The vast majority have done nothing to earn the benefit at all, so I really don't see how the people who have done work should somehow be forced to work under a business model that has absolutely nothing to do with the way they create.
Driving cabs and farming indeed. The comparison to menial labor is one of the more foolish attempts to prop up a weak anti-copyright argument I've had the pleasure of reading here on Slashdot. Thank you.
So is it only OK to infringe upon the copyright of games considered art? If that's not what you're saying, I'm not sure I understand where you're going at all. The logic justifying piracy is normally convoluted, but you have taken turns I never even imagined.
Free entertainment is not a requirement for life in any fashion, sane or otherwise. The fact that you really, really want it has no bearing on the necessity at all. Your lack of impulse control doesn't make you a freedom fighter.
I laugh at admins. It's always amusing to see someone abuse such a tiny amount of power.
It all stems from the lack of understanding that the servers are not an end unto themselves - but if admins were capable of abstract understanding, they wouldn't be script monkeys whose sole purpose in life is to restart computers every now and again.
Yeah, that's mean, but I stand by it. There are approximately 15 admins in the world who actually do their job the way it should be done. The rest are busy building their little air conditioned fiefdoms so they can lord at least one thing over somebody else in their lives.
There's a difference between "great comedy material" and repeating the same damn joke 18,000 times a day. Of course since this site is populated by nerds, the social skills needed to understand that are lacking.
The only justification needed is that people are willing to pay the price. It's not like texting is some necessity being withheld from an impoverished public.
I'm not understanding why the gov't has any right to decide how much money the communications companies are allowed to make. It's not like costs are the primary driver of prices.
The problem with not coming clean by 1) saying what happened and what you did wrong and 2) saying how you're going to fix it is that nobody will ever trust you again afterwards.
That's only true for fairly limited definitions of nobody. Otherwise Microsoft would be a hell of a lot smaller than they are.
That's not very us against them. You should get with the program around here. Slashdot is composed of the intellectual elite and they deserve to be in charge of the world, controlling even the way people think.
I did. It made me realize that even assuming "God" is real, he doesn't deserve worship or praise. Being all-powerful is no excuse for being a prick for fun.
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Viva la overly simple worldview
Well get on down to your lab and get to work. You won't be coming up with any advanced uses of new physics while you're screwing around on Slashdot.
Then don't buy it. Don't develop for it. Speak out against it uselessly on the internet.
I still like mine.
The vast majority have done nothing to earn the benefit at all, so I really don't see how the people who have done work should somehow be forced to work under a business model that has absolutely nothing to do with the way they create.
Driving cabs and farming indeed. The comparison to menial labor is one of the more foolish attempts to prop up a weak anti-copyright argument I've had the pleasure of reading here on Slashdot. Thank you.
So is it only OK to infringe upon the copyright of games considered art? If that's not what you're saying, I'm not sure I understand where you're going at all. The logic justifying piracy is normally convoluted, but you have taken turns I never even imagined.
Free entertainment is not a requirement for life in any fashion, sane or otherwise. The fact that you really, really want it has no bearing on the necessity at all. Your lack of impulse control doesn't make you a freedom fighter.
Holy shit! Do you mean to tell me it's possible I can't play computer games in a tent in Africa? The oppression is unconscionable.
Oh no, not the scoffing of historians. That's almost as bad as the whispered derision of computer nerds.
are absolutes, whereas
is a fuzzier concept. One interested person does not constitute demand for a mass-market item.
The brainworms make it hard to be coherent.
That big clue is meaningless to all but a vanishingly small percentage of computer users.
The expectation that everyone should understand the internals of the system is one of the biggest things holding Linux back.
I laugh at admins. It's always amusing to see someone abuse such a tiny amount of power.
It all stems from the lack of understanding that the servers are not an end unto themselves - but if admins were capable of abstract understanding, they wouldn't be script monkeys whose sole purpose in life is to restart computers every now and again.
Yeah, that's mean, but I stand by it. There are approximately 15 admins in the world who actually do their job the way it should be done. The rest are busy building their little air conditioned fiefdoms so they can lord at least one thing over somebody else in their lives.
There's a difference between "great comedy material" and repeating the same damn joke 18,000 times a day. Of course since this site is populated by nerds, the social skills needed to understand that are lacking.
The only justification needed is that people are willing to pay the price. It's not like texting is some necessity being withheld from an impoverished public.
I'm not understanding why the gov't has any right to decide how much money the communications companies are allowed to make. It's not like costs are the primary driver of prices.
Couldn't you just have "me too"ed on the other hundred posts saying the same damn thing?
And hey, why the hell not, right? You deserve the fruits of the labor of others on whatever terms you desire, because you're you and you're special.
I guess any old populist rant is guaranteed some Insightful points around here, whether it's coherent and topical or not.
Yay Slashdot!
The problem with not coming clean by 1) saying what happened and what you did wrong and 2) saying how you're going to fix it is that nobody will ever trust you again afterwards.
That's only true for fairly limited definitions of nobody. Otherwise Microsoft would be a hell of a lot smaller than they are.
Wait until you figure out there aren't any gods - although by then it's likely you won't be doing much figuring anymore.
That's not very us against them. You should get with the program around here. Slashdot is composed of the intellectual elite and they deserve to be in charge of the world, controlling even the way people think.
I did. It made me realize that even assuming "God" is real, he doesn't deserve worship or praise. Being all-powerful is no excuse for being a prick for fun.
Who the hell are you to demand that my experience is consistent with yours? Get off your high horse, pal.
Actually you do have a choice. It's just not the choice you want - which is tough tittie, basically.
Don't go confusing reality with your ideals.
They are evil by their very nature - provided the definition of evil is watered down to Slashdot standards.
Evil meaning: they make money.