If they just keep on producing crap, I promise to continue boycotting said crap. "Music" that sounds like it was produced with a drum machine on steroids with vocals that sound like strangled chimpanzees doesn't make me want to hear it again. Movies that are do-overs for the Nth time or superhero flicks that are little better than cartoons don't make me want to watch them, and certainly not pay for the privilege.
It'd be nice if they stopped bribing politicians to write one sided laws in favor of a legacy industry every sane person hates for abusing their favorite artists too, and stop making the rest of the world hate us for exporting those insane laws.
It would be nice also if they stopped falling for the spiel put out by paid astroturfers (such as yourself and Rightshaven) in the mistaken belief that they can fix this imagined imaginary property problem.
By the way, why do you never mention all the actually FREE (to listeners) streams ...
No, these HRCs have earned their hated reputation across Canada. I thought we'd finally beaten them into the dust bin of history about a decade ago. It makes me angry every time I hear they're still around.
They remind me of the Nazis' "People's Courts" tribunals where the judges were the demagogic prosecutors screaming insults at defendants. The worst of them had to be warned to keep it down because he was overloading the sound system. Goebels was taping them for the newsreels.
I thought we'd shamed our politicians into avoiding this foolishness.
So, can we expect you, the EFF, and ACLU teaming up to sue (for a dollar in damages, perhaps)? It's hard to imagine how this travesty has gone on for this long, yet shows no sign of slowing down. It's a ridiculous situation.
Science has become the new religion for a lot of people. There is an extremely dogmatic approach to a lot of things in the scientific community that is not of a scientific origin.
There are foolish, credulous, ignorant, and outright biased people in all walks of life including science, agreed. Why should this be a surprise to anyone? Remember Eugenics and phrenology (Gall's craneology)? The same people who designed the bomb in the Manhattan Project wanted it to be used against the Nazis and were horrified to hear it would be continued to attack Japan after the Nazis were defeated. That seems pretty odd whatever you think of the bomb.
Bad science, like bad speech, can be corrected with good science or good speech respectively. We don't have to respect bad science just because it calls itself science.
The reason you see so many examples of violent video games together with violent kids is because the games attract violent kids.
Even that's overstating it. They attract lots of people, not just violent ones. Everyone enjoys pretend violence. Everyone enjoys seeing bad guys get their comeuppance. We all enjoy morality plays. "Good guys always win. Bad guys always lose."
I think this is all trumped up BS from weasel politicians trying to exploit a made up issue. The Columbine kids played violent video games. Blame the video games! I suspect damned near every kid in that school played video games, but only those two malcontents shot up the school.
I love WWII and Vietnam War histories, Gladiator, and Chronicles of Riddick, yet I'm about the last person you'll catch anywhere near an angry confrontation.
There is no correlation between the two. It's made up by exploiters relying on the ignorance and credulity of their audience.
Under what justification is it legal for the police to remove *installed* security cameras in a business?
I believe it was an illegal/unlicenced hemp products distributor. They were there to bust them for that. If they weren't dirtbags, they might have considered those cameras could add to their evidence against the shop. Instead, they saw them as superfluous and in their way of having a good time.
In short, taxation. Now I'm confused, which meaning is worse?
Ostensibly, taxation buys you services the gov't provides (police protection, legal protection, military defence, ...). The other kind of DRM protects (again ostensibly) the rights of others wrt stuff you legally own, which makes no sense to me. If I own it legally (the seller has been compensated and willingly relinquished ownership to me), why does someone else get to tell me how I can use it? Apparently, I don't own it. "May I have my money back please?" No, you already broke the shrink wrap.
Now all you can do is boycott. "Fool me once, ..."
In your vast experience, have you found any evidence in support of the theory of gravity?
What would you consider valid evidence? Apparently not apples falling to the ground or moons orbiting planets I suppose? How do you explain such phenomena in the absence of gravity?
Also, funny thing about telling someone to 'go read the bible', if they happen to be atheist, odds are good they know it as well, if not better than you do.
Not many people are lucky enough to have been born of atheist parents. Most of us have to fight our way out. Some are so scarred by the religious experience, they never finish that fight.
What gets me about this is that the rules only prohibit firearms and replica firearms -- not toys that look nothing like firearms.
Yup. It looks like something you'd see a cartoon character brandishing, and some cartoon characters brandished guns that looked far more realistic (until it stuck out a flag that said "Bang!" on it).
I'd fire them for getting this so ridiculously wrong, a six year old kid would fire them for getting it so wrong, but to these true believer security theatre types, their response is perfectly reasonable, because "national security." Theirs is the same mentality that gets you thrown in jail for even mentioning the word "bomb" in an airport, and irradiates or sexually molests babies and octogenarians.
Our job is to smile, shut up, accept it, and hope we don't get dumped onto the no-fly list at the whim of some minor functionary. Seig heil.
They figure the planet without life must be the source of life on the planet with life.
Haven't you heard? Mars is the real Atlantis! There was a catastrophe there and the atmosphere started bleeding away, so they migrated here. We're all decended from Martians! That's why the geological record can't prove origins. We'll find it on Mars! Wait'll you hear about the asteroid belt! It's the result of a war between von Neuman machines and destroyed a planet between Mars & Jupiter.
Yuk, yuk. Yeah, I just made that up. Well, me and David Brin's "Existence". It's just as plausible as the BS in the Bible or Koran, maybe moreso.
I suspect everyone agrees with you on this, including the feds involved. You was robbed, and they got away with it. That's the law, and it's not "justice."
Oh, right, it's always that those trying to take content down are evil.
Wow. Josef Goebels would have tears of joy reading that. You've learned his lessons so well. Bravo.
Google, among others, bend over backwards for your MafiAA employers taking down anything at the drop of a hat on little more than accusation of infringement (you know, perjury?), which then people have to fight to get *their non-infringing stuff* back up and clear their reputation to continue to put *their non-infringing stuff* up! Yeah, you're a great supporter of artists and creators, suuuure! You, as well as everyone else, should be insulted that Malamud is forced to negotiate this minefield.
You're just pissed that the MafiAA is starting to clue in that they're wasting vast gobs of cash paying you guys to fix their imagined imaginary property infringement problem, and you might have to resort to Americans With Disabilities Act shakedowns to pay for your hookers and blow.
I'm an atheist, but I think this would be a wonderful project for all Christian denominations to get behind and support. With all that gold locked up in the Vatican's vaults, Under Armour wouldn't stand a chance, and that's just Catholics!
Besides, they've got God on their side, right? It's a sure thing!
... its like the religious are out of their minds.
They're looking up (to "heaven") with their eyes closed, mumbling under their breath as they imagine a "spirit" which created the universe and will hear their words, and (maybe) do something for them.
If that's not out "of their minds", I don't know what is.
And there's always a chance a system designed to cut cops as much slack as possible will still somehow come through for them.
If not, I hope they sue the PBA for every penny it has. It's certainly come up with some incredibly nonsensical lawyering in its attempt to derail this. The cops have been robbed of union dues if this is all they can expect of "their" PBA.
Mikey just hates it when copyright law is enforced.
I take it you missed this?
The court evaluated the statutory language of the CPRA and held in part that in the absence of “an affirmative grant of authority to obtain and hold copyrights” a California public entity may not do so.
This was not a copyright case. It was an attempt at barratry. Why don't you go play in traffic, or die screaming in a fire?
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Zzzz ...
If they just keep on producing crap, I promise to continue boycotting said crap. "Music" that sounds like it was produced with a drum machine on steroids with vocals that sound like strangled chimpanzees doesn't make me want to hear it again. Movies that are do-overs for the Nth time or superhero flicks that are little better than cartoons don't make me want to watch them, and certainly not pay for the privilege.
It'd be nice if they stopped bribing politicians to write one sided laws in favor of a legacy industry every sane person hates for abusing their favorite artists too, and stop making the rest of the world hate us for exporting those insane laws.
It would be nice also if they stopped falling for the spiel put out by paid astroturfers (such as yourself and Rightshaven) in the mistaken belief that they can fix this imagined imaginary property problem.
Which ones are you writing of?
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No, these HRCs have earned their hated reputation across Canada. I thought we'd finally beaten them into the dust bin of history about a decade ago. It makes me angry every time I hear they're still around.
They remind me of the Nazis' "People's Courts" tribunals where the judges were the demagogic prosecutors screaming insults at defendants. The worst of them had to be warned to keep it down because he was overloading the sound system. Goebels was taping them for the newsreels.
I thought we'd shamed our politicians into avoiding this foolishness.
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Re: Takedown Forms
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Re: Well Said!!!
There are foolish, credulous, ignorant, and outright biased people in all walks of life including science, agreed. Why should this be a surprise to anyone? Remember Eugenics and phrenology (Gall's craneology)? The same people who designed the bomb in the Manhattan Project wanted it to be used against the Nazis and were horrified to hear it would be continued to attack Japan after the Nazis were defeated. That seems pretty odd whatever you think of the bomb.
Bad science, like bad speech, can be corrected with good science or good speech respectively. We don't have to respect bad science just because it calls itself science.
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Even that's overstating it. They attract lots of people, not just violent ones. Everyone enjoys pretend violence. Everyone enjoys seeing bad guys get their comeuppance. We all enjoy morality plays. "Good guys always win. Bad guys always lose."
I think this is all trumped up BS from weasel politicians trying to exploit a made up issue. The Columbine kids played violent video games. Blame the video games! I suspect damned near every kid in that school played video games, but only those two malcontents shot up the school.
I love WWII and Vietnam War histories, Gladiator, and Chronicles of Riddick, yet I'm about the last person you'll catch anywhere near an angry confrontation.
There is no correlation between the two. It's made up by exploiters relying on the ignorance and credulity of their audience.
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Re: I'm confused
I believe it was an illegal/unlicenced hemp products distributor. They were there to bust them for that. If they weren't dirtbags, they might have considered those cameras could add to their evidence against the shop. Instead, they saw them as superfluous and in their way of having a good time.
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Re: DRM
Ostensibly, taxation buys you services the gov't provides (police protection, legal protection, military defence, ...). The other kind of DRM protects (again ostensibly) the rights of others wrt stuff you legally own, which makes no sense to me. If I own it legally (the seller has been compensated and willingly relinquished ownership to me), why does someone else get to tell me how I can use it? Apparently, I don't own it. "May I have my money back please?" No, you already broke the shrink wrap.
Now all you can do is boycott. "Fool me once, ..."
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Wrong on all counts
What would you consider valid evidence? Apparently not apples falling to the ground or moons orbiting planets I suppose? How do you explain such phenomena in the absence of gravity?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Wrong on all counts
Not many people are lucky enough to have been born of atheist parents. Most of us have to fight our way out. Some are so scarred by the religious experience, they never finish that fight.
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Re: Re: Toy Guns and Security
Yup. It looks like something you'd see a cartoon character brandishing, and some cartoon characters brandished guns that looked far more realistic (until it stuck out a flag that said "Bang!" on it).
I'd fire them for getting this so ridiculously wrong, a six year old kid would fire them for getting it so wrong, but to these true believer security theatre types, their response is perfectly reasonable, because "national security." Theirs is the same mentality that gets you thrown in jail for even mentioning the word "bomb" in an airport, and irradiates or sexually molests babies and octogenarians.
Our job is to smile, shut up, accept it, and hope we don't get dumped onto the no-fly list at the whim of some minor functionary. Seig heil.
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Re: Re: Re: Wrong on all counts
Haven't you heard? Mars is the real Atlantis! There was a catastrophe there and the atmosphere started bleeding away, so they migrated here. We're all decended from Martians! That's why the geological record can't prove origins. We'll find it on Mars! Wait'll you hear about the asteroid belt! It's the result of a war between von Neuman machines and destroyed a planet between Mars & Jupiter.
Yuk, yuk. Yeah, I just made that up. Well, me and David Brin's "Existence". It's just as plausible as the BS in the Bible or Koran, maybe moreso.
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Re: Get the facts straight
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Too self-entitled to think!
Wow. Josef Goebels would have tears of joy reading that. You've learned his lessons so well. Bravo.
Google, among others, bend over backwards for your MafiAA employers taking down anything at the drop of a hat on little more than accusation of infringement (you know, perjury?), which then people have to fight to get *their non-infringing stuff* back up and clear their reputation to continue to put *their non-infringing stuff* up! Yeah, you're a great supporter of artists and creators, suuuure! You, as well as everyone else, should be insulted that Malamud is forced to negotiate this minefield.
You're just pissed that the MafiAA is starting to clue in that they're wasting vast gobs of cash paying you guys to fix their imagined imaginary property infringement problem, and you might have to resort to Americans With Disabilities Act shakedowns to pay for your hookers and blow.
Waa, wa, wa, waaaaaah.
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If only that happened more often.
Oh, and WGBH, fire those !@#$ing lawyers!
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Go Armor & Glory! :-)
Besides, they've got God on their side, right? It's a sure thing!
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Pics, or it didn't happen. Face it. This is delusion. You're deluded when you believe stuff like this is reality.
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Re: Wrong on all counts
They're looking up (to "heaven") with their eyes closed, mumbling under their breath as they imagine a "spirit" which created the universe and will hear their words, and (maybe) do something for them.
If that's not out "of their minds", I don't know what is.
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Sue the PBA?
If not, I hope they sue the PBA for every penny it has. It's certainly come up with some incredibly nonsensical lawyering in its attempt to derail this. The cops have been robbed of union dues if this is all they can expect of "their" PBA.
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I take it you missed this?
This was not a copyright case. It was an attempt at barratry. Why don't you go play in traffic, or die screaming in a fire?
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