As damaging as actual(rather than the effectively we already have) eternal copyright would be I can't help but think that more than any action in the past such a move would completely and utterly destroy any respect shown towards copyright by the public.
By throwing out any pretense that copyright is meant to serve the public the gates would be thrown wide open and infringements would likely skyrocket as people would feel free to respond in kind, sharing, downloading and copying to their heart's content since that would have become the only way for the public to make use of new works, and if they're already breaking the law in part why not go all the way in?
It's effectively a hostage-taking law and the reason Labour wants it so badly? Because Nigel Farage left them to join Facebook and they view it as a betrayal.
If one of if not the goal of this is to stick it to Facebook then this would be yet another case of shooting Facebook's competitors while aiming at Facebook, because while large companies like them are going to suffer from liability like this smaller ones that might have competed with them will be destroyed due to not having the resources required.
“The incoming Council needs to refocus their priorities. Instead of new paperwork, we need meaningful support to get violent criminals off the street.”
Another case of being right but not in the way they think they are.
You gotta love the own-goal of the objection too. It's not just whining that they might have to do some work when they're harassing people but arguing that recording who they are stopping is 'anti-police' makes it pretty clear that even they know those statistics would not leave them looking good and that perhaps certain demographics might be a bit over-represented in the numbers.
Even to the extent that there might have been honest interest in going after the companies the very narrow selection of targets made abundantly clear that this wasn't about anti-trust it was about sticking it to the current political punching bags and scoring points, and if that happened to involve some genuine anti-trust efforts then that would just be a happy coincidence.
On the one hand that seems like something so insane and outlandish that it couldn't possibly be the case. On the other hand they're trying to make everyone in the country less safe and their communications and data less secure, so it's not like political espionage would be crazier than what they demonstrably are doing.
Ah Olive Garden, given the choice to embrace their most loyal customers and enjoy the gains that would come from it they just cannot help but shoot themselves and their fans in the foot and back respectively.
Whatever lawyers are sending these threats they really need to be fired and replaced, they're much more of a threat to the company than the fans they are threatening could ever be.
Beatings will continue until sufficient praise is met
Can't possibly imagine why people might not care for cops, I mean as that long list of stories makes clear they are going above and beyond* in their work!
*Above and beyond in what left for reader to determine.
'We investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong.'
The usual excuses -- child exploitation and terrorism -- are hat-tipped as needed to stress the importance of destroying personal security in the name of national security.
Fixed for accuracy. While they might go after some that fall into those categories for the most part I've no doubt that they're just the excuses used to enable them to cripple that pesky 'privacy' and go after anyone else they feel like peeking in on.
At this point I'd say that would be more formality than anything, it may not be legally established that they're pulling the strings here but someone would have to be blindingly clueless not to have connected the dots available.
Well that didn't work out so well for china, they attempt to have a sculpture reminding people of their past destroyed and end up pushing the artist to allowing anyone and everyone to make a copy.
I look forward to seeing/hearing about the plethora of copies springing up all over the place rather than just a single college campus.
Yeah, that wouldn't work too well, I have no doubt that if they were stupid enough to try that they'd instead face an avalanche of the real copies showing up all over the world.
They're just trying to make the core bill more effective, it's a lot easier to invest into an industry when you've just gutted the number of companies in it, makes for a whole lot less details to work out.
While I likewise agree with the idea of unions in general to act as a balancing force police unions in america at least are probably the top example of unions gone bad and serve as an excellent argument against them, at least in some professions. That out of the way...
"Warrior training" has been banned in Minneapolis since 2019 (and I think the state of Minnesota), at least as far as public funding goes. The police union moved to offer it at their expense to off-duty cops.
Bloody hell is that not a good look. 'These programs are so toxic the city prohibited them from being taken, so we'll cover the slack so no officer is ever left thinking that violence isn't the answer.'
If only there was some name or term, some sort of label for the cause and effect that is trying to bury someone/something that you don't like only to end up drawing vastly more attention to it that might have allowed him to avoid such an incredible blunder.
'Stop living in fear!' said the person cowering in terror
As arguments go it's a pretty funny one since to the extent that people are 'living in fear' it's largely due to the pro-plague assholes who are so terrified of needles and/or so self-centered that they can't be bothered to take a few shots keeping the pandemic alive and well.
So terrified of a non-existent threat that they keep a very real, very deadly one active, talk about an own-goal of an argument.
Absolutely, the venn diagram of 'people who are considered so untrustworthy that they cannot be relied upon to tell the truth when in court and under oath' and 'people employed as a member of law enforcement where a gun is standard gear and they have the ability to absolutely ruin someone's livelihood and/or life at their own discretion' should consist of two entirely separate circles.
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'You broke the deal, we're returning the favor.'
As damaging as actual(rather than the effectively we already have) eternal copyright would be I can't help but think that more than any action in the past such a move would completely and utterly destroy any respect shown towards copyright by the public.
By throwing out any pretense that copyright is meant to serve the public the gates would be thrown wide open and infringements would likely skyrocket as people would feel free to respond in kind, sharing, downloading and copying to their heart's content since that would have become the only way for the public to make use of new works, and if they're already breaking the law in part why not go all the way in?
On the post: UK Government Apparently Hoping It Can Regulate End-To-End Encryption Out Of Existence
'The briar patch again? You shouldn't have.'
It's effectively a hostage-taking law and the reason Labour wants it so badly? Because Nigel Farage left them to join Facebook and they view it as a betrayal.
If one of if not the goal of this is to stick it to Facebook then this would be yet another case of shooting Facebook's competitors while aiming at Facebook, because while large companies like them are going to suffer from liability like this smaller ones that might have competed with them will be destroyed due to not having the resources required.
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'What do you mean all of us are fired?!'
“The incoming Council needs to refocus their priorities. Instead of new paperwork, we need meaningful support to get violent criminals off the street.”
Another case of being right but not in the way they think they are.
You gotta love the own-goal of the objection too. It's not just whining that they might have to do some work when they're harassing people but arguing that recording who they are stopping is 'anti-police' makes it pretty clear that even they know those statistics would not leave them looking good and that perhaps certain demographics might be a bit over-represented in the numbers.
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Re: Re: Re:
It's not the political espionage that's the extreme part, it's that usually they try to be a little more subtle about it.
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Not anti-trust, just spite and PR soundbites
Even to the extent that there might have been honest interest in going after the companies the very narrow selection of targets made abundantly clear that this wasn't about anti-trust it was about sticking it to the current political punching bags and scoring points, and if that happened to involve some genuine anti-trust efforts then that would just be a happy coincidence.
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Government: Only criminals use encryption!
Public: Don't you and basically every large corporation use encryption?
Government: Like we said!
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On the one hand that seems like something so insane and outlandish that it couldn't possibly be the case. On the other hand they're trying to make everyone in the country less safe and their communications and data less secure, so it's not like political espionage would be crazier than what they demonstrably are doing.
On the post: Olive Garden At It Again Enforcing Its IP Instead Of Letting Anyone Have Some Fun With Joke NFTs
Just couldn't help pulling another Nintendo I see
Ah Olive Garden, given the choice to embrace their most loyal customers and enjoy the gains that would come from it they just cannot help but shoot themselves and their fans in the foot and back respectively.
Whatever lawyers are sending these threats they really need to be fired and replaced, they're much more of a threat to the company than the fans they are threatening could ever be.
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They can get their day of appreciation when they earn it and there's something there worth appreciating.
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Beatings will continue until sufficient praise is met
Can't possibly imagine why people might not care for cops, I mean as that long list of stories makes clear they are going above and beyond* in their work!
*Above and beyond in what left for reader to determine.
On the post: Australian Government Reviews Its Encryption-Breaking Law, Says It's Cool And Good
'We investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong.'
The usual excuses -- child exploitation and terrorism -- are hat-tipped as needed to stress the importance of destroying personal security in the name of national security.
Fixed for accuracy. While they might go after some that fall into those categories for the most part I've no doubt that they're just the excuses used to enable them to cripple that pesky 'privacy' and go after anyone else they feel like peeking in on.
On the post: Twitter Asks Court To Reconsider Order To Unmask Anonymous Critic Of A Billionaire Over Questionable Copyright Claims
Re:
At this point I'd say that would be more formality than anything, it may not be legally established that they're pulling the strings here but someone would have to be blindingly clueless not to have connected the dots available.
On the post: Sculptor Of Pillar Of Shame Announces It's Now Public Domain So That Anyone Can Make A Copy, As Chinese Authorities Seek To Destroy It
Atrocity memorials for all
Well that didn't work out so well for china, they attempt to have a sculpture reminding people of their past destroyed and end up pushing the artist to allowing anyone and everyone to make a copy.
I look forward to seeing/hearing about the plethora of copies springing up all over the place rather than just a single college campus.
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Yeah, that wouldn't work too well, I have no doubt that if they were stupid enough to try that they'd instead face an avalanche of the real copies showing up all over the world.
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'And the money goes to Amazon and no-one else.'
They're just trying to make the core bill more effective, it's a lot easier to invest into an industry when you've just gutted the number of companies in it, makes for a whole lot less details to work out.
On the post: Minneapolis Oversight Board Says Police Department Should Ditch 'Excited Delirium' Training
Re: Re:
While I likewise agree with the idea of unions in general to act as a balancing force police unions in america at least are probably the top example of unions gone bad and serve as an excellent argument against them, at least in some professions. That out of the way...
"Warrior training" has been banned in Minneapolis since 2019 (and I think the state of Minnesota), at least as far as public funding goes. The police union moved to offer it at their expense to off-duty cops.
Bloody hell is that not a good look. 'These programs are so toxic the city prohibited them from being taken, so we'll cover the slack so no officer is ever left thinking that violence isn't the answer.'
On the post: PD Whose Officers Brutalized A Black Soldier For Driving To A Well-Lit Area Sued By Virginia Attorney General
Re: Re: Re: Driving To A Well-Lit Area
Hmm, catchy, memorable, and doesn't insult insects that don't deserve the shame of association, might have to start using that one.
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But what to name it...?
If only there was some name or term, some sort of label for the cause and effect that is trying to bury someone/something that you don't like only to end up drawing vastly more attention to it that might have allowed him to avoid such an incredible blunder.
On the post: Court Orders Twitter Reveal Anonymous Tweeter Over Sketchy Copyright Claim, Because That Tweeter Won't Show Up In Court
'Stop living in fear!' said the person cowering in terror
As arguments go it's a pretty funny one since to the extent that people are 'living in fear' it's largely due to the pro-plague assholes who are so terrified of needles and/or so self-centered that they can't be bothered to take a few shots keeping the pandemic alive and well.
So terrified of a non-existent threat that they keep a very real, very deadly one active, talk about an own-goal of an argument.
On the post: Maryland Court Says Baltimore Prosecutors Can't Hide Their 'Do Not Call' List Of Bad Cops From The Public
Re:
Absolutely, the venn diagram of 'people who are considered so untrustworthy that they cannot be relied upon to tell the truth when in court and under oath' and 'people employed as a member of law enforcement where a gun is standard gear and they have the ability to absolutely ruin someone's livelihood and/or life at their own discretion' should consist of two entirely separate circles.
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