My thoughts really don't go out to his family - there are millions of deaths every day, and I'd be paralyzed with grief if I allowed myself to feel empathy for all of them and their families. The only human/deity capable of doing that is quite possibly a mythical one.
That aside, do you really fail to see humor in this? Or just choosing the moral high ground by implying that you're above it?
Sometimes, unfortunate shit is funny. Often because of the nature of its unfortunate-ness. Unfortunately.
The "law" has always been just another way for those who write the law to control those who are required to follow it.
"Law" is simply disembodied violence, physical force transferred to the domain of the mind.
Intriguing rhetoric, but what alternative do you propose to Law? (And I'd call it more "passive aggressiveness" than "disembodied violence", but perhaps that's just a different face of the same coin. )
Indeed. The idea of going to a web site to perform a search just seems like an extra step now. Even the search toolbar is kind of silly - at least since firefox(and I assume others) have gotten smart enough to figure out when you want to search vs when you want to go to a URL.
I actually didn't think the Aiplex site was correct at first, just because of how awful it is. Maybe they got into the "anti-piracy" business because they failed so amazingly hard at website design.
Let's skip the web site design and just look at the content -- is this for real?
Aiplex has a blend of technology savvy & process driven dedicated team bringing about a paradigm shift in rendering customized solutions to its clients. We have steadily grown in reach and service offerings with a favorable cost-benefit ratio & keeping pace with the emerging business needs of our customers.
First - you're using "&" in the description of your business? Second, those sentences don't actually make sense...
Now let's look at the <title> element of the web page:
Medical transcription , Search engine optimization , AiPlex Software Pvt. Ltd. , MT & seo , Seo & mt , transcription services , medical transcription , medical transcription
services , medical transcription work , medical transcription job , medical transcription company , medical transcription
medical transcription karnataka , medical transcription india , medical transcription news , medical transcription offers ,
medical transcription company in bangalore , medical transcription company in india , medical , information , medical records
, medical dictation , medical transcription night shift work , mt night shift job , mt work , mt jobs , mt careers , mt
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guarantees 98.5 % accuracy , aiplex quality management system ensures customer expectations , toll free dictation , disaster
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robust infrastructure for data back, data security & confidentiality , 12hrs turn around time ( TAT) , mt resume online ,
direct submission previlage at higher rates for HTs , enhanced benefits for enhanced targets , medical transcriptionist ,
proof reader , Quality analyst , Best MT company in bangalore.
Alas, though they boast "SEO" in their title among other things... a search for "medical transcription" on google doesn't turn them up (at least in the first page). The
I'm not usually a fan of this kind of "justice", but in this case the web was a slightly better place for the duration of this site's outage.
On the other hand, if this is who the Bollywood (not the MPAA as TFS implies) employs to do their dirty work, then the only real concern is that torrenters will fall off of their chairs laughing. In the process they might collectively hit their heads on their power strips and take their dirty file-sharing systems offline.
On the third hand, looking back through the press coverage of Aiplex, I notice that the *only* person who claims that Aiplex is working with Bollywood is the owner of Aiplex. This hints to me that their rather successful attempt to bltiz the media with their name has backfired in the most extravagantly perfect way possible.
This is a textbook example of begging the question based on a false presumption that some F/OSS alternative exists for every marketed softwar
This is *not* begging the question, Actually, it's not even close to such an example -- rather, it is a case of you [deliberately?] missing the point. He mentioned free software, but that wasn't the gist of his argument - he was pointing out that OP misused the "broken window fallacy" by twisting it to have nearly the opposite of its intended meaning. This part of his statement would have had the same meaning had he truncated it at "... obviously the pirated software has value".
By the way, why try to make something a "right" when one can already sue for damages based on simple law that already covers this topic anyway, theft. You might want to rethink your argument.
Seriously? Have you tried calling "piracy" "theft" here? Have you not seen the shitstorm that ensues?
Holy carp - this is the problem with analogies. People here just love to keep stretching them further - long past the point of their original usefulness. (And to be honest, the original wasn't a very useful one to begin with.)
The moral of the story is, just because you work hard, even if what you do has value to someone that does not automatically entitle you to payment.
Wait, what? What did I miss here - you're saying you're not entitled to be paid for the work if a) you place a monetary value on the work and b) that work is used by someone.
Sooo... you work for free? If not, why not? You're not entitled to get paid for the value you produce, by your own words.
Working hard doesn't mean you have done anything of value. I can work much harder digging a hole in the ground but if no one wants the hole and there is no need for a hole there, I can't get all pissy and demand to be paid for all of my hard work.
Except in this case, those pirating are clearly using the software in question - therefore it is of value to them. If it is not of sufficient value to justify the price being asked for it -- then don't use it.
Absolutely! I put mine down a couple of years ago (someone pulled out in front of me in the rain without looking -- then stopped at the green light in front of us. I should've anticipated the possibility - live and learn, fortunately.). Even though it was low speed at about 25mph, my head against the pavement left a nasty scar on the plastic (and ruined the internal cushioning) that would have been a fractured skull at best.
My leather was also abraded from where I slid a dozen feet -- which would've otherwise been a nasty road rash.
(The shitter never even realized that anything happened either -- after stopping for a green light, he just slowly drove away without looking back. Talk about being oblivious on the road. It was an interesting moment - basically had to make the choice to lay the bike down by weighing against the chances of stopping in time otherwise.)
I do that too - though it's because I'm impatient. The flip side is that you need to actually *look* at the intersection to make sure there are no late runners or other idiots. Something that on a motorcycle (and a bicycle I'm sure) you do by habit anyway - but all too many others never do. Before I started riding, I had a habit of assuming a steady green was safe... after I started riding, I realized that there's no such thing as safe.
Related: did you ever notice that the people who start edging their cars forward in anticipation of the light are ALWAYS a second or two behind when actually going? I have yet to figure out how they do that.
Seriously - nothing makes you more aware of *all* of your surroundings quite like having no defenses save your wits and reflexes. The idea of who would be "at fault" in an accident quickly becomes irrelevant, because you understand viscerally that it really doesn't matter in the end [if you value your life, anyway].
Those metal and fiber shells we lumber along in make us very complacent. The skills you learn from being exposed on a motorcycle will result in an immediate improvement in how you drive a car as well. And you'll find yourself wondering how [relatively] oblivious you were before that -- even those of you who are more aware of your surrounding than most.
Here's a quick test you can give yourself - do you look ahead to where you're going when you make a turn, or do you keep your primary focus parallel with your hood? Most people do the latter until they learn to ride, effectively preventing them from truly seeing potentially critical information in the path ahead -- if you don't believe me, just observe a few people doing it.
(I'd also recommend the standard motorcycle safety course - invaluable even if you have experience.)
Any service is invalid when it goes down. Why give a url at all? That host could go down, rendering your link invalid.
More realistically - the original content remains valid even if the shortener goes down. All a shortener does is provide a convenience (especially useful when the recipient has to type a url manually). If you're using it to provide the sole and permanent record of a resource location, you're doing it wrong.
it's also not particularly hard to find a plugin that fetches the destination url automatically for the paranoid; and the better services allow you to set an option to always preview. (Though I guess the paranoid would dislike the cookie this requires, as it allows the clickthrus to be attached to an ip )
But I digress. My point is that shorteners obviously serve a useful purpose or they wouldn't exist. Certainly you wouldn't rely on one to be an informational source of truth - but they were never intended for use that way.
This leads us to two issues. One, the machines have to be more cost-effective than an exploited work-force. And even then, what can be automated here can be automated there where the workforce that runs the machines are cheaper (read: exploited).
And then the workforce that runs the machines can be automated to the point where intensive labor isn't required. From here, it's turtles all the way down.
Yes - I'm sure the suicides and the expose on working conditions at the company by China Business News were just aberrations of an overzealous imagination. Meanwhile, Foxconn hired a New York public relations firm because they just want to get their name out there.
In the US, suicides per 100,000k is 10/year. The national average for China is 25/100k/yr. Foxconn - which employs ~900,000 people - had twelve suicides in a six month period. Let's assume that trend continues and call it 25 in a year. That works out to 2.78/100k/yr.
This rate is drastically lower than both the Chinese national suicide rate; and the lower US suicide rate. (Sources: http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suiciderates/en/http://www.suicide.org/suicide-statistics.html). When you have a company with the population of a small nation, it's easy for appearances to be deceiving. I'm not saying it's a haven of happy workers -- only that conditions may not be as bad as we're assuming. AS far as the report by China Business News -- I would trust that to be about as unbiased as any news source in the US. Again, I'm not claiming that there are no issues - only that we're only being shown a very small window into things.
GP's point is this: if the prevailing attitude is vaccines can't cause that reaction; we can't possibly know if it's a one-time correlation or not.
That being said, I would also think that any doctor who observed multiple such cases would put the pieces together and follow up -- as I find it highly unlikely that there's an international cover-up conspiracy that every doctor is participating in.
Is it so unreasonable to focus instead on producing the same products with less labor (and thus less cost) than those willing and able to propagate such practices? I'd rather be able to lead by example. Instead of legislating or regulating them into compliance, why not develop improved manufacturing technology and capability -- demonstrating that it's possible to make competitive products without "exploiting" the poor?
THis is aside from the fact that - at least from TFA - working conditions might not be quite as bad as the media hysteria has made them out to be.
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder if they found it upright at the bottom of the cliff...
That aside, do you really fail to see humor in this? Or just choosing the moral high ground by implying that you're above it?
Sometimes, unfortunate shit is funny. Often because of the nature of its unfortunate-ness. Unfortunately.
wow, seems like I was too slow. Love how people can get a laugh out of everything..
Indeed. inspiteof your inb4...
Where's the duc[tk] tape? My head's gonna blow.
The "law" has always been just another way for those who write the law to control those who are required to follow it. "Law" is simply disembodied violence, physical force transferred to the domain of the mind.
Intriguing rhetoric, but what alternative do you propose to Law? (And I'd call it more "passive aggressiveness" than "disembodied violence", but perhaps that's just a different face of the same coin. )
You're right - so it's 10,000 car trips, PLUS one truck.
Quit horsing around, this is serious business!
Indeed. The idea of going to a web site to perform a search just seems like an extra step now. Even the search toolbar is kind of silly - at least since firefox(and I assume others) have gotten smart enough to figure out when you want to search vs when you want to go to a URL.
Ah, yes - it's a dark horse, that one is.
Or just assume you can keep using the same horse.
Speaking of horses, this analogy is starting to seem like beating a dead one. Let it go...
Seeing as the Slashdot editor/submitter were too lame to include links themselves, I'll give you all a hand at, um, investigating these fine websites.
Aiplex MPAA
I actually didn't think the Aiplex site was correct at first, just because of how awful it is. Maybe they got into the "anti-piracy" business because they failed so amazingly hard at website design.
Let's skip the web site design and just look at the content -- is this for real?
Aiplex has a blend of technology savvy & process driven dedicated team bringing about a paradigm shift in rendering customized solutions to its clients. We have steadily grown in reach and service offerings with a favorable cost-benefit ratio & keeping pace with the emerging business needs of our customers.
First - you're using "&" in the description of your business? Second, those sentences don't actually make sense...
Now let's look at the <title> element of the web page:
Medical transcription , Search engine optimization , AiPlex Software Pvt. Ltd. , MT & seo , Seo & mt , transcription services , medical transcription , medical transcription services , medical transcription work , medical transcription job , medical transcription company , medical transcription medical transcription karnataka , medical transcription india , medical transcription news , medical transcription offers , medical transcription company in bangalore , medical transcription company in india , medical , information , medical records , medical dictation , medical transcription night shift work , mt night shift job , mt work , mt jobs , mt careers , mt business , mt training , mt desk , mt daily , mt bangalore , mt india , mt 24*7 , mt company in banglaore , mt company in india , mt outsourcing , mt careers in bangalore , mt jobs in bangalore , mt hipaa regulations , mt hipaa compliance , out source medical transcription , aiplex , aiplex mt , aiplex mt bangalore , aiplex medical transcription , voice files , dictation , medical dictation , mt dictation , doctor voice files , patient record , patient charts , health care india , security in healthcare , security in medical dictation , Processing million lines a month , office based mt opportunities , home based mt work , home transcription , HT bangalore , aiplex home based benefits , mt career opportunities , aiplex guarantees 98.5 % accuracy , aiplex quality management system ensures customer expectations , toll free dictation , disaster recovery plan , attractive prize of 8cents per line of transcription , 360 degree machanism to deliver flawless transcripts , robust infrastructure for data back, data security & confidentiality , 12hrs turn around time ( TAT) , mt resume online , direct submission previlage at higher rates for HTs , enhanced benefits for enhanced targets , medical transcriptionist , proof reader , Quality analyst , Best MT company in bangalore.
Alas, though they boast "SEO" in their title among other things... a search for "medical transcription" on google doesn't turn them up (at least in the first page). The I'm not usually a fan of this kind of "justice", but in this case the web was a slightly better place for the duration of this site's outage.
On the other hand, if this is who the Bollywood (not the MPAA as TFS implies) employs to do their dirty work, then the only real concern is that torrenters will fall off of their chairs laughing. In the process they might collectively hit their heads on their power strips and take their dirty file-sharing systems offline.
On the third hand, looking back through the press coverage of Aiplex, I notice that the *only* person who claims that Aiplex is working with Bollywood is the owner of Aiplex. This hints to me that their rather successful attempt to bltiz the media with their name has backfired in the most extravagantly perfect way possible.
This is a textbook example of begging the question based on a false presumption that some F/OSS alternative exists for every marketed softwar
This is *not* begging the question, Actually, it's not even close to such an example -- rather, it is a case of you [deliberately?] missing the point. He mentioned free software, but that wasn't the gist of his argument - he was pointing out that OP misused the "broken window fallacy" by twisting it to have nearly the opposite of its intended meaning. This part of his statement would have had the same meaning had he truncated it at "... obviously the pirated software has value".
By the way, why try to make something a "right" when one can already sue for damages based on simple law that already covers this topic anyway, theft. You might want to rethink your argument.
Seriously? Have you tried calling "piracy" "theft" here? Have you not seen the shitstorm that ensues?
The moral of the story is, just because you work hard, even if what you do has value to someone that does not automatically entitle you to payment.
Wait, what? What did I miss here - you're saying you're not entitled to be paid for the work if a) you place a monetary value on the work and b) that work is used by someone.
Sooo... you work for free? If not, why not? You're not entitled to get paid for the value you produce, by your own words.
Working hard doesn't mean you have done anything of value. I can work much harder digging a hole in the ground but if no one wants the hole and there is no need for a hole there, I can't get all pissy and demand to be paid for all of my hard work.
Except in this case, those pirating are clearly using the software in question - therefore it is of value to them. If it is not of sufficient value to justify the price being asked for it -- then don't use it.
My leather was also abraded from where I slid a dozen feet -- which would've otherwise been a nasty road rash.
(The shitter never even realized that anything happened either -- after stopping for a green light, he just slowly drove away without looking back. Talk about being oblivious on the road. It was an interesting moment - basically had to make the choice to lay the bike down by weighing against the chances of stopping in time otherwise.)
All too true - in addition to not looking ahead more than 1 or two cars (at *most*) almost nobody seems to know what's going on behind.
Related: did you ever notice that the people who start edging their cars forward in anticipation of the light are ALWAYS a second or two behind when actually going? I have yet to figure out how they do that.
Seriously - nothing makes you more aware of *all* of your surroundings quite like having no defenses save your wits and reflexes. The idea of who would be "at fault" in an accident quickly becomes irrelevant, because you understand viscerally that it really doesn't matter in the end [if you value your life, anyway].
Those metal and fiber shells we lumber along in make us very complacent. The skills you learn from being exposed on a motorcycle will result in an immediate improvement in how you drive a car as well. And you'll find yourself wondering how [relatively] oblivious you were before that -- even those of you who are more aware of your surrounding than most.
Here's a quick test you can give yourself - do you look ahead to where you're going when you make a turn, or do you keep your primary focus parallel with your hood? Most people do the latter until they learn to ride, effectively preventing them from truly seeing potentially critical information in the path ahead -- if you don't believe me, just observe a few people doing it.
(I'd also recommend the standard motorcycle safety course - invaluable even if you have experience.)
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Starring everybody's favorite...
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and costarring...
Bare Bones
and making his professional debut:
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I never click on a shortened link. You never know when it migh be a redirect to goatse.cx or worse.
Alternatively, you could just use an appropriate tool for the task.
personally I find them a convenient thing to have - especially in those situations where copy-paste isn't an option.
More realistically - the original content remains valid even if the shortener goes down. All a shortener does is provide a convenience (especially useful when the recipient has to type a url manually). If you're using it to provide the sole and permanent record of a resource location, you're doing it wrong.
it's also not particularly hard to find a plugin that fetches the destination url automatically for the paranoid; and the better services allow you to set an option to always preview. (Though I guess the paranoid would dislike the cookie this requires, as it allows the clickthrus to be attached to an ip )
But I digress. My point is that shorteners obviously serve a useful purpose or they wouldn't exist. Certainly you wouldn't rely on one to be an informational source of truth - but they were never intended for use that way.
Well said
This leads us to two issues. One, the machines have to be more cost-effective than an exploited work-force. And even then, what can be automated here can be automated there where the workforce that runs the machines are cheaper (read: exploited).
And then the workforce that runs the machines can be automated to the point where intensive labor isn't required. From here, it's turtles all the way down.
Yes - I'm sure the suicides and the expose on working conditions at the company by China Business News were just aberrations of an overzealous imagination. Meanwhile, Foxconn hired a New York public relations firm because they just want to get their name out there.
In the US, suicides per 100,000k is 10/year. The national average for China is 25/100k/yr. Foxconn - which employs ~900,000 people - had twelve suicides in a six month period. Let's assume that trend continues and call it 25 in a year. That works out to 2.78/100k/yr.
This rate is drastically lower than both the Chinese national suicide rate; and the lower US suicide rate. (Sources: http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suiciderates/en/ http://www.suicide.org/suicide-statistics.html). When you have a company with the population of a small nation, it's easy for appearances to be deceiving. I'm not saying it's a haven of happy workers -- only that conditions may not be as bad as we're assuming. AS far as the report by China Business News -- I would trust that to be about as unbiased as any news source in the US. Again, I'm not claiming that there are no issues - only that we're only being shown a very small window into things.
That being said, I would also think that any doctor who observed multiple such cases would put the pieces together and follow up -- as I find it highly unlikely that there's an international cover-up conspiracy that every doctor is participating in.
THis is aside from the fact that - at least from TFA - working conditions might not be quite as bad as the media hysteria has made them out to be.