I disagree.

Personally, and like many of the people I know, I don't file-share because it saves me any money OR because I don't have money in the first place.

I do it because I'm not going to waste money giving it to a studio that does things I disagree with. I'll grab a copy of a CD and spend some time putting some research into the artist. If I feel that the artist deserves money from me: I'll gladly support the studio for signing, (as they did the artist a favor, and should be compensated for that work)

however, when I get a hold of a movie (or any other work for that matter) that was only put together because a bunch of people thought: "the masses will eat this up" and the limit of the creative talent contributed to the making of the film amounts to a single producer that has a history of suing people because he needs a new car this year,
I'll watch it, try and see if any of the people that worked on it have earned my purchase price from the work, and then decide if I'm going to support a studio that's just trying to live a short-sited life of "make as much money as you can, and screw every one", or not.

But then again: I'm also someone who watches (and appreciates) the credits to every film I see. So I guess I'm likely the minority.

to some degree. at the same time, it's now MUCH easier to self promote. it means more work: but that's life.

if enough people disagree with the license, and refuse to honor it, maybe it should be changed? rather than trying to sue everyone viloating it and ENSURING that you lose customers in the future, maybe we should start thinking about changing the agreement?

there was a day that slave agreements were handed out to the masses, they had no choice but to accept them, and they did not agree/broke the agreement as often as they could.

I REALLY hope you're kidding. Markets collapse. that's life. there's NOTHING Illegal about that, nor should there be.

Just because something somebody decided to make a living in stops being profitable, it's not up to the law to fix that.

Start a business, go give people BETTER software/music, BETTER licenses, BETTER terms, and take a segment of the people that are file-sharing and come up with a way to enhance that experience for a price.

When they start killing/physically harming/blackmailing/raping people, THEN get the law involved.

until then, try new business practices, or get into a different market. there's nobody holding a gun to your head and stopping you.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

you just stated: "what's wrong with a dictatorship?"

This is a democracy. if the majority of people agree on something, THAT IS THE LAW.

once you learn to type at 240wpm, to ATTEMPT to keep up with the 20 people you're trying to help in IRC, your spelling will go too. :P

well, Guess it's time to close that account then.

what a bunch of bullshit. I'm getting so tired of the the divide that's developing.

I think you mean: "Juries are already instructed as to its acceptability in a few courts in the USA. totaling less than 1% of the global courts"

most of the way around the world: you can't instruct a juror in ANY WAY. it's up to them to decide based on what the two sides have to say.

I've got to second the above posters.

though FAR from secure,
for the DoD, CAC's are "good enough".

Wow, I play a good pile of games a year.. and I've never even heard of one of those. :P

I'll admit to being with you on that one. I'd sign up for that!

if only you had a properly working artificial brain that could be hexdump | grep [that thing I was looking for] 'd eh? :P

Personally: I'd be ok with it.

Even with all the bad things in the world, even without anybody else to share it with, I'd be ok continuing on forever.

in all reality, there'd be no way for you to remember EVERYTHING. you'd likely have to run on a cycle of 150 years of memory (tops!) while forgetting older things as the neurons that were retaining them begin to die but the information they contain is not moved to another area.
this would present an interesting opportunity, you don't HAVE to remember things, just leave them out of your thought for long enough and BAM! they're gone.

guess that depends on the packets.

the sms message sent to 911 asking for help: I'd assume to be one that would REALLY suck if it were to get dropped. even though the MS MAY be able to resend it at a later time, it could still make the difference between life and death.

Learn another language sometime. then sit and laugh at the stupid critizims of your use of that language.

Seriously: when I type out "get's something" the meaning is PERFECTLY clear to 99% of the world. If you're part of the minority who can't process other peoples idioms: that's just too bad.

not much of one if she was advertising gang-bang services no!

seriously: selling a product then telling somebody they're "over using" something without any contracted limits is the worst.

Yeah.. because sitting on a campus for a few years and convincing somebody that you have "furthered some area of learnedness" is how I define 'smart'. [/sarcasm]

A PhD does not make you smart. all it requires these days is you either spending enough money, or doing enough work for long enough that you've 'paid your dues'. the peer review requirement is a joke and has been for years.