That is true - just as they would take a dim view of you carrying a sword in public. The point I was making though was that it's relatively easy to purchase one ($600 at Fishing Camping & Outdoor), whereas a gun would be significantly harder.
Nothing has value unless there is a general consensus about it being valuable.Dollars are only pieces of paper that are no longer even backed by gold and that are valuable simply because everybody agrees they are valuable. If that consensus changes dollars become worthless.
Wrong. Dollars have value because the government, charged with the creation and enforcement of laws, says they do. If the consensus changes, it doesn't matter, they're still worth what the government says they are worth. That's what makes a dollar stable, as opposed to say a Bitcoin, which is worth whatever a consensus of people say it's worth (down to and including zero).
Not really, it's just as relevant. XP is 12 years old, hasn't been on sale for about 5 years, and is no longer supported. There are multiple upgrade paths including Windows 7, Windows 8, OS X (well, if you buy a Mac) and even Linux. If the Linux Kernel team isn't expected to continue patching the 2.4 kernel, why should Microsoft be expected to keep patching XP?
I believe that's how it plays out. Hulu takes measures to block me, I circumvent those measures and lie to them. It's legal where I am, and Hulu can claim plausible deniability to which I suspect no judge would argue.
The number of countries that had to change their own laws to permit their banks to previously-illegally hand over data to the IRS under that law is staggering. All because the US government included an enforcement clause allowing them to seize ("tax") essentially 30% of any foreign bank's US holdings if they withheld any data from the IRS.
And to think, this was all in aid of making sure US citizens with no remaining link to the US barring a passport continue to pay US taxes to a government that doesn't represent them any more. Oh, and don't bother trying to renounce your citizenship. They can just ignore you.
I'm surprised any business risks having US presence with such a hostile government.
I'll agree with that. Even in countries with socialised healthcare, this is a major problem. Where I am, the hospital's network engineers might get $80k (if they're lucky) and require so many qualifications that noone bothers applying for the job, and still have to pay for their own parking (while senior doctors get $120k, free parking, free lunch, and anything else they ask for).
Irrelevant. The point relates to the question "why bother with the hassle when you can get the same thing elsewhere, free, with no hassle?" which raises the question as to why you would go to all the effort to circumvent the restrictions on Hulu, et al, when you could just pirate it.
No, it's not hard to understand. It's patently incorrect, but that's beside the point.
(Side note: it's not illegal either. It's a violation of the Terms of Service; but where I am, circumvention of technical prevention measures designed solely to enforce territorial restrictions is explicitly legal. So I'm not breaking local law, and Hulu isn't breaking US law by delivering me the content I'm paying for in good faith).
Probably not the case - I suspect that Hulu Plus is actually where more of the customers use a VPN. Foreigners with no local equivalent, using prepaid credit cards, are probably one of Hulu's major customer groups.
How is it stealing at all? I pay for Hulu Plus, watch the commercials, and when I see something that I think is worth getting, I'll even circumvent yet more unnecessary regional restrictions in order to buy it. The only ads that are literally worthless to me are the ones for cars, Comcast, and not texting and driving in Nevada (actually, that's still relevant- it's illegal here too).
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Because outside the US, there is no licensee doing business. Every time I see someone from the US bitching about how awful Netflix and Hulu are, I want to tear my hair out because we (and most of the rest of the world) have nothing even remotely as good.
I don't believe Occupy Wall Street actually did obstruct access to a building (apart from maybe some bad actors).
And DDoS is by no means equivalent to "obstructing access to a building". The scattergun methods by which it works have flow on effects to all the infrastructure leading up to and including the target (any routes in between, any hosts co-located in the same facility) and have costs far in excess of the "lost business" (seen the bandwidth cost of a DDoS? Let's just say expect a $20k invoice from the service provider).
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That is true - just as they would take a dim view of you carrying a sword in public. The point I was making though was that it's relatively easy to purchase one ($600 at Fishing Camping & Outdoor), whereas a gun would be significantly harder.
Which would inevitably fail. So, irrelevant.
It's the same in New Zealand. For some reason though, a crossbow is A-OK (and requires no permit).
Hah, absolutely. This is the internet after all.
That Bitcoin is not a sane place to put your money.
Uh, no, I can guarantee that zero people don't like Bitcoin because they are "afraid of it replacing currency". Because that won't happen.
People don't like Bitcoin because:
Nothing has value unless there is a general consensus about it being valuable.Dollars are only pieces of paper that are no longer even backed by gold and that are valuable simply because everybody agrees they are valuable. If that consensus changes dollars become worthless.
Wrong. Dollars have value because the government, charged with the creation and enforcement of laws, says they do. If the consensus changes, it doesn't matter, they're still worth what the government says they are worth. That's what makes a dollar stable, as opposed to say a Bitcoin, which is worth whatever a consensus of people say it's worth (down to and including zero).
No, just you.
Not really, it's just as relevant. XP is 12 years old, hasn't been on sale for about 5 years, and is no longer supported. There are multiple upgrade paths including Windows 7, Windows 8, OS X (well, if you buy a Mac) and even Linux. If the Linux Kernel team isn't expected to continue patching the 2.4 kernel, why should Microsoft be expected to keep patching XP?
I believe that's how it plays out. Hulu takes measures to block me, I circumvent those measures and lie to them. It's legal where I am, and Hulu can claim plausible deniability to which I suspect no judge would argue.
The number of countries that had to change their own laws to permit their banks to previously-illegally hand over data to the IRS under that law is staggering. All because the US government included an enforcement clause allowing them to seize ("tax") essentially 30% of any foreign bank's US holdings if they withheld any data from the IRS.
And to think, this was all in aid of making sure US citizens with no remaining link to the US barring a passport continue to pay US taxes to a government that doesn't represent them any more. Oh, and don't bother trying to renounce your citizenship. They can just ignore you.
I'm surprised any business risks having US presence with such a hostile government.
Crimes against humanity can always be prosecuted. By the ICC if necessary.
I'll agree with that. Even in countries with socialised healthcare, this is a major problem. Where I am, the hospital's network engineers might get $80k (if they're lucky) and require so many qualifications that noone bothers applying for the job, and still have to pay for their own parking (while senior doctors get $120k, free parking, free lunch, and anything else they ask for).
Because if you really want things to change, you should make sure you have the moral high ground first.
You're proving my point. Well done.
Windows Phone is not second tier. Anyone I know that owns one (and I know quite a few) actually prefer it.
It was a score 0 comment. Those have a tendency to disappear when viewing :/
And your implication yet remains incorrect. What's your point?
Irrelevant. The point relates to the question "why bother with the hassle when you can get the same thing elsewhere, free, with no hassle?" which raises the question as to why you would go to all the effort to circumvent the restrictions on Hulu, et al, when you could just pirate it.
No, it's not hard to understand. It's patently incorrect, but that's beside the point.
(Side note: it's not illegal either. It's a violation of the Terms of Service; but where I am, circumvention of technical prevention measures designed solely to enforce territorial restrictions is explicitly legal. So I'm not breaking local law, and Hulu isn't breaking US law by delivering me the content I'm paying for in good faith).
Probably not the case - I suspect that Hulu Plus is actually where more of the customers use a VPN. Foreigners with no local equivalent, using prepaid credit cards, are probably one of Hulu's major customer groups.
Because they care about following the law, and have moral fiber?
How is it stealing at all? I pay for Hulu Plus, watch the commercials, and when I see something that I think is worth getting, I'll even circumvent yet more unnecessary regional restrictions in order to buy it. The only ads that are literally worthless to me are the ones for cars, Comcast, and not texting and driving in Nevada (actually, that's still relevant- it's illegal here too).
Hulu's ads are delivered as part of the video stream.
Because outside the US, there is no licensee doing business. Every time I see someone from the US bitching about how awful Netflix and Hulu are, I want to tear my hair out because we (and most of the rest of the world) have nothing even remotely as good.
I don't believe Occupy Wall Street actually did obstruct access to a building (apart from maybe some bad actors).
And DDoS is by no means equivalent to "obstructing access to a building". The scattergun methods by which it works have flow on effects to all the infrastructure leading up to and including the target (any routes in between, any hosts co-located in the same facility) and have costs far in excess of the "lost business" (seen the bandwidth cost of a DDoS? Let's just say expect a $20k invoice from the service provider).