What gives copyright holders the right to hoard knowledge? If I borrow a book from the library and read it to my children, when they themselves did not borrow the book, is that not doing the same thing Google is doing?
Uh... facebook does link out Your site links to facebook and it IS the other way around, unless you are stupid and didn't put your link on your site's facebook page, it is right at the top. And you can seamlessly connect MANY social network sites to facebook - ever seen that "sign in with facebook" thing? - some that I know first hand are twitter and pintrest. If you don't change the settings, every time you do something on those sites there will automatically be a post made on facebook containing a link to the site. That's good because even though people may be spending time on those other sites, people will still come to facebook for an easy, gathered version of what their friends are doing - you don't have to go to twitter and pinterst and etc, to see everything Billy did today, it's all there on facebook, and you can spend a lot of time on facebook looking at it. It's just the sites they see as direct competitors, such as Google+ and Dispora, that they don't want connected, because if Billy doesn't go to Slashdot and share a story about Dispora or Google+ and then that share doesn't get shown at the top of Joe Facebook-user's timeline, Joe will never know Dispora and Google+ exist.
Translation takes time. Crunchyroll can do it fast because they get the scripts ahead of time and have fluent people paid to translate. The fansubs you're downloading a couple of hours after airing are (take it from someone that actually knows Japanese) either inaccurate or, what is common nowadays, taking Crunchyroll's subs and formatting them to look a little prettier, maybe retiming them a little bit. Even 10 years ago it was not the encoding that took the most time, it's always has been and still is translation.
Now that there is Crunchyroll which attempts to license all new anime and legally stream it subbed the same day it airs in Japan, that whole "we're just doing what the companies won't, we'll drop it when it gets picked up in the US" thing doesn't fly anymore. Japanese companies want overseas internet watchers watching it through crunchyroll, where they're getting a cut. And when they don't license it to crunchyroll, they've usually got a reason, usually a license that they haven't announced yet.
Also there's plenty of domestic problem with piracy nowadays. The piracy of anime in Japan is often driven more than it is overseas due to the fact that in Japan, most anime never reruns; if you miss an episode or want to watch something again, a lot of the time your only legal option is buying the DVD. Since overseas there is now a legal, replayable option that is easier than piracy and even works on cellphones, which can be watched for free if you're willing to watch some commercials and wait a couple days for new episodes (which you were going to do anyway for a fansub) the tables have turned.
Most subbing sites ban Japanese IPs because they think it covers their asses, not as some good-will gesture. I use to be involved with several fansub groups. And there was a time when they were doing it for the right reasons. But the world has changed now.
My family buys many things from Amazon and my kids have never been to Toys R Us (and we don't watch commercials so there would be no association from there)... the Fed Ex & UPS logs would probably light up their pleasure centers while Toys R Us would not. And my 2 year old *loves* batteries, while the other kids I'd guess would associate them with playing video games, so I could see the Energizer logo even without the bunny lighting up their pleasure centers more than Toys-R-Us...
I see your point, but kids do not live in a bubble where there are only bunnies and toys; kids of today order things online and/or see their parents ordering things online, play video games, use computers, etc.
Fresh fruit, vegetables, and nuts, as well as dried legumes are available even at the lowest end grocery stores (though admittedly "fresh" is often relative, the stuff at the low end stores does tend to go bad rather quickly).
Actually kids are allowed to drink alcohol - they're just not allowed to buy it. In most countries, and in most states in the US (details), kids are allowed to drink alcohol as long as their parents say it's okay.
Children that have not yet developed self-control usually have parents to do the controlling for them. If we want to do away with fast-food advertising due to childrens' lack of self control, by that logic we would have to do away with all advertising... or, a better solution; expect parents to make up for a child's lack of self-control.
Someone that has a moral objection to real leather but wants the qualities of real leather might use this. From a purely fashion standpoint, yes this seems silly; fake leather looks like real leather. But from a practical use standpoint, this will be great for people that are morally opposed to real leather; fake leather is usually not heat-resistant, rip-proof, etc. etc. - basically it has none of the qualities of leather except looking similar. As someone that is vegetarian largely for moral reasons, that also makes many things by hand, lab-grown leather would be very handy to me.
These people don't want their kids to be educated: they want free daycare. I have not heard a single parent saying "Oh I am taking my kids to the library or on the internet and educating them myself while this strike is going on." They have all been saying "I don't know what to do with my kids all day! They'll just be getting into trouble all day if they aren't in school!"
Well just think how boring the show Taxi would have been if no one ever returned to the depot. Who will all those dispatchers abuse? They will have to try to get jobs as DMV workers or doctors office receptionists. Won't somebody think of the outdated humorous exaggerations?
if we treat animals in inhumane ways, we become inhumane persons. This logically extends to the treatment of robotic companions.
Except the logic of that first sentence is wrong. Inhumane people treat animals inhumanely. The treatment does not CAUSE the inhumane persons (yes inhumane treatment OF the persons often causes an inhumane person, but you know what I mean). Yes we can make laws to stop people from ACTING inhumanely - but they will still be inhumane people, and once they think/know they can do inhumane things without getting caught, they will do so.
Really I think the best we can hope for is that these inhumane people do their inhumane actions on things that can not feel, such as robots. If/when we program robots to feel, THEN we can consider the morality behind giving them rights (or not).
And even if you leave your phone and car at home... law enforcement agents can still see what you're doing with their eyes! Better just board up all your windows and stay inside, get rid of the phone and internet, and have no contact with the outside world - because someone might SEE it.
This is why I do not go around using controllers that belong to other people, unless it is agreed upon and/or I contribute some money to the future maintenance of the controller/machine (in the case of arcade machines).
Well that works great when the idiots live alone, work alone etc.... but when people have to share a network with idiots, it doesn't quite work out.
What if someone takes an infected computer to Starbucks - no one can get internet access at Starbucks anymore? What if a person takes computer security very seriously but their mother/father/wife/etc. just doesn't understand? What if, in a work situation where people take their work laptops home with them, someone manages to get infected over the weekend and plugs their computer into the network on Monday morning, and just as IT realizes this, the whole company is getting blocked from the internet? What if someone buys a used computer, and as soon as they turn it on it connects to their network?
Uh... if the goal is educated people, it IS working pretty good for Japan. Saturday school, as well as High School, is optional over there - yet the majority of people choose to go. Suicide rates are high because of a different cultural view of suicide. Drop-out rates are low, grade point averages are high... and getting shot/stabbed/etc. in school rates are non-existent compared to America.
I don't think there should be a longer school year (heck, I think "school" as we know it should be done away with completely, and I homeschool my own kids), but Japan isn't the best example to prove your point...
many blocked users will just buy another computer and get infected again. Education is really the key to fixing this, but I have no idea how we could realistically educate everyone (requiring a license to use the internet is not realistic).
Okay, admittedly I have woken up to the beginnings of sex... but my husband is doing it in his sleep. Are we sure Julian Assange consciously went against her explicit answer? Why would she stay with a guy that consciously ignores her wishes, much less make herself vulnerable by sleeping with him? Oh wait, expecting people to have some responsibility over their own safety would be victim blaming, nevermind.
So in order to not rape under the law, should I get written consent every time I change forms of sex? Or is verbal agreement enough? Am I suppose to be saying "I'm going to stop performing oral and place your penis in my vagina now, do you consent to that?" every time? Should I record it?
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If only there weren't many books that all of those refuse to archive.
What gives copyright holders the right to hoard knowledge? If I borrow a book from the library and read it to my children, when they themselves did not borrow the book, is that not doing the same thing Google is doing?
Uh... facebook does link out Your site links to facebook and it IS the other way around, unless you are stupid and didn't put your link on your site's facebook page, it is right at the top. And you can seamlessly connect MANY social network sites to facebook - ever seen that "sign in with facebook" thing? - some that I know first hand are twitter and pintrest. If you don't change the settings, every time you do something on those sites there will automatically be a post made on facebook containing a link to the site. That's good because even though people may be spending time on those other sites, people will still come to facebook for an easy, gathered version of what their friends are doing - you don't have to go to twitter and pinterst and etc, to see everything Billy did today, it's all there on facebook, and you can spend a lot of time on facebook looking at it. It's just the sites they see as direct competitors, such as Google+ and Dispora, that they don't want connected, because if Billy doesn't go to Slashdot and share a story about Dispora or Google+ and then that share doesn't get shown at the top of Joe Facebook-user's timeline, Joe will never know Dispora and Google+ exist.
Translation takes time. Crunchyroll can do it fast because they get the scripts ahead of time and have fluent people paid to translate. The fansubs you're downloading a couple of hours after airing are (take it from someone that actually knows Japanese) either inaccurate or, what is common nowadays, taking Crunchyroll's subs and formatting them to look a little prettier, maybe retiming them a little bit. Even 10 years ago it was not the encoding that took the most time, it's always has been and still is translation.
Now that there is Crunchyroll which attempts to license all new anime and legally stream it subbed the same day it airs in Japan, that whole "we're just doing what the companies won't, we'll drop it when it gets picked up in the US" thing doesn't fly anymore. Japanese companies want overseas internet watchers watching it through crunchyroll, where they're getting a cut. And when they don't license it to crunchyroll, they've usually got a reason, usually a license that they haven't announced yet.
Also there's plenty of domestic problem with piracy nowadays. The piracy of anime in Japan is often driven more than it is overseas due to the fact that in Japan, most anime never reruns; if you miss an episode or want to watch something again, a lot of the time your only legal option is buying the DVD. Since overseas there is now a legal, replayable option that is easier than piracy and even works on cellphones, which can be watched for free if you're willing to watch some commercials and wait a couple days for new episodes (which you were going to do anyway for a fansub) the tables have turned.
Most subbing sites ban Japanese IPs because they think it covers their asses, not as some good-will gesture. I use to be involved with several fansub groups. And there was a time when they were doing it for the right reasons. But the world has changed now.
My family buys many things from Amazon and my kids have never been to Toys R Us (and we don't watch commercials so there would be no association from there)... the Fed Ex & UPS logs would probably light up their pleasure centers while Toys R Us would not. And my 2 year old *loves* batteries, while the other kids I'd guess would associate them with playing video games, so I could see the Energizer logo even without the bunny lighting up their pleasure centers more than Toys-R-Us...
I see your point, but kids do not live in a bubble where there are only bunnies and toys; kids of today order things online and/or see their parents ordering things online, play video games, use computers, etc.
Fresh fruit, vegetables, and nuts, as well as dried legumes are available even at the lowest end grocery stores (though admittedly "fresh" is often relative, the stuff at the low end stores does tend to go bad rather quickly).
Actually kids are allowed to drink alcohol - they're just not allowed to buy it. In most countries, and in most states in the US (details), kids are allowed to drink alcohol as long as their parents say it's okay.
Children that have not yet developed self-control usually have parents to do the controlling for them. If we want to do away with fast-food advertising due to childrens' lack of self control, by that logic we would have to do away with all advertising... or, a better solution; expect parents to make up for a child's lack of self-control.
Someone that has a moral objection to real leather but wants the qualities of real leather might use this. From a purely fashion standpoint, yes this seems silly; fake leather looks like real leather. But from a practical use standpoint, this will be great for people that are morally opposed to real leather; fake leather is usually not heat-resistant, rip-proof, etc. etc. - basically it has none of the qualities of leather except looking similar. As someone that is vegetarian largely for moral reasons, that also makes many things by hand, lab-grown leather would be very handy to me.
These people don't want their kids to be educated: they want free daycare. I have not heard a single parent saying "Oh I am taking my kids to the library or on the internet and educating them myself while this strike is going on." They have all been saying "I don't know what to do with my kids all day! They'll just be getting into trouble all day if they aren't in school!"
Well just think how boring the show Taxi would have been if no one ever returned to the depot. Who will all those dispatchers abuse? They will have to try to get jobs as DMV workers or doctors office receptionists. Won't somebody think of the outdated humorous exaggerations?
if we treat animals in inhumane ways, we become inhumane persons. This logically extends to the treatment of robotic companions.
Except the logic of that first sentence is wrong. Inhumane people treat animals inhumanely. The treatment does not CAUSE the inhumane persons (yes inhumane treatment OF the persons often causes an inhumane person, but you know what I mean). Yes we can make laws to stop people from ACTING inhumanely - but they will still be inhumane people, and once they think/know they can do inhumane things without getting caught, they will do so.
Really I think the best we can hope for is that these inhumane people do their inhumane actions on things that can not feel, such as robots. If/when we program robots to feel, THEN we can consider the morality behind giving them rights (or not).
And even if you leave your phone and car at home... law enforcement agents can still see what you're doing with their eyes! Better just board up all your windows and stay inside, get rid of the phone and internet, and have no contact with the outside world - because someone might SEE it.
Every one of those are used as ingredients to street drugs.
This is why I do not go around using controllers that belong to other people, unless it is agreed upon and/or I contribute some money to the future maintenance of the controller/machine (in the case of arcade machines).
I don't even have his condition and sitting in an office for 8 hours a day would be unbearable to me.
Some people are designed to be desk jockeys, some aren't.
So then they just pull their kids from the school completely, and either send them to a school that is not scheduled at harvest time, or homeschool.
Well that works great when the idiots live alone, work alone etc. ... but when people have to share a network with idiots, it doesn't quite work out.
What if someone takes an infected computer to Starbucks - no one can get internet access at Starbucks anymore? What if a person takes computer security very seriously but their mother/father/wife/etc. just doesn't understand? What if, in a work situation where people take their work laptops home with them, someone manages to get infected over the weekend and plugs their computer into the network on Monday morning, and just as IT realizes this, the whole company is getting blocked from the internet? What if someone buys a used computer, and as soon as they turn it on it connects to their network?
Uh... if the goal is educated people, it IS working pretty good for Japan. Saturday school, as well as High School, is optional over there - yet the majority of people choose to go. Suicide rates are high because of a different cultural view of suicide. Drop-out rates are low, grade point averages are high... and getting shot/stabbed/etc. in school rates are non-existent compared to America.
I don't think there should be a longer school year (heck, I think "school" as we know it should be done away with completely, and I homeschool my own kids), but Japan isn't the best example to prove your point...
If school is scheduled at harvest time, they aren't going to hire someone to do it; they'll just have the kids be absent from school.
many blocked users will just buy another computer and get infected again. Education is really the key to fixing this, but I have no idea how we could realistically educate everyone (requiring a license to use the internet is not realistic).
*or are used as an ingredient
I'm saying that if any of those thousand people wear down the controller 1/1000th, they are not leaving the controller as they found it.
But poisons and drugs are the same thing, is what I was saying. Pretty much all poisons are either used as drugs are used as an ingredient to drugs.
Okay, admittedly I have woken up to the beginnings of sex... but my husband is doing it in his sleep. Are we sure Julian Assange consciously went against her explicit answer? Why would she stay with a guy that consciously ignores her wishes, much less make herself vulnerable by sleeping with him? Oh wait, expecting people to have some responsibility over their own safety would be victim blaming, nevermind.
So in order to not rape under the law, should I get written consent every time I change forms of sex? Or is verbal agreement enough? Am I suppose to be saying "I'm going to stop performing oral and place your penis in my vagina now, do you consent to that?" every time? Should I record it?