You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. The power to enforce copyright laws was written into the constitution, which I'm fairly sure predates Disney by a few years or so. The constitution doesn't generally concern itself with "civil matters". Secondly, even civil matters "demand the action of law enforcement agencies" in the role of enforcement if nothing else, so that particular distinction is completely spurious. Lastly, which branch of the government is responsible for adjudicating or enforcing which laws is completely irrelevant when the topic of discussion is whether or not a particular action can actually be effectively addressed by legislative processes.

Basically everything you've said is completely wrong, in every way it's possible to be wrong.

Start reading here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

and don't stop until you get to the bottom. Then come back and try to contribute something a bit more factual / useful.

Oh yeah, she lost boatloads of money. I mean getting $150,000 on kickstarter instead of the $6,000 she asked for ... that's GOT to hurt.

If you think any of these women are losing money, you're delusional. This kind of publicity is the best thing that could have happened to them.

Oh but there is. You can complain really really loudly, and then summon an army of SJWs to also complain really really loudly. Then you can all use the resulting uproar to further promote your blog/book/online-business.

You know what they say; there's no such thing as bad publicity.

So is piracy. How are we doing at stopping that on the intertubes, anyway?

It's a valid point, but there's a massive difference between the two situations you refer to; in the former 2 people died, in the latter nobody died. If the LT in Afghanistan hadn't actually managed to kill anyone, it's unlikely he'd have been charged at all, and he certainly couldn't have been found guilty of murder.

In any event, poor training obviously tends to result in all sorts of horrible outcomes, regardless of whether we're talking about the military or the police, but that doesn't say anything about your earlier generalization. Granted the line between policing and military ops has narrowed quite a bit over the last decade, but that's primarily due to changes in how we fight wars, not changes in how the police operate. If you can't see any difference between military and police you couldn't have been in any real firefights.

True that bro. I couldn't believe how many cluster bombs the police dropped on the streets of Ferguson.

Sure, or maybe eyewitness testimony is the least reliable form of evidence because people get shit wrong all the time.

There have been 3 autopsies; none have shown any evidence that he was shot in the back.

North Korea.

As soon as you link to "NatursalNews", you lose all respectability. You can be assured that no rational person will even bother to check out any of your other cherrypicked links. It's kinda like trying to give out peer-reviewed articles on a street corner while wearing a tinfoil hat. Good luck with that.

Or, you know, people could stop being narcissistic assholes who think the world revolves around them. Actually try caring about the well-being of others, and take responsible measures to prevent doing harm to them even if means some hardship for you.

I know, I'm a dreamer.

Imagine... a phone you can steal tiny little parts out of, rather than the whole phone. It might be minutes or even hours before anybody even notices.

Are you serious? You think your little armchairy-10-seconds-of-analysis thought on the security of this device hasn't been covered by google's team of engineers?

Oh, it has:

Google says that there will be a “manager” app on the smartphone that controls some kind of locking mechanism, which keeps the modules from popping out when the phone is dropped or twisted.

1. I'm too busy to sit around thinking up additional words to throw in so I can score "mod" points

2. The people I like on Slashdot are too busy to read a bunch of additional words I only threw in so I can score "mod" points

3. It's not in my nature to waste words, or to waste time

Actually this particular councilman represents an extremely high-rent district--Manhattan's upper east side. I doubt there are many wealthier neighborhoods in the world. He's not doing this to 'score points', he's doing it to do the right thing.

Well said