You don't have a right to my hard-drive or to the contents thereof.
You and the rest of the stone-age media can keep pretending that you do and even get laws passed to that effect, but that's just re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic that is so-called "intellectual property".
Getting past the uncanny valley in advertising? I'd like to see us get past the uncanny valley in the GOP primaries. Has anyone actually watched Mitt Romney speak?
I'd bet the contents of my wallet that the guy eats old people's medicine for fuel.
Scenario 1: Google continues like they are. Either they will be forced by corrupt government to censor posts entirely, or those governments will block Blogger entirely. End Result: The information cannot escape.
Scenario 2: Google blocks content from inside those countries, but allows access to that content from outside the country. Information escapes.
Is copying also rape? Is it murder? Is it terrorism? Do the answers to those questions depend on whether or not I have produced content that was pirated?
I don't think racist jokes should be punishable by the government because I believe in free speech. Does that mean I'm a racist who supports racist speech?
Private business should be allowed to choose who they do business with. If they are real assholes about it, I'll be right there picketing their business along with 99.9% of the population, but that doesn't mean we should write laws that tell people who they have to associate with on their own property.
While I wouldn't consider myself hostile to the tea party, the whole "keep the government's hands off my medicare/social security" was kinda ridiculous.
The conspiracy theorist in me believes that these requirements were very much pushed by the corporations that produce these body scanners and similar invasive technology so that they could unload their technology on the domestic market and rake in the taxpayer-funded-government-subsidies.
I wouldn't call that a conspiracy theory. I actually thought it was a well-known fact . . .
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You and the rest of the stone-age media can keep pretending that you do and even get laws passed to that effect, but that's just re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic that is so-called "intellectual property".
Adapt or go extinct. Whining won't save you.
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I'd bet the contents of my wallet that the guy eats old people's medicine for fuel.
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Not at all. "Infringement" is easily excused through rational thought about the nature of property rights.
Not supporting companies who are dickheads is just icing on the cake.
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Worse Than The Alternative?
Scenario 2: Google blocks content from inside those countries, but allows access to that content from outside the country. Information escapes.
Scenario 2 seems better to me, at first glance.
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Misunderstanding
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You argument is one giant non sequitur.
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STOP CENSORING ME!
/insane_troll_logic
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Private business should be allowed to choose who they do business with. If they are real assholes about it, I'll be right there picketing their business along with 99.9% of the population, but that doesn't mean we should write laws that tell people who they have to associate with on their own property.
Turn off Maddow; engage the brain.
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We have very different definitions of "man up" . . .
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