Of course it should become expensive to read to kids! If the kids get interested in books, they might start reading themselves. If they read for themselves, they might pick up some of that pesky learnin'. If they learn, heaven forbid, they might actually figure out that SABAM is unecessary. We can't be having that, now can we? $328.00 please.
After reading this, I imagine SOPA as an elephant gun, and see businesses evolving because people go out and shoot down all the ones that aren't cute or fast enough.
Oh they can be real replies. I have a friend in a band, and the other night he started asking me how I could possibly defend piracy because didn't I want my favorite artists to keep making money?
Besides putting words in my mouth (claiming that stating that piracy is inevitable and people should stop suing over it means that I encourage piracy) when I asked him if an illegal download is stealing, his answer was an unequivocal yes. When I asked him why copyright should be so long, and did he really think that only his children's children should be able to use his work without permission, he again stated yes, and that no one else should be able to use it. When I said that copyright shouldn't be a welfare system, he asked why not and said he was perfectly fine with it being that way, and that maybe the public domain was given too much credit and perhaps we've gotten to a point where there shouldn't be a public domain anymore because why should anyone else get to profit off his labor?
No, he wasn't trolling. Yes, he really believes that. No, I don't know how to argue with someone who has a viewpoint that strong in that direction.
Wasn't that the point of the whole article? Not that Warner couldn't do the movie, but that the question of exclusivity is where the issue lies? Or did I read a different article and then end up posting here?
Lobby groups feel the same to me as home owner associations... there's gotta be a few good ones out there, that help people out, but I'll be danged if the ones that make the news don't just leave a bad taste in my mouth.
Enshrining moral imperatives in law reminds me of how some rules were enforced back when I was in school. If you got caught, you were forced to spend X number of hours volunteering at a local charity. I didn't have any issues with charity work as a punishment, but using the word 'volunteer' always sat poorly with me. If I was forced to do it, it was no longer volunteering.
Same with morals being made a law. If you only do something because the law says you must / must not, it's no longer really a moral decision.
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It's kinda funny, but I've found more awesome music that I listen to regularly via this site in the past two years than I have via the radio.
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Is anyone here at all surprised that SOPA being defeated wasn't the end of it all? Anyone...?
..... anyone?
Yeah. Didn't think so. Remain vigilant, folks.
It all makes sense!
Of course it should become expensive to read to kids! If the kids get interested in books, they might start reading themselves. If they read for themselves, they might pick up some of that pesky learnin'. If they learn, heaven forbid, they might actually figure out that SABAM is unecessary. We can't be having that, now can we? $328.00 please.
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Being Canadian, I haven't been following Ron Paul closely, but yes, if this is just one mistake, it is forgivable.
Of course, it doesn't hurt to point out the mistake as well so that it's noticed and hopefully not repeated.
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Of course it's exactly the same as making a copy, for reasons that will seem perfectly clear if you bash your head into a brick wall several times.
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Wasn't it Carl Sagan who said "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe"?
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Wow, that's some prolific writing. Congratulations!
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Or maybe it is responding to the right one... I wish there was a delete button. I feel silly now.
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Crap, this was supposed to reply to the post 2 down.
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After reading this, I imagine SOPA as an elephant gun, and see businesses evolving because people go out and shoot down all the ones that aren't cute or fast enough.
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Wish granted, Mike! Pretty quickly as well.
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All these newscasters receive my stamp of approval for pushing the envelope.
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Oh they can be real replies. I have a friend in a band, and the other night he started asking me how I could possibly defend piracy because didn't I want my favorite artists to keep making money?
Besides putting words in my mouth (claiming that stating that piracy is inevitable and people should stop suing over it means that I encourage piracy) when I asked him if an illegal download is stealing, his answer was an unequivocal yes. When I asked him why copyright should be so long, and did he really think that only his children's children should be able to use his work without permission, he again stated yes, and that no one else should be able to use it. When I said that copyright shouldn't be a welfare system, he asked why not and said he was perfectly fine with it being that way, and that maybe the public domain was given too much credit and perhaps we've gotten to a point where there shouldn't be a public domain anymore because why should anyone else get to profit off his labor?
No, he wasn't trolling. Yes, he really believes that. No, I don't know how to argue with someone who has a viewpoint that strong in that direction.
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Can you believe the gall of those horrible, horrible libraries, and their support of freetard culture? What good have they ever done for anybody, hmm?
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Wasn't that the point of the whole article? Not that Warner couldn't do the movie, but that the question of exclusivity is where the issue lies? Or did I read a different article and then end up posting here?
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I wish I was surprised
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Lobby groups feel the same to me as home owner associations... there's gotta be a few good ones out there, that help people out, but I'll be danged if the ones that make the news don't just leave a bad taste in my mouth.
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It depends... would they be Wonder Woman type of Amazons?
Re: Moral imperative?
Enshrining moral imperatives in law reminds me of how some rules were enforced back when I was in school. If you got caught, you were forced to spend X number of hours volunteering at a local charity. I didn't have any issues with charity work as a punishment, but using the word 'volunteer' always sat poorly with me. If I was forced to do it, it was no longer volunteering.
Same with morals being made a law. If you only do something because the law says you must / must not, it's no longer really a moral decision.
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Might I suggest and even larger club? ;)