I think you will find that most people realize that they have rights and object to the idea that individual liberties should be subservient to the rights of corporations.

Of course most non-enthusiasts won't realize what interesting things are being kept from them due to corporate lobbying.

Companies that have tried to market playback devices that allowed for such tie ins with user created content have been litigated off the market. If not for abusive content companies, these subtitle files likely would be perfectly usable with DVD players from the likes of Sony.

Of course with a general purpose machine (HTPC), you can pretty much do anything.

> You aren't allowed to muck with someone else's work without their permission. That's the whole point of copyright,

No it isn't.

The whole point of copyright is that we do have something to muck with. Copyright exists to foster what you would describe as piracy. It is not a virtual land grab. That's just corporate propaganda.

No. The whole point of copyright is piracy.

The corporations have just distorted things.

No. We don't all know.

You are just being a huge asshole and just declaring everyone to be thieves with nothing to back that up except your own stupidity and total lack of morals.

You are simply projecting. YOU are the dishonest scum and you are projecting that on the rest of us.

> I fail to see the relevance of your post.

Of course not. You're too much of a corporate toadie.

His post was an obvious prelude to a fair use defense. Fansubbing does not devalue the work. It is not piracy in any meaningful sense of the word. It's merely end users managing to find some way of making a particular creative work more useful.

This "derivative" also can't be used without the original.

Copyright related monopoly powers should be minimized rather than maximized as a matter of basic public policy and because that's what the copyright clause in the US Constitution indicates.

I was planning on waiting for it on Netflix anyways...

I had actually forgotten about this whole "Card is a bigot" drama. If anything, I think it is him stirring the pot in a desperate attempt to be visible. You know what they say... any publicity is good publicity.

He's just trying to go for the Ozzy Osbourne effect.

> What have you ever published, that you think you deserve to deny professional writers and musicians a chance to make a decent living? Don't tell me about sysadmin perl scripts.

No one else has the right to make a living in a particular manner.

Certainly no one else gets to sponge off of work they did 20 years ago.

Welcome to the reality the rest of us get to face.

I can't imagine it making much difference really.

Not that I would expect the overhead here to be a whole ms.

I can get results from an RDBMS in a ms.

What fiasco? Any insurance is a shared risk pool. That includes the careless jack*sses. It doesn't matter if this is a government imposed system or one from the allegedly free market. You still have to account for the people that make poor choices.

Piling on "consequences" completely defeats the entire point of government meddling to begin with.

We don't need to add yet another layer of inefficiency if the final result is going to be that some class of insured is told "tough luck". The free market can do that all by itself.

The fact that the system avoids punishing poor choices should be a surprise to NO ONE.

It's an obvious design requirement.

...in other words, you believe that handing off something to a large government beaurocracy is going to magically make that thing more efficient and cheaper.

Do you fall for telemarketers and Nigerian scams too?

Except going broke is not something that should be feared in a civilized country. It shouldn't even be terribly shocking. Business entities do it all the time.

Of course we all know that there's 2 different standards for real people and corporations.

Yes. You get to see for yourself just disorganized and undisciplined the Italians are. I can just imagine them engaging in some sort of freeloader feeding frenzy. It does put the Spanish and Greeks into perspective. It's a nice contrast to the English and Germans.

The whole thing makes it easy to imagine the disaster that would ensue with a social welfare system that has to govern a mixture of both.

The Germans themselves seem doubtful about the prospect of them being able to bail everyone else out.

Nope.

You don't point a weapon at something unless you are prepared to destroy that something.It's something that should be basic common sense but a lot of people are really stupid. They need to be told these things.

Most people who get shot in America are ultimately the victim of the illegal drug trade which is fueled by primarily economic factors.

If you are some white,clueless,middle-class spooner, then you have about as much chance of being shot as some Eurotrash.

This has nothing to do with recent history. Peasants have had no rights pretty much forever in Europe. That is why people have fled to the other side of the pond. They wanted to get away from being owned by a King or a local robber baron.

Being systematically disarmed is just part of that.