Posts by Tex Arcana 65 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Nov 2012
"Like it or not the MPAA is just as much a constituent as Jimmy Bob Smith down at the end of the dirt road."
Negative.
The individuals making up said group are entitled to representation; but the group itself is patently not a "person" or "individual", and therefore has no such entitlement (despite the purchased and very erroneous rulings to the contrary).
"Campbell says: "Some music recorded and produced in the '80s seems to suffer from a weedy presentation with little bass."
Maybe because the source material was encoded in Dolby, which always sounds thin and reedy unless pumped thru a decoder? Perhaps someone needs to test this...
"And absolutely none of it would be paid for in the real world by real people out of their own pockets." <-- especially corporations and 1%ers, am I right?
This is why we have taxes and government: because NO ONE is inclined to pay for anything out of their own pockets, yet expects someone to provide whatever it is they want anyway. Corporations and 1%ers are notoriously at the top of this list, the rest of which is filled out by the hoards of Teahadists who don't care about anything or anyone else, as long as they get to act like their deified 1%ers.
Someone wanted those services you listed as "useless", and in large enough numbers for the government to take notice. And that's one function of government: to enact and enforce those services we demand as "public services".
The problem with the budgets of governments isn't what we perceive as "waste": it's the money being siphoned out by crooked politicians to funnel back to their leash-holders, who demand kickbacks for the bribes--i mean "political donations"--they gave them so they can gut the laws and bleed our governments dry.
And until WE, THE PEOPLE (and this applies for any and all nations, not just the US) realize that it's OUR GOVERNMENT, and that it's OUR MONEY funding it and the benefits we receive from it, it's not going to change, and the 1%ers and the corporate thieves will keep stealing our tax money and screwing us all.
That's the Danny Faulkner method of getting rich quick: build a bunch of stuff on credit from the banks, ****with giant local tax breaks****; then default on everything and head off to the Cayman's with the profits. Meanwhile, the economy collapses, and the taxpayers get screwed because the local governments have to foot the bill on dealing with the shoddy buildings that will never get occupied.
You've got the 1%er Kock rammed firmly down your throat, if you believe that whole raft of bullshit you just explosively eviscerated all over the server.
A majority of corporations and religious organizations are just pyramid schemes meant to help make the 1% even richer. The don't give a damn about the workers, the product, or even the smaller investors: they care only about their own bonuses, and the payouts to the other 1%ers. They already do everything they can to either avoid paying their fair share in taxes for the infrastructures they use, or to steal taxpayer money right out from under our noses; so why should they get an even bigger moral pass?? They'll just try to steal more "free money" out of our pockets.
The ONLY way to make taxation fair is a national sales tax: no matter who you are, if you buy something, you pay sales tax. Period. No matter where it's from, inside or outside of the country, you pay.
And it IS "unpatriotic" to not pay taxes. How the hell do you think the stuff we use and need (roads, sewers water, electricity, communications, hospitals, ambulances, for departments, police departments, military protection, government) gets there in the first place??
Truth be known, if you don't pay your taxes, then not only do you not get to be a "citizen", you shouldn't get to use those things taxes pay for. Maybe that'll wake a few people up...
TSRH, exactly the point I was about to make.
Crowdsourcing isn't crowdsourcing without the crowd; and in this case, the crowd does a majority of the work for them. Piss them off, they go away, and the "crowdsource" collapses into a mere memory.
It's this Wales needs to remember: the very people he works for are the unpaid editors and contributors, whose work has made this site what it is today. He may think he works for the money, but the money can't buy enough editors and contributors to keep it running. On top of that, once money begins ruling content, then the entire site collapses into its own irrelevance, because the content will cease being truth, and become marketing spin.
Wake up, Wales: time to smell the bullshit you're shoveling, and realize you're about to bury yourself in a great huge pile of irrelevancy.
"If some of the slowest states in the US average 7Mbps, it's not great, but it's a fair bit better than most English counties"
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
Are you kidding?? Most low-end averages range from 768K thru 3 or 6 mbps (mega-bits per SUCK) DSL, as provided by AT&T and Verizon, who really just don't give a damn about providing anything except a cash-suction device plumbed into your wallet.
<quote>Re: To the first AC:
Averaged over all land and ocean surfaces, temperatures warmed roughly 0.85ºC from 1880 to 2012. Following that rate alone will take us to ~ 1.5 degrees of warming by 2100.
However, we know that warming is almost certain to accelerate - so 2.0+ degrees of warming is highly likely.</quote>
So where were these temperature measurements taken?? Airports? Major cities? Places with large concentrations of people, buildings, energy usage (waste heat), and a fuckton of concrete, which absorbs and holds even more heat. That alone can explain those temperature rises.
About 15 years ago or so, Scientific American published an article in which an environmental scientist performed numerous temperature measurements, all well outside of the cities and airports, including mid- to high-altitude measurements, and found that average temperatures were actually DROPPING. I forget who he was, or the date; but what stood out to me was the fact he got away from the "heat islands" of the cities and airports, and any other heat-generating locations (power plants, manufacturing, mining, etc), to get the actual temperatures.
But because his work went against the environazis desires (OMFG SCARE EVERYBODY GIVE US MONEY SO WE CAN SCARE YOU MORE WITH IMMINENT ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER!!!), I think he didn't get much credit. But that's politics for you.
<quote>Facts
"stop preaching and start taking in facts"
Facts you want and facts you shall have:
1.CO2 absorbs more heat than any other gas therefore ALL the global warming is down to CO2.
2. If we stop breathing right now we will stop producing CO2 when we have rotted away. Let us get it all over with immediately and we could save the word in 10 or 20 years not counting skeletons.
3. 2% of unknown parts of the atmosphere at any unparticulate time may be comprised of water. Climatologists can safely ignore this as it hasn't presented much of a problem in Blighty this winter. Unless you count some places. But they often produce lots and lots of CO2 too. (Or did.)
How's that for a start?</quote>
How about a few facts for you?
* if we humans die, somethings take our places, and end up producing the same amount of CO2 we humans exhale on a daily basis.
* however, the amount of CO2 from our energy usage will drop, at least until some sort of natural catastrophe (forest fire, coal mine fire, grass fire, volcanic eruption, crude oil fire, natural gas fire--yes, it's possible for these things to happen in the absence of human control) dumps tons of CO2 into the atmosphere; and that could easily equal our CO2 outputs.
So, nature can be as bad as "polluter" as we are. Go figure.
Now, some questions:
* What, on this planet, uses CO2 to create oxygen and sugar?? (hint: they're green, they grow, we eat some of them, we make stuff from them, we even burn them for heat)
* Given the answer to the previous question, doesn't it stand to reason that increased CO2 production provides more fertilizer for said green things?
So why are we trying to kill plants by stopping all CO2 production? This planet has been around for a LONG time, there are periods where it produced more CO2 than we ever will (see: prehistoric sources of coal in the ground for that period), I don't think CO2 is nearly the culprit the environazis want it to be. Maybe the aerosols aren't helping, some of the unburnt hydrocarbons are doing their own damage, but all the CO2 we dump has been around since the very beginning, and is as much a part of the planet as any other element. Plus, when you take into account the fact that plants USE CO2 to make oxygen, it becomes a moot point (unless you're hell-bent on total planetary deforestation... oh, snap).
To top it off, I have YET to see a proper thermodynamic analysis of the planet's atmospheric composition, especially including CO2.
Besides (tip of the hat to Michael Crichton), most of the "environmental scientists" screaming the loudest are the ones looking for more paychecks...
Lawyers never do anything unless money (usually an obscene sum of it) is involved. Therefore, someone paid these sharkwhores to file this suit with the accompanying histrionics, and make sure enough of it got coverage, ostensibly to scare someone, or a collection of someone's--who must be dumber than the usual bunch of "sky is falling" crazies (usually politicians, preachers, and prepper).
Follow the money, find the person or persons paying them, and find out if they're doing it because they're crazy; or they're doing it because it ensures them a fat profit.
"No, we do have Bible 2.0, but it's in the form of psychology, economics and sociology textbooks. In a hundred years or so when the dust has cleared on research in these rather young subjects, perhaps there will be a canon."
Science has no "canon": it's all theory that is open to disproof and change. Only religions and corporations have canon and do GM 's and will execute you for questioning them.
"...the arch-conservative [Nazi] and bafflingly popular John Paul II."
Let's get it right, shall we?
I won't change my mind about them until they dissolve and liquidate the entire "religion", as well as declare the "bible" as just a bunch of Jewish fairy tales.
"Economics professors have tried to value intangibles, and it isn't easy. But simple minded capitalist progressivism isn't, in my view over a 50 year timescale, an adequate philosophy."
Economics is like "political science": both utterly worthless fields based upon questionable "science", using illogical and broken "math" to prove spurious "theories" that just dupe the ignorant into thinking they know what they're talking about, enabling them to separate the rubes from their money.
Religions are the prototypical and quintessential corporations: they are both pyramidal organizations that have a person in charge at the top who didn't earn the spot, who abuses the power of the position, and who screws the hell out of the people at the bottom of the pyramid who do the real work.
Religions and corporations also perpetuate the worst atrocities against humanity, and both seem to think they are above the rule of law. They are both designed to take as much money from people as they can, while delivering a substandard and/or dangerous product. They also corrupt governments in order to perpetuate their crimes, as well as their stranglehold upon the collective throats of the people.
So you can continue to kiss the collective assessment of the Poop and corporate CEOs; but all you'll get from it is a foul taste in your mouth and an empty wallet. And you're a fool if you believe otherwise.
"'The Internet gives people access to information and education - religions do not want that - they want to have control and be the source of information'
That makes religions no different than any other human organization. You could say the same thing about governments, corporations, the MPAA, the RIAA, etc."
It's about time someone else made that connection...
It's the new business model: "Extortionware".
I'm waiting for the day that LogMeIn sends someone to my door to beat the extortionware fee out of me--they might as well, since I've never used the product, and now never will. And I suspect they just lost millions of users thanks to this, and they don't deserve them back, EVER.
I hope they drown in their own excrement.
"And yet nobody is being forced to sign it. Is the USA supposed to put other countries' interests before its own?"
They already do... And they put their leashholders' interests far above the people they are supposed to work for.
And now you know why this sorry excuse for a treaty is such a bad idea.
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