According to MPAA logic, every pirated copy equals one million copies so this mistake means they lost 50 quazillion dollars
That's the downside of torrents. It makes everybody that uses them a distributor as opposed to just a single infringement. It's prohibitively expensive to sue everybody that just watches something on YouTube for a minimal amount of damages.
You sound like a Google employee. There's no doubt about Google tracking. At least DuckDuckGo has a stated policy of not tracking, and is an alternative to the Google Goliath.
While Facebook is avoidable good luck avoiding Microsoft and Google if you're not a member of the zombie Steve Jobs fan club
I use Linux for my desktop. I use Android for the smart phone, but I don't use any of Google's services and did not sign up for a Google account on the phone.
Hardware issues and out-of-warranty defects are hardly unique to Apple, but what is unique is the premium Apple charges for their products, along with the giant hoards of cash. Yet the Apple myth of quality hardware or treating their customers right persists for those in the Reality Distortion Field.
It's an easy story to believe, but this year two political scientists called it into question. In their book "The End of Southern Exceptionalism," Richard Johnston of the University of Pennsylvania and Byron Shafer of the University of Wisconsin argue that the shift in the South from Democratic to Republican was overwhelmingly a question not of race but of economic growth. In the postwar era, they note, the South transformed itself from a backward region to an engine of the national economy, giving rise to a sizable new wealthy suburban class. This class, not surprisingly, began to vote for the party that best represented its economic interests: the G.O.P. Working-class whites, however -- and here's the surprise -- even those in areas with large black populations, stayed loyal to the Democrats. (This was true until the 90s, when the nation as a whole turned rightward in Congressional voting.)
The two scholars support their claim with an extensive survey of election returns and voter surveys. To give just one example: in the 50s, among Southerners in the low-income tercile, 43 percent voted for Republican Presidential candidates, while in the high-income tercile, 53 percent voted Republican; by the 80s, those figures were 51 percent and 77 percent, respectively. Wealthy Southerners shifted rightward in droves but poorer ones didn't.
Ohio is still rebounding from the last ice age, this is a process that occurs over thousand year time spans. We are melting the ice magnitudes of order faster than the rebound can occur.
Did you notice the curiosity in your sentence? How do you know that "we" are melting the ice, as opposed to the ice continuing to melt from the last ice age? Sea levels rose about 400 feet in the last 10,000 years.
No, I mean the trade conflict that Dirty Donald has grown into a trade war by promising tariffs on 200 bln. worth of trade.
It's just a continuation of what was already in play, after you foolishly said he had "spent his powder".
You can either put in place conditions that take care of the needs of business (such as the rule of law, free trade, and fair shot at getting a level playing field)
I bet you within the next month there will be no "massive internet censorship and blackouts". Instead, they will just keep turning up the censorship by degrees.
BitChute has become the refuge for banned YouTube channels. Still very small usage, but an absolute necessity if you want to avoid the wrongthink censor. I subscribe to a handful of channels there and check it once a day.
All right useful idiot, you "win" the argument. I will no longer reply. You can have the last word to post your gibberish. You made clear you lost on the basis of merit, and like a child, resorted to sticking your fingers in your ears and wailing.
Who's in the bubble, me or you? You think somebody with a STEM degree is in the same Starbuck's position as somebody with a degree in gender studies. Enjoy your bubble, Obama Economy Matt.
"The process of settlement is a 'Civilization-Jihadist Process' with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers..."
"The process of settlement is a 'Civilization-Jihadist Process' with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers..."
No shit. By the way, quite hilarious that you chose to link to Reza "I am a scholar" Aslan, the Muslim apologist. I prefer Carrier's, "Did Jesus Even Exist?"
Additionally, how people interpret these books depends, to a great extent, on the contexts in which they're interpreted.
No shit. But there's also plain reading. And we can look at history and influential texts to see how these works were being interpreted. You're doing a lot of tap dancing and not addressing anything I've actually written.
For example, you're interpreting the Bible in a (presumably) educated, stable, safe, democratic context
Except that's bullshit. I interpreted the Bible through plain reading. I also relied on history, including the earliest history when they were a peaceful cult that eventually was adopted by the Roman empire, as opposed to Islam, which conquered all of Arabia and then spread out from there.
Did you address the basic stories from the Gospels, or the Sermon on the Mount? No, you'd rather cherry pick from some shitty countries in Africa. Did you address my "Islam has bloody borders" link? No, you'd rather deflect to CIA torture, which has jack shit to do with the history of Islam from before that point, and has jack shit to do with Islamic insurgencies wherever there are a significant number of Muslims.
If you look into the conflicts, the contexts, the motivations, the reasoning, etc., more complex, nuanced, and subtle stories start to emerge.
Funny how there's one unifying theme: ISLAM. Funny how you never address the history of Islam, from it's earliest beginnings. Funny how you never address the scriptures. Funny how you never answer my questions, like why Christians are the ones being persecuted in Muslim lands, while Muslims seek out Christian lands.
It's all interpretation according to contexts and there's nothing intrinsically more violent or non-violent about either the Bible or the Qu'ran.
You're full of shit. All you do is equivocate, hem and haw, and crank up the smog machine, while ignoring large truths staring at you in the face. In other words, you are a useful idiot:
"The process of settlement is a 'Civilization-Jihadist Process' with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers..."
Don't you also think it's interesting that both the Youtube news stories I linked to, made by award-winning American journalists, were paid for by the Kremlin? What does that say about domestic US news media?
Actually, it says more about the Kremlin media and the kind of sources you seek out, in typical anti-Western, libshit fashion.
That all you ever hear about Muslims is that presumably all 1.8 billion of them are hell-bent on destroying the world?
Yawn, "not all Muslims". You're checking all the boxes, congrats. I never said all 1.8 billion act that way. Like any religion, a great majority have their own McReligion view, and only a tiny percentage are going to act in the most extreme manner.
They will have to pay, not engage in the industry or raising capital, and avoid prison time.
Avoid prison time? Are you kidding me? Aside from the defrauding people out of billions, they recklessly endangered the lives and health of the people who relied on their tests. "Pharma Bro" got 7 years in prison, and he ended up making money for those that invested.
Do you really believe this? It seems that most of your comments are guided more by biased beliefs than facts, and whatever facts you do use are cherry-picked to suit your own, twisted narrative.
I'd ask you to look in the mirror. Have you read the Gospels? Have you read the Sermon on the Mount? Are you so willfully ignorant of the most astonishing point from the New Testament, that Christ allowed himself to be sacrificed?
The kind of ill-informed, misguided, extremist views you're espousing do real harm to a lot of people. Please stop it.
Take your own advice. You demonstrate a complete lack of fundamental knowledge regarding the main tenants of the Abrahamic religions, as well as a willful blindness as to how these religions are being played out in the real world.
Notice how you did not respond to any of my points picking apart your attempt at equating Christianity with Islam. Run the numbers. Go through the body counts. Look at how it's the Christians being persecuted in Muslim lands. Why are the Muslims seeking refuge in Christian lands? How many Christians would seek refuge in Muslim lands?
Are you interested in truth, or just politically correct, "all mainstream religions are equal", feel-good bullshit? Based on the scriptures, Mohamed was a conquering warlord. This is a basic fact. Based on the scriptures, Jesus spread his message through peace and did not resist when the powers came after him. This is a basic fact. To not acknowledge this is ignorance beyond all measure.
Are you willing to challenge your assumptions? Can you click a link and read, or are you just going to sit in your politically correct bubble? Islam has bloody borders:
" Nevertheless, there is a problem that goes back to the very beginnings of Muslim history: From the time that the first Muslims established themselves as the rulers of Medina, Islam was a political and increasingly a legal system as well as a faith. In Medina Muhammad continued to be a prophet, but he also became the head of a state and a military leader. With the exception of Southeast Asia (where Islam was spread by traders from the the subcontinent), what we now know as the Muslim world was established by conquest. It is no accident that in traditional Muslim thought the world is divided into two spheres--the realm of Islam (dar ul-Islam) and the realm of war (dar ul-harb). Put simply, it is assumed that the border between Islamic rule and the rest of the world marks a state of war, even if periods of armistice are possible. One should be cognizant of the important fact that there are Muslim thinkers today who are reformulating the nature of Islamic law (sharia) and of Islamic war (jihad) in a much more liberal manner. But one must also recognize that there is a weighty tradition to the contrary and that a large number of Muslims, possibly the majority, does not favor these reformulations."
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According to MPAA logic, every pirated copy equals one million copies so this mistake means they lost 50 quazillion dollars
That's the downside of torrents. It makes everybody that uses them a distributor as opposed to just a single infringement. It's prohibitively expensive to sue everybody that just watches something on YouTube for a minimal amount of damages.
he tried to find a way for the local defendant to win
That's probably the most overriding factor.
You sound like a Google employee. There's no doubt about Google tracking. At least DuckDuckGo has a stated policy of not tracking, and is an alternative to the Google Goliath.
While Facebook is avoidable good luck avoiding Microsoft and Google if you're not a member of the zombie Steve Jobs fan club
I use Linux for my desktop. I use Android for the smart phone, but I don't use any of Google's services and did not sign up for a Google account on the phone.
I have another idea. Instead of banning plastic and hiring people to patrol, why don't they just hire people to clean up the litter?
Hardware issues and out-of-warranty defects are hardly unique to Apple, but what is unique is the premium Apple charges for their products, along with the giant hoards of cash. Yet the Apple myth of quality hardware or treating their customers right persists for those in the Reality Distortion Field.
In a phrase, "You're holding it wrong."
"The Myth of the 'Southern Strategy'"
The Democrats have become the party of illegal immigrants and transgender bathroom "rights".
You didn't answer my question. Can you point to the date when the glaciers stopped retreating from the most recent melt?
Ohio is still rebounding from the last ice age, this is a process that occurs over thousand year time spans. We are melting the ice magnitudes of order faster than the rebound can occur.
Did you notice the curiosity in your sentence? How do you know that "we" are melting the ice, as opposed to the ice continuing to melt from the last ice age? Sea levels rose about 400 feet in the last 10,000 years.
No, I mean the trade conflict that Dirty Donald has grown into a trade war by promising tariffs on 200 bln. worth of trade.
It's just a continuation of what was already in play, after you foolishly said he had "spent his powder".
You can either put in place conditions that take care of the needs of business (such as the rule of law, free trade, and fair shot at getting a level playing field)
Go wave your magic wand and make it happen then.
I bet you within the next month there will be no "massive internet censorship and blackouts". Instead, they will just keep turning up the censorship by degrees.
BitChute has become the refuge for banned YouTube channels. Still very small usage, but an absolute necessity if you want to avoid the wrongthink censor. I subscribe to a handful of channels there and check it once a day.
Sometimes malice is the Occam's razor choice.
Funny, when I give you the last word to post your gibberish, you switch to calling me racist. Were you always a useful idiot?
This smacks of editorial over reach, and I don't like it.
If Slashdot is going to start deleting comments, they're removing one of the last reasons to stay here.
All right useful idiot, you "win" the argument. I will no longer reply. You can have the last word to post your gibberish. You made clear you lost on the basis of merit, and like a child, resorted to sticking your fingers in your ears and wailing.
Useful idiot still gibbering to himself?
Who's in the bubble, me or you? You think somebody with a STEM degree is in the same Starbuck's position as somebody with a degree in gender studies. Enjoy your bubble, Obama Economy Matt.
useful idiot:
"The process of settlement is a 'Civilization-Jihadist Process' with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers..."
useful idiot:
"The process of settlement is a 'Civilization-Jihadist Process' with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers..."
OK, slightly longer version, since you don't seem to make a distinction between history and religious texts:
I've made quite clear distinctions between history versus scripture. For instance, I would use phrases like, "based on the scriptures".
The Bible is not historical fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and neither is the Qu'ran
No shit. By the way, quite hilarious that you chose to link to Reza "I am a scholar" Aslan, the Muslim apologist. I prefer Carrier's, "Did Jesus Even Exist?"
Additionally, how people interpret these books depends, to a great extent, on the contexts in which they're interpreted.
No shit. But there's also plain reading. And we can look at history and influential texts to see how these works were being interpreted. You're doing a lot of tap dancing and not addressing anything I've actually written.
For example, you're interpreting the Bible in a (presumably) educated, stable, safe, democratic context
Except that's bullshit. I interpreted the Bible through plain reading. I also relied on history, including the earliest history when they were a peaceful cult that eventually was adopted by the Roman empire, as opposed to Islam, which conquered all of Arabia and then spread out from there.
Did you address the basic stories from the Gospels, or the Sermon on the Mount? No, you'd rather cherry pick from some shitty countries in Africa. Did you address my "Islam has bloody borders" link? No, you'd rather deflect to CIA torture, which has jack shit to do with the history of Islam from before that point, and has jack shit to do with Islamic insurgencies wherever there are a significant number of Muslims.
If you look into the conflicts, the contexts, the motivations, the reasoning, etc., more complex, nuanced, and subtle stories start to emerge.
Funny how there's one unifying theme: ISLAM. Funny how you never address the history of Islam, from it's earliest beginnings. Funny how you never address the scriptures. Funny how you never answer my questions, like why Christians are the ones being persecuted in Muslim lands, while Muslims seek out Christian lands.
It's all interpretation according to contexts and there's nothing intrinsically more violent or non-violent about either the Bible or the Qu'ran.
You're full of shit. All you do is equivocate, hem and haw, and crank up the smog machine, while ignoring large truths staring at you in the face. In other words, you are a useful idiot:
"The process of settlement is a 'Civilization-Jihadist Process' with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers..."
Don't you also think it's interesting that both the Youtube news stories I linked to, made by award-winning American journalists, were paid for by the Kremlin? What does that say about domestic US news media?
Actually, it says more about the Kremlin media and the kind of sources you seek out, in typical anti-Western, libshit fashion.
That all you ever hear about Muslims is that presumably all 1.8 billion of them are hell-bent on destroying the world?
Yawn, "not all Muslims". You're checking all the boxes, congrats. I never said all 1.8 billion act that way. Like any religion, a great majority have their own McReligion view, and only a tiny percentage are going to act in the most extreme manner.
They will have to pay, not engage in the industry or raising capital, and avoid prison time.
Avoid prison time? Are you kidding me? Aside from the defrauding people out of billions, they recklessly endangered the lives and health of the people who relied on their tests. "Pharma Bro" got 7 years in prison, and he ended up making money for those that invested.
Do you really believe this? It seems that most of your comments are guided more by biased beliefs than facts, and whatever facts you do use are cherry-picked to suit your own, twisted narrative.
I'd ask you to look in the mirror. Have you read the Gospels? Have you read the Sermon on the Mount? Are you so willfully ignorant of the most astonishing point from the New Testament, that Christ allowed himself to be sacrificed?
The kind of ill-informed, misguided, extremist views you're espousing do real harm to a lot of people. Please stop it.
Take your own advice. You demonstrate a complete lack of fundamental knowledge regarding the main tenants of the Abrahamic religions, as well as a willful blindness as to how these religions are being played out in the real world.
Notice how you did not respond to any of my points picking apart your attempt at equating Christianity with Islam. Run the numbers. Go through the body counts. Look at how it's the Christians being persecuted in Muslim lands. Why are the Muslims seeking refuge in Christian lands? How many Christians would seek refuge in Muslim lands?
Are you interested in truth, or just politically correct, "all mainstream religions are equal", feel-good bullshit? Based on the scriptures, Mohamed was a conquering warlord. This is a basic fact. Based on the scriptures, Jesus spread his message through peace and did not resist when the powers came after him. This is a basic fact. To not acknowledge this is ignorance beyond all measure.
Are you willing to challenge your assumptions? Can you click a link and read, or are you just going to sit in your politically correct bubble? Islam has bloody borders:
" Nevertheless, there is a problem that goes back to the very beginnings of Muslim history: From the time that the first Muslims established themselves as the rulers of Medina, Islam was a political and increasingly a legal system as well as a faith. In Medina Muhammad continued to be a prophet, but he also became the head of a state and a military leader. With the exception of Southeast Asia (where Islam was spread by traders from the the subcontinent), what we now know as the Muslim world was established by conquest. It is no accident that in traditional Muslim thought the world is divided into two spheres--the realm of Islam (dar ul-Islam) and the realm of war (dar ul-harb). Put simply, it is assumed that the border between Islamic rule and the rest of the world marks a state of war, even if periods of armistice are possible. One should be cognizant of the important fact that there are Muslim thinkers today who are reformulating the nature of Islamic law (sharia) and of Islamic war (jihad) in a much more liberal manner. But one must also recognize that there is a weighty tradition to the contrary and that a large number of Muslims, possibly the majority, does not favor these reformulations."
In play? You mean the trade war against China that Dirty Donald has just kicked off?
You mean the trade war that had already begun with steel tariffs?
Business was (and is) strongly in favour of it.
"Business" is always in favor of making money, no matter the cost to somebody else or the longterm future of the nation.