Dang I would hate to be on that development team. Job security I guess. Now they will likely be working on a version that can be tossed into the compost pile. Why not make it edible? A nice snack to go with your coffee?
"It's like knowingly selling blood diamonds. There is no plausible deniability. The business model is based on violence and killing. "
Bollocks - its based on money. Its no different to selling weapons. I'm sure this company would have no problem selling to you if you stump up the cash. I'm not going to pretend they're saints, but they're not the cartoon evil people would love these sorts of companies to be either.
Say you're an arms dealer, selling to the national army of Bulgaria is one thing, selling to Boko Haram, completely different.
I bet you haven't read 1058 James Blish's "A Case of Conscience". I wouldn't say it's plagiarism but it certainly explores a very similar universe with basically all the same clues you find in Avatar.
Or seen Pocahontas, it's basically the same thing.
You know, I'd really like to hear mr. Gerrard's opinion on scientology and whether that together with this opinion holds any water. It's one thing to declare there has to be some line, but to arbitrarily put it at "satire", well, why can't you worship through satire?
A lot of people actually believe in Scientology though, evidenced by giving them all their money and leaving their lives. No one actually believes in Pastafarianism, everyone knows it's a piss take.
A number of video editing solutions require it for functionality, though. Which was lazy of them to begin with, I'd agree, but it is what it is.
True, but it only gets installed because it has to be for codecs or whatever reason it is then it never gets used. Ever. It's worse than the real media player used to be.
I am cursed with knowing what "begs the question" actually means, forced to forever roams the Earth correcting other people's misuse of the phrase.
Poor little you, lots of people know what it's supposed to mean and then take it for how it's meant. It's a stupid phrase that should mean begs (for) the question (to be asked). You presume the conclusion that others don't share your 'curse' when they're happy enough to just get on with it.
The point is that theft is not only about the taking of an actual item, but potential loss of revenue from that item too.
Nice try but it's not. Theft is taking a possession away from someone without permission. It has no bearing what the item was worth or if there is any intention to sell it. As much as you may want it to be a copyright infringement is not a theft. If it was they would have called it theft instead of coming up with a new term.
All logic and semantics be damned; the law is clear.
The law said slavery was right and good. The law said that women being forbidden to vote was right and good. The law said that dark skinned people were to ride on the back of the bus, and use separate bathrooms, and drink from separate fountains. The law says that "interstate commerce" means "intrastate commerce." The law was, and remains, completely clear on these and similarly wrongheaded matters. And in so doing, it is completely, utterly, wrong. As is precisely the case here.
Irrelevant. The law tells you what you can and cannot do, doesn't matter if it's subjectively right or wrong that's for future people to decide and change the law accordingly but until then, then law doesn't give a shit. Manslaughter isn't murder and copyright infringement isn't theft.
You do understand that when they make a movie, it takes a lot of effort and money, right? And, if everyone goes "hey, it's not theft", then they won't get that money, right? And then they won't have either the money or inclination to make you the next movie. Got that? No more great movies for you to copy without paying.
Maybe they should start making some decent, original, compelling films instead of rehashing 80s/90s stuff and making endless superhero films. Most of the shit they put out these days isn't even worth downloading. Sure, the odd good one slips through and they should be fully supported to encourage more, but yeah, 90% of Hollywood's output is pure garbage.
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Why not just change the material it's made from? Why is it not that simple?
Dang I would hate to be on that development team. Job security I guess. Now they will likely be working on a version that can be tossed into the compost pile. Why not make it edible? A nice snack to go with your coffee?
Why not just make the cups out of coffee?
Just make cups the exact same shape and size out of a better material? Why can they not do that?
"It's like knowingly selling blood diamonds. There is no plausible deniability. The business model is based on violence and killing. "
Bollocks - its based on money. Its no different to selling weapons. I'm sure this company would have no problem selling to you if you stump up the cash. I'm not going to pretend they're saints, but they're not the cartoon evil people would love these sorts of companies to be either.
Say you're an arms dealer, selling to the national army of Bulgaria is one thing, selling to Boko Haram, completely different.
And why would a shit-heel pay a black hat for access into the infrastructure of an anonymous coward?
I want to find who this AC is. There will be a substantial reward, any takers?
"I think they did some excellent worldbuilding"
I bet you haven't read 1058 James Blish's "A Case of Conscience". I wouldn't say it's plagiarism but it certainly explores a very similar universe with basically all the same clues you find in Avatar.
Or seen Pocahontas, it's basically the same thing.
Did Pocahontas have a bunch of sequels to be ripped off and set in space?
I disagree. If more believed the nonsense we'd see more mass killings, not fewer a-holes. Have you ever read any of those old books?
That depends, take the bible, it would depend if you believe the first half or the second. They're kinda contradictory.
You know, I'd really like to hear mr. Gerrard's opinion on scientology and whether that together with this opinion holds any water. It's one thing to declare there has to be some line, but to arbitrarily put it at "satire", well, why can't you worship through satire?
A lot of people actually believe in Scientology though, evidenced by giving them all their money and leaving their lives. No one actually believes in Pastafarianism, everyone knows it's a piss take.
Yeah, I bet you never use quicktime to play anything. You'd damn the whole congregation by association. Hell only has QuickTime installed.
We can all joke about how pathetic and shitty their win applications are, but let's be realistic, these are created by professionals.
But that's how they design them. Then they can say it works much better on a mac, why don't you buy a ma? C'mon, buy a mac.
A number of video editing solutions require it for functionality, though. Which was lazy of them to begin with, I'd agree, but it is what it is.
True, but it only gets installed because it has to be for codecs or whatever reason it is then it never gets used. Ever. It's worse than the real media player used to be.
This is luddite shit, the apps guy was much better
Anyone using Safari on Windows trying to play html5 media in that browser.
Why would anyone on windows use safari?
Classified just means not for you
You get a pen and write down the 1/0s
Quicktime was shit.
I am cursed with knowing what "begs the question" actually means, forced to forever roams the Earth correcting other people's misuse of the phrase.
Poor little you, lots of people know what it's supposed to mean and then take it for how it's meant. It's a stupid phrase that should mean begs (for) the question (to be asked). You presume the conclusion that others don't share your 'curse' when they're happy enough to just get on with it.
Says you. How about "presuming the conclusion". Which is actually a wording that is self-explanatory and makes sense.
Plus it kinda rhymes. I'd vote for this.
The point is that theft is not only about the taking of an actual item, but potential loss of revenue from that item too.
Nice try but it's not. Theft is taking a possession away from someone without permission. It has no bearing what the item was worth or if there is any intention to sell it. As much as you may want it to be a copyright infringement is not a theft. If it was they would have called it theft instead of coming up with a new term.
So making a copy of money is ok then?
That's different, people don't go around trading downloaded movies and trying to pass them off for the real thing.
The law said slavery was right and good. The law said that women being forbidden to vote was right and good. The law said that dark skinned people were to ride on the back of the bus, and use separate bathrooms, and drink from separate fountains. The law says that "interstate commerce" means "intrastate commerce." The law was, and remains, completely clear on these and similarly wrongheaded matters. And in so doing, it is completely, utterly, wrong. As is precisely the case here.
Irrelevant. The law tells you what you can and cannot do, doesn't matter if it's subjectively right or wrong that's for future people to decide and change the law accordingly but until then, then law doesn't give a shit. Manslaughter isn't murder and copyright infringement isn't theft.
You do understand that when they make a movie, it takes a lot of effort and money, right? And, if everyone goes "hey, it's not theft", then they won't get that money, right? And then they won't have either the money or inclination to make you the next movie. Got that? No more great movies for you to copy without paying.
Maybe they should start making some decent, original, compelling films instead of rehashing 80s/90s stuff and making endless superhero films. Most of the shit they put out these days isn't even worth downloading. Sure, the odd good one slips through and they should be fully supported to encourage more, but yeah, 90% of Hollywood's output is pure garbage.
Spastic in the US is shortened to 'spaz' and means 'nerd', as in news for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spastic
Spastic in the UK is someone of severe mental retardation, so yeah, apple fans.
Did you do any research whatsoever before posting your idiotic response?
Haha, good one. +5 funny