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by danssig 15y ago
Yes, it's always seemed really bizarre to me that anyone would be locked in a cage unless they were a physical danger. Now there's talk of locking up people for sharing files! Insane. If you believe that file sharing harms the economy (I'
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by danssig 15y ago
I, for one, don't want movies, music or any other content creation to die. I would like to see the obsolete middle men die off though. They have no reason to be there and seem to be really awful people (going by what they do to stars and
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by danssig 15y ago
If countless millions of people were buying guns at one gun shop and killing people continuously, of course cops would ignore the actual killers and go after the gun shop.
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by danssig 15y ago
Why were you ever proud of something that just happened to you having nothing what so ever to do with any actions you took yourself?
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by danssig 15y ago
I find this argument weak as an "in favor" argument. How much we pay for things is also a status proxy ("You got that for how much? How much did I pay? Hrm, I don't remember...."). And we simply chose it to be this way. We could just a
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by danssig 15y ago
Of course the free market isn't efficient in hiring. Companies do everything they can to hide salaries and, for whatever reason, the culture is such that people generally won't discuss it either. Imagine if everything you ever bought worke
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by danssig 15y ago
This is true. Historically, I've gotten the most points on posts I posted expecting massive downvotes on due to their controversial nature.
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by danssig 15y ago
Photoshop gives you much more than 20% over GIMP. Photoshop is light years ahead of anything else out there and only getting more so (see latest sneak of deblurring photos).
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by danssig 15y ago
What? No. Borland was vastly superior to Visual Studio. Today Visual Studio is the best IDE in existence, but in the Borland days creating a GUI was much, much easier in Borland.
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by danssig 15y ago
Photoshop users use Mac because it works the best for what they're doing. If they could have had the same solution vastly cheaper and 80-90% as good you think they'd have been willing to pay thousands more for that 10-20%?
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by danssig 15y ago
He was right. Who are you exactly?
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by danssig 15y ago
I hear people say this, but personally I've never used any ad block and I nearly never see ads. Unless something weird happens like that one add that seemed to reach up into another one, I really never notice them.
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by danssig 15y ago
>Use more namespaces, write smaller functions, embrace lexical scoping, etc. You don't need to call something a foo-bar-frobber when it's being used in the foo-bar context, just call it a frobber. I agree with this part and code this wa
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by danssig 15y ago
If you use a decent IDE, having longer variable names is nearly no cost.
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by danssig 15y ago
Uh... I feel sorry for you guys getting abused like this, but.... Godaddy? You had know you were putting your business at risk using this company. Did you save enough money to make it worth going out of business?
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by danssig 15y ago
wtf is with this guy getting downvotes?
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by danssig 15y ago
Come on, you think Google doesn't do this? If anything anywhere on the net is critical of something Google does there will an army of fanboys there within seconds in Google's defense.
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by danssig 15y ago
Mental work isn't like physical work. Throwing more hours at it doesn't mean you'll get an increase, at least not for long.
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by danssig 15y ago
Please remove this post as it is misinformation, whether intentional or not.
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by danssig 15y ago
I think it's settled alright [1]. You're allowed to resist unlawful arrest, to the point of killing the officer. [1] http://constitution.org/uslaw/defunlaw.htm
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by danssig 15y ago
No, I'm talking about a cop. This has been demonstrated in court [1]. [1] http://constitution.org/uslaw/defunlaw.htm
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by danssig 15y ago
That's not true. It is specifically on the books that you can resist unlawful arrest up to and including killing the officer. People have done it and not received penalty for it.
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by danssig 15y ago
Nice is relative. Most anything is nice compared with BF.
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by danssig 15y ago
No because after making an interpreter you have a nice language to work with. That makes it very different than BF.
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by danssig 15y ago
Then why did he pressure congress into making the rules even hazier so he could detain Americans as well?
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by danssig 15y ago
>b. You were right that Hollywood has a reputation for stealing a script if they like it. What isn't true is that Hollywood actually steals scripts. But this is what matters when it comes to the way people will try to sell their scripts
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by danssig 15y ago
That doesn't sound like a conspiracy theory. What is with the desire to paint everything in the ridiculous. It sounds like a good way to make more money, though risky.
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by danssig 15y ago
Congrats to all the people who downvoted me for an apparently unpopular opinion. It's pretty bizarre to me that anyone would be surprised by this though. Look at what Hollywood does these days: remakes and sequals. Nearly ever "original"
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by danssig 15y ago
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13050005/ns/business-cnbc_tv/t/h... http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/15641336/ns/today-entertainmen... http://artherworldblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/the-u-s-supr... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchwald_v._
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by danssig 15y ago
>but if the business model of a service is _primarily_ around the sharing of copyrighted content then something should be done. Something should have been done: Hollywood should have bought Megaupload. It was a working model, they just

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