Wow, I am shocked that TechDirt commenters fail to see the same kind of actions from the left as they are so quick to point out from the right.
BO has increased the Debt faster than Bush did. Has added more powers to the Homeland Security fiasco than Bush did. Passed Healthcare legislation that will cost $39k plus per person covered more than twice what was stated.
Oh, man I am not going to do this. I am not going to spend hours listing all of what Bush Jr did and compare it to BO.
So all I am going to say is if you think BO is better than Bush Jr. than you are woefully lacking in accurate, unbiased knowledge.
One last comment. BO is as influenced by his handlers (different flavor, same ice cream) as Bush Jr. was. BO is responsible for the economy 3.5 years in, stop blaming Bush Jr.
I quote "ethics is a soft target and of all the reasons we choose to do something right or wrong it is the least influential because it is the most referential."
Read the info at the link. Corporations are corrupted by the confines of their perspective.
Generally, we look to these kinds of offenses as a problem with the gov't. But there are individuals behind these actions and they need to be held accountable for their actions. Just as a police officer would be held accountable for beating a person that did nothing.
Voted Insightful even though I know that your comment will not be seen in the proper light it should be.
Regardless of the actual reward, someone, somewhere, at sometime needs to sue because if there is no consequence for doing the wrong thing then the gov't will feel no need to stop their actions no matter how unfounded or unwarranted.
Thought experiment: If I know that the worst that will happen to me is a $10,000 fine and 1 year in jail for stealing 50,000 people's identities and making 10 dollars on each then I understand good economic principals. Because I made $490,000 for one year of my life. Not bad pay if you can get it.
Worst than that is if I know that I can get paid for doing nothing while harming (costing a lot money) another entity and there is zero consequence. Which is what I.C.E. views this whole case as being.
Oops, sorry. Here is your livelihood back. Here is Harm, but no foul.
Everybody has a sense of ethics. Even corporations as they are run by people. But ethics is a soft target and of all the reasons we choose to do something right or wrong it is the least influential because it is the most referential. It is based on your frame of reference. Your perspective.
If your perspective involves seeing what other companies (people) are doing and are able to do then your "ethics" are going see it as acceptable when you do as your peers are doing. I can show you proof after proof that ethics can be distorted in this way but I will just give you one landmark study that gives a good summation of my point.
To your statement "Eh, I was called a fascist for saying that piracy was as much an economics issue as a content issue." by someone that is uninformed.
Mike, this article (whether you intended it to or not) links to the discussion in your last article (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120503/13211218765/if-you-think-cost-piracy-is-high-what-about-c ost-enforcement.shtml).
But it seems to add a new element to my thoughts. Not only is it a case of the MORONS (Media Outlet Representative OrganizatioNS) outsourcing the cost of there business model but it also seems that I.C.E. is also doing like a lot of government agencies, wanting others to do their job.
My last point before I go get sick is why is there not a way to receive recompense from both I.C.E. and RIAA for the loss of income? I can sue a police department for beating me after I made a vulgar gesture to a police officer. I can sue a police department for leaking information that turns out to be untrue and causes me great hardship. But in a case where the federal government is concerned they are faultless and therefore legally exempt from suits. This to me is the ultimate proof that our government is operating on the failed assumption that they are above the law.
Maybe Dajaz1.com should hire Travolta's lawyer and sue both for Malicious Prosecution.
I just call this smart business. I am sorry but if you are allowed to as you say socialize losses and privatize profits why wouldn't you?
Businesses are in the business of making money that is their raison d'etre. They have moral, cultural, societal, and environmental responsibilities to uphold to some degree. But those ideals are the first to go if they are not able to make profits.
So if they are allowed to by governmental entities (I am coining this acronym) to "SLaPP" us with the losses they have a fiduciary obligation to the owners of the company to do so. Otherwise they are going to be at a competitive disadvantage.
So getting angry at the big bad guys on Wall Street for doing so is just a case of misplaced anger, just like the MPAA does when they blame piracy for their imagined losses.
Our great leaders (Or Rulers) have abandoned their fiduciary obligation and raison d'etre in favor of more power and financial rewards for themselves. They have forgotten that they are their to provide us the tax payers with the best value for our money and to do so with their moral, cultural, societal, and environmental responsibilities first and foremost.
It turns out the MPAA and the RIAA are not so stupid...We are!
The Media Outlet Representative OrganizatioNS (MORON for short)are smarter than we are because they have found a way to Outsource the cost of limiting piracy. They just get the tax payers to foot the bill!!!!
(Head Slap!)
I wish I could come up with a way to get the tax payers to foot the cost of the way I do business.
Wow, we are dumb.
Mike, maybe you could create an Insight Case on "How to get the tax payers to pay for the half of the cost of your business model."
So why all the fuss about phones? When you make a call at 10,000 feet, the signal bounces off multiple available cell towers, rather than one at a time. That means too many phone-happy jetsetters might clog up the networks on the ground, which is why the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) — not the Federal Aviation Association (FAA) — banned cell use on planes.
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Stock traders know the truth.
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Seems like the calls for lose pays should be stronger...
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BO has increased the Debt faster than Bush did. Has added more powers to the Homeland Security fiasco than Bush did. Passed Healthcare legislation that will cost $39k plus per person covered more than twice what was stated.
Oh, man I am not going to do this. I am not going to spend hours listing all of what Bush Jr did and compare it to BO.
So all I am going to say is if you think BO is better than Bush Jr. than you are woefully lacking in accurate, unbiased knowledge.
One last comment. BO is as influenced by his handlers (different flavor, same ice cream) as Bush Jr. was. BO is responsible for the economy 3.5 years in, stop blaming Bush Jr.
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Read the info at the link. Corporations are corrupted by the confines of their perspective.
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Re: Re: This myth was busted.
If you really want to dig in to the details look too the ieee.org report on the whole process.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/unsafe-at-any-airspeed/0
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Re: Who is to blame?
Generally, we look to these kinds of offenses as a problem with the gov't. But there are individuals behind these actions and they need to be held accountable for their actions. Just as a police officer would be held accountable for beating a person that did nothing.
Voted Insightful even though I know that your comment will not be seen in the proper light it should be.
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Internet Marketing Best Practices 101:
2. The websites your ads show on should be relevant to the message and audience you want to target.
3. Spend your marketing dollars where they are most effective. Rogue sites are just where the most money is spent. Right?
Seems like the view that marketers would advertise on 'Rogue' sites does not make a lot of dollars and cents.
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Regardless of the actual reward, someone, somewhere, at sometime needs to sue because if there is no consequence for doing the wrong thing then the gov't will feel no need to stop their actions no matter how unfounded or unwarranted.
Thought experiment: If I know that the worst that will happen to me is a $10,000 fine and 1 year in jail for stealing 50,000 people's identities and making 10 dollars on each then I understand good economic principals. Because I made $490,000 for one year of my life. Not bad pay if you can get it.
Worst than that is if I know that I can get paid for doing nothing while harming (costing a lot money) another entity and there is zero consequence. Which is what I.C.E. views this whole case as being.
Oops, sorry. Here is your livelihood back. Here is Harm, but no foul.
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Re: Re: Re: To recap:
The 'list' has been quoted many times by other blogs/pseudo-news sites and I felt that the content even forgiving the source was valid to the article.
I will accept the blame for not being more clear on that point.
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> we need to get the governement completely out of business.
FTFYx2
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If your perspective involves seeing what other companies (people) are doing and are able to do then your "ethics" are going see it as acceptable when you do as your peers are doing. I can show you proof after proof that ethics can be distorted in this way but I will just give you one landmark study that gives a good summation of my point.
Even good people can do bad.
http://www.prisonexp.org/
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Re: Re: To recap:
To your statement "Eh, I was called a fascist for saying that piracy was as much an economics issue as a content issue." by someone that is uninformed.
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Re: To recap:
Fascism is not a political party. It a view of how the world should be run.
The wrong view but still a view.
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Because they need too.
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First point I would like to make...
But it seems to add a new element to my thoughts. Not only is it a case of the MORONS (Media Outlet Representative OrganizatioNS) outsourcing the cost of there business model but it also seems that I.C.E. is also doing like a lot of government agencies, wanting others to do their job.
My last point before I go get sick is why is there not a way to receive recompense from both I.C.E. and RIAA for the loss of income? I can sue a police department for beating me after I made a vulgar gesture to a police officer. I can sue a police department for leaking information that turns out to be untrue and causes me great hardship. But in a case where the federal government is concerned they are faultless and therefore legally exempt from suits. This to me is the ultimate proof that our government is operating on the failed assumption that they are above the law.
Maybe Dajaz1.com should hire Travolta's lawyer and sue both for Malicious Prosecution.
On the post: If You Think The Cost Of 'Piracy' Is High, What About The Cost Of Enforcement?
Re:
Businesses are in the business of making money that is their raison d'etre. They have moral, cultural, societal, and environmental responsibilities to uphold to some degree. But those ideals are the first to go if they are not able to make profits.
So if they are allowed to by governmental entities (I am coining this acronym) to "SLaPP" us with the losses they have a fiduciary obligation to the owners of the company to do so. Otherwise they are going to be at a competitive disadvantage.
So getting angry at the big bad guys on Wall Street for doing so is just a case of misplaced anger, just like the MPAA does when they blame piracy for their imagined losses.
Our great leaders (Or Rulers) have abandoned their fiduciary obligation and raison d'etre in favor of more power and financial rewards for themselves. They have forgotten that they are their to provide us the tax payers with the best value for our money and to do so with their moral, cultural, societal, and environmental responsibilities first and foremost.
On the post: If You Think The Cost Of 'Piracy' Is High, What About The Cost Of Enforcement?
It turns out the MPAA and the RIAA are not so stupid...We are!
(Head Slap!)
I wish I could come up with a way to get the tax payers to foot the cost of the way I do business.
Wow, we are dumb.
Mike, maybe you could create an Insight Case on "How to get the tax payers to pay for the half of the cost of your business model."
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Re: New hardware found: Boeing 737
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This myth was busted.
http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/db/transportation/cell-phones-interfere-plane -instruments.html
Nuff' said.
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