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  • On the post: Why The DOJ's Decision To Not Read Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights Is A Terrible Idea

    Jay ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2013 @ 04:10am

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    So your theory is that neocons control the government right now and are making these decisions?

    That "theory" is laid to bare in how the Senate is paralyzed unconstitutionally with no filibuster reforms, Congress does not represent people over corporations, and the Supreme Court is extremely conservative in their rulings.

    I mean, it really doesn't take a genius to figure out that Obama is conservative himself given how he wants to cut Social Security and goes along with most of the austerity posturing of the extreme right wing.

    If you refuse to see that, it's your choice. But it's fairly obvious they're doing things that people are opposed to regardless of if they have a D or R next to their party affiliation.

  • On the post: Why The DOJ's Decision To Not Read Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights Is A Terrible Idea

    Jay ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2013 @ 04:03am

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    This entire process started with Clinton.

    Stop blaming Obama for everything, please. Expand the knowledge and share the wealth of ideas.

    Political dysfunction leads to economic dysfunction and it's not entirely the fault of the president when our legislative branch doesn't represent the people.

  • On the post: Former DHS Official Says Boston Bombing Proves ACLU & EFF Are Wrong About Surveillance And CISPA

    Jay ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2013 @ 05:50pm

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    But listen to what CS is proposing...

    Then the rich, the powerful and the influential will finally realize that they should have taken more care of us in the past.

    The rich and powerful want a system that only works for them. Since the end of WWII, they've chipped away at the government and the public, making them weaker and weaker.

    In the 70s, they attacked the government, took it over and made it the weak... Thing we have today. So we've went from a state capitalist government to a private capitalist government with Reagan being the one at that helm for the past 40 years with regards to his Reagonomics.

    The system has failed. We've tried it. The rich got richer while the poor got poorer. Their jobs are in the BRIC countries. The training is in those same places. We have a workforce that has been decimated with people looking for work but finding copyright and patent issues instead of innovation.

    The system is the problem. A system that rewards the ones that have the most money is one that is very soon going to collapse when it can no longer protect its weakest members and we're very closely hitting that point.

    But to suggest that the rich and powerful will help out the people when the public has already lost so much? That's ignoring the history of what people do in revolutionary movements.

  • On the post: Reuters Sorry About Pre-Releasing Kinda Bitchy Soros Obit, Not Sorry Enough To Take It Down

    Jay ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2013 @ 12:50pm

    Re: Seems fair to me

    ... What?

  • On the post: Bob Goodlatte Receives Most Awkward Serenade Ever With Pro-Copyright Song

    Jay ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2013 @ 05:16pm

    I love astroturf groups...

    Ok, so I've looked at who the SVSA is. Here's the two websites:

    Larry Sakayama

    SVSA Songs critique

    This "group" hasn't been active for ~ a year with only 8-10 regular members:

    In the five years that I've been an SVSA member, we've seen regular attendance at our monthly meetings grow from about 8-9 people to 20 or so ? which is about half of the active membership. However, we've also seen a handful of people come and go, with no explanation in most cases. Being the sensitive songwriter types, some of us have started to wonder why some people leave (sniff), and what we can or should do about it, if anything.

    Now call me pessimistic but I have to think that with SOPA being a huge factor, someone went to SVSA with a ton of money to make it worth their while to create this song to Goodlatte.

    As their website entails they are big on playing music. The question is.. Why in hell are they able to connect with a copyright issue that barely registers on their scale unless they've been paid to be there?

    They create songs and guitars. Copyright doesn't even register on their agenda at all.

    No Youtube page, nothing to say where they make money supporting the DMCA.

    So I'm officially labeling them as a member of the RIAA through sub-affiliation until otherwise noted.

  • On the post: Former DHS Official Says Boston Bombing Proves ACLU & EFF Are Wrong About Surveillance And CISPA

    Jay ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2013 @ 07:35am

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    In a capitalist system?

    We're dreaming if we think that these people will get out of their bubble.

  • On the post: Former DHS Official Says Boston Bombing Proves ACLU & EFF Are Wrong About Surveillance And CISPA

    Jay ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2013 @ 07:35am

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    In a capitalist system?

    We're dreaming if we think that these people will get out of their bubble.

  • On the post: Police In Japan Are Asking ISPs To Start Blocking Tor

    Jay ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2013 @ 06:36am

    Japan

    Oh, come on... This is ONE example out of the many dozens in Japan! Yes, they have a more feudal society thanks to their history of the mercantilists winning more power and clout, but you also see more reliance on the government and the government being forced to LISTEN because of their homogenous culture.

    What IS happening is that the publishers are exerting their force disproportionately. What isn't being discussed is the rumbles of new culture that come out of this publisher battle. IE, smaller distributors are going to be rising up to oppose these things and individuals are not going to like this publisher battle.

    I'm still not positive that people will enjoy not having access to 2Ch without a shitton of protest though. Something like that is going to force people to really get PO'd about a government that is only focused on the entertainment industry, similarly to how the nuclear reactor explosion forced people to ban nuclear power.

  • On the post: Med Express Apologies For Suing Customer, Says It Was A Mistake, But Doesn't Mention The Long List Of Similar Lawsuits

    Jay ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2013 @ 12:53pm

    Hint: you're not a Jedi

    So there's nothing other than piracy and no piracy?

    It must be great to see the world only in absolutes...

  • On the post: In The Long History Of Specious DMCA Claims, This Is Definitely One Of Them

    Jay ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2013 @ 08:34am

    Wow, yes, I can read the tweet and all the [person] is talking about is how gorgeous the abs are in the photo.

    I mean, this is sharing the photo beyond the scope of the artist into a new language and new territory and this artist is so pedantic as to stop that.

    I have yet to find one good reason that this infringement harms the original creation weren't the tweeter isn't even claiming ownership at all.

  • On the post: 'Intellectual Bulwark' Of Austerity Economics Collapses Because Of Three Major Errors

    Jay ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2013 @ 05:19pm

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    Welcome to the world of copyright.

    Where the math makes no sense, the punishment does not fit any crime, your public wi-fi is collateral damage, and no one benefits other than Hollywood with their mercantilism.

  • On the post: The Greatest Trick The Government Ever Pulled Was Convincing The Public The 'Hacker Threat' Exists

    Jay ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2013 @ 09:59am

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    Communists, Socialists, and unions were a problem because they stopped our capitalist system from killing itself. Now that we don't have those bogeymen, we need new ones to justify the damage we're doing to our nation.

    The 20th century was about the systematic destruction of the groups opposing laissez-faire capitalism. Once we had those posts taken over, the government was next. Now it's the public because they shouldn't be informed of what a computer can do in finding out information.

    I hate that our government has been co-opted by people with reactionary responses to issues, but it's not going to get better if people ignore the policies and politics that are in play.

  • On the post: Flight Search Engines And The Multi-City Ripoff

    Jay ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2013 @ 01:33pm

    Price discrimination?

    Perhaps the answer to this lies in who does multi-flight tours.

    I would think that people with more money want the convenience of just booking at one time rather than individual bookings. So we have a system set up to charge what the market will bear in this situation.

    The smarter people are those that opt for individual tours and don't go first class on each leg.

    Other than that, I can only think that it's a great scam that nets them huge profits for less work. Kind of like copyright.

  • On the post: New Book On The History Of Music, Copyright And Piracy Shows How Copyright Tends To Hold Back Music

    Jay ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2013 @ 06:47am

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    No, Mike doesn't want to get rid of it. He wants copyright law to support the public instead of going against them.

    People that are against it, would be me for the reason that it represents a mercantilist capitalism which doesn't deliver the goods for society and only supports the select few at the top of the food chain.

    I think we can do a lot better without out it than with trying to reform a broken system.

  • On the post: Shameful: Tech Companies Fighting Against Necessary CFAA Reform And CISPA Fixes

    Jay ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2013 @ 06:23am

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    Congratulations. You've just fallen for the propaganda that ignores how the US has antagonized North Korea with war like sanctions to cause it to act ruthlessly in regards to South Korea.

    Maybe you should look at their playbook before thinking that Congress should nuke them.

  • On the post: Judge To Allow More Evidence Filed Against Team Prenda, Despite Vehement Objections From Prenda

    Jay ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2013 @ 04:16am

    Achievements of this case

    Copyright Troll Achievement - Because trolling just ain't worth it until you unlock this achievement

    Judgement Day - Because nothing is worse than making a federal judge your worst enemy...

    Identity theft - Because your legacy in history is assured when you have to rely on federal crimes to move forward.

    Created here...

    Hosted here

  • On the post: Fox Sends Cease & Desist Letters To Firefly Fans Selling Jayne Hats, Because Money

    Jay ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2013 @ 10:42am

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    You can't knit during fishing season on the Isle of Jersey.

  • On the post: Fox Sends Cease & Desist Letters To Firefly Fans Selling Jayne Hats, Because Money

    Jay ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2013 @ 06:30am

    You know this song...

    Take my money, take my land...
    Take me where I cannot stand...

    I don't care, I'm still free,
    You can't take my hat from me...

    Take me out to the black,
    My best show ain't coming back...

    Burn the net and boil the seas
    I've already turned to piracy...

    Have no place I can be,
    Since I found Serenity

    But you can't take the sky from me

    Instrumental

    Take my love, for the land...
    Take me to where I cannot stand

    I don't care, I'm still free
    Fox forced me to pi-ra-cy...

    Take them out, to the black
    Tell them the show ain't comin' back...

    Burn the land, boil the sea
    Can't take away my me-mori-es

    Have no place, I can be
    Since I've found Serenity

    But you can't take money from me...

    outro

  • On the post: Broadcast Treaty Is Baaaaaack: Plan To Create Yet Another Copyright-Like Right For Hollywood

    Jay ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2013 @ 02:03pm

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    What the hell does that have to do with this article when the Clinton article explains that in detail?

  • On the post: Uh Oh: US Postal Service Wants To Better 'Monetize' Its 'Intellectual Property'

    Jay ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2013 @ 11:41am

    Annoyance factor 9

    That's the most annoying part about this...

    The USPS would be perfectly solvent without the 2006 poison pill where it has to fund future employees disproportionately. Meanwhile, partisan politics means that they aren't allowed to innovate or raise rates as needed and provide a public service as the people would want and/or demand.

    You can not run a public service like a business.

    Public services are democratic. If a service fails to deliver our needs we can hold those responsible to account at the ballot box. Important matters like wages, pensions and working conditions are the result of negotiation and subject to internal and popular support.

    Public services are funded by public money, paid to public workers, managed by public representatives working together to deliver social utility ? every penny put in recycles within the public economy.

    And that's the key issue here. We've gotten USPS to run a public service like a business would and we're watching this continual privatization of the service destroy it from within. I just wonder how long can this go on?

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