So if you build the PC and install Linux, should you also be required to code a non-infringing BIOS from scratch? You own the motherboard, not the copyright on the BIOS.
Er, you do realize that that whole "guns smuggled across from the US" types of statements spewed out by the Obama administration was exposed as nothing but pure horse-shit, right?
... I've always found it rather amusing (and a bit pathetic) that whenever a Texan wants to claim how big and bad he is, he always resorts to a 1986 anti-littering slogan.
Why is law enforcement sending in a SWAT team for child porn downloads? You could potentially see it in cases of production, but with downloads, can't they just do a standard arrest?
Because it's low-hanging fruit. Using these type of tactics against the (suspected) undesirable elements in society (chesters, dope dealers, lawyers, etc.), followed-up by public chest-beating and media sensationalism, makes it justified in the public's eyes.
Once such things become generally accepted/approved, then they apply it to progressively less-heinous offenses, until it becomes SOP.
If you want to boil frogs, the best practice is to heat the water slowly...
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Best Illusion of the Year...
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I don't know whether to rate that funny or insightful... regardless, an upvote for you, sir.
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Glory Probe?
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Now that the bogeyman's gone... [FIXED]
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Now that the bogeyman's gone...
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Guns don't kill people...
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Cheerleaders..
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Why indeed...
Because it's low-hanging fruit. Using these type of tactics against the (suspected) undesirable elements in society (chesters, dope dealers, lawyers, etc.), followed-up by public chest-beating and media sensationalism, makes it justified in the public's eyes.
Once such things become generally accepted/approved, then they apply it to progressively less-heinous offenses, until it becomes SOP.
If you want to boil frogs, the best practice is to heat the water slowly...
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