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We're not celebrating people who park selfishly, we're celebrating people who use a clever hack to defeat a harmful solution to the problem of people parking se
by geofft 7y ago
We're not celebrating people who park selfishly, we're celebrating people who use a clever hack to defeat a harmful solution to the problem of people parking selfishly.
The point of DeCSS and qrpff, for instance, was not that piracy is a good thing but that DRM is a bad thing.
- cpfohl 7y agoHow is this a harmful solution? Releasing it legally is simple and easy and non destructive
- geofft 7y agoAnd buying a licensed DVD player is simple and easy and non-destructive.
- anoncake 7y agoGiving money to a company supporting DRM is destructive.
- geofft 7y agoPaying parking fees, taxes, and/or fines to a police department that uses "The Barnacle" is destructive.
- anoncake 7y agoDon't park selfishly and you don't suffer the consequences. It's that simple. The only issue here is that selfish parkers get their car back at all, they clearly aren't responsible enough to own one.
- chrisseaton 7y agoDriving an individual vehicle and parking it at a college is the first-order bad thing here. The parking spaces occupy useful land and the cars pollute the campus air. Everything else is about people trying to avoid being asked to take responsibility for the impact of doing that.
- geofft 7y agoPaying for a parking spot isn't actually taking responsibility for doing that - how does it solve any of the problems that illegal parking causes? Also, what exactly would taking responsibility entail? How can individuals build public transit any more than they can redesign the movie industry? Holding individuals responsible for their single car's pollution sounds like holding then responsible for their plastic straws while ignoring the impact of major corporations on pollution.
- chrisseaton 7y ago> Also, what exactly would taking responsibility entail? I'm just sure it doesn't involve: - failing to follow parking rules which you presumably agreed to when you matriculated - refusing to pay charges and fines you presumably agreed to - vandalism - theft - dumping of cars - squatting on parking spaces
- geofft 7y agoNone of that sounds like taking responsibility for the impact of occupying useful land and polluting the campus air, which is what you claimed to care about. (Even squatting on parking spaces doesn't show a lack of responsibility for the impact of parking spaces occupying land - it's a calculated use of a small amount of a resource in order to aim for more of that resource in the future. You may as well say that someone who invests their money instead of keeping it safely buried in the ground isn't being responsible with their money.)
- dreamcompiler 7y agoOU is a campus built around the assumption that automobiles are the primary mode of transport. You cannot tell people "just don't drive" at a campus like this; you have to build a campus and its associated infrastructure such that people have reasonable alternatives. This is society's problem to fix, not drivers'.