I did not say I made unlicensed content, I just said it was becoming the only sound and reasonable choice. Nowadays when I here modern music and auto tune all I hear is the greed and it really is off putting, so my preferred choice is to not listen at all. Every now and again I might listen to some old content but that is to recapture the emotions recalled with specific memories associated with that content, rather than listening to the music and I really don't do that much either. Other than that maybe some bargain bin diving where their reward is absolutely minimal. Of all things I am most enjoying https://archive.org/details/ol..., it is really quite fun to listen to when going for a constitutional, walk that is.

The shake down is already occurring in the PR bullshit associated with the story. The people targeted are not down loaders, they were torrenting hence they were uploaders, that is a huge distinction which main stream media in Australia is purposefully and corruptly distorting.

As for iinet turning to crap, it is inevitable. TPG is simply paying more for iinet than it is worth and to get that money back they will offshore and cripple support and services. This will create a hole in the market for other companies to exploit as users inevitably leave after the first undecipherable support call.

Some other things they could also add, temporary download cache for latter viewing rather than streaming (for connections crippled by government and incumbent telecoms corruption) and blocking of annoying crap uploaders so they never again appear in search results (all to often search results spew the same asshats because at one stage the got ahead in the numbers and simply stayed there as a result pissing everyone off with crap content).

Yep, so far all they have done is to quite successfully promote the documentary. I had not heard about it till now.

So far they have only pretended to raise the minimum wage, plenty of time to cancel everything. So feel good politics only, typical PR exercise. They might as well have voted to raise the minimum wage to $1,000 an hour -------------- by 2120. Just as meaningless.

Which is why you tend to limit it to minor fines, a simple network traffic authority and for more severe crimes you escalate it to a full investigation by other authorities. It means a lot of current major felonies in terms of computer and network crimes drop to misdemeanour's and fines but they are much more readily applied, in much the same context as a speeding fine or a parking fine. So an administrative regulatory authority. The main feature being skilled people who can keep up with computer crimes and network crimes and computer forensics. They provide a place for the ready reporting of spam, phishing attacks, spy ware reports, forum spamming, virus and trojan reporting etc.. The fines could be quite severe for repeated offences.

Either than or they are heavily into UFOs and the real threat there were considering was humans allying with the aliens against existing power structures. This whole government attack on all things UFO based on the ludicrous idea that humans are the only intelligent species in this galaxy, really is beginning to smell more like their complete and total impotence when it keeps to dealing with stuff not of this world or even just the idea of it. So they are desperate to maintain a front of control and authority, not of course for the benefit of humanity but to serve their own greed, lusts and ego. Kind of like the crazy conspiracy theories of governments colluding with aliens, trying to create the subconscious illusion that somehow those governments have some influence over what is happening beyond the thin skin of our own atmosphere. The whole silly nonsense is starting to look really childish.

For manual systems to work, you have to practice them. Make sure the courier rider is still there, make sure the forms are still there and make sure the boxes of pencils are still there. Basically the military needs to keep manual systems going because when all else fails, part of their function is to remain functioning. Military transport vehicles at their very core should be very reliable, very fuel efficient and be capable of running without electronics. They have the bodies and keeping them busy with paperwork and manual systems makes sense. A highly automated civil society requires a very manual defence structure to ensure when that highly automated civil society fails for what ever reason it can be readily rebuilt with manual system. Rebuilding automation when you are totally reliant on automation to achieve it, will take a very long painful time. The major solar flare, the meteorite impact, that series of major seismic events, all need to be taken into account when organised how you military systems are managed, they are not just for blowing stuff up and killing people, in a modern world their primary roles should be building stuff and saving people otherwise you are just wasting resources to waste resources.

The FBI is not really the correct authority to deal with this problem. It should really be an empowered communications authority that works with local and federal policing agencies to track and prosecute these communications network crimes. It could certainly escalate up to a federal investigation but the initial response should be much more readily accessible to the public and a focus on fines for poor network behaviour. This then escalating up to agents in the field for more intense investigation, not communications authority agents but Federal and State police investigative agents.

The numbers will bog down investigative agencies and in the end much like house breaking or car theft, nothing much will be done about because they are simply unable to cope with the numbers. So much like traffic offences, it becomes more an administrative control with simple more readily applicable penalties and should it require it, escalation into full investigation by the appropriate policing authorities.

I would have to agree with that. You know it has reached the point, we I am now turned off by the idea of buying their content because it feels like I am supporting their corruption of our governments. Buying rather the pirating is now the act of evil in support of evil. I go to buy some content and I have to stop and consider where that money is going, what they are doing with it and how many people will suffer as a result. They are such a corrupt pack psychopathic and narcissistic of ass hats that they are making piracy the only honourable choice.

I try to enjoy some feel good content only to end up feeling bad when I am reminded by those arse holes how much damage they are doing all over the place, the shit heads brag about who can burn up the most resources, who can control governments more who has the most inflated ego. By their actions, they are making piracy the only sound and reasonable choice.

More mind boggling stupid and immature US Government corporate propaganda it's like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E... doesn't even exist in the Australia, Canada and the USA. The other countries with lots of Uranium. OHHH KNOWSSS some evil corporation owns our minerals and we can do nothing to stop them. When it is a US corporation that owns them, everyone knows that is a problem because when countries do eminent domain against US corporations, the US government stages coups and kills shit loads of people, at the behest of those US corporations. In every other case it's, we want it, we think it is worth this amount, here's the money, piss off, it's ours again. Of course the pressure is mounting against a corrupt US government and they are slowly but surely being forced to comply to those rules in other countries as the world unites against the rapacious activities of a corporate controlled US government.

The most dangerous thing you can do if you have lots of primary resources is to allow a US military base in your country, they will never ever be there for your benefit and will remain a constant threat.

The more polite term is Lead Head, you know just another one of those pseudo Christian conservatives suffering from toxic lead poisoning. Not really their fault, just another one of those mind boggling stupid things humanity has managed to do to itself. No need to be cruel, they are a dying minority, currently still noisy but never the less still passing off into an embarrassing history, not just for who they are but how they were made. So no tin foil hat insulation jokes but actual built in cerebral lead insulation keeping those mind closed off from thoughts and ideas. Keep in mind (something they can't do), it is not their fault and as yet the damage can not be repaired. They are tough to deal with but they are what they are and they are still being produced in some locations due to lead pollutants contained in those locations.

Lets be honest, all the worlds intelligence agencies are criminally corrupt and should never be trusted and it should always be up to police and communications authorities the world over to catch them and prosecute them and never ever work with them to commit criminal acts or to interfere with the proper course of justice. Passive gathering of intelligence is tolerable, active criminal acts or associating with organised crime or corrupting governments or staging coups are all acts of evil and should never be tolerated and the individuals involved should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

To psychopath bean counters modding is evil incarnate because it competes with bullshit DLC, you know the two thirds of the game they left out on purpose because they want to sell it to you latter. This along with mind boggling boring cut scenes you can not skip because, yeah that is the whole idea, mind boggling boring to stop you playing the original game over and over again, to try to force you to buy more DLC.

I am reading this discussion and I can not help but think, what the fuck, exactly how fucking stupid are American children that it is so difficult for them to learn fucking cursive writing. What like, is it a four year college degree. Shit man, it is fucking cursive, here are the fucking way the letters are written, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... and look there are a bunch of different styles. It is not like it is a different fucking language, for fuck fuckity fucking sake.

Why still teach in pencil and paper because it wont hurt, it doesn't take all that much skill, time or effort, honestly and fuck M$ greed.

So what was the Dread Pirate Roberts 'SIC' really doing, keeping his addicts alive so that they could keep buying very addictive and very expensive drugs funded by the crimes drug addicts often commit. So good or evil hmmm, fucking as evil as hell and it is the thought that counts in this case. This is definitely the prosecution should really hammer home, keeping addicts going and keeping the drug fueled crime going. Less addictive drugs, sure no problem, doing this with really addictive dangerous drugs, really fucking sick.