Every government on the face of the earth attempts to influence American elections. That's the whole point of using the US dollar as a global reserve currency you idiots.
Move on already. Sick and tired of every single outlet of any type anywhere spewing DNC party line bile.
You guys are even soft peddling the reversal of Net Neutrality. "Oh, don't be too hard on Ajit Pai.... We don't want to seem EXTREME..."
I knew Republicans would come at Net Neutrality. I have no idea WHY, but I knew they would. God knows it took long enough to coerce Obama into it.
As far as I am concerned, Pai deserves all the bad names that can be flung at him. What is unhinged is this idea that anything good comes from turning the internet into a gigantic cable tv network.
They might as well just have banned peer to peer technology if this was the big plan.
"I see ideas such as guaranteed basic income as a good realistic long-term replacement to the concept of a minimum wage..."
We don't even have a rational minimum wage. We do not need minimum wages or basic income. We need guaranteed access to land and information. What socialism says about that that makes sense is we currently have a monopoly on the means of production. Everything after that is nonsense. We need to break the monopolies on strategically important things like land and informaiton.
Which, again.... TechDirt USED to be useful for discussing that kind of thing. Just... not anymore. Because OMFG TRUMPTRUMPTRUUUUUUUMP!
"Universal health care"
Good luck forcing a tiny handful of professionals with the power of life and death, pain and pleasure in the plams of their hands while you forbid competition with socialistic reforms.
"Tax the living hell out of big corporations."
Limited liability should not even exist. How do you let the people at the head of an organization be protected by law when they give orders that hurt employees or customers? LLC's are a farce. Rational, reasonable judges are what we need, not blanket protection for leaders.
I will be more than happy to denounce capitalism, which is really nothing more fancy than the rule of the rich. Socialism is about expanding the rule of the rich, moving it into the government, and pretending elections that we can all see now are already rigged would somehow magically result in people controlling their own destiny.
You can't be free unless you are FREE. Slavery is not freedom.
It's nothing to do with alt-anything. A big part of racism against blacks and other so called indigenous people stems from the backwards nature of their cultures when Europeans first discovered them, and it is not sensible to act like we do not understand this.
Black people are disliked because black people do things people dislike, and the moment they stop doing that sort of thing, people get past it.
There's no group of people more bizarre looking on the face of the earth compared to everyone else than the far east Asians, and they suffer nothing like this kind of prejudice.
We have been driven to a point by the mainstream socialist movements that we are not allowed to point out that there are a lot of BAD THINGS about the non European cultures, still, to this day, that have nothing to do with Europeans. They were like this before we got there.
It's not an excuse for taking advantage of them as we have done and SOMETIMES continue to do, but we cannot allow politicians with agendas mostly bound up in making themselves rich convince us to abandon common decency and common sense.
And the NFL and NBC are among the leading causes of our abandonment of common decency and common sense.
I hate to argue with you because fundamentally I agree. But blacks are bearing the brunt of the DNC's reckless and self destructive attempt to promote change through panic and violence.
Poor people of no other race are anywhere near as self destructive. Other races that LOOK very different still do better, so it is obviously not about appearance.
It is about the DNC giving its wholehearted blessing through every media outlet to black self destruction for the sake of their political agenda.
And I will add that socialism just in general is stupid, which does not help matters. We need bank reform toward 100% reserve commodity money again, LLC reform to force labor representation in the boardroom, and something TechDirt USED TO TALK A LOT ABOUT - IP reform to free up competition among the common folk.
It's not about printing whatever you want. It's about a sustained effort to promote lies. And Trump is right. SOMETHING needs to be done about it.
The NFL promotes cop killers. NBC promotes cop killers. Mike Brown attempted to kill officer Wilson, and liberal media dishonestly promoted hands up don't shoot for weeks, maybe months.
It never happened. Most of these so called bad shootings by police never happened.
Blacks kill twice as many whites a year as the reverse despite making up a paltry 13% of the population.
The legacy media and the NFL lie to promote murder, partly to hold on to their media monopolies. And TechDirt pretends to be against legacy media.
I guess you were against them before you were for them.
You people are utter trash. No evidence? First off, NO ONE HAS SAID MOST UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS ARE CRIMINALS. We have shown again and again that they undermine domestic labor.
BUILD THE WALL! FIGHT Foreign Exchange Market ABUSE! END THE FED!
Seriously, why is TECH dirt obsessing over PROMOTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. You are nothing but a bunch of partisan hacks!
You people trust Feds implicitly and everyone else is supposedly a crook... EXCEPT FOR PEOPLE BREAKING THE LAW. THOSE people are just fine.
The Federal Government has NO BUSINESS handing out guidelines for local government to obey. You won't even let them DEFEND OUR BORDERS.
Tell you what I'm for. Do away with all police and reverse all weapons restrictions at all. Let's get back to brass tacks, and we'll see how smart you are when you actually need to learn to get along with your neighbors instead of calling on Big Daddy Fed to ram your views down everyone else's throats.
Zillow is annoying brokers, so they are going after them. That's my take.
How is it that real estate brokers the nation over OWN the private information of how much these houses sold for previously? You will note when it comes to commercial real estate, they are not allowed to share this information. But where residential real estate is concerned, they openly ADVERTISE that they know everyone's private information about home values.
It's all just part of the gigantic machine meant to force us to do business through established fleecing industries.
Seriously, what the HELL does a real estate agent or broker do that is worth the kind of money they make?
And yes, I have worked in real estate... Among so many other aspects of American commercial life. It's all smoke and mirrors and excuses to rip off the general public. "To live with the classes, sell to the masses"
Like any other piece of art, you get paid up front, or by the hour, by someone who wants the product created.
Once it is created and released, people use it as they see fit.
The metric tons of stuff I have seen created for games like Total War or Mount and Blade: Warbands convinces me that a lot of game related "work" is best done by hobbyists. The only reason there is not an adequate fully open sourced engine is we have LET them keep all the engine code we have already paid for.
People need to stop buying into this ridiculous assertion that making money is the ONLY motive anyone has. Gamers want to game. They'll pay people to make useful additions to an engine or to make mods once the copyright abuse is out of their way. But their MOTIVE is to GAME.
I despise Steam and really do not care any longer what happens to the video game "industry" such as it is.
It has come to the point where an UNFINISHED GAME is selling for $35 on the pretext that they have limited keys.
Limited KEYS. And when their player base sinks low enough they sell another batch of keys, at inflated prices that can only be sustained because those of us stupid enough to have bought in at the beginning ARE NOT ALLOWED TO RESELL THEM.
"Oh, you should have read the EULA." I did. I also read the list of promises they made to early adopters, like that they were going to design the game for high risk/ low reward PvP so it wouldn't be overrun by trolls, and that they were not going to sell so many keys that it crashed the game.
But, they didn't.
All of these games are just building on technology gamers have already paid for over and over and over. And if that were not bad enough, they lie and do stuff like Bossa?
Since we paid for the development of the game ENGINES, why don't we get access to THOSE?
Like I have said in previous threads to do with copyright, I think it is time to admit it is a social evil. These folks are systematically ripping us off.
Everyone who can should get whatever they can from this system without repaying for the stuff we have already paid for time and again. At the very LEAST we need right of resell returned, and that means DEATH to Steam and all similar DRM.
The technology is already there to simply let us filter who we want. Why can't I selectively block whoever I want, selectively remove people's posts from MY threads, and so forth?
What's really odd to me is, why has no one DONE this already?
P.S. I know several people who still manage to keep their FB pages that have been banned from Twitter. And I have seen full blown porn on Twitter, so what exactly offends these people?
Cable was a convenient way to get what you thought you wanted and needed. As so much of mainstream media becomes odious to the general population, they become more and more comfortable with just saying no to a lot of TV that previously formed a comforting part of their daily lives.
Recently I have utterly changed my opinion about piracy, and while I myself still prefer to fight this fight against big media by refusing to use their products, I believe copyright is evil, and people willing to break it are doing society a service.
It may be a bit of a stretch to compare them to patriots in times past that risked their lives for their country, but violating copyright DOES have some serious repercussions, and yet they do the right thing and refuse to pay into the corporate media monopolies, thus helping to undermine their propaganda by making it harder to use entertainment money to help pay for their domination of the infrastructure.
Always hilarious to hear liberals whining about police having guns too.
I wait patiently for liberals to discover the Feds abuse their guns as well.
This is why we ALL need the right to keep and bear all weapons. Of course our police have the right. They are closer to the people than the Feds after all.
Simply put, it is evil to threaten someone with violence for making a copy of something. Making copies bears no resemblance to theft. The government has no role to play in artificially jacking up the cost of singing, dancing, playing pretend, and playing children's games "professionally" well into adulthood.
Serious art will always have patrons and sponsors. Copyright is about giving a tiny minority a corner on the marketplace of information distribution.
They watch less tv of their own, so the story goes, because they're freaking broke compared to previous generations. "Delayed purchasing patterns."
I'd have more sympathy for them if they weren't also a bunch of whiny, Communist clones who think the way forward is to take money from working class Americans and put it on their over-educated socialist's tables and MOCK anyone who has a real job.
Lame
Move on already. Sick and tired of every single outlet of any type anywhere spewing DNC party line bile.
You guys are even soft peddling the reversal of Net Neutrality. "Oh, don't be too hard on Ajit Pai.... We don't want to seem EXTREME..."
Pathetic.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy
As far as I am concerned, Pai deserves all the bad names that can be flung at him. What is unhinged is this idea that anything good comes from turning the internet into a gigantic cable tv network.
They might as well just have banned peer to peer technology if this was the big plan.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Liberal Lying Liars Lie
God... "Tech" dirt can't have basic forum/blog editing tools. Great.
(untitled comment)
We don't even have a rational minimum wage. We do not need minimum wages or basic income. We need guaranteed access to land and information. What socialism says about that that makes sense is we currently have a monopoly on the means of production. Everything after that is nonsense. We need to break the monopolies on strategically important things like land and informaiton.
Which, again.... TechDirt USED to be useful for discussing that kind of thing. Just... not anymore. Because OMFG TRUMPTRUMPTRUUUUUUUMP!
"Universal health care"
Good luck forcing a tiny handful of professionals with the power of life and death, pain and pleasure in the plams of their hands while you forbid competition with socialistic reforms.
"Tax the living hell out of big corporations."
Limited liability should not even exist. How do you let the people at the head of an organization be protected by law when they give orders that hurt employees or customers? LLC's are a farce. Rational, reasonable judges are what we need, not blanket protection for leaders.
I will be more than happy to denounce capitalism, which is really nothing more fancy than the rule of the rich. Socialism is about expanding the rule of the rich, moving it into the government, and pretending elections that we can all see now are already rigged would somehow magically result in people controlling their own destiny.
You can't be free unless you are FREE. Slavery is not freedom.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Liberal Lying Liars Lie
Black people are disliked because black people do things people dislike, and the moment they stop doing that sort of thing, people get past it.
There's no group of people more bizarre looking on the face of the earth compared to everyone else than the far east Asians, and they suffer nothing like this kind of prejudice.
We have been driven to a point by the mainstream socialist movements that we are not allowed to point out that there are a lot of BAD THINGS about the non European cultures, still, to this day, that have nothing to do with Europeans. They were like this before we got there.
It's not an excuse for taking advantage of them as we have done and SOMETIMES continue to do, but we cannot allow politicians with agendas mostly bound up in making themselves rich convince us to abandon common decency and common sense.
And the NFL and NBC are among the leading causes of our abandonment of common decency and common sense.
Re: Re: Liberal Lying Liars Lie
Poor people of no other race are anywhere near as self destructive. Other races that LOOK very different still do better, so it is obviously not about appearance.
It is about the DNC giving its wholehearted blessing through every media outlet to black self destruction for the sake of their political agenda.
And I will add that socialism just in general is stupid, which does not help matters. We need bank reform toward 100% reserve commodity money again, LLC reform to force labor representation in the boardroom, and something TechDirt USED TO TALK A LOT ABOUT - IP reform to free up competition among the common folk.
Liberal Lying Liars Lie
The NFL promotes cop killers. NBC promotes cop killers. Mike Brown attempted to kill officer Wilson, and liberal media dishonestly promoted hands up don't shoot for weeks, maybe months.
It never happened. Most of these so called bad shootings by police never happened.
Blacks kill twice as many whites a year as the reverse despite making up a paltry 13% of the population.
The legacy media and the NFL lie to promote murder, partly to hold on to their media monopolies. And TechDirt pretends to be against legacy media.
I guess you were against them before you were for them.
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/offenses-known-to -law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_murder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_r ace_and_sex_of_offender_2013.xls
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in -the-u.s.-2012/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_mu rder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2012.xls
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/uc r/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6
https://www.fbi. gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10shrtbl06.xls
https://www2 .fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/offenses/expanded_information/data/shrtable_06.html
https://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/ci us2008/offenses/expanded_information/data/shrtable_06.html
https://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/offenses /expanded_information/data/shrtable_05.html
https://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/offenses/expanded_infor mation/data/shrtable_05.html
https://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/offenses/expanded_information/data/shrta ble_05.html
(untitled comment)
You people are utter trash. No evidence? First off, NO ONE HAS SAID MOST UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS ARE CRIMINALS. We have shown again and again that they undermine domestic labor.
BUILD THE WALL! FIGHT Foreign Exchange Market ABUSE! END THE FED!
Seriously, why is TECH dirt obsessing over PROMOTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. You are nothing but a bunch of partisan hacks!
Re: A Government of the Criminal for the Criminal by the Criminal
Build the wall. End the Fed.
Feds
You people trust Feds implicitly and everyone else is supposedly a crook... EXCEPT FOR PEOPLE BREAKING THE LAW.
THOSE people are just fine.
The Federal Government has NO BUSINESS handing out guidelines for local government to obey. You won't even let them DEFEND OUR BORDERS.
Tell you what I'm for. Do away with all police and reverse all weapons restrictions at all. Let's get back to brass tacks, and we'll see how smart you are when you actually need to learn to get along with your neighbors instead of calling on Big Daddy Fed to ram your views down everyone else's throats.
Residential Real Estate Racket
How is it that real estate brokers the nation over OWN the private information of how much these houses sold for previously? You will note when it comes to commercial real estate, they are not allowed to share this information. But where residential real estate is concerned, they openly ADVERTISE that they know everyone's private information about home values.
It's all just part of the gigantic machine meant to force us to do business through established fleecing industries.
Seriously, what the HELL does a real estate agent or broker do that is worth the kind of money they make?
And yes, I have worked in real estate... Among so many other aspects of American commercial life. It's all smoke and mirrors and excuses to rip off the general public. "To live with the classes, sell to the masses"
Patents and Monopolies
We need to separate research from manufacturing somehow.
Ways devs/publishers to make money if DRM is to be eradicated?
Once it is created and released, people use it as they see fit.
The metric tons of stuff I have seen created for games like Total War or Mount and Blade: Warbands convinces me that a lot of game related "work" is best done by hobbyists. The only reason there is not an adequate fully open sourced engine is we have LET them keep all the engine code we have already paid for.
People need to stop buying into this ridiculous assertion that making money is the ONLY motive anyone has. Gamers want to game. They'll pay people to make useful additions to an engine or to make mods once the copyright abuse is out of their way. But their MOTIVE is to GAME.
THAT is why they will pay.
Worlds Adrift Closed Beta "keys"
It has come to the point where an UNFINISHED GAME is selling for $35 on the pretext that they have limited keys.
Limited KEYS. And when their player base sinks low enough they sell another batch of keys, at inflated prices that can only be sustained because those of us stupid enough to have bought in at the beginning ARE NOT ALLOWED TO RESELL THEM.
"Oh, you should have read the EULA." I did. I also read the list of promises they made to early adopters, like that they were going to design the game for high risk/ low reward PvP so it wouldn't be overrun by trolls, and that they were not going to sell so many keys that it crashed the game.
But, they didn't.
All of these games are just building on technology gamers have already paid for over and over and over. And if that were not bad enough, they lie and do stuff like Bossa?
Since we paid for the development of the game ENGINES, why don't we get access to THOSE?
Like I have said in previous threads to do with copyright, I think it is time to admit it is a social evil. These folks are systematically ripping us off.
Everyone who can should get whatever they can from this system without repaying for the stuff we have already paid for time and again. At the very LEAST we need right of resell returned, and that means DEATH to Steam and all similar DRM.
Self Regulation (Twitter Sucks Worse)
What's really odd to me is, why has no one DONE this already?
P.S. I know several people who still manage to keep their FB pages that have been banned from Twitter. And I have seen full blown porn on Twitter, so what exactly offends these people?
Trump Effect Probably Encouraging Cord Cutting (as shane)
Recently I have utterly changed my opinion about piracy, and while I myself still prefer to fight this fight against big media by refusing to use their products, I believe copyright is evil, and people willing to break it are doing society a service.
It may be a bit of a stretch to compare them to patriots in times past that risked their lives for their country, but violating copyright DOES have some serious repercussions, and yet they do the right thing and refuse to pay into the corporate media monopolies, thus helping to undermine their propaganda by making it harder to use entertainment money to help pay for their domination of the infrastructure.
Right to Keep and Bear Arms (as shane)
I wait patiently for liberals to discover the Feds abuse their guns as well.
This is why we ALL need the right to keep and bear all weapons. Of course our police have the right. They are closer to the people than the Feds after all.
Copyright is Evil (as shane)
Serious art will always have patrons and sponsors. Copyright is about giving a tiny minority a corner on the marketplace of information distribution.
It is evil and must be abolished.
Re: Millennials Have Better Things To Do (as shane)
Yeah.... millenials don't watch media.
Pull the other one.
They watch less tv of their own, so the story goes, because they're freaking broke compared to previous generations. "Delayed purchasing patterns."
I'd have more sympathy for them if they weren't also a bunch of whiny, Communist clones who think the way forward is to take money from working class Americans and put it on their over-educated socialist's tables and MOCK anyone who has a real job.
http://www.newsweek.com/30-20-millennials-grown-2017-adults-573148
Re: JUST cut the cord, did NOT get a "cable replacement" (as shane)
Cord cutting happens when you are not a media addict and want to stick your thumb in the eye of both the media and the distributors.
I am getting "gouged" by Google, but then I was getting gigabit service.
Come to think of it, I am getting Google for free right now, since for whatever reason they credited me for a deposit on my hardware.
Google will give you free, lower speed internet if you have their hardware...
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