And there should be prosecution for outright fraud.
Would a big corporation with a war chest and legal muscle be able* to go around extorting payments for a license to breathe their air? After all, they have a building that uses fans to blow filtered air into the public environment.
* nevermind, I already know the answer: of course they could, in the US.
Bulk Data Collection Program A will be discontinued on date X.
There is no such thing as Bulk Data Collection Program B which is classified and under a very different name. We can neither confirm nor deny nor snicker.
We can neither confirm nor deny that a Bulk Data Collection Program C is being planned along with a suitably clever new name.
Bulk Data Collection Program D will take a lesson from marketing and have a name that makes it sound good for you.
Happy Friendly Killer Drones Golden Key Cryptography Big Brother monitoring communications for your safety
Being able to break all widely used encryption is hard to believe.
More believable is the idea that when the NSA wants to target specific computers, it can hack them. It's not as far fetched to believe that all commonly used operating systems are already so completely, so utterly compromised that NSA can implant software agents into targeted computers. By 'compromised', the NSA may have had back doors that are built right in to commercial software at manufacture. This may be known or unknown to the manufacturer of that commercial software.
Think about that. Isn't this the kind of thing NSA does? There are probably only a few organizations that NSA would have to penetrate with one of their own human agents as an employee, in the right position, to be able to get such back doors into widespread use. And there's the possibility of forcing software manufacturers to do it. Or even simply forcing certain individuals already employed there to do it without the knowledge of people higher up in the organization. I'm a bit skeptical of this, because someone, somewhere who is approached, pressured, blackmailed, etc to try to implant a back door into their employer's software, might decide to go public with it.
It is also believable that a software agent implanted into a targeted computer could monitor all commonly used cryptographic libraries and obtain the key material being used.
I don't think this sounds as far fetched as the idea that NSA can break all encryption. There are other ways to compromise cryptogrpahic systems.
NSA's ability to hack computers is a technology race. Just like the US Mint is in a technology race with counterfeiters of US currency.
Follow this line of assumptions / conspiracy theory.
Former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden knows that NSA can get what it needs (maybe not all it wants) using other techniques unavailable to the FBI.
Similarly, former Homeland Security boss Michael Chertoff might know that what the NSA has, homeland security has.
Since they can both get what they need, they see no reason to support the FBI. Maybe due to behind the scenes in fighting between competing bureaucratic fiefdoms, they would be happy for the FBI to be beholden to the NSA and/or homeland security and/or CIA for intelligence in exchange for other favors.
Hayden was also former CIA head honcho. According to this he was at NSA before he was at CIA. But maybe being at CIA he also has something against the FBI.
Copyright is a system dependent on fear to prevent people from doing what comes naturally, what has been done since the dawn of man's ability to put ideas into a fixed tangible medium of expression.
Dotcom was a show trial as a demonstration of how deeply the MAFIAA has corrupted the US government. It was motivated by the death of SOPA / PIPA. Look at when the Dotcom thing happened, and when the day that SOPA / PIPA died.
The problem I see with that approach is that we would need to change the way public health issues are treated in a way that large capacity automatic weapons would be required.
The deaths and injuries caused by drug enforcement aren't in danger of approaching the death and injuries caused by the drug trade, but the former is more disturbing than the latter. While we might expect a certain amount of violence from purveyors of illicit substances, we don't really expect as much from law enforcement. And yet we're seeing it occur on a far too regular basis.
Maybe it is time to wage The War On "the war on (some) drugs".
Some of what contributed to this tragedy can be attributed to well-intentioned people getting in too big a hurry, and not slowing down and taking enough time to consider the possible consequences of their actions.
Strike the well intentioned part. If they were well intentioned, they would slow down and consider the possible consequences. They are not well intentioned.
That's like saying a well intentioned drunk driver would consider the possible consequences of getting behind the wheel.
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What I notice right under that "Special Permission" line
Geez, a song intended for everyone to sing, yet with a vocal range of a full octave. The highest note being Eb more than an octave above middle C!
Wow. Shouldn't the court also give punitive damages for that?
They could transpose it down three semitones and make the vocal range more accessible to more people (Key F). (Or even five semitones, Key Eb.)
If people sing it in a different key, is that copyright infringement?
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Is it just another Anomaly?
All the rest of the copyrights keeping stuff from the public domain are all okay, right?
Such a vast number of anomalies countering the goodness of copyright. What is an 'anomaly' again?
(When a rocket blows up in flight, that is called an anomaly. Maybe that should be what happens to copyright when there is a copyright anomaly?)
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But with interest.
With punitive damages.
And there should be prosecution for outright fraud.
Would a big corporation with a war chest and legal muscle be able* to go around extorting payments for a license to breathe their air? After all, they have a building that uses fans to blow filtered air into the public environment.
* nevermind, I already know the answer: of course they could, in the US.
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The end of Bulk Data collection
There is no such thing as Bulk Data Collection Program B which is classified and under a very different name. We can neither confirm nor deny nor snicker.
We can neither confirm nor deny that a Bulk Data Collection Program C is being planned along with a suitably clever new name.
Bulk Data Collection Program D will take a lesson from marketing and have a name that makes it sound good for you.
Happy Friendly Killer Drones
Golden Key Cryptography
Big Brother monitoring communications for your safety
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More believable is the idea that when the NSA wants to target specific computers, it can hack them. It's not as far fetched to believe that all commonly used operating systems are already so completely, so utterly compromised that NSA can implant software agents into targeted computers. By 'compromised', the NSA may have had back doors that are built right in to commercial software at manufacture. This may be known or unknown to the manufacturer of that commercial software.
Think about that. Isn't this the kind of thing NSA does? There are probably only a few organizations that NSA would have to penetrate with one of their own human agents as an employee, in the right position, to be able to get such back doors into widespread use. And there's the possibility of forcing software manufacturers to do it. Or even simply forcing certain individuals already employed there to do it without the knowledge of people higher up in the organization. I'm a bit skeptical of this, because someone, somewhere who is approached, pressured, blackmailed, etc to try to implant a back door into their employer's software, might decide to go public with it.
It is also believable that a software agent implanted into a targeted computer could monitor all commonly used cryptographic libraries and obtain the key material being used.
I don't think this sounds as far fetched as the idea that NSA can break all encryption. There are other ways to compromise cryptogrpahic systems.
NSA's ability to hack computers is a technology race. Just like the US Mint is in a technology race with counterfeiters of US currency.
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Maybe this is what it means . . .
Former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden knows that NSA can get what it needs (maybe not all it wants) using other techniques unavailable to the FBI.
Similarly, former Homeland Security boss Michael Chertoff might know that what the NSA has, homeland security has.
Since they can both get what they need, they see no reason to support the FBI. Maybe due to behind the scenes in fighting between competing bureaucratic fiefdoms, they would be happy for the FBI to be beholden to the NSA and/or homeland security and/or CIA for intelligence in exchange for other favors.
Hayden was also former CIA head honcho. According to this he was at NSA before he was at CIA. But maybe being at CIA he also has something against the FBI.
Okay, now I'll take off my conspiracy theory hat.
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Copyright is only a recent development.
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Player Pianos. (Will be the death of sheet music.)
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Corruption
Please consider:
Isaiah 1:4
Job 36:18
Proverbs 17:8
Proverbs 17:23
Proverbs 29:4
Ecclesiastes 7:7
And there are plenty more.
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Naaah. Nevermind.
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Re: Federal grand jury
Or maybe both?
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Re: Re: A Crime Free Environment
I disagree.
If you kill every last single person in your entire regime, then there will be no criminals left.
. . .
. . .
Oh, wait.
Nevermind.
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Re: Re: The War On "the war on (some) drugs"
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I don't have a problem with raising prices
What I have a problem with is the lack of effective competition.
With little to no competitors, there are no effective market forces to keep prices reasonable.
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The War On "the war on (some) drugs"
Maybe it is time to wage The War On "the war on (some) drugs".
Or maybe, "Just say Yes".
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Well intentioned?
That's like saying a well intentioned drunk driver would consider the possible consequences of getting behind the wheel.
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