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What a meme. Maybe they can just cut up the meme in chunks of 128x128 and display that instead. Its not a full image but a lot of tiny ones

Klathmon 7y ago
How do countries like Germany handle it when someone meets the letter of the law but not the spirit of it?
- paulhilbert 7y ago
  Not at all. In fact I would call doing that the most German thing you can do.
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- Kaiyou 7y ago
  Why should they if it meets the letter of the law? Letter of the law is all that counts.
- gmueckl 7y ago
  Well, the gap between the letter of the law and the spirit of it is quite narrow in most cases because of how the law is written in an abstract form and applied to a real case. Intent matters, not just the execution. If you know that something is unlawful, but you take deliberate steps to (seemingly) circumvent a rule while effectively breaking it with the result of your action, you're still on the hook. I find that people generally underestimate this aspect of how law is applied to the real world.
- zaarn 7y ago
  There is a certain extend where the judge can easily see that you're just trying to bullshit around the law itself. In this case, the most likely outcome is that the judge will rule that breaking the image into 128 pixel squares and then reassembling them is simply the same as displaying the full image by intent. The result is the same so you broke the law.
no_identd 7y ago
i.e. JPEG macroblocks? Sounds like a challenge for a metamemetic image meme-image–macro meme image codec(MIM-I–MIMIC) format to lampshade the absurdity of all of this. (No, I ain't gonna write it. But I did just give all y'all an acronym for it, and I ain't gonna ask any of you to write it, either. However, I do dare challenge you to come up with some recursive derivation of the acronym, tho!)
- JadeNB 7y ago
  > some recursive derivation of the acronym MIMIC: MIMIC Is Memes In Chunks.
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gmueckl 7y ago
The small chunks won't matter to a judge because the intended result is to have the resulting ensemble displayed as a single, larger image again. The intermediate steps of breaking it up and reassembling it are irrelevant technical details that will be abstracted away.
- CyanBird 7y ago
  Ah, so then you would need to make every little 128^2 square be a meme of its own, which could then be part of a broader picture at the same time

Klathmon 7y ago

How do countries like Germany handle it when someone meets the letter of the law but not the spirit of it?

paulhilbert 7y ago
Not at all. In fact I would call doing that the most German thing you can do.
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Kaiyou 7y ago
Why should they if it meets the letter of the law? Letter of the law is all that counts.
gmueckl 7y ago
Well, the gap between the letter of the law and the spirit of it is quite narrow in most cases because of how the law is written in an abstract form and applied to a real case. Intent matters, not just the execution. If you know that something is unlawful, but you take deliberate steps to (seemingly) circumvent a rule while effectively breaking it with the result of your action, you're still on the hook. I find that people generally underestimate this aspect of how law is applied to the real world.
zaarn 7y ago
There is a certain extend where the judge can easily see that you're just trying to bullshit around the law itself. In this case, the most likely outcome is that the judge will rule that breaking the image into 128 pixel squares and then reassembling them is simply the same as displaying the full image by intent. The result is the same so you broke the law.

no_identd 7y ago

i.e. JPEG macroblocks? Sounds like a challenge for a metamemetic image meme-image–macro meme image codec(MIM-I–MIMIC) format to lampshade the absurdity of all of this. (No, I ain't gonna write it. But I did just give all y'all an acronym for it, and I ain't gonna ask any of you to write it, either. However, I do dare challenge you to come up with some recursive derivation of the acronym, tho!)

JadeNB 7y ago
> some recursive derivation of the acronym MIMIC: MIMIC Is Memes In Chunks.
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gmueckl 7y ago

The small chunks won't matter to a judge because the intended result is to have the resulting ensemble displayed as a single, larger image again. The intermediate steps of breaking it up and reassembling it are irrelevant technical details that will be abstracted away.

CyanBird 7y ago
Ah, so then you would need to make every little 128^2 square be a meme of its own, which could then be part of a broader picture at the same time