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  • On the post: Why The Golan Case Matters: Pulling Works From The Public Domain Is A Massive Tax On Culture

    CommonSense ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2011 @ 09:43am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Yes but

    That's kind of the point. It seems a bit over the top, until all of a sudden, it isn't. When it isn't, that's when it's too late to do anything about it. It has to be stopped now, because once you're on a slippery slope, it's easy to keep slipping down, and very difficult to climb back up.

    Are you just willfully ignorant??

  • On the post: Why The Golan Case Matters: Pulling Works From The Public Domain Is A Massive Tax On Culture

    CommonSense ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2011 @ 07:46am

    Re: Re: Re: Yes but

    First they came to take a 'very small portion' of '20th century works from Russia,' and I didn't speak up because I didn't care about those works.
    Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.....

    maybe it doesn't look like a big deal today, but if the public gives up an inch, the greedy assholes will take a mile. Simply ask the Native Americans...

  • On the post: Console Manufacturers Pressure Google Into Pulling Emulators From The Android Market

    CommonSense ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2011 @ 01:44pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Clarification

    you're over the top here. no one is taking away his right to make any app, just to publish his apps in the android market...unless I'm missing something...

    Also, I'm not saying to throw anything out. That's just what I interpret the Google terms of use to be if you're an app dev. The same terms that each app dev should read and agree to before posting their apps in the market.

    I thought you were one of the people here who could logically think through things like this....having an off day??

  • On the post: Console Manufacturers Pressure Google Into Pulling Emulators From The Android Market

    CommonSense ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2011 @ 01:41pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Clarification

    I'm pretty sure that as a dev, if you violate the terms of the market or whatever with one app, your dev privileges get pulled, not just that app. So only one app may have been the problem, but the fact that the guy had a problem got him and the rest of his stuff removed.

    It's kind of like, if you're giving out Apples at Halloween, and only one of them has a razor blade in it, people should still throw out any apple that came from your place and prevent their kids from trick-or-treating at your house.

  • On the post: With A Choice Between $100 Million In Cash & Fantasyland, The Labels Choose Fantasyland

    CommonSense ( profile ), 31 May, 2011 @ 10:58am

    Re: Google does nothing because it is in Google's interests to do nothing.

    STFU.

    You're so dumb that you don't even understand that changing their Algorithm would be a technological change to how the site works... Get a damn education.

  • On the post: The 18 Senators Who Approve Breaking The Internet To Protect Hollywood

    CommonSense ( profile ), 26 May, 2011 @ 11:12am

    Of course

    Dick Head Blumenthal is on that list... I'm still disgusted that he won the election.

  • On the post: John Perry Barlow Tells Copyright Maximalists That They've Got The Fundamentals Wrong

    CommonSense ( profile ), 26 May, 2011 @ 07:50am

    Re:

    Idiot.

    It's the labels and studios that are trying to make the world work the way THEY think it should. We're just trying to protect and encourage the alternatives before these assclowns get their way.

  • On the post: Judge: Hangover 2 Can Still Be Released; But Tattoo Artist May Prevail In The End

    CommonSense ( profile ), 24 May, 2011 @ 02:33pm

    The Judge

    Probably heard about all the money the Movie studios can throw around in situations like this, and just said that the guy might win in order to get as big a payday as she could from the now frightened-it-might-lose movie studio...

  • On the post: DHS's ICE Group Accused Of Lying To Court About Expense Of Complying With FOI Request

    CommonSense ( profile ), 19 May, 2011 @ 12:48pm

    You mean...

    "hopefully they can avoid having to spend $270,000 to find the few documents I requested."

    I think you mean, "hopefully they can avoid having to lie about spending $270,000 to find the few documents..."

  • On the post: Well Done: CDC Warns Of The Zombie Apocalypse

    CommonSense ( profile ), 19 May, 2011 @ 06:26am

    Re:

    Well, that and limber up and check the back seat...

  • On the post: Philly Police Harass, Threaten To Shoot Man Legally Carrying Gun; Then Charge Him With Disorderly Conduct For Recording Them

    CommonSense ( profile ), 18 May, 2011 @ 02:04pm

    Re:

    A couple public drunkenness arrests and a dismissed retail theft case mean that this guy deserved to have a gun pointed at him and his life threatened for walking down the street obeying all laws?? Give me a break... I got drunk and got in a fight in college myself, but I'm in no way a bad citizen who doesn't deserve to be able to carry a gun. There are people with rap sheets twice that long who don't get a second look from a passing cop, even if that cop had arrested them before...

  • On the post: Should Young People Have Their Votes Count More?

    CommonSense ( profile ), 18 May, 2011 @ 01:41pm

    Re: Re: Re: Hmmm.

    Once the formula is set, it would have to be set. "Adjusting" the formula over time is EXACTLY what I mean by people getting involved. It would need to be a formula as static as A^2 + B^2 = C^2

  • On the post: Sony CEO Howard Stringer: Month-long Hackathon Merely A 'Hiccup'

    CommonSense ( profile ), 18 May, 2011 @ 01:21pm

    Re: Re: I laughed.

    "DANG IT! FIX THAT ACCURSED ENTER KEY ISSUE ON SUBJECT ALREADY!"

    Just [TAB] instead of [ENTER]. An old boss of mine used to use the space bar instead of enter for selecting things too, so he would tab around all over the page until he got to the submit button and then press space....because far too often the enter key doesn't give you the desired response...

  • On the post: RIAA Calls 4th Amendment Passe: Pushes For Warrantless Searches

    CommonSense ( profile ), 18 May, 2011 @ 08:22am

    Hahaha

    "The RIAA and its member labels should be ashamed of themselves."

    I don't think they know what shame is.

  • On the post: Should Young People Have Their Votes Count More?

    CommonSense ( profile ), 17 May, 2011 @ 09:33am

    Re: Hmmm.

    If the system were to work at all, there would need to be a very transparent formula to decide 'vote weight'. If people were involved, then like you say, we'd just have even more corruption than we have now.

  • On the post: 'Concerned Citizen' Critic Of Muni Cable System Now Admits He Works For Time Warner Cable

    CommonSense ( profile ), 13 May, 2011 @ 07:33am

    Re: Re: taking food out of his kids mouths

    It sounded to me like he was suggesting that the union worker in your story, and many other professionals in other industries, read from the same "talking points" memo about how to scare people into paying them for their work...

    More like he was calling out that union worker's complaint as Bullspit, and not your story.

  • On the post: Barry Diller Tries To Explain To Ari Emanuel That He's Wrong About 'Piracy' Being A Problem For Movies

    CommonSense ( profile ), 13 May, 2011 @ 07:26am

    Re: Re: Re: Really? VCRs?

    If they decide that the work they have to do for it is a greater cost than the price of the alternative, then they'll do it less.

    Fixed that for you.

  • On the post: 'Concerned Citizen' Critic Of Muni Cable System Now Admits He Works For Time Warner Cable

    CommonSense ( profile ), 13 May, 2011 @ 06:40am

    Re: An installer?

    Or maybe he was offered an attractive bonus should he take charge on this effort and succeed. As an installer, it's not like he's making the big bucks, so I'm sure the bonus wouldn't even need to be lobby money or any where near an executive bonus. TWC was probably trying to spend their money wisely.

  • On the post: Settling Lawsuits Sometimes Makes Sense. Period.

    CommonSense ( profile ), 13 May, 2011 @ 04:21am

    Re: Re: terrible thinking - like an accountant

    All of society pays when innovation is stunted and technological advances are slowed down through court battles....which is what patents and patent trolls do.

  • On the post: Barry Diller Tries To Explain To Ari Emanuel That He's Wrong About 'Piracy' Being A Problem For Movies

    CommonSense ( profile ), 12 May, 2011 @ 08:52am

    Re: Really? VCRs?

    You also couldn't get a legitimate copy of the movie within an hour any time you wanted with no inconvenience except a click of a button....in fact, it was rare that you could even click a button back then.

    If you want to compare apples to apples, clown, you look like a real ignoramus. Back then, you could a pirate copy for a fair trade of less price and more inconvenience (cheaper, but you had to find one). The industry actually gave you an even more convenient option, for a little higher price. Piracy didn't kill the industry.

    Today, the industry doesn't want to give you convenience, because it will cut into their ability to rob you, I mean, their business model of overcharging for stuff. People pirate for the convenience at least the average person...some will always pirate, just like there will always be someone out there using Heroin, some things simply can't be eradicated, learn that. But, and I'm one of these people, if I could get the convenience of piracy through a legitimate means, you'd better believe I'd pay for it. I love that I pay $16 a month for my Netflix and HuluPlus accounts, they're better than my old DVR which cost about the same, ON TOP of my cable bill (which I've cancelled) because I don't have to miss the third decent show that's on Thursday at 8PM when my DVR only records 2 shows, and I don't risk missing an episode when the DVR drive fills up.

    Hollywood needs to learn that the Mob can't be controlled beyond a certain point. But, if they try hard enough, the mob can be corralled. People will break through any walls they try to put up, but if it's a fence that they barely notice...well, they'll barely notice it's there.

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