If I don't already know that it's wrong, I just generally assume anything Steve Gibson says is wrong until I learn otherwise. He has a well documented history of being totally wrong just about every time he opens his mouth, so it seems like a safe bet,
What I don't understand is that if you buy something while you're on vacation or while you're working in another state, you pay the local sales tax where you buy the product and your home state doesn't give a rat's ass about it. They would be hard pressed to prove where you bought it. But if you buy online over the "internet", your home state thinks they deserve to tax your purchase.
If you buy something outside your state and bring it back to your home state you are expected to declare the amount on your tax return and pay a use tax on it, minus a credit for the sales tax you paid to the other jurisdiction. Exactly the same as buying things online. I live in a border town and the neighboring sales tax is 1.5% lower. Once I bought a car out of state, when I went to register it they demanded proof of tax paid and made me pay the difference before they would register it.
Everyone uses Skype. Every other product in the field is a niche compared to Skype. Everyone knows the brand "Skype" and what it does. It's ubiquitous enough to be mentioned in print newspaper comics, which are basically only read by old people at this point. This is a common trap people in technology fall into. They feel like everyone must know about all these other options because they do. Skype is almost a household word at this point. Grandparents totter into Best Buy and ask the kid working there what they need to Skype with their granddaughter. That's my personal litmus test, when old people start asking for a technology.
You're missing the point. Yes, it's very easy to monitor satellites. But how do you know which one is an "enemy spy satellite"? Sure, there some confidential launches that are probably for surveillance and that's a good place to start. But there's loads of satellites flying around up there in orbits that are suitable for surveillance despite having some other declared purpose.. How do you know a US based company isn't collaborating with the NRO to launch their payloads on their commercial sats?
Also if you start destroying satellites that's going to become a Pyrrhic victory very quickly. The orbital debris is going to affect your own sats just as badly.
What does "100 miles in size mean"? There are no states that are anything close to 100 square miles, no. But there are certainly states whose dimensions don't (or barely) exceed that in the northeast. Connecticut, for example, is approximately 110 miles by 70 miles. The smallest state, Rhode Island, is 40 miles by 30 miles.
It's just what a given culture or group decides is the "right" way to act. If more people in that group feel a different way is instead what's acceptable, it eventually will be. "Rudeness" is simply violating a cultural norm. Ask a 70 or 80 year old and he'll tell you these young 40 and 50 year olds look like disrespectful slobs with their "business casual" clothes in a professional office. In some cultures if you admire the fountain pen someone was using it would be offensively rude for him to offer it to you as a gift.
As the twenty-somethings who grew up with this technology expect it to be integrated into all aspects of their life, it eventually will be as they ultimately become the managers and CEOs. Of course, they'll probably find a new thing to complain about "kids these days" doing, even if it's not texting during meetings.
Wrong. It's 60s. He was referring to the years 60-69 CE, which was obvious from the context.. Perhaps further education should also be on your bucket list.
New Zealand does not share the same relationship with the US (though yes, they are part of the five eyes SIGINT). Since the 80's up until 2008 NZ was considered a friend, but not an ally. Condoleeza Rice used the ally word in 2008 and it was shocking. The US only started allowing NZ warships into their ports in 2012 and NZ still doesn't allow US warships because of their nuclear ban. Definitely not on the same level as Aus/UK relations, though its thawing.
Jobs wasn't particularly technical, no. He worked for Atari as a technician, sure, but that's a very entry level job that any intelligent person could manage. He didn't "help design circuit boards". He was assigned that task once, for Breakout and he farmed it out to Woz. Jobs' success didn't come from any particular technical expertise. It came from charisma and intelligence, both of which he had plenty of. He mostly partnered with/hired extremely skilled technical people and used his skills to build a business around that.
None of those links have anything to do with someone being sued for not buying a product. The people are being sued for distributing copies of music. Yes they're being sued wrongly, but that has nothing to do with your claim.
What, "fuck you"? That seems like it got through loud and clear.
No, the message you're sending is, "I'm too weak willed to go without your product". People probably just as stupid as you at publishing companies think that if they can just make better DRM you would have to buy the product, You're both wrong and morons, but you're combining to perpetuate the problem. Fuck both of you. Start doing without games with shitty DRM.
Smart enough not to respond all worked up to someone who just told me he's deliberately trying to get me worked up by repeating something I corrected angrily. So, hell, orders of magnitude smarter than you. Certainly far less easy to manipulate. Ah well, I wish I had more time to mess with you tonight, you're a special level of stupid that doesn't come along often.
Would you feel empathy pirating a game from a small studio who specifically talks about how piracy harms them? Because I'm not seeing any difference. Hell small studios struggle to keep people employed no matter what, large studios whose games fail have no problems laying off swaths of people.
Have you ever heard the expression "Step up so others won’t get stepped on"?
Yes, it's a slogan commonly used in anti-bullying campaigns. You know, something that is an actual problem. Using it to justify piracy is pretty shitty.
A LOT of customers took the principled stand of simply not purchasing DRM-laced products in the last decade and the entertainment industry reacted by mass suing the public.
Really? People were sued for simply not buying a product? Or were they sued for not buying a product and "acquiring" it anyway? Pirating a product does not make you some sort of hero of civil disobedience. It makes you pirate. Standing up to practices you consider unfair by refusing to buy or use products from companies that engage in that behavior, a practice that at least requires an actual sacrifice on your part, makes you an admirable, principled person.
No it makes sense because they're still selling boxed copies. Retailers in countries with release dates after the US digital release would be pissed if the US digital release was available before they even got copies in their stores. Physical retailers are becoming less relevant, but at the moment they're still not worth pissing off.
Don't buy such a shitty product then. That doesn't mean pirating it is now okay. I think a lot of companies make really shitty products. I avoid those companies.
If you bought a copy, found iout ater it had huge problems and a pirate copy is the only way to get a usable product, then go for it. You bought it and can do what you want. But that's totally different than pirating it from the get go simply because it has DRM and you don't like that.
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Do you keep your money in a bank? Why in the world would you let someone else store your valuable currency?
If I don't already know that it's wrong, I just generally assume anything Steve Gibson says is wrong until I learn otherwise. He has a well documented history of being totally wrong just about every time he opens his mouth, so it seems like a safe bet,
What I don't understand is that if you buy something while you're on vacation or while you're working in another state, you pay the local sales tax where you buy the product and your home state doesn't give a rat's ass about it. They would be hard pressed to prove where you bought it. But if you buy online over the "internet", your home state thinks they deserve to tax your purchase.
If you buy something outside your state and bring it back to your home state you are expected to declare the amount on your tax return and pay a use tax on it, minus a credit for the sales tax you paid to the other jurisdiction. Exactly the same as buying things online. I live in a border town and the neighboring sales tax is 1.5% lower. Once I bought a car out of state, when I went to register it they demanded proof of tax paid and made me pay the difference before they would register it.
Everyone uses Skype. Every other product in the field is a niche compared to Skype. Everyone knows the brand "Skype" and what it does. It's ubiquitous enough to be mentioned in print newspaper comics, which are basically only read by old people at this point. This is a common trap people in technology fall into. They feel like everyone must know about all these other options because they do. Skype is almost a household word at this point. Grandparents totter into Best Buy and ask the kid working there what they need to Skype with their granddaughter. That's my personal litmus test, when old people start asking for a technology.
You're missing the point. Yes, it's very easy to monitor satellites. But how do you know which one is an "enemy spy satellite"? Sure, there some confidential launches that are probably for surveillance and that's a good place to start. But there's loads of satellites flying around up there in orbits that are suitable for surveillance despite having some other declared purpose.. How do you know a US based company isn't collaborating with the NRO to launch their payloads on their commercial sats?
Also if you start destroying satellites that's going to become a Pyrrhic victory very quickly. The orbital debris is going to affect your own sats just as badly.
What does "100 miles in size mean"? There are no states that are anything close to 100 square miles, no. But there are certainly states whose dimensions don't (or barely) exceed that in the northeast. Connecticut, for example, is approximately 110 miles by 70 miles. The smallest state, Rhode Island, is 40 miles by 30 miles.
How would they know which ones to destroy? Are you going to destroy every satellite that tracks over your country?
Er, for him to not offer it to you as a gift.
It's just what a given culture or group decides is the "right" way to act. If more people in that group feel a different way is instead what's acceptable, it eventually will be. "Rudeness" is simply violating a cultural norm. Ask a 70 or 80 year old and he'll tell you these young 40 and 50 year olds look like disrespectful slobs with their "business casual" clothes in a professional office. In some cultures if you admire the fountain pen someone was using it would be offensively rude for him to offer it to you as a gift.
As the twenty-somethings who grew up with this technology expect it to be integrated into all aspects of their life, it eventually will be as they ultimately become the managers and CEOs. Of course, they'll probably find a new thing to complain about "kids these days" doing, even if it's not texting during meetings.
The Turks & Caicos are British.
Wrong. It's 60s. He was referring to the years 60-69 CE, which was obvious from the context.. Perhaps further education should also be on your bucket list.
New Zealand does not share the same relationship with the US (though yes, they are part of the five eyes SIGINT). Since the 80's up until 2008 NZ was considered a friend, but not an ally. Condoleeza Rice used the ally word in 2008 and it was shocking. The US only started allowing NZ warships into their ports in 2012 and NZ still doesn't allow US warships because of their nuclear ban. Definitely not on the same level as Aus/UK relations, though its thawing.
Jobs wasn't particularly technical, no. He worked for Atari as a technician, sure, but that's a very entry level job that any intelligent person could manage. He didn't "help design circuit boards". He was assigned that task once, for Breakout and he farmed it out to Woz. Jobs' success didn't come from any particular technical expertise. It came from charisma and intelligence, both of which he had plenty of. He mostly partnered with/hired extremely skilled technical people and used his skills to build a business around that.
None of those links have anything to do with someone being sued for not buying a product. The people are being sued for distributing copies of music. Yes they're being sued wrongly, but that has nothing to do with your claim.
What, "fuck you"? That seems like it got through loud and clear.
No, the message you're sending is, "I'm too weak willed to go without your product". People probably just as stupid as you at publishing companies think that if they can just make better DRM you would have to buy the product, You're both wrong and morons, but you're combining to perpetuate the problem. Fuck both of you. Start doing without games with shitty DRM.
Smart enough not to respond all worked up to someone who just told me he's deliberately trying to get me worked up by repeating something I corrected angrily. So, hell, orders of magnitude smarter than you. Certainly far less easy to manipulate. Ah well, I wish I had more time to mess with you tonight, you're a special level of stupid that doesn't come along often.
Would you feel empathy pirating a game from a small studio who specifically talks about how piracy harms them? Because I'm not seeing any difference. Hell small studios struggle to keep people employed no matter what, large studios whose games fail have no problems laying off swaths of people.
It sure as hell doesn't make you a paragon of selflessness.
Have you ever heard the expression "Step up so others won’t get stepped on"?
Yes, it's a slogan commonly used in anti-bullying campaigns. You know, something that is an actual problem. Using it to justify piracy is pretty shitty.
A LOT of customers took the principled stand of simply not purchasing DRM-laced products in the last decade and the entertainment industry reacted by mass suing the public.
Really? People were sued for simply not buying a product? Or were they sued for not buying a product and "acquiring" it anyway? Pirating a product does not make you some sort of hero of civil disobedience. It makes you pirate. Standing up to practices you consider unfair by refusing to buy or use products from companies that engage in that behavior, a practice that at least requires an actual sacrifice on your part, makes you an admirable, principled person.
Then don't order it?
No, as a reasonable and intelligent person I avoid that company's products.
Someone whose actions are constrained not by ethics or morals but instead by what he can get away with is what we call a sociopath.
No it makes sense because they're still selling boxed copies. Retailers in countries with release dates after the US digital release would be pissed if the US digital release was available before they even got copies in their stores. Physical retailers are becoming less relevant, but at the moment they're still not worth pissing off.
Don't buy such a shitty product then. That doesn't mean pirating it is now okay. I think a lot of companies make really shitty products. I avoid those companies.
If you bought a copy, found iout ater it had huge problems and a pirate copy is the only way to get a usable product, then go for it. You bought it and can do what you want. But that's totally different than pirating it from the get go simply because it has DRM and you don't like that.
Read the post I was replying to.