Every month my bill goes up! Between all the different constantly fluctuating "fees" (UCC, Regulatory Recovery, Local Franchise, FCC Regulatory, 911, State Assessment, etc.) my bill goes up about a buck or more a month.

It doesn't say where it actually is, but if it is a military thing, it would be at a military base. And Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst is a short drive from the New Jersey Turnpike...

Ugh, the CWA! I worked as a programmer at newspaper years ago and was forced to be in the CWA. The pay raise thing sucked--if you worked your ass off you got a 2.5% raise annually, if you sat around doing nothing you got a 2.5% raise annually. So, the only way to get a industry competitive raise was to get promoted--which, because of the union, went by seniority. Their big selling point was, "you get great benefits for free!" Yeah, but the "free benefits" cost as much as the union dues, so it was a wash. Then, to add insult to injury, when lay-offs rolled around the union didn't do a thing--they just let us get laid off (there were thirteen rounds of lay-offs altogether, I went on round five--and the guy who laid me off went on round six).

Quite frankly, I steer away from any IT job that requires I join a union just because of how crappy being in the CWA was (I've asked if there is a union in every interview I've had since then).

they made me change my username and password when I logged in the other day.

I would imagine the next step would be to issue a ruling finding that the TSA violated federal law and requiring the suspension of the scanners until the public comment has been done and the results tallied...

You are incorrect. There is a reason they took the prisoners to Guantanamo Bay and not some other base, it is not sovereign US soil--the treaty with Cuba leases the lands the base is on to US and gives the US complete jurisdiction and control of the base, but actual sovereignty is retained by Cuba. Therefore, the US Constitution does not apply there.

Good argument, if this were a democracy. But, it is a republic. Therefore, technically, only our elected representatives require the government to be transparent to them.

I go with Ronsonol lighter fluid. It works on most adhesive residue, doesn't damage the underlying surface, and it evaporates quickly.

No, you get 365 days after the service member's death until you have to vacate base housing (or lose your housing allowance if you live off base). It's not like they push you out the door after the funeral...

You're asking this in a country where even hair dryers have labels like "WARNING: Do not use in shower."? Hell, pharmacists even put a "Warning: May cause drowsiness" sticker on a bottle of prescription sleeping pills...

Basically, i don't see how their legal defense would go. "we only provide links to the torrents" would be suprnovas, but isn't loki a tracker?

"we're not the ones downloading, we're just facilitating."

Since lokitorrent doesn't host the copyrighted file, but rather provides a way to communicate with the person that does, that's not really a good analogy. A tracker is more like the phone company in a sense. The phone company, much like a tracker, provides a way for two or more parties to communicate, it doesn't provide or contribute to the conversation. You don't see the phone company being charged with criminal conspiracy when two or more of their customers use their lines to conduct illegal activities do you?

I think what the MPAA is doing is wrong. If they were going after the providers of, or those who knowingly download, the copyrighted material, that would be one thing. But, to go after the tracker sites instead seems cheap.

Also, why is their first response a threat to sue if they don't shutdown their site? They could have just sent the site owner a letter listing all the things they held copyright on and asked them to remove them and put a mechanism in place so that their materials are not permitted to be posted in the future. Much like how ADV Films dealt with anime torrents sites that were listing/tracking the anime they licensed. Granted, several of the sites relocated their servers to countries that do not recognize copyright laws, but the remaining ones just removed the offending links and/or torrent files (with the exception of several sites that decided that it was too much trouble to address the long-term problem and shutdown their site). This seems a more ethical and cost-effective solution in my opinion.