Label me what you want, but I still don't see how the education of the class would be impossible if the girl is allowed to text. As long as the ring doesn't sound, what's the big deal? You can't force her to be interested or learn. In college people text all class, play video games on their laptops, surf Facebook, etc. i.e. do whatever they want, and honestly it works out fine. As long as someone isn't being noisy let them do whatever the fuck they want. Sleep, surf the web, text what does it matter? It's her own loss when the test rolls around.
"or borrow a friends DVD."
If I know a friend who has the DVD, what's the difference between borrowing his copy and downloading it? You don't pay in either case. It's just more convenient to just download it, so most people will. People are lazy and when there's no difference in the end, why does it matter if I borrow my friend's copy or just download it?
But I bet the MPAA is against borrowing friends' movies too.
"Am I guilty of libel now that my statements have been committed to paper?"
I'm not sure, but whoever wrote it down on paper is guilty of copyright infringement! How dare they transpose the message to a different medium without your permission!
It's hilarious that they truly think teenage brats are singlehandedly ruining their business. It almost makes me glad that they fail at understanding the technology that much just because it's so funny that a bunch of old white crusty businessmen are trying to fight (and losing to) a bunch of 13 year olds...epic fail indeed.
At this point, I don't even give a shit. Sure it's bullshit, but like you said it'll only hurt them. They're forcefully hurting themselves. It's like a crybaby emo kid addicted to heroine. Just let them kill themself and when they do no one will feel sorry.
In the mean time, instead of watching the YouTube video if the song is stuck in my head, I'll just go and download the song (and it won't be from iTunes!) and just watch as I effortlessly contribute to killing their business. I can't wait for the day the RIAA goes out of business because they have no one to blame but themself.
"Gays can adopt"
Well, in the states that haven't banned that... seriously how the fuck can people make such bigoted laws like this? I thought we fixed that bullshit in the 60s.
So maybe we should stop being such arrogant pricks to the world and then maybe they wouldn't hate us so much? That is only if you care about world opinion, which I think is important for foreign relations.
Also it's good to know if you go visit a country down south to know not to call yourself an American because that's not descriptive (enough) to them.
As I understand it, many natives of South America like those in Chile or Argentina do call themselves Americans and do get pissed that the US thinks it's the only country in one of the Americas
Moreover I can think of a couple times morality was used to justify a completely unmoral action. i.e. certain world powers aggressively invading certain third world countries. Obviously morality something that is repeatedly exploited by those in power. If only the general public wasn't so oblivious *sigh*
In other news, TPB breaks more records and piracy continues to increase. It seems the general public doesn't pay attention to this copyright BS, but they sure do know the latest popular bittorrent website!:)
It sounds like basically the European Union is analogous to the United States under the Articles of Confederation. All of these problems are the reason for the drafting of the current Constitution. How long before the European Union is reformed? Will they reform for a more powerful European Union or will the independent states cut back on their centralization of power?
Does the income tax really apply to corporations though? I thought the income tax was a tax on humans making income not a corporations profits. Moreover all the employees are paying income tax on their income so the company is really paying income tax that way.
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Label me what you want, but I still don't see how the education of the class would be impossible if the girl is allowed to text. As long as the ring doesn't sound, what's the big deal? You can't force her to be interested or learn. In college people text all class, play video games on their laptops, surf Facebook, etc. i.e. do whatever they want, and honestly it works out fine. As long as someone isn't being noisy let them do whatever the fuck they want. Sleep, surf the web, text what does it matter? It's her own loss when the test rolls around.
"or borrow a friends DVD." If I know a friend who has the DVD, what's the difference between borrowing his copy and downloading it? You don't pay in either case. It's just more convenient to just download it, so most people will. People are lazy and when there's no difference in the end, why does it matter if I borrow my friend's copy or just download it? But I bet the MPAA is against borrowing friends' movies too.
"Am I guilty of libel now that my statements have been committed to paper?" I'm not sure, but whoever wrote it down on paper is guilty of copyright infringement! How dare they transpose the message to a different medium without your permission!
It's hilarious that they truly think teenage brats are singlehandedly ruining their business. It almost makes me glad that they fail at understanding the technology that much just because it's so funny that a bunch of old white crusty businessmen are trying to fight (and losing to) a bunch of 13 year olds...epic fail indeed.
heroin* my bad. got a little excited there.
At this point, I don't even give a shit. Sure it's bullshit, but like you said it'll only hurt them. They're forcefully hurting themselves. It's like a crybaby emo kid addicted to heroine. Just let them kill themself and when they do no one will feel sorry. In the mean time, instead of watching the YouTube video if the song is stuck in my head, I'll just go and download the song (and it won't be from iTunes!) and just watch as I effortlessly contribute to killing their business. I can't wait for the day the RIAA goes out of business because they have no one to blame but themself.
"Gays can adopt" Well, in the states that haven't banned that ... seriously how the fuck can people make such bigoted laws like this? I thought we fixed that bullshit in the 60s.
So maybe we should stop being such arrogant pricks to the world and then maybe they wouldn't hate us so much? That is only if you care about world opinion, which I think is important for foreign relations. Also it's good to know if you go visit a country down south to know not to call yourself an American because that's not descriptive (enough) to them.
As I understand it, many natives of South America like those in Chile or Argentina do call themselves Americans and do get pissed that the US thinks it's the only country in one of the Americas
Or just go with one of the Ubuntu systems Dell offers. It's free AND legal! omgomg call the police!
Moreover I can think of a couple times morality was used to justify a completely unmoral action. i.e. certain world powers aggressively invading certain third world countries. Obviously morality something that is repeatedly exploited by those in power. If only the general public wasn't so oblivious *sigh*
In other news, TPB breaks more records and piracy continues to increase. It seems the general public doesn't pay attention to this copyright BS, but they sure do know the latest popular bittorrent website! :)
At UIUC now we have many linux labs. They all run RedHat; although I would prefer Ubuntu or Debian, it sure beats Windows.
This is worth reading about P4P: http://torrentfreak.com/uncovering-the-dark-side-of-p4p-080824/
It sounds like basically the European Union is analogous to the United States under the Articles of Confederation. All of these problems are the reason for the drafting of the current Constitution. How long before the European Union is reformed? Will they reform for a more powerful European Union or will the independent states cut back on their centralization of power?
Does the income tax really apply to corporations though? I thought the income tax was a tax on humans making income not a corporations profits. Moreover all the employees are paying income tax on their income so the company is really paying income tax that way.