Yes, I click the power button on my PC and voila, it's on and ready to go. Isn't that an obvious one-click 'abstraction'? Even if it takes 20 minutes :(
Doesn't matter about this not being the movie/music industry. They all boost existing copyright laws for their benefit, while claiming it is 'for the artist/creator'. The fact than any creative industry can say "our workers are purely for hire and have nothing personally creative" totally undermines that 'special' status copytards claim for copyright. Stuff will be created for hire. Big companies will keep the copyright. It is not for the benefit of 'individuals'. Profits must be protected. The public domain will never happen.
That is a rather different situation though. Closed off in a car together is somewhat more private. He'd be daft though if he got upset because someone used lipreading techniques or sophisticated distance-based technological methods if he meets in public.
What's the point of 'right to assemble' if it can be tossed for 'blocking traffic'? Right to assemble absolutely involves impeding traffic, that's a time-honoured method going back centuries.
Now, in a specific case where people can be proven to have caused actual harm by impeding emergency response vehicles, you can deal with them individually...
Then they will want to criminialise learning the theory behind breaking that stuff... only the alphabet soup agencies will be able to teach cryptography or cryptographic theory...
Right now, PROTECT-IP is operating on the general principle of:
A Wal-mart sold booze to a minor. Let's close the whole STORE down, with no chance of appeal for months/years on end.
Or even:
A Wal-mart sold booze to a minor. Let's close the whole CHAIN down, with no chance of appeal for months/years on end.
What we're objecting to is the multiple-level stupidity of PROTECT-IP here. Firstly, it's utterly disproportionate here. There are no *stolen* goods. There are no minors being 'harmed'. Secondly, it's ineffective as other than a harrassment option - new domain names will just come online, the servers are intact, so it's not stopping anything, just being a pain to the organisers. Thirdly, it's utterly un-Constitutional to stop all the other free speech just because some *might* be infringing.
I have visions of Ferengi 'pirates' capturing Klingon ships, raiding the cargo and using replicators to 'copy' it exactly, thus giving them a template to infinitely replicate without having to take the risk of raiding more Klingon vessels...
"What do you mean that our _gagh_ isn't good enough to steal, Ferengi _petaQ_?"
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we - we just implement it better."
I think Comic Con or someone similar proved that imaginative/enthusiastic counter-protesting worked wonders against WBC. Sure, they have protected rights of free speech. But you have protected rights of free assembly (right next to them).
If th policeman isn't competent to shoot accurately at that short distance, then he should have held back.
Can you imagine explaining in a firearms case:
"Sorry, I shot the kid in the chest from 10 feet away, although I was aiming for his leg."
"Sorry, I hit the other person than the one I was aiming for."
Inappropriate use of force, inappropriately targeted and with no attempt to do anything except be lazy. I hope the kid gets a good lawyer!
I think subject to the definition of a 'militia', gun restrictions make as much sense as any other law. You don't want children, the mentially infirm, or the incurably criminal to have legal access to, and the right to carry, firearms. So there are restrictions.
Of course, most other western countries manage to maintain functional democracies without having to arm their citizens to the teeth - that was more a hallmark of the communist countries. A good democracy doesn't need guns to keep its government honest and under control. So when in the last 300 years have guns 'saved' American democracy?
I would also add that although The eejit is spoofing your Rethuglicans, he's British so perfectly entitled to be 'the downfall of your country' - although frankly your political parties seem to be doing a great job by themselves.
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This trashes copyright's main excuses
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Bil Bixby/Lou Ferrigno FTW!
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FTFY +1
(with kudos to the original)
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Now, in a specific case where people can be proven to have caused actual harm by impeding emergency response vehicles, you can deal with them individually...
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A Wal-mart sold booze to a minor. Let's close the whole STORE down, with no chance of appeal for months/years on end.
Or even:
A Wal-mart sold booze to a minor. Let's close the whole CHAIN down, with no chance of appeal for months/years on end.
What we're objecting to is the multiple-level stupidity of PROTECT-IP here. Firstly, it's utterly disproportionate here. There are no *stolen* goods. There are no minors being 'harmed'. Secondly, it's ineffective as other than a harrassment option - new domain names will just come online, the servers are intact, so it's not stopping anything, just being a pain to the organisers. Thirdly, it's utterly un-Constitutional to stop all the other free speech just because some *might* be infringing.
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"What do you mean that our _gagh_ isn't good enough to steal, Ferengi _petaQ_?"
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"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we - we just implement it better."
Fixed...
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Can you imagine explaining in a firearms case:
"Sorry, I shot the kid in the chest from 10 feet away, although I was aiming for his leg."
"Sorry, I hit the other person than the one I was aiming for."
Inappropriate use of force, inappropriately targeted and with no attempt to do anything except be lazy. I hope the kid gets a good lawyer!
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Of course, most other western countries manage to maintain functional democracies without having to arm their citizens to the teeth - that was more a hallmark of the communist countries. A good democracy doesn't need guns to keep its government honest and under control. So when in the last 300 years have guns 'saved' American democracy?
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