What I really love about you guys is that you think your ignorance is a badge of honor, and you parade around this attitude while you act like some sort of "intellectual elite."
Yes! Yes! The service providers should be forced to give us what we want, when we want it, for the price we want to pay. Realities be damned! I'm a nerd and I DEMAND THE WORLD BE FORCED TO SATISFY ME.
You people basically prove the truism that the more you get, the more you want. There is so much pure timewasting entertainment available at amazingly low cost that you can't even keep up with a significant percentage of it if you tried, but it's not enough, no, MORE MORE MORE for you. It's heartbreaking to see this, more than anything else, is the cause with which you've all aligned.
Luckily the same sort of mental defect that leads you to believe that all opinions you don't share must be paid for is the same sort of thing that keeps you from being cogent enough to persuade anyone who doesn't already agree with you.
What scares me the most is that assholes like you actually believe this...
Wake UP! There is no grand conspiracy, just millions of people pulling in their own directions... and millions like you who don't want to pull at all, then whine when you get dragged somewhere you don't want to be.
No, generally, this level of presumption about how I feel turns me off so much that I would rather oppose you across the board than support you in any way.
Keep your arrogance in check. You (and those who agree with you) aren't nearly as brilliant as you think you are, and you aren't helping yourself by only paying attention to feedback loops and dismissing any opinions that aren't your own.
For a bunch of whiners who want everything for free you people sure expect to be highly paid. Where does this money come from exactly, when you won't tolerate anything being sold? Maybe you expect the rich to donate to your life? (I know, there's no maybe about it. I've read your "manifestos.")
That's not really the case. The simple, distasteful truth is that most people are not capable of critical thinking on any level that is of use to society at large. Unfortunately our societal desires to be "progressive" by forcefully redistributing resources to prop these weaker people up are working at cross-purposes to any ability to actually progress.
This isn't proper populist thinking, so no one wants to hear it. Same lesson as the story mentioned in the article, really - the people are stupid and shouldn't be trusted.
What I hate are the console games ruined by trying to cater to PC nerds. Since you guys hate everything and pirate it all anyway I wish they'd just give up on you and concentrate on the grateful gamers.
No one failed to predict that there would be conflict in business. They instead instituted the court system to handle such issues. Which is what we see here.
I find it instructive that the "can't we all just get along" crowd doesn't understand how things work in the real world.
I guess if you give up before you begin, you deserve some sort of prize?
The simple reality is that "the corporations" are run and owned by people, who have just as much right as you to try to influence how things are run. They're just better at it than you are. That doesn't give you some special right to deny them what they want despite your "moral" objections.
Your way isn't objectively better, and you have no inherent right to impose it, no matter how correct you believe it to be.
Nothing but a law that people pay little attention to stops that from happening now, but it's hard work. People aren't big on hard work for little benefit. Which reiterates my second point.
I never understood what the end of copyright would bring as a benefit. It's not like people would be magically forced to release all source code. I guess software would be super cheap, but there would be fewer people working on it since there would be no money in it, so there would be less choice all around.
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"People have quoted me as saying all kinds of shit I never said." - Albert Einstein
potato, po-dumb-fucking-excuse-for-trying-to-stop-progress-instead-of-adapting.
Hahaha, "creating."
This site has been an echo chamber since the 21st century was "the future." Go ahead, look at your own score.
What I really love about you guys is that you think your ignorance is a badge of honor, and you parade around this attitude while you act like some sort of "intellectual elite."
The ironies make me tingle.
I'm absolutely shocked to learn that you have no sense of humor. Couldn't possibly imagine that...
Yes! Yes! The service providers should be forced to give us what we want, when we want it, for the price we want to pay. Realities be damned! I'm a nerd and I DEMAND THE WORLD BE FORCED TO SATISFY ME.
You people basically prove the truism that the more you get, the more you want. There is so much pure timewasting entertainment available at amazingly low cost that you can't even keep up with a significant percentage of it if you tried, but it's not enough, no, MORE MORE MORE for you. It's heartbreaking to see this, more than anything else, is the cause with which you've all aligned.
Damn, you people are frightening...
Luckily the same sort of mental defect that leads you to believe that all opinions you don't share must be paid for is the same sort of thing that keeps you from being cogent enough to persuade anyone who doesn't already agree with you.
What scares me the most is that assholes like you actually believe this...
Wake UP! There is no grand conspiracy, just millions of people pulling in their own directions... and millions like you who don't want to pull at all, then whine when you get dragged somewhere you don't want to be.
No, generally, this level of presumption about how I feel turns me off so much that I would rather oppose you across the board than support you in any way.
Keep your arrogance in check. You (and those who agree with you) aren't nearly as brilliant as you think you are, and you aren't helping yourself by only paying attention to feedback loops and dismissing any opinions that aren't your own.
Nerd speak decoded:
anything at all -> whine whine whine, bitch bitch bitch
The modern definition of "economy in the toilet" seems to be "they aren't handing out free BMWs even though I whined a lot."
For a bunch of whiners who want everything for free you people sure expect to be highly paid. Where does this money come from exactly, when you won't tolerate anything being sold? Maybe you expect the rich to donate to your life? (I know, there's no maybe about it. I've read your "manifestos.")
That's not really the case. The simple, distasteful truth is that most people are not capable of critical thinking on any level that is of use to society at large. Unfortunately our societal desires to be "progressive" by forcefully redistributing resources to prop these weaker people up are working at cross-purposes to any ability to actually progress.
This isn't proper populist thinking, so no one wants to hear it. Same lesson as the story mentioned in the article, really - the people are stupid and shouldn't be trusted.
What I hate are the console games ruined by trying to cater to PC nerds. Since you guys hate everything and pirate it all anyway I wish they'd just give up on you and concentrate on the grateful gamers.
Yeah, and the only reason marijuana is illegal is because they can't figure out how to tax it...
Question - Does defending your glorious leader give you a hard-on?
When he took the initiative in explaining that his extreme energy usage was okay because he paid himself for carbon credits, was that as glorious?
No one failed to predict that there would be conflict in business. They instead instituted the court system to handle such issues. Which is what we see here.
I find it instructive that the "can't we all just get along" crowd doesn't understand how things work in the real world.
I guess if you give up before you begin, you deserve some sort of prize?
The simple reality is that "the corporations" are run and owned by people, who have just as much right as you to try to influence how things are run. They're just better at it than you are. That doesn't give you some special right to deny them what they want despite your "moral" objections.
Your way isn't objectively better, and you have no inherent right to impose it, no matter how correct you believe it to be.
You couldn't be more off base. Everyone secretly thinks just like I do, unless someone is paying them to think a different way.
Nintendo wasn't scared of the PSP, they were scared of Apple's amazingly successful iDevices.
Sony is about to taste third place in yet another market. Heaven help them if Microsoft ever figures out their mobile strategy.
Nothing but a law that people pay little attention to stops that from happening now, but it's hard work. People aren't big on hard work for little benefit. Which reiterates my second point.
I never understood what the end of copyright would bring as a benefit. It's not like people would be magically forced to release all source code. I guess software would be super cheap, but there would be fewer people working on it since there would be no money in it, so there would be less choice all around.
Seems like a terrible goal.
I guess you just make it personal policy to be an anti-ambassador for the GPL?
Or maybe you believe haranguing people to your point of view works?
Yes, the iPhone is a 2G phone. Congratulations on your amazing snaps. Clearly you are an insult master.
If you were downloading all of the rest for yourself, don't worry, the Miley Cyrus is an improvement of your taste.