If anything makes "piracy" wrong it's the disdainful attitude pirates have for the law.
Well, let's see. This rich merchant from this rich neighboring country is carrying a boatload of cargo to my impoverished country to sell for a boatload of profit. I can choose to either:
a - Steal his cargo so that I can feed my self and my family
- or -
b - Starve to death
Ya, those pirates. They're so totally full of disdain. That's their motivating factor here. Disdain. Those jerks.
Of course, this is just a continuation of the comparison I mentioned earlier. I feel that it still economically translates to the less egregious type of theft that sates the less dire needs in modern piracy. It's important to note that "piracy" doesn't always just mean cheap American scumbags downloading Avatar.
So living in an economically impoverished nation in Eastern Europe or being part of the immense working class poor in China makes it morally reprehensible for you not to shell out more than $100 (which might be more than you make in a month or two) for software license to people who throw away your weeks worth of wages on a cup of coffee? Historically, this is the political origin of piracy. I'm not talking "information was meant to be free" crap here.
But, ya, I totally agree that it's completely unforgivable to be born into a situation where there is no possible way you and everyone you know will ever be able to afford the kinds of things people take for granted elsewhere.
Ya. Pirates, they aren't rich. You may think that piracy is a choice, but for most of the people in the world, if there's a choice it's a choice between piracy and nothing. You go ahead and demonstrate the moral fortitude to not substantially better your life at the cost of stealing literally nothing. We'll see how long that lasts.
Maybe you should seriously consider leaving afghanistan and iraq, then rejuvenate your lousy economy, ain't it?
Do you have to actively work to create sentences like this? Is there some kind of system of analysis and theory behind poor sentence construction that you employ? I can't imagine anyone would actually be able to write like that without concerted effort and thought put into it, and yet you trolls do it every day. Perhaps it is an under-appreciated art.
What bothers me more is that they're effectively saying that "10% of this really large group might want to join this really small group, which means they're losing at most 10% of the really small group."
I'm sorry, but are you familiar with the old robot saying: "DOES NOT COMPUTE?"
I believe his point was if 10% of the pirates had been potential customers, that would have more than doubled his actual customers. Thus, 10% can be misleading.
Well, ninjas are peasant folk who have taken up arms against oppressive socioeconomic conditions, and pirates are (largely comprised of) peasant folk who have taken up arms against oppressive socioeconomic conditions, so...
Ya, that always bothers me. It seems the vast majority of "pirates" are typically kids who can't afford to buy these games. I know I pirated everything left and right when I was younger, cause I didn't have any money. Now that I can afford it, I drop $60 for another crappy PS3 game every couple weeks.
An English professor I once had did her dissertation on piracy (the kind with boats) and what drives the common person to become a pirate. It was almost always economic factors, typically due to political issues. I don't think much has changed here.
There are always people who want things to remain as they always were, so they don't have to ever change or adapt to new things. But time moves on regardless.
When things change, they don't always get better. For things to get better, they always have to change.
It is plugin. As such, you have to know it exists in order to get it.
I even know it exists, what it's called, where it's website is, and I still have no idea how to download or install it. I've been using Arch Linux for several years, I can build packages, I can do./configure or./autogen.sh installs, I'm not retarded. I admit I haven't done much looking into it, but I have no idea how the plugin system works on Gimp, and it certainly isn't intuitive. I would say the barrier to entry for this functionality is even higher than you suggest.
You know, it's funny that you say that, because all a homeless person really needs to do is heartlessly slaughter and rape a few innocent people and they've got food and shelter for the rest of their lives. I guess no homeless people are short-term, minimalist thinkers either.
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If anything makes "piracy" wrong it's the disdainful attitude pirates have for the law.
Well, let's see. This rich merchant from this rich neighboring country is carrying a boatload of cargo to my impoverished country to sell for a boatload of profit. I can choose to either:
a - Steal his cargo so that I can feed my self and my family
- or -
b - Starve to death
Ya, those pirates. They're so totally full of disdain. That's their motivating factor here. Disdain. Those jerks.
Of course, this is just a continuation of the comparison I mentioned earlier. I feel that it still economically translates to the less egregious type of theft that sates the less dire needs in modern piracy. It's important to note that "piracy" doesn't always just mean cheap American scumbags downloading Avatar.
So living in an economically impoverished nation in Eastern Europe or being part of the immense working class poor in China makes it morally reprehensible for you not to shell out more than $100 (which might be more than you make in a month or two) for software license to people who throw away your weeks worth of wages on a cup of coffee? Historically, this is the political origin of piracy. I'm not talking "information was meant to be free" crap here.
But, ya, I totally agree that it's completely unforgivable to be born into a situation where there is no possible way you and everyone you know will ever be able to afford the kinds of things people take for granted elsewhere.
Ya. Pirates, they aren't rich. You may think that piracy is a choice, but for most of the people in the world, if there's a choice it's a choice between piracy and nothing. You go ahead and demonstrate the moral fortitude to not substantially better your life at the cost of stealing literally nothing. We'll see how long that lasts.
Heh. Seen my sig, eh?
Belgium.
Maybe you should seriously consider leaving afghanistan and iraq, then rejuvenate your lousy economy, ain't it?
Do you have to actively work to create sentences like this? Is there some kind of system of analysis and theory behind poor sentence construction that you employ? I can't imagine anyone would actually be able to write like that without concerted effort and thought put into it, and yet you trolls do it every day. Perhaps it is an under-appreciated art.
What bothers me more is that they're effectively saying that "10% of this really large group might want to join this really small group, which means they're losing at most 10% of the really small group."
I'm sorry, but are you familiar with the old robot saying: "DOES NOT COMPUTE?"
I believe his point was if 10% of the pirates had been potential customers, that would have more than doubled his actual customers. Thus, 10% can be misleading.
Well, ninjas are peasant folk who have taken up arms against oppressive socioeconomic conditions, and pirates are (largely comprised of) peasant folk who have taken up arms against oppressive socioeconomic conditions, so...
All the pirates are ninjas?
Lost sales CANNOT be measured PERIOD.
What if you measured them before you lost them? Duh.
Ya, that always bothers me. It seems the vast majority of "pirates" are typically kids who can't afford to buy these games. I know I pirated everything left and right when I was younger, cause I didn't have any money. Now that I can afford it, I drop $60 for another crappy PS3 game every couple weeks.
An English professor I once had did her dissertation on piracy (the kind with boats) and what drives the common person to become a pirate. It was almost always economic factors, typically due to political issues. I don't think much has changed here.
Obviously those countries have bad IP laws.
There are always people who want things to remain as they always were, so they don't have to ever change or adapt to new things. But time moves on regardless.
When things change, they don't always get better. For things to get better, they always have to change.
You seem to have missed the $10,000 a day fine they wanted to levy against the beavers.
Such a prospect assumes that there exists Canadian IP that is worth protecting.
I think Celine Dion, William Shatner, Bryan Adams, and Nickelback would beg to differ!
They must have a fairly low opinion of themselves, eh?
You're just useless, aren't you?
And that would be why no one on Slashdot RTFAs.
It is plugin. As such, you have to know it exists in order to get it.
I even know it exists, what it's called, where it's website is, and I still have no idea how to download or install it. I've been using Arch Linux for several years, I can build packages, I can do ./configure or ./autogen.sh installs, I'm not retarded. I admit I haven't done much looking into it, but I have no idea how the plugin system works on Gimp, and it certainly isn't intuitive. I would say the barrier to entry for this functionality is even higher than you suggest.
No, not plumbing:
from the series-of-tubes dept.
Clearly, the aliens gave them both the internet! If only Senator Stevens had been an Egyptologist, we would have known sooner...
No (-) Troll, (+) Funny!
You know, it's funny that you say that, because all a homeless person really needs to do is heartlessly slaughter and rape a few innocent people and they've got food and shelter for the rest of their lives. I guess no homeless people are short-term, minimalist thinkers either.
Mmm... this copypasta is delicious. Would you like some?
Yes they can.
In fact, by lifeforms on the surface of the ocean, where the oil likes to hang around.
Like Corn/Maize... which can't propagate without human intervention.
I've always felt that artificial selection should be considered genetic engineering. I don't know why it isn't.
4 Terabits = 512 Gigabytes.
Somewhat misleading? Yes. Inherently false? No.