269: Special Victims Unit

Keith · 05-18-2006, 01:55 AM

"If you have an Asian loved one; Chinese, Japanese, or those other ones..."

mikke c · 05-18-2006, 03:48 AM

Buy a chink a t-shirt month!!! I know a chink who'd love a katg shirt.

Samwise Bean · 05-18-2006, 03:55 AM

Holy shit, so much for moving to San Clemente because it's "safe".

Along with the kiddie toucher, some guy broke into my neighbor's two nights ago and took a hatchet to them in their sleep...and I thought the screaming was coming from a party, or something. =/

And, yeah. Most kids I knew in middle school were already masturbating.

motorhappy · 05-18-2006, 04:01 AM

I don't think an item has to be legal to get a patent. The patent just protects your claims to produce it. The RIAA suit against XM is a civil suit. Law on these types of issues aren't usually written law, passed by legislature, but is usually based on legal precedent; basically what a judge said in similar cases in the past. If there is no legal precedent a judge has to get smart and sometimes philisophical and decide how current laws may apply to this new issue. At least that's my best understanding of it.

I think legal precident rests with consumers on this case. The Sony Betamax case decided that people should be allowed to have video recorders in their home. The movie and television networks believed this would harm their respective businesses and sued. But we know that both have doubled their profits many times over through video sales. The same thing happened to tape recorders because the recording industry believed people would stop buying music if they could just record music off the radio.

It sounds like this case is almost the same thing. They're suing because apparently people are now able to record music off the radio. What doesn't make sense is the RIAA sells XM the license to their music; why don't they just not license XM if they don't like what XM is doing with their songs.

Apple Iprod · 05-18-2006, 04:17 AM

Just saying,
I was having sex when I was 14...and not with myself. I figured that out after I had sex. Try and get your parenting skills around that

spooky · 05-18-2006, 05:04 AM

SIRIUS is going after XM. as soon as he started telling the story that thought crossed my mind. then, no surprise, SIRIUS did a deal with them beforehand. Civil suits are often about seeing who has deeper pockets, if you can out last your opponent, he goes under and you gain monopoly. its a worthy investment, if you are into shady business.

/golfclap for SIRIUS, you win the republican award for shady corporate tactics, 2006.

spooky · 05-18-2006, 05:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Apple Iprod

Just saying,
I was having sex when I was 14...and not with myself. I figured that out after I had sex. Try and get your parenting skills around that

was your uncle charley involved in any way?

Apple Iprod · 05-18-2006, 05:14 AM

Dont joke. It happened to my aunty

LArciniega · 05-18-2006, 05:49 AM

I don't like all this "civil suit" bullshit. What happened to the good ol' days when you would send a few thugs to break the opponents legs, kick his dog, sleep with his wife, enpregnate his daughter then burn his business down. I miss being nine.

Goatboy · 05-18-2006, 06:57 AM

A surprising number of people are freaky about feet. I have a couple of pictures of my feet on my Flickr account and they have like 40 times the number of views my other images have.

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motorhappy Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 21	I don't think an item has to be legal to get a patent. The patent just protects your claims to produce it. The RIAA suit against XM is a civil suit. Law on these types of issues aren't usually written law, passed by legislature, but is usually based on legal precedent; basically what a judge said in similar cases in the past. If there is no legal precedent a judge has to get smart and sometimes philisophical and decide how current laws may apply to this new issue. At least that's my best understanding of it. I think legal precident rests with consumers on this case. The Sony Betamax case decided that people should be allowed to have video recorders in their home. The movie and television networks believed this would harm their respective businesses and sued. But we know that both have doubled their profits many times over through video sales. The same thing happened to tape recorders because the recording industry believed people would stop buying music if they could just record music off the radio. It sounds like this case is almost the same thing. They're suing because apparently people are now able to record music off the radio. What doesn't make sense is the RIAA sells XM the license to their music; why don't they just not license XM if they don't like what XM is doing with their songs. Last edited by motorhappy; 05-18-2006 at 04:03 AM.
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spooky Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 3,265	SIRIUS is going after XM. as soon as he started telling the story that thought crossed my mind. then, no surprise, SIRIUS did a deal with them beforehand. Civil suits are often about seeing who has deeper pockets, if you can out last your opponent, he goes under and you gain monopoly. its a worthy investment, if you are into shady business. /golfclap for SIRIUS, you win the republican award for shady corporate tactics, 2006.
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Apple Iprod Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 50	Fair call Dont joke. It happened to my aunty
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LArciniega Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 153	I don't like all this "civil suit" bullshit. What happened to the good ol' days when you would send a few thugs to break the opponents legs, kick his dog, sleep with his wife, enpregnate his daughter then burn his business down. I miss being nine.
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Goatboy Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Leeds, England Posts: 191	A surprising number of people are freaky about feet. I have a couple of pictures of my feet on my Flickr account and they have like 40 times the number of views my other images have.
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