Your Laws 1 and 2 will likely find support from the current crop of Tories. They will hold bureaucrats to impossible standards that likely would not be enforced. Law 3 is a bit problematic in that it actually impacts politicians which means it would receive a good bit of grandstanding and die a slow, quiet death in a dark corridor in the basements of the Parliament.
It was and still is dumb. Both sides realized they got caught in a Chinese finger trap, and it took them this long to realize that to get out they just need to stop pulling. The problem is that they want to lay the finger trip down, and it needs to continue so that nobody else can pick it up.
The number of geographical areas becoming more hostile to science and the open exchange of ideas continues to grow. If you do not want to share information then the Internet is not for you. You can control your own information, but you cannot simultaneously share it with the public. The goal of making information available and restricting it at the same time is an oxymoron.
The idea that they had to use the eighth amendment as a reason that the government went too far is a bizarre result when they punished someone for something they may have been thinking. This implies that the real problem is that the government went too far in the punishment rather than over reaching in their prosecution.
To be fair, my first reaction upon seeing the pictures of floating mats of fire ant colonies involved the use of a lot of ordinance. Lots and lots of ordinance. From a great distance.
Politicians care more about how things look than about what is happening. It was bad in the days when people got bent out of shape when it was made clear that the thin veneer of the happy life in your town was nothing more than a charade. Now in the days of the Internet, trying to keep up appearances is not just silly but also dangerous.
The most shocking aspect of this is the idea that anybody still trusts a local TV network. Then again it is surprising that they took time out of their busy schedule of screeching hysteria to broadcast something that might have some level of local interest.
Congratulations! I migrated here after groklaw stopped publishing. I am grateful for the diligent work and the editorial consistency in the posts here.
Also, since it is 20 years since you started emailing your newsletter can you use that fact to help establish prior art on that guy who says he invented teh "email?"
Yet another generation that refuses to understand a younger generation. Few Millennials have time to watch much TV to start with. Even if they wanted all those packages and options they would not be able to use them. These reporters probably have colleagues who write those incessantly whiny articles about how Millennials are killing industries while ignoring why they are not purchasing crap that they do not have time for.
On the plus side the people who are cutting the cord likely have little time and patience to be overly concerned about the NY Post. So in that sense it is a win-lose proposition. The people who do not read win, and the people writing for people angry at clouds lose.
They may be worried about being hoisted by their own petard. For example, if someone in the vodka making business makes a new drink named "Cardinal Sin" and has a cardinal (the bird) on it, then if MLB tried to sue their own actions could be used against them. So if MLB is selling something with the name "Kojak" on it, then the makers of "Cardinal Sin" could rightfully use that as an example of how they are doing exactly the same thing that MLB is doing. It would be bad precedent to have your own actions used against you when you are trying to be the trademark bully.
This is consistent with the first law of demagoguery. Define terms to be the opposite of what they actually mean. It is the easiest way to convince people that up is down and down is up.
Off hand it seems like there is no reason to do something like this, but someone may have decided that Chaturbate makes a good test case. If they had software they want to eventually sell to catch copyright violations, then the Chaturbate site may be a nice place to test it. Also, they may have decided it was the kind of thing that would not draw a lot of attention.
As a person educated beyond any useful purpose for society, I just want to say that I support the idea of Facebook and Youtube hiring vast numbers of Ph.D.s to just watch videos and deciding whether or not to give them a thumbs up or thumbs down.
So the photographer thought he hit the mother lode but in the end his greed and refusal to back down turned out to be his unraveling. This would make a great children's story if it had not been told a million times already in every form imaginable. Well, almost every form. The one involving a person trying to exploit curiously vain monkeys who was in turn exploited by curiously vain apes posing as animal rights champions is a fresh new take. Now to figure out how to make it rhyme.
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Re: Beholden to your same standards...
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Re: Fair summary?
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Joining the anti-science crowd
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Eighth Amendment?
The idea that they had to use the eighth amendment as a reason that the government went too far is a bizarre result when they punished someone for something they may have been thinking. This implies that the real problem is that the government went too far in the punishment rather than over reaching in their prosecution.
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What about the fire ants?
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Re: Out of sight out of mind
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Out of sight out of mind
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Somebody trusts the TV news anymore
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Congrats and about that email....
Also, since it is 20 years since you started emailing your newsletter can you use that fact to help establish prior art on that guy who says he invented teh "email?"
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Millennials Have Better Things To Do
On the plus side the people who are cutting the cord likely have little time and patience to be overly concerned about the NY Post. So in that sense it is a win-lose proposition. The people who do not read win, and the people writing for people angry at clouds lose.
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Petard Hoisting
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Define the Lies Early and Often
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Great training exercise
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dang...
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Re: Re: Hire them all!
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Hire them all!
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Re: Re: Re: Moving On
Since you are so fond of wikipedia you might want to try and read these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement
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Perfect Shit Storm
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Therapy!
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Naughty particle physics
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