After 15 million American voters took out SOPA and PIPA earlier this year then the MPAA and RIAA have been doing their best to ignore the truth in the power the public now hold.
Since then Chris Dodd must have been having screaming nightmares about this very day. Suddenly their is a view on copyright law in Congress not put there by the entertainment industry. Certainly they will bring in all their forces to quickly erase this hated document with a "move along, nothing to see here"
I am very enthusiastic about this call for copyright reform when this is no greedy document taking control or seizing resources. This is simply addressing real problems that exist and adding in something called "fairness". We should certainly get behind this document when it could be many years before something else pops up like this if we don't. This is the type of copyright reform we want to see and since this documents is pure genius then it would prove very hard indeed for any sane person to mount arguments against this.
I do strongly believe that we do hold power to enable such copyright law reform. Only a few years ago I would not have expected to see such reform in my lifetime but out of our annoyance and anger look what amazing things we have already achieved. Even if this document fails there has already been big gain here but if you truly believe that a major reform of copyright law is due then just maybe a big reform of copyright law is due.
Well I don't think any of us expected this one to last long when this is like trying to offer a cool refreshing lollipop in the 7th level of Hell. Some things just do not go well together.
They are stuck between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea on this one when sure 15 million people or more would support copyright reform but their funds come from the MPAA and RIAA.
I would say don't be sad when this may be a first small step but it won't be the last. People will keep pushing because they know we need copyright reform which means it will pop up in other forms over the next few years.
If anyone should be afraid then that should be Chris Dodd when SOPA & PIPA are dead, ACTA is in a coma, then CETA and TPP(A) are in our sights. It is like Chris Dodd can't get much done these days already where this copyright reform document appearing in the House is going is going to give that guy nightmares.
Yes the MPAA and RIAA would totally freak out. To go ahead with this copyright reform would undo years of their work and bring fairness to the system. We can all see how screwed copyright law is and one day someone has to fix it. Heroes are in the making already so lets give them our support. We also welcome them to look facts and not the fantasy that usually comes out of the RIAA/MPAA.
I was left wondering about those files months ago so if Mega can prove an investigate said not to touch them then the DoJ really have no case. Not following the law and only making a request won't help them either.
Well I am now starting to believe that NZ could well deny extraditing them off to the USA. The FBI/DoJ now have such a small case that at worst he could get be fined and certainly not prison time or company shut down.
It is true that the Democrats are paid the most but the Republicans are not far behind.
This is really the wrong way to look it when Hollywood simply funds the people who are most active on pro-copyright. So there are just more outspoken pro-copyright members on the Democratic side. Then that is sure headed by Obama and Biden.
I am truly shocked by what I read. Yes copyright in the USA does have some major issues but I am very happy to see that at least one person listens and understands.
I would say there is hope that many of those changes could be done but dropping the copyright term down to 12 years with renewal needed can only be a global event.
Reading this even bring tears to my eyes when it was back in 1997 when I first learned how the current system was broken under monopolies and how copyright was bad for society. Back then you could not even dream of change, could not expect to see change in your life time, or even the lives of your children. Back then the few pirates simply wanted more choice then what they were allowed and to see things beyond their door.
I am quite amazed how far we have come and so quickly. A few thousand people turned into millions and then tens and hundreds of millions. Sure most of those people do not understand the problems and just live out the new world but a noticeable percentage have learned. Indeed there are more people reading these technology pages than their are for politics in general. People read the news and they are concerned, annoyed and even angry.
You might say fairly that this document may go nowhere quickly but the fact this is being read in the House now is truly shocking. Still the world has much changed in recent years and one day the law does need to catch up.
Well if Congress runs with that ball they would make a whole load of voters very happy. This is a first but it will not be a last.
I don't know how many assets Kim Dotcom and Mega had in Germany but this is good news anyway. The only assert that currently comes to mind is the DoJ/FBI once seizing the car belonging to Kim's mother.
What I am sure most of us would like to see is action in the Hong Kong court system when currently they only play a submissive role stating that they will await for the US Court system to decide what to do.
They obviously need someone to point out that HK has its own laws (based on English law) and they need to look at the facts and evidence to make up their own mind. Mega had its HQ in HK so quite a lot of property there.
You are correct that the EU did outlaw 3 strikes schemes but they did add the exception that this would not apply to countries who already had this scheme planned namely France and the UK.
If you want to debate most deaths then Joseph Stalin has killed 5 times the numbers than Adolf Hitler did.
I am just not into comparing comparing the size of turds in the punch bowl when it is a poor excuse to say these deaths are not so bad because they killed more. My point is had not the British invented Concentration Camps, well highlighting the brutality involved, then Hilter could not have taken this idea and turned it into the Holocaust.
So there is one of the British gifts to the World which rank along-side things like the Indian opium trade where the British used their military might to turn hundreds of thousands of Chinese into drug addicts. All done to balance the trade deficit on the cost of tea.
Hilary Clinton prior to SOPA and PIPA gave two or three speeches on the importance of a free and fair Internet. Then of course the US Embassy in Madrid (controlled by the State Department and Ms. Clinton) forced on Spain their own SOPA-like law using threats of trade sanctions. Not at all good when the country had already shut it down.
So there has been a conflict of interest between what she says and what she does. It is only fair for her to leave if she was forced to go against her beliefs.
It would then not be at all surprising for them to replace her with someone who takes a hard copyright stance and is funded by Hollywood. That would indeed mean darker days as the USA bullies the rest of the world into harsh IP enforcement.
Not at all a good thing where the best we could hope for then would be some global repulsion of copyright but that seems unlikely. So the Internet is at risk along with the State Department's usual support of Internet freedom.
I said "concentration camps" and not "death camps". The holocaust is not a concentration camp but an entire scheme which employed concentration, labour and death camps.
Concentration camps under British control had the same equally disastrous results of starvation, suffering and death including women and children. I am sure you have heard the African stories where all those white locals died.
True enough when many of these people died to protect us from NAZI fascism and to maintain the freedom and peace they now have. Freedom of speech and free expression is certainly a big one.
This is not to say that the UK is a glorious place of perfection when they have done enough already to make you wonder who the real bad guys are. For example while the NAZI's made concentration camps famous it was the British Empire which created them to equally disastrous results.
So here we are protecting our patch of ground and at least the good stuff we did do. That does not mean there are not some idiots here who will cause such conflict.
The poppy is a symbol of both alive and deceased War veterans and since there will always be more Wars (with regret...) then there will always be the poppy. To burn the poppy is not the best idea when it would be seen as very anti-British and some people could take it very personally.
I expect here they are more saying this is not an act they would like to encourage or maybe they simply did this to avoid the locals beating him somewhat. So in the interest of keeping social peace it was not invalid when someone would have punished him anyway.
NASA has always desired the Lagrange Points when this allows a more deep space mission without the need for them to land on anything.
In Space terms it is quite boring... visiting empty space... but this allows them to get the know the hardware well and they would set a new record of how far humans have travelled away from Earth.
One other mission they should do is to control a rover on the Moon while in orbit around the Moon. Doing this removes the insanity lag of doing it from Earth. It also prepares them to do this same rover control around other planets and moons.
Making use of local raw materials would certainly help.
The aspect you overlook is that NASA always needs to create entire backup systems in case the main systems fail and just like on the ISS they also need to keep a whole array of spare parts to hand in case anything breaks.
So being able to print out any one of thousands a parts in under an hour would certainly save mass from being shipped and they may even be able to remove some non-vital backup systems.
I know the military are already working on 3D printers but NASA would need to do some large charges to their materials for 3D printers to show their true worth.
Also once you have a base established your degree educated experts can do vastly more on-site work in a much faster time. They can also adjust quickly to the unexpected.
A 3D printer could be much use there printing out new tools and parts on site instead of NASA having to ship them all the way from Earth.
One example of how humans are better is travel time when one human driver in charge of a vehicle on Mars can cover more ground in just one day than all these rovers have done combined over the past decade.
Lets not forget that the Hygens probe landed on Titan and many craft landed on our Moon. While not technically planets there are only 4 planets in our system that we can land on and half of those are already done.
The next one that they should drop a probe on is Europa.
I have seen Acer do this as well. Service manuals are vital when you need to do a repair or upgrade and before I even buy a new laptop I like to find out the service manual so I can truly understand the laptop.
Acer though like to be very active in taking any distributed service manuals off-line only leaving the user guides alone.
I certainly agree that laptop disassembly is a process not for everyone when some people can cause more damage and even fail to understand how to reassemble the parts. For me though I have a history of assembling computers and their step by step guides are easy for follow.
The best part of Acer laptops is that they are designed to be easily assembled and upgraded when other manufacturers can make that impossible. It is just a shame their LCD bezels, or the area around them, tend to be weak as shit when they lack suitable reenforcement to handle daily opening and closing.
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Re: Recording FUD & the GOP report
Since then Chris Dodd must have been having screaming nightmares about this very day. Suddenly their is a view on copyright law in Congress not put there by the entertainment industry. Certainly they will bring in all their forces to quickly erase this hated document with a "move along, nothing to see here"
I am very enthusiastic about this call for copyright reform when this is no greedy document taking control or seizing resources. This is simply addressing real problems that exist and adding in something called "fairness". We should certainly get behind this document when it could be many years before something else pops up like this if we don't. This is the type of copyright reform we want to see and since this documents is pure genius then it would prove very hard indeed for any sane person to mount arguments against this.
I do strongly believe that we do hold power to enable such copyright law reform. Only a few years ago I would not have expected to see such reform in my lifetime but out of our annoyance and anger look what amazing things we have already achieved. Even if this document fails there has already been big gain here but if you truly believe that a major reform of copyright law is due then just maybe a big reform of copyright law is due.
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Easy come, easy go.
They are stuck between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea on this one when sure 15 million people or more would support copyright reform but their funds come from the MPAA and RIAA.
I would say don't be sad when this may be a first small step but it won't be the last. People will keep pushing because they know we need copyright reform which means it will pop up in other forms over the next few years.
If anyone should be afraid then that should be Chris Dodd when SOPA & PIPA are dead, ACTA is in a coma, then CETA and TPP(A) are in our sights. It is like Chris Dodd can't get much done these days already where this copyright reform document appearing in the House is going is going to give that guy nightmares.
Yes the MPAA and RIAA would totally freak out. To go ahead with this copyright reform would undo years of their work and bring fairness to the system. We can all see how screwed copyright law is and one day someone has to fix it. Heroes are in the making already so lets give them our support. We also welcome them to look facts and not the fantasy that usually comes out of the RIAA/MPAA.
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Well I am now starting to believe that NZ could well deny extraditing them off to the USA. The FBI/DoJ now have such a small case that at worst he could get be fined and certainly not prison time or company shut down.
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This is really the wrong way to look it when Hollywood simply funds the people who are most active on pro-copyright. So there are just more outspoken pro-copyright members on the Democratic side. Then that is sure headed by Obama and Biden.
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Hope
I would say there is hope that many of those changes could be done but dropping the copyright term down to 12 years with renewal needed can only be a global event.
Reading this even bring tears to my eyes when it was back in 1997 when I first learned how the current system was broken under monopolies and how copyright was bad for society. Back then you could not even dream of change, could not expect to see change in your life time, or even the lives of your children. Back then the few pirates simply wanted more choice then what they were allowed and to see things beyond their door.
I am quite amazed how far we have come and so quickly. A few thousand people turned into millions and then tens and hundreds of millions. Sure most of those people do not understand the problems and just live out the new world but a noticeable percentage have learned. Indeed there are more people reading these technology pages than their are for politics in general. People read the news and they are concerned, annoyed and even angry.
You might say fairly that this document may go nowhere quickly but the fact this is being read in the House now is truly shocking. Still the world has much changed in recent years and one day the law does need to catch up.
Well if Congress runs with that ball they would make a whole load of voters very happy. This is a first but it will not be a last.
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Germany joins the party
What I am sure most of us would like to see is action in the Hong Kong court system when currently they only play a submissive role stating that they will await for the US Court system to decide what to do.
They obviously need someone to point out that HK has its own laws (based on English law) and they need to look at the facts and evidence to make up their own mind. Mega had its HQ in HK so quite a lot of property there.
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D.E.A (D)
Instead they have a large array of tools including suspension, education, contract agreement, bandwidth reduction and of course fines.
Well 2013 may go down as the year of the DEA but I would not be surprised if further delays made it slip into early 2014.
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I am just not into comparing comparing the size of turds in the punch bowl when it is a poor excuse to say these deaths are not so bad because they killed more. My point is had not the British invented Concentration Camps, well highlighting the brutality involved, then Hilter could not have taken this idea and turned it into the Holocaust.
So there is one of the British gifts to the World which rank along-side things like the Indian opium trade where the British used their military might to turn hundreds of thousands of Chinese into drug addicts. All done to balance the trade deficit on the cost of tea.
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Argh
Hilary Clinton prior to SOPA and PIPA gave two or three speeches on the importance of a free and fair Internet. Then of course the US Embassy in Madrid (controlled by the State Department and Ms. Clinton) forced on Spain their own SOPA-like law using threats of trade sanctions. Not at all good when the country had already shut it down.
So there has been a conflict of interest between what she says and what she does. It is only fair for her to leave if she was forced to go against her beliefs.
It would then not be at all surprising for them to replace her with someone who takes a hard copyright stance and is funded by Hollywood. That would indeed mean darker days as the USA bullies the rest of the world into harsh IP enforcement.
Not at all a good thing where the best we could hope for then would be some global repulsion of copyright but that seems unlikely. So the Internet is at risk along with the State Department's usual support of Internet freedom.
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Re: Re: The Poppy
Concentration camps under British control had the same equally disastrous results of starvation, suffering and death including women and children. I am sure you have heard the African stories where all those white locals died.
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Re: I should get my mind out of the gutter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day
The red colour of the poppy symbolizes the blood spilled in War.
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The Poppy
This is not to say that the UK is a glorious place of perfection when they have done enough already to make you wonder who the real bad guys are. For example while the NAZI's made concentration camps famous it was the British Empire which created them to equally disastrous results.
So here we are protecting our patch of ground and at least the good stuff we did do. That does not mean there are not some idiots here who will cause such conflict.
The poppy is a symbol of both alive and deceased War veterans and since there will always be more Wars (with regret...) then there will always be the poppy. To burn the poppy is not the best idea when it would be seen as very anti-British and some people could take it very personally.
I expect here they are more saying this is not an act they would like to encourage or maybe they simply did this to avoid the locals beating him somewhat. So in the interest of keeping social peace it was not invalid when someone would have punished him anyway.
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In Space terms it is quite boring... visiting empty space... but this allows them to get the know the hardware well and they would set a new record of how far humans have travelled away from Earth.
One other mission they should do is to control a rover on the Moon while in orbit around the Moon. Doing this removes the insanity lag of doing it from Earth. It also prepares them to do this same rover control around other planets and moons.
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The aspect you overlook is that NASA always needs to create entire backup systems in case the main systems fail and just like on the ISS they also need to keep a whole array of spare parts to hand in case anything breaks.
So being able to print out any one of thousands a parts in under an hour would certainly save mass from being shipped and they may even be able to remove some non-vital backup systems.
I know the military are already working on 3D printers but NASA would need to do some large charges to their materials for 3D printers to show their true worth.
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Re: always send robots first!
Also once you have a base established your degree educated experts can do vastly more on-site work in a much faster time. They can also adjust quickly to the unexpected.
A 3D printer could be much use there printing out new tools and parts on site instead of NASA having to ship them all the way from Earth.
One example of how humans are better is travel time when one human driver in charge of a vehicle on Mars can cover more ground in just one day than all these rovers have done combined over the past decade.
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Landings
The next one that they should drop a probe on is Europa.
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Acer
Acer though like to be very active in taking any distributed service manuals off-line only leaving the user guides alone.
I certainly agree that laptop disassembly is a process not for everyone when some people can cause more damage and even fail to understand how to reassemble the parts. For me though I have a history of assembling computers and their step by step guides are easy for follow.
The best part of Acer laptops is that they are designed to be easily assembled and upgraded when other manufacturers can make that impossible. It is just a shame their LCD bezels, or the area around them, tend to be weak as shit when they lack suitable reenforcement to handle daily opening and closing.
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