Look, those dollars are gone. It's over. You're never getting them back. Let them go.
Now, if the government is going to waste the dollars they take I wish they would spend MORE money on silly stuff like this rather than blowing craters in the sand or giving it for free to big banks. Yes, it would be great if this money went to NASA, or disease prevention and cures, or creating a more educated populace, but really, there are so many worse areas they could have spent this time and money, you should be grateful.
The "pirates" are obviously giving consumers a better product
"Giving consumers a better product" would be going out and making their own movies that are better than Hollywood's. No laws against that anywhere. It's also not what they're doing. What they're doing would be more akin to me walking into your place of work and offering to do the work you did for the past month, for $50. You've already done the work, you just don't get paid, and I get $50. That's just giving your employer a better product, right? These tired old excuses for piracy are, ironically, from the last century, and I didn't realize people still talked like this in 2014.
To stretch your analogy:
Well, except that, if my employer wanted a copy of the work I've done for the last month, which, BTW, I was already paid for, I wouldn't expect him to pay me my full salary to have it done all over again. Not when he can, and does, have the minimum wage secretary make a Xerox for nothing more than the cost of her time, a little electricity, ink, and paper.
Just because the industry wants to exploit their rape of popular culture and turn every thought or utterance into a money stream for themselves, and has the money and position to get the elected officials to pass laws that are diametrically opposed to the wishes of the electorate that voted them into office, doesn't make it right.
You understand the complaint is that they BOUGHT the congress, so they could have the tax code changed so they could legally shift their share of tax responsibility to others? So, while yes you are technically correct, you, and they, are so morally bankrupt I can't understand how you can live with yourself.
This is called collusion... exactly the opposite of competitive business practices.
It is impossible that two entities can have so exactly the same input costs, maintenance costs, future investment costs, defined profit margins, and internal (in)efficiencies that they end up with exactly the same offerings at exactly the same price. Either one of them is at rock bottom, and the other is making artificially high profits, or they both are making artificially high profits.
Neither competitor really wants to put the other out of business and face the scrutiny of monopoly. As long as they collude to keep both in business, then they can each point at the other as "the bad guy".
Oh, and by the way, since we're colluding anyways, why settle for one just scraping by... we might as well make certain were both VERY comfortable, as long as we can keep real competition locked out.
Oh, I think 99% of everyone would agree that it is way past time, but where are you going to find a Federal DA willing to indict, who wouldn't also be immediately fired? Well, in reality, in today's day and age, he'd be framed for child porn or proved to be an islamo-mole and buried in gitmo.
From TFA: "The basic problem is that much of the West Antarctic ice sheet sits below sea level in a kind of bowl-shaped depression the earth. As Dr. Mercer outlined in 1978, once the part of the ice sheet sitting on the rim of the bowl melts and the ice retreats into deeper water, it becomes unstable and highly vulnerable to further melting."
So, if the ice is currently sitting in a bowl BELOW sea level, and water uses more volume as ice than as a liquid, when the ice melts, it will fill less of the bowl than it did before. Making a not too farfetched assumption, at some point the ice melt will open a channel from the open sea into the bowl below sea level, which will then fill with sea water. Since water uses more volume as ice than as a liquid, the amount of liquid held in the bowl, should be more than the amount of ice it previously had, before melting.
Seems to me that the net result of this should be lower global sea level...
The holocaust was conducted clearly by an advanced state, signatory to many treaties and international obligations and "laws", none of which served to make any difference whatsoever, when that state decided they didn't care what the rest of the world thought.
But why stop there? Rwanda, Stalin's purges, China's Cultural Revolution, Kashmir, Iraq-Iran, until the U.S. got actively involved, all the U.S. wars against brown people, etc., etc., etc. When has international law, regulations, or even opinion, ever changed the conduct of an aggressor nation when they decided to go to war? The reason nukes haven't been used since Nagasaki is only because everyone who has them is afraid if they used them in aggression, it would trigger a much higher escalation, and has nothing to do with any treaties, laws, or world opinions.
/csb Once when I was running late to an exam, someone pulled into a spot at college right in front of me, that I had been trying to get around to as the previous parker was pulling out. I offered the person who had just taken the spot $20 if they would pull out and let me take it so I could get to my exam on time. They took the $20, I got the spot, and got to the test on time.
I could so see using this app at my old university.
Legalize it, tax it, and regulate it. Better questions would be: How many illegal distilleries are there in the US? How many illegal firearms manufacturers are there in the US?
Um...those don't have "intrinsic value" either. That's not to say that they aren't valuable or necessary, but you'll find the value of ice in January in Siberia is very much different than the value of the same ice in Arizona in June. So while each of the things you list may have values at a certain times and places, it is still entirely "subjective" value.
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It's the closest he could find to Mos Eisley.
A wretched hive of scum and villainy, with really bad jazz.
You took the Blue pill, didn't you?
What are you doing around here? I thought all original, intelligent, knowledgeable commenters had left /.?
Look, those dollars are gone. It's over. You're never getting them back. Let them go.
Now, if the government is going to waste the dollars they take I wish they would spend MORE money on silly stuff like this rather than blowing craters in the sand or giving it for free to big banks. Yes, it would be great if this money went to NASA, or disease prevention and cures, or creating a more educated populace, but really, there are so many worse areas they could have spent this time and money, you should be grateful.
Learn a little.
Learn a little.
The "pirates" are obviously giving consumers a better product
"Giving consumers a better product" would be going out and making their own movies that are better than Hollywood's. No laws against that anywhere. It's also not what they're doing. What they're doing would be more akin to me walking into your place of work and offering to do the work you did for the past month, for $50. You've already done the work, you just don't get paid, and I get $50. That's just giving your employer a better product, right? These tired old excuses for piracy are, ironically, from the last century, and I didn't realize people still talked like this in 2014.
To stretch your analogy:
Well, except that, if my employer wanted a copy of the work I've done for the last month, which, BTW, I was already paid for, I wouldn't expect him to pay me my full salary to have it done all over again. Not when he can, and does, have the minimum wage secretary make a Xerox for nothing more than the cost of her time, a little electricity, ink, and paper.
Just because the industry wants to exploit their rape of popular culture and turn every thought or utterance into a money stream for themselves, and has the money and position to get the elected officials to pass laws that are diametrically opposed to the wishes of the electorate that voted them into office, doesn't make it right.
I didn't take it. They still have all of it they ever had.
You mean like this?
Mounting a windshield to my bike, or carrying it while running would, I think, seriously impact the experience.
Troll.
You understand the complaint is that they BOUGHT the congress, so they could have the tax code changed so they could legally shift their share of tax responsibility to others? So, while yes you are technically correct, you, and they, are so morally bankrupt I can't understand how you can live with yourself.
This is called collusion... exactly the opposite of competitive business practices.
It is impossible that two entities can have so exactly the same input costs, maintenance costs, future investment costs, defined profit margins, and internal (in)efficiencies that they end up with exactly the same offerings at exactly the same price. Either one of them is at rock bottom, and the other is making artificially high profits, or they both are making artificially high profits.
Neither competitor really wants to put the other out of business and face the scrutiny of monopoly. As long as they collude to keep both in business, then they can each point at the other as "the bad guy".
Oh, and by the way, since we're colluding anyways, why settle for one just scraping by... we might as well make certain were both VERY comfortable, as long as we can keep real competition locked out.
It's easier to believe when you realize the entire movie was filmed to be an allegory. Much of Mel Brooks' body of work is such.
Oh, I think 99% of everyone would agree that it is way past time, but where are you going to find a Federal DA willing to indict, who wouldn't also be immediately fired? Well, in reality, in today's day and age, he'd be framed for child porn or proved to be an islamo-mole and buried in gitmo.
From TFA: "The basic problem is that much of the West Antarctic ice sheet sits below sea level in a kind of bowl-shaped depression the earth. As Dr. Mercer outlined in 1978, once the part of the ice sheet sitting on the rim of the bowl melts and the ice retreats into deeper water, it becomes unstable and highly vulnerable to further melting."
So, if the ice is currently sitting in a bowl BELOW sea level, and water uses more volume as ice than as a liquid, when the ice melts, it will fill less of the bowl than it did before. Making a not too farfetched assumption, at some point the ice melt will open a channel from the open sea into the bowl below sea level, which will then fill with sea water. Since water uses more volume as ice than as a liquid, the amount of liquid held in the bowl, should be more than the amount of ice it previously had, before melting.
Seems to me that the net result of this should be lower global sea level...
Because it's working so well against North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Syria, Russia...
Well, you make his point eloquently.
The holocaust was conducted clearly by an advanced state, signatory to many treaties and international obligations and "laws", none of which served to make any difference whatsoever, when that state decided they didn't care what the rest of the world thought.
But why stop there? Rwanda, Stalin's purges, China's Cultural Revolution, Kashmir, Iraq-Iran, until the U.S. got actively involved, all the U.S. wars against brown people, etc., etc., etc. When has international law, regulations, or even opinion, ever changed the conduct of an aggressor nation when they decided to go to war? The reason nukes haven't been used since Nagasaki is only because everyone who has them is afraid if they used them in aggression, it would trigger a much higher escalation, and has nothing to do with any treaties, laws, or world opinions.
Exactly!
/csb Once when I was running late to an exam, someone pulled into a spot at college right in front of me, that I had been trying to get around to as the previous parker was pulling out. I offered the person who had just taken the spot $20 if they would pull out and let me take it so I could get to my exam on time. They took the $20, I got the spot, and got to the test on time.
I could so see using this app at my old university.
Obviously not enough.
Legalize it, tax it, and regulate it. Better questions would be: How many illegal distilleries are there in the US? How many illegal firearms manufacturers are there in the US?
I think it all depends on how tasty that alien life is...
So you are arguing that privacy/security on by default is a bad thing?
Nah, at a constant 1 G acceleration you could get to 2 M mph in under 51 hours.
Um...those don't have "intrinsic value" either. That's not to say that they aren't valuable or necessary, but you'll find the value of ice in January in Siberia is very much different than the value of the same ice in Arizona in June. So while each of the things you list may have values at a certain times and places, it is still entirely "subjective" value.
And the downside is?
It sure has a chemical imbalance, but then again, I had Taco Bell for lunch...