Mike is 'censoring' you so you can't respond, but you somehow can post your persecution drivel here? And I thought you had a smidgin of logic left. Oh wait, no I didn't...
So Facebook goes around making people kill themselves, bashing people, bullying people or even directly killing people? No? Just a few psychotic users? Ah.
"Given all the suicides, bashings, bullying ,and yes, even murders _directly attributed_ to telephones, I think its high time those gutless cowardly bastards were held accountable for their part.
death to AT&T/Verizon!"
Now makes as much sense - but there would be more people agreeing with you ;)
And four-year-olds and adults and anyone who kills someone with a gun in a non-self defence situation.
Oh wait, that would be a scary proportion of your population.
Although now I think about it, 'crazed loonies' is a good description of your gun lobby. 'Wayne "Crazed Loony" LaPierre' has a nice ring to it. Or 'Charlton "Prise my gun out of my crazed loony dead hands" Heston'.
What is there to censor? If he were censoring you, why aren't your posts vanishing? Why would we care about your spittle-filled rants anyway? All they are is you making unfounded assertions with no evidence, wrapped in ad-homs and temper tantrums, and served up with lashings of your 'Mikey' obsession/love affair.
Frankly, I could get more intelligent discourse on Free Republic, Spearhead or InfoWars...
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Google! Derp! Google! Bawk!
There, I managed to contribute more to this than your ongoing Google paranoia.
Seriously, if you were picking on other 'big search' or ad-monetised content (FB etc) you might seem reasonable, but you seem incapable of moving off your MS-sponsored talking points.
To add to this, if I buy a used Ford, has Ford 'lost a sale of a new car'? What if I could never afford a new Ford? And what of the previous owner who may now with this money buy a different new Ford - where has Ford lost out?
If Ford start demanding a cut of the used car market for their cars then I'll be damned if I buy one of their cars when there's plenty of competition. Is that 'piracy'?
To clarify this, Copyright gives the copyright holder a one-off right to control how each individual copy is passed on, once only. So once it has been sold or given 'legally' (in an authorised fashion would be better) to someone else, that one-off right has expired - for that copy alone. They can still legally restrict your ability to copy that copy - but that particular copy can be given away, thrown away, used as a coaster, passed around a whole group of friends, or whatever you like, as you specifically own that copy.
So once you 'own' a copy of a file, then no-one should have any right to restrict what you do with it (subject to copying restrictions above). Now, with digital files this then gets into the territory of is it a sale or a licence - because if the companies want to treat it as a licence then they have certain legal responsibilities that they wouldn't have with sales.
Also, a non-transferrable item by its very nature tends to be worth less than something that is inherently transferrable. If all you are effectively 'buying' is a (not even) lifetime licence to use a product that you may not even like that much, expect to see your sales suffer accordingly once people cotton onto this.
Re: Re: I know why the pro-copyright trolls are all over the FISA/NSA stuff
I never understodd how your country managed to breed maximalist libertarians without them exploding. Must be some industrial-strength paradox-absorbing crumple zones - g** bless American industrial prowess!
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Ye gods, you lot are such juveniles that your every answer is "Second Amendment".
"Mummy, Mummy, Tommy called me a bad name and won't give me his bike!"
"Here you go Jimmy, a loaded Bushmaster. Go discuss your Second Amendment privileges with him. Or if you can't be bothered carrying it around, just go punch him in the nose!"
Re: Re: Is Democratic Criticism on N.S.A. Hurting Obama’s Approval Rating?
Only because the chickenhawks are only for war if it's one of their own starting it, and preferably it involves getting oil or beating commies. The moment a Democrat wants to up the ante for humanitarian purposes, no dice!
About as well as the idiot that got us into illegal and useless foreign wars, brought in the Patriot Act because his intelligence services couldn't see what was under their noses, and for an encore destroyed the
Obama may be a stinking disappointment. But he is still better than the alternatives. One of whom was probably even less a 'natural born citizen' than Obama.
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Re: bout time
"Given all the suicides, bashings, bullying ,and yes, even murders _directly attributed_ to telephones, I think its high time those gutless cowardly bastards were held accountable for their part.
death to AT&T/Verizon!"
Now makes as much sense - but there would be more people agreeing with you ;)
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Oh wait, that would be a scary proportion of your population.
Although now I think about it, 'crazed loonies' is a good description of your gun lobby. 'Wayne "Crazed Loony" LaPierre' has a nice ring to it. Or 'Charlton "Prise my gun out of my crazed loony dead hands" Heston'.
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Frankly, I could get more intelligent discourse on Free Republic, Spearhead or InfoWars...
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Re: An excellent piece of defending without admitting:
There, I managed to contribute more to this than your ongoing Google paranoia.
Seriously, if you were picking on other 'big search' or ad-monetised content (FB etc) you might seem reasonable, but you seem incapable of moving off your MS-sponsored talking points.
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Re: Gamers are STILL stupid
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If Ford start demanding a cut of the used car market for their cars then I'll be damned if I buy one of their cars when there's plenty of competition. Is that 'piracy'?
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So once you 'own' a copy of a file, then no-one should have any right to restrict what you do with it (subject to copying restrictions above). Now, with digital files this then gets into the territory of is it a sale or a licence - because if the companies want to treat it as a licence then they have certain legal responsibilities that they wouldn't have with sales.
Also, a non-transferrable item by its very nature tends to be worth less than something that is inherently transferrable. If all you are effectively 'buying' is a (not even) lifetime licence to use a product that you may not even like that much, expect to see your sales suffer accordingly once people cotton onto this.
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Re: Re: Re: Holy Shit!
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Okay, it's BROKEN. Now how do we fix it?
"Mummy, Mummy, Tommy called me a bad name and won't give me his bike!"
"Here you go Jimmy, a loaded Bushmaster. Go discuss your Second Amendment privileges with him. Or if you can't be bothered carrying it around, just go punch him in the nose!"
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Re: Never thought I would see the day...
I know, it sucks anytime I find myself agreeing with any of the Republicans.
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Typical American attempt at geography!
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Obama may be a stinking disappointment. But he is still better than the alternatives. One of whom was probably even less a 'natural born citizen' than Obama.
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Re: I'm going with Snowden being CIA to take a shot at NSA.
I wonder what all these frothing sites will do next time (hopefully far away) a Rethuglican is voted in. Maybe have orgasms over some Rand/Paul clone.
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Select:
a) Filthy pirates
b) Hard-working RIAA/MPAA/Congress
c) Rogue states
d) Pirates stole our BRAAAAAIIIIINSSSSS!!1!!!
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