For this hotel analogy to hold any water, you'd have to show how imaginary property wears and tears, so that you have to keep it in good repair to keep using it.
C'mon. I'm the last one to defend anything like the atrocity of a law that we have today and call it copyright, but even I can't keep a straight face saying that this isn't just a cheap attempt at circumventing it.
Episode I was an overly long advertainment for Lucasarts' podracer game.
I mean, for real, what is that movie but a huge, elaborate scavenger hunt for the parts of little Anny's racer and a race that feels like it takes up about half the movie's run time?
Sorry, was getting ahead of myself. You're not. But you're getting there. From over here it almost seems like the US is moving backwards in time. At the same rate other countries are struggling to shed their superstitious roots, the US is hellbent on becoming more superstitious and reliant on magic thinking and less rooted in reality. Other countries are finally starting to get a free press that can and does educate its people, while more and more people in the US seem to willfully go out of their way to avoid learning and instead do their best to only listen to what reinforces their narrative.
I'm dead serious, you're working hard on dismantling everything that made the US great. Back in the 80s I laughed at Gibson's novels depicting a post-industrial America that fell apart, with people unfit to fend for themselves for the most part, with corporations ruling everything and everyone, allowing exactly two kinds of subjects: The worker drone and the illegal rest. But that's what this country is heading for. And, and this astounds me to no end, with people happily dancing along.
For the US, a zero dimensional display would suffice because bluntly, there isn't that much of a difference between the two wings of The Party. Only that they cater to different flavors of insanity.
But even for Europe that one dimensional diagonal doesn't work. If you take the socialist and social-democratic parties of various countries alone, you'll find them spread out in the upper left corner. Likewise, taking some of the more economic-liberal parties that border on anarcho-capitalism in some countries, you'll find them in the lower right corner.
Simply drawing a diagonal isn't going to cut it. You will of course find parties on that axis, but it isn't even the "mass appeal" parties anymore that you'll find close to that line. While you do find more and more parties that belong in that upper right quadrant, and oddly people actually vote for them (one would think that everyone has suddenly become the CEO of some multinational concern), the other three are pretty much evenly distributed among the rest.
So you pay to use my roads? You pay to be protected from me robbing your home while you're sleeping because, well, it may be illegal, but I doubt you'd expect a public court to work for you, at least without paying for it, right?
You may be joking, but there's plenty of assholes who think that they don't owe jack shit... but then turn around and use public roads, public services and enjoy living in a free country the freedom of which is paid for by tax money.
Unfortunately it's pretty hard to feed the global population with this method. Arable land isn't available in unlimited quantity and "organic" agriculture cannot compete in terms of pure output with industrial crops production.
It's nice that you can grow in your own garden what you need, but I hope you have a solution for the millions of New York or Mexico City.
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That also means that you will have a hard time defending against countries that don't see it this way. Because you will not have an army.
Dude, the Bible is a better love story than Twilight.
We're talking about a group of people who base their life on stories that make no sense. You think they'd really notice if one they watch doesn't?
For this hotel analogy to hold any water, you'd have to show how imaginary property wears and tears, so that you have to keep it in good repair to keep using it.
C'mon. I'm the last one to defend anything like the atrocity of a law that we have today and call it copyright, but even I can't keep a straight face saying that this isn't just a cheap attempt at circumventing it.
Episode I was an overly long advertainment for Lucasarts' podracer game.
I mean, for real, what is that movie but a huge, elaborate scavenger hunt for the parts of little Anny's racer and a race that feels like it takes up about half the movie's run time?
No, that would be what you could make of the scenes you cut. At least quality-wise.
The translation for this is usually "Someone important would be unambiguously be outed as being a criminal if this gets out".
So who is the crook?
It feels kinda weird that it's a story about Kimmie and he's NOT the biggest asshole involved...
Now I'm curious, care to define "free"?
My guess would be that he figured that much out by now since his second post was actually legible.
Allegedly it's intelligence and counter-terrorism. But more and more it feels like counter-intelligence and terrorism.
Yes, spies are spying. That's their job. And when a spy is caught spying, they're shot.
That is my job.
Sorry, was getting ahead of myself. You're not. But you're getting there. From over here it almost seems like the US is moving backwards in time. At the same rate other countries are struggling to shed their superstitious roots, the US is hellbent on becoming more superstitious and reliant on magic thinking and less rooted in reality. Other countries are finally starting to get a free press that can and does educate its people, while more and more people in the US seem to willfully go out of their way to avoid learning and instead do their best to only listen to what reinforces their narrative.
I'm dead serious, you're working hard on dismantling everything that made the US great. Back in the 80s I laughed at Gibson's novels depicting a post-industrial America that fell apart, with people unfit to fend for themselves for the most part, with corporations ruling everything and everyone, allowing exactly two kinds of subjects: The worker drone and the illegal rest. But that's what this country is heading for. And, and this astounds me to no end, with people happily dancing along.
Nope. In my experience, the average legal content is far less useful than the average illegal content.
Well, history is not really siding with you on this. Usually, before they die, they kill the rich instead.
Nothing is more dangerous than a mob with nothing to lose if you do have something to lose.
Then it's great that you have a conservative government, that should take care of that pretty soon, right?
True, but I'm too honest a guy to found a religion.
For the US, a zero dimensional display would suffice because bluntly, there isn't that much of a difference between the two wings of The Party. Only that they cater to different flavors of insanity.
But even for Europe that one dimensional diagonal doesn't work. If you take the socialist and social-democratic parties of various countries alone, you'll find them spread out in the upper left corner. Likewise, taking some of the more economic-liberal parties that border on anarcho-capitalism in some countries, you'll find them in the lower right corner.
Simply drawing a diagonal isn't going to cut it. You will of course find parties on that axis, but it isn't even the "mass appeal" parties anymore that you'll find close to that line. While you do find more and more parties that belong in that upper right quadrant, and oddly people actually vote for them (one would think that everyone has suddenly become the CEO of some multinational concern), the other three are pretty much evenly distributed among the rest.
On this planet's side.
Wait, no, he's parking it in some tax haven.
I hope you filled out the relevant form to engage in this kind of exchange of information with the IRS.
On a completely unrelated note, of course, how do you jail corporations?
Somalia looks like his preferred place to live. No taxation there. Well, provided you can keep the bandits at bay.
So you pay to use my roads? You pay to be protected from me robbing your home while you're sleeping because, well, it may be illegal, but I doubt you'd expect a public court to work for you, at least without paying for it, right?
You may be joking, but there's plenty of assholes who think that they don't owe jack shit... but then turn around and use public roads, public services and enjoy living in a free country the freedom of which is paid for by tax money.
Unfortunately it's pretty hard to feed the global population with this method. Arable land isn't available in unlimited quantity and "organic" agriculture cannot compete in terms of pure output with industrial crops production.
It's nice that you can grow in your own garden what you need, but I hope you have a solution for the millions of New York or Mexico City.