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Comment on Piracy is not theft (2011-12-23 22:54:47)
Buy two piggies and put the work into breeding them and you of course are entitled to distribute the copies. If you buy one of a unique item (a song or film) that belongs to one person or group, and them arrange so that no one else you know has to purchase it, then you're preventing the owner from making that profit. Now, whether or not it is a legal process is irrelevant to my point. If you used your VCR to let your friends watch a movie they would have otherwise had to pay for then the company loses that potential money. Something like Casablanca is an interesting point, and one I don't have any real investment in. Perhaps that's how "public domain" ought to work. I don't know, unless there are inheritance issues to be hashed out. TL;DR My only point is this: "Stop pretending "Piracy is some sort of harmless, maligned fairy web-magic . You're getting stuff for free that you're supposed to pay for."
Comment on Piracy is not theft (2011-12-23 09:57:35)
Edit:(Knowing how to copy the piggy *doesn't* count)
Comment on Piracy is not theft (2011-12-23 09:56:47)
the problem with this, of course, is that the little piggy is not important. the money that the farmer would have made by selling the little piggy to you is what you've stolen. This poster is basically telling the farmer that he should let you use his piggy to make your own piggy copy for free and make his living off of people who don't know how to copy piggies. In a nutshell: You came to the farmer without a piggy. Only through the farmer's work were you able to obtain a piggy. (Knowing how to copy the piggy count- no amount of copying skill could produce a piggy unless the farmer provided the original) You left with a piggy. You pay the god damned farmer.
Comment on Office signage (2011-12-18 04:20:55)
there isn't a picture to be found worthy of that level of suckage.
Comment on Office signage (2011-12-18 03:51:47)
Trumped only by "Bradley Hand" in obnoxiousness.
Comment on Trolljegeren (2011-11-22 18:37:10)
I would have liked it if not for the "reality filming" aspect. It's a stupid trope and should be discarded. The acting, effects and and general plot would totally have pulled this film into re-watchable status for me otherwise. Oh, and I'm not complaining about the camera work- it was never a problem for the viewer, like BlairW. or Cloverfield, it's just that the format itself demands certain things of the plot and how a story has to be told. Stupid things. The "Dude, this shit is probably as true story" message at the opening. The "Undetermined Fate of the Protagonists" is equally useless.
Comment on rainbow dash (2011-11-17 02:19:26)
I wish you wouldn't go. If you do, I won't be able to properly express to you how little anyone cares. . .
Comment on Occupy Wall Street (2011-10-18 23:36:35)
my step one solution to the issue being discussed here is financial education as early as is reasonable. Offering it in college courses is good, but those aren't mandatory courses, so attendance outside of business majors would be negligible not to mention the fact that students IN college are usually financially boned these days anyway. I've got like 8 grand in debt- lightweight, due to the fact that I started paying as I went, working 40's and squeezing classes all into the other two days of the week. Loans for 4 years at an in-state? Better be an engineer, or something that has a high hire rate in this day and age. Listen, I don't know what these Occupy people hope to accomplish- I like the manner in which they choose to protest, but I don't know what they expect to happen. There is no specific law or policy to be made to correct the imbalance they are standing against. Please contradict me if you have better ideas, but it seems like education is the real answer- knowledge of how to protect oneself from debt, from corporate policies that insulate the company from liability- thus passing the buck to "you." From a lot of other things that can be avoided with proper foresight. I don't see how anything else would make a difference- changing a law wouldn't make people use their money better.
Comment on Occupy Wall Street (2011-10-18 19:47:59)
Hate it when I see poor people with big tv's. The people stocking up for a lean winter is a different kind of issue. A proper investment of that money is basically useless to them for years. The problem might be one of education, in that one of the reasons those poor people don't spend the money wisely is because they have no idea that's even possible. With no idea how investments work, they see the stock market like it's a craps table with rules that change all the time. Even if they, like me, know enough to know that there are services that do understand the market, that won't help them (or me) with the month-to-month costs of living. So, again, one of the best tools for making money or *growing* money is rendered useless. A similar look at the problem from a different perspective: “The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.” Tl;Dr: I don't have a real argument, per se, except that one of the best things public schools could teach in this country would be proper finance/investment from middle school on. Those would probably be the most important lessons of a student's life.
Comment on Occupy Wall Street (2011-10-18 15:03:52)
yeah, but that's a retarded sign. . .
Comment on Your results came back (2011-10-16 19:43:26)
there's that fag talk we talked about
Comment on Banks (2011-10-14 17:33:54)
I worked at a payday loan company for a while, which is basically a financial drug dealer, and Bank of America's policies disgusted even my boss. (we had to deal with a few branches regularly) Easiest dick move to point out would be the extremely common practice of paying out checks out of order. Some guy writes a few 20 or 30 dollar checks around town over the course of a week or so, which puts him close to over drawing his account. Then he writes his rent check, a full day after all the others. days later. BoA will invariably cash the largest check out of order, so that all of the other checks written ding the guy for multiple overage charges. They do this regardless even of the order that they receive the checks from the various place the guy spent money. The guy would've overdrafted, sure- and he's bad with money, obviously, but they hit him for 200 bucks worth of fees when he should've only had the one bounced check for 38 bucks.
Comment on emma watson - that look (2011-10-13 22:47:19)
is this from a film, or is she teasing people
Comment on elizabeth warren for president (2011-10-12 18:34:45)
this.
Comment on some girls bleed more than once a month (2011-10-12 17:00:04)
okay, I give up. "Why do some girls bleed more than once a month?" Are they bad at skateboarding? Is someone beating them? Is this something House should be looking into?