Telaneo

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by Telaneo 4mo ago
Given the amount of malice in the world, that's not even an unreasonable statement. Even more so if you agree that being in a position of power while not having the expertise needed to fulfil it is itself malicious. The traditional qui
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> It literally does - and you just admitted it. I can be 9 years old and go to the library and read any book they have without showing ID. Whatever your point is, it escapes me. > The point is that 'even the local library' e
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> Your local library has age and ID requirements. It literally doesn't (at least not if I don't intend to borrow a book and take it home; if I stay there and read, I can do so without any ID. I only need ID to get a library car
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> It's unethical and illegal. I don't think it's unethical. It's illegal on the distribution side, but not if you're just downloading. I don't really care either way, because I don't think it's une
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> If recording pirate broadcast is legal, then effectively all copyright laws are moot so long as the copyrighted material is transmitted over radio. My understanding is that this is in fact the case, since the relevant laws don't e
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
Agreed. If we had regulated and non-insane DRM, we wouldn't be in this pickle.
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
We got the PC only because the clone market got in on the action and the courts found that the only thing copyrightable was the PC BIOS. The PC got better because dozens of companies were able to copy and improve. Imagine how many new remix
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game was digital-only, so nobody could buy a copy of the game if they wanted to, since the only places which sold the game stopped doing that, and used copies by definition don't exist. Physical games c
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> Just think about leaving your favorite book as .epub to someone in your will to see how non-sensical that would be. It's not unthinkable to me, but it would have to include your own personal notes or something. The plain example t
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> Buy a DVD for X, or "own" a DRM version for Y<X - why not. One the one hand, yes, on the other hand, the DRM-free option is often non-existent (and if you want to include DVD and blu-rays in that pile, because they too do
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
Reality can be better.
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> You actually have to support the creators however THEY want if you want access, not however YOU want. No, I don't. > I suspect you're not actually supporting all the creators of the things you watch via piracy! I don'
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
Sounds like we need economic and/or social reform if people are starving. That problem is largely irrelevant to copyright infringement. All copyright infringement (within a rounding error, exceptions obviously exist) doesn't actua
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
Mind talking me through the ethical problems of copyright infringement? I'm not a fan of copyright in general, and from that perspective, I fail to see the problem in copying files.
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> A job is not a persons identity or destiny. Yeah. It's just the place you spend 8 hours every day. Imagine the job instead was digging holes (not for any actual purpose. Just digging and filling in holes so that people could &#x27
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> This you will have in due time when you enter the eternal sleep. I already look forward to that a lot more than most people think I should. > life is to be enjoyed. I never really figured out how to do that reliably. > Usually th
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
Looks like I was wrong. Fair enough.
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> If you sample the supermarkets around you, you'll notice some will focus more on customer service. They will have all cash registers staffed and no lines or small lines. Other super markets will have few registers staffed and big
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> some countries consider open broadcast to be public domain so once its broadcast its public I can still legally record cable TV (or is that also illegal in the US?), even though I probably need to pay a lot more for it than I would for
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> It actually already got a bit more fuzzy with Blu-Ray and especially with later BD+ doesn't it? You own some encrypted data, but there is absolutely no guarantee you will always have access to a player with the right keys and a TV
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
If you buy it on a PC, you get a file you can do whatever you want with. In Apple's case it's at least possible to keep if you're vigilant. I'm sure the file disappearing from your iOS device is naught more than a conven
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
Shoutout to DVD-Jon from Norway.[1] I'm pretty sure we've settled on it being legal nowadays, but it took at least that court case for it to happen (not to mention that it was a fucking clown show). There's a quote on his Nor
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> But recording that broadcast would be. Is this seriously true in the US? I doubt this is the case in any European jurisdiction. Recording radio and TV is legal in any other case (the relevant companies didn't want that to be the c
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
I'm yet to see one. There have always been lines at supermarkets, even when I was a kid. It's hard to pick an alternative that doesn't exist.
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
Understandable in your situation. > It's not a great lose, almost every time I see someone try to use the self checkout, they need to get a hold of staff anyway I don't think I've needed to call staff for when using the se
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
This has happened to me twice in Norway and once in Germany, but only with large groups of people, so it's never 'normally'. If you're a smaller group or alone, the waiter will either remember who had what (or have kept
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> A number of stores have reported customers to the police for incorrect scanning. These are honest mistakes and you're now "a know shoplifter". I primarily work with companies that require a clean record, that includes &q
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
The only times I've had splitting bills become a problem are with unreasonably large tables (10+), and at that point, you should be upfront about it before you place any orders, since that fixes the problem. I assume it's a hard p
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> It still seems to me designing applications or web services is so hard that it's just easier to hire thousands of people to do customer service and having people to come physically to do things. I'd love for this to be true,
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
I agree, but that's mostly just a reason to have the option, while also having the option of using paper menus.

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