enforcement services to clueless rights holders who mistakenly believe these jerks can fix this for them. They're making big bucks as long as they can keep the MafiAA believing that line. There's no way these jerks want that gravy train stopped.
I suspect these guys are scraping the bottom of their barrel, and the rights holders are starting to clue in, wondering why they're spending so much for these guys, yet they never seem to produce any results, other than making more people hate them for their efforts.
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Irrelevant when they own the guns.
So, you've been so sucked in by the marketing, you can't do without? That's a bit pathetic, I think. The wiser solution to the problem is to wise up and boycott them. Find other stuff (there's lots out there) that's sold for a more reasonable price. The MafiAA's stuff is too expensive, and I'm not talking just about money. I'm talking about bribed and bought politicians, laws written to protect special interests, oppressive laws criminalizing copying, & etc.
I'd rather do without than pay their price.
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I like to assume we're in the Analysis, or perhaps even Design, phase. Analyze the problem, then Design the solution based on what the analysis turns up. Implementation of the designed solution comes after those are done sufficiently. Implementation will fail if the others weren't done adequately.
Stir in Agile if you think it would help. I tend to consider that's little more than a marketroid's buzzword, but ymmv.
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What about what AC1 wrote is unclear to you? I assume AGs have an oath of office where they swear to uphold the Constitution, so breaking his oath of office. I know bribery of an elected official and extortion is illegal, but perhaps campaign finance law is so fscked these days, this is just how it's done. Barratry perhaps, as in abuse of the judicial system, or malicious prosecution?
I'm sure any DA can easily come up with a hundred more. They did for Aaron Swartz.
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Re: Game Of Thrones in Australia
Devil's advocate ... :-)
Yeah, that's pretty expensive and I couldn't justify the expense, but you can/would? If you couldn't slurp it down from TPB (et al), you'd pay that?
Well, reality bites. If GoT *now* is that important to you, that's the going price for it. You don't like that price, don't pay it and do without. It'll show up in a library in a few years, or you can watch it at a friend's place instead.
Otherwise, you're "stealing."
Yeah, it's a lousy deal and they ought to be able to do better, but they won't. Sucks to be you. Does any of that justify "pirating" it? I don't think so. You're the one who's so determined to watch it NOW. Well, this is what it costs. Pay their price, or wait for the library to get a copy. Or don't allow yourself to get sucked in by the marketing. Don't bother to watch it and save your money. GoT sucks, really. It's violent, mysoginistic, expensive crap.
Right?
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Yarf, yarf, yarf, ...
Now, it's the USA. Been nice knowin' ya.
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Already I need to tell a "conservative" what I just told another one yesterday.
You partisan hacks are moronic! Both sides are to blame. It's not liberals OR conservatives. It's liberals AND conservatives! They're two sides of the same coin.
Pathetic.
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I wonder what else is in that 14 TB smoking gun. Thanks guys!
Chris Dodd, tarred, feathered, and ridden out of town on a rail for Christmas! Yummy.
Have fun Google, but don't play with them. Just kill 'em nice and quick. Thanks. Merry Xmas! :-)
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That would be silly. Google's got Spain by the cojones because Spanish users and businesses don't want to lose Google's services. Lose that and Google loses what leverage they have.
However, "Get rid of AEDE, and we'll suspend the suspension" might be a good way to go. If that works, go after all the other extortionists, er ... "licensing authorities" in Germany, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, ...
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Which ones are those? Are you suggesting websites and advertisers have no choice but to use Google adwords & etc? I think you're quite mistaken.
No, there isn't. How can that be blamed on Google? Censorship?!? That's ridiculous.
Uh huh. That's just stupid (sorry). It's a corporation. It's job (policed by the FTC) is to make money for shareholders, pay taxes, and provide employment. That's all. It's not an NGO nor a charity of any kind. Google is not what defines the rules in any of that.
You got that right.
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I beg to differ. History is not written by the players. It's written by the people; by historians who come from the people. The best the players can do is put some spin on the story, but the truth will out. Eisenhower's final speech in office was damned good, but that's the best they can hope for. These guys are nowhere near that good, they resurrected torture in 21st Century USA, and they'll not be well thought of by posterity for it.
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Good job! :-)
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That was the noble savage fairy tale, but I never bought it. Natives certainly did exert ownership over tribal lands. Any specific native may not have owned it, but it was considered owned by the tribe communally.
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