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by valar_m 12y ago
"This executive order has nothing to do with domestic law enforcement" This is just not true. As the article points out, Section 1(ii)(B) has absolutely no provision requiring activity to be outside of the United States. Read it t
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by valar_m 12y ago
I could not disagree more. The only way to keep the "leash" short is with a great amount of precision in writing laws. There is no "enforce[ment] in good faith", and the evidence is everywhere. The Patriot Act is used do
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Why? To me this just sounds like intelligent marketing. If it's not lying, what's wrong with tailoring the message to the audience?
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Where?
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The title of the article is misleading. "Data breach" implies a release of sensitive data, which is not what appears to have happened. Intuit said its TurboTax unit took action Thursday after seeing attempts to use stolen person
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How am I supposed to respond? Here is what you said: So you're against the income tax? Control + f, "income tax" Arguing a straw man is precisely what you did. I said I think it's a bad idea to tax copyright ownership,
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A more fair system might be to embrace the "property" rights that media companies hold so dear You seem to be forgetting that copyright protection applies to creations by individual authors as well. Should they be taxed for thei
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by valar_m 12y ago
So you're against the income tax? Straw man. I said nothing of the like. How can (s)he not afford to pay, if it's "a fraction of what they make from profits from that work"? Because poor people don't have very m
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by valar_m 12y ago
"So you're against taxing the idea guy (or girl), but not against taxing the working people that make the idea become real?" This is a straw man. I said nothing of the like. "Until the bounty is paid the author of the wo
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What we're talking about is a system in which individuals and small startups are at a disadvantage by design. The closer you are to missing your rent, the easier it will be for me to take your work. I agree that IP law is harmful. Bu
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Do you not see how this would rig the system in favor of deep pocketed corporations even more? You basically said it yourself: "I can completely understand the Disney should still have a copyright on the image of Mickey Mouse. But only
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by valar_m 12y ago
This is a bad idea. You want to impose a tax on people when they create something? Penalizing people for innovation is the exact opposite of what copyright protection is intended to do. If I create something, and a corporation with deep poc
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by valar_m 12y ago
Like what? What has she said that's much worse than this? im going to come to your house and violently rape you in front of your family RETWEET ME OR I WILL BOMB YOUR HOUSE AT NIGHT! your one dumb cunt and am going to doxs you the
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by valar_m 12y ago
Perhaps the downvotes were because your comment had little to do with the article in particular, or the larger issue of prison reform in general.
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Did you have any thoughts to share on the article?
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Red State recently featured an article calling for prison reform, which I thought was an encouraging development[0]. Conservatives, historically, have taken a hard line against criminal justice reform in any way that might appear soft on cr
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I actually think there's a strong argument that regulation is more to blame: Part of the reaction stemmed from a little-known New Jersey law passed in 2002 by gun-control advocates. Once a personalized weapon went on sale in the Unite
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by valar_m 12y ago
I can't help but think that gun control activists have, pardon the pun, shot themselves in the foot with the New Jersey law: Once a personalized weapon went on sale in the United States, the law said, then within three years, all guns
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by valar_m 12y ago
I fail to understand the conflation of "nonfree" with "nontrival." If they are implying that the complexity of a snippet of code has some bearing on whether copyright protection applies, that is simply untrue. Forgive me
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You're right. Apologies.
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This is a really great example of how powerful the dog whistle techniques used by racists can actually be. Your instincts picked up on something from silverstorm 's comment, but a lack of concrete evidence made it very difficult to sa
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by valar_m 12y ago
Saying "You" when not addressing anyone in particular is a classic dog whistle technique. Everyone in the audience knows exactly who you're talking about, and plausible deniability is preserved for future accusations of racis
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by valar_m 12y ago
I know "thanks!" comments are frowned upon, but I wanted you to know that I appreciate your response. You are absolutely correct, at least in my case, about Westerners being unfamiliar with the underpinnings of this society. Thank
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Yeah it definitely sounded like an intimidation attempt, though a rather ill-conceived one. If they had a search warrant, it seems odd to me that they chose not to force entry. If they didn't have a warrant, I would think they would ha
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by valar_m 12y ago
I should have been more clear -- The article doesn't say, but I was assuming that the SWAT team was there to execute a search warrant. Perhaps they did not and that's why they didn't force entry, but the SWAT team showing up
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I'm not making a comparison, I'm simply pointing out the stark contrast between law enforcement tactics in Russia versus the United States.
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During the standoff with the SWAT team, which took place soon after, he wouldn’t answer the door. They went home after an hour. Wait, what? Is that what police in Russia normally do? This would never, ever happen in the United States. LAP
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Justice Thomas's concurrence in Citizens United cited several examples: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/pdf/08-205P.ZX1 [pdf]
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Oil.
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I am from Bell County, Kentucky, ranked 3110 out of 3135 counties. I no longer live there, but my parents do. I was there just yesterday for Thanksgiving. It may be tempting to dismiss the problems plaguing this region as being self-inflict

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