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Comment Re:The belief in punishment (Score 1) 197

If they aren't contributing, why are they being paid? What gives the government the right to tell someone that their labor has a set value? If private companies are paying them, that's fine. If a crime is being committed, they should be prosecuted. But if they get paid more than you think they should be paid, how does this justify their salaries being capped?

Comment Re:The first movie (Score 1) 861

When I was younger, I loved movies. I pirated them quite frequently and rarely paid for them. I occasionally went to movies, but normally I didn't pay. As I am growing older, the money I am spending on media is increasing. I go to the movies a lot more, rent more, and pay for Rhapsody and other services. Should I have simply not watched movies when I was younger? Perhaps it was immoral to pirate them. Even so, I did not have the money; now that I do I pay.

Comment Re:The belief in punishment (Score 2, Informative) 197

You cannot continue having a society where some win the great price and become rich whilst the majority stay poor.

While the divide between the classes is large, it's a joke to claim that the majority is poor. Most Americans are above the poverty line and live well. Very few people are actually "poor."

Comment Re:The first movie (Score 3, Insightful) 861

I didn't think it was that good of a movie. The critics (from what I've heard) raved about it, but I found the combat scenes to be unrealistic, the dialogue to be rather boring, and the plot uninteresting. One ridiculous scene involved a gun jammed because there was blood on the bullet. Seriously? Using one of the best sniper rifles in the world and blood on the bullet jammed the gun? Of course removing the bullet and cleaning it with spit did the trick. Interestingly enough, all of this was done right next to where someone had just been shot. What a ridiculous scene. Maybe they didn't make that much money because it wasn't that good of a movie... Also, Avatar was in the theaters at the same time and everyone was talking about that. Either way, I bet they're just suing some Bit Torrent noobs and they won't accomplish anything. I hope that everyone fights the suits so we can see what happens when they take 5,000 people to court....
Cellphones

Submission + - New Law Would Require ID to Buy Prepaid Phones 1

Hugh Pickens writes: "The Washington Post reports that Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) have introduced legislation that would require buyers to present identification when purchasing a prepaid cellphone and require phone companies to keep the information on file, as they do with users of landline phones and subscription-based cellphones. "This proposal is overdue because for years, terrorists, drug kingpins and gang members have stayed one step ahead of the law by using prepaid phones that are hard to trace," says Schumer. Civil liberties advocates have concerns about the proposal, saying there must be a role for anonymous communications in a free society adding that the space for such anonymous or pseudonymous communications has been narrowed since pay phones, for example, have largely disappeared. "They remain important for whistleblowers, battered spouses, reporters' sources," says James X. Dempsey, policy director for the Center for Democracy and Technology. "I think everybody would admit in a free society there is a need for some ability to communicate without creating a full digital paper trail," Dempsey says. "We're just saying this proposal has to be considered in a broader context.""

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