Here's how you do it. And before you scold me for teaching pirates something, this is pretty much how copyright trolls work, so turnabout it fair game.
1. Set up a shell company. In this case "VidAngel" 2. Let the shell company do some questionable business. 3. Siphon all the money the shell company makes to a safer place by selling it "patents" or "licenses" or whatever. 4. When (not if) your get-rich-quick-scheme blows up and the shell company is sued for billions, it will go "poof". 5. Profit.
That's as much censorship as you not watching certain YouTube videos.
The important part here is YOU. YOU decide. YOU and YOU alone say what you want to see and what you don't want to see. I hope you can see the difference, if not, allow me to point it out:
YOU deciding what you get to see: good thing ANYONE ELSE deciding what you get to see: bad thing
Primitive is relative, that's just how status works over there. I mean, look at us, we're by no means better. Some would call us primitives because we think we have to keep up with the Kadashians despite them not having any really marketable skill that could remotely be called "important". Yet we hype them to celebrity status.
Same reason: Respect is earned by bling. You think someone would respect a policeman in a car that doesn't cost even 30k USD? Please. Just because you have flashing lights, why'd anyone stop for you in your toy car?
And even more important: The police is "owned" by the emir. And of course he has to equip his staff with respectable vehicles. Or can't he afford it?
How is money important? What I do is basically to look at my bank statement and as long as there's more in my account at the end of the month than at the beginning, everything's good.
Money is just the means to an end, not the end itself. If you ARE actually good, you don't need any of your shit. You'll earn more than you can spend without even trying.
I will very likely never get even remotely the amount of money out of our social system that I pay into it. What I do get, is peace of mind, though. I am secure knowing that no matter what kind of sickness may befall me, my health insurance will take care of it. And I also know that everyone in my country has enough to lose that he won't kill me for the 20 bucks that may be in my wallet, for he could far easier just go over to the social services place and get way more legally.
Yes, I probably pay more in tax than you earn. And not because I make a few billions a month, if I did I probably wouldn't pay taxes and instead run for president in your country.
Same here. My education is state funded and still I managed to get a degree from one of the best universities around. I could not have afforded a US college to the tune of a few 100 grand.
Today, I get roughly 50% of my paycheck. Rest goes into tax and other government related stuff. Not having any kids sure doesn't help to get any of that money back any time soon, but that's how the deal works. Someone paid for my education, and now I pay for someone else's. Maybe for the son of the person who paid for my degree. OK, not directly, but they paid tax back then (and now probably get a pension from taxes), I pay tax now, and someone will be able to learn a thing or two because of that, get a good job and pay my pension with his taxes.
That's the deal we enter here. I guess I could get a much worse deal. Like, say, having a crippling student loan on my back that I won't pay off in my lifetime.
Probably rich and having a heart, along with remembering how it was being young and dependent on social services...
The fun part is that poor people are actually gaining a LOT more from high taxes than they lose from their paycheck by them. But usually, the main reason people who are poor are poor is that they don't really understand how money really works. Which is probably why your system still works, smart people would have looked abroad and seen what they could have.
It probably depends on the country you're in. Some will actually not simply apply an arbitrary age to decide whether someone is to be considered mature but will instead hire a shrink to test whether the culprit was actually mature enough to understand what he's doing.
I guess I got my Christmas wish granted. A government finding about "computer stuff" that not only makes sense, it even seems they finally got it.
They... they might really have understood the problem. I still cannot believe it, it really sounds like they not only went by some hunch or an "expert" recommendation without buying into it, it really seems they finally, FINALLY understood the underlying problem.
I... I'm kinda scared, government understanding computers, what comes next? If we're not careful, they might even stop wasting taxpayer money. And what kind of government would that be? And more important, what could we ridicule about them and what should we then complain about? Did anyone think about that? What should we feel superior about anymore if the government starts to understand computer problems?
Won't somebody PLEASE think of us professional smug know-it-alls?
Only because it's easier to see through it. The lie in socialism is "work hard and we'll all be living in paradise tomorrow". The capitalist lie is more insidious because it's more personal, "work hard and you'll have the money to also shit on the rest of the world like those that shit on you today".
Totally different market, totally different mindset. To understand how this works, you'd first of all have to understand the mentality of the target audience.
In the UAE, if you're wealthy and want to "count", you have to show that you have the money. Actually, you have to show that money is so unimportant to you that you can throw it away. And that's best done by buying shit nobody that actually values money would buy. It takes a while to get used to this, but once you understand how status works in that area, the whole insanity starts to make a lot of sense. What matters is not what you do, but how. You have to make a phone call, but you do it on a 150k phone. You have to go somewhere, but you have to drive there with a Ferrari. And of course it has to be some limited edition, because everyone and their dog can simply buy a Ferrari.
You're dealing with people who have a completely different idea of status. In the US, being rich means that you buy a football team because that is somehow an investment. Or you do charity because that allows you to connect with people. Or you do anything else that actually has at least a side benefit. Over there, status is measured by being able to simply throw away money for no tangible return. And to show that you can throw away money, you need to show off crap that is insanely expensive but has no "real" net benefit. A normal iPhone makes calls just as well as the 150k version, but that 150k version shows that you can throw those 150k away without getting anything in return.
Why would I want to? That some idiot comic frog is "the face of white nationalism" and that some other idiot is president of the US is enough for me to know that I do not want to catch up. Who knows, I might catch whatever causes that idiocy, too.
About this "gamergate" thing? I tried to puzzle together what it's about, and so far all I can say it's a lot of overblown bullshit that has no relevance for gaming in any way.
Then it fits perfectly. People still think that Democrats is the opposite of the Republicans, despite being the same group of fuckups by a different name.
This woman is simply doing what religious leaders have been doing for centuries: Milking the "outrage" of people to get rich. Why do you hate capitalism?
And if you need any idea how insane this "lifetime + 70 years" is, what this means is that the book "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler entered public domain pretty much a year ago.
Why leave? Now that it' been pretty much established that he's not going to change anything but actually push harder in the direction we were going, there's no reason to be disappointed in Trump if you had no problem with Hillary. She might be in the pockets of Wall Street, but Trump simply makes Wall Street his staff.
For a brief moment I thought you're talking about the "updates" that are still being forced down the throats of Windows 10 users that brick systems and render them unusable, but instead you're seeking forgiveness for something that cannot be undone and that has been over for months now anyway?
Fuck you.
Go play with something poisonous and kill yourself.
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Here's how you do it. And before you scold me for teaching pirates something, this is pretty much how copyright trolls work, so turnabout it fair game.
1. Set up a shell company. In this case "VidAngel"
2. Let the shell company do some questionable business.
3. Siphon all the money the shell company makes to a safer place by selling it "patents" or "licenses" or whatever.
4. When (not if) your get-rich-quick-scheme blows up and the shell company is sued for billions, it will go "poof".
5. Profit.
That's as much censorship as you not watching certain YouTube videos.
The important part here is YOU. YOU decide. YOU and YOU alone say what you want to see and what you don't want to see. I hope you can see the difference, if not, allow me to point it out:
YOU deciding what you get to see: good thing
ANYONE ELSE deciding what you get to see: bad thing
Well, I know what Postman and Waterworld would look like if they remove all the cringeworthy scenes.
Ok, I don't really know what it would look like, but I do know that watching both movies back to back wouldn't take more than a minute.
Primitive is relative, that's just how status works over there. I mean, look at us, we're by no means better. Some would call us primitives because we think we have to keep up with the Kadashians despite them not having any really marketable skill that could remotely be called "important". Yet we hype them to celebrity status.
THAT is primitive!
Same reason: Respect is earned by bling. You think someone would respect a policeman in a car that doesn't cost even 30k USD? Please. Just because you have flashing lights, why'd anyone stop for you in your toy car?
And even more important: The police is "owned" by the emir. And of course he has to equip his staff with respectable vehicles. Or can't he afford it?
How is money important? What I do is basically to look at my bank statement and as long as there's more in my account at the end of the month than at the beginning, everything's good.
Money is just the means to an end, not the end itself. If you ARE actually good, you don't need any of your shit. You'll earn more than you can spend without even trying.
Then you're probably a US citizen who is interested in politics.
As one of those idiots I guess I should answer.
I will very likely never get even remotely the amount of money out of our social system that I pay into it. What I do get, is peace of mind, though. I am secure knowing that no matter what kind of sickness may befall me, my health insurance will take care of it. And I also know that everyone in my country has enough to lose that he won't kill me for the 20 bucks that may be in my wallet, for he could far easier just go over to the social services place and get way more legally.
Yes, I probably pay more in tax than you earn. And not because I make a few billions a month, if I did I probably wouldn't pay taxes and instead run for president in your country.
Same here. My education is state funded and still I managed to get a degree from one of the best universities around. I could not have afforded a US college to the tune of a few 100 grand.
Today, I get roughly 50% of my paycheck. Rest goes into tax and other government related stuff. Not having any kids sure doesn't help to get any of that money back any time soon, but that's how the deal works. Someone paid for my education, and now I pay for someone else's. Maybe for the son of the person who paid for my degree. OK, not directly, but they paid tax back then (and now probably get a pension from taxes), I pay tax now, and someone will be able to learn a thing or two because of that, get a good job and pay my pension with his taxes.
That's the deal we enter here. I guess I could get a much worse deal. Like, say, having a crippling student loan on my back that I won't pay off in my lifetime.
Probably rich and having a heart, along with remembering how it was being young and dependent on social services...
The fun part is that poor people are actually gaining a LOT more from high taxes than they lose from their paycheck by them. But usually, the main reason people who are poor are poor is that they don't really understand how money really works. Which is probably why your system still works, smart people would have looked abroad and seen what they could have.
Well, it's still true for the boomers...
It probably depends on the country you're in. Some will actually not simply apply an arbitrary age to decide whether someone is to be considered mature but will instead hire a shrink to test whether the culprit was actually mature enough to understand what he's doing.
You can fake tits, but not brains.
I guess I got my Christmas wish granted. A government finding about "computer stuff" that not only makes sense, it even seems they finally got it.
They ... they might really have understood the problem. I still cannot believe it, it really sounds like they not only went by some hunch or an "expert" recommendation without buying into it, it really seems they finally, FINALLY understood the underlying problem.
I ... I'm kinda scared, government understanding computers, what comes next? If we're not careful, they might even stop wasting taxpayer money. And what kind of government would that be? And more important, what could we ridicule about them and what should we then complain about? Did anyone think about that? What should we feel superior about anymore if the government starts to understand computer problems?
Won't somebody PLEASE think of us professional smug know-it-alls?
Only because it's easier to see through it. The lie in socialism is "work hard and we'll all be living in paradise tomorrow". The capitalist lie is more insidious because it's more personal, "work hard and you'll have the money to also shit on the rest of the world like those that shit on you today".
What do they have to do with socialism? You might want to look up the word, it doesn't mean what you seem to think it does.
Totally different market, totally different mindset. To understand how this works, you'd first of all have to understand the mentality of the target audience.
In the UAE, if you're wealthy and want to "count", you have to show that you have the money. Actually, you have to show that money is so unimportant to you that you can throw it away. And that's best done by buying shit nobody that actually values money would buy. It takes a while to get used to this, but once you understand how status works in that area, the whole insanity starts to make a lot of sense. What matters is not what you do, but how. You have to make a phone call, but you do it on a 150k phone. You have to go somewhere, but you have to drive there with a Ferrari. And of course it has to be some limited edition, because everyone and their dog can simply buy a Ferrari.
You're dealing with people who have a completely different idea of status. In the US, being rich means that you buy a football team because that is somehow an investment. Or you do charity because that allows you to connect with people. Or you do anything else that actually has at least a side benefit. Over there, status is measured by being able to simply throw away money for no tangible return. And to show that you can throw away money, you need to show off crap that is insanely expensive but has no "real" net benefit. A normal iPhone makes calls just as well as the 150k version, but that 150k version shows that you can throw those 150k away without getting anything in return.
Why would I want to? That some idiot comic frog is "the face of white nationalism" and that some other idiot is president of the US is enough for me to know that I do not want to catch up. Who knows, I might catch whatever causes that idiocy, too.
About this "gamergate" thing? I tried to puzzle together what it's about, and so far all I can say it's a lot of overblown bullshit that has no relevance for gaming in any way.
Then it fits perfectly. People still think that Democrats is the opposite of the Republicans, despite being the same group of fuckups by a different name.
This woman is simply doing what religious leaders have been doing for centuries: Milking the "outrage" of people to get rich. Why do you hate capitalism?
And if you need any idea how insane this "lifetime + 70 years" is, what this means is that the book "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler entered public domain pretty much a year ago.
But sure it will! Making America great again will be a blast!
Why leave? Now that it' been pretty much established that he's not going to change anything but actually push harder in the direction we were going, there's no reason to be disappointed in Trump if you had no problem with Hillary. She might be in the pockets of Wall Street, but Trump simply makes Wall Street his staff.
For a brief moment I thought you're talking about the "updates" that are still being forced down the throats of Windows 10 users that brick systems and render them unusable, but instead you're seeking forgiveness for something that cannot be undone and that has been over for months now anyway?
Fuck you.
Go play with something poisonous and kill yourself.