To be fair, that is how most western democracies ran their government finances too. It wasn't all his fault. Our various legislators had a giant hand in it. Private industry did its very best to make bad investments in finances, labor, and "securities."
This economy is such a giant cluster fuck that it took the collective idiocy of millions of people working against themselves and hoping they would cash out before the bill came due to make it happen.
Hey, I got the housing bubble thing better than Greenspan. To be fair though, everyone I spoke to about it thought I was nuts until just before it happened.
In the long run, it doesn't matter if SOPA is passed to the recording industry. The artists have a direct link to their fans. Fans have cheap rewritable mediums to store their stuff on. The economics have already turned against their model. The rest of it is just watching them adapt or die.
If SOPA is their strategy, the answer will be die. SOPA does nothing to make artists less able to self publish or connect to fans independently. It will only alienate their customer base and make the internet less stable/secure for the rest of us.
These things all make me shudder. If you wouldn't trust some random guy down the street to manage your personal information and productivity tools, why trust some random corporation to?
I'm a semi satisfied windows 7 customer, but it looks like I won't be participating in Windows 8. At the very least, I won't be touching their official app store. I gave up on Red Hat a while ago due to inconvenience. Maybe it's time to give Linux another go...
Just as a little experiment, I decided to see exactly how much time and how much money it would take to completely bypass SOPA's measures.
I'm not going to give ideas to anyone about how to do it, because that's not my goal.
It turns out, it took me less then 10 minutes and it could cost less than $20 a month. It's a good thing too, I wasn't going to spend much more than 15 minutes on this just to satisfy my curiosity.
What is this bill supposed to accomplish again? Is it about making identity thieves and online scammers jobs easier?
Or did we just decide that since we exported our manufacturing to China and our military technology to Iran, we should import their criminal justice system and domestic laws to balance out the trade deficit?
If the designer wants the clothes destroyed, they should pay for all the associated costs and make a similar donation to charity.
If that weren't to happen, I think a suitable remedy might be to set up a charity to create similar clothing without the label to donate to the homeless.
News is in the eye of the beholder. Any comment, any analysis, any opinion could be news to someone.
We should have strong privacy laws that allow electronic publications and users to define what privacy protections exist and how data may be shared in most circumstances.
Unfortunately, until we repeal the abortion of liberty that is the patriot act, it will remain a pipe dream.
It wasn't "imagination" before. Foreign powers already use the internet as a tool to attack US interests. I am sure some in the US do the same. This is just codifying what is already happening.
I have never worked for, had an internship with, or taken money from any of these groups.
When I have talked about this bill with other people I hear things like "fucking politicians" and "Are you sure? That can't be right." With other technically inclined people, I often hear a lot of laughing.
In my experience, one side is clearly an astroturf operation, and the other side, the anti-SOPA people, have a lot of grass root support. It's hard to get 90k calls to the House without people supporting you.
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It's been there all along. A reasonable interpretation of the bill is that this can be used to mandate IP blocking and dpi to prevent access.
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This economy is such a giant cluster fuck that it took the collective idiocy of millions of people working against themselves and hoping they would cash out before the bill came due to make it happen.
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Re: "Apple Abuses Patent System Again To Obstruct W3C Open Standard"
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In the long run, it doesn't matter if SOPA is passed to the recording industry. The artists have a direct link to their fans. Fans have cheap rewritable mediums to store their stuff on. The economics have already turned against their model. The rest of it is just watching them adapt or die.
If SOPA is their strategy, the answer will be die. SOPA does nothing to make artists less able to self publish or connect to fans independently. It will only alienate their customer base and make the internet less stable/secure for the rest of us.
On the post: Microsoft Reminds Everyone: You Do Not Own Your Software
The Cloud, Apps, Remote License Management (DRM)
I'm a semi satisfied windows 7 customer, but it looks like I won't be participating in Windows 8. At the very least, I won't be touching their official app store. I gave up on Red Hat a while ago due to inconvenience. Maybe it's time to give Linux another go...
On the post: SOPA Markup Runs Out Of Time; Likely Delayed Until 2012 [Update: Or Not...]
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On the post: SOPA Markup Runs Out Of Time; Likely Delayed Until 2012 [Update: Or Not...]
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Unbelievable
I'm not going to give ideas to anyone about how to do it, because that's not my goal.
It turns out, it took me less then 10 minutes and it could cost less than $20 a month. It's a good thing too, I wasn't going to spend much more than 15 minutes on this just to satisfy my curiosity.
What is this bill supposed to accomplish again? Is it about making identity thieves and online scammers jobs easier?
Or did we just decide that since we exported our manufacturing to China and our military technology to Iran, we should import their criminal justice system and domestic laws to balance out the trade deficit?
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On the post: A Rational Way To Dispose Of Counterfeit Designer Clothes: Donate Them To The Homeless
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If the designer wants the clothes destroyed, they should pay for all the associated costs and make a similar donation to charity.
If that weren't to happen, I think a suitable remedy might be to set up a charity to create similar clothing without the label to donate to the homeless.
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Who Defines News
We should have strong privacy laws that allow electronic publications and users to define what privacy protections exist and how data may be shared in most circumstances.
Unfortunately, until we repeal the abortion of liberty that is the patriot act, it will remain a pipe dream.
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This isn't surprising at all. Engineers are just as prone to dickish, unethical behavior, as anyone else.
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Techdirt's Bridge for Wayward Trolls
Just think, if the techdirt didn't put up this homey little online bridge, all these trolls may be homeless right now.
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When I have talked about this bill with other people I hear things like "fucking politicians" and "Are you sure? That can't be right." With other technically inclined people, I often hear a lot of laughing.
In my experience, one side is clearly an astroturf operation, and the other side, the anti-SOPA people, have a lot of grass root support. It's hard to get 90k calls to the House without people supporting you.
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Re: The Proof Is Staring You In The Face
I know I won't be spending more money on those things. If the price goes up, I'll do something else.
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