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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
> You can be very attuned to this whether you are agreeable or disagreeable, no? I would think so as well. In fact, along the way I've learned that sometimes it's the less agreeable ones who are acting in the interest of the
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
I've lived in newer buildings the past 6 years or so, with modern HVAC systems, the works. One thing each of them has had (or neglected, really) is a phony vent for the stove. There is a hood fan, and what appears to be conduit leadi
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
> She pushed hard. It was important to her. She got the email that her certification came through the day after the birth. She didn't care. All she want's to do right now is take care of her baby. I had a similar discussion w
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
So pedigree is both important and not important? I'm sorry, but I disagree in so many ways. Do you know how a school becomes renowned? Even then, there are countless people who have thrived without pedigree, without renown, and taken a
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
Oh man if we're doing Hockey songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS3GQverRiQ
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
> underwater basket weaving Do such smart people really still think this of subjects that don't have a pre-drawn straight line to a comparable paycheque to their own?
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
That's the eternal question isn't it: Where's the line? In this case I think the question is something like "is it cruel to eat an animal?" I'm not a spiritual person, but I like what the general consensus of t
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
I didn't propose anything, Mike—let alone killing all humans. But maybe I made too many assumptions and should have anticipated some might take my comment literally. I'm an optimist, but I also don't anoint humankind with som
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
Transparent? How's that? I was being hyperbolic, yes. That was the point. I think the entire argument over the morality of it is an appeal to absurdity. There are gross assumptions made on every side of the argument and I don't se
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
Please don't twist my contributions to being so ill-hearted. We're supposed to respond to each comment with generosity around here—defaulting to sincerity. The discussion began with moralizing about eating other living things.
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
Doesn't that then go further to the point? It's not a matter worth moralizing over—rather a personal preference and pragmatic approach to that end.
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
I thought the whole premise was that we needed to limit the suffering of other living things that aren't humans at all costs, not about human happiness.
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
The "plants have senses rebuttal" as you put it is only an illustration that exposes the absurdity of the whole attachment of ethics to consumption of any form in and of itself. The only logical endpoint is that humans should just
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
You get it! I see so many major publishers doing just what I've described, too, and it bewilders me. There are still a lot of brilliant people working in publishing, even traditional publishing. See the New York Times digital teams, af
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
Coming from an industry where Wordpress has been beaten, bent, and crammed into use as a multi site publishing domain where much is promised, sometimes half-delivered, and full of security holes, leaky logic (try cross-plug-in dependency he
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
Ironically, I just tried renting the Devil and Daniel Johnston on YouTube. First time ever. It would not play back in Firefox because "there was an error licensing this video" after I had already paid them. It will work in Chrome.
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
Very much so. They had to operate literally underground and use codified signals and emblems to avoid prosecution (social or otherwise).
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
> Except, these days, people expect consumer software to be free And journalism, and music, and art, and...
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
Oh yeah, I suppose you're right about that. I guess I just figured it was common sense. I always put drinking was about as healthy as crossing a car-trafficked street—in that it might get you somewhere but it increase your risk of bein
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
I'd say that there's probably also sufficient evidence of no safe level of sobriety, either. Those studies always annoy me. It's kind of like asking the question: how many times can I smack my head safely ?. Well, none—but i
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
> Which music service's discovery features actually work My best experience has been talking with people or listening to artist interviews on influences.
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
I want to be surprised by how controversial this simple question seemed to be, and yet I'm not. I'm disappointed, though.
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
Without even looking at the law I'm going to guess there's some kind of clause about "within reason". As in, you can't reasonably claim that all 350,000 people who've downloaded the music you uploaded can be cl
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
> cuts out ASCAP and RIAA The sad thing for me, is that even if something like that were to function, and no matter how well, people would find another reason the artists don't deserve payment. So as it stands, organizations like
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
Exactly. Most often this is covered by the fact that the restaurant or bar is playing satellite or other radio which bears the broadcast permissions. And, the obvious—most people aren't horrible selfish goblins. There's a definite
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
Yep, and you’ll find that kind of posturing everywhere, just like the personality that tends to do it. The scale of it carries some pretty great comedy, though.
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
Record labels aren’t a single-faceted evil, in spite of however strongly that notion may be engrained in the Napster generation. If anything, there are more even-handed relationships between wrist and label than there ever was.
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
Lifetime wasn't the discussion at hand, though. The topic was the validity of protections at all. People have a lingering hatred on for the RIAA, and maybe rightfully so, from the Napster trials and so on from the early 2000's and
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
Same. It's an amazing resource and just got more amazing.
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by 52-6F-62 6y ago
Well put. It seems to have that immediate effect of invoking the image of a slightly sad man with a smile walking slowly into a calm lake.

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