Contracts have to be agreed to in order to be enforceable. In some jurisdictions they even require some form of real negotiate. No. The status of EULAs is far from settled.
...again, we come to another big problem with "ownership culture". We have reached the point where every useless scrap of paper is considered someone's property. Also, we have lost the distinction between private and public information. Private papers are quite distinct from published works.
You abdicate a great degree of control once you choose to release something into the world. This isn't just GNU propaganda, it's basic copyright law. Once you publish, the doomsday public domain clock starts ticking...
Tick-Tock. EVERY precious piece of "art" or "invention" is supposed to be liberated sooner or later.
Except we aren't talking about theft here. We're talking about the resale of something that should be treated as property. It really is a double standard you're pushing there because an individual end user license is no more less of a fiction than an actual copyright. If you can't own one, then you shouldn't be able to own the other.
The idea of being able to own and transfer partial rights to something is actually terribly mundane outside of the area of entertainment products.
I should be able to transfer the ownership of my iTunes copy of Age of Ultron just as easily as I can transfer ownership of the physical copy.
Of course this triggers an interesting engineering problem but it doesn't nullify the basic idea of personal property.
No. A proper libertarian say that "knowledge is power" and that you should take what you've learned and game the rules. That's part of being self-reliant and not being a helpless victim.
Don't kid yourself. In previous centuries, Victoria Secret models would be viewed as under age or sick. You don't have to bother with paintings. There's plenty of photographic evidence. The idea of scrawny as a beauty standard is a very new thing. It has even gone out of fashion occasionally even in modern times.
Your notion of risk analysis is badly distorted. Due to the seriousness with which skydiving is treated. It's probably FAR LESS of a risk than constantly abusing your body. It's probably less risky than commuting for the same reason that flying is.
If cancer can destroy your marriage then it was weak to begin with. Most wedding vows include language like "in sickness and in health". That stuff isn't just in there to sound pretty. That's the traditional expectation.
Of course many people can't really follow through. They bail quickly over far less difficult issues.
Not being into the person you're with is a definite problem. The stresses of normal life are easier to tolerate when you don't have a deep seated but suppressed revulsion for who you are with. A certain contingent likes to pretend that it's "enlightened" to ignore you inner animal but it's really just unnatural and stupid.
And again we come back to the liberal inclination to engage in the very sort of oppression they claim is wrong. People are free to believe in what they want and make their own choices. That's what makes a country free, rather than a fascist police state.
It reminds me of book and media stores before the Internet came along and killed the demand for physical media. Before that coffee houses. Before that taverns.
So it has nothing to do with personal responsibility of either the worker or the parent, it's "all society's fault". What a load of horse shit. There are blacks that have been in the middle class for generations. They manage to thrive despite the Vonnegut style handicaps. Why don't others.
Perhaps they don't see themselves as victims and don't listen to others trying to preach that sad sermon.
Worst thing you can do to a man is call him victim. It's worse than calling him nigger.
This election cycle has made me less and less worried about being insulted by "progressives". It seems like you're not doing things right unless you're being insulted or boycotted by one set of wingnuts or the other.
These people being snooty about places with affordable real estate are gleefully sabotaging their financial future for the privilege of looking down on the rest of us. They would rather live the European lifestyle than have some hope of getting out of the rat race ever.
That hasn't really been true since the 80s. Mortgage criteria continue to be very loose. If you can't manage the "capital" to buy a house then you have ZERO margin and the least little hiccup will send you into bankruptcy.
Understandable if you're a ditch digger, otherwise not so much...
Religion certainly is. Clearly you're ignorant of the law. Or perhaps you just think that you get to abuse certain "undesirables" because they aren't fashionable right now?
Clearly you missed them. Those two groups of people are on opposite sides of a very big continent. Each differ widely from each other and among themselves. They clearly represent distinct groups both genetically and culturally. This can demonstrated this with both genetics and linguistics.
Other "Asians" include Russians, Arabs, and Eskimos.
In Silicon Valley, I could almost believe that. However, in my personal experience ALL H1B's have been underpaid. The Indian ones were all no-talent scabs. The non-Indian ones were all exceptionally talented while being underpaid.
Some places don't even bother to hide their abuse of the system.
> You just described the gamer-gate movement. They absolutely go out of their way to review stuff that was not targeted at them.
Or they would show clear bias in their review. They would only consider one type of victim in a violent game and ignore the generally violent nature of the entire game. They apply double standards and take things out of context.
The anti-tv-violence movement in the 80s was the same way.
My wife and mother-in-law specifically can't cook because of "progressive" feminists notions imposed upon by a well meaning grandparent. Both were actually discouraged from cooking lest they become housewives.
Whereas I was taught to cook because of a more conservative notion of self-reliance.
It also created great tests scores in Math and Science.
Again, I wonder why the old Soviet republics don't do better on these metrics. The imposed equality with a vengance. They're the template for places like Sweden.
Not at all. I see how the kids are indoctrinated around here. The boys are pushed into football and the girls are all trying to be cheerleaders. Girls from non-immigrant families are not encouraged to excel in academics. Some of the non-immigrant parents even show disdain for parents that encourage academic excellence.
Yeah, there's that. Every so often you will hear in patient forums about someone being abandoned by their spouse after a diagnosis. These people made a contract that probably included terms like "in sickness and health". You just shake your head and feel greatful that things weren't worse for you.
It is also not true that women didn't do backbreaking manual labor. Maintaining a household in the absence of modern conveniences is no trivial matter. Even simple things like the laundry become a major chore. Modern people in general have no clue and can't relate at all. That's not getting into whether women worked on the farm or factory.
A lot of people have this "Father Knows Best" view of the past that didn't even exist for the working class then.
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You can transfer licenses too. It's just like copyrights.
Contracts and financial instruments are much more interesting and "Ferengi" then you seem to realize.
Contracts have to be agreed to in order to be enforceable. In some jurisdictions they even require some form of real negotiate. No. The status of EULAs is far from settled.
...again, we come to another big problem with "ownership culture". We have reached the point where every useless scrap of paper is considered someone's property. Also, we have lost the distinction between private and public information. Private papers are quite distinct from published works.
You abdicate a great degree of control once you choose to release something into the world. This isn't just GNU propaganda, it's basic copyright law. Once you publish, the doomsday public domain clock starts ticking...
Tick-Tock. EVERY precious piece of "art" or "invention" is supposed to be liberated sooner or later.
Except we aren't talking about theft here. We're talking about the resale of something that should be treated as property. It really is a double standard you're pushing there because an individual end user license is no more less of a fiction than an actual copyright. If you can't own one, then you shouldn't be able to own the other.
The idea of being able to own and transfer partial rights to something is actually terribly mundane outside of the area of entertainment products.
I should be able to transfer the ownership of my iTunes copy of Age of Ultron just as easily as I can transfer ownership of the physical copy.
Of course this triggers an interesting engineering problem but it doesn't nullify the basic idea of personal property.
No. A proper libertarian say that "knowledge is power" and that you should take what you've learned and game the rules. That's part of being self-reliant and not being a helpless victim.
Don't kid yourself. In previous centuries, Victoria Secret models would be viewed as under age or sick. You don't have to bother with paintings. There's plenty of photographic evidence. The idea of scrawny as a beauty standard is a very new thing. It has even gone out of fashion occasionally even in modern times.
Your notion of risk analysis is badly distorted. Due to the seriousness with which skydiving is treated. It's probably FAR LESS of a risk than constantly abusing your body. It's probably less risky than commuting for the same reason that flying is.
If cancer can destroy your marriage then it was weak to begin with. Most wedding vows include language like "in sickness and in health". That stuff isn't just in there to sound pretty. That's the traditional expectation.
Of course many people can't really follow through. They bail quickly over far less difficult issues.
Not being into the person you're with is a definite problem. The stresses of normal life are easier to tolerate when you don't have a deep seated but suppressed revulsion for who you are with. A certain contingent likes to pretend that it's "enlightened" to ignore you inner animal but it's really just unnatural and stupid.
And again we come back to the liberal inclination to engage in the very sort of oppression they claim is wrong. People are free to believe in what they want and make their own choices. That's what makes a country free, rather than a fascist police state.
It reminds me of book and media stores before the Internet came along and killed the demand for physical media. Before that coffee houses. Before that taverns.
So it has nothing to do with personal responsibility of either the worker or the parent, it's "all society's fault". What a load of horse shit. There are blacks that have been in the middle class for generations. They manage to thrive despite the Vonnegut style handicaps. Why don't others.
Perhaps they don't see themselves as victims and don't listen to others trying to preach that sad sermon.
Worst thing you can do to a man is call him victim. It's worse than calling him nigger.
This election cycle has made me less and less worried about being insulted by "progressives". It seems like you're not doing things right unless you're being insulted or boycotted by one set of wingnuts or the other.
These people being snooty about places with affordable real estate are gleefully sabotaging their financial future for the privilege of looking down on the rest of us. They would rather live the European lifestyle than have some hope of getting out of the rat race ever.
You're forgetting about rent control.
This makes owning property less lucrative or impractical in a place like Silicon Valley, Canada, or Western Europe.
> people need capital to buy a house dumbshit
That hasn't really been true since the 80s. Mortgage criteria continue to be very loose. If you can't manage the "capital" to buy a house then you have ZERO margin and the least little hiccup will send you into bankruptcy.
Understandable if you're a ditch digger, otherwise not so much...
Religion certainly is. Clearly you're ignorant of the law. Or perhaps you just think that you get to abuse certain "undesirables" because they aren't fashionable right now?
Clearly you missed them. Those two groups of people are on opposite sides of a very big continent. Each differ widely from each other and among themselves. They clearly represent distinct groups both genetically and culturally. This can demonstrated this with both genetics and linguistics.
Other "Asians" include Russians, Arabs, and Eskimos.
In Silicon Valley, I could almost believe that. However, in my personal experience ALL H1B's have been underpaid. The Indian ones were all no-talent scabs. The non-Indian ones were all exceptionally talented while being underpaid.
Some places don't even bother to hide their abuse of the system.
> Some guys actually admit to watching Sex and the City?
Some guys are into overpriced Italian shoes.
> You just described the gamer-gate movement. They absolutely go out of their way to review stuff that was not targeted at them.
Or they would show clear bias in their review. They would only consider one type of victim in a violent game and ignore the generally violent nature of the entire game. They apply double standards and take things out of context.
The anti-tv-violence movement in the 80s was the same way.
My wife and mother-in-law specifically can't cook because of "progressive" feminists notions imposed upon by a well meaning grandparent. Both were actually discouraged from cooking lest they become housewives.
Whereas I was taught to cook because of a more conservative notion of self-reliance.
It also created great tests scores in Math and Science.
Again, I wonder why the old Soviet republics don't do better on these metrics. The imposed equality with a vengance. They're the template for places like Sweden.
Not at all. I see how the kids are indoctrinated around here. The boys are pushed into football and the girls are all trying to be cheerleaders. Girls from non-immigrant families are not encouraged to excel in academics. Some of the non-immigrant parents even show disdain for parents that encourage academic excellence.
Yeah, there's that. Every so often you will hear in patient forums about someone being abandoned by their spouse after a diagnosis. These people made a contract that probably included terms like "in sickness and health". You just shake your head and feel greatful that things weren't worse for you.
It is also not true that women didn't do backbreaking manual labor. Maintaining a household in the absence of modern conveniences is no trivial matter. Even simple things like the laundry become a major chore. Modern people in general have no clue and can't relate at all. That's not getting into whether women worked on the farm or factory.
A lot of people have this "Father Knows Best" view of the past that didn't even exist for the working class then.