Manjushri

It’s interesting that McDonalds saw increased traffic among higher-income shoppers. Apparently even high income people are feeling the pressure because they’re apparently choosing to eat McDonald’s over their usual restaurants.

They want to be able to sue ISPs who fail to take block people they believe are pirates. Cox did not do that. They told Cox that these people are pirates and Cox didn’t block them. Do you really want your ISP to be able to cut you off just because some other company claims you are using the service to pirate content? I want them to have to go to court and prove a crime was committed before their ISP is required to block them.

Right now, these very publishers can file copyright claims against people on youtube and other sites for infringement. Those claims are not evaluated by youtube. The content is just removed. No proof. No court order. If SCOTUS sides with the guild here, then those same companies will be able to have your internet cut off just by telling your ISP that your IP address was used to pirate their material.

Frankly, I would like a court to be involved before what is now a vital utility is cut off rather than letting book, movie, and music publishers decide who should be cut off with no review.

Uhm… what do you think this is?

This is the Author’s Guild asking for internet providers to be able to block people without a court order. They want to be able to contact a provider and say, “This user downloaded a book without paying for it so you have to cut off their internet.” The provider should not be allowed to do that unless the courts order them to do so.

The linked article clearly shows this.

As our brief explains, when millions of people can copy and share creative works “quickly, anonymously, and across borders,” going after individual infringers one by one is nearly impossible. The only practical way to stop large-scale piracy is to hold accountable for the internet companies that provide the infrastructure—especially when those companies know exactly what’s happening and choose to profit from it anyway.

They can already go after individual infringers and web sites that aid in piracy. Now they want to be able to order providers to cut off users without the bother of going to court over it.

Uhm… they do. Fuck up badly enough and your license is taken away.

Yeah, by the courts. Fuck up badly enough, and you can be taken to court and a judge will take away your license. It’s not taken away by the local government. What the Author’s Guild wants is equivalent to requiring communities to take away the rights of some drivers to use the roads without bothering to take drivers to court.

Why does this picture of an ICE agent say ANTIFA?

The local government is not banning repeat speeders from using the roads though. The courts might do that by revoking driver’s licenses, but the engineers and local governments do not have the authority, and should not have the authority to do so.

In the same way, internet providers should not be the one’s who decide that a given user should not have access. That should remain the decision of the courts. If a copyright holder can show the courts that a user should be denied access to the internet, the courts can order the individual cut off. That’s where the power should remain.

Yeah, I for one have never eaten anything except chemicals!

Of course, I don’t know that. You asked me what I think. My opinion is that he was the most effective.

Nope. Just the most effective.

RTFA - The suit was against the school district and the assistant principle for failing to do anything after they’d been told that the student may have brought a gun to school.

Yelp is shit. I used to be a small business owner and they would call me trying to get me to sign up for a paid account strongly suggesting that they could ‘help’ with bad reviews. To me that means that businesses can just sign up and get bad reviews removed or pushed out of regular view. What good is a review site if the business can hide bad reviews?

This kind of thing happens all the fucking time in the USA .

Three shootings all happened in the span of six days and involved what some say were harmless occurrences: a Missouri teenager ringing the wrong doorbell while trying to pick up his younger siblings; a group of friends in New York pulling into the driveway of a home they thought belonged to another friend ; and a Texas cheerleader accidentally opening the door of the wrong car.

Whitestown is in Indiana, not Illinois.

Illinois law does not apply in Indiana where this incident took place. Indiana has a pretty robust stand your ground law.

Indiana’s stand-your-ground law provides that a person (1) is justified in using deadly force against someone (including a law enforcement officer) and (2) has no duty to retreat if the person has a reasonable belief that force is required in order to prevent any of the following:

• Serious bodily injury to the defendant or a third person;

• The commission of a forcible felony (one that involves the threat of force or involves risk of bodily injury);

• The unlawful entry of the defendant’s home or curtilage (the area around their home) or their (occupied) vehicle;

• Trespass or unlawful interference with property in the lawful possession of the defendant, a member of their immediate family, or a person whose property the defendant is authorized to protect (i.e., an employer protecting their employees); or

• The hijacking (or threat of hijacking) of an airplane on the ground in Indiana or Indiana airspace.

So the homeowner has to show that they reasonably believed deadly force was needed to stop this woman and her husband from entering their home. That’s it. That’s all they need to prove to use this defense.

I for one do not for a moment think that it was justified, but in a town named Whitestown, who can say what the police and prosecutors will conclude?

They are captures of the same page at different times .

https://archive.is/5QFkF is the snapshot taken 7 Nov 2025 01:40 and

https://archive.is/TFqAx is the one taken 6 Nov 2024 17:08

I imagine that the Elon’s of the world see these movies only from the perspective of the rich oligarchs who are running those dystopian societies and think, “That is so cool! I want that world!”

Police pleaded with the public not to rush to any conclusions as they and Boone County prosecutors try to determine if a crime was committed.

If a crime was committed… Clearly a woman with keys in her hand was such an immediate threat that the homeowner had no other choice than to execute her.

“We understand that incidents like this can cause concern and speculation,” police said. "We respectfully ask the public to place their trust in the investigative process…

Fuck off. Reasonable people have long since learned that the investigative process in places like this is an absolute joke. I trust that the police will find a way to claim that this was justified or they will bungle the investigation so badly that they shooter will get off anyway. Why do I think this? Here’s a hint: Whitestown.

It’s really a coin toss between the shooter is a half-feral MAGA twat who finally got his wish to be able to shoot a brown person and that the shooter is a half-feral MAGA twat who was cowering in their home so afraid of the world outside that he felt that he had no recourse but to execute a woman who walked up to the wrong house.

And yet they are not backing down. All I can think is that there are a hell of a lot of them in the Epstein files and Trump has them by the balls.

Ahead of Democrats’ meeting, Republicans floated a new offer that would reportedly entail “rehiring federal workers who have been laid off during the shutdown as part of a deal to end it,” according to Politico.

Okay… so their offer is, stop standing up to us and let us finish gutting healthcare, and we’ll rehire the people that we fired to punish you for standing up to us? Am I getting that right?

Come on. Convincing people they need something and then selling it to them is what capitalism is all about. It doesn’t matter how stupid the idea is, if you convince people to pay for it then by their standard, it’s a good idea.

To be fair, they had to chase him… we’ll, lumber along behind him until (I assume) someone who thought to jump in a squad car caught up to him. They probably had to take off the masks to catch their breath.