"If people around the world wants to have film/music/whatever available to buy in their country at the same time as everyone else, then it is the job of the content producers to supply that!"
Uh, no. You may see it as the right thing to do and I may see it as the right thing to do, but the owner of the material can disburse it as they wish. You as the customer, have one right, and one right only -- buy it or not.
And the people who have to spend time dealing with these cheating assholes are cheated out of said time they could be spending with people owning the same degree, but actually studied and learned.
In other words, honest people cheated of their time and resources are hurt worse than dishonest people being ridiculed.
Well, you either are proving the point of acedemic ignorance or you are being disingenuous.
Wikipedia is a great source of material written by medium-weight knowledgables in prose conforming to low-to-medium content, providing easy cut-and-paste access.
What part of that do you fail to see related to cheating? Please respond honestly and with a modicum of IQ.
"Freedom from Government censorship isn't worth anything when corporations can make an end run around them and shut you up."
So, you would force them to behave as you would wish? Against their free will? Nice.
There is no issue of freedom of speech as the parent said. You are free to set up the same service and not cave to whomever. No freedom of speech issue, regardless of your desire to cloak your agenda.
"You can't go anywhere now and put out fliers because there's ordninances against it."
That is a blatant lie as far as the US is concerned.
'You can't broadcast online because ISP's shut you down when you say something "objectionable enough".'
That is the perogative of the ISP, since it's their machinery, not yours. Again, you believe you have the right to force them to do something they don't wish to why?
Basically, it's because only the ignorant think something of any complexity can be done correctly the 'first time'. One can see this by observing coders, who never get it right the first time either. Goose Gander
Yes, once in a while, I feed trolls.
No. When I first design an interface, I make a sketch. There is no need to know where your info comes from to organize an attractive and easily assimilated presentation.
To address your example, a web page IS a picture. My browser cares not how you find and go about creating said page. It just paints it. The construction can be done in any number of ways for the same presentation.
I don't recall Newton explaining gravity. I recall him describing its effects. Not the same thing. As far as I can ascertain, we still don't have a friggin' clue as to what gravity is, only how it behaves.
Frankly, if you cannot see that a goodly portion of the world has no desire to move forward, then you're purposely blind. Fanatic Islam wishes to drag everyone back to 900AD. Not me, not my kids, and not my grandkids. You go ahead.
By the way, your last line is straw, as you well know. Too bad you were unable to engage in debate rather than that. Perhaps it displays your lack instead, eh?
"If we can't live in peace and harmony, and that harmony is disturbed or destroyed by fear of things that MIGHT happen, then the people that created that fear have done their job."
As opposed, say, to someone flying an airliner into a building, or blowing up a train, or...?
The Islamofascists have declared that they want Western Civilization wiped from the face of the earth. I take them at their word.
First, I pay your salary and you have a legally binding contract with me. As I am an adult and have paid for your lecture, you cannot prevent me from taking notes in whatever form I desire, depending on the state. Upheld in court in several states, son. You'd better check if yours is one that supports you, it may not. Besides, I'll just say I have ADA.
Second, I am an adult and you are not my parent or guardian. You have no business and, indeed, no ethical right to enforce your learning methods on me. If I like notes, electronic or otherwise, tuff to you. If I cannot "learn" using them, tuff to me.
Third, your problem with someone else ripping off your copyrighted materials is between you and him. You have no ethical or legal ground to prevent me from using what I've paid for because someone else breaks the law. Beware that fair use doctrine you instructors bend so liberally in constructing said slides.
Fourth, speech is not IP. Get over yourself.
Fifth, if you are wary of what you say being held against you, don't say it. You can just as easily be taken into court on someone's eye-witness account, you know. I assume nothing happened because of your right to freedom of speech.
Any brief event that requires fifteen million years to exert an extinction is probably not the cause of said extinction. In fact, it's not even a coincidence as a coincidence requires concurrence in time.
Actually, not so much so. It's done in groups that don't split up. Hunting involves phasing out over a wider area, yet keeping the locations of the other members in mind. Also, vegetation doesn't move very quickly.
"Well, that missing part is recursion in the thought process."
Dogshit. Dogs in particular, pick up the human languages with ease. Not to an adult's level, but certainly to the level of some of the lower members of/. They can and do plan for the future in the sense of hiding their favorite toy or chew from other dogs and they understand complex commands.
The problem with most animal 'psychologists' is they cannot seem to understand that there is no motivation for the animal to behave in the way the researcher thinks they should. I've had one researcher complain to me that animals do not think because they are not epistemological. Well, duh.
Just because said researcher cannot get the animal to cooperate in demonstrating 'recursive' thought, doesn't mean they don't have it. It merely means the researcher cannot....
"This is the theory of Panspermia, which has a lot going for it."
Scientifically, it's no theory. And, there's nothing going for it but abstract conversation at the moment. No emperical evidence.
Frankly, I think that's not true. Provide the company name so we can check that the leave-and-return rate justified shoving customers out the door. I can't think of one example where this would work. Humor me.
Your entire argument presumes no such faults in a communist or socialist system. Looking at the Soviet Union, France, Italy and other examples, I'd say you are incorrect. We still have the better system.
He's telling you different from personal experience. You have the personal experience with an ineffective socialist system? PS. We don't have uncontrolled capitalism.
"I understand it's quite a bit harder to convince management in a huge mega-corporation. One way to convince them is to simply refuse to work for a mega-corp that doesn't listen. Once they find they can't get decent people without listening to them, they'll listen."
From your comment, it is obvious that you do not understand. You have refused to work for them, they still use Windows. They will continue to get decent people.
You're happy, and I'm happy for you. Others work for those corps and are happy too. They simply don't want to join in on your quest.
"For example, if I profile for young Muslim men with turbans the attacker can simply pick disaffected white middle-class women."
Wow, what a reach. Especially when you must consider you want them to blow their friggin' selves up and it will take years to find some and then train them to the oblivion of their relatives. Besides, what makes you think they haven't been looking for them?
Also, drop the turbans and your profile will work better.
"We should not judge because a man reads the Koran any more than we should judge because he is Black. Muslims are not terrorists."
Really? Apparently you haven't been watching the news. Out of the literally hundreds of terrorists bombings around the world, please give me the percentage that weren't Muslim. I'm really sorry that moderate Muslims get painted with the brushstrokes of the "radicals", but perhaps a goodly chunk of that red paint is because of the derth of protest by said moderates as to the wrongness of their brethren. Find and weigh the writings of moderates against fanatics. Find the writings of moderates against fanatics.
"To quote another great mind, master Yoda:"
Holy shit, you think Yoda's real and wrote his own words?
"There's already a dark cloud gathering. The question is how dark can it get?"
Dark enough to dim the sun in downtown New York, in Madrid, in Bali, in Paris, in......
"The record labels will never, ever give up their right to control distribution."
Let's see.... They offer distribution and a cut in exchange for promotion and production. And, apparently, you want them to do this for the "poor" artist for free? Why, pray tell?
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"If people around the world wants to have film/music/whatever available to buy in their country at the same time as everyone else, then it is the job of the content producers to supply that!"
Uh, no. You may see it as the right thing to do and I may see it as the right thing to do, but the owner of the material can disburse it as they wish. You as the customer, have one right, and one right only -- buy it or not.
Note to whomever modded this insightful. Study up on nuance and subtle humor. This post was hilarious.
And the people who have to spend time dealing with these cheating assholes are cheated out of said time they could be spending with people owning the same degree, but actually studied and learned.
In other words, honest people cheated of their time and resources are hurt worse than dishonest people being ridiculed.
Well, you either are proving the point of acedemic ignorance or you are being disingenuous.
Wikipedia is a great source of material written by medium-weight knowledgables in prose conforming to low-to-medium content, providing easy cut-and-paste access.
What part of that do you fail to see related to cheating? Please respond honestly and with a modicum of IQ.
"Freedom from Government censorship isn't worth anything when corporations can make an end run around them and shut you up."
So, you would force them to behave as you would wish? Against their free will? Nice.
There is no issue of freedom of speech as the parent said. You are free to set up the same service and not cave to whomever. No freedom of speech issue, regardless of your desire to cloak your agenda.
"You can't go anywhere now and put out fliers because there's ordninances against it."
That is a blatant lie as far as the US is concerned.
'You can't broadcast online because ISP's shut you down when you say something "objectionable enough".'
That is the perogative of the ISP, since it's their machinery, not yours. Again, you believe you have the right to force them to do something they don't wish to why?
Basically, it's because only the ignorant think something of any complexity can be done correctly the 'first time'. One can see this by observing coders, who never get it right the first time either. Goose Gander Yes, once in a while, I feed trolls.
No. When I first design an interface, I make a sketch. There is no need to know where your info comes from to organize an attractive and easily assimilated presentation.
To address your example, a web page IS a picture. My browser cares not how you find and go about creating said page. It just paints it. The construction can be done in any number of ways for the same presentation.
I don't recall Newton explaining gravity. I recall him describing its effects. Not the same thing. As far as I can ascertain, we still don't have a friggin' clue as to what gravity is, only how it behaves.
Would you give up liquids or solids?
Maybe, just maybe, those who refused to choose were simply telling the pollster to fuck off?
Frankly, if you cannot see that a goodly portion of the world has no desire to move forward, then you're purposely blind. Fanatic Islam wishes to drag everyone back to 900AD. Not me, not my kids, and not my grandkids. You go ahead.
By the way, your last line is straw, as you well know. Too bad you were unable to engage in debate rather than that. Perhaps it displays your lack instead, eh?
"If we can't live in peace and harmony, and that harmony is disturbed or destroyed by fear of things that MIGHT happen, then the people that created that fear have done their job."
As opposed, say, to someone flying an airliner into a building, or blowing up a train, or...?
The Islamofascists have declared that they want Western Civilization wiped from the face of the earth. I take them at their word.
You are wrong on a number of counts.
First, I pay your salary and you have a legally binding contract with me. As I am an adult and have paid for your lecture, you cannot prevent me from taking notes in whatever form I desire, depending on the state. Upheld in court in several states, son. You'd better check if yours is one that supports you, it may not. Besides, I'll just say I have ADA.
Second, I am an adult and you are not my parent or guardian. You have no business and, indeed, no ethical right to enforce your learning methods on me. If I like notes, electronic or otherwise, tuff to you. If I cannot "learn" using them, tuff to me.
Third, your problem with someone else ripping off your copyrighted materials is between you and him. You have no ethical or legal ground to prevent me from using what I've paid for because someone else breaks the law. Beware that fair use doctrine you instructors bend so liberally in constructing said slides.
Fourth, speech is not IP. Get over yourself.
Fifth, if you are wary of what you say being held against you, don't say it. You can just as easily be taken into court on someone's eye-witness account, you know. I assume nothing happened because of your right to freedom of speech.
Acedemic pomposity.
Horse shit. Get some skin. Saying that Nordics sunburn easily doesn't at all imply that the Irish don't. Study some logic.
Any brief event that requires fifteen million years to exert an extinction is probably not the cause of said extinction. In fact, it's not even a coincidence as a coincidence requires concurrence in time.
Actually, not so much so. It's done in groups that don't split up. Hunting involves phasing out over a wider area, yet keeping the locations of the other members in mind. Also, vegetation doesn't move very quickly.
I recall a brave little fellow willing to let a tank crush him into the pavement of some Square somewhere. Happy fellow, he.
"Well, that missing part is recursion in the thought process."
/. They can and do plan for the future in the sense of hiding their favorite toy or chew from other dogs and they understand complex commands.
Dogshit. Dogs in particular, pick up the human languages with ease. Not to an adult's level, but certainly to the level of some of the lower members of
The problem with most animal 'psychologists' is they cannot seem to understand that there is no motivation for the animal to behave in the way the researcher thinks they should. I've had one researcher complain to me that animals do not think because they are not epistemological. Well, duh.
Just because said researcher cannot get the animal to cooperate in demonstrating 'recursive' thought, doesn't mean they don't have it. It merely means the researcher cannot....
"This is the theory of Panspermia, which has a lot going for it."
Scientifically, it's no theory. And, there's nothing going for it but abstract conversation at the moment. No emperical evidence.
I'll respond to your example.
"40% of people who bought x also bought y"
You make an order with items on it. Simple counting of items as a cluster with no private information whatsoever. Harmful how?
Frankly, I think that's not true. Provide the company name so we can check that the leave-and-return rate justified shoving customers out the door. I can't think of one example where this would work. Humor me.
Your entire argument presumes no such faults in a communist or socialist system. Looking at the Soviet Union, France, Italy and other examples, I'd say you are incorrect. We still have the better system.
He's telling you different from personal experience. You have the personal experience with an ineffective socialist system? PS. We don't have uncontrolled capitalism.
"I understand it's quite a bit harder to convince management in a huge mega-corporation. One way to convince them is to simply refuse to work for a mega-corp that doesn't listen. Once they find they can't get decent people without listening to them, they'll listen."
From your comment, it is obvious that you do not understand. You have refused to work for them, they still use Windows. They will continue to get decent people.
You're happy, and I'm happy for you. Others work for those corps and are happy too. They simply don't want to join in on your quest.
"For example, if I profile for young Muslim men with turbans the attacker can simply pick disaffected white middle-class women."
......
Wow, what a reach. Especially when you must consider you want them to blow their friggin' selves up and it will take years to find some and then train them to the oblivion of their relatives. Besides, what makes you think they haven't been looking for them?
Also, drop the turbans and your profile will work better.
"We should not judge because a man reads the Koran any more than we should judge because he is Black. Muslims are not terrorists."
Really? Apparently you haven't been watching the news. Out of the literally hundreds of terrorists bombings around the world, please give me the percentage that weren't Muslim. I'm really sorry that moderate Muslims get painted with the brushstrokes of the "radicals", but perhaps a goodly chunk of that red paint is because of the derth of protest by said moderates as to the wrongness of their brethren. Find and weigh the writings of moderates against fanatics. Find the writings of moderates against fanatics.
"To quote another great mind, master Yoda:"
Holy shit, you think Yoda's real and wrote his own words?
"There's already a dark cloud gathering. The question is how dark can it get?"
Dark enough to dim the sun in downtown New York, in Madrid, in Bali, in Paris, in
What a croc.
"The record labels will never, ever give up their right to control distribution."
Let's see.... They offer distribution and a cut in exchange for promotion and production. And, apparently, you want them to do this for the "poor" artist for free? Why, pray tell?