It's not like once this type of situation starts - that a camera can do anything to stop it, and I doubt the response time would improve.
If the time and energy devoted to 'control' and 'surveillance' was put into making the world a better place, these problems would likely go away on their own - at least many of them. There will always be nut-jobs out there.
Bed bugs happen - if the hotel took the steps to eliminate the problem, then good for them. But this is more of a testament as to what they think of their customers, more than anything.
"Just pay us and STFU" - I suppose is the message we are to infer from this?
This whole situation with copyright just clarifies the waters on the corporate mentality.
Let's take a very hypothetical situation and let's look a the likely result.
Situation:
A technology has been discovered that allows a person to use clean water to fuel their vehicles. This requires only a reprogramming of the EPROM on the car and 'bingo' it runs on water - 100% clean, no emissions other than hydrogen and oxygen.
What do you think would happen? Would the world be happy that we no longer pollute the environment with fossil fuels? Would the world be happy that we likely just eliminated even the possibility of 'global warming'?
Sure the people would be ecstatic. But oil and power companies all over the world would be in court immediately. Suing to try and block this technology. All sorts of 'theft' accusations would be brought up and other spin like this.
And don't say it's different - because if the recording industry still had it's way, we'd be stuck with **PLASTIC** (made from petroleum) CD's and DVD's along with all the packaging and other landfill waste that was required to sell discs in stores.
But now, no oil is needed to distribute media - and they bitch about it. So the next time you hear the 'green spin' from one of these corporations - think about it...
Oracle acquiring Sun is probably the worst thing to have happened to the open source (and maybe even the technology) community in recent date
Yep, even the Unix guys at work say just that. And most of the web developers I know now groan loudly if they have to use java. Most seem to prefer Ruby, .NET or whatever.
By and large, the company I works for avoids Oracle because of the costs involved, although it's in use for some software specifically designed for it, most of the core databases are MSSQL.
No, because in spite of how most of it's spun, it's almost all processed and screwed with ad infinum before we ever get to it.
It's just marketing spin. Like salads and their 'wonders' - but good luck trying to find a salad dressing without sugar in it, unless it's oil/vinegar types.
It's like the 'green' BS - everything is 'green' now - I even seen 'green' bug spray at the store - are they serious? 'Green' bug spray? LOL - I don't WANT bug spray to be friendly to the environment because chances are it's also friendly to the bugs.
And as it stands, food is sustainable - otherwise, I suspect we would have ran out long ago. It's been sustainable for at least 8500 years or more I suppose.
So, I am all in favor of the police beating the absolute **** out of that guy. It's the closest thing to punishment the man will ever get. Is it right, no. But neither is the situation itself.
You seriously think that will solve the problems, or make them worse?
It goes to show two things, how self defeating these copyright types actually are, and how they are actually not business people but monpolists. There is quite the difference between a person with a monopoly and a business person.
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You can grow apples for free. But there's an industry built on that.
Interesting, huh?
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Indeed, because Government *CAN* in fact guarantee rights or at least attempt to and be mostly successful.
Government CANNOT EVER guarantee your safety.
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It's not like once this type of situation starts - that a camera can do anything to stop it, and I doubt the response time would improve.
If the time and energy devoted to 'control' and 'surveillance' was put into making the world a better place, these problems would likely go away on their own - at least many of them. There will always be nut-jobs out there.
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Bed bugs happen - if the hotel took the steps to eliminate the problem, then good for them. But this is more of a testament as to what they think of their customers, more than anything.
"Just pay us and STFU" - I suppose is the message we are to infer from this?
I understand there are crappy customers but...
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Let's take a very hypothetical situation and let's look a the likely result.
Situation:
A technology has been discovered that allows a person to use clean water to fuel their vehicles. This requires only a reprogramming of the EPROM on the car and 'bingo' it runs on water - 100% clean, no emissions other than hydrogen and oxygen.
What do you think would happen? Would the world be happy that we no longer pollute the environment with fossil fuels? Would the world be happy that we likely just eliminated even the possibility of 'global warming'?
Sure the people would be ecstatic. But oil and power companies all over the world would be in court immediately. Suing to try and block this technology. All sorts of 'theft' accusations would be brought up and other spin like this.
And don't say it's different - because if the recording industry still had it's way, we'd be stuck with **PLASTIC** (made from petroleum) CD's and DVD's along with all the packaging and other landfill waste that was required to sell discs in stores.
But now, no oil is needed to distribute media - and they bitch about it. So the next time you hear the 'green spin' from one of these corporations - think about it...
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No wonder the Internet Archive has been declared a rogue site dedicated to infringing activities.
The only persons who 'declare' such are likely these 'revisionists' who like to try and keep the masses ignorant of things.
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Yep, even the Unix guys at work say just that. And most of the web developers I know now groan loudly if they have to use java. Most seem to prefer Ruby, .NET or whatever.
By and large, the company I works for avoids Oracle because of the costs involved, although it's in use for some software specifically designed for it, most of the core databases are MSSQL.
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It's just marketing spin. Like salads and their 'wonders' - but good luck trying to find a salad dressing without sugar in it, unless it's oil/vinegar types.
It's like the 'green' BS - everything is 'green' now - I even seen 'green' bug spray at the store - are they serious? 'Green' bug spray? LOL - I don't WANT bug spray to be friendly to the environment because chances are it's also friendly to the bugs.
And as it stands, food is sustainable - otherwise, I suspect we would have ran out long ago. It's been sustainable for at least 8500 years or more I suppose.
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HA! Name *ONE* 'court of law' that doesn't assume guilt to start with now.
Presumption of innocence is a concept that sadly, only exists in small circle now, and most certainly is not present in modern 'justice systems'.
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So, I am all in favor of the police beating the absolute **** out of that guy. It's the closest thing to punishment the man will ever get. Is it right, no. But neither is the situation itself.
You seriously think that will solve the problems, or make them worse?
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But hey, all this will be about 'control' soon.
Soon enough - there will be a bunch of new laws regarding the internet.
They've been wanting control of the web for a long time. Here's their excuse.
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Yep, spot on.
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