I could see that as a subscription service, actually. Pay a monthly or yearly access fee, then have micro-transactions akin to what they'd get from Google for a link tax.
The problem is that it would likely die the way the dream of cutting cords and going to all streaming has - every media company has its own subscription streaming service that refuses to let any other service access content, so if you want to watch all the TV channels you need to pay ten times what a cable subscription costs.
This is a pet peeve of mine - there is a REASON why decimate and decimal have the first five letters in common. Slightly decimating something and utterly decimating something are the same result - the thing remains 90% intact.
Police in the US only have two rights citizens in general lack. Those are the right to be the aggressor and still claim self defense, and the right to carry guns in places citizens are prohibited from doing so.
Everything else police do is because they are citizens and any citizen can lawfully do that. Google the Necessity Doctrine sometime, it's illuminating.
Qualified Immunity ONLY applies in civil court. It has NEVER applied to criminal charges.
Police are going uncharged in criminal court because prosecutors see them as friends, and due to corruption, refuse to file charges against their friends.
Since the gag order forbids discussing specific NSLs in any way, you can set up a flag to indicate that you have not received one today.
Since claiming you have not received one is a discussion of the one you received today, you cannot leave the flag up on a day you received one.
Outside observers watching to see what days you have your flag up can get a ballpark estimate on how many days you've received one, though it won't help if you get 2 or more in one day.
Re: 'Who cares about lives, the rules are the rules!'
As certain people are fond of pointing out, the Constitution is not a suicide pact - therefore if obeying it is suicidal, you have an excuse to break the law and get away unpunished.
But given how the Constitution is the source of authority for all lesser laws, if the Constitution is not a suicide pact, no lesser law can be either - and it's a federal felony to violate quarantine.
Taiwan is the last remnant of the pre-communist government of China-in-exile.
The only reason Taiwan is not a UN member today is because the PRC has a veto on their membership. The PRC refuses to have diplomatic or commercial ties with any nation that recognizes Taiwan as a sovereign nation, which includes the UN itself.
Trade with the PRC is very lucrative, and you don't have to follow the money very far to realize why Taiwan was expelled from the UN the same year, the same DAY that the PRC joined.
By the standards the UN used to declare Taiwan just a province rather than a sovereign nation, the USA itself cannot be a sovereign nation, it is the wholly-owned property of the United Kingdom.
Taiwan is the pre-communist Chinese government-in-exile. The last remnant of the government the Chinese revolution overthrew.
That's why the People's Republic of China hates them so much - they're the last province of China that is still governed by the legitimate government.
It's the PRC's official policy that they will refuse to have commercial or diplomatic ties to any nation that officially recognizes these facts about Taiwan. The US used to recognize Taiwan, but dropped that recognition in order to get lucrative trade deals with mainland China.
The fourth amendment - along with all the other amendments, the core of the Constitution and various statutes that create statutory rights have had teeth for decades.
Re: The best test is am I allowed to do this to police cars?
This is an excellent rule of thumb for rights violations, because with only two exceptions police do not have any rights private citizens lack.
The first exception is that police are granted a statutory right to carry weapons in many places where private citizens are forbidden to.
The second exception is that police may advance into danger and still claim self defense, while a private citizen can at best stand their ground.
Other than those two, if a cop can do it to you without or without a warrant or probable cause or reasonable suspicion, then you can do it to a cop equally lawfully on the same basis.
Which is exactly what Google does. And has done in every country that enacted this sort of law.
The immediate results are that those media companies experience an enormous drop in advertising revenue, to the extent that in many cases they could see bankruptcy looming over them.
Google doesn't need to lobby for a repeal or amendment of this particular stupidity, the media companies do it for them.
The view of Mike is solely based on the observable facts of what happened in every country that tried this. It has the opposite effect from what the legislation claims to want to happen.
Passing laws like this actually makes things worse for those media companies.
Given the media companies' track record, I'd expect at least one attempt at making it mandatory for Google to list their snippets so Google can have snippets to pay for.
I'm not sure how a government might go about making a foreign company conduct business they don't want to conduct, though. It's not a very large step from there to outright slavery.
...I expect some car manufacturer to trademark the words "car," "coupe," "sedan," "luxury," "SUV," "truck," "engine," "drive," "driver," and "drive." any time now.
If the US Constitution does not apply to US territories, then the fact that all federal statutes are authorized to exist by the Constitution means that federal law cannot apply to US territories either.
At that point, are they actually a US territory at all anymore?
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Re: Re: Charge reader directly?
I could see that as a subscription service, actually. Pay a monthly or yearly access fee, then have micro-transactions akin to what they'd get from Google for a link tax.
The problem is that it would likely die the way the dream of cutting cords and going to all streaming has - every media company has its own subscription streaming service that refuses to let any other service access content, so if you want to watch all the TV channels you need to pay ten times what a cable subscription costs.
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Re:
Too bad the EU doesn't have any authority to apply its laws outside its own borders, eh?
And the USA has laws against honoring foreign court decisions or extradition requests that would violate our own laws.
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Re: New Minimum SEO Demands for EVERY News Agency
It's a good idea in a sane world, but it has already been proven we're not living in one of those.
My guess is that if Google tries something like that, the companies will try something like filing criminal charges of extortion against Google.
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Re: Re: 'Hmm, no.'
This is a pet peeve of mine - there is a REASON why decimate and decimal have the first five letters in common. Slightly decimating something and utterly decimating something are the same result - the thing remains 90% intact.
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Re: Re:
Make the demand ridiculous enough and they might even surrender.
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Re: as we in-English say
Grammar.
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Re: Re: Re:
Police in the US only have two rights citizens in general lack. Those are the right to be the aggressor and still claim self defense, and the right to carry guns in places citizens are prohibited from doing so.
Everything else police do is because they are citizens and any citizen can lawfully do that. Google the Necessity Doctrine sometime, it's illuminating.
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
Qualified Immunity ONLY applies in civil court. It has NEVER applied to criminal charges.
Police are going uncharged in criminal court because prosecutors see them as friends, and due to corruption, refuse to file charges against their friends.
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Re:
Since the gag order forbids discussing specific NSLs in any way, you can set up a flag to indicate that you have not received one today.
Since claiming you have not received one is a discussion of the one you received today, you cannot leave the flag up on a day you received one.
Outside observers watching to see what days you have your flag up can get a ballpark estimate on how many days you've received one, though it won't help if you get 2 or more in one day.
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Re: 'Who cares about lives, the rules are the rules!'
As certain people are fond of pointing out, the Constitution is not a suicide pact - therefore if obeying it is suicidal, you have an excuse to break the law and get away unpunished.
But given how the Constitution is the source of authority for all lesser laws, if the Constitution is not a suicide pact, no lesser law can be either - and it's a federal felony to violate quarantine.
On the post: The Geopolitical Streisand Effect: The More China And The WHO Try To Silence Taiwan, The More Attention Its Success Fighting COVID-19 Gets
Re: Taiwan and the UN
Taiwan is the last remnant of the pre-communist government of China-in-exile.
The only reason Taiwan is not a UN member today is because the PRC has a veto on their membership. The PRC refuses to have diplomatic or commercial ties with any nation that recognizes Taiwan as a sovereign nation, which includes the UN itself.
Trade with the PRC is very lucrative, and you don't have to follow the money very far to realize why Taiwan was expelled from the UN the same year, the same DAY that the PRC joined.
By the standards the UN used to declare Taiwan just a province rather than a sovereign nation, the USA itself cannot be a sovereign nation, it is the wholly-owned property of the United Kingdom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Taiwan
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Taiwan is the pre-communist Chinese government-in-exile. The last remnant of the government the Chinese revolution overthrew.
That's why the People's Republic of China hates them so much - they're the last province of China that is still governed by the legitimate government.
It's the PRC's official policy that they will refuse to have commercial or diplomatic ties to any nation that officially recognizes these facts about Taiwan. The US used to recognize Taiwan, but dropped that recognition in order to get lucrative trade deals with mainland China.
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Re: Re: This is the 21st century, why are we still chalking tire
The flaw is what if the parking warden returns every hour, but the car wasn't parked there for 35 minutes out of that hour?
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Re: Wait, wait, wait, hold the phone...
The fourth amendment - along with all the other amendments, the core of the Constitution and various statutes that create statutory rights have had teeth for decades.
https://www.justice.gov/crt/statutes-enforced-criminal-section
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Re: The best test is am I allowed to do this to police cars?
This is an excellent rule of thumb for rights violations, because with only two exceptions police do not have any rights private citizens lack.
The first exception is that police are granted a statutory right to carry weapons in many places where private citizens are forbidden to.
The second exception is that police may advance into danger and still claim self defense, while a private citizen can at best stand their ground.
Other than those two, if a cop can do it to you without or without a warrant or probable cause or reasonable suspicion, then you can do it to a cop equally lawfully on the same basis.
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Re: So... why not leave?
Which is exactly what Google does. And has done in every country that enacted this sort of law.
The immediate results are that those media companies experience an enormous drop in advertising revenue, to the extent that in many cases they could see bankruptcy looming over them.
Google doesn't need to lobby for a repeal or amendment of this particular stupidity, the media companies do it for them.
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Re:
The view of Mike is solely based on the observable facts of what happened in every country that tried this. It has the opposite effect from what the legislation claims to want to happen.
Passing laws like this actually makes things worse for those media companies.
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Re: Re:
Given the media companies' track record, I'd expect at least one attempt at making it mandatory for Google to list their snippets so Google can have snippets to pay for.
I'm not sure how a government might go about making a foreign company conduct business they don't want to conduct, though. It's not a very large step from there to outright slavery.
On the post: JaM Cellars Sues Franzia For Trademark Over 'Jammy', An Incredibly Common And Descriptive Term In Wines
At this rate...
...I expect some car manufacturer to trademark the words "car," "coupe," "sedan," "luxury," "SUV," "truck," "engine," "drive," "driver," and "drive." any time now.
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Re:
If the US Constitution does not apply to US territories, then the fact that all federal statutes are authorized to exist by the Constitution means that federal law cannot apply to US territories either.
At that point, are they actually a US territory at all anymore?
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