The hell is wrong with people? There's an old junk truck sitting outside, outside the fence but not in the road, and it has a load of junk in an toolbox that is devoid of any quality that would make one think the truck has any value. In short, it's a worthless pile.
Today I swore I heard someone open the door to one of the cars in the driveway, and so I stare at the driveway for a bit trying to discern if it was, or if I heard someone in the neighbors yard. It's hard to tell sometimes which direction it comes from, and people often arrive/leave around that time of day. Picking someone up, getting home from work, going to get groceries or whatever.
No movement, I ignore it.
Dad notices something is up with the toolbox today when he gets home. We go investigate.
Someone opened it (not hard, it's not locked), and couldn't shut it and broke it in the attempt. No big loss. Nothing was taken from the inside (there's a surprise).
Someone in this area is absolutely stupid. They tried to steal from a junk pile that is unlocked, unwatched, and unoperational, in the middle of the day, while someone was outside and all but one of the vehicles were here.
This reminded me of something far, far more unusual.
In the fall semester, I was informed after a day of class, that someone had stolen our garbage can. A full garbage can, like the day before garbage day packed. They didn't dump it.
There was nothing of a personal nature in it, or any financial papers. It was 99% kitchen garbage. That means vegetable, fruit, and meat leavings, dog food cans, et cetera.
Papertowels that have been used to clean up messes. The other 1% was quite a bit ickier. So someone stole the entire can.
The cans are provided, by the garbage company, at no charge. There is almost zero value to them.
This is how I imagine the scene: The crazy bastard, hair all astray, wearing institute issue white pants and sneakers, and an unbuckled straight-jacket, walks up to the garbage can, opens the lid, smells it like a chef with some good food cooking, smiles like a maniac, and rolls the damn thing down the road real fast, cackling madly with their loot, stopping to pick up a stray banana peel that fell out.
There is a derranged klepto in my neighborhood who likes garbage. Maybe I'll get lucky and they'll rake up and steal the oak leaves for me.
Mauresmo also won in straight sets(6-3,6-4) over Myskina. Mauresmo is my least favorite woman in the finals, so I'd like to see her run ended by Davenport in the semis.
Venus Williams won, also in straight sets(6-0,7-6).
This is a trend. Williams will face Sharapova, who won in, you guessed it, straight sets (7-6,6-3). As Venus Williams is my second to least favorite in the finals, I'd like to see Sharapova eliminate her in the semis.
This would lead to the match I wanted to see at the French Open.
Davenport Vs. Sharapova as the final.
I don't know if it will happen -- both Davenport and Sharapova have tough opponents -- but I want to see it. It has the potential to be a great match (or Davenport will school Sharapova).
My predictions are better on grass.
Go grass, clay stinks.
The men's Quarter Finals are set now, as opposed to just speculation:
Federer Vs. Gonzalez, and I stand by my prediction.
Federer will make it to the finals. Straight sets.
Hewitt Vs.
Lopez, much the same -- Hewitt in three, maybe four sets. The bottom half doesn't matter still, because Roddick is going to just breeze past those guys. Roddick is my pick to win.
Lindsay Davenport Vs.
Svetlana Kuznetsova. This should be interesting. I enjoy watching both women play and, like the Davenport/Clijsters match, this is two players I really like to watch and wouldn't mind seeing either of them win.
I prever Davenport, as I still want to see her win a Grand Slam or two before she retires.
Amelie Mauresmo Vs. Anastasia Myskina.
Mauresmo is seeded higher, and statistically has an advantage. I've never really liked her, so I don't want to see her win. Myskina isn't one of my absolute favorites but she is a great player.
Either way, the winner of this will lose to Davenport or Kuznetsova in the Semis.
Mary Pierce Vs. Venus Williams.
I want to see Williams win, in a rare, rare moment. I hate Mary Pierce. Williams has been dogged by a vicious streak of bad luck, and Pierce has had some good luck, and I hope that changes.
What kind of crazy lunatic conservative gunblogger would I be if I rooted for a Frenchwoman over an American?
Nadia Petrova Vs. Maria Sharapova.
No contest. Sharapova let me down last time I said this, but she is going to walk all over Petrova. This is easily the most lopsided match of the Quarters.
There's just no way. Sharapova won Wimbledon last time and I wouldn't be surprised if she won again.
He hasn't advanced but I'm going to make a huge leap of logic here and assume Federer, ranked 1, is going to beat Ferrero, ranked 23.
That assumed, Federer is also going to walk all over Gonzalez, who is in the quarter finals.
Hewitt will beat Lopez in three or four sets. On the bottom half, it doesn't matter, because Roddick is going to sail through the rest of them and to the finals.
It'll be a Roddick Vs. Federer or Roddick Vs. Hewitt final.
Maybe my predictions will be more accurate on grass than clay.
I am in shock.
has a good round up. But says it best.
The judiciary must be reigned in. By any means necessary. To hell with the Democrats -- filibuster has to go.
Four of the five justices are liberals.
Monday, June 20, 2005
What? That's half the fun! The man is an idiot.
London - Grunting noises made by female tennis players as they strike the ball are getting out of hand, and rules should be changed to crack down on the practice, Wimbledon referee Alan Mills has said, according to a report on Sunday.This is so ridiculous.
Yes, Maria Sharapova grunts, and yes, it's loud. But it's not a sexual sound, at least not in my experience, and sounds more like someone on the john. However, prude-boy thinks it's sexual somehow.
Whatever. Men grunt too. Is he going to file to only have ugly tennis players, as well?
"Her looks are distracting."
I like the sounds made by the players a lot more than the talking head announcers. So what if they do it more than they did?
There are more Russians than there were. There are more black players than there were. This guy didn't complain about Kournikova, who was an atrocious player and only famous for this, but he has a problem with an "nnnnngh!
" when someone hits a ball? They hit the ball hard, and that takes effort.
This is great news. We shouldn't fund rapists and those who would assist genocide. We shouldn't fund, well, anything Kofi is a part of.
Despite my joy at this, there was a "what?" moment:
The 221-184 vote, which came despite a Bush administration warning that such a move could actually sabotage reform efforts, was a strong signal from Congress that a policy of persuasion wasn't enough to straighten out the U.N.What? How does Bush figure? They get too much of our money.
They get too much of our time. They have too much power. They need to realize that they exist only as long as we let them.
If it wasn't for us, there would be no U.N. and we're doing a better job of being peacekeepers and stomping out human rights violations just in the last five years than they have in their entire existance.
Saddam's torture chambers are gone, women can vote in Afghanistan, and other middle-eastern leaders are getting a bit spooked -- Syria would not have pulled out of Lebanon without the Bush administration and the invasions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
U.N.
bad. No allowance for them. Not until they fire everyone involved in Oil for Food, fire and turn over the rapist "peacekeepers" from various countries that exchanged U.
N. aid for sex (with children, no less), and not until they stop putting places like Syria on the Human Rights Council. They can have money when they get their act together.
When you get your panties in a twist about a "God Bless America" banner after 9-11 or assault children with dead cows, you've pretty much gone over the edge. Today on there was a delicious little link:
(AP) - Two Hampton Roads employees of Norfolk-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have been charged in Ahoskie, N.C.Well, well. This from the organization that spends more money defending nutcases in court than it does actually helping animals., with animal cruelty after dumping dead dogs and cats in a shopping center garbage bin, police said Thursday.
This from the organization that puts down thousands of cats and dogs a year. Cats and dogs it could save if it quit paying the legal bills for people who set SUVs on fire. "But you can't judge the entire thing by one or two people!
" The PETA and ACLU nuts will shout...
as they judge all our soldiers based on the actions of a few. But! It gets better!
The animals were from animal shelters in Northampton and Bertie counties in North Carolina, police said. The two were picking up animals to be brought back to PETA headquarters for euthanization, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk said Thursday.So PETA goes out, picks animals up from shelters, and kills them.
They admit that much. They spend millions of dollars comparing people who eat chickens to Nazi's, saying Jesus was a vegetarian, and pissing on Rud Giuliani, but they can't spend the money to keep these animals alive. Basically, they've failed at their own purpose because they're too nuts.
PETA has probably done more to harm their cause than they've helped, because they get a reaction from their divisive ads -- and the reaction is negative. They piss people off.
Ted Nugent, who borders on sanity, said that every time he hears the words "animal" and "rights" in one sentence he kills "fifteen of something.
" It's a sentiment shared by people who are just fed up with these animal groups. They're hypocrites, they're moonbats, and it still gets better:
Local officials and veterinarians said they were told that PETA would find homes for the animals, not euthanize them.So they lied to the animal shelter in order to kill puppies and kittens.
Here's a headline for you: PETA KILLS PUPPIES, KITTENS. Because they do, and they did, and they will continue to do so. I bet PETA pays all of the legal costs for these two psychotic lunatics.
Money that could feed puppies and kittens. Because they're stupid. The suspects both have this moonbat look in their eyes, too.
PETA is going to hold a press conference and put themselves in the best possible light. They didn't do it, she did. They fired the woman.
This isn't their fault. They just murder the kittens and puppies with lethal injection, which is nicer than the gassing that most poor counties give them. They're trying to help the poor animals cross to the other side, as gently as possible.
It's a crock of shit, too:
But veterinarian Patrick Proctor said that authorities found a female cat and her two "very adoptable" kittens among the dead animals. He said they were taken from Ahoskie Animal Hospital.
"These were just kittens we were trying to find homes for," he said.
"PETA said they would do that, but these cats never made it out of the county."
They were going to find them homes. But they didn't.
Because PETA can't even accomplish their smallest goals. They're too busy comparing people who eat meat to Nazi's and worrying about Jesus eating peas to bother with puppies and kittens. They're too busy turning people away by being so cruel and irritating to bother with finding little Spot a home.
This is best illustrated with the comments made by key Democrats over the last few years. The comparison to Nazi's has been continual, from Al Gore's twitching angry how-dare-they-not-like me whinefest, to Dick (Head) Durbin's latest comparison. From the tops of the party to the lowly supporters, they're all assholes.
You can go to Democratic Underground and see them cheer for the deaths of our troops, and sites like Kos, and see the way they feel about this country. Assholes, every one.
The best coverage of Dick (Head) Durbin's comments is at .
Felton covers all the bases. The comparison of us to Nazi's is outrageous and stupid.
The people who make (and defend) these comments are either historically ignorant or assholes.
That's the only solution. If you know anything about what the Nazi's did, and you know what we're doing, and you make that comparison: You are an asshole, and you are cheapening what happened.
One of the first computer games I played was a little old game called Wolfenstein 3D.
It's a very violent video game, but you're killing Nazi's. I like that game. I got to be the hero -- I got to shoot at Hitler and his underlings.
That ruled. The game was great because you were fighting one of the greatest villains in history. Not saying that Hitler is "great" but he is the epitome of a villain.
Hitler and Himmler; two guys that you can't argue with shooting at.
That's something that these idiots don't understand. Hitler, Himmler, Pol Pot, Stalin -- these guys are villains of the worst sort.
They did things that were absolutely horrible to innocent people just because they could. Saddam and bin Laden should be on the list, too. Compare: A little extra air conditioning or having your daughter raped to death by Saddam's henchmen.
Don't even give me Abu Ghraib. That wasn't endorsed by our government; the worst of things were endorsed by the madmen I've been talking about. There is no comparison for Abu Ghraib because there is nothing that these people wouldn't do.
Rape rooms. Fingers and genitals mutilated. Tortured to death.
Or deprived of sleep and made to listen to music.
There is no comparison. The people at Gitmo are given wonderful food, all of their religious needs are provided for by the U.
S. Taxpayer they want to kill, and all they have to do is tell us what they know. That's it.
They are living better than their countrymen in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, or whatever hellish heat-hole they hail from. However, there is one comparison:
Name me one nation we have ever warred with that treated prisoners of war as well as or better than the way prisoners are treated by our government. There has never been a single nation.
We are the epitome of nice guys in this world. The Japanese marched our men across horrible jungles and just generally treated them horribly. People captured in Iraq are beheaded, on camera.
That's a violation of Geneva, you know. In Vietnam, our boy were hung up by their thumbs and beat. Ask John McCain how many Geneva Conventions the Vietnamese went by.
We are beyond comparison. We are beyond compasionate. The Democrats are assholes, and every single one of them needs to be voted out of office.
I'm talking about all the way down to city council. They are on the verge of aiding and abetting. They have gone beyond simply being pains.
They are approaching being a danger to this country, because they care more about the rights of evil men than they do about the lives of innocent children.
"To cut and run because of image problems is the wrong, wrong thing to do," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said.
Sen.
John McCain (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz., said there's no doubt that the United States has an image problem because of allegations of abuse and torture at the prison in Cuba.
However, he added: "The key to this is to move the judicial process forward so that these individuals will be brought to trial for any crime that they are accused of rather than residing in Guantanamo facility in perpetuity.
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One of my problems with Republicans lately, aside from their spend and spend attitude, has been the fact that they are wussies (for lack of a better word). They just wuss out to the Democrats under the smallest pressure. They don't stand up for a damn thing and they cave.
They're wussies, plain and simple, and there isn't any room in politics for that. We don't need it. It's bad for the country when the leaders are weak kneed whiners.
They're in power and yet they think they have to get the Democrats to like them?
Hello! EARTH TO REPUBLICANS!
We voted for REPUBLICANS. We voted for YOU. Not them.
Not Howard Dean. Not John Kerry. An overwhelming majority of Americans don't want the policies of the Democratic Party.
We do not want higher taxes on anyone. We do not want Gitmo to close. We do not want us to wuss out in Iraq.
We do not want to make illegal immigrants happy. They broke the law. The suggestion that we should offer citizenship to illegal aliens who "haven't broken any laws" is absolute garbage because they broke laws by sneaking into this country.
We voted for Republicans. This little bit of spine by Frist is good. McCain is going to try his best to get on the good side of the Republicans in between now and 2008, so I don't care what he does.
He's a traitor, pure and simple, and so is anyone who was a part of that stupid deal with the Democrats. (Including Trent Lott, from my state, who I will vote against for his role in the deal, despite his name not being on any papers relating to it. Stupid bastard.
I will never forgive him for that.)
As for Gitmo, we should have executed them all for violating the rules of war in the first place. Deal with them, let them go if they're innocent and kill them if they're not.
They're terrorists, and we have no time to make terrorists happy. We just need to make them dead
That pisses me off. It was the Democratic Party who did that, not the Republicans, and saying "Southern Conservatives" implies Republicans. But the Democrats will say "we chaaanged" and crap.
The reality is, they haven't, and Robert Byrd is still in the Senate. He was a freaking Klansman. It wouldn't matter to me if they had just left it well enough alone and said "Southern Senators" or something.
They don't have to point out that it was Democrats. But do not imply that it was Republicans.
It's similar to what they did with Gary Condit.
Usually, they list a politician thus: Name Lastname (X-ST) where X-ST is party and state. With Condit, they started just saying "Rep. Gary Condit.
" It's subtle, and makes me sound like a moonbat to find it annoying, but at the same time, all the news agencies referred to all other politicians with the (X-ST) after their names.
It's all part of the same bullshit where they favor one party. When DEMOCRATS in the Senate proposed a draft, that wasn't mentioned.
Everyone had to hear about how a DRAFT had been proposed. When a DEMOCRAT says something racist, it isn't reported. But what Lott said (which was ambiguous at best) was reported to death.
There is a problem in the way the media presents the parties, and anyone who denies that is either an idiot or not paying attention.
The draw hasn't been set up completely yet, though.
For the men's side: I don't see the name Agassi anywhere. This is not good.
This caused me to Google and find out that because of a back injury. Argh! I just want to see him win one more Grand Slam before he quits.
It looks like, once again, Roddick is going to be the guy I cheer for. He's the only American seed in the top ten, and the only male American with a real chance of winning.
Behind him is the #1 Seed, Federer.
I like Federer, he's obviously a good player -- they don't give him the #1 ranking for nothing -- I just prefer Roddick. Aside from those two, there are a few great players -- Hewitt, Safin, Nalbandian, all names that stand out from great matches I've seen.
The women's side is just full of names I recognize, but that's because I tend to watch women's tennis.
Davenport and Sharapova are in, and that's good. I'd love to see Davenport walk away with this one. She's been a favorite for a while and her career has to be winding down.
Hell, the Williams sisters, both in this tournamet, are winding down and they're not as old as Davenport. There's also Dementieva, Kuznetsova, and Myskina.
I have a problem with some of the Russian Revolution.
Yes, they were born in Russia. But many of them have spent most of their lives living in the United States. It's a bit unfair for them to count themselves as Russian players if they live here, train here, and have been here for fifteen years when they only spent like five in Russia.
If you build you tennis career in Florida, you should consider yourself an American. (And you can bet if an American trained all their life in Russia, Russians would feel the same way.)
I say this because unless the Williams Sisters are playing*, I always try and root for the US.
It makes it easy to pick a team. And I like the Russian players, but they don't train/practice/etc in Russia.
* I will root for either of them against Justine Henin-Hardenne because I hate her more.
She somehow manages to dominate the players I like more often than Serena and Venus, which is why I hate them. They all three take the fun out of watching. This almost sounds whiney of me, but it's true, and with the "go for the underdog" thing in human nature, it just made me despise these three players.
Now that they've stopped winning so often, they're almost standable. They all have a sort of attitude about them, too. I can't explain it but when they're on the court they all three seem like complete bitches.
It is an annoyance, much like which complains that terrorists were subjected to:
...So McDonald's tortures all their employees (standing for prolonged periods), solitary confinement is torture, and Gilette should be tried at the hague. I'm not too thrilled about the removal of clothing bit, but that's humiliation, not torture.Now the interrogators could use stress strategies like standing for prolonged periods, isolation for as long as 30 days, removal of clothing, forced shaving of facial hair, playing on “individual phobias” (such as dogs) and “mild, non-injurious physical contact such as grabbing, poking in the chest with the finger and light pushing.” ..
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The phobias thing is ridiculous. Unless they let dogs attack the guy or spiders bite him, I don't see why that's even an issue. The mild physical contact isn't even on the radar.
Someone explain to these turds at Time what Saddam did, or, even, what extremist Muslims want to do to homosexuals and women who show their face; that is, stone them to death.
Dripping Water or Playing Christina Aguilera Music: After the new measures are approved, the mood in al-Qahtani’s interrogation booth changes dramatically. The interrogation sessions lengthen.The first two are just funny. Sorry, detainee 063! The puppet show is awesome, too.The quizzing now starts at midnight, and when Detainee 063 dozes off, interrogators rouse him by dripping water on his head or playing Christina Aguilera music. According to the log, his handlers at one point perform a puppet show “satirizing the detainee’s involvement with al-Qaeda.” He is taken to a new interrogation booth, which is decorated with pictures of 9/11 victims, American flags and red lights.
He has to stand for the playing of the U.S. national anthem.
His head and beard are shaved. He is returned to his original interrogation booth. A picture of a 9/11 victim is taped to his trousers.
They deserve to be made fun of; they target children. But the rest? I like the rest.
A lot. We should do that to all of them. Every single one should have to look at that.
They should be faced with what they did. Hell, they should staple a picture of Barbara Olson to the cover of the bastards Koran. The only thing I don't understand are the red lights.
But none of this is torture. It's just irritating him.
If this is the best the anti-American left can come up with, they're going to lose support real fast.
Invasion of Space by Female: Over the next few days, al-Qahtani is subjected to a drill known as Invasion of Space by a Female, and he becomes especially agitated by the close physical presence of a woman.What a fucking whiner. So this guy is extremely anti-woman.
How can feminists reconcile their support for politicians who support being nice to these dicks and their feminism? Of course, it all worked:
Then, around 2 p.m.And we didn't cut off his fingers. We didn't electrocute him. We didn't put him on the rack and stretch him.on Dec. 6, comes another small breakthrough. He asks his handlers for some paper.
“I will tell the truth,” he says. “I am doing this to get out of here.” He finally explains how he got to Afghanistan in the first place and how he met with bin Laden.
We just dripped water on his head, made him look at pictures of 9/11, played shitty music, and put a woman in the same room with him. Boo. Fucking.
Hoo.
" You know, I didn't blog the recent Deanisms, because everyone else in the blogosphere did such a great job and it was just so terribly stupid. The "white Christian party" line was just on the verge of mental slowness. (Then, maybe all the minorities in the Republican party are actually wearing outfits and are Dick Cheney's twin.
Rosie O'Donnell seems to think .
After Dean's comments got him in trouble, he met with Reid and Pelosi. Reid and Pelosi, it's well known, live on Planet Moonbat.
They support him, but they support some of the craziest things I've ever heard. Nancy Pelosi is one of the three from California who just drive me nuts (Pelosi, DiFi, and Boxer) but provide ample amusement, and Reid is just a nutter.
"People want us to fight," Dean told the national party's executive committee.What he doesn't get is that we want them to fight. We enjoy this."We are here to fight."
We enjoyed it in 2004, right around November 2nd, and we want it to continue through all the races -- race for governor, race for Senator, race for Representative, race for schoolboard member. We, the Republicans, want Dean to show up.
Please show up.
Please fight. Please demonstrate exactly the kind of crazy things you believe. Please continually say things like "white Christian party" "never worked in their lives" and continue to compare Iraq to the Holocaust (that wasn't Dean, but all the Democrats can play.
)
I wrote a while back that I was just fed up with politics, and I think I know why: The Republicans were starting to piss me off. They were floundering and acting like a minority party. I think Dean may have given them some direction.
With Brown confirmed as a judge, things are looking up -- sort of. Now I have someone to mock again, and it feels great.
This guy is like a member of the Democratic Underground.
But his statements aren't just broadcast to a message board and mocked on blogs. The public is hearing this crap. The media wants to avoid it because he's not a Republican.
They focus on Republican crazies, but they're not sure how to handle this moonbat.
Just let him talk. Please oh please.
Guys like him motivate us to go out and vote because we get the impression that if we don't, these are the people who will run the country. Please oh please let Kerry push for the impeachment of Bush. Please oh please.
We're begging you, Mr. Dean. Push these issues.
We want you to fight.
Today would have been my cousin's 25th birthday. But it isn't.
He was shot, after giving the subhuman scum that was robbing him all of his money. He gave the goblin what the goblin wanted -- and was shot for his trouble. My cousin was one of the nicest souls, a nursing student, and had his life ahead of him.
Hoplophobes can talk all they want about the victims of gun violence. I've been there. I've seen a mother bury her son because of it.
The gun didn't kill my cousin; the scum that pointed it at him, after taking his money, and pulled the trigger killed my cousin. Giving them what they want doesn't work. That is why, if I am ever in that situation: I will be taking the goblin with me.
That's the worst-case scenario. The best case is that I shoot the bastard dead where he stands and live to tell it.
I sit here, bitter and angry, having lost someone close to me.
My cousin is dead, and nothing will bring him back. But the goblin who did it is out there, free and waiting on trial. I hope he tries robbing the wrong person.
Trial is too good for him.
I will never waver on gun rights. I will never waver on self-defense rights.
I will never shut up about this. Because I will not be a victim. I will not stand idly by as an unarmed lemming just waiting to be robbed.
Every time someone posts a Righteous Shooting, I think -- one for Travis.
Today is the anniversary of D-Day. 61 years ago our brave soldiers jumped out of perfectly good airplanes, got out of perfectly good boats, and risked their lives in order to end the war in Europe. Those men were a very large part of the eventual victory.
Many of them gave their lives for the cause. This was the day that changed the future of Europe.
I don't have the words to pay the proper respect to the men who fought on this day.
There are no words, actually. But to all of them, and all our men and women in uniform: Thank you.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles is installing a network of surveillance cameras intended to catch street hawkers selling counterfeit goods, especially pirated copies of Hollywood movies on DVD.
The Motion Picture Association of America, which represents major movie studios in government matters, contributed $186,000 to help pay for the system, which was unveiled Tuesday by Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton.
In recent years, the MPAA has embarked on a campaign to stamp out the illegal copying of movies on video and DVD, which it says costs the industry $3.
5 billion annually in lost revenues. The MPAA argues copyright piracy also leads to lost jobs and threatens the entire industry.
Am I the only person who has a problem with: 1) a private company being given such an involvment?
2) The idea that this is more important than violent crime? 3) a COMPANY gets to decide that, with the LAPD involved, they can turn into Big Brother? 4) That an industry that can afford to pay Ben Affleck $12,000,000 for Gigli is complaining about profit and job loss?
If the piracy is hurting you, simply pay the big guys a little less -- none of those stars will miss a million or two per movie -- and pay the little guys more. Personally, I think it's about time that the Key Grips (whatever the hell they do) and the rest of the crew band together and demand equal pay as actors, anyway, because they're just as necessary (and I'd like to see the liberal Hollywood celebs explain how the workers uniting is a bad thing).
They will never make a dent in copyright infringment.
Not even a small, insignificant dent. We can't even stop drugs from coming into the country. It won't go away because of these cameras.
It will go elsewhere. If anything, the policies of the MPAA about copyright protection and technology will increase the demand for piracy. They'll get some stupid thing going, some new DMCA and a DNA sample to watch your DVD or something (don't think they won't ), and then we'll have organized piracy rings so that people can avoid the hassle.
And no technology can prevent copying. If I can see and hear it I can copy it. Period.
They can ban the technology to copy it and it won't do any good because someone, somewhere, will make it, legal or not, and distribute it somehow.
The best thing they can do to fight piracy is make it worth it to people to buy their stuff. Make theaters worth paying to sit in.
Make it so that a person wants to buy the DVD. It's not that hard. People like to own things.
I do. I could easily download the few games I want to play and not have to pay for them, but I like actually owning them and getting the silly extras. I like contributing to the people who make something I enjoy.
I like being honest and not stealing. It's not just me, either. There are millions of people in this country who are honest and won't pirate DVDs.
.. but that would easily change if it was more of a hassle to buy and use a DVD than it was worth.
People will either find another source for entertainment or get it pirated.
So the MPAA (and RIAA) are really just shooting themselves in the foot and hurting their honest customers. Sort of like how gun control laws only hurt law-abiding citizens, this insane anti-piracy junk just hurts law-abiding customers.
Someone who wants to pirate will pirate.
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