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The sinking of the U.S.S. Economy

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[Lurker]

HA

[Nathan]

No, he doesn't. This isn't even a little bit accurate.

First, Obama says the economy is improving. Second, when has he EVER blamed the Arab Spring?

[Almanian]

First "derp" of the day! Yay!

[anon]

Damnit, it's not Thursday anymore.

[F Hart]

The Arab Spring? Isn't that an oasis in the desert?

[Bucky]

a new deodorant soap for those close up moments during hajj?

[Francisco d Anconia]

Manly yes, but my camel likes it too.

[Live Free or Diet]

Second, when has he EVER blamed the Arab Spring?

It's in the first 15 seconds of the video:
http://www.realclearpolitics.c.....rowth.html

[Tim Cavanaugh]

And he didn't just say "uncertainty created by the Arab Spring" but the A.S.'s "effect on oil and gas prices" ? a phenomenon for which there is no evidence.

[COXSWAIN HARDY]

Too soon. Not because of the deaths. Always too soon for a Payne cartoon.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Talking boomerangs?

[F Hart]

Dicknose

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[Almanian]

So the US(S) economy is white? And a black hole sank it?

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!

[Black Ho]

Don't you be blamin' me, honkey.

[William Walsh]

I heard it was ATMs.

[William Walsh]

. . . And Bush.

[Joe Mamma]

I heard it was ATMs.

Anal tickling machines?

[anon]

Don't forget the internets that Al Gore invented.

[Sopapilla]

Al Gore invented and that is why the guvmint is gonna figger out how to take it away, since they own it. And it really is just one thing, ya know?

[Suthenboy]

...and it was the dastardly republicans fault he had to nix the xl pipeline.

Poor guy, everything he tries to do is thwarted by some evil, conservative, bible clinging knuckle-dragger. Nothing that goes wrong is ever his fault. If only he could rule china-style with dictatorial powers. It would be blue skies all the way then, everything coming up rainbows and butterflies.

[WWNGD?]

That is what they would tell us.

[anon]

. If only he could rule china-style with dictatorial powers. It would be blue skies all the way then, everything coming up rainbows and butterflies.

This is closer to becoming reality than you realize.

[Suthenboy]

I wish I could say you are correct, I could live in blissful ignorance. I said those things because I realize how close it is and how bad he wants it.

[Laoshi]

He would never want to rule China style because here in China the Communist Party is the only game in town and when things go wrong it has to take the blame and come up with some solutions that work. It's much better to rule American style where everything that goes wrong is the fault of George Bush, Wall Street, or Republicans.

[Colonel_Angus]

What a topical generic metaphor.

[Bucky]

it should have said "Captain Owebama, I am ordering you to stop campaigning and get back on the ship!"

[Bucky]

or "The news is reporting that he purposely did this to 'salute' the environmentalists...

[MANGO PUNCH]

SUPER TANKER AMERICA!!!!!!

eff yeah!

[Aaar!]

Property-stealing site shut down, thieves arrested, anonymous thugs unhappy, demand right to free stuff.

[anon]

"Theft" implies taking something that does not belong to you. Copying does not deprive the owner of their property.

Should a print of the Mona Lisa be considered theft?

[heller]

Yes and you owe Leonardo da Vinci $100 million every time you sell one.

[You are boring.]

Copying deprives the owner of his profits. Property without the right to use and disposal is a sham concept.

[anon]

Profits aren't a right. Copying does not prevent the use and disposal of said property.

[heller]

Deprives how? The artist never made the copy, so the artist could never have sold it.

[anon]

"Depriving" assumes the owner had a "right" to those profits in the first place, which no owner has a "right" to any profit. He only has a right to sell for what the market is willing to pay.

[Francisco d Anconia]

anon

Are you kidding me? So I suppose I should be able to "copy" and sell a patented product as well?

Anyone can profit from the fruits of my labor? That's ridiculous.

I'm all for eliminating online piracy. It's just that SOPA isn't the answer.

[heller]

+11

[slutmonkey]

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexi.....ights.html

[JohnD]

Hey Anon, Try selling copies of Movie DVDs or Music and see what happens.

[anon]

You've obviously never been to NYC.

[Colonel_Angus]

What happens and what is right are not the same thing.

[Apatheist]

I'm sorry who is selling stuff on pirate bay? The better analogy is "try giving a mixtape to your girlfriend and see what happens." What happens is you get laid if you do it right.

Not only does a copy not deprive the owner of anything but the person delivering the copy isn't making money off of it. Taking your position to it's logical conclusion would outlaw dvrs, copying cds for friends (really just playing those cds for friends they didn't pay to listen to it!), etc.

[slutmonkey]

The problem is that no one (to my knowledge) has been able to articulate a principle to differentiate "fair use" from "infringement". The term fair is up for grabs every time. How much sharing should be acceptable? How much can be prevented without excessive negative consequences anyway?

[Colonel_Angus]

One of the indicted has the last name Dotcom.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Will you look at that? Did the movie Titanic teach us nothing? Only three penises in a lifeboat built to hold a total sausagefest. And where are the women and children penises?

[anon]

And where are the women and children penises?

They had to eat. Also, monocles.

[Bucky]

they were off the ship first...

[SugarFree]

I wonder...

See, that how you do a funny. Boner jokes.

[heller]

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[anon]

OT: Infowars criticizes Google for doing whatever it damn well pleases with its own property, fails to recognize the difference between private property and government coercion.

[heller]

Infowars? Really?

[anon]

A "news source" according to google news, ironically.

[PapayaSF]

They have a point. Google ranks pages in part according to how popular they are. When an extremely popular website no longer gets indexed (and not because it's being punished for black hat SEO or something) it smells like a political decision.

[kilroy]

Ugh. The Friday pain.

[daveed]

Obama! Scendere dalla nave cazzo!

[eyeball]

Ironically, Obama's ship looks like the head of a golf club.

[heller]

Befitting this site, I present The Worst Comment of the Day?.

Drum roll, please.

"No owner has a 'right' to any profit."

Thank you, "anon," for that eloquent example of ethical nihilism.

[Brandon]

So you think the government should be guaranteeing profit margins to selected industries by use of force?

[slutmonkey]

Neither of you are using precise terms, and you're obtusely using different definitions of "right" and "profit".

No one may require others give him success, but everyone has the right own the results of his trades, whether profit or loss.

Any principle of copyright isn't necessarily about profits anyway (although profit is definitely a driving factor in recent enforcement attempts). Copyright is about whether you have a right to control re-creation of your designs and to what extent.

Electronics have brought the cost of this re-creation down so low that many people can no longer distinguish between the actual cost and free. This results in a similarly close to zero perception of the actual value of the products and from there it's a small step to not feeling guilt for taking and then to feeling entitled to getting. After all if something really is free, and we have an unlimited supply, there's no reason everyone shouldn't get as many as they want.

At the same time many copyright owners have not adjusted their own perceptions of their work's value. They often don't realize that the value of their products is no longer $24.99. iTunes style pricing, say $1, is close enough to the actual value of the product that most people will pay it and not feel ripped off.

[plusafdotcom]

i addressed some of these issues back in '03... see http://www.plusaf.com/lessons/dearriaa.htm

and yes, slutmonkey, you're spot on and those other folks don't have a grip on the concepts of copyright.

but look what i wrote over eight years ago... LONG before iTunes and their ilk brought the market price of record cuts down to where they should have been...

cheers!

[Org]

Force is not necessary to profit. However, it is necessary to the transfer of a commodity upon terms other than those acceptable to the owner.

The owner has the right to set the terms for the transfer of his property. If these terms are unacceptable and the owner will not change them, the government must come to the aid of the property owner who is threatened with a forcible transfer of his property.

[slutmonkey]

That's easy to apply to tangible property, but it's a little more complicated with copyrighted property because the knowledge of how to duplicate the property is necessarily transferred with a sale of the property. So is it really "force" for the recipient to make further copies at that point? Debatable.

[Brandybuck]

Why are there three ducks in that lifeboat?

[Scott Cameron]

And he would be right. He's only trying to save a ship that was unmercifully driven upon the rocks by the Fascist leader of the prior 8 years. The one who started us down the slippery slope of destroying the Constitution with his UnPatriot Act, UnReal ID Act and unlawful warring against foreign nations instead of the real culprits, just to line the pockets of his friends in the "Military Industrial Complex" to quote President Eisenhower.

[slutmonkey]

They've been driving onto the rocks for a lot longer than 8 years. Try a century.

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[Sam]

^^^ If you don't understand this, or don't admit it, you're a partisan fuck and need to shut up.

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