I don't even have to read the entire article to basically tell you what the security agencies can do. Every last LEO has done quite a lot of damage to democracy.
The CIA has usurped democracy all over the world. It's biggest usurpation was Iran.
The FBI usurps civil rights. There's the COINTELPRO program, their use of the code name "terrorist" to usurp the right of activists and then there's the entire throw people in jail mentality that is prevalent in all of the LEOs.
And don't get me started on the DoJ...
Then I can name a number of people who have used the power of their position in government to destroy public discourse...
Richard Nixon E Howard Hunt Edward Bernays Murray Chotiner James Clapper Keith Alexander Woodrow Wilson George Bush Barack Obama Ronald Reagan
I could go on and on with other names thanks to the entire Watergate Scandal, the NSA scandal, the Espionage Act passed by Woodrow, Bush's usurpation of democracy, Obama's fourth term of Bush, and Reagan's Iran-Contra Scandal, but you see the point.
How can I trust the government when it does so much to destroy the public instead of help it?
Iirc, Anders Breivik in Norway was on trial for his crimes but the people didn't lose their minds. They told him to write his thoughts and present them to the public.
You could see how he terrorized people. Yet, since 9/11 we've been gripped with a paranoia that hadn't made us any safer. It's time to end it.
We need to get people to think again about what is happening to this country. The terror problem is mainly manufactured to help out the military-industrial complex far more than it helps the average citizen.
I'm an advocate of paper ballots and better voting procedures than the ones we currently have.
I'm a bigger fan of Duverger's Law and people not losing the right to vote when they are convicted of a felony. I just don't see how a secret ballot helps anyone.
And what is happening is that people need to vote for a good candidate that represents their interests. The vote would undo some of the damage as we saw in the 1930s when the public had more power in politics.
But right now, we have an aristocracy of the top 5% who have a LOT of money from our system. So we need our democracy back or else we lose.
No. As far back as the early millenium, Japan had a CD rental service along with other parts to their economy that I can explain later. The RIAA is all American. It's not the RIAJ. Basically, this is going to my experience in the country. The computer has effectively taken over as a large library for people along with places like 2chan over going to Tsutaya for music.
I'd argue that there are other things to consider about the 2008 downfall.
For the past 30 years, people don't have the money to spend on music and their behavior has changed in how they consider them. They consider free music a cheap alternative and spend the money on larger consumables. So the very same money is still going to other aspects of the economy as shown above (or maybe grocery stores).
What would make the recording industry come back would be the things the lobbyists and CEOs don't really want in the RIAA... Namely, higher taxation on their profits, subsidized music, more work done in understanding consumer behavior in the economy, and less copyright advocacy.
That would problably put the RIAA out of business as it doesn't work to help them or their argument.
I'd argue that's the issue of neoclassical economics. Honestly, Obama isn't a right leaning centrist. He IS a right winger similar to FDR before he got a lot of problems from grass roots advocacy that forced him to turn into a progressive.
The problem is that the US spent the last 60 years decimating the left wing in America so it's splintered and weak. Unions were destroyed, Socialists were ostracized, and Communists were kept apart. With that out of the way, you get more right wingers that are more interested in the corporate machines that feed them. That's the entire problem of economics if you aren't careful. What you don't pay attention to can end up hurting your base.
Mike, I care for the articles, the research, and the economics that you hold to scrutiny.
But this just can't slide.
You see, that's not our intelligence community. That... Thing of LEOs is a beast that grew and grew into a hydra with many heads. We got the NSA as a result of the Second World War (give or take) and it's been working tirelessly to usurp democracy for generations.
James Bamford has great books on the subject. But the NSA doesn't CARE about the American people. It didn't in the 50s under Nixon, it didn't under any other president since and the American people have seen this exposed for the second or third time. This hydra cares only about the people that feed it and it isn't the American public. The public it serves has interest only in war and the money it receives in destruction.
To them, the Constitution is a piece of paper only meant to serve the needs of its master. It doesn't protect every single American born in the US.
So with all due respect, that isn't an intelligent thing to do. It also isn't intelligent to only serve the largest monetary interest. It's greed and dishonesty that brought down Nixon and even Reagan during the Iran-Contra scandal.
If we want an intelligence community, it would be with academics, researchers, and people interested in these topics without assumptions, without backwards thinking, and able to present ways to discuss these issues without trying to have power over others.
I don't know... Maybe it's a pipe dream now, but that sounds like something better than a drone strike in a foreign country with nothing more than a gut belief.
Instead of our nation concerned about public health, public education, or any other public goods, we have to fight a surveillance state that no one asked for except the smallest amount of people.
All of the money that was spent on spying on Americans is money lost in other fields and industries.
The copyright industry says that piracy kills their industry so they need the surveillance.
Or how about Google spying on us and giving the records to the government?
No... It's all a massive sham to ensure that those in power stay in power.
Re: Sometimes industry likes long copyrights without intending to make money off them
While this is true, it makes the pie smaller.
Just recently, it dawned on me how small I thought Hollywood was... A new DVD cost $20. An old DVD is $5. But a new game costs $60.
So for a little more, I can have fun with a game for a lot longer and a much more complete story than what movies could offer me for 1/3 the price.
I can actually find good movies online without going to streaming sites that appeal to me (I'm big on Korean stuff now.) without even beginning to buy new movies that I'll watch once then never again.
Violet was a waste of time and the old movies that I remember from the 90s are pretty much out of my existence.
Then there's anime...
The point here is that I have a lot of entertainment that takes up my time and I have a LOT of choices. Those abandoned properties could work if they were available for free that allowed them to make money.
Their old business model of market manipulation isn't going to work because even then I don't HAVE to infringe on their copyright to watch good stuff. I just move on. I just wish they could understand that and move on with providing better stuff than what they're doing now.
I continue to be amazed at what these people are complaining about. The last time that anyone looked at NBC, their CEO was comfortably making millions while trying to control the streaming market with their inferior products. Want to know why people like Youtube? Convenience, ease of use, and a built in audience.
Wanna know why I've never done anything with Verizon? It really isn't appealing. The sites are confusing, and everyone is more interested in making money than making things available.
I've since moved on from Hulu or anything else. If it isn't on Youtube, I don't watch. I haven't watched movies or listened to RIAA music in a long time. I basically focus on game music like OCRemix or independent content producers with no affiliation with the big labels. So that means that my time is used with other people along with my own content.
Now which one am I going to use in my Youtube postings? Sure as certain not MPAA or RIAA labels. I use the stuff that has the most relevance with me. As it stands, the music and movies from recent times are locked up by copyright. But games? I can play those and put them up on Youtube (mostly) with very few issues and invest in things that matter to me: games and music.
So from the time of Napster to now, the labels have had a chance to maintain their relevance to cultural happenings. Maybe others have had a go with the annoyance of a DMCA takedown but as it stands, I have better things to do than deal with the entitlements of a company that just wants to shut down its competition instead of compete.
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Trust the government?
I don't even have to read the entire article to basically tell you what the security agencies can do. Every last LEO has done quite a lot of damage to democracy.
The CIA has usurped democracy all over the world. It's biggest usurpation was Iran.
The FBI usurps civil rights. There's the COINTELPRO program, their use of the code name "terrorist" to usurp the right of activists and then there's the entire throw people in jail mentality that is prevalent in all of the LEOs.
And don't get me started on the DoJ...
Then I can name a number of people who have used the power of their position in government to destroy public discourse...
Richard Nixon
E Howard Hunt
Edward Bernays
Murray Chotiner
James Clapper
Keith Alexander
Woodrow Wilson
George Bush
Barack Obama
Ronald Reagan
I could go on and on with other names thanks to the entire Watergate Scandal, the NSA scandal, the Espionage Act passed by Woodrow, Bush's usurpation of democracy, Obama's fourth term of Bush, and Reagan's Iran-Contra Scandal, but you see the point.
How can I trust the government when it does so much to destroy the public instead of help it?
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The alternative
You could see how he terrorized people. Yet, since 9/11 we've been gripped with a paranoia that hadn't made us any safer. It's time to end it.
We need to get people to think again about what is happening to this country. The terror problem is mainly manufactured to help out the military-industrial complex far more than it helps the average citizen.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
I'm a bigger fan of Duverger's Law and people not losing the right to vote when they are convicted of a felony. I just don't see how a secret ballot helps anyone.
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Re: Re: Re:
Here's the amounts of inequality in America
And what is happening is that people need to vote for a good candidate that represents their interests. The vote would undo some of the damage as we saw in the 1930s when the public had more power in politics.
But right now, we have an aristocracy of the top 5% who have a LOT of money from our system. So we need our democracy back or else we lose.
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Re: Larger scope
For the past 30 years, people don't have the money to spend on music and their behavior has changed in how they consider them. They consider free music a cheap alternative and spend the money on larger consumables. So the very same money is still going to other aspects of the economy as shown above (or maybe grocery stores).
What would make the recording industry come back would be the things the lobbyists and CEOs don't really want in the RIAA... Namely, higher taxation on their profits, subsidized music, more work done in understanding consumer behavior in the economy, and less copyright advocacy.
That would problably put the RIAA out of business as it doesn't work to help them or their argument.
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
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What the...?
When did libraries need copyright to account for 5% of the industry?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Money well spent
The problem is that the US spent the last 60 years decimating the left wing in America so it's splintered and weak. Unions were destroyed, Socialists were ostracized, and Communists were kept apart. With that out of the way, you get more right wingers that are more interested in the corporate machines that feed them. That's the entire problem of economics if you aren't careful. What you don't pay attention to can end up hurting your base.
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In this article...
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Hold on...
Mike, I care for the articles, the research, and the economics that you hold to scrutiny.
But this just can't slide.
You see, that's not our intelligence community. That... Thing of LEOs is a beast that grew and grew into a hydra with many heads. We got the NSA as a result of the Second World War (give or take) and it's been working tirelessly to usurp democracy for generations.
James Bamford has great books on the subject. But the NSA doesn't CARE about the American people. It didn't in the 50s under Nixon, it didn't under any other president since and the American people have seen this exposed for the second or third time. This hydra cares only about the people that feed it and it isn't the American public. The public it serves has interest only in war and the money it receives in destruction.
To them, the Constitution is a piece of paper only meant to serve the needs of its master. It doesn't protect every single American born in the US.
So with all due respect, that isn't an intelligent thing to do. It also isn't intelligent to only serve the largest monetary interest. It's greed and dishonesty that brought down Nixon and even Reagan during the Iran-Contra scandal.
If we want an intelligence community, it would be with academics, researchers, and people interested in these topics without assumptions, without backwards thinking, and able to present ways to discuss these issues without trying to have power over others.
I don't know... Maybe it's a pipe dream now, but that sounds like something better than a drone strike in a foreign country with nothing more than a gut belief.
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Money well spent
Instead of our nation concerned about public health, public education, or any other public goods, we have to fight a surveillance state that no one asked for except the smallest amount of people.
All of the money that was spent on spying on Americans is money lost in other fields and industries.
The copyright industry says that piracy kills their industry so they need the surveillance.
Or how about Google spying on us and giving the records to the government?
No... It's all a massive sham to ensure that those in power stay in power.
What a waste of time and money!
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New Program
I didn't know it worked for the NSA in ignoring actual holes in their surveillance programs.
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Re: Sometimes industry likes long copyrights without intending to make money off them
Just recently, it dawned on me how small I thought Hollywood was... A new DVD cost $20. An old DVD is $5. But a new game costs $60.
So for a little more, I can have fun with a game for a lot longer and a much more complete story than what movies could offer me for 1/3 the price.
I can actually find good movies online without going to streaming sites that appeal to me (I'm big on Korean stuff now.) without even beginning to buy new movies that I'll watch once then never again.
Violet was a waste of time and the old movies that I remember from the 90s are pretty much out of my existence.
Then there's anime...
The point here is that I have a lot of entertainment that takes up my time and I have a LOT of choices. Those abandoned properties could work if they were available for free that allowed them to make money.
Their old business model of market manipulation isn't going to work because even then I don't HAVE to infringe on their copyright to watch good stuff. I just move on. I just wish they could understand that and move on with providing better stuff than what they're doing now.
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Wage gap
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0882775.html
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Facepalm
Wanna know why I've never done anything with Verizon? It really isn't appealing. The sites are confusing, and everyone is more interested in making money than making things available.
I've since moved on from Hulu or anything else. If it isn't on Youtube, I don't watch. I haven't watched movies or listened to RIAA music in a long time. I basically focus on game music like OCRemix or independent content producers with no affiliation with the big labels. So that means that my time is used with other people along with my own content.
Now which one am I going to use in my Youtube postings? Sure as certain not MPAA or RIAA labels. I use the stuff that has the most relevance with me. As it stands, the music and movies from recent times are locked up by copyright. But games? I can play those and put them up on Youtube (mostly) with very few issues and invest in things that matter to me: games and music.
So from the time of Napster to now, the labels have had a chance to maintain their relevance to cultural happenings. Maybe others have had a go with the annoyance of a DMCA takedown but as it stands, I have better things to do than deal with the entitlements of a company that just wants to shut down its competition instead of compete.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Plain and simple for ya, Pirate Mike: Google is facilitating crime.
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Irony...
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