aqme28

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by aqme28 15y ago
Even then, pornoscanners and groping have nothing on indefinite detention, warrantless wiretapping, and extrajudicial assassination.
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by aqme28 15y ago
Furthermore, you get a lot of publicity by being the target of major litigation. Especially if you end up winning.
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by aqme28 15y ago
I'd need to find the statistic again, but it's something like 15% of the value of gold is due to its utility, and the rest is due to it being shiny/historically valued
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by aqme28 15y ago
Currency is a terrible way to invest. Nobody is arguing that.
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by aqme28 15y ago
One can legitimately be a terrorist and commit terrorism. The problem is that the popular definition of terrorism is so nebulous as to be useless. We've charged as terrorists people who have attacked soldiers stationed in a foreign invader'
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by aqme28 15y ago
Then they should have said "vacuum" instead of intentionally using such an ambiguous word.
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by aqme28 15y ago
Larger corporations such as Google, Wikipedia, and Reddit had a very important role in this. Arguably much more than the citizen action alone.
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by aqme28 15y ago
It sounds more like you worked hard for two weeks to make that $1000 over a 6-month period. That sounds like trying to me. Of course, there's nothing wrong with trying to make money.
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by aqme28 15y ago
They didn't need SOPA because they took the time and effort needed to get a warrant. The argument against SOPA is not that sites could be shut down, but that there needs to be a very demonstrable reason for it--with warrants and evidence an
1930.
by aqme28 15y ago
There's a key distinction here between what happened to Megaupload and what can happen under SOPA: The feds took a long time to gather the evidence they needed for a warrant before they took Megaupload down. Under SOPA, all that would be ne
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by aqme28 15y ago
I disagree. That's like telling a depressed person to be less depressed. It's not wrong or anything, but it's much more of a process than you're implying. Anything that is challenging for you can become a goal. I find it very very hard to w