The problem I have is all the services want total control, I've flat out had songs removed from my playlist from an artist as they take them off the service, like google play, then have to go find the song on youtube.
I almost forgot the name of the song and would have never known except one of my devices hadn't updated yet and had it removed. If there was more responsibility and accountability to provide proper access or notification if a song has been removed from the service it would be better. In the end, I pay about 10$ a month to listen to music every now and then, but if it keeps up bands are going to find it harder to get discovered, and I'll switch to buying music I like, taking it on medium I control, and that'll be the end of it.
I'm okay with people being paid for their work, but I'm not okay with people dictating when they'll take it away from me, after taking my money.
But do you have the ability to remove the book from people's hands, update it's content without their permission and desire to do and then go after them if they find a way to read the original copy of the book?
If they purchase your book, and you charge a subscription to access a book club so they can attend with other book readers, is it right that you can take the book away if they no longer wish to attend the book club? Or go after them if they take their book to another book club that doesn't charge them for attending?
The biggest flaw is the fact that you have to purchase the game / book and then you're only paying for access to their servers. it shouldn't be illegal in these cases if using a legitimate purchased copy of the game to play on other servers. Or hosting the other servers / book clubs.
I've seen other companies try to use security scares to get you to log back in, like ubisoft.
If your account isn't locked out then it's likely just pr scam to get you to remember their services and login again. They wonder why people are alert and ad overloaded and don't respond to things, even ones that matter, because all the shady scamming crap from 'trusted companies' is fake.
Security alerts used to mean something, and people shouldn't ignore them, but they've started to since companies are abusing that content.
The point sailing over your head is that the consequences that are there IF caught aren't more of a, oh well that sucks.
Hence people don't spend as much time thinking about the consequences. Obviously I agree that if people think they can't even begin to get away with whatever crime they want to commit they won't bother, but increasing the severity brings a larger reality check.
All people seem to do these days is advocate less conequences less responsibility and yet somehow our world isn't improving.
I dunno, if the consequences was the swat members or a member of the family you had someone killed in got to put a bullet between your head, you wouldn't swat, you wouldn't want a bullet in the head, you fear that much more than a prison sentence.
So many devices no matter where you buy them have 'security flaws' and be at risk to expose sensitive data or spy etc etc.
This sounds more like "Oh god, instead of us buying it from China for 10$ then selling it in north america for 110$, people are directly buying it for 10$" Ah noooo what do we do!
Just sounds like a campaign to try to convince people to pay higher prices.
Today's 30s are working 50+ hour work weeks with mandatory overtime and are still living paycheck to paycheck.
The difference is what hard work got you in the 1960's isn't what it got you today. You could own a home etc. Most of the time now people are told they can give up 90% of their free time, including travel time etc, and maybe you'll be allowed to have a car.
With inflation etc, people are earning a lot less. And companies are like whaaaat, you don't want to work more? Come on, if you work even more hours, in 3 years we'll give you a dollar raise. No? My god what is wrong with this generation...they don"t know what hard work is.
Clearly your company is small to medium. When your business gets large enough it can be uneconomical especially if non sense questions or basic "Read the manual" questions come in.
Like hi I just bought X how do I turn it on?
You get enough customers with enough content like that coming through and you have an issue. I like the approach you have but I do scrutinize the scalability of it. Small businesses often thrive because they have the flexibility to provide personalized support to their clients. A company like microsoft would be slammed with "I installed a program that says it's for windows 98 on windows 7, and it doesn't work, I need this really really really really really really bad, for business, how do I make it work?"
People in the work force for 20 years tend to have figured out a significant portion the mistakes by incompetent managers / co-workers wasting money and catering to petty egos and every trick in the book to pay you less.
So either you're advocating pot which, who cares we've all heard from stoners, you'll probably get your way. It'll be amazing like liquor where you'll still be charged criminally for selling it, not allowed to grow vast quantities of it, more technology to detect if you're under the influence of it while driving etc. So not that big of a deal.
Out where I live it's only the people who are selling it etc that are busted. Cops could care less for the paper work for someone with a personal amount.
On top of that, you just really wanted to run your agenda? I never said "Most crimes are X". So your first response was "No. Most crimes" to crime and money laundering bad.
You think they're good? Or you think we should legalize heroin etc? I mean even if it's legal, whose responsibility is it to provide that to anyone? If you get sick and need anti-biotics, you have to pay for that.
But what, somehow if you need heroin because when you took it you felt really good and now you're addicted? You'll still have the same problems with extremely addicting substance. E.G It'll put you in a state that you can't work, or you can't afford enough of what you want, which then people result to crime to get a little more. I mean you can't be high on this stuff at work, so people would need to be functional 8 hours a day.
It just doesn't look like it ends well from any angle except the "I'm a no good and think everything should be idealistic and free and I should get whatever I want and somehow it's paid for, by everyone else" Well I got news for you if that's your view. Everyone is going to join you, then who is going to pay for it? Yea, enjoy that.
It's hypocritical. The very same people that want to feel attractive even though they made choices that people find unattractive, don't want to watch movies with a bunch of unattractive people in it who are overweight.
It's just a special interest group, a loud minority that wanted to be considered attractive even though they're going to eat those extra doughnuts tonight.
Hollywood movies I've watched don't show people who are unhealthy skinny "super models" who puke everyday. I see people who are fit, in shape, and healthy. These are things that should be shown as attractive and desirable. Sorry if your fragile self esteem can't put the burger down and wants to feel good about it.
Get fit, get healthy, it sucks, I know personally, trust me, but stop blaming everyone else for not liking your body and the choices you've made.
I mean sure crime and money laundering bad, absolutely, but people can simply bargain goods for a lot of that too, so there is a work around.
The real issue is pure fear that they lose control of money, which they waste so much of. It's a hard stance for me personally since regulation to prevent money laundering is important (We need our paved roads, taxes pay for them, people need to be paying their taxes) but it takes the ability to manipulate money and hose everyone as easily like certain countries whose dollar dropped to near nothing.
There is no such thing as a natural right. Rights are a concept we developed and uphold with better morale understanding to improve the world we live in.
We found when things were better for everyone, it was almost always better for the individual as well.
At the end of the day, we decided this is the right way to do things, other people said it was wrong to hold their power.
You're looking at a single market. They don't buy food, buy cars, houses, toliet paper, paper plates, go camping, visit the waterslides, etc.
There is a large part of the economy you're ignoring.
Same old story of bullies.
Rich people going I'm not giving you anything but a shit sandwhich, and if you fight to get better than that shit sandwhich, we'll make it taste extra like shit.
The money is there, the raw resources are there, the products are there, the food is there, but you can't have any of it. People talk about money like it's a finite thing. It's not, it's made up and infinite, and they use it to control what you have to do to have some things.
In North America there is enough food, cars, luxury items even that people don't need to go without. If the economy was more balanced, it would be better (except for the people at the top). More freedom, more fun, more choices, less suffering.
Like who do they think they are threatening? They want to charge North American prices and take north american money but pay china wages. Well, if no one has jobs or money here, no one buys your products, either.
So it's just as bad for them to have no one employed. There isn't going to be automated machines who earn money and buy your products.
Increasing prices to line their products good, they have more profit than ever before, but somehow wages will destroy everything if they even remotely follow the increases.
I'm not buying it. (Get it? see what I did there?)
It's not going to work.
There are a significant amount of apps that I don't "need". There are some which are nice to have, but if they charged more, it wouldn't happen.
I think there are too many people stuck in this entitlement to everyone elses money and anything they make people will buy.
There are a lot of really good apps, that people spent time developing to be efficient and useful, and those are the ones that are getting more.
No one seems to ever go "Hmm, that app gets more money because it's better" No, they'd rather a study that says if they charge more their app will be better.
Maybe AI will finally govern finances and decide the 1% is too greedy and fix the problems?:P
1% is definitely an issue but I wouldn't want to stop research on AI etc just because they'll benefit like they do on most things.
But beyond the end of the world jokes this stuff is still massively cool. There is a lot of really great things that can be accomplished by better AI to enrich everyone.
Definitely another step towards all the neat Sci-fi things we've seen.
Decentralized is the way to go, but utilities and cities are panicking over it.
There was an article where someone went offgrid, had rain water buckets, wind and solar panel, and they condemned the place for not having utilities.
There is some concern over the powers that be getting upset for not getting their piece of pie and are worried others will follow.
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The problem I have is all the services want total control, I've flat out had songs removed from my playlist from an artist as they take them off the service, like google play, then have to go find the song on youtube.
I almost forgot the name of the song and would have never known except one of my devices hadn't updated yet and had it removed.
If there was more responsibility and accountability to provide proper access or notification if a song has been removed from the service it would be better.
In the end, I pay about 10$ a month to listen to music every now and then, but if it keeps up bands are going to find it harder to get discovered, and I'll switch to buying music I like, taking it on medium I control, and that'll be the end of it.
I'm okay with people being paid for their work, but I'm not okay with people dictating when they'll take it away from me, after taking my money.
But do you have the ability to remove the book from people's hands, update it's content without their permission and desire to do and then go after them if they find a way to read the original copy of the book?
If they purchase your book, and you charge a subscription to access a book club so they can attend with other book readers, is it right that you can take the book away if they no longer wish to attend the book club? Or go after them if they take their book to another book club that doesn't charge them for attending?
The biggest flaw is the fact that you have to purchase the game / book and then you're only paying for access to their servers. it shouldn't be illegal in these cases if using a legitimate purchased copy of the game to play on other servers. Or hosting the other servers / book clubs.
I've seen other companies try to use security scares to get you to log back in, like ubisoft.
If your account isn't locked out then it's likely just pr scam to get you to remember their services and login again. They wonder why people are alert and ad overloaded and don't respond to things, even ones that matter, because all the shady scamming crap from 'trusted companies' is fake.
Security alerts used to mean something, and people shouldn't ignore them, but they've started to since companies are abusing that content.
Make insecure chips but fast, use ahh didn't realize security issue marketing, slow down chips, resale chips with the same performance level, profit.
Much cheaper than actually coming up with faster chipsets to purchase.
The point sailing over your head is that the consequences that are there IF caught aren't more of a, oh well that sucks.
Hence people don't spend as much time thinking about the consequences. Obviously I agree that if people think they can't even begin to get away with whatever crime they want to commit they won't bother, but increasing the severity brings a larger reality check.
All people seem to do these days is advocate less conequences less responsibility and yet somehow our world isn't improving.
I dunno, if the consequences was the swat members or a member of the family you had someone killed in got to put a bullet between your head, you wouldn't swat, you wouldn't want a bullet in the head, you fear that much more than a prison sentence.
So many devices no matter where you buy them have 'security flaws' and be at risk to expose sensitive data or spy etc etc.
This sounds more like "Oh god, instead of us buying it from China for 10$ then selling it in north america for 110$, people are directly buying it for 10$" Ah noooo what do we do!
Just sounds like a campaign to try to convince people to pay higher prices.
So many more people be like yo bling search it. No one wants to say they binged it.
I dunno, I tell my kid all the time I'm going to do it. Her eyes always light up and she's like yay do it!
Today's 30s are working 50+ hour work weeks with mandatory overtime and are still living paycheck to paycheck.
The difference is what hard work got you in the 1960's isn't what it got you today. You could own a home etc. Most of the time now people are told they can give up 90% of their free time, including travel time etc, and maybe you'll be allowed to have a car.
With inflation etc, people are earning a lot less. And companies are like whaaaat, you don't want to work more? Come on, if you work even more hours, in 3 years we'll give you a dollar raise. No? My god what is wrong with this generation...they don"t know what hard work is.
Single layer sheet of atoms is about as close to two dimensional as we can perceive.
Clearly your company is small to medium. When your business gets large enough it can be uneconomical especially if non sense questions or basic "Read the manual" questions come in.
Like hi I just bought X how do I turn it on?
You get enough customers with enough content like that coming through and you have an issue. I like the approach you have but I do scrutinize the scalability of it. Small businesses often thrive because they have the flexibility to provide personalized support to their clients. A company like microsoft would be slammed with "I installed a program that says it's for windows 98 on windows 7, and it doesn't work, I need this really really really really really really bad, for business, how do I make it work?"
Making junk files isn't interesting.
What he did was amusing and adds interest.
People in the work force for 20 years tend to have figured out a significant portion the mistakes by incompetent managers / co-workers wasting money and catering to petty egos and every trick in the book to pay you less.
So either you're advocating pot which, who cares we've all heard from stoners, you'll probably get your way. It'll be amazing like liquor where you'll still be charged criminally for selling it, not allowed to grow vast quantities of it, more technology to detect if you're under the influence of it while driving etc. So not that big of a deal.
Out where I live it's only the people who are selling it etc that are busted. Cops could care less for the paper work for someone with a personal amount.
On top of that, you just really wanted to run your agenda? I never said "Most crimes are X". So your first response was "No. Most crimes" to crime and money laundering bad.
You think they're good? Or you think we should legalize heroin etc? I mean even if it's legal, whose responsibility is it to provide that to anyone?
If you get sick and need anti-biotics, you have to pay for that.
But what, somehow if you need heroin because when you took it you felt really good and now you're addicted? You'll still have the same problems with extremely addicting substance. E.G It'll put you in a state that you can't work, or you can't afford enough of what you want, which then people result to crime to get a little more. I mean you can't be high on this stuff at work, so people would need to be functional 8 hours a day.
It just doesn't look like it ends well from any angle except the "I'm a no good and think everything should be idealistic and free and I should get whatever I want and somehow it's paid for, by everyone else" Well I got news for you if that's your view. Everyone is going to join you, then who is going to pay for it? Yea, enjoy that.
People launder money to just avoid paying taxes. Tax scams are pretty frequent too.
It's hypocritical. The very same people that want to feel attractive even though they made choices that people find unattractive, don't want to watch movies with a bunch of unattractive people in it who are overweight.
It's just a special interest group, a loud minority that wanted to be considered attractive even though they're going to eat those extra doughnuts tonight.
Hollywood movies I've watched don't show people who are unhealthy skinny "super models" who puke everyday. I see people who are fit, in shape, and healthy. These are things that should be shown as attractive and desirable. Sorry if your fragile self esteem can't put the burger down and wants to feel good about it.
Get fit, get healthy, it sucks, I know personally, trust me, but stop blaming everyone else for not liking your body and the choices you've made.
I mean sure crime and money laundering bad, absolutely, but people can simply bargain goods for a lot of that too, so there is a work around. The real issue is pure fear that they lose control of money, which they waste so much of. It's a hard stance for me personally since regulation to prevent money laundering is important (We need our paved roads, taxes pay for them, people need to be paying their taxes) but it takes the ability to manipulate money and hose everyone as easily like certain countries whose dollar dropped to near nothing.
There is no such thing as a natural right. Rights are a concept we developed and uphold with better morale understanding to improve the world we live in. We found when things were better for everyone, it was almost always better for the individual as well. At the end of the day, we decided this is the right way to do things, other people said it was wrong to hold their power.
You're looking at a single market. They don't buy food, buy cars, houses, toliet paper, paper plates, go camping, visit the waterslides, etc. There is a large part of the economy you're ignoring.
Same old story of bullies. Rich people going I'm not giving you anything but a shit sandwhich, and if you fight to get better than that shit sandwhich, we'll make it taste extra like shit. The money is there, the raw resources are there, the products are there, the food is there, but you can't have any of it. People talk about money like it's a finite thing. It's not, it's made up and infinite, and they use it to control what you have to do to have some things. In North America there is enough food, cars, luxury items even that people don't need to go without. If the economy was more balanced, it would be better (except for the people at the top). More freedom, more fun, more choices, less suffering. Like who do they think they are threatening? They want to charge North American prices and take north american money but pay china wages. Well, if no one has jobs or money here, no one buys your products, either. So it's just as bad for them to have no one employed. There isn't going to be automated machines who earn money and buy your products. Increasing prices to line their products good, they have more profit than ever before, but somehow wages will destroy everything if they even remotely follow the increases. I'm not buying it. (Get it? see what I did there?)
It's not going to work. There are a significant amount of apps that I don't "need". There are some which are nice to have, but if they charged more, it wouldn't happen. I think there are too many people stuck in this entitlement to everyone elses money and anything they make people will buy. There are a lot of really good apps, that people spent time developing to be efficient and useful, and those are the ones that are getting more. No one seems to ever go "Hmm, that app gets more money because it's better" No, they'd rather a study that says if they charge more their app will be better.
Maybe AI will finally govern finances and decide the 1% is too greedy and fix the problems? :P
1% is definitely an issue but I wouldn't want to stop research on AI etc just because they'll benefit like they do on most things.
But beyond the end of the world jokes this stuff is still massively cool. There is a lot of really great things that can be accomplished by better AI to enrich everyone. Definitely another step towards all the neat Sci-fi things we've seen.
Decentralized is the way to go, but utilities and cities are panicking over it. There was an article where someone went offgrid, had rain water buckets, wind and solar panel, and they condemned the place for not having utilities. There is some concern over the powers that be getting upset for not getting their piece of pie and are worried others will follow.