Both these people are OLD! They don't hate the tech, they just didn't grow up with it. It wasn't until their later years that all this stuff came out. It's hard to teach a old dog new tricks!!!
I disagree that age is a huge factor as you make it out to be. For example, my wife and I are roughly the same age (within a year) and we are both just over 50. While my wife is very competent using her computer and new technology, she has never had the desire to know what makes them work. (She also feels the same about electricity: she couldn't care less about electrons, parallel circuits or calculating amperage - she just expects the light to go on when the switch is flipped).
To be honest, with all of apps and "app stores" and whatnot, we are creating a generation of what I always called "application idiots" - people who can run a basic application, but not much else. This group is worse (IMHO) than those who are actually completely clueless about technology because they tend to "think" they know a lot more than they actually do.
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Everyone knows that it's the owner of the camera that owns the copyright. Like when you hand your camera to someone else to take a photo of you with your own camera. You still own the copyright, not them, because it was your camera.
That is wrong. The other person using your camera actually owns the copyright. This explains it pretty well in layman's terms:
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The truth is, we have absolutely no idea what the fuck would happen. The were getting different results in countries right next to each other.
We have some idea of what would happen. We just have to look at our own history. We've been through this once already and our society didn't crumble to the ground in 1933 when we repealed Prohibition. Here is a former Seattle Police Chief pointing out the parallels between Probation and our current "drug war":
Throwing that switch would be a disaster right now here the U.S.
I disagree that it would be the disaster you predict. We certainly aren't anymore culturally mature than we were in 1933 and we worked that out OK. Would there be growing pains? Sure. Would it take time to readjust our justice, law enforcement and health care systems. Absolutely. I just don't think sitting on our hands until you think we can handle it as a society is any kind of answer. I believe the status quo is worse than any of effects of legalization would be.
The idea of vaccinations has been around for a thousand years, dating as far back as AD 1000 in India . The smallpox vaccine was introduced around the late 1700's, the polio vaccine was licensed in 1955 and the MMR vaccine has been administrated in the US since the early 1960's.
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Also, while I strongly disagree with the "irresponsible" part of your statement, it's the "damaging to our way of life" part that I really disagreed with.
Could you please explain what it is you think would damage us anymore so than the quasi-military/police state we've erected to fight the war on drugs?
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Just to clarify, I advocate the legalization of small amounts for personal use. That "magic switch" is feasible and plausible.
Manufacturing and distribution should be regulated and taxed, like alcohol. The funding of our police forces should come from some of these taxes, instead of having "drug asset forfeitures" as a major source of their operating budgets. We should also let our judges do their jobs and evaluate situations on a case-by-case basis, instead if being forced to use mandatory sentencing requirements which basically treat a 17 year old kid smoking a joint in the park the same as the guy caught selling crack on the corner.
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I disagree. I don't think were ready. We would first need to completely overhaul our police forces, treatment and abuse systems, education systems.. and a vast host of other things.
I think your logic concerning this is incorrect. It's like telling someone not to have a child until they can afford one, which is basically saying "don't have children" (because you can never really afford them). Also, who gets to decide when we've become "culturally mature". You? Me? Space Aliens? Who?
I suggest YOU read it more carefully. Simply pointing out that other nearby countries increase as well does not mean shit, and can be interpreted many different ways. The actual study suggest that in numerous places. It suggests that their may be a correlation between the two, but it doesn't prove anything.
It's a pretty accepted practice to compare results with control groups. That doesn't, by any means, equal a direct correlation, but it does give some pretty strong indications that Portugal's policy changes were not the reason for the increase.
Look, it been nice chatting with you and all and it's obvious that you have your opinions about this, but you might want to ask yourself why many respected people are currently question our drug policies, from Eric Holder to some well respected Harvard alumni and beyond. It's been my personal observation that those arguing most stridently against legalization are those whose livelihoods depend on the "War on Drugs" remaining well funded.
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It's illegal nasch. As in against the law. Yes, we should enforce the law until we reach a point where we can responsibly change it.
I think we have already reached that point - about 20 years ago as a matter of fact. I realize that's currently illegal and what I am advocating for is legalization of small amounts right now.
If it's so "tiny", why make a big deal out of it being illegal?
Cause and effect. 30 years of the "War on Drugs" has done nothing to curb usage. It has however caused the over-militarization of our police forces, police tactics of targeting our minorities and the largest incarceration rate of any developed country. A lot of the friction between police forces and citizens that we are experiencing today are a direct result of our drug policies.
It has an after legalization drug use comparison of Portugal. Yes. Drug use went up significantly, including the hard drugs. I'm not making this up, the data is right there.
Yeah, you probably need to re-read that link a bit more carfully:
The increase in drug use observed among adults in Portugal was not greater than that seen in nearby countries that did not change their drug laws.
I was saying that just throwing some magic switch that suddenly legalizes drugs across the board would be irresponsible and damaging to our way of life.
I disagree 100% with this sentiment. You should probably educate yourself a bit more on this subject before making such blanket statements.
They don't need to get permission from the musicians so long as either the campaign or the venue have ASCAP or BMI blanket licenses, which they almost always do.
Correct me if I am wrong here, but I thought the ASCAP or BMI licenses covered music being played at the specific venue only and that a completely different license must be negotiated for the rights to play the song on a TV broadcast.
Now I realize that there wasn't a "RNC Convention" show per se, but I would assume that the RNC provided some of the video feeds, especially during the speeches, to eliminate the need for multiple cameras everywhere. So wouldn't the RNC be considered a producer of the video and therefore without the a fair use defense, like the news organizations reporting on the event would have?
Nice cherry pick. I already conceded that pot was not under discussion for the reasons I stated. I was talking about "hard" drugs.
Fair enough. I still think that the "danger to society" thing has been and still is oversold as hokum. The criminalization of drug use has caused more societal problems then the original problem they were trying to "fix".
Take a look at the results of Portugal legalizing small amounts of both "soft" and "hard" drugs. While usage remained pretty much the same, other societal side effects of drug use have improved. HIV diagnoses went down, entries into treatment facilities went up, drug related deaths dropped, adolescent use went down, criminal justice workloads went down and actual the street value of the drugs dropped.
It appears to me, that the original reason we made drugs illegal was the irresponsible use was seen as a danger to society as a whole.
That is a very nice rose-colored view there, but unfortunately incorrect. The campaign to make marijuana illegal was funded and driven by William Randolph Hearst who owned huge tracts of forestland and didn't want to compete with hemp in paper manufacturing and Andrew Mellon (a heavy investor of Du Pont) and the Du Pont family who wanted to replace hemp with nylon for ropes and such.
...those whose lives are destroyed by others without having been physically hit or touched.
My generation was raised with the axiom "Stick and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me". We were also taught that your own feelings were your own responsibility and no one could make you feel something with words unless you allowed it.
I think there are a lot of "fragile snowflakes" out there nowadays who need to pull up their big-boy pants and grow a backbone. Just my 2 cents.
Yes, I use a very broad definition of violence and as far as I am concerned, it is well justified.
Not really. Stretching definitions of words to suit your agenda only makes you look ignorant. Intelligent people converse using common, accepted definitions of words so others can actually figure out what the fuck you are talking about.
One theory for Jews being so prevalent in the moneylending and "middle-man" (traders, brokers, etc.) occupations throughout history is the fact that every Jewish man was (and is) required to read from the Torah at their Bar Mitzvah (usually age 13). This dates back before Christianity began. As a group, Jews were simply more educated than anyone else throughout most of our history.
What's the difference? Yes, both Apple and Facebook own their servers and networks, but why is one bad and the other not?
Techdirt has called out BOTH companies at different times for enforcing their own arbitrary morality rules on speech. Here are some directed at Facebook:
Calling out companies that ridiculously censor speech on their own platforms is not the same thing as saying those companies shouldn't have the right to control what is published on their platforms. You are missing the nuances here.
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"dysfunction onion"
Or am I just weird?
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I disagree that age is a huge factor as you make it out to be. For example, my wife and I are roughly the same age (within a year) and we are both just over 50. While my wife is very competent using her computer and new technology, she has never had the desire to know what makes them work. (She also feels the same about electricity: she couldn't care less about electrons, parallel circuits or calculating amperage - she just expects the light to go on when the switch is flipped).
To be honest, with all of apps and "app stores" and whatnot, we are creating a generation of what I always called "application idiots" - people who can run a basic application, but not much else. This group is worse (IMHO) than those who are actually completely clueless about technology because they tend to "think" they know a lot more than they actually do.
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That is wrong. The other person using your camera actually owns the copyright. This explains it pretty well in layman's terms:
http://www.photoattorney.com/qa-who-owns-the-copyright/
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We have some idea of what would happen. We just have to look at our own history. We've been through this once already and our society didn't crumble to the ground in 1933 when we repealed Prohibition. Here is a former Seattle Police Chief pointing out the parallels between Probation and our current "drug war":
http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/prohibition-a-parallel-to-modern-war-on-drugs/
Throwing that switch would be a disaster right now here the U.S.
I disagree that it would be the disaster you predict. We certainly aren't anymore culturally mature than we were in 1933 and we worked that out OK. Would there be growing pains? Sure. Would it take time to readjust our justice, law enforcement and health care systems. Absolutely. I just don't think sitting on our hands until you think we can handle it as a society is any kind of answer. I believe the status quo is worse than any of effects of legalization would be.
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Not time tested? How much time do you need?
The idea of vaccinations has been around for a thousand years, dating as far back as AD 1000 in India . The smallpox vaccine was introduced around the late 1700's, the polio vaccine was licensed in 1955 and the MMR vaccine has been administrated in the US since the early 1960's.
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Could you please explain what it is you think would damage us anymore so than the quasi-military/police state we've erected to fight the war on drugs?
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Manufacturing and distribution should be regulated and taxed, like alcohol. The funding of our police forces should come from some of these taxes, instead of having "drug asset forfeitures" as a major source of their operating budgets. We should also let our judges do their jobs and evaluate situations on a case-by-case basis, instead if being forced to use mandatory sentencing requirements which basically treat a 17 year old kid smoking a joint in the park the same as the guy caught selling crack on the corner.
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I think your logic concerning this is incorrect. It's like telling someone not to have a child until they can afford one, which is basically saying "don't have children" (because you can never really afford them). Also, who gets to decide when we've become "culturally mature". You? Me? Space Aliens? Who?
I suggest YOU read it more carefully. Simply pointing out that other nearby countries increase as well does not mean shit, and can be interpreted many different ways. The actual study suggest that in numerous places. It suggests that their may be a correlation between the two, but it doesn't prove anything.
It's a pretty accepted practice to compare results with control groups. That doesn't, by any means, equal a direct correlation, but it does give some pretty strong indications that Portugal's policy changes were not the reason for the increase.
Look, it been nice chatting with you and all and it's obvious that you have your opinions about this, but you might want to ask yourself why many respected people are currently question our drug policies, from Eric Holder to some well respected Harvard alumni and beyond. It's been my personal observation that those arguing most stridently against legalization are those whose livelihoods depend on the "War on Drugs" remaining well funded.
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I think we have already reached that point - about 20 years ago as a matter of fact. I realize that's currently illegal and what I am advocating for is legalization of small amounts right now.
If it's so "tiny", why make a big deal out of it being illegal?
Cause and effect. 30 years of the "War on Drugs" has done nothing to curb usage. It has however caused the over-militarization of our police forces, police tactics of targeting our minorities and the largest incarceration rate of any developed country. A lot of the friction between police forces and citizens that we are experiencing today are a direct result of our drug policies.
It has an after legalization drug use comparison of Portugal. Yes. Drug use went up significantly, including the hard drugs. I'm not making this up, the data is right there.
Yeah, you probably need to re-read that link a bit more carfully:
I was saying that just throwing some magic switch that suddenly legalizes drugs across the board would be irresponsible and damaging to our way of life.
I disagree 100% with this sentiment. You should probably educate yourself a bit more on this subject before making such blanket statements.
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Correct me if I am wrong here, but I thought the ASCAP or BMI licenses covered music being played at the specific venue only and that a completely different license must be negotiated for the rights to play the song on a TV broadcast.
Now I realize that there wasn't a "RNC Convention" show per se, but I would assume that the RNC provided some of the video feeds, especially during the speeches, to eliminate the need for multiple cameras everywhere. So wouldn't the RNC be considered a producer of the video and therefore without the a fair use defense, like the news organizations reporting on the event would have?
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Fair enough. I still think that the "danger to society" thing has been and still is oversold as hokum. The criminalization of drug use has caused more societal problems then the original problem they were trying to "fix".
Take a look at the results of Portugal legalizing small amounts of both "soft" and "hard" drugs. While usage remained pretty much the same, other societal side effects of drug use have improved. HIV diagnoses went down, entries into treatment facilities went up, drug related deaths dropped, adolescent use went down, criminal justice workloads went down and actual the street value of the drugs dropped.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal#Observations
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That is a very nice rose-colored view there, but unfortunately incorrect. The campaign to make marijuana illegal was funded and driven by William Randolph Hearst who owned huge tracts of forestland and didn't want to compete with hemp in paper manufacturing and Andrew Mellon (a heavy investor of Du Pont) and the Du Pont family who wanted to replace hemp with nylon for ropes and such.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history_of_cannabis_in_the_United_States#Marihuana_Tax_Act_ .281937.29
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My generation was raised with the axiom "Stick and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me". We were also taught that your own feelings were your own responsibility and no one could make you feel something with words unless you allowed it.
I think there are a lot of "fragile snowflakes" out there nowadays who need to pull up their big-boy pants and grow a backbone. Just my 2 cents.
Yes, I use a very broad definition of violence and as far as I am concerned, it is well justified.
Not really. Stretching definitions of words to suit your agenda only makes you look ignorant. Intelligent people converse using common, accepted definitions of words so others can actually figure out what the fuck you are talking about.
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ABC News reported on this yesterday. Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency is quoted as saying:http://abcnews.go.com/International/jihadists-computers-80-percent-full-porn-official/s tory?id=40564987
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Techdirt has called out BOTH companies at different times for enforcing their own arbitrary morality rules on speech. Here are some directed at Facebook:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160615/17331334722/facebook-still-deleting-non-offensiv e-posts-being-offensive.shtml
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160216/06342933609/puritanical-face book-censors-parody-publication-makes-appeal-process-threat.shtml
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2 0160606/05432734633/facebook-is-flagging-banning-accounts-posting-admittedly-strange-childrens-book- illustration.shtml
Calling out companies that ridiculously censor speech on their own platforms is not the same thing as saying those companies shouldn't have the right to control what is published on their platforms. You are missing the nuances here.
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