User: Demena

Re:This is not about specific people

On: 70 Percent of Young Swedish Men Are Video Pirates, Study Says (torrentfreak.com)

1. This is about one group (you) actively forcing their views on others.
2. Your belief is irrelevant. I do not care about your belief. I care about your wish to harm many, many others (creators and consumers).
3. Let's Godwin your ridiculous attitude for once and all. Following orders is obeying rules. Rules never decide. The one who makes the rules decides. The one that makes the rules is authoritarian. As you are. Good rules are seldom made by single minds. Not even yours.

You are willing to cause an immense amount of permanent harm (it would appear) to many, many people (an entire multi-national industry) based on your sole, totally unsupported opinion (hypothesis). Your attitude of "I'm right, you can all get fucked" is the problem; as well as being what makes you an authoritarian. You would make a great dictator.

Re:Objection

On: 70 Percent of Young Swedish Men Are Video Pirates, Study Says (torrentfreak.com)

And I choose to watch and pay for blockbusters. You want that forcibly taken away from me in the expectation that I will be 'forced' to spend my other elsewhere and people you admire or think should be supported will benefit, while millions of working stiffs lose creative jobs they enjoy.

You are no less an authoritarian than are the music and film companies, trump, and Kim il Jong. You want the world change to meet your wants. You are not operating on 'principle'.

Re:Blockbusters change the market negatively

On: 70 Percent of Young Swedish Men Are Video Pirates, Study Says (torrentfreak.com)

So you are objecting to people's choice? You feel they should have no option but "lesser works"?

Re:TANSTAAFL

On: 70 Percent of Young Swedish Men Are Video Pirates, Study Says (torrentfreak.com)

Unfortunately your post makes you out to be a hypocrite.

If there is no value in the works why are you stealing it? If you are bothering to download it then you do not believe it has no value. Pure hypocrisy - or self deception.

The hell hell with you. I am looking forward to "Guardians of the Galaxy II" with Fried Rodent.

Re:TANSTAAFL

On: 70 Percent of Young Swedish Men Are Video Pirates, Study Says (torrentfreak.com)

On the other hand it is quite amazing how many times a small low budget movie will succeed vastly beyond expectations.

On the gripping hand I do not want to lose some of the incredible big budget films

Re:Pirates?

On: 70 Percent of Young Swedish Men Are Video Pirates, Study Says (torrentfreak.com)

In English the latter would be a compliment to an excessively macho male.
In American it would be a compliment to an excessively flamboyant gay.

Two worlds separated by a common language.

Re:Not having a phone is not normal

On: Should International Travelers Leave Their Phones At Home? (freecodecamp.com)

Please ping me when you do. In the meantime, where are you, can I buy you lunch?

Re:Not a real American

On: US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com)

I think you need both to read more deeply and to be more specific. Generalities are generalities and specifics are specifics. Useful in differing situations. Do not confuse the two and the differing conclusions that may be drawn thereby.

Re:Arrest him and throw him into Gitmo

On: US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com)

No. What it shows is that you don't want non-american border officers to have unlimited search powers. You forgot exceptionallism.

Re:Arrest him and throw him into Gitmo

On: US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com)

Escalation of privileges is possible. Give no privilege.

Re:Arrest him and throw him into Gitmo

On: US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com)

Thusly all progress is due to unreasonable men......

Re:Stop complaining you crybabies!

On: US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com)

Nor did I but you claimed I did.

My advice to you is to stop digging....

Re:Stop complaining you crybabies!

On: US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com)

Moron? No, that would apply to people like you who so obviously lie and make false claims. Like you. Now would you please like to defend your assertion that there are only two political parties? It is not a claim that I made or would make since it is obviously intrinsically false. Your malice or your mistake I do not know (or care).

Now you want to talk about basic honesty? A characteristic you seem to lack in equal measure to intelligence? You think a lie and a straw man will win you an argument? You think it demonstrates your intelligence? The fact that you seek to 'win' rather than seek the truth shows your maturity.

Re:Not a real American

On: US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com)

No, not an ignorant argument. You have told me nothing I did not know (apart from your personal history) and that is my point. There was always a before and here is no 'home' to go to. Humans are a migratory species. Not as in annual migrations but as in moves everywhere and settles in. There is truely nothing human that is 'native' anywhere.

Which is the (accurate) generalisation of my point.

Re:Not a real American

On: US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com)

I too had believed that to be the case. I have recently read that there is some reconsideration of this from a number of disciplines so my judgement is currently served. But even the Americas are not native to America. It all comes from what was before.

But all you do is reinforce my point. There is no "home". We are a migratory species. That is why we have survived so far.

Re:Stop complaining you crybabies!

On: US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com)

I made no claim to that. The only reason that I responded was because it is extremely rare to find such bald stupidity. Even the least of us reason better than that. There were so many flaws with his (lack of) reasoning that trying to address anything would have been like trying to address an ever growing fractal image while the actual significance reduces. An exercise in futility and a miserable task to attempt.

So, I just addressed the basic stupidity. You can not get one to one correspondences with different numbers and to expect so borders on the insane.

It might seem a bit ad hominem but that is not the intent. The intent was to address the basic flaw from which fractal silliness follows before we descended into it.

Re:Not a real American

On: US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com)

You are a native american then?

If not, then as you say, fuck off home. Back where _you_ came from.

Re:Racism at work

On: US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com)

With that surname he would be more likely to be buddhist from my memories.

Re:Stop complaining you crybabies!

On: US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com)

Oh, Yes!

Two political parties, 300 million voters.

You are expecting a one-to-one relationship on every possible issue?

Look dear, you need to take some basic lessons in thinking if you are attempting a species upgrade. Human thought can be sophisticated.

Re: If You Don't Like To Follow Trumperica Rules T

On: US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com)

After you, sir.

Re:Definition of left

On: US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com)

Pretty much everyone human is leftist. Even Republicans.

The US uses its own (wrong) definitions that confuse the rest of the world.

Re: What information?

On: US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com)

A misspelling of americhump. The permutations of that word in this context are fascinating.

Re:And don't forget

On: Three Privacy Groups Challenge The FBI's Malware-Obtained Evidence (eff.org)

That its the stiff that oozes from AC ears isn't it?

And there we see again the worth of ACs. A post designed to provoke or hurt, nothing more. Pathetic really.

Does your life have a point?

Re:And don't forget

On: Three Privacy Groups Challenge The FBI's Malware-Obtained Evidence (eff.org)

It is pretty obvious you never heard the 'whoosh'.....

Re:US hacked Brazil

On: Three Privacy Groups Challenge The FBI's Malware-Obtained Evidence (eff.org)

typo, 1975