This is the argument I face - every once in a while a group of actors or musicians decides "We should band together, and make sure that we all get a living wage!" To which I can only respond that actors don't get paid because there is no scarcity, and musicians don't get jobs because they charge $150 an hour. To relent on either of those issues is to put our theater out of business, and then none of us get to work OR play, now do we?
Not as long as the Obamalovers are writing the stories.
Not to mention the direct line where the Eugenicists took their motivation from Darwin, which in turn inspired Hitler and the Nazi party... You know, it is possible to compare things to the Nazis and not be over the top wrong. Especially when things are... legitimately comparable.
Even were this a campaign speech - which it's not - I would not have the slightest issue with it. This article points out that it isn't a good way to win an election, without the slightest consideration of wether or not it is true - and there is much truth, even in this snippet you chose to attack.
We've been wondering who is the man behind the curtain - and maybe reluctant to really tie it all together, as it would require a massive conspiracy in order to put all of this together. It seems that every aspect of life is set agaisnt us! But tie it all together as the machinations of a malevolent entity pitted against freedom, growth, betterment, and indeed, humanity itself - in other words, Satan - and it all makes a horrible sense. That is, until you present the theory to someone who refuses to consider that the eternal conflict may in fact be truth.
Note the difference between "I WILL not raise taxes" - which was a broken promise - and "I HAVE NOT raised taxes," which is an outright lie...
If I remember correctly, it's somewhere around 5% of all rapes result in pregnancy, and then 15% of those end up aborted. 1% of abortions are due to rape, and that's using PP's own numbers - other studies put it around .3 to .5%. Hardly the epidemic we're constantly warned about, eh?
And then our beloved leader goes on to declare them in recess and appoint who he wants. And then signs treaties as 'exectuive agreements' so he doesn't have to pester congress with them. And then he finds new and even more inventive ways to 'restructure' the government, to remove those pesky troublemakers standing in the way of progress. And if they do get anything passed, he'll just ignore the law and the judges and do what he wants.
SOPA won't fix anything about piracy. And I'm still not convinced it does need a solution. People are harnessing this distribution to make good money in perfectly legal ways. No one loses value, but value is created. Most of the complaining seems to be from people who claim they aren't making as much money as they wish they were - which is a free market problem, and has free market solutions. Just because it's a new wrinkle to be considered does not make it evil. Perhaps with the advent of the internet, we need to sit down and have a serious discussion about the nature and role of copyright - and its future.
I've argued this with a friend of mine, and he admits it, and then insists that due to the passage of the civil rights bill, the dixiecrats became so enraged with the Dems that they switched to Republicans. And that's why the racist south votes Republican. And he doesn't get why his argument leaves me spechless.
I wonder if it might not be about time to re-evaluate copyright altogether. I work with a theatre company that got the rights to perform a play 8 months ago. That means a lump sum, another sum for each performance, another to rent the scripts, another to rent the scores, another to use the logo, and another to use the music. What that doesn't cover is rights to photograph, film, or record the show in any way - even for publicity; can't change the script around; and they can pull the rights whenever they want to (when they get a better offer). Which is what happened to us - a week before we opened. Costumes, set - all paid for and built. Cast - rehearsed and eager to go. Rent looming and Marketing rolling. And then a phone call informing us that Broadway is looking at opening the show next year, so we cannot perform it now. And if we do, then we're cut off from every script they currently control. It's these gatekeepers that are the problem - not the individual artists or pirates. And this is a bill to protect the gatekeepers.
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