So in order to get an equivalent PC, you have to hunt down all the individual pieces yourself. This might be fine for a nerd, but not for a home user who doesn't know what the inside of a computer looks like. Apple does all the work for them.
Then you need to make sure they're all compatible, and that it all works with your OS. Apple does all this for you.
Then you need to install the OS, and all the drivers. Find if you're a nerd, but not for everyone else. Apple does all this for you.
Then if something goes wrong you need to work out which actual component is broken, send it back to the manufacturer at your own expense, then hope they actually send you back a replacement. This is if you know how to work out which part is broken, and how to remove it and replace it. Apple does all this for you.
Then factor in that the Mac is probably quieter, smaller and better looking.
The PC might have better individual parts, but the whole of the Mac is more than the sum of the parts.
3. By distributing on the Internet, you massively reduce the pool of potential viewers
Five years ago, maybe. Not today.
Until everyone who has a TV has a fast, uncapped Internet connection and a device (and the patience) to hook the computer up to the TV, it will always be an issue.
I think that pretty much proves my point. Dr Who might invoke nostalgia, but if you go back and watch it you'll see it's not that good, although it was better than most. It had enough material to fill the episodes they made, so it didn't feel dragged out like 'Enterprise'. In episdoes things actualy happened, I don't recall many episodes of Dr Who where they spent the whole episode sat in the phonebox contemplating the ethical issues of killing daleks.
Thinking about it, I have a few ideas to save Star Trek:
1. Better plots. Each episode should be largely self-contained. Story arcs aren't the ingredients of 'intelligent' programmes, they're the ingredients of soaps. Stretching a story out over 20 episodes doesn't raise its quality, it spreads it thinly. Each episode should have something INTERESTING happen. Either discovering something interesting like a new planet/spaceship, or something interesting happening on the ship. And by that I don't mean some 'Next Generation' style moral dilemma which means the entire episode consists of standing about pretending to be 'deep' and 'insightful'.
2. A decent captain. One with presence and charisma, more like Kirk or Picard than that cranky bitch on her period, or that librarian on 'Enterprise'. He needs to be male, he needs to have gumption, he doesn't need to bother about finding the most moral and politically-correct solution to everything.
3. Decent aliens. Aliens with giant laser-guns and fancy space-ships, spaceships that the protagonists can fight and shoot at. We need decent space-fights, not anti-climactic cop-out peaceful endings after a whole episode of build-up.
4. No dull plot-devices involving holodecks or the borg or invincible space-ghosts who can destroy everything in a 10-million light-year radius with a single thought. No time-travel either.
5. Decent side-characters. More spocks, less bland and wooden characters like everyone off the next generation, especially Riker. And that psychologist woman. The characters should have their own traits and personalities and flaws, rather than the sickeningly moral and perfect chars off TNG. They should be played by half-decent actors, not 'come in, read-out the script in monotone, fuck off home'.
6. Some actually science in. It doesn't have to be exactly real or possible, but it should be at least slightly probably, so you can think about whether it could be real or not, or what implications it should have. Transport-beams or holodecks are plausable, warp-drives are an interesting concept. Space-ghosts aren't.
7. No equivalent to Wesley Crusher, Star-trek's answer to Scrappy-Doo. Irritating, pointless, no-one likes him, but everyone watches every week in a slim hope that he gets murdered by Data.
"Tubular Bells" (pronounced Chewbular Bells by Branson).
How else are you planning on pronouncing it? "Tub-ular"? "Two-bular"? After a certain age you get over the impulse to pronounce words based on how they're spelt. Hint: English isn't a phoenetic language.
Because you have brought us freedom and democracy like in Afghanistan or Iraq?
The only thing stopping Afghanistan and Iraq from having democracy and freedom is themselves. It's nice to blame everything on Americans, but if the Americans all one day got up and left Iraq, do you honestly think that it'd become a nice and peaceful country, with the Shites and the Sunnis and the Kurds all getting along with each other, and not bombing and shooting each other?
If America hadn't invaded Afghanistan, do you honestly think that it'd be a land of freedom and democracy? Under the Taleban it was an arrestable offence to not have a beard.
You might not agree with the methods America has used to overthrow the tyrannical governments of Iraq and Afghanistan, but I don't see other countries lining up to do a better job. What exactly would anyone else have done? Do the French have an idea to get the Iraqis to stop shooting and conquering each other?
Since when does the word 'fuck' carry an aggressive context? People use it everyday in nearly every sentence, in very non-aggressive conversation. The same goes for 'cunt' and 'bollocks'.
The only reason such words are considered 'vulgar' is because they're generally derived from old Anglo-Saxon words, which in medieval England was the language of the plebs, whereas the more 'polite' equivalents were from French, and therefore the language of the upper-classes. That's the only reason. Being offended by 'swear' words just means you're an elitest snob.
Oh great. I for one look forward to the day when I can't just switch on a TV I buy, I have to wire it up to the computer, install a shitload of software, make sure it all works together with my OS and drivers, and navigate a DRM minefield just to watch Match of the Day.
I look forward to the day when if I want to listen to the radio on the way to work, I'm reliant on having an Internet connection, and a device capable of Internet access even in the middle of nowhere.
I look forward to the day when if I want to make a simple phonecall, I need a computer costing hundreds/thousands of pounds, rather than a £5 phone I can plug into the wall. And I'll also need an account with my ISP, and hope I can get connected, that I don't get DDOSed, that I haven't reached my cap, or that someone else in the house isn't downloading something making my phone-call incredibly lagged.
Computers are unreliable. They're over-complex for simple tasks. They're volatile, they're unpredictable, each piece of functionality you add to it makes it twice as complicated. I don't want a future where if my Internet connection is cut off, the whole house loses TV, phone and radio, and stays that way until I can get some more Internet access.
1. Decent scriptwriters cost a LOT of money, unless you're lucky enough to find a good unknown one. Just look at all the TV you see these days with big budgets and awful scripts.
2. Who will fund such a project, which is high-risk and even if it's good doesn't promise big rewards? The BBC would be your closest bet, but they're probably swamped with people with great 'ideas' for new programmes, and you're going to have to do a LOT to convince them of why yours is different. And it'd probaby just be thought of as a poor-man's Red Dwarf.
3. By distributing on the Internet, you massively reduce the pool of potential viewers, mainly to those with FAST Internet access with no caps. This is fewer people than you think. Also to people who like to gather round the PC to watch TV. You're not going to get families who watch TV in the living room after tea.
Why not, instead of making this arbitrary number of 22 episodes, make say a more conventional 6 episodes. If you cut down on the CGI, and paid the people involved less, you could probably get it all for under $10 million.
Probably even less actually. Each episode wouldn't cost the same. Once you've got all the sets and costumes and space-ship models etc., each episode would be relatively cheap to make. Let's be honest, they're not hiring the best actors or scriptwriters or directors, you could pay amateurs who'd do an equivalent job. Each subsequent episode could probably come in under $100k, then you could have as many episodes as you want.
All you're interested in is making season after season, whether it's any good or not. Why don't you concentrate on making one GOOD season rather than half a dozen crap ones? You're never going to have enough good material to fill that many episodes up, so you just end up spreading it thinly. Just look at typical US sitcoms, like Friends (400000 episodes, 12 jokes), or Star Trek (3000 episodes, 2 plots).
A better way to do this, rather than to raise a load of money then make a programme, would be to come up with some decent scripts, and then get the money to make them. Doing it this way probably means you'll end up raising a load of money, getting them to make the programmes and finding out they're crap that they threw together just because someone else was paying and they got the profit.
Buddha didn't really do anything either. He would be useless as a knight. Even his cult says you're not supposed to pay attention to what he said.
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Oh great, you've put a picture in my head of some big fat yank shagging another big fat yank. You have to wonder how desperate someone has to be to marry and FUCK a woman so overweight she probably can't even wipe her own arse. Imagine the smell, as all the sweat mixes with the shit and drips all through her arse as you're there pounding away. Then you go to eat her out, you fight you way though the rolls and the folds, then you taste it, and it tastes of shit.
Imagine that huge beast, sat on your face, you try to cry out but your voice is muffled by her third belly-roll. She moans and rubs the crusted shit into your face, dripping shitty sweaty pussy-juice all over you. Then you realise she hasn't had a bath for 5 months.
If marrying a manatee is 'getting there', I'd rather stay where I am thankyou very much. Your situation is an example of why it's better to work to improve yourself and get a good woman than to settle for a repulsive one. You don't have to marry the first land-whale who settles for you, you can work for a better one, why limit yourself with what you can get first try?
Seriously, the first few paragraphs were a joke, but come on, you can do better than that. Work off the fat, put on some muscle, get some confidence, dump the fat bitch, get a hot one instead. Be the envy of your friends rather than the laughing stock. You might think you like her now, but when she slowly realises you won't get anything better, she'll become a nasty controlling bitch, and you'll be stuck with a wife you hate and find physically repulsive.
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What the hell has being a nerd got to do with knowing about some shitty unknown (c)rapper?
Also, why do you assume that the original poster is, or wants to be, a nerd? What has a Corvette got to do with nerds? Why would anyone want to be a nerd anyway? Let's see, I could be fat, smelly, have no social skills, be repellent to women, be incredibly zealous and narrow-minded, sit in front of the computer all day rotting away, never seeing daylight, and my job can be outsourced to India. Where can I sign up?
None of those were knights, so the point still stands. Also Jesus was a fictional character and didn't achieve anything but spawning a terrible mass-cult which lead to millions of deaths and thousands of years of repression and tyranny. Great legacy.
Gandhi didn't do anything but drag India back into the dark ages by removing British control. Mother Teresa was a fraud. Never heard of the last one, so the world has forgotten him.
If that is correct, HP is not a real business, but one that depends on taking advantage of its customers to make money.
So selling a product at a profit isn't a real business? What would they have to do to count as a real business? How is selling something taking advantage of the customers? Because the prices are too high? Then who decides what are high prices?
It sounds as if you're bitter because ink prices are too high. Personally I wouldn't know, I rarely use my printer and when I do it prints all funny.
A couple of problems: 1. Doesn't work when it's in your coat or somewhere else in the room. 2. It drains the battery. 3. It's pretty noisy anyway. I hear it before I feel it.
What sort of responsibilities? And to who? It's fucking music/TV, why would having a copyright on a song involve responsibilities? If you don't like the terms of using it, such as DRM, then don't use it. It's not a vital service, it's not a monopoly.
As for 'orphan works', we're not talking about a recipe from 1812, we're talking about music and films where the copyright owners are ALIVE and KNOWN, and have made it very clear what they want to do with their property, so what exactly do orphan works have to do with anything?
Copyrights are allowed by the constitution in the following way:
"The Congress shall have Power To...promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" - US Constitution, I.8.8
So the goal is to help art and science,
I'm sorry but your American constitution is pretty much irrelevent anywhere else. Also that just gives the Congress the power to have a copyright law, it doesn't restrict them from having a copyright law to serve a purpose other than the one stated. Also it doesn't restrict the limiting time, it could be a million years.
Also you people quoting the constitution seem to have ignored this bit:
by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
(Emphasis mine). In other words, the Constitution would mean the authors having exclusive rights. In other words, if they don't want you to have the right to download it, you don't have the right to download it. Not 'you can't download it unless you really really want to and think you deserve it for free because those evil artists make too much money anyway', but 'you can't download it'. Full stop. End of discussion. QED.
No, one activity is illegal because it breaks a law. But let's turn the situation around: Why should illegal copyright infringement be legal merely because it's done on a computer? It seems computer users (i.e. nerds) seem to think that they're above anyone else, that they can rip off copyright, download obscene material, swear, etc. and get away with it because they're on a computer and are therefore above the law.
Wrong. Copyright exists specifically to promote science and the useful arts for the public good. Read it in the Constitution, section 8, clause 8.
What constitution? This country has no written constitution, but copyright is law. Copyright exists to protect people from other people ripping off their works. The original intents of laws are often not the current ones.
Still, $15k is twice what you were on, that's a lot of money for food. You don't need a roommate, you can get cheap flats where each person has their own room, and with no car that cuts a lot of costs, and you wouldn't need insurance, so you can live very comfortably. I make around 15k and I have steak for dinner every day, and I can afford beer with every meal.
Yes, it might be miserable, if you're a materialistic scumbag capitalist who needs a million-pound house and twelve cars just to be happy.
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So in order to get an equivalent PC, you have to hunt down all the individual pieces yourself. This might be fine for a nerd, but not for a home user who doesn't know what the inside of a computer looks like. Apple does all the work for them.
Then you need to make sure they're all compatible, and that it all works with your OS. Apple does all this for you.
Then you need to install the OS, and all the drivers. Find if you're a nerd, but not for everyone else. Apple does all this for you.
Then if something goes wrong you need to work out which actual component is broken, send it back to the manufacturer at your own expense, then hope they actually send you back a replacement. This is if you know how to work out which part is broken, and how to remove it and replace it. Apple does all this for you.
Then factor in that the Mac is probably quieter, smaller and better looking.
The PC might have better individual parts, but the whole of the Mac is more than the sum of the parts.
3. By distributing on the Internet, you massively reduce the pool of potential viewers
Five years ago, maybe. Not today.
Until everyone who has a TV has a fast, uncapped Internet connection and a device (and the patience) to hook the computer up to the TV, it will always be an issue.
I think that pretty much proves my point. Dr Who might invoke nostalgia, but if you go back and watch it you'll see it's not that good, although it was better than most. It had enough material to fill the episodes they made, so it didn't feel dragged out like 'Enterprise'. In episdoes things actualy happened, I don't recall many episodes of Dr Who where they spent the whole episode sat in the phonebox contemplating the ethical issues of killing daleks.
Thinking about it, I have a few ideas to save Star Trek:
1. Better plots. Each episode should be largely self-contained. Story arcs aren't the ingredients of 'intelligent' programmes, they're the ingredients of soaps. Stretching a story out over 20 episodes doesn't raise its quality, it spreads it thinly. Each episode should have something INTERESTING happen. Either discovering something interesting like a new planet/spaceship, or something interesting happening on the ship. And by that I don't mean some 'Next Generation' style moral dilemma which means the entire episode consists of standing about pretending to be 'deep' and 'insightful'.
2. A decent captain. One with presence and charisma, more like Kirk or Picard than that cranky bitch on her period, or that librarian on 'Enterprise'. He needs to be male, he needs to have gumption, he doesn't need to bother about finding the most moral and politically-correct solution to everything.
3. Decent aliens. Aliens with giant laser-guns and fancy space-ships, spaceships that the protagonists can fight and shoot at. We need decent space-fights, not anti-climactic cop-out peaceful endings after a whole episode of build-up.
4. No dull plot-devices involving holodecks or the borg or invincible space-ghosts who can destroy everything in a 10-million light-year radius with a single thought. No time-travel either.
5. Decent side-characters. More spocks, less bland and wooden characters like everyone off the next generation, especially Riker. And that psychologist woman. The characters should have their own traits and personalities and flaws, rather than the sickeningly moral and perfect chars off TNG. They should be played by half-decent actors, not 'come in, read-out the script in monotone, fuck off home'.
6. Some actually science in. It doesn't have to be exactly real or possible, but it should be at least slightly probably, so you can think about whether it could be real or not, or what implications it should have. Transport-beams or holodecks are plausable, warp-drives are an interesting concept. Space-ghosts aren't.
7. No equivalent to Wesley Crusher, Star-trek's answer to Scrappy-Doo. Irritating, pointless, no-one likes him, but everyone watches every week in a slim hope that he gets murdered by Data.
"Tubular Bells" (pronounced Chewbular Bells by Branson).
How else are you planning on pronouncing it? "Tub-ular"? "Two-bular"? After a certain age you get over the impulse to pronounce words based on how they're spelt. Hint: English isn't a phoenetic language.
Because you have brought us freedom and democracy like in Afghanistan or Iraq?
The only thing stopping Afghanistan and Iraq from having democracy and freedom is themselves. It's nice to blame everything on Americans, but if the Americans all one day got up and left Iraq, do you honestly think that it'd become a nice and peaceful country, with the Shites and the Sunnis and the Kurds all getting along with each other, and not bombing and shooting each other?
If America hadn't invaded Afghanistan, do you honestly think that it'd be a land of freedom and democracy? Under the Taleban it was an arrestable offence to not have a beard.
You might not agree with the methods America has used to overthrow the tyrannical governments of Iraq and Afghanistan, but I don't see other countries lining up to do a better job. What exactly would anyone else have done? Do the French have an idea to get the Iraqis to stop shooting and conquering each other?
Since when does the word 'fuck' carry an aggressive context? People use it everyday in nearly every sentence, in very non-aggressive conversation. The same goes for 'cunt' and 'bollocks'.
The only reason such words are considered 'vulgar' is because they're generally derived from old Anglo-Saxon words, which in medieval England was the language of the plebs, whereas the more 'polite' equivalents were from French, and therefore the language of the upper-classes. That's the only reason. Being offended by 'swear' words just means you're an elitest snob.
Oh great. I for one look forward to the day when I can't just switch on a TV I buy, I have to wire it up to the computer, install a shitload of software, make sure it all works together with my OS and drivers, and navigate a DRM minefield just to watch Match of the Day.
I look forward to the day when if I want to listen to the radio on the way to work, I'm reliant on having an Internet connection, and a device capable of Internet access even in the middle of nowhere.
I look forward to the day when if I want to make a simple phonecall, I need a computer costing hundreds/thousands of pounds, rather than a £5 phone I can plug into the wall. And I'll also need an account with my ISP, and hope I can get connected, that I don't get DDOSed, that I haven't reached my cap, or that someone else in the house isn't downloading something making my phone-call incredibly lagged.
Computers are unreliable. They're over-complex for simple tasks. They're volatile, they're unpredictable, each piece of functionality you add to it makes it twice as complicated. I don't want a future where if my Internet connection is cut off, the whole house loses TV, phone and radio, and stays that way until I can get some more Internet access.
Star Trek has always been known for having great acting,
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A nice idea in theory, but has a few problems:
1. Decent scriptwriters cost a LOT of money, unless you're lucky enough to find a good unknown one. Just look at all the TV you see these days with big budgets and awful scripts.
2. Who will fund such a project, which is high-risk and even if it's good doesn't promise big rewards? The BBC would be your closest bet, but they're probably swamped with people with great 'ideas' for new programmes, and you're going to have to do a LOT to convince them of why yours is different. And it'd probaby just be thought of as a poor-man's Red Dwarf.
3. By distributing on the Internet, you massively reduce the pool of potential viewers, mainly to those with FAST Internet access with no caps. This is fewer people than you think. Also to people who like to gather round the PC to watch TV. You're not going to get families who watch TV in the living room after tea.
I've a solution:
Why not, instead of making this arbitrary number of 22 episodes, make say a more conventional 6 episodes. If you cut down on the CGI, and paid the people involved less, you could probably get it all for under $10 million.
Probably even less actually. Each episode wouldn't cost the same. Once you've got all the sets and costumes and space-ship models etc., each episode would be relatively cheap to make. Let's be honest, they're not hiring the best actors or scriptwriters or directors, you could pay amateurs who'd do an equivalent job. Each subsequent episode could probably come in under $100k, then you could have as many episodes as you want.
All you're interested in is making season after season, whether it's any good or not. Why don't you concentrate on making one GOOD season rather than half a dozen crap ones? You're never going to have enough good material to fill that many episodes up, so you just end up spreading it thinly. Just look at typical US sitcoms, like Friends (400000 episodes, 12 jokes), or Star Trek (3000 episodes, 2 plots).
A better way to do this, rather than to raise a load of money then make a programme, would be to come up with some decent scripts, and then get the money to make them. Doing it this way probably means you'll end up raising a load of money, getting them to make the programmes and finding out they're crap that they threw together just because someone else was paying and they got the profit.
Buddha didn't really do anything either. He would be useless as a knight. Even his cult says you're not supposed to pay attention to what he said.
Oh great, you've put a picture in my head of some big fat yank shagging another big fat yank. You have to wonder how desperate someone has to be to marry and FUCK a woman so overweight she probably can't even wipe her own arse. Imagine the smell, as all the sweat mixes with the shit and drips all through her arse as you're there pounding away. Then you go to eat her out, you fight you way though the rolls and the folds, then you taste it, and it tastes of shit.
Imagine that huge beast, sat on your face, you try to cry out but your voice is muffled by her third belly-roll. She moans and rubs the crusted shit into your face, dripping shitty sweaty pussy-juice all over you. Then you realise she hasn't had a bath for 5 months.
If marrying a manatee is 'getting there', I'd rather stay where I am thankyou very much. Your situation is an example of why it's better to work to improve yourself and get a good woman than to settle for a repulsive one. You don't have to marry the first land-whale who settles for you, you can work for a better one, why limit yourself with what you can get first try?
Seriously, the first few paragraphs were a joke, but come on, you can do better than that. Work off the fat, put on some muscle, get some confidence, dump the fat bitch, get a hot one instead. Be the envy of your friends rather than the laughing stock. You might think you like her now, but when she slowly realises you won't get anything better, she'll become a nasty controlling bitch, and you'll be stuck with a wife you hate and find physically repulsive.
What the hell has being a nerd got to do with knowing about some shitty unknown (c)rapper?
Also, why do you assume that the original poster is, or wants to be, a nerd? What has a Corvette got to do with nerds? Why would anyone want to be a nerd anyway? Let's see, I could be fat, smelly, have no social skills, be repellent to women, be incredibly zealous and narrow-minded, sit in front of the computer all day rotting away, never seeing daylight, and my job can be outsourced to India. Where can I sign up?
None of those were knights, so the point still stands. Also Jesus was a fictional character and didn't achieve anything but spawning a terrible mass-cult which lead to millions of deaths and thousands of years of repression and tyranny. Great legacy.
Gandhi didn't do anything but drag India back into the dark ages by removing British control. Mother Teresa was a fraud. Never heard of the last one, so the world has forgotten him.
If that is correct, HP is not a real business, but one that depends on taking advantage of its customers to make money.
So selling a product at a profit isn't a real business? What would they have to do to count as a real business? How is selling something taking advantage of the customers? Because the prices are too high? Then who decides what are high prices?
It sounds as if you're bitter because ink prices are too high. Personally I wouldn't know, I rarely use my printer and when I do it prints all funny.
A couple of problems:
1. Doesn't work when it's in your coat or somewhere else in the room.
2. It drains the battery.
3. It's pretty noisy anyway. I hear it before I feel it.
Thank fuck I'm not on that list!
You must be joking. Chinese food is so heavy and greasy I don't need to eat for days afterwards.
What sort of responsibilities? And to who? It's fucking music/TV, why would having a copyright on a song involve responsibilities? If you don't like the terms of using it, such as DRM, then don't use it. It's not a vital service, it's not a monopoly.
As for 'orphan works', we're not talking about a recipe from 1812, we're talking about music and films where the copyright owners are ALIVE and KNOWN, and have made it very clear what they want to do with their property, so what exactly do orphan works have to do with anything?
It doesn't. But that's not your problem. If they don't want to release it, they don't want to release it.
You'd soon complain if a company tried to force you what to do, so what makes you think you can force them to do something?
Copyrights are allowed by the constitution in the following way:
"The Congress shall have Power To...promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" - US Constitution, I.8.8
So the goal is to help art and science,
I'm sorry but your American constitution is pretty much irrelevent anywhere else. Also that just gives the Congress the power to have a copyright law, it doesn't restrict them from having a copyright law to serve a purpose other than the one stated. Also it doesn't restrict the limiting time, it could be a million years.
Also you people quoting the constitution seem to have ignored this bit:
by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
(Emphasis mine). In other words, the Constitution would mean the authors having exclusive rights. In other words, if they don't want you to have the right to download it, you don't have the right to download it. Not 'you can't download it unless you really really want to and think you deserve it for free because those evil artists make too much money anyway', but 'you can't download it'. Full stop. End of discussion. QED.
It should be illegal because it breaks the law ?
No, one activity is illegal because it breaks a law. But let's turn the situation around: Why should illegal copyright infringement be legal merely because it's done on a computer? It seems computer users (i.e. nerds) seem to think that they're above anyone else, that they can rip off copyright, download obscene material, swear, etc. and get away with it because they're on a computer and are therefore above the law.
Wrong. Copyright exists specifically to promote science and the useful arts for the public good. Read it in the Constitution, section 8, clause 8.
What constitution? This country has no written constitution, but copyright is law. Copyright exists to protect people from other people ripping off their works. The original intents of laws are often not the current ones.
Still, $15k is twice what you were on, that's a lot of money for food. You don't need a roommate, you can get cheap flats where each person has their own room, and with no car that cuts a lot of costs, and you wouldn't need insurance, so you can live very comfortably. I make around 15k and I have steak for dinner every day, and I can afford beer with every meal.
Yes, it might be miserable, if you're a materialistic scumbag capitalist who needs a million-pound house and twelve cars just to be happy.