The only ones to believe the RIAA are the politicians they bought off.
Right on! You forgot to add the Internet Service Providers.
ISPs get the benefit of less bandwidth usage and grounds on which they can throttle your connection to a grade above dial-up and/or suspend services all the while you pay them your monthly contract/non-contract fee. It's a win-win for all scumbags, everyone gets thrown a bone.
NO ONE WANTS ANY COUNTRY TO CONTROL THE INTERNET. PERIOD. What people want for the internet is a persistent stateless anarchy, with no oversight or governence.
For the most part I agree agree with you in sentiment. However, there are those who want to control the internet, specifically governments and multi-national corporations whose sole business is built on IP and corporations who want even greater control over the physical infrastructure they currently maintain. With the dawn of something precious comes the vultures who want all of it under their control. This is mankind's nature. Through fear, propaganda, lobbying and sometimes force these vultures will eventually get their way. Cyber-attacks, piracy, SOPA, lack of bandwith, child pornography,
Cyber-attacks - The door of company/gov't entity A was open and thieves stole X amount of value, therefore, everyone should send in their keys so we can protect you all, or better yet, we'll build one big door out front and decide who gets to come in and who does not. FUCK YOU, fix your security holes
Piracy - We push digital formats of IP that we own into the public domain with insufficient security and oversight. We are neither going to acknowledge our short-comings in protecting our IP nor are we going to adapt to the changing times and seek out new creative outlets for our products (i.e. rock band), instead we are going to lobby hard for the uber-privilege of regulating all content on the world wide web. FUCK YOU either evolve or don't publish your IP if you can't protect it.
In both of these instances, their fault is spun into request for greater control through fear (economical and national security). I draw a clear distinction between regulation of content and infrastructure. I too wish the internet to remain a "persistent stateless anarchy", however, there needs to be regulation and oversight of infrastructure, NOT content, when appropriate; i.e. detect/protect against DOS attacks, DNS spoofing, etc... But don't tell me what content I can consume and what content I can't.
Like you, I refuse the choose the lesser of the two evils.
Best defense is offense, right?
If you are playing a game of basketball. Unlike a game that ends, when it comes to never ending foreign-policy, the consequences of such attitude will echo far into the future.
You are making huge leaps of assumptions and narrow predictions of the future. If we are going to attack in the name of defense, let the evidence be legitimate, concrete and reputable. Given the many possible outcome the future may hold, for me to to bet the house on one particular outcome, the evidence better be good. Given the odds of such fruition, I'll be wiser to short your position. Needless to say, I don't buy the evidence presented.
I believe in letting systems run their natural organic course along a stable equilibrium and only interfering and manipulating it when harmful and volatile. We pre-maturely got pressured/lobbied into interfering with the self-determination of a sovereign nation. And what is our course of action? Regime change through deprivation. How did that work out first time around? I don't see this ending well.
www.w3schools.com/js/js_popup.asp. alert() and confirm() dialogs with no explanation that they should generally be avoided. Also no discussion of console.log() for debugging purposes.
Hmmm, lets see...
1. Snub w3schools for not diving into advanced topics as to not overwhelm newcomers.
2. Not acknowledge the cases where alert and confirm dialogs are sufficient solutions.
3. Criticize w3schools.com for lack of giving explanation while you yourself don't give an explanation.
4. Advocating the use of console.log while knowing that console object isn't supported by all browsers.
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