So you two, would you be running for office somewhere? One can only vote for an actual candidate (random write-ins and odd protest votes do not count in this scenario).
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How's that saying go, "If you don't like the terms..."
Talk about false dichotomies here. As if corporate and state actors are somehow mystically separate. "Regulation" is not some magic thing thing that is the only thing open to corporate capture and abuse. Antitrust regulation has nearly never done well itself. But if you would like a world far more poisoned than it is, go ahead and get rid of regulation. But you had best make sure that antitrust or monopoly regulation includes limiting corporate size as part of the very definition of monopoly, breaking up huge numbers of businesses as they currently are, if you want that to work as you imagine.
The problem is keeping business interests from having multiple ways into the political realm, aside from their vastly overvalued stakeholder positions. The deeper problem is that very few, whether citizens, corporations, or governments, do anything to craft our society in an evidence-based manner.
I haven't seen anyone advocating more power to a regulatory body. I have seen them argue for better regulation, or simple enforcement.
Maybe that is because we have a crap financial system, only far worse things than good old shorting stock are also perfectly legal and constantly "innovated".
Re: Meanwhile, efforts in the West are increasing difficulty.
We aren't worried about the few potentially infringing sites, we are worried about the collateral damage which, no, "pirates" did not cause. And thanks so much for assuming everyone here is part of some infringement navy. That's the only possible reason anyone would care, right? Good job, that kind of thinking. It has always helped human society so very much.
But hey, enjoy all the network love you receive for using TOR or NoScript and whatnot. It's totally because pirates. Oh, and terrorists, i'm sure. Who doesn't want to track clicks (or humans) and target advertising or propaganda to pirates and terrorists?
Yep. We're all too stoopid to use NoScript and other tools too. While we are thefting from the mouths of starving artists.
Good luck with future serial number torrents, though. And watch out if you have data caps.
If hosting providers are showing up in court, why would they be blocking the allegedly infringing domains by IP? If that is the requirement, it seems almost purposely designed to break a lot more internet while not actually shutting down the servers, which the hosting provider can surely do. And given domains are not always exactly statically linked with an IP... this gives me a headache.
It could be similar to demanding money ahead of time for a permitted event. Depends on what kind of event and how the event was organized. There are all manner of events where paid police security has always been normal.
On the dissimilar side, no it isn't like police picked out some people at one of that dood's events, beat the crap out of them, made up charges, then asked them retroactively to pay for any police presence.
Boys Club test. First rule of Boys Club is you have to be a raging grease dumpster fire traveling at 100 kph toward a rich white people's daycare facility before the Club theatrically slaps your wrist and makes tsk tsk noises.
On the other hand, some members who have been seen to take a stand for actual justice may receive a bit of a pranging.
Sure. I've seen otherwise seemingly reasonable people support Ayyadurai's email claims even, just because they relate to him culturally or because they buy his "i'm being held down by the Man" shtick. Of course plenty of people will vote along identity lines. Not buying into the opening pseudosciencey statements there, though.
Re: Re: Dumb question - how did he get the copyrights?
Actually part of his story is that the guy (who still supports Shiva's position) who was his mentor, advisor or something, encouraged him to file for patents and all in the first place.
Yeah it depends on the institution. Lots of public sector IP and even companies spring right out of uni woodwork.
Well, duct taping an addition to copyright seems a fair bit better than having "confusion" which some want to take as a opening, or leaves others feeling slighted.
For instance, parents in the car at the drive-thru maintain that that Streaming only gets a #6, no supersized anything or extra fries with that. Maybe they would like them healthy apples better.
I might agree, but a lot of the olympic events aren't olympic. Almost none of them are if you go by actual Olympic (and related) games tradition. And some contests are so weirdly niche and removed from reality that i find them a bit bizarre if i think about them.
But no, electronic gaming doesn't need validation from the IOC. In fact, i suspect there may be unintended consequences of making "eSports" Olympic competitions. (Maybe good consequences as well, but bad consequences seem to make up the preponderance.)
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How's that saying go, "If you don't like the terms..."
The problem is keeping business interests from having multiple ways into the political realm, aside from their vastly overvalued stakeholder positions. The deeper problem is that very few, whether citizens, corporations, or governments, do anything to craft our society in an evidence-based manner.
I haven't seen anyone advocating more power to a regulatory body. I have seen them argue for better regulation, or simple enforcement.
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Re: Meanwhile, efforts in the West are increasing difficulty.
But hey, enjoy all the network love you receive for using TOR or NoScript and whatnot. It's totally because pirates. Oh, and terrorists, i'm sure. Who doesn't want to track clicks (or humans) and target advertising or propaganda to pirates and terrorists?
Yep. We're all too stoopid to use NoScript and other tools too. While we are thefting from the mouths of starving artists.
Good luck with future serial number torrents, though. And watch out if you have data caps.
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On the dissimilar side, no it isn't like police picked out some people at one of that dood's events, beat the crap out of them, made up charges, then asked them retroactively to pay for any police presence.
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First rule of Boys Club is you have to be a raging grease dumpster fire traveling at 100 kph toward a rich white people's daycare facility before the Club theatrically slaps your wrist and makes tsk tsk noises.
On the other hand, some members who have been seen to take a stand for actual justice may receive a bit of a pranging.
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Re: Re: Dumb question - how did he get the copyrights?
Yeah it depends on the institution. Lots of public sector IP and even companies spring right out of uni woodwork.
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Re: Terminology doesn't fit...
Some people are easily confused. Or make a living counting on others being easily confused.
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For instance, parents in the car at the drive-thru maintain that that Streaming only gets a #6, no supersized anything or extra fries with that. Maybe they would like them healthy apples better.
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But no, electronic gaming doesn't need validation from the IOC. In fact, i suspect there may be unintended consequences of making "eSports" Olympic competitions. (Maybe good consequences as well, but bad consequences seem to make up the preponderance.)
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