The only problem piracy addresses is that of people who feel the world owes them entertainment. On the the scale of zero to justice, this solution ranks somewhere around negative infinity.
This story has become the Slashdot equivalent of this particularly filthy Hustler I had as a kid. I went to that issue to masturbate at least once a week. I think you see where I'm going with this.
All morals are relative. A person in a position of authority insisting that certain of his morals are absolute is as morally repugnant to me as abortion is to the pope.
There's no evidence that I would accept at this point. The various christian entities have had 2000 years and a hell of a lot of motivation to show historical support for the existence of christ. The entire thing is suspect to me.
They take away your reason to choose, not your right - unless you're making the argument that you have the right to use whatever software you want under whatever conditions you want for whatever reason you want, in which case I refer you to reality, which dictates that there is no way that could be possible even if everything were open source - which is also never going to happen without coercion by force.
I guess we should run everything by you first to make sure it's acceptable? That way your life can be uninterrupted by things you can't do, and those of us not afflicted with your handicap will never know what we're missing. That seems like a reasonable solution to me. Now you just need to get 7 billion other people to go along with it.
do remember that literal pennies add up to literal billions when you aggregate receiving literal pennies from millions of consumers
Arithmetic suggests it would add up to literal hundreds of thousands. Since all the numbers bear no relationship to reality in any case, it hardly matters.
I gotta tell you, my desire to have the computer manage my music for me is driven less by fear and more by an understanding of the fact that computers are pretty good at tedious shit, whereas I get bored quickly and stop playing.
Don't bother pursuing this on Slashdot. The best replies you'll get out of this will be tortured semantics that Bill Clinton would be ashamed to use. It's not enough for the free entertainment crowd to get their entertainment for free. They want the moral high ground as well. It's bizarre.
Millions of people willing to go to jail for the right to free entertainment - I'm gonna go right ahead and guess that comment is worth the bits that carried it to my screen.
Or maybe the servers can be run by all those principled people who were going to leave the US when Bush won his second term.
Why is it that different things cost different prices in different places? If cheap broadband is what really matters to you, moreso than any other factor, move to Japan or South Korea.
Your other options include not taking service with providers who don't give you what you want at a price you're willing to pay, or accepting the service and bitching about it. Guess which option has the smallest effect of all?
This point of view relies upon focusing on the rare but well-publicized cases that work like you described, and ignoring the majority of people who are actually decent. It's generally helpful to avoid letting your opinion be too influenced by media sensationalizing, although I understand it's difficult.
The reality is, you'll always have some percentage of assholes in the world, and no system you devise will ever get rid of them no matter how hard you try. Being up in arms about it is all well and good, but it's essentially masturbation.
I don't envy the union payrates, I envy the unionized worker's ability to provide no (or negative) value to the company while still drawing a salary. That's a pretty sweet gig, even if it is morally disgusting.
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The only problem piracy addresses is that of people who feel the world owes them entertainment. On the the scale of zero to justice, this solution ranks somewhere around negative infinity.
Don't get upset with creationists for putting forth poor arguments. Encourage them to continue. It will only make them more irrelevant.
This story has become the Slashdot equivalent of this particularly filthy Hustler I had as a kid. I went to that issue to masturbate at least once a week. I think you see where I'm going with this.
You missed the memo - "defective by design" is snark-speak for "doesn't meet my needs, and therefore must not meet anyone's."
The first climate refugees? In the history of humans, or since people started paying all this attention?
All morals are relative. A person in a position of authority insisting that certain of his morals are absolute is as morally repugnant to me as abortion is to the pope.
I wonder what could be said of someone who responds to an attack on religion with an attack on science. False dichotomy much?
An infinitely good god wouldn't punish anyone. That basic logical flaw destroys the argument completely.
You spend a hell of a lot of time codifying your fairy tale. I would admire it if it wasn't such a prolific waste of life.
There's no evidence that I would accept at this point. The various christian entities have had 2000 years and a hell of a lot of motivation to show historical support for the existence of christ. The entire thing is suspect to me.
If everyone is corrupt, is anyone?
They take away your reason to choose, not your right - unless you're making the argument that you have the right to use whatever software you want under whatever conditions you want for whatever reason you want, in which case I refer you to reality, which dictates that there is no way that could be possible even if everything were open source - which is also never going to happen without coercion by force.
I guess we should run everything by you first to make sure it's acceptable? That way your life can be uninterrupted by things you can't do, and those of us not afflicted with your handicap will never know what we're missing. That seems like a reasonable solution to me. Now you just need to get 7 billion other people to go along with it.
No way, dude. Jesus is infinitely merciful, except in this case. It makes perfect sense.
Yes, and I also choose to run my A/C in the summertime.
Did you just make the argument that game companies should make games for mindshare instead of money? Is it the 90s again?
Arithmetic suggests it would add up to literal hundreds of thousands. Since all the numbers bear no relationship to reality in any case, it hardly matters.
I gotta tell you, my desire to have the computer manage my music for me is driven less by fear and more by an understanding of the fact that computers are pretty good at tedious shit, whereas I get bored quickly and stop playing.
Don't bother pursuing this on Slashdot. The best replies you'll get out of this will be tortured semantics that Bill Clinton would be ashamed to use. It's not enough for the free entertainment crowd to get their entertainment for free. They want the moral high ground as well. It's bizarre.
Millions of people willing to go to jail for the right to free entertainment - I'm gonna go right ahead and guess that comment is worth the bits that carried it to my screen.
Or maybe the servers can be run by all those principled people who were going to leave the US when Bush won his second term.
It would have been an order of magnitude faster to just answer "Yes."
Why is it that different things cost different prices in different places? If cheap broadband is what really matters to you, moreso than any other factor, move to Japan or South Korea.
Your other options include not taking service with providers who don't give you what you want at a price you're willing to pay, or accepting the service and bitching about it. Guess which option has the smallest effect of all?
Buy a different car instead. This isn't meant to be all things to all people.
This point of view relies upon focusing on the rare but well-publicized cases that work like you described, and ignoring the majority of people who are actually decent. It's generally helpful to avoid letting your opinion be too influenced by media sensationalizing, although I understand it's difficult.
The reality is, you'll always have some percentage of assholes in the world, and no system you devise will ever get rid of them no matter how hard you try. Being up in arms about it is all well and good, but it's essentially masturbation.
I don't envy the union payrates, I envy the unionized worker's ability to provide no (or negative) value to the company while still drawing a salary. That's a pretty sweet gig, even if it is morally disgusting.