In most all situations lawyers aren't even allowed in small claims court.
So If I sue Google in Small Claims Court Larry Page would be legally obliged to personally show up? Or they just have to hire anyone who has not passed the bar exam (or maybe some ex-laywer who was bisbared)?
Yes, and off of YT they are often not even clothed. And sometimes the parent who thinks its adorable, is instead a parent, pimp, or other who is simply trying to maximize revenue any way possible.
The world and particularly the internet is full of people and organizations who live off of grooming children and selling sexual content they create. I guarantee that at least some of the children in these videos have content on other websites behind a pay filter hosted in non-extradition counties.
It makes sense that Disney would not want to be in associated with these people.
Well for good or ill that currently is our laws. It is simply illegal for people to create content intended to be masturbated to where the star(s) are girls under age. If you don't think that any of these YT videos are this, than you have your head in the sand.
Similarly, I suspect having/watching video content you yourself consider to be CP makes it CP... Porn is a nebulous consent with regard to the law, it is all about intent. I defiantly would not want to be in a courtroom trying to argue that while I did not use it in that fashion those videos on my laptop can technically be watched while not masturbating.
Yes and no. First off, their are loads of little girls who made videos specifically to be sexually suggestive, and I guarantee you their are also adults filming these girls specifically trying to create sexually suggestive content. AKA, some of these content simply is CP from intent to execution.
Other content is or course a gray area. They just want attention, their parents want them to by the next Miley Cyrus and they naturally gravitate to sexually suggestive content because 1) that is what their idols do and 2) that is what gets them views.
And then their are probably loads of completely innocent videos.
But all of these categories share 1 similarity, the only people watching them are pedophiles.
At first I thought that what does it matter, of course Disney is not advocating pedophilia, and it makes sense for them to want to advertise to pedophiles and they are likely to buy their merchandise. But I can see that they would not want to be seen as a brand that pedophiles like.
No one says that about regulated, insured currencies.
Literally every currency expert would of advised this man to keep all of his money in USD or CAD, used a (single) licensed and insured currency converter, and pay the taxes at the border instead of trying to sneak $500K into the country.
It is not like this has not been tried. Governments have been spending billions developing their own software since software has existed. I have yet to see a single one that even worked and did the job it was designed to do. And I can assure you it was many times more expensive than leasing existing systems.
Take for example my latest foray into the government system. First I had to sign up for a ONE-key account, to enable me to sign up for a service Ontario account on a second website, which allowed me to sign up for a ministry account on a third website. Strangely it did not even appear like it was possible to access any of these accounts without following them through the previous account. I was given a multi page guide on how to accomplish this, but strangely it appears most of the steps are just a little off; Most buttons, links, steps are worded exactly as specified or located exactly where they should be. Finally we get to the point of the whole exercise, renewing an exterminator licence. We start filling out the forms and oh, and error and we are booted out.
Well try again, "Error: form not saved". Apparently this is common according to tech support. Any data you enter into any forms that does not get saved, any applications that do not get completed, any problems anywhere at any time makes the site display nothing but an error about how you have to save the data before continuing. And the kicker, all of these government sites only function if viewed through Chrome on Windows.
This is patently false. Study after study finds that the more a person works(and the more money they make doing so, and the higher their education) the more volunteering they do. This seems to be true across the developed world.
I recently had to set up a spreadsheet app on a family member's tablet.
I thought the obvious solution was some free open source office suit akin to Open/Libre Office. I personally haven't used MS Office for well over a decade. But Microsoft's Mobile/cloud based solution is literally a no funny business, no nonsense direct port of the Application you used in High school (or college, or your job). It does not try to reinvent the wheel for mobile, it does not strip out 99% of the functionality to make it simpler, it just works exactly as you remember that it should on desktop or mobile.
I have yet to see a port of a desktop app that was half as good as excel for Office 365. Then when I had to troubleshoot a problem with spreadsheet code, I was able to just hope onto the browser based solution from my desktop, and it just worked exactly how you would want it to.
I could see it being a very good solution for a business who wanted people on desktops and mobile devices modifying and reading the same document. But I imagine they work together well as it is not only the same UI, but the same file format from what I have seen.
This is s common lie many school administrators will tell you, but it is patently true. The article itself stated that the non-vaxed are among the most educated in the country. How do you think they got their?
Hmm, Interesting. I thought that at least in Canada fair use granted quite a few rights to educational institutions and these are institutions that are making huge bank off of education. Being clearly not-profit, and I don't know how you could argue against it being an educational institution, churches would seem legally allowed to use whole copyrighted works in the education of their flock. Copyright Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-42), Section 29.4, 29.5, 30.04
But it seemed pretty complicated, later on down the page to seems to contradict itself. So I definitely do not understand all the nuances of copyright fair use. Fair use might only apply if there is no method available to pay for it???? I cannot tell.
> concessions the copyright lobby have forced upon them
Yes, the copyright lobby insisted that Youtube never verify the veracity of any claims or even if the claimant has the rights to a single piece of music.
This is just Youtube not caring one whit who gets the ad revenue for a video as long as they get their share.
This is a common fallacy. Yes, it is entirely possible to find similar deals in the Windows realm, Windows is open and diverse. You can find even worse price gouging in the windows realm if you are dead set on getting screwed. Similarly, if I wanted I could spend $100K on a windows desktop, and if I tried hard enough I am sure I could even get it to under perform a Mac at 10x the cost.
This does not change the fact that the Mac tax is very high. The Apple brand is one of the most prestigious brands in existence, you cannot seriously believe that Apple just gives away their products for peanuts out of the goodness of their hearts.
No one ever believed that every part would be manufactured in america, made from American metal smelted with American oil. Ordering a screw from China does not effect that label.
I have programmed in quite a few languages over the years, and Java is fantastic for teaching mostly because it is very generic. Pretty much every other language out their has some major weird quirk that is completely unlike all other languages. Sure, learning Scheme will teach you many basic programming skills, but will not teach you how to actually code in any other language at all. You will hardly be in a better position than a Math student to program in Java or C after being taught in Scheme.
Sure, the exact same video on Video will return higher up the ranks than one hosted on your own personal website. But unless you are searching for something very specific, both will be pages back in the search results. And if you are already searching for something specific, it does not matter what website it is hosted on, as long as Google indexes it.
I have never found a video on Vimeo while searching for something generic, their are ten pages of YouTube before you are going to get any other results out of Google search.
No one searches Vimeo for anything. It hosts short films that people find by clicking links either from the authors webpage or news articles. The benefit is most people don't know how to host anything, let alone host a playable video on a webpage.
It looks quite good for what it was, but I cannot agree that the content was good. The writer either is silently rewriting SW past, has little idea what even happened in the prequels, or just does not understand human emotions at all.
Is their a reason he did not attempt to get permission from the actual owners of the rights?
Lucas Arts Should be careful, I imagine any court is unlikely to take pretending to have intellectual property you don't have is many different kinds of illegal.
SJW is a cop out. Their are far more degenerate films out their that are not only artistically sound and enjoyable but far better mediums for spreading propaganda. While it is often stated that the Left cannot meme, meaning in this context that they cannot be enjoyable or funny, it is undeniable that they used to be able to at the very least.
The core reason the new Star Wars are so bad is not that the writers/directors hate all ideas that differ from their own. I would argue that it is not even at its core because they are bad at their jobs, even though they clearly are. They are horrible films because the writers and directors hated Star Wars. I would argue their is as much or more deconstruction of Star Wars as there was deconstruction of basic human morality.
And while many state the common sense idea that, when you put politics before story your story is going to suck, this is just not true. Some, if not all, great art is built about a certain philosophy, idea, symbol, or other restraint.
Just yesterday I watched a surprisingly interesting critical analysis* of the 1998 movie Pleasantville. Which while no masterpiece, is and was enjoyed by many and maintains a very good review score while being chuck full of 10 times the SJW propaganda of the entire new Star Wars series.
* The video is technically about a different topic that he uses Pleasantville to demonstrate. Skip to 7:25 to just get the Pleasantville deconstruction.
8GB is enough for the OS and Apps on Android, 32GB is considered big for android devices, I am not sure what OS you are running. Anything past that is storage for images, games, etc.
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Well everything is a review. These are just reviews of the trailers.
In most all situations lawyers aren't even allowed in small claims court.
So If I sue Google in Small Claims Court Larry Page would be legally obliged to personally show up? Or they just have to hire anyone who has not passed the bar exam (or maybe some ex-laywer who was bisbared)?
Yes, and off of YT they are often not even clothed. And sometimes the parent who thinks its adorable, is instead a parent, pimp, or other who is simply trying to maximize revenue any way possible.
The world and particularly the internet is full of people and organizations who live off of grooming children and selling sexual content they create. I guarantee that at least some of the children in these videos have content on other websites behind a pay filter hosted in non-extradition counties.
It makes sense that Disney would not want to be in associated with these people.
Well for good or ill that currently is our laws. It is simply illegal for people to create content intended to be masturbated to where the star(s) are girls under age. If you don't think that any of these YT videos are this, than you have your head in the sand.
Similarly, I suspect having/watching video content you yourself consider to be CP makes it CP... Porn is a nebulous consent with regard to the law, it is all about intent. I defiantly would not want to be in a courtroom trying to argue that while I did not use it in that fashion those videos on my laptop can technically be watched while not masturbating.
Yes and no.
First off, their are loads of little girls who made videos specifically to be sexually suggestive, and I guarantee you their are also adults filming these girls specifically trying to create sexually suggestive content. AKA, some of these content simply is CP from intent to execution.
Other content is or course a gray area. They just want attention, their parents want them to by the next Miley Cyrus and they naturally gravitate to sexually suggestive content because 1) that is what their idols do and 2) that is what gets them views.
And then their are probably loads of completely innocent videos.
But all of these categories share 1 similarity, the only people watching them are pedophiles.
At first I thought that what does it matter, of course Disney is not advocating pedophilia, and it makes sense for them to want to advertise to pedophiles and they are likely to buy their merchandise. But I can see that they would not want to be seen as a brand that pedophiles like.
No one says that about regulated, insured currencies.
Literally every currency expert would of advised this man to keep all of his money in USD or CAD, used a (single) licensed and insured currency converter, and pay the taxes at the border instead of trying to sneak $500K into the country.
It is not like this has not been tried. Governments have been spending billions developing their own software since software has existed. I have yet to see a single one that even worked and did the job it was designed to do. And I can assure you it was many times more expensive than leasing existing systems.
Take for example my latest foray into the government system. First I had to sign up for a ONE-key account, to enable me to sign up for a service Ontario account on a second website, which allowed me to sign up for a ministry account on a third website. Strangely it did not even appear like it was possible to access any of these accounts without following them through the previous account. I was given a multi page guide on how to accomplish this, but strangely it appears most of the steps are just a little off; Most buttons, links, steps are worded exactly as specified or located exactly where they should be. Finally we get to the point of the whole exercise, renewing an exterminator licence. We start filling out the forms and oh, and error and we are booted out.
Well try again, "Error: form not saved". Apparently this is common according to tech support. Any data you enter into any forms that does not get saved, any applications that do not get completed, any problems anywhere at any time makes the site display nothing but an error about how you have to save the data before continuing. And the kicker, all of these government sites only function if viewed through Chrome on Windows.
And 100% of Men polled did not want to see tampon ads...
In all seriousness, 100% of people do not want to see ads that are not targeting them.
This is patently false. Study after study finds that the more a person works(and the more money they make doing so, and the higher their education) the more volunteering they do. This seems to be true across the developed world.
This is long settled fact.
I recently had to set up a spreadsheet app on a family member's tablet.
I thought the obvious solution was some free open source office suit akin to Open/Libre Office. I personally haven't used MS Office for well over a decade. But Microsoft's Mobile/cloud based solution is literally a no funny business, no nonsense direct port of the Application you used in High school (or college, or your job). It does not try to reinvent the wheel for mobile, it does not strip out 99% of the functionality to make it simpler, it just works exactly as you remember that it should on desktop or mobile.
I have yet to see a port of a desktop app that was half as good as excel for Office 365. Then when I had to troubleshoot a problem with spreadsheet code, I was able to just hope onto the browser based solution from my desktop, and it just worked exactly how you would want it to.
I could see it being a very good solution for a business who wanted people on desktops and mobile devices modifying and reading the same document. But I imagine they work together well as it is not only the same UI, but the same file format from what I have seen.
This is s common lie many school administrators will tell you, but it is patently true. The article itself stated that the non-vaxed are among the most educated in the country. How do you think they got their?
Hmm, Interesting.
I thought that at least in Canada fair use granted quite a few rights to educational institutions and these are institutions that are making huge bank off of education. Being clearly not-profit, and I don't know how you could argue against it being an educational institution, churches would seem legally allowed to use whole copyrighted works in the education of their flock. Copyright Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-42), Section 29.4, 29.5, 30.04
But it seemed pretty complicated, later on down the page to seems to contradict itself. So I definitely do not understand all the nuances of copyright fair use. Fair use might only apply if there is no method available to pay for it???? I cannot tell.
> concessions the copyright lobby have forced upon them
Yes, the copyright lobby insisted that Youtube never verify the veracity of any claims or even if the claimant has the rights to a single piece of music.
This is just Youtube not caring one whit who gets the ad revenue for a video as long as they get their share.
Wait, churches have to pay money for their choir to sing?
This is a common fallacy. Yes, it is entirely possible to find similar deals in the Windows realm, Windows is open and diverse. You can find even worse price gouging in the windows realm if you are dead set on getting screwed. Similarly, if I wanted I could spend $100K on a windows desktop, and if I tried hard enough I am sure I could even get it to under perform a Mac at 10x the cost.
This does not change the fact that the Mac tax is very high. The Apple brand is one of the most prestigious brands in existence, you cannot seriously believe that Apple just gives away their products for peanuts out of the goodness of their hearts.
No one ever believed that every part would be manufactured in america, made from American metal smelted with American oil. Ordering a screw from China does not effect that label.
Boiler Installers, Framers, Concrete formers.
I know 5 times as many housewives and office workers with bad knees and bad backs than Trades people, and most of the people I know are in Trades.
I have programmed in quite a few languages over the years, and Java is fantastic for teaching mostly because it is very generic. Pretty much every other language out their has some major weird quirk that is completely unlike all other languages. Sure, learning Scheme will teach you many basic programming skills, but will not teach you how to actually code in any other language at all. You will hardly be in a better position than a Math student to program in Java or C after being taught in Scheme.
Sure, the exact same video on Video will return higher up the ranks than one hosted on your own personal website. But unless you are searching for something very specific, both will be pages back in the search results. And if you are already searching for something specific, it does not matter what website it is hosted on, as long as Google indexes it.
I have never found a video on Vimeo while searching for something generic, their are ten pages of YouTube before you are going to get any other results out of Google search.
No one searches Vimeo for anything. It hosts short films that people find by clicking links either from the authors webpage or news articles. The benefit is most people don't know how to host anything, let alone host a playable video on a webpage.
It looks quite good for what it was, but I cannot agree that the content was good. The writer either is silently rewriting SW past, has little idea what even happened in the prequels, or just does not understand human emotions at all.
Is their a reason he did not attempt to get permission from the actual owners of the rights?
Lucas Arts Should be careful, I imagine any court is unlikely to take pretending to have intellectual property you don't have is many different kinds of illegal.
SJW is a cop out. Their are far more degenerate films out their that are not only artistically sound and enjoyable but far better mediums for spreading propaganda. While it is often stated that the Left cannot meme, meaning in this context that they cannot be enjoyable or funny, it is undeniable that they used to be able to at the very least.
The core reason the new Star Wars are so bad is not that the writers/directors hate all ideas that differ from their own. I would argue that it is not even at its core because they are bad at their jobs, even though they clearly are. They are horrible films because the writers and directors hated Star Wars. I would argue their is as much or more deconstruction of Star Wars as there was deconstruction of basic human morality.
And while many state the common sense idea that, when you put politics before story your story is going to suck, this is just not true. Some, if not all, great art is built about a certain philosophy, idea, symbol, or other restraint.
Just yesterday I watched a surprisingly interesting critical analysis* of the 1998 movie Pleasantville. Which while no masterpiece, is and was enjoyed by many and maintains a very good review score while being chuck full of 10 times the SJW propaganda of the entire new Star Wars series.
* The video is technically about a different topic that he uses Pleasantville to demonstrate. Skip to 7:25 to just get the Pleasantville deconstruction.
8GB is enough for the OS and Apps on Android, 32GB is considered big for android devices, I am not sure what OS you are running. Anything past that is storage for images, games, etc.