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by patzerhacker 12y ago
>In case you missed it, the legal practices in the US depend on previous court cases. You could dial back the snark a little here. >Furthermore, are you kidding me? IBM should be absolved of responsibility for aiding and abating sever
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
>Moreover, you're assuming that the entertainment business can dictate what the news business reports strongly enough to make the politicians care. In the United States at least the entertainment businesses can dictate what the broa
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
I decided to stop donating to EFF and instead donate to the ACLU when the EFF decided its time was better spent on re-litigating apartheid[1]. [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/eff-files-amicus-brief..
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
Phil Mason has a video about this research[1] on his YouTube channel. There are several others on there about intermediate results. [1] http://youtu.be/LmlAYnFF_s8
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
Really, in America, "God does not exist" is conventional wisdom? According to a 2007 Pew Research study[1], 71% of Americans have a belief in god. So if that's "conventional wisdom" then Peter Thiel's definit
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
The argument I generally use is "it's nobody's business". For example: Person I'm talking to: "I don't mind giving up some privacy for safety. I've got nothing to hide." Me: "That's g
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
Pressure should be applied in both places.
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
Edit: That's what I get for not reading carefully enough! Maharaj is the protestor, not the owner, and as such my comment below is inaccurate and erroneous. Thanks to mortoc for pointing this out to me. Off to get a coffee and focus
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
Restating your points: 1. Don't be poor 2. Don't be busy 3. Be able to have a time machine to undo previous mistakes. Problem solved with snark.
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
Cough suppression is one of the first things that heroin was marketed for: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--k12ZMisi...
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
I was thinking the same thing, but thinking about it more I only get angry (which I suppose is constructive because anger can lead to the drive to do something instead of shitposting on the Internet). This government would be tripping all o
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
I also heartily recommend "How TV Ruined Your Life" which serves as sort of a capstone volume to the entire run of "Screenwipe".
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
Written by a confessed child pornographer as well! http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2001/12/07/fine-print-redux-be...
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
>I found that when the output is piped it doesn't invoke the pager. This seems reasonable to me. This might be less being smart and getting out of the way. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less_%28Unix%29#Usag
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
>Web apps shops (online-only, no piracy there) and mobile apps shops (where piracy has a much, much higher barrier of entry and is comparatively non-existant). Well thank goodness you're here to solve all the world's ills! Bel
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
And damn the consequences for the workers? They're nothing but disposable bags of meat?
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
>While not discounting the power of the torrent protocol, there were many p2p software before it which were more popular then it (napster, kazza, edunkey/eMule). Even before those things became popular IRC was a popular way to trade
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
>While I can understand the frustration it's not really lost sales, it's just purchases that never would have been made in the first place. This is really splitting hairs. Yes, I acknowledge that it wasn't _just_ piracy t
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
The infuriating part is that the people that don't think the software is worth the value they would pay then also feel entitled enough to pay nothing and use it anyway. Don't want to use my software because you don't think i
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
>Let's forget for a moment that, as you tell all those people your sorrows, you will in fact figure out that your product failed not because of piracy but because the product was not giving adequate value for its price. That may be,
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
> You are a fool if you're angry about piracy on your pet project. I'll tell my employees that as our company folds from lack of revenue. I'll tell my wife that as we apply for food stamps. I'll tell the that to the
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
Tor hidden services announce their existence to their introduction points. The fact that they exist is not something Tor tries to hide. What they do try to hide is the location of these services. Basically, if you don't want people t
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by patzerhacker 12y ago
I find this comment incredibly ironic considering "ninjaplease" is a reference to an incredibly racist stereotypical saying.