Or the department decides that nah, they're not too concerned with following the court's order but even if they were would you look at that, a routine bit of maintenance resulted in a bunch of old records being destroyed to save space and that just so happened to include the ones being asked for.
Still, there's literally no need for this move to happen at all, and I don't understand why Tillis is exploring the idea, nor why he is holding secret meetings with the copyright industry to try to get their buy in.
Oh, I could probably think of a few possible explanations...
AG: Here's a bunch of evidence that the cops in this town are racist as hell and have been using their power to harass and assault black people.
Town: This is nothing more than a grab for attention by the AG leaving office!
Well, nice of the town government to make undeniably clear who's side they're on between police and public. Honestly it would have been less obvious had they responded by sending a bloody 'All Lives Matter' flag to the AG.
A company that is almost certainly run by or connected to the 'poor besmirched' rich goon is allowed to continue on without saying who exactly is pulling their strings, something which strikes me as very relevant, but the accused infringer has to be outed because they didn't lawyer up or couldn't afford to.
Ah copyright law wielded by idiot and/or corrupt judges, you so constantly provide evidence for why neither of you deserve any respect at all.
What's the issue, it's only one or two names right?
I don't see what the fuss is about really, I mean the public is constantly being told that there's only 'a few bad apples' in law enforcement so the number of cops so corrupt that they can't be trusted as a witness should be only a handful at most, if not zero since the department is consistently firing bad cops and replacing them with good one.
Unless the public is being lied to anyway, but I'm sure that would never happen...
If you want to help copyright maximalists by making it easier for people to dismiss those critical of current copyright law by all means keep comparing it to literal slavery, otherwise you're only shooting yourself in the foot by doing so. There's plenty of room to criticize locking up culture and hobbling creativity without making the jump to owning people as property.
So just to sum up, 'excited delirium' supposedly grants superhuman strength yet is frequently fatal to those that suffer from it, providing police not one but two excuses for why someone ended up dead shortly after encountering them from 'I feared for my life' to 'Honestly I have no idea why they died in front of me', and last but certainly not least it only seems to crop up when police are in the area.
Yeah no, I can't imagine why medical associations and doctors the world over aren't tripping over themselves to certify this as a legitimate medical condition, from the sounds of it it's not only incredibly dangerous but likely breaks multiple previously held beliefs about biology by being tied to proximity of a particular profession.
How's that meme that I've seen a few times go, 'tell me you really want to shoot a poor person/minority without telling me you really want to shoot a poor person/minority'?
'Look at this problem! No don't try to solve it, just look!'
So... is anyone still pretending that the NYT just 'coincidentally' keeps writing blatant 230 hit-pieces, or has this happened enough times that it's acceptable now to admit that it's intentional and not just 'poor reporting' that keeps happening?
On a more specific note if any of those involved actually wanted to do something about suicides maybe they should look into why people might decide that they're better off dead and do something about that. Perhaps some super radical steps like working to remove the social stigma surrounding mental healthcare, making healthcare easier and more affordable to access, just absolutely bonkers ideas like that...
People at the Copyright Office seem to get mad at me every time I suggest that the Copyright Office is captured by Hollywood, and pointing out how top officials there all seem to bounce back and forth between the Copyright Office and Hollywood.
To which the response should be simply, 'If you don't like the label stop doing everything in your power to show how accurate and well deserved it is.'
Finding and addressing the underlying problem not only takes work it might upset people/companies by pointing out some things that are much easier to just brush under the rug, like say the stigmatization and lack of availability of mental health care, the solution of which might involve the dreaded socialism.
No no no, much easier and safer to just issue a statement and/or press conference about how you're Doing Something and then blame other people when it doesn't work.
This is not a political issue of left vs. right, nor is it a rift between Baltimore's citizens and their sworn protectors. This is simply a fight between good vs. evil, and we must decide where we stand.
I mean, they're right, just probably not in the way they think they are...
It's of great entertainment value that in order to even begin to consider the 'stolen election' lie viable you essentially have to start from the position that either the democrats across the country are vastly smarter and more able to plan than the republicans involved, the republicans involved are incredibly stupid and easy to fool, or a mix of the two.
'There's no solid evidence because the other side is way smarter than us' makes for an interesting argument/own-goal to say the least.
applaud Twitter and Facebook's censoring of people.
Ah yes, because there's no real difference between the state, which has the power to throw you in jail saying 'you're not allowed to say that anywhere' and a privately owned platforms saying 'you're not allowed to say that on our property'. Practically indistinguishable really.
Also which people are being 'censored' on those platforms and be specific.
If memory serves you can still sue without having registered a work but if you want to go for statutory damages rather than having to actually prove you lost something due to infringement that requires a registration.
Criticism of government officials or attempts to organize protests is considered the biggest threat. Forbidden content like libel or porn is considered the least threatening, although it can also subject people to government harassment.
Post libel about someone? Meh, you might get harassed by government goons, you might not. Question those in authority? Oh you better believe you're getting a 'visit'.
Positively charming how they use someone's family as hostages to force compliance as well, truly it seems there is no low they will not sink to in order to maintain their iron grip.
While I don't engage in the practice myself(no need) the fact that the deal that is copyright(limited exclusivity in exchange for public ownership after the term was up) was violated again, and again, and again makes it just a wee bit hard to be sympathetic to the large companies/organizations who constantly complain about the scourge that is copyright infringement and how dastardly those that engage in it are.
If you violate the rules of a deal you agreed to you don't get to expect to be taken seriously should you then complain when the other person decides that they don't need to follow those rules either.
A crypto mining program that's incredibly difficult to remove, is likely to cost the computer's owner more than it benefits them but serves as a free source of money to the program owner sure sounds like something you'd want an anti-virus/malware program to find and get rid of, not install alongside with.
An attempt to dodge accountability and oversight would certainly make more sense than them just now realizing that there might be something problematic with Albright and how he's running his court.
On the post: Maryland Court Says Baltimore Prosecutors Can't Hide Their 'Do Not Call' List Of Bad Cops From The Public
Re:
Or the department decides that nah, they're not too concerned with following the court's order but even if they were would you look at that, a routine bit of maintenance resulted in a bunch of old records being destroyed to save space and that just so happened to include the ones being asked for.
On the post: Senator Tillis Holds Secret Meeting With IP Maximalists To Discuss A Single US 'IP' Agency
'So, about my 'retirement'...'
Still, there's literally no need for this move to happen at all, and I don't understand why Tillis is exploring the idea, nor why he is holding secret meetings with the copyright industry to try to get their buy in.
Oh, I could probably think of a few possible explanations...
On the post: PD Whose Officers Brutalized A Black Soldier For Driving To A Well-Lit Area Sued By Virginia Attorney General
Re: Driving To A Well-Lit Area
Objection, that is an insult to cockroaches comparing them to police like that.
On the post: PD Whose Officers Brutalized A Black Soldier For Driving To A Well-Lit Area Sued By Virginia Attorney General
'Look over there, a distraction!'
AG: Here's a bunch of evidence that the cops in this town are racist as hell and have been using their power to harass and assault black people.
Town: This is nothing more than a grab for attention by the AG leaving office!
Well, nice of the town government to make undeniably clear who's side they're on between police and public. Honestly it would have been less obvious had they responded by sending a bloody 'All Lives Matter' flag to the AG.
On the post: Court Orders Twitter Reveal Anonymous Tweeter Over Sketchy Copyright Claim, Because That Tweeter Won't Show Up In Court
Lovely double-standards there
A company that is almost certainly run by or connected to the 'poor besmirched' rich goon is allowed to continue on without saying who exactly is pulling their strings, something which strikes me as very relevant, but the accused infringer has to be outed because they didn't lawyer up or couldn't afford to.
Ah copyright law wielded by idiot and/or corrupt judges, you so constantly provide evidence for why neither of you deserve any respect at all.
On the post: Maryland Court Says Baltimore Prosecutors Can't Hide Their 'Do Not Call' List Of Bad Cops From The Public
What's the issue, it's only one or two names right?
I don't see what the fuss is about really, I mean the public is constantly being told that there's only 'a few bad apples' in law enforcement so the number of cops so corrupt that they can't be trusted as a witness should be only a handful at most, if not zero since the department is consistently firing bad cops and replacing them with good one.
Unless the public is being lied to anyway, but I'm sure that would never happen...
On the post: It's Great That Winnie The Pooh Is In The Public Domain; But He Should Have Been Free In 1982 (Or Earlier)
Hyperbole will destroy the world
If you want to help copyright maximalists by making it easier for people to dismiss those critical of current copyright law by all means keep comparing it to literal slavery, otherwise you're only shooting yourself in the foot by doing so. There's plenty of room to criticize locking up culture and hobbling creativity without making the jump to owning people as property.
On the post: Minneapolis Oversight Board Says Police Department Should Ditch 'Excited Delirium' Training
The strangest of superpowers
So just to sum up, 'excited delirium' supposedly grants superhuman strength yet is frequently fatal to those that suffer from it, providing police not one but two excuses for why someone ended up dead shortly after encountering them from 'I feared for my life' to 'Honestly I have no idea why they died in front of me', and last but certainly not least it only seems to crop up when police are in the area.
Yeah no, I can't imagine why medical associations and doctors the world over aren't tripping over themselves to certify this as a legitimate medical condition, from the sounds of it it's not only incredibly dangerous but likely breaks multiple previously held beliefs about biology by being tied to proximity of a particular profession.
On the post: Baltimore Police Union Blames City's Murder Rate On Defunding Efforts That Never Happened
Re: Re: unfortnately
How's that meme that I've seen a few times go, 'tell me you really want to shoot a poor person/minority without telling me you really want to shoot a poor person/minority'?
On the post: The Making Of A Moral Panic, Courtesy Of The NY Times
'Look at this problem! No don't try to solve it, just look!'
So... is anyone still pretending that the NYT just 'coincidentally' keeps writing blatant 230 hit-pieces, or has this happened enough times that it's acceptable now to admit that it's intentional and not just 'poor reporting' that keeps happening?
On a more specific note if any of those involved actually wanted to do something about suicides maybe they should look into why people might decide that they're better off dead and do something about that. Perhaps some super radical steps like working to remove the social stigma surrounding mental healthcare, making healthcare easier and more affordable to access, just absolutely bonkers ideas like that...
On the post: Top Disney Lawyer To Become Top Copyright Office Lawyer, Because Who Cares About The Public Interest?
If the shoe keeps fitting...
People at the Copyright Office seem to get mad at me every time I suggest that the Copyright Office is captured by Hollywood, and pointing out how top officials there all seem to bounce back and forth between the Copyright Office and Hollywood.
To which the response should be simply, 'If you don't like the label stop doing everything in your power to show how accurate and well deserved it is.'
On the post: The Making Of A Moral Panic, Courtesy Of The NY Times
Re:
Finding and addressing the underlying problem not only takes work it might upset people/companies by pointing out some things that are much easier to just brush under the rug, like say the stigmatization and lack of availability of mental health care, the solution of which might involve the dreaded socialism.
No no no, much easier and safer to just issue a statement and/or press conference about how you're Doing Something and then blame other people when it doesn't work.
On the post: Baltimore Police Union Blames City's Murder Rate On Defunding Efforts That Never Happened
'What do you mean we're not the good guys?!'
This is not a political issue of left vs. right, nor is it a rift between Baltimore's citizens and their sworn protectors. This is simply a fight between good vs. evil, and we must decide where we stand.
I mean, they're right, just probably not in the way they think they are...
On the post: Federal Court Tells Proud Boys Defendants That Raiding The Capitol Building Isn't Covered By The First Amendment
Re: Re: Re: Say What?
It's of great entertainment value that in order to even begin to consider the 'stolen election' lie viable you essentially have to start from the position that either the democrats across the country are vastly smarter and more able to plan than the republicans involved, the republicans involved are incredibly stupid and easy to fool, or a mix of the two.
'There's no solid evidence because the other side is way smarter than us' makes for an interesting argument/own-goal to say the least.
On the post: Chinese Government Dragnet Now Folding In American Social Media Platforms To Silence Dissent
'friendly'? That's not how you spell 'dishonest'
applaud Twitter and Facebook's censoring of people.
Ah yes, because there's no real difference between the state, which has the power to throw you in jail saying 'you're not allowed to say that anywhere' and a privately owned platforms saying 'you're not allowed to say that on our property'. Practically indistinguishable really.
Also which people are being 'censored' on those platforms and be specific.
On the post: It's Great That Winnie The Pooh Is In The Public Domain; But He Should Have Been Free In 1982 (Or Earlier)
Re: Re: What's more,
If memory serves you can still sue without having registered a work but if you want to go for statutory damages rather than having to actually prove you lost something due to infringement that requires a registration.
On the post: Chinese Government Dragnet Now Folding In American Social Media Platforms To Silence Dissent
Telling priorities
Criticism of government officials or attempts to organize protests is considered the biggest threat. Forbidden content like libel or porn is considered the least threatening, although it can also subject people to government harassment.
Post libel about someone? Meh, you might get harassed by government goons, you might not. Question those in authority? Oh you better believe you're getting a 'visit'.
Positively charming how they use someone's family as hostages to force compliance as well, truly it seems there is no low they will not sink to in order to maintain their iron grip.
On the post: It's Great That Winnie The Pooh Is In The Public Domain; But He Should Have Been Free In 1982 (Or Earlier)
'No fair, only we're allowed to break that deal!'
While I don't engage in the practice myself(no need) the fact that the deal that is copyright(limited exclusivity in exchange for public ownership after the term was up) was violated again, and again, and again makes it just a wee bit hard to be sympathetic to the large companies/organizations who constantly complain about the scourge that is copyright infringement and how dastardly those that engage in it are.
If you violate the rules of a deal you agreed to you don't get to expect to be taken seriously should you then complain when the other person decides that they don't need to follow those rules either.
On the post: Norton 360 Now Comes With Crypto Mining Capabilities And Sketchy Removal Process
Not a good look
A crypto mining program that's incredibly difficult to remove, is likely to cost the computer's owner more than it benefits them but serves as a free source of money to the program owner sure sounds like something you'd want an anti-virus/malware program to find and get rid of, not install alongside with.
On the post: US Courts Realizing They Have A Judge Alan Albright Sized Problem In Waco
Re: CYA for Roberts
An attempt to dodge accountability and oversight would certainly make more sense than them just now realizing that there might be something problematic with Albright and how he's running his court.
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