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• On the post: As Police Get More Militarized, Bill In Congress Would Make Owning Body Armor Punishable By Up To 10 Years In Prison

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2014 @ 08:19am

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  I'm sure the law won't apply to elected officials or other "important rich people."

• On the post: Crime And Punishment? 33 Months In Jail For Filming And Uploading Fast & Furious 6

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2014 @ 09:02pm

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  You can't bring up morality until we've settled on the morality of continuous extensions of copyright length so that that it now lasts two lifetimes and has locked up a whole century of culture.
  
  You can't bring up morality until you we've settled on how Hollywood and the music business cooks the books and doesn't pay out royalties they way they should.
  
  The laws must command respect and businesses must behave respectably before you can start talking about the morality of what some kid does with a video camera in a movie theatre.
  
  If you think he deserves jail, then there's a lot more immoral people that need to be behind bars.
  
  The article isn't about whether someone did something wrong or not. It's about the extreme punishment for a minor offence based on lousy laws dictated by a private company.

• On the post: Crime And Punishment? 33 Months In Jail For Filming And Uploading Fast & Furious 6

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2014 @ 08:52pm

  Re: Camcording?

  It's because so many people are gullible to Hollywood's marketing machine that they feel extra special if they can see a movie before anyone else, even if the movie hits DVD in three months.

• On the post: LAPD Officer Says Tragedies Could Be Prevented If Citizens Would Just Shut Up And Do What Cops Tell Them To

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2014 @ 08:28am

  he expects the public to have respect for law enforcement while officers show an active disrespect for the laws governing their behavior.
  
  This is the crux of it. If the police want respect, they need to obey the law, and not individually but as a force. No cop should let another cop get away with doing anything illegal. One bad apple spoils everything.

• On the post: Defense Contractors' Funds Fuel Vote To Keep Dept. Of Defense's Police Militarization Program Funded

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2014 @ 09:13am

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  "War crimes" went out the window in 2003.

• On the post: Police In Ferguson Sign Court Agreement Promising Not To Interfere With Media… Then Go Threaten And Arrest Media

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2014 @ 09:12am

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  The police telling people not to record them is just going to make them want to record things even more because it's legal to do that. So yeah, suddenly there are going to be cameras everywhere.

• On the post: Turns Out When Police Act Cordial, Rather Than As An Oppressive Military Force, Things Work Out Better

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2014 @ 07:41am

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  Then perhaps if a police officer kills someone they should be arrested and put on trial like anyone else?

• On the post: Behind The Veil Part 4: Customer Trying To Cancel Service Is Put On Hold Until Comcast Office Closes

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2014 @ 02:39pm

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  Just like that scene out of Catch-22.

• On the post: White House Reverses Course: Now Allowing Lobbyists To Serve On Insider Government 'Advisory' Boards

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2014 @ 08:37am

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  Because if politicians announced their true intent while running for office, they would have to do the opposite when they were elected.

• On the post: Performance Rights Organizations Again 'Protecting' Artists By Killing Off Revenue Streams

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2014 @ 09:51am

  They don't want you to listen to the music. They just want you to buy it because a magazine told you to. That's how it worked in the old days.

• On the post: Intelligence Community Warns That Releasing CIA Torture Report Details Might 'Inflame Anti-US Passions' In Middle East

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2014 @ 10:31am

  Re: Re: So... what you're saying is...

  But is "us" that does all the fighting and dying for what the U.S. did.

• On the post: About Freaking Time: New York Times Will Finally Start Calling CIA Torture Practices 'Torture'

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2014 @ 08:04am

  Re: Re: Re: And this is (another reason) why the "war on terror" has been lost the moment it was started

  "Hate Our Freedom" is just FOX propaganda. Why would anyone truly hate freedom (unless they were deranged)?
  
  What they hated was our bullying and meddling in world affairs - playing world police and trying to mold other countries for our benefit.

• On the post: Reagan Biographer Claims 'Copyright Infringement' Because Another Biographer Used The Same Facts

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2014 @ 09:20am

  There's a red light district in Kansas City? Those two strip clubs next to each other?

• On the post: How That Monkey Selfie Reveals The Dangerous Belief That Every Bit Of Culture Must Be 'Owned'

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2014 @ 12:35pm

  Re: And who owns the copyright on nature?

  Prove there's a god and I'll give her the copyright.

• On the post: Senators Slam White House For CIA Torture Report Redactions That Make It 'Incomprehensible'

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2014 @ 01:23pm

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  It's only Oscar worthy if someone beautiful repeats what they say.

• On the post: Senators Slam White House For CIA Torture Report Redactions That Make It 'Incomprehensible'

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2014 @ 08:44am

  The only thing surprising here is the senators seem surprised by this.

• On the post: What Makes You Tell Others About Techdirt?

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2014 @ 09:46am

  When I first realized that the internet was actually the world's biggest library, and that in the future anything and everything ever created would be available to everyone in the world, stopped only by this little thing called copyright, it was Techdirt that thoroughly explained the problems of our changing media world and especially the problems in copyright.
  
  Copyright was something that I - and probably most people - never gave much thought about before the internet came along, even though I am a creator and applied copyright to my work. Thanks to Techdirt, I've become a copyright reformer, but I don't really share Techdirt that much except on Reddit, unless something happens that so perfectly exemplefies the corruption or stupidity or damage that our laws enable.
  
  Of course, there are a lot of other websites that cover these same issues, and the reason I favor Techdirt is because of the discussion after the article. The comments are usually informative, often controversial, sometimes frustrating, and it's fun to jump in and make a point (or a lame joke) and participate in this discussion.
  
  Because as you know, issues like copyright and government surveillance and the like are all things that the people in charge don't want the public talking about. I hope Techdirt is a thorn in their side.

• On the post: Behind The Veil: Comcast Techs Detail How Customer Service Is Really All Just 'Sales'

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2014 @ 10:29am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Be real

  Prisons provide other luxuries as well.

• On the post: NY Port Authority Claims To Own The NYC Skyline: Tells Store To Destroy Skyline-Themed Plates

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2014 @ 10:17am

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  They do welcome such activity, as long as it's purchased from the port authority gift shop.

• On the post: Behind The Veil: Comcast Techs Detail How Customer Service Is Really All Just 'Sales'

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2014 @ 08:19am

  Re: Re: Be real

  Nobody needs cable. Internet on the other hand...

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