That was Bruce Schneier on Security:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/11/tsa_backscatter.html

(bold added for emphasis by russ1337)

either that or one of the Chinese ruling party had a bad experience on chatroulette.

you mis-understood my statement (or trolling). I was not intending the replicator to replicate money... but pointing out that nothing will have value if it is able to be replicated... therefore making money worthless.

i think it would still lead to hyperinflation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation#Root_causes_of_hyperinflation

Just look at the recent event sin Zimbabwe, where printing money to create wealth for the 'material needs' led to hyperinflation.

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

With the media being controlled by the people with money, and with close ties to the government, we can reduce that to "we get the government the people with money want us to get".

I recall some news during the last presidential election which was looking at each hopefuls election funds - and basically divided the funds total by ~$35 to estimate the number of votes that person would get. The more you spend, the more votes you get.

Not really, as small amounts of money equate to small amounts of speech.

look at it another way: 10% of the people hold 90% of the wealth. That same 10% control 90% of how things operate around here...

They're looking... and it reminds me of this:

If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged. - Cardinal Richelieu*.

They'll find something.

* (source disputed)

I was part of the Forward Air Controllers continent - his communications crew. We had a tent, a fridge, and TV.

I had a similar experience. A few years ago I was trying to keep contact with a girl while I was away, so gave her a call while on an exercise. During the call she said 'what is that banging noise?' ... 'oh that, that's just some artillery fire... so anyway, what are you wearing?'

Thanks. I wasn't sure how that worked, (and was silently hoping i wasn't going to get flamed for not having RTFA or something...)

so cheers!

The lets hope the court in DC does take the cue. I'd like to see the business model change rather than massive lawsuits against P2P.

I acknowledge the business model is changing with the likes of Netflix online, Hulu etc, and i'd like to see progress in that direction - internationally. (many of those services are not available outside the USA).

Does this set a precedent making it harder for the 'Dunlapp, Grub and Weaver' lawsuits?

The RIAA/MPAA, and their advocates are going to be pissed....

The daily show is the modern day court jester.

  Samuel Pepys said about his jester: "The King's fool and jester, with the power to mock and revile even the most prominent without penalty" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jester#English_royal_court_jesters

The entire movie appears to be on google video, but not working.

there is a good debate here - around the movie: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9145573810535960472#docid=-3840911425491936015