Just as a quick pointer. The discovery that the earth isnt flat is, by your standards, just as pointless as understanding how the universe looks. But by that logic, america wouldnt even exist today(if thats a good thing or not i will leave up to you, however).
You wont be playing in the world cup as a footballer if youre a dumb, vain one.
Regardless of what the average is the "best" will always be the smarter/stronger ones.
They don't? I wonder how "glass windows" and "hotwire" would be graded by secunia or some other security company. I'd say critical at the least but I don't know about you.
You're totally missing the point about what is bad about monopolies.
Monopolies are bad because there are *no* real alternatives. The very reason that there are laws against monopoly abuse is because its bad bad bad.
Saying "noone is forcing you" is totally besides the point because theres no alternative(or well, there is, it's called p2p but there's no *legal* alternative).
The ridiculous thing about this whole deal is that the law specifically states that its supposed to be compensation for "private copies" which before this law was just as legal as it was after. The only difference is that all of a sudden makes of movable media(cds, casettes, dvds, etc etc) was supposed to pay extra to the copyright owners because they felt people should have to pay to be able to use their music how they wanted.
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Just as a quick pointer. The discovery that the earth isnt flat is, by your standards, just as pointless as understanding how the universe looks. But by that logic, america wouldnt even exist today(if thats a good thing or not i will leave up to you, however).
Doesnt matter as pretty much everyone(damn near 100% anyway) can get adsl 8/1 mbit here(im from Sweden).
You wont be playing in the world cup as a footballer if youre a dumb, vain one. Regardless of what the average is the "best" will always be the smarter/stronger ones.
Who the hell would BUY microsoft products when you could just download it in a world of no copyrights?
They don't? I wonder how "glass windows" and "hotwire" would be graded by secunia or some other security company. I'd say critical at the least but I don't know about you.
You're totally missing the point about what is bad about monopolies. Monopolies are bad because there are *no* real alternatives. The very reason that there are laws against monopoly abuse is because its bad bad bad. Saying "noone is forcing you" is totally besides the point because theres no alternative(or well, there is, it's called p2p but there's no *legal* alternative).
There you go ;)
Dont know if any of it should be in kanji, but thats in pure hiragana right there anyway.
The ridiculous thing about this whole deal is that the law specifically states that its supposed to be compensation for "private copies" which before this law was just as legal as it was after. The only difference is that all of a sudden makes of movable media(cds, casettes, dvds, etc etc) was supposed to pay extra to the copyright owners because they felt people should have to pay to be able to use their music how they wanted.