This isssue, is why I like Thad McCotter alot. I'm hoping he is next Speaker of House instead of Bohner.

See this article he wrote recently on "Global Generation Republicans"

http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/15/glob...f-freedom/

Quote:Throughout the life of the exceptional nation we’ve inherited from our parents and must bequeath to our children, America’s strength and salvation remains her free people. They have and will never let her down.

Indeed, through history’s lens Global Generation Republicans glean the transformational challenges confronting our nation.


In their time, the Greatest Generation faced and transcended four transformational challenges:

1. The social, economic and political upheavals of industrialization;

2. A world war against evil enemies;

3. The Soviet Union’s strategic threat and rival model of governance; and

4. The moral struggle of the civil rights movement.

In our time, our Global Generation faces and must transcend four transformational challenges:

1. The social, economic and political upheavals of globalization;

2. A world war against evil enemies;

3. Communist China’s strategic threat and rival model of governance; and

4. Moral relativism’s erosion of our self-evident truths.

Despite the parallels, one significant difference exists: The Greatest Generation faced their challenges consecutively; our Global Generation faces our challenges simultaneously.

To transcend these challenges, our Global Generation’s Republicans will lead. Amidst a communications revolution that empowers people to extents undreamt, we understand America’s indispensible role in the 21st Century is to continue proving and expanding the ability of human beings to self-govern and control their destinies.

The antithesis of the Left’s antiquated statism that usurps self-government to empower big government, Republicans realize the decentralization of communications and its concomitant empowerment of individuals must be matched by a decentralization of government that equally empowers individuals.

He seems to have his mind thinking in the right direction for these challenges going fwd, I'd trust him on these sorts of things and how to deal with them.


You can imagine what some Post-Millenialist types are reading into these things.

GTS - I can understand you might think provisions of this law are draconian.

What I don't see is any reasonable alternative that reconciles property rights of both IP owners, service providers, and consumer "rights". Doing nothing is not an acceptable alternative IMHO, yet the only posts I can recall seeing on this topic are generally obstructionist. What do you propose to protect IP property rights? Allowing ISPs to sell high bandwidth connections with impunity so some kid can participate in a file-sharing service does not seem like a reasonable solution to me.

(11-05-2009 11:01 AM)GGniner Wrote:  they think they are getting it from the source, not the distribution chains, and 'real deal'. everyone doesn't know markups for every product either. People will do it when they see others doing it online.

What product has 2000% markup from the distributer to the reseller? Seriously?

It doesn't happen. Common sense should tell you that something isn't right when you are getting something that cheap.

(11-05-2009 11:05 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(11-05-2009 10:42 AM)GGniner Wrote:  How does the US Government stop Chinese Counterfeiters? E

The US Federal Reserve is the biggest counterfeiters in the world. China is a hot dog stand by comparison.

Oh do tell, GTS!

The DMCA is allowing companies to run an extortion scheme. Allowing companies to use the Federal courts (@taxpayer expense), to prosecute a civil case with possible criminal penalties is just plain not fair and wrong. Besides that you have the plaintiff claiming damages that are unprovable, but the courts accept without reservation. The whole extortion scheme is that these cases are designed to extract settlements because the defendants are not financial capable of sustaining a defense in federal court. These charges can be leveled at anybody, excluding no one. The Plaintiff is being given the power of the Attorney General to subpoena records and information that is unheard of before the DMCA. Thank Bill Clinton for this.

(11-05-2009 11:51 AM)mlb Wrote:  

(11-05-2009 11:01 AM)GGniner Wrote:  they think they are getting it from the source, not the distribution chains, and 'real deal'. everyone doesn't know markups for every product either. People will do it when they see others doing it online.

What product has 2000% markup from the distributer to the reseller? Seriously?

It doesn't happen. Common sense should tell you that something isn't right when you are getting something that cheap.

Oxygen bars, seriously.

common sense should tell you that someone online searching for suppliers overseas finding something too good to be true, but told its true and it looks legit... will convince themselves its true. $$$$

(11-05-2009 12:07 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  Oh do tell, GTS!

May wanna take a look at commodities to see just how bad inflation is starting to become and will be as the Fed continues to "monetize the debt" (e.g. - PRINT MORE MONEY).

If you or I did it ... we'd be called counterfeiters.
If a foreign nation did it ... there'd be a coordinated sting/seize operation.
When the Fed does it to enable a spend happy Congress ... everybody looks the other way.

(11-05-2009 01:18 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(11-05-2009 12:07 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  Oh do tell, GTS!

May wanna take a look at commodities to see just how bad inflation is starting to become and will be as the Fed continues to "monetize the debt" (e.g. - PRINT MORE MONEY).

If you or I did it ... we'd be called counterfeiters.
If a foreign nation did it ... there'd be a coordinated sting/seize operation.
When the Fed does it to enable a spend happy Congress ... everybody looks the other way.

Ah, ok. I thought this was gonna be a rant on returning to the gold standard.

And I've done more than look at commodities ;-)