Generic Politician: We know privacy is awesome! That's why we keep trying to pass laws like ACTA, TPP, CISPA, and (the next one) without telling you! It's because we believe in privacy, especially our privacy from snooping over-worried citizens like you. Can't you see we're all on the same page here? Well, looks like you're out of time for today. My secret service agents will show you out. Goodbye, and thank you for your support.
A certain community could protest by taking down politicians videos--during election season. Maybe take down some of the videos on the President's YouTube channel as well. That should get this addressed; or get somebody arrested for "cyber-terrorism" which also sets a useful precedent.
Bah, shows get produced at a rate of one episode per week for 24 weeks out of a year.
In any given year, there's only a few dozen new shows...
Let's see; assuming an average (generous) show length of 44 minutes (one hour minus commercials) and 100 (very generous!) new shows each year... 2 seasons per year...
So, (44 minutes/(shows * episode)) * (100 shows) * (24 episodes) = ~105600 minutes of new content each year.
At the present rate of YouTube uploads, that's (x/72) 1466.6 minutes or 24.4 hours.
In short: according to my guesstimate, all of the new television shows produced in a year equals about one days worth of new YouTube content.
Hey, the only reason Battlefield Earth bombed was because everyone pirated it and found out it was a really crappy move, so they didn't see it in the theater!!!
I'd like everybody in those branches of government to break out in a cold sweat and think thrice before even considering doing/supporting something which could be deemed unconstitutional.
I was thinking about that this morning... Wouldn't it be nice if there were a law which said:
"Any person elected or hired in any Legislative or Executive branch of government at any level (Federal, State, County, et al) will be deprived of and banned from government service immediately if it is found that said person proposed, passed, or enforced a law which the Supreme Court later found to unconstitutional."
(Or something to that effect, certainly the working could be more clear.)
It is important to maintain linguistic inertia; specifically to slow the rate of change. It makes temporal incursion far easier, as one's knowledge of a language is good for a century+ timespan.
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Re: Replay?
My only wonder is "when" not "if".
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Troll-Lander 4: The Thickening
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Troll them hard!
;-P
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Re: EASY!
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Re: Re: Bu, bu, but . . . . Piracy!
In any given year, there's only a few dozen new shows...
Let's see; assuming an average (generous) show length of 44 minutes (one hour minus commercials) and 100 (very generous!) new shows each year... 2 seasons per year...
So, (44 minutes/(shows * episode)) * (100 shows) * (24 episodes) = ~105600 minutes of new content each year.
At the present rate of YouTube uploads, that's (x/72) 1466.6 minutes or 24.4 hours.
In short: according to my guesstimate, all of the new television shows produced in a year equals about one days worth of new YouTube content.
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FTFY
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Re: Re: Re: Incentives
I'd like everybody in those branches of government to break out in a cold sweat and think thrice before even considering doing/supporting something which could be deemed unconstitutional.
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Re: Incentives
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Freelance nautical robbery is referred to as piracy, while "for hire" nautical robbery is privateering.
There's plenty of other examples too, that's just the first one which came to mind.
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/sarc
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Re: bob "news"
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Re: Streisand Effect???
;-P
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Re: Re: Doubtful
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Re: a stopped clock is right twice a day
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Re: Re: Reddit "Rules"...!
Also, how many is in a brazilian?
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Re: Re: Re: L vs E
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L vs E
I miss the young, naive Google which was staffed by well-intentioned engineers and very short on legal counsel.
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Re: A loss
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