As shocking as it is, Trump is actually the cleanest and the most honest of the bunch... This is precisely the reason the media is 97% negative on him, and the DC swamp is universally opposed to almost anything he does. Pretty sad how they used the Russia hoax, with zero evidence after 2 years, to completely castrate the people's president.
The problem with laws that appear to violate the First Amendment (by infringing on free speech rights) for political purposes is that they will always be vague enough to cover what we know ought not to happen but not apply to things we approve of.
Thank goodness for the judicial branch, otherwise we'd have a problem.
The problem with this accusation of guilt is that Trump is not campaigning for re-election, and is not an announced candidate.
Are you sure?
Trump officially filed his reelection campaign with the FEC on January 20, 2017, the day of his inauguration.
Yes, yes. What about Obama? Why don't you go work on the effort to indict Obama for his crimes? I mean, it's a Republican controlled government that seems to universally hate Obama, should be easy, no?
That'll happen as soon as reality is clear and obvious. We have courts and judges to interpret specific situations. The fact that a bunch of "IANAL" Slashdot posters can't figure it out isn't a problem.
The problem is, we devolve into 3 year old mentality when confronted by our own hypocrisy rather than admitting it, we point to "worse" hypocrisy as an excuse for our own hypocrisy.
It's basically become another Wikipedia. Elitist and extremely hostile to new players. And the joke it, this much valued quality is actually pretty low - most technical questions have really, really bad answers.
Complete misinformation coming from someone that obviously does not use the site. It's 99.99999% non-BS technical discussion. The height of saltiness on SO consists of comments like "show us your code".
But regardless, if I'm giving my personal time to try and assist someone with what is in most cases their job or their class work, I'm not obliged to treat them like a delicate flower. I'm giving them information that's going to save hours or days of development time, for which they are paid for but I am not. If you'd rather not deal with the direct nature of technical discussion figure shit out for yourself.
It is, but the only condition is that if you cancel your service you have to pay off the remaining amount. In other words there are no strings attached.
I don't think I would want to buy a $800 phone with 0% financing
You're right, if all use you your $1000 smart phone for is making phone calls and playing Snake, then you are wasting your money. Comparing a smart phone to a flip phone... they aren't even related.
Packs of trading cards are random and, until bought, you don't know what you're buying. Somewhere a clear line of demarcation needs to be drawn.
No, it doesn't. That's why we have courts, where rational people can decide these things. We look at situations and decide if it's detrimental to society. I haven't heard of anyone crying about the injustice of trading cards. I think we're good there.
A good number of the entities who really have power in your "Western society" are even thought to be obligated to "take as much shit as I can", or be thought of as betraying their shareholders.
Sorry, Netflix has power in Western society? Purveyors of knock-off movies and 2nd rate TV series?
Netflix, etc. is not a requirement for health, or even happiness. You can just not watch it. You can read a book. Netflix can't take my shit. I either give it to them because I think it's a good value, or I don't and keep my money. It's not complicated.
I suppose it would depend on whether you knew it was stolen, you might be liable on something akin to aiding and abetting theft.
As they say, ignorance of the law is not a defense. If you bought an iPhone 10 for $100 from a guy on the street, you'd fail miserably if you attempted to claim you didn't know it was stolen. Same here. If you are getting hundreds of dollars worth of streaming services and content for $20 / month, you can't claim ignorance.
I don't see how their users in question would be liable for piracy.
There have been many, many legal cases showing that downloading pirated content is against the law. Not that Netflix et al. is going to prosecute users of this system, but the OP's suggestion that the fact they purchased the device and are "paying" for the subscription makes it all legally kosher is idiotic.
I wouldn't call it mooching, but I agree they are manipulating the laws to their benefit.
But this is what I don't get. Whether you steal their content, or choose to not purchase their content, it's the same effect to them: they don't get your money. So it seems a little too convenient that so many folks' decide on a "moral" course of action that happens to align with them saving hundreds or thousands of dollars a year on media consumption.
If you really feel strongly that copyright laws are being abused, abstain from consumption of the relevant content. Why put a big question mark over your intentions?
When the copyright law in the USA starts respecting the Constitution, I'll start respecting copyright law. Until then, as far as I'm concerned, content companies are the bad guys and pirates are the good guys.
Interesting how your moral high ground happens to allow you to take all the free shit you want. Convenient!
Nope, you go in and make copies of everything. AC won't even notice unless he catches you in the act or is watching, either way he's in the exact same position as before you and your buddies turned up.
Sigh. It it costs $25m to produce a series season, and no one subscribes because they all pirate the content, what do you think happens? This isn't hard. When you pirate, you mooch. You mooch from everyone that pays for a subscription. You rely on me paying for a subscription to subsidize your downloading.
Stealing their content and distributing it for free, and any other means of damaging them, their profits, and their systems of control until they go bankrupt is the only way things will ever get better.
Translation: I want the content, but I don't want to pay for it. Let me use this "crusader against the tyranny" excuse to justify my actions to friends, family, and to delude myself as well.
Not sure where you hail from, but most Western societies have evolved past the "take as much shit as I can" way of thinking about the world.
Hiring for 20 years. That means you've mostly been hiring gen X, and a few gen Ys (millennials). So that qualifies you to judge them as the most vapid generation ever?
What you're doing is judging your generation (the best) against subsequent generations. Each of which becomes increasingly to associate with and therefore understand. It's a classic psychological phenomenon. Society changes and and younger people get increasingly "different". That gets uncomfortable and it's easier just blame them for being inferior in some way then change ourselves.
Agreed. Perhaps the real problem is that we are talking about (generation x+1), and in the valley they are all entitled, vapid, egoistic, victimistic, not actually all that intelligent, drug-addled and privileged clods with the emotional maturity of something growing in a petri dish. The post actually serves of a fantastic demonstration of what is wrong, just not for the intended reasons. Self-awareness, much?
Fixed. This has been said about the next generation since the dawn of society. Yet somehow things go on and remain about the same.
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Just like how Obama approved Ajit "pile of shit" Pai.
THANKS OBAMA!
As shocking as it is, Trump is actually the cleanest and the most honest of the bunch... This is precisely the reason the media is 97% negative on him, and the DC swamp is universally opposed to almost anything he does. Pretty sad how they used the Russia hoax, with zero evidence after 2 years, to completely castrate the people's president.
I see the Russian trolls are out in force today.
but an actual lawyer says it's basically a joke.
Wait, a lawyer said so? Case closed.
The problem with laws that appear to violate the First Amendment (by infringing on free speech rights) for political purposes is that they will always be vague enough to cover what we know ought not to happen but not apply to things we approve of.
Thank goodness for the judicial branch, otherwise we'd have a problem.
The problem with this accusation of guilt is that Trump is not campaigning for re-election, and is not an announced candidate.
Are you sure?
Trump officially filed his reelection campaign with the FEC on January 20, 2017, the day of his inauguration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This the same loophole that allowed Obama
Yes, yes. What about Obama? Why don't you go work on the effort to indict Obama for his crimes? I mean, it's a Republican controlled government that seems to universally hate Obama, should be easy, no?
Laws ought to be clear and obvious.
That'll happen as soon as reality is clear and obvious. We have courts and judges to interpret specific situations. The fact that a bunch of "IANAL" Slashdot posters can't figure it out isn't a problem.
The problem is, we devolve into 3 year old mentality when confronted by our own hypocrisy rather than admitting it, we point to "worse" hypocrisy as an excuse for our own hypocrisy.
There's a name for that: "what-about-ism".
If there's something systemic that is preventing women from breaking into directing
If indeed.
It's basically become another Wikipedia. Elitist and extremely hostile to new players. And the joke it, this much valued quality is actually pretty low - most technical questions have really, really bad answers.
Complete misinformation coming from someone that obviously does not use the site. It's 99.99999% non-BS technical discussion. The height of saltiness on SO consists of comments like "show us your code".
But regardless, if I'm giving my personal time to try and assist someone with what is in most cases their job or their class work, I'm not obliged to treat them like a delicate flower. I'm giving them information that's going to save hours or days of development time, for which they are paid for but I am not. If you'd rather not deal with the direct nature of technical discussion figure shit out for yourself.
That should be fine as long as it keeps a safe distance.
Or as long as it doesn't plunge 200 feet into a ravine.
0% financing is a subsidy.
It is, but the only condition is that if you cancel your service you have to pay off the remaining amount. In other words there are no strings attached.
I don't think I would want to buy a $800 phone with 0% financing
Why not? It's a 0-interest loan. You can't lose.
The problem is that there are very few good unlocked phones and they are very difficult to research.
This is just false. Most phones are unlocked these days. Carriers have dropped subsidies for new phones. They offer 0% financing but not subsidies.
If you want to research, try a little known site called Amazon.com and search for Android phones. All of them there are unlocked.
That's $9.1K in your pockets
You're right, if all use you your $1000 smart phone for is making phone calls and playing Snake, then you are wasting your money. Comparing a smart phone to a flip phone... they aren't even related.
Packs of trading cards are random and, until bought, you don't know what you're buying. Somewhere a clear line of demarcation needs to be drawn.
No, it doesn't. That's why we have courts, where rational people can decide these things. We look at situations and decide if it's detrimental to society. I haven't heard of anyone crying about the injustice of trading cards. I think we're good there.
The problem is they targeted minors in a manipulative fashion to scam them out of their pocket money
You can get a credit card as a minor? If not, how do they accept cash over the internet?
A good number of the entities who really have power in your "Western society" are even thought to be obligated to "take as much shit as I can", or be thought of as betraying their shareholders.
Sorry, Netflix has power in Western society? Purveyors of knock-off movies and 2nd rate TV series?
Netflix, etc. is not a requirement for health, or even happiness. You can just not watch it. You can read a book. Netflix can't take my shit. I either give it to them because I think it's a good value, or I don't and keep my money. It's not complicated.
I suppose it would depend on whether you knew it was stolen, you might be liable on something akin to aiding and abetting theft.
As they say, ignorance of the law is not a defense. If you bought an iPhone 10 for $100 from a guy on the street, you'd fail miserably if you attempted to claim you didn't know it was stolen. Same here. If you are getting hundreds of dollars worth of streaming services and content for $20 / month, you can't claim ignorance.
I don't see how their users in question would be liable for piracy.
There have been many, many legal cases showing that downloading pirated content is against the law. Not that Netflix et al. is going to prosecute users of this system, but the OP's suggestion that the fact they purchased the device and are "paying" for the subscription makes it all legally kosher is idiotic.
are they also "mooching" off of you?
I wouldn't call it mooching, but I agree they are manipulating the laws to their benefit.
But this is what I don't get. Whether you steal their content, or choose to not purchase their content, it's the same effect to them: they don't get your money. So it seems a little too convenient that so many folks' decide on a "moral" course of action that happens to align with them saving hundreds or thousands of dollars a year on media consumption.
If you really feel strongly that copyright laws are being abused, abstain from consumption of the relevant content. Why put a big question mark over your intentions?
How is Set TV different than DirecTV Now or Youtube TV
Hmmm. Let's see. The former doesn't license any of the content, meaning the folks that produced the content get zero compensation for their efforts?
I mean, that might be it. I'm not sure.
When the copyright law in the USA starts respecting the Constitution, I'll start respecting copyright law. Until then, as far as I'm concerned, content companies are the bad guys and pirates are the good guys.
Interesting how your moral high ground happens to allow you to take all the free shit you want. Convenient!
Also, it's not really "theft" if you purchase a stolen iPhone. Right?
Nope, you go in and make copies of everything. AC won't even notice unless he catches you in the act or is watching, either way he's in the exact same position as before you and your buddies turned up.
Sigh. It it costs $25m to produce a series season, and no one subscribes because they all pirate the content, what do you think happens? This isn't hard. When you pirate, you mooch. You mooch from everyone that pays for a subscription. You rely on me paying for a subscription to subsidize your downloading.
Stealing their content and distributing it for free, and any other means of damaging them, their profits, and their systems of control until they go bankrupt is the only way things will ever get better.
Translation: I want the content, but I don't want to pay for it. Let me use this "crusader against the tyranny" excuse to justify my actions to friends, family, and to delude myself as well.
Not sure where you hail from, but most Western societies have evolved past the "take as much shit as I can" way of thinking about the world.
Hiring for 20 years. That means you've mostly been hiring gen X, and a few gen Ys (millennials). So that qualifies you to judge them as the most vapid generation ever?
What you're doing is judging your generation (the best) against subsequent generations. Each of which becomes increasingly to associate with and therefore understand. It's a classic psychological phenomenon. Society changes and and younger people get increasingly "different". That gets uncomfortable and it's easier just blame them for being inferior in some way then change ourselves.
Not really that hard.
You're right, being narrow minded is rather simple.
The hard thing is not bucketing your fellow man and labeling them with things like "redneck", "SJW", etc.
Agreed. Perhaps the real problem is that we are talking about (generation x+1), and in the valley they are all entitled, vapid, egoistic, victimistic, not actually all that intelligent, drug-addled and privileged clods with the emotional maturity of something growing in a petri dish. The post actually serves of a fantastic demonstration of what is wrong, just not for the intended reasons. Self-awareness, much?
Fixed. This has been said about the next generation since the dawn of society. Yet somehow things go on and remain about the same.