I am not sure that the proper way to describe the collapse of the "Occupy Wall Street" was inherrent in its structure, or lack thereof. But more that it was beaten into a monolayer by the thugs of the official NYPD and the hirelings of Wall Street, some of whom were offtime official NYPD.
It is irrational to complain that the "rights" owners are treating the public horribly, and then to keep supporting that behavior by buying their products.
Unless the public is willing to enormous amounts of money to their Congress members, whining to them won't change much.
Boycott them. Trade CDs and DVDs. Read a book. Visit friends. Have sex. Take a long walk. Just don't buy from them until they support your rights.
The producers of what is called entertainment are soothing their own egos by claiming that their works are actually good enough to be stolen.
Their constant babbling about "pirates" sending them to the poorhouse has been disproved so many times that the real cause of the calumnies heaped on the population, can only be based on emotional problems.
I would be happy if they voted with their feet and wallets, but that is disticntly not within the human paradigm. Look at all the crap that companies have pulled that the user population just ignores.
Sony is a great exemplar. Rootkits in audio material that take over a computer if you list to a legally purchased CD on your PC. Taking out capabilities that were touted as a reason for purchase (removal of Linux from a game console.)
Companies that produce absolute garbage (MPAA and the RIAA) abuse the user and the law. And users are so hungry for crap they don't need, that they put up with it. Perhaps they all need to go to submissive school, and learn that it is the bottom who really holds the power.
I "sell" (for kudos, not money) cord cutting to seniors, or which I am one. Few have any problem hooking it up. Of those that do it is more fear of causing damage than lack of knowledge.
There are many automated encryption systems that are on or available 24/7 for data and voice. Apple and Google just make convenient targets because they are well known to the population, and the tyrants who would sway them.
It would make me ecstatic to believe that Obama was the responsible individual. That this went back only as far as his administration.
But as an example, the NY Times secretly knew at least a year before Bush 43's second election that the Bush was collecting information in bulk without warrants. And there is good reason to believe that it went back further to at least Clinton's time, and likely before it.
The USTR is laying the ground work for saying that you don't own what you create. Right now they are saying that you have no right to give away what you develop. Which means that you don't really own it.
The next step will be the loss of the ability to sell what you create when a company with a larger legal army claims that it can make a greater profit than you can.
After that it will take the equivalent of a DMCA take down notice to declare that you have no right to what you created.
If you fly, your luggage gets lost a significant percentage of the time. Is this the first time the judge has had his luggage disappear? Perhaps BA is doing a better job than is thought?
We now have candidates who wish to use the US military and the FBI against law abiding citizens,most particularly to delve int the reproductive organs of half the population. If that isn't terrorism then I don't know what is.
What will it take for the automotive (and other companies) to learn that hiding their failures, which inevitably come out, is worse than coming clean in the first place.
They can get all kinds of free quality assurance testing, but seem to prefer to pay in the courtroom because they can put off the payment of a decade or so.
An introductory course in computability might be useful for all these la la land ideas, though I have little reason to believe that it would be neither be taken nor understood.
Over the past two and a half centuries more than almost a million died for the principles of the Constitution. Are we going to throw it away on some elected official who has an "idea (poor thing it must be lonely)?"
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Re: Noble ideas, but doomed to failure
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Slalp their hands
Unless the public is willing to enormous amounts of money to their Congress members, whining to them won't change much.
Boycott them. Trade CDs and DVDs. Read a book. Visit friends. Have sex. Take a long walk. Just don't buy from them until they support your rights.
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Ego soothing
Their constant babbling about "pirates" sending them to the poorhouse has been disproved so many times that the real cause of the calumnies heaped on the population, can only be based on emotional problems.
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The expiration of Moore's law has been being announced for at least half its current life. As Twain said "The report of my death was an exaggeration."
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Re: Bad Press
Sony is a great exemplar. Rootkits in audio material that take over a computer if you list to a legally purchased CD on your PC. Taking out capabilities that were touted as a reason for purchase (removal of Linux from a game console.)
Companies that produce absolute garbage (MPAA and the RIAA) abuse the user and the law. And users are so hungry for crap they don't need, that they put up with it. Perhaps they all need to go to submissive school, and learn that it is the bottom who really holds the power.
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Young people only?
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Young people only?
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Re: Re: Why Apple?
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Re: Re: Banana Republic
But as an example, the NY Times secretly knew at least a year before Bush 43's second election that the Bush was collecting information in bulk without warrants. And there is good reason to believe that it went back further to at least Clinton's time, and likely before it.
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Data control
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The next step will be the loss of the ability to sell what you create when a company with a larger legal army claims that it can make a greater profit than you can.
After that it will take the equivalent of a DMCA take down notice to declare that you have no right to what you created.
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Re: Re: Program abuse
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Small potatoes
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Fraud and more
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They can get all kinds of free quality assurance testing, but seem to prefer to pay in the courtroom because they can put off the payment of a decade or so.
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Over the past two and a half centuries more than almost a million died for the principles of the Constitution. Are we going to throw it away on some elected official who has an "idea (poor thing it must be lonely)?"
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