IMHO, the MPAA should give up rating movies and hand the job over to the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). Sure, UK ratings are legally enforceable, but the BBFC is sensible for the most part and treats all films equally, no matter where the funding came from.
Personally, I think that actors should have copyrights in their performances simply because it might actually stop studios releasing crappy remakes for 170 years after they're made due to the objections of someone who appeared in several scenes as a baby. };)
Plus the fact that people of certain ethnicities and from certain countries are more likely to have their luggage searched, increasing the odds that stuff will get stolen from them. After all, everyone knows that brown face from Kuwait = terrorist scum to the TSA.
Hey, you wanna know the best thing about this hack? I can claim my PS3 is less than a year old, and Son¥ no longer have anything on their database to prove otherwise! };D
How's about instead of bitching about these problems, you become part of the solution? All you have to do is maintain on this website a list of the URLs that are blocked and the IP addresses required to get to each website. Hackers and other interested parties would provide the the URLs and their accompanying IP addresses, and all you would have to do is test that they work correctly before publishing them, as well as altering or pruning addresses that no longer work.
Who is forcing you to use Google? Micro$##t and Yapoo, actually. With Bing, you can't reliably search beyond the second page of results because every attempt sends you back to the search bar page, and Yapoo's simply broken on mobile devices, despite last year's updates to make it more accessible on smartphones.
1. Freedom of speech is not absolute. Uh, yes it is. Obviously you can be sued for defamation, but the fact that a person, legal or natural, can abridge your right to freedom of speech in this manner still doesn't give the US Government the same power. 2. The laws of the country do not end with the written words. Laws are interpreted by the courts. Actually, no. Courts might sometimes need to interpret certain parts of laws, such as a defence of fair use in a copyright infringement case, but their main role is to uphold the laws as they exist, not to interpret them into entirely new ones. Simples!
The user I replied to called themselves you're an idiot, only spelt backwards and with the punctuation and spaces removed. I was able to spot it only because one of my cognitive disabilities (or a combination of more than one) gives me the ability to read backwards and upside down quite easily.
While I do think antitrust is an important tool in stopping abusive monopolistic powers that block out any and all competition... Okay, you're gonna have to link back to where I said that, because I know it sure as hell wasn't in a comment on this article.
Alan Turing: Did a bunch of research that duplicated the work of an American researcher (Alonzo Church).[citation needed] You see, Wikipedia states: Also in 1936, before learning of Church's work, Alan Turing created a theoretical model for machines, now called Turing machines, that could carry out calculations from inputs by manipulating symbols on a tape. Next time, either do your research or just STFU.
But that's the thing, you see; I don't believe someone should be denied Second Amendment rights because of diagnosis alone, but if someone has a diagnosis on the personality disorder spectrum and has hurt others or animals for reasons other than defence of self or others, then there should be some kind of time-limited gun ban in place. Personally, I think I'm being quite reasonable on this given that I'm a survivor of a murder attempt by a psycho, but I also believe that's why I can differentiate between them and others with various types of personality disorders. It's also why I understand the difference between personality disorders and mental disorders such as psycho-affective disorder (to use one of your examples).
I had hoped that people would balk at the ridiculous home-phoning of Windows XP, but they not only sucked that up but went on to buy DRM-loaded Zune music, all of which has since expired. What's Zune? Is that what I got by ripping CD tracks into MP3s from long before it was legal in my country (England)? (Not actually as naïve as my question would suggest, just stating the fact that not everybody suffered Zune, but instead used better, if extra-legal, methods of getting music onto MP3 players.)
ORLY? I guess you've never heard about the case where Myst IV came with DRM that prevented the contents of the second disc from being installed, and the DRM-'removal' patch could only be used on a fully installed game. And that's just the one case you claimed never happened, there are plenty of others.
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Micro$##t and Yapoo, actually. With Bing, you can't reliably search beyond the second page of results because every attempt sends you back to the search bar page, and Yapoo's simply broken on mobile devices, despite last year's updates to make it more accessible on smartphones.
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How would you say "go fuck yourself, MPAA" in European?
Error 305.
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As do natural people within the EU.
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Would never happen. Google-dot-co-dot-uk, on the other hand...
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Uh, yes it is. Obviously you can be sued for defamation, but the fact that a person, legal or natural, can abridge your right to freedom of speech in this manner still doesn't give the US Government the same power.
2. The laws of the country do not end with the written words. Laws are interpreted by the courts.
Actually, no. Courts might sometimes need to interpret certain parts of laws, such as a defence of fair use in a copyright infringement case, but their main role is to uphold the laws as they exist, not to interpret them into entirely new ones. Simples!
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Okay, you're gonna have to link back to where I said that, because I know it sure as hell wasn't in a comment on this article.
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You see, Wikipedia states: Also in 1936, before learning of Church's work, Alan Turing created a theoretical model for machines, now called Turing machines, that could carry out calculations from inputs by manipulating symbols on a tape. Next time, either do your research or just STFU.
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What's Zune? Is that what I got by ripping CD tracks into MP3s from long before it was legal in my country (England)? (Not actually as naïve as my question would suggest, just stating the fact that not everybody suffered Zune, but instead used better, if extra-legal, methods of getting music onto MP3 players.)
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