Quit thinking about business models, and start thinking about models for society and for culture. A world full of piracy may be a shitty place to try and make money as a publisher, but it's a marvelous place to grow up as a child with a love of music or film or literature. No one has ever said that publishing has to be a profitable business in order for a market or a society to thrive, except for publishers.
"Facilitating" is absurdly broad language for this kind of a law. It deserves to be struck down, or else every ISP needs to be shut down for their role as facilitators too.
If free speech isn't cover, then neither is 'common carrier' law.
OKAY EVERYONE, we just all need to stand in a big circle and each blame the person to your immediate right.
Cops, please follow the chain of blame until you reach the end and find your culprit.
It's the guy who posted the file! No, it's the guy providing hosting for the guy who posted the file! No, it's the blogger who posted the link to the file! No, it's the guy who reblogged the link! No, it's the guy who aggregates blog links! No, it's the guy who wrote a Google custom search which spiders links from those link aggregators! No, it's the guy who figured out that math can be used to obfuscate the "original source" of a data leak! No, it's the guy who came up with a distributed data storage model based on it! No, it's the guy who figured out that the Streisand Effect applies to every piece of published data! No, it's Barbra Streisand herself!
...And there's your culprit. Please go arrest Barbra and sue her for the RIAA's lost wages and in the meanwhile we'll just keep on copying like we always have.
The billion-dollar institutions can easily get their VPN's whitelisted while the rest of us suffer. Don't think for a minute that Citibank's fate is tied to yours.
You're an awfully long way from a "swear jar", whiner. Oh, help me Superman! My life is being put through the wringer because I have to observe a minor change in the social dynamics of my wooooorkplaaaaaaaaaaaace!
Since I don't know a damn thing about San Francisco public transit I won't argue any of that stuff, but I will point out that that's all irrelevant because the GP comment specifically said:
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Quit thinking about business models, and start thinking about models for society and for culture. A world full of piracy may be a shitty place to try and make money as a publisher, but it's a marvelous place to grow up as a child with a love of music or film or literature. No one has ever said that publishing has to be a profitable business in order for a market or a society to thrive, except for publishers.
"Facilitating" is absurdly broad language for this kind of a law. It deserves to be struck down, or else every ISP needs to be shut down for their role as facilitators too.
If free speech isn't cover, then neither is 'common carrier' law.
OKAY EVERYONE, we just all need to stand in a big circle and each blame the person to your immediate right.
Cops, please follow the chain of blame until you reach the end and find your culprit.
It's the guy who posted the file! No, it's the guy providing hosting for the guy who posted the file! No, it's the blogger who posted the link to the file! No, it's the guy who reblogged the link! No, it's the guy who aggregates blog links! No, it's the guy who wrote a Google custom search which spiders links from those link aggregators! No, it's the guy who figured out that math can be used to obfuscate the "original source" of a data leak! No, it's the guy who came up with a distributed data storage model based on it! No, it's the guy who figured out that the Streisand Effect applies to every piece of published data! No, it's Barbra Streisand herself!
try Ctrl-Plus and see if that makes the kerning any better?
The billion-dollar institutions can easily get their VPN's whitelisted while the rest of us suffer. Don't think for a minute that Citibank's fate is tied to yours.
Whoa, changing your sig works retroactively on posts you've already made!? I had no idea!
As you were, Immerman, as you were. ;)
https://www.google.com/search?q=do+a+barrel+roll
No one even suggested a 25% probability except you, buddy. Go outside, take a few deep breaths. It helps, I promise.
So, like, on what grounds do you assert that someone identifying himself as a man isn't a man, other than your own wish for it to be so?
You're so right, English farce comedy from the '70s is definitely authoritative on this topic.
Go on, quote a bible verse next.
http://jcem.endojournals.org/content/85/5/2034.full - Do you have any brain anatomy which is more characteristic of an aardvark than of a human?
Actually, from your demonstrated logic skills, it sounds as though you just might. Cerebus it is, my otherkin friend.
There is absolutely no rule against a physically female athlete participating in a women's race if he phychologically identifies himself as male.
ftfy: perhaps olympic races are sexed, but English pronouns are gendered. :)
Well now, here's an interesting philosophical Slashdot question.
Is a post on- or off-topic by virtue of its relevance to the OP, or strictly of its relevance to its parent post?
it's more likely than you think.
"I don't need to examine the evidence to know: there is no problem, because I happen to know that if there were a problem it would solve itself."
what I get from that is "When speaking, I am militantly unaware of my audience at all times."
That depends on where AC was going with "no one's *life* should be fucked over because of words"
It's surely a wonderful sentiment but I rather suspect AC does not apply it all that consistently.
I wonder if they're polite to everyone, or only to the people who find them polite.
This is crystal-clear accounting.
and yet countless gay people's lives *are*, in part because they're expected to just smile and deal with it
You're an awfully long way from a "swear jar", whiner.
Oh, help me Superman! My life is being put through the wringer because I have to observe a minor change in the social dynamics of my wooooorkplaaaaaaaaaaaace!
Emacs is an excellent operating system - all it's missing is a decent text editor. ...Saaay, has anyone implemented a version of vi that runs in Emacs?
I'm not sure people who are in the market for homeownership really need to worry about commute costs in the first place.
Since I don't know a damn thing about San Francisco public transit I won't argue any of that stuff, but I will point out that that's all irrelevant because the GP comment specifically said:
walk to work
Netscape Composer 4 lyfe.
WTF are you talking about, exactly? Cars are a pretty immense financial outlay.