So what Flava Works is saying here is that Kywan Fisher would have been better off had he never paid for his Flava Works pornography in the first place. After all, if he hadn't done the right thing and supported the studio, they never would have had his credit card details to begin with, unless his credit card info was stolen...
To those of you who think purchasing Flava Works's "works" is a good idea, let this be a less to you and torrent their content. What if your computer get stolen and the thief takes your porn collection and posts it to bittorrent sites? What if you get a virus and your porn files leak? What if you share a Flava Works file accidentally? I realize that that's a little hard to do with bittorrent, but you get the idea.
No. Entrapment only applies to the police, and even then, the definition is very narrow for a successful defense. If this was done by actual law enforcement (which it isn't, so the point is moot), to use "entrapment" as a defense, you'd have to show that you wouldn't otherwise have done the illegal act if it hadn't been for the actions of law enforcement. Basically, that you wouldn't have connected to the swarm if law enforcement hadn't acted in a way to cause you to do it.
I know how to use a VPN. My question was: how do you use a VPN effectively to download? You sure as hell don't want to use a computer at the office as your endpoint.
Normally, you'd pay for VPN provider. Preferably, one that doesn't keep logs of its users' activities.
And this, I think, is the real crux of the content producers' strategy. Right now (or as of a few years ago), copyright infringement is free. You can do it all day and all night long, and maybe you get caught up via one of these John Doe fishing lawsuits, but the probability is low, and the lawsuits don't seem to be holding up well when the defendant enters a defense. You can't compete with free if you want to charge.
So their strategy is to make infringement cost money. Now, you need a VPN provider so your ISP doesn't cut you off. You may need to pay for (sorry, donate to) your torrent site, your filelocker, etc. Eventually, your average Joe is going to say, "It's costing me more than Netflix just to download all this stuff safely. Tell me again why I bother jumping through all of those hoops?"
Most reputable escorts will verify the real name and occupation of their clients. This provides a deterrent against clients becoming violent with the provider.
I guess maybe some don't want to believe it so choose to be blind.
I think that's a lot of it, but also, some people are very good at staying in the closet.
A fraternity brother of mine, I had always suspected was gay. But he kept hooking up with and dating chicks, so who's going to go up to him and say, "Dude, are you gay?" I just assumed he was Metrosexual, as the kids used to say. Well, his sophomore year he kind of disappeared from social activities, and then his junior year, he came back but out of the closet this time. Seemed much happier being true to himself.
But that's beside the point. The point is, if a gay guy wants to hide behind a wall of pussy, I think that's a pretty effective way to conceal his sexual orientation. It's not all willful blindness.
The best defense against your parents finding out about your sexual orientation from someone else will always be to tell them yourself, from whatever distance is safe.
Dude. She's still in college, presumably still being supported by her parents. She knows her parents better than you do, and as crazy as it sounds, parents have cut off support from their children for coming out. She clearly saw that as a risk, hence not coming out to them.
Slackware (yes, on floppies) -> Debian & Gentoo -> Ubuntu
Switch from Slackware to Debian was for APT. Slackware did not, to my knowledge, have any decent way to handle package upgrades.
Gentoo entered the mix when I made a MythTV setup.
Since then, I've used Ubuntu because they support Amazon EC2 so well (published images, cloud-init, etc.), and all of my Linux machines are now EC2 instances.
Well, I'm not autistic, so the notion of learning social skills at the expense of basic arithmetic is a hypothetical one.
If we're talking real life, I wouldn't be able to make the mooching thing work. Maybe it's different for younger folks, but for an old fart like me, it'd feel like someone sawed off my testicles with a sawzall to take on a sugar mommy.
Unless FreeCause has a rigorous mentoring and code review process, this is a mistake. I've seen even Computer Science graduates who aren't yet very real-world experienced emit some of the most incomprehensible, unmaintainable, defect-ridden code imaginable. It is a waste of marketers', analysts', and whomever else's time to learn to create useful code.
I'm especially concerned about inexperienced developers coding in JavaScript, which is difficult to debug and is notorious for cross-browser incompatibilities. Writing good, usable JavaScript is not a trivial task.
Maybe they should also have their programmers doing marketing? "You'd have to be a complete fucking moron not to buy our shit. HELL-FUCKING-LO, I AM SHOUTING THE LOUDEST OF ANYBODY THEREFORE YOU MUST BUY! I LEARNED THIS TECHNIQUE FROM TEH USED CAR COMMERCIALS!!"
It's all good fun until your latest conquest swindles you out of your life savings because you don't understand how all that money stuff actually works.
I feel like not understanding how that money stuff works is pretty common among lower-functioning autistic people. Presumably, part of the brain "rewiring" would involve learning to understand money, no?
Depending on how good of a fuck this conquest is, as compared with the size of my life savings, it could still wind up working out in my favor. And if worse came to worse, I could always use my new found social skills to land myself a wealthy woman!
If you can suddenly understand the opposite sex and get them to sleep with you quickly, but no longer do basic math in your head, is that a good trade?
Depends on the person, I guess. Personally, I'd rather be fucking than adding, but to each his own.
Great, now we'll be able to fix all of them! We really need that!/sarcasm
I for one find this very offensive. It's like telling all autistics they're malfunctioning.
Parent of ASD-diagnosed kid here.
You raise a good point. My wife and I recognize that we're walking a bit of a line in treating him. There are definitely those who subscribe to "The Einstein Syndrome", arguing that when you have a son of a computer geek and a banker, he just may be a little reclusive (I use that word, because it goes beyond being introverted), and that's fine. He's not broken. I see their point.
On the other hand, humans are social animals. Reclusive people are mostly unhappy, and Einstein was ridiculed mercilessly as a child. Maybe that's why he spent so much time reading physics texts and not interacting with his peers? The happiest and most content people seem to be to be the ones who have warm relationships with family and friends. Not the smartest or richest or anything else.
We decided to treat our son, from about age 1.5, with some pretty intense play therapy (no medication or anything like that). We immersed his entire life in progressively more abstract symbolic thought, under the guidance of his behavioral therapist. The entire process was amazing to watch. It really did seem to be building a part of this brain that he wasn't using before.
Some observations:
He absolutely loved the play therapy. Loved it. Loved the therapist. Loved his growing ability to create a new world inside his mind.
He first started learning about past & future, as opposed to everything being in the present, by looking forward to seeing his therapist.
After each session, either in-office or at-home, he was completely exhausted. The workout that we were giving his brain was clearly very intense for him.
Early detection and treatment is definitely the way to go, if at all possible. Much easier to build brain function than to try to modify it later on. Also, sidesteps the "you're broken" factor because you're just stimulating brain development, and who can find fault in that?
He is now an extrovert, which I find to be completely hilarious because I love irony. The kid who always sat in a corner alone, banging his head on the floor over and over and over again all day long now lights up a room when he enters.
At this point, you would never guess what he was like as a toddler. The head-banging. The routines. The rigidity. The literal/mechanical nature (a toy truck was not a toy for him, it was a hunk of plastic with wheels to spin.. and spin... and spin... and spin... and spin.. and god help you if you tried to interrupt the spinning...).
Looking back, I believe that we did the right thing for him. Like I said, humans are social creatures. It was important to us to try to make him more balanced.
Eh. My strategy has been to get the $5/mo loss/theft/water/whatever insurance where you pay a $100 deductible and they ship you a new phone until the eBay price on my phone drops down to $200 or $300 or so. Then, I drop the insurance until I get a new phone. Usually about 6-8 months of insurance.
Could I afford to eat a $600 replacement phone? Sure. But I don't really feel like doing it. $40 in insurance makes psychological sense for me, and it's not totally insane in the mathematical sense:
I put the likelihood that I lose or destroy my phone at about 10%. I've dropped every phone I've ever owned at least once, but never totally destroyed one, so 10% feels about right. So, my expected loss on each phone due to theft/destruction is $600 *.1 = $60 when it's new, or about $300*.1 = $30 by the time I drop insurance. And I pay $30-40 for the insurance. The $100 deductible throws the numbers out of whack a bit, but in the end, I'm basically just covering my expected loss.
So yeah, I'm insuring against inconvenience, but it's not costing me much, so I don't care.
Are we really worried about addiction in someone who's going to be dead in a few weeks?
Even for someone who's not terminal, if they're in so much pain that they need the strong stuff, they have something way bigger going on than a stupid opiate addiction. Withdrawal sucks, but it's way less of a deal than whatever the real problem is.
You know, I used to think that nobody could possibly hate those speed cameras more than I do. Thanks for showing me just how wrong I was!
I'm just imagining how much fun I would have had, had these cameras been around back when I was a teenager. Unfortunately, I don't think any of my kids inherited the "I really need to destroy shit right now" gene and I've got a few too many responsibilities to be taking matters into my own hands.
This is pretty impressive, from a "How did they torch a metal camera?" perspective.
Many of the cameras seem to be damaged above the arm that holds the camera housing. Looks like they hung an intense heat source of some sort from that arm.
If you're just starting out, don't waste your time and money incorporating. Get a good professional liability policy, track all of your business expenses (expensify is good for this), get a separate bank account, and go develop your mobile apps. You'll get a 1099 every year. Don't forget to deduct your business expenses from your 1099 income.
When to incorporate? 1. If you have a potential client who will only deal with a corporation and/or you want to look more "established". 2. You are hiring employees 3. You are selling physical goods 4. You take on a partner 5. Your profits exceed $100k/yr or so. (look into getting a solo 401k for interesting tax deferral options)
Why wait to incorporate? 1. Incorporating costs you money, and will probably not provide you any benefit when you're first starting out. 2. Incorporating and takes your time (filing, bookkeeping, record-keeping, tax filing, etc.) When you are a business owner, anything that takes your time that isn't making you money is the enemy, and that is not hyperbole. NEVER voluntarily do something that isn't making you money. Such is the life of a business owner.
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So what Flava Works is saying here is that Kywan Fisher would have been better off had he never paid for his Flava Works pornography in the first place. After all, if he hadn't done the right thing and supported the studio, they never would have had his credit card details to begin with, unless his credit card info was stolen...
To those of you who think purchasing Flava Works's "works" is a good idea, let this be a less to you and torrent their content. What if your computer get stolen and the thief takes your porn collection and posts it to bittorrent sites? What if you get a virus and your porn files leak? What if you share a Flava Works file accidentally? I realize that that's a little hard to do with bittorrent, but you get the idea.
Probably just for uploading.
In the case of bittorrent, it's a little hard to download without uploading.
wouldn't entrapment come in there somewhere??
No. Entrapment only applies to the police, and even then, the definition is very narrow for a successful defense. If this was done by actual law enforcement (which it isn't, so the point is moot), to use "entrapment" as a defense, you'd have to show that you wouldn't otherwise have done the illegal act if it hadn't been for the actions of law enforcement. Basically, that you wouldn't have connected to the swarm if law enforcement hadn't acted in a way to cause you to do it.
Good luck with that.
I know how to use a VPN. My question was: how do you use a VPN effectively to download? You sure as hell don't want to use a computer at the office as your endpoint.
Normally, you'd pay for VPN provider. Preferably, one that doesn't keep logs of its users' activities.
And this, I think, is the real crux of the content producers' strategy. Right now (or as of a few years ago), copyright infringement is free. You can do it all day and all night long, and maybe you get caught up via one of these John Doe fishing lawsuits, but the probability is low, and the lawsuits don't seem to be holding up well when the defendant enters a defense. You can't compete with free if you want to charge.
So their strategy is to make infringement cost money. Now, you need a VPN provider so your ISP doesn't cut you off. You may need to pay for (sorry, donate to) your torrent site, your filelocker, etc. Eventually, your average Joe is going to say, "It's costing me more than Netflix just to download all this stuff safely. Tell me again why I bother jumping through all of those hoops?"
Except that before housewives got the vote, prostitution was traditionally legal.
Is this true? I'm not saying it isn't. Just curious.
Most reputable escorts will verify the real name and occupation of their clients. This provides a deterrent against clients becoming violent with the provider.
I guess maybe some don't want to believe it so choose to be blind.
I think that's a lot of it, but also, some people are very good at staying in the closet.
A fraternity brother of mine, I had always suspected was gay. But he kept hooking up with and dating chicks, so who's going to go up to him and say, "Dude, are you gay?" I just assumed he was Metrosexual, as the kids used to say. Well, his sophomore year he kind of disappeared from social activities, and then his junior year, he came back but out of the closet this time. Seemed much happier being true to himself.
But that's beside the point. The point is, if a gay guy wants to hide behind a wall of pussy, I think that's a pretty effective way to conceal his sexual orientation. It's not all willful blindness.
The best defense against your parents finding out about your sexual orientation from someone else will always be to tell them yourself, from whatever distance is safe.
Dude. She's still in college, presumably still being supported by her parents. She knows her parents better than you do, and as crazy as it sounds, parents have cut off support from their children for coming out. She clearly saw that as a risk, hence not coming out to them.
Eh. Just write your cell # on the kid's arm.
Slackware (yes, on floppies) -> Debian & Gentoo -> Ubuntu
Switch from Slackware to Debian was for APT. Slackware did not, to my knowledge, have any decent way to handle package upgrades.
Gentoo entered the mix when I made a MythTV setup.
Since then, I've used Ubuntu because they support Amazon EC2 so well (published images, cloud-init, etc.), and all of my Linux machines are now EC2 instances.
Well, I'm not autistic, so the notion of learning social skills at the expense of basic arithmetic is a hypothetical one.
If we're talking real life, I wouldn't be able to make the mooching thing work. Maybe it's different for younger folks, but for an old fart like me, it'd feel like someone sawed off my testicles with a sawzall to take on a sugar mommy.
Unless FreeCause has a rigorous mentoring and code review process, this is a mistake. I've seen even Computer Science graduates who aren't yet very real-world experienced emit some of the most incomprehensible, unmaintainable, defect-ridden code imaginable. It is a waste of marketers', analysts', and whomever else's time to learn to create useful code.
I'm especially concerned about inexperienced developers coding in JavaScript, which is difficult to debug and is notorious for cross-browser incompatibilities. Writing good, usable JavaScript is not a trivial task.
Maybe they should also have their programmers doing marketing? "You'd have to be a complete fucking moron not to buy our shit. HELL-FUCKING-LO, I AM SHOUTING THE LOUDEST OF ANYBODY THEREFORE YOU MUST BUY! I LEARNED THIS TECHNIQUE FROM TEH USED CAR COMMERCIALS!!"
It's all good fun until your latest conquest swindles you out of your life savings because you don't understand how all that money stuff actually works.
I feel like not understanding how that money stuff works is pretty common among lower-functioning autistic people. Presumably, part of the brain "rewiring" would involve learning to understand money, no?
Depending on how good of a fuck this conquest is, as compared with the size of my life savings, it could still wind up working out in my favor. And if worse came to worse, I could always use my new found social skills to land myself a wealthy woman!
so, you'd rather do basic math in your head than sleep with hotties?
what are you, gay?
I'm not gay, so take this with a grain of salt, but I'm pretty sure that gay people still like to sleep with hotties. Just hotties of their same sex.
If you can suddenly understand the opposite sex and get them to sleep with you quickly, but no longer do basic math in your head, is that a good trade?
Depends on the person, I guess. Personally, I'd rather be fucking than adding, but to each his own.
Great, now we'll be able to fix all of them! We really need that! /sarcasm
I for one find this very offensive. It's like telling all autistics they're malfunctioning.
Parent of ASD-diagnosed kid here.
You raise a good point. My wife and I recognize that we're walking a bit of a line in treating him. There are definitely those who subscribe to "The Einstein Syndrome", arguing that when you have a son of a computer geek and a banker, he just may be a little reclusive (I use that word, because it goes beyond being introverted), and that's fine. He's not broken. I see their point.
On the other hand, humans are social animals. Reclusive people are mostly unhappy, and Einstein was ridiculed mercilessly as a child. Maybe that's why he spent so much time reading physics texts and not interacting with his peers? The happiest and most content people seem to be to be the ones who have warm relationships with family and friends. Not the smartest or richest or anything else.
We decided to treat our son, from about age 1.5, with some pretty intense play therapy (no medication or anything like that). We immersed his entire life in progressively more abstract symbolic thought, under the guidance of his behavioral therapist. The entire process was amazing to watch. It really did seem to be building a part of this brain that he wasn't using before.
Some observations:
Looking back, I believe that we did the right thing for him. Like I said, humans are social creatures. It was important to us to try to make him more balanced.
This. So much this. You don't have to put up with this bullshit. And it will only get worse unless you fight back.
Moving call center to Manila in 3... 2... 1...
Eh. My strategy has been to get the $5/mo loss/theft/water/whatever insurance where you pay a $100 deductible and they ship you a new phone until the eBay price on my phone drops down to $200 or $300 or so. Then, I drop the insurance until I get a new phone. Usually about 6-8 months of insurance.
Could I afford to eat a $600 replacement phone? Sure. But I don't really feel like doing it. $40 in insurance makes psychological sense for me, and it's not totally insane in the mathematical sense:
I put the likelihood that I lose or destroy my phone at about 10%. I've dropped every phone I've ever owned at least once, but never totally destroyed one, so 10% feels about right. So, my expected loss on each phone due to theft/destruction is $600 * .1 = $60 when it's new, or about $300*.1 = $30 by the time I drop insurance. And I pay $30-40 for the insurance. The $100 deductible throws the numbers out of whack a bit, but in the end, I'm basically just covering my expected loss.
So yeah, I'm insuring against inconvenience, but it's not costing me much, so I don't care.
Are we really worried about addiction in someone who's going to be dead in a few weeks?
Even for someone who's not terminal, if they're in so much pain that they need the strong stuff, they have something way bigger going on than a stupid opiate addiction. Withdrawal sucks, but it's way less of a deal than whatever the real problem is.
Looks like you go in for chemo tomorrow. Good luck, and I hope it knocks out this relapse. Cancer sucks ass, no pun intended.
You know, I used to think that nobody could possibly hate those speed cameras more than I do. Thanks for showing me just how wrong I was!
I'm just imagining how much fun I would have had, had these cameras been around back when I was a teenager. Unfortunately, I don't think any of my kids inherited the "I really need to destroy shit right now" gene and I've got a few too many responsibilities to be taking matters into my own hands.
Cheers!
Simply burn them. Here are burnt Gatsos in the UK: http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm
This is pretty impressive, from a "How did they torch a metal camera?" perspective.
Many of the cameras seem to be damaged above the arm that holds the camera housing. Looks like they hung an intense heat source of some sort from that arm.
That's a race condition if I ever saw one...
Sounds more like an infinite recursion, if you ask me:
installMonitoringCamera(Camera cameraToMonitor) {
Camera monitoringCamera = new Camera(cameraToMonitor);
monitoringCamera.monitor();
if(monitoringCamera.observesSomeAssholeSettingFireToMonitoredCamera())
installMonitoringCamera(monitoringCamera);
}
If you're just starting out, don't waste your time and money incorporating. Get a good professional liability policy, track all of your business expenses (expensify is good for this), get a separate bank account, and go develop your mobile apps. You'll get a 1099 every year. Don't forget to deduct your business expenses from your 1099 income.
When to incorporate?
1. If you have a potential client who will only deal with a corporation and/or you want to look more "established".
2. You are hiring employees
3. You are selling physical goods
4. You take on a partner
5. Your profits exceed $100k/yr or so. (look into getting a solo 401k for interesting tax deferral options)
Why wait to incorporate?
1. Incorporating costs you money, and will probably not provide you any benefit when you're first starting out.
2. Incorporating and takes your time (filing, bookkeeping, record-keeping, tax filing, etc.) When you are a business owner, anything that takes your time that isn't making you money is the enemy, and that is not hyperbole. NEVER voluntarily do something that isn't making you money. Such is the life of a business owner.
If he could get away with the company owning a resource (like his cars) he'd do that. So a lot of his daily expenses were paid for by the company.
This would be illegal. If the IRS were to catch wind of it, he'd be in a world of hurt.