Yes, value that was stolen from the original without paying for it.
If its not being sold and taking it doesn't remove it from inventory what value has been lost to the original? The original had no price attached to it; they weren't going to sell it to us. Its value was zero.
I think he chose her because the establishment likes her, she will attract more women and she can go toe to toe with Hillary without the automatic label of sexist.
I am surprised Trump didn't ask her first... maybe he did.
Trump is going to have a Hispanic woman as his running mate.
Well, presumably that media is still available for Canadians to purchase in other manners. Maybe it's more expensive, maybe it's less convenient than their preferred option of a Netflix subscription, but they could still "buy" it on DVD or other services or whatnot.
So - it's a dubious argument that they're "entitled" to pirate it because Netflix doesn't want to sell it to them. But, it does highlight that people are willing to pay for content in a manner that's reasonably priced, flexible, and in a format that makes it easy and convenient to use... and if media companies won't provide that and get SOME revenue from it, alternatives like piracy will thrive.
Exactly; Netflix is giving the content providers a choice. Make the product available to the world through Netflix and get some revenue from it. Or region-restrict it and get no revenue from it.
But if you can just make as many copies of the original without paying for them, then the original has no value. What's the difference between having no inventory and having inventory that's worth nothing?
Of course they have value; you have to have something to copy from. Therefore each copy has value, not just the original.
Told the wife who cares little about tech what Netflix was doing, he said off with their heads. So cancelled the sub. We were in the middle of watching Departures and Longway Round, well they downloaded overnight so here we are watching a leisure once again. I believe Departures is on CDN Netflix but Long Way is not.
The decision was easy too as we mostly watch nature/travel shows and pretty much seen them all on Netflix, everything else that I watch I already have on my 800+ DVD. Oh and two days ago I received my Descending DVD which I bought from the Departures websites.
I might feel different if I was younger but at this point of my life I just don't give a fuck. Put up roadblock and I'll just go around them or better yet not watch tv at all.
To be honest I'm having difficulty finding anything I want to watch even on the US Netflix. If it wasn't for my child I'd cancel it.
If someone doesn't want to sell me something but I can take it without them even noticing, whats the harm in that? Its not like I've deprived them of anything; they didn't want to sell it to me anyway, they didn't want my money.
And yes, I did screw up in closing my quote tag. I think that was the first time in about the last 3 years that I've done that.
Okay, the SECOND time...
Dammit!
Heres a tip; when you are going to respond to someone who is questioning your religious beliefs take a deep breath and calm down. You make less mistakes that way.:D
Those same corporate secrets that Apple uses to produce smartphones that look like something from 6 years ago? The corporate secrets that produce desktop or laptop computers with the 3d graphics capabilities of a 10 year old PC (if that)? You're so full of shit it's running out of your ears.
What? Don't have mod points? Go grab your team of fanbois!
If Apple or IBM or HP or etc. really wanted to re-grow and become relevant, they would bring back manufacturing and keep their corporate secrets under their hat.
Those same corporate secrets that Apple uses to produce smartphones that look like something from 6 years ago? The corporate secrets that produce desktop or laptop computers with the 3d graphics capabilities of a 10 year old PC (if that)?
I keep getting told by a local fanboi that Apple users have better things to do with their time than play computer games. Important stuff, like getting onto/. and modding down any comments that cast Apple in a negative light. Like this one, which will be -5 troll in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...
Mind you, even if Apple ran at a loss they could stay in business for about a million years with all the money they've conned out of the fanbois so thats good, right?
The catalog includes Pi, the 1st full-length movie of Darren Aronofsky which I would like to recommend to the/. crowd. I still love this movie, even after I watched Tsukamoto's "Tetsuo, the iron man" which inspired Aranofsky a lot.
It also includes the Leapfrog educational series for toddlers. Thats probably what you are going to get on Steam.
Thats a very interesting response. Whereabouts are you? Here in Canada the problem seems to be a bit tougher for people to dig themselves out of, at least around where I live. And people seem to be extremely hostile toward them, which I hadn't expected from Canadians.
What about housing? Everyone suddenly gets X per month free, rents go up X as demand increases (more people can afford housing) but no additional housing is built. I doubt it will go up exactly X but maybe.5X to.75X.
In many places, once a person becomes homeless they never again become productive, contributing members of society. And in some places its extremely easy to become homeless.
So, no matter how clever or creative they are, they can become struck down and forever removed from the possibility of participating in society in a positive way ever again. Now they are stuck in a cycle of psychological problems (usually severe depression) and drug abuse (trying to cope with the horror of their predicament) and get very very little help in getting out of this situation. No landlord ever wants to rent to them, no employer ever wants to give them a job and the people of the places they live in just want to run them out of town because they hate poor people (don't kid yourself, this is true).
How does society deal with that? Or is it somehow useful to society to have people living like this?
This guy is a pretty cool dude. He's got a brain, but he has a hard time tolerating folks that refuse to use theirs, so he's not very popular with the economic community, which brings us stuff like sub-prime crashes, technobubbles and climate change denial.
Taking advice from Greece on societal economics probably isn't that smartest choice. Seems like this guy wants to double down on the already failed bet.
Zeno didn't understand the properties of infinite series. This is not knocking him, since nobody did at the time, but with some math developed considerably later the paradoxes go away.
I wasn't talking about the validity or otherwise of the paradoxes. Sadly thats what everyone seems to think I was talking about.
These celebrity scientists are annoying. More proof that just because someone calls themselves a "scientist" doesn't mean they know jack shit about anything.
Ah yes, Neil-Degrasse Tyson, the man who said "There are more stars in our galaxy than there are atoms in the universe!"
Democracy in the West is a complete farce especially in the USA and anywhere else with a two-party system. It ultimately becomes a one-party system with the voting public fooled into believing they have a choice between two opposing parties. In actual fact the 'two parties' are run by the same powers behind the scenes.
The vote is a currency. People spend their vote. The same techniques that can be used to influence spending behavior when buying consumer goods, ie advertising, are also used to influence vote-spending. Thus democracy is already subverted as soon as there's any kind of 'advertising' for political parties; the powers that control the advertising and media coverage have ultimate power over the voting process and the formation of government.
In Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World' they had a saying "Better to end than mend", meaning that rather than fix something, throw it away and get a new one. It was better for their 'economy'.
Pretty much this. I would bet these "child abuse images" are home-made videos or pictures where the participants look of age. It's difficult to visually guess someone's age. Given there was a fairly well publicized case where a man was charged with possession of child pornography where the video in question was a legally made video with an actress who was 26 years old... but looked young.
Realistically, how is the general public supposed to know if a posted amateur picture or video is of a mature looking 17 year old or a young looking 26 year old?
In some jurisdictions, UK for example, it wouldn't matter if she looked young but was legal; looking young is enough for it to count as cp and get registered as a sex offender.
It's also rather unfortunate that the police use child pornography as a weapon. It's not uncommon for them to throw in a few child porn charges, especially if they made mistakes in the investigation. It's sick and it needs to stop.
Its especially nasty when they take photos out of context and declare them "Child porn". Eg you have photos of your kids on the beach. Oh but whats this? There are OTHER PEOPLES KIDS in the background. Kids in skimpy clothing! OBVIOUS child porn, busted!
What do you predict will happen it something like a major change in humidity affects a region that has a nuclear arsenal and faces hostile neighbors? Keep in mind that's mainly just added moisture from a change in local weather patterns, something likely of typical changes in the future.
Its going to get really interesting when certain regions get temperatures over 38C and 100% humidity. And it becomes impossible to live without aircond; people outside airconditioning will just drop dead.
Prognostications that tell me what I'll like in the future are annoying. Now it's my turn. Canadians will like becoming one of the world's largest providers of agriculture. So, there.
For one thing most of the land which would become agricultural is Crown Land so good luck getting to use it for commercial purposes for hundreds of years due to untangling regulations. This is Canada, the land of the Great Regulations.
For another thing, the people who would benefit most from this would be Inuit and good luck with that because Canadians seem to fucking hate the Inuit.
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Yes, value that was stolen from the original without paying for it.
If its not being sold and taking it doesn't remove it from inventory what value has been lost to the original? The original had no price attached to it; they weren't going to sell it to us. Its value was zero.
I think he chose her because the establishment likes her, she will attract more women and she can go toe to toe with Hillary without the automatic label of sexist.
I am surprised Trump didn't ask her first ... maybe he did.
Trump is going to have a Hispanic woman as his running mate.
Well, presumably that media is still available for Canadians to purchase in other manners. Maybe it's more expensive, maybe it's less convenient than their preferred option of a Netflix subscription, but they could still "buy" it on DVD or other services or whatnot.
So - it's a dubious argument that they're "entitled" to pirate it because Netflix doesn't want to sell it to them. But, it does highlight that people are willing to pay for content in a manner that's reasonably priced, flexible, and in a format that makes it easy and convenient to use... and if media companies won't provide that and get SOME revenue from it, alternatives like piracy will thrive.
Exactly; Netflix is giving the content providers a choice. Make the product available to the world through Netflix and get some revenue from it. Or region-restrict it and get no revenue from it.
But if you can just make as many copies of the original without paying for them, then the original has no value. What's the difference between having no inventory and having inventory that's worth nothing?
Of course they have value; you have to have something to copy from. Therefore each copy has value, not just the original.
Told the wife who cares little about tech what Netflix was doing, he said off with their heads. So cancelled the sub. We were in the middle of watching Departures and Longway Round, well they downloaded overnight so here we are watching a leisure once again. I believe Departures is on CDN Netflix but Long Way is not.
The decision was easy too as we mostly watch nature/travel shows and pretty much seen them all on Netflix, everything else that I watch I already have on my 800+ DVD. Oh and two days ago I received my Descending DVD which I bought from the Departures websites.
I might feel different if I was younger but at this point of my life I just don't give a fuck. Put up roadblock and I'll just go around them or better yet not watch tv at all.
To be honest I'm having difficulty finding anything I want to watch even on the US Netflix. If it wasn't for my child I'd cancel it.
"Wah, it is too expensive. I'll just shoplift it." Same type of thing.
No because shoplifting takes goods out of inventory.
If someone doesn't want to sell me something but I can take it without them even noticing, whats the harm in that? Its not like I've deprived them of anything; they didn't want to sell it to me anyway, they didn't want my money.
And yes, I did screw up in closing my quote tag. I think that was the first time in about the last 3 years that I've done that.
Okay, the SECOND time...
Dammit!
Heres a tip; when you are going to respond to someone who is questioning your religious beliefs take a deep breath and calm down. You make less mistakes that way. :D
Man, you are so much smarter than everyone else. Must feel great to be you.
it is! Especially not using overpriced, fruit-themed toys!
Those same corporate secrets that Apple uses to produce smartphones that look like something from 6 years ago? The corporate secrets that produce desktop or laptop computers with the 3d graphics capabilities of a 10 year old PC (if that)?
You're so full of shit it's running out of your ears.
What? Don't have mod points? Go grab your team of fanbois!
Also, learn to quote.
If Apple or IBM or HP or etc. really wanted to re-grow and become relevant, they would bring back manufacturing and keep their corporate secrets under their hat.
Those same corporate secrets that Apple uses to produce smartphones that look like something from 6 years ago? The corporate secrets that produce desktop or laptop computers with the 3d graphics capabilities of a 10 year old PC (if that)?
I keep getting told by a local fanboi that Apple users have better things to do with their time than play computer games. Important stuff, like getting onto /. and modding down any comments that cast Apple in a negative light. Like this one, which will be -5 troll in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...
Mind you, even if Apple ran at a loss they could stay in business for about a million years with all the money they've conned out of the fanbois so thats good, right?
The catalog includes Pi, the 1st full-length movie of Darren Aronofsky which I would like to recommend to the /. crowd. I still love this movie, even after I watched Tsukamoto's "Tetsuo, the iron man" which inspired Aranofsky a lot.
It also includes the Leapfrog educational series for toddlers. Thats probably what you are going to get on Steam.
Thats a very interesting response. Whereabouts are you? Here in Canada the problem seems to be a bit tougher for people to dig themselves out of, at least around where I live. And people seem to be extremely hostile toward them, which I hadn't expected from Canadians.
What about housing? Everyone suddenly gets X per month free, rents go up X as demand increases (more people can afford housing) but no additional housing is built. I doubt it will go up exactly X but maybe .5X to .75X.
In many places, once a person becomes homeless they never again become productive, contributing members of society. And in some places its extremely easy to become homeless.
So, no matter how clever or creative they are, they can become struck down and forever removed from the possibility of participating in society in a positive way ever again. Now they are stuck in a cycle of psychological problems (usually severe depression) and drug abuse (trying to cope with the horror of their predicament) and get very very little help in getting out of this situation. No landlord ever wants to rent to them, no employer ever wants to give them a job and the people of the places they live in just want to run them out of town because they hate poor people (don't kid yourself, this is true).
How does society deal with that? Or is it somehow useful to society to have people living like this?
This guy is a pretty cool dude. He's got a brain, but he has a hard time tolerating folks that refuse to use theirs, so he's not very popular with the economic community, which brings us stuff like sub-prime crashes, technobubbles and climate change denial.
Don't forget quantitative easing.
Taking advice from Greece on societal economics probably isn't that smartest choice. Seems like this guy wants to double down on the already failed bet.
He isn't Greece.
Zeno didn't understand the properties of infinite series. This is not knocking him, since nobody did at the time, but with some math developed considerably later the paradoxes go away.
I wasn't talking about the validity or otherwise of the paradoxes. Sadly thats what everyone seems to think I was talking about.
These celebrity scientists are annoying. More proof that just because someone calls themselves a "scientist" doesn't mean they know jack shit about anything.
Ah yes, Neil-Degrasse Tyson, the man who said "There are more stars in our galaxy than there are atoms in the universe!"
Neither Linus Torvalds nor Red Hat have used illicit monopolist tactics to dominate the market. Hence why we don't say "Linu$", but we do say "M$".
Redhat used illicit monopolist tactics to force systemd on the rest of the Linux community
*ducks*
Democracy in the West is a complete farce especially in the USA and anywhere else with a two-party system. It ultimately becomes a one-party system with the voting public fooled into believing they have a choice between two opposing parties. In actual fact the 'two parties' are run by the same powers behind the scenes.
The vote is a currency. People spend their vote. The same techniques that can be used to influence spending behavior when buying consumer goods, ie advertising, are also used to influence vote-spending. Thus democracy is already subverted as soon as there's any kind of 'advertising' for political parties; the powers that control the advertising and media coverage have ultimate power over the voting process and the formation of government.
In Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World' they had a saying "Better to end than mend", meaning that rather than fix something, throw it away and get a new one. It was better for their 'economy'.
Pretty much this. I would bet these "child abuse images" are home-made videos or pictures where the participants look of age. It's difficult to visually guess someone's age. Given there was a fairly well publicized case where a man was charged with possession of child pornography where the video in question was a legally made video with an actress who was 26 years old... but looked young.
Realistically, how is the general public supposed to know if a posted amateur picture or video is of a mature looking 17 year old or a young looking 26 year old?
In some jurisdictions, UK for example, it wouldn't matter if she looked young but was legal; looking young is enough for it to count as cp and get registered as a sex offender.
It's also rather unfortunate that the police use child pornography as a weapon. It's not uncommon for them to throw in a few child porn charges, especially if they made mistakes in the investigation. It's sick and it needs to stop.
Its especially nasty when they take photos out of context and declare them "Child porn". Eg you have photos of your kids on the beach. Oh but whats this? There are OTHER PEOPLES KIDS in the background. Kids in skimpy clothing! OBVIOUS child porn, busted!
What do you predict will happen it something like a major change in humidity affects a region that has a nuclear arsenal and faces hostile neighbors? Keep in mind that's mainly just added moisture from a change in local weather patterns, something likely of typical changes in the future.
Its going to get really interesting when certain regions get temperatures over 38C and 100% humidity. And it becomes impossible to live without aircond; people outside airconditioning will just drop dead.
Prognostications that tell me what I'll like in the future are annoying. Now it's my turn. Canadians will like becoming one of the world's largest providers of agriculture. So, there.
For one thing most of the land which would become agricultural is Crown Land so good luck getting to use it for commercial purposes for hundreds of years due to untangling regulations. This is Canada, the land of the Great Regulations.
For another thing, the people who would benefit most from this would be Inuit and good luck with that because Canadians seem to fucking hate the Inuit.