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Comment Re:Easier? (Score 1) 62

I believe calling it theft is disingenuous too. I think one could argue that (and in some peoples mind it may be what they are thinking) it is closely related to theft of service but I would think it would only be theft of service in the initial (first) copying of the media and copyright infringement every time you "distribute" it.

Comment Re:The Best of Our Government (Score 1) 457

Yes, it's not a tyranny in the sense that we are dragging the minority into the streets and beating them although it is possible within the system. Hopefully our social mores won't allow for such egregious examples but the tyranny is more subtle. Fore example, want to home brew on your Xbox or PS3? Nope, the majority (of Congress) has decided that you can't open up a device you own. Think abortion is killing a child? The majority doesn't think so and will continue to do so.

The term was meant to convey that there exists the chance (and it seems more so in the present) of 49.99999999% of the population being unhappy, unrepresented or even considering the outcome completely vile. In a voting age population of 193,376,975 that means that there is a potential of 95 million subject to the decision of the other 96 million. The tyranny is that there was no compromise.

Comment Re:This guy ever been beaten up before? (Score 1) 566

That is the same thing and I would expect them to

1. Ask you nicely to leave
2. When you still refuse, open the car door and put you in the back of the patrol car
3. If they can't open the door, put your car on a tow truck and remove you and the car.

This is a bit different than asking you to leave and than pepper spraying you and sticking a banana in your tailpipe.

We've forgotten that they are supposed to be PEACE officers.

Comment Re:Missing the point. (Score 1) 297

On top of that, you will also make contacts. This is something I didn't realize after getting out of the school most probably never heard from. You may very well be going to the school with the guy that will be recruited to Google or IBM. I went to school with the guy that was hired to the local code monkey factory.

Who you rub elbows with makes a big difference.

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