What "lost revenue"? Is that like when media companies "lose revenue" to piracy because someone else's actions result in them getting less money than they think they deserve?
That argument cuts both ways. Since "Dotcom" was - let's be honest - growing rich from ripping off the MPAA et al, I find it hard to sympathise with his predicament.
No, that doesn't mean I'm pro MPAA - we're just watching a struggle between an engorged leech and the bloated tick that fastened onto it.
Bingo. An ex-employer of mine suffered a "break in" where the only things stolen were some executive laptops - which had conveniently been left out on their desks - and some of the papers in the safe - which the burglars apparently managed to guess the combination to.
This was after they'd stopped paying all the staff, but just before administrators were called in to go through the accounts and contracts. Say, can you guess what information went missing in the "break in"?
The staff just sighed and asked which side of the window the broken glass was on. It was that kind of a place.
I cannot think of another "Western" nation that is slipping into oppression faster or further than Australia. Not even Nanny Brussels is dragging Europe down at this rate. Internets use, surveillance, road traffic, hobbies, speech, it's just turn after turn of the prohibition thumbscrews on the left hand and the mandating screws on the right.
What up, Oz? When are you going to have enough laws to keep every child and kitten safe, all the time, forever?
Smelly hippy is as smelly hippy does. The media will always give a platform to extremists; it was charmingly naive of the OWS movement to believe otherwise.
I'll assume you're not a retard, so you didn't pay more than $30K for your Volt. Are you seriously suggesting that it only costs $30K to make one? Even ignoring paying back the investment, that seems unlikely.
Now, have you factored in the cost of your solar power system?
Fine, you have a car that apparently sits on your drive or in your garage during the day, being charged up by your (also subsidised) PV system. To how many people does that apply? Especially for a $30K car.
And you got a Volt to do 8,000 miles a year. Are you serious? That's not even oil chance mileage for a gasoline car.
Look, I'm sold on the theoretical merits of electric and hybrid vehicles, but your usage is not typical, and your sums make no sense. You may not be doing the bang up job of advertising them that you believe.
When cab drivers start using them, I might get interested.
Maybe you should go and read the article then, before running your mouth off.
If expressing your opinion about the judicial system or a particular verdict isn't protected political speech, then I can't really think what is.
Judge McPrissypants there needs to be told by a grown up that many of us hold the judicial system in contempt, for exactly this sort of arbitrary thin skinned over-reaction.
I think you'll find that the "conservative" position on climate change isn't so much scepticism as "don't give a damn". However, that rarely appears as a poll option, because it doesn't get anyone any funding.
Political "conservatives" (let's just say Republicans, eh?) seem to be the ones who trust that climate change will be just another chapter in Things That We Totally Made Our Bitch.
It's political "progressives" who seem to be shrieking that if anything changes, ever, then we're all going to diiiiiiie. While at the same time clamouring for more and more and more social and economic change.
Here's my broad brush description:
Conservatives: Things are pretty much OK with me, so how about you quit your bitching and get a haircut.
Progressives: Everything is totally screwed up and I'm sooooo mad about it. [sent from my iPhone]
Calling climate change a "disaster" just makes you a Chicken Little, not a troll.
Incidentally, I'd consider faith in IPv4 re-use to be on a par with ecomental "solutions" to climate change. It's bothersome, it's fiddling round the edges, and it won't do a damn thing to avert the need for more change later.
But either way, it's just change. If you look around and notice that you don't live in a cave and eat mud, that may clue you in on whether change is something that humans can cope with, without having to run around shrieking "Meesa bombad scared! Wesa all gonna die!"
Always trying to one-up Mother England. And no, this isn't trolling, or even an opinion, it's a simple statement of fact. Road traffic, privacy, speech, assembly, commerce, think-of-the-children censorship, gambling, personal and domestic defence: Australia leads the "1st world" in suppressing, oppressing and treating its citizens like children who are incapable of fending or thinking for themselves.
Welcome to the future, where all the corners are rounded and running with scissors is a felony.
those disputed files can be restored immediately if a counterclaim is made if you trust that the safe harbor protections afforded by the DMCA will stop some rabid copyright troll with a shyster lawyer from bringing a bullshit suit against you, costing you money up front to defend it even if it's clearly without merit.
FTFY. The attitude seems to be that it's safer/cheaper/sadistically funnier to keep penalising your own customers than to gamble on safe harbor.
"Plumbing" is only needed if you ship spam in your can. Humans create a lot of opportunity for problems.
I agree with you in principle, by the way - it's overcoming those problems that makes us more than just monkeys. But the practical argument is pretty tenuous.
On noes, things might be slightly different in the future! As we know, things were never, ever different in the past and humans are completely incapable of adapting to changing environmental conditions. Therefore fund my research project, or over 80 billion people will die. Every second.
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Eh, the MPAA busted up his racket pretty effectively. That's how mob turfs wars works. Far more efficient than dull old due process.
What "lost revenue"? Is that like when media companies "lose revenue" to piracy because someone else's actions result in them getting less money than they think they deserve?
That argument cuts both ways. Since "Dotcom" was - let's be honest - growing rich from ripping off the MPAA et al, I find it hard to sympathise with his predicament.
No, that doesn't mean I'm pro MPAA - we're just watching a struggle between an engorged leech and the bloated tick that fastened onto it.
Bingo. An ex-employer of mine suffered a "break in" where the only things stolen were some executive laptops - which had conveniently been left out on their desks - and some of the papers in the safe - which the burglars apparently managed to guess the combination to.
This was after they'd stopped paying all the staff, but just before administrators were called in to go through the accounts and contracts. Say, can you guess what information went missing in the "break in"?
The staff just sighed and asked which side of the window the broken glass was on. It was that kind of a place.
I cannot think of another "Western" nation that is slipping into oppression faster or further than Australia. Not even Nanny Brussels is dragging Europe down at this rate. Internets use, surveillance, road traffic, hobbies, speech, it's just turn after turn of the prohibition thumbscrews on the left hand and the mandating screws on the right.
What up, Oz? When are you going to have enough laws to keep every child and kitten safe, all the time, forever?
Have you even read a bible? Even the BabyJesus was all about thrashing slaves who didn't please their masters.
Australia? Home of the worst Nanny State since Dear Leader put his entire country on the Naught Step?
Sure, you can download as much as you like, as long as it's not sex, gambling, or anything that might possibly have been copyrighted at any point.
Bigger picture, Woz, it's not just about the bits and bytes.
Smelly hippy is as smelly hippy does. The media will always give a platform to extremists; it was charmingly naive of the OWS movement to believe otherwise.
Let me note a few things.
I'll assume you're not a retard, so you didn't pay more than $30K for your Volt. Are you seriously suggesting that it only costs $30K to make one? Even ignoring paying back the investment, that seems unlikely.
Now, have you factored in the cost of your solar power system?
Fine, you have a car that apparently sits on your drive or in your garage during the day, being charged up by your (also subsidised) PV system. To how many people does that apply? Especially for a $30K car.
And you got a Volt to do 8,000 miles a year. Are you serious? That's not even oil chance mileage for a gasoline car.
Look, I'm sold on the theoretical merits of electric and hybrid vehicles, but your usage is not typical, and your sums make no sense. You may not be doing the bang up job of advertising them that you believe.
When cab drivers start using them, I might get interested.
End of retarded discussion.
Such as?
Maybe you should go and read the article then, before running your mouth off.
If expressing your opinion about the judicial system or a particular verdict isn't protected political speech, then I can't really think what is.
Judge McPrissypants there needs to be told by a grown up that many of us hold the judicial system in contempt, for exactly this sort of arbitrary thin skinned over-reaction.
You backup config file before editing them?
Well, I guess it's easy to talk a good game.
I tried turning mine off then back on again with a Mint LXDE usb key in it, and it's been fine ever since.
They'll have to remove the safety features before selling them to China. Don't want the Meat Units getting complacent.
I think you'll find that the "conservative" position on climate change isn't so much scepticism as "don't give a damn". However, that rarely appears as a poll option, because it doesn't get anyone any funding.
Political "conservatives" (let's just say Republicans, eh?) seem to be the ones who trust that climate change will be just another chapter in Things That We Totally Made Our Bitch.
It's political "progressives" who seem to be shrieking that if anything changes, ever, then we're all going to diiiiiiie. While at the same time clamouring for more and more and more social and economic change.
Here's my broad brush description:
Calling climate change a "disaster" just makes you a Chicken Little, not a troll.
Incidentally, I'd consider faith in IPv4 re-use to be on a par with ecomental "solutions" to climate change. It's bothersome, it's fiddling round the edges, and it won't do a damn thing to avert the need for more change later.
But either way, it's just change. If you look around and notice that you don't live in a cave and eat mud, that may clue you in on whether change is something that humans can cope with, without having to run around shrieking "Meesa bombad scared! Wesa all gonna die!"
Now that's trolling.
We'll stop talking about it when they fix their bloody cars. They're still in "LA LA, can't hear you" mode.
Fund science like you fund business, and it becomes an exercise in marketing and hot topic buzzwords.
OK, it might take more energy to make a solar panel than we'll ever get back from it, but look at the economies of scale that we're leveraging!
Always trying to one-up Mother England. And no, this isn't trolling, or even an opinion, it's a simple statement of fact. Road traffic, privacy, speech, assembly, commerce, think-of-the-children censorship, gambling, personal and domestic defence: Australia leads the "1st world" in suppressing, oppressing and treating its citizens like children who are incapable of fending or thinking for themselves.
Welcome to the future, where all the corners are rounded and running with scissors is a felony.
Apparently not enough to police the crazies though.
FTFY. The attitude seems to be that it's safer/cheaper/sadistically funnier to keep penalising your own customers than to gamble on safe harbor.
Somehow that's a little disappointing.
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"Plumbing" is only needed if you ship spam in your can. Humans create a lot of opportunity for problems.
I agree with you in principle, by the way - it's overcoming those problems that makes us more than just monkeys. But the practical argument is pretty tenuous.
On noes, things might be slightly different in the future! As we know, things were never, ever different in the past and humans are completely incapable of adapting to changing environmental conditions. Therefore fund my research project, or over 80 billion people will die. Every second.