Spot on. We're seeing this in Sweden as well. It's too bad that only Sveriges Demokraterna (the Sweden Democrats, right-wingers) seem willing to talk about it. Most of the other parties are in complete denial about the time bomb they've got ticking away here, which is why the SD scored well enough in the last elections to turn things upside down in the Riksdag.
It's not so bad here in Stockholm, but many smaller cities have enclaves that are turning into ghettoes.
See the photo in this story? That's in Eskilstuna, a factory town about 100 km west of here. The mosque is on the ground floor of this building.
I spent a good part of October and November staying in a flat in this building, immediately above the mosque. Several big-city blocks of flats filled about 90% with East Asians and Pakistanis, out in the middle of Nordic small-town Nowhere. It's bizodd.
I find it most interesting (and perhaps telling) that we never heard about how awful the taxi industry is, until Uber came along and started saying it is.
Yes, they're rigged in favour of businesses which meet certain requirements in order to be permitted to operate.
Uber's business model is based upon ignoring these requirements.
To be fair, either Uber needs to meet the same requirements as traditional taxi companies, or the conditions need to be lifted for all firms wishing to offer cars and drivers for hire.
MTP is nonetheless a standard and my file manager of choice has no problems with it. I can easily copy media and other files back and forth between various mobile devices, PC, and network drives from my desktop.
It's true that there were issues with MTP support in Linux at one time, but my distro's handled it without any problems for a couple of years now.
There are certainly limitations in the protocol (no parallelism, no true remote edit), and I would not want to see it take over USB mass storage wholesale, but it does work atomically at the file level, and it's oblivious to the native file system on the device. IMO it works relatively well for the purpose for which it appears to be intended.
All of my devices have microSD slots and have file systems that are accessible from my PC's file manager via USB. I won't buy one that doesn't meet these requirements.
By sheer coincidence, none of my mobile devices are sold by Apple.
The topic is about unethical copyright extension, not abolishing copyright entirely.
DG has IMNSHO an odd emotional attachment to copyright. He's already made it clear that he thinks it should last lifetimes (IOW pretty much forever) and you should be able to leave it to your kids, and that permitting anything less than this effective perpetuity is stealing from the creator. He appears to see copyright as some sort of natural and thus perpetual right, rather than for what it actually is--a temporary loan from the commons.
It sounds perfectly fair to me, and I've been making at least part of my living as a writer since 1990 or so.
I'm sure it sounds plenty unfair to someone who thinks they should be compensated indefinitely for a single piece of work. To a reasonable person, though, it might sound a bit different.
I invite you to come live in Sweden for 7 or 8 years and see how you like abiding by their cultural norms.
I'm pretty sure you'll love paying 50% of your income in taxes, having to register your address with government every time you move, not being allowed to own any guns, and being hauled off to gaol for spanking your kid.
And since I don't get any inside advantage from having a Swedish partner, you're not allowed to have one, either.
Get back to us in 2022 or so and let us know how that's been working out for you.
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333? That would be this guy.
Please don't tell us how you pronounce "thought". Thanks.
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The conditions of which Shakrai speaks exist, and not only in France.
Ignoring them will not make them go away. Looking for imagined/potential offence in attempts to discuss them is also not a productive undertaking.
The corresponding noun is "cowardice" or "cowardliness". Varsågod.
So you're saying we should give Palestine back to the Romans?
When you dismiss out of hand any and every newsworthy event as a "false flag operation", that doesn't make you or the Internet any freer, friend.
FSFS it's to HAVE been. What have they started teaching in lieu of English in US schools?
Spot on. We're seeing this in Sweden as well. It's too bad that only Sveriges Demokraterna (the Sweden Democrats, right-wingers) seem willing to talk about it. Most of the other parties are in complete denial about the time bomb they've got ticking away here, which is why the SD scored well enough in the last elections to turn things upside down in the Riksdag.
It's not so bad here in Stockholm, but many smaller cities have enclaves that are turning into ghettoes.
See the photo in this story? That's in Eskilstuna, a factory town about 100 km west of here. The mosque is on the ground floor of this building.
I spent a good part of October and November staying in a flat in this building, immediately above the mosque. Several big-city blocks of flats filled about 90% with East Asians and Pakistanis, out in the middle of Nordic small-town Nowhere. It's bizodd.
Fucking-A. This.
Good luck with that when it's rained recently.
I find it most interesting (and perhaps telling) that we never heard about how awful the taxi industry is, until Uber came along and started saying it is.
The shoes of the lazy fatass smell like gasoline. Mine don't.
Yes, they're rigged in favour of businesses which meet certain requirements in order to be permitted to operate.
Uber's business model is based upon ignoring these requirements.
To be fair, either Uber needs to meet the same requirements as traditional taxi companies, or the conditions need to be lifted for all firms wishing to offer cars and drivers for hire.
Which is it going to be?
MTP is nonetheless a standard and my file manager of choice has no problems with it. I can easily copy media and other files back and forth between various mobile devices, PC, and network drives from my desktop.
It's true that there were issues with MTP support in Linux at one time, but my distro's handled it without any problems for a couple of years now.
There are certainly limitations in the protocol (no parallelism, no true remote edit), and I would not want to see it take over USB mass storage wholesale, but it does work atomically at the file level, and it's oblivious to the native file system on the device. IMO it works relatively well for the purpose for which it appears to be intended.
BTW, I don't own a single Nokia device.
File managers represent a fairly common paradigm. I don't mysteriously forget what one is just because the device looks a bit different.
<rhetorical_question>You've never actually used VLC on an Android device with an SD card, have you?</rhetorical_question>
All of my devices have microSD slots and have file systems that are accessible from my PC's file manager via USB. I won't buy one that doesn't meet these requirements.
By sheer coincidence, none of my mobile devices are sold by Apple.
"Fair use" has a definition of which you are apparently unaware. Fair use is about content.
And MrKevvy just took your assertion to its logical conclusion. You don't get off by saying, "But everybody knows..."
"What everybody knows" is not under discussion. Your assertion is.
The topic is about unethical copyright extension, not abolishing copyright entirely.
DG has IMNSHO an odd emotional attachment to copyright. He's already made it clear that he thinks it should last lifetimes (IOW pretty much forever) and you should be able to leave it to your kids, and that permitting anything less than this effective perpetuity is stealing from the creator. He appears to see copyright as some sort of natural and thus perpetual right, rather than for what it actually is--a temporary loan from the commons.
Keep everything the same, but as soon as non-text media ends up being 28 (or fine, 30) years old, just release it!
It is released already. You can pick up the DVD cheaply from Amazon. I don't see why it would be terribly important for that material to be PD.
You don't see why it is terribly important to have the freedom not merely to view but to reuse that material after some reasonable span?
I'm expecting a movement to remove works from PD, and place them back under copyright protections.
I hate to be the bearer of ill tidings, but you might be interested in knowing that it's already happened.
It sounds perfectly fair to me, and I've been making at least part of my living as a writer since 1990 or so.
I'm sure it sounds plenty unfair to someone who thinks they should be compensated indefinitely for a single piece of work. To a reasonable person, though, it might sound a bit different.
Suggested viewing.
I invite you to come live in Sweden for 7 or 8 years and see how you like abiding by their cultural norms.
I'm pretty sure you'll love paying 50% of your income in taxes, having to register your address with government every time you move, not being allowed to own any guns, and being hauled off to gaol for spanking your kid.
And since I don't get any inside advantage from having a Swedish partner, you're not allowed to have one, either.
Get back to us in 2022 or so and let us know how that's been working out for you.
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