This is the inevitable result of the 'panopticon' model of legal harmony. A car does not positively identify a person, nor does a license plate or a blurry photo.
The authorities can cast a wider net by being lazy, but this is the real reason we shouldn't tolerate it: it's almost laughably exploitable.
It's pretty easy. Most of the 'bottom tier' of Scientology is really just self-help books. A vast majority of what they teach to beginners is just about calming the mind and mastering your emotions. The crazy stuff doesn't come until later.
It is going to boil down to technicalities about whether Scientology practice (or "tech") is actually a religious experience, or just a workplace management strategy. Scientology has gotten very good at dancing across that line when it suits them.
When it's time to hand out tax exemptions, they're an association of faith. When they're incorporating Dianetics into secular practices, it's just a communications, planning, and skill development regiment.
Um, no one is using "piracy" to refer to the activities you're talking about, neither legally or colloquially. At least represent your opponents honestly.
Have you honestly never heard of "piracy" to refer to "reproducing and redistributing a piece of software protected by copyright"? Not even in the 80s?
That is true, but the transit fees carriers pay to each other for this kind of traffic are often smaller than the amount billed to the end-users by an order of magnitude or more.
Would people please stop posting this on its own, for no apparent reason? Why would anyone need to give a citation for an anecdote about their own car?
Credit card companies do things like monitoring your usage habits, and calling you when you deviate wildly from them in order to make sure everything is legit and froody.
This is a useful and profitable thing for them to be doing, since when things turn out not to be legit and froody, the credco is sometimes on the hook themselves for a lot of money.
It is not as useful or profitable for a telco to do the same, because they charge money for a "service" that it costs them next to nothing to render. If the customer accidentally runs up a huge bill, then the dilemma is different: if they don't get to collect on that bill, they haven't lost out on anything but a bit of network traffic.
You probably installed Linux on your laptops yourself though, right? And it was distributions that hadn't been designed with your hardware in mind specifically, right?
If you buy a netbook and the OEM Linux distro, customized by the manufacturer, doesn't run the hardware properly, please let us know.
As long as the software you want is in the package manager you're probably OK, but keep in mind that for normal people, they're already in the tangled undergrowth by the time they've gotten to "dependencies".
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This is the inevitable result of the 'panopticon' model of legal harmony. A car does not positively identify a person, nor does a license plate or a blurry photo.
The authorities can cast a wider net by being lazy, but this is the real reason we shouldn't tolerate it: it's almost laughably exploitable.
Gimme gimme gimme!
I need some more!
Gimme gimme gimme!
Don't ask what for!
It's pretty easy. Most of the 'bottom tier' of Scientology is really just self-help books. A vast majority of what they teach to beginners is just about calming the mind and mastering your emotions. The crazy stuff doesn't come until later.
It is going to boil down to technicalities about whether Scientology practice (or "tech") is actually a religious experience, or just a workplace management strategy. Scientology has gotten very good at dancing across that line when it suits them.
When it's time to hand out tax exemptions, they're an association of faith. When they're incorporating Dianetics into secular practices, it's just a communications, planning, and skill development regiment.
Um, no one is using "piracy" to refer to the activities you're talking about, neither legally or colloquially. At least represent your opponents honestly.
Have you honestly never heard of "piracy" to refer to "reproducing and redistributing a piece of software protected by copyright"? Not even in the 80s?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/8e6c/images/2070/
You have single-handedly rescued this thread from the clutches of fail.
That is true, but the transit fees carriers pay to each other for this kind of traffic are often smaller than the amount billed to the end-users by an order of magnitude or more.
Would people please stop posting this on its own, for no apparent reason? Why would anyone need to give a citation for an anecdote about their own car?
Credit card companies do things like monitoring your usage habits, and calling you when you deviate wildly from them in order to make sure everything is legit and froody.
This is a useful and profitable thing for them to be doing, since when things turn out not to be legit and froody, the credco is sometimes on the hook themselves for a lot of money.
It is not as useful or profitable for a telco to do the same, because they charge money for a "service" that it costs them next to nothing to render. If the customer accidentally runs up a huge bill, then the dilemma is different: if they don't get to collect on that bill, they haven't lost out on anything but a bit of network traffic.
Hey guys, did you know that sometimes innocuous stuff can be rephrased in a way that suggests you're talking about sex?
This is a European television network. Chinese doesn't make sense, but English does since most Europeans are already using it online.
How the haemorrhaging fuck is this marked -1 Troll?
Karma Overflow.
I also don't think Sony pays retail prices for Sony hardware. ;)
You insensitive clod!
You'd probably be pretty confident that you'd found the right people hey?
Well, I'd be confident that I'd found someone claiming to be the right people.
it's http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Copypasta
Thank you for zeroing in on this incredibly important sentence.
In the digital age, "reading", "thinking about" and "discussing" are effectively acts of copying.
Isn't that precisely why Blizzard and Microsoft products go the extra mile and make you click 'agree' to a EULA before they'll run?
I don't know if that counts as a "boycott."
Otherwise, I have decided to boycott all PS3 games, at least until I can afford to buy a PS3 console.
Latency, maybe.
You probably installed Linux on your laptops yourself though, right? And it was distributions that hadn't been designed with your hardware in mind specifically, right?
If you buy a netbook and the OEM Linux distro, customized by the manufacturer, doesn't run the hardware properly, please let us know.
True, but it's not like he's wrong.
As long as the software you want is in the package manager you're probably OK, but keep in mind that for normal people, they're already in the tangled undergrowth by the time they've gotten to "dependencies".
Can Word and Oo.org embed LaTeX type inline?
Citation for what? Did you just drop this meme into the highest spot on the thread you could find?
Fuck. xkcd is turning this place into a more tech-savvy 4chan.