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• On the post: Feds Charge Aaron Swartz With Felony Hacking… For Downloading A Ton Of Academic Research

  

  Chris ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2011 @ 06:53pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Please, this.

• On the post: Copyright Troll John Steele Insists That 70-Year Old Is Responsible For Porn Downloads… Even If Someone Else Used WiFi

  

  Chris ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2011 @ 06:50pm

  Errr

  The letter from Steele suggests that someone else using an unsecured wireless network isn't a viable legal defense for the account holder, noting that downloaders of child pornography have employed this excuse to no avail....
  
  If the police accuse you of downloading child porn, but when they seize and search your computers they can't find any, then yes, that is a a legally viable defense.

• On the post: Vague Law + Vindictive Law Enforcement? Hide Your Veggies!

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 03:25pm

  Re: Externalities

  Nothing runs afoul of eminent domain.

• On the post: Vague Law + Vindictive Law Enforcement? Hide Your Veggies!

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 03:25pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  But, aesthetics laws are not necessarily bad.
  
  Only if everyone to be held to the rules agrees to them and signs a contract (think HOA). Then you can be sure that everyone is on the same page. Rules imposed on homeowners by bureaucrats and busybodies who have no claim to that property are immoral.
  
  I really do not want my neighbors front lawn to look like a car junkyard. It would reduce the investment I have in my house.
  
  In that case, I want someone to reimburse me for all the "value" that my stocks lost during the recession. Of course, that's ridiculous, because no one has the right to the value of an object, only to the object itself.
  
  Why do you assume that the mere value of your property trumps the actual property rights of others?

• On the post: Woman Faces Felony Charges For Groping A TSA Agent

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 12:39pm

  Re: Bad analogy

  So if a cop tasers me it should be ok to taser one back according to your theory.
  
  Yes, if a police officer tazes you without provocation, I would find it reasonable to taze him back in self defense. The same goes for police officers shooting at you, by the by.

• On the post: Woman Faces Felony Charges For Groping A TSA Agent

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 12:34pm

  Re: Re: Re: @Dark Helmet: always focus on trivial, especially sexual.

  I lost it at "GOOGLE'S REPTILIAN SHAPESHIFTERS". XD

• On the post: Vague Law + Vindictive Law Enforcement? Hide Your Veggies!

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 11:44am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  (I feel this needs more discussion)
  
  Zoning laws are ostensibly about preventing the use of your property from actually impacting the use of mine. If you turn your house into a pig slaughterhouse, it isn't simply about some (completely imagined) right of your neighbors to have their property values always increase. A slaughterhouse will be noisy and smelly, supply trucks will impede the use of the roadway, etc.
  
  If you try to use zoning laws to beat people over the head because of aesthetics ("Your house color is too bright", "Your grass is the wrong species", "you have woodchips for a lawn instead of grass") then you're not protecting property rights, you're violating them by being an authoritarian prick.

• On the post: Vague Law + Vindictive Law Enforcement? Hide Your Veggies!

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 11:36am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Are you claiming that she was violating zoning ordinances for putting vegetables in her front yard instead of her back yard?

• On the post: Vague Law + Vindictive Law Enforcement? Hide Your Veggies!

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 11:33am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  How does any of that make a bad law a good one?

• On the post: Who Do You Trust On Whether Or Not PROTECT IP Will Break The Internet? The Guys Who Built It… Or The MPAA?

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 11:31am

  Re:

  No analysis, all trolling.
  
  Just report and move on. No need to feed this one.

• On the post: Vague Law + Vindictive Law Enforcement? Hide Your Veggies!

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 10:44am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Well said.

• On the post: Guy Kicked Off Comcast For Using Too Many Cloud Services

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 10:01am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Can't agree on this one

  Due process only applies to the government. Absent an agreement saying that they will not arbitrarily terminate their business relationship from you, you have no right to force Comcast to continue to do so.

• On the post: Guy Kicked Off Comcast For Using Too Many Cloud Services

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 09:58am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Can't agree on this one

  I concur!

• On the post: Guy Kicked Off Comcast For Using Too Many Cloud Services

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 09:58am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Can't agree on this one

  Right to have a family
  
  You still have a right to reproduce (that's really a property right over your own body). Just because there's no one to reproduce with doesn't mean your rights are being violated.
  
  To work for anyone
  
  There was never any such right.
  
  To own property
  
  As you note, this right still exists.
  
  social security
  
  Not a right.
  
  safety from violence / protection by law
  
  Laws apply to people. You still have to right to be safe from violence by others. Without people, it will be quite easy to assert that right. :)
  
  to vote
  
  Vote all you like. I don't see this as a right, though; it's merely one particular method of helping to ensure that your government does not violate your rights. A dictator can uphold rights, just as a voting public can easily violate them.
  
  To seek asylum if a country treats you badly, health care, education
  
  Not rights.

• On the post: Who Do You Trust On Whether Or Not PROTECT IP Will Break The Internet? The Guys Who Built It… Or The MPAA?

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 09:48am

  Re:

  Pretty much.

• On the post: Vague Law + Vindictive Law Enforcement? Hide Your Veggies!

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 09:35am

  Re: Re:

  The line between personal freedoms and choice butts up against the choices of others in the community, and some "rights" may be limited in order to respect the rights of others.
  
  Others don't have a right to my property, so there's no "rights of others" being violated.

• On the post: Vague Law + Vindictive Law Enforcement? Hide Your Veggies!

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 09:31am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Yes, yes. She should have licked the boots of authority like you and all the rest. How dare she not bow down to her betters! What kind of country does she think this is, anyway??

• On the post: Vague Law + Vindictive Law Enforcement? Hide Your Veggies!

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 09:29am

  Re:

  Again, why is anyone upset about this?
  
  Yeah, I can't imagine why the threat of having men with guns kidnap you from your home and lock you away in an 8x10 cage for three months because you created a vegetable garden on your own property would worry anyone in a supposedly free country.
  
  (Especially when the law in question is vague enough as to be decided at the whim of an unelected bureaucrat with obvious power issues. Is bermuda grass "suitable", or only St. Augustine? Roll the dice to find out if you end up with either a nice lawn or a cell mate who wants to dance with you!)

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 07:10am

  Re: Into this echo chamber of the Mutual Admiration Society,

  Someone on this site made a penis joke, therefore nothing said here can be serious or insightful.
  
  Hmm, not seeing it. Sorry.

• On the post: Indie Records Sue Limewire; Feeling Left Out From RIAA Settlement

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 07:07am

  Re: You're cloaking a defeat for your notions with focus on money.

  your notions got shot down yet again in court
  
  What notions?

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