Your choices of where to flee to would be very limited and not very pleasant.
America has extradition agreements with most countries. Even if they didn't bother, America shares its criminal and medical data with other countries' border patrol agencies. The slightest criminal record will get you barred from those countries.
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Laws that govern IP protections - and freedom of speech - generally grant exceptions for humor and parody.
Even when someone crosses the line, one can be technically "in the right", and still be wrong in how they handle the situation.
Techdirt gives credit where credit is due. It features the occasional story where a company handles this sort of situation with the grace and humor it deserves.
I almost expect Chateau Marmont to argue that they've already licenced the "Chateau Marmont, but with animals" concept to Pixar.
"They're having trouble creating more child-friendly versions of Hunter S. Thompson and John Belushi. And a less child-friendly version of Roman Polanski."
20 years ago Windows NT4 Workstation was released with no limit on the number of connections. And then with an update Microsoft added a hard limit of 10 connections within a 10-minute period, crippling its web server.
As with this case they were pushing people to pay more for a higher end version of Windows that they otherwise didn't need.
You're obsessed with "police are evil, government is evil" stories, so that's all you see. Those to take an unbiased look at the stories here don't see it.
It's illegal to fortify your home in some states and provinces - even if you've never been accused of anything - because its a thing the bad guys like to do. Pre-crime laws exist.
With the border patrol imaging devices at random, you are subject to a possible investigation with no accusation and before you get to the border.
I'm not saying that charges would hold up in court if you could afford proper legal representation. But if authorities decide that you wiped a device to impede even a possible investigation, they could likely find something to charge you with.
Wiping your devices IS a crime, if they decide to accuse you of anything.
If the RIAA accuses you of file sharing, wiping your drive will lead to a default judgement against you. And it could lead to obstruction of justice or contempt of court charges.
Which may seem reasonable. But you risk the same thing if Prenda Law finds out that you've been using a registry cleaner. It may also apply if you defrag your hard drive.
Refusing to hand over your smartphone password can already get you thrown in jail indefinitely. You can bet that if you wipe your phone to stop the authorities from imaging it, they can find something to charge you with.
Tax the ever-loving SNOT out of companies that offshore-outsource positions while raking in the cash here.
They're way ahead of you.
Disney for example did NOT replace their IT staff with foreign nationals holding H-1B visas. No, they instead replaced them with American outsourcing contractor. Which used foreign nationals holding H-1B visas.
Your "ever-loving SNOT tax" wouldn't apply to Disney, since they merely sub-contracted to an American company. It wouldn't apply to the outsourcing contractor, since those were - for them - new positions with no American workers being replaced.
It even went to court, with claims that Disney and the contractor violated civil racketeering laws. It turned out it wasn't RICO.
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The vast majority of citizens are not criminals. But the vast majority of police reports are negative about the citizens they encounter. Is that a surprise? Unfair? Or just the nature of the job?
The same goes for most media stories about those encounters. "Citizen Acts Reasonably" isn't a headline.
Reporting on police works the same way. Most police are good and reasonable, but "Cop Acts Reasonably" is rarely a headline for the same reasons as above.
That would certainly be a novel response when an ordinary citizen gravely injures someone through criminal negligence.
Just a question about your enforcement policies. Citizens do amazing things, every day, around the country. I don't see any police reports on that, I see only negative pieces. Could you consider a different enforcement policy, please? A lot of police love and support our citizens, and it would be great to see some positive police reports (even 1) along with the negative ones. Some balance to your coverage of the citizens would be very welcome.
Aren't most Netflix and other video streams encrypted? How are they downgrading the video to 480p without doing a man-in-the-middle attack, decrypting and then re-encrypting it? Or at least inserting their own commands telling Netflix to choose a lower resolution?
If they can intercept, decrypt and reformat THAT data, they could probably do it with online bill payments and retail transactions. I sense a new internet tax / revenue stream coming.
Re: Compassing the death of the King [was Re: Re: Re: Against drilling with arms]
You certainly ought to be able to make the distinction — should it suit you.
You really ought to take your own advice.
Nugent (and Georgia senator David Perdue and Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal and Presidential candidate Donald Trump) did more than "imagine" or "predict" the death of the President and Hillary Clinton. He openly called for it.
There's an old quote that should be added to your citations:
If you try to kill the king, you need to kill the king.
(I just looked up an old post about the times Georgia senator David Perdue and Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal did it. They didn't "wish" for his death; they publicly "prayed" for this death. That way they're still good Christians for doing it.)
In the European "right to be forgotten" cases, they're demanding that stories be removed from Google's search engines for countries outside Europe. It doesn't matter where the server is or what region it serves; the user's location is what counts.
Does that not mean that the user's location is what counts for snippet taxes? If a US user views snippets in a US server's search results - and a European newspaper receives a fee for it - are they doing business in the US? Shouldn't they be paying US taxes for that income?
If so, low-wage countries could set up click farms to generate tax income. If not, the newspapers could save themselves using click farms in low wage countries.
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America has extradition agreements with most countries. Even if they didn't bother, America shares its criminal and medical data with other countries' border patrol agencies. The slightest criminal record will get you barred from those countries.
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On the post: Chateau Marmont, Hotel For Celebrity Humans, Sends Trademark C&D To Cateau Marmont, Hotel For Cats
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Is there a moral lesson to this story?
Laws that govern IP protections - and freedom of speech - generally grant exceptions for humor and parody.
Even when someone crosses the line, one can be technically "in the right", and still be wrong in how they handle the situation.
Techdirt gives credit where credit is due. It features the occasional story where a company handles this sort of situation with the grace and humor it deserves.
On the post: Chateau Marmont, Hotel For Celebrity Humans, Sends Trademark C&D To Cateau Marmont, Hotel For Cats
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On the post: Chateau Marmont, Hotel For Celebrity Humans, Sends Trademark C&D To Cateau Marmont, Hotel For Cats
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On the post: Chateau Marmont, Hotel For Celebrity Humans, Sends Trademark C&D To Cateau Marmont, Hotel For Cats
I almost expect Chateau Marmont to argue that they've already licenced the "Chateau Marmont, but with animals" concept to Pixar.
"They're having trouble creating more child-friendly versions of Hunter S. Thompson and John Belushi. And a less child-friendly version of Roman Polanski."
On the post: Sonos Users Forced To Choose Between Privacy And Working Hardware
Re: Timely mention of Microsoft
20 years ago Windows NT4 Workstation was released with no limit on the number of connections. And then with an update Microsoft added a hard limit of 10 connections within a 10-minute period, crippling its web server.
As with this case they were pushing people to pay more for a higher end version of Windows that they otherwise didn't need.
On the post: Deputy Who Rear-Ended Driver At 104 MPH Had Horrendous Service Record, Received Almost Zero Discipline
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On the post: Border Device Searches Continue To Increase, Threatening More Than Just The 4th Amendment
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With the border patrol imaging devices at random, you are subject to a possible investigation with no accusation and before you get to the border.
I'm not saying that charges would hold up in court if you could afford proper legal representation. But if authorities decide that you wiped a device to impede even a possible investigation, they could likely find something to charge you with.
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Wiping your devices IS a crime, if they decide to accuse you of anything.
If the RIAA accuses you of file sharing, wiping your drive will lead to a default judgement against you. And it could lead to obstruction of justice or contempt of court charges.
Which may seem reasonable. But you risk the same thing if Prenda Law finds out that you've been using a registry cleaner. It may also apply if you defrag your hard drive.
And don't forget, in several ways, According To The Government, Clearing Your Browser History Is A Felony.
Refusing to hand over your smartphone password can already get you thrown in jail indefinitely. You can bet that if you wipe your phone to stop the authorities from imaging it, they can find something to charge you with.
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They're way ahead of you.
Disney for example did NOT replace their IT staff with foreign nationals holding H-1B visas. No, they instead replaced them with American outsourcing contractor. Which used foreign nationals holding H-1B visas.
Your "ever-loving SNOT tax" wouldn't apply to Disney, since they merely sub-contracted to an American company. It wouldn't apply to the outsourcing contractor, since those were - for them - new positions with no American workers being replaced.
It even went to court, with claims that Disney and the contractor violated civil racketeering laws. It turned out it wasn't RICO.
On the post: Deputy Who Rear-Ended Driver At 104 MPH Had Horrendous Service Record, Received Almost Zero Discipline
Re: Re: Re: Do you publish any pro-police articles
The same goes for most media stories about those encounters. "Citizen Acts Reasonably" isn't a headline.
Reporting on police works the same way. Most police are good and reasonable, but "Cop Acts Reasonably" is rarely a headline for the same reasons as above.
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Re: Do you publish any pro-police articles
That would certainly be a novel response when an ordinary citizen gravely injures someone through criminal negligence.
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Wait....
If they can intercept, decrypt and reformat THAT data, they could probably do it with online bill payments and retail transactions. I sense a new internet tax / revenue stream coming.
On the post: YouTube Briefly Nukes Video Of Nazi Symbol Destruction For Violating Hate Speech Rules
Re: Compassing the death of the King [was Re: Re: Re: Against drilling with arms]
You really ought to take your own advice.
Nugent (and Georgia senator David Perdue and Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal and Presidential candidate Donald Trump) did more than "imagine" or "predict" the death of the President and Hillary Clinton. He openly called for it.
There's an old quote that should be added to your citations:
On the post: YouTube Briefly Nukes Video Of Nazi Symbol Destruction For Violating Hate Speech Rules
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Yes.
(I just looked up an old post about the times Georgia senator David Perdue and Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal did it. They didn't "wish" for his death; they publicly "prayed" for this death. That way they're still good Christians for doing it.)
On the post: A Google Tax Isn't Going To Give Publishers The Payout They Think It Will
In the European "right to be forgotten" cases, they're demanding that stories be removed from Google's search engines for countries outside Europe. It doesn't matter where the server is or what region it serves; the user's location is what counts.
Does that not mean that the user's location is what counts for snippet taxes? If a US user views snippets in a US server's search results - and a European newspaper receives a fee for it - are they doing business in the US? Shouldn't they be paying US taxes for that income?
If so, low-wage countries could set up click farms to generate tax income. If not, the newspapers could save themselves using click farms in low wage countries.
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Admittedly, I may have gone too far with "talentless." That's mere opinion, and I apologize for it.
The other bits, well, his actions speak for themselves.
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