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The chairs at the DMV are also paid with taxpayer dollars. I’d be arrested if I tried to walk out the door with one.
by ABeeSea 6y ago
The chairs at the DMV are also paid with taxpayer dollars. I’d be arrested if I tried to walk out the door with one.
- superkuh 6y agoIf you took a photo of one of the chairs and looked at it at home you'd be just fine though. You're mixing up theft and copyright infringement.
- typenil 6y agoThat's totally the same thing - because downloading a paper destroys the original copy.
- rektide 6y agoLet's talk about the purpose of these things, chairs & papaers. The purpose of a chair is to enhance the space it resides in by enabling folks to rest/sit in the chair. The purpose of a paper is to document science, such that others can see that science, replicate it, learn from it, extend it; the purpose of a paper is to present science such that we can all beget yet more science to happen.
- kache_ 6y agoYou wouldn't download a chair from the DMV
- jenwkejnwjkef 6y agoIntellectual "property" is not property.
- jancsika 6y agoSomeone should design a a front-end framework for which anachronistic analogies like this make sense. E.g., if a user selects some text and chooses "Copy," the text gets deleted and a listener sends a message back to the server to signal that the text has been "pirated." At that point the server not only deletes the associated data, but sends a message to all extant clients to remove the given text. Kinda like a realtime borrow-checker, but not so much for memory safety as for the sheer stupidity of it. Edit: clarification