Acquiring pirated content rather than going through official channels is hassling with a workaround
Official channels may not even be available, or be prohibitively expensive. The Pirate Bay is easy. Very easy, and I've found wrestling with online streaming (like when I wasn't allowed to stream HBO online from HBO using the HBO app on my PS3 because Comcast has a contract with HBO not to allow streaming through PS3s) that sometimes the pirated content is just easier. And of course, price is a big barrier for many -- lower the price to near zero, and people will watch a ton of stuff they wouldn't have bothered buying, or slapped money down to rent. The Pirate Bay is popular because there aren't a lot of barriers to entry. Sometimes fewer barriers than the legitimate channels.
I don't have a problem with the Obama quote. For a long time, the coal industry has been generating incredible amounts of pollution and pushing the costs off onto everyone else, whether it's health costs or climate change. An industry that privatizes profits and socializes costs is an industry being propped up and granted handouts. I've seen a hell of a lot more handouts to the fossil fuel industry than I have the solar industry.
No, subsidizing dirty sources of energy instead of investing in clean ones is idiotic and short sighted. We're not getting rid of fossil fuels for the next several decades at minimum. But failing to invest in long term better sources of energy because they aren't cheaper today is nothing short of weapons grade stupid. Coal gets direct subsidies and worse it gets a HUGE indirect subsidy in the fact that we aren't charging the full cost of cleaning up the pollution it causes.
Most of the "let's build coal plants now, rah rah rah!" folks do not give a shit about 100 years in the future. They got theirs, and they don't particularly care about anyone else. They're fine with the short-term, short-sighted approach, because why should they care what happens to people far off in the future? They're all about delaying and obstructing so they can get it while the getting is good.
In this book, the Cylons were not machines but a living race. Elite or upper echelon Cylons underwent operations to get additional brains added to them (or something along those lines). And Baltar dies. (Thank the Gods, and I never really liked him in either series).
I believe that's how the 1970s Battlestar Galactica movie went as well (the movie that was released to theaters before the TV show aired). I have definite memories of Baltar being killed by Cylons in that movie. In the TV Pilot, it was reshot so that Baltar is.. almost executed, but given a last minute reprieve so that he can star in the series as one of the primary villains.
I tried to watch an episode of nuGalactica once and couldn't stand more than a couple minutes of the shaky cam and how every character was reimagined as being some dark, brooding, too-cool-for-school piece of shit.
I liked the real Starbuck, Apollo and Adama much more. Not to mention the chicks on the original show were way hotter.
I'm not sure, I felt the original BSG was a little too optimistic. I think most people would have been a hell of a lot less cheery than the original cast and more like the newer one if a sudden war reduced the human population to 0.000076% of its original amount in the space of a few days (those are the numbers from the show!) and the survivors were under constant assault and peril. The first Battlestar was a bit more of a fantasy series, the reimagined version tried to incorporate the setting more. I liked both takes, and I was happy that Richard Hatch, who was skeptical at first, ended up feeling the same way.
They'll require that you activate the 2FA while they check your accounts. You're waiting in customs or holding or something, so you have nothing better to do, and likely neither do they.
What if you don't know your password (password manager)?
Every password manager that I know of allows you to actually look up your real password, so you can write it out for them.
What if you don't have a social media account?
Don't be silly, everyone is on Facebook! Liar. But really, "I do not have social media accounts" will be perfectly valid, and the discovery that you lied would be grounds for immediate prosecution and/or expulsion and/or watch-listing.
COINTELPRO sounds like an old-school coin-counting machine with a modem built in and some fancy features that set it apart from the non-"pro" version.
You'd think an agency that purports to use communication and psychology to deduce the actions of others would know how to use simple marketing tricks to make their super-fancy project names not sound pants-on-head retarded.
This incompetence is part of why I don't worry too much about US "intelligence" agencies. They may be intelligent, but they have yet to prove it.
I hope this is a joke that has gone over my head. COINTELPRO was not any kind of public name. It was the internal name for a COunter INTELligence PROgram.
As a secrecy organization, they should have known that any private name for such a program would be made public. Maybe they were naive back then, but they couldn't be that naive now.
It's not an appeal to authority, it's an appeal to reality. The US has long talked a good talk of championing personal freedoms, but usually does a bad job of actually respecting them. In just about every stage of our nation's history, there has been some threatening group of the day who has had its freedoms sharply curtailed, where the response has been more "meh," or at least "maybe this isn't great, but we're under attack or under threat."
Why? What's the use of letting someone immigrate who'll just end up in prison. Keep out Mexican racists bring in the Mexican doctors and lawyers I say. That would also bring down healthcare costs.
That's fine, but that wasn't the context that the 'mexican rapist' line came from. It was the assumption that the people who come over the border are murderers and rapists. Oh, and some of them are probably ok folks.
Lutherans and Catholics made up the vast majority of German citizens. That the leadership, or at least some of them, were antagonistic to the Church does not change the fact that Germany was and is a Christian nation
That says more that the Nazi leadership was adept that suppressing Christianity in German (or at least, in elevating other sentiments above it). It's certainly not worth conflating it with other holy wars from various religions.
If you're describing nerds in Silicon Valley, you might have a point. But actually, in places like Kentucky when there is a power outage and the television goes out, birth rates skyrocket. Sex is one of the cheapest forms of entertainment.
In Silicon Valley, when the power goes out and the smart phone batteries drain, there are riots in the street!
Read that next sentence -- "They're not having that much fun." To a Puritan mindset (with which many conservative ideologies have much in common), anything that feels good (in too much quantity) is sinful. Psychoactive substances, non-procreative sex, new-fangled rock'n'roll, they feel too good and therefore are bad. Same reason they're against abortion -- it's punishment for women (but seldom for men...) who have sex for fun.
While you're right about the puritanical mindset there, most people who are against abortion actually DO feel like abortion is the killing of a child's life, and that parents shouldn't have the legal option to kill their children out of convenience. The two sides are closer than they think, and the big big sticking point is 'where does a child's life begin?' For the pro-choice side, life begins at birth. For the pro-life side, life begins at conception. Once you realize that's what the two sides believe, the cries of 'baby-murderer' from the pro-life side and 'womens' rights' and 'her body, her choice' from the pro-choice side are from people arguing past each other, not with each other. A pro-life believer will never believe that 'a woman's right to control her body' overrides the right to life that another human being has,' and a pro-choice believer will never believe that a collection of fetal cells is equivalent to a living, breathing person with the right to life and the legal protections that go along with it.
It's also less puritanical, and more mainstream Christianity that believes that sex is God's gift for the express and single purpose of procreation. At least, I know for sure that that's Catholic doctrine, I can't say it's true for every Protestant denomination. The Puritans believed that ANY pleasurable/enjoyable activity other than work was sinful.
By and large, for many years, men just went along with it. But then a problem developed. Now that sitting with your legs too far apart makes you a symbol of rapist culture (man spreading) http://everydayfeminism.com/20... [everydayfeminism.com] it has become pretty clear that women by and large simply do not like men, and a majority of them hate men. From this article http://femmagazine.com/2015/03... [femmagazine.com] - “Manspreading” is essentially part of rape culture."
You are taking very fringe ideas here and saying that this is just what is considered mainstream. It's not, even in liberal circles.
Is it legal to replace one encryption with another?
It might be legal. But probably not legal in the manner you're suggesting. The encryption is providing access control. As long as access control (not for the user, but for the companies, of course) is not compromised, than then it might be legal, unless there is some letter of the law there that would make this totally illegal.
If it is then rather use a HDCP-to-very-broken-encryption converter.
This would likely circumvent access control, and would of course be illegal under the DMCA.
Israel shouldn't be there either. If the excuse is it was theirs 2000 years ago, Rome might as well claim it as theirs since it was part of the empire.
The excuse is that they have it now,and that the original inhabitants who lost their land in the 40s are pretty much all gone. I detested Russia's takeover of the Crimea, but in 70 years if the Ukraine invaded and took the Crimea back, it would be just as horrible an act.
That's half the usefulness of IMDB gone then, as the message boards were the perfect place to look for discussion of obscurities you noticed while watching something.
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Acquiring pirated content rather than going through official channels is hassling with a workaround
Official channels may not even be available, or be prohibitively expensive. The Pirate Bay is easy. Very easy, and I've found wrestling with online streaming (like when I wasn't allowed to stream HBO online from HBO using the HBO app on my PS3 because Comcast has a contract with HBO not to allow streaming through PS3s) that sometimes the pirated content is just easier. And of course, price is a big barrier for many -- lower the price to near zero, and people will watch a ton of stuff they wouldn't have bothered buying, or slapped money down to rent. The Pirate Bay is popular because there aren't a lot of barriers to entry. Sometimes fewer barriers than the legitimate channels.
Trump getting elected was one shot in that war.
Right, so, start an imaginary war, then fire a real shot in response to it. Sounds like the Spanish-American War again.
I don't have a problem with the Obama quote. For a long time, the coal industry has been generating incredible amounts of pollution and pushing the costs off onto everyone else, whether it's health costs or climate change. An industry that privatizes profits and socializes costs is an industry being propped up and granted handouts. I've seen a hell of a lot more handouts to the fossil fuel industry than I have the solar industry.
Haven't you heard of the big bad Soros boogeyman, who is apparently the genocidal maniac behind each and every liberal project of the last 20 years?
No, subsidizing dirty sources of energy instead of investing in clean ones is idiotic and short sighted. We're not getting rid of fossil fuels for the next several decades at minimum. But failing to invest in long term better sources of energy because they aren't cheaper today is nothing short of weapons grade stupid. Coal gets direct subsidies and worse it gets a HUGE indirect subsidy in the fact that we aren't charging the full cost of cleaning up the pollution it causes.
Most of the "let's build coal plants now, rah rah rah!" folks do not give a shit about 100 years in the future. They got theirs, and they don't particularly care about anyone else. They're fine with the short-term, short-sighted approach, because why should they care what happens to people far off in the future? They're all about delaying and obstructing so they can get it while the getting is good.
Oh. Yeah, you're probably right about that.
After all, I can only post a clickable URL to youtube rather than embed a Youtube video in the post.
And if you donate enough, God will "Call Home" the other prominent televangelists! Hallelujah!
In this book, the Cylons were not machines but a living race. Elite or upper echelon Cylons underwent operations to get additional brains added to them (or something along those lines). And Baltar dies. (Thank the Gods, and I never really liked him in either series).
I believe that's how the 1970s Battlestar Galactica movie went as well (the movie that was released to theaters before the TV show aired). I have definite memories of Baltar being killed by Cylons in that movie. In the TV Pilot, it was reshot so that Baltar is.. almost executed, but given a last minute reprieve so that he can star in the series as one of the primary villains.
I tried to watch an episode of nuGalactica once and couldn't stand more than a couple minutes of the shaky cam and how every character was reimagined as being some dark, brooding, too-cool-for-school piece of shit.
I liked the real Starbuck, Apollo and Adama much more. Not to mention the chicks on the original show were way hotter.
I'm not sure, I felt the original BSG was a little too optimistic. I think most people would have been a hell of a lot less cheery than the original cast and more like the newer one if a sudden war reduced the human population to 0.000076% of its original amount in the space of a few days (those are the numbers from the show!) and the survivors were under constant assault and peril. The first Battlestar was a bit more of a fantasy series, the reimagined version tried to incorporate the setting more. I liked both takes, and I was happy that Richard Hatch, who was skeptical at first, ended up feeling the same way.
Don't forget those subversive Canadians! Them and their secrets around making good poutine or which beers taste best!
These are valid secrets that will be very helpful to the folks in DHS!
What about 2FA?
They'll require that you activate the 2FA while they check your accounts. You're waiting in customs or holding or something, so you have nothing better to do, and likely neither do they.
What if you don't know your password (password manager)?
Every password manager that I know of allows you to actually look up your real password, so you can write it out for them.
What if you don't have a social media account?
Don't be silly, everyone is on Facebook! Liar. But really, "I do not have social media accounts" will be perfectly valid, and the discovery that you lied would be grounds for immediate prosecution and/or expulsion and/or watch-listing.
COINTELPRO sounds like an old-school coin-counting machine with a modem built in and some fancy features that set it apart from the non-"pro" version.
You'd think an agency that purports to use communication and psychology to deduce the actions of others would know how to use simple marketing tricks to make their super-fancy project names not sound pants-on-head retarded.
This incompetence is part of why I don't worry too much about US "intelligence" agencies. They may be intelligent, but they have yet to prove it.
I hope this is a joke that has gone over my head. COINTELPRO was not any kind of public name. It was the internal name for a COunter INTELligence PROgram.
As a secrecy organization, they should have known that any private name for such a program would be made public. Maybe they were naive back then, but they couldn't be that naive now.
Umm... You realize you are posting on a social media platform, using a social media account, right?
There's nothing social about Slashdot.
Slashdot IS the discussion section, it's pretty much purely social. The articles and summaries are just window dressing, often ignored.
It's not an appeal to authority, it's an appeal to reality.
The US has long talked a good talk of championing personal freedoms, but usually does a bad job of actually respecting them. In just about every stage of our nation's history, there has been some threatening group of the day who has had its freedoms sharply curtailed, where the response has been more "meh," or at least "maybe this isn't great, but we're under attack or under threat."
Why? What's the use of letting someone immigrate who'll just end up in prison. Keep out Mexican racists bring in the Mexican doctors and lawyers I say. That would also bring down healthcare costs.
That's fine, but that wasn't the context that the 'mexican rapist' line came from.
It was the assumption that the people who come over the border are murderers and rapists. Oh, and some of them are probably ok folks.
Lutherans and Catholics made up the vast majority of German citizens. That the leadership, or at least some of them, were antagonistic to the Church does not change the fact that Germany was and is a Christian nation
That says more that the Nazi leadership was adept that suppressing Christianity in German (or at least, in elevating other sentiments above it). It's certainly not worth conflating it with other holy wars from various religions.
If you're describing nerds in Silicon Valley, you might have a point. But actually, in places like Kentucky when there is a power outage and the television goes out, birth rates skyrocket. Sex is one of the cheapest forms of entertainment.
In Silicon Valley, when the power goes out and the smart phone batteries drain, there are riots in the street!
Most conservatives don't care what you do with your schlong as long as they don't have to pay for the consequences or have to see it.
Are those the same conservatives that supported the anti-sodomy laws that criminalized what you did in the privacy of your own bedroom?
Read that next sentence -- "They're not having that much fun." To a Puritan mindset (with which many conservative ideologies have much in common), anything that feels good (in too much quantity) is sinful. Psychoactive substances, non-procreative sex, new-fangled rock'n'roll, they feel too good and therefore are bad. Same reason they're against abortion -- it's punishment for women (but seldom for men...) who have sex for fun.
While you're right about the puritanical mindset there, most people who are against abortion actually DO feel like abortion is the killing of a child's life, and that parents shouldn't have the legal option to kill their children out of convenience. The two sides are closer than they think, and the big big sticking point is 'where does a child's life begin?' For the pro-choice side, life begins at birth. For the pro-life side, life begins at conception. Once you realize that's what the two sides believe, the cries of 'baby-murderer' from the pro-life side and 'womens' rights' and 'her body, her choice' from the pro-choice side are from people arguing past each other, not with each other. A pro-life believer will never believe that 'a woman's right to control her body' overrides the right to life that another human being has,' and a pro-choice believer will never believe that a collection of fetal cells is equivalent to a living, breathing person with the right to life and the legal protections that go along with it.
It's also less puritanical, and more mainstream Christianity that believes that sex is God's gift for the express and single purpose of procreation. At least, I know for sure that that's Catholic doctrine, I can't say it's true for every Protestant denomination. The Puritans believed that ANY pleasurable/enjoyable activity other than work was sinful.
By and large, for many years, men just went along with it. But then a problem developed. Now that sitting with your legs too far apart makes you a symbol of rapist culture (man spreading) http://everydayfeminism.com/20... [everydayfeminism.com] it has become pretty clear that women by and large simply do not like men, and a majority of them hate men. From this article http://femmagazine.com/2015/03... [femmagazine.com] - “Manspreading” is essentially part of rape culture."
You are taking very fringe ideas here and saying that this is just what is considered mainstream. It's not, even in liberal circles.
Is it legal to replace one encryption with another?
It might be legal. But probably not legal in the manner you're suggesting.
The encryption is providing access control. As long as access control (not for the user, but for the companies, of course) is not compromised, than then it might be legal, unless there is some letter of the law there that would make this totally illegal.
If it is then rather use a HDCP-to-very-broken-encryption converter.
This would likely circumvent access control, and would of course be illegal under the DMCA.
Israel shouldn't be there either. If the excuse is it was theirs 2000 years ago, Rome might as well claim it as theirs since it was part of the empire.
The excuse is that they have it now,and that the original inhabitants who lost their land in the 40s are pretty much all gone. I detested Russia's takeover of the Crimea, but in 70 years if the Ukraine invaded and took the Crimea back, it would be just as horrible an act.
Or maybe it was the liberals' hubris and treating conservatives/libertarians like idiots
If the result is the election of Donald Trump, then maybe they were right.
Then again, liberals were dumb enough to select Hillary as their candidate.
We're all fucking stupid, and just generally fucked.
That's half the usefulness of IMDB gone then, as the message boards were the perfect place to look for discussion of obscurities you noticed while watching something.
TV Tropes might work for that.
> You're also a prime example of Smug Liberal Elitist Asshole.
"SLEA"??
Seems like Smug Elitist Asshole Liberal would make a better acronym.